PAPER OF THE INTERNATIONAL MARXIST GROUP "divides the nation", whined Heath.
As the editorial of the London Evening News claimed: The Queen's speech shows some welcome signs of firm action aimed at pulling Britain through the hour of crisis.
For Labour is proposing to restrict its nationalisation proposals to off-shore oil, development land, and the chronically sick ship-build ing and aircraft industries.
What sticks out like a sore thumb in the Queen's speech is Labour's determination to stick to the social contract. That means Labour is pledged to hold down wages, slash social expenditure and keep the noses of the working class to the capitalist grindstone.
The employing class are desperately seeking time, Right now they know that they cannot smash the working class in a head-on clash.
They are haunted by the defcats they suffered in the last two minen" strikes. And now the strike wave that is sweeping Scotland is sending new tremours of horror down The Scottish lorry drivers have driven a gaping hole right through the social contract. They have forced the employers to cave into their demands. They have got 140 for 40 hours, an extra week's holiday after a far (with another week's holiday after four years) and there will be no reductions in mileage payments.
The flying pickets used to such good effect by the lorry drivers will still be out until next Monday so as to make sure that every single haulage contractor signs the new deal.
Still out on strike are busmen, underground workers, sewage workets and teacher, Whole groups of the Scottish working class are rejecting Wilson's nonsense aboul "uniting the nation'.
The tremors caused by these struggles can reverberare chroughout the rest of the Scottish working class and uneash struggles 'STATE GRAB SCREAMined He bening News Labour But behind the smoke screen whirling up from Westminster and the capitalist press after the Queen's speech the more sober representatives of the ruling class were murmering sighs of rellet.
south of the border.
The capitalist class want a much tougher policy than Wilson offens They want all-out war against the working class. They know howerer, that they are not strong enough to unleash such a wat. Instead they have to hang on to the tails of the social contract, hoping to buy time. The longer the social contract is allowed to stick, the more time they have to prepare the offensive that they know must come if they are to survive as a ruling class.
The denunciations hurled at Wilson were seen by the Tories and their press as good bloodcurdling anti-Labour propaganda.
But the Tories know full well that their real enemy is those workers fighting the social contract, not their opposite numbers at Westminster.
More on Scottish workers' struggle -pp. 6-7.
31 OCTOBER 1974 No 74 THE RECENT SPATE OF BOMBINGS that have rocked the country PRICE Sp CASINGHIS COUNCIL Labour to free these militants and scrap the laws under which they ware tried and failed.
Alain Krivine John Ross Tariq Ali Despite demonstrations like this recant one in London, Shrewsbury pickets Des Warren and Ricky Tomlinson are back in jail. Or Tuesday their apposis wore turned down, putting Warren inside for at feast 18 months more, and Tomlinson for 10 months. iamentary dreamers. The result has been disasterous. Orily a mass movement prepered to launch indefinite strike action can force "Don't worry about striking - a Labour Gorerment will see us right' was the message of the Communist Party and other part. COURT INGE