IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

Monty' for Leyland

Red Weekly No. 144, 1 April 1976 · p. 12 of the scan · 295 words

The scan: rw-no144-apr-1-1976.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 12 of the scan

Registered with the Post Office as a newspaper. Published by Relgocrest Ltd for Red Weekly, 182 Pentonville Road, London N.l. (01-837 6954) NAME....

Printed by Prestagate Lid.; Reading, Berkshire Red Weeky SUBSCRIPTION RATES DOMESTIC: £7 per year £3.50 for six months FOREIGN: £9 per year surface mail £12 per year airmail Write to RED WEEKLY (distribution), 182 Pentonville Road, London N.1 week land workers have learned off the Japanese. That was just one of the taunts in me press aimed at striking tool room workers in the Midlands this First in the line of fire are 30 strikers at SU Carburettors. Their strike is over • pay Party guarantee made last Apri Now Michael Foot has personally intervened to back up the Department of Employment, which has ruled that the agreement goes against the f6 limit.

The SU Carburettors strike has got to be seen as one of the few points of resistance against the present phase of incomes policy - and by implication against any further restrictions on pay Tory MP John Stokes has taken the Commons will not vote any more money for the company'. In other words - take it lying down or lose your jobs. He finished his tirade with a call for a 'Monty' to be put in charge to get morale right.

Despite the Morning Star's characterisation of this late blimp as the "people's general", no solution to the crisis of the British car industrv will be found under a Field Marshal or the present part-time, £22,500-a-year incumbent Sir Richard Dobson. Only nationalisation of all the "Big Four car firms on the basis of a workers plan for production implemented under their control can start to bring radonaly into the manage ment of the British car industry.

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