FIGHT WILSON'S HEIRS | IMGpapers 1976

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ALL OUT ON 26 MAY settlements cannot be more than half of the previous f6 limit, which itself has meant increased poverty for millions.

* * * Healey's offers of tax concessions are a fake. They will not even compensate for the effects of inflation over the last year. In order to keep tax revenues intact to pay off the national debt to the big finance houses and the trusts, the Government will have to slash spending on housing, health, education and all the gains made by the working class in social services. The concessions' given with one hand will be taken away with a vengeance by the other.

* The TUC leaders have set up a meeting of union executives in June to try and force acceptance of the package down the membership's throats. They will try to stamp on any resistance even from the smallest groups of workers, as Scanlon showed with his marching orders to the British Leyland toolroom strikers. Any resistance to the policies of this Government will meet with opposition from the likes of Jones, Scanlon and all the supporters of this Government's policies.

* * * The left MPs will doubtless show their true colours when confronted with the vote on the Budget. Those who claimed in front of the National Assembly on Unemployment to be opposed to the Government's policies should vote against the Budget as the basis for the Government's strategy over the next year -or be revealed for mere left talkers.

* * But as the non-fight continues in Parliament, the struggle which really counts is rising again. Following the National Assembly on Unemployment, support is building up for the day of action on 26 May. A new wave of struggles has hit the motor industry and the fight against the cuts will take another step forward with the demonstration against the health cuts on 25 April. Demands for ending wage controls, cuts and for nationalisation to establish the right to work are building up. It is in these struggles that a real class struggle opposition to defeat Callaghan and all the heirs of Wilson will be forged. 1O

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Red Weekly 8 April 1976