IMGpapers 1976–79

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

WORLD'S HIGHEST STANDARD OF LIVING

Red Weekly No. 145, 8 April 1976 · p. 9 of the scan · 138 words

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page 9 of the scan

of problems and tasks for every political force.

Since 1960 sections of the American people have undergone a process of deep and widespread radicalisation - for many of them a serious questioning of everything they had believed and never questioned about their society. This began to In its two hundredth year of existence, the American political system is feeling its way through another Presidential and Congressional election. Most attention focuses on the highly publici sed differences between the Democratic and Republican parties. But, as ROBIN WHITMAN explains, the British press ignores the fact that underlying the present campaign is an entirely new set groups moving to the left.

Numbering about thirty million people the non-white national minorities in the United States are strategically placed in regard to American industries. Afro-Americans constitute 10 per cent of the

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