IMGpapers 1976–79

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

Callaghan's Death Rattle

Red Weekly No. 192, 24 March 1977 · pp. 3-4 of the scan · 912 words

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LANDORS is a small firm workers in an old factory in Digbeth, Birmingham makes you wisn inat tne nazis naant missea iin te war ment to pay exceptionally DEFICIAL employing not many more than a hundred - me sor orlactor war Landors management have taken advantage of high youth unemploylow wages. 224 is the mark with compulsory DISPUTE oticial recoonition The only support has come from finance and help on the picket lines The strikers have not received a penny strike pay alhtough they have no peen out tor six weeks ano me district comminee nas recommenoe Birmingham Engineering Voice have organised meetings in local factories asking fo Government will fall as are certain.

The responsibility for this situation lies towards granting the parlamentary seats in any election in Scotland. of this policy. Callaghan's TIl deal with anyone' a further by this Government policies of the Government. fight against incomes Callaghan and Healey majority party of the working class which says the Labour must always be supported.

Equally it must be struggles of the defence.

leaders let off the hook Cal declaration of war on the working class.

Joo can best be the last month. scents the possibility of Parlamentary landslide resumption services and jobs movement.

Communist Party, of alliance with the left incapable 40:00 0 70 movement to the likes of Jones and Scanlon mass Suruceie As we go to print we do not know whether the Labour La result no-confidence motion in Parliament. But of one fact we We are hearing the death rattle of this Labour Callaghan-Healey leadership and the policies which they and their trade union allies have pushed down the throats It is these policies which have lost Labour by-election after by-election, given a massive boost to the Scottish and Weish nationalists and driven significant numbers of voters into the fold of the fascist National Front and National Party. The Labour Government has tailed to move minimal democratic demand of self-determination for the Scottish and Welsh people This means that they stand to lose at least seventeen This is one indication of the opposition to the dumping stance has meant a continuation of Wilson's deal with Powell. Labour ministers have negotiated with Uister Unionists for crackdown on the Catholic population in the The Liberal's demand for a halt to all further nationalisation has in practice been conceded long ago Not one of the 'lefts' has dared even to suggest that Callaghan immediately cease all such negotiations. They will continue their complicity in the anti-working class They seek to cover up their role in inis snamoles, Inel lanure to launch any senous policy, the cuts and unemployment inside or outside of Parliament indicts them alongside Of course the Government of the Labour Party - snoula de derended against the attacks of the Tories. But there is no iron law brought to account for anti-working class policies which have brought about the present debacle. If the issue now were a challenge to these policies and a fight were launched through the mass class to bring down the Government, on that basis we would not lift a finger in its As far as we are concerned it is better for the working class to mobilise against their own leadership, in the struggle to create an alternative, rather than have those return ora Тогу The outcome of this political crisis, whether or not the oniv mean one thing The literary representatives of the ruling class in Fleet Street, with the exception of the Telegraph still think that done by the maintenance of a Labour Government for the sole purpose of concluding Phase 3 of incomes policy. But they are not over-confident that the Labour Government can hold the line against the sort of struggles which the toolmakers have unleashed over The Tory Party is not so high-minded. For Thatcher But whoever is in office Phase 2 will remain, fixed in legislation until August. The main task now must be to sweep away Phase 2 as the best way of preventing the on living standards.

But the crisis at the level of the Labour leaders paralleled by the crisis of the trade unions. The decision of the print union NATSOPA's leadership to declare the membership of 120 workers at The Times 'null and void", the joint threat of Scanlon, the Leyland bosses and the Government to urge the sacking of striking toolmakers means a crisis of leadership as a whole in the labour its failure to back toolroom workers, has shown once again that its strategy bureaucrats means that it is -In labout experience has shown that when it comes to the crunch they will side with them against the The first step towards building a left wing based on the politics of class struggle rather than class collaboration is the unity of all those who stand opposed to the Socia Contract and are committed to mass action against it.

An alliance on this basis would have a vital role to play both in the labour movement and to provide a politica alternative to the betrayals of Labour. This is the only alternative to the betrayals of the Labour traitors. It is the only way to fight the threat of the most determined and

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tween Jones and his Thirty thousand dockers defied Jack Jones on Monday by taking national unofficial strike action. A march on Transport House was the scene of an angry confrontation members, who demanded OF

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