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BIGGEST PRIZES class opinion on how to handle the issue tactically defeat, ODEl TICE throughout the British Isles. Much has already been won.
been handed them by their opponent must first accept backstage dealers.
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SWEETIRONY Internationalist and working class policies 3 nothing to deal with, THE SCOTLAND and Wales Bill has been saved from the ignominy of a defeat at she first hurdle. A combination of sticke and carrots helped reduce the Labour rebellion on the vital But in the last analysis it was not the taming of heir own backbenchers that got the Cabinet through, but Libera both guillotine and second reading. A Tory backbench rebellion triumph of Thatcher's Unionism, Significantly the Ulster Unionists voted with the Tories rus time round, conscious ruing cise opinion is acurely awar of the need to deal with Britain's capitalist crisis in the most centralised way possible. Thatcher understands the danger for a For and any serious political The electoral riaks of outright opposition have divided ruling Thatcher's offensive has begun to crystallise their opposition: if they cannot concessions needed to see that the bruisn state nolds run sway uccess of Thatcher's stance can be measured by the growth of Welsh Biwil tal by neward the Barone get are the strong possibility that the he SNP's recognition' of the Queen was not just a symboli it completed what the media cali its coming of political and now it says so.
Above all it is Labour's own approach which offers so much of what the bosses need. The Assemblies" powers are not settled by Me seems Crocol needed as hey wouice in 2cmuna Constituent Assembly election. They are to be parcelled out in meagre Christmas boxes by Westminster's committees and Three guarantees are offered: first, the Assemblies will be unable to onact measures in ine interests or working people. Second, saparate taxation is out, above all on all. And thirdly, If any threat to these principles emerges from Cardiff or Edinburgh, devolutionists, will chip away at the Bill and then throw what Rabin Cook, Edinburgh MP, has shown at least some respect tor comparaty. no now oppones to all, out saya no will night t But he is mistaken in his opposition. True, this mangled Bill will not benefit working people in material terms, one jof. Indeed the Torles, with sweet Irony, will play on thie to mobilise opposition in the referenda, But the Bill offers, for the first time, a chance for Scottish and Weish people to discuss and decide themselves, in however limited a way, the policies put forward for the SP by a socialist Assembly group committed to haif decent Such policies would have to rely on working class action and place to do deals, he sees no future in an Assembly in which For socialists the choico is clear: light for the whole British Isbour movement to put its weight Wales without restriction on their powers; and behind a yos referendum vole for any bill which concodes this, principle.