Cades in the devolution debate.
Abse and Neil Kinnock.
and the unity of Britain.
the instruments of capitalist rule?
union supports the Assembly. subordination of want to go.
decide?' the Assembly, Against Separation.
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Socialist Challenge 22 February 1979 page 2 PERHAPS the saddest aspect of the referendum campaign in Wales has been the sight of the Labour Party at each other's throats. Indeed, so great is the Labour Party's concern tor democracy that is has provided the main public speakers for both On the one hand the party apparatus and the trade union bureaucracy who favour a Welsh Assembly; on the other the bulk of Labour councillors, led by the unlikely pact of the MPs Leo The latter group argues that the Assembly will be bureaucratic (an apparently plausible argument in the land of the Julian Hodge Mafia) and expensive. Debate rages over whether the Assembly will cost £6m, £12m or £20m. But the crocodile tears would be more convincing if shed in a fight for the E200m plus needed for the health service in Wales, or the £800m needed for the steel industry.
Against this they put forward the sovereignty of Westminster But do socialists really favour the subordination of Wales, with its Labour majority, to a future Tory administration in London? Or do we seize the chance to weaken National unity and working class unity should not be confused. The Welsh miners, whose record of solidarity with English and foreign workers is second to none, do not make this mistake. Their bordina ton of we ph porkers to English capital. The west proposed by Kinnock and friends means Wales economy, for example, is based on small farmers whose land is owned by the big food companies and whose language is still dying out, we are told, after centuries of persecution. conclusion is that the language and the people who use it don't The Assembly alone cannot solve these problems. But it will highlight the question: Does the Welsh nation have the right to Nor do we think an assembly can solve the major problems of class oppression: poverty, unemployment and declining living standards are not soluble in Wales alone. That is why we say: For Socialist