IMGpapers 1976–79

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

THEY SAY LAW AND ORDER SAY E TROOPS OUT NOW

Socialist Challenge No. 90, 5 April 1979 · p. 1 of the scan · 197 words

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And, as we have seen after five years of Labour rule, more and more working class people refusing -to accept its measures. The civil servants decision to reject the latest offer, despite the election, is a case in point. The proof is the way the capitalist press has held up this dispute as evidence that can't control" the working class any longer.

If the Tories were in office these Labour leaders and their friends at the head of the unions would be let off the hook. Then we would hear all sorts of left noises and promises never to do again what they've done between 1974 and 79.

And after several years of the Tories, they may well even be believed - including by many those who today are rejecting Labour's policies.

Socialist Unity will be contesting the election in safe Labour seats on the basis of socialist alternative. condition for extending this alternative is to return a Labou Government Not because it will deliver socialism, but because under Labour the rea socialists can be seen much DID those who ery over Airey Neave mourn the dead of Bloody Sunday! more and heard much louder

← OUR FUND DRIVERETURN LABOUR →

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