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IF YOU thought the Bishops Stortford concessions by the Labour left were balanced by a commitment out. A Labour government should start with a massive devaluation, he said. Then it would be by the Labour leadership to support party policy, necessary that 'unions... accept a firm policy on incomes so that the huge job-creating potential of ,. Peter Shore, Labour's front bench spokesperson this exercise is not dissipated in a pay spiral to on the economy, is using his position to campaign against Labour Party and TUC conference policy As Rachel Lever commented in Socialist OrganWiser at the time: "How depressingly. familiar.

In 1978 both the TUC and the Labour Party Workers pay for crisis. And workers pay for conferences, sickened by 18 months of social contrick and three years of real-wage-cutting incomes 'Some Lakour MPs", the Financial Times said policy, came out against all incomes policies under last Friday, "report a greater willingness within the Parliamentary Labour Party to face the quesThat position stands. Shore claims that his tions involved than they thought possible a few proposals are not the same as Healey's notorious policies of 1975-9. He wants a 'voluntary' agree- And TUC leader Len Murray is also helping to right-wingers might wish it so, it is not a relation and cabbage! Much as many Tories or Labour But the basic argument, spelled out for him by Presenting the TUC annual economic review at of consurier to passive object-but a relation of left wing MP Michael Meacher, is that "unres- the beginning of this month, he said the TUC was class struggle. The slump and the Tory offensive trained collective bargaining is incompatible with willing to discuss incomes policy if the Tories mean both three million unemployed and cuts in If this argument is conceded, then the incomes would accept the TUC proposals for reflation.

In terms of economic theory, Murray and the policy will be 'voluntary' only so long as trade MPs all base themselves on a bedrock idea of unionists (or, more likely, trade union top officials orthodox economics. All other things being equal, on their behalflagree to volunteer. After that it will the demand for cabbage will go up when the price If workers go on the offensive in conditions of Not cabbage goes down, and down when the price boom, they can win fuli employment and relatively Mind you, Michael Meacher is far from advoca- gues up. So-the argument goes-demand for good wages. When capitalists go on the offensive ting full employment. His best hope is that the labour is high when wages are low, and vice in conditions of slump, they cut both jobs and policies he recommends could reduce unemployrelation between capitalists and workers Workers will not be able to resist the job cuts if In the New Statesman last August he spelled it same as the relation between shoppers. they allow the bosses to ride roughshod over them then forget it.

on wage controls.

capitalism.

ment.

full employment"

be compulsory.

ment to one million within five years. WHEN Othello strangled Desdemona-surely one of Shakespeare's most cardboard creationshe excused himself on the grounds he had "loved not wisely but too well"

It might seem a long way from Shakespeare to the Sun -from the Swan of Avon to the gutter rat of Fleet Street-but. last week brought faint echoes of the Othello complet, from both the Sun and the Daily Star.

The part of Desdemona is being played by Diana Spencer, the sacrificial lamb thrown up by the ruling class to act as breeding stock to the royal fartily.

BY GERI versa.

The throttling in this case is being done by protect real living standards."

'recovery'."

months ago.

pave the way for a new incomes policy.

But the is not the remote control-or rather tele-photo lens. Not for the first time it has led to clashes between Buckingham Palace and Fleet Street.

It is a peculiar contest.

The Sun and the Star are two of the most powerful weapons the ruling class and therefore the royal family, have against those who threaten their cosy existence.

The Sun is the crude assassin prepared for any smear (the train drivers whose 'fiddles' provided the basis of the ASLEF witch-hunt have now been sacked). The Star wears a cloak of sympathy with the working class, while Peter Shore real wages. wages.

GA bitter on wages Strategy. tinkering.

meeting last Wednesday.

for keeping their income down further.

alternative to the Tories that we need.

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