Reg Race writes
Socialist Organiser1982 1982-12-02Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 1 →
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THE Tebbit Bill is just part of the Thatcher government's attempt to reduce the combativity and effectiveness of the organised working class.
The specific powers that have been taken to curtail trade union rights are but part of the wider strategy that includes mass unemployment and gross interference in free collective bargaining.
Capitalism in Britain can no longer afford concessions to working people, either in the form of higher real wages or increased public expenditure. The crisis of profitability in British industry is now so great that the concessions given by the establishment atier 1945 to workers are being withdrawn.
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Hence the crisis in the National Health Service; hence the proposed revocation of the Fair Wages Resolution; hence the cuts in social security benefits to the unemployed and
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