Cross Out the Tories
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-05-12Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 1 →
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Knock Thatcher out of Downing St/ Stop Healey!
BY watering down and reneging on even Labour's limited conferenc policies, the right wing appear to be doing their best to lose workin class support.
Pace-setter in this is Denis Healey, who boldly announced las weekend that if Labour is re-elected, a new 'social contract' to kee down wages will be in force 'within weeks' - in and time for thi August pay round. MMAN I am determined, and so are our colleagues in the union movement that we cannot afford to dodge the issue for 12 months and have th sort of crisis we had in 1975. We have to get the thing moving righ away' The answer to Healey and his bureaucratic friends must be for thi left in the Labour Party and the unions to get moving too: while fight ing for a Labour vote, we must step up the campaign against all form of wage controls and for defence of working class living standards. SO THE Tories have dared 'go to the country. Good! beat the Tories!
"They decided for June knowing that inflation, unemployment and the economy would look even worse in the autumn. They claim that the merciless. economic and social quackery they have inflicted on the working class has worked', even though it has increased and deepened the devastation that the world slump would have produced anyway. But the facts and trends speak against them.
THJD 16N Unemployment will continue to rise. The international of the pound means an inevitable new rise in inflation.
The Tories know they lie when they say 'the corner has been turned'. Nothing has been turned except another loop in the continued downward spiral of British society.
They know they lie when they say things are going to get better from now on. The local election results showed them that their claims are accepted by far fewer people than they think. They know that the spurious glory which Mrs Thatcher won by her dirty little war in the South Atlantic is wearing off, and that the 'Falklands Factor' in British politics is getting smaller and smaller.
Their claim to be a 'successful' government has an increasingly Continued back page
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EDTOR A iG DESH CIT PooR TAIT FED THE Socialist Organiser no.131 May 12 1983 Page 2 COUCHE •EAT THE
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