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CONTINUED production of the Radio Times by Robert Maxwell, despite the SOGAT dispute at Park Royal, is being made possible by NGA scabbing.

The major part of the production division at Pergamon Press in Oxford has been given over to work for the BBC since November 24 - work channelled to Pergamon by BPCC to get round the dispute at Park Royal.

According to one scandalised NGA member in London who talked to Socialist Organiser about it, NGA members at Oxford are coining scab money with enormous quantities of overtime.

Last December the NGA took a bitter lesson in the meaning of within five years was miserable enough at the time. On TV on Sunday Kinnock declared that even that was now too ambitious.

Socialism (Kinnock-style) now means two million unemployed.

Why must Labour's vision of socialism constantly become meaner and drabber?

The crisis. says TV statesman Kinnock. The damage done by the Tories' capitalist policies.

delayed postponed it for four weeks.

Then on Wednesday 18th they rescheduled the train for Sunday 22nd - only later to call it off and claim that this run had never been authorised and must have been a mistake by lower management.

The issue is now in national negotiations. between the NUR and the British Rail Board. Local NUR members have shown their determination to boycott this train. It is up to our union leaders to pursue the NUR policy of protection of jobs and opposition to privatisation. the word 'scab' from King Rat Len Murray and the other little men who run the TUC. NGA members should remember it and call the scabbing NGA at Pergamon and the union's leadership to order.

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The worse capitalism gets, the more it drags Kinnock's version of socialism down with it.

Perhaps that is because Kinnock's version of socialism is so very little different from capitalism. Neil Kinnock went out of his way on Sunday to remind viewers that he had long ago clashed with the Labour left by telling us that to restore all Tory cuts in education was a wild, excessive, utopian programme.

Neil Kinnock has not yet explained why a real socialist programme - bringing major. industry and finance into common ownership under workers' control, and reducing the work week without loss of pay should have any trouble in ending unemployment and expanding education.

Real socialism can only start once such measures - barely an advance on civilised capitalism -are way behind us.

Dreams? Vapid idealism? That's what Neil Kinnock would have us believe - and what the Tories tell us too.

It's not realism. It's slavish submission to the status quo. SO mittee decision in December, TW5 ODP.

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