IMGpapers 1968–75

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1968–75

AND HOW TO FIGHT THEM'

Red Weekly No. 130, 18 December 1975 · pp. 5-6 of the scan · 166 words

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as part of the Labour Governments stat egy to drive down living standards through cuts in both wages and services.

But when it comes to the main question - how to fight and what policies to put forward - the film unfortunately has little to offer. tour of a Daily Telegraph rogues gallery of leading industrialists, and tales of the horrors of their power and wealth, we are left with little more than a prescription for large doses of rank-and-file militancy; defensive action, estate by estate hospital by hospital.

av concentratino almost exclusivery on fragmentary interviews with those activists involved in fighting cuts in local areas and sectors, the film gives the impression that class-wide policies are not needed or will arise spontaneously from these actions. shortcomings the tilm should be widery used as a means of stimulating the kind of discussion which is needed to thrash out tnese policies.

NATAL Callin

page 6 of the scan

6 Ireland/Australia Red Weekly 18 December 1975 He is also

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