When Healey spoke about taxing the rich until they "bowl", Wilson replied by saying he didn't want to hurt any body? In reply to Heath's attacks on the Labour Party for capitulating to those who broke the law, such as the Clay Cross councillors, Wilson replied that it was the Lahour Party who had most consistently defended Parliament and the rule of law.
This is utterly useless. You can't solve the present crisis at the expense of the ruling class if you don't hurt anybody, I invoives breaking with zhe rile of law, and especinil the law of private property.
EXPROPRIATION Under capitalism, if the bosses can't pass on Behind a smoke-screen of talk about community politics the Liberal Party is attempting to cash in on Labour's political traditions. They are trying to sell the idea that the State can be the guardian angel of those groups who are ism would, according to the Liberal manifesto, "achieve the identification of employees" interests wich those of the firm by providing a visible link between the immediate limitation of wage demands and the future prosperity which will be generated both by employees and share-holders as a result?
But in case these co-partnership achemes fail to have the desired effect of moderating wage militancy then they are to be backed up by the new fangled tax system. 'If average earning per person (including fringe benefits) within a company rose faster than the agreed annua rate then both the employer and the employbes concerned would have to pay an extra surcannot really compensate for its waning credibWity as the protector of the welfare state. The only way for Labour to rocuperate the situation Is one that is anathema to the parliamentary Labour Party: thar is to cocoarage the develop ment of independent working class action, as tbe Clay Cross councillors tried to do Liberal demagogy represents a real threat to the working class movement. It can only be effectively countered by organising tenants, claimants and housewives quite independently of the bourgeois State for militant, extra parliamentary action against the deterioration of living standards and other expressions of the capitalist crisis.
Red Woekly 22 February 1974 Page 5
standing army, it is necemary for the working