IMGpapers 1968–75

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

LONDON DEFENCE COMMITTE:

Red Weekly No. 40, 22 February 1974 · pp. 1-3 of the scan · 734 words

The scan: rw-no40-feb-22-1974.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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Tory incomes policy. And what does Labour stand for? A Labour incomes policy, of course Every Labour spokésman has made it nerfectly clear that a Labour Government would be just as cager as the Tories to hold down wages. The only difference is that where the Tories have had to rely on a statutory policy and the intervention of the state into Tree collective harg aining', Labour hopes to use its special relationship with the trade union leaders 10 work out a voluntary agreement:

So the working class can relax. their wages may be kept down under Labour, but at least it will be Tree collective starvation'.

The recent sell-out operation of the TUC, designed to sweet-talk the Tories into making concessions to the miners, makes it clear that they would be only too willing to make who have either avoided or scabbed on every big struggle of the workers" movement during the recent years of Tory rule, who fight tooth-andMail the simple democratic proposal that the Party Conference should exercise control over the Parliamentary Party's actions, to actually mobIlise the mass of working peopie?

Whether we have a Tory or Labour Government on l March the working class will have to carry on the arrogale the strugele against any form of ircomer policy or pay restraint as long as the capitalist class controis the сопоту - and the struggle to squecze better wages and conditions oul of the bosses.

That is why the miners strike and the movement in solidarity with it is so important. But the next step - which is becoming increasingly urgent — is to strengthen the miners' struggle, and strengthen the fight of the entire working class against The appeals of the three Shrewsbury buiiding ities opened in London last Tuesday. strate their solidarity.

The decision of.the NUM leader The appeal hearings workers jailed in December for their picketing activ Over 500 building workers took this opportunity to demonof inquisy, but they are not the stuff after the unprecedented 1972 increases

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attended a meeting in one of the wards. At the and of the meeting 30 people handed in their of 300 at Sheffield University where 12 students signed up to work in Tario's election compaign.

Taking Heath at his word that this is a contest between the moderates and the extre-

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