IMGpapers 1968–75

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

Labour pledge on Chile demanded

Red Weekly No. 42, 8 March 1974 · pp. 2-3 of the scan · 249 words

The scan: rw-no42-mar-8-1974.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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current, lor example, carried their slavish commitment to the Labour Party machine to its logical extreme by supporting Richard and his Failure to provide an alternative political leadership to the rotten decaying leadership of the Labour Party in the North East has already had disastrous consequences for the working class-hy allowing conditions of confusion ln develop which provide very fertile ground for the populist tactics ot che Cinerais who obtamed large votes in what used to be solid Labour scats. In Blyth, for example, the Liberals picked up 10,214 cotes 1,500 more than the Tory candidate. The Chile Solidarity Campaign is de manding that the new Labour administration break with previous Government policy on Chile.

In particular, it is demanding that diplomatie relations with the junta be broken off, thar all aid be stopped. and that asylum be freely granted lo all Chilean refugees. All these demands were endorsed by the Labour NEC while in Opposition:

The new campaign will be launched with a pieker on Downing Sr at 5.30pm on Friday, 15 March.

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the past. Rather, it is going to be forced by the trade union leaders to cur down its furare demands simply in order to bring the previous altacks to a halt.

exact opposite of this two-sided "bargain", The working class move the attacks made on it in the past and needs amprovements in its struggle's sake. But if it is an illusion sive struggle to increase wages, pensions and social-security benefits

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