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institutions of British capitalism.
The lefts" have not been short of allies. As the Benins and Foots have pledged their undying devotion to British independence they have been enthusiastically applauded by the National Front, the Monday Club and Mr. Enoch Powell.
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SECtIO man has prepared for us by his report. (See story on page 3f ***** ALL THE MOST IMPORTANT SECTIONS of the British capitalist class are in favour of staying in the European Economic Community-they are prepared to lose a little sovereignty" to save Meanwhile the Labour Party and trade union lefts" have hauled up the Union Jack and rushed out to defend sovereignty, Parliament and all the other revered "British" institutions. Instead of putting forward the need for a socialist Europe, based on planned production for social need rather than the EEC's capitalist prodoction for profit, they make a Blimpish defence of the rotting In fact the astute Mr. Powell is very keen on working with the left.
In Manchester he was more than disappointed when Bob Wright, ALEW candidate of the Broad Left would not share an anti-EEC platform with him because of rank-and-file pressure.
On Saturday aftemoon, 1 March, over a hundred militants of the IMG gathered outside the Home Office on Whitehall, to protest at the report of the Scarman tribunal on the incidents of June 15th at Red Lion Square. This report attempted to pin the responsibility for Kevin Gateley's death on the IMG. We deny this accusation and stand by our position of not allowing fascists and racists to speak, despite the witch-hunt atmosphere that ScarQut Mr. Powell has remained undaunted. Last week in Brighton he pulled off one of his bigger coups. This time his co-speaker was Clive Jenkins, general secretary of ASTMS and a newly elected member of the TUC general council. Bob Pennington en and committed advocate of the virtues of capitalism, did not digress on the capitalist nature of the EBC. Mr. Jenkins, who fancies himself as something of a socialist -which he mainly practices on Sunclass Powell of course, as an outspokin the shade.
days and public holidays neglected numbers. ialist alternative! providing for him. to explain to his audience that the purpose of the EEC was to secure the better running of European capitalisin and incryase the exp loitation of the European working But being the patriotic little gentieman, he did issue a dire warning of how Britain "was being sacrificed to the industrial interests of the French and Germans".
Nor did Mr. Jenkins get round to telling his audience that his platform colleague had made a speech Just two days befote to the Surrey Monday Club on inmigration which even the Guardian newspaper said put Powell's notorious earlier efforts But why should Mr. Jenkins get too hot under the collar about Powell's latest racist diatribe " Alter all they were both defending the nation. In Croydon the night before Mr. Powell had been warning of an impending catastrophe, even the death of a nation' if immigrants were not repatriated in subolantial By associating with this rag-bag of racists and virulent nationalists the Labour left' help give credibility to these reactionary ideas in the working class movement, and provide a platforin for their poison.
The need for an independent working class campaign has been Ignored by these lefts" because such a campaign would involte the Ogh! for working class internalionalist. This ateans they would have to reluse to collaborate with Powell and the NF and put forward a socIt is precisely because he has managed to establish un alliance on the Contman Market with the Labour left' that Powell has once agan returned to the issue of imm igration and racism. His Croydon speech is neither explicable nor coincidental, but is a calculated attempt to take adrantage of the platform policy. that Clive Jenkins and company are REG PRENTICE, the Secretary of Education with the big mouth and the low IQ, according to cabinet colleague Michael Foot, has publicly proclaimed the death agony of the Speaking over the weekend he claimed the miners had "welshed" on the contract in their settlement, and that future deals of a similar nature would be the death of the contract.'Economic illiteracy" charged Michael Foot, in a bitter counter-attack in which be was supported by Harold Wilson.
Hat all Prentioe bas done is nail his colours clearly on the mast. All sections of the Labour Goveriment pledged as they are to the defence of capitalism, face a choise between adopting a com pulsory incomes policy or clinging to the sinking ship of the 'voluntary social contract Prentice, who more clearly cxpresses the needs of the unpitalist class has aimply grasped the bull by the horns Foot and the Labour left prefer to preten that the crisis isn't as serious as the capitalist class stainlains and put off the day of rockoning Meanwhile Wilson is like a juggler daing a balancing act. He rollers that class proclaim the social contract dead the screws will be ao to implement a compusory incomes noilet and the Government will face a ibassive working class apsurge So the fiction of the social contract has to be maintained for as long 15 DOSSIE Pole in the Tabour Cabinet is hice a Punch and Jady show, auth the two sides debating How best to make tie Working class pay for the crisis. While Prentice threatens a wages freeze and Healey unemployment, Foor discusses bot if, but by how much, spending on the social sarvices must be recuced.
Despite Foot's verbal fire, the Labou left Tave no real answer to Prentics, because in the last analysis they, like him, put the delonce of capitalism bufore the interests of the working class That's why the worken movement est combine support for all proups of worken going into staple against the social contract, such as the tallwaynien and the power workers, with prepura tions for an all out fight against any attempt to impose a statutory incones
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