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believe Tony Benn. THE hysteria of the Tory press against 14 May was not exactly a surprise, but perhaps some people in the labour movement expected a different approach from the Daily Last year, the Mirror got into a big argument with Tony Benn, who said it wasn't a paper of the labour movement. The Daily Mirror didn't much like that. In fact, it called Benn a liar. It said that everyone knew that the Mirror is the paper of British Labour. Several vicious editorials were devoted to slamming But then, on 1 May, the Mirror seemed to show its working. class colours. In a special edition it lambasted the Tories with page after page of abuse and contempt for the Thatcher government — a brilliant demolition of the 'richest cabinet for fifty years'. Decisive proof you might think.
Ah, but then along came 14 May. After some initial hesitation, our friends at Holborn Circus chimed in with the Express, the Sun and the rest in condemning the TUC's Day of Action. Why the contradiction? What had changed in two weeks?
The answer is not so difficult to find. 1 May, you will remember, was the day of the local council elections. The -Mirror's special edition had been planned three months in advance. It was purely and simply propaganda for the Labour Party to try to get the biggest possible vote against the Tories.
The Mirror, as Tony Benn said, is the paper of the Labour right; the paper of Callaghan, Healey and the rest. But it doesn't like the left, inside or outside the Labour Party. Neither does it reflect or support working class struggles. Over 14 May it faithfully reflected the views of Dennis Healey.
The real forum for protest, said Healey, is not the streets, but parlament. The only day of 'action' that matters is polling day. In other words wait until 1984, don't struggle, rely on the Awaiting further evidence, of the Mirror's attachment to the cause of the labour movement, at this stage we prefer to In trades council demonstration occupied hospital 5,000 people pamphiet assault Challenge, London N1.
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