IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

Jobs Not Challenge's big campaign

Socialist Challenge No. 170, 30 October 1980 · p. 2 of the scan · 327 words

The scan: sc-n170-oct-30-1980.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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THE NEW movement which burst on to London's streets last weekend is a giant slap in the face for the Tories' war plans.

Thatcher has backed

to the hilt the campaign coordinated by the White nouse worlawide to ae fend profits abroad and at American and European workers to support wars Middle East and Central bean. Vast sums are being nuclear and conventional perialists are attempting to force through austerity prodrammes ano massive unemployment to jack up meeting resistance; from the workers and peasants of the third world and from the American, Eurothe imperialist's defence of their profit system has to be laken acep into tne labour movement by demanding that not a •cums seen on are. ments and instead that the imperialists pay the whole cost ot a brogramme of social expenditure that can meet THIS article is an edited version or te perspec tives resolution adopted Marxist Group's entral committee meeting in October. THERE was a decisive development at Labour Party ference at the beginning of this month.

In the eyes of hundreds of thousands of working class militants, a political alternative emerged only Callaghan and the right wing of the Labour Parthe conto Surprise was nicooled perience of pulls out of will be with higher vised nothing less complete steelworkers took bosses aren' out for 13 weeks.

There The aftermath of tide But unity of the movement's wasted over class seven months of 1980 Tories forward. of trade unions met at the September figures number of govern- jumped by August. The little direct particular deal with Callaghan Under the the Alternative Strategy pledgec here will be no future Labour government, whether of the left or right, unless the struggle to remove the Tory government is taken forward by the whole labour move In this context preparing coming confrontations with the Tories, and in particular for general strike action, has to cultuous theme of campaigns like those building up to 29 November.

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