IT IS pathetic that some Labour leaders should now "Reynesianism res the the solution Britain's economic problems; for example John Silkın and Tom Jackson on a recent 'Any programme.
Silkin himself raised the question ot how great increase in public spending financed and airily dismissed 1t Jackson said that such a scheme would 'pay for itself' The truth is that 1t could only be financed wo wavs. ov the asses and thus reducing our purchasing power and putting us Dock lo sulait vlic, by taxing the capitalists, which would reduce their 'inducement to invest' which, according to Keynes, is of supreme hortance And indeed it is if the system is to con tinue! There more than a grain of truth in Tory assertions that the country can't afford" this, that and the other What they mean is that the capitalist system can't afford it!
of perfectly legitimate to ask how can afford massive spending on 'defence', while having to cut spending on weltare But the final proof that Keynes' ideas don't work is that if they did work Maggie would now be pursuing them and we would never have heard of Friedman and his After all, Keynes was capitalism, not establish our disill are these "socialists' so anxious to socialism?
JIM PARKES, Walsall plication for a gambling licence Vegas only Mafia appointees run the gaming joints.
Weillammsmiral pal of William Smith, US Attorney General - the man supposedly responsible fighting will claims he has never heard Sinatra's links the Mafia Now Sinatra's hard work in jeopardy Fratianno has become a 'gun who turnCallary to save his own hide.
For years govern, big business, and organised crime have happily collaborated They all believe in free enterprise and the he powe reds and troublemakers like workers who want better wages and decent conditions.
Socialist Challenge 5 February 1981 Nelson Mandela Normally Socialist Challenge does not concern itself with elections for the chancellorship of London University; it is after • all a pureiv sym bolic post. But because of its symbolic importance this time we are supporting a candidate.
victory tor Mandela would show graduales sidt this courageous fighter against apartheid. vote for Mandela is a vote fo human dignity anc human rights.
A vote for the royal offspring is a vote for privilege and represents an obsequious kowtowing to an archaic and reactionary institution The best service Jack Jones can do for progress is to withdraw in favour of Mandela.