IMGpapers 1980–83

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

Signs

Socialist Challenge No. 202, 18 June 1981 · p. 1 of the scan · 195 words

The scan: sc-no202.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

Uncorrected machine reading. This text was read by machine (Apple Vision OCR) from a scan of a newspaper page, and the page was cut into articles by machine, at the headlines found by their type size. Nothing has been corrected: expect misread words, text from a neighbouring article, and titles that are the machine reading of the headline, some of them only fragments. Quote from the scan, not from this page.
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JOBS NOT BOMBS: CARDIFF 4 JULY after this period the government will be able to meet the expectations of rea workers. The signs are favourable.

To really defend and extend the acquisitions of the workers in the direction of socialism, would necessary for the government to take radical anti-capitalist measures and call on the workers to mobilise to carry them out.

But the programme of the government exceedingly moderate. envisaging only tions, and no real assault on the overall power of capital.

Reforms Mitterrand will stay NATO EEC. It will remain a capitalist state, offering the workers only limited reforms. But in a period economic crisis there are limits to the reforms which can be offered - even the increase in the national minimum wage could be easily destroyed by a new spurt of inflation The working class expects its demands and needs be satistied. so it is inevitable tha after 'period of grace the will mobilise to win WORKCH them. Either the Mitterand government will be pressurised into taking action against the interests of the bosses or it will come into collision the millions of workers who have propelled it into power.

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