IMGpapers 1980–83

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

Misguided

· Socialist Challenge No. 211, 3 September 1981 · pp. 7-8 of the scan · 355 words

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than 10 per cent while inflation was running at 15 per cent. This year, they want less. For example, the employers have rejected the 14 per cent claim of the unions, suggesting a figure less than 5 per cent. The BL management has warned that it doesn't intend to pay any increase at all!

even beginning like SUllIC airlines, that workers accept a 10 per simply misguided!

Such an idea to see need only recall of the knuckle' This brings us to the most unreal aspect of the plan. It is posed as an appeal to the Tories to change course. As if Margaret Thatcher is somehow i he passes bare 'barespeech that CBI head Sir Terence Beckett issued against the last the bosses and the lories.

They need to increase dramatically lnel rare or pronts ana lnis can on ly be done at the expense of the working class by destroying its living standards and increasing the rate at which we are exploited.

Mass unemployment is needed to weaken level of organisation which can promote resistance to this The implacable struggle plan, beyond it along the socialist road.

wnre we will never win luc acarl of the class enemy, the likes of Thatcher in such a grovelling way, the TUC approach undermines the confidence of the working Cass Tories The more cringing the approach, can apply the trying complete it, develop it and go by approaching to stab such workers in the back, absurdly and criminally thereby hoping to curry favour with the likes Thatcher, should mobilise all worker militants for vigorous campaign to implement the plan, take power into its own hands and transform the country, to make it habitable for working people. This is the only serious approach Socialist Challenge 3 September 1981

page 8 of the scan

nual conference of trades councils: 'Throughout of Trades Unions... HERE is Len Murray, speaking in June at the TUC anviolence since the late 1960s the general council of the TUC has followed the advice and example of the Northern Ireland Committee (NIC) of the Irish Congress 'Make no mistake about it. The NIC deserves and

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