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Socialist Challenge No. 218, 22 October 1981 · p. 2 of the scan · 211 words

The scan: sc-no218.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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the market it will be sold off for a knock-down price so the can lay their hand on some quick Those to suffer will be money. working people as jobs are lost and prices rise.

This is the first denationalisation plan of Tories. They have already split up the Pcst Office and •ended its monopoly. They have theatened to sell off the Gas Corporation's hundreds of high street showrooms. Given half a chance they will hand back all the profitable sectors of state owned industries to their business friends.

But make no mistake: TINA is a lie. The alternative we propose is a workers' solution to the crisis: a fundamental shift in the balance the of power and wealth in favour of our class.

Challenge has slogan Jobs not alternative starting point to the gas Tories.

million could be wiped slashing the working week with no loss pay, paigns La That's why Socialist policies:

popularised the Bombs as our ment, those out through nationalising NATO.

and shutting down US The Tories have to be in a pincer movement of mass camfor jobs bombs. We have to have Labour government committed to socialist that will guarantee full employ renationalise industries the Tories have hived off and get Britain out of

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