IMGpapers 1980–83

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

AND WE'LL FIX you UP FOR LIFE, DON'T FORLI

Socialist Challenge No. 274, 17 December 1982 · pp. 4-5 of the scan · 534 words

The scan: sc-no274.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.
How this article was cut and titled: headline found by type size in the OCR geometry (split_tabloid.py); 5-6 of 7; machine-segmented newspaper page; uncorrected Vision OCR.

page 4 of the scan

Them time to either bribe, blackmail or psychologically pressurise people to turn They have been known to of *I now deny any involvement with these crimes or people asked me to pick out and further sav that fer as much as £100,000. But frequently they use hlackmail.

ror example, i came 1c our notice that one person who owed several thousands under the Payment force savmenrel arrears aren early Payment is raken ad failed to inform the that he had gone back to live wite. they threatened to charge him with this offence if he didn't "cointo the use Diplock Courts which sit without a In normal courts. ther wouldn't get away win in If successfully sentenced through this actualiv get 20 vears or so. they get away with it they will have carte blanche to deal everyone they like So we appeal to everyone in Britain to nein break the war or stence surrounding these methods. We ask you to expose the way that they try to say this is legal; that it 1s just The legal system is just be like my wife and all my debts. prisoner on remand 2.5.A2 ina userto whatever boltica decision they wish to imple ment Even North, have come Very warev do mew speak on dues tions let alone something so how far the situation has gone and what the polenual lo They said that there was no way out for me except sign and take the deal, and they would take care of all details mobilising opposion Is Due to legal constraints we names of those who have made statements and others

page 5 of the scan

Telecoms is 'democracy through shareholding'.

company nationalised industries.

To be sure, if every one the 245,000 Telecom workers LI3.000 spare atter Christmas they would be able to buy 51 percent of the shares in BT. In reali ONE of the best stories currently being peddled The idea is that all those who own shares in a company can vote to control the policy and profits of the unlike all these 'unaccountable' Not that workers having a share in private company would give them any more say in its running. Privatising Bi means completely subjecting it to the laws ol ine market. crude Tory hand-out to its friends The asset value of BT is £15bn. It is definitely the growth industry of the 1980s. Yet the bian is te sell it for the bargain basement price of E3bn.

More they will then use revenue give taxcutting bonanza to these same friends. As we all know, the result of Thatcher's tax cuts has been The alternative to the Tories is not to defend the nationalised industrie iney are. Nationa ised B amounts to little more than public funded Research and Development project to make the operation a fat picking for the ITT and Ericson multinationals of this world. It means dedicating 'development' to the needs of big business. expansion should benetit the entrepreneurs. asset strippers and bureaucrats. but reduce charges, provide free phones for pensioners and those innovations that benefit class. must allow operation workers control, to reduce the working week, expand the workforce and determine an intensity of work decided

← Internment by the back doorMilitant and NUR elections →

Something wrong on this page?