IMGpapers 1980–83

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

The Sleeping Dragon

· Socialist Challenge No. 140, 27 March 1980 · p. 5 of the scan · 324 words

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page 5 of the scan

meeting, brought donations of £30 to the Lianwern strike DartICular approval when he said:

"The way we see it now is that the strike has Enover beyond wages that's the bottom of the list.

Trade Board ISTC conference, planned for later TENTS year, away Torquay. Scab The reason for this is the safe haved LICY Have been seven to ical spa briting Spain. allowed (bree boats to use Torquay harbour to unload, they've never done We've been going along Llanwern we've received Trom the non-registered dockers they're got working down there.

We'll keep on going down there until we stop them using the port. What is this — the sound and rumour? What is it that steelmen hear? Like the wind in our Welsh Valleys When the storm is drawing near; Like the rolling ocean billows In the eventide of fear. "Tis the people marching on!

What deep wound has raised from sloth The might dragon sleeping here? A blow inflicted at its lifeblood industrial Inrombosis, inricung rear Pleas for security fall on deaf ears, Defence of its future represses its fear. The people now march on!

The men of letters inspired a system of which the dragon became a victim.

Ignore human needs - out of hand. "Till the people march on!

On we march then, we the workers, Wealth creators not idle shirkers And the rumours that we hear Is the blended soul of battle stirring In active minds and hands of toil. Deliverance, the hope of every creature — wrel ne peopic march on! The classic economists inspired new wealth In which greed gained power, wielded by stealth. Those documents of yore, supply and demand, "Trotskyist'. This is a Militant tendency and Trotskyism organised by the Labour supporter and factionalism and a few factionalism, organisations to the Party.

The campaign Bill Rogers and Shirley bleating. al length commitment to production, I ne only way class pouties of us perpetralors

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