IMGpapers 1980–83

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

NOW TORIES GO FOR THE KIDS

Socialist Challenge No. 158, 31 July 1980 · p. 1 of the scan · 381 words

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THE longer Thatcher goes on, the lower the age of her victims.

The Tories are not content just to attack working people, their living standards, and their Even school-leavers, forced Dy me mad monetarism' of Keith Joseph, aren't sufficient to sale the Tory appetite.

For now it is children who are to become Thatcher's latest The evidence statement on Monday Social Services minister Patrick Jenkin. He said in parliament child-benefits deliberately be allowed to fall behind inflation.

Even a few •Conservative back-benchers mumbled their discontent. Tories, it seems, also have children.

The government move is in direct defiance of an election promise made in the Tories' manifesto.

cessfully fought for two years ago by left-wing Labour MPs Audrey Wise and Jeff Rooker which sated child benefits for the effects of inflation.

As with other Tory policies, it will be the poorest and most unprivileged members of society who will suffer -rely on child benefits to feed and clothe their kids properly.

Single Particularly hit single-parent families parents. parents will be affected because one of the advantages of the child-benefit system is that it is will women who control how the money is spent.

The social consequences for the kids themselves frightening. that baby-battering beating are most liable to occur in low-income families because of the tensions and economic worries involved in such situations.

It all adds up the Children Fund - Kick Out the Tories.

compenwill be and Many are show and wifeto a neu Save the THIS SMALL BOY had his arms cut off deliberately. He was mutilated by the Shah of Iran's secret police to try to make his father reveal information.

Mrs Thatcher last week expressed 'sorrow' for the death of the Shah - a man who ruled over the biggest torture chamber in the world.

An estimated 100,000 political prisoners wère held in the Shah's jails. Those who managed to escape execution told of the electric shocks, rapes, enemas with boiling water, tearing out of nails and teeth, an electrically wired bed designed to burn the person placed on it; and the pressing of the skull in a vice, sometimes until it broke.

By the Tories' friends shall you know them. Dancing on his grave p.9.

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