IMGpapers 1980–83

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

'Second home' bombings in

Socialist Challenge No. 158, 31 July 1980 · pp. 11-12 of the scan · 277 words

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page 11 of the scan

AFTER the bombing of the Tor! Secretary of Wales' third, bu alleged 'ancestral' home and the detention of Brendan Young, an IMG member in Swansea, under the prevention dietrous Ael. i mates 1MG's areitude to the ar- worth recalling the son. attacks on secola nullics li Wales:

*Basing ourselves on the programme or revolutonary Marx. sm waes wil beueves to only solution to the problem of second home ownership is through a mass action, anticapitalist campaign...

"The burnings are individual responses, even where some clandestine organisation is involv•esi the very nature of the burnmas exondes mass invo venent. An impassable barrier is set up between political activists and the popular opposition.

"It is for this reason, rather than respect for capitalist properSocialist Challenge BY the time the TUC1 meets at its annual conference in Brighton at the start of September official number unemployed will be over two million.

page 12 of the scan

That explains why the fight for the right to work needs to be one of Mator unemes ference. The preliminary motions to be debated by the was published at the start of this week. Included are a whole number But while many fine sentiments are displayed in these motions there is a noticeable shortage of concrete the 0f Coning as fast queues.

The other high factor' politicians unemployment is increasas the dole first lie came when Thatcher, Geoffrey Howe, and Tory bosses claimed unemployment was caused by claims. Thatcher said on 22 July that 'the main 1.9m unemployment -figures announced that day 'is the high increase in wages'.

Such nonsense is disproved

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