IMGpapers 1980–83

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

March against US military intervention

Socialist Challenge No. 176, 10 December 1980 · p. 13 of the scan · 577 words

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Speaker's Corner Starts at noon Called by El Salvador Solidarity Committee 29 Islington Park Street, London N1 unity and independence ainst chose back Eanes as a lesser evil to This attitude was only finalised after considerable in-fighting in both organisaSocialist Party leader was • backed tions of the SP leadership as a candidate, but this option Sunday 14 December was defeated by the party's national council The CP initially put forward own candidate Brito, bu latel withdrew favour males Otelo was sponsored by thon, which dear nice FUP Unity DOlL agreement with PSR The agreement cludes:

*opposition to austerity *defence of the gains of the revolutionary events 1974-75, including the agrarian reform;

of the trade unions and defence democratic rights are over throw democratit the Alliance and for the working class.

The other left-wing candidate was Aires Rodriguez WHU Wan backed EW C Aires because of his port Aires because Socialiste ary deputy, and because ( • coe scamont aroud as candidature. foderation of 'Heath's attack and These heartened common approach to the Government to ask it to cu unempioyment The ignored the awkwara fact unal i erence Beckett's alternative is for even more cuts in public ex penditure — a proposal tha would increase unemploythe time Beckett's former firm, Fords For as hour weed, sayin week saying the present economic situa Both Fords and Beckett a • aware that a na tional cent, thereby wiping out the mut me bosses Tory politicians, he t hike Heath Thatcher, unemploymen The sion has two effects. Firstl • 1l concealala more efficien weak and inefficient to the wall.

Secondly, it creates reserve • Thich th osses hope to use to kee in une However. ever real unemployment at three limited effects worker now only multancy thought that the workers at Leyland had been well and truly cou redundancies working when me neare ortie su cess of the Metro, they soon showed that they • were willto fight back against a e cuts.

This is what the bosses first sign of an upturn in the the workers wil use their losses they have back any Terence Beckett, leader of the Con.

Industry, echoed called the latest suffered in real wages. the Tories have made sa vage CBI aware thạt cals in the puduc sceror and ruthlessly imposed cash limits. Ws that th thei noses government- nas able, • Icall slash public sector workers wage packets conccillalca O calla penalture Wilc hits thei friends in the building trade and manufacturing. monetarism has also had the natchers its concentra suppl i stronger and comicitry. com Cao lasts art predicting a temporary eas ing of the depression by the of having to compete with worried at the though foreign firms at a time whe bank charges and high interest rates rates have sent up the valu the pound made more costly tsus profitability I shortem Basis It i These side effects •short-term basis eventual prize was to be a weakened Tories wasted class Now as the ories comes towards its end growing disquiet employers and some Tors They are angry that in. stead of the workers paying all the costs of the recession are The TUC pay their share. The 'shoud be reprimanded fo seeking those quarters which are just anti-working class as That cher.

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Otelo de Carvalho, candidate of the far left in Portugal, stood on a platform against capitalist austerity.

unemployment figures 'devastating'. the TeC that

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