KICK OUT THE TORIES HIGHER prices, higher taxes, and fewer jobs - that's the outcome of the third viciously anti-working class Budget that the Tories have introduced.
By not increasing income tax allowances when inflation is well over ten per cent, the Chancellor has effectively lowered the starting point for paying income taxes. The low-paid and the poor will be paying a higher proportion of their wages in taxes.
The massive price rises in cigarettes. alcohol, and petrol will inevitably hit working people hard.
The whole effect of this budget will be deflationary. More money will be taken out of the economy.
More money will be taken out of the pockets of consumers, and given to the government - and a large portion of it will inevitably end up being paid out in unemployment benefit as the declining Howe's budget will out of our pocketsthe cost of the Trident missile system British economy rushes headlong towards four million unemployed.
Last year industrial production in Britain declined by a staggering nine per In pursuit of their anti-working class 'monetarist' objectives, the Tories have been prepared to increase the number of unempioyed endlessly.
Their aim is a dispirited and defeated workforce, with much lower wages, which will create a new basis for capitalist investment and capitalist 'prosperity people.
The only way for working people to break this spiral of decreasing living standards and deflation is to drive the Tories out of office.
So long as they remain in power, they will continue their policy of making working people pay for the crisis of their system.
take an extra £5,000m - at the expense of working Stockton taxes and Phil Dexter, CPSA Longbenton ALMOST half million civil servants showed the Tories on Monday what they thought of the government's Monday's strike was overwhemingly support ed by civil • servants Almost every kind of government institution was hit - from airports to tax offices, from naval shipyards security and vehicle licensing offices.
And now the Tories' vicious budget will be hit by our action. Customs and excise officers are threatening to delay the implementation of the new budget proposals.
Elsewhere selective strike place at key government Tinance anel computer and installations. Minis try of Defence statt in Englescliffe, Cleveland are OUL. so are the revenue computer staff at Shipley in Yorkshire and Cumbernauld in the West of Scotland.
At Longbenton in Newcastle all two hun dred computer operators are on strike. This action will disrupt the work o me boo raud orrice. and ensure that all new claimants are paid at the maximum rate!
These actions should be stepped up. Picketing should be strengthened the selective strikes are taking place and a date set to start national all-out strike action. That's the way to beat the Tories - as unc miners showed.
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