*Shifting the balance No doubt the Times came in useful for Denis Healey when he introduced the economic debate at the Labour conference of wealth and power' VICIOUS is the only way to describe the latest round of attacks on working class living standards from this reactionary Tory government. As the Tories calmly announced three million unemployed last week, the new Employment Minister Norman Tebbitt proclaimed the need for a 4 percent pay ceiling in the public sector, including the nationalised industries. As if that wasn't enough Tarzan Heseltine then revealed new draft legislation to force local Councils to comply slashing of social spending. the context in which the Labour conference debate on the economy took place. TESSA VAN GELDEREN reports from Brighton.
WHILE delegates were SLURE RETO ..the stock market fell by nearly PUTIES the ITN switched from (cheers and gasps, that item of news to their ference ...that is only right ... to go from those who are destroying and manipulating Britain's wealth to those who represent the working people who produce it'.
Tony Benn started his 30.12 speech Labour's debate on the these words. At the end of his speech a majority of delegates rose to their feet.
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Like chewing gum it Socialist Challenge 1 October 1981 Page 4 with his That was lost any flavour might once have had. In the biggest joke of conference Healey BETCONCCO the debate and Benn sum- med up. Bold Healey stressed the bold moves of Mitterrand while remaining Benn stressed that British withdrawal was not promote *little Englander campaign but, "because honestly believe that the working class of Europe want a new structure.
Healey was at pains to stress the scourge of Thatcher's unemployment policy, Benn wanted not the replacement of wealth and power.
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