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

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Socialist Challenge No. 221, 12 November 1981 · pp. 2-3 of the scan · 230 words

The scan: sc-no221.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

Uncorrected machine reading. This text was read by machine (Apple Vision OCR) from a scan of a newspaper page, and the page was cut into articles by machine, at the headlines found by their type size. Nothing has been corrected: expect misread words, text from a neighbouring article, and titles that are the machine reading of the headline, some of them only fragments. Quote from the scan, not from this page.
How this article was cut and titled: headline found by type size in the OCR geometry (split_tabloid.py); 7-7 of 7; machine-segmented newspaper page; uncorrected Vision OCR.

page 2 of the scan

Many previous consolidated its during the Labour government in the leaders.

— a low ebb of ment will these feelings Duffyleadership ot the the major the the Labour trade pulsory regularly struggles in procedure enginceng maustr Many workers will feel discouraged, fearing isolation and betrayal by their The Tory govern base itself on in trying to push forward its proposed egislation on trade union Among the measures in Age the proposed legislation or unions ballots and al c com- cooling ott periods in strikes il 'essential services; making legally binding; removing tor closed shops. and outlawing commercial contracts which specify that only union labour can Effects Thus Norman Tebbitt, …nev Secretary TOl intends to ram home the effects of unemployment in weakening the unions to deal them permanent damage.

Address ine trade union bureaur cacy can sit on top of this seething discontent at the base indefinitely.

A victorious struggle have put the continued exIstence the Tory government in question. It is only a matter of time before such a major na tional struggle occurs.

page 3 of the scan

Saturday 14 November

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