THE GENERAL election and order' Michael Foot and his Shadow employment secretary Eric Varley kicked off Labour's £80,000 publicity campaign.
says it will spend f9 billion and cut jobless to 1,000,000 in five years. As far as the working class is concerned, Labour should be the only choice: Any attempt to spend this money should be jobs arc backed.
its present leadership and policies?
Spending will million jobs in six months. The problem will be the next four years.
at its lowest in half a century - industry cannot meet demand without raising prices cutting profits. change rates should be welcomed as a direct Citv but it will further raise domestic prices unless profits are cut.
Import controls will not potential overseas support but British workers access to cheap foreign produce, forcing them to pay an indirect subsidy to their employers.
wages must fall or profits must collapse.
this, and by the idea of leaving the EEC, and will not put money into Britain unless they are confident the unions are to be smashed.
Labour, if elected, tremendous onslaucht from the emplovers from day one, to make it change course or break it up in a coalition manoeuvre.
onslaught. Already they are proposing to attack workers instead of bosses. openly re-raised the idea of a new 'social contract'. Varley spelt out what this means in his radio interview. Without wage controls, said, we cannot spend this money. Heads you win, tails we lose.
have to break the American connection: Foot does not even mention the Trident deal. It would have to nationalise the banks: proposes only to try and 'control' the City. Labour would have to organise, from now, a campaign companies. Foot offers only the vaguest proto mobilise the extraparliamentary support of the unions to fight the employers' sabotage. Foot proposes instead unions' fighting power with a new social contract, and witch hunts those in the party who talk of extraparliamentary action.
The conclusion for the next stage of the democracy battle must be a fight to control the manifesto and make sure it incorporates fighting socialist policies.
campaign has and on Monday After three years of Tory misery, Labour number priority.
But can Labour carry out this promise with create just over half a Without huge investment - now running Foot's proposal to cut exand overseas interests only alienate will deny In short someone has to pay: either real Investors will be thrown into a panic by would thus face a Foot and Varley will collapse before this Foot has The How could Labour fight back? It would Foot definite, named Most important of all, Labour would have to dismantle the socialists is obvious:
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begun. The SDP exists for nothing else. The Tories are getting ready for a 'law