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

FUND DRIVE '82 Week's Wages campaign - over

· Socialist Challenge No. 255, 23 July 1982 · p. 7 of the scan · 563 words

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Top This offensive has two smear the Bennites - and himselt associallull of revoluCaucuse. tionaries' hopefully diminishing his appeal in the workers' movement.

carried through would make people think that Labour's doleful showing at the conspiracies, rather than by Michael Foot and Murray and chorus. can crawl back into favour with the establishment. Power Much of the right's support at Labour Party conference will come from those who do not understand that their proposals will open a civil war in the party, who imagine it wil buy a quiet life and win the next election. with a magnificent £1140.

and mounting debts in people to dig week's wages.

have been those in well-paid iobs who have sent us workers ple of thousand pounds we would ask all weeks wages? weeks waeds.

lUSI 7880 VOU' appeal Have • made it more but the tilthy have not had a wage rise for a whole year.

ot sewer rats 'However needs it, including me thanks to everyone who has donated WEST MIDLANDS Birmingham £887.00 woventry 50.00 overnamotor U.u Leamington NORTH WEST Livernoo 30.00 Manchester 1107.55 160.00 SOUTH WALES Cardiff 355.00 135.00 Newoort 250.00 SCOTLAND Edinburgh 289.50 Glasgow 299.55 Aberdeen 129.55 NORTH CASI liddlesbor 100.00 YORKSHIRE 100.00 Sheffield 265.00 Wakefield ZU.U 0.00 Rotherham 0.00 York 0.00 SANDS 53.00 Ray Williams (AUEW NC & LPYS)

7.30pm, MORE than ten thousand pounds has now poured into our campaign for a weeks wages for Socialist Challenge from our supporters. And again our Brent supporters have done us proud raising a full ten per cent of our total We explained when we launched the fund almost two months ago that we faced a huge rent increase weekv ocoer holduno tor me inrerests or workint So we asked all our readers and supporters • deep into their pockets and to send us a disappointed. It s not just • money We've had pensioners sending in their weekly che que, people on the dole sending us their paltry week. ly giro, as well as the low paid like nurses and health weeks because we've had promises for another cou . We want our supporters to rush us the final instalments from their areas. And our readers not just our regular supporters and sellers - can you afford to send us a Can you afford not to send us a Des Stevens from Surrey answered those questions like this in a letter we have just received: 'I have In ası week's issue and enclose a cheque for f5 for your Fund Drive. I would caoitalist system refuses to increase my wages to date, even though I Also, aue to tne manipulation in tne last budget of the capitalist money system, I actually take home less now than I did betore Aori _ surelvthev can on ly be described at best as being lower than the urine your paper MUST go on - society Below is a list of contributions by area. Our Nottingham 290.00 bolsover 0.01 SOUTH WEST Bath 50.00 96.00 OTISLO OXTOr( Swindon Exeter 50.00 Brighton Portsmouth 0.01 Southhampton crawle 0.00 LONDON Ealing/Southall 548.00 Hillingdon/Homel wer Hamlet 210.00 Newham 8g Camder harined 20.00 Lamoeti Southwark Wandsworth 213.01 Lewisnam Bren1 inaivicuals TOTAL £.10.115.25 Speakers: Tony Benn, Stephanie Glover Davies (ISTC) Cliff page.

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Central Hall, Old Market, Bristol Friday 30 July. Socialist Challenge 23 July 1982

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