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Socialist Challenge No. 273, 10 December 1982 · p. 1 of the scan · 250 words

The scan: sc-no273.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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register, jobs. part of the Research WEEK the government found another way to lie about the unemploymentfigures. By using a computer count at benefit offices, than the Job-centre it managed to 200,000 from the out of work total Not that the 200,000 will get They will simply become invisible' army unemployed. But the "invisible my is much, much, larger than the 200,000 lost in the new count.

According to the Department. the total of jobless is not the government's admitted 3,063,000 but five million! LRD claim that the total of unemployed women is double the government's figure, total for men is at least 50 per cent greater than the official estimate.

As LRD explains the governdemoralising 'lose' made by working people outbursts of arLabour rea taken no while the worried Thatcher.

Sunday 12 December Greenham 10am onwards unions and the right of workers to The Tories see this as a way of the labour movement and aiding their efforts to claw back all the post-war gains No doubt these revelations will protest emanate from Congress House No doubt Labour's Front Bench will demand of Thatcher that she change her policies. And no doubt Thatcher will ignore both the TUC and the Labour leaders. should she take any notice when she knows that up to now they have protested and marched but action. Certainly Bill Sirs' actions as the steel industry has been carved up have hardly The left inside the trade union and inside the Labour Party must

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