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WORKERS HAVE TO DEAL WITH TORIES AND THEIR LABOUR FRIENDS

By Stephen Johns

Workers Press no. 689, 15 February 1972 · scan page 4

Topics: Tory government, Socialist Labour League and the WRP, Miners

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Right-10-Work SEVEN-Carlisle A BLISTERING on the leaders Carlisle Labour won cheers from people of this town Sunday night.

The speaker was Gerry Healy, national secretary of the Socialist Labour League. He flayed the party bureaucrats for refusing the Rightto-Work marchers a bed and laid down this challenge: "As secretary of the Socialist Labour League, I ask you to present your credentials in the fight against unemployment and see if they match the unparalleled record of the Young Socialists' Comrade Healy, who brought the League's greetings to the marchers, warned that the officers and MPs in the Labour Party's northern headquarters would anTHE TOR THE TRIAL OF"

FROM SUNDAYK PRODUCTION PLAY attack on swer for the lies and they have spread to the march.

'This behaviour by the leadership of the Labour Party means one thing, he said.

'The British working class have two tasks to carry out. They must get the Tory government out and they have to get the friends of the Tory Party within the labour movement out as well.

'If they don't deal with the Wilsonian enemy within the ranks, ahead, There will be treachery If there were any bureaucrats in the audience at Carlisle city hall, they kept a strict silence and well they might, as the ovation from the crowd of marchers, city workers and miners was a damning rebuke to their anti-working-class attitude.

Earlier Comrade . Healy had warned the miners that the government could well be preparing for a General Strike. He reminded the audience that the THE CLIMAX of our day of rest in Carlisle was the play directed have just been talking WE DEMAND RIGHT 10% WORK distortions Baldwin Tory government had break up bought time for one year in 1925 by instituting an inquiry into the issue of the coal subsidy, meanwhile, building up stocks to meet the threat of a 1926 national stoppage.

be buying time with the so-called Wilberforce inquiry and relying on the TUC to run like their ancestors did in 1926, thus leaving the miners in the lurch.' who criticize Marxists because they were 'anti-constitutionalists' must at least be based on truth and consent. This government is now ruling on an illegal mandate on almost every issue of its policy. It is important that we do not confuse this issue.

therefore the labour movement has the right to use every political and industrial weapon in its possession to force the Tories to call a General Election. was English revolution.

'We are taught in school that the English way is inevitably slow and gradual. Of course this is a myth. The events of 1640 were dramatic, bloody and fundamental.

"The English bourgeoisie were forced to go the whole way to grasp ine power. 1ney needed to develop inlustry and in turn the modern working class.' 'Watch Heath now. He could He challenged the Labourites 'If there is a constitution, it "The government is illegal, would "perform' to pro promise LURE foundly alter the course of British History civil and ATS war remarkable speech the United Nations in 1970.

With this kind of introduction and framework, the rise of the British capitalist class is portrayed in a truly living way. ine play enas WIth the burghers firmly in power and gloating over a future of unlimited

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