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By Gerry Healy
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WE are on the eve of a general election. The Tory Party and the Labour Party are busy revving up their vote-catching machines. Fleet Street is agog with public opinion polls.
To all those workers recently engaged in strikes, to all those who are still signing on at the Labour Exchanges—and there are nearly half a million of them, even according to the notoriously unreliable official figures—to all those who have been fighting hard against the hydrogen-bomb, this pre-election excitement seems very superficial.
And in fact no real issues are going to be decided at the forthcoming general election, because, as even the most partisan commentator will admit, there is very little essential difference on major issues between the two main parties.