to tolerate.
In his recent article on the Heath Government that the Labour Party was now the champion of an anachronistic conception of the interests of British imperialism: in particular it is still attached to the notion of a "special relationship* with the United States. This sentimental attachment to an obsolete formula of British capitalist politics is becoming the occasion for irony and derision from the more knowing bourgeois commentators, Thus The Economist allowed itself the following mocking item on Harold Wilson's trip to the United States: Mr Harold Wilson is in danger of becoming as American as apple pie. This week he visited the United States pertly to deliver three lec. tures at Tufts University, Boston, on the world economy and partly to publicise his meniola. The content of the lectures was as convincing and well-argued a defence of grievance peacefully on the street. The seriousness of this assault cannot be stressed too strongly. After the Mangrove trial, the trial of Prescott and Purdie and the treatment they were given by the courts, after the murder of brother Oluwale by so called officers of the law, this vicious attack on concerned and demonstrating people can only mean that the state sanctions these extensions of police repression. It is an issue which concerns not only those who demonstrate their grievances, but every single citizen of these islands. The state is in the process of retracting one of the basic freedoms that the people have forced it could be heard anywhere. He expounded on the generosity of American aid, the wisdom of America's monetary policy and warmly approved President Nixon's recent package. * In contrast, Mr. Wilson had nothing but harsh words to say about Europe. He savagely attacked Freich policy: its obsession with the dollar, its love of gold and its "blackmail" in forcing 'Britain to turn its back on the open ses, and join the common market..
All in all, it seemed that the old monetary orthodoxy still has Mr. Wilson in its grip. For connoisseurs there was some vintage Wilsonia: the "E800 million deficit the Tories left behin was mentioned not one but four times, It wes bed luck that he was so constantly hecklediby pro-IRA demonstretors." (The Esonomist, December 4th 19711. Unlike many on the left the bourgeoisle knows full well that Labour's only real aftemative to the EEC is péthetie attempts to exhume the 'special Tonship and they are singularly unimpre
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