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cconome measure to maintain its existence the Labour Party's full resources behind the Conference d so ine The working class are worried about inflatior which is now running at record levels. Last month's figures are only a foretaste of what i yet to come. Unemployment is soaring at a rapid rate and is now over the million mark and Healey's Budget has not started to bite y What is uppermost in people's minds is what can be done about these problems.
The capitalist class and their agents inside the Labour Party appear to have an answer. They say accept the social contract. Increase productivity. Improve the efficiency of Brit capitalism by making it more attractive to investors. And then they add that the best w to take advantage of these measures is by staying in Europe. This can appear to many people as a coherent, plausible-even if rather unpalatable- -solution The "left' have failed to provide any alterr tive to the policies of the right wing. Many of the anti-Marketeers are the most determin defenders of the social contract. They meek accepted Healey's Budget with all its consequences of increased unemployment, higher taxation on workers' incomes, and cuts in the social services. They have not acted in a unit way to support struggles against unemployme nor have they fought the Government on issu like the jailing of the Shrewsbury pickets-ex for the odd protest in Parliament LOYALTY Their opposition to Wilson has been restr to the issue of the Common Market, and the have gone to great lengths to assure everyon of their loyalty to the Wilson leadership Because the right wing understand that if Br tish capitalism is to function efficiently ir Europe it must raise the level of productivity at home, its domestic policies of holding bac wage increases, rationalising industry-i.e. increasing unemployment and weakening the power of the trade unions by anti-picketing laws etc-make sense. Europe is not separat from these questions but is the logical outco of such policies.
Because the lefts' have no policy for figh British capitalism they have no solutions to t DO YOU HO TO THE C WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT IMG?
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