CHILE - Two years later Pages 6&7 CHILE - Two years later All good sell-outs end with a communique, and this one was no exception. In characteristic Wilson double-talk, this document was full of fine-sounding phrases about 'the advance to Socialism' and the need for 'pluralist democracy'.
'The advance to Socialism? Well we all know the contribution Wilson and his hatchet men have made to that end in Britain: wagecuts for everyone, 1¼ million unemployed and drastic cuts in the social services.
"Pluralist democracy'? Well again, we've seen the great benefits this has brought in Britain - to the Labour bureaucrats and their capitalist backers, that is. Why bother with working class power if the so-called leaders of the working class can have the occasional bite at the lucrative cherry of government office? After all, there's always the Labour-Tory knock-about - though even that's fading in these days of coalitionist policies - to stop SOLIDARITY These social democrats now reckon to choke the Portuguese revolution through a co-ordin* ated display of capitalist solidarity. But there is another kind of solidarity which can and must stop them. of the international working class. That is the solidarity action ... partners in crime!
Partners in a pro-capitalist solidarity pact to crush the Portuguese revolution-Portuguese Socialist Party leader Mario Soares together with Harold Wilson
2 tuc congress A _ red weekly 11 september 1975 Photo: CHRIS DAVIES (Rep year.
As if to underline this point, the discussion on unemployment failed to produce a single concrete initiative apart from a motion from the printing union SLADE, which called for the legalisation of factory occupations. Hugh Scanlon's major concern seemed to be that the 158,200 unemployed school leavers - a 'staggering increase of 283 per