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Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1968–1988

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Red Weekly No. 151, 20 May 1976 · pp. 4-5 of the scan · 193 words

The scan: rw-no151-may-20-1976.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

Uncorrected machine reading. This text was read by machine (Apple Vision OCR) from a scan of a newspaper page, and the page was cut into articles by machine, at the headlines found by their type size. Nothing has been corrected: expect misread words, text from a neighbouring article, and titles that are the machine reading of the headline, some of them only fragments. Quote from the scan, not from this page.
How this article was cut and titled: headline found by type size in the OCR geometry (split_tabloid.py); 4-5 of 6; machine-segmented newspaper page; uncorrected Vision OCR.

page 4 of the scan

the Broad Left. vews Line It is not so easy to assess the significance of the vote for the revolutionary left, both because of the nature of the postal ballot and because of the fact that the two organisations involved -IS and the WRP - have actuallv undergone a decane as an acuive force blue union over the last two years. Despite these election results, neither has made any significant impact in organising among union activists. The Engineering Voice group in Birmingham is the only one that actuallv organises a significant number of militants independently of Nevertheless, although it cannot be claimed that these votes represent a clear vote for revolutionary positions, they do record a growing dissatisfaction with the present rightward drift of the AUEW - and of the Broad Left in particular. It was because candidate: like Wright do not even offer a minir mum basis of unity against the Labour

page 5 of the scan

Red Weekly 20 May 1976 Faced with these underlying threats both to jobs and to the very future of the services provided by the hospital, there has been . widespread support for a campaign Health 5

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