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

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Red Weekly No. 166, 16 September 1976 · p. 3 of the scan · 191 words

The scan: rw-no166-sep-16-1976.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.
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page 3 of the scan

and relations with big business and the Government.

not and cannot answer. They are revolutionary questions.

sut if the chances of the proposals being carried through are so remote, why the great activity among the bankers? They fear the polltical Impact such proposals could have in a working cłass deeply suspicious of the machinations of finance capital. The fight against cuts is starting to reveal the true extent to which local government is in the pocket of the bankers: Most of all, they fear the growth of a movement based on the need for workers control of the finance houses - a movement which would sweep away the veil of secrecy which hangs over their true profits Every socialist should support the proposals of the Labour NEC and demand their implementation. Not because they are in any way adequate; they are not. Not because the "lefts' are really serious about this plan; they won't even put up a fight in defence of the most immediate interests of the working class against the Government's wage-cut policles. But because the fight for these proposals will raise questions that the 'lefts' dare

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