tract Wilson has set the election date for 10 October.
rely on 'an alliance of all uscful people."
But some useful people remain unconvinced. Ar Ford's Dagenham and Halewood. 1800 press shop workers tore the social contract into shreds when they voted to stay on strike until their demands for better shift pay were met. They have less faith than Mr. Wilson in the "good intentions" of Ford's and the Confederation of British IndustryOther not so 'useful people remain equaliy unconvinced The hard-headed bosses of British industry and the Tory champions of unemployment like Sir Keith Joseph want to wallop the working class, not cuddle them, They know only too well that the crumbling British economy cannot support some utopian policy of fair shares PAPER OF THE INTERNATIONAL MARXIST GROUP 26 SEPTEMBER 1974 UNDER THE TATTERED BANNER OF THE SOCIAL CONWith a distasteful shudder Wilson rejects "pitched battles and confrontations" as a solution to Britain's problems. He prefers to 'In the self-deluding world of Transport House, the Labour leaders desperately tug the Social Contract around themselves hoping it will protect them from the icy winds of reality.
But the 'united Britain" of class collabotation they want to build is an illusion. The employers neither believe in it, not can they afford it.
For the working class to accept Labour's so-called solutions" would be a road to disaster, defeat and demoralisution.
The working class right now are strong and undefeated. They have inflicted defeat on the capitalists in every major struggle they have launched in the last few years. The capitalists are disunited like capitalists are disunited -the Tory Party is split and sections of its leadership have no confidence in winning the clection.
Ford Dagenham body plant workers - striking a blow against the social contract and for the whole working class This week's paper costs 8p an increase of 3p on costs would have forcer the previous price, But from now on, this week and every woek, there will also be an extra four pages, making 12 in all. We hope it will heip to soften the blow.
These axtra pages, though, cannot be fin anced entirely from the battles are coming after the clection.
What they desperately need is time to prepare for them. Wilson's useful people" line helps to give them just with the employers until they have their state apparatus and got themselves in a position te light.
The election will come and go. but the wracking crisis of British capitalism will remain and worsen the working class get the best conditions for itself to fight that cris? By relying on their own strength and going into struggle the Ford workers have struck an important blow to that end, By defeating the Tories at the polls and returning a Labour Government another blow will he struck.
last election the interests of the by calling off their struggles. The defeat of the Tories at the polis confirmed how right the miners MUEL price increase. Rising us to charge more in any case. New Year.
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