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THE ROAD TO WORKERS VICTORY- FROM UNITY AT POLLS TO UNITY IN STRUGGLE

· Red Weekly No. 70, 3 October 1974 · p. 1 of the scan · 665 words

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HEATH HAS LAID BARE THE REAL ISSUE OF THE pathetic "Britain will win with Labour" binge.

they can prepare for the battles that are coming.

Meanwhile Wilson cooks up siories about a drop in unemployment, and Healey comes our with the blatant lie that inflation is down to 8 per cent!

All to convince people that battles and confrontations are things of the past, A Britain unified behind Parlia ment and a Labour Government will see us through, they claim.

This is the supposed meaning of the social contract a fait and united society. But the social contract is already shop-soiled.

The Ford workers' strike is the thin end of the wedge. And last week's miners conference tossed the peace-making productivity deal back at the employers.

No, Harold, the issues are clear.

Your class collaborationist dreams of unity and the New Jerusalem convince no-one.

The economy is in tatters. Profits have been slashed by almost 50 per THE ELECTIONS rather than in those of the capitalist employers.

contract:

Laboot's present lepdership.

fight for democracy in the workers movement therefore do nor call for a tole for Communist Party condidatos election. Meanwhile the Labour leaders fumble around in a in his weekend speech, Heath rejected unemployment as the cure to inflation. He spoke of a nightmare of nationwide factory occupations if the Tories tried to pull that stroke. Heath -and the employers know full well that the real question is how cent from last year. Prices continue to rise at more than 20 per cent.

Hundreds of firms face hankruptcy.

The employers have no intention of sitting around passively whilst their life blood dries up. No unity calls by the Labour leaders can zet round this.

The election will come and go.

But workers will still confroot the same problems. Now the important question is for the working class to get the best conditions to forge solutions to these problems.

By relying on their own strength the miners showed the way. By defeating the Tories at the polls That unity can be most effectively used.

The lessons of the last election must be learnt. In voting Labour the working class will go to the polls united. After the election that unity will be an important step to amited action to solve the crisis in our interests. WHERE WE STAND In this election the MC 1 for the reloco of a LABOUR GOVERNMENT Nor bo cruse a Labour Goreenment can achieve socialism, or beenise parliamentziy elections decide crucial questions, but because the return of a Labour Government will give a big boust to the confidence and nellicency of the working class in struggles to come.

If n now Labour Government & formed as a tesult of this cloction, we will take part in the fight for such a Government to net in the interests of the working clas But we believe that, as always in the past, the Labour Government will in fact ponte the intereste of the ruling class, as it is already dying to do with the social Thai is why the worker morement urgently needs to thrash out a propromme of struggle against whewy Government comer out of this election. This means the fight for a planned economy based on nationalisation of all major industry under Where candidates of the evolutionary left (such as the WORKERS REVOLUTJONARY PARTY) are standing, we call for a vote for diem against Labour, A hig vote for revolutionary candidates Is the best way of demonstrting both determination to fight the ruling class and politicul opposition to the pro-capitalist policies of Wealso call for a vote for EDDIE MILNE, the Independent Labour candidate in Mythe A vote for Milne will show that workers are opposed to Labour's involvement in property speculation and capitalist comption, and wiit help carry forward the We do not citink that the Communist Party represents cither a maws current with in the worken movement or a seasons lett opposition lo Labour's teformism. We

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