IS ON SLIDING SCALE

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In a perical of extreme economic and social crisis the International Socialiss group's formula of "more militancy + IS = revolution" is revealed as utterty bankrupt. This is particularly true of their attitude After pointing out the limitations of existing threshold payments, Tony Cliff goes on to say in The Che-Socirism or the Social Contract: "Socisists and active trade unionists shoold completely oppose the threshold system of payments for what it is an ladened wage frees." Some mem bees of 18 have gone further and claimed that whereas thresholds indoce " passivity", inflation is the new motor-fonce of the A momeuf's considemtion allows how wrong this position is Inflation can be a apur to mutting in wage increases, but it aSO sEis to aragmont the working class between the high paid, who can defend themseires, and the low paid, who can't. It can also divide workers from their wives or bushanda, and even confuse individual wotken: who see themselves as consumers on the one hand and wage-corners on the With inflation running at 20 per cent. even the strongest sections of the class woukd have to he getting 30 per cent rises - taking into scount taxation and so onjust to Keep pace with it A strateg of more militans will one sm pensioners and students.

A cleo-wide demand for a sliding scal of wages, based on a working clams cost o living index, would give across the board protector against inflation and lay the basis for improving the standand of living of the whole werking class including the social aspocts such as the health service, education and the social services which ure also under attack.

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red weekly, 24 april 1975 One of the first people to expose the torture methods of British imperialism in its colonial wars was George Lennox, a serving soldier at the time of the Aden crisis under the last Labour Government. George was