Red WeeklyRed Weekly No. 116, 11 September 1975SWEEPING
Red Weekly No. 116, 11 September 1975 · p. 10 of the scan · 130 words
The scan: rw-no116-sep-11-1975.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)
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page 10 of the scan
Only 10 per cent of the sweeping cuts of £1,200 million made by Tory Chancellor Barber in December 1973 were restored by the Labour Government. Since then the Healey budget has cut public expenditure by a further £300 million for this financial year and the prospect for 1976-77 even more dismal. L Public expenditure is then to be slashed by another £900 million at 1974 prices (equal to more than £1,100 million at current prices). against the cuts is required, and no amount of trips to Downing Street and speechifying in the House of Commons will create that. meet. in this instance the housing crisis is recognised in a motion from Rushcliffe Constituency Labour Party to the forthcoming Labour Party Conference.
After noting the 'abject failure of capitalism