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WE AGREE ABOUT SOMETHING

Red Weekly No. 153, 3 June 1976 · pp. 1-2 of the scan · 192 words

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past years.

2. The working class rests on the experience of struggles which re moved the Heath Government with its statutory incomes policy, and the apparatus of the Industrial Relations Act. They went on to win a big rise in living standards at the depth of the international recession in 1974.

Most importantly, the tens of thousands of militant workers who came forward to lead these struggles in occupations, organising picketing, political strikes and demonstrations have not accepted the cowardly collaboration of their leaders with the anti-working class measures of the Labour Government. On the contrary, this decisive layer of militant workers now seeks a way forward against Inese altacks.

They turn to those trade union and Labour leaders who have cultivated a left image' in the past.

than empty rhetoric and verbal protests. Only the Trotskyist programme offers the answers which are needed. Our task is to put forgramme which will open the way to forging the militant workers into a new revolutionary leadercan challenge the betrayals of the present leaders.

for leading the militant workers away from illusions in parliamentary reform towards a conscious

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