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Living standards axed - Labour has no answers

Red Weekly No. 71, 1974 · p. 1 of the scan · 251 words

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rion my T's sely a 4% cut in con-trick has been exposed. It's been with us since Fabruary, and what's 17 - rising prices, rising unemployment, and vicious cuts in our living stan And what do the Labour Isaders promise us now? The moment the alaction ro sults were cleer, they were falling ovar each other to be the first to stand on their heada. Callaghan came on the TV to tell us that 'nobody can expect to have a bettar time this winter, Wilson want further. 'It's going to be a hard slog", he said, for the next two or three years.' This meens only one thing-the Lebour laders plan to solve the crisis on tha backs of the working cles. They have no plans to improve our living standards. They just after more of the same. Wa cannot raly an their clase-collaborationiet policias. What they mean is moro attacks on the working class Only outside Parliament, by relying on our own struggles, can we deel with the effects of the crisis. Now the fight railly starts.

it cleer, Living standonds have dropped by four per.cunt. For h reality of capitalist Britain today. not Mr Average. For big sections of the working clasi, the r cent, whille for some--like beachars-the figuro has rovment is on the incrsaso, Many 'well-rosoacted acond illion on the dola by the and of the yer. But the Labour t things are not as bad as they osem. The social contract, we aro assurad,

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