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Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1968–1988

WANTED ENO REWARD

Red Weekly No. 74, 31 October 1974 · p. 6 of the scan · 220 words

The scan: rw-no74-oct-31-1974.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 6 of the scan

teachers could be greatly strengthened by linking up with other workers in Scotland and developing a campaign utilising the hest tried means of conducting the strupales: Dying pickets, democratically elected strike commitees,etc.

opposed it.

£15 NOW them?

The struggle for improved pay for HUGE DEBATE In August of this year, the Labour Party in Scotland was racked by a huge debate. The issue under discussion was devolution: the proposal that the next Labour Government should establish an elected legislative assembly in Scotland.

The two factions were broadly speaking, the trade union leaders who supported devolution and the Scotfish LP exceutive who As pointed out in the IMG pamphiet Scoriand, Labour and Workers' Power-published this monthRed Weekly interviews two members of the East of Scotland t next clection".

This catastrophe would ouly have heen the end point of a rocord of failure.

The Labour Party has offer ed the working class a three-prong ed panacea -low rent housing, state assistance, and glamorous campaigos to attract industry to Scotland.

Yet in the last ten years its hous ing policy has collapsed under the huge shift from public to private house building (20 per cent in 1964 of housing starts in Scotland were private. The figure is around 50 per cent now.) Its attempts to attract industry to Scotland were ac-

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