Schlagwort: Militant
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Lynn Walsh: Bosses Plan New Attack on Unions
[Militant No. 429, 27th October 1978, p. 1 and 12] By Lynn Walsh The Labour government must drop wage restraint and carry out bold socialist policies to benefit workers. The Ford workers’ action for better pay and conditions having an effect in unexpected quarters. Church of England parsons met in London to discuss how to…
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Lynn Walsh: Labour Broadcast the Truth
[Militant No. 386, 16th December 1977, p. 1 and 12] At last! A Labour Party political broadcast has hit the mark. In using brilliant film sequences to connect the National Front with Hitler and Mussolini and the horrors of the concentration camps, the broadcast hammered home the truth. It was in marked contrast to the…
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Lynn Walsh: ABC Secrets Case – Re-Trial Ordered After Jury Foreman Found to be Ex-SAS Man
[Militant No. 424, 22nd September 1978, p. 2] The “ABC” secrets trial at the Old Bailey was halted by Mr Justice Willis on Monday following the mention on LWT’s ‘Saturday Night People’ programme that one of the jurors was an ex-SAS paratrooper. Judge Willis condemned the mention by Christopher Hitchen of the ‘New Statesman’ of…
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Lynn Walsh: Crown Agents: Expose the Cover Up
[Militant No. 385, 9th December 1977, p. 3] At least £212 million of public money has been poured down the drain. This is the extent of the losses run up by the Crown Agents, most of which will have to be met by the taxpayer. Yet in contrast to the losses made by nationalised industries,…
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Lynn Walsh: BBC censored: No Need to know
[Militant No. 539, 13th February 1981, p. 5] Just occasionally the BBC’s programme-makers investigate a sensitive, secret aspect of the state power. But when they do, they are immediately censored by the powers that be! This is clear from the decision to drop the screening of a special inquiry into the work of the British…
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Lynn Walsh: ‘Smile Tho’ Your Jobs are Going’
[Militant No. 536, 23rd January 1981, p. 6] By Lynn Walsh Smile, Thatcher urged us in her New Year message, and things will soon be getting better. Do the Tories really believe this? Is their “optimism” a cynical con-trick, or are they really self-deluded idiots? Faced with gloomy predictions from all the main economic commentators,…
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Lynn Walsh: Prentice Defects
[Militant No. 377, 14th October 1977, p. 1 and 2] Goodbye and good riddance! That is the reaction of most Labour Party members to Reg Prentice’s defection to the Tory Party. “If I blame myself for anything,” Prentice told Walden on ‘Weekend World’, “it is that I did not leave the Labour Party earlier.” This…
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Lynn Walsh: Scandal at The Mirror
[Militant No. 782, 24th January 1986, p. 5] By Lynn Walsh Secretive, unscrupulous, undemocratic, just a few of the expletives thrown at Militant in yet another Mirror tirade. But perhaps the hired pen who dutifully bashed out this “comment” (21 January) should have applied them to his boss? Secretive? Who owns Maxwell’s great organ of…
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Lynn Walsh: Trade union rights for police
[Militant No. 571, 3rd October 1981, p. 9] Workers taking industrial action – particularly when organising picketing, a vital trade union right – have time and again come into conflict with the police. With the Tones‘ new anti-trade union legislation, and the threat of worse to come with Norman Tebbit at the Department of Employment,…
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Lynn Walsh: When the Steel Bosses Sabotaged the Law
[Militant No. 489, 8th February 1980, p. 7] By Lynn Walsh Lord Denning’s blatant class ruling against the steel workers has provoked an explosion of anger among trade unionists. The Tories – echoed, unfortunately, by labour and trade union leaders – are again preaching sermons about the „sanctity of the law“, the „impartiality of the…