Heffer nearly fights
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The other main victims of these moves are Portugal and Spain.
And the main advocate in the EEC of a hard protectionist line against these countries is Callaghan's Lib-Lab coalition Callaghan and Healey's customary rejection of import controls is thus shown to be nothing more than a facade.
Another coalition government, the Belgian SocialistSocial Christian alliance which nearly broke up three weeks ago, is also a virulent advocate EEC protectionism against more backward capitalist countries..
Speaking in London last week, the Belgian Director-General of foreign trade, M. Jaques Groothaert, said that "Western" nations ought to PHOTO: John Sturrock, Report Ren "Left" Labour MP Eric Heffer has come up with a new plan to win votes at the next general election, on an issue that will rally the whole workers' movement-a ban on blood sports!
In a momentous discussion last week on this apparently vital principle of proletarian internationalism, 14 members of Labour's National Executive-who have gamely accepted wage controls, spending cuts, mass unemployment and the Lib-Lab coalition with scarcely a murmur-felt obliged to get and register their views.
Heffer, putting behind him for a moment his wretched record of cringing subservience on every key issue to the Callaghan-Healey leadership, was able to reveal that he had received letters from lifelong Tory voters living in the country who would vote AS S Labour if it was ban fox hunting.
He did not speculate whether these Tories would remain loyal to Labour if it actually adopted any socialist policies, or if it took steps to end an even more obscene institution, British imperialism's age-old bloody and brutal military occupation of Ireland.
While foxes may feel confident that Heffer is waving his arms and shouting at the top of his voice on their behalf, workers should by now have shed any such illusions.
But, the foxes are not getting it all their own way: after a word from Callaghan Heffer's pet cause was shelved for a month by the NEC.