Labourites launch new attack on mothers

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Liaison between the police and schools! Parents of young offenders to do community service work! Parents to pay fines or compensation for damage done by their children! Mothers to lose family allowances if they work!

These are just some of the radical' solutions to the problem of 'vandalism' that a Sheffield working party has come up with.

This may appear to fit the "law and order' mould that will be one of the Tories' main electioneering points.

But no! Such reactionary frothing is not the monopoly of the Tories alonethe working party which has produced this report is composed • predominantly of Labour councillors.

Readers of Socialist Press will already have read about Callaghan's earlier promotion of a stable family unit as being one of the bases of a stable society.

The report concretises the trend initiated by Callaghan, whereby capitalism is to be stabilised by reinforcing one of its principal points of support, the family, simultaneously redoubling : the oppression of women.

The report says:

«There is need to examine the family unit and to ask whether in the later stages of the 20th century it is beginning to break down.

"What measures, if any, can be taken to restore family unity?"

We are told that if mothers insist on their right to work outside the home, therefore threatening its stability', they must be made to suffer.

66 ... the role of a mother is the most important part of family life... It is felt that the present family allowance should be ended and in its place the mother would be given a salary if she wished to continue to look after her children.

"On the other hand, of course, she could choose to go out to work, but then there would be no child allowance and no state salary"

The fact that Callaghan is not just an old windbag and means what he says is confirmed in a recent DHSS circular to Area Health Authorities demanding that all creches be closed downwhere they actually exist!

The Labourites who produced this latest report totally ignore the fact that 'vandalism' is a product of capitalism in crisis -a society which offers youth only street corners, the dole queue and no future.

Rather than propose a programme which would destroy the material basis of this so-called problem, these Labourites continue bolstering that very system which produces it.

It is completely in line with the national programme of subsidising private capital by spending, cuts and wage control.

At every level, social democracy confirms that its interests lie with the continued existence of capitalism and will do all within its power to ensure that course of events-at the expense of increased oppression of the working class, in this case particularly of women. inaugurated by the Bolsheviks serves as a useful model of the forms of Jones administration possible under socialism.

Instead of trying to rectify the relationship between the legislature and the executive they abolished the distinction altogether, making those responsible for administration immediately recallable and paying them average wages.

Right to inspect

Still worried by the dangers of bureaucratisation Lenin proposed that the Workers and Peasants Inspection should consist only of people who had never served in any state capacity and that these bodies should have the right and duty to inspect the minutest aspects of the PHOTO: Mark Rusher work of both the soviets and the commissions.

Only in such a way and not through the medium of Fabian party sycophants and trade union bureaucrats can the working class wield power-and that presupposes the overthrow of the capitalist system.

Certainly the wheeling in of highly salaried bourgeoisminded Fabian sycophants and reformist trade union contributes nothing towards our goal'of the dictatorship of the proletariat. Tory leader Thatcher

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