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among As cessful sion of seldom left' Not much here for those demoralised souls who cling on to the fading memories of 197374, when Benn was portrayed as some form of red terror by a largely cynical capitalist press seeking to whip up hysteria Tory voters. architect of the unsucmove to shelve discusthe 5% pay policy at the conference, Benn now bothers to pose as a Collaboration Falling short of even the Clause 4 parliamentary line of socialism through nationalisation, Benn now proposes only more advanced forms of class collaboration and state aid for capitalist industry.

And his empty cant about "democracy" and "personal freedom" must be seen in the context of his cabinet responsibility for the government's policies which attack both: the vicious military repression in Northern Ireland; the use of picket-busting SPG thugs at Grunwick and elsewhere: the so-called 'Prevention of Terrorism' Act; the new Criminal Trespass Law; the bans on labour movement demonstrations in London and System, and that, as a result he felt able to air his views on what he thought it was all about, he was abruptly told by Callaghan that he must be prepared to toe the cabinet line or "face the consequences"

Thann vAnANtr an ta lutie are no reports as lu Benn's abashed reply-but the post of Energy Secretary has not yet become vacant.