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would like to take this opportunity to Season's Greetings to all our readers Socialist Press will be taking a break over the Christmas period. The next edition will The parliamentary defeat ich has forced Prime Minister Callaghan to abandon sanctions on firms conceding pay increases in excess of 5% has given substantial impetus to the wages The threat of sanctions has been one of the main lines of defence of beleagured private sector employers in resisting wage supporters.

appear on 3 January 1979. The Editorial Board of Socialist Callaghan draw strength from the collapse of pay sanctions in the private sector-and demand all-out strike action to win their claim in full, smashing down the 5% barrier in the public sector.

The Callaghan government has already admitted to making preparations for military scabbing on public sector strike-yet the union leaders have not even made preparations to call one!

into Callaghan's wage control policy-the central plank of government economic policy-has now been thrown into crisis.

But for the 5% limit to be fully defeated, the right wing Callaghan cabinet must be thrown out.

In demanding that the Labour 'lefts' take this elementary step forward and offering them support should they do so, union branches and Constituency Labour Parties will be able Labour Part to test out in practice these fake "socialists Carter the Indo-Chinese victories and the Chinese Revolution itself.

*The most appalling of all doomsday spectres" according to the reactionaries of the Sunday Telegraph would be an alliance between the Soviet Union and China. This would threaten the whole imperialist system, but the Stalinist bureaucrats who now run the workers' states are too concerned with preserving their own skins to wish to unleash the forces that such an alliance could bring.