[...BY MARJE PROOPS DAMONAL ABORMON PHOTO: Andrew Wiard…]
Socialist Press1979 1979-04-21Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 9 →
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GRANDCHILDREN take ain de boped as meets • un Pleasing• hira pall an ins. :.the hirs Real era her in the ok this then desamp Ploded there own trumpeting every right wing attitude.
He argues for "a national family policy". • Again, we are reminded of Hitler's determination to bolster the family.
For every capitalist politician worth his salt is aware that the family is a sensitive area, one of the few places where under capitalism individuals feel that they can escape from the alienating meaninglessness of their working existence into an area which should be one of human warmth, comfort and affection.
The actuality under capitalism, however, is a set of relationships which oppress women and the young and tie all its members often in unhappy bondage to one another.
This environment is a breeding ground for individualism.
Workers' class connections with one another are divided by their particular individual family ties.
The family is consciously used by Callaghan and the bourgeoisie to divide and weaken the working class and as a weapon to buttress right wing attitudes.
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infamous handout enemy of the criminal and the vandal" argues Callaghan, boasting that Labour's policy is to boost the powers of the police and the state.
He specifically lauds the 1977 Criminal Law Act which made "trespass"_ factory and other occupations and squatting-a criminal offence.
These assaults on workers and youth are dressed up behind the camouflage of the family: "a contented nation depends on a contented family.
The rest of the pamphlet, rather desperately 'in the face of Labour's appalling record of ' cuts in social services, and falling living standards, tries to produce some examples of contented families.
Despite all the evidence on how Labour governments have increased the numbers in the poverty trap piece tries to. argue that Labour's abortion cuts have attacked abortion rights
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-the numbers paying tax on low incomes-Callaghan's