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"Who runs the country?" has become the regular question posed by every anti-union politician and reactionary since mass working class action brought down Heath's hated Tory government in 1974.
But with the Tories back in office, the question must now be raised in very different form by the organised workers' movement.
Already after a few weeks of Thatcher in power, the capitalist firms that back the Tories have been rewarded by a lifting of all price controis: and the bosses have been given wage increases and massive tax cuts.
But more ominously still, as the world-wide oil shortages pushes the capitalist nations towards a new wave of recession the Tories have handed over complete control of dispensing oil supplies to the giant private oil monopolies.
It is the managers of these massive, profiteering muitinational firms that now decide whether the trains will run; whether buses can operate; whether farmers can have fuel supplies; and whether workers can have petrol to get to work each day.
Workers' Control
They decide how much have to pay for our fuel.
When • striking lorry dris pickets and elected commit ees last winter of mo' rement established a measure s' control over the of supplies and oil, Tory leaders and t le capitali: press launched monumenti anti-union witch-hu it, claimir It® the four-day release of a Special Patrol Group policeman last week was designed to allay suspicions of a cover-up on the murder of Blair Peach in Southall, then the ruse failed abysmally.
Instead, the revelation that a search of SPG members' lockers uncovered a whole range of illicit weapons, and talk of a leadweighted truncheon must reinforce the case argued by four eye witnesses and implicit in the Pathologist's report: that a single blow to Blair Peach's head by an SPG thug was the blow that killed him.
Three weeks ago investigations reportedly narrowed the list of suspects SPG men.
had down to six
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questioning and subse- quent highly suspicious