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This reflected a new understanding of the value of the bur eaucratic leaders of workers organisations to the speed-up proposals necessary for the employers in the coming period.
The bid for middle class support centred on whipping up nationalist sentiments, support for private health and education, attacks on taxation and stress on the importance of the "individual". • This found most studied expression in Thatcher's set piece closing speech, where she spelled out the middle class "vision":
"A man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have the state as servant and not as ma:
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Under conditions where 1¼ million are denied the right to work by capitalism, and millions more are excluded from ever being able to "own property" by speculators and monopolists, Thatcher uses these illusions to deceive and rally the middle class - many of whom themselves are facing impoverishnient as a result not ot socialism, but of the capitalist policies of the WIlson government.
As we have consistently warned since Socialist Press No.2, the dour to extreme reaction is being opened by the betrayals of this government.
The need to remove the rightwing Labour leadership in order to present a clear alternative to the Tories has never been great-