Trotsky on the Queen
Socialist Press1975 1975-02-20Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 8 →
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"How can they make an attack on bourgeois private ownership when they still havenot the courage to reruse pocket money to the Prince of Wales"?"
Thus Trotsky attacked the Labour Party leadership in 1925. Little has changed. Still the old arguments are brought forward that paying for the Queen is 'cheaper' than a president. Trotsky replied also to this argument. "To proclaim a socialist programme and at the same time Printed and Published by t 31, Dartmouth Park Hill, I Printed by Trade Union L: to declare that the royal authority 'does not hinder' and works out cheaper, is absolutely the same as, for example, acknowledging materialistic science and making use of the incantation of a sorcerer for a toothache, on the ground that the sorcerer is cheaper."
Yet in the midst of threatening workers with unemployment if they press wage demands, and cutting health and education spending, Labour Chancellor Healey and Prime Minister Wilso set out to increase the state hanc outs to the Queen.
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