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held back because of the runaway rate of inflation.

As the Thatcher government moves tentatively towards imposing a 10% ceiling on pay rises in the public sector, the crucial question is for them to secure the compliance of TUC Icaders.

Failing

And with even TUC General Sccretary Len Murray. Calling last week for pay rises to match inflation, they are manitestly failing to achieve this objoctive.

Thorneyeroft's proposal is for Tory ministers to play much more on the union leaders' fundamental weaknesses-their unshakeable respect for the employers' "right" to make profits and their nationalist devotion to 'British' capitalism against forcign' competition.

Rather than argue that workers should forego wage increases in order to attempt •to bail British capitalism out of its evidently hopeless economic crisis, Thorneycroft suggests Joseph Ministers impress on. union Icaders that "the country" 1 ic.1 cannot afford high wages without higher productivity.

This way it is hoped workers he glibly boasted that the combination of their know-how and the rock bottom wages now being paid to British workers offered unparallelled opportunities for profitable investment in the British industrial wasteland.

tomatoes Mcanwhile Joseph-whose public popularity was indicated during the steel strike by the donations of eggs and tomatoos thrown to him by adoring crowds of South Wales workers -has been shooting his mouth off again.

He has called for an end to the expansion of universities and polytechnics.

After all, why bother to educate people simply to stand on the dole queues which, under Joseph's beady eye, are growing rapidly to new record levels?

And anyway the best people teaching in these educational institutions or working in local government and the civil service As the Tory government forges ahead with its racialist White Paper on immigration, leading Tory racist Sir Ronald Bell has attempted to whip up a renewed frenzy of race hate.

Bell, MP for the secluded stockbroker belt constituency of Beaconsfield, called for even more vicious moves to halt immigration and increase repatration.

Making clear that his attack was aimed exclusively at black immigrants from "the tropical areas" Bell aimed his main Correctly arguing that women will be brought into action against the attacks of the Tory government and that in such struggles they need an action programme to fight on, attack at those black workers and youth who join militant protests against mass unemployment and police harassment:

"Is it not reasonable to ask why someone of tropical origin who does not like our arrangements here should not return to his own country rather than cause riots in ours?"

Bell went on astoundingly •to accuse the media-always the main vehicle of racist propaganda-of "pampering and protecting' what he termed the 'alien injected element' It is necessary to restore a clear meaning to being British, he argued:

"One third of all the births in Greater London are to foreign mothers: does this make sense? Who can be proud of being British if that is all that being British means?"

Rabble rousing Bell's speech-stopping_little short of the undisguised fascist rabble rousing of the National Front and British Movement-is a reflection of the tensions which were only with difficulty suppressed . in the debate on immigration policy at last year's Tory conference.

As Tory-created unemployment and cuts spur on frustration within the working class, there will be many other Tories in coming months who will seek o play the racist card in th lopes of dividing and weakenin the workers' movement and rallying the most backward and degenerate elements 01 the petty bourgeoisie behind the union jack of capitalist "'national unity"