Anyone remember Clause IV?
Socialist Press1980 1980-07-16Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 5 →
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SYSTEM OF POPULAR ADMINISTRATION After the arrests on the Gay Pride demonstration a Defence Committee has been established.
The cases will first come to court on July 23 when there will be a protest picket outside Bow St. Magistrates Court in the morning.
Aiso on Sunday July 20 at 8.00 p.m. there is a benefit (theatre, disco and band) for the defence committee at Action Space, Chenier St., London W1 (£2; claimants £ 1).
The fight for support for the Defence Committee must be seriously and rapidly taken up in the trade unions and Labour Labour movement organisations can resist the provocative police repression of the march in particular by producing financial support and by mobilising for the priest pickets during the trial. ing up for the showdown with TO SECURE MO THA OFTHET OF Fr EXC AND CONTROL OF EACH INDUSTRY OR SERVICE down the Tories!
*Drive out. the Callaghan/ Healey leadership and hangers-on like Kinnock who offer nothing but more cuts if reelected. Fight for a workers' government to carry out a programme based on nationalisation of banks and major industry without compensation under workers' management and crash programme of useful public works to restore the social services and provide jobs for the unemployed.
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In fighting for the defeat of the Thatcher governme terms for "Labour to Power"? Should we specify "Lab the mass Labour Party against the Tories in the contex parliamentary Labour government but to establish a go on the independent strength of the workers' movemen necessary steps of nationalisation and destruction of the!
It is in this manner that the Workers Socialist Leag! workers' government. The workers government slogan widely abused by sectarians and opportunists alike. Her munist International, and from today's Trotskyist Intern Comrades, you will allow me to discuss in some detail the question of workers government. It is not yet quite clear to me whether there are serious differences of opinion with regard to this question, whether this question has been completely ventilated, or whether a good deal of our differences were caused by variations in terminology.
In the course of the Congress and during the working out of the resolution on tactical questions, with which we shall deal after the question of the •bourgeoisie.
Every bourgeois government. is a capitalist government, and even many workers governments can be bourgeois governments according to their social composition.
I think that the main point is, there are workers governments and workers governments. I believe that one can imagine four kinds of workers governments, and even then we will not have exhausted the possibilities.
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FORTHE WORKERS BY HAND OR BY BRAIN THE FULL