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The cranky sectarians of the International Spartacist Tendency often pride themselves upon the "uniqueness" of their political. line. But seldom have even the Sparts come up with slogans as bizarre as the ones their American supporters sported in New York recently at a picket of a visit by Prince Plainly under the impression that, as Duke of Edinburgh Prince Philip has something to do with Scotland, the Sparts gamely wheeled out their unique full programme' for Scottish workers. Their catchy demand for 'A Scottish Workers Republic as part of the USSR' is one which has yet to be argued for openly by the British Sparts . but will no doubt soon make its hilarious debut on demonBut even this is outstripped by the Sparts' maximum demand for the Scottish proletariat: in pride of place, above the routine demands 'Abolish the House of Lords' and 'Abolish the Monarchy' came the most unique slogan to spring from the Augean stable of Spart guru James Robertson - 'Abolish Is this a bid for a rotten bloc with the Campaign for Real Ale? ITS READ Philip.

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Licensing Hours!' for a SOCIALIST FEDERATION BRITISH ISLES!* of the ABOLISH LICENSING HOURS (01m) ABOLISH ABOLISH * USSRI SPARTACUT PART Cannin *+xİ The pro-imperialist Jamaica Labour Party won a landslide victory in last Thursday's General Election.

The party, led by Edward Seaga, is expected to take 50 of the 60 seats when the final result is declared, leaving Michael Manley's People's National Party with only ten seats.

The election campaign was one of the most violent in the history of Jamaica. Manley announced early this year that elections would take place in the autumn and by polling day 630 had been killed in political Seaga's victory will lessen the threat of a coup but even this possibility cannot be excluded if there is no significant decline in political violence.

Manley's defeat highlights the complete bankruptcy of social democratic and nationalist politics.

After himself winning a landslide victory • in 1976 Manley attempted on the one hand to develop Jamaica's economic independence from imperialism (in particular through establishing greater national control over natural resources like bauxite) whilst at the same time relying on the International Monetary Fund for loans to prop up a bankrupt With unemployment already at 30% and inflation over 20% a year, the IMF demanded further severe austerity measures exchange for loans