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press that they are now engaged in a "month of action" against Tory economic policies.

At the press conference that launched it, Jack Dromey, SERTUC secretary, was suitably evasive as to what "action"-if any-was planned: though he was emphatic in denying any intention of staging a further May 14-style stoppage.

Unattributed rumours that the "month of action" could include secret lunchtime motorcades, meetings of SERTUC bureaucrats or even the furtive distribution of leaflets have not been confirmed by our reporters as we go to press.

But Socialist Press wishes to lend support to any struggle against the Tories.

We are therefore offering a free copy of our pamphlet "Bring Down the Tories This Winter" to any reader who can supply us before the end of November with information of any activity in any town called as part of the SERTUC "month of action"

"This is our blackest survey ever, and we have not touched bottom yet. There is worse to come.

So spoke Sir Terence Beckett, the former boss of If you wonder why Socialist Press argues the necessity to build a revolutionary party to lead the struggle to overthrow the capitalist system, it is worth first of all casting an eye at the state of capitalism itself.

With unemployment soaring, industrial production falling, modern factories closing, investment cut back and inflation still running at 16%; with social services crumbling after Coal NCt

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L980 LEE 1930 LEX E50E Angus Maude, the Paymaster General, is the MP responsible for Tory public relations.

His task is to show Cabinet ministers how to present their policies, and their results, in a positive light.

It is his department that trains Howe, Joseph and the rest of them to tell workers who have a job that they should think themselves lucky and not to ask for wage rises.

One of the main planks of winter 15 to stress the gaing TA1!IT M already made and urge workers not to make their sacrifices in vain.

It was no doubt Maude who masterminded Howe's statement that it would be "folly" to abandon policies "when they are beginning to produce results"

This no doubt is based on the old medical theory that if something is really unpleasant then it must be doing you good.

It may be surprising that this government needs public and the Express.

But the course of propaganda never does run smooth.

The ink on the adulation heaped on Thatcher at the Tory conference was hardly dry before some of those supposedly behind the government began complaining that the medicine was laced with arsenic.

It has made the PR job that Maude and the press have to plan this winter look woetully inadequate-in stark contrast to the dexterity of Sir Michael Edwardes' PR staff in the simultaneous handling of the Mini Metro launch and the BL pay claim.

Should Maude find himself out of a job he could always offer his services to King Hassan of Morocco.

Not since Giscard d'Estaing's friend Emperor Bokassa was nailed as a practising cannibal has any royal received such an unexpectedly hostile press.

BRING THE QUEEN HOME TODAY demanded the Sun.

Their report of the royal changes that have taken place over the past four hundred years that belt fiddling (almost invisible to the naked eye) is the pallid twentieth century substitute for chopping off a few heads.

So disconsolate was the Queen, we were told, that to cheer herself up she was reduced to watching her guardsmen drilling up and down the decks of there Darral Vonht Deittonin влож 40ex apparently one of her favourite pastimes.

But it was not all fun. She was forced to sit for hours watching foreign tribesmen riding about on horses, wait 20 minutes for lunch and other such indignities.

She was seen pointing to her programme although the press (who manage to get their feet in everyone else's doors) claimed not to be able to hear what she was saying.

Was it all worth it for the possible sale of a few more Metros? Should the Monarch of half the world be expected to listen to a lot of Arabs making speeches?