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Socialist Press no. 221 (part 2), 5 November 1980 · scan p. 5 · about 131 words

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party P Only evidence of TUC's so-calle and Social Advance-a wallet of Ford UK who is now heading a vocal campaign by the CBI for a change in Thatcher's economic policies.

So bad is the situation, he says, that the CBI is having to look at the pre-war slump to repeated savage cuts, hospitals closing, schools and nurseries axed and council housing at a standstill; and with sickness unemployment and social security benefits slashed, while virtually endless sums are made available for new weapons systems and war plans, it is plain that we are not witnessing a string of exceptions! problems. There must be something rotten at the heart of the system.

Indeed while workers and factories stand idle in Britain and other major capitalist countries-bringing the agony of unemployment-countless

← Contents of Socialist Press no. 221 (part 2), 5 November 1980

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