Benn's Hand Out
Socialist Press1976 1976-06-02Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 12 →
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Still more subsidies for private industry through the National Enterprise Board and a more widespread extenstion of the "worker participation" schemes already cutting jobs in British Leyland and Chrysler are embodied in a new plan from the National Executive of the Labour These reactionary proposals to preserve and give a "respectable" face to capitalism are combined with utopian and ludicrous plans for another £1,000 million on public sector house building, £2,700 million more on increased pensions and £1,500 million more on social service priorities " all without a single proposal for While the 'left' on the Labour NEC content themselves with these grandiose daydreams, Energy Secretary Wedgewood Benn has been getting down to AL- of handina over millions to the oil companies.
To the amazement of the oil barons, Benn is offering them cash simply to look for North Sea oil - regardless of whether they find any!
This unbelieyable genersoity exposes the real face of the left talkers on the NEC!
MORE DETAILS I would like more inf DImation about the Work Socialist League.
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POST TO: WSL, ,31, Dartmouth Park Hill, London worker in British Leyland, Cowley. The right-wing senior shop stewards correctly sided with the worker going back on his job - but it is precisely because of the long standing collaboration between Reg Parsons, T&GWU Convener, and BL management, together with his conscious fostering of extreme right wing reaction in the plant that racialism found food in workers' frustration.
It was left to the committee of the 5/293 Branch of the T&GWU to intervene, correctly producing a statement on this case and circulating it to members. This attacked racialism by pointing to its roots, showing that workers' problems are "not caused by immigrants but by the government"
There is no doubt that if the miners do reject the 4½% TUC wage-cuts plan and decide on strike action, giving a lead to the working class, it would strike the biggest possible blow against racialism. In struggle against the main enemy - the employer -the working class can break down rectional divisions.