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Lies and distortions about the current state of British capitalism are being used as a major weapon in an attempt to impose a third stage By an Economics Correspondent. passed on.

Nor can the cost of goods from abroad be expected to stay low in the long run. The cost of raw TUC leader Murray.

Whenever the Press announces that it is defending a basic freedom you can be sure that some enemy of the capitalist class is about to catch it in the neck The freedom "to join or not te join" a trade union (as at Grunwick and thousands of other places! means the freedom to be crushed by the employer. sy the freedom exceed by the Press for the past two weeks -the freedom of the Nationa! Front to march.

The NF march has played an important role for the press. In the first place they have used the opportunity to smear the let anc attempt to identify communism with fascism, practice which carries little weight in the organised sections of the working class.

It does however make an appeal to the petty bourgeoisie, where the response Daily the Mail for example popular press finds its strongest referred lascists or tne Right and of the Left"

At the same tine every piece written about the NF march has carried a formal indictment of the fascists.

What then is the record of the press racialism? Last year reporting on the case of the Malawi Asians led directly to the murder of an Asian. But for years the press has pursued a policy of rampant racialism, and jingoism Even as it declared its interest in 'race relations' the press continued its racialist campaign George Gale in the Daily Express black black sice heated produced a squalid "Look on the stream of complaints against West Indians, Asians, Jews and Irish for their "inability" to become "inte grated" black and brown people in Britain "The problem is not just one of colour. is also one of numbers But we don't know how many of them there are. " (orig. emphasis)

This is only an extreme example of the way that the press produce its racialism from b behind a shield of moderation need to know how many of "them" there are Race problems are not caused in the host country but imported in