Press Gang
Socialist Press1977 1977-08-31Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 8 →
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PRESS GANG Minority Ruke Nuclear power plai West Savage attacks on anti-nuclear Germany The Press has stuch diligently but with increasing difficulty to its task of denigrating the working class upsurge over pay.
No sooner has one section of workers been caught in the withering fire of its editorials than two more jump up fully armed in its place.
It is not surprising therefore that Fleet Streel, radio and TV hailed the 'rebellion' at Longbridge as a liberating army.
In jubiliation the caution to the winds.
No more would the angry tramp of workers be heard outside the window. We were on the verge of a new dawn when the production lines run non-stop and the only Press threw shop steward. They their enemy was.
*When one remembers Mr. Robinson's 26-year-old affiliation to the Communist Party, and looks at the ambulating shambles to which a great British company has been reduced, one marvels at how much has been endured by such people"
The Sunday Telegruph described Hill as "the man who has become Britain's latest folk-hero" and found space on their front page for an interview with his wife, testifying to his principles, among which are apparently a lack of interest in "politics or unions" and a refusal to take on the role of shop steward Even in this piece of left bashing Mrs. Hill was unable to keep reality