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It is not clear what meant by this.
Alternative?
Does Wise mean that other groups of workers with claims of their own should be out on strike alongside the firemen now-or that if the firemen win other groups shouldn't use that victory to launch their own struggle?
It is time Wise made her position clear. If she is opposed to wage control wil she support struggles against it?
If she is opposed to wage control where does she stand on the Lib-Lab coalition whose task is to uphold it?
If she doesn't think Healey/Callaghan represent the interests of the Labour movement why won't Wise campaign for their removal and put herself forward as an alternative leadership?
It is by Wise's actions along these lines, rather than by her speeches at demonstrations, that she must be judged by the workers' movement.
ALEX KITSON - the TGWU bureaucrat accused of mentioning the absence of poverty and unemployment in Russia - has been let off the hook by Labour's ludicrously-titled 'international " committee.
The committee disregarded vicious attacks on Kitson by so-called 'lefts' Eric Heffer and Joan Lestor, and decided he had been "misreported".
In this way Labour's anti-communism is preserved and Kitson's grovelling before both Stalinism and reformism acknowledged.
The Press campaign in support of higher pay for the armed forces looked like bearing fruit this week when a Tory private members bill was accepted by the Substantial increases in army pay can be expected next year with exemption clauses from wage controls.
In the forefront of the campaign has been the Sun focusing on the role of the soldiers scabbing on the firemen's strike in tones of heroic sentimentality.
But there is nothing sentimental in the drive behind the demand for higher wages.
The Press has been fighting hard to draw a distinction between pay for the working class and pay for the forces of the state. since they are convinced soldiers and police must not be allowed to share similar materal :0a3:00:5 :. 150S* ..:: . 1