2,000.... and one!
Socialist Press1975 1975-05-15Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 6 →
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Found in a local Skelmersdale paper, the following anti-EEC letter:
"In reply to N. A. Clayton' letter over the EEC issue: He could not have put the case for getting out more clearly in stating that we will have not power over the European Commission.
'Decisions affecting out nation will be outside our control. The European Court can overrule our judges and our courts. For 2000 years we have been independent. What could not be done by aris has been done by the treacherous politicians.
To quote Shakespeare: "This England that nèver has or never shall lie at the proud foot of a conqueror with inky blots and dusty parchment bound' "We have joined a motley army whose main aim is to maintain the multi-national profits.
"The 'Cold War' is to be given a new lease of life and the detente with the USSR held at bay with the consequent loss of trade and work for our people."
Up to the last paragraph it could have been written by any extreme right winger. The author? Roy Deegan, Branch Secretary, Skelmersdale Communist Party! "It is necessary to help the masses in the process of the daily struggle to find the bridge between present demands and the socialist programme of the revolution. This bridge should include a system of