Order in the Family
Socialist Press1978 1978-05-03Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 5 →
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'I've never seen the difference between the community and the police" , declared Prime Minister Callaghan at a West London rally last Wednesday.
"More police is only part of the answer" , he went on, boastng of the £250 million extra =xpenditure on "law and order" sunanditio -brought about by the Lib-Lab soalition.
A "proper sense of values" in ~e family and at home is essential to a happy society, continued Callaghan-making it cear that an escalation of state zoression is linked in government * oking with an intensification of ire domestic oppression of momen, youth and male workers " thin the confines of the family On "law and order" as on every other question Callaghan strugyled to find some difference between pro-capitalist policies of me Lib-Lab government and the soricies of the Tories. But he only succeeded in emphasising the essential similarities.
Also on the platform were sher advocates of managing cao talism-Bill Molloy, MP for Es ng North; Syd Bidwell, -ac alist Tribunite MP; Russell *= MP and a cluster of right a -9 prospective candidates, each chom defended the record of Andrew Wiard, Report Callaghan the coalition government.
Though Bidwell was prudently not called to speak, his reaction. ary shadow was cast over the speakers, each of whom studiously avoided the question of racialism.
With leaders like these it is little wonder that workers are less and less inclined to turn out to vote Labour in local and byCallaghan and his gang of supporters must be driven out and a principled socialist leadership in conflict with the existing right wing leaders constructed in the Labour Party.