ON EL SALVADOR Jenny Pearce (author of Under the Eagle') Ei Salvador Solidarity Campaign
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-04-14Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 7 →
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elections and the 'Summit' , he now wants to extend it to at least the end of 1983. This can only mean further sharp losses in terms of real purchasing power to wage earners. It will save jobs no more than Fraser's attacks on wages did.
Meanwhile, "soggy 'lefts' such as the new Minister for Defence Support Brian Howe, caution us not to focus on 'one aspect' of the 'Prices and Incomes' Accord (for example wage restraint!), but to take into account compensatory factors in the 'poliey as a whole' , such as the promised prices controls and tion from Haket, is that he icano intention of going ahead with these promises.
For all his gratuitous talk of 'equality of sacrifice' , it's quite clear who are going to do all the sacrificing under his scheme. Like under Fraser, it'll be the only useful, productive group in this country. Once again the working class will be the victims.
Not one single group of employers has stated they are willing to make 'sacrifices'; the bosses are united with the catch cry that real wages must be even further depressed.
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Interview with Steve Bundred