People's Marchers complain to Morning Star
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-06-02Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 7 →
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Several marchers have signed this protest letter to the Morning Star.
THE People's March for Jobs '83 was called not just as a protest at mass unemployment but as an opportunity to mobilise the labour movement around its alternative policies.
That opportunity is being missed.
The broad non-party political appeal is an obstacle to mobilising the labour movement to fight workers fighting redundancy; for 1 Labour government, for demands on the Labour Party to spell out a programme of policy and mobilisation of the labour movement to make full employment a reality.
Rejecting such a class perspecas suggested in last Friday's Star (20.5.83 p.4) is misguided nonsense. Tory businessmen benefit from mass unemployment. That is why they create it.
To succeed the March must:
*have factory, labour movement and youth club tours in all managed rallies with identikit speeches;
*demand a platform at all major Labour Party election rallies;
*be seen as a clear part of a campaign for a Labour government responsive to workers' *and, s a matter of course remstate une lour comrades gron Liverpool expelled for taking up anti-Tory slogans We're not walking to London TOT pity We're angry and w demand action.
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