SocialistAction 1983–88

The paper of the Socialist League, formerly the International Marxist Group, 1983–88

Misery

Socialist Action No. 166, 29 May 1987 · p. 2 of the scan · 154 words

The scan: 166-may-29-1987-SA-UK.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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I want to see rate support grant restored to all local authorities, with the balance in ne aotl working class communities. ne ones ook tak awe because those councils were habour-controled and the had no electoral gains to make by giving us money Socially, economically, morally we need that mones to spend on building and repairing homes, on more sheltered housing tor ou increasing elderly ..com. aluillly. We need Ichiva tional education facilities for young people.

more than anything else we need jobs In some parts of Lambeth there is 70-80 per cent male unemployment. That is the level öf unemployment on some of our estates. Putting the hope back by building HONC allu providin licceosal y iobs of ÝTS schemes. jobs not sham That is what councils like Lambeth would want to see a Labour government do. All the Tories promised is more misery for the inner-cities for working class communities

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