and 'vote riggers. re just a few of the lies and landers hurled by the media at re "Cowley Moles' and socialists ho support Socialist Action. All re hoary old chestnuts een dragged out. 'The elieve that the ends justify the eans' 'moles emocracy' are two of the most popular ones.
The Sun which lied through its teeth about the interview it never ot with the wife of the Falklands IC, got in a real lather about a soup of young people who didn't ant to fit that rag's image of be and decided to lie to get a job. social security Knowing full well the opinions o the Leyland management these eople decided not to tell them that they were socialists and that bey had academic backgrounds. so like millions of other they made up their references This initiative, which is constantly harangued bout the need for people to get ff their arse to show some enterreds threaten Fleet Street.
to convince scroungers establishment.
sensationalising people society prise, did not find much sympathy Perhaps Fleet Street thinks it's OK for Thatcher to lie to win an election but that it's not quite right for socialists to do that to get a job and to work in a place where they might be able their workmates about the correctness of socialist ideas. But you have to be naive to defenders think that Britain's unfree press is ever going to be on the side of around those who want to challenge the The press makes its money by trivia, by insulting women with its sexism, by pandering to racism, and in many cases by actively encouraging it. Because it is owned and controll- Even ed by the ruling class it lies about strikes, villifies lefts and militant Tory Party, the Stock Exchange, Bank of England and that family that lives at the end of the Mall and scrounges off the public.
the reactions should really come as no surprise.
Nor should the silence from Britain's other defenders of democracy who have failed to speak out against the witch hunt of 13 young people who dared to lie to get a job. Shirley Williams who left the Labour Party because of its alleged 'lack of democracy' stays silent about the 13 people who found that British Leyland management did not respect lemocratic right to have a job callaghan and Mr Wilson, long-tim of 'democratic traditions' just do not seem to get speaking out about the TO right of socialists to have a job perhaps their version of democracy does not include the rights of left wing socialists.
In contrast to the outspoken stand of Eric Heffer, neither Neil Kinnock nor Roy Hattersley have had anything to say against the Cowley witch hunt.
Michael Meacher has stayed silent. The silence of Len Murray and the main body of the TUC was unfortunately so predictable. Anything thai does not fit in with the plans of these timid and bankrupt leaders for class collaboration with the bosses is to be abhorred. So how could they defend socialists who might have had different ideas about the management and the union bureaucracy? Reactions Ms The reactions of the left and the right against the witch hunt raise all the questions about class They show that those in the labour their movement who refuse to oppose the witch hunt, are morally and politicaly bankrupt. the exploiters. Only movement stands for democracy and for a higher form of morality than that of capitalism. This is why Socialist ACtion is publishing these articles on Socialist Democracy and Do the ends justify and means.
They show the superiority of the socialist method that it is only the road of democratic revolutionary socialism that can lead the working towards a where oppression is ended.
morality.
Their values are those of the socialist demonstrate its allies new and equal society