front page of the Daily Mirror has very big implications indeed for the future of the labour movement. Its subject was the Southgate byIt contained no less than 13 reasons DAILI should not vote for the Conservative Party in that election.
The only thing that was carefully avoided through: out the two-page editorial articles was who you should vote for.
Don't imagine that this was 'a slip' from a paper published by Robert Maxwell which formally claims support the The Daily Mirror sells well over three million copies a day. It is perfectly well aware that it is the most powerful press voice nominally supporting staff to match. that newspaper did mention should vote labour it was because it did not want to.
If the Mirror said you should VOLe against the Tories, but did not specify whether you should vote for or the Alliance, that was exactly the message it wanted to get across.
The labour movement should not imagine that those who want an alliance between Labour and the SDP/Liberals few professors in Marxism loaay. Ihe en tire right wing section of the bureaucracy the HamLairds real forces supporting such a policy fairly openly.
Robert Maxwell is among their number. If anyone doubted it before all they needed to read was thai Mirror front page.
Of course between the here ano-nov final destination we will be urealeu lo a gical ucal Ul sanctimonious rubbish.
The Mirror will explain "for the good of the Labour Party the miners must be defeated. 'for the of the socialists must be 'for the of tne anti-trade unions laws must be accepted.
tion, doubtless, we will get al appcal lo vote Labour, Then, after the election, Hammond, Duffy, Maxwell: partners in crime 'regretfully' the Mirror will carry its editorial starting: 'We have always call.
We did at the last election.
Socialist Action 21 December 1984
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