Tory ups and | Socialist Action 1983

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THATCHERS A GUIDE TO THE RUINS Socialist Action 13 May 1983 Thatcher's Britain: A guide to the ruins Published by Pluto Press and New Socialist Other Bookshops London 328 Upper St, Birmingham B5 021-643*5904 Price £1.50 plus 30p post and packing Available now from The London N1 01-226 0571 Birmingham 137 Digbeth downs has fallen UP manufacture people under Down school leavers Over 860,000 women are cent.

unemployed.

than a million more (second One in six black people CAN DO THAT! S Unemployment from 1.219 million (May 1979) to 2.199 million (February 1982) -up 162 per cent.

Company liquidations from 4,537 (1979) to 12,039 (1982.)

• up 165 per cent.

Prices from 216 (May 1979) to 326 (January 1983) - up Employment 23.107 million (June 1979) to 20.974 million (September 1982) -down 9.2 per cent.

Output from 112.2 (second quarter 1979) to 107.6 (last quarter 1982) — down 4 per Industrial output from 115.1 quarter 1979) to 100.9 (last quarter 1982) -down 12..3 per cent.

Manufacturing output from 107.4 (second quarter 1979) to 86.9 (last quarter 1982) -down 19.1 per cent.

Manufacturing investment (1975 prices) £987 million (second quarter 1979) to £636 million (third quarter 1982) - down 2.7 per cent.

I CAN DO THAT!

A JoB!?

I CAN DO THAT

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LOADCAST ON BEMAKiNG SOME OFYOU ERVATiVE PARTY FEEL RATHER İLL...

iS GOiNG TO COST YOU A GREAT DEAL trebell basic principles tional Health Service (NHS) • House ments have quarter.

cent home in the future.

Northern Northern Ireland:

mortgage payrisen by • Councils have sold off their best homes - only the better-off can be sure of a depresided drop Tory government has been a years. disaster for the people of Women