SocialistAction 1983–88

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

Sick

Socialist Action No. 17, 8 July 1983 · pp. 1-2 of the scan · 160 words

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page 1 of the scan

This is a sick joke Already, nutritional standards are declining, the consumption of protein-containing foods is well down.

The most outrageous reasoning the Tories' proposal IS that with the present level of unemployment benefit 'there no incentive to work'. If there is not much difference in pay between te core and low palu ous it is only graphic evidence SOLARDISN low level of some wages.

and the rest know full well unemployed to jobs vacancies is about 20 to 1.

Their poor-law philosophy amounts unis. Ir you naven l gol a job you're lazy and don't want to work; it you have got a job you're lucky accept any wages on offer; wages t00 high miniscule dole pittance will help to keep them down!

The reason we don't have the same kind of misery in Britain today as in the 1930s is because of the social security benetits MODERN TIMES

page 2 of the scan

2 Socialist Action 8 July 1983

← Tories plan to sell off everything but the kitchen sink - and they're closing that down! See pages 8 & 9CND, the "freeze' and the 'Russian →

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