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Practice dictation & shadowing on the daily life story: Arthur Scargill: ‘ Criticism of Tory Policies’ (3)
Arthur Scargill: ‘ Criticism of Tory Policies’ (3)
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Arthur Scargle Criticism of Tory policies.
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Not satisfied however, with the most vicious anti union legislation in the world, the Tories are currently introducing new measures which are so draconian they have staggered and brought forth opposition even from some traditional enemies of the trade union movement.
(3)
The steps taken against British trade unionism can probably only be compared with those taken against our German comrades by Hitler in the 1930s.
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If this new Tory legislation is left unchallenged, then civil liberties and human rights in Britain are in danger of being wiped out.
(5)
As life in Britain becomes harder, as frustrations and tensions rise, the state must bring into play all the elements of its machinery in order to suppress any attempts to throw off its power.
(6)
The police are used increasingly in paramilitary fashion.
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The judiciary use greater ruthlessness against any trade union that attempts to stand by its rules and constitution.
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As the experience of the National Union of Mine Workers over the past four years proves, the courts have dealt justice savagely with the Lambeth and Liverpool councillors who refused to betray the commitments made to their communities.
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Meanwhile, the media, now quite openly under the control of international capitalists such as Murdoch and Maxwell, become even more blatantly the mouthpiece of Tory philosophy.
(10)
The British capitalist press can make no claim to either objectivity or integrity.
(11)
Whether through the gutter journalism of the tabloids or the more restrained style of the socalled quality papers, they both play a key role in the daily dissemination of lies and misinformation to the public.
(12)
This is about an outline of the situation which today faces the British labor and trade union movement.
(13)
The terrible irony about it is that whilst throughout our movement there is general agreement on the ravages of the Tory attack and agreement that it should be stopped, we have not united in an effective force to combat those ravages and challenge the system which has forced them onto our class.
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On the contrary, rather than uniting to fight our common enemy, our movement has been diverted time and time again by internal attacks.
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Attacks aimed disgracefully at the very sections which have fought so bravely to carry out Labour Party and T UC policies by battling to save jobs, industries, communities and services.
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Margaret Thatcher has been absolutely clear in recognizing her enemy.
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It is socialism and she has openly declared her intention of wiping it off the British agenda.