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...surprise 1983 election campaign. Flanked by Cabinet ministers, beneath a bright blue banner proclaiming the new Tory slogan BRITAIN STRONG AND FREE, Thatcher lost no time - and squandered no politesse-in proclaiming her determination to "ensure that Britain remains a steadfast ally in an uncertain world." She unveiled a manifesto that would further toughen Tory policies on trade unionism, denationalization of state-run industries and big-city metropolitan councils. In so doing, Thatcher drew the battle lines with the opposition Labor Party in the bleakest terms. "The choice before the nation is stark," she intoned, "either to continue our present...
Even Social Democratic Party Leader Roy Jenkins, who would become Prime Minister in the unlikely event of a victory by the centrist S.D.P./Liberal Alliance, dropped his usually temperate mien to blast Thatcher. Jenkins acidly compared her new Tory manifesto to Field Marshal Douglas Haig's message after the disastrous Battle of the Somme in 1916: "Ground gained negligible, casualties intolerable, but press...
Another sharply drawn issue is defense. Although Labor's campaign manifesto carefully fudged its position to accommodate the strong internal differences, the party is on record as being opposed to the deployment of 160 U.S. cruise missiles. It also opposes the government's plans to purchase some 80 Trident submarine missiles from the U.S. Instead, Labor advocates a unilateral ban on all nuclear weapons in Britain. The party's candidates will undoubtedly get a strong boost from the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, which has vowed to field an army of volunteers to help elect M.P.s who endorse...
...Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims," wrote Marx and Engels in the Communist Manifesto of 1848. Yet once again, Michael T. Anderson '83, a self-proclaimed Marxist, attacks the Spartacist League for being too open with then politics, and for upsetting "the delicate balance" which keeps his radical-chic image intact...
...preoccupied Marx: the working class. In Nicaragua, the employees of a soap factory vowed to work double shifts for one week in honor of Marx and "in defense of the revolution." In China, a zealous textile worker went to the trouble of engraving the entire text of the Communist Manifesto (about 20,000 Chinese characters) onto an ivory block 15 mm by 15 mm by 50 mm. It was an odd way to honor the man who had urged the workers of the world to shake off their chains...