Socialist Outlook

Socialist Viewpoint, International, Socialist Outlook and their supplements, 1984–2002

Time to end the Tory nightmare

Socialist Outlook no. 19, April 4 1992 · 156 words

Election '92 EUROPE been fatally weakened. capitalism. bankrupt Britain. revive capitalist fortunes. AS WE GO to press the outcome of the election is undecided. But whatever the outcome, the Tories have The election is a distorting lens, but it reveals something very basic. Thirteen years of Tory attacks, part of the world-wide capitalist restructuring offensive, have failed - failed grossly to restore the fortunes of British Thatcherism emerged in the 1970s as a 'new start' for British capitalism, as a way to crush the working class and pave the way for a new surge of capitalist growth. The results of the Tory attacks are everywhere; a Labour Party shifted to the right, industries and social welfare. destroyed, unions on the defensive, lives wrecked. But in the end it is petering out into fiasco. Tory Britain is In nine pages of analysis of the Tory decade, SOCIALIST OUTLOOK examines what happened and why it failed to

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