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NOT THE pen Well-placed right winger: Ken Cure also sat on Labour's NEC Some £116,000 went directly to IRIS. Similar sums followed in subsoquent years. This funding probably exceeds the fundraising capacity of every trade union broad left put together.
Abour government before defecting to the SDP in the early eighties, and currently sits as an independent in the House of Loras. After the story of IRIS's state funding broke in January, he told a reporter from the Mail on Sunday: "It is 32 years ago and a long time to remember. " In fact, his involvement in fundraising for IRIS can be documented as recently as 1985. Shawcross told Macmillan of IRIS's "undercover" work in unions where Communists were influential. IRIS had influenced NUM internal elections, he boasted, and now needed to hire five full time organisers in the AEU engineering union.
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FACING MASS unemployment, rampant employers equipped with savage anti-union laws, and a war on hardof Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky.
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The ruling class in Britain is currently launching a massive offensive against the working class - attacks on the welfare