I've Never Been One To

I Am Not Proposing To Seek Your Votes Because There Is A Blue Sky Ahead Today.

There Is Not A Single Injustice In Northern Ireland That Is Worth The Loss Of A Single British Soldier Or A Single Irish Citizen Either.

Those Who Advocate Devaluation Are Calling For A Reduction In The Wage Levels And The Real Wage Standards Of Every Member Of The Working Class.

We Used To Think That You Could Spend Your Way Out Of A Recession And Increase Employment By Cutting Taxes And Boosting Government Spending. I Tell You In All Candour That That Option No Longer Exists, And In So Far As It Ever Did Exist, It Only Worked On Each Occasion Since The War By Injecting A Bigger Dose Of Inflation Into The Economy, Followed By A Higher Level Of Unemployment As The Next Step.

When We Reject Unemployment As An Economic Instrument As We Do And When We Reject Also Superficial Remedies, As Socialists Must, Then We Must Ask Ourselves Unflinchingly What Is The Cause Of High Unemployment. Quite Simply And Unequivocally, It Is Caused By Paying Ourselves More Than The Value Of What We Produce. There Are No Scapegoats.