The Ministry Of Social Control
In the meagre austerity June
1st 1986 issue of Red
Rag:
The TUC has connived at a national disaster - the transformation of
the Manpower Services Commission, once a far sighted planning team
meant to align the labour market to the real needs of the people and
the nation, into a pliant pusillanimous tool of Thatcherism. Feminist
Book Fortnight comes to Reading; there are video screenings and
workshops everywhere you look; the Rag is skint again; and there's a
question mark over the next issue as it hasn't even got a co-ordinator
yet. Why not?
If the media of this country had stopped puking
up horror stories about the "gay plague" several years ago when AIDS
first became "news" then none of this need have happened.
