IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

PROGRAMME TO FIGHT UNEMPLOYMENT

Socialist Action (League for Socialist Action) Vol. 1, No. 3, 1976 · p. 5 of the scan · 245 words

The scan: Socialist Action v1 no3 apr 1976.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 5 of the scan

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ine necessity tor cut-backs -open their secret accounts to workers' representatives.

nationalisation under workers' control be nationalised as part of a workers' plan for production.

idly by used to improve housing, * 35 HOUR WEEK: In factories where lay-offs are on the cards, the call should be made for dividing the existing amount of work among the existing workforce with no loss of pay. This call can be popularised nationally in the need for a 35 hour * OPEN THE BOOKS: Employers who refuse work-sharing - and who insist upon must be called upon at local and national level to # NATIONALISE UNDER WORKERS' CONTROL: If employérs. refuse to open the looks - or "prove mereoy ine case ror lav-ofts « ine demano must be raised to Unlike the TUC's proposal for increased subsidies for firms obviously incapable of managing their own affairs, they must * PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAMME: In order to rapidly absorb the thousands of unemployed, a bold public works programme should be called for. All cuts in social expenditure should be opposed and the labour and material at present standing schools and hospitals. rightist demagogy of parties such as the It is this growing trend to the riaht . leading many papers to predict a clear majority for the bourgeois parties in the coming elections - which has convinced the ArM that it is now 'safe' to remove themselves more from the political stage anu duopi d 'backslage role'.

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