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elections. think that the solution is to wait for the The French Government must not be allowed to win this war of attrition. Student readers in particular are urged to get their organisations to send telegrams of solidarity to the next coordinaton meeting of the French student movement, c/o Rouge, 2 rue RichardLenoir, 93100 Montreuil, France. Illusions The Communist Party, while it rejects participation plans in the private sector, is in favour of workers participating in the management of publicly-owned industries under present capitalist conditions (i.e. in industries controlled today by the bourgois state) as an 'immed iate need' (Bert Ramelson, Morning Star, 11 March 1975). This creates sad illusions concerning the nature of present-day "public ownership' of industry, which at root serves capitalist rather than work ing class interests.
The urgent need is to prepare now for the forthcoming intensification of the 'industrial democracy' debate within the labour movement which the Bullock Committee will encourage, and seize on the opportunities it will provide to ConDaL Conus ORs HuSOs ortE subject among militants. Only a sustain ed campaign to halt the "participation band wagon and insist that the working class takes no responsibility for the work ings of the market economy will meet this new threat from the 'social contract"
At the same time the rare chance thi offers to take the real issues of workers control of the economy and the state into the labour movement must not slip out of our hands. Time is relatively short for that crucial task.