would still be in existence.
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Unions could only muster 415 delegates.
internal Transport Union matter). Tribune, and Jack Jones argue for more democracy. worse in the sense socialist economists unless they are linked to a broad overall plan.
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London NI. A RECENT PROGRAMME on BBC-TV, suggested that the present level of unemployment in Britain wauld never be reduced. On the contrary, it would go up, and by the year 2000 it would be somewhere betwoen four and six million. The programme, of course, presupposed that capitalism Institute any serious fightback The assembly organised by the Communist Party last Saturday under the banner of the Liaison Commitlee for the Defence of Trades Apart from rejecting a resolution calling on the LCDTU the conferance remarkable for an absence of politics. It was a far cry from proposed wan a lobby of Parliament at some unspecified date. The workers in British Steel, British Leyland, and Liaison Committee will be lobbying MPs on their behalt The Tribunites in the Labour Party have also failed to buggear a way tarwar niciam Clements, ine ocitor or Investment in British industry as the panaces for unemployment. That this is shcer nonsense 1s demonstrated on the paces of Tribune Itself, in which Barry Sherman of ASTMS argued quite cogently that technological changes mean that too resumena can no ronger guaranies 1008 Sherman suggested work-sharing, but explained that this would alienate the multi-nationals which dominate British The fact is that problems such as unemployment cannot be effoctively solved by a capitalist system operating within the framework of bourgeois representative Technological changes will make matters that they widemonstrale the Irrationality af capital. 6s well as its archaic character.
A planned economy is almady beginning to be seen as the only way out of the present mess. Increasingly we are seing left-wing shop stewards eager to collaborate with and prepare alternative plans to those envisaged by capitalism. Work-sharing without loss of pay and other similar demands can even appear utopian The question of nationalisation thus becomes central at this period as an agitational demand. But it cannot stop there nor should we imagine that the additional phrase 'under workers" control solves all the problems. We have to insist that the exiting nationalised industries are not.
firms, designed aid There must De Thus in Tyneside and Cideside it is obvious that the Sea Oil could bo linked tr jobs in the shipyards. Such a step would be resisted by the State because it would threaten capitalist accumulation in this country and chailenge profits Moreover, its dynamic could be explosive. It is in areas such as these that socialists should be concentrating their attention in the coming period, for this would provide a which solidarity actions and A capitalist Britain in the year 2000 will probably have 5 miltion people out of work, but it will also be a Britain where democratic rights will have been whittied away and IN DEALI technology which will have been 'productively used will be the technology of collical Those of us fighting for a socialist Britain must realise that the mere mouthing of comect siogans or demands is to sure we have to go dayond thoso ano offer 8 socialist alternative in the real sense of the word.
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