GiVE OF LUMP the next recession. This time to make sure that the workers ermanent and severe defeat. e Tories are proposing is a the methods of the 1930s. for massive increases in sent to force down living nd the use of the law backed rength of the and file Power would then find it the unions. to Hence take action the proposals on to defend opposed ons by if the closed shop. illegal, so-called alternative He bring about a greater the 1930g with the working class, tula lead to more I to the collapse of the et in 1974 ders point to Heath's that working class n burenucrats of the Thatcher has been me of the original warning into Soned down (such (the closed shop), moposals like by the courts - legal or the time being of the working right cent norm and some of the cuts new lease on have given emi, the houses king class is ing to have to ur rights and this is a lie. the silicone chip could easily restrictions could capialist system. of working people, it would be potential, and that of -Declare War exercise ссолоту -Nationalise the banks and big financial monopolies, and the decisive sectors of production oft-repeated commanding and action to break the sabotage of the workers bosses economy and take -Break up the army of bercaucrats and police workers bchaif of The bosses by uphold the interests BOvernment politically-conscious will cast their votes for dyod-in-thewool reforinist without the conscious support of these present systern like supporters inconceivable. BRASSCE OF people socialism would be conversion. level of economic production, if only produce freed But in order to unleash this immense the profit-seeking the the hosses mass necessaty powerful and the means they use to instance, strangichold and Institutions, other big distribution organisations (the Work control on investment.
who run the country on public works, Jike, is easily secr electing pledged interests of the bosses Similarly.
overtime working people are unable take-home pay.
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Immediate questions which workers are demands - demands which meet the of the working class for transitional government must be paved by the fight are involved in those struggles to help put the bits and pieces togerber That is why the road to a workers grappling burden of the crisis onto the back of the with but which Throw capitalist rationale of the economy and capitalists, clearly challenging This isn't because enough is produced officially admitted to be unempioyed Today there are nearly 1/ million no recreation centres. of disrepair, and youth have virtually hospitals, roads are in a complete state clearly there are not enough houses or 100,000 ancillary building workers are unemployed and Why are the unemployed not put to satisfy everyone"s construction workers are idle, But Deeds 200,000 nor be sold at a price which will satisfy capitalism's desire for a rate of retura Recause what could be meet these produced can- basic heeds?
house-building and the A crash programme of working class but is equally against the r as necesvary by the working demand to abolish unemployment is the innediate declaration of a 35-hour simple and effecove week across the board and an end to ear ki huge cannons which nationalised. Immediate targets would to afford this should be no loss components - and the construction reluding action is the opening of the books of all A vital complement to this sort of very simple. Every historic example ofa coatrol. The reason for this is Tacilitate typical 1976) shows that radical socialist Allende or Portugal before November government (Chile under the the financial system also plays an immense their direct role in company finances alone, banks investnient funds. becomes even more decisive. Taking economy. In the present state of the economic crisis in Britain, their role or that individual firm, but by central economic decisions. not determined by what happens in this nationalisation we propose and that which occurs today. The economy is The banksare a vital lynch-pinof any resistance in the bud Or wing the books and the inpositio. 1950-51 was met with such saborage. This is industry by the Labour goverament in measures as nationalisation of the steci creation of a black market. Even such workers provide the difference Common Market country, har lady, rises. Moreover, wage rates of every continually had to chase after But the the Tories is thar wages cause inflation. the Labour goverament, the bosses and happily ever-more threadhcare, lies of clearly vital for any economic plan. Britain. Securing controi of these is nearly hair One of the most blatant, but now truth of company shares 15 that wages to the fall in the rate of profits. The has been the particular way in which ancontrollable inflation of recent years capitalist governments have responded *Tiar inflation is less ale greater than Britain Many factors cause inflation. But laid the basis for massively increasing credit. This putsto today! adequate profit. sold at a price which guaranices an that more is being produced than can be much is being produced, but rather over-production. It is not that 1o0 So governments expand demand by crisis crisis comparatively small control would nip such monitor price rises the freczes. Moreover, would he subsidised oversee ment's "price commission' Measures could be jevied role in industry. For example, they hold much better defence against their real The rest of the buik sumpie workers and Vietnam have Price - but their chans, a workers' government would the economy. And to lead it out of mere 200 top lins would do the trick: necd commanding heights. Nationalising a cffective ail big forcign capital. the bigges indastrial monopolies and the credit system, essential industries could prevent capitalist sabotage and A state nonopoly on fozeign trade easte control over the economy to serve the interests of the working class.
Eras - quite the opposite to the place to dictate to the remaining capitalist That's how the government could begin occupied by the nationalised sector in the cost of living. This is a solation which can be extended through forning workers price committees to for inflation by tring wages to the rise The bosses should be forced to pay Paztial Jocal price committees full authority to interests would control prices and give A government genuinely concerned the defence uf working class with the Labour impiement basic necessities Compare these any price Tae end achin adela. govern social spending. Workers would find a defence". Yet this is the only figure the Labour government projects will rise in Defence expenditure woudd be slashed Workers have no interst in 'national against esiemies- private capital —- through a which defeated the US state in Cuba solidarity. That's the kind of defence militia and workers" undermine the whole capitalist Togic of These measures would begin to Cuntrol of the TRADE UNION CONFERENCE SOCIALIST CHALLENGE on "Alternatives to the Concordat" 26 May, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, and "Workers Plans'. Further details from TU Conference. London WCI SC, PO Box 50, London NI Socialist Challenge 1 May 1979
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