Mike Rodney (NALGO)
Jobs are currently being shed at the staggering rate of 10,000 a week. As industries are cut back and services axed, whole areas of the country are being returned to the industrial deserts of the thirties.
And it's quite deliberate. As Hetter pointed out in the Commons recently, pushing the jobless total to 2½ or 3 million - the Treasury's estimated figure for this time next year - is an integral part of the Tory strategy.
Creating mass unemployment will, they hope, push wages down and profits up, thus making British industry more 'competative'.
DOLE Not content with throwing millions on the dole, the Tories have now added insult to injury by launching an attack on the victims of their unemployment strategy.
In her latest 'mini-budget', Thatcher has decided to break the link between unemployment benefits and the inflation rate. What this will mean, in real terms, takes little imagination.
Workers are not only to be deprived of a job - they are to be driven back on to the breadline. Families struggling to make ends meet are to be plunged, once more, into the misery and poverty of the 'thirties'.
A large audience turned up, last month, to Socialist Action's forum on the Labour Party. The meeting was certainly well-timed. Coming MILLION ON THE BOLE not reduction, in public services.
rallying cry of ever-wider layers faced with the insanity of a system that can only survive by throwing millions on the scrapheap ONGOING demonstration, however, to stop The Labour leaders mustn't be allowed to view the November 29th rally as just one more "protest action'.
pressurised into using it as a ment strategy. Workers facing redundancies and plant closures The full weight of the labour movement should be mobilised behind them.
Labour councils refusing to implement Tory cuts - which will lead to mass lay-offs -mustn't be allowed to face Hesaltine's penalties alone. They the industrially strong unions.
STRENGTH It is by mobilising the full weight of the labour movement Chummy talks The leaders of the TUC and the ed to renege on this fight any longer.
* For the 35-hour week! Oppose all red indancies with a of pay:
claim they cannot afford a full workforce, let them open the books to inspection by trade union representatives;
providing jobs - or, are going over under the control of the workers in the plant.
be extended to provide socially on the dole.
accidental one. It reflects the attempts by workers to take control of their party out of the hands of a bunch of semi-Liberal MPs who continually ride roughshod over conference decisions"
ed the meeting by explaining how socialists should intervene in this orucess. more to the Labour Party tor a lead", he stressed, "the central