Committee's draft starts with a per. This is exactly what would cted on their policies. mobilise the working class in action against the capitalists. stead we are presented with half and 1 OUC whose aim to duck capitalists' resistance.
Let us take the most burning problem - jobs. One and a half million people are on the dole.
Thas epr beatsy Aleededo ple badly needed, resources. This waste happens because private owners will not and cannot invest in what society needs.
The NEC proposes planning • negotiations with ariccics -Te ome crovesanc But the CBI, Tine IMF Whitehall made clear Wilson that investment is nonnegotiable. In Callaghan's term of office the CBl said it would break off all relations with the uLLeSS agreements were dropped.
This is not an idle threat. It would be the first stage in a Chile-style destabilisation. Brigadier Kitson's army is now training in Ireland for the second — courtesy of two Labour governments. Defeat We have to defeat owners, not bargain with them.
NEC WalEs o 'statutory powers' to control industry. But who will get these powers? We need La tutoy right for workers in every industry and city to take over production and investment in the public interest.
This means full workers' control 'participation' 'tripartite management' gets workers to share power with management and Whitehall. Otherwise workers' leaders will simply be dragged into manageschemes workforce - like in Leyland and BSC. If any control is left in the owners' hands, they will use it to In- conspire against the government and subvert planning.
the private owners from the boardrooms — in the public as well as the private sector. policy should take on the multinationals, and any firm threatening redundancies, placing workers' control them public without compensation.
the civil part of the capitalists' state. It saoulagc den s maustry pro posals. rich, for the rich. It is accountable to no one. and to Workers should LEUSL in Whitehall managers of British industry, but rely on their own strength. self-confidence of the planning Movenc can be now. Labour Party leaders could stimulate that self confidence by giving a political focus to trade union resistance to the Employment Bill. attacks on living standards, and unemployment.
Colle workers to opening panies' books so that the case for nationalisation could be made to the the whole workforce.
leaders could go out and explain establish that the erosion power democratic rights worker in Britain. workers redundancies technology Dy pollils Out tild! the work the working week shortened.
which damenta richt that evervone in g modern society guaranteed. An can't guarantee such a basic right jobs, Neither The aim must be to remove COuILTC socialist banking and finance, them and taking ownership Cuts It is equally useless to rely on should service in Whitehall -Whitehall is run by the hospitals they place no welfare state. or the The labour proposal to encouragcu manufactures' course if industry foreign private Whitehall encourage campaign 'bankrupt' They Labour of shopfloor •LACK .on of every They could tor. not ic accol Import Failing capitalists. could be shared, and The righito work is a funshould .be builders have economy thật At isn't worth protecting. Action row, by those workers who have key stopping employers discarding labour at should workers allow themselves to br cụt off from workers in othe - often in the case of multinationals they are working for the same employer - in the fight to protect jobs. Thatcher was surprised by the militancy of the all-out strike on pay in the steel industry. Think how powerleft. ful a European-wide movement for the 35 hour week would be!
welfare receive the same treatment. It's all very well promising to 'increase public expenditure' in 1984 but people are being kicked out of old peoples' homes and now. The Labour leaders will be judged on how fight now to protect the We cannot accept the NEC's plan out trade in . .ao serious. Of was planned, then trade could be planned via a complete state monopoly trade. But ownership and capitalist hands, 'planned' import controls would be counterproductive.
would solve the underlying problem of the bosses refusal to invest. Redundancy comes from the owners' need to rationalise production to boost rofits — which they impose oi controls would amount to a workers' subsidy to We would buyhigher priced manufactures from peopie wnlo would use the pronts not to save jobs but to save their - just as tne snipdone with fifty years of public subsidies.
same time protectionism would atack the very people whose solidarity need against the multinationals workers abroad Most timid of all is the Party's programme for 'peace' Seventeen years ago Labour Party concrence al least nad luc guts to come out for unilateral The NEC SLACHTIL.
America demanding that Britain participates as a European 'cop' in its war drive, refuses to mention this historic demand of the glosses over Britain's membership of NATO and keeps absolutely silent on Britan's contribution tension - its occupation of the North of Ireland - while it does remember to condemn the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Allies The real reason is that the NEC refuses to break with Britain's imperialist allies. 'We will work together with all those who desire peace', it declares. But the American air forces' slogan in Vietnam was 'peace Qur business'. They called their genocide (pacification'.
The peoples of the ex-colonial world also want peact peace from 300 years foreign domination, enslave ment and barbarous repression. There will be no peace until their just demands are met and until capitalism — the cause of war — is defeated.
Instead of 'negotiating' arms reduction. with our Američan and European 'allies', and 'seeking reforms' to the EEC, should fight now for immediate withdrawal all capitalist military alliances, full support ror nauonal noclaton struggics. withdrawal from the EEC and international workers solidarity against imperialism.
This is the only road to peace, jobs, freedom, and socialism in our time.
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