FIGHTING for jobs is not an easy thing to do. catastrophe unemployment facing there are no simple solutions. desperately needed is a workers solution to The L'lanwern Jobs Action Committee has drawn up a draft charter which outlines the kind of policies which — if they gain wide support in the labour movement - would begin to provide the basis for a fight which could halt the job loss and for the full implementation of a guaranteed 35-hour working week and worksharing with no It demands the complete nationalisation of steel producers, processors, and stockholders. It calls for a complete stóp to closures.
Adoption of the 12 points of the charter, the workers a real voice in control of the industry But a fight for any of its proposals would run Nationalisation of the more profitable parts of As the charter recognises, many of its proposals would need to be implemented at the level of government. These kind of policies begin to directly challenge the so-called 'rights' of private property. They challenge the bosses' control over Work-sharing, for instance, interim measure, especially if it is achieved in a single industry. A workers' solution to the crisis would require a complete the working class, What is government. bosses.
anarchic "retooling' of the Gwent, Wales. whole economic system. And this is something that only a government could do. But a workers government committed to these policies would have nothing in common with the last Labour A real workers' government would have to wrest control of the economy from the ruling dast maplement a rational plan economy, it would have to expropriate the cor sectors of industry and the finance houses. Thi would need to be backed up with the action taken by workers, and sanctioned by the government, to organise workers' control over industry Unemployment and over-production disappear if the government was out to serve the interests of British people. A crash programme of useful public works building schools, hospitals, and stimulating industry -would require more workers, not fewer.
A planned economy would also government monopoly over check the effects of the market forces.
This policy of taking power is quite different from the plan offered by the ISTC leadership today. It wants to better manage capitalism for the A new militant left-wing steel industry with strong links throughout the labour movement could not only fight to kick out the Tories, but it could begin to challenge the profit system which thousands of workers on the dole queue.
Copies of the "Steelworkers Charter', draft document for discussion printed by the Llanwern Jobs Action Committee, is available from: Steel Sheet, c/o 5 Sydney Street, Newport, frontation Transport and General Government would mand that the need foreign trade to for arguments for sharing country at the present time.
The main industries bankrupt ones. movement in the ownership? throwing the paste people redundant. I've lived in Hackney all my life and I'm not moving anywhere. The Tories earnings-related benefit, so unemployment's no joke today.' Brian Jordan, a shop steward at BOC's thought that it was scandalous that 'thousands of kids were leaving school without hope of a job.
*The unions and the government should bring the retirement age down to 60,' he said, 'and give people a reasonable pension If BOC workers are forced into a con.
they hope for support from other workers, particularly the dockers who are members of their own union - the If the private owners of BOC refuse to budge, argues John Walsh, the trade unions 'should be prepared to take over and degovernment guarantee jobs by taking BOC into public ownership' John pointed out how people in Britain had been brainwashed into grabbing things was necessary for socialists to put forward the the wealth of the taken over by Labour government's in the past have been The people whom the goverment bought out have earned more money from compensation pavments than they would have earned from continued John would be happy to see all major industry under public ownership but he was insistent that trade unionists actually working in nationalised industry should have more control over production than in the Socialist Challenge 10 July 1980
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