Socialist Challenge1980Socialist Challenge No. 169, 23 October 1980Factory
Socialist Challenge No. 169, 23 October 1980 · p. 7 of the scan · 136 words
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page 7 of the scan
support among the members and working In Manchester, the convenor of the occupied Gardner's factory has connected the fight of the workers here with the millions spent on nuclear weapons. This is a valuable way _of linking two aspects of Tory anti-working class policies.
"the only factories in the Manchester area taking on workers at the pre sent time are those linkec the defence industry The billions being spent on a holocaust could provide a living wage for all thos une cold • Instead of 2.1m could use the money to pay for sharing out the work with no loss of pay - then we'd all have a job.
We want to discuss at the conference how workers currently employed in the business of making technolog could instead be used for socially useful goods.