IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

UNEMPLOYMENT THE ONLY GROWTH

Socialist Challenge No. 149, 29 May 1980 · p. 1 of the scan · 376 words

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queues. * MacGregor, the new boss who cost British Steel £2m, sack 100,000 steelworkers. Instead, he threatened to completely shut down steel plants in either Port Talbot or Llanwern. He wants to INCREASE the number and speed of sackings in steel. * Unemployed school leavers' prospects will receive a further blow following the increase in fees for youth retraining programmes. *Two million people will be out of work by the end of next year and this number will continue to rise, according to the National Institute of Economic and Social Research.

* Inflation will continue to be 17 per standards despite standards. has just scrapped economy will contract, go bankrupt.

job cannot guarantee a basic right TIguE tO WOrK. LI the economy.

There living standard.

time off, creased, fight such a solution like mad.

UHL. cent this year which means that those in work will not increase their living increases. "hose out of work or in low paid Industries will suffer big cuts in living * Gross Domestic Product will contract by one percent meaning that the investment will fall, and more and more firms will TORY policies are not working. They La recession all the Tories can do is urge people to grin and bear it and wait for an 'upturn in an alternative unemployment and capitalist stagnation, one that starts from the need of every person for a job and a decent Work should be shared, holidays, and training schemes inindustries that declare themselves bankrupt should be placed under workers controlana taken lato public ownership - without putting people on the dole in the meantime.

But this would cut into the bosses' profits. It would challenge their hold over the economy. They would resist with their law, their courts, and their police. The Tories themselves would That's why we must build a movement to kick this bosses government Share the work! 12.30pm

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ONLY one thing is growing in Tory Britain - the dole

Everthing else in Britain is standing still or in decline.

Cut the dole queues.

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