Ford workers plan fightback | IMGpapers 1980

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THE second meeting of the European Ford Workers Combine took place in Copenhagen 6-8 Representatives attended Ford plants in Denmark, Spain, Portugal, Germany, and Britain. These ranged from official shop stewards tees' delegates to 'unofficial' rank and file groups.

the UK Ford Group, delegates attended from Dagenham, Langley, Flame, the Marxist Group and the Socialist Workers Party.

Discussion centred technology, the fight for the shorter working week and Ford's plans to introduce 'Japanese' methods of production into Europe - all against a background of slumping short-time working and cies:

June.

unions this. year.

Holland, commit- 26 days a year holiday! members of Workers and autumn. When on work; no redundan. on short time

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AS A regular reader of Socialist Challenge, I haven't been aware issues (David Booth, 12 June). But leaving that question aside, wial, I wondel, Is inc sigulncance of David Booth's own line?

His view is that rapid economic growth has been taking place in a number of less developed capitalist countries and Lual uns owen das ochchica lc living standards of the working class and the poor. But what ment does not take place under the control of the peoples of these Our capitalists invest abroad in limited • in inneeds of the who are not given the money to pay for these goods. Jane resources of the Third World remain permanently underexploited to sausty une greca or a lew rich investors.

The root of this is not the movement of goods: a socialisi Britain would enter immediate discussions with Third World peoples (particularly countries like Cuba and Nicaragua where popular revolutions have expropriate, private capital) to expand trade in a planned way -to satisfy the World peoples which the CP tionary.

disappear. ; and to which would be part of being a revoluThere would be no rupture between "home politics and out side' politics. And the strain which most of us who have Culo with Mary Carter would begin to Let's have more articles or sport, but make sure they hit out at the right people. It's not a question of supportig noongallism, but of looking at why it ocKEITH SINCLAIR, Hull

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