demands.
Thus unemployment is result of a combination crisis of world capitalism, decline of British capitalism, and deliberate policies the government This shows the absurdity of the argument lal damental cause of job loss is a flood of imports. time, as the volume of world ane canc. imports are ports are falling faster than ex. ports. Threats The most popular demand in the labour movement to defeat unemployment is the call for import controls.
fact that this demand fails to ad dress the real unemployed, there are major objections Irom a point of view in the long term, port controls cannot work. Any attempt to substantially reduce would inevitably result in retaliathe other capitalist countries possibility of a new trade war. I consequents disastrous etwith consequent fects on Labour government 1964-1970 did implement what amounted to an import control LIC charge of 15 per cent introduced in 1967. This had to be dropper because of the Wilson received of INLIV was Labour Today the the pursued the funAt the present both exports and but imApart from the working class imMorning Star with the disastrous The of impending workable, the OLIC aimed at other Ford workers in Europe capitalist countries. port control strategy. It is an atApart being un- tempt to save British jobs at the expense of foreign workers. It , lnere is a morc run damental objection to the RIGHT T
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RIGHT to Workers stop for a minute's silence in Southall at the place where the cops killed Blair Peach Ford Dagenham workers lobby the TUC for im- port controls -