Collapse The Tories and that this is the alter the complete collapse of BL This arg Duf gove aise by in the guise the social contracta Yet is an alterand developing popularising it is to he struge workers have put forward one alterin a couple of recent pamphlets. The core of thei 100: Pre-tax profits/ loss Half-yeor figures policy is the call for import comport controls see a import controls option: if there this In a period of intensifying competition other co not stand by and let British companies get away They would aed on the swings would be lost on the roundabouts. Policy More policy of import controls is cutting those of other counties, and it does nothing to save jobs in the useles approach of this stew to pre cap cans who buy Even if successful, this and Talbo employees out of work. And Where, don"t Britain or elsewhere, Dered rate en at cheaper interest ri ontrol pollase an import support of employers and for the TUC to ally with th CBI to e approach Moss Evans to the 20th century.
many car industry agree with that today.
Since the early '70s the world car industry has been hit by crisis after crisis. Even in the best years profits have not recovered to the evels of the '60s.
profits throughout the 1970s have fallen far short of the money needed to finance further development. BL unemployment to workers abroad. workers us. From the union leader we want full backing every fight against redunincluding occupa Edwardes ahreats, all of Be houre head Salia soo sought from the test of the working clange also need the leader. ship fight for week give workers all over the couns try. unleash a massive economic cies and is calling for including Britain.
the major spreading a would workers redundancies, speed-ups.
generated makers making components. allow than produce without proYet plant and machinery are i cly tac surprus Iron labour by the working Moralisation wout m Hence just necessary Detail know detail the comany's forward he links with the banks an *finance houses which cream surplus that BL generates. So linked to these as not alone in facing this problem. The mighty Chrysler Corporation now depends on aid from the US government to remain in business.
: ford plans massive redundanaid in the USA and West Europe, The picture is the same for all West European car companies, and the problems are market to Japan. These problems will intensity in 1981 and can mean only one thing for car throughout the West: cuts, and we could The car industry is at the sharp end of the capitalist crisis because battle the it is the world's largest manufac turing industry. The 4 biggest car employ over 2in people with at least 3m more employed in demonstrate against Japanese workers and smash up Japanese cars.
poncies must be the demand to open the books so that w can use this information to help the struggle Finally when Thatcher and Joseph the workers misbehave should raise the demand fo jobs not bombs. The Tories ropose t rident. That money shoul be part of the programme o public works to provide job and raise living standa such as this could reach out. to workers in other sections Socialist Challenge.
of developing wil spend $70bn in the next s years more than twice as mud as the American government sper on the moon-shot programme.
In West Europe and Japan th will also inves billions. They will all be seeking te cut their workforce, increase pro ductivity, and grab a larger shar of the market which was growin at 12-43 per cent a year • In th boom years.
The more optimistic estimate put growth in the early 1980s at 2. per cent, yet with the impact of th recession it is more likely that will shrink. competition between employers will inevitably intensif as they seek to drive each outer ou of business.
It would be pleasant indeed i watch the •saventer each otner But in thi armies are the workin class and it is our Jobs, conditions, and living standard which will suffer. The employer.
of industy and to those i steel, transport, and t blems to BL course of the trad is di class. fight they duck stre «LIC employers and employer always back fo more.
The only road the will defend the work. ing class that class struggle, and the crisis deepens thi socialist • altema - will 3 be increasi to a succe struggle.
: 8 January 1981 age 3
the last three years of the Amnesty Intergational, and de frading the defence bude
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100 Em BL
IN THE late 1960s when the profits were rotling in, Henry Ford said that the car was 'God's gift
capitalist class, whose wealth depends on the
The call for import controls to solve unemployment is a recipe for exporting So much for international workers solidarity. machines to lie idio rather
will fight to the last drop of ou In the pictures above American auto