role in the economy.
The 'strong pound' is the basis for the rundown of uusul y. the misely or working people in Britain, , and the starvation and murder ot milions throughout the world.
At the same time, British industrialists refuse to co-operate with government plans as long as working class organisation remains intact. Benn's Industry Bill was contemptuously brushed aside.
In its lifetime the Labour government signed planning ani colucill 1980 81 Chrysler UK. The CBI testified to the Commons, point blank, in- that they would not with the Industry Bill whether or not it became law.
What is to be done?
The capitalist •class of country will not co-operate in rebuilding the ututlly Stony Benn's _kelne Tony which its agreement. instead oI working out how to take it over, is But empiovmer control. undemocratic.
the people in one-third lave come trom etuic means wilal * authorise For industry, ment the Lu uuciale terests;
jorities this Any NEC's, motonou.ser looks for government elected structures.
means that would the control says. The which was chosen monarch'.
to implemovement's and the IMF are people.
workers, The socialismn Is the and bodies, workers' accountable the socialism the the next class doesn't The final elected but Minister 'elected movement .the cabinet against They working own task of in the state against us.
parliaParte believe that the working class should now be mobilised to defeat the Tories by driving to them from office, and that in course of this struggle, should prepare to impose on Labour government te poncies lal ll necas A socialist foreign policy great problem that the NEC does not address itself to properly is that of building a of solidarity that can defend us the the pressure that will be brought to bear upon us.
fail to acknowledge the connection between international pressure and what our capitalists are doing. British capital has the most deve opec nework or interna tional contacts of any nation in world. it will use them Import controls are the worst possible way to respond to this pressure. First, they ig nore the basic problem, which is investment. Proper diannec confuse a neutral foreign policy an independen foreign policy. Britain should not be neutral in the wars now going on in the world. should support liberation struggles in the Middle East, Indochina and Africa, against America and its allies and arals our capitalists and their allies.
should oppose American foreign policy which directed at destroying these liberation struggles, and detenc Soviet Union against American's war preparations.
should support for the the forefront of whose strug gles point in the direction of a genuinely democratic SOC¡alism, and we should suppor waen. Central America now, it extends and develops socialist revolution.
In this way we should aim to build up world-wide support from working and oppressed people, who are our best hope lighting the resistance of capital.
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