The strike ses at the One A Rogers ragineming fire take-bame pay i E15,40 per week, is now in its deventh week (see Red Weekly 63)
After waiting a year for an agrred bonur scheme to be implemented. on top of a refusal from managinest to pay thresholds, the women had had enough Through their own initiative the women have received prombes of black Ing from Liverpool docks and Spoke and Manchester alrporti. They shes cafe acheding workers from meat The local ALIEN officials has have a teal veto wishes of the b Workers cannot "control Che coonomy wilhout challenging the very existence of the capitalist state machine. Once workers begin to run industry in their interest, that immediately clashes with ptivate ownership and profit. It is Utopian to imagine otherwise, and also very dangerous. To have workers' contro in the factories, for any length of time, you need at least the beginning of a workers state to impose, and detend it, USE The TUC proposals however have some use. They correctly underline the need for access by workers to vital information in the running of the cconomy. But they propose bo means → other than now law — to get it. The employers would find a million and one ways through that Indeed there are no suggestions on how the workers movement could be organised to prevent the sabotag. of these ideas, if put into practice Sit-ins, and factory occupation are dealt with in the document as valid, but last ditch trade union struggies mainly against redundancy threats. The whole TUC plan" is based on simple extension of 'notma trade union power. But trade unions are not based on the need to fight the capitalist state, as the bureaucr thank heaven for every night If workers democracy were extended throughout the worken own organisations, like making any Labour government responsible to th organisations of the working class, an not parliament, then the burcaucrats would have a lot more to worry abi PALL SMITH Red Weekiy - 5 September 1974