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Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1968–1988

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· Red Weekly No. 66, 5 September 1974 · pp. 3-4 of the scan · 394 words

The scan: rw-no66-sep-5-1974.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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these silly delusions. "The TUC. took a much more flexible approsch."

They propose that the Board of Directors be split up into a supervisory board including 50 per cent workers with overall veto powers, and the directors, who will continue to 'represent the interests of the shareholders, The TUC supgest that TUC appointees represent the workers on the Boards set up by the Government. Now it is the Government which chooses its owa candidates. The implications of all this are seen when announce that they have never shared the TUC comments on Worker Directors in British Steel. Despite, les" the scheme shows 'a willingness in the movement that the conflict between management objectives is not sutliciently overriding to being adopted, in Britain, The steel workers union has accepted massive redundancies, *The TUC must put forward plans for using trade union power to impose a workers' solution to the problems of the economy and the welfare state - this must involve it would seem, its obvious inadequacto experiment, and an appreciation and labour in the nationalised sector mid sixties.

prevent some forns of joint control This policy bas turned BISAKTA into one of the weakest trade unions and work re-orginisation which is so the use of their strength on behalf of all the oppressed and exploited, such as the pensioners, seen here demonstrating in Brighton last Sunday.

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PENSIONS SSOCIATIONS STENFGRE highly graded that the workforce is split a hundred different ways. That these attacks on conditions take place under a scheme of worker direc tors is no accident. Neither is the fact that many of the TUC proposals are schemes introduced during the The ruling class and their state machine find it usefui to have trade union representatives take some of the responsibility for the hard decisions" forced on them by the mad scramble of the capitalist markct. The last time a basis for such Schemes was laid was in the national

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class to dump the burdens of this crisis on the backs of the working class.

If we understand that the National Front is a political threat we can movement as a whole. theit attempt to move into the schools, must be taken up by antifascist militants and the workers' The elaboration of a precise WHEREVER THE BREAKDOWN OF

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NE L BRANCH MARK STREET

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