July's unemployment figures
already show a staggering 90,000 rise to nearly 700,000 jobless-the hiphest July total for 26 years! The working class doesn't simply face a temporary level of massive unemployment caused by the so-called rationalisation of industry as happened in the lame ducks days of the Tory Government. It laces long-term structural unemployment caused by the permanent shows, until these firms cease to operate according to the needs of for an isolated factory. will be safe, even in a nationalised firm as the experience of workers in the steel industry and on the railways stop-gip ones capitalism and private profit. Neither is it possible to have a "socialist" plan Where workers control comes in ment and inflation towards a planned economy, Any other measures, however well-intentioned, will only be Two years ago, even though overshadowed by the events at Upper Clyde Shipyards, the worken at IPD gave a lead to the whole working class through its first factory occupe NATIONALISE ALL FIRMS DECLARING REDUNDANCIES WITH GUARANTEES OF NO LOSS OF JORS PLACE THEM UNDER WORKERS CONTROL AS THE FIRST STEPTO A PLANNED ECONOMY Mick Gosling WOMEN