rivals. This is why the remnants of the Sterling area have been so unceremoniously dumped and why the decision to float the pound was taken so swiftly. For the ruling class now it is the manufacturing sectors of the bourgeoisie which are decisive. Economic policies must be geared to their interests.
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Full page £100, half page £50 Payment in advance only. 20% discount for inserts in 3 issues. necessary and that a workers state had no interest in crushing shopkeepers, individual self-employed workers and so-on. Instead the TUC and the Labour leadership sit back in an economic situation which continually gets worse and one, furthermore, which they do not understand.
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A national meeting of the rank and file paper, The Carworker, was held in Birmingham on July 2nd. First reaction of some delegates was that although it was a useful meeting, to get together carworkers from all over the country, not nearly enough time had been devoted to working out a political response to present struggles in the motor industry. IMG members who were delegates spoke at the conference and will continue to support the paper. A full report will appear in the next issue of The Red Mole. This pamphlet is written with the aim of helping workers | technical changes. It therefore puts the strategy of in the steel industry to work out a strategy for Tigring against tne thousands ot redundancies which the British Steel Corporation is now announcing and carrying out. Week after week, the BSC annonces the closure of steel plant up and down the country.
Many workers in the industry will be unaware of the extent of this redundancy programme, and this taci gives BSC an enormous advantage at the moment. We therefore publish at the back of this pamphlet, an internal document of the BSC which has come to be known as the Confidential Report, which few people outside government departments and BSC headquarters will ever have seen. It provides an exact and deta iled account of the fate which BSC has in store for each and every steel plant up and down the country. Although BSC will not stick to every detail in the plan, the basic strategy will remain unchanged.
Although the report doesn't give any figures, we can esti mate that the planned redundancy is in the region of 70,000 to 80,000 men over the next three to four y ESIS.
ine nistorica section of ine samonet is designed te show how the British steel industry got into such a state that British capitalism is having to make such drastic 15p from I.M.G. Publications, 182 Pentonville Road, London N.1. BSC into an historical perspective. The nationalisatior of the steel industry in 1967 is also dealt with at some length, showing that this move by the Labour Government, far from being in the interest of the workers or of socialism, was designed to provide the setting in which the massive change and huge redundancy could be carried through. This section aims especially to provide information and discussion which should help steel workers to deal with the many false arguments trat Eney will meet the minute they start talking about organising a struggle.
The chapter on strategy starts from the assumption that it is necessary to start fighting now in such a way that the interests of the workers are put before all eise. It puts torward one central idea-the demand for the sliding scale of hours with no loss of pay-and argues that this is the sort of strategy which is needed, explaining in detail what this involves, what sort of organisations are required, and its wider political significance.
We hope that the publication of this pamphlet will make a contribution to the fight against the strategy or the capitalst ciass on this particular front.
ions with Charter leaders. The Charter is