We cont need a coartion covern ment, a national government, we've got it now. Wilson's leading it with the help of the Tories and the right wing of Labour -Gerry sones noo oleware. Engine Machine Shop. conditions. Wilson has wrongly accused the Chrysler strikers of attempting to bring about the nationalisation of the firm. Unfortunately, this is not true. But Wilson is right when he says the Chrysler strike is political-at least the bosses realise this.
Any strike in the car industry at the present time immediately raises the question of in whose interests and by whom the car industry is to be run. Benn should be supporting the strikers' demands for a decent standard of living and- if he is serious about defending jobs-calling for the nationalisation of the firm to achieve this.
Political solutions will have to be produced by car workers to resolvé the crisis in the car industry in their interests, while taking not one jot of responsibility for the capitatist crisis racking it. It is not enough to demand money to defend living standards. Car workers have to say where the money is going to come from, and the only way to find out is by opening the books-in the United States as well as in Britain if necessary in the cases of Chrysler, Ford and Vauxhall.
At the moment only a minority of Chrysler stewards at the Stoke, Coventry plant want the firm to be nationalised. But if the bosses plans for speed-up and mass sackings are to be defeated, then workers throughout the car industry will have to draw up a plan, through the opening of the books, for the nationalisation of the whole industry under workers control to defend jobs, wages and working *************************************