show that it is capitalism and not the working can which is responsablo for inNation. sod which demonstrate that no section of the working class will pain by holding back wage demands from any other sections.
All this is necessary, But it provides simply an explanation - and that only for the tow thousands who read socialist newspapers and discuss such questions. What the masses want to know, and therefore what the vanguard has to supply, is not explanations about inflation but practical measures to stop it or cope with its effects.
RANK AND FILE
The second answer Cliff gives is purcly be playod by rank and file orgunisations which generalis the strugdle." Bat How are rank and file organisations to play this role? By simply existing? No, only by the policies they fight for. Simply saying build rank and file movements, without saying what policies they should fight for. is no What policy does comrade Chiff say can defend workers incomes, unite the working class in struggle, and overcome the dangors, The way wages are won under capitalism is simple: watkers in the strongest sections rest of the working class to keep up by comparing their own wages with thos received by the strangest and hest paid? BE RITES. SEE MONRE. rate of inflation is 15-20%. With tax deductions, a pay rise of 30% is necessary to keep up with such u rate of intiation. Tow of the strongest sections of the working Cles let ulone the weakest are pole to get anything like such incrass. In other words Cliff proposes a strategy which wül of workers while leaving the rost of the trade unions, let alone the twelve million workers who are net in unions or the un employed and the pensionors, with no policy at all, And comradeChiff seriously proposes this as a stratory to asite the workers in the strongest soctions to win demands. These are for: 1. threshold egroements 2, a 30% wage increass 3. equal pay for women 4. a 35 hour wock.
propramme one might think better late a well as seizing the opportunities? He says than never"- particularly as two of the demands, oqual pay and 305 increases, also appoured as part of the four point propraname which the IMG put forward narly two manths ago.
tie. The most deerive of aleuctions on But this policy will not at all achieve the protect the incomes of only a tiny fraction RETHINK Someone on Socirlist Worker sums to have been doing a rethink however. In the wage struggles.
and then for everyone cise to follow them.
Although key demands. such as a nation- ale - but recolutionaries also have to begin burning question.
Unfortunately appearances are decep