Anger No Answer

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Never mind, you unemployed! According to Chancellor Denis Healey, the British capitalist economy is now in "better balance" than almost any time since the war.

The recessionary measures that have ensured 1½ million workers remain on the dole have also managed to cut the rate of inflation and stabilise the value of the pound against other currencies internationaliy.

But Healey is still not satisfied with the historic cuts in living standards and post-war record levels of unemployment he has created in his efforts to boost the profits of big business.

Phase 4

In his speech to the employers at the Edinburgh junior Chamber of Commerce he stressed the importance of maintaining rigid Phase 4 wage But he claimed that the fall in inflation had increased living standards by 5% over the last 12 months.

This is certainly not true for the growing army of unemployed workers cast aside by government-backed rationalisation in industry and cuts in social service spending.

The legitimate frustration and anger of unemployed workers and youth is being directed by the Socialist Workers Party and the Communist Party towards the Brick Lane to Brighton march entitled 'Anger on the Road'.

But experience has shown PHOTO: Chris Davies, Report again and again that anger and frustration are not enough to defend existing jobs or to force through socialist policies that can create new ones.

Such abstract and sterile demands as the march's call for a 35 hour week are readily accepted by the TUC traitors who have collaborated with the employers in scores of factory closures and mass redundancies.

Occupation

A programme to fight unemployment must begin with the fight for factory occupations and independent working class action to prevent further sackings, linked to the demand for work-sharing on full pay, the opening of the books of the employers, and the nationalisation. without compensation of major industry.

This calls for the building of a revolutionary leadership in the trade union and labour movement capable of directing workers' anger and resentment along the path to political independence of their treacherous leaders.

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rai to develop / By Keith Wh rage o We saw in last week's article that the rank and file of the United Mine Workers of America continually clashed vitt: . impts by their It: shit in sell out the struggle.

The conflict was so sharp that even during the strike thousands of miners signed petitions demanding the resignation of union President Arnold Miller.

In this situation it is clear that great opportunities were opened up for the fight for a revolutionary line.

For the duration of the strike some 32% of coal production continued. This coal was mined in non-union pits.

A key focus for the struggle was blacking of this scab coal. The miners themselves shut down many scab operations, but Arnold Miller PART TWC