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New industries are not emerging to take the place of those now in decline as a result of falling rates of profit, admitted Employment Secretary James Prior last week.

In what promises to be "a pretty fierce world recession" the prospect is one of rising unemployment, he went on.

So far all the Tories' talk of tax-cuts and hand-outs to private employers stimulating the creation of new jobs, the stark reality of the current world crisis of capitalism emerges clearly.

The system of production not for social need but for private profit is incapable of expanding the existing forces of production. Instead it is forced to turn on many of the existing productive forces and destroy them, in a cannibalistic attempt to preserve the profits of the rest.

Only a planned, socialist economy offers a way out of this impasse.

And to achieve that, the Tory government must be brought down, and a new, principled, revolutionary leadership built in the labour movement.

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The fears of Labour left-wingers that anti-Tory militancy might overflow the channels of peaceful parliamentary protest were clearly reflected in last week's much-quoted speech from Tony Benn.

In what posed as a radical challenge to the role of the brutal police Special Patrol Group, Benn in fact conveyed a stark warning to the Tories that their policies were going far beyond the limits within which they could count on the assistance of Labour and trade union leaders. their own hands!

"If industrial policy follows this course, the next instrument of the Cabinet will be the Special Patrol Group as the problems created by deindus trialisation are presented to the people in terms of law and order"

Underlining the class collaborationist nature of Labour's National Enterprise Board, Benn advised Joseph that:

"The SPG will not be a substitute for the NEB"

Youth, he pointed out, had interpreted Whitelaw's talk at the Tory conference of new detention centres to provide a "short, sharp shock" as a means of frightening them off.

Joseph Just how he intends to fight for such an objective against a right-wing Labour leadership tied to the coat-tails of the IMF and the CBI is of course not with their attacks, B enn and his Tribune Group colle gues, know they are expected to huff and to puff-but intend to do nothing else.

The hollow character of such verbal protests can best be exposed to Labour Party activists and militant workers by raising demands throughout the labour movement that Benn, along with all those Labour MPs who claim to oppose Callaghan's policies put their words into practice and launch an all-out campaign for the removal of the present right wing leadership, and for an alternative: programme genuine socialist policies to defend the interests of the international working class. Benn