Back to the 1930s
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policies implemensuccessive Labour and tory governments made themselves felt with a vengeance last month; as 115,000 more unemployed signed on the dole.
The official total-now 1,424,927 -is only 200,000 less than the record-setting level established under Callaghan in 1977, and certain to be no more than a stage in a continual climb over the next period.
Between now and the autumn BL is due to shed some 25,000 workers and BSC plans to . axe a further 50,000 jobs. With every major capitalist employer looking to rationalis ation and shedding "surplus" labour, the Tories are also pledged to end the Labour government's phoney job supSUBSCRIPTION RATES port schemes by Septemberthrowing a further 300,000 onto the unemployment register.
The Tories' June budget allocated funds to cater for a 300,000 increase in unemployment. All the signs are that with recession under way and spending cuts in full swing this figure is likely to be exceeded before the end of 1980-while job vacancies continue to fall in number as desperate workers accept even low-paid jobs sooner than rot on the dole.
The crisis of capitalism has actually brought the return of 1930s levels of unemployment in Scotland-where the 8.9% unemployment leaves over 200,000 on the dole, and in the North, where the unemployment rate is 9%.
£1.80 . £3.60 . £7,00 £13.00 • £8.00 £15.00 Never before has it been more important for workers to take the most determined action -through occupations backed up by strike action-to defend existing jobs and to fight for united class action to bring down the Tories and create conditions for a planned socialist economy which alone can provide new jobs, secure living standards and a development of the productive forces to meet the needs of the British and international working class.
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