Conscripting jobless youth
Socialist Press1981 1981-03-11Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 7 →
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Nott heads off to Washington this week to discuss details of how British troops could join in a LS Rapid Deployment Force'.
And the government has now admitted that it intends to press-gang. unemployed youth into six-month military training programmes as part. of their cosmetic Youth Opportunities Only the defeat of the Thatcher government and the fight for socialist policies against the existing Labour leadership can lay the basis for the elimination of unemployment through a planned socialist economy rather than the elimination of the human race through poverty, starvation and nuclear holocaust.
Trades Councils and union branches must at once take up the campaign to prevent unemployed youth signing up for Thatcher's armed forces.
With army recruitment already booming as a result of Thatcher's destruction of job opportunities for long-term unemployed youth, there could scarcely be a clearer example of the inability of capitalism to utilise the productive forces or manpower available.
Instead "unprofitable" factories are closed down, and vital resources and energy channelled into the Thatcher/Reagan war six months. . .£8.00 One yeat.... £14.00 Europe:
Six months. . .£9.00 Rest of world:
Six months... - £10.00 Write to: Socialist Press, BM Box 5277, London WCIN 3XX. Longariago: now sell-eut RIGGED, INQUIRY' WON'T REINSTATE THE EIGHT!
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