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disrupted. Customs checks in British and Irish ports have been suspended. or even halt air and sea traffic, prevent the operation of immigration restrictions and customs searches, and strangle the govThe functions of the sate bureaucracy are dictated by the material and political requirements of the capitalist class. Seeking a low-wage workforce and minimal expenditure on public services, for instance, the Tories have chosen to spend on unemployment benefit and social security rather than creating jobs through programmes of useful public works.

Some sections of capitalists and most Labour politicians would prefer a different strategy - by which the state would levy increased taxes and use that revenue to create additional jobs and thus defuse the mounting anger over unemployment.

But in either case the state acts as the instrument of capitalist rule, and its repression is aimed at those who challenge this rule.

The police on the streets of Brixton, the troops on the streets of Belfast, Now they're trade unionists... civil servants in A refusal by immigration officials to enforce racist laws could undermine the government's strategy to divide black workers from white.

Strike action by key workers in defence establishments could cripple Thatcher's reactionary war Polaris submarine through Parliament and administered by the state are no more than deluded pipe-dreams.

Marx, Engels and Lenin all stressed that there is Private ownership of the banks, trusts. and major industries must be replaced by nationalisation, without compensation, under workers' management. And a