Abolish Monarchy
Socialist Press1975 1975-03-06Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 7 →
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The company have used severa. well-tried manoeuvres to get the m sack to work. They have begun bs sending personal letters to the strikers, and backed this up with the threat to give a recently won overseas tooling contract for Huyandia of South Korea, to another manufacturer.
Fianlly the employers contacted AUEW, whereupon Hugh Scanlor. had a meeting with Leyland's Indu trial Relations director, Lowry. TI men were ordered back to work. despite the fact that the local District Committee had endorsed the strikers' actions. Scanion used as his main argument British Leyland' "considerable difficulties", and reminded the toolroom men, that they had been given a direct instru tion a week before by their nation: executive to end the stike.
Yet BLMC workers in the Covent and Birmingham districts are alreac being paid more than the present Castle Bromwich offer, which wou take wages to £59.30 weekiy.
Leyland are also in the process of buying out some of the Jaguar workers with payments of €1,000 per man (total cost {/m) to enc their bonus system and weekly wages of £62.
The Castle Bromwich men mus be supported in their struggle to defend living standards, but this can only be done by taking this fight on to demand in addition a full sliding scale of wages to con pensate for rises in the cost of living.
Amidst all the hullabaloo ing, Parliament has approved the f420,000 increase in pay: ments to the Queen, with a minority of Labourite reactionaries ganging up with the Tories for the vote.
Yet even many of those Labour MPs who voted against the increas did so only to preserve the "balan of the treacherous Social Contraci suggesting that we all have to make sacrifices"!
Not one of these reformists had either the principle of the class consciousness to propose the necessary abolition of the monarchy which is much more than just a relic of long-gone feudalism. As Trotsky wrote in 1925: "The royal authority is weak, so long as the instrument of bourgeois domination is the bourgeois Parliament, and so long as the bourgeoisie has no need of extraparliamentary methods of action.
But in case of need the bourgeoisie can make use of the roy authority with great success, as the concentration point for all the extra-parliamentary , that is to say, the real forces directed where is ritain one / p391
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