PORCIS Work sharing on full pay PHOTO: Laurence Sparham, IFL
Socialist Press1977 1977-11-30Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 9 →
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Labour ministers deploring the 'waste' of unemployment, trade union leaders declaring the statistics 'unacceptable' businessmen viewing the ranks of the unemployed with apprehension and urging governments to get the wheels of industry moving.
No reliance can be placed on anyone who aims to correct unemployment as an independent fault. Unemployment is built into capitalism as pain is part of cancer.
The demands we make are therefore not simply demands to end unemployment but demands which lead forward to the overthrow of capitalism itself.
Trotsky takes as his starting point the demand for the right to employment.
"The right to employment is the only serious right left to the worker in a society based upon exploitation"
(Transitional Programme)
But this "right to work" is simply a starting point, not as the Socialist Workers Party have adapted it, a starting and finishing point.
Trotsky uses the demand as a propaganda rallying point from which to build.
We demand that all available work is shared equally through the worklorse-ina: hours are cut to the level demanded by production and that there is no less of pas c: 90735
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