wages, overcomes the vexed queson of overtime. Today many work ertime to try and overcome fects of the wage-cut policies of the ›cial Contract. A minimum wage and sliding scale would ensure that the reat which overtime poses to jobs buld not operate.
The books of any firms unable to eet this demand for the right to work lould be opened for the workers' spection. This would lay the basis r the drawing up of a plan for the itionalisation of such companies ider workers control.
Sliding Scale of Public Expenditure It is not just wages which suffer om inflation. There is also the 'social age' pensions, lyments, educational ending, and so on. This social wage ould also be tied to the cost of ing.
Automatic rises for pensioners and limants, automatic increases in sospending tied to anese are Line lich will stop further cuts in the cial wage. As with wages it is only a art - all the cuts already imposed ust be that the cuts planned for the future TEne faces.
4. THE MONEY * Cut Out Waste need financing, but the Labour Govthey plan to chop 'unnecessary' social encouragingly and demand more.
But social expenditure? It is education, and education is not just some luxury. but a security However, spending nothing to do which can be cut. The most obvious is defence spending. The magazine Labour Research has estimated that in 1976-7 the total defence budget will rate of come to a massive £5,627 million. policies put unis in a sliding roximately Station in Birmingham.
When they say money ayailable, that there is no money available the ordinary working people; but for the war-ords. for British troops to Ireland, wherever pounds.
* Nationalise North bea Those who control the multinationals will not have earned that money - the only reason they profit they had capital in the DUV the prospecting North Sea.
gard to the banks, who by charging high interest rates make huge amounts of money through loans of capital to local councils. real work for that money; they do not run their concerns in the interests of the community, only in the interests of their owners banks hands of the tiny elite and put under the control of the working They should be nationalised without compensation.
So too should a whole series o concerns: companies, who prices to protect their profits; and the construction companies, where build not on the basis of social need but on the profit they can make.
easily. some kindly transformed into a olent society. They will be resisted by the bosses because they begin to wrest control of the economy out of the hands of the ruling class.
Its ponce ano army ana lis courts to prevent such challenges. That is why the demands which present a workers' answer to the crisis must be fought for in a militant and united way based on une ser-organisation or tne working class. Through that fight, workers can begin to exercise a type of control suor thair livoc which Darlamont tha scale of social expenditure ensures will be challenged and the demands of the IMF will be thrown back in their All the demands outlined above will ernment shrugs its shoulders and says the money just isn't there. So expenditure - and the IMF applaud wnat is the largest area of long-fought for democratic there are areas of WHICH with democracy and understandaure terms, take just one example: one multi-role combat aircraft costs appsame amount of money would buy 20 new primary schools and a new railway that there is no what they mean is TOI THOSPi who send Oman or there is literally billions of Billions of pounds will also go to multinationals.
because first place to A similar situation exists with rereceived They have done no auld's Both the oil companies and the should be taken out of the OCUUIC ine Tood constantly raise who cecioE and what they should None of these demands will be won They will not be granted by increases. Parliament suddenly workers' benevand Parliament alike That ruling class uses Parliament,