prices, determine the distribution of incomes, and allocate funds to social expenditure in a manner virtue of its simplicity, would be open to genuine democratic scrutiny and contral.
capital seems to te a arom in fa of capital without a tually upsetting bitter resistance of controlled press influenced Whitehall bureaucracy to even the mild measures discussed in early days government.
Control point: the ultimate root of the power of capital lies not in its propaganda Photo: REPORT and conspiratorial skills, fact that it organises production and controls the economy. Any challenge to the power of capital thus results in economic disruption which provides the fuel for the press smears and the Whitehall manoèuvres. The tactics of capital in Chile under Allende show that clearly.
to the real social power of capital is the ability of the through its organisations virtue of its role in the productive process, to take control capitalists' hands.
on the dictum of one of their mentors, R H Tawney: "You can peel an onion layer by layer but you tiger paw by paw.' public The failure movement to grasp the significance of tax, workers all be Ken Coates, who makes the point that the death sentence was pronounced "industrial democracy' original TUC proposals began to be planning the the self-respecting shop steward should wish to embroil himself (sic) in such a stew of compromise and equivocatron. Rank-and-file diminished devaluation of the original project, *z: airead which, by Such The lefts" tortuous caboration oi Tina Tr But they themselves document the the capitalise- crucial and capitalist the Wilson case action.
They also ignore an important capable of but in the recognise The only effective counterweight working class, questions day-to-day The lefts would do well to reflect can't skin a of the labour control is documented b once the •..It was difficult to see why any enthusiasm, each SUCECOSIVC quite see me tet= pronounced a promise it bees that was never to come will be the fate of CIDE I TENTATE Do can Throne! "
Icie reinforces the impressios of militants that their ideas are as overdose rhetorx covering up for an insufficien! of Discussion of in the abstract for the fighting, committed leadership for as a shok waging the defersim. struggles of today in order 1o go onso the offensive against capital. Action But at the same time that the fight restructurin of Labour Party and the discussion onc the programme of the next government is an important onc the building of such a leaderst economy politics, what we have to say about d struggles will be over. shadowed by the propaganda of te Tories and Labour right.
It is on this basis that a macet ground between revolutionarks Labour left is emerging common ground of discussion as so wnere we should be going common ground of action stick si determine whether we are atte 1o ge anywhere at all.
It is only on the basis of sac common action that our differcat can be tested out and start to rate o real meaning for the mass labour movement rank-and-file by Spokesman Books at 2295 *What Went Wrong?
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