ILP is therefore too weak to break the parliamentary machine and must continue to use The ILP should have more differentiated itself ist policies. from the Communist Party at it did. should have critically support against Pollitt and Gallacher [the CP It should have been declared openly that the CP has all the the Labour any of its It should have, above all, shown in practice critical support with the sharpesy and wident accontpanying support criticism, by patiently explaining that such supportis only for expenditare of exposing treachery of the Labour Party the would have completely exposed, also, the spurious "critical" support of the Stalinists themselves, a support which was actually whoic-nearted and uncritical, capital and based on an agreement in prisciple with the Labour Party solidarily.
Victim ONE OF Thatcher's major campaigning points has been ped. the increase in burcaucracy, rec tame and waste caused by Callaghan's allegediy SocialIn fact a genuine workers" government could offer the cheupest state of all abolishing the large part of it keeping working people down ratber than necessary adminiFor instance, even in Cuba from being workers" democracy) there is no police force at all; yet crimes violence are way below Western levels, and crimes of property are almost unknown. All police work is done hy voluntary committees.
Or take so-called defence officialy esnmated at £7,178m for 1979-80. Most of this is used to heet up imperialism's war machine and could be scrapped forthwith in asocialist Britain Working people would find a much better defence against their real enemies through a simple people smilitia and by building international working class It was this kind of defence which defeated the arned might of the USA in Cuba and In the same way, large parts of the civil service (and much SUBE ALIE ABOLISHING the police would cut state expenditure! wasteful and could be scrapIt is difficult, of course, to calculate the full social benefits of such changes But as minimum we could add together the results of eliminating all non-productive jobs payıng over £15,000, abolishing the police and standing army, junking the monarchy and aristocracy, and scrapping the bulk of the arms programme This alone contes to sonie £15.000m, orabout 15 per cent the economy's present productive resources Modern capitalism is in fact doubly wasteful Not merely are there obvious absurdities such the millions unemploved alongside Idle plant. There is also a growing waste which comes from competition as such The more that huge mono polies and cartels come lo control the market, the more they compete through other icans than price competition Hence the bigger the proportion of resources devoted to totally wasteful activities such as advertising, marketing, and so on, the more money thrown down the drain in "gadgets" and built-in obsolescence.
This contributes nothing to the real material and social well-being of working peopie and could be done away with tomorrow through plamun based on people's need Socialist Challenge 26 April 1979 page 13