• How can the strike be won!
• The women's movement in Speakers include (in a personal capacity): Alain Krivine, Ken Capstick Yorks area NUM exec, Dai Davies South Wales area NUM exec, Phil Sutcliffe Kent areà NUM exec, Ann Jones South Wales Women Against Pit Closures For registration and details contact Socialist Action, PO Box 50, London NI or Phone 01-359 8371 Overall the rate of economic growth under The CBl has for some time being advocating substantial 'infrastructural investment — measures such as the eleclieten olle rauways.
ncreased public construc Lou elc• wavu owel 1e now what he terms a National Jobs Plan whose stated objective is to create a million new jobs but whose real emphasis is £1,000 million of 'industrial illy CanICi improvements' in construction and road CUEU grammes. Robert Max launched a publicity campaign for simi al measures.
It was to these types of policy that 'wet' Peter Walker referred in his much publicised speech to the Tory Reform Group 'criticising' Thatcher's attacks on all forms of ublic expenditure There is however a pro viso to all these measures. This that employers are now becoming increasingly worried by the increase in working class struggle that is occurring eve l smal econe min creoses trinl wages in particular now running about four per cent ahead of inflation sectors that capital thought had been totally defeated, such as car workers, showing rapidly recovering militanсу.
To control this situation David Owen vuL class codet in his "Howi if in ruling class code, put a million to work' in the Guardian on Monday: 'If wage costs are rising fast at such an early stage the present weak recovery, then it becomes expansionary prosucceed securing a sustained redaction unemployasi without triggering off i flation, the rate of increzse of incomes in the privat sector, as well as in th public sector, severely restricted.' In short 'wage controls here we come again!' Owen in fact, logically, also makes it clear that in his opinion capitalism requires the assistance of the trade union bureaucracy ai present. In his words, "The nave. managemeat. the respon. solit! to fact te realit! dar if des a dhe rentt theresetres a measare of income restrzint.' In othel words if an expansion of the economy might create better conditions for working class struggle then it is the duty of the trade union bureaucracy to ac.
wage contro s make sure that struggk doesa't take prace Meanwhik Ro. Hat.
Serra i proact -n • економі coupled with... wage cre trols.
curious coincidence isn't it!
Socialist Action 19 October 1984
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Miners international solidarity meeting
• International solidarity with the miners and the struggle for a i socialist Europe