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BL workers marching against cuts in real wages imposed un Labour's strategy seeks to reduce unemployment below one million within ual years, by a substantial' programme of public spending, and selective tax cuts, financed by borrowing. The main focus will be more investment (housing, hospitals, schools, railways, etc.) and current spending in public services, with tax reductions to increase workers' purchasing power.

Import controls will be introduced to stop the increased spending just going on imports.

It looks easy: the crisis is due to a hiccough in the economic mechanism which can be cured by interventries or just specific firms nationalised.

Certainly, as far as banks are concerned, the Programme speaks only of nationalising one or more bank.

Socialists have long opposed import controls as trying to shift the burden of unemployment to foreign workers. And the Programme introduces new danger. It states ... we will avoid simply protecting inefficiency by tying protection firmly to In. measures of industrial planning and intervention.

In the context of a capitalist economy, this means that inefficient firms will only be protected if they lay off workers, introduce Unemployment soared under the cussed at the Cabinet Committee and published by the government. The plan would be amended annuallast Labour government class is mentioned is in the section on multinationais, • • • every assistance will be given to trade unions in mentary Benefit are. proposed along with relaxation of the capital limit, and abolition of the rules affecting strikers' families. Separating the payment of benefit between men and women is considered. Meanwhile, as long as the workers and be paid wage.

On past performance it will be up to youth to organise themselves into unions and take action to get decent wage. duty on employers to negotiate agreements and set up Equal Opportunities Committees.

The trend forcing women back into the home is to be reversed. Besides extra support in child care and