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youth through the LPYS.
Organised, the unemployed can become a force to take direct action for their rights, to support struggles to save existing jobs, and to win the trade unions and Labour Party for policies which can secure the right to work.
* Work-sharing under workers? control with no loss of pay, to spread the jobs among those seeking work. A shorter work week.
* Expansion of public services and projects, with trade union labour at trade union rates.
* Occupation of factories that declare redundancies, to fight for workers' control and nationalisation without compensation.
But the last People's March steered in a different political direction. It confined itself to the general appeal that the government should make jobs 'a priority' , and the organisers tried to stamp on marchers who chanted, 'Occupy, Nationalise, Kick the Tories Out!' While bishops were featured on the platforms, workers fighting for jobs at Ansells and at Plansee were excluded.
From all indications the same problems will come up this time. And there will be the same resistance from rank and file marchers, who last time forced a much more democratic organisation of the March than the top officials intended.