IMGpapers 1968–75

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1968–75

LYING IDLE-ENOUGH BRICKS TO BUILD 1,000 NEW HOMES

Red Weekly No. 101, 15 May 1975 · pp. 7-8 of the scan · 243 words

The scan: rw-no101-may-15-1975.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 7 of the scan

isation of the Economy under Workers' Control', with the first step to this being the fight for the opening of all the books of the capitalist firms and institutions. With the resources that are available to the working class movement a plan could soon he drawn up which would silence once and for all the blabberings of the Labour reformists about there being 'no alternative' to capitalism and the EEC.

•UNITED SOCIALIST EUROPE• In fact even the sums we have considered in this article are piffling compared to what is possible with a planned economy. Consider even an increase in the annual rate of growth of the British economy to 6%-a very minor figure and exceeded even by capitalist countries Twelve Million brick: enough for about houses • stockpiled on London Brick Cos vard al Stowarthy, Beds.

Because of a 50 per cent cut this in building. exceed company production cuts result" says L.BC spokesman "of our failure as a nation to achieve reasonable stabu Fi the affecting

page 8 of the scan

Whatever the future of the Common Market, no one today imagines that it will allow the uninterrupted expansion of production predicted by bourgeois economists in the 1950s and 1960s. Even in the United States of America, which does not carry the burden of the absurd divisions of Western Europe, one in every eight industrial workers and nearly one in every two black teenagers is unemployed. red weekly 15 may 1975 comecon

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