In place of rescue schemes to prop up bankrupt capitalist firms, car workers must launch a common fight for the nationalisation of the whole industry. Phoney patticipation schemes have to be rejected, and in their place elected workers committees should fight for the opening of the company's books in every plant in order to prepare a workers' plan for nationalisation and production which defends jobs.
A class-wide fight, not class collaboration, is the only way to stop thousands more Chrysler and Leyland workers from being thrown on the dole.
will result in either retention of the foll workforce or only a handful of redundancies. However. the fact that the principle of outright rejection of volunlary caundancy - wnich was at the centre of the Personna struggle - has not been upheld will undoubtedly move the management to further attacks in the future. Chief Lesson proposals on speed-up and productivity can be implemented only if acceptable to the Shop Stewards Committee and the Paisley District Committee of the AUEW. Finally the management has been forced to pay a E25 'Christmas" bonus to every worker.
The chief lesson, however, is clear. The Personna workers waged a militant struggle. But the proposals to secure a complete victory put forward by the Personna convenor -strike to accompany the jobs lobby on 26 November, and the need for a regional shop stewards action committee with a centralised levy to fight redundancies - were not taken up by the union. The
MICK GOSLING
Gains of the agreement are that any the need for a standards "What they want is a design that will outsell Ford and Vauxhall but not Leyland.' Even the ruling class is sometimes forced to admit the stupidity of capitalist competition - as this cartoon in the Financial Times last week revealed