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WOIKCIS accept voluntary redundancies The attack launched by the House of Commons Expenditure Committee on Ryder's plans for British Leyland will come as no surprise to readers of Red Weekly. When the Ryder Report Now the Expenditure Committee has said as much with its claim that 50,000 out of 170,000 jobs must go to put Leyland on a par with Japanse productivity levels.
The Committee's report also points out that Leyland would have to increase its European sales by i 95 per cent-from 200,000 to 390,000-to reach the Ryder target, at a time when there is already surplus capacity in the European car industry. In addition Levland would have to become more prot itable than any large European motor manufacturer nas yer been, to acneve nyaer s pront target ou £400 million a year towards the end of the eight For Leyland workers-who have seen the company eliminate 30,000 jobs in the past two years-the Committee's report marks a new stage in the attack on their jobs. The acceptance of voluntary redundancies. and the recent betraval by the nationa officials of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Enginering Unions who pushed through acceptance of the company's proposals for 'worker participation, have undoubtedly weakened the position or BL But the fight is far from decided. Despite the capitulation of the union leaderships nowhere ha:
Leyland yet attempted to push through redundancies on the scale proposed by the Comons Report.
With unemployment soaring, it is also unlikely that large number of car workers will now be prepared to The scene is set for a show-down, and Leyland Mick Gosling workers along with other car workers must plan their response. A recall meeting of the convenors' conference initiated by the British Leyland Com ome commutee is essenmal. ies last meeune condoser Decause naroly anyone turned up, not east Decause the initial conference failed to report back to shopfloor meetings which could work out a united response to Ryder. Instead skirmishes have taken place al a. OLEnL Dy DIdIE ICVe What the Commons Expenditure Committee report makes clear is that this response is no longer adequate. Instead of subsidies to bankrupt car giants, workers must demand that Labour nationalIsC withouL compeusauon we cutte var mausuy ta aelene au exisung Jobs tne output or the industry snowd not be determined according to the state of the car market but according to the transport needs of the working class. In order to guarantee this the establishment of workers' committees in every car plant is needed to MOnITOr OurDuL as Weu as TOOs Ww run access LO all company books. Only by complete nationalisation under workers contro can me oos ane ving standards of car workers be defended in the present
the Army's collaboration with Loyalist squads who were harassing anti-internment protests. But no occupation.
Internment was introduced in August 1971, supported by a Tory Government which in this country was hell-bent on attacking the living standards and democratic rights of British. workers. Today, four years later, the Labour Government is following the same Tory policy on Ireland.
Long Kesh has at times been presented as the 'model' camp, and even likened to a holiday resort. The reality is quite different. Long Kesh has all the features of a concentration camp. The camp as a whole is surrounded by layers of barbed wire and watch-towers which are manned by the British Army. The troops themselves are used to harass and break the morale of the internees through various methods of brutality and deprivation.
Subject to harassment and con stant intimidation, with an uncertain future and little prospect of a job if they are ever released, the internees of Long Kesh are crammed together like animals in cages.
LONG HISTORY Recreational time and space is limited within these compounds The food is rotten and the medical care infrequent. The effect on the internees themselves has created a multitude of nervous disorders and breakdowns. Other known. effects are suicide and premature death due to medical negligence.
Internment is not new to Ireland. Successive British governments have used it at least since the beginning of the 20th century. In 1916, for example, 2,000 Irishmen were uprooted from their country and shipped to a concentration camp at Frongoch, North Wales. Under British law enforced on the South in 1920, a further 1,300 internees were held at the Rath camp at the Curragh.
Unable to hold down the popular struggle for national freedom, the stock response from British imperialism throughout its history has been the use of the most brutal forms of intimidation, harassment and persecution.
HYPOCRISY
Running battles with the Army. Three youths shot dead. A constant volley of indiscriminate firing by the Army into Catholic areas. These were the scenes 10 days ago in Belfast on the fourth anniversary of internment in Ireland. Catholic sources claimed that the fighting began in response to matter who fired the first shot or threw the first stone, the origin of the fighting is crystal clear-it lies in the maintenance of the repressive system of internment backed up by the British army of and wounded by bomb and gun attacks from Loyalist terror squads.
NAIR imprisoned for political offences. In addition to the 240 still interned red weekly 21 august 1975 without trial original.
arrest a more 'modern camp to replace the ruins of Long Kesh, but laws have just been introduced into Parliament which actually strengthen the powers of internment.
The legal framework for internment and every other abuse of civil liberties in the Six Counties is the Emergency Provisions Act passed by the Tories with Labour support in 1973. By this Act the Tories abolished trial by jury in the courts; gave a licence for torture to the army and police; suspended the right of bail to defendants; and issued a blank cheque to the army to search and SUGAR-COATING The new Amendment Act (passed in the last Parliamentary session) does make one or two changes from the But fundamentally, the concessions made are only a sugar-coating to sweeten the effect of a larger dose of repressive policies.
It is obvious that the Labour bureaucrats cannot afford to main tain internment at too high a level for the moment. Consequently they are trying to achieve as many "judicial' convictions as possible since they do not appear so grossly undemocratic as internment. For this purpose the Amendment Act has increased the number of offences which can be construed as support to a proscribed organisation or to "terrorist' activities in general. Furthermore, the Army has been given greater powers of search and A further addition to the repressive powers of the original Act is the extension of the period of Interim Custody'. In the original Act the Tories were empowered to intern for an initial period of four weeks before a full order for indefinite internment had to be issued or the internee released. The new Act extends this period up to seven weeks without appeal or trial. In addition, it is possible for Rees to issue three orders further extending this period by one week on each order. In total, therefore the Labour Government can now imprison Catholics for 2½ months even before a full internment order is issued!
TROOPS OUT!
Like the Loyalist Convention and the para-military groups, intern ment would not survive but for the role of the British Army. It is the Army which collects the intelligence and conducts the house searches. It is the Army which makes the arrests And it is the Army, which suppresse the popular protests against internment such as those in October last year and in Belfast last weekend.
The role of the Army and intern ment are not separate issues for us in this country. They complement each other as part of the total oppression of imperialist rule in Ireland to which the Labour Govern ment is fully committed.
The Troops Out Movement along with other organisations intends to build for a major demonstracion in December for a total end to British involvement in Ireland. We appeal to all our readers to help build and participate in this demonstration as a first step in an ongoing mass campaign to end internment and get the troops out of Ireland once and for
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first came out we warned that the only way his proposed sales and output figures courd be achieved would be through a gigantic increase in productivity brought about by mass sackings
Brian Lyons looks at 4 years of imprisonment