IMGpapers 1968–75

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

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Red Weekly No. 115, 4 September 1975 · p. 4 of the scan · 269 words

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page 4 of the scan

but SNP prefers to call such measures 'doctoring mining, heavy engineering, and most of ScotSuch a programme could not possibly be implemented without a thoroughgoing attack The major sectors of heavy employment would have to be broken against any redundancy measures, and the workforce prevented from building up any organisation in new workplaces against the high rates of exploitation that capitalism would need to take its profit during world The policies of the Labour and trade union leaderships simply play into their hands. By advocating an Assembly which can in no way satisfy the aspirations of the working class for real democratic control of the economy and a degree of national autonomy, they only pro vide a bargaining counter between the Scottish financiers and the Labour Government in the fight for control over Scottish capital investment and oil revenues - with the working class as the pawn.

Already Crawiord is ringing the alarm bells over the Scottish Development Agency. It must not', he says, "become a tool of doctrinaire socialism." In other words, the state and the workers movement must have no say in the development of industry and the manage. ment of money in Scotland The IMG and Red Weekly will be fighting for the widest possible exposure and repudiation of these policies. In future issues of Red Weekly, and in our pamphlets in the 'Scotland. Labour and Workers' Power' series, we will also be explaing our arternalive 1 All figures from 'Finance Capital and the Upper Classes' (Scott and Hughes) in The Red Paper on Scotland (ed. Gordon Brown, EU 5PB, 1 Buccleugh Place, Edinburgh).

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