SABOTAGE | IMGpapers 1968

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of the gains of the welfare state.

In every local government department, hos pital and school, investigatory committees should be set up to monitor the cuts and draw up a list of the projects required to maintain and improve the standards of the services. It is only through gathering this information that it will be possible to draw up a programme of socially useful public works - rather than the handing down of odds and ends from various government departments as stopgap measures to buy off widespread working class discontent with the decline in the value of the 'social wage".

Howis such a programme for schools, hospitals, houses and public amenities to be financed and executed? The sums of capital A workers' plan for a wide-ranging prog ramme of socially useful public works would meet with the bitter opposition and sabotage of the capitalist class. But if the slogan of 'public works' is to be more than a hollow cry from the reformists who don't want to lead a serious fight against unemployment because it would bring them into head-on collision with the Wilson Government - then it is such a bold plan for socially useful public works that the working class needs.

MICK GOSLING

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red weekly 11 september 1975 - public sector cuts 11