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In Socialist Republic: August 1977 · scan pages 9–10 · about 1,012 words

Economy, the EEC and EuropeTrade unions and workers' struggles

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from so immediate reduction af sur Pluses, would be prefatur: and would only result in an inflationary boom that would inevitably plunge the world inte all even greater pecession thon in I974-75, EXPORT BOOM Attanpts to escape the consequences oF the last recession cannot sucomed, The chalces are « slum in the US or inflation in the West, Thus the pro= minent Kurepean tusitess magazine ‘Vision! warned "Amen the indugt= rislised countries a5 o whole, oa Tour yeer cycle betweer the reoege= donsry low=poiots has appesced, Thre Vast detes back re T974-TS, So watch out far Tetse?o," If the pelicies of the Intersation:] Honetary Fond (IMF) are onvthibe to ao by then the next recession is Likely te besin with a slow-deywn of the US eeonanr, EeTlier this year the [MF opted fer 7? ceutions appreach and impaced etoictEP manetery control, 4s far as [re= Lanfte interests are cancerned this will mc only make Sorrewing tess taiicher but will alsa depress the intercational trading situatien.- thos toe eregth of ioternationsl trade fer 1977 will be only half af last feacts, Meet vreorts growth is ox= bected te decline yet avain, And so fer as an expert led beam for the Irish scone odes, the [rish em plovers! magazine “Business pd recovery pebers aut because of a Se ecole 5!"

WAUE WETLATIONS lacked at objectively it becomes clasp that there is oo reelistic strategy, They certeloly don't provite the besis for aay future af the Trede Unien movement have Fisons Feil package wauld be an wage epcrifices by workers, repadioted, ‘The beakeouptey of Flantia Tail's policies are anly the [rishi ecooeny and the chaag a? the international capitalist system, Kev, mare that ewer it mveteot ta elyborgte its ow econmamic aid socal plan besed on the needs of [Trish workers aod smgll farmers aod mot on the needs of the enplayers, It is this economic an social Plan = aid mot Fizong Pail’ iiitied and inept packace = which should be the besig fom future ware barosioin,.

DARA MACDROY our if a ted slugzish world trade failure ta retlate the Hajar Weet—Whenthe gtate of the litercnationsl Sich over Lhe next few years 14 beei= for Fianna Feil's economic wage nemotietions, Yet the leaders equivdcated end given the inpress= ion thet » modified version af the conptable compromise for further Any such suggestion mist be olen:

a reflection of the bankruptcy of is meteasarcy far the trade union living im the battle acainet rising frices and unemplavtient. and where the -oreauereties are Lie tent on resching any agreebect with the state io order to chirh this militancy, the wat can lay the basis for building a class struggle. opposition inside the uniens, In the accupied 6 Countirs, where the trade unions have Mosistently refused to app— aso the presence af Aritish treaps in the areas and wrk= Places ef anti-urdionists. the WAC met show Lis ceterminetion to lead rank and file workers an this front too. all the gigns ate that the time is apprvaching far a fight=kack ky the anti=wiionist serkers on sll fronts - the WAG can ae the focus aid Leadership far Tie struggle, “IEE PINTER {id Blect «9 delegate from yeur werkplic: ta the WAC Cid) Send mener to the WAG Addrese of WAL: 5a Hragchny, Belfast ITI.

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ruction have again been dealt out in the world, Particularly amoost the youth, in black cons¢ciousness movement than by a5F remnants of apposition ainge the days of Sharpeville, the upsurgs spread rapidly to include the qolowed aod Asian taitmunities far ths first tim, The immediate cause was the impos— ition gf the hated Afrikaans Lone Mae? --ab sspect at appressian we th APARTHEID UNPERIALIST BACKERS The uprising cane pt oa tine wae sooth Afries wee pressing ahead with its policy aT creating Hantuetany = token, dotesticated, Black "hanelands', The Transkeits ‘rth, ag the first bantustan, was Erected ky British Fetralewn with # Tell pare "oomeratularions” in the South Africso "Kiisociel Mail" an Tecomber 22 207d, Tha oatt statesgwned EP is ome gf .S00 krdire ish companies with dovyertmeots worth over £2,000 miliien ia South rica, These iuperigl— Lat davestments. fram British, WeErican, West Garo and other companies yield som of the highest profits in the world, The Apartheid aystem plays Li Part in crushing the sree eee worker inte submission, WUaOnce again, on the first enniversary @f the June [6 Sowete uprising, viel= ence flared in the Soete township, Or, Gore accurately, death and dest= in Of of the gost repressive states The continuing revolt is a reflection of the growth of Black Nationalism, recent years, Inspired more by the alin cum readily svnpathise bhleady pawns.

PRANK C7 ONAL like other neo—colonigl states.

(fer example India, the ate anor of a native exploiting clasa meant that Inperialigm had te rely on the wiite pop= wlation ag & mass base, to repress the black majority. South Africa's industrislisation gave birth ta-a sharp division between white skilled labour and hlack un= skilled labour, A rieid coleur bar Waa estebliched bhtween these two sectors afd a dual labour market wag farmed, The wage ratio be teeen white 2od black workers is now be= tween 4 and 20 to I depending on the industry. This ermormous dis= orepamer hea created a white Jahour acistt@cracy ail ensures its Loyal part= icipstion io the maioteoance of the Taciet syetemy A sinilar inmperiazl= ist strategy, while ot as sharp, bes been sneeess fully pot inte ap= eration in Farcthern Irelond, THREAT ‘TH STARTLITY IM ALL OF 4FRICA The uprising in South Afracy ¢hrest= ety daqertislien’s Aeld on the rest of the continent. Sioee it threetene the etranpeet state, itself av doperislist power, it amet be crushed, Fat thet ie rackening withewr the enturscce of the Joe sul Pec ica end vicltusly oppressed black waning men and woneo, There are tame Parallels bacwen theie opp= resedon quid Ube cepeessien meted owt oy aritian Imperialism in this MOUNTS, STM suppert ag aal= idarity for oleck Azania [South Arpicw) ean plat a vital role ie deleatiog inperizliso sad its

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