THE NEW WORKER

The Weekly paper of the New Communist Party of Britain
Week commencing 8th December 1978

Lead story

Millions Facing Industrial Axe

Two and a half million car workers' jobs could vanish in the next ten years - because of Britain's membership of the Common Market and the incompetence of Britain's car bosses.

The whole car industry could be "virtually eliminated" in the 1980s, forecasts a Cambridge University economic group and the bosses' organisation, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders,agrees.

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Editorial

Into the Valley of Death

The charge of the Light Brigade, 1978-style. That is what the expected action by public service manual workers increasingly threatens to be.

Within weeks now over a million of these appallingly low-paid workers could be engaged in an industrial fight.

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