RISE IN UNEMPLOYED IN US

geoisie of the metropolitan capitalist countries with a source of cheap and manageable labour during the period of the boom.

In that sense the Common Market proved over and over again one of its true aims: to reduce the poor countries, many just 'independent' politically, to the status of colonial states once more.

Direct social, political and economic hegemony of these states was ended. But in their place came, in reality, a new form of colonialism.

The reactionary bloc of European monopolists was formalized in the Common Market. Around this bloc a whole number of countries were granted affiliate status. It was a relationship between master and servant, as can be concluded with several other nations.

Because the economies of these countries have been kept backward, their workforce was forced to emigrate to central Europe to find work and send home savings.

They took the jobs which were lowest paid and the most unskilled, like street-cleaning, road-building and underground work.

Employers went to great lengths to bring them in. In July, for example, an illegal traffic in immigrant workers from French-speaking west Africa was discovered in France when a lorry carrying 59 of them from Mali and Senegal broke down. Police said they had been smuggled in from Italy and were destined for underpaid jobs on workers is becoming ever more desperate. Seeking to head off the metropolitan working class, the bourgeoisie is attempting to stir up racialism.

There have been several clashes recently in France between Algerian workers and particularly the middle-class expelled from that country after independence.

In Holland, extreme rightwing forces have provoked serious rioting against the homes of Turkish workers living in crowded neighbourhoods.

And the Pompidou government has just introduced racialist legislation to limit the intake of immigrant workers to 150,000 a year from countries with which it already has immigration agreements. Unemploy nent among American youth now stands at the staggering figure of 17 per cent, following a 2 per cent jump in August alone. the brunt of President Nixon's declaration of trade war on August 15, 1971.

The picture is the same all over the country. In the St Louis area, jobs declined by 12,600 in July. By the end of the year, it is expected that 6,000 more workers will be unemployed.

General Motors, McDonnellDouglas and other firms in the area plan to reduce their work forces. Up to 300 workers a week run out of unemployment benefits and are thrown off the lists.

In Chicago, 14,000 were jobless in August, with the figure steadily rising. And of the 3,000 out of work in California's Hunters Point, 2,000 are youth over school-leaving age.

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