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Nan Add Amount enclosed f Ama Other titles in this series The Case for a General The Ulster Dossier The Social Security which includes the All Unions Alliance Draft M and the Charter of Basic The dally paper that loads the fight again the Tories.

Clapham High St., THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY the 2,000 Ford workers at Halewood, Liverpool, who struck ten days ago against company plans to transfer production into Europe. In this open letter he talks about the issues involved in the fight for the right to work.

Dear Brothers and Sisters, The Ford Motor Co has decided to run down its British operations and transfer production to Europe.

This fact—courageously exposed by clerical workers under threat of the sack—is now staring every Ford worker in the face.

What may not be so clear is the reasons for this turn of events and how we are going to fight back.

The way I see it is this. At his last sharehola lers' meeting, Henry Ford II s ¡aid that the company, "can't hire people simply because they need work' He said that the social responsibility of the corporation was fundamentally the same today as it has always been-'to earn profits for shareholders by serving conName Addre efficiency.

This is about as clear as you can get it. Ford exists to make profit. If this multi-national giant doesn't think it can do that here it will move.

The Tory government, which exists solely in order to help firms like Ford solve their problems at our, the workers' expense, will do everything in its power to assist Ford to either tighten the screw or shut up shop.

Our struggle, therefore, cannot just be restricted to one company or even one country. It must be an international struggle linking up with that of working-class people all over the world.

It can't be non-political either. Because if we do not fight the Tory government, fight to force it out of office, we will be defeated. Anyonebe he Labour MP, union leader or shop steward—who tries to tell us anything different is going to mislead us.

The capitalist system, for which Ford and the lories stand, has now fallen into disarray.

Each capitalist power is now trying to drive down the wages and conditions of its own working class. They must do this in order to make themselves more competitive in the during their trade war which has opened up as a result of last August's US decision to remove gold backing from the dollar.

In such a situation, Britain is the least capable of survival, for a number of reasons.

Britain was - the first capitalist country. For a long time the employers here relied on the advantage this gave them rather than investing in new production techniques. They fleeced the colonies instead.

Now, however, they no longer have the Empire. And they are faced with a powerful and well-organized, working-class movement which IS determined that the rights it has won in struggle will not be taken away.

Workers will defend these rights despite the treacherous leadership they are saddled with in the unions and the Labour Party, a leadership which is constantly covered up for by the so-called Communist When we in the Halewood transmission shop struck just over a week ago, we were told by Labour MPs, who waffled about the need for Ford's plans to be exposed in the capitalist press, about socialism in the far-distant tuture.

This is rubbish. They want to kid us just a few reforms here and there: will do the trick when it is quite obvious that the whole issue of who controls Ford's, and whether the Tories remain in office, must be at stake.

One-day strikes are not enough.

What we need is a General Strike to force the Tories to resign. We need a Labour government to nationalize Ford's and the rest of the car industry without compensation and under workers' control. If our present leaders won't fight for this, we must replace them with those who will.

John Forde

Soptember