The Red Menace, number three, June 1989

CONFERENCE: Saturday, 1st July 1989, Manchester

The SUBVERSION group will be hosting a conference on "The Importance of Bureaucracy and the Market for Capitalism and its Enemies". Rather than repeat banalities about "East" and "west", about "state" and "private capitalism", there will be a discussion on the concrete significance of market and bureaucracy for those who profit from our dispossession, as well as the varying forms of resistance to them across the world.

A series of pamphlets is available:

No.1 - Capitalism and Class Struggle in the USSR, 25p

No.2 - The State and Capital in Japan, 75p

No. 3 - (in preparation) tentative framework for analysis by looking at the UK from Keynes to Thatcher.

No. 4 - (in preparation) deals more specifically with twentieth century class struggle in the USSR.

There will be a creche and some limited accomodation is available. For pamphlets and more information contact:

Subversion, Box W, c/a Raven Press, 75 Piccadilly Manchester Ml 2BU

STOP EMPLOYMENT TRAINING

STOP E.T.,  Thursday June 15th

Strikes and Demos against Workfare

London & SE Demo: 2pm Bidborough Street, (Near King’s Cross)

DEALING WITH THE SCHEMES

If you are on a scheme:

- Why not leave? You can leave ET (Employment Training) without being penalised, though they may put more pressure on you to prove you’re still available for work.

- Join the strike on June 15th. Last year 25,000 trainees came out on this day in the North West and thousands demonstrated across the country. Organise with others on your scheme and in your area.

- If there are advantages to being where you are, fight to get real employee status: rights, safety regulations and the rate for the job, or simply refuse to work more than you’re actually paid for. Even just doing training you should get more money - a student grant could be £10-£20 more a week.

If you are a claimant:

- Don’t go on their schemes. Their previous scheme, JTS [Job Training Scheme], had to be scrapped because they couldn’t get claimants onto it, and we can make ET go the same way.

- Join the demo on June 15th and other actions against schemes. Join us.

If you are a waged worker:

- Resist all attempts to bring the schemes to your workplace, to undercut your wages and conditions. Even’ workers at the Manpower Services Commission, which runs the schemes, had to strike to stop Youth Training Scheme being brought into their office.

- Join the strike and actions on June 15th. Recent attempts by the Spanish Socialist Government (don’t forget it was the Labour government that started YOPs here) to start up work schemes were scrapped after 9 million came out on strike against it.

- Step up your struggle against your own boss -they’re the ones who are trying to attack all our living conditions, to screw more profits out of us, and soon they’ll be the ones directly running the schemes.

If you are a student:

These schemes affect you too - you won’t be able to claim benefits if you leave school at 16, colleges are being taken over by the people who run ET, to be controlled by and for the bosses, and students will be suffering the new Restart interviews in the summer (and expected to work for peanuts).