CONFIRMATION of up to 1,000 job cuts within the Department of Transport has just been given.
'Efficency savings' of 20 per cent have to be made in the next two years. Staff have been told compulsory reSocialist Facing mass unemployment, rampant employers equipped with savage anti-union laws, and a war on hard-won education, health and welfare services, the working class in Britain faces a real crisis - an avoidable crisis created by the historic failure of its official leadership.
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HOME NEWS The capitalist class, driven and politically united by its own crisis, its requirement to maximise profits at the expense of the workers, has been given determined, vanguard leadership by a brutal class-war Tory high command.
The Tory strategy has been to shackle the unions with legislation, and to fragment and weaken the resistance of the working class and oppressed, allowing them to pick off isolated sections one at a time, using the full powers of the state.
HOME In response, most TUC and Labour leaders have embraced the defeatist politics of 'new realism', effectively proclaiming total surrender on every front, while ditching any pretence that they offer a socialist alternative.
and concession they have made to the employers and the government has simply fuelled and encouraged the offensive against jobs, wages, conditions and undudancies cannot be ruled out: the CPSA expects 1,000 job losses.
In the Driver Vehicle Licencing Agency - which like other agencies now has to negotiate alone - a pay freeze is threatened after management concluded recent pay talks on June 6, saying that they had no proposals to make. The freeze follows the publishing of a review calling for the privatisation of the DVLA.
If the expected national Civil Service strike goes ahead in October, it can be widened to include all those in the public sector fighting market testing and privatisation.