Socialist Labour Party (Ledes av Arthur Scargill,leder for
kullgruvearbeiderne) i Storbritannia takler kampen om drivstoffavgiftene
med følgende pressemelding:
A CRISIS THAT WILL CONTINUE
The current fuel crisis will not vanish with the lifting of blockades. This
crisis, particularly in respect of oil and petroleum was
predicted by Socialists like myself years ago. It is an inevitable
consequence of the free market and capitalist system. The
long-term, and only, solution is public ownership and control and the
introduction of an integrated energy policy which should be
implemented immediately, involving the following:
1. all North Sea oil and gas operations to be taken into public ownership;
2. all oil refineries and gas distributors to be taken into public ownership;
3. all road transport - passengers and freight - including lorries, buses,
trains and waterway transport to be taken into public
ownership;
4. all the revenues generated from creating integrated energy and transport
systems must be utilised for the benefit of the British
people:
· restoring the income 'link' for pensioners;
· an immediate investment of £13 billion into the NHS, at the same time
abolishing private health care;
· an immediate investment of £5 billion to be made annually in education;
· a housing programme which would build or refurbish one million homes per
year over the next five years.
These are policies which should have emerged as a call from the TUC at its
Congress this week, with the General Council and trade
unions recognising that the actions of the oil producers, refineries and
hauliers have been and are directed towards maintaining or
increasing the profits of producers, refineries and distributors - not
protecting the wages, conditions and jobs of energy and
transport workers, or of consumers.
Arthur Scargill
General Secretary, Socialist Labour Party
Thursday, 14 September, 2000
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