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Workers Novdec2015.Pdf WWWW.CPBML.OORG.UK RKNOVEMBEER/DECREMBER 20S 15 £1 SAVE STEEL, SAVE INDUSTRY SOCIAL EUROPE? The big lie ENGLISH L M B P TTIP The mask slips DEVOLUTION C E plus H BREXIT When, not if News, T F O DOCTORS Fight for the NHS Book Review L A N THEATRE Struggle offstage and more R U O J IF YOU WANT TO REBUILD BRITAIN, READ ON WORKERS Steel and industry THE CURRENT CRISIS in steel (see article, page 8) behind the rhetoric of a northern powerhouse if a is a perfect example of the debacle facing Britain as company like SSI in Redcar can be allowed to go a whole. First we have a formerly nationalised indus - out of business.” try being privatised, then inevitably finding its way And then we have the hypocrisy of the sepa - into foreign hands. What long-term interest can Tata ratists. SNP leader and EU groupie Nicola Sturgeon of India or Sahaviriya Steel Industries of Thailand has “pledged” to save the steel industry (in Scotland “ possibly have in a sustainable British steel industry? only). Yet Scotland’s biggest infrastructure project Secondly, we have the European Union, whose of recent times, the new road bridge over the River rules on state aid form a perfect screen for the gov - Forth at Queensferry, was built with steel from China ernment to hide behind. The EU is dead set against ordered by the Scottish government. nations being able to plan for the continued viability Finally, we have high energy costs – a big factor of their vital industries. for energy-intensive industries such as steel. These Thirdly, we have the complicity of our own gov - in turn are a consequence of privatisation and the ernment. True, the rules are there, and very damag - removal of controls, with foreign (often state-owned) ing they are too. But the government will not even companies free to charge far more than they can in try to support British steel. their own countries. Listen to Gareth Stace from industry body UK Our future depends on having industries like Steel. “In Germany, government is the friend of steel. If you want an argument against the EU and industry,” he says. “Here, you wonder what is for sovereignty, look no further. ■ No British intervention in Syria! THE CAMERON government wants to bomb fly zones” in Syria, bringing the RAF into direct Syria, as do all too many Tory and Labour MPs. conflict with Russian planes. Madness! But British intervention could only be part of We have no interest in turning Syria into NATO’s aim of ousting Syria’s government. We another Libya – now a country with no govern - should have no part in it. ment, lawless, borderless, and a breeding ground Some MPs are talking about establishing “no- for jihadists. No British intervention in Syria! ■ WORKERS is published by the Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist) 78 Seymour Avenue, London N17 9EB. www.cpbml.org.uk @cpbml ISSN 0266-8580 Issue 191, November/December 2015 Contents – November/December 20”15 News Academy conversion by force, p3; Separatists join attack on BBC, p4; 03 Digest Wardens break pay barrier, p5; News Analysis: Arts – fighting the low pay culture, p6 Features The atomisation of England, p6; No energy policy = no British industry, p8; 06 TTIP – the mask slips, p11; The lie of Social Europe, p12; Not if Britain leaves, but when, p16; Doctors make a stand for the NHS, p18; Struggle offstage, p20 End Notes Book Review: The rape of Africa, p21; Historic Notes: Britain’s drugs wars 21 on China, p22 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2015 NEWS DIGEST WORKERS 3 SCHOOLS Forced to be an academy ECONOMY Rates threat AFGHANISTAN The US stays on BBC Separatists join attack SCIENCE Warning of ‘huge cuts’ OUTSOURCING Wardens bust pay barrier AFGHANISTAN The US stays on Rebuilding NEWS ANALYSIS Low pay in the arts ON THE WEB More news online Britain WHAT’S ON Coming soon ECONOMY Academy conversion by force Rates threat EACH SUCCESSIVE Secretary of State for Education tightens the noose of state control IN WASHINGTON the US Federal Reserve around schools, and the current one, Nicky Morgan, is no exception. The Schools and is preparing to raise interest rates, even Adoption Bill currently making its way through parliament is a short bill with a long arm. though this would destabilise already fragile Its remit is with “maintained” (state) schools only (academies and free schools are economies across the world. The new exempt), a rapidly diminishing sector. The intention is to speed up the rate of “conversion” to Global Financial Stability Report from the academy status – by force. International Monetary Fund (IMF) warns: By March this year, 60 per cent of state-funded secondary schools were academies “Emerging markets must prepare for the (effectively independent schools funded by you and me). In primary schools the programme adverse domestic stability implications of has been less enthusiastically embraced – less than a fifth are academies or free schools. global financial tightening…emerging The new bill intends to change this. It gives extensive powers to the state to intervene in markets should prepare for an increase in state schools, using Ofsted as the tool. Any school deemed to be “inadequate” by Ofsted – corporate failures…” a category that has been broadened in scope over its years of existence, and its definition After the 2008 crash, £385 billion was regularly changed to catch out more and more schools – will be forcibly converted into an invested in the “major emerging market academy. “Coasting” schools, schools which are doing well but not as well as they should economies”, which have accounted for 80 be in Ofsted’s view, will also be subject to intervention. per cent of global growth in the past five Until now, the practice has been that schools which fail inspections have been leaned on years, half of that coming from China alone. heavily and bullied by the DfE to join an academy chain of government choice. The problem But in the past 18 months speculators have was that often schools resisted the process. Now consultation with “stakeholders” is to be taken £195 billion out of these countries. swept away in a procedure both rapid and brutal. To aid this, the right to appeal against an Firms in these economies used the Ofsted judgement is to be removed. current glut of cheap money to borrow far The 2006 Education and Inspections Act gave local authorities powers to intervene in too much. Chinese firms led the way, maintained schools. But local authorities have never had any jurisdiction over academies and assisted by Indian, Turkish, Brazilian, free schools, unless they are breaking the law. The secretary of state was supposed to be Mexican and Chilean firms. The firms’ directly overseeing academies and free schools, but as the scandals and failures in these debts rose from £2.6 trillion in 2004 to over schools started to stack up this became an embarrassment. £12 trillion in 2014 and their average debt Last year the government created bodies called regional schools commissioners, as new grew from 48 per cent of GDP to 74 per appointed agents of the state, to do the job for them. In practice, this means that one person cent. Rapid debt growth preceded previous per region with a small staff and an advisory board is managing the whole thing. emerging market financial crises. ■ Unsurprisingly, the commissioners have so far shown limited capacity to cope, as well as limited expertise. Yet the new bill will extend their wide-ranging powers over maintained schools too, bypassing or overruling local authorities as they see fit. IMPERIALISM How will they intervene? The idea is that academy schools will fly in to take on the job US confronts China once carried out by specialist advisory staff employed by the local authority. Nobody seems to know how academies will carry out this role. And now, Ofsted has announced that new THE US government intends to send schools (the vast majority of which are free schools and academies) will not be inspected at warships into the South China Sea through all in their first three years. ■ a 12-nautical mile zone around the disputed Spratly islands which China claims as its • A longer version of this article is on the web at www.cpbml.org.uk. own territory. An anonymous defence official said that the US government was If you have news from your industry, trade or profession we want to hear from you. determined to put on a “show of military Call us on 020 8801 9543 or email [email protected] might” in the area. ■ 4 WORKERS s r e k r o ON THE WEB W After successful demonstrations on 17 October in London, Nottingham and Belfast A selection of additional against the new junior doctors’ contract, the British Medical Association (BMA) news at cpbml.org.uk… announced that ballot papers will go out to its members in early November. Most of the placards had been made by the junior doctors themselves but these were interspersed Volkswagen scandal: deadly with others such as “Nurses support the Junior Doctors Fight”. Others were made by consequences medical students who clearly understood that as the seed corn of the profession, they too are under attack. Photo shows demonstrators listening to speeches at the pre- The Volkswagen diesel emissions crisis march rally in Waterloo Place, off The Mall, London. See feature article, page 18. is the worst ever to hit the motor industry. But what has Britain been doing? The answer is nothing. Welsh museum staff walk out Separatists join attack on BBC Workers at the National Museum (Amgueddfa Cymru) of Wales went on THE SNP is weighing in behind those who want to see an end to the BBC as we know it.
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