7organization through the unions, so much the better, thermonuclear fusion processes. The commitment to theJust as the Labor Committees has demonstrated rapid development of fusion technology provides thecertain principles "experimentally" in West Germany background orientation for short-term industrial exandItaly, we have certain demonstrations upon which to pansion accompanied by massive development of thereflect from recent organizing experience in the U.S.A. scale and productivity of agricultural production.and Canada. In general, the process of reaching out On the basis of materials available to us earlier thisdirectly to several hundred thousands workers in our year, we had determined that a commitment to fusion"fourth circles" of mass organization has differentiated development in the order of $15-20 billions per yearthe relatively more political workers along lines of in- would be sufficient to have pilot plants by the end of theternationalism. It was the worker who responded to the decade and regular fusion power production being in-British situation in January, totheWest German, French, stalled by the middle of the 1980's. On the basis of theItalian, Yugoslav, etc. situations later on who was the suggestions and assessments of leading physicists, weindividual in relatively greater proximity to us. have been shown that our earlier estimates were undulyA single major forward step of the united front in conservative.Europe will at any moment in North America immediatelymobilize an additional several thousands of However, presuming that the more conservativeworkers from our present "fourth circles" into our estimate were accepted as safely realistic, a commitment"second and third circles." This expansion of those to fusion power development would permit us to exploitinner circles of NUWRO and the Labor Committees will existing energy resources at an expanded rate, and thusimmediately extend the fourth circle from hundreds of to rapidly increase the per capita throughput of powerthousands to include several millions of those workers for households, industry, and agriculture while exwhonow merely recognize the Labor Committees. This panding industry and agriculture in scale into the soqualitativeaugmentation, such quantum jumps, will called developing sector. That policy provides sufficientoccur primarily along lines paralleling trade-union, material basis for full utilization of existing technologicalorganization, drawing in thousands of ghetto .victims potentials for a growth policy for the U.S. sector in thefrom the side. order of a 25 per cent per annum sectoral value con-Such a qualitative advance in North America will have tribution, and coordinate, if more modest rates fora reciprocal effect upon European organizing, which Western Europe and Japan.effect will, in turn, produce another quantum jump in Limiting our observations here to such summaryNorth America. report, this provides the working-class with a massiveThere is nothing speculative or wishful in this positive alternative for human existence, the basis andestimation. The recent smashing of trade-unions from powerful impetus for ridding the earth of a capitalistoutside and from within and the collapse of municipal system whose continuation requires fascist genocide andbudgets and services has convinced the overwhelming probably nuclear holocaust.majority of North American workers of the impossibility Experience has shown that the workers of Northof traditional reforms. In June we hear only rarely that America and Western Europe can readily conceptualizecry, "Our union will fight this." which was pervasive in the feasibility of the kind of reconstruction program we1972-73 and still rampant even last January. The have identified. To act politically on that they requireworkers are waiting for a credible positive political only the demonstration of the possibility of building thealternative, and that noted, they will begin to move. political instrumentalities of self-government throughWhen such movement begins, it will occur as an ac- which to bring such a program into operation.celerating, self-feeding growth in organization.With that in view, we have an obvious socialisThe Programmatic Strugglealternative to offer to the proletarians of the SouthernHemisphere.The program is elementary. We have advanced it in Nothing is guaranteed but the feasibility of causing thesome detail since mid-1970 when we first published our mass mobilization we have proposed to occur. Given the"Emergency Reconstruction Program." commitment to that result, we can then say withoutIn opposition to Schachtian, zero-growth fascist exaggertion that the choice for the human race is eithereconomic and social policies now being offered by fascism and nuclear extinction under RockefellerDemocrats and liberal "Eastern Establishment" leadership or an expanding human existence under theRepublicans, we propose world development based on a initiatives now being supplied by the Internationalcommitment to brute force development of controlled Caucus of Labor Committees.
\/Rockefeller's Menagerie Lo_to right: Humphrey,Mondale, Mansfield & JavitsMother's Liberal Helpers:The Democratic Roadto Fascismby S. Wagner[Cartoon by Beth Shaw]
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