High quality steel making is the foundation of a modern manufacturing economy and the whole industry in Britain must be returned to public ownership.
'The steel industry in Britain is being destroyed by privatisation, this Tory government and our membership of the European Union', Robert Griffiths told the Communist Party's political committee on Wednesday evening.
The fact that workers in south Wales have to wait with bated breath for a decision on their future livelihoods to be made nearly 10,000 miles away says everything about the dysfunctional and undemocratic nature of modern capitalism.
With the government determined to allow our steel industry to wither and die, it’s worth looking to the example of the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders, whose successful work-in saved British shipbuilding in the 1970s, writes Laurence Platt CP Midlands trade union organiser.