Plan of Resolution on Economic Measures for Combating the Dislocation

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  1. 1. A collapse is imminent.
  2. 2. Neither a bureaucratic nor a bourgeois solution is possible.
  3. 3. Workers’ control must be, first, really working- class (threequarters of the votes of workers).
  4. 4. [ditto] [ditto] [ditto] [ditto] developed into regulation.
  5. 5; [ditto] [ditto] [ditto] [ditto] extended to all financial operations and the financial side of the business in general.
  6. 6. Salvation from the collapse unquestionably demands that the revolutionary measures should be started with the expropriation of the biggest and big capital.
  7. 7. This is to be continued by revolutionary measures: the organisation of universal labour service through the workers’ militia... (free workers’ service in the militia over and above their 8 hours of work).
  8. 8. Switch of manpower to the production of coal and raw materials and to transport....

+ 6 b i s Organisation of exchange of grain for implements, footwear, clothes....

+ 9. Switch of manpower from bombs to useful products.

+ Economy of resources....

+ Universal labour service must yield the utmost and the strictest economy of resources and manpower.