Mcdonnell Says Labour Would Put Services 'Irreversibly' In Workers' Hands

Ted Mooney Liverpool Socialist Party

- Ted Mooney

“The next Labour government will put democratically owned and managed public services irreversibly irreversibly into the hands of those workers and those who rely upon their work.”

This was John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, addressing Labour’s ‘Alternative models of ownership’ conference. We welcome John’s remarks. This approach has been part of the programme of the Socialist Party and its predecessor, Militant from the start.

Quite correctly, John says “we will do this not only because it’s right, not only because it’s the most efficient way of running them, but also because the most important protection of our public services for the long term is for everyone to have and feel ownership of them.

“We aren’t going to take back control of these industries in order to put them into the hands of a remote bureaucracy, but to put them into the hands of all of you so that they can never again be taken away.”

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