Why the car industry should be nationalised

The Socialist Alliance gives its reasons on Why the car industry should be nationalised.

The Socialist Alliance calls for the nationalisation of the vehicle industry under worker and community control, to save jobs and to begin the process of converting the industry to make public transport vehicles or other products.

Nationalisations are not likely to happen without significant industrial action and other forms of action from workers and their organisations.

Unions in the manufacturing sector and the union movement generally should take up the nationalisation demand — as a response to economic crises and a step towards a different form of economy — as some unions did in the past.

Here, the Party is using the economic crisis to advance the political consciousness of the workers. The workers need to understand that they can control their own destiny. And, they have the power to do so.