A second series of the magazine Problems of Capitalism & Socialism has been launched to resume the debate which began in Britain in the 1970's about Workers' Control and Industrial Democracy.

As a first step we will be reproducing material from both sides of the debate which centred on the Bullock Committee of Inquiry into Industrial Democracy which was set up by a Labour government in 1975. This will be mostly evidence submitted to the Committee by the TUC, individual trade unions, employers and political parties. There will also be as much as we can usefully glean from the newspapers of the time as well as the outpourings of such usual suspects as Tribune and The Fabians.

Each issue will carry a complete reprint of the North London Workers' Control Group's journal, Workers & Industry.

It is intended that the new series will go on to deal in a similarly archival fashion with the consequences of the Left's success in undermining working class power in the seventies.

Arthur Scargill, a vociferous opponent of worker's control of the mining industry led the NUM in the eighties to a defeat that destroyed both the union and the industry. Some of us from the NLWCG opposed Scargill in that period. Problems (Series Two) will reproduce at least some of One Out, the journal in which we recorded our unsuccessful efforts to support the miners against Scargill.

That disaster paved the way for New Labour through which the Left has had its revenge on the British Working Class. We will deal with current politics by way of a search for the way out of it all.

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