10, The Congress recommended that distributions of the
surplus should in no case te more than a worker's
wages for a month. One of the most interesting contributions was the closing address may by Bechir Boumaza, the Minister of Economy. Below are some of the highlights of his remarks:- "In many countries too many workers have seen the fruits of their victory seized by others .... In the face of the speculators end vultures of all kinds, following independance, the government poaed the principle: socialism means land to those who work it; it means factories to the workers. "The only realistic way to solve the problem of productivity and profitability, so long as a warket economy remains, and adequate planning wessures have not been taken, is to utilize the principle of materially interesting the workers and thus mobilizing their enthusiasm." Boumeze declared that the self managed aector must decome a model on an economic and political level in the struggle for the edvancement of the socialist revolution. He stressed the need to reinforce the solidarity between the workers in the private and self managed sectors, and suggeated the holding of a Congress of workers in the private sector. Analyzing the demand put forward at the Congresa for the creating of a body to handle credits for the socialist sector, Boumaza said that financial problems would be resolved by «
| SLria Continued .., fecree fixing the ohligations of the Central Bank, and the Alverian Treasury of Development, ‘ intimated that funds for credit to enterriser in the socialist sector should be drawn ot only from funds pooled by socialist enter- “ftses, but also from }rivate firma, and that the state orvanism responsible for collection and #:atribution of funds ror credit should be @.ntrolled by the workers, tren the question of tue role of planning, “ zara said: "Planning will determine the goals at *£ ruduction, of financing, of marketing. The -tan ~ill be carried out by bodies managed by te workers. Planning 1s the only socialist se"rot Cor uromoting economic development."
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Amidst all the hopes and optimiam that the above
information may bring forth in the minds of
socialist in Britain, 1t is still neceasary to
reueber that the socialist revolution in Algeria
is very far from being complete. The state
structure still reteins many of the traits of
French rule, especially with regard to bureaucratiam.
Also Algeria faces heavy economio pressure from
France and other capitalist states, Such problens
are directly linked to the congress of the P.L.N.,
which hay been scheduled to open on April 16th.
One of the main problems to be considered at this
Congress is the transformation of the F.L.N. intc
a Mass revolutionary socialist party.
SEATO