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The National Congress of the Industrial Se2f-Manazed Socialist Sector held at Bab El Oued, marked another stes forward for the Algerian Hevolution. 1,134 registered delegates, decocratically elected in some 450 enterprises, discussed the problems they face, and spoke with great freedom, expressing often sharp criticiam aa they made suggestions for the improvement of self-management. Ths most important points of the resolutions that wera adopted were an follows: |. Regroupment and consolidation of the self-managed
enterprises. 2. Constitution of a credit institution for the social-
ist sector. 3, Extension and strengthening of the state supervisory
body on @ regional and local scale controlled by the
workers, 4. Eatablishment of national and regional councile for
planning in the socialist sector. 5. Absolute priority for the socialist sector in
government buying. 6. Removal of the outmoded administrative procedures
inherited from the colonial epoch. 7. Abvsolute priority for the socialist sector in all
markets as against private industry, provided that
the prices of goods produced by this sector are not
more than 20% higher. 8. Protection of the socialist enterprises against
competition from local or foreign private enter-
prises. 9. The surplus, i.e, income from sales minus costs of
production of socialist enterprises, after certain
specified deductions, should be placed at the disposal
of the General Assembly of the Workers (one of the.