C.S.E,. to bring out incomes policy "read in,"

iN" from Ken Coates e~/ eoi¢ The newly formed Centre for Socialist Education is preparing a "readein" on incomes policy to be published in time for next year's trade union conferences, At a meeting of the Centre's steering committee last Saturday it was agreed to give this project priority. Preliminary schedules of work and lines of selection are being prepared for mid-December. Other projects are under active consideration. One involves the creation of a "Counter-plan" to that of the DEA, making explicit a strategy of structural anti-capitalist reforms and exposing the anti-democratic and technocratic bases of the George Brown model, This is seen not simply as an alternative "blue-print", but as a serious discussion of socialist priorities, especially that of workers! control, <A further team is being assembled to explore work on corporate incomes, exposing the manoeuvres of corporations in the same way that Professor Titmus has dealt with personal incomes in his "Incomes Distribution and Social Change." More information is being sought on the possibility of preparing an "Anti-Devlin Report" on the docks and a publication on workers! control in municipal public services, It was reported to the committee that applications for membership of the Centre and enquiries about its work had been received from socialists in about thirty cities and towns throughout Britain, A series of conferences is being held to co-ordinate support and enable socialists to discuss the possibilities the Centre presents,