Food for thought

  In December, garment workers in Bangladesh will get a eighty per cent Pay increase as the government tries to end the wave of strikes that has taken place since the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory in May. The new wage deal includes allowances for food, rent, transport, and medical care. That the employers can grant these concessions and still make a profit shows how intensely the workers were exploited. It also shows what workers can achieve when they stand united. However fine this may seem it is merely an improvement within capitalism, (likely to be lost or diminished in the next recession) a system that condemns the majority to work to make a profit for the minority and live in squalor. Better they stand united for socialism where they can set their own standards. John Ayers.