I have every sympathy with the 3,000 Amex workers whose jobs look increasingly likely to be exported to India.

When the manufacturing base of this country was being destroyed in the Eighties, call centres and other aspects of the "service industry" were touted as the new saviours of the economy.

Now these sectors are suffering the same fate, it seems as though the only growth industries left in Britain are the armed forces, the police, and the production and export of lethal weaponry, all of which are used increasingly recklessly to safeguard the profits of a handful of billionaires who refuse to put anything back into society and who fuss and moan about every last penny of tax they pay.

What the Amex workers and others in their position should realise, however, is this is the only logical path for capitalism.

Only by putting the resources of this country under the ownership and control of its inhabitants, rather than the control of a handful of parasites, can we really begin to reverse these trends.

-Dan Glazebrook, Socialist Labour Party, Brighton