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involved in devising their own programmes of workers’ education.

It would appear that better workers’ education can best be
organised by individual enterprises. This means that the
management has to devise programmes for their workers.
Workers’ education that is organised by industries is more helpful
because it is based on the realities of the workers’ world, his con-
dition of employment his work environment. It is the enterprise
that can give all the skills needed for that particular economic in-
stitution. It is because the responsibility of educating the workers
in skills lies on the management that there is a need to change the
management’s attitudes first and make them accept the
socialisation of management. Only if they become committed to
achieving workers’ participation can they commit themselves to
educating the workers.

However, though I have tried to emphasise the need for
professional skills for enabling the workers to participate ef-
fectively, this is not enough. Professionalisation must be coupled
with political consciousness of the workers. This, therefore, means
that the workers must be taught political education. The workers
must be politically conscious of the goals of the political leader-
ship in introducing workers’ participation. There is need to teach
the workers the country’s ideology especially as contained in the
Arusha Declaration, the Presidential Circular No. 1, and the
recent TANU Guidelines. If professionalism is backed with
political consciousness, then the programme can turn out to be a
success.

While there is need to spearhead the programmes of workers’
education there is also a strong need to strengthen the role of
NUTA and TANU in the factories.

NUTA'’s role in the enterprise is not clear. There is no direct
link between the NUTA Headquarters and the enterprises. There
is need to have NUTA branches that have direct link with
NUTA’s headquarters. The Workerss Committee which was
established in 1964 is neither powerful nor an organ of NUTA.
NUTA must have its own branches in the parastatals so that it
can actively engage itself in promoting workers education. Up to
now NUTA is represented in the Workers’ Council but this
representation alone is not enough.

TANU too must be strengthened in the enterprises. Though
since 1968 TANU has had branches in all the enterprises, its

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