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* Organise the left to beat back the Tories' attacks! No to labour movement. Organise full support for black attacks. on union rights; defend the picket-line; no state defence. Build workers' defence squads. interference in our unions! No to any wage curbs. Labour * The capitalist police are an enemy for the working class. must support all struggles for better living standards and Support all demands to weaken them as a bosses' striking force: dissolution of special squads (SPG, Special Branch, * Wage rises should at the very least keep up with price increases. For a price index calculated by working class *Free abortion on demand. Women's equal right to work and organisations, as the basis for clauses in all wage agreements full equality for women. Defend and extend free state to provide automatic monthly rises in line with the true cost of living for the working class. The same inflation-proofing * Against attacks on gays by the state: abolish all laws which should apply to state benefits, grants and pensions. discriminate against lesbians and gay men; for the right of the * Fight for improvements in the social services, and against gay community to organise and affirm their stand pablicly. cuts. Protection for those services against inflation by auto- * The Irish people — as a whole - should have the right to matic inflation-proofing of expenditure. For occupations and determine their own future. Get the British troops out now! supporting strike action to defend jobs and services. Repeal the Prevention of Terrorism Act. Political status for * End unemployment. Cut hours, not jobs. Fight for a 35 Irish Republican prisoners as a matter of urgency. hour week and an end to overtime. Demand work-sharing * The black working people of South Africa should get full without loss of pay. Organise the unemployed - campaign support from the British labour movement for their strikes, for a programme of useful public works to create new jobs struggles and armed combat against the white supremacist regime. South African goods and services should be blacked. * It is essential to achieve the fullest democracy in the labour movement. Automatic reselection of MPs during each parlia* Defend all jobs! Open the books of those firms that threat- ment and the election by annual conference of party leaders. en closure or redundancies, along with those of their suppl- Annual election of all trade union officials, who should be iers and bankers, to elected trade union committees. For occupation and blacking action to halt the closures. For * The chaos, waste, human suffering and misery of capitalism nationalisation without compensation under workers' now - in Britain and throughout the world - show the urgent need to establish rational, democratic, human control over the economy, to make the decisive sectors of industry hospikes, he ta penny for thencer atonalise the bands social property, under workers' control. The strength of the and financial institutions, without compensation. End the labour movement lies in the rank and file. Our perspective interest burden on council housing and other public services. must be working class action to raze the capitalist system down to its foundations, and to put a working class socialist * Scrap all immigration controls. Race is not a problem; alternative in its place - rather than having our representracismo is. The labour movement must mobilise to drive the atives run the system and waiting for crumbs from the tables fascists off the streets. Purge racists from pusitions in the conditions. for the unemployed.

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* Freeze rents and rates. not tne working class *retence anonanse mat Danks MI5, etc.), public accountability, etc.

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