Socialist Organiser

The weekly of the fused Workers Socialist League, July 1981 to April 1984

Where we stand

Socialist Organiser no. 62, 19 November 1981 · scan pp. 15–16 · about 619 words

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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 * Wage rises should at the very least keep up with price force: dissolution of special squads (SPG, Special Branch. 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 of living for the working class. The same inflation-proofing to provide automatic monthly rises in line with the true cost * 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 cuts. Protection for those services against inflation by auto- * The Irish people - as a whole - should have the right to gay community to organise and affirm their stand pablicly. matic inflation-proofing of expenditure. For occupations and determine their own future. Get the British troops out now! * End unemployment. Cut hours, not jobs. Fight for a 35 supporting strike action to defend jobs and services. Repeal the Prevention of Terrorism Act. Political status for hour week and an end to overtime. Demand work-sharing * The black working people of South Africa should get full for a programme of useful public works to create new jobs without loss of pay. Organise the unemployed - campaign struggles and armed combat against the white supremacist support from the British labour movement for their strikes.

regime. South African goods and services should be blacked.

It is essential to achieve the fullest democracy in the labour * Defend all jobs! Open the books of those firms that threat- ment and the election by annual conference of party leaders. movement. Automatic reselection of MPs during each parliaen closure or redundancies, along with those of their suppl Annual election of all trade union officials, who should be jers 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 hospitals, not a penny for 'defence"! Nationalise the banks and financial institutions, without compensation. End the Interest burden on. ›uncil housing and other public services. ' Make the bosses pay, not the working class. Millions for labour movement lies in the rank and file. Our perspective social property, under workers' control. The strength of the over the economy, to make the decisive sectors of industry must be working class action to raze the capitalist system urgent need to establish rational, democratic, human control fascists off the streets. Purge racists from positions in the * Scrap all immigration controls. Race is not a problem; racism is. The labour movement must mobilise to drive the down to its foundations, and to put a working class socialist alternative in its place - rather than having our represent- atives run the system and waiting for crumbs from the tables conditions. for the unemployed. management.

* Freeze rents and rate". MI5, etc.), public accountability, etc.

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