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* Organise the left to beat back the Tories' attacks! No to attaçks on union rights; defend the picket-line; no state intérference in our unions! No to any wage curbs. Labour must support all struggles for better living standards and * Wage rises should at the very least keep up with price increases. For a price index calculated by working class organisations, as the basis for clauses in all wage agreements to provide automatic monthly rises in line with the true cost of living for the working class. The same inflation-proofing hould apply to state benefits, grants and pensions * Fight for improvements in the social services, and against cuts. Protection for those services against inflation by automatic inflation-proofing of expenditure. For occupations and supporting strike action to defend jobs and services. * End unemployment. Cut hours, not jobs. Fight for a 35 bour week and an end to overtime. Demand work-sharing without loss of pay. Organise the unemployed - campaign for a prozramme of useful public works to create new jobs * Defend all jobs! Open the books of those firms that threaten closure or redundancies, along with those of their supplters and hake elected tonde alte stees. For nationalisation without compensation under workers' * Make the bosses pay, not the working class. Millions for hospitals, not a penny for 'defence'! Nationalise the banks and tinancial institutions, without compensation. End the interest burden on council housing and other public services.

* Scrap all immigration controls. Race is not a problem; ORGANISED!

racism is. The labour movement must mobilise to drive the fascists off the streets. Purge racists from positions in the labour movement. Organise full support for black self-defence. Build workers' defence squads. * The capitalist police are an enemy for the working class.

Support all demands to weaken them as a bosses' striking force: dissolution of special squads (SPG, Special Branch, *Free abortion on demand. Women's equal right to work and full equality for women. Defend and extend free state * Against attacks on gays by the state: abolish all laws which discriminate against lesbians and gay men; for the right of the gay community to organise and affirm their stand pabicly. * The Irish people — as a whole — should have the right to determine their own future. Get the British troops out now! Become a supporter of the Socialist Irish Republican prisoners as a matter of urgency. Repeal the Prevention of Terrorism Act. Political status for Organiser Alliance - groups are estab* The black working people of South Africa should get full lished in most large towns. It costs support from the British labour movement for their strikes, £1.50 a month (20p -. unwaged) to 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- I want to become a Socialist Organiser ment and the election by annual conference of party leaders.

Annual election of all trade union officials, who should be * The chaos, waste, human suffering and misery of capitalism 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 social property, under workers' control. The strength of the labour movement lies in the rank and file. Our perspective must be working class action to raze the capitalist system down to its foundations, and to put a working class socialisi alternative in its place — rather than having our representatives run the system and waiting for crumbs from the tables • YORKSHIRE NORTH-EAST Durham. SO is sold at the Community. Co-op, New Elvet.

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SO Marxist Discussion Group: next meeting Sunday 24 April at 7.30 pm. on "Why the working class is a revolutionary class" • For venue ring lan on 670-3279. Islington. Next meeting: Sunday April 24, 7pm, Thornhill Neighbourhood Project, Orkney House, Caledonian Rd/Copenhagen St. Speaker on Campaign for Press Freedom. For childcare phone Nik, 278 1341. Hackney. Contact Andrew Horning, 28 Carlton Mansions, Holmleigh Rd, N16. SO is sold at the following London bookshops: Colletts, Central Books, The Other Bookshop, Bookmarks, Bookplace (Peckham Rd, SE15), Kilburn Books, and Reading Matters (Wood Green Shopping Centre).

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Dear John, Your articles in Socialist Organiser 118 and 119 have left you contradicting yourself badly.

On the one hand there is your record as an anti-imperialist supporting the Irish national democratic struggle; on the other, there is your latest political analysis of the material forces involved in third argument in favour of the Permanent Revolution in Ireland. The territories concerned hac Socialist Organiser no.128 April 21 1983 Page 13 Protestant farmlands around