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* Organise the left to beat back the Tories' attacks! No to attacks on union rights; defend the picket-line; no state interference 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 sould 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 hour week and an end to overtime. Demand work-sharing without loss of pay. Organise the unemployed - campaign for a programme 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 suppl lets and bankers, to elected trade union committees. FOI occupation and blacking action to halt the closures. Fol nationalisation without compensation under workers? * Make the bosses pay, not the working class. Millions fol hospitals, not & penny for 'defence'! Nationalise the banks and financial institutions, without compensation. End the terest burden on council housing and other public services. * Scrap all immieration controls. Race is not a problem; adan i. The labour movement must mobilise to drive the bacies off the streets Purze racists from positions in the bbot morement Ortunise full support for black self* The capisatiss palace are a ezess for the morking class. Support all demands to mezen tber 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 publicly. * 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 Repeal the Prevention of Terrorism Act. Political status for Organiser Alliance - groups are estabIrish Republican prisoners as a matter of urgency. * 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. movement. Automatic reselection of MPs during each parliament 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 socialist alternative in its place — rather than having our representatives run the system and waiting for crumbs from the tables Huddersfield. Contact Alan Brooke, 59 Magdale, Honley, Huddersfield HD7 2LX Durham. SO is sold at the Community Co-op, New Elvet.

York. Contact: 796027. SO is sold at Coney St on Saturday mornings, at the Community Bookshop, and outside the dole office most mornings.

Leeds. Contact Garth Frankland 623322. SO is sold at Books and Corner Books, Woodhouse Lane. Bradford. Contact Barry Turner 636994. SO is sold at the Starry Plough bookshop.

Sheffield. Meets every other Wednesday, 7.30pm at the Brown Cow, The Wicker. SO is gold outside WORKERS* STEEL POWER Middle Lane, conditions. for the unemployed.

management.

•Freeze rents and rates.

defeace. Build workers' defesee sarads.

MI5, etc.), public accountability, etc.

nursery and childcare provision. paid the average for the trade. of the bankers and the bosses. Supasave (Friday 4.30 to 6), the Co-op, Narborough id (Saturday 11-12.30), and at Blackthorne Books, High St.

Northampton. Meets every other Monday. Next meeting May 2: 'Socialists and the trade unions' • Details: contact 713606.

Nottingham. Meets every Friday, 7.30pm at the International Community Centre, 61b Mansfield Rd. SO is sold outside the Victoria Centre (Saturday 11 to 1) and at the Mushroom Bookshop, Heathcote St.

Oxford. SO is sold at the Cornmarket (Saturday 11 to 1) and outside Tesco, Cowley Rd, Friday 5 to 7. Also at EOA Books, Cowley Road.

Get be a supporter. -supporter/want more information. Name . i Address Send to Socialist Organiser, 28 Lane, London N8 8PL. sellers. SO is sold outside Books, and Reading Mat All Saints Church, Houns- ters (Wood Green Shoppin low High St, Saturday 10.30 Centre). am to 12. HARINGEY Socialists for a Haringey. Contact 802 Labour Victory organising 0771 or 348 5941. Meets meeting. Tuesday May 10, every other Thursday, 7.30, 8pm, 5 Stuart Crescent, Trade Union Centre, Bra- London N15. Speakers include Valerie Veness (PPC. bant Road.

Hornsey), Reg Race MP, Islington. Next meeting and Dolly Kiffin (Broadwater Farm Youth AssociaSunday May 8. For details and • for childcare, phone tion). Contact Peter KenNik, 278 1341. way, 348 5941. Tower Hamlets. Meets fortnightly on Fridays, 6.30 to 8.30pm. Contact 377 1328 for details.

Southwark/Lambeth. STOP Meets every other Wednesday at Lansbury House, 41 Camberwell Grove, SE5.

Business meeting 7.30pm, open forum discussion THEY SOLIDART CO 8.30pm. Next meeting May 11. Details next week.

LUCI

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