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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 oxganisations, 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-prooting should 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-prooting of expenditure. For occupations and supportine strike action to defend jobs and services. : * End unemployment, Cut hours, not jobs. Fight fox a 35 boux week and an end to overtime. Demand work-sharing without loss of pay. Organise the unemployed - campaign for a propramme of useful public works to create new jobs * Defend all jobs! Open the books of those firms that threat en closure or redundancies, along with those of their suppliers and bankers, to elected trade union committees. For occupation and blacking action to halt the closures. 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;

racism is. The labour movement must mobilise to drive the ORGANISED.

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 ther 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 atticks 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. * 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 i working class socialist, alternative in its place i rather than having our representatives run the system and waiting i rna try 1he tabies • NORTH-WEST Wirral. Contact Colin Johnstone, 1 Wellington Rd, Wallasey. Next meeting: Thursday May 12, 8pm, at the Labour Club, Church Rd, Seacombe: 'Democracy Liverpool: Contact 733 6663. SO is sold at Progressive Books, Berry St, and at News from Nowhere, Whitechapel.

Manchester. SO is sold at Grass Roots Books, Newton St, Piccadilly. Contact: 273 6654.

Stockport. Contact c/o 38 Broadhurst St. Meetings every Sunday, 7.30pm: phone 429 6359 for details. SO is sold at Stockport market every Saturday, 11 to 12.30.

Hates: £5 for three months, £8.75 for six months, and £16 for a year Bundle of 5 eacii week:

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To: Socialist London N8 8PL. By Alan Thornett i ORGANISER tunt out against bosses' offensive Middle • YORKSHIRE AND NORTH-EAST Huddersfield. Contact Alan Brooke, 59 Magdale, Honley, Huddersfield HD7 2LX Durham. SO is sold at the Community Co-op, New Elvet.

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 sold outside Boots, Fargate (Saturday 12 to 1) and the Independent Bookshop, Glossop Rd. Contact: Rob, 589307.

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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 Rd.

Basingstoke. Public meeting May 16: 'Is a Socialist Revolution Possible in Britain?' 7.30, Chute House.

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Address Send to Socialist Organiser Lane, London N8 8PL. Haringey. Contact 802 0771 or 348 5941. Meets every other Thursday, 7.30, Trade Union Centre, Brabant Road.

Hounslow. Next meeting Sunday May 22,. John O'Mahony on 'Socialist Organiser and organising the left'. For venue see SO sellers. SO is sold outside All Saints Church; Hounslow High St, Saturday 10.30am to 12.

Islington. Next meeting Sunday May 15, 6pm to 7.30pm at Caxton House, St John's Way: business meeting. For childcare phone Nik, 278 1341. SO is sold at the following London bookshops: Colletts, Central Books, The Other Bookshop, ' Bookmarks, Bookplace (Peckham Rd, SE15), Kilburn Books, and Reading Malters (Wood Green Shupping Centre).

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