Where we stand
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-05-19Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 12 →
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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 inflațion-proofing 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-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 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 banis and financial institutions, without compensation. End the Interest burden on council housing and other public services.
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* Scrap all immigration controls. Race is not a problem; racism is. The labour movement must mobilise to drive the fescists off the streets. Purge racists from positions in the 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 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 labou I want to become a Socialist Organiser 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, democrațic, 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 do to its foundations, and to put a working class socialist desatie i its place - ratber than having our representstives run the systera and waiting for crumbs from the tables • YORKSHIRE 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. SU 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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nursery and childcare provision. paid the average for the trade. of the bankers and the bosses. support for black selfNottingham. 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. Meets every other Tuesday, 7.30 at 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 29, 6pm to 7.30 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 Matters (Wood Green Shopping Centre).
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