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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 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 delend 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 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' and financial institutions, without compensation. End the interest burden on council housing and other public services. * Scrap all immigration controls. Race is not & problem; 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.

Fighting back! * 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 attr ks on gays by the state: abolish all laws which discriminațe 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 Irish Republican prisoners as a matter of urgency. 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.

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