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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 monthiy 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 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 suppliere 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 fol hospitals, not a penny for 'defence'! Nationalise the banks and financial institutions, without compensation. End the interest burden on council housing and other public services.

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

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 attriks 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.

Become a supporter of the Socialist * The Irish people — as a whole - should have the right to determine their own future. Get the British troops out now!

Organiser Alliance - groups are estab- Repeal the Prevention of Terrorism Act. Political status for lished in most large towns. It costs Irish Republican prisoners as a matter of urgency. £1.50 a month (20p - unwaged) to * The black working people of South Africa should get full support from the British labour movement for their strikes, struggles and armed combat. against the white supremacist regime. South African goods aad services should be blacked.

I want to become a Socialist Organiser * It is essential to achieve the fullest democracy in the labour movement. Automatic reselection of MPs during each parliasupporter/want more information.

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, buman control over the economy, to make the decisive sectors of industry unscribe 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 Get be a supporter.

Name • Address Send to Socialist Organiser, Lane, London N8 8PL. conditions. for the unemployed. * Freeze rents and rates.

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Address I enciosi To: Sc London and outside Tesco, Cowley Rd., Friday 5-7. Also at EOA Books, Cowley Rd.

Basingstoke. Meets every other Friday, 7.30; at Chute House. Next meeting June 17.

North -West London. Readers' meeting first Sunday of month. Phone Mick, 624 1931, for details. SO is sold at Kilburn Books.

Hackney. Contact Andrew Hornung, 28, Carlton Mansions, Holmleigh Rd., N16.

Contact 802 5941. Meets By Alan Thornett icialist 'ganiser, N8 8PL. 7.30pm, Open Forum discussion 8.30pm.

South-East London. Contact via 28 Middle Lane, Lundon N8.

Newham. Contact via 28 Middle Lane, London N8.

Tower Hamlets. Meets fortnightly on Fridays, 6.30-8.30pm. Contact 377 1328 for details.

SO is sold at the following London Bookshops: Collets, Central Books, The Other Bookshop, Bookmarks, Bookplace [Peckham Rd., SE 15], Kilburn Books, and Reading Matters [Wood Green Shopping Centre].

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