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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 defend 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' * Make the bosses pay, not the working class. Millions for 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.

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* 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 attreks 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 Organiser Alliance - groups are estab- determine their own future. Get the British troops out now! 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 and services should be blacked.

I want to become a Socialist Organiser * It is essential to achieve the fullest democracy in the labour supporter/want more information. 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 Send to Socialist Organiser, 28 Middle over the economy, to make the decișive sectors of industry Subscribe 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 and the First of May bookshop, Candlemaker Row.

• NORTH-WEST Rochdale. Meets second Monday of the month, 7.30pm Castle inn.

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, 11-12.30.

Wirral. Contact Colin Johnstone, 1, Wellington Rd., Wallasey.

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Lane, London N8 8PL. ett, 151, Broadway Meir, Stoke-on-Trent (328 198). • 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: Meetings 6.30pm Tuesday, Student Bar, Dunelm House. Contact John, 43004.

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. Wholefood, Gibbet St., and at Tower Books, Hebden Bridge.

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

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• MIDLANDS Birmingham. Meets alternate Fridays, 7.30pm, the Hen and Chickens, Consticonditions. for the unemployed.

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* Freeze rents and rates.

MI5, etc.), public accountability, etc.

nursery and childcare provision. paid the average for the trade. of the bankers and the bosses. Basingstoke. Open meeting Tuesday July 5: 'Where We Stand'. Business meetings July 1, 15, 29. All meetings 7.30 at Chute House. SO is sold at 'Good News' in London Street.

• LONDON 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.

Haringey. 0771 or 348 Rates: £5 for.

three months, £8.75 for six montns, ana £16 for a year.

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London N8 8P L. Contact 802 5941. Meets Out aosin By Alan Thornett.

7.30pm, Open Forum discussion, 8.30pm.

Next meeting July 6: Bob Sutcliffe speaks on his new book, 'Hard Times': South-East London. Contact via 28 Middle Lane, London N8.

Newham. Contact via 28 Middle Lane, Lundon 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].

By Alan Thornet!

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