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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 strugzies 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 axainst infiation by autnmatic inflation-proofing of expenditure. For occupations and supporting strike action to defend jobs and services. * End unemployment. Cut hours, not jobs. Fisht for a 35 hour week and an end to overtime. Demand work-sharing without loss of pay. Organise the unemployed - campaign lor 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 supptlers 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 fox hospitais, 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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* ScraD all immieration controls. Race is not a Droblem: racism is. The labour movement must mobilise to drive the fascists off the streets. Purge racists trom positións in the labour movement. Organise full support for black self-defence. Build worke»' defence squads. * The capitalist pol.- : 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 ray 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. * The black working people of South Africa should get full £1.50 a month (20p - unwaged) to 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 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 urzent need to establish rational, democrație, human control over the economy, to make the decisive sectors of industry social property. under workers' control. The strenath of tha. 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.

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nursery and childcare provision. paid the average for the trade. of the bankers and the bosses. -- →-wa 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.

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