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* Organise the left to beat back the Tories' attacks! No to labour movement. Organise full support for black attacks on union rights; defend the picket-line; no siate interference in our unions! No to any wage curbs. Labour * The capitalist police are an enemy for the working class. must support all struggles for better living standards and Suppori all demands to weaken them as a bosses' striking force: dissolution of special squads (SPG, Special Branch, * Wage rises should at the very least keep up with price increases. For a price index calculated by working class *Free abortion on demand. Women's equal right to work and organisations, as the basis for clauses in all wage agreements equality for women. Defend and extend free state to provide automatic monthly rises in line with the true cost of living for the working class. The same inflation-proofing * Against attacks on gays by the state: abolish ali laws which should apply to state benefits, grants and pensions. discriminate against lesbians and gay men; for the right of the * Fight for improvements in the social servires. and against gay community to organise and affirm their stand publicly. cuts. Protection for those services against inflation by auto- * The Irish people — as a whole - should have the right to matic inflation-proofing of expenditure. For oceupations and determine their own future. Get the British troops out now! supporting strike action to defend jobs and services. Repeal the Prevention of Terrorism Act. Political status for * End unempioyment. Cut hours, not jobs. Fighi for a 35 Irish Republican prisoners as a matter of urgency. bour week and an end to overtime. Demand work-sharing * The black working people of South Africa should get full without loss of pay. Organise the unemployed - campaign support from the British iabour movement for their strikes, tor a programme of useful public works to create new jobs struggies 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* Defend all jobs! Open the books of those firms that threat- ment and the election by annual conference of party leaders. en closure or redundancies, along with those of their suppi- Annual election of all trade union officials, who should be iers and bankers, to elected trade union committees. For occupation and blacking action to halt the closures. For * The chaos, waste, human suffering and misery of capitalism nationalișation withont compensation under workers' now — in Britain and throughout the world - show the urgent need to establish rational, democratic, human control * Make the bosses pay, not the working class. Millions for over the economy, to make the decisive sectors of industry hospitals, not a penny for 'defence'! Nationalise the banks social property, under workers' control. The strength of the and financial institutions, without compensation. End the labour movement lies in the rank and file. Our perspective interest burden on council housing and other public services. must be working class action to raze the capitalist system down to its foundations, and to put a working class socialist * Scrap all immigration contróls. Race is not a problem; alternative in its place — rather than having our representracism is. The labour movement must mobilise to drive the atives run the system and waiting for crumbs from the tables fascists off the streets. Purge racists from positions in the strengthened to know that trade unionists had been with them.

Earlier in the week: e packed meeting called by the Charles Wootton Centre had heard black youths call on the trade unions to use their strength so that in future riots will be unneces unnecessary.

Joint

The meeting brought together many community groups to set up a joint committee to coordinate future responses to the attacks of the police. Repres entatives of the shopkeepers' organisation set up i0 the aftermath of the riots to jointly seek compensation for the damage, were present at the meeting, though there was some jeering from the youth.

A split can be avoided by the Defence Committee supporting the small shopkeepers' demands for compensation, and pointing out to them that they have the same interest as the unempl oyed youth in fighting to bring down the Tory government. Otherwise there is a danger of the extreme right wing gaining support among the shopkeepers. conditions. fox the unemployed. management.

* Freeze rents and rates. defence. Build workers' defence squads.

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