Where we stand
Socialist Organiser1982 1982-01-07Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 14 →
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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 state * The capitalist police are an enemy for the working class. interference in our unions! No to any wage curbs. Labour Support all demands to weaken them as a bosses' striking must support al struggles for better living standards and 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 organisations, as the basis for clauses in all wage agreements *Free abortion on demand. Women's equal right to work and full equality for women. Defend and extend free state * Against attacks on gays by the state: abolish all laws which of living for the working class. The same inflation-proofing discriminate against lesbians and gay men; for the right of the should apply to state benefits, grants and pensions. gay community to organise and affirm their stand publicly. * Fight for improvements in the social services, and against cuts. Protection for those services against inflation by auto- determine their own future. Get the British troops out now! The Irist people - as a whole - should have the right to matic inflation-proofing of expenditure. For occupations and Repeal the Prevention of Terrorism Act. Political status for * End unemployment. Cut hours, not jobs. Fight for a 35 bour week and an end to overtime. Demand work-sharing * The black working people of South Africa should get full Irish Republican prisoners as a matter of urgency. support from the British labour movement fox their strikes, for a programme of useful public works to create new jobs 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 parliament and the election by annual conference of party leaders. * Defend all jobs! Open the books of those firms that threat- en closure or redundancies, along with those of their suppl- Annual election of all trade union officials, who should be lers and bankers blacking action blacking action to halt the closures. For nationalisation without compensation under workers' now - in Britain and throughout the world - show the urgent need to establish rational, democratic, human control * The chaos, waste, human suffering and misery of capitailso social property, under workers' control. The strength of the hospitals, not a penny for 'defence"! Nationalise the banks labour movement lies in the rank and file. Our perspective must be working class action to raże the capitalist system Interest burden on council housing and other public services. down to its foundations, and to put a working class socialist alternative in its place - rather than having our represent* Scrap all Immigration controls. Race is not a problem; atives run the system and waiting for crumbs from the tables racism is. The labour movement must mobilise to drive the fascists off the streets. Purge racists from positions in the conditions. for the unemployed.
management.
* Freeze rents and rates. to elected trade union committees.
not the working class. Millions for defence. Build workers' defence squads.
MI5, etc.), public accountability, etc.
nursery and childcare provision. paid the average ior the trade. of the bankers and the bosses.