Socialist Organiser

The weekly of the fused Workers Socialist League, July 1981 to April 1984

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Socialist Organiser no. 134, 2 June 1983 · scan pp. 12–13 · about 772 words

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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 interterence in our unions! No to any wage eurbs. 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 básis 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 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 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.

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

racist 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. * 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 attr :ks 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 pablicly. 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 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 reselectior 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, democrațic, human control over the economy, to make the decisive sectors of industry social property, under workers' contröl. The strength of the labour movement lies in the rank and file. Our perspective must be working class action to raze the capitalist systern 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.

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