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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 conditions.

*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 *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 for the unem"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 committées. For occupation and blacking action to halt the closures. For nationalisation Socialist Organiser Annual General Meeting: Sunday *Make the bosses pay, not the working class. without compensation under workers' management. October 30, 10.30-5, County Hall, London SEI. National Socialist Organiser day-school. Saturday OctMillions 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.

*Scrap all immigration controls. Race is not a problem: racism is. The labour movement must about us!

mobilise to drive the fascists off the streets. Purge racists from positions in the labour movement. Organise full support for black self-defence. Build *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, MI5, etc), public accoun*Free abortion on demand. Women's equal right to work and full equality for women. Defend and extend free state nursery and childcare provision. *Against attacks on gays by the state: abolish laws which discriminate against lesbians and gay men; for the right of the gay community to organise *The Irish people -ás a whole - should have the right to determine their own future. Get the British troops out now! Repeal the Prevention of Terrorism Act. Political status for Irish Republican prisoners as *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 Party Fight *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 paid the *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 over the economy, to make the decisive sectors of industry 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 out a working class socialist alternative in its place -rather than having our representatives run the system and waiting for crumbs from the tables.of Socialist Organiser ployed. tability, etc. a matter of urgency. average for the trade. the bankers and bosses. to defend jobs and services. * Freeze rent and rates.

workers' defence squads. and affirm their stand publicly. and services should be blacked.

LIBERATION Network for People with Disabilities:

meeting to set up a steering group to establish a London resource centre: Saturday July 16, 2pm, Room B28, Morley College, 61 Westminster Bridge Rd, London SEI. Further info: contact Micheline Mason 01-673 4310 or Neil Harvey, 01-318 2002.

SILENCED Women: an evening presented by the Writers' Guild and Index on Censorship. Friday July 15, 7.30 at the Little Ship Club, Bell Wharf Lane, Upper Thames St, EC4.

SCOTLAND Glasgow. For details of meetings contact paper sellers or Stan Crooke, 300 Langside Rd, Glasgow G42.

SO is sold at Maryhill dole (Tuesday mornings) and Rutherglen shopping arcade (Friday lunchtime).

Edinburgh. For details of meetings ring Dave, 229 4591. SO is sold at 1 MuiThouse (Saturday 10.30-12) and the First of May bookshop, Candlemaker Row.

• NORTH-WEST Rochdale. Meets second Monday of the month, 8pm, Castle Inn, Manchester Road.

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.

Liverpool. Contact 733 6663 for details of meetings. SO is sold at Progressive Books, Berry St, and at News from Nowhere, Whitechapel.

Hyndburn. Contact Accrington 395753. Meetings weekly - see SO sellers for details. SO is sold at Broadway, Accrington, Saturdayş 11.30to 1pm.

Stoke. "Where is Chile going?" 21 July, 7.30 pm. WEA, Cartwright House, Broad Street, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. Local Chilean speaker, . former member Chilean Socialist • YORKSHIRE AND NORTH-EAST AUGUST delegation Ireland 1983. If you interested in joining delegation write to PO 353, London NW5 4NH.

Public meeting to inaugurate Birmingham Unemployed Workers Association. Speaker: Harry MeShane [active in Unemployed Workers Movement in the '30a].

Wednesday 27 July at 7.30 pm at Society of Friends Meeting House, Bull St., [by Lewis's).

LONDON Labour councils, CLPs, and trade unions agNext Socialist Organiser delegate tember 3, in Birmingham.

ober 29, in London.

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Huddersfield. Contact Alan Brooke, 59 Magdale, Honley, Huddersfield HD7 2LX.

Durham. SO is sold at the Community Со-op, New Elvet. Meetings 6.30pm Tuesdays, Student Bar, Dunelm House. Contact John, 43004.

Leeds. Contact Garth Frankland, 623322. SO is sold at Books and Corner Books, Woodhouse Lane. Sheffield. Meets every other Wednesday, 1.30pm, at the Brown Cow, The Wicker. SO is sold outside Boots, Fargate (Saturday to are the Box ORGANISER for called by Southwark Labour group. Sunday July 17, 11am, Southwark Town Hall. Delegates invited from CLPs, council Labour groups, and trade unions in London.

LABOUR Coordinating Committee conference: 'Has Socialiam a future?' July 22-24, Manchester Poly Student Union. Fee £12 waged, E6 unwaged, to LCC, 9 Poland St, London W1.

POLISH Solidarity Committee (Glasgow): working conference on the opiCampaign: 129 Seven Sisters Rd, London N7 7QG. (01-272 4298)

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