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'Organise the left to beat back the Tories' attacks! fo to attacks on union rights; defend the picket ine; no state interference in our unions! No to any rage curbs. Labour must support all struggles for etter living standards and conditions. Wage rises should at the very least keep up with wice, increases. For a price index calculated by vorking class organisations, aș the basis for clauses n all wage agreements to provide automatic nonthly rises in line with the true cost of living for he working class. The same inflation-proofing hould apply to state benefits, grants and pensions. Fight for improvements in the social services, and gainst cuts. Protection for those services against aflation by automatic inflation-proafing of expen"ture. For occupations and supporting strike action End unemplayment. Cut hours, not jobs. Fight for 35 hour week and an end to overtime. Demand fork-sharing without loss of pay. Organise the employed:- campaign for a programme of useful ublic works to create new jobs for the unemDefend all jobs! Open the books of those firms yat threaten closure or redundancies, along with rose of their suppliers and bankers, to elected trade nion committees. For occupation and blacking ¿tion to halt the closures. For nationalisation rithout compensation under workers', management. Make the bosses pay, not the working class. lilions for hospitals, not a penny for 'defence"! lationalise the banks and financial institutions, rithout compensation. End the interest burden on runci housing and other public services.

Scrap all immigration controls. Race is not a roblem: racism is. The labour movement must robilise to drive the fascists off the streets. Purge ucists from positions in the labour movement. rganise fúll support for black self-defence. Build The capitalist police are an enemy for the working ass. Support all demands to weaken them as a osses' striking force: dissolution of special squads PG, Special Branch, MI5, etc), public accounFree abortion on demand. Women's equal right to ork and full equality for women. Defend and *tend free state nursery and childcare provision. Against attacks on gays by the state: abolish all ws which discriminate against lesbians and gay en; for the right of the gay community to organise The Irish people - as a whole - should have the sht to determine their own future. Get the British Dops out nów! Repeal the Prevention of Terrorism it. Political status for Irish Republican prisoners as The black working people of South Africa should it full support from the British labour movement ir their strikes, struggles and armed combat against e white supremacist regime. South African goods t is essential to achieve the fullest democracy in e labour movement. Automatic reselection of MPs wing each Parliament and the election by annual inference of party leaders. Annual election of all ade union officials, who should be paid the The chaos, waste, human suffering and misery of pitalism now - in Britain and throughout the orld - show the urgent need to establish rational, Imocratic, human control over the economy, to ake the decisive sectors of industry social propty, under workers' control. The strength of the bour movement lies in the rank and file. Our Irspective must be working class action to raze the pitalist system down to its foundations, and to it a working class socialist alternative in its place -ther than having our representatives run the stem and waiting for crumbs from the tables of eicester Socialist Organiser day school b defend jobs and services.

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Freeze rent and rates.

orkers' defence squads.

bility, etc.

ad affirm their stand publicly.

matter of urgency.

id services should be blacked.

erage for the trade. e bankers and bosses.

sturday February 18, 10am • 4pm at the LUCA centre, 2 Rutland Street wan wart. genda includes: Fighting to hange the labour movement liddle East, Central America ad Ireland, combatting cism, campaigning for aclear disarmament. MURRAY MUST 'Murray Must Go' - from 'Mole Badges' c/o 28 Middle Lane. 25p each.

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