Our Policies
Socialist Press1979 1979-10-31Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 4 →
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*Factories, hospitals, schoois, nurseries threatened with closure must be occupied to provide the focus for the struggle to defend all jobs and services.
Fight for supporting strike action!
*Open the books of those employers that threaten redundancies or refuse wage increases claiming they can't pay. Elected union committees must show the links between private employers, and their relationship with the banks, suppliers and contractors as the basis for the fight back.
*No redundancies! Fight for work sharing without loss of pay, under the control of elected trade union committees.
*Open the books of the public services and nationalised industries to elected labour movement committees! Unmask and fight for the nationalisation of these private suppliers bankers and contractors profiteering while vital services are slashed! Expose the inadequacy of state health and education provision! Fight for the restoration of all cuts and the protection of public service spending against inflation through a sliding scale of spending based on figures compiled by the fabour movement.
*End unemployment! For a crash programme of useful public works under workers' management to provide work for the unemployed. For a shorter working week and a massive programme of training for adult workers and youth.
*Defend living standards! Protect wages against inflation through cost-of-living clauses in all agreements to provide increases to keep pace with rising prices as assessed by elected committees of trade unionists and housewives. For equal protection to unemployment and sickness benefit, social security, grants and pensions!
*Bring down the Tories! Prepare mass action to force Thatcher's government out of office. Build councils of action in each area to link struggles on cuts, closures, and pay battles. Kick out the Labour, traitors! Demand that those who claim to oppose the Tory offensive lead a fight for socialist policies or stand exposed.
*For a socialist planned! economy! None of these policies can be achieved while: the crisis-ridden capitalist system of production for private. profit continues to rule the lives of the working class. Fight for the nationalisation of major industry and the banks, without compensation, under workers" management. Carlisle