WSL programme for the CPSA

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= i Open the books of Build links with local campaigns IST R2= de: BEix it daimants' unions. Union democracy: For the election of all full-time officials! What right has Ken Thomas got to get up in public, launch witch-hunts and speak against Conference policy? Elected branch officers must have the right to take part in all negotiations between full timers and management.

No fraud officers!

DHSS: No more fraud officers! Take on extra staff to campaign for claimants to take up the £340 million of benefits which are unclaimed each year. Step a investigation of tax evasion and Frolit-swindling by private Employement Bill-keep up payments to strikers.

Pay: Break with Pay Research Unit now! For a sliding-scale of wages linked to inflation as assessed by elected committees of civil service trade unionists. This must be coupled to a big not m vast pay vimguig wo rice in hacir nav hrinaina tha lowest scale up to at least £80 per week.

Cuts: Create more jobs not fewer! As Thatcher's policies bite, the services provided by CPSA members are more and more urgently needed. Defend iobs and the interests of claimants and users of the civil service with strike action against the cuts. Fight closures with occupations_and supporting strikes.

Ftr : -UL SE :* Fi oe full pay! The 35 hour week d emand is important but is not an end in itself. Only a true slidin g-scale of hours can soak up the unemployed and protect the conditions of CPSA members.

Inquiry

Immigration: No to immigration controls! Set up a major inquiry into CPSA members' involvement in implementing such laws. Black any such work. Black racist instructions in all DHSS codes, etc.

Fascism: CPSA branches must take a lead in setting up workers на MeLe WARLIMLAYU. HALLELE defence squads to drive off fascists leafleting dole offices. Ireland: Campaign in the labour movement at local and national levels to raise the demands for troops out, for self-determination and for political status for the H-block prisoners.

Women's rights: Fight for free abortion on demand and commit the CPSA to oppose all state nursery cuts and join campaigns for a massive extension of state nurseries as opposed to workplace creches. The majority of CPSA members are womenthey are part of the working class not'an autonomous section of society with their own special "problems" and "issues"

Reaffiliate

Labour Party: Reaffiliate to the Labour Party! Use our political control to kick out Callaghan and Healey as one part-of the battle to destroy reformism in the working class.

Links with other unions: For a united front with the other civil service unions, especially the SCPS! But no to a merger with the SCPS. CPSA members have shown a growing willingness to fight and management caucuses within the union can only sap this strength.

Workers control: Only a civil service un by the workers themselves can meet the needs of those workers and the rest of society.

As government employees this means a fight also for a workers' government growing out of councils of action thrown up in mass struggles against both Tory attacks and Labour sell-outs. part in the campaign and not necessarily win."

A decision was made to stand Redder Tape candidates in the 1980 election against the Broad Left, and a list was drawn up.

However two of the best known Redder Tape supporters, Mike McGrath (who was on the NRC for a year in 1976-77) and Bobby McLean declined to stand as they didn't feel they had a strong enough base in their workplaces.

Over the last three years many of their original supporters have gone over to the Broad Left and one of their founder members is now a full time officer.

In this year's elections CPSA members must, vote for the Broad Left list, as it is essential that the anti-union right wing "moderates" do not get in.

But if the Broad Left are elected, a renewed fight will be necessary to get them to organise all-out strike action against the. Tory cuts and Employment Bill.

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