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In their worcs. with no loss of pay. Start now with a 35 hour week and an end to overtime.
All firms threatening closure should be nationalised under workers' control.
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.
Freeze rents and rates.
Scrap all immigration controls. Race is not a problem; racism 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.
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 accountability, etc.
Free abortion and contraception on demand. Women's equal right to work, and full equality tor women.
Against attacks 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 to affirm their stance publicly.
The Irish people-as 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 a matter of urgency.
The black working people of South • Africa should get full support from the British labour movement for their strikes, struggies and armed combat against the white supremacist regime. South African goods and services should be blacked.
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 average for the trade....
Socialist Organiser aims to help build a class-struggle left wing in the trade unions and Labour Party, based on a revolutionary socialist platform..."
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