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We do not restrict our struggle for democratic demands to the parliamentary arena-on the contrary we have long maintained that the redundancies and closures are threatened, backed up by factory occupations. At the same time we fight for the creation of new jobs through the breaking of the Lib-Lab coalition and the demand for a programme of public works.
*The public spending cuts, that increase the oppression and exploitation of women, must be fought by the struggle for strike action, and the demand for a sliding scale of social service spending to protect against inflation.
The main obstacle in the fight for such policies is the bureaucratic leadership of the trade union and labour movement.
Only when drawn into the organised labour movement will women become part of the central task of overthrowing the bureaucracy and building a new revolutionary MOTTINGHAM DONT LET THEM GLOSE IT LET THEM CLOSE IT inquiry into the books and the finances of the council, and an end to secrecy surrounding the profits made by private business out of supplying the education service.
Shackles The nursery campaignwhich so obviously combines the fight to liberate women from the shackles of the family with the fight against the cuts-is a clear example of the way the struggle for women's rights connects up at each point with the fight for new leadership within the workers' movement as whole.
This political task which involves a break from mere protest and single issue campaigning is shirked by every tendency other than the Workers Socialist League.