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hat we stand forW
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For the unions to take immediate action to implement their current
minimum wage demands, as a step towards a legal minimum of £8 an hour. No exemptions. |
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For an annual increase in the minimum wage, linked to average earnings. For a minimum income of £320 a week | |
Reject Welfare to Work; for the right to decent benefits, training or a job without compulsion. | |
A range of policies to achieve full employment including: the introduction of a maximum 35-hour week without loss of pay. A massive increase of public spending into healthcare, housing, education and community facilities. | |
Employment protection rights for all from day one of employment. | |
Scrapping the anti-union laws. Trade unions to be democratically controlled by members. Full-time officials should be regularly elected and receive the wage of an average worker. |
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No to the fat cats. Renationalise the privatised utilities under democratic working class control. |
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elfare |
For a living pension for all pensioners - with annual increases linked to average earnings. |
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Free, good quality education for all from nursery to university; with a living grant. Abolish fees now! |
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Rebuild the National Health Service, free at the point of use and under democratic control. |
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Decent housing, with affordable rents. End the housing crisis. |
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Defend abortion rights. For a women's right to choose when and whether to have children. |
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Major investment into a cheap, accessible, integrated, publicly owned transport system which meets the needs of the people and the environment. |
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ights|
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For the right to asylum. The scrapping of the Asylum and Immigration Bill and of all other racist laws. |
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An end to police harassment. For the abolition of the criminal Justice Act. Scrap Labour's Terrorism Act. No curtailment of jury trials. |
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An end to discrimination on the grounds of race, sex, sexuality, disability and all forms o prejudice. |
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ocialism|
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No to the euro. Oppose the bosses' European Union. For solidarity of the European working class. For a socialist Europe. |
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Take into public ownership the top 150 big companies, banks, building societies that dominate the economy. For them to be run under democratic working class control and management. Compensation to be paid on the basis of proven need. |
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Campaigning to form a new mass party of the working class. |
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An end to the rule of profit. For a socialist plan of production. For a socialist society and economy run to meet the needs of all whilst protecting our environment. |
