STRIKE TES: TORIESSMASH

THE TORY government frontation with the wo rking class. Each day new sections of workers are forced to l ecome criminals — under Tory law - to defend their standard of cost of living.

Large sections of these answer to their fight to the creation of the industrial and political General Strike. That is, conditions which will for In its place must be elected a Labour government which is pledged by the mass action of the working class to implement socialist policies.

We say 'pledged to socialist policies' knowing tiat the present leaders of the Labour movement have no intention of introducing such policies. Indeed, in the last analysis some of them will be prepared to join a coalition government with the Tories to head off the working class.

But if the working class is strong enough to force the Tories out, it is strong enough to deal with the traitors in its own midst. This can only be achieved by: exposing them in the fight for alternative socialist policy.

The Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League calls upon the working class to support the following policies to unite the working class against the Tories and the present Wilson-Feather leadership of the labour movement:

Here is the policy which the next Labour government must be forced to carry out. 1) A Labour government must immediately repeal the Industrial Relations Act, Housing Finance Act, Immigration Acts, Fair Trading Act and all wage control. After the repeal of all Tory anti-working class measures, there must be legislation to implement the Charter of Basic Rights, along the following lines. 2) The right to work! Capitalism demands mass unemployment. The right to a job must THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Fill in the form below and send to NATIONAL Name Address. is relentlessly pursuing its plan for a con.

workers openly acknowledge that the only ce the government to resign.

be guaranteed. This can only be done by breaking the grip of capitalist ownership on the economy. Employed and unemployed must unite to insist on a Labour government nationalizing the main industries and banks, under workers' control and without compensation.

The struggle must begin now. No closures, no sackings, must be the policy of the trade unions. Occupation of factories threatened with closure, as part of the fight to bring down the Tories.

3) The democratic right to strike and to organize in trade unions. Only the organized working class can lead mankind out of the historical crisis. Every right and every gain won by the working class, every democratic right in Britain, has been won because of the organized strength of the unions and the strike weapon.

A Labour government must immediately repeal the Industrial Relations Act. This fight must begin now by forcing the TUC to break off all relations with the government and mobilize the working class to destroy state control of wages.

4) The right to defend rights won in the past and change the system. All the changes in legal procedures made by the Tory government must be repealed. All secret police and MIS organizations must be disabout banded and fully exposed. The secrets of the Tory administration in this sphere must be published. All rights to assembly, free speech and the Press must be guaranteed.

5) The right to a higher standard of living. It is not the living standards of trade unionists, but the profit system, which causes the crisis. The first step must be to expropriate all the great fortunes of the _rich, close down the Stock Exchange, place a state control over all movements of capital in and out of the country.

Nationalization of the basic industries and of all large companies, banks, building and insurance societies will provide the resources for a unified plan to improve the living standards of the whole people. Workers' control of these, as well as the present nationalized industries, will run them in the interests of the workers and consumers.

Again, the fight must begin now. State control of wages must be answered by the most widespread fight for wage increases to meet price rises and improve standards. This means a fight to remove the Tory government and change the union leadership. 6) The right to health and welfare benefits. Every Tory government cut in welfare benefits, in the health service and in all public spending must ANTI-TORY RALLY DEFEND ALL DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS Unite in action to make this Tory government resign Defend trade unionism and basic living standards sad to power is through the building of the revolutionary ¡UNDAY 3р.m. AT EMPIRE POO WEMBLEY SOUTHANTON AY:

STATE CONTROL WAGES be revoked. On the basis of nationalization, a crash programme of expansion of services to the unemployed, the low-paid, the sick and the aged must be undertaken as an absolute priority. The working class and the Labour government must take immediate and absolute responsibility for these victims of the capitalist 7) The right to decent housing. Decent housing is not a luxury; it is a necessity. People have the basic right to decent accommodation at rents they can afford. Nationalization of the handful of building monopolies and building societies will provide the basis for a massive programme of new house building. The disgraceful problem of the homeless the cities must be immediately solved by census and takingover of all unoccupied property.

8) The international responsibilities of the working class. The working class is international. We fight for the unrestricted right of any worker of any nationality to move freely through the world.

Withdraw the troops from Ireland. Unite the Irish and British working class to throw out the Lynch and Heath governments.

Unite in the struggle for the Socialist United States of Europe, the only alternative to AND PAGEANT OF HISTORY "ROAD TO WORKERS POWER"

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Withdraw all British troops from abroad and disband the present standing army.

Sign treaties with all ex-colonial countries for programmes of equal trade and mutual assistance, Break from NATO imperialist alliances.

For the carrying out of such policies the SLL fights setting up 0I Councils of Action to lead the struggle against the Tory government --=-00-in every area. These Councils unite trade unionists, tenants, unemployed, all political parties and tendencies of the working class (Labour_Party, Communist Party, SLL, IS, IMG, etc.) to fight against the main enemy, the Tory governThe SLI calls upon every socialist and class-conscious worker to consider this programme and manifesto verv carefully, and to decide now to take up their inescapable responsibilities. The building of the revolutionary party is the burning question now, not in some remote future. The SLI is determined to carry through its transformation into a revolutionary party.

We appeal to all readers of the Workers Press and our supporters to join the SLL and help transform it into a revolutionary party.

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