THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

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MEDITATION.

In Monday's 'Film 72' the latest film from Kr 'The Savage Messia reviewed. 8.30 THE WORLD ABOUT US. THE WORLD ABOUT Man is My Name. A film Man is My Name. A by Pierre Gaisseau. MARY. Rhymes Reasons. Mary Travers. THE ROADS DOM.

LATER NIGHT LINE-UP. Protest or Anarchy? Athony Wedgwood Benn, MP v William Rees-Mogg on the right of groups or individuals to challenge the law.

SUMMARY. Weather. DYING'. Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter. A psychopathic killer is determined no one will stand in the way of his ambition. WHO DO YOU DO?

COUNTRY MATTERS. Crippled Bloom. Joss Ackland, Pauline Collins, Anna Cropper.

OLYMPICS 72.

ELEVEN PLUS.

ADDICTION.

hated Tory Act works ON OCTOBER 2, millions of council tenants all over Britain will have to pay another f1 on their rents under the hated Tory Housing 'fair rents' Finance Act.

The Act is aimed consciously at destroying the basic right to decent housing at reasonable rents. Like_ unemployment, the Industrial Relations Act, and rising prices, the Act forms part of the Tories' attempt to drive down the living standards of the working class.

In the next period municipal housing will be eliminated and every worker subject to property sharks if he wants decent Only 40 Labour councils are refusing to implement the Act. Another 345 have collapsed before the Tories and will pass on the rent increases. The Labour leadership, led by Anthony Crosland, told local councils they could do what they liked. Between them they have perpetrated a gross betrayal of the working class.

The Housing Finance Act and its Scottish equivalent will:

• Impose an obligation on local councils and new town corporations to impose a 'fair' rent for the first time. A 'fair' rent is one geared to market value-in other PHILIP WADE words, what private landlords would charge.

Average rents will double on the_ government's own estimate. In London, rents of £3.50 (plus rates) will rise to over £7 (plus rates. • Following next month's £l increase, rents will rise 75p next year and go on rising until the 'fair rent' level is reached.

• The rents will be fixed by a committee of property men and lawyers and there will be no appeal from their decisions.

• Subsidies to local councils rom the government for housing -now about £200m a year-will be run down.

• Councils refusing to operate the Act can be stripped of their housing powers which will be taken over by a Tory-appointed Commissioner. Councillors can be fined and surcharged for failing to put rents up.

• The hated means test will be imposed on a universal basis for those wanting rebates. It will be assessed on gross earnings of the highest-paid member of the family. The effect will be to cut when wages rise. • Housing revenue accounts will move into surplus and half of this will be taken by the government. In three or four years tenants will be paying an extra £500m in rents.

• Private tenants—1.3 million of them living in controlled properties—will find their tenancies decontrolled beginning next January and their rents doubled.

Undoubtedly tens of thousands of tenants will refuse to pay the increases next month and launch rent strikes instead.

But there is a grave danger they will be isolated and led into actions which can way restore the basic rights to housing. No amount of disorganized protest will defeat the Tories.

The real question is the construction of Councils of Action to mobilize tenants alongside trade unionists and other sections of the working class in a campaign to force the Tory government to resign.

Only the return of a Labour government pledged to socialist policies of nationalization under workers' control and without compensation of the land, building industry and building societies can restore tenants' basic rights.

Soclalist Labour League LECTURES THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MAR:

given by G. HEALY (SLL national -ONDON Marxism as the theory ledge Sunday September 17 Development of Marxism through working-class struggle Sunday September 24 Nature of the capitalist crisis Sunday October 1 Historical materialism Sunday October 8 EAST HAM TOWN HALL Lister Room Barking Rd, 7 -IVERPOOL Development of Mar (1s m through working-class s uggle Tuesday September 12 Nature of the capitalist Tuesday September 19 Historical materialism today Tuesday September 26 AEU HOUSE Mount Pleasant Liverpool 1, 7.30 ALL TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE MEETINGS BRACKNELL: Monday September 11, 8 p.m. Priestwood Community Centre.

HULL: Monday September 11, 7.30 p.m. Church Hall, Wayne Road, Bransholme (opp 'The Swallow'). 'Fighting the Tories' Rent Act.' MEDWAY: Wednesday September 13, 8 p.m. 'The Greyhound' Rochester Avenue, Rochester. 'Defeat the anti-union laws. Force the Tories to resign.' PRESTON: Wednesday September 13, 8 p.m. 'Railway and Commercial', Butler Street, near railway station. Victory to the builders' SOUTH EAST LONDON: Thursday September 1972 PAGE SPECIAL ATUA MEETINGS LONDON:

Inaugural meeting entertainments and unions.

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 17, 7 p.m. 'The crisis of technolo! and unemployment.' SHAFTESBURY HOTEL MONMOUTH STREET, WC2.

Speakers: Roy Battersk (ACTT. In person capacity).

A London KENT:

SEPTEMBER •Victory to the Creffiel Defeat the anti-union laws.

Make the Tories resign.' THE GEORGE AND DRAGON SHIPBOURNE ROAD TONBRIDGE, KENT.

LIVERPOOL SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 17, 10.30 a.m. 'Crisis in the car ind try. Fight for the right work.' STORK HOTEL QUEEN'S SQUARE of t pre