☭ Fight for jobs, homes, fair benefits and a living wage for all
• organise to defend the unemployed, the homeless, families threatened with homelessness, the low paid, pensioners
• fight the Jobseeker’s Allowance
• end all means-testing
• for a decent minimum pension linked to the rise in average pay
• for the restoration of full housing benefit to single people
• fight the anti-trade union laws
☭ Fight for good education for all
• abolish the public school system and the grant-maintained school system
• abolish all forms of selection
• restore free school milk and dinners for all primary school children
• reverse all cuts in local library services
☭ Fight for a decent health service
• end the NHS internal market
• abolish GP fundholding
• abolish the Private Finance Initiative
• end the compulsory tendering of services
• end all prescription charges, and all charges for eye tests and dental treatment
☭ Defend democratic rights
• re-instate the right to silence
• repeal the Prevention of Terrorism Act, the Public Order Act, the Criminal Justice Act, the Security Services Act and the Police Act
• re-instate the right to challenge jurors
• immediate repeal of all anti-gay and anti-lesbian legislation
☭ Fight for women’s rights and an end to discrimination on grounds of sexuality
• state subsidised nurseries and child care available to all who want it
• full employment and pension rights for all regardless of length of time in a job
• the right to abortion on demand
☭ Fight to defend the environment!
• stop the roads programme
• for a cheap and integrated public transport system
• emergency action to conserve world resources
☭ Fight racism!
• repeal all immigration controls and repeal the Asylum Act
• self-defence is no offence – fight racist attacks
• defend all under attack from the racist police and courts
☭ Fight imperialism!
• oppose British occupation of Ireland: troops out now!
• oppose British imperialist collaboration with Zionism and Turkish fascism
• oppose imperialist threats against Iraq and Libya – hands off the Middle East! Self-determination for Kurdistan!
• support liberation movements in all oppressed nations
• oppose the US blockade of Cuba
FIGHT RACISM! FIGHT IMPERIALISM! 136 ELECTION SPECIAL APRIL/MAY 1997
