Rights | Socialist Action 1983

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This means that the left must want strengthen social and economic rights that working people in the USSR possess: full employment and cheap food, nominal transport plentiful and cheap cultural facilities, an ambitious housing programme, rising wages, egalitarianism distribution.

The point is not how fully all these points are at present implemented or • high living standards are at pre sent. strengthen these things.

Again, this is not only a matter of general principle: the more these social rights are strengthened in the USSR, the greater difficulty the bourgeoisies in Western Europe obliterating what welfare rights exist in the capitalist world.

Soviet aid to those in the Third World trying to break out stranglehold of imperialism to be creased and not diminished. And this too depends upon pressing ahead with policies designed to positive domestic features of the Soviet So how can the left achieve these aims?n the first place DI tooth nail against mia pressure of theS the structures domestic policy and policy towards

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Socialist Action 6 April 1984 The scriptures forbid you to