THE TORIES have opted for a 9 June cut-and-run before policies result in electoral unpopularity.
By the editor But the labour movement should welcome this opportunity to deal blow against the Tories and their Liberal/SDP allies. There are three steps to this goal.
Kick out the Tories! The Tories must be defeated! Another term of office for Thatcher mean: • the implementation of the Police Bill - a further step towards a police state. • a new round of Tebbit's attacks on unions • the stationing of cruise missiles and the beginning of a new generation of nuclear weapons with Trident • continuation policies. that put profits their before people — continumore ing mass unemployment, cuts in services and selling off profitable parts of the public sector.
For a Labour victory! would Labour can win! That's the lesson of the local government Where the Labour Party waged a determined and principled against the Alliance, as in Liverpool, victories can be won.
The Tories defeated action as the workers showed this year. That's why ongoing acof March, redundancies elections.
campaign ment, black can be through mass have water guidelines tion around the People's Fight the campaign against the Police Bill, the industrial action against in British Leyland should not be called off but stepped up year! tionist These issues have to be put at the centre of the campaign.
Labour should link up with these campaigns -with the women's movemovement and workers in struggle.
Socialists for Labour Vicproduced for local Labour Parties to help them to do just that.
for socialist policies! There must be no retreat by the Labour on the socialist policies passed by Labour and trade conferences over the past In particular there must be a clear pledge from all sections of the Labour Party leadership and from their union backers that coalipacts with the SDP/Liberal won't be used to junk those policies.
The national economic assessment mustn't be allowed to be used as a Trojan horse for a new social contract as Denis Healey has already threatened.
By fighting for socialist policies we can prepare to meet whatever government emerges from the general election. VOTE THATCHER has not given us much time to prepare the campaign.
We want all our supporters out on the streets fighting for a victory: building the May 24th women's day of action against the bomb, the campaign against and making we offer the People's March for Jobs turns massive rebuff for everything the Tories stand for.
Sales In the weeks ahead, the sales of SOCIOLAY Action rocket.
We hope the extra ingeneralca by the campaign result in hundreds of new regular readers who will go on fighting for socialist policies whatever the eventual outcome of the election.
To help do this, and to help build a socialist campaign, we want to produce loads of extra publicity.
We want to produce a pamphlet, explaining Socialist Action's views on why socialist policies are needed.
Posters We want to produce posters and thousands of badges saying Jobs Not Bombs! Vote Labour!' We will be holding rallies in the big citie with speakers.
To do this we need more than our usual Spring Appeal. We are asking supporters to make a special effort this week to send us money to help fight the Tories.
Quick We would like to get at least a tenner from each of you to help kick Thatcher out. as we want Thatcher ou quick we your money in quick!
Surely it's worth a little CAL boost Socialist Action through the election? Dig in deep. Get those tenners pour ing in!
• Ho Socialist Action 13 May 1983
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