What we stand for:
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*The Trade Unions to take immediate action to implement their current minimum wage demands as a step towards a legal minimum of £8 per an hour. With no exceptions. For an annual increase in the minimum wage, linked to average earnings. For a minimum income of £320 per week.
*Reject 'Welfare to Work'. For the right to decent benefits, training or a job for all without compulsion.
*Policies for full employment including: a 35 hour week without loss of pay; a massive public spending increase for health, housing, education, childcare, leisure and community facilities.
*Employment protection rights for all, from day one of employment.
*Scrapping all anti-union laws. Trade unions to be democratically controlled by members. Full-time Union officials should be regularly elected and should receive the average wage.
* No to the fat cats. Renationalisation of the utilities under democratic workers control.
*Free high quality education for all from nursery to university with a living grant. Abolish fees now!
* The right of all pupils to be able to opt for Welsh or English medium education at an accessible school.
*No closure of English medium schools to create Welsh medium schools. Build new schools!
*For a living pension for all pensioners - with annual increases linked to average earnings.
* Rebuild the NHS, free at the point of use and under democratic control.
*Defend abortion rights. For women's right to choose whether and when to have children.
*Decent housing with affordable rents. End the housing crisis.
*Major investment in a cheap, accessible, integrated and environmentally friendly publicly owned transport system.
*For the right to asylum. Scrapping of the Asylum Act and of all racist laws.
*An end to police harassment. For the abolition of the Criminal Justice Act and the so-called 'anti-terrorism bill'. No curtailment of jury trials.
*An end to discrimination on the grounds of race, gender, sexuality or disability.
*The Welsh and English languages to have equal legal rights. All major companies which provide services to the public to provide choice of use of Welsh language.
*Campaigning to form a new mass party of the working class
*Building unity of socialist, community and environmental groups in Wales.
*The Welsh Assembly to be given full legislative and financial powers, including powers to take over firms threatening redundancy.
*Take into public ownership the top companies that control the Welsh economy, under democratic workers control and management. Compensation only on the basis of proven need.
*For a socialist Wales as part of a socialist alliance of Wales, England, Scotland and Ireland.
*For solidarity of the European working class. No to Maastricht and the bosses' European Union.
*For a Socialist Europe.