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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.