windrew revenue Labour GLC should be campaigning now for a series of demands to be taken up by the labour movement be adopted manifesto that the Labour Party will fight on at the next election. • For a free transport system. • For an efficient transport system that meets the needs of working people. This means expanding the services, running more buses and tubes. More workers should be employed on decent wages without overtime. • Don't make the workers pay for the service. Rates and rents should be frozen - if not reduced. The money has to come from central covetamen. This implies a whole set of difJerent priorities in public spending, where socially useful products are put before weapons of destruction.
Payments of interest on debt have gone up enormously. It was £2bn in 1970. But this year it was £15bn which is higher than we have spent either on national health or on the education services.
Margaret Thatcher, prime speaking in the Commons, 4 March 1982.
• Nationalise the banks and finance houses. For every pound the GLC has to spend, it repays 38p to the finance houses in interest. The system. The Labour GLC tried to do so, and failed. An all-out attack on the institutions of the capitalist class is the only real alternative to the crisis. Jrom London Transport.
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March. Wednesday 10 March day strike workforce Thursday 11 March • GLC mass lobby Meetings in Central Hall at 3pm and 6pm Friday 12 March • It's worse for women! Special women's meeting or a Richardson MIP: Valerie Nise, LCris Get Central Hall, Westminster, 7.30pm. Speakers: woman guard; Julia Stone, bus conductor: Sarah Roeloffs. Women's Fare Fight.
Saturday 13 March • Keep Fares Fair: rally and entertainment from 1pm at County Hall South Yorkshire transport authorihas, mass agreed to keep the fares frozen at 1975 prices. In real terms this is equivalent to virtually halving the fares up to 1979. of London Transport
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