A Programme

We print below the outlines of a programme of demands, many of which have been put forward by the Revolutionary Marxist Group in the course of its activity in various fields of revolutionary struggle. Also, the content of the demands has been implicitin The Plough These are not intended to provide an absolute, or finished programme, but are the practical demands on the basis of which the ongoing In subsequent issues of SOCIALIST REPUBLIC we shall be expanding on the outlines of this programme.

1. Self-determination for Ireland; for the elimination of imperialism’s political and economic control in all parts of Ireland. 2. For the abolition of partition; for full democratic and civil rights and an end to all sectarian powers and the sectarian privileges based on them, and for equal housing and job opportunities. . 3. For the separation of Church and State: for a completely secular state, an end to Church control over education, an end to all 1. Against all forms of wage restraint; for a national minimum wage for all employees, for a national minimum income for all, for a maximum limit to professional earnings. For every percentage increase in the cost of living — based on a Consumer Price Index drawn up by the Trade Union movement — an equal percentage increase in real wages. 2. No unemployment; reduce working week with no loss of pay to ensure work for all; unemployment benefit should be equivalent 3. No redundancies; nationalise under workers’ control all firms which threaten to close and all foreign-owned and major native-owned firms (in the Six Counties, in as much as this would not hinder the anti-imperialist struggle); immediate withdrawal from the E.E.C. 4. For the independence of the Trade Union movement; for the withdrawal of trade union representatives from all joint labour, management and state bodies; no anti-trade union legislation; for the right of the Trade Union movement to organise freely North and South. Fight the betrayals of the Trade Union bureaucracy; organise at rank-and-file level to wage a real fight. Democratise the Trade Unions; all officials to be elected, subject to recall, and paid the average basic wage of their members. For the development and other RMG publications.

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