passed over for training or promotion.
Since 1979 the Tories have maternity grant, making it a means-tested benetit. Compare this to Luxembourg, which awards a £735 maternity grant to all women. The Tories have also tightened the rules governing eligibility for maternity leave -many women now face the sack if they leave to have a aby, and rely solely or enefits of $40 a weck Blain's provision of publicly-funded childcare is the worst in Europe - only 2% of under-3s have a place in publicly-funded nurseries, compared to 44% in Denmark, for example. Nor do 3-5 year olds fare much better: places are available for only 54% of these children and only 1% of those can be woThe fories have blocked day. EC directives which would have benefited working women, such as full-time rights for part-time workers, paternity and family leave; childcare provision.
The record of the last 13 years has been one of discrimination and attacks on women's lives Labour offers more hope for working women: their pledge to introduce a minimum wage at 50% of median male carnings (£3.40 to scrap it. But the and declare an amnesty for non-payers and poll-tax prisoners. Photo: John Harris NO POLL TAX torce. Non-sayers are still being by bailiffs, and forced to pay to replace It with "council tax" which keeps many of the evil features of the poll tax. A Labour Government must be pressed te abolish the poll tax straight away hospitals and on the SOs. But they will use racin to turn workers against cach other whenever they can. They hone a working class divided racism cannot unite against the real enemy - capitalism.
including large-scale existed long before there were this country, it is not black people who cause For a lack of decent housing. but a system which puts profits before people.
The reality is that black people are more likely to suffer from while million population, unemployment in community is 144 9% for whites, with the worst level among Pakistani Bangladeshi people, and 16% among West Indians. Among young people (aged 16 to 24) the twice as high among ethnic • at 21% - as among whites - 12% people also discriminated against when it comest nous my are ord Ikely to spend longer periods in bed breakfast families, and be housed in the most run-down estates. Of the young homeless sleeping rough, words, the Asylum Bill will cut basic civil liberties and give the In this election we can expect more comments along the lines of Mrs Thatcher's infamous 197% speech when she warned of Britain being "swamped by alien halted.
Labour should confront such racism head on and confront it -as Roy Hattersle did over Asylum Bill promising Labour's support. mmigration is shameful: in 1968 the Labour introduced the Commonwealth Immisration Act specilically to deny entry to Kenyan Asians were British citizens) who The 1976 Labour conference.
voted to repeal the 1968 and 1971 Immigration Acts and that is still official policy. We must hold the leaders to this, and demand they repeal all immigration laws when in office problem pepplices hich put - policies which put profit before people are. Labour must introduce measures which offer jobs, housing and welfare services to all people - black and