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• Firm safeguards for nuclear power plants, and no despoilation of the countryside or forced expropriation of small farmers. On the question of women's rights and women's liberation, besides demands already stated, we call for: Full equality of rights and opportunities with men, including prohibition of discrim- ination against women on the grounds of their having children; Rape to be treated as a serious crime, and victims to be treated with sympathy, not as though they had provoked it; victims to be guaranteed complete anonymity; The banning of pornography and indecent advertisements which exploit and degrade women, and act as incitement to rape. We oppose discrimination against homosexuals and support the fight for their full democratic rights. Concerning education, we call for: Provision of free and adequately staffed nurseries; Adequate pupil-teacher ratios and provision of educational materials; Free and decent school dinners and free milk; Courses dealing with the culture of national minorities in Britain; School students and teachers to have a real voice in the running of schools and in the content of courses; Abolition of corporal punishment, religious services and compulsory religious educ- ation; Schools facilities to be available to the community in the evening; Higher educational grants related to the average level of wages; Further education as a right, not a privilege; Proper training, including day release, for apprentices without discrimination in wage levels. On the national question, we demand: The right of self-determination for the peoples of Wales and Scotland, up to and including secession; Equal status with English for Welsh and Gaelic in Wales and Scotland respectively, and the vigorous promotion and safeguarding of the cultures of all nations and nationalities under the British state; Special guaranteed economic provisions for Wales and Scotland to halt the drift of young people away to areas of England with more employment opportunities; A Welsh television channel and radio stations; No repressive measures against Romanies We stand for the unity of British working people of all nations and nationalities against the common enemy, British imperialism. On foreign policy, we demand: Complete and immediate British withdrawal from Ireland, which is in the common interests of the British and Irish peoples. We support the just struggle of the Irish people for national liberation, which is presently partly conducted in an armed form; Immediate, full and unconditional independence for all remaining British colonies and, where appropriate, reunion with mother country; Withdrawal of all British troops from abroad; An end to neo=colonialist policies, particularly in southern Africa, and severance of economic ties with South Africa; Withdrawal of investments from abroad; Development aid not to be accompanied by any strings or ties; Support for demands by Third World countries for a new international economic order; Support for the Third World in using the United Nations and other international in- stitutions against super-power hegemonism; Support for a policy of unity with other second world countries against the super- powers and for a policy of unity and equality between the Second and Third Worlds; Expulsion of US bases from Britain; soc fac * soc CU The refl latt inst the stat is e mo the anc geo pov inco dra of r The Cor who twe UN At a the the and fasc the Irela the is cl all a and ress aggr this aggr relat roac socia