Change the conditions of life | IMGpapers 1976

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The problems that relate to the conditions of life cannot be resolved in the framework of the cities and within the limits of their present material resources. To simuland hospitals, to be able to staff SCRODIS them with qualified personnel, to establish a comfortable and effective network of mass transportation certainly exceeds ine material resources currently at the disposal of municipal governments. Nonetheless, the city budget will be subjected to the control of the entire toiling population; it will be determined in consultation with this population and its organisations.

But regardless of the financial resources that limit its projects, the municipal government will politically and materially support all struggles to improve the living conditions of the population, which are in fact struggles against the state: the fight for free transit. for child-care centres, for ade quate public services, against pollution, for health-care centres, for women's centres.

Although it is not possible for the municipal government to construct decent housing for all, it nonetheless can aid in organising the population around this important problem, among others. In order to put an end to the scandal of vacant housing while there are so many ill-housed people or people living in the streets, the municipal government, aided by neighbourhood committees, will make a count of the vacant LUTTE OUVRIERE, housing and the needs of the population It will support all occupations of vacant housing. Likewise, supported by neighDonooe commuees. WOLKCI organisations, and tenants associations, it wupon une enure bopulanon to defend workers threatened with eviction or seizure of property and to prevent these incidents, which will rise rapidly given the -crisis ana unemptoyment Municipal governments in the hands of real representatives of the interests of the workers would be able to aid the struggles of the workers and all the oppressed lavers population. This would significantly change the conditions under which these struggles unfold ORGANISATION COMMUNISTE DES TRAVAILLEURS

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