Action against the cuts

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CLASH

Speakers will include Colin Kenny, Secretary of the Committee of London Area Stewards in the Health Service (CLASH), and Hounslow Hospital, the from EGA, "Fightback", Bethnal Green, the FBU and the Youth Service.

Occupation clearly going to be an in‹ reasingly important tactic ir fighting the cuts as the government steps up its attacks on the class.

struggles The Rally will provide clear proof that' the way forward on the cuts is to draw workers into action through actual struggles, such as the Nursery Campaign, not through generalised amorphous bodies like "Anti-cuts Committees"

The cuts must be fought local authorities to committees of trade unionists to reveal planned cutbacks, and work sharing on full pay wherever sackings or redundancies are action, the only effective tactic in combating cuts.

The Oxford City Nursery Campaign is continuing its fight to force local union bodies to take action to back up their 'left' talk.

This week the Occupation Committee is to meet a delegation from the Trades Council to force the issue with the local Education Committee.

Next week aspecial NUPE executive meeting will consider strike action, though Divisional Officer George Anderson and County branch secretary Eric Millar are doing their best to wriggle and squirm their way off the hook of their own members' growing militancy.

Nursery campaigners travelled to Margate to the NUPE Conference last week to leaflet delegates when nursery education was crats hogged the stage until any chance to raise the occupation had been talked out.

Fis last week.

It is now more urgent than ever that strike action is organised —especially amongst Health Service workers-in defence of the EGA.

If Ennals finally succeeds in closing the EGA then the rate of cuts and redundancies in the Health Service will increase drastically.

Strong lead

A strong lead has been given in this by South Camden District Joint Shop Stewards Committee which includes the hospitals in the same group as the EGA.

A resolution calling for indefinite strike action in support of the EGA was passed last week.

It is vital that all trade unionists, especially hospital workers, demand that their leaders put out a decisive call for action in defence of the EGA and organise emergency branch meetings to adopt resolutions similar to that passed by South Camden JSSC:

"1. The branch fully supports the struggle by workers in the EGA to keep the hospital open.

2. The branch will support on the picket under the direction of to stop the Lib-Lab coalition's determined bid to close this hospital, which they see as an obstacle to their strategy of public spending cuts.

Workers must demand that union leaders and Labour MPs declare support for indefinite strike action in defence of the EGA, and fight to break the axe-wielding anti-socialist Lib-Lab coalition.

The Workers Socialist League has campaigned since the very start of the EGA fight for a clear *Strike action and occupations to stop the cuts.

*Restore health service spending: protect the service against inflation through a sliding scale of spending.

*Open the books of the Health Authorities to expose the planned cuts, and the profits made by private suppliers.

*Nationalise the drug monopolies and private medicine without compensation under workers management.

*EGA stewards h ve called a meeting of all Lon 'on health stewards at the EG I on June 10 at 1.30 pm.

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