Oxford NHS fight
Socialist Press1978 1978-09-06Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 11 →
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A public meeting called in Oxford by the toothless Community Health Council this Wednesday will open discussion on Area Health Authority plans to close down both Longworth Hospital and the Cowley Road geriatric hospital as part of a savage series of cutbacks.
From an original plan in which a brand new general hospital-the John Radcliffe Phases 1,2 and 3-would form the centre of an expanded scheme for health care, government spending cuts have now produced a blueprint for an all-out attack on jobs and services in the Oxford health service.
The Workers Socialist League, in a leaflet into the CHC meeting will draw attention on the necessity for a programme of action by the health service unions to defend existing jobs and fight for the planned expansion of the service to take place.
Centring on the necessity for occupation to prevent closure and supporting strike action throughout the health service and the whole labour movement, WSL members and supporters will attempt to apply the lessons of other cuts struggles and force local union bureaucrats to declare support for the fight or face exposure in front of their own membership.
WILL SHOW THEM THAT WE MEAN BUSINES.
NONE'S GOING TO INTERFERE WITH FREE ILLECTIVE BARGAINING, IT'S GOING TO BE US IN THE TUC!