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The sacking of the branch leadership at the West London Hospital three weeks ago has now been turned into an unparallelled attack on hospital trade unionists in the Hammersmith and Hounslow district of London.

Last week, Bill Tizzard, who has been a NUPE shop steward at the Hammersmith Hospital for almost four years was sacked on the spot on a completely trumped up charge.

During a recent dispute over manning levels at the hospital, he is alleged to have assaulted a member of management.

Suspended

Despite the fact that seven witnesses have deciared the charge to be completely untrue, he and two others were suspended.

This was followed last week with Tizzard's instant dismissal, served without notice or advance payment, going against all established procedure.

Also, at the West London Hospital itself, Tom Nichol, a member of NUPE who was working a temporary contract at the hospital for only three weeks had his contract terminated following the strike for the reinstatement of the dismissed branch leadership, Alan Pinfold and Stan Hunt.

HOTO: Mark Rusher, IFL The fact that Nichol played an active part in organising the picketing during the dispute is the obivous reason behind the sacking.

As a result of these moves by the Area Health Authority, almost the entire union leadership in the hospitals have been dismissed in the space of a few days, in union branches which have taken years of work to build up.

There must be immediate action for the reinstatement of these trade unionists.

Management have timed the gained is acceptance of the 5% pay limit. Enforcing the rest of the package is a very different matter.

The implementation of the productivity increases is being opposed by the leadership in the Cowley Assembly Plant and by large sections in the Body Plant, while in BMC Service (also in Cowley) stewards last week voted unanimously to oppose the 10% increase in productivity.

The new grading structure sackings to coincide with forthcoming action on pay in the health service unions, and if they are successful they could be spread to a massive programme of victimisations throughout London hospitals, causing a major setback to trade union organisation.

A defence committee has been set up for the reinstatement of Bill Tizzard at the Hammersmith Hospital.

Strike action

This must be extended to both hospitals to include all five trade unionists who have been sacked in the past three weeks. • Immediate strike action must be planned at both hospitals, and NUPE should be forced to circulate all branches in the Divsion and call a conference of all London Health Service stewards to publicise the disputes and plan supporting action.

A lot of the blame for the continued sackings can te directed at the NUPE full time officials who have been handling the dispute.

Treacherous It is they who allowed the strike at the West London Hospital to be called off, when there was a desperate need for action and support to be spread throughout the London division, and it is they who have reportedly insisted on going to ACAS, Industrial Tribunals and the courts in order to avoid a direct confrontation with management.

These treacherous tactics have strengthened the hand of the Area Health Authority.

If the reinstatement of these workers is to be achieved then the remaining leadership in the hospitals must fight along these lines, organising within the branches and forcing NUPE to give full and official support to all their actions. remains so contentious that it is extremely difficult to see the company ever achieving its implementation.

But Leyland workers need nore than simply hostility to the company plans if jobs and conditions are to be defended. A new leadership must be built with urgency.

Leyland will feature prominently in the Carworkers Conference called by the CDLM 1 in Birmingham on January 20.

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KEEP THE BUGGERS WORKING, AND FOR CHRIST'S SAKE HOLD DOWN THAT PUBLIC SECTOR-AND JIMZL FIX IT FOR YOU TOO!!

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Street violence as martial law is imposed 'collapse of democracy'. , the big atrocities against martial law, or capitalists have mobilised the in defence of jobs and living fascists in a frantic bid to standards.

This violence has been made the illusion that Ecevit as a possible by the refusal of the "progressive" politician is acting Stalinist and reformist leaders to solely in the name of "demounited action against fascist None of Just a day after martial law was declared in Istanbul and several other Turkish cities, 300-400 left wingers were arrested for demonstrating against fascist killings and distributing leaflets condemning martial law.

They will be tried in military courts and face up to 4-5 years imprisonment.

The martial law also empowers Prime Minister Ecevit and the military clique of top generals to suppress strikes, and close down political parties, trade unions and associations.

Military courts have now superceded the civilian apparatus.

Yet while Ecevit continues to claim that martial law "will be carried out carefully without damaging basic rights", • the Turkish Communist Party and the reformist leaders continue to pledge full support to his bourgeois RPP government.

Disarmed Indeed the policy of subordinating the working class movement to political support for Ecevit has effectively disarmed the workers in the face of the biggest, most violent and best organised fascist movement in the world.

It has opened the door for the escalation of fascist attacks and uprisings and now the 1,500 killings took place thousands were wounded.

The fascists are being utilised now by a desperate Turkish bourgeoisie, faced by growing and catastrophic economic crisis.

Trade deficits amount to billions of pounds; the state does not have enough currency to buy oil supplies for industry inflation is 50% and 7 workers are unemployed.

The IMF has demanded that Ecevit implement even further attacks on the working class as a condition for new loans-attacks which would prompt resistance from the trade union movement.

While Ecevit bleats that such measures would bring the st satir ROKAR intimidate, crush and destroy the organised strength of the workers' movement.

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Martial law fascists use campaign o "Progressive"

Instead they have Created of the ANKARA KARS ERZURUN BUNGE Kurdistan MI #DAN A GALLANTEP U85A areas encircling Turkish Kurdistan; the anti-Kurdish racialism to fuel their f violence.

Chile catastrophe have been learned by these bankrupt leaders, who now urge that the martial law powers be "used correctly'.

There is not yet a fascist or a military dictatorship in But martial law means that such dictatorship is only one step away.

Ecevit, with the full blessing of the Chilean coup, and a historic defeat of the Turkish working class.

World imperialism desperately needs such a reactionary crackdown in Turkey to help counter the growing mass movement in Iran and stabilise capitalism in Turkey itself.

But the Turkish working class still has not been defeated. It has the power and the will to prevent a military-fascist takeover.

To do so, the central demand must be for a united front of workers organisations independent of Ecevit's bourgeois party and government.

United All workers organisationsthe TCP, TLP, and the union confederations DIsK and TURK-S must break at once from their bloc with Ecevit and his generals and fight for a workers and farmers government.

Armed workers' militia must be built as the only means of fighting and defeating the fascist thugs.

In the course of this struggle a Trotskyist party must be built to lead the revolutionary struggle for workers' power.

*Down with the fascist murders! Build workers militias.

*Break with Ecevit and his generals! For a workers and peasants government!

*Self determination for the Kurdish people! For their right to an independent Kurdish state!

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SOCIALIST u ESS Y: ONE STEP TURKE FROM DICTATORSHIP

of workers' leaders, is opening the doors for a tragic repetition