[Paddington workers on November 17, 1976 Workers now…]
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Paddington workers on November 17, 1976 Workers now face an uphili battle not only to keep the hos pital open but to ensure decent working conditions and the safety of patients put at risk by government cuts.
In this, health service workers find common cause with local trade unionists and their families, whose health care is at risk.
Paddington health workers, like their brothers and sisters at the EGA and elsewhere in London, must prepare for occupation and the fight for support. ing action in the struggle to defend jobs and services. political subservience to the bloodstained, despotisms of oil-rich Libya, Iraq and Iran is matched only by their total absence of any serious struggle for the Trotskyist programme in the British working class.
Challenged
Such political bankruptcy has not gone unchallenged within the WRP's ranks.
And as each successive challenge-beginning with the struggle by then Central Committee member Alan Thornett for a return to the Transitional Programmehas arisen, it has been met by bureaucratic repression, and successive waves of expulsions that have liquidated the Party's cadres.
The dwindling forces.of