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Returned to office after five years of Labour betrayals, the Tory government has immediately begun wielding a sharpened axe on jobs, conditions and social services. Trade Union rights face imminent legal attack. Prices are already beginning to rocket upwards.

Plum sectors of state industry will be handed to the Tories profiteering big business backers; and the pay rises to police and armed forces mark only the prelude to increased state violence against pickets and anti-fascists, and an intensified army crackThe Callaghan-Healey leadership has made it clear that it will opppose any perspective other than settling down and meekAnd, though they have once more dusted off their near-forgotten "socialist" speeches, Labour's "left-wing" MPs have continued to duck away from any fight to remove Callaghan.

TUC leaders, too, have set out to establish a basis for collaboration with Thatcher and the Tory cabinet, parallelling their anti-working class alliance with Wilson and then Callaghan.

But the working class has experienced and overcome such betrayals before-to topple Heath's union bashing government in 1974, and smash through Callaghan's reactionary Phase 4 of wage controls in a series of monumental pay battles last winter.

These experiences are not dead. They point to the way that jobs, social services and hard won union rights can be defended But a principled, revolutionary leadership is needed if the Labour traitors, the TUC collaborators and their hangers-on in the Communist Party are to be exposed and pushed aside, and the mass struggles mobilised that can defeat and remove the Such a leadership must fight day in and day out for a programme of transitional demands which, starting from today's conditions and today's consciousness within the working class, lead workers to grasp the necessity for socialist revolution.

And in taking up democratic demands-such as an end to racial and sexual discrimination, it must show the crucial role that must be played by the working class as the only consistently revolutionary class capable of leading the struggle for the And it must fight on an international basis-mobilising solidarity for anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist struggleswhether in Ireland, in Southern Africa or elsewhere throughout the world, and drawing strength and political lessons from revolutionary upheavals such as that which ousted the hated This means fighting for the reconstruction of the Trotsky.

This method of approach, rejecting any descent to simple trade union militancy, or concessions to any wing of the labour bureaucracy, is the method fought for by the Workers Socialist The next period will see major class struggles in Britain. A principled, Marxist leadership is essential. Our movement though strong in programme remains small in numbers.

JOIN US and take forward the struggle for socialism! down in the occupied North of Ireland.

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League. have pledged to reimburse within the next two months.

Savage They intend to do this by making savage and Thursday's meeting-which was guarded by a large contingent of police-demonstrated that they are prepared to take any measures necessary to force these cuts through.

The decisions of the meeting showed an attempt to divert the opposition by putting back the planned closure of the casualty at Harrow Road, and replacing this with proposals for reduction of staff, overtime hours, strongest unionised hospitals and are picking off the weaker hospitals one by one.

But if it comes to a confrontation, they will not hesitate to meet this head on, backed up fully by the Tory government, the powers of the state, and the capitalist press.

It is urgent that the resistance to these proposals is organised.

Workers at Athlone House, St. Columba's and Paddington Green must make preparations for occupying the hospitals and continuing to run them independently of the AHA. * Other hospitals must follow the example of st. Mary's, Trial sub (UK):

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This applies especially to Westminster Trades Council bureaucrat David Triesman, who has up to now spent all his time debating with the Tories on the AHA, and has done nothing to mobilise workers through Westminster Trades Council of which he is secretary!

It is only a programme of all-out; indefinite strike action by health and public sector workers, linked to occupation of threatened hospitals, which will defeat the cuts in the Westminster area.

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