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Delegates at a previous CDLM Conference tions are invited to elect tary is Godfrey Webster, delegates to this conference, 99, Barclay Road, Warley, which will also be open to West Midlands.

unemployed. Credentials are letters for union £l per delegate, 50p for can be obtained The scale and scope the working class has made clear that traditional forms of non-political trade union militancy are inadequate to offer any way forward in the coming struggles.

Workers need a political programme of demands that not only correspond to the problems of the present period, but which point to the necessary socialist solution to the crisis.

Head off

And at the same time the utter failure of TUC and Labour bureaucrats to offer any perspective for a fight against the employers and the Tory government is combined with their bureaucratic attempts to head off militant resistance from the rank and file.

The fundamental problem confronting the working class is one of an absence of principled leadership capable of analysing and combatting the manoeuvres of the trade union and Labour leaders.

Social contract

With this in view the steering committee of the Campaign for Democracy in the Labour Movementwhich championed the political struggle against the TUC-imposed wage controls under Labour's "Social Contract"-has called a conference to draw. out the political implications of the mass struggles that are already breaking out against the Thatcher government.

The conference, to be held in Birmingham on 3 November (10.30 am to 5 pm) will discuss the fight in the workers movement for the following policies:

*No talks with the them out! Remove the Labour and trade union leaders who won't fight!

*No Tory laws on the trade unions! Prepare mass strike action!

*Fight the cuts! Оссиру to defend all jobs! Work sharing on full pay!

*Defend wages! Cost of living clauses in all agreements, indexed to elected workers' committees' figures.

*Unite strikes and occupations as a step towards building councils of action.

Union branches and labour movement organisaAs the full impact of the Tories' £4,000 million cuts package begins to make itself felt throughout the public sector, Workers all union members and unemployed. address.

The Conference More details including branches from this pital, Harrow Road, London is reaching a crucial stage.

The Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster AHA have planned to shut the hospital completely within 18 months, and have reverted to the most callous and underhand tactics to bring about the closure.

Working through their agents in the hospital adminis. tration they have begun to close wards and facilities using trickery and lies.

They closed Ward 3 by moving the patients out when most of the staff were having their lunch break.

Their other tactics include withdrawing the funding for junior doctors' contracts, and stopping payment for agency medical staff.

In this way they are following the example of their colleagues on the Camden and Islington AHA who achieved the removal of patients from the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital by gradually running down the medical cover.

The St. Mary's Hospital Defence Committee and local District Joint Shop Stewards deceit Committee, who have so far successfully led the opposition to the closure must now think seriously how to counter these latest management manoeuvres.

The resistance inside the hospital-mainly. based in the TGWU, GMIU and NUPE branches-is c tinuing to grow. Over the past few weeks nurses and theatre staff have pledged their opposition to the closure.

It seems likely that sections of medical staff will follow this lead in the near future.

The Tories' sacking of Lambeth and Hounslow AHAs has ensured that opposition to the cuts has begun to spread even into professional and administrative layers of health service workers as the devastating effects of the cuts is recognised.

Hospital management are losing the respect of any section of staff as they stand exposed as open agents of the AHA working night and day to close down their own place work and destroy the NHS.

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