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Socialist League branches are taking up a campaign designed to spell out a clear programme on which workers can fight back.

A national leaflet is being prepared which explains the PHOTO: Laurence Sparham, IFL Fisher-no call for action on cuts AT THE TOP economic and political context in which the Tories are driven into their attacks on the working class, and highlights the inability of token action and verbal protests to stem Thatcher's wanton destruction of hard won rights and vital services.

It points to the way in which Thatcher's cuts have been able to build on groundwork laid by Callaghan's right wing Labour government-and Callaghan's categoric opposition to mass political struggles designed to halt or bring down the Tories.

And in highlighting the refusal of Lambeth AHA to implement the health service cuts, it goes on to stress that AHAs and RHAs are themselves merely non-elected arms of management, which in any event need to be chalienged and replaced by elected trade union representatives.

Arguing strongly that only direct action at the point where closures and cuts are threatened can stop the Tory wreckers, the LAST WEEK AT THE TURNCOAT ARMS....

IT LOOKS POR OL) TENKY! NO WONDER HE'S SO LOW-HIS LIKE THE MEMDERS AME JUST BROUGHT THE ENGALERMA END FOR ME IRONISTRY TO A HALT!

(CHEER UP TERKK IT'S NOT THE END Of THE WORLD!

A FEW MILITANTS OUT- THEYGET ISOLATED AND CLOBBERED BACK TO WORK leaflet emphasises the importance of establishing elected committees to demand full access to the books of public sector management.

The figures revealed would not only point to the huge profits being made from the public sector by private contractors and suppliers, but would also highlight the way in which public expenditure lags far behind inflation-being adjusted by less than half the real rate of inflation annually.

This evidence must be used to back up the struggle for a sliding scale of spending to protect the public sector against the effects of inflation.

WSt branches and areas will be holding public meetings in the next few weeks to discuss the fight in the labour movement for the policies put forward in the leaflet, and the ways in which such struggles must link up with the struggles on jobs and wages in the private sector to create the conditions for bringing down the Thatcher ..THEN OTHER SECTIONS GET DEMORALISED AND GIVE UP BUT YOU CAN DANA THE TARRE IND APPEAR TO BE EADING IT ALL !

OF COURSE -HUGHIE DID IT WELL IN '72!

LEAGUE COVENTRY Public meeting The fight against the cuts Elastic Inn Near Pool Meadow Thursday August 23 7.30 p.m.

to Fight Cuts"

League Pamphlet Price 40p including postage from WSL, 31 Dartmouth Park Hill, London NW5 IHR ...I WAS MAKING THE whEN THEY SUIDENLY USUAL ROUTINE THREATS. CALLED MY BLUFFF!..

GOON THEN DO IT!!!

ENGINEE FEDERATI WHAT The . St Mary' Defence Committee prepare the ground for ontation with managements and take steps towards a full le occupation of the hospita i which health workers must take over the administration of the hospital.

Only such an occupation can prevent the gradual rundown of the hospital through piecemeal ward closures.

The EGA experience has shown, however, that occupation alone is not enough to save St. Mary's.

The only way to defeat the tactics of the AHA is through linking occupation to a full-scale programme of strike action throughout the NHS and public sector in London and nationally to confront both the AHA and the Tory government.

* Resolutions have been passed by the DJSSC and the St. Mary's NUPE branch demanding that the London NUPE leadership call a delegate conference to prepare action against the cuts.

So far the NUPE bureaucracy has, like other public sector union leaders, maintained a stony silence on action to stop the cuts.

All trade unionists in the public sector must step up the demands for all-out official action to halt the cuts-and for removal of those union leaders who are tacitly, supervising the dismemberment of the public services and the wholesale sackings of their own members.

•SO I CALLED A HALF-GICK STRE, BUT MILLION STOPYED WORK-NOW IANT MEN LALAT TO DO! NEVER MIND, TERKY— SELECTIVE SIRKE SWER /

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