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Socialist Press, 31 Dartmouth Park Hill, Workers at Etwall the 97-bed hospital.

A ballot of the 130 union and non-union staff had earlier produced a staggering 92% vote to stage the work-in as a last ditch means to fight the closure.

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Press, 31 Dartmouth London NW5 1HR slightest national to implement it. indeed NuPt leader Alan Fisher has actually counterposed a policy of work-ins to the call for strike action-though the experience of the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital work-in in London proved that the threat of supporting strikes is decisive to the defence of threatened hosnitals.

The Etwali Hospital fore in taking up the fight for this tactic outside the London area, where every other major hospital occupation has taken place.

Health workers facing cuts and closures must rally in support of the Etwall struggle and demand that their unions:

*Officially give the call for occupation of all threatened hospitals and facilities.

*Call nationwide supporting strike action to back struggles against the cuts.

*Take the initiative in forming local labour movement councils of action to defend and extend such struggles and create the basis for bringing down the Tories.

*Fight for the removal of Labour's reactionary leadership that initiated the health cuts.

*Campaign for a policy of a sliding scale of health expenditure to protect services against inflation, as assessed by elected committees of workers' management.

The British Leyland Longbridge joint shop stewards have called a national labour movement delegate conference in defence of Derek Robinson on Sunday January 13.

The West Midlands No. 20 Confed has already supported this call.

This conference must be supported but it must not be allowed to become another jamboree of standing ovations like the rally in Birmingham Town Hall, held on the Monday after Robinson was sacked.

This conference must demand all-out official action throughout Leyland in defence of Robinson.

It must organise a mass lobby of the AUEW Executive. It must also campaign for a ballot of AUEW members to

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