Cuts struggles
Socialist Press1980 1980-03-05Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 11 →
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A conference this coming Saturday called by the Oxfordshire Campaign Against the Cuts and sponsored by Oxford and Witney Trades Councils offers the possibilities of developing a united struggle against a host of attacks launched by the Tory government and local authorities.
The general declaration against the cuts that has launched the conference has attracted backing from local bodies of ASTMS, AUEW/ TASS, CPSA, COHSE, NATFHE, NUT and TGWU as well as student unions, hospital support campaigns and the Save Our Nurseries Campaign.
And workshop . discussions covering aspects of the political trade union and community fight against the cuts should offer an opportunity to work through • the • necessary programme and demands for a coordinated fight.
But past experience has shown that the chief obstacle to an all-out struggle against the cuts is not any inability of campaigners to recognise and adopt correct policies-but the determination of right wing and Communist Party bureaucrats in the trade union bureaucracy at local and national level to block action on such policies.
The practical results . of Saturday's conference, therefore, like those of other cuts conferences elsewhere, will depend on the extent to which the fight is successfully taken up in the trade unions against such bureaucrats.