Manchester Cuts March
Socialist Press1976 1976-05-05Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 4 →
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More than 700 trade unionists from branches and Trades Councils throughout the North West demonstrated through Manchester on April 24th against unemployment and government spending cuts. The protest, called by the NW Region TUC, offered no credible solution or alternative ¡to the cuts, but the considerable support for it indicates a real strength of feeling on the issue in the workers' movement. TRADES UNON CO NORTH WEST M2.
COUNCH Organiser, alone spoke correctly in favour of strike action agaist the cuts from the platform on Sunday's Will the IMG now take a stand and demand the NCC pledge itself to act in defence of the Health Service - even if necessary at the expense of a split with the NALGO Executive (Which has led not a single action against the cuts anywhere in the country?
Or will they follow their example at the Working Women's Charter Conference - (where, tc retain an opportunist relationship with the Executive of the Civil Servants union' CPSA, the IMG refused to support the WSL demand that the CPSA take a lead in calling strike action against the impact of spending cuts on women workers) and cave in to the bureauLast Sunday's can only prove a gain to the workers' movement if the lessons are learned and the necessary turn now made.
*A realistic assessment of the NCC demonstration by the IMG will not be heiped by the gross overestimation of the number of demonstrators in the report of the march in this Week's Red Weekly There were less than 1000 marchers and not the 3.500 claimed by the ING