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working class as a whole.

The chief task facing the working class is to form workers' defence sqauds, to ‚protect the black community trom constant and increasing police harrassment.

All workers organisations must express solidarity with black workers and join in the building of these squads, ensuring they _ dustbin lids, milk crates - èven a tailor's dummy!

From their tattered uniforms, and by the look of fear and defeat on these young policemen's faces, you could see why Mark was forced into asking who rules the streets.

This time they were driven back by the explosive might and anger of one section of the working class, but next time, they will come prepared, with riot shields, batons, horses and dogs. sufficient to struggles are not defeat the deeply entrenched power of capital. Many bi the police who assaulted black youth in the Portobello Road are the same onces who, in the last few weeks, were drafted onto the streets of Southall and, a few miles away, broke picket lines to let through scab lorries at the Trico factory.

The only answer is: end police harrassment; build workers' defence squads now.

A Workers Socialist League contingent will join the antiracist demonstration in Blackburn on 11th September.

*End Immigration *Defend All Jobs - Work Sharing on Full Pay. *Racialism Out! Workers Defence Squads In! • The effects of the cuts in the National Health Service are starting to bite nationally. In London, for some time a whole number of Hospitals have been faced with total closute.

answer to this, at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital the Joint Shop Stewards Committee have successfully organised a 400-strong lobby of Parliament with 2,000 workers at other London Hospitals coming out on a one day strike in support.

To counteract this the EGA consultants organised an ' anti-closure' meeting to try and take the power away from the unions.

Although there was a response to the meeting the consultants deliberately excluded some union members.

WITHDRAWN

As all the unions have withdrawn from the consultants' bogus Cannedu 2ln0 strength of the movement is again with the Joint Shop Stewards Committee.

THE FIGHT BACK:

All these disputes show the need for a national body to lead and coordinate action against the cuts.

For this reason the WSL has given support to the campaign of the National Coordinating Committee (NCC) Against the Cuts in the NHS, which although so far inadequate in the fight against the union bureaucracy, provides a possible basis for a fight back.

The NCC has called a lobby of the Labour Party Conference for September 28th in Blackpool.

It will coincide with the official lobby called by NUPE against the NHS cuts.

It sm In Brent, 200 nurses, ancillary and maintainance workers occupied the administrative offices of the Central Middlesex Hospital over management's refusal to employ six nurses when they finished their training.

REFUSED

Management refused to discuss the situation so the office staff were sent home and the building was locked.

The key has been kept by the Shop Stewards Committee who have organised the occupation.

In Edinburgh, research workers and technicians working on research into breast cancer are not having their contracts renewed and they are not being replaced.

This savage cutback is not only jeopardising 100 jobs but the lives of the one woman in seventeen won a dispute over the sacking of an auxilliary nurse after a three day strike.

Management did not follow agreed appeals proceedure.

the Labour Party Conference about its blatant refusal to carry out Labour Party policy which is opposed to all cuts in the NHS.

All trade union branches must support the lobby and the petition which is calling on the Parliamentary Labour Party to carry out Labour Party policy.

The WL will in addition be calling on the NUPE leaders, who have talked about 'guerrilla strikes' call serious all-out strike action to force a halt to the cuts.

Lobby details and petitions from:

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who is suffering from breast cancer. Also in Edinburgh, 2000 NUPE members from 14 hospitals have