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Let's face it, if they could see us like this who'd vote for us?

Let's face it, if they could see And it is the refusal of the Labour leaders to tackle problems of unemployment, housing and social services that has ensured the basis of the increased racist vote which was collected by the fascists of the National Front.

It is conspicuous that in those areas where the Labour Party went onto the oftensive against the Nº, distributing propaganda which exposed the fascist, anti-union role of the Front, the fascists received markedly less support.

The struggle against fascism connects in this way with the fight throughout the labour movement for principled leadership putting forward a clear socialist IM ike this who'd for This is why the local election results confirm the need to bring down the Lib-Lab coalition government and to fight for an emergency re-call Labour Party Conference to remove the Callaghan-Healey leadership and elect a new leadership.

Of course the 'left' Labour MPs, frightened for their careers, will continue to avoid this fight just as they have gone along with the coalition deal.

But the current electoral climate shows that whatever the "lefts' might think, uniess the Labour Party's political course is changed, there will be no more than a handful of Labour MPs to pick up the pieces after the next General Election.

The potential of CLASH, the Committee of London Area Stewards in the Health Service, as an instrument for fighting the cuts was shown again on May 4, when leaders of all the major fight backs in the London area over the past few months were brought together to report on and discuss their actions.

COHSE SAYS THE ECA REMAINS OU SITE Cecilia Forrest, COHSE steward at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson hospital reported that as a result of the work-in which has been in existence now for over six months, the hospital was still open.

The importance of the "open the books of NHS" demand adopted at the CLASH tounding conference was shown when Mrs. Forrest reported that a sympathetic accountant, who had been looking at the AHA's costings for the EGA THE LESmA IS. UNDER WORKERS SIC: 60 CONTRA UN BE had found that according to the AHA's records, salarięs at the The EGA occupation clock picket from July 1.

Ernie Taylor (NUPE) reported on the attempt to close the Weir Maternity Hospital in London.

Over the past few years, he said there had been talk of moving the maternity facilities to St. Georges by 1980 or 1982.

Nevertheless, two wards had been renovated recently, only for them to be taken over by the administration for offices.

Since that time hundreds of thousands of pounds had been spent in improving the buildings for the administrators, including the landscaping of the grounds!

The last straw had come when management had taken priority for service in the canteen over the nurses and medical staff.

PHOTO: Angela Phillips (IFL). Now the AHA say patients will be moved out by July. The main problem, however, was that the Phillips union leadership had done nothing to fight the cuts apart from a one day protest here and there. "My members are refusing to strike on May 11, and who can blame them?" he said.

He went on to report how his full time official had spoken at a meeting building for May 11 action, by saying that 100 hospitals in London had closed.

"If I was an official I would be ashamed to stand up and say that to my members" said Taylor.

Bill Gedes, (NUPE, Hammersmith) reported on attempts by management to victimise him by arguing that it was uneconomic to employ a baker.

A sinister development was reported by David Blane (ASTMS,

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