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Liverpool Area Health meeting addressed by Assistant meeting. Authority have announced General Secretary Bernard Dix was A motion demanding that. the ahead to all-out strike action to million by axeing 500-700 AHA reveal its full long and short stop these cuts, no amount of jobs. term plans to a committee of trade verbal protest will halt the governWhile unionists as a starting point for ment's cuts slashing health care in Anno haar wider action was passed at that Liverpool. burt injunction against this action.

Similarly the NAFF has been ble to hold off for several months he blacking of Grunwicks postal ervices by threatening court ction.

UNIONISATION

In hotel unionisation disputes he NAFF has been especially ictive. It encouraged the Linton Lodge Hotel in Oxford to hold out •gainst unionisation by campaignng in the local press around the lefence of the "freedom not to oin a union".

It established links with Trust Houses Forte very early in the lisputes. Its allied organisation, "Self-help" , run by the well known fascist sympathiser Dowager Lady Birdwood, was responsible for the ›rovocative picket-busting meeting of fascists at the Randolph Hotel which resulted in a massive battle setween police and Oxford trade unionists.

The NAFF threated to obtain an njunction to reduce the picket at [HF's 'Night Out' night club in Birmingham to four, to halt the mass picket and to forbid the picketing of other THF establishments, ASSAULT It organised the scabs to hold demonstrations (mostly of NAFF supporters) through Birmingham, ind to assault women pickets.

It is also said to be responsible for the series of full page adverts in the national press by THF-reeking pf Gouriet's style and once again poncentrating on the right of workers "not to join a union"

The NAFF has not confined Itself to industrial disputes. It pounts as its greatest success the 20,000 law suit they financed which brought the decision of the High Court to allow the Tameside Fories to keep grammar schools in pite of the decision of the Education Minister.

What is this organisation what is its programme?

The NAFF was set up in December 1975 after the shooting of the extreme right wing journalist Ross Mow hirter by the IRA. However it had been planned for everal years.

Its director is Robert Moss, best nown for his books, The Collapse bj Democracy and Chile's Marxist Experiment.

ADVOCATES

The first of these advocates an authoritarian state in Britain mad applauds the success of the brazilian and Chilean fascist dictatarships in removing the "threat to the right of private property"

The second is a straightforward *tack on the reforms attempted by Chile's President Allende, and is med as propaganda by the Pinochet dictatorship.

Robert : Moss writes frequently For the Institute for the Study of Conflict.

The Institute's director, Brian Crozier. also writes for NAFF's paper, Free Vation. The Institute • linked with the CIA and is in Distant contact with the Rhodesin and South African secret police, • well as the experts in all parts of le Forld on "pacification cammasi» APEX leader Grantham. paigns" against urban and rural guerilla armies.

Its links with the Police College were recently exposed in the antifascist paper Searchlight.

But on top of these close links with the CIA and CIA-backed reginies, Moss has another string to his bow-as speech writer for Tory leader Margaret Thatcher.

He penned the notorious anti-Soviet speech that won Thatcher the ludicrous title of "Iron Lady" from incompetent Kremlin propagandists last year.

NAFF is also connected with outright fascist organisations like the Self-help group. Self help thinks those responsible for strikes should be imprisoned for conspiracy and that the right to picket should be abolished. their intention to save £1 they claim this will be "non-replacement" the authority does not rule out sackings.

At the same time it has been revealed that Mill Road Maternity Hospital is to close in July, with patients transferred to Broadgreen Hospital-though the upgrading of facilities there will not begin until after the transfer has taken place.

CLOSURE

Many wards are scheduled for closure along with the accident department at the Southern Hospital, with overall cuts in spending on special facilities, overtime work and on-call payments. • The response by trade union leaders has been half-hearted and confined to protest gesturesfruitlessly lobbying AHA meetings and the Secretary of State, lamenting the plunging standard of health care in the area.

This is despite an obvious response to any prospect of a fight against these cuts. A NUPE public UPW leader Jackson It consists mostly of the self-employed. NAFF also recognises the potential of organising the self-employed.

Its manifesto refers to them as "the last ditch core of resistance to the excesses of bureaucracy and trade union bosses."

In this, too, NAFF finds common cause not only with fascists but also with the Tory Party, which has set out to cultivate links with so-called "unions" of self employed.

FRONT BENCH

But the links are more explicit still. Seven Tory MPs, including two front bench spokesmen, feature among NAFF's council. Most prominent is education spokesman Rhodes Boyson. attended by 500 people.

Bernard Dix