NO GUTS the National Health Service (NCC).
The fifty-strong meeting, chaired by Steve Johnson of the NCC (who is also a health service officer of NALGO) unanimously passed a resolution proposed by Dr. Dominic Costa, also of the NCC and a registrar in chemical pathology at Hammersmith Hospital. This called for the establishment of a region-wide committee which could help to unite all struggles against the cuts in the London area by projecting and supporting allLondon actions against the strangulation of welfare services.
While the starting point of the NCC was the fight to defend the National Health Service and implement the resolution passed at last October's MCAPP conference, Costa pointed out that it was necessary for the labour movement to oppose au curs in une social ser vices. Not to do so would invite the off-loading of cuts from one service to another whenever a successful fight was waged against cutbacks in one sector. No section Healey's savage cuts package could shortly find itself facing the of working people nor any sector of public services should be made to pay for the bankruptcy of capitalism in Britain.
The new London Regional Committee of the NCC decided to work for the broadest possible labour movement support for the following major London-wide act• Lobby of London Labour Party Conference from 9 a.m. on 6 March at Camden Town Hall, Euston Road, NW1. The lobby will support resolutions inside the conference opposing public service cuts and has been called by the NUM • National demonstration against cuts in the NHS and against private practice on 25 April, called by the NCC and sponsored by NALGO's National Executive Committee and the Socialist Medical ASSOCIaLIOn • A London region delegate conference against the cuts in the autumn.
• The publication of a London region bulletin against the cuts.
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