enterprising and hard-working sections of our community.
1 ICNC people will build houses • than the and houses THE PRELIMINARY agenda for the annual congress published last Monday, reflects the much growing anger in the GLC: for movement against the ever-increasing Tory cuts further worth of additional cuts are due to be announced this week.
Gladys not be the end of the attack on social expenditure. include:
A slashing of the council houses from 90,000 a year to 30,000 * £35 million to be sliced urgently need programmes for schools The abolition of all subsidies for are overseas students A cut of £10 million in medical they research This new round of cuts comes on top of the plans to slash expenditure £30 on education jobs stake, abandorment of schemes to tackle unemployment cuts mounting 'death list' resulting Health Service.
In reply to these attacks the TUC agenda has ten resolutions scheduled for debate at its September congress in Blackpool. Among the Inland Federation which calls on the TUC, 'to resist the damaging economic and the democracy'.
trade union billion pounds Even this will The latest Tory plans opposition'. building of off capital building isation tions'.
- with 50,000 teachers the threatened and the defeated. attacks on the National refuse coordinating campaigns • them 15 Revenue Staff social consequences by every means open to it which are consistent with A resolution from the National Union of Public Employees sounds no less militant: 'Congress expresses determined opposition restriction of socially desirable public expenditure. It instructs the General Council to develop a campaign which Till Cardiates the activiress of att allilale.
On the same subject a motion from the Civil and Public Services Association suggests a programme on which the fight against the cuts should be based. This includes the demand for an immediate and, 're-nationalwithout compensation of de-nationalised industries or func The only thing that is missing from all these resolutions is a concrete plan of action on how the cuts are to be resisted. But this is clearly what i and needed quickly if the Tory Government's attacks on the welfare state are to be successfully Such a plan would include linking up with local Labour councils who implement the cuts, the local into organised national fight-back and recognising that national, all-out action is the only way the modern welfare state can be saved from the Tory axe.