«l'ale. This units will in the long run be derisise in deltating hoth Ihe imperialist repimes in the West and the brutal dicratorships they -ustain in Latin America. and Asin.
In Britain it implies demanding the immediate withdrawa! British treops from Ireland and letting the brish people delermine their nwn tuturs.
The C'ommoni parties in Europe are in crisis. Veither the *P.urocommunisi the pror-Mescon wings have any meaningtui tiraregy lor merthron of the capilalist state. ven revolutionary socialist parties are more necessary than C'onditions toda! more favourable than over the preceding three decades. But such outside for all Cross:
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4| C built bs Charing Cross hospital of *callousiv disregarding humanıty 11 the House of Commons last weęk. As nurses, doctors and blanket-draped cancer patients clashed with pickets, she hinted at the use of troops.
The real story of the dispute shows that far from trade unionists placing patents' lives in jeopardy, it was the hospital authorities who deliberately. provoked this confrontation in order to smash trade unionism at Charing Charing Cross is a new high rise requires skilled engineers and electricians to run it.
the boilers, heating and electrical systems, and are a vital part of any modern hospital.
workers have suffered from understaffing, and in January they began a work to rule. In July they refused to transport some air-conditioning filters. They argued that their job was fitting the filters, them •Was Seven weeks ago, after a further refusal to do this job, inanagement fired two engineers, one of whom was an Amalgamated Union of Engineer-.
day.
No. enquiry was conducted. No taken normal procedures for complaints of this kind, Management was adamant in its But when the case was referred to the AUEW the executive reacted as it did over Derek Robinson and refused to give its support; claiming that this West would infringe the Code of Conduct agreed between the government and unions during the lorry drivèrs' strike For seven weeks the 40 men stayed out on unofficial strike, living off PATIENTS protestfunds donated by fellow workers and keeping a picket going for 24 hours a They were not doing this because they were bloody minded. In management was far more stubborn than the workers.
The Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow Area Health Authority is LILL ULS for. union bashing. attacked union organisation at the 2100 Hammersmith Hospital and was responsible physically removing patients Hounslow Hospital without prior notification.
At Charing Cross it was using the engineers' and electricians' but choose the wrong target staffing levels to try to whittle down opposition to cutbacks. 26 November decided to escalate their action and stopped an oi lörry going through. Their action at no time threatened the closure of the hospital, because the engineers made sure that there was one full week's supply of oil.
It Despite this management closed the casualty for heat the child development trom and put a rumour around ine nospita. that it was to be closed bocause of the pickets' action. lay off all stand on indefinitely.
the . workers the hospital.
agreement work to rule department, refused to centre, They then threatened • DarL-lirie staff NHS.
It was management which was risking patients lives to force tht unions to accept the sackings: It was never necessary to threaten to close Last Friday the unions came to an management to recommend a return to work if an appeal was allowed for the two men on full pay. They are to continue the What's at stake at Charing Cross is not trade unions disregarding other working people's lives but the right to fight back against staff cuts which threaten proper health care in the