Hoanslow Hospital Occupation Committee WHEN we were fighting the closure of Hounslow Hospital, one of the arguments used to astily Labour's cutbacks was that our services were must beine transferred to a larger hospital.
We knew better - that the number of hospital beds was Talling whilst waiting lists grew. For all Maggie Thatcher's talk Why we'll be there....
about only cutting ary waste, jobs and services are under threat.
Participating in Fightback, which has tried to link up the the labour movement outside, have seen defensive action throws up a challenge — not just to defend CALE SCENES PUTTO ICCE LI real need for health care.
I very much want to learn from the Lucas people, because they have tried to meet the same challenge — not only defending jobs, but doing so through a plan for products for which there is a real need.
Even the most control over facilities which we have experienced when carrying out work-ins and occupations has shown us the huge potential of socialist planning and control by workers and consumers.
If we can draw those threads of a socialist alternative out of the struggles we are engaged in, the will strengthen fightback against "remendously.
the Thatcher favours.
restore profits, unionists on 26 May A NEW THREAT now faces trade unionists — a Tory | government. No government by a party financed and supported by big business is going to do us any But if the Tory government is a new enemy to fight, the problems we will face have not changed.
There is a crisis of profit — a crisis sending firms bankrupt and creating mass unemployment, a crisis which demands that workers take wage cuts in order to La crisis which requires that new technology cut jobs instead of the working week.
A socialist response to the crisis remains as urgent as it was before the election, and that's why Socialist Challenge has organised a conference for trade Tories and the socialist alternative we need.
Solihull;
Control'. to discuss how to fight the in to keep your paper going. Let Speakers include (in personal capacity): Pat Hickey, TGWU Deputy Senior Steward Rover Brecker, Occupation Committee:
London Campaign Against School Closures; Luess Aerospace speaker on *Workers Plans and Workers Saturday 26 May, 11am-5pm.
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WCI Registration £1.
Creche, food, stalls Hounslow Hospital Denny Fitzpatrick,