campaigns would lose their 'independence but that a real working relation between them could be developed on a common objective:
The potential for such a campaign clearly exists. It will grow cuts. stronger in the coming months as more and more people begin to feel the pinch of Tory policies & begin to get involved in defending While building around these issues, they should be taken into the Labour Party to commit it to supporting them, first locally and then nationally. It is only in of inflation. this way that the Labour leaders can be pinned down and forced Phil Davenport (Postbag, June Socialist Action) is missing the whole point about rate increases.
Phil says that rate increases 'give the council a breathing space' in the fight against the What he doesn't realise is that a rate increase is a just another form of cut- it's a cut in the 'social wage' received by working class people because they will forced to fork out more from their own pockets to finance social services- at a time when real wages are already being beaten down by the effects Surely, whether or not a Labour council gets forced out of office as a result of refusing to do the Tories' dirty work is not the central question. As the recession bites deeper and deeper, and attacks on the working class intensify, the labour movement will revert much more to the original role which it was set Council leader Knight:
fight to raise the rate up to play, that is to be an independent political voice of the class- and not to retain power of this council or that council at the expense of forfeiting any real defence of our basic rights and living standards.
Socialist Action is quite right to make its demand on this issue 'No cuts, no rate increase'.
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