MOD running riot, smashing up the nationalised industries welfare state creating YOSE ment and spending billions on new and useless nuclear TUCKELS.
Over the past ALWO weeks the Tories have announced that they are:
*Selling off some of the most profitable parts of British rail.
*Hiving off parts of the health SCEVICES private firms.
*Ending the Post Office's monopoly by handing over services to private In addition, cheerprise.
Tory Secretary Prior 812S announced that he intends to limit pickets to six at any one time.
Attacks At a local level, too, the Tories are ushering in a new period of virulent attacks on services. The Tory-controlled Dorset county council, for example, has just announced its intention to end the provision of school meals for infants.
This week's unemployment figures will show that 1.8 million workers are an increase of 20 percent in three months!
To cap it all, the Tories are spending a phenomenal £5 billion the "independent' deterrent -the Trident nuclear rocket to replace rolars. TORY POLICIES EQUAL FORD SWANSEA JOINT SHOP STEWARDS COMMITTEE• ty national executive this month for a mass demonstration on unemployment in Liverpool.
LOBBY THE TUC.
'Share the work without loss of pay!' Monday, 1 September, noon, Conference CenMARTIN Meehan, a Northern Irish Republican, is on the brink of death.
He is now in his third month of hunger strike and, according to his wife Briege, went ou LaSI week.
Martin is a 'British' dissident. leading kennolcan trom ine setasi working class Catholic ghetto of Ardoyne, he was first Ireland courts in 1972.
ine evidence flimsy that the authorities were forced to release min, bater me wal charged with membership of the Provisional IRA.
Army he ony evidence.re. quired for conviction on this charge is the testimony of a -member Special Branch who says he or sh "believes' the accused is in was sentenced to three years im DUESOLICI After his release he suffered continual harassment 12 seperate occasions he was to the notorious Castlereagh Interrogatior Senire ana her unders seven-day detention order.
Eventually, last t year he ing a teenage barman north Belfast. The sole "identification' by someone who admitted he was a paid agent or me Army.
Hospital This agent admitted in court that prior to the iden been shown a picture of Martin by the Army and DONCE On conviction Martin went on hunger strike in the infamous Long Kesh prison camp.
His now in a prison hospital.
This week you will hear good deal about Soviet dissidents. them are expected to die on hunger Martin Meehan, who wants nothing more than a foreign army to leave his country, is expected to die
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