THE Treasury has just demanded further £2bn reduction in public spending. It is against this background that NHS Condition Critical, the latest report CounterInformation Services, reveals the depth of the crisis already developing in the health service.
So far health minister Gerard Vaughan has been claiming that Tories keeping promise to maintain spending on the NHS. He can get away with LOIS because government figures are cooked to conceal the more spending on The Nice Each year the yawed back by the combined f iects or casn hmils, inmaton, iadequate capital spending.
of a growing and ageing population.
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Socialist tional The underlying condition of the NHS is far worse than the of admit. While to Will more than the unprofitable end of a market It is these people who will pay if the Tories succeed in their plan Condition Critical' Poland Si, London rom: CIS, i years to democratise the unions is too long. The Tory government is deaf and Connolly. joint convenor Rotherham steelworks opened the 1 November Co-ordinating Committee ConferThe conference was called to discuss democracy in the unions and the fight against unemployJane ninetee delegates attended Trom Trace loca Labour parties and steel, mining, building ensenaerinsigned unions. Fifty Socialist Challenge statemen he conference to adopt positiv action to save jobs n in then members were adamant Michae Meach chairperson, Meacher even refused requests for a I whether the conference should be allowed to vote! Obscurity Many LCC would break from the tradh Lobour isit when shown left faced in the unions To build the November unemployment organise broad-based labour special Labou conference possible franchise the leade were some of the proposals of the canette salcach The LCC conference failed to give a lead on these or other The LCC leadership re main content to operate as a Socialist Challenge pressure group on the Labou executive much of the discussior HOOI delegate was CHOH • USCILI Man chester threw a challenge down to un to Carder's campaign for the caucasi or Ine Labour Part …rom there A woman engineering worke Lesney's engineering factory in London explained that th male temale worktorce weakenca l labour movement "The fact that wages appalling doesn't make the men's wages good' pointed out. 'If we were able to fight together we'd all have a de cent wage. ' Positive action to de fend women's was needer LO Will l oI the labour movener. she concucce Michael Meacher John Ingham a miner fron Sheffield, called for the unity of steelworkers faith can be placed rank railway unemploymen Michael Meache : promised une concene a coo aimed at all those campaigning against unemployment seen whether the LCO such a conden. sheet of their political approact so far would seem to indicate tha joint union action needed against the Tories.
13 November 1980
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