press is becoming even less free, as more and more of it gets into the hands of the multinationals.
ferent groups able to publish their opinions means a subsidised press. Running newspapers as first and foremost businesses will have the same effect in London as in New York left.
the NUJ should reject the idea that their members should have to pay to keep Mr Mur doch profitable.
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also went along with the Law Lords decision to increase fares and cut services and jobs on London Transport.
Where does GLC's manifesto? In tatters. Heseltine's Bill and the vicious and swift attacks from the Tories via the courts, have un doubtedly left Labour councils reeling. Stunned by this onslaught they have had no strategy for dealing with it. Instead they have pleaded that 'it's all the Tories lault and what we need is a Labour government.
But one of the surest ways of getting rid of the Tories and having a Labour government is for councils like the to take a lead in mobilising support for its policies. The Fares Fair policy was one of the most popular measures a Labour GLC has taken for many a year. And the working class nas no illusions as whose side the courts are on. Yet instead announces a publicity campaign and votes for cuts.
Lahour left cannot substitute itself for the needs and aspirations of the working class but it can and should give a lead. Instead jobs and services have been cut, direct labour has been run down, rents and rates have risen, council housing sold and so the list goes on.
leaders have been those workers who workers and BL strikers?
that leave the Labour now by literally centre of working despite the response to the Fare have GLC where the money really goes banks and finance houses.
to councis pledged to. make no redundancies support all workers defeat the cuts.
More importantly these left Labour unable place themselves shoulder to shoulder with are taking action against the Tories policies, What have local and county Labour councils done for the train drivers, for Laurence Scott The Labour left has nothing to lose opening the doors of County Hall and the town halls to use a and resistance against the Tories. In London, teebleness of the left's Heseltine and the Fight and GLC campaigns have operated as a focus for hundreds if not thousands of workers, in cluding many transport workers.
At the same time Labour councils to show the labour movement - to the The level of attacks on the working class especially through Heseltine's and Tebbit's Bills demands a national political response.
But such a national response can o be within the framework of Labo action against *throw open the books to the labour movement to aid it planning a strategy to Given such a lead workers will feel confident to take on the Tories and fight for a Labour government committed to Michael "Tarzan' Heseltine, Environment Minister
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