In the middle of all the hoo-ha which surrounuca unc curs une neroes nobly came lorwara to accept ine are wrea ths. According to the Daily Express, Treasury Minister Joel Barnett talked of the blood spilled on my carpet. Mean while Denis Healey confessed it was a harrowing process. All the cuts were described by the bourgeois press as detFired Mulley is the biggest loser by a staggerCOUR SALLO HE COTH million overall', commented the Express.
But the real losers are not the cabinet ministers who treat the process of cuts as a matter of personal jousting. real losers are to be found outside Whitehall.
one or me cuces our curs wilDe suen as medica aner care care or young children, provision of accommois saturny s london conterence on "Women and the Cuts' is an important step in the fight back against increasing cut-backs in social expenditure and From the conference, which has been supported by large sections of the labour movement, it is noped tnat a national conterence will be caled to continue une struggie against enese attacks. For further information, contact the Working Women's Charter, 49 Lowther Hill, London SE23 IPZ. dation for young couples etc. onto the Tamily. The 25 per cent increase in the cost of school meals may be the last straw which breaks the back of large families, Slashing cuts in the health service will automatically affect the provision of abortion and contraception facilities the right of women to control their wwircruly and make rauonar accsions on now many chuaren to nave For it is on women that the increased responsibility for social provision will largely bear. Women are being driven out of employment at twice the rate of men over the last year, and as their usefulness palls for capitalism, day nursery provision is being virtually ended.
For the children it will mean steadily increasing class sizes as teachers are sent down the road. "Mixed ability teaching In schools without adequate resources be comes a recipe for increasingly badly educated kids, who in any case face the dole queue or meaningless training courses outside tne sunool gales. Meanwhil liberal' school teachers think they are doing young people a favour by teaching them how to claim when they get outside.
For the old prospects are bleaker still. Despite Tony Benn's wonderful Posture i not cornng or power while winter lasts (apparently pensioners do mer), the effect of the cuts will be to intensity what is happening already.
more and more infrequently. The hos pitals will not open their doors to sick pensioners in case their illness takes too lone to lical, wile sen or crazens nom es either close or put up the Full House SILE which Jack Jones Chainion trom une temperate atmosphere of Monday's talks with Labour ministers? What words will he have for the old people these cuts will help to bury next which the working class has won for the most oppressed sections ol the popula tion. It is their blood on the carpet not that of the Errol livuns of the lab our left who fight with rubber swords in the corridors of power.
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Editorial-01-837 6954 Distribution-01-837 9987 Social and health workers make calls is unis une price of tne unity of *the pensioners basis of: - bragged as he emerged dundancies;
The cuts are tearing apart the gains politics of its main backers - the Labour lefts and the Communist Party. They want to restrict opposition to 'pressurising' the Government to turn The letts must be made to fight the Government, to vote against its policies and rally support in the trade unions and Labour Party for action to back up this opposition. from turning the Labour Movement Assembly into a talking shop where they can snuggle up to the lefts. The immediate aim of the conference must be to set a date for mass industrial action against unemployment as the first step in centralising the fight. Policies such as import controls, which aim to make a pact between British workers and their masters at the expense of foreign workers, must be rejected and the fight organised on the Worksharing with no loss of pay and the immediate introduction of the 35-hour week; * Nationalisation under workers control of all industries threatening reA programme of puble works to meet social need and provide jobs, financed through the nationalisation of the banks and finance houses: * Opening the books to prepare a workers' plan for production which defends jobs; * Opposition to any form of incomes policy - for a sliding scale of wages and social expenditure to compensate automatically for inflation REMOVE WILSON LEADERSHIP Another two years of hard Labour must be prevented; and these are the policies to do just that. They demand that the trade union bureauc racy which polices Wilson's policies in the labour movement be confronted The call must go up - fight or be thrown out. of changing Wilson and Healey's fundamental policies without changing the people responsible for them. That is why Red Weekly will continue to campaign for 'the removal of the Wilson-Healey leadership' and calls on the so-called lefts in the Parliamentary Labour Party and trade union bureaucracy to do likewise. The Communist Party has to be prevented There is no possibility
(NO WHEALTH SERVICE: Already cut to the housing service bone Red Weekly 26 February 1976