Striking radiographers at Middlesborough General Hospital. Their union, ASTMS, acterl swiftly and threatened to black any attempt to set up a private health service. This has dealt a powerful blow to the attempts of consultant doctors to sabotage the NHS, and is an excellent example of how the workers" movement can block such capitalist manoeuvres. Support is growing in the Coventry ACTORATOR IS will be reviewed. tened, it is workers who are fighting to defend their interests.
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cussed, would block the consultants" letle schemes totally when faced with capitulist sabotage.
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According to both the Sunday Telegraph and the Sunday Express -both staunch Tory papers wit an inside line to ruling class discus sions -top businessmen are starting with a red-scare propaganda campaign (already well underway), but ure prepared to extend their action to include deliberate refusal to supply the Government with Apparently one scheme under discussion involves a deliberate boycott of British rail freight services, to drive British Rail further into the red and offer another 'proof of the failure of nationalised WARNING None of this will come as any surprise to readers of Red Weekly We have been warning for many months that the capitalists would take this course if their interests were anywhere near being threaAll the chatter about the 'national interest, "law and order, the "constitution" and the evils of direct action' is only served up when But what will the leaders of the Labour Party have to say about Most of them will have a simple answer -surrender. Already the papers are full of reports that Wilson and Labour's right-wing oppose the nationalistion proposals. Even the mild threat of the prescht As for the architect of Labour's proposals, industry minister Tony Benn, we understand that he is a reader of Red Weekly. But, judging by his proposals which do no more than nibble at the edges of the economic anarchy created by capitalism, he hasn't leurned very much There is only one way that capitalist schotage can be smushed and the sort of far-reaching socialist measures necessary to delend workers interests carried out: through the organisutions and direct NURSES Nurses and other workers in the National Health Service have already shown with their campaign to stamp out private wards how this can be done, While Labour was foundering around suffering defeat after defeat in Parliament, and retreating on one clector pledge after another, the healtl workers struck a swift and impurant And when they faced a concerted plan of sabotige by the consultants they knew how to deal with it. The pledge by the medical technicians' union ASTMS, to boycott any private medical operations sent the consultants reeling, A decision by the building unions to