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Return to: Socialist Action. P.O. Box 65. London S"! 5 ther drastic reductions in the grant.
is seen clearly by the move to drain the poorer urban areas of money and to divert a greater proportion of the grant to better-off rural areas.
WHAT IT MEANS The effects of these moves are disastrous.
Wandsworth have a field day in slashing services, many Labour councils such as Islington have followed suit. In short, they are passLIKE many other Labour coun cils faced with the Tory cuts, Lambeth decided that the only way to avoid axing services was to raise the rates.
have been raised three times - the latest by a massive 20p in the pound.
Attempts to maintain jobs and services by making working class tenants and rate payers pay through the nose, however, has boomeranged back in their face.
PROTEST Only last month, a major 3000strong demonstration against the council's rate increases took place. Organised by the Tories, it drew its support not only from small shop. keepers but also from the council estates where the idea of a rate and rent strike is gathering force.
The workers backing the antiKnight rally were not Tories. They were working people who, at a time of inflation, are hard-pushed to fork out the extra £6-8 a week Knight is cemanding or them
MARCH 1981 e increases