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of Lon don, field, penalise ing' make services. penalties already Heseltine's months Lambeth. Counci Lambeth Joint Stewards tiona. In November organise ference organising committee), both local and jobs action have been sent all Labour local authority shop stewards committees, The has.
tion, action, government cutting «Liones and unions noW NUPE will national Fisher.
Scottish London districts of NALGO will be , sending. delegations. Many local authorities and local authority trade union branches will also be taking part.
A fringe meeting has been organised at the Labour Party conterence to mobilise Noverher conference this is taking place at Tiffany's Ballroom on TuesSeptember, day :30 Dennis Skinner and Alan Fisher the main speakers.
The 1 November conference committtee recognises that only a joint national campaign of action, maximum solidarity from other public and private sector trade unions, will be effective in reversing Kucutien policies.
‚ocal campaigns are no longer sufficient. Suffer Putting up the rates no longer seems a feasible option, as it did for many last year. To maintain serVICCS in big city alcas the present levels would enormous rate increases next April, which would only be politically unacceptable but would be very difficult to collect.
In residential areas like Micheal Lambeth, for example, there is no difference in practice between increasing rates and making cuts Campaign)
IN A violent repression, as beacon Tory minister: of cuts either way working people suffer the conse-. quences. Big rate nises wil not save the thousands of and Nicaragua A six-month national Literacy Crusade which mobilised 200,000 students, schoolchildren and other young people as • voluntary teachers has virtually eradicated illiteracy.
The revolution must be allowed to be isolated in the same way as Cuba once was. The Labour Party's continued and consistent support for the jobs threatened in direct labour departments, or in architects and engineers departments which are financed directly central government grants. These malls alc being cut • to the bone. Reductions in the Housing Investment Programme Have a heron meant big lay-offs among building workers, and there will be more cuts next year.
Finally, the government has carried out its threat penalise local which put up rates drastically. Rate increases are no longer practical, let alone in the interests of working people. should cement the links with the trade union and duran armies. popular movements throughout the whole region rather than treating Unle El Salvador and Bolivia separate issues.
Alongside this, must build up grass-roots links between union branches in Britain and Nicaragua, and with the What are the other op tions? In fact the options boil down to either carrythrough the cuts huge redundancies and loss of services — or a massive campaign to force a change in policy.
This year's Labour Party conference must actively the November conference and commit the next Labour government to a policy of full restoration of all cuts and the development of local services to meet, local needs. Without such com mitments it will be ceedingly difficult for joint • national action to •succeed. •Guatemalan and HonThis would inevitably ead to an expansion of the conflict throughout Central America and provide the United States destroy revolution and return to the status quo If the USA is allowed to intervene in Central
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CLP) and Mike Tichelar (Lambeth NALGO and a member of the con-