some of their most recent achievements on 52p to 65p; a minimum day centres; average rent paid by Coventry's excluding for the elderly and the handicapdepartment; a further reduction of 130 staff and children homes, and the meals on wheels members. They mounted pickets of 21 secondary schools NUPE members stood firm, despite expensive adverts But NUPE has not been smashed. Its members, man of whom are women part-timers who have never been on demonstrated that Whatever the outcome of arbitration. with the next financial year, the reluse to stand with the trade It's a sad day when a Labour council We're not only the lowest paid, it's also jobs, we don't go to work for company or for pin money. They thought we'd Mrs Rowena Mason, NUPE member from Cardinal Newman School addressing a lobby of the City Council last Thursday, two days before the Resolution from Coventry South East CLP withdrawal of letters implementing cuts in hours and 3. Withdraw the 12m cut package and remove the re 4. Reopen discussions between the Labour council, the unions for a joint fight againsi Tory pians for Jurther Hess/tine's bill chickens coming home to roost 'TARZAN' Heseltine has authorities.
Norwich Council off council houses.
Tories' cuts in local government funding.
The new Heseltine Bill 1s anothe workers" living standards It will restrict local govern ment spending still further, forcing councils tO make cuts and redundancies Many par ticularly those under left 1001 COtTO ALKE GLC, have tried to avoid cuts increasing the Socialist Challenge believes that this strategy is only another method making the working class pay for the crisis We have labour movement campaign around no cuts, and no rent or rate rises.
But the Heseltine Bill the chickens roostall cause rate rise coming home to have not only been proven to be an electoral disaster for the Labour Party over the past period, but the run into problems.
First a threatened back-bench Tory revolt is forcing him to drop the controversial proposal for rates referendums for 'overspending' local And now the courts have granted injunction to stop Heseltine sending in his commissioners to sell But, TESSA VAN GELDEREN argues, the courts and Tory 'wets are the last people we can rely on to stop the will remove any possibility of them providing a 'solution' to the crisis of council spending Not only might the rate rises need the approval of a local tererendam the new Bill will also enpayers will pay a bigge burden of increase than the commercial sec tor. In other words working people will pay t is urgently necessary for the Labour left develop a clear strategy to fight against the Tory cuts council spending.
THE BOLS BULLowar are hopelessly inadequate: labour movement referen resigning trom of fice and going into opposi and so on. They al lack the one essential ingredient: they are not bascampaign. mobilise the labour movement against the Tories. ter how well intentioned by councils or councillors to place themselves in the front line with surcharges bankruptcy and the rest will only create martyrs for Ine mistory books Without working peois beine done in weir being done in their name CHICE actions are meaningless and a waste of Strut about resigning from of fice and down VOTEELIN Tory/SDP proposals The only way Hese nne Tensit and the Tories will be defeated is agion Heath s19 1974 showed that. But in period when the working class has suffered number of set backs, it is looking for leadership, not martyrs. The Labour left has so far failed to provide that leadership it nas spent too much time discussing the rights and wrongs of labour movement referendums rather than taking up and supporting struggles that workers are involved in The Labour group or the Greater London Coun cil voted to 10W profile while the House of Lords decided whether the council the right to decrease Lon popular decision the GEC don's fares Never taken! The Labour prepared to mobilise the labour movement in delence.
The most radical HASHCSO SHOE WOTHES it written on without the active suppor of the labour movement. When Governe workers see that councils then will they be willing then and only take action in defence of their jobs and the living standards of working people led by Labour and the Party should be demonsirations throughout the country to show that there is opposi ~LUE should be organising a na of UUHITELCHLD Labour Parties and trade plan national opposition to the proposals Without laying the basis for such a campaign all the other proposals will come to nothing. And th may well have no councils left to stand and tight Heseltine in May.