requires a real campaign inside the labour movement.
A spokesperson for MCAPP explained: 'We do not simply want to get resolutions carried in support of our demands. What is needed is a campaign that can win over hundreds of thousands of workers to fighting for those demands.' She added: 'Swansea have set the kind of example which should be followed up in other areas. Price, who led the struggles of the NUPE branch at the Morriston Hospital against private practice - at the Morriston all the ancillary workers came out on strike against the presence of one private patient in the hospital - is doing meetings to build support for the Conference.
"He is speaking to shop stewards' commantees and urging them to elect delegates to the 11 October Conference. Other local militants are working with him on this campaign. This is the way that Ken and his fellow members of the NUPE branch managed to get solidarity strike acaction from the South Wales miners during the nurses' pay claim.
*They are also organising a local conference following the MCAPP Conference against Government cuts in social expenditure, especially in the NHS. Massive complex In Cardiff and Newport area she reports: "Activity is being organised in the massive Heath Hospital complex - one of Europe's largest hospitals. This is being organised by the supporters of the National Abortion Campaign.
'A committee has now been set up in Sheffield which is supported by the ASTMS district committee, Laycock's Shop Stewards Committee, Brightside Labour Party and members of the National Union of Students who are in its health section. This conmittee is running a drive for delegates to Conference will organise activity in Sheffield against local cuts "The Hammersmith Hospital Joint Shop Stewards Committee which sponsors the Conference has Building support for the Conference called by the Medical Committee Against Private Practice 'Against the Cuts in the National Health Service' have banned work on two wards.
Although the management have claimed that they are causing injury to NHS patients a petition signed by over half the NHS patients supports their action. ban will be extended to other wards.
Ken ment, it is essential that a campaign to defeat the Healey measures and the £6 limit is waged, because these measures are designed to create unemployment.
eaucracy itself we are unlikely to This week the defeat of the Communist Party and social democrats within the NỤT bureaucracy over the question of Healey's proposals, the 'lefts' are now only too willing to.toe the line in a desperate attempt to maintain their base within the union.
This will mean that the fight against the cutbacks will be presented in a purely sectoral way, capitulating to the right within the union who are concerned that the should be maintained.
the left fall into the trap of the "teacher knows best attitude and being carried by teachers, not by the whole labour movement.