Without doubt the most important to a maximum of 30. issue from this point of view is the question of the cuts in social services. In the wake of the latest of Healey's many axes, it is this question above all others that will dominate conterence. Eighteen resolutions have been submitted on the question of cuts in general, whilst there are dozens on particular social services.
But the general resolutions are woefully inadequate to meet the Red Weekly has learnt with deep regret of the death of Micaela Blackmore, killed at the age of only 21 in a road accident in London on Sunday 18 July. Micaela was vice-president elect of the Tyne-Wear Area NUS and an executive member of the Students Union at Northern Counties College in Newcaste Although never formally a member of the International Marxist Group, her activities ineme recent sucent meacher occupations and her work in building support or them nad brougnt ner close to the perspectives of the IMG and the Fourth International. Red Weekly would like to extend its deepest sympathy to her friends and comrades. tied to the cost of living index for all National Health Service workers; reduction of class sizes in schools Manchester Ardwick have put forward a resolution which is an excellent plan of socialist measures that the Government should take with regard to the health service. But it falls short of last year's Composite 30 - notably in failing to demand the provision of abortion and pregnancy testing facilities free and on request under the NHS. And most important, it gives no key as to how to implement such policies in the face of a right-wing Labour Government which is cutting back the health service at this very minute.
Lobby One organisation, however, is trying to mount a campaign for the implementation of Composite 30. The National Coordinating Committee Against Cuts in the NHS has organised a lobby of the conference which will show whether those who have put down fine sounding resolutions inside the conference A meeting of Camden's Labour Council on 21 July was brought to a standstill by squatters wno moved in trom Enis picket to demonstrate trom the gallery against the mass eviction plans drawn up by the Council to comply with the Government's cuts. Camden nas announced inat it intenas to terminate all licences to squatting groups including Short Life Community Housing, the biggest in London.
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