Talbot f rank n and Ide to which can protect all workers. lerson This is not elitism. nslow When the miners had e wall trike, cy arc worker could wade through, cuvre пис. i they rships living of working people. up to th the ff the g for rs are Hounslow Hospital ocupation. rways room sal of throw ght 1o interests of the working class These workers are fighting in a 'sectional' way because their national leadership have denied them the means to fight in a united way against the Social Cofftract. They compare their wage-rates with other workers in claiming parity because their leaders are not advancing policies like automatic compensation for inflation This is not "worker against worker' struck and brought government in 1974 and smashed that 'Phase I!!' in the process, no trade unionists said the miners were trying to race ahead of other workers. Everyone knew then that a victory for the miners would smash a hole in Heath's "social contract" which every other That is the situation today. For what is at stake in these disputes is not a sectional interest: it is the right of the Labour Government and the trade union bureaucracy to hold down the standard of So the broadest possible support must be built for all workers in both wage struggle and in actions against the cuts. The aim of that support must be to build a united and coordinated fight back The desire for a linking up of the different types of struggles has The efforts of the Port Talbot workers to invite representatives from Heathrow and Leyland to their meeting is similarly the type of action that is necessary — a linking up of struggles, and the building of united action of all those willing to struggle in the down the Heath In the past three years the bureaucrats of the NHS have succeeded in closing over a hundred hospitals throughout the country. In London alone, hospitals have been closed In Willesden, Walthamstow, Islington and the East End.
But since last November the workers at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in North London have shown to all hospital workers and the rest of the labour movement how to resist such cuts in the health service.
Hounalow hospital work-in For over four months the EGA workere have staged a work-in at LnM nosmai wIch nus Torcoo Cne nouaneshONOrHGBHn Autha The hesp taiw salo ne hospitel closed by the December last year, but It ls still tresting OMONS I IS war throat 1o OGGO hO NOSOR On Monday 18 April came 1o nothing. SYMBOL The aclion of the EGA workars has made their struggle a cowerlu symbol of the general fight-back and woman's HIGHS bO TOI SS LID WIOUF BoDoU monemen SCUR WORL Bn their supporters have built a Frm