and a high exchange rate are designed to boost the City even more.
should be nationalisation under workers control of all banking and finance, and the scrapping of the outstanding interest burden of local should be fighting for a democratic planned economy in which the waste of competition would be ended.
Cut out the costs of capitalist supervision. Everywhere that workers nave taken OY CI chemselves, they have found that a lot of the manager's work was redundant — because their main function was to discipline workers and make sure they were exportea to cne run. 1 mis coulla be ended by genuine, workers' control, because workers would be working for themselves and not for parasites.
Similarly à lot of the huge and cumbersome apparatus of the State is not incle to provide services our to hold back legitimate demands for democratic rights and proper services.
London demanding the Hospital ANCILLARY workers had voted for action demonstration in November.
democratic with fighting borough on a united basis.
Hospital;
WORKERS at the London Hospital, Whitechapel, have started boycotting private beds as a protest against the plan to close 82 NHS beds, including a female surgical ward. A mass meeting of 700 health and support Lambeth on Health workers in Tower Hamlets. are experienced in fighting cuts they have been fighting for the last two years to keep Bethnal Green Hospital open. Now they are faced throughout the The cuts include: the 'temporary' closure of the 120 bed London Jewish the abolition coi routing medical checks in secondary schools and visits to old people's homes; cuts in intant weltare, family planning and district nurses; a 20 per cent cut in Teachers By Will Reese, Coventry NUT (in personal capacity).
THE GOVERNMENT is committed to introducing fees of two to five thousand pounds per vear for overseas students trom October 1980. This racist measure, aimed at body, will bring the government an extra £100 million in fee income. In doing so though it will squeeze thousands of poorer students out of higher and further education, involve course closures, redundancies and even threaten the future of some institutions.
ment to implement these increases increasing fees for this year by 23 per cent in the Budget of 12 June the introduction of so called 'full cost fees' WON Given the scope of the cuts that the Tories are hoping to make, In attack on overseas students was inevitable. and Authority. Students National Executive failed requiring to anticipate the seriousness of this threat. From the outset they have concentrated on hardship funds for those already registered on courses. It is only around this issue that they have advocated future status of overseas students, Teachers they argued, has to be secured through an educational campaign to establish the contribution they make to the British educational system and why they would be discuss a such a loss.
the and now colleges dividing the student national COULOU it alone.
The decision of the governsurprise. After has made openly debated.
an DES, to The response of the Union of calling for direct action. The student the Thankfully a handful of colleges in London and the North West were prepared to take action. Fee strikes are going on in sever and occupations bane occurred in a number of Polys am universities. The small number of occupations though, and thai short duration, reflects the lack of leadership and the approach thai loca leaderships are taking. Memoria of the defeats of 1977 and 1973 mean that the most active college. no longer expect support from de NUS and are dubious about goin Breaking the isolation of these colleges is therefore crucial. At our level this can be done by seizing on the one concession that the the need for campaign of mass action. The 31 hour occupations that thes harr called for on 8 and 9 Notarbes need to be transformed from toka actions to apply pressure to th ongoing occupation aimed at broadening invon coo in the campaign. But this means fighting to link the overse student campaign in the 125 mo the gencral campaign of apposi ion to the cuts.
In a number of aías sat as Manchester and Bristol, actice en the cuts is alreat! plassed student unions have to essere te the issue of overseas stados taken up within these. Narional should be organising for a mass turn out ou demonstration and lobby cuts taking place in London on 28 November.