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Socialist Organiser1981 1981-11-05Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 11 →
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To make Socialist Organiser a real campaigning paper that can organise the left in the movement, it needs its own Local supporters' groups have been established in mos big towns to build a real base for the paper.
Supporters are asked to undertake to sell a minimum of six papers an issue and to contribute at least £1 a month (20p for unwaged). So becoming a supporter helps build our circulation and gives the paper a firmer financial base. job, but realise that it can't possibly do enough unless you Fill in the form below and send it to: Socialist Organiser I want more information•/I wish to become a Socialist Name Address ....Phone TU CLP workers now face a strengthened dose of the monetarist medicine which has already been inflicted on the industrial sector (BL, British Steel etc.) Hundr eds of thousands of redundancies and drastic cuts in living standards are now the order of the day.
Thwart Some Labour Councils (not the majority!) have managed to thwart the Tories' plans to "slim down' the local authority sector by the defensive option of large rate rises. Thousands of jobs have been saved by this 'time-buying' exercise, although the political price in terms of middle (and working) class alienation from Labour has tended to escalate.
Time has now run out. The Tories have given up the attempt to coax and push the recalcitrant Labour Councils into large- scale cuts. They have opted' for the big stick in the form of Heseltine's law.
Even without the new legislation, the level of vVCL rate rises sufficient to avoid cuts would have been astronomical. With ceilings on commercial rates and local plebiscites coming into force next year, the rate weak Labour councils by offering them crumbs.
Secondly, there may be pressure from trade union bureaucrats to retreai to an illusory 'second line of defence', , such as 'no redundancies' or 'only 100 redundancies' , or whatever. This pressure can only be overcome if Labour Groups and local parties forge a firm alliance with rank and file trade unionists on the basis of no cuts in jobs or services.
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Socialist Organiser, Thursday 5 November
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