Will They Betray the Nhs? £6000 Fund

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So we're going to have to extend the deadline for our £6,000 fund. We had originally hoped tn mate the tarnat hur tha and of Inly That means we've gone a long way to clearing off our backlog of debts - number one of the fund's objects - but not very far yet in Premises, new machinery and equipment We know that many local Socialist Organiser groups have fund-raising activities planned for September. Three Wirral SO supporters are seeking sponsorships for the Mersey Marathon. With a push the £6,000 is not too far off!

Recent contributions include £10 from Glasgow (Fraser Neil [of the Recognitions]), £16.50 from the Oxford bookshop group, £15 from a Palestinian comrade, £35 from Teresa Munby (Birmingham), £31.50 from sales of 'Unregistered Socialist' bauges, and £544.42 Full area-by-area analysis next. week. Send money to Socialist Organiser, 28 Middle Lane, whelmingly for an all-out indefinite strike.

• HE Scrap the the health successful. Workers are demoralised, having come out on strike to no avail so far.

There has been solidarity action too (apart from the Fleet Street electricians). On Clydebank, shipyards are holding two-hour mass meetings during work-time on Friday, and the workforces will be addressed by striking health workers. AUEW members have been taking strike action in support of Sheffield health workers, and Clydebridge steel works A Middlewood Hospital (Sheffield) worker told us about a rally during the last three-day action. We showed Spanswick what we thought of him. He stood up to address a rally of 2,000 and most people walked out. By the time he'd finished there were only 50 people left in the hall".

This dispute has gone on far too long. The only way to stop the backsliding of the union leadership is to demand that the TUC Health Services Committee calls an 23 9144 stop Begin now in his effort lu mant uis laiget uy wa vu inn 6 ime in to crush the Palestinians. we've still only got £3,384.91.

The responsibility falls to the international labour movement. We should do everything we can to paralyse the Israeli war machine expansion: by blacking supplies and equipment for it. Even the smallest beginnings of action object number two. can be a boost to the Palestinian resistance and to the peace movement inside Israel.

Already in Australia, Greece and Scotland, the labour movement has called for a boycott of the Zionist state.

Being against the Israeli state has nothing to do with being anti-Jewish. Bombings have been carried out against Jews in Paris by a group called Action Directe, des- TUHSG. cribed in the media as leftwing but in fact known to the French left as semiLondon N8 8PL Tanden NO QDI fascist.

The left should condemn these atrocities just as wę condemn the far largerscale atrocities of the Israeli forces in Lebanon.

Begin's blitzkrieg has nothing to do with security for the Jews. The Zionist state is a murderous, rapacious oppressor for the Palestinians and a death-trap for the Jews.

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