Socialist Organiser

The weekly of the fused Workers Socialist League, July 1981 to April 1984

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Socialist Organiser no. 151, 20 October 1983 · scan pp. 11–12 · about 247 words

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Subscribel Get SOCIALIST ORGANISER each week delivered to you for, 3 months; £8.50 for 6 months; and fle Please send me , months' sub, i enclose To: Socialist Organiser, 28, Middle Lane, London N8 8PL. Trotsky on S The classic Marxist analy of Stalinism is Leon Trotsky's Revolution Betrayed: What is the Soviet Union and Where It Going?' Available via Socialist Organiser, 28 Middle Lane, London N8: £2.50 plus 50p postage. action began. This causes a backlog of people waiting for admission, and causes local authorities problems in deciding how to deal with acuté cases.

In the original guidelines on the action issues to branches, national NALGO recommended that the use of the private and voluntary sector should be given as an acceptable option to local authorities. They claimed that this would cause short-term extra cost and inconvenience to the employers.

However, many branches found that this option was simply being exploited by their local authority to sidestep the action, and even to place residential care under long-term threat.

Some local branches felt it necessary to tighten up the guidelines to make them effective. The overtime ban has bitten deepest. This has resulted in homes not being staffed because of sickness, leave and poor staffing levels.

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