THE IMAGH prosperous South East is elied by thi working geopie in London. Anyone who lives there will tell you thar London is a city ir crisis. Local authority services are collapsing, a result of wave after wave of cutbacks.
Public transport goes from crisis to utter collapse - it must be the worst in any capital city in an advanced country. If you want proof that market societ doesn't make everything work education and health are in a chronic state.
The crisis of all these vital services is compounded by unCONFERENCE clo Lambeth NALGO, 6a Acre Lane, SW2 5SG.
employment increasing faster than the national average, and the increasinglv dire housing situation, with council rents going through the roof. Coine of London Bridge which linked autority unions in the fight against ratecapping, there has been an absence of serious coordination among London campaigning organisations to overcome this a Crisis in London conference has been called to try to etablish r ormanent campaign to link the forts of the fighting back. cerned with the campaign against assault on working represented London's crisis should support this campaign. Saturday 9 November 10.30am to 5.30pm Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, WC1 Registration: f2 waged or 50p unwaged, from Ed Hall, Yes! I want to subscribe to Socialist Outlook. Please send me: : Europe: 1 year E18 J Six months E10 0 Rest of the World: 1 year 222 J Six months 212 O " linclude a donation of ................ ,rd like to know more about Socialist Cutlcok J ' Name ... • Address ........................... No. 10 age 15
INSIDE: The Unipart ultimatum page 15; UCW under attack Tories butcher coalfields... BT jobs under the axe Published fortnightly Solidarity price E1 Strikers and claimants 25p No 10 Oct. 26, 1991 called 'Demand-Chain Management' imposed on them. can be de-unionised then so can thousands of workplaces nationwide. threat of de-recognition, or much-reduced union rights.
socialist TOWARDE CLASS Last week workers at the Unipart plant in Oxford - the best organised plant in the town - found out that their union is to be de-recognised: Instead they will have a new 'Japanised' system The blow against Unipart workers is a huge threat - if Unipart Throughout industry new management and working techniques based on 'japanisation' are looming. With them comes the DIMIND CHA MANAGEMEN Managers unopposed on the rostrum: workers eager, but on their knees. The graphics from the new Unipart management handbook spell out a union-buster's dream new closure plans which could crush the NUM. Printed by Tridant Press. Edenbridge, Kent. Published by Idolare Ltd, 377 City Road, London EC IV The Post Office is threatening to tear up existing agreement: vith the UCW. Rover faces total Japanisation'. Newspapers and television stations have seen journalists confronted with 'personal contracts' and derecognition of the NUJ. The miners face It is time for the unions to fight back against this deadly threat; and doing that means challenging the anti-union laws. Otherwise huge blows against working class organisation could be inflicted.
Crisis in London Defend London Services