Making the bosses whine Workers at the occupied Forges de Clabeoq steel plant in Beigium plan to sell off 7000 bottles of wine seized from the manager's clars to boost their strike und. The occupation is against a restructuring pian tha cludes a 10 per cent pay cut and the loss of 3000 job said: We've got 7000 bottles and we're WILL London's left support the miners but stand by as their own local hospitals close down?
The evidence of the past two wooks suggests this could well be the case - but it is not too late to change. mobilised to produce a rapid growth of miners support groups. but done little or nothing to camnaian saainst the threatened closure of ten London hospitals. Miners' leaders have been as puzzled by this as health campaigners.
However the absence of conscious left-wingers has fortunatemy not prevented many other inviduals and organisations fron aking up the fight, with active local campaigns now developing around Bart's, Charing Cross and St Thomas's hospitals cluding GPs, union actvists, pen. stoners groups end orels sup ported the London Health Emergency rally called for Camden Town Hall on November 10.
There the link between defending the NHS and defending the miners was strongly made presence an u paul! of Yorkshire miners' leader Ken Capstick and of Jeremy Corbyn MP who is secretary of the Na tional Miners Support Network. HOSP TALS London's LIFELINE!
The next London-wide focus is a Lobby of Parliament, called by London COHSE for Thursday Decemicer and now supperiou by SE Region TUC. The date offers a target for local groups of health workers and campaigners wishing to build for action.
Publicity leaflets for the lobby are avallable from the Hospitals hotline 081-543-