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Sat August 28 - Fri September 3 TAKE A STEP back from the class struggle, world capitalist crisis, the collapse of Stalinism, meetings, pickets and demonstrations. Enjoy six days of education and debate THEMES: Women's Liberation, Europe, and breakfast and lunch are provided. Further details from: Socialist Outlook, PO Box 1109, LonJOHN MAJOR'S desperate Tory gang are targeting' the elderly, children and the low waged.
hey want to screw billions from them to ball out the bankrupt British economy which Norman Lamont has run into the ground, while the wealthy escape scot-free.
Thatcherite Treasury Secretary Michael Portilio spelled it out - but other leading Tories have also admitted that the government is looking at ways of cutting the cost of the welfare state.
One proposal floated early on is to force millions of pensioners and low-paid parents to fork out £4.25 per item for prescriptions, which elderly people and children now get free.
But if the Tories can't force this one past a barrage of complaints from their own back-benchers, they have 7C VInAI...? Chernobyl victims fighting for proper support [ Sociallist Tories target elderly to means-testing. tested. courses. other nasty schemes in mind.
• The state pension could be scrapped, or subjected • Child benefit - already reduced - could be means• Students- already forced to take mammoth loans, could be forced to pay their own fees for college • NHS patients could be charged for use of hospital beds, for meals, or for visiting their GP.
John Major convinces nobody with his claim that the 'most vulnerable' would be protected: even the Tory press concedes that only those on state benefit and already well below the poverty line would remain exempt from the new charges.
frail elderly. Issued for elderly people. the Tory onslaught.
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The heavlest blows would again be felt by pension. ers, who have already been clobbered by Lamont's imposition of VAT on heating bills, and by Tory 'community care legislation that imposes charges for the care of the Up to 7.5 million pensioners would be hit by an end to free prescriptions. Almost half of all prescriptions are Labour's opposition to the Tory offensive is hampered by the Party's own review into the "targeting" of benefits, and its refusal to challenge the cruel logic of capitalism.
The fact is that decent state pensions, free healthcare and free education are concessions that this crisis-ridden system is increasingly unwilling to make. Only socialist economic policies can defend the poorest against