making Tory UNISON service to cuts!
Unions must fight for jobs and services UNISON through the city. services hits home. are leading the retreat.
SOS TS! TORY cuts imposed on council budgets have triggered an angry fightback throughout the country.
In NEWCASTLE, 6,000 council workers and 2,000 teachers staged a 24-hour strike on February 1 in protest at a £20m cuts package. 12,000 marched Thousands have also been on the streets in demunstrations and lobbies in TAUNTON, OXFORD, BIRMINGHAM, COVENTRY and other towns and cities, as the scale of the cuts in education, social services, fire and other key council But what are Labour councillors doing? With a few honourable exceptions, instead of leading this popular revolt against Tory policies, many have been actually drawing up packages of cuts.
The old argument that Labour's "caring" cuts are less painful than Tory cuts has been wheeled out again, but with less credibility than ever.
The timid councillors doing the Tories' dirty work reflect the wretched right wing politics of Tony Blair's front bench. Instead of leading the opposition they It has been left to the unions to express the growing tide of anger, as they have in Newcastle. They must demand that Labour councillors vote and campaign against the cuts; that Labour councils defy Tory spending limits; and that the party leadership commit a Labour goverment to reverse the Tory cuts. UNISON OUR
SOCIALIST OUTLOOK No.77. 11 February 1995, Page 2