March Saturday 13 • MARCH to support Istanbul's Saturday : Mathers, assemble 1 pm, Turnpike Lane tube, : march to Wood Green common to rally with Jeremy Carbyn MP and relatives of the disappeared Monday 15 KURDISTAN Solidority Cammittee Trade Union , group meeting 6-8pm at KIC, 10 Glasshouse Yard, Barbican, London ECI Sunday 21 TRESPASS WALK organised by the Sussex Network of The land is Ours to bolster support for the 2nd reading of Gordon Prentice's. Right to Roam Bill on March 26.
March Meet Brighton station 10 am 28: meeting Wrap up warm and wear good to build a boots. Bring pocked lunch, National Civil sorry no dogs. Walk up to 6 Rights miles Contact 01273 620 movement 815. PUBLIC MEETING organised by Justice for Roger Sylvester campaign of West Indian Cultural Centre, Clarendon Road, London NB 5-7pm, speakers include Roger's mother, futher and brother. Sunday 28 MEETING to build o National Civil Rights movement 12-5.30pm. Camden Centre, Judd Street, Kings Cross, London WCT. Provisional speakers include Neville Lowrence, Mike field on American Civil Rights lender, Sukdev Reel, Kwesi Menson, Jonet Alder, Suresh Grover and others. Phone 0181 574 0818 or 0181 843 2333 for further details April Saturday 10 MARCH FOR A LIVING WAGE. Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Supported by UNISON, 8 other national unions and the TUC Transport from all major towns. Saturday 17 MARCH AND RALLY for Peace and lustice. "Libya 1986 Trag 1999 bombings! Lift the sanctions!" Provisionally pm assemble Hyde Park. March to Trafalgar Square for rally at 3pm. Called by the April 14-15 Commemoration Committee and the campaign Against Sanctions and War on rao, For more details 0171 436 4636, Saturday 24 NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION aginst racism, organised by the Blair Peach 20th Anniversary Committee. Assemble 1pm Southall Park Southall. May Saturday 1 UNION RIGHTS DAY morch, assemble 12 noon, Clerkenwell Green, London. Saturday 29 COLOGNE DEMONSTRATION of European summit. (See details, page 13)
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THE IMPACT of what one MP has described as "year 2l of Tory cuts" is making itself felt on social service departments across the country.
In Oxfordshire, where the social service budget is enduring its fifth successive year of cuts, the County Council has agreed a. package of £10.3m cuts reaching over the next three years - and county will still in theory be health workers, service users march through Oxford on John Lister ALTHOUGH it set the cat among the pigeons by calling for an extra £1 billion to be spent in providing free nursing care for elderly people, the Royal Commission Long Term Care has produced an essentially conservative report.
We should of course be grateful that it is an independent report, which has clearly escaped the tentacles of the Millbank control freaks, and one which But while campaigners and charities representing older people have broadly mendation to scrap the - Scrap all charges for care of elderly!
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Nor does the commission address the increasingly severe impact since 1993 of "capping" of council tax and social service budgets, which has run alongside tightening NHS cash limits.
This dual pressure On has made a mockery of the rhetoric of "seamless care» HE which was revived at the time of the comreforms: instead we strapped health and social services each seeking to pass risks O PANELAWS bility for frail elderly patients (who would previously have received care free of charge in NHS continuing care beds).
These STG payments end in April of this year, leaving council chiefs across the country stuck with an additional bill, while their budgets are cut or constrained, and while the local NHS pockets the difference. The commission's recommendation that "personal care" should, like other types of health care, be provided free at point of use and funded from taxation is of course a major step forward.
But it would still leave those pensioners with assets above the means-test limit to pay £120 a week for living and housing costs.
Many would still be required, as
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