In the housing sector, the council is planning a £40-45 repair and improvement of the Swarcliffe estate in cast council-based schemes are dwarfed by prounveiled late by Leeds Teaching health services, amounting to a staggerins 2140 mullson Almos: £100 million of this at Hospital (E58 mil- awful hospital at Leeds General Infirmary (£19 million) are Cambridge-based of the scheme include the revamp cople's minds of two wings at St James's, and the updating of two hos. pitais in outyme arcas a "locality hospitals"
Bed losses Altbough ( this should not be at the cost of the inevitable bed losses as sac sopercussions o North-west, he recent Visted report o Lecas Baucation Authority which has produced the Ofsted's highly critical, and almost certainly politically motivated report, an unusual councillors, 2Aсп03 trade unionists has united in opposing the possible hiving off of all or part of the LEA meeting laid the groundwork example of for a strong campaign in the Islington, where from this rices will be supplied by a significant private local Labour Partics is real. company for the next seven At the March meeting of the District Labour Party, where 'he campaign against pri any motions critical of vatisation in Leeds really got have under way in carly February monotonously ruled out of orach, opposition to privat meeting called by an alliance sation was strongly argued. of public sector trade unions, Resistance mainly UNISON local gov- One motion called for the and health city council to resist the privatisation of education serLeeds vices by all means possible Harold Best, spoke about his experiences reduction in bed numbers as as an apprentice electrician La result of PFI in the health working for a private firm service. ripping off a public sector These and other anti-pricontract, and made clear his CO0C 0000800e passed without dissent after government's privatisation La debate which made the link rie was joinca on tae plate LEA and the incursion of form by Bob Crowe of the &MT and Candy Udwin of prevale nuance mto seou hospitals and UNISON. This successful Traffic Control The deep unpopularity of the goverament's anive privatisation is evident from from every opinion poll on the subject. No respite And yet the momentum is maintained without been HCT Why are Blair and his team determined to open 0U00 health and education, to the private sector? the world up into tidy com. partments • local. and international, 00009088 #SUORESS enough, the beginnings the answer can be found in The US agenda for the World Trade Organisation -WCTE and the United States is as usual backed to the hilt by its across the world investment opportunities in services for even Air American capital.
Potential markets in bealth and education are the open up markets for profit across the globe. ultimate aim is to reduce our schools and hospitais to no more suan focal branches of Education UK ESPEC ple or Health Inc, with headNew York or up Chicago.
In Leeds the next step in the campaign against this international project will be and march through the city 814480888 29ch April. This the Trades Council is organising the rally, together the Against gans - Free Education, Free lealth and Free Welfare No to Privatisation! Perhaps will be the beginning of a successful campaign to defend the welfare state.