Like the Financial Times, the Daily Mirror is not averse to cuts. It just thinks that the 'NHS must be the very last to come under the knife'. It also quotes with approval the work of charities whose voluntary efforts pump cash into the sickening NHS to keep it tottering along.
The picture is only too clear. The NHS is being consigned to poverty. The Financial Times's line is to get on with butchering it now. The Mirror would prefer to wait a bit and only do it when necessary CONFERENCE The Conference called by the Medical Committee Against Private Practice rejects both these 'solutions'. When it brings delegates to gether in London on 11 October it will be trying to build united working class action - not just to defend the NHS, but to expand and extend the health service so that it can be both responsible to and serve the interests of the working class We understand the bitterness of that BMA doctor who complains that health workers' spirits are being destroyed. But there is a sol ution for him and his colleagues in the NHS. That is to work to build the MCAPP Conference - to make sure that health workers win allies in the working class movement for their fight.
That is why we again call on our readers to make sure that this Conference gets maxımum support both within the NHS and from all other trade unionists. This week's sponsors of the Conference include: South London Lastitute of Workers Control; NUPE-North