Bristol area forges ahead...

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character-it should have centred more on those workers already in struggle, like those from the Personna occupation, seen here passing the TUC that they are being driven further into the arms of the most reactionary consultants. Already some sections of junior doctors are supporting the consultants demands that the Government should refer their proposals on private practice to the Royal Commission.

DEVASTATING By winning the support of the junior doctors, the leaders of the consultants hope to repeat their victory over Bevan and the Labour Government in the late 1940s - a victory which allowed them to continue to practise privately. If they get away with this once again, yet another devasting blow will have been struck against the working class and the NHS. The campaign against health cuts is really moving ahead in the Bristol area. The South-West Region TUC - which has a delegate on the National Co-ordinating Committee - voted at its meeting in Plymouth on 22 November to adopt the resolution passed at the MCAPP conference and also to finance a local conference against the cuts in Bristol on 31 January.

As part of the build-up to the con terence, the bristor based co oromang committee will be picketing the December and January meetings of the Avon Area Health Authority to protest against the slashing cuts announced in all the Avon districts.

A further picket of the Bristol health district headquarters this Friday is also being organised by health workers who have voted for a two-hour stoppage on that day. One hundred and four nurses - the entire student intake for Februar - are having their places postponed for eight months. which means that there will be 104 fewer nurses at a time when three warus in bristol koyal Inturmary alone are temporarily closed because of a shortage of nurses!

Campaign Against the Cuts in Public Spending in Birmingham, 13 December Assemble 10.30 in Victoria Square soeakers includer com Litterick Mr Ernie Roberts, Asst Sec AUEW; Jeff Rooker MP; Ken Barlow, UCATT: Val Coultas, NUS; Chris Adamson, NUPE Gordon Green, NUT.

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Spain, Red Weekly 4 December 1975