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SUBSCRIPTION RATES DOMESTIC: E6 per year £3 for six months FOREIGN: E9 per year surface mail £12 per year airmail Write to RED WEEKLY (distribution), 182 Pentonville Road, London N.i The Spring demonstration called ordinating Committee Against Cuts in the NHS can be a really important step in building a massive movereally powerful forces that can stop Five hundred health workers from Bristol's central hospitals marched through the town on 19 December to protest against the cuts in health spending. Demonstrators came mainly from the ancillars unions, but there was small but significant support from nurses, as well as from doc tors in the Medical Practitioners Union.
The demonstration was an important step forward in the fight against drastic "ten per cent across the board' cuts. The next step is a meeting to be convenec early in the New Year of all union stewards in all Bristol hospitals.
Local IMG health workers will be arguing for a campaign to defeat rather than just protest against the cuts, point ing out that the health authority is merely acting as the Wilson Government's agent in implementing the cuts. This means above all a fight to carry out the recent decision of the Confederation of Health Service Employees regional conference to take industrial action against the cuts.
They will also be calling for a picket of the Area Health Authority's next meeting as well as urging full support for the 31 January conference against the cuts called by the South West Region of the TUC in conjunction with the Avon Co-ordinating Committee Against the Cuts. A successful conference will give the committee a real basis from which to centralise the campaign.