SocialistAction 1983–88

The paper of the Socialist League, formerly the International Marxist Group, 1983–88

Complaining socialist

· Socialist Action No. 12, 3 June 1983 · p. 10 of the scan · 409 words

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meeting was a great succes, attracting five midwives and also members of ASTMS who were not previously active in the union.

The St Mary's luclear disarmamen the International Women's Day of Action with a leaflet. This will Jenkins and Steel the road to working class power in Britain? CND on the march: now's the time to take it into the workplaces be followed up by a showing of one of the excellent CND films of the medical effects of nuclear war.

Effective work place groups are both possible and necessary to win ASTMS, St Mary's Hospital, Paddington riberal AS A socialist, I like to think that answers to the problems of society can be found, and like to take a positive view.

I found Socialist Action to be one of the most cons stent negative publications I have read.

it is a common charg laid against socialists that they complain bitterly about world conditions, but can offer no workable so tons I disagree with that charge and like to think that we socialists are workme our a vadie alternative to self interested capitalism. but the kind of moaning and Socialist Action Sue Slipman - should union pay for SDP campaign?

NUPE resolution HAVING just returned from the NUPE National Conference I would like to take the opportunity, 'through your pages, to make an appeal to all NUPE members who read you paper perpetuates the myth of the blind-complaining Anyone who reads your paper knows already that Thatcherism is bad, they , do not need to be told over and over again, almost as if it were a sublect to gloa , over Get rid of the carping and complaining, and fill the paper with what the paper calls itself, socialist ACTION, and you will be on a winner, but at the down from me.

This letter is intended as constructive criticism, and I hope vou wil accept it in the spirit it IAN F MCRAE, Dundee CHRIS DAVIES (Report It is theretore disgusting that she has been granted three weeks paid leave by the union to go off and campaign for the SDP's repressive and reactionary trade union and incomes policies.

We are urging all NUPE branches to send resolutions direct to the Executive Committee and calls for her dismissal on the grounds that her actions directly contravene Rule 2 (1) under the objects of the National Union of Public Employees.

Branch Chair, Sutton Area Hospitals NUPE

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