THE LAST great achievement of the 1945 Labour government lies on the operating table ready for the knife. The NHS and its patients are going to be murdered by the Thatcher government if we let them get away with it.
In region after region, jobs are to disappear that money can be saved In Virginia Water and thi other watering holes of the rich they will be rubbing their hands at the thought of the tax concessions to come from their government.
There is ess enthusiasm on Merseyside, and in Bermondsev. Swansea and Stockton. In these places the health and lives of the sick, the aged, But the don't care.
doing heart and ridney other ucal ment on ty going to do about this threat uves health of the great majority of the population?
Is it going to hide coward v •CAcuse - mouthed by Chapple at the TUC - that the Tories are the democratically elected government'.
This means giving them the go ahead to wipe out the NHS. Hor nose that think that the health an aves or bramaly peo ple don't matter much such an excuse wil do But for every socialist, militant and caring person this untenable. The destruction of the health service cannot be permitted. It must be resisted in parliament, in the hospitals, the workplaces and on the streets.
Whatever the Tory majority parliament decides must not stop the our hospitals.
Parliamentary constitutionalism pales into insignificance compared with the health and life of the people.
Socialist Action 30 September 1983
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