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The ConDems are wavering over their plans to privatise

and cut the NHS but now

we have to knock them out. If we

don’t, the greatest gain for working-

class people will be demolished by

Cameron, Clegg and Osborne’s rich

friends in the private sector.

Their proposals would extend and

deepen previous Tory and New

Labour governments’ policies thatbrought the privateers more and

more into the NHS and undermined

its original ethos of being a

comprehensive health service, free

at the point of use, funded by taxes

and publicly accountable to elected

representatives locally and nationally.

The massive 500,000 plus strong 

TUC anti-cuts demonstration

on March 26th has shaken the

government and forced Cameron to

put Lansley’s plans on hold but any

version, however watered down is

unacceptable. We have to continue

 the ght not only until the ConDems totally back off but also against the

  job losses that are happening on

an almost daily basis.

The Bill may have been put on ice

in Parliament but the cuts are still

biting and threatening health care

on the ground. Nearly 900 London

Ambulance workers face the sack

as do thousands of NHS workers

 throughout the country.

The ConDems want us to pay the

price for a crisis caused by the

bankers. They say they can’t afforda decent health service because

of the decit but the NHS was

created after the war when the

country was in a far worse nancial

position. It was the pressure of 

  the organised working-class that

made that happen and its still the

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potential power of the trade union

movement linked to the millions of 

patients and communities now thatcan force the government to back

down now.

Today’s demonstration is an

important rallying point in

  the campaign and a national

demonstration would increase the

pressure. The NHS is an emotive

issue for ordinary people who with

a lead would ght to defend it.

Hundreds of thousands have fought

  to save local services over the

last couple of decades. But a real

strategy of strike action, starting with health workers and reaching 

out for support to the wider union

movement would really put the

ConDems in the corner. The Unite

health workers national committee

have asked for a strike ballot to

defend public sector pensions and

link up with 5 other unions. Even the

RCN at their conference recently

also agreed to ballot on this. This

can put the pressure on the biggest

health union Unison to follow suit.

The NSSN has written to the TUC to co-ordinate strike action against

  the cuts. As a practical start, all

workers whether they strike against

pensions or not should demonstrate

in every city on June 30th, when

800,000 workers could be on

strike. This would lay the basis for

a 24 hour general strike against

  the ConDem cuts and to defend

  the NHS that would shatter this

government of the millionaires.

• Stop the cuts – for a fully

funded publicly owned NHS

• End all privatisation

through GP consortiums or

other methods

• Return privatised services

to NHS control. Publicly fund

and integrate them with the

rest of the NHS

• For united action todefend the NHS, defending

every health job – up to and

including strike action by

health unions

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