No cuts, no rates rises

NO cUTS, NO RATES RISuS THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST RATE CAPPING MUST START NOW

nee should determine the strategy necessary te defend

ts Borough Confere : pst li : +o defeat the Government's rate capping+

jobs and services, and

from the Lawour Group against rate capping should be Howorer the "Budged Strategy" document seems to be not a socialsit, and should be decisively rejectei « she campaign against rate capping and the 84/85 budget are c.osely linked . Jenants and workers will net suddenly jump to the defcuze sf Camden. aiter the councilhas passed on Tory attacks in the form of cuts, rent and rate rises, and job losses. And that is what'is being proposed by a "package which is politically acceptable in that the proposals do not directly reduce jobs

and services".

The campaigning proposals wholeheartedly euppertod, written by an accountant,

The strategy implicit in this decument is te attempt to satisfy both local people and the Tory Government. This will net work because a 12% rate rise

and £4 million cuts in services aré:attacks on tenants and workers, and the Government will not let Camden eff the hook as the. rate capping law is intended te centrol loeal authority spending.

Camden Council can no longer hope %0 muddle through this year and hope to prepare a huge battle against the Tories next year. A completely new directicn must be taken now by the Labour Group. This will mean that there should be no more cuts er joe losses, and no more rent or rate increases. The Tory attacks can no longer be passed on, otherwise nobedy will take the council seriously when it starts to fight rate capping. This is not an easy alternative because of cuts, and rent and rate rises over the last few years.

This alternative will mean a massive campa$gn with the unions directed to tho community to explain that it is the Tory Governamenut that has stolen the money for local services . It would m:an linking with ether councils and national unions in a co-ordinated campaign culminating in the refusal to cut services and a confrontation as the Tories bring in the commissioners to make the cuts . Only a movement with massive support could force the government to back off Some say that such a confrontationist approaeh would not guarantee victory. slow death by loosing working class support because of rate rises and cuts is a guarantee of defeat.

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