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MANCHESTER PWCC public meeting at the FOR CHEAP reliable IBM typesetting with fa: turn-around phone Carl or Martin on 01-837 9987 DROP THE CHARGES Against the BWNIC 16 will the Joan Mavnard MP Eric Tomlinson Paul Foot Alac tair Renwick (TOM], Jack Dromey (NCCL), George Anthony (AUEW), Laurence Daly (NUM), Wendy "WOMEN AND FASCISM': aublic meetine of Man. chester Anti-Fascist Committee with main soeake Marcaret Coulson. Thurs 21 ua. ? 30mm in Mar AFRICAN REVOLUT ON first issue of this iour. nal oviMG Africa Commission due out in ata Ser tember. Further information, contributions, orders contact African Revolution, 97 Caledonian Road, INSTITUTE OF WORKERS CONTROL-meeting to oroanise conference on cricie in Motor industr THE PORTUGUESE REVOLUTION': BirmingMCAPP PUBLIC MEETING: The Eye Hospital and the Crisis in Birmingham NHS'. Digbeth Civic Hall, still one more epitaph on the hopes of those who see a future for capitalist democracy in the neo-colonial countries A protege of Mrs Ghandi, his regime was no more tan a brutal caricacture of India's own corruption and incompetence. The heroic struggles of the Bangladesh masses were repaid by a regime that relied on increasing repression to stay in power as the ailing economy proved completely incapable of fulfilling Mujib's demagogic promises. fat, nepotism was rife and the regime became ever more dictatorial. In the country poverty was endemic, inflation swelled, the harvests grew worse and starvation swept through the masses leading to famines in which millions died.
As disillusionment grew amongst the masses the extreme right wing nationalists saw the urgent need to get rid of Mujib. The crisis of the Indira Gandhi regime and Mrs Gandhi's autocratic measures strengthened the hand of Khondakar Mushtaque Ahmed, to neo-colonial rule.
At the top, the Mujib clique waxed Islamic Bangladesh.
red weekly 21 august 1975 I wards that have the largest number of pay-beds. In reply to the administrators statement that they were breaking Castle's rule of overseas patients being exempt, the workers simply stated that they had waited two years for Castle to agree about pay beds, and it might take another • vinced. To them, whether a private patient came from India or Inverness, Saudi Arabia or Southampton, made no difference whatsoever.
In East London, hospital workers in St. Andrews Hospital took strike action against the threatened closure of two of their local hospitals. This. area is already one of the least well supplied in Britain for hospital beds. This action was taken as part of a campaign being waged in the area through the East London Action Committee Against the Cuts, a rank news 11
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LONDON SOCIALIST FORUM: Ireland truce last?' Tues 26 Aug, 7.30pm in Club Room,
from Portugal and trade union movement. Organi- sed by Manchester steering committee.
Sat 30 August, 2-5pm, in Sidney Stringer School, Cook Street, Hillfields, Coventry.