Fight cuts, reshape the labour movement!
For the fight now coming against the Tory-Lib coalition government's cuts, we need to get the labour movement into different shape. Individual local cuts can and will be defeated by one-off campaigns. A local campaign has recently defeated plans to close the Accident and Emergency unit at Whittington Hospital in north London. That is good and important. But by itself it will only nibble at the edges of the £6 billion cuts announced on 24 May, and the much bigger cuts to be announced on 22 June. Maybe it will only shift cuts from one area to another. The British ruling class knows it is on new...