The Aim of
Stabilising WDIE Is Vital for the Working Class Movement
Letter to Workers’ Daily Internet Edition
by Workers’ Weekly Health Group
Workers' Weekly Health Group (WWHG) resolutely endorses
the aims of WDIE as elaborated in Tuesday’s issue
WDIE Year 2000 No. 100. The stabilisation of
WDIE is, in WWHG’s opinion, vital for the communist and
workers’ movement, and the aims set out are of the utmost
significance.
Today, not a day passes when the Labour government does not
claim that they are meeting the needs of the people on health care, whilst in
reality they are reducing hospital beds and facilitating the transference of
hospitals and funds to the private sector. The duplicity in these soundbites
that they have a "National Plan" for the NHS which they are
"consulting on", that they "modernising" the NHS, is
designed to put people off their guard whilst society and health care are even
more geared to paying the rich and the health needs of the people increasingly
suffer.
Over the first hundred issues, WWHG has been able to
contribute a number of items responding to such health policy announcements and
at the UNISON Health Conference in Harrogate WDIE carried daily reports
and analysis on the issues raised there based on our reports. These reports and
their study and dissemination have played an important role in our work among
health workers. The aim in stabilising WDIE is of great importance for
the development of our work, and the work of all those engaged in the communist
and workers’ movement, and particularly those of us that are striving to
build groups of writers and disseminators. As a writers’ and disseminators
group, as class conscious workers, we in WWHG are aware of how decisive is the
link between the tasks the Party sets for itself and the tasks it calls on the
workers and other sections of the people to carry out in occupying the space
for change that is available to them, in fighting against the anti-social
offensive and really taking on the government and the rich finance capitalists
who stand behind them. In particular, therefore, we deem it very important that
the Party should be strengthened and disciplined by contributing through the
study and dissemination of WDIE on a daily basis, and as appropriate
taking stands on principle, in favour of our rights, in its postings. We
believe that the struggles the various sections of the people are engaged in
will find it very difficult to make headway without this disciplined force at
their core, a force able through its theoretical and political orientation
gained through participating in fulfilling the aims that WDIE is setting
for itself to provide the vision and programme for the success of these
struggles.
WWHG pledges to step up its work and further contribute to
WDIE and this will further enable us to find our bearings in the class
struggle that is breaking out and will further develop in the health sector. At
the same time, it enables us to view these struggles as a component part of the
whole torrent of struggles that must and will be joined together to bring about
the transformation of society to one where the claims of all upon it are met as
of right.
