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Prime Minister Cameron's Cabinet reshuffle means that it is 'big business as usual', Anita Halpin declared at a meeting of the Communist Party's political committee on Wednesday evening.
'We are still heading for a winter of poverty and despair for millions of people', she remarked, noting the retention of Chancellor George Osborne, Education Secretary Michael Gove and Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith, and the shift of Jeremy Hunt to Health.
'This also means that it is full steam ahead for the Tories' real programme to privatise the NHS and secondary schools in England', Ms Halpin warned.
She voiced the widespread concern that replacing Justine Greening as Secretary of State for Transport with Patrick McLoughlin gives the 'amber light' for a third runway at London's Heathrow airport.
'Many of Britain's privatised regional airports are crying out for new flights and investment', the CPB trade union organiser pointed out, 'yet the monopoly-dominated market prefers to intensify air travel congestion around London'.
But in the face of the renewed Tory-led onslaught on public services, benefits and pensions, Britain's communists accused Labour Party leader of failing to 'grasp the nettle'.
'It is not enough to rely on the Tories and their Liberal side-kicks losing the next General Election', Ms Halpin insisted, 'Labour need to win it, beginning the campaign now for bold policies to take the banking system, public transport and the utilities into democratic publix ownership, taxing the rich and monopoly profits to invest in productive industry, housing, jobs and the environment'.
On the eve of the TUC annual congress, she urged Britain's trade unions to 'back the policies of the People's Charter and push Labour to change course for "A Future that Works"', quoting the slogan of the TUC demonstrations in London and Glasgow on October 20.
The CPB political committee also decided to:
* Organise a fringe meeting at the TUC next Monday lunch-time on *The Alternatives to EU Austerity' with speakers Tsiaples Anastasios from the Greek All-Workers Militant Front and RMT president Alex Gordon.
* Publish a daily Unity! paper at the TUC congress together with a briefing paper on Trident and Arms Conversion.
* Reaffirm the Communist Party's view that non-consensual sex is rape and that any attempts to cloud or dilute that position in law must be rejected.
* Issue a detailed position on its view of the struggle in Syria. |
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