Socialist Resistance

An archive of socialistresistance.org, 2002–2022

THE LURCH

Socialist Resistance no30  |  page 4

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established.

We only have a few months to build a campaign big and broad enough to apply maximum pressure to halt the privalisalon juggerlaul I its tracks.

Once Hewitt's new round of private sector Treatment Centres has been signed off, and the current round of hospital cuts and closures have taken place it will be a Herculean task to reverse the damage that has been done.

You can join and contact Keep Our NHS Public at www.keepournhspublic.com ers. This shoddy deal is what lead to the failure of the "tripcocks".

But instead of sorting things out Labour only made matters worse with their PPP privatisation which brought in the Tubelines consortium to manage maintenance. Whilst charging millions a week Tubelines had little incentive to deal with any problems which

It is clear that none of the private contractors can be trusted. Their only concern was to keep trains running, whatever the risk, in order to avoid penalty fines.

Because of the complex web of contracts, they were able to pass the buck around and around between themselves. London Underground refused to intervene until forced to do so by the action of its workers.

It is clearly time that the whole PPP privatisation is scrapped and all maintenance brought back into London Underground.