for a hospital bed Labour movement conference on the fight against the cuts in the NHS City University London. October 11 Chaired by Jack Collins speakers include -Audrey Wise MP and health workers:
Bridge Cane London SW H Fred Jarvis, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, was right for once when he said at the Trades Union Congress: "No matter how you dress it up the education service is facing its biggest threat since the war. The motion put by the National Union of Teachers and the National Association of Schoolmasters and carried movement to resist any attempts by local authorities to make teachers unemployed.
But it will bring little comfort to the already unemployed teachers, and the teachers, school students and college students who start the new term having to face ever-worsening conditions. Almost one-third of newly-qualified teachers are still without jobs, or have to be content with part-time teaching, whilst at the same time teachers are losing their 'free' periods in order to take extra classes to avoid the added expense of the much needed additional staff.
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no real attempt to fight the massive cuts which have already taken place in the education service. can you expect from a leadership which fails to recognise that the cut-backs in education are only a part of the attacks being made on the living standards of the whole of the working class?
breath these same 'leaders' were asking the whole labour movement by the TUC, calls on the trade union It is little wonder that motions such as this cannot be taken seriously when the NUT leadership has made But what Only recently the NUT leadership has shown which side of the class line education system. it stands on by giving its blessing to the Healey package. Yet in the next As the crisis in the education system deepens, the leadership of the National Union of Teachers has retreated in the face of the Government cuts. Next month the Socialist Teachers Conference meets for the second time to develop a strategy linking teachers with other workers to defeat the attacks on their jobs, living standards and the education system as a whole. As a run-up to the conference, Red Weekly, will be carrying a series of articles by teacher militants explaining the International Marxist Group's attitude to the conference and the issues it must take up.
The lobby of Parliament on 21 October, called by the South East Region of the TUC and supported by the NUT Executive, is a step in the right direction - but we must not stop at this. Instead, teachers should use this initiative to involve the whole trade union movement to build a campaign, similar to the Medical Committee Against Private Practice, to defend and extend the The International Marxist Group teachers will be fighting for such a 1975 JOBLESS campaign within the NUT and at the forthcoming Socialist Teachers Conference. At the Conference, the IMG will be arguing for discussions on how the fight against the cuts in education and Healey's measures can best be carried out.
Carole Regan SOCIALIST TEACHERS CONFERENCE, Nufto Hall, Jockeys Fielris, Theobalds Road, London WCI, Saturday-Sunday, 4-5 October, tee for a General Inspection to precede a public inquiry into the school. The pane of this "public inquiry.' is to consist of four members of the Sub-Committee plus