to compensate for inflation.
Already the broad trade union movement is beginning to take up the question of education. The TUC, for instance, has called for a system of comprehensive secondary education; more nursery school places; and no classes over 30.
The South East Region TUC's mass lobby of Parliament on Tuesday was a step in the right direction; but even this modest initiative was undermined by the trade union Despite a call from the London division of the NUT, representing 16,000 teachers, for a half-day strike to back up the lobby, the union leadership rejected the call.
The task facing those who wish to fight the cuts is how to break out of this bureaucratic stranglehold - not, as some people would argue, by ignoring these bureaucrats, but by pointing out that to win even their mealy-mouthed demands requires the mobilisation of far wider sections of the trade union and labour movement than have so far been brought into action. One of the central difficulties to overcome, of course, is the deep-rooted proiessionalism of teachers who only want trade union help in order to defend their jobs.
The task, however, is far greater. We need to demand not only the restoration of the education cuts, but the protection of all public spending against inflation by a sliding scale of expenditure, which should be under the direction and control of the whole labour movCHICHE understood the need to build a based on broad sections of the trade union movement.
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