port are coming in.
But something even more significant is happening. Direct action by groups of trade unionists in support of the student teachers is beginning. Members of the local government workers union, NALGO, at the occupied Institute of Education in London are operating a go-slow-and on 4 June they will be striking.
In Scotland 400 teachers turned up at a meeting at occupied Moray mouse to discuss achon. In Marcaes ter even the Headmasters Association has voted to send home children in all classes where the local authority fails to provide cover for absent teachers. SUPPORT In Bristol the Rolls-Royce convenor has invited students from the occupation at Redland College to have an extended discussion with the shop stewards committee, and the South Wales Miners have also sent a telegram of support. THE HUGE WAVE of occupations that has now swept through nearly 100 teacher training colleges is sparking off a big response in the labour movement. Literally masses of resolutions of suppations is on a different level from labour movement to previous student action. The students" struggle has struck a chord in the working class, rekindling the belief that it is possible to fight back against the Labour Government's anti-working class policies.
The task now is to find every possible way of extending these developments. At last Sunday's meeting of the NUS Executive, International Marxist Group sup porters argued-and won-that the theme of the national student demonstration that has been called should be: 'No to the Cuts, For the ment White Paper'. On this basis it tion against the Labour Government's attacks on all workers and still highlight teacher unemployment within that.
Students occupying Didsbury Cellege of Education are addressed by Eddie Coyle The impact of the student occuthe relatively passive response of the Tors today.
Right to Work-Against the Governwill be possible to win joint mass acThe decision to call the national Photo: JOHN STURROCK (Report) new pay deal-will be challenged by many students at the national conference of colleges in action in Manchester on 5 June. How absurd it is not to call it for 16 June is revealed by the NUS Executive's simultaneous decision to support the mass lobby of the TUC that day.
The demo that the student job fight needs-and one that will keep the mementum of the campaign going-is precisely one that can fuse in action with sections of the labour movement. Yet NUS President Charles Clarke viciously attacked the IMG in February for organising a lobby of the TUC-and he's still not prepared to confront these traitAs well as fighting for mass action for the lobby on 16 June, militants should be arguing for liaison The authorities hit back: when students at the London School of Oriental and African Studies occupied in support of their colleagues, the administration called in private investigator Gordon Moores (right), seen serving an injunction to call off the action or Students Union secretary Patricia Ford and president Peter Alexander. But an attempt to victimise 1z students as well was called ortin tne race o massive resistance spending. for a crasn programme or pue lic works to replace out-dated school bulldings. his can lay the basis tor a un ited fight back by the working class against the betrayals of the Labour Government and the attacks of the ruling * Unless otherwise stated, all figures obtained from the Annual Abstract of Statistics 1975. tion and including representatives elected from local Labour Parties and unions, both inside and outside the education sector. These can beging to lead and coordinate action Enquiries can be launched around the crisis in the schools, precise demands made on the local authorities, and a fight for them organised. This can be extended to cover all sections of the public services. A fighting student-worker alliance can be built.
The militants at the Manchester conference on Saturday must see to it that this opportunity to extend and unify the campaign is seized upon by electing a coordinating committee to organise further initiatives and ensure that the fight for jobs is firmly under the control of those who are waging it IMG Student Commission Photo: ANDREW WIARD neport