arrogance and makes the task of student. unions in forging finks with teachers that much more difficult.
As for the final stage of the damon stration outside NUS Heedquarters, the chant of 'NUS Scabs" was merely absurd.
predictable, but, is Val well knows, it is not a crowd of a fow hundred that will remove or re elect the Broad Left on the Executive, but the normal procedures of NUS Conferance Many Colleges of Education students mistaken impression that it had some thing to do with teacher unemployment, Seft it in some perplexity at this point. They had not come down to yell abuse at the NUS Executive.
Doubtless IS and IMG will acclaim the demonstration as a sucome and grossly inflate its importance. Already IS mambers are boastino am attondonce of "4,000 The march was however employees, while other members of the Executive estimated it as low as 800.
3. The London Action Coordinating Committee. This body is dominated by IS. They suffered a rebuff on 13 June, as Val mentions, when the "Right to Work' Campaion link was overturned. However the following day this decision was more or less reversed, and the links between LACC and the 'Right to Work' Campaign were reaffirmed by 9 votes to 8, after Insistence by IS of steamrollaring their The say anpled Dy the London Accon Corting Googe on o dune. goomig i compet ur secretary vow career who reported how over 200 teachirg in his are has stopped work in solidanity.
first place? It was set up only a few days after the LSO Conference of 22 May had entrusted the coordination of the cam Institute of Education Students Associa tion - the body that unites colleges and departments of education through out the capital). This was well before anyone had had time to suggest that LSO or ULIESA might be selling out' Such Coordinating Committees' or 'Ad Hoc Committees' are tried and tested tactics of the ultra-left. They are set up as alternatives to the already axisting mass structures, and they are quite easily taken over by IS and/or IMG, because everyone sise is quite content to continue working in the mass orgarisations, and sees no need for new, and usually vary bursaucratic, bodies (LACE meetings provide illuminating examples of tedious bureaucratic wrangling).
her comrades should continue to fight for their politics in the mass movement. When they are defeated in the democratic forums that that movement provides, they should not try and smuggle thair politics in through back doors marked "Coordinating Committees (The above lerter as originaly submitted aiso contained a section on the This, rogerher with several other lear important sentences, had to de cut for masovis of space./ GOLLEN But why was LACC antablished in the Photo: JOHN STURROCK Reporti