Most delegates at the conference stressed that they had no desire to oppose the NUS; on the contrary, they wanted to fight within the NUS but for a clear perspective in the cuts and unemployment campaign. This would involve consolidating the links between student teachers, teachers and unemployed teachers, by campaigning for unemployed sections in local National Union of Teachers' associations to link up nationally to force the NUT to implement its policy on class size and no cover.
Delegates welcomed the suggestion from NUS executive observer Pete Ashby that the NUS, NUT and National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education may be organising a national demonstration against education cuts in October. But they pointed out that such an event has to be part of a campaign by student teachers to urge action in class sizes from the NUT, and to call on NATHE to campalan to cauce ue class contaci hours for full-time lecturers-to cusure ulc emplovmcur or students who are training to be lecturers while avoiding any reduction in the wages of those employed.
It is no use continually organising protest actions that will not force the Government to change its mind', said the delegate from Manchester Area. 'NUS has to demand that the trade yve teel we must express our concern at a crucial aspect of the IMG's role in the present student occupations, namely the failure adequately to take up the political demands which are an essential part of any serious fight against the policies of the Labour Government.
Despite some excellent work bv IMG comrades, in stressing the need to establish • action committees. to co-ordinate activities and to place demands on the NUT executive and despite the exemplary lead given by Moray House, the Red Weekly supplement "Crisis in Education' did not in any way develos unis ledo. nere was not ont mention or the siding scale or socia expenditure and wages, or the need tor campaigns to examine the expenditure plans of local authorities.
Many non-aligned students who have been active in the occupations see the necessity or proddenine une camodiet into one acainst all unempiovment and aaainst all cuts in public expenciture te they are convinced of the need for the student-worker alliance (as it used to be called). The IMG should be raising the political demands of the action programme employed. The Government has time and time again shown itself unwilling to listen to polite requests.' It was also argued that the NUS has to begin to act independently against the cuts if the trade union leaders refuse to fight them. A student from Moray House explained that this was the essential reason why the Broad Left dominated executive had decided to divert the occupations movement away from the lobby of the TUC on 16 June their trade union movement. Workers do support people that stand up to the Labour Government's policies, and would launch a fightback if given a lead.
to continue visiting schools over the summer but to continue also to build links with all trade unionists. We should go into hospitals and find. out if redundancies or closures • the day when bureaucratic 'allies' in the The conference decided not only Militants active in building liaison committees between student unemployment too, leaflet the dole queues to link up with unemployed school-leavers, and work with the National Union of School Students and the Labour Party Young Socialists to fight youth unemployment.
With the Shore circular on local government spending we should mount a specific campaign to force Labour councillors to refuse to implement the cuts and reveal these plans to the local labour movement, and mount a campaign for a prostudents involved in the campaign over the summer, and to organise support for the decisions of the Manchester conference at the Teacher Education Committee One delegate from St. Catherine's college summed up the feelings of the students who attended the conference when he said: "I voted against the setting up of a National Coordinating Committee at Manchester, but now I understand why we need one has identified a number of primary schools with classes over