that there will be no more cuts. latest £1,000 million cuts in public spending will be the last made by the Labour Government.
For once Healey might be telling the truth. Unemployment has crossed the 1½ million barrier. A quarter of a million school leavers will be without Photo: CHRIS DAVIES (Report) jobs. In the by-elections at Rotherham and Thurrock, Labour voters stayed away in droves.
Yes, these may be the last cuts from this Labour Government - because soon there won't be a Labour Government unless the death grip of the betrayers leading the labour movement to disaster is not broken.
Healey has argued that the cuts are necessary to divert capital away from wasteful 'services' — our health, our education and social welfare - into industrial investment. But 40,000 jobs are already under the axe in the steel industry. The British Steel Corporation's £600 million Port Talbot scheme has been sliced in half. In fact between £400 million and £500 million of the Photo: CHRIS DAVIES (Report) total public spending cuts have come out of public sector investment.
The increase in national insurance contributions will also be used by the bosses as an excuse to sack more workers and push the increase onto the workers through price rises.
But the jackals of the city and the international banks are not satisfied. When the central banks' £5.3 billion standby credit falls due in December, national Monetary Fund will make more credit reserves available. bankers bay for more blood, while the Economist, the magazine of big business, comments cynically that orders from the IMF would give Britain much better government than Labour or Tories have done'.
Can the rot be stopped? If words were worth their weight in action, the verbal blisterings of the Labour Chancellor by the left MPs would long ago have stopped the cuts. And Benn's *agonising' on whether or not to resign would surely have stayed the hand of the public sector executioners in the Cabinet.
But unfortunately for the lefts and their cohorts in the trade union bureaucracy, their spineless capitulation in practice to the right wing on every decisive issue has meant that the mass of workers have been left leaderless, confused and demoralised. Small gr• oups of militants must build the lobbies of the TUC and Labour Party conferences to demand that they break with Healey and the anti-social contract. March.
Leaders of the public sector unions equally refuse to organise national action against the cuts. Workers have to organise localised action.
Militants must set themselves this goal: to build the broadest possible united action against the cuts and fight moved at every level of the labour movement for the removal betrayers responsible for them.
jobless.
trol. One challenge to the betrayers will be coming from the Right to Work March. Unemployed youth, teachers and trade union representatives will be marching to the TUC Conference in Brighton.
An important slogan that will be raised on the march is for the right of women to work The Working Women's Charter Campaign, engaged in activity around the Trico equal pay strike, has now decided provisionally to build a contingent on the Right to Work Unemployed college and school leavers should be heartened by the fact that the National Union of Students Executive have been compelled to take some action on the mandate they received from the last NUS Conference to support the Right to Work Campaign. IMG member Valerie Coultas the successful motion delegating herself as the Executive's representative on the march.
Red Weekly urges its readers to support the march and fight for the recall of the 3,000 delegate strong National Assembly on Unemployment in order to: *Organise industrial action against the cuts, to demand a programme of useful public works to meet social need and employ the *Lead a fight in support of occupations to meet redundancy, calling for the opening of the books to draw up a system of work-sharing to safeguard workers jobs and lay the basis for nationalisation under workers con*Campaign against the decisions of the TUC conference for the 4½ per cent deal, and in favour of automatic increases to compensate for inflation in wages, pensions and other state benefits, and the social expenditure
2 Tyndale/Scotland London's biggest evening sale OF WILLIAM TYNDALE JUNIOR SCHOOL Authen e Red Weekly 29 July 1976 methods at the heart of the row? According to the teachers, the curriculum was based on the Plowden Report on primary education. The pupils' day at Tyndale was divided into four sessions: in two, pupils learnt maths and language; in the other two they could choose from twenty optional projects, or none at all. could play games or do academic work.
According to the Tyndale staff, the more disturbed and disadvantaged" kids thrived in this atmosphere, while the 'academically more advanced' continued their work in the open sessions. The percentage of pupils classed as "below average" fell from 39.5 to. 21.3 per cent. WHO DESTROYED THE WILLIAM TYNDALE SCHOOL? That's the question everybody concerned about education must ask. Was it the 'progressive teaching methods' of 'extremist' and doctrinaire' teachers, as Robin Auld Q.C. claims in his report? Or was it sabotage, as headmaster Terry Ellis alleges, by people who want to turn the clock back in education?
First of all, what are the teaching helped to cause This meant that kids But Auld agrees with Dolly Walker ment and DES keen to find a popular scapegoat for the growing crisis in the schools which their own cuts in expenditure have - Reactionaries among the managers, the Inner London Education Authority and the National Union of Teachers, who want to use the fact that 20,000 teachers are on the dole to get rid of those who will fight against the cuts and replace them with those who won't These are the people who lie behind the orchestrated press campaign to show how "progressive teachers are to blame for the problems of education. These are the people who really broke up Tyndale.
PROGRESSIVISM "Progressive' teaching techniques Tyndale: 'My teaching doesn't fit a system where people take orders It teaches them to ask questions. Too much 'freedom' is a bad thing for the bosses.
WHO CONTROLS?
Every Fleet Street newspaper agrees that the real issue raised by Tyndale is who controls the schools Ruling class strategists in education want to reduce teacher influence over what is taught and how. The Confederation of British Industry, in its memorandum on the new 16-plus proposals of the Schools Council, asked that exams should be "mainly by external modes'.
What they dislike in particular is CSE Mode Three. Under Mode Three, teachers devise, teach and mark the course trom beginning to end with no effective outside contro It is here that most progressive experiment is taking place.
Hence 'teacher control', a pupil's right to choose experiment in
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