co-olnatio Not the * rejection of system union democracy.
these June conference, Rise this into action.
Details dens, London SE18 To follow the mass picket, the pickets at the •waneswort Cpu onc afternoon.
It is actions such as these which, the struggles to save the For tarce nos Dildis The fate of these three hospitals acid test for of 150 hospitals health unions and the in fighting the cuts in the chance of succeeding Apil This is the importance of the day Road, SW17. 4.30pm.
London NatSpeakers: workers Ron Keating, LIC Conratory NOR A CONFERENCE of militant teachers to discuss ways of fight-back wiltake against cuts will be held in The conference was called by a meeting of 100 delegates during the recent conference National in the union Teacners. And it is certainty much needed after the victorles chalked up by ine mod erates' at the conference:
rejection or a joint cam paign of industrial action with other unions against the cuts;
class sizes of * introduction of the postal officers and conference del- elecune had egates. a further restriction or Broad Eel But the narrowness of the executive's victory on some of denotes groundswell of opposition to the union's collaboration with the Social Contract policies of the Labour Government.
which supported by both the Socialist Teachers Alliance and Rank and File, can begin to organConference Convenor, 23 Kenilworth Garhas called for support for mass EGA, Hounslow and Weir hospitals on the morning of 11 May and is building special contingent in support of their struggles for the demonstration leaving Hyde Park in We urge all workers to support these actions. If the EGA, Houns- May. low and Weir workers are defeated, it will mean more than the loss ningnam We already know that the executioners of the DHSS have drawn up their list. If the labour movement allows the union bureaucracy to slumber in their offices, not three but 130 out will become offices, waste-ground and fodder for the property speculators.
* Day of Action - Thursday 28 PICKET at the Weir Hospital, Weir Road, SW 12. 8am-4.30pm. March Weir to St. George's, Blackshaw * PUBLIC MEETING Lecture Room, St George's Hospital, 8pm. SCPS, Assistant General Racism and Fascism, Oppression and southern Africa. On the Saturday evening, several stewards from the local British Leyland factories will be there to take part in a discussion on joint action between students and workers in opposition to the Social Colin Talbot, one of the two SSA candidates elected NUS Executive, told us tnar tac mosi important task is to consolidate the NUS COR He said that this will be done by organising the base that exists in the colleges around the alternative policies put forward by the SSA. An important discussion place creating national and local structure, and on regularising the production of the SSA's paper, Socialist Student. There will also be a major debate on the sort of democratic struc tures the left should be fighting for ALTERNATIVE The SSA is making a serious attempt to present itself as a viable alternative leadersmip that can turn the tide decisively against the right wing's growth in the union. It was this which attracted many militants to the SSA at NUS conference who previously supported also neips to explain why Charles Clarke eagerly Five students from Middlesex Polytechnic will appear before Tottenham magistrates on 9 The saucers them the president, lan Cunand deputy prest dent, Alison Downie were arrested when the Sheriff of London and 200 police evicted them from their occupation on 7 April. They have been charg Assemble 12.00 noon.
Supported by NALGO, UCATT, CPSA NATHE, The SSA's impact within the Broad Left has been used NOISS, the student affiliate of the Socialist Workers Party, to argue that the SSA compromises politically with the reformists. In that way they attempt to posture as the revolutionary 'hardcore'. In public debate, however, they have justified their refusal to join the SSA on the grounds that it is not serious about the construction of a revolutionary party and thus has no class perspective.
The SSA rejects this simplistic approach. Links between students and workers will be forged through alliances in action with workers fighting the Labour Government The programme of the SSA spells out the demands and strateg needed to acnieve tnat son o alliance. That is why the Leyland stewards have discuss with SSA students a common basis or acon If this weekend conference were to involve all these socialist forces in the student movement, then it would be a powerful launching pad for a campaign that could reverse the gains of the right in the NUS. Without them the gains will be made at a slower pace. But tney will still be made, because militants colleges are looking for practical political answers to their problems, not sectarian posturing ed under the 1887 Sheriffs Act for resisting the Sheriff whilst he was exercising a High Court writ. The appearance before the magistrates is a preliminary hearing. The case will go to the Central Criminal Court at the Old Bailey, where the students come race w imprisonment if found guilty. Park to Temple.
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