London teachers on the move | IMGpapers 1976

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past Inner London Authority controlled by Labour.

committees.

two Labour Livingstone, voted against all the cuts.

be proud of them!

education sub-committee full authority anyway!

cuts.

NATFHE.

Bernard Regan, Association, urged joint EIGHT thousand teachers demonstrated on Tuesday of last week against £21m cuts being proposed by the Inner London Education The demonstration coincided with meetings education sub-committee and immediately afterwards of the full authority. The cuts were voted through by 29 votes to 28 in both • councillors, Charlie Rossi constituency mandates and voted for a package which provides for cuts in school meals and free school transport. The Tories would Two members of the National Union of Teachers on the were out drinking tea in the corridors during the vote. They had been seen a few moments earlier with Sir Ashley Bramall, Labour leader of the ILEA, who apparently told them it wasn't worth voting as the package would get through the There were large contingents of school students demonstrating Their main demand was for recognition of the National Union of School Students and a joint fight with the NUT against the Tory There were also delegations from the National Union of Public Employees and the union for teachers in higher education, Secretary of the East action by movement to reverse the ILEA's Tory cuts package. The NUT Education should have been with the other 50,000 trade unionists on the 28 November march, he said, but the national and London teachers' The rest defied their leadership had not campaigned for this.

Regan called for the election of teachers who would join with the labour movement in fighting the cuts — Dick North and Vanessa Wiseman to the national executive and Dave Picton, Mike Lewsley and Amanda Leon to the London executive.

The professionalism of the NUT executive is not going to stop 20,000 teachers getting the sack. Only classwide action will do that.

*Socialist Challenge membership of the NUT has declined by 4.5 per cent this year. The drop in membership is in fact 1.5 per cent. wrongly reported last week that the