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the sane, the candidates right-wing contenders Thus 1,500,000 education spending: picture since and This and way from indirect taxation - it would eventually Members of the National Union of Teachers will be voting in the next zwo weeks for the posts of senior and junior vicepresidents, positions from which the national presidentey automatically JolloWs. BERNARD REGAN of the East London Teachers Association reports.
There are three right-wing is the continuation of the status que: Firm, responsible leader.
necessary, firm res ponsible action, to quate one of Of the other candidates, Jim Murphy is a leading contender and has the support of Commun ist Party teachers. His platform in no way differs from that of the At a time when the left needs "We must to unite to fight for an alter TAVE TO ReTURE inaction over the curs, its abject betrayal of 50,000 unemplosed SURELS Murphy divert astention from the cuts in THE DOmEs IS OD SurDESC Murphy is one of the central architects of the NUT: scandalous policies. As the leader of the union'steam on Burnham, the body which desermines teach48803 8820058 153838 sable for personding the NUT al
DAVE WHITELEY
all ins recent annual conferences LOSER WOEELEREEOE seek to improve Siving standards arter the detel joration of the last three years. Murphy has the audacity to it lus curion progr amme. It's like asking a condem ned person to support the exe cationer in a campaign tor En abolition of the death penalty There are, however, two car Fatback against the wretched lidates who do stand for record of the NUT leaders, and one of then — Dave Whiteley — bas a clear alternative strategy to thatof MurphyandCo.
Whiteley, who is supported by the Socialist Teachers' Alliance y the Nalional Secretariat of the Working Women' Charter Campaign is calling for a t20 a week Mal rate increase, the prorestion of salaries against inflacion by autoand a special salaries conference to decide the best method of Whitely's platform provides a clear Ine of advance for teache kind of fight which should be taken ap in every other union He has also consistcolly can paigned for unity on the left, and calline for a number two vote North, ed by Rank and File teachers One positive development is that North bas recency reciprocated The weniness of North's platform is that he presented be Fight against education curs salely in terms of NUT action and Tails to outline cancrete steps to ganise the tight. In concra •ILLICY DEALS DOUSE COSE apen and democratic organisat Son of all struggles, and for tamited action betweent the NUT a sep to united action by the labour movemen: against cosb and in defence of the ecial service While Whiteley has consister ANCE BE TO MORE!
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Hopefully this can be corrected through Setters Whiteley bas already sent The Teacher, the Times Fabcation Supplemen:
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