THE SOCIALIST Teachers" Alliance is an The Politics af Education in London on the weekend important move at a time whe there is ULUSCULES DECOLLIDE demoralised by the profound changes in coucomon that have tollowed 00 from Jim Callaghan's so-called Great Dehate' We hope that, by trying to develop a serious understanding of the role of capitalism, the conference will help cances to apprac what Bicy can hope to achieve. So it should make nosable more contident, aggressive interventions from the Left in current debates aboul elicatin. even, hopefully, redeline their terms ol tclchence.
In order to understand the ideological context of the Labour government's present educational тиска. опе mas Iheme or Lic conference will be the relationship between social democracy and state education. Different aspects of this will be examined in papers by Dan Raymond Williams. discussion relating Labour's "indusexpenditure to changes in the content and contra! vill he mitated discussion In order to ensure that there is real debate, all these papers will be distributed before the Groups or individuals will be able to read them in advance. There will be no long set speeches from the - platforin, no star turns. However, portant that 'theorists" (many of them members of Tickets for the conference including the distribution of pupers] will cost t2 lor El for students/unemployed). For information and booking details, write to STA Education Group, Highgate West Hill, London, No.
fore, In does this han reveal their strength or their weakness? Everybody knows there is normally no reason to expect marches, other than racialist ones, to cause violence. Paradoxicalty, Therethe long run, MeNce has ban was justified after all, 1 can hear his precise words on News At Ten: •We have to have this two-month ban DEVIL 5 1131 even when the NF don't march, the lett stEl police. In other words, a brawl on the picket libe, far from pointing the way forward, would have piven McNee bis only TCa. indiscriminate ban ngainst which we TELLS STDEDIL LESLEI is to categorise every person who WUSSUEALERS ALLUS EA there are a few others around) can b accused of helping to maintair capitalism or its ideology The inclusion of Rhodes Boysor and St. Jobin Stevas to snipe at Ms Fisher was cheap and intellecually dishonest: Itsbould be deplored. The report constituted an apolitical and sectarian anack on the Communist Party and smacks of the left-
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