Kings. - their followers part of the fight We want RAS to be a link between young people and the women's movement; as RAR was the link to the ANL and the anti-racist movement. of That's why... we want to have fun and fight sexism.
Anyone interested in coming arganising a gig or in you'd along to RAS meetings, like badges, copies of dRAStic For measures, gig guides, things, write c/o Road, - London a further dramatic turn on Thursday. Armed with both possession orders and the High Court sheriff and a large number of police officers smashed into the week-old occupanon Or tne Ham precinct.
Already evicted by similar al the Barking precinct - but confident i ight of a mandate from thre consecutive union mass meet- the singing occupiers sat tight behind the barricades.
Eleven not so gentle arrests An immediate picket of West Ham police station forced the police to release all the students in two - most being charged with intentionally obstructing S112SS The remand for one month at West, Ham Court the next IN Croydon's 22 secondar were 1,300 recorded canings of students last year. A survey of a quarter of Inner London schools has revealed 3,000 recorded canIt is in response to such extensive physical assaults that the National Union of School Students has launched campaign for the abolition of corporal punishment, which begins with a picket of th National Union of Teachers' conference in Scarborough on April 16.
The campaign will involve petitions ano culminate in London demonstration following the general election.
Britain is one of the few countries in the world to allow The extensive use of physical violence in its schools.
In most European countries it was abolished along with the revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries. SETSSIS abolition was one of the first measures taken by the Soviet government established follow. ing October 1917.
Just how widespread is the use of the cane in England and Wales, atTe Scotland, can be judged from the fact that an MP's Private Bill calling for the abolition of corporal punishment in schools for the mentally and physically handicapped was blocked last month by Tory filibustering.
At a time when the Tor Party will be stepping up its campaign for more 18w and order', including in schools. and the government and most TCLUSE implement the Labour Party's policy abolition corporal punishment, the NUSS campaign is especially important.
The left and particularly left-wing teachers need to come out loud and clear against one most reactionary hangovers Britain's imperial past. The NUSS campaign should be supported and publicised in every area of information on the campaign, petitions, and copies of the NUSS magazine, BLOT write to: NUSS, 302 Pentonville Road, London N1.
morning was the scene mass picket by students. The occupation had become the focus for activities aimed at changing the mind of the governors and rejecting as has Middlesex Poly - • the quotas which limit the number of student admissions on a racist basis.
Student occupiers, together with members of the college lecturers' union, have spent the last week visiting individual governors seeking an emergency governors meeting so that the whole matter can be reconsidered especially in light of the Middlesex Polytechnic decision. With the now with us a temporary lull in action has occurred but the promises to see the struggle taken up with new vigour.
Socialist Challenge ,5 April 1979 page 15
THEY haven't got a clue! That is the only conclusion, as plans go ahead for the evacuation of up to 600,000 ge