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Although some school rolls are falling, this has become an excuse to make large cutbacks in pubne spending instead of using this situation to reduce class Cutbacks The NUT, however, accepts this - just as it has accepted that rates should be increased to pay for the crisis, while wages are held back within the £6 limit. Rather than placing the responsibility - on the backs of the capitalist class and its agents in the the NUT burcaucracy accepts that the working class It is this failure to give a lead in the struggle to defend the education service against the attacks of the Wilson Government which has resulted in a victory for the right wing in the recent elections for President and Vice President of the - posts Labour and CP members But sections of teachers are now beginning to wage a fight-back indepen. dently of the bureaucracy. A sub-commince or te inner London leachers Association which met last week passed a resolution welcoming the proposed ecutive to extend them to all areas implementine cutbacks in education o any kind. The ILTA has already adopted the policy of a sliding scale of wages as a means of combatting inflation, and called for a recall of the South East Region TUC Conference against the cuts ation spending will mean teachers organising themselves together with the broad labour and trade union movement to conduct their own investigations into the cutbacks. It will mean demanding that local authorities open the books and reveal their plans for education and other public services.

Fight back Support for committees like the one set up trom a recent London meet ing called by the Socialist Teachers Coordinating Committee on unemployment, where a group of unemployed and employed teachers are meeting each week to organise meetings in colleges of education and schools on unemployment, will also be an essential part of the fight back.

A struggle to defend the public services winen can vove oroader secon of the labour movement is essential it we are to overturn the policies of the Wilson Government. It is on this platform that two candidates in the forth- Hilda Kean for ILTA General Secretary and Bernard Regan for NUT Executive member -will be actively campaigning Carole Regan

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Red Weekly 4 December 1975