picket Des Warren - whose release has been demanded in words by union conferences galore as well was one! (Photo: ANDREW WIARD (Repart)
Ç DAVIS IS NOTON MY CONSCIENCE.
George Davis is free - though not yet 'innocent'. His release was a tremendous victory for the campaign of direct action launched by his wife (pictured above leading one of many demonstrations in the campaign) and friends throughout the East End of London. Meanwhile jailed Shrewsbury as last year's Labour Party and TUC conferences - languishes in jail. An object lesson if ever there JUSTICI college. the call SRC. More than 2,000 student teachers in Scotland could find themselves on the dole queue at the end of this term. But they won't be there without a fight.
Last week Moray House Education College in Edinburgh was occupied by students calling for the reversal of all public expenditure cuts and a campaign for the right to work. The occupation raised the demand that the Labour-controlled Regional Council refuse to ment implement the cuts and that a job be found for every student leaving the EXTEND IT!
Any campaign with these important demands needs to be extended through mass action. So delegations were sent to other teacher training colleges in nouses Scotland. The results were good. Dundee college or caucation occupied wiree days after Moray House. Two other colleges, Craiglockhart and Callander Park, gave an enthusiastic reception to Jordanhill College of Education, the other major college in the region and a stronghold of the Communist Partydominated Broad Left, also promised to occupy. But the Student Representative councu rerused to organise me acton Moray House students responded by sending over delegations wrica buut a mass meeting, winning a commitment to occupation despite me role or te The Moray House occupiers also criticised the leadership or the mail teachers' union, the Education Institute of Scotland (EIS), for agreeing to understaffing. This policy has boosted unem ployment levels among teachers. So fiving pickets were sent around the schoots to build a campaign to reduce cass sizes ane create oDs.
Under pressure, the leaders of the EIS offered verbal support and issued protest statements criticising the use of a lottery to decide redundancies in Fife. Militant teachers will take up the role of the EIS leadership at its conference next month, fighting in addition for the right of unemployed teachers to be members or me union The Labour leaders of Midlothian Kegional Councu nave consistenty con demned - and consistently implemented - the cuts in public spending. Calling for an end to the occupation, they proposed joint deputations to meet the GovernIf students are to provide an alterna ave to mese cestures ane succeedu getting the counch not to implemen ine cuts, tney mustjoin with all group: fighting the cuts in the Edinburgh area. They must demand that those left councillors who denounce the cuts should vote against them, revealing their full extent and how much is spent on mierest repayments to ure anance The occupation at Moray House can be turned into a centre of enquirv into the cuts, linking up all those who are re sisting them. Armed with the full information, the labour movement can force the Regional Council into refusing to implement the cuts. OPPORTUNITY The present wave of occupations pro vides a real opportunity for a night agains the cuts and unemployment in opposition to the protest ponrics or me tis leader ship and the Scottish TUC. The campaign can be built into one of all-out oppo sition to the Government's policies and those leaders in the workers movement WHO SuDDOrL Men The task of all militants in the colleges must de to organise sondarit with the Scottish occupations and build for the strike action on 26 May. Chris Bambery and Des Tierney report from Edinburgh Telegrams of support and money shoul be sent to the Occupation Organising Committee, c/o SRC, Moray House Coll ege of Education, Holyrood Road, Edinburgh EH8 34Q (tel 031 356 5184)
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Mass action frees George Davies - OK! BRITISH JUSTICENT DAVIS PERFECT