Highbury Manor Institute of tne working class. must be organisca effectively both to evaluate the success of the course and to monitor ine mids progress. Further, parents and trade unionists must be drawn into an explanation and an oncome dalogue or waat the scnoe is doing.
Although it is correct to sav that trado unionists should support the teachers it is not surprising tnat tner support is got readily forthcoming; where were the meetings between teachers and trade unionists to discuss what the school was doing? Where was the teachers' call for a workers' enquiry into the school? Instead the staff called on the state in the form of a Department of Education and Science inquiry to solve the problems of the school.
Even now with the threat to their jobs the staff have not taken up such questions seriously nor are they even trying to get the NUT to back them. Such an attitude will seriously hamper their case. We must of course support them but at the same time be critical of their approach to progressive education and also te trade umon move ment.
HILDA KEAN, London.
Pacist While agreeing with the Red Weekly that support TOr black self-defence groups' is a crucial orientation on the struggle against racism and fascism I believe that certain other points should also be stressed.
Joviously, racism is growing because ol the decline in the material conditions of the working class. ins, of course, is being unscrupulously used by the fascists who use such slogans as 'One million blacks, one million unemployed' What Trotskyists have to do in this situation is give a positive answer to the fears of the class around jobs, - prices, nousing and so on. nererore we nave te explain the whole of our programme in relation to the fight against racism, and relate our demands on jobs — worksharing with no loss of pay and wages - the sliding scale or wages, to une ngut against racisi This I believe the Weekly has failed to do in a clear enough way.
We should aso explain tnat labou movement support for black self-defence is first Stop workers' self-defence, and in this light explain how black self-defence at Southall paved the wavor back ane walle workers broiceimmigrant areas from the fascists during the Rotherham by-election—an example of workers" self-defence. SEX DISCRIMINATION ACT -pampnet contar socialists, and prepared to work very hard. Write with estions etc. to: R. Honey, 1 Berlin.51 Grossbeerenstr. 70, Deutschland RACISM. Imperialism and Apartheid in South Afric veekend educational conterence at the University cast Anoia, east october. ror detals contacto dents Union, university or cast Argi, vorit MANCHES. EH: Hevolutionary Communist Groul public dayschool on "The Crisis of Capitalism and th Saturday 18 Septem In "Dayschool" (RW), 49 Railton Road, London SE24 OLN.
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programme as well!