pay the interest charges count over the past tionalisation of the profitable private steer-sector, which supplies a quarter of the steel used in Britain.
There Labour left could take in seeking to match up steel-making capacity with the wide-ranging needs for the product. That is to hold a conference of re rese steel making the using mee the steel-making dustries, both overseas.
Dictates to elaborate the needs of the working class in relation to steel, an impetus to the struggles necessary to confront the dictates of capital.
ing week and sharing of the available work in the steel industry, in order to protect jobs and plants. his production meet needs could only workers' control and that, of course, would require a head-on confrontasimply with government but with all those who stand in the way of socialism.
and using in in Britain and Such a conference, by beginning would give Among these are a shorter workDetermining and allocating steel working class beachteved by Line present teachers' reaction • keep ALMOST 1,600 teachers in Dundee are due to strike on Thursday 24 January in protest at the decision of the Tory controlled Tayside council to sack 130 primary school teachers on-fixed term contracts.
The strike has been called by the national executive of the Educational Institute of Scotland, and it will close schools throughout Dundee.
The background to the sackings is the council's plans to slash f1.2m from its education budget Pressure is also building up for immediate settlement of the 1979 wage claim, which was referred to the Clegg Commission. Unofficial action has been taken at one large Glasgow Commenting the Glasgow walk-out, Keir Bloomer, chief pay negotiator for the Scottish teachers' union, said: "There is an ob vious danger. There could be a chain Now our task wil br :to other teachers from taking similar unofficial action.
Such leadership has provoked Scottish teachers to organise a con ference to discuss how best they can prepare to fight the Tories Sy individual on med fits ne many individual union members, conference will discuss how the Tory policies will affect teachers and the education system. Hopefully it will take decisions on what policies the should pursue the and how these should be fought for in the union.
The Scottish Teachers and the lories' conference is on Saturday, February, 1am-Spm, at City Halls, Glasgow Information from: Allan Armstrong, 28 Mertoun , Edinburgh.
*Teachers in the London borough of Ealing struck on Wednesday for a half-day over the council's plan to Church England Twyford comprehensive school.
Nottingham, two thousand Union of Teachers' Wednesday over the suspension of a called out on teacher, disciplined proiesting al nursery cals