disciplinary committee last weekend.. "retused to obev clarify that they were not making such a call! six months off the executive and is out of the union for a year.
months means, least four years.
events. First, the elections in ILTA, dred votes were disallowed.
to the government on pay.
inflation is double that, will use it against all public sector workers.
tacks on teachers' living standards. cerned that members Vanen.
of opposition to cuts.
executive with resolutions of protest.
once.
Jarvis's law is suspended The victims and their sentences to obey an Hilary Tart (vice president, Lambeth NUT)
union for a further 18 months.
refusing to obey have been REPRIMANDED.
Socialist Challenge 12 March 1981 holding office: these are the viciously repressive sentences handed out to six members of the Naported the strike against cuts in the South LonDick North, Bernard Regan and Dave Picton were candidates in the Inner London Teachers Association elections. The disciplinary committee found that their election address did not constitute a call to teachers But in a bizarre decision they were proved to have instruction from the general secretary' by not writing to teacher associations to The severity of the sentences is a deliberate and determined attempt by the union leadership to strike a blow at the left. It is one of the most serious attacks against unionists in the public sector for a decade. It is an attack on these militants' activities and standing in the labour movement. And it is an open provocation If the appeals against the sentences fail, these teachers will be outside the trade union movement for — or in Dick North's case, tor one year. The attack on Dick North is particularly severe: an elected member of the executive, he has been thrown The ban on his holding office for a further eighteen that he won't have another opportunity to stand for the executive for at The action of members of the NUT executive in bringing these charges coincides with two significant where three of the accused came within a couple of hundred votes of winning - in circumstances where over three hunSecondly, it coincides with general secretary Fred Jarvis and the NUT executive pathetically capitulating The acceptance of a miserable 7½ per cent, when was on the ludicrous and untrue grounds that this is the 'going rate'. Such an argument is a nice piece of propaganda for the Tories who Jarvis and his cronies on the executive, including members of the Communist Party, are trying to build a tin pot dictatorship in the union, instead of fighting atEven Frank Chapple doesn't have a catch-all rule like 'refusing to obey an instruction from the general secretary', which can be used indiscriminately against The campaign to defend the eight has already won to adopt against the Tories.
been organised?
there certainly nothing parable with what happened between the wars.
The Labour demonstrations have certainly raised sciousness but we believe that the struggle has to be taken further. That is why we are marching on London.
We want to embrace not only the trade unions but the whole movement, including ethnic, women's youth organisations. The need a fundamental change not only in policy but in the type coverineut WC in this country. We want to mobilise the people as part of the process of bringing down the government.
The level unemployment comparable the Thirties. idea tnat the state acts as a safety net is people are now experiencing a great deal of misery.
Will the march be taking up the priority of spending on defence, particularly missiles and nuclear weapons?
are completely opposed to their policy Thatcher's visit Keagan was to ordinate BARRY WILLIAMS, president of
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