Fruit and nut? | IMGpapers 1976

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Nice to see Alf Wilshire, President of the National Union of Teachers, and Charles Clarke, NUS's answer to Biggles, getting together for a press conference on 7 June to explain their programme of action. Was Alf about to be exposed by Charles demanome mat me no moremen its 1969 policy on no classes over 30 arter all, ne a been asked to by the Manchester conference?

Our thrusting leaders unnerved the assembled hacks with their daring. They would monitor the present situation and even expressed alarm about it111,000 classes over 35. This was the headline coverage on page 9 of the NUT's paper The Teacher. The student-worker unity the NUS Executive believes in wa. vindicated without a doubt.

But every page tells a different story. Page 1 had a two paragraph statement instructing NUT members to stay at work on 16 June and not join the lobby The NUT leadership is taking no real action against teacher unemployment -and Communist Party members in the London Division have gone along with its opposition to action on 16 June Instead the NUT Executive is concentaung is tre on reacners taking un offical no-cover action in East London Unfortunately unofficial no-cover action can't provide the jobs nor the challenge to the NUT leadership that is needed. To posture - as the International Socialist-dominated NUT Rank and-File has done - as the leadership of a no-cover campaga wwca can oy-pas the Executive and claim that this can provide thousands of jobs for the workless student teachers, is to invite both victimisation and defeat.

No-cover can only be a single tactic in a much broader campaign to force the NUT to implement its policy on class size and operate no-cover nationaliv. Trade unionists both inside and outside the schools in Tameside, Manchester, have given an example of the type of class-wide struggle needed to implement such demands, by their refusal to implement the new Tory Council's scheme to reintroduce the 11-plus and grammar schools.

A successful no-cover struggle as par of a wider class size campaign can be buil by linking all NUT associations, schools and individuals into a united campaign. minimising any dangers of victimisation.