best known teacher in the Communist Party, has left it. Whether he left the party on his own initiative or whether he was asked to leave is not important. What is important is why it happened now and what impact it Max Morris has consistently identified himself with the right in the union. His support for the Social Contract, his support for merellas head teachers and classroom teachers, his support for inactivity on are tect are a National Union of Teachers we which took Indeed, was one of the away the right of local branches and divisions to call official union action. He vehementis supports the recent clause which suspends members for taking unofficial action, and rejected a call for strike action on 17 November as a move which would produce 'anarchy' in the schools. He has further aligned himself over his condemnation the William which at the moment is torced te dissociate itself in a token fashion from trade union leaders who or intransident inactvity trom me nur exe in its ranks one so deeply identified with the right-wing policies However, to see him as one bad apple spoiling the rest of the CP barrel is wrong. The policy of the CP leaves Communist Party has always been one of compromise and collusion with the emplovers and tne stale The CP's journal Education Today & Tomorrow has argued for support for bodies such as the Schools Council - an amalgam of teachers, employers and industryeducationa avance GADOlICY interests and operate under the control of the working class is complete anathema to them!
Contract and has no perspective for taking forward a fight on the cuts apart from building alliances with local authorities and parents as a classless force through bodies such as the Council for Educational Advance, One thing it does say, though, Is that unofficial action is always wrong Max Morris has been an teachers. But ne only took ineir policies right-wing conclusion. What must be done now is to embarrass Anybody calling themselves a communist or a socialist must commit themselves now to a serious fight for national industrial action against the cuts, including unofficial action in the face HILDA KEAN.