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held on Saturday to discuss how to respond to the cuts imposed education by the Tories.

To date, the NUT executive has failed to launch an effective national campaign by teachers, refused to work jointly with other unions. opposed participating in the demonstration on the pretext that it was 'political'!

Union branches led by the left have put forward amendments the motion for the special conference. These branches are demanding: joint action with other unions; a national strike; no cover made redundant; no extra work-load; and national implementation of the union's pulley would highlight the fact that 55,000 teachers are needed now to reduce class sizes to a maximum of thirty.

decline membership of 4.5 percent this year it is clear that the NUT could suffer even greater setbacks unless it changes hopeful sign alc achieved by Bernard Regan, Socialist Teachers Association, Dick North, from Rank and File, in the of officers.

Regan polled 7,079 votes against 26,000 by his right-wing opponent -the highest vote ever achieved in the by a left candidate. polled 4,670 votes in an election with other candidates candidate accumulated just 12,000 votes.

OVER 1,500 students through Edinburgh on Wednesday of last week to protest against the Tory cuts. The demonstration, called by Scottish ares NUS, support from universities and college! all over Scotland. The Scottish TÚC also sponsored the march, number of NUPE banners joined the students, Militancy in the Scottish colleges has been at a low ebb in the past three years, and this was the first sign of a At some march was chanting in unison: No cuts, Tories out!' *Tory councillors in Lothian have taken legal action Labour-controlled Lothian regional council from paying the counci emniovees who attended the 28 November anti-cuts demonstration in London.

Lothian is one of the few councils to have declared that implement the Tory cuts, and agreed to pay the wages of any trade union delegate to the London Tory councillors have taken out an interim edict (equivalent to an English injunction) lo stop these payments.

BY a vote of 105 for and only one against, students Polytechnic decided to occupy the administration building against the • in students fees.

Thespur to this action was a visit to the poly by the Education Secretary, Mark Carlisle. When Carlisle arrived on Friday he was greeted by some three Socialist Challenge, 6 December 1972, Pageó

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