TO A Maze of publicity, the fasciss Have announced Ene lunchingof a campaign against "red teachers', But the evidence suggests that the NF do not as like the sapport in schools to distribute the thousands of leaflets being churned off their secret nonBut from reading the papers. you'd think half the school students in London were in the NF. From the press conference to launch the pamphlets, to the articies quoting NF attacks on the 'Somebody's Daughter TV programme, the media certainly gavethe NF uneasy ride.
DANGER Teuchers and anti-racist organisations. organising against the potentiai dunger, SHUTCE Christmas, Fast London NUT sent a letter to schools urging teachers to discuss the situation whai to de. response, which has involved many teachers prestously Ianctive in union affairs, has seen leaflets put out, letters sent to parents, meetingsheld.
LEAFLETS The National Enion of School Students, in collaboration with local groups and organisations like the Anti-Nazi League, is already leafletting schools. One NESS told Socialist "school students aren't hull so gullible as thes re made out. A lot of kids are ready to kick shit ut of tlem (the NF) if thes turn up', ONSLAUGHT quick responses as that of NUSS are counteracting the sought in the schools. Teachers and students must begin to argunise so that any NF foolhold in schools can be stopped. The NF istryingto gain nationul publicity for the local elections in May, and also to recruit young already becometomorrow 'ssdalmarts.
Their orientation towards youth is hased on a serious STACOLAS O WITHE can he won. As the economic silustion staunates. the expec The cations of a soung generation brasght uo. expectine an ell lent Welfare Scate with wider job choice and broader educalion than that of their purents, cuts and unemployment mean HELLES BU TUNT ELVIEE SPE future for the youth. And it b easy for the N to simply blame black people, and leachers for the fuilings of the education system.
Enless this situation is met memher with regular propapanda which Challenge: explains the organisation of school students alongside all those fighting fora better standard of life, the NE will grow. A meeting has been organised for 16 March by the All London Teuchers (ALTARF), which already lans the support of six of the ILEA's 11 associations. important in MovieSidespread the NE's on- proving how teachers' opposition to racise has hecime, will be uhle to map out together with school students und parents.
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Daily Express recently pub- For the first time since 1975, socialists within the lished the views of mower workers" wives on why they supported their husbands strike The ideas and actions of the women's movement have perte trated every corner of this male-dominated socicty, provoking a response which ranges from sympathetic support, attempts at assimilation, to fieroe attack In short, we can now speak of 'women's issue millions of women and men have an inkling of what is implied.
Questions such as child care, SOCIALIST CHALLENGE, 26 January, 197B, page 7