WHAT A fool David Widgery is to use Glasgow as a yardstick for Socialist Workers Party. Glasgow might well have 30 members with five years membership, but what about Birmingham, Liverpool and Coventry: During the last two yeats, these three major cities have heen gutted of I think comrade Widgery would do better to have a look at the latest SWP bulletin in which alism and the 'we are the greatest" type of sectarianism was condemned SWP. Chest beating is for foes and ALL DOYS.
And 1 am sure David Widy not do this after he has read the SWP bulletin.
TOMMY HEALEY [Liverpool] of academic context. the raised in cities like uselully undertake in education triumphand thus position.
progressive Radical SLUMBER RUN.
JAMES DONALD (London) mists) are given the chance to address teachers in a political, and nor just an The practical implications of the ideas that СТОСУС ОСОДІСЬ WIL DU considered in workshop sessions detasled topics.
These sessions could also define areas and suggest campaigns that the STA could Another encouraging feature of the conference is the way that it i drawing together socialist tendencies who bave too often worked in isolation from cach other weakened the left's Union militanis have concentrated on matters of pay and OUCHESS what should be taught and how taught have boen left to teachers. This conlity (and danger) of such distinctions.
Rocca sponsore: 03 Education and Teaching Socialist Teachers Alliance Open Conference THE POLITICS OF EDUCATION London, April 28-30 would have been able to mobilise the whole labour cicace crand shown paard means to rely on the State to do our job." (my In other words. by a heroic stand our criticism of the ANL deniand any sort of ban whatever is to create illusions abour the state would have been made for us. The hospitalisation of the pickets will resaive Bil further But the police harassment of the picket was not the inevitable result of the alleged folly of those demanding hans of one sort or another. Of course the police are capable of acting in bad faith, but in Ilford, as you know full well, the police dismerse the bickeis when tbe Egs London People's Front appeared to cal Di us to break throneh the Dollo cordon and lined up ANL stewards for that purpose.
If violence had occurred, what point would have been made? Not that the ANL was wrong to call for 'a" ban. Something important: that the form of McNee's movement in our accepted - that to argument. de the process.
Ohviously. half-decided to valid much more that our allowed to swop answers. Logicals los means that His 1500 M practice in external CARES 01 38 WE Such candidates at bee candidates would automatically disqualitied. course, if this happened cationally. examinations would have to be severely questioned as an educational and social practice, but to attempt to this without altering the LISTIE DUE SELLOUT! education would be futile and self-defeating. wind ano leave many casuastics Ju the competitive ethos they promote maintain must be guestioned and criticised. Bur this should be done from a political position that offers Fund viable aiternatives. and I'm sure many other socialist teachers, have had to take the same kind of action as Ms Fisher. Does this imply we aren't socialists or polities are discredited an devalued? The logic of this approac