The cuts will mean the total abolition of 26 already existing nursery classes: 1,700 more pupils in secondary schools without a single extra teacher — at a trme when Avon Council already employs 300 teachers less than it should do according to govemment standards; and further cuts all round in schools, Further Education colleges, Colleges of Education, and the Polytechnic.
OCCUPATION
There has already been an occupation this term at Bristol Poly in opposition to the cuts. Now the campaign is spreading throughout the Bristol area. On 16 October an mergency meeting of the Educaagainst the education cuts.
rile were also discussed.
LOnCOn NV.. Does Avon County Council hate children? That's what Bristol parents must be wondering as Avon's Education Committee discusses a t2.5 million cut in educational expenditure for 1976.
tion Committee was picketed by students from every college in the area and the Poly branch of the Association of Teachers in Technical Institutions.
The next focus is a mass picket and rally of the full Avon Council meeting on 6 November. Initiated by the local branch of the International Marxist Group, the rally has drawn wide support from Bristol Teachers Association, ATTI Poly Branch, ASTMS Bath University and the student unions at Bristol and Bath Universities, the Polytechnic and Redland College of Education. The General Management Committee of Bristol West Constituency Labour Party has agreed to circulate all Labour Party branches and wards, trade unions and Over 100 teachers attended the second Socialist Teachers Conference in London last weekend. The central concern of the conference was to develop the campaign The main points were taken up in an action resolution which gave a class-wide orientation to the coming struggles against the cuts. The suggested affiliation of the NUT to the Labour Party, and the role of Rank and A co-ordinating committee covering the whole country was elected from the conference and it was urged that local action committees against the cuts be set up wherever possible. A full report on the developing campaign against the cuts will be carried in next week's Red Weekly. Anyone who would like a copy of the document passed by the conference should write to B. Regan c/o 97 Caledonian Road trades councils in the area with details of the rally.
the cats called by the ATTI and attended by delegates from all the unions in the edneation sector.
was set up. mittee has been limited to union representatives only, when what is out the labour movement involving the Labour Party, socialist groups, The community association on the overwhelmingly working class Hartcliffe estate, for example, is sending coaches to the rally.
don on 21 October, leading Tribunite MP Ron Thomas (Bristol NorthWest) declared his full support for the campaign and picket. He tola construenos. issue. What is necessary is a campaign of the whole labour movement against all cuts.
to action the picket and rally on 6 November must be the first step in a campaign for a workers' enquiry into the educational policy of the local authority. This will mean setting up an action committee of local trade unionists, teachers, students and parents, to fight for the opening of the accounts of the education authority - to reveal the full extent of the cuts and the actual state of finance, investigate the educational supply industries, and establish the real educational needs of working people and their families.
• •• NO is to build action committees against the cuts in every area.
Last week, at a conference against a mobilising committee for the rally Unfortunately the comneeded is a broad campaign throughand tenants' and parents' associations.
At the education lobby in Lon'This is a class Party.
Bristol IMG In order to turn these words inTEACHI IN INNER LeusoN 12,000 people marched through London last week to protest against the cuts in education spending. The task now The fight for the control and resources of education to be taken out of the hands of the capitalists will require the building of links with all bodies fighting the cuts in
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