£30 minimum - are we serious?
What Red Weekly said is that the entire trade union movement should take up the fight for a E3D minimum wage as the first step in a campaign for a decent minimum.
This would not only help to fight these workers dire poverty. but it would show them that the solution to their problems lies with the rest of the working class. It would also prepare the ground for a big unionisation of the badly org anised sectors and be a real step towards a E40 minimum When we discuss the ancillary work group of workers, not the working class in general. As the nurses showed over the summer, industrial action in the NHS can wring concessions from the GoverТИН СОПОПИ ОНИ МИКИГУ 10 КІН •fand the NHS can also be tapped to back up the demands of the ancillary workers.
Finally, the winning of a 3b hour to all other lowly paid workers.
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Bom The left is sipping up badly over the rebellion of young working class pupils against the prison house school system -In many London comprehensives and secondary schools the rehellion is boiling over. Young workers are wising up younger and younger to the fact that the school is not for them - it is an instrument for their oppression, not a means for developing their Lilents.
The whole sacial crisis of Britain's imperialist system is reflected in the most serious schools crisis this country has ever laced. This is a tromendous political fact. As the bourgeoisie and its ideologiste kaow only too well far more bican than the el wood er tures the minds of the mass of young workers will decide the fate of capitalison in Britain.
will shortly blow the roof off the schools: where is the left?
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But in this grantic expinsion which The National Union of School Studclite, with little or no connection with the contempt for the Irish the NUT is too scared to openly champ ion the school students rebellion. Even worse it is blind to it, and covers up its secret longing for reapeetabiuty with ceonomal resolutions about school conditions.
wages, and so on, which totally avoid Bie chicial question of class power in the This is really serious, because if the left intends to keep its distance from the rebel lion of the youth, the Coscists will nat. The National Front has already bafleried Wands not be effective in these strugeles unless worth schools trying to turn white pupils members as well as sympatlisers in the stor dent bodies of other schools, They bave a tield day playing on the rant pant racism of young English workers Their blacks, and They must karn the real first target is the Asian pupils, many of whom do not speak English well and whe are also the least violent pupils in many schools Swear-words like "Paks woet.
'greasers", chinks", bubble-and-squeaks"
are normal everyday languzge among mil matic but to mention their violent hatred and What strategy should English social ists lollow in these conditions?
First, they must boldly, aetively, op eniy take the side of the rebellious young workers against the school system Great care should be taken in building up tim friendships with the most rebellious pupils They should be given direct en. practical hop in getting out leaflets, bar nors, petitions, newspapers, etc. Without underground as well as open merhods at is case lar the authorities to seaso a deycloping movement through intimitation and their network of spies.
Also a great deal of work needs to be dene to win the support of working class paris, who nearly always have a reactionary approach lo school strikes Hatred for the cynical and anti-working class natace of the schools must he ro awakened in the parents spale and again not be wont unless English imperialism and racism are placed in the very frost of the schools struggle Black, Asian, Cypriot and trish pupils must not oaly be defended, they must be encouraged to lead the struggles. Nothing will do more to get rid of racist Ideas than for tebellious English pupils to see that they connor do without the revolutionary fightiop power of the young immigrants.
But even se, English socialists will they wake ap to the let that they cannot teach without learning They must learn class strugse from young work of English racism from the youre history of English crimes against the AF rican, Arab, Caribbean, Tedian, Pakistani, Chinese and Jrish peoples, to name but a few of this country '5 vactims Moral appeals are no good, Diploreferences in passing are wors Chauvinists have to be given the shock plunge into argument on the hottest" questions of the day. Today thai means siding openly with the LId Until young English rebels in the schools think of the frish rebeis as their brotbers and sisters-it-arms fighting against the sacne enemy, their defences ane weak and will sooner or later be hakHove can young English workers tight the school authorities when they agree with them an Ireland? Haven't they a loc to learn from the rehel youth of Bellast and Derry? The battle against chauvunam is the key tront in the battle for the alleg lance of the English yourh Contimunism or fascisen - the stragiles in the schools today must lead to one or the otber conclusion. Wlach will it be? Red guards or storm troopers? FRED DRAPER