SYL MEETS- ONE YEAR ON Fighting for
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SYL National Secretary Phil Moore speaking at conference tionary '11 plus' exam and give financial aid to local authorities wanting to send children to independent schools, revealed plans to lower the school leaving age from 16 to 15.
In view of the inevitable massive increase in youth unemployment that will take place as Workers Socialist League supporters are in the fore-. front of moves to take up the initiatives of the TUC bureaucracy on the question of nursery provision.
Socialist Press has already spotlighted the TUCs Report on the Under Fives which came out last year.
At a time when increased cuts threaten even the existing meagre provision it is vital to expose those leaders in the labour movement who refuse to take up any real fight to defend a service to which they give verbal support.
The whole movement must be mobilised to fight for the maintenance and extension of nursery education as a key step towards combatting the oppres sion of women and drawing them into the organised working class.
In Leicester on June 16 the Trades Council has called a conference on "Women's Right to Work and the Need for Day Care and on Sunday July 8 the Oxford Trades Council is organising a day conference on the TUC Report.
We urge all readers of Socialist Press to fight for delegations to these meetings as a basis for taking the struggle for nurseries into the labour movement. Only by doing this can the ground be laid for defence against the cuts and for the strength of the trade unions to be deployed against both the Tories and the reformists:
Similarly the "Care of the Under Fives" conference on 30 January organised by the South East Region TUC will provide an important platform for putting the authors of the Report on the spot.
In particular delegates from the Oxford City Nursery Campaign will be taking in the lessons of the struggie to save the South Oxford Nursery stressing the need for occupations and supporting strike action. Oxford as well as the London area.
They had been welcomed by. conference chairman Matthew Jones (Glasgow SYL) who stressed in his opening remarks that the problems of unemployadvance preview of a new film being made about the SYL and its work.
A showing of the film Blacks Britannica followed, and the day ended with a successful disco. .......uni