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ITS ONLY SCARÉLL & BENN! MANY BEEN PERSUADED TO NOW, NOVEMBER 28TH..

YES YOU WERE RIGHT... IT LOOKS LIKE A HUGE DEMO! (CHRIST, HAVEN'T SOME PEOPLE )

ANYTHING TO DO?

The Tory County Council in Leicestershire have now spelt out their plans for further cuts.

Having already pioneered the attack on school meals with their "experimental" snack system which set out to force students to pay up to 60p for meais, they have now moved on to a more general attack on the public services as a whole.

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Immediately this means the closure of one day nursery, the cutting of the teaching force by over 200 by April, a major reduction in money for resources in schools, the scrapping of all special clothing allowances and the threatened , closure of one ward in a local hospital.

Despite ail this, and the •announcement of even bigger cuts to come, the local trade union leadership have shown themselves primarily concerned to hold back any action against the cuts.

Moves for strike action in the teachers' union were thrown out at Divisional level, and even the milk-and-water policy of nocover for absent or non-replaced staff has been limited to only 40 schools and stifled in a straightjacket of bureaucratic procedures.

The ability of these bureaucrats to hold back the movement has, however, been rapidly eroded by events.

The occupation of the Polytechnic by local students in opposition to the cuts, and their decision to strike on November 28 has prompted a decision by the city NUT to urge strike action, and demand a national levy of members in preparation for this.

ITIL ONLY NEED ONE HOTHEADED RABBLE-ROUSER TO SET THEM ALL OFF-AND YOUKNOW WHAT THAT COULD MEAN!.

• CALLS FOR REAL ACTION!

PHEW! SELDOM HAVE SO

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