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In tune with their deeply reactionary education and social policies the National Association of Schoolmaster/Union of Women Teachers last week gave a platform to Britain's youngest Chief Constable, Alan Oliver (aged 40) who heads the Central Scotland Police Force.
At a conference held in Birmingham to launch an appeat for £750,000 to pay for an Outward Bound centre, Oliver argued that a central cause of "teenage violence" was the influence of Communist teachers.
These teachers are apparently undermining parental authority and encouraging the defiance of authority.
"We must weed out the so and so's who are spreading discontent". , he said.
It is absolutely disgraceful that a trade union should give a platform to the capitalist state to launch its witch-hunt: but it is not surprising that it should be the NAS/NWT that does it.
Faced with a social crisis which derives. from bankrupt capitalism, the forces of the state recognise that if the youth revolt takes on a political dimension then capitalism really is in trouble.
The trade union movement must condemn the appearance of leading police officers on trade union platforms and assert the right of teachers to have whatever political views they like.
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