Stirling jobs demo

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working class action to bring the demonstration began. down the Tory government. The rally of 600 people at Canavan made a scathing Albert Hall heard how the attack on the Council for Stirling District Council had with the officers of the Lambeth Association, for calling for support to the anti-cuts demonstration on Wednesday 4 February.

The right wing NUT leadership-which has done nothing to stop the cuts-sprang into action after the Lambeth teachers voted at a general meeting on January 19 to support a half-day strike.

The victimised teachersincluding Vanessa Wiseman, President of Lambeth Trades Council-will remain suspended until a disciplinary tribunal is convened-after the elections.

NUT members and other public sector workers should protest at this brazen attack on militants who fight the cuts.

Over 1.000 trade unionists, youth and unemployed marched through the streets of Stirling last Saturday in an impressive demonstration against unemployment.

The march, organised by the Central Region Federation of Trades Councils ended in a rally at Albert Hall, where local Labour MPs Dennis Canavan and Harry Ewing called for J vaug Myou that bunch of :•"chancers, opportunists and careerists" to quit the Labour Party and the labour movement.

The march was attended by delegates from many trade unions and CLPs, plus a substantial number mobilised by the LPYS.

30 unemployed youth on the march had already marched seven miles from Alloa before given the fullest backing for the march.

Tony Saunois, st eaking on behalf of the LPYS called or Labour councils to refuse to implement Tory cuts.

Other speakers included convenors from British Leyland's Bathgate plant and BP at Grangemouth.

Lynn McKenzie, Secretary of Falkirk Trades Council wound up the meeting by outlining the future plans of the campaign, including the establishment centres for the unemployed in the main towns of the region.