Nus Leaders Sound the Retreat

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Petrified by the national growth of militancy among students as shown by the spate of occupations by student teachers, the leaders of the National Union of Students have already begun to beat the retreat.

Meeting at the weekend, the 25 strong Executive decided not to widen the action to all colleges and universities.

Instead they will leave those students already in occupation to become isolated and demoralised while the reformists of the NUS embark on an orgy of protest and "pressure" campaigns on teachers' Racialism, cont'd from front page. and housing -against any bureaucrat who seeks to hold back the working class.

This was shown in the much publicised strike over a black unionists to "persuade" them to "pressure" the government to employ more teachers!

This proposal, which would be laughable if it were not for the gravity of the situation facing students, is quite obviously bankrupt.

IMPLEMENTING

All MPs 'left' and right have played their part in impleme ating the spending cuts. The ha idful of lefts' who abstained 01 1 the cuts White Paper collapsed next BLMC Cowley Assembly Plant The answer to the racist campaign therefore is completely tied up with the question of working class leadership and the independent mobilisation of the working class against fascism.

There is no solution for workers in passive appeals to the Race Relations Board any more than there is justice to be had from Industrial Tribunals (though we are in favour of Relf remaining in jail till he rots).

The answer to racialist attacks must be the organisation through the workers' movement and immigrant organisations of self-defence squads to drive fascism off the And those who stand in the way of the united struggles of the working class - whether openly right wing union bureaucrats or 'left' talking Labourites and Stalinists advocating import controlsmust be exposed as the allies of the real enemy, the capitalist class in every country.

*Repeal all anti-immigration * Reject import controls. *No to the TUC wage cuts!' Action to defend living standards!

*Defend all jobs - work sharing with no loss of pay.

*A crash programme of hous ing under workers' control to provide work for the unemployed. day and voted in favour of the government's economic policies.

And with the prospect oi further "emergency" cuts being verbal persuasion will change the situation. The only way the cuts can be fought is by resolute action calling on the full support of the labour movement in all-out strike action to defend the social services and education.

The decision of the NUS leadership to restrict the occupations to student teachers is for this reason sheer treachery. Every step must be taken to reverse it and widen the existing actions.

Greece Orthodox Metropolitan (Bishop) of the island, who had welcomed the captain of the aircrait carner.

Last week's fighting underlines the fact that Karamanlis is the political heir of the Colonels and that struggles for even the most elementary democratic rights must become a challenge to his regime.

WEAKNESS

The relative weakness of trade unionism in Greece (only about 20% of workers are organised in unions) goes back many years.

The General Confederation of Labout itsell, was set up with a nominated leadership by the Monarcho-fascist immediately after the war, while the British Labour government poured in hundreds of millions of pounds to support their puppets' anti-Communist civil war.

Stalin, having agreed to divide Europe. with the imperialist powers, stood aside while thousands of Greek Communists were murdered.

The policies of today's pro-Moscow Greek Stalinists offer no way forward against the They disclaimed responsibility for the Athens demonstrations and attempted to link the revolutionary left with fascism. in a statement which blamed "fascist and anarchist elements" for the They went on to call defence of democracy"

In reality, the struggle for the rights of the working class in Greece now urgently requires the building of a revolutionary, Trotskyist party firmly based on the advanced sections of workers such as those who faced the police truncheons in Athens.

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