Students Face Fresh Attacks
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Veighell Jones SPOTLIGHT WITH A SOCIALIST APPROACH.
Scanion and Bassnett THEF ON REFORMISM OF THE LABOUR THEIR POLICIES LINOIS, NO BUTS.
LNU MarcoR EDUCATION LUIS This week, the start of the academic year, thousands of students will come face to face with the effects of the continuing attacks on education and other social services.
Course books will not appear in libraries due to lack of money, new equipment will not be bought and many options stopped through lack of staff.
All of this caused directly by the Labour government's cuts in public spending.
At the same time soaring rents and continued price rises will again cut deep into grants. With high graduate unemployment and 30,000 qualified teachers on the dole, students all over the country are facing a grim year ahead.
CUTS
The cuts in public spending are the results of the Labour government's attempts to divert resources away from the social services to bolster up private industry.
However these cuts have only been pushed through by the betrayals of the present trade union leaders who do everything in their power to stop the growing oppos ition to the cuts within the working class breaking through the social contract.
OVERCROWUED CLAS ACCE Yet this active class collaboration is not confined to the trade union leaders. Student teachers will remember with bitterness the role of the Broad Left dominated National Union of Students last year.
The NUS leadership refused take up the question of the cuts public spending especially those education.
Yet by the end of the year the harsh reality of 20,000 qualified teachers on the dole brought student teachers in Scotland into college occupations.
This action spread throughout the country centering on the demand of reducing class sizes to 30 to provide employment to those unemployed teachers.
In the face of this militancy the NUS executive refused to call on other colleges and universities to support the teachers.
They then reversed the decision of the June 5th delegate conference of those colleges in occupation which called for full support for the lobby of Parliament against unemployment on June 16th, called by the Assembly on Unemployment.
The students were split as a result and thousands were diverted onto their own lobby the day