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SINCE THE LAST ISSUE of Socialist Press we have received a further sum of £391.00 towards the £3,000 special fund to launch the weekly paper. This means we are well on the way to our first £1,000 Latest donations include: Cowley car workers £24.90: NHS workers £2.75; Oxford bookshop workers £250; Banbury £10; PC £15;

Pleased as we are at this response, we must sound the alarm on the Monthly Development Fund. The target for this fund is f600 a month and yet in May we only received £477.37. Since this fund is essential for the running of the paper, we urge all comrades to take very seriously the fight to raise the full amount each month.

We realise that with two funds running simultaneously this places great stress on the limited resources of our supporters but the raising of this finance is essential if we are to have the weekly paper that is so central to the further development of our work. sanctions and 1,500 voting to strike.

The immediate response from the Executive to this result has been to plead for more talks with the Local Authority, which has agreed to receive a deputation of National Officials on June 9.

They have announced that lunch time activities will cease from Monday June 13 throughout the county and the class size action will begin the following Monday.

But the real question is why, with an 80% response to a call for strike action, the Executive still does not use the only weapon which Labour-Liberal coalition government and their willing Tory allies in the Town Halls will take seriously?

With five weeks until the end of this school year when the 534 teachers on short term contracts will lose their jobs, the National Officers still argue that a gradually escalating programme of disruption will stop the cuts.

A deal is obviously on the cards. Local NUT leaders have already announced what they will "settle for"

The last thing both the Lib-Lab government and the NUT Executive want is an Oxfordshire strike which will be supported and grow throughout the whole county where the same vicious cuts are on the agenda.

In counties throughout the country fights against the cuts are beginning in different ways and over varying issues.

For example, in Birmingham the Local Authority is threatening to sue some teachers for taking £3000 with a grand total of £767.50 received to date.

DS and SS £50; RE £5.

The June Monthly Fund has got off to a good 54.60 received after only four days.

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Socialist Press Special Fund 31, Dartmouth Park Hill, London NWS 1HR STRIKE VOTE non-cover sanctions in defence of the permanent supply posts in the city, and in Southampton, similar sanctions have now been enforced to stop the redeployment of 59 teachers into jobs in Hampshire.

So long as the bureaucrats are confident that they can section off cuts fights and make local deals they are able to be demagogic about the size of their dards.

But wherever a group of members cuts loose and shows determination to fight like in Little Ilford School, the Executive loses no time in handing out suspensions and so showing its true nature.

The demand must be in every area for immediate all-out strike action against all the cuts with the demand that the Executive turns this into national strike action-no deals but the call for the educational budget to be expanded to keep in line with inflation.

The trade union movement must organise with parents to demand "open the books" at the Town Halls to expose to the working class the reserve funds, contingency funds etc and the profits made by the supplying firms.

The left wing Labour MPs must lead a campaign to break the present coalition with the Liberals and to fight for a general election on a platform of socialist policies with a • new leadership elected at a special recall Labour Party conference.

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