School students' union fights fascist menace

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VO SMASH THE M Youth in counter-march against National Front youth recently seen a growing whom had any doubts about fascist threat with the offices the need to deny fascists the of the Council for Commun- rinht tr enrond thnir As capitalism goes into deeper crisis we" de once again the rise of scism. ¿ The complete refusal of * Lib-Lab coalition govern-ent and the trade union areaucracy to defend the orkers? living standards and te right to a job has left ictions of workers easy ugets for National Front ruitment. " School students have also en their standard of living I, not just because their trents have had their wages it by inflation; but also scause the quality of their lucation has deteriorated.

Force

Realising this the National front has decided to make chools their next targets.

250,000 leaflets entitled How to Spot a Red eacher" are being printed ad some schools have heady received this piece of scist propaganda.

The aim of the NF is to ivide black and white school ludents and to have a force hich will prevent the indeendent organising of school dudents. • The reply of the bureauacy of the National Union I Teachers and the National Isociation of Headteachers is been predictable.

Condemnation

There has been a condemution of the NF leafleting hools and the NAHT has id its members that they throw NF leafleters off hool premises and confisite their literature if it is Iculating in schools.

But this directive applies i "other extremist political ¡ganisations" and presumabi to the National Union of thool Students.

However, a clear alternape to this sort of "opposn" has been shown in h Wycombe.

Beaten High Wycombr : has a hi lagrant popula tion. It t ity Relations attacked; black MURINA INI people beaten up and the public threat that the schools would be leafleted by the NF.

Aylesbury Area NUSS and High Wycombe Students Union decided that they would carry out a campaign to build NUSS branches in High Wycombe schools and that a defence squad would be established to stop fascists leafleting schools.

Leaflets

• Anti-fascist leaflets were distributed outside schools in High Wycombe and received a good reception from the majority of people who took them.

The clear hostility of school students to the NF was shown when a meeting called by NUSS was attended by about 30 people, few of right LU spicau poisonous propaganda.

Defence squad

NUSS branches are now being set up in some High Wycombe schools and a defence squad will be established as soon as possible.

The fascist threat to school students is not something which can be fought by individuals however much they may hate the NF.

Nor can it be countered by groups such as the 'Reading Schools Against the Nazis' who limit themselves purely to propaganda and the occasional picket or demonstration.

Living standards

Fascists can only be defeated by an orga organised ed working class The fight against the National Front cannot be separated from the struggle for action to defend workers' living standards.

Workers Defence Squads must be built between school students and trade unionists wherever fascism raises its head.

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