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The fight to reopen Class and to restore the 30 lost full-time places has been stepped up this week with campaign supporters calling on local Trades Council officers and NUPE officials to back up their "support" with action.

As reported in last week's Socialist Press the six-week old occupation was brutally ended by bailiffs and police.

Since then parents and teachers have kept the class going in a nearby building to COME ON JACK-YOU'VE HAD ALL THE ANSWERS UP TILL NOW!

THE SUPPORT DRY WRAP THIS THING provide a focus for the campaign to defend the lost places and jobs.

Trades Council is pledged to set up a deputation to meet the Occupation Committee and force its attentions on the Tory Education Committee.

Inertia

This deputation was first mooted six weeks ago. The delegates are in full support, only the inertia of the officers stands in the way.

The NUPE bureaucrats have been making the loudest "left' noises on the issue and therefore have the furthest to retreat.

There is no doubt that Millar, Anderson and co. will retreat, however, unless the special District Branch meeting called to discuss strike action can make a stand against their treachery.

NUPE must call out all its caretakers, cleaners and dinner helpers before their jobs and conditions of service have been finally eroded.

As reported in last week's Socialist Press, NUT Divisional Secretary Steadman, only just succeeded in sabotaging pronursery moves within the NUT.

Shoddy

Already the membership have begun to show that they are not prepared to accept Steadman's witch-hunting and shoddy manoeuvres.

At the very next City branch meeting a delegation to the Council was set up to demand an end to nursery cuts.

This cannot be a negotiating body, (only Division can do that), but IT'S A SHOULD coming soon after Steadman's anti-nurseries move it represents an important start in the fight to build an alternative This fight is merely one outcome of the cuts programme introduced by the Labour government, now carried on by the Lib-dab coalition.

Only true socialist policies leading to a fully economy can smash capitalism in crisis.

Cuts represent a direct attack on the working class -therefore we put forward the demand to occupy and open the books" as a starting point for defence of basic social services.

RALLY *A Rally against the cuts will take place in Oxford on Saturday May 27. Details and credentials can be obtained from Ted Eames, 7, East Street, Osney, Oxford.

APOLOGY In the caption to the photograph on the front page of last week's Socialist Press, we suggested that the man in plain clothes escorting Trades Council secretary Beryl Huffingly was a plain clothes policeman.

We have since learnt that he is in fact Roy Ricks, Trades Council Executive member and convenor at Imperial Metals, Leeds.

We would like to apologise to him for this misunderstanding and for any embarrassment it may have caused him.

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