in the NGA But it was the that most clearly withdrawing existing appeal For man!
which was almost interventions. support these practice there is no THE MINERS' MOOD is catching! Now teachers are taking strike action, this time over pay. teachers unions have unanimously rejected a 4.5 per cent offer. and 2, earning an average f7,895 p.a. Earnings have declined by 31 per cent compared to other similar workers since the high-point of 1975. and by 26 per cent in lerm; of buying-power. Sir Keith Joseph's opinion is tas! reacters' of sappt! LIVE IN TESTON The The majority of teachers are on Scale 1 ¡alaries must obey the las country. with arten as mili3 special -ra:
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The NUT leadership plan selected three-day strike action throughout the country over the next three weeks. But they are only allowing a maximum of 18.000 eachers out of a B! Rex Haicze 230.00010 :24;
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Pressure VLT ..... -Ui 3e:= the! ...Ci. dill ....cant. au: the ap enough pressure push the government into conreding arbritration. The JIA oppose arbitration, but they were defeated at conference this year this The ISSUC leadership say we can get what we want through arbitration.
A figure of 12.5 cent has been named STA : agung:
unless have alread: made a substantially IT.creased offer as a starting point — at least making -= for this year's IC.T.
parabilli short-fall 15 per cer - and urie! all matters of conditior: : service restructuree of pay-scales are excuse:
In addition. areas tual settlemen! alstnduled or = basis.
Socialist Action for the ROSS looks at the issue Since 1975, capitalist state the perialist centres of Japan, North America and Western Europe have been hit by the In the last ten years revolutions or wars overthrowing capitalism, replacing directly have taken covernicals. Ethiopia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Angola, Afghanistan, Iran, Grenada and Nicaragua. Full scale civil war is underway in Salvador discontent is rising in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
In Latin America the dictatorships of the and 1970s Argentina, Uruguay, Chile either been overthrown or are facing swelling mass social opposition In the Philippines the beginning o!
he break up of one of the longstanding Isian dictatorships is underway.
In India the violence in the Punjab, and now around Bombay, beginning of the break stablility in the most populous state still under capitalist rule.
In the Arab world the last three seen huge actions of the working class and poor in Tunisia and years. have Morocco.
Capitalism, in short, is showing its classic pattern in any 'disintegrating from the edges' that open crisis then penetrating into its centre.
development is only too familiar The seizure of Korea and taiwan Japan Italy Turkey Moroccan crisis between 1911-13, and the Balkan Germany In 1912-13 Wals series of events that led to the cataclysm which in 1914-18 broke out in Europe itself.
JOHN the major great imgreatest pro-imperialist place Laos, Zimbabwe, Brazil, have shows the of social crisis. It is first Will progressively The trend of Japan. 1894, the Democrats and Republicans.
1911-12, Furthermore fundamentally were the mounting Japan.
non-capitalist someties.
In the US the working class has still not set up a mass working class party the capitalist within Europe itself there are a series of cleavages which weaken capitalism that continent compared to the L'S and Firstly Europe is split in two her. ween a capitalist west and a series of workers states. in its east. A non-capitalist society, the perialist state at all but a fundamentally neo-colonial society. e, here is st tonesoled nationa.
is an unresolved national question right through the heart of the most central, the most populous. ine most tion of Europe - the division of Ger- economically developed nahetween its eastern and western mans in short despite its high degree of imperialist development, Europe riven by fundamental contradictions which render its societies strategically has gripped the North of Ireland - giving rise, most advanced mass political force in capitalist Europe From 1968-75 in Spain. Italy and Portugal the higgest ware of working class struggles since the Second World War occurred. class shows a continuing massive abill! thoroughly rotten Christian Democrat struggle against dominated political establishment. calmly through the wave of struggles in Given this , in Provisional Sinn Fein, to the The Italian working what is now Western Germany passed relatively Europe from 1968-75. But situation what are the tasks of the West European left, not simply in the next few weeks of the Euro-elections, but in the next ten years of European politics?
The overall character of the situa tion can really be summed up in two fundamental features. Firstly there will he no return in Western Europe to any situation of stability of the type that characterised the 1950s and 1960s The great wave of working struggles which started after 1968 itself suffered severe setbacks after 1975 in Portugal, France and Spain.
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THIS WEEK sees the final publica- tion of the major party manifestoes
Manifestoes don't discuss. The real future of Western Europe and the tasks of socialists within it.
economic recession since the 1930s. In the 'third world' - in the states dominated by imperialism - this crisis is beginning to be an element of really fundamental social dislocation.
clashes between Britain and France in central Africa in 1898-1900, the war of