Response on teachers | Socialist Action 1983

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TH THE VTRAL RICA United States presidential elections.

the North. on the eve of the massive anti-Reagan demonstration. MEL MASON is a socialist candidate in the He toured Britain last week, after a nine-day visit to Ireland which included meeting with political prisoners in A former member of the Black Panthers, Mel was subsequently elected city councillor for Seaside, California in 1980 — the first socialist to hold public office since the days of McCarthy He explained that his tour was one of solidarity with workers in struggle. Much of his time in Britain has been spent meeting striking miners. Mel Mason is shown here speaking at his London rally minimum condition, culaturalul Tories etc to decide.

Needless to say, our anything like that, so Association; Kepresentative; Mike AS MEMBERS of the NUT, and Socialist Teachers' Alliance supporters, we wish to point out the implicit dangers contained in Rich Hatcher's article (Socialist Action, 25 The article states: 'the STA is arguing that, as a arbitration should not be entered into unless the employers have made a substantially increased offer as a starting point.' It should not need pointing out to Socialist Ac В ФЕе ! mechanism of arbitration is a mechanism of class Laue ulle dropped in favour of the state machinery deciding the outcome. Therefore, what is being said in this case is that we'll fight for eight per cent but we'l leave the rest to the state, the government, the Our minimum condition should be that our support is so overwhelming, our action is so intensive that the outcome of the arbitration could only be favourable or easily ignored (the miners case in 1972, for example) where the real outcome wasn't decided by arbitration, but by the level of action.

action hasn't reached we should not be talking about arbitration — only about escalating action.

Siu Ming Cheung President Lambeth Teachers Association; John Esterson, Vice President Inner London Teachers Association, Secretary Lambeth Gary Jones NUT Smith, Stockwell Park NUT; Ray Sirotkin, Assistant Secretary Lambeth Teachers Association; (All in personal capacity).

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American socialist tours Britain