• Anthony Brain grants.
• Ince they were re elected in 1992 fo a fourth term, the Tory government has launched massive at- summer term. tacks upon the welfare state and state funding of education.
This is one way in which big attack. the capitalists can increase their profits at the expense of the working class.
The latest attack is that grants for students will be reduced by 42% over the forward", next financial year.
This has provoked mas- all. sive opposition within the student movement. This has coincided with the radicalisation amongst teachers opposing the cent education. Curs in poucation. shown clearly by the left winning the key votes at the NUT conference.
Students should forge links with parents, teachpaign to ers and governors and the labour movement to fight against these attacks on and organising a mass Socialists need to or- demonstration. ganise within the NUS for A West Midlands Free a mass demonstration in- Education Campaign has volving all inese torces to• been set up. wards the end of the The campaign statement, signed by Charlotte We need to organise be- Wade, Mick Duncan, Saul cause of what the leader- Herbert, Sandeep Virdi, ship of NUS is doing as Kay Rai, Alphius Kambra, the Tories launch such a Anthony Brain, Davies and Pritpal Gill They are capitulating in calls for grants to be rea totally cowardly way to tained and argues that the onslaught, making mere is sumticient weath statements such as "This Britain to policy by the government grants being witnarawn. would represent a step The conference of the West Midlands Free Edupresumadly from having no grants at cation Campaign, at Stafford University This is not the "leader- 10, drew together a local ship" required. This fight group. is crucial to protect the This is a broad, open rights of students to a de- campaign, backed by MEPs and MPs and open That's why at the Wel- to all students. The confare State Network Con- ference broke down into terence on o April, an workshops for easier disimportant decision was cussion, and to enable made to launch a cam- tactics to be developed "Defend Free on the eve of the regional Education", with the main NUS conference on 11-12 goals of calling for an May. emergency conference Steve on May