have been rising under the Tories because of their great and huge investment policy.
ganisation FACE.
Unfortunately for Mr. Hanley nobody is listening to fiction from him any longer. Instead, people all over the country are getting active against the re ality of the situation: the and anger. sweeping education cuts the Tories are introducine. the soaring class sizes that are coupled with staff and resource shortages and the attacks on FE and HE students in the form of yet If wars, Young people have an important role to play in slaughtered. this fight against cuts in It was this broadness to education, and in the or- the campaign that came across so strongly on the We are big London demonstraoffered a new and exciting opportunity to get in- tion in March.
Many local FACE groups vove in a cameln that's drawing together a have been established such as in Oxford, Derbyhuge and diverse layer of anti-government feeling shire, Notts and Shropshire. Do you think there is the potential for setting Students don't need to up a group in your town? fight alone in defense of Have parents and teachgrants; they can join with ers been saying the things parents, teachers, governors and other unions about Tory education cuts who value education and that you've been saying?
Do you want them to be wno want to see it im.
supportive of your cammovement for Free Education that has just begun? Now is the time to explore all possibilities for linking up everybody's work into the broadest, liveliest Fight Against Cuts in Education that we can manage. Then, the fairytales from Mr. Hanley and the like will be drowned out for good.
Get Active! Contact FACE on 01589 789104. • Elkie Dee Young pooplo aro losing out badly as a rosult of Tory policies, in particular the attack on the welfare state. In EDUCATION many face poverty, debt, or glving up their courses. BENEFITS ers Allowance next year. tles taken away. by Job cuts within the Welfare State. cuts in the Welfare State quite happlly. Get Active! Get a FREE copy of 'Action for Health and Welfare'! Send Ing set up. a stamped A5 envelope to Liberation!, PO Box 1109, London N4 2UU - Classes are growing bigger, with the result that teachers and lecturers have less time to spend talking to puplis/students. - Grants and benefft rights for many students have been cut, so - If young people seek training to Improve their job prospects, they find there Is no financial support at college and the varlety of government schemes avallable are exploitative and inadequate. - Unemployment among young people is high and they have been clearly targeted by benefit cuts, for example the removal of bene itt for 16-17 year olds and the reduced rate for 18-24 year olds. - There are more and more hoops to Jump through to continue claiming benefit, and young people face coercion to accept lowpald Jobs or places on phoney schemes. They will probably be the first to be put on Workfare with the introduction of the Job Seek- Young mothers have had their benefits attacked by the fall in Income support and the introduction of the Chlld Support Act, and are to have ther very limited rights to be housed by local authortYoung people are also affected by the cuts in free healthcare and The Labour leadership's response to this has Included welcoming and supporting goverment attacks on the Welfare state and young people and criticising teachers for their resistance to gov. emment pollcles. Labour counclls have Implemented many of the Young people need to get Involved in fighting back agalnst these attacks. Join campaigns to defend your local schools, colleges and hospitals. Joln FACE (Fight Against Cuts In Education). Join welfare rights campaigns. Raise Issues and demands about what young people need from the Welfare state within these campaigns. For students In fur. ther and higher education, a campaign to Defend Free Education was launched at the Welfare State Network conference in April and local groups are beIf you work, try to joln a trade union and take up these Issues there. Cuts In the welfare state mean cuts in Jobs and mean that employers can sook to cut pay and conditions for everyone. Get Involved to defend the Welfare Statel