and after the election would eventually nave to de dake du cust actione An unprecedented co-ordination between 12 trade union left organisation is being built up to meet this challenge. These left caucuses come from a variety of industries and services as well as different political traditions. A conference to consolidate this co-ordinaton will lake place on the February 11997.
This initiative should be supported by every socialist who wants to see our unions being built as campaigning organisations. At the moment, too many decisions of our national leaderships are the subject of scrutiny by lawyers and campaigning too often reduced to promoting credit cards.
For far too long each union left has been, through necessity, concerned with the affairs of their own respective union, THE TORIES are threatening to end stu. dent grants-. and Tony Blair and his friends in the leadership of the National Union of Students agree with them. Col. leges are threatened with closure, classes are full to breaking point, staff are threatened with redundancy and dis. cretionary awards under attack.
Over the last 17 years the education system has suffered blow after blow -and now universities rather than fight for the exta funding needed .. threaten to introduce tuition fees.
With the NUS leadership refusing to organise opposition and the Labour lead. ership going along with most of the Tory plans, the Campaign for Free Education has called a major national demonstra. tion on Wednesday November 20th at 12 noon from ULU, Malet St.
Education is a Right! of the union link, to support the National