and selling advertising space to supportive organisations.
Also endorsed by the meeting was a call for a lobby of parliament on Budget Day, and the suggestion of a major national conference of the campaign to take place next spring.
While targeting activists in the existing campaigns and the labour movement, the Welfare State Network is committed to forming a broad coalition of those prepared to fight the Tory • More information from, and donations/messages to Welfare State Network, c/o 22, Maude Rd. London SE5. The sections on racial equality and especially on gender are weak. "Parity of esteem" between academic and vocational qualifications is promised, rather than the abolition of A Levels and the creation of a genuinely unified qualification.
Perhaps the most blatant omission in the document is the lack of a clear commitment to abolish 11+ selection in state schools.
There are good things in the White Paper. Some of them -such as the full reintegration of GM schools and the end of leagues tables - may well have to be defended against Blair as the general election approaches.
But the linchpin of the White Paper, as with Labour's policies as a whole, is "partnership" with capital, and its logic sets narrow limits to Labour's education reforms.