SUPPORT for the FACE demonstration is building up as the new term begins. Official support from the GMB and UNISON means that two of the biggest unions will circulate details to all their branches.
Speakers invited to the September 30 march and Rally include the Merseyside FBU, currently involved in strikes against cuts in jobs and services.
The FACE campaign has also recelved a £1,000 donation from the second biggest teaching union, the NAS/UWT. Support is still rolling in from NUT branches, despite the top-level opposition of General Secretary Doug McAvoy and the right wing majority of the NEC.
Fringe meetings FACE's national committee met on September 2 in Coventry and has mapped out a sories of activities stretching through into 1996. These include fringe meetings af all three party conferences and at the TÚC and will suport the Budget Day lobby of parliament called by the Welfare State Network.
A FACE Conference in the New Year will take the theme of promoting Needs Related (L.e. deficit) Budgets, and Turning the General Election into the Education Election'.