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from Socialist Outlook, PO Box 1109, Alan Thornett's first- 1 hand account of trade union struggles in the car industry from the 1970s, with serious lessons for trade union 448 pages, illustrated. £11.95 plus 62 post and packing, London N4 2UU. mined to push through with PFL Of course the cost to the public sector of the new building will be much higher because the State can borrow more cheaply than the private sector. The only reason PFI can be made to seem cheaper is by handing a quarter of an already cramped site to the developer.
With a site valued at least E20m and 160 luxury flats the developer stands to make a vast profit. For the developers, the school is an afterthought and they could walk away from the deal a couple of years down the road leaving the and the Council to negotiate an even higher service charge with another business.
An are of prime property protected for months. It is another step to the privatisation of education in Westminster. In the North of the Borough teachers and parents are fighting the introduction of an Education Action Zone. Nord Anglia, which is looking for contracts to run schools on a commercial basis, is already involved in the sclection and training of Heads and senior staff.
The Council is pushing ahead unacı a Government with policies which it didn't dare try under the Tories.
There are a couple of lessons from the long battle against PET at Pimlico. Firstly, the main readidn't dare try approach simply under the disarmed us in the face 01 Waal Tories clearly political attack on the public sector.
Teachers, already punch drunk from a series of changes to the curriculum and to working conditions, cannot look to the NUT leadership protect them.
Instead of standing up to Blunket and Blair, McAvoy attempts to appease them.
But PFI, attacks on teachers' conditions and the attack on education will compreacasive provide plenty of scope for building among rank and file teachers and for the left to spread the lessons across the public sector.