stood for the Gill Lee Secretary of the Most importantly-l agree the Fourth building organisations like other countries and developing co-ordination between strongly the ISG's perspective on build. ing class - based on the SSP And after the ISG inter rather bleak vention at the policy conference of the Socialist Alliance in Birmingham I was convinced that I had made the in the speeches from bot plat The Socialist Alliance held an form and audience that there is impressive fringe meeting at a growing opposition to the NUT conference. Called for noo-liberal policies being pur.
sued by New Labour and that the Monday lunchtime when meetings are generally fairty express this politically smal, i was attended by over 120 people who heard a series The meeting was chaired by of uplifting speeches, mainly Christine Blower, ex-presidene of the Union and a leading from Alliance candidates who member of the Campaien for 3 The optimistic mood of the Democratic Union.
platform speakers included meeting was in contrast to that of many other conference Teachers Alliance and of the fringe meetines where delegates were confronting the Socialist Workers' Party who picture of struggle two main left union groupings within the wu see report on The question of unity of the It represented the feeling left within the union was thus posed in the choicse of speakamong supporters of the Socialst Allance and reflected not as suggestco by one pat form speaker; that we set up a Socialist Alliance within the NUt Ihis would cut us off from marry within the union of class struggle militancy but have yet to be won to the per spective of opposition to Labour at the electoral level.
The Socialist Alliances also had a speaker at a meeting called by the Socialist Teachers Allance on the opening night of Conference. Brian Orummond, the Alliance candireacher himself, spoke about the work of the Socialist Alliances in the general election campaign and their involvement in local struggles around education. He stressed that Socialist Alliances are not just about elec. tions but about campaigning. There was a lively, at times floor. This centred around the orientation of the Alliances to those stil in the Labour Party. whether sufficient support should be formed in a situation of downturn. in his reoly Brian pointed to the involvement in the Alliance of ex-Labour Party members such as Lt Daves and vited STA members to get involved