Teachers (NUT), ed for weeks on end.
At the same time the leadership of the National Association of masters/Union of Women Teachers (NAS/UWT) balloting its membership recommending acceptance of the deal. Opposition to the NAS/UWT is appearing ail over une courty.
Despite the case being presented person Fred Smithies union's general sericlar Brent NAS/UWT members voted to reject the sell-out. Reports are in NAS/ÜWT branches Wales, Cheshire, cashire, LOC Midlands, regions of anger at the line adopted. by the leadership.
In teaching, rural areas tend to have a less militant reputation recent survey for ITV's TV Eye 33 cent of NAS/UWT members in North posed to the employers sell-out deal struck at ACAS by five of the teachers organisations. Members of the National Union of have acted quickly to reintroduce the guerilla strike action which has resulted in many schools being closIne to constitute a decisive majority of teachers opposed to the deal.
Desperate to hold their members the NAS/UWT membership are forced to resort to wild statements: It vou decide DUSIl U1 Friday - InC des accynegotiating rights ding over the "problem' of teacher pay and conditions to ACAS The task of militants inside the NUT is to approach NAS/UW! mem bers to vote 'no' in their strike action.
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THE PHILIPPINES elections have been a disaster for the USA. As we go to press Marcos and his cronies, disregarding wide exposure of their faked election victory, clearly intend to hang on using whatever deceit, repression and terror may be necessary.
The line pursued by the National Democratic Front and several mass organisation the KMU, the most influential federation has been completely vindicated.
The result is also probably the most serious foreign policy crisis Reagan administration has faced. The Philippines, the USA's oldest colony. are 700 miles from Vietnam, and harbour the big. gest base outside America at Subic Bay on Luzon Island The US pushed Marcos into holding an election in the hope that pressure him into cleaning up his act'.
wanted the semblance of a clean election, army reform and some human rights concessions backfired and the US rule tactics have ing class itself is now divided and without a clear line. SoCiAlist The underlying problem is that the country's explosive social contradictions can only be contained by ferocious repression. The economy has been bl ed has been in decline for three successive years, foreign debts s30 between billion, unemploy ment is over 20 per cent in the slum areas, as high as 80 per cent.
For this reason Reagan has. world, backed 'the devil he knows'. As he explained in 1984 there are things there in the Philippines that do not look good to us. But what is the alternative? nere is a large munist movement which will take over.
But Marcos' own machine is tragmenting, and his own personal survival — he is verv ill — is in doubt. A reform movement in the armed forces now counts on some 1500 officers, and the previously alvidea bourgeois op position forces managed to coalesce, on the eve of the candidacy of Cory Aquino and Laurel.
A large wing of US imperialism has clearly put its weight ÁquinoSolar, See Pork Solarz, Democrat, holdings in the USA, initial disclosures show they OWil al least 3350 million worth in Manhattan. TaSI month documents WCIC 'discovered' US chives disproving Marcos' claim to have led wartime resistance to Japanese occupation.
The White House has been preparing itself for an Aquino victory as an option. Aquino has made some radical noises but has been careful to make no firm commitments to repeal Marcos legislation, nor to kick out US bases.
The difficulty, however, is the complete absence of a serious alternative team around Aquino to take over the state. Marcos 360,000-strong army costs 100 of his budget. She only take over power if Marcos could be forced by US imperialism relinquish, volutarily, his formidable terror machine and pass it on to Aquino.
This is the reason the US has carefully refrained from using covert pressure to ease Marcos out. Hence the wonderfully guarded comment senato Richard Lugar, in charge of the US team observers, which must go down in history masterpiece of White House-speak unaerstale ment: Clean, in its absolute form, is obviously not an appropiate word to Wildl we nave observed.' FOUR DAYS of in-fighting in apartheid's ruling National have assiduously cultivated by President Botha, that the racist regime is about to reform itself from within.
Public clashes between Verligte ('enlightened') foreign minister Pik Botha hardline minister F. W. de Klerk led to a decisive and open intervention by President "RLD, of action in March. Events include a day of action to trade union conference on 1 March.
blown apart the myth, Botha in which he backed Klerk, crushed Pik Botha and reaffirmed that apartheid was be modernised, not abolishTo cap off the crisis the Anti-Apartheid's new poster for the forthcoming month commemorate the Langa massacre on 22 March and the leader of South Africa's ODDOSCOI Dr Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, resigned in disgust. A second prominent Progressive Federal member, Dr Alex BOT raine, may follow him.
Complaining that 'Old-style apartheid, is beinge apartheid, Slabber- exchanged said it was futile to continue serving in parliament in which there was no prospect of reform. He denounced the tri-cameral parliament, through which president unsuccessfully black South Africans without any real voting rights, as 'an irrelevancy' The crisis in the Na tional erupted within days of president making a speech, bankers Camedal renegotiating the counexternal debt, in which UVS promised reform. Three days later education minister de Kerk was questioned on presiBotha's veiled Terercuces lou educational change. Would there be educational integration?
"Notihile my government remains people would not have the governs them, right VULC but would who only be allowed to vote for separate, subordinate and therefore powerless stooge bodies. It also means they would be kept segregated residential areas to continue serving « cheap mis migrant labour Africa's rapacious capitalists.
De Klerk's speech pro voked dismay among the minority Verligte wing of the National Party, which wants to ensure that an reform package is suitably foreign bankers and, ideal- dressed satisfy ly, to co-opt forces such as Chief Buthelezi's Zulu movement into closer collaboration with the regime.
Shortly after, Foreign Minister Pik Botha put the cat with a speech holding ou aBOS the the eventual prospect of a black president of South Africa - under white control, of course President was then obliged to deliver stinging public rebuke tr Botha and to himself up behind de Klerk.