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We support street organisation of workersresisiting the tax, but we think to besuccessful this struggle must not be confinedthere, but needs to extend into the workplace- which is where we are at our strongest.

One way is to whack in large pay demandsto take account of the Poll Tax bills.But many of us who are pensioners, unemployedetc. don't have that option.

If a widespread struggle gets underway, basedon workplaces and localities, it shouldinclude social demands like higher pensionsand dole, as well as common wage demands.A good example of this was in Poland acouple of years ago, when striking workersincluded in their demands raises for some ofthe sections of the working class whocan't easily strike, such as healthworkers.

In the present climate that kind of extensionof the struggle is difficult, but it needsto be done.

BEWARE CON (OR LAB, OR LIB DEM) TRICKSThe anti-Poll Tax movement needs to befirmly based on the ‘can't pay - won'tpay — won't implement’ approach. It should

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Any government, _ whether reformed Tory,Labour, Liberal Democrat or whatever would beforced to try and amke us pay for theeconomic crisis. Their methods of doing thatmight vary slightly, that's all, ourjob is to resist all of these attacks — notget involved in their debates about thebest ways of making us pay,

nanagement of schools, the TES hasearned.

in 3ddill0l'i, a_ snapshot survey by the\Iat1onal Association of Schoolmastersmd -Union of Women Teachers indi-'ates ‘that other local education 'honttes may follow sci‘"next week

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The papers at Easter were full of teachers,the poll tax and Local Management of Schools(LMS). Under the guise of reducing bureau-cracy and, giving more power to school gov-ernors, the government has been busily eng-aged in a cost cutting operation inschools.

What LMS means is fairly simple. Schoolgovernors get to hire and fire staff,school budgets are cut and expensive no-redundancy deals are scrapped. The resultis equally simple, teacher redundancies andworsening education for our children. Up tothe end of May, there have been over 700teacher redundancies.

NUT CONFERENCE SURPRISEThe National Union of Teachers conference atEaster saw a real surprise. Angry teacherspassed a motion calling for strike action inthe event of redundancies. The executive -led by Doug McAvoy - were furious, hedenounced it as all a ‘Militant plot‘ andsaid that the union wouldn't abide by thestrike call anyway. The executive wantto protect their power base, their jobs easy

to protect their power base and the likes ofMcAvoy their jobs, easy life style and fatsalaries. They showed what side theyare really on - the bosses.

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HE first teacher redun-_ __ dancies following theif ~ ' Government's decision

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.‘ lty said yesterday that 24 teach-? ersattached to a music centre

and six travelling music teach-,ers would be given redundancy‘ notices to save the authorityC £181,000 — part of 25.5 million| education saving that Barnsley

-\ is trying to make as a result ofithe decision of Chris Patten, the1 Environment Secretary, to.'_ limit its community charge.i " The Government wants the

charge cut from £329 to £270,iproducing overall savings ofT1210 million. A spokesman for

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And four teachers havebeen told they must leaveWoodhey High School,Holcombe Brook, Bury.

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The Poll Tax just makes everything worse.It too cuts government spending. Councilswere, desperate to keep the tax as low aspossible. Education is local government'slargest expenditure, and salaries makeup 70-80% of that. So, once again jobs mustgo - those of teachers and other educationworkers.

Councils have threatened redundancies inNottinghamshire, Cambridge, Barnsley,Oldham and Bury. Teachers have longbeen under threat in Bradford.

STRIKES

Strikes have already taken place in Bradfordand Barnsley - where up to one tenthof teaching jobs are under threat. Otherareas are talking of taking action.

To follow the line of the NUT Executive isa recipe for defeat. They don't really wanta strike at all, but they have said they'llgo along with token local strikes. Strikeskept local can be defeated locally. _

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NEW TACTICS NEEDEDIf teachers are to have any chance ofsuccess, they are going to have to adoptcompletely new tactics.

Their first response to redundanciesshould be to hold meetings of all the staffin the school with a view to immediateStrike action. Action should be takenregardless of what union the redundantworkers happen to be in. _

Action needs to spread beyond the confinesof the schools in an authority. It mustlink up with other council workers whoare also under threat. As the teachers atthe Easter conference realised, the actionneeds to break out of the boundaries oflocal authorities.

If these redundancies are lost this time,next year will see open season on educationjobs.

PUBLIC/\T I0A pamphlet originally published by thenow defunct WILDCAT group. It details

N revolutionary working class oppositionto the second world war. It takes theform of reprints from SLIDARITY, thejournal of the ANTI-PARLIAMENTARYCOMUNIST FEDERATION, one of the fewgroups in Britain to consistentlyadvocate and report class struggleagainst the war effort.f pPrice £1.50 (inc p&p)

BEAITNG-THE POLL TAX.Published by the Anarchist CommunistFederation.Price 70p (inc p&p)

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We know for a fact that Fielding's, a well-known Manchester estate agent, is passingon the names and addresses of its clientsto the poll tax authorities. Who else isdoing the same? Be on your guard.

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Subversion stands for the creation of aworld without states, classes, money andwages, where production will be undertakennot for profit but to directly satisfy allhuman needs.Some people describe this as "utopian". Inone sense this is true: such a society doesnot exist anywhere, and never has. But wereject the "utopian" label if it impliesthat our goal has no connection withpresent-day reality.

The question of how to connect theday—to—day struggles we engage in now withthe future society we desire has long beena subject of controversy among politicalgroups.Some organisations engage in the classstruggle in order to recruit members totheir party, with the aim of eventuallybecoming strong enough to seize power.we oppose such groups. We do not set our-selves up as generals, directing the restof the working class into battle. Agenuine and successful revolution can onlybe carried out by vast masses of workingclass people consciously organising andleading themselves.Besides, in the unlikely event that suchgroups did succeed in seizing power, thelikely outcome would be a so-called"worker's state" (with them in power), inwhich we would find ourselves working for"socialist" bosses, being paid "socialist"wages, and so on. If they share ourfuture goal at all — and in most cased theydon't - it is only as a distant miragewhich continually recedes in the face ofendless "transitional periods".

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class, nevertheless treat this visionof the future society as some kindof philosophical ideal. They seekto 'convert' individual members ofthe working class until eventually thereare enough ‘believers’ to turn this idealinto reality.

When members of such engage in the classstruggle, it is their identity as individ~ual members of the working class, ratherthan as revolutionaries, which prevails.They regard the present day class struggleas necessarily limited and defensive, inno way connected to the future revolution-ary attack on capitalism. They thusend up actively defending organisationssuch as the trade unions whose verypurpose is to contain the class strugglewithin the terms set by capitalism.

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- BREAKING WITH NORMALITYBy contrast, the starting point ofour approach to the class struggle isthe view that the seeds of the futurestruggle for communism arg contained with-in the working class's struggles of today.

The types of working class resistance tothe attacks of capitalism we support, likestrikes, riots, organising againstthe Poll Tax, and so on, all interrupt theroutine of capitalist ‘normality’.In overcoming the practical problems whichcrop up in the course of these actions,those working class people actively invol-ved find themselves having to developtheir own collective solidarity, imaginat-ion, initiative and organisation.The development of these powers - allstifled by capitalism - is essential forthe working class if it is to transformsociety. I

G COLLECTIVE STRUGGLEBy changing people's immediate materialconditions, collective struggle also con-tains the potential to alter people's per-ceptions of the society around them, andplace in a new perspective the limitedgoals they originallt set themselves. Allof these things can be observed, to vary-ing degrees, whenever working class peopletake action together to fight back againstthe miseries heaped on them by capitalism.

TRANSFORMING SOCIETYThe wider the struggle, the greaterthe potential for the development of newforms of organisation directly controlledby those involved in the struggle, and thegreater the potential for the developmentof radical ideas not confined merely totinkering with society as it is but withthe ambition of completely transformingit.

A CLASSLESS SOCIETYOur approach is thus materialist: it isbased on the working classes‘ struggle inpursuit of its material interests, andrecognises that the source of revolution-ary ideas and the means to turn theseideas into reality is the working class'sactive engagement in the class struggle.

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