discuss solely this item and to organise one-day national stoppage of all [our italics] Trade Unionists.
This resolution was a call to action. It produced an unprecedented TUC response the recall of the Trades Union Congress, three months early.
ACTT's General Council has also met to discuss the view that the Association should take unilateral action on May 1. With only three opposing votes cast, the Council took this decision:
'In furtherance of the AGM's militant opposition to the government's proposed anti-trade union legislation, the General Council urges local shops to co-operate with local Trade union Committees, Trades Councils and Shop Stewards' Organisations in planning united action on May 1, such action to take the form of meetings, demonstrations or industrial action Brian Darling recently rem sobere he attended s sen He abridged impressions, originally written for the Czech We change internally as a response to events, the Czech students have been profoundly politicized by their experience of the last two years. And from that internal change, that accession to responsibility, come our external actions which flow naturally from the demands of our new consciousness. In that sense we can claim to have talked polities in Prague, not the politics of the mass rally, of the scholastic disputes, of the sordid deals in quiet corridors. We have been seeking a true politics, a universal language which can unite us all at the level of consciousness, and must now be translated into action in our own societies to bring about that "world re-evolution' of which the Czech students and workers are the historic prophets To hold an international gathering of young new left socialists in Prague at this critical time The Tory controlled Haringey Council is busily proving that Powellism lives on. You don't have to go to Wolverhampton to find it - it is right shere in London. Council's plans to reorganise secondary education in the Borough are meeting bitter resentment from the black community who believe that the Council are acting in a racist manner.
The Council proposes to assess junior school children and then disperse them among the Borough's secondary regardless of parents choice. The decision that Haringey should go comprehensive was taken by the then Labour Council in 1965 and implemented a year later. In the first two comprehensive years, 90 per cent of parents sent their children to the school of their first choice. Now all this could change if the Tories revert to assessing secondary education on the basis of academic performance at the primary school.
A report prepared by A.F. Doulton headmaster of the fee-paying Highgate School tries to suggest that the average IQ of the West Indian children is lower than that of the white requires a certain courage on the part of the organizers. When the object of the seminar is *to discover a common marxist language on which we can base future actions on a large scale one can't help wondering whether this is not mixed with a small dose of The fact that some of us felt that by the were making some progress perhaps, then, the more remarkable Happily, of course, seminars do not just consist of papers read and discussed in full session. If this had been the case we would have been limited to an arid confrontation of orthodoxies - a scene which too many of us have experienced elsewhere and for which we had no reason to go to Prague. But there is also a subtle interaction going on over mealtables. sitting in the sun, wandering around the city. It is at times like this that those who remain silent in the plenary sessions talk of their pre-occupations, their apparent reticences. And it was from conversations in these contexts rather than from the major discussions that | found a common thread linking many of us and coinciding with the pre-occupations expressed by Czech students and intellectuals.
Brian Darling