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April 10th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The National Union of Teachers (NUT) said a campaign of “mass resistance on the streets” should be launched as early as the autumn in protest over controversial reforms to public sector funding, British media reported.
In an escalation of the war of words between unions and the government, activists called for a repeat of strikes that closed schools across Britain last year – causing chaos for millions of children and parents.
They also approved plans for a series of small-scale walk-outs at individual schools threatened with conversation into independent academies.
Addressing the union’s annual conference in Torquay, one teacher compared the Coalition to Hosni Mubarak’s Egypt, adding: “It is a fact that we’re living in an unelected dictatorship.”
The NUT unanimously backed a motion at its annual conference in Torquay to ballot for a national strike if the government goes ahead with the plans for further “pay flexibility”, which come on the back of a two-year pay freeze and pay rises capped at 1 percent for a further two years, and which the union says is a further step towards the fragmentation and privatization of state education.
Delegates vowed to act to defend national pay and conditions, arguing that teaching is a national service locally delivered and national rates should be maintained.
The NUT is opposed to academies and free schools, which have greater freedom to change teachers’ pay and conditions and are accountable to the education secretary rather than their local authority.
The NUT also unanimously backed an amendment calling for the union to build campaigning alliances at local level with other unions and anti-cuts groups.
“The NUT is completely opposed to the government’s plan to attack national pay and conditions arrangements for teachers. Our headteacher members are only too well aware of how difficult it would be to establish their own pay system for their school. Not only would it take an inordinate amount of time, local pay bargaining in some 25,000 separate schools would create unnecessary bureaucracy, complexity, cost and potential inequity”, said the NUT general secretary, Christine Blower.
Tony Dowling, a teacher from Gateshead, told the conference that unions should copy tactics seen during the Arab spring last year by resorting to “mass resistance on the streets” to block the changes.
“We can’t wait until 2015 to get rid of this government,” he said. “By then education, the NHS and many other services that we cherish will have been destroyed.”
Schools were closed by national strikes twice last year, while almost half were shut or partially shut by a regional walk-out in London last month.
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