International Viewpoint Archive

The Fourth International’s English-language review, from 1982

Sweden: High School Students Strike against Cutbacks

· International Viewpoint No. 55, 18 June 1984 · pp 18-19 · 119 words

Educational reform to help students, teachers and working class parents will not come from either Democratic nor Republican administrations history has amply proven. I recently witnessed the futility of pinning hopes strike against cutbacks

"This was only a first step. We are for a real fight to stop the cutbacks in the high schools."

That was what Bjoern Mellstrand, district liaison officer for the Stock-

High School Students

Organization told me after the high school strike last Thursday.

20,000 to 25,000 at fifty schools boycotted their afternoon classes

International Viewpoint 18 June 1984

NORTH AFRICA

in protest against the school authorities plans to spending

41 million cut by kroner (about 5 million dollars).

The cuts will mean, among other

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