Part of the NUS Week of Action -Trevor Phillips (left), NUS executive, leads a picket protesting DES clampdown on overseas students. Students The local authority in Dyffed, Wales, has refused to pay the student union mem necnnica collece stration Neil Caldwell and Chris Morgan from the National Union of Students executive were platform whilst two thirds of the mar chers turned their backs on them to go to try to occupy the town hall. They were unsuccessful, frustration of students wanting to take seen action but getting no national lead or DacKine With the attacks of the Labour Government increasing all the time, such a lead mediate action to defeat these attacks, leaders, Government into changing its policies na0 sucha raisea no crear enmusiasin national campaign on the agenda.
summer's campaign. of students at the local At a protest demon cuts.
College for a meeting of terr preachine tom Bie but cleany snowed ine the Broad Left leaders of the NUS want to put all their eggs into the basket of builcine a oroad alliance waw une trage union the parliamentary lens, VICe chancellors, educationalists, and even 'progressively minded' clerics and con servatives. The idea is to pressurise the With the NUS leaders adopting such a useless strategy it was no surprise tha the week or action called ointly oy une NUS, the South-East Region of the TUC, and the Council for Educational Advance min mairesponse students. Reports from round the coun try indicate that students just don't see une boint or mnese enciess orotest ac tions. Certainly the CEA national day of prayer for education held on 7 November Ine potential for a national tignt back does exist, however. Many colleges have organised action over the attacks or overseas students. and most recentiv ne occupation at Middlesex Poly has put a The many students who mobilised for 17 November have not forgotten the roles They came looking for ways to build real links in action with workers from the public sector to fight all