IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

DEFEND OVERSEAS STUDENTS

Red Weekly No. 176, 25 November 1976 · pp. 5-6 of the scan · 351 words

The scan: rw-no176-nov-25-1976.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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Wing themselves from the occupation, e.g. nat at middlesex rorytechnie Students at Teesside Polytechnic are in occupation against moves to deport overseas students who haven't paid all outstanding fees. A bugging device was discovered last weekend. Red Weekly spoke to an overseas student active in the occupation (whom we cannot name for obvious reasons) on how she saw the struggle developing.

She vigorously pointed out that in a situation where the campus unions are dissociatand where white students don't fully understand the issues involved, the NUS Executive have been slow to meet their obligations in providing support. This has meant that the occupation is not seen as a focal point of opposition to the cuts as a whole, and has been unable to link up with similar protests Explicitly racist documents have been found in the Poly administration offices which argue that overseas students alter the character of educational institutions. students are calling a demonstration for Saturday 4 December and need the support of UNITE result. companies by the Labour Government.

The responsibility for the collapse of these firms does not he with the workers who are thrown on the dole queue as a The responsibity nes win the anarchistic and unplanned nature of capitalist production. But the acceptance by the Broad Left leadership of the logic of this system and their refusal to wage a light lor ine Labour Government TO

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6 RED MEEKLY 25 November 1976 NE The words Ireland Unfree Shall Never Be At Peac first written over 60 years ago by an Irish Republicar then Ireland has been partitioned through the guns British Army; there have been pogroms agains nationalists in the artificial statelet of the North of I there has been mass unemployment. In the last eigh the British Army has engaged in indiscriminate n tortured hundreds of its opponents, and round thousands for imprisonment without trial.

But the self-proclaimed 'Peace People' of the No Ireland support that Army, and have called on a follow them to do likewise. They have said they are favour of creating employment and improving h at

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