the economic crisis, serves to endanger the The left has to be able to present a programme of action to meet that threat * The fight for unity of the NUS on the basis of a fighting campaign against the Labour Government's attacks on students, in alliance with all those workers * For an immediate cash injection by the Labour Government to re-employ all the sacked workers and restore services on *The support of the labour movement must be won to such a project through a plan for the reorganisation of the travel services, drawn up in conjunction with the the right. rail unions and the unions concerned with all other areas of travel, including the Given the precarious state of charter airline firms, a campaign for the nationalisation of all such companies must be at tne centre or sucn a plan. Al tre same time the expertise of the sacked staff must be used to draw up the outline of such a Malet Street, WC1.
* The full facts of the closures must be made available to the conference. All information must be available to a commission elected directly from the floor NOISS Executive * The NUS should fight for the nationalisation of the other remaining With the liquidation of NUS Travel and other service companies, the basis has been laid for a massive growth of the right wing in the student movement.
The Broad Left leadership's strategy of using services as the main way of attracting and maintaining membership of the union is in ruins. Their failure to build a strong campaigning union, which would have meant an end to their reliance on the trade union leaders, has left the door open to the Federation of Conservative Students. The Tories have said that they expect big political concessions as the price of their support for the Broad Left in office.
To fight the right-wing offensive, the unity of the left is essential. For that reason we have decided to call a meeting of activists on Saturday 4 December at the London School of Economics, Room S101A, Houghton Street, London WC2, from 12.00 noon to 5.00 p.m. on the following basis:
* Reject the Broad Left deal with the Tories. For a united left to challenge * Defend jobs and services. Make the state responsible for re-hiring and re-establishing services.
* The only way forward for the NUS Is through campaigning union, based on an alliance in action with the working class, to «aene memoe s interests.
We think that the meeting should be as broad and democratic as possible. To this end a planning meeting, open to any individual or group, will be held on Saturday 27 November at 6.00 p.m. at the University of London Union, Student Commission, International Marxist Group play into the hands of the right wing member Graham Threlfall's analysis that the forces that have to be organised are broader than those that can simply be won around the A new phase has opened up in student politics. It will be a test of the maturity and organising ability of the left opposition in the NUS which will be a decisive PAUL BROOKE (IMG Student Organiser) • The Student Commission of the IMG urgently needs money to carry forward the fight for this programme in the student movement. The seriousness of this crisis in the NUS demands the widest of pamphlets, leaflets and posters. All student militants should rush building a political It's the right one The aim o British Students Associaton sounded ov Leonaror Martini Brown.is to provide a union more democratic and open than the 'Marxist-controlled' NUS.
So they base their constitution on ballots. According to a report in the NUS paper National student, thei constitution provides that any issue may be put to the ballot on 'a specific written request signed by one tenth of the membership, the cost of such a referendum to be met in advance by the 300 cants National points out that the cost of a National Union of Journalists ballot of its 28.000 members was over £15.000.
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