NO TO CUTS ION. ted a great deal callee ov NUs executive Student Commission, a a new sists WHILE the growth of the right wing in the student movement has attrac of attention, fragmentation of the left has not. One step to overcome that disunity could have been taken last weekend at a conference of student activists Mancheste students and the left minority of the Andy Durgan and The conference, called to discuss the services crash crisis of the NUS, was supported by the National Org anisation of IS Societies, The ime large number or independents, and members grouping tne nadical of a number of Broad members. laraelv based in the Welsh colleges, who have characterised the Broad Left as a bureaucratic election machine and recognise the need for a fighting union based on an alliance in action with the working class.
Dave Aaronoviten, member or the NUS Executive reponsible for services, was also there and attempted to defend the positions taken by the Broad Left, saying that it was the far find themselves in NUN Conference, not the Broad Left. His remarks rece vee a saro reoutta when an angry member of the Broad -Communist Partv trom the microphone to dissociate herself from the dishonCOnCICHICE agreed that the Broad Left leadership of the union had played into the arms of the right by its strategy of basing the continuing unity of the NUS on services rather than on the development of political campaigns. the need to night for job:
be guaranteed throuch state tinancing Was alou in spite of this correct analysis, the conference voted by 55 to 47 against a proposal to form a united electoral slate which could been the basis or a new * 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 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 the centre of such a plan. At the same time the expertise of the sacked staff must be used to draw up the outline of such a * The full facts of the closures must be made available to the conference.
information must be available to a commission elected directly from the floor * The NUS should fight for the nationalisation of the other remaining companies by the Labour Government. Graham Threlfall, one of the two NUS Executive members who convened the conterence leadership for the NUS. Instead the meeting accepted a NOISS motion to call for the resignation of the four members of the services board - a clearly implies tha mismanagement was at the root of services crash rather than political strategy of the Broad Left to put services above campaigns for building of student movement POSTURING Although the great majority of independent delegates at the Man chester conference were won over to the position of unity of the left as the key to a strong fighting NUS, this was rejected by NOISS supporters with the implication that they are the only left alternative.
This posturing must be countered by a stronger fight at NUS Conference to unne ine en on. an under standing of the failure of the Broad Confusion about the responsibility for the present crisis in the NUS must be cleared away. in the fight for a censure on all the Executive members and their ton allies who support that strategy 10p marys de FULLE ST. + 20,735 pamphlet On sale at Red Books, 182 Pentonville Rd, N1 (add 7p for p&p)
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