Students demand disinvestment | IMGpapers 1976

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REACH INTO YOUR POCKET TO HELP MAKE ZIMBABWE AN ISSUE Socialist Challenge 10 May 1979 page 12 against to do so.

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The Barclays Bank.

following May, there will be a nutional denstration from Trafalger the Iranian Embassy, starting at 2pm.

The Iraniun Women's SollGroup, which is organising these erents, can be contacted at the South London 45 North authorities King's Rent Strike Committee STUDENTS at King's College in Cambridge have begun a rent strike this term to protest the South African corpection. Already abour 70 students have paid their college bills into the union account, and many more are intending The student demands, first presented to the authorities last Desober, are that the college should reveal its holdings in companies operating in South Africa, that it should sell them all, and that it should boycott The authorities responded with a traditional mixture of indifference and anstruction Last term for example, the students were told to provide parl information about the companies from which they wanted the college to disinvest, but the task was immediately rendered impossible by the refusal of the either to reveal their investment portfolio or to allow the students to put their case to the relevant committee of dons. Carch 22!

Now that they are on rent strike, the students plan other activities intensity of the campaign. To LUCIRS authorities tourists will be grocted by demonstrations and handed leaflets warning them not to be deceived by the picturepostcard image of ivory-tower aloofness and explaining the reasons for the reat strike.

Although the authorities refuse to give information about investments, research in Landon has indicated huge involvement in the apartheid economs. King's is knowo to have 25,000 shares in Reckill and Coleman, and 130,000 in the notorious sanctions-buster British Petroleum.

The rent strike at King's, campaign for disinvestmen. university-wide follows successful action by about 130 students at Christ's College last term. Aller woeks and an attempt by Tory students to smash the strike, the authorities agreed to move their accounts from Barclays.

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