conferences, has its fingers in too many pies.' This statement lies at the centre of the manifesto produced by Dave Aaronovitch for the Presidential elections at the conference of the National Union of Students, in Blackpool on 14-18 April. Aaronovitch, a CP member, is the candidate of the Left includes the National Organisations of Labour Students, the Union of Liberal Students, the Communist Party and some independents.
With the Tory government on the offensive greater efficiency 2110| campaigning activity would not be a bad thing. move towards greater struggles Or me working class, against I naicher s atta place in the student movement in the late thas would reaffirm the important changes that and early '70s In this period the NUS first began to openly solidarise with the struggles against Wilson and Heath and with the mounting struggles or une vietamese masses ana otners for national liberation. decisive role in the struggle to make NUS a more ponucal union But this is no longer the efficiency today means something quite different.
"DIes DAVe supporters want the NUS to get out of include all the general activity womens' oppression, international solidarity. NUS, they argue, concentrate on its '..unique functions. of national representation and student services.
This is all part and parcel of the Left Alliance's overall strategy. For them the democratisation' of Alliance which entecuiveness NUNS involvement in the central working class The Communist Party played a CP's priority -necessilalc.
Aaronovich and his abortion and has to play a major role in issues of national politics further and higher education is a precondition for revolutionary change.
changes in the central concerns of the union, in its structures and in its relationship with college administrations, educational agencies and the state in general.
Far from extending the involvement of students, however, the change i lial lave occu naac to dale have disarmed the NUS and given the right wing a new lease of life. It has been the Federation of Conservative Students and iournals like the Economist that have welcomed the new style CURRENT NUS President, Trevor Phillips, with megaphone, playing a leading role during an anti-fascist demonstration in 1976. He also played a leading role in drawing up the new policy guidelines that, if approved by NUS conference this month, will ensure that students no longer The employing view.
the working class, government, the working class struggles.
concept of a mass pressure •Ine traditional tactics of politics, is a welcome advance from their point of What Dave Aaronovitch ignores is that the Tories are committed to a massive attack on all the gains of including those within the sphere i drain cader this eraser poin Under this Tory government especiall within the student movement to to practical solidarity with ideological initiatives like the support in the colleges. these Students, their own interests.
A lance s National overwhelmingly voted against it.
PrON control right-wing A suurgic was warco trounou group reformist Ine LeIL Audice Is ol La full retreat is to be prevented class or the working class The Left Alliance believes that it can avoid that polarisation by changing the role of NUS around extension Such an orientation means turning away from Nazi League and the Campaign Against Corrie, which won tremendous One mur benever 1. campaigns and those in solidarity with the steelworkers and other sections of the working class tnat are tne most signincant developments in studen many others, need organised working class against the overall offensive of the Tory government that they can hope to defend In Blackpool this week the first task in fighting for such an orientation will be to defeat the Left canee Drones reviev Women Conference Already Int has 1922 to the early '60s NUS, under the careerists, concentrated exclusively on social, recreational and welfare issues.
June OUS to Onl issues like the Vietnam war into NUS, and a change in the constitution was finally achieved in 1969 take the NUS • route LO back to the pre-1969 situation as rapidly as possible. Socialists throughout NUS need to unite around a In the context of world economic crisis and this government's offensive the student movement will be increasingly forced to line up either with the ruling