Labour students to union president

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national executive member, NUS LABOUR Party members in the National Union of Students have decided to challenge the Communist Party president of the NUS Dave Aaronovitch, in the coming election.

This marks a significleavage the 'Left Alliance' which in the past has been supported by tne Communist Party and the NaOrganisation of Labour Students, as well nuclocis of the Liberal Party.

Welcome Now NOLS is putting up Helen Connors as a challenger AaronoThese differences within the left Alliance come at a time when the very existence of student unions is threatened at a local and national level, at a time, 100, when education at all levels is facing massive cutcacks.

The policies of the Left Alliance, based as they are on a strategy of negotiacion and compromise with he Tory government, has proved incapable defeating these attacks, and incapable of turning he NUS into a campaigning organisation involving all its membership.

In this respect, the initial move away from the Left Alliance by NOLS is "clullic. Forefront Yet NOLS is still supportingwo OLIC Left Alliance candidates for membership the ecutive of the union, and there Is a further con:radiction in that NOLS is also backing a candidate of the Socialist Student Alliance for another post on the executive. Socialist Students Alliathe For has been in the forefront of the struggles to defend student unions over the year, well opposition British presence in Ireland, and in support of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarment. from Govan joint shop stewards committee, reminded the rally of the struggle waged against the Heath government by Upper Clyde Shipyard workers Sammy Barr, district secretary of the Boilermakers, said that as soon as the Linwood workers reach a decision t.00 would be available from the UCS fighting fund.

But perhaps the last word should be left to Bridie Bellingham, another of the VF осcupiers. She received rapturous applause from the shop stewards for her exhortation to the Linwood workers: 'If we can do it, so can Linwood. Win, lose or draw worth the fight to keep our jobs.