occupied their appointments office, opened its files, and discovered crystal clear evidence of the class nature of their university. Fleet Street's Sassenaca press revelations. although they had kicked up a great hulabaloo wher neiT спеар uncolortal Malcom Muggeridge, was booted out of the rectorship of ine same university a year or so ago The Scottish discoveries, unlike the ones at Warwick, are not directly political. They do not concern the spying and policing of militant democrats, Tole university. They show that appointments boards in universities operate ol class ines, in tne interests of the big companies and take account of the habits and discipline that are an essential part of industrial capitalism.
Edinburgh students did not come across ten documents in quite the accidental way that the ones at Warwick were discovered. they were uncovered as an organic development of the fight against racialism and imperialism.
While England saw a spate of confrontations, sit-ins and militant demonstrations in 1968 and 1969, Scotland remained quiet. The event which Scottish left together Tinaly brouen une 1969. wds the demonstration against the first international match of the Springbok tour at Murrayfield. The monstrators came up against a solid wall oice oruaiv or a king walen nas nor Do seen in Scotland for many years. For Edinburgh Will many comrades facing serious charges of police assault, South African racialism became an important issue.
So when the University's student newspaper pointed out that Barclay's Bank, with its well known connections with African Imperialism, was due to recruit on campus, action was taken against the Appointments Board. On the morning of January 19th when Barclays were due to interview candidates in the appointments Board offices a small group of militants moved in and occupied the premises, the staff soon left and a number of activists joined the occupation.
In the first evening nearly discussed policy and formulated three demands which they sent to the University authorities.
At be socc seting the next night, there nadequate and ccount of the politics of the situation. • it soon became cical that man of the students involved in the occupation had no den holtical before Super decided to not been occupiers decided to investigate the role activities they had been forces to disrupt. They began to study the files that were lying around the office.
Their investigations showed that the Universities collusion with Apartheid could not be isolated from its other activities. They came across files which showed that the university acted as an independent recruiting agency for the secret service, and some of the militants spirited this information out and sent it South to the Black Dwarf, (see the last issue). More Im DorLanE collective meeting decided to role of the appointments board and explaining why the militants had decided to open the files.
The files themselves showed, for instance, Th21 someone WHOSC "Father was on railways" is described as proletarian" and it is suggested that this produced sphere."
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