and we made arrangements for people coming down on the 15th to stay over night for the lobby next day. Wa did, however, advise people to shun the London Accon Loormacing Committee s demonstration that afternoon like the • AMBINI TO TRICA DIERS NOTIO way of building student-teacher unity. Like you, we reject many of the policies of the present NUT Executive, but wa also recognise that the majority of teachers FEEL EN Among the banner: C.F. Mott in Merseyriah, which will stay accopied over the sum ghout the area.
organiser replies:
LACC is a useless diversion: Val and 14.J0n0 occupation of NUS Headqwarters. VAL COULTAS, member of the NUS Executive and the interatonal Marxist Group's student Contrary to John Webster's assertion, the International Marxist Group does not analyse the activity of the NUS Executive on the basis that it is full of nasty schemer, Fret fary or may not de trus, con sidering the way that certain members of the Communist Party and the Broad Left tried to snoak in a national demonstration on 15 June through the back door of the London Student Organisation. But we believe that it is the wrong politic of the of such divisive schemes. Let us examine the points John Webster raises 1. The NUS Executive meeting on 13 June, From the moment the occupations started, the Executive was concern ed about how to end them with a big 1 stressed that sach an approach wos What mamerad was laying the politica preconomons tor arcing mist of bie occupations for the summer through building strong regioral co-ordinating committees, building lisison committees with trade unionists particularly from the teaching onions and attempting to maintain occupations in particular localities as a focus for all students in the area. On that basis the campaign allowing direct action to be taken in the Concies in The Surumnon & ning political and organisational level.
The decision of the NUS Executive to call off the occupations on 16 June except where individual unions feit ciwly reinforced the division betwe strang. Most of the weaker occupations nac not not tne ume to coaciop ine inks cotined above, Calling off the occupations without giving any per spectives on what to do was souvalent not a paper unity with the trade union bureaucracy 3. The London Action Coordinating Committee. What ties have i soread you plead in your opening paragraph. Wall, the claim that LACC is 15-dominated - a lie repeated in the Morning Star's nstional Socialist demo is the biggest LACC was set up from the Southlands co-ordinate the occupations in London because of the lack of initiative from LSD and ULIESA: Up to 15 colleges have taken part in it since it was set up.
It is true that is have tried to steam roller their polities through this body, ful. At its 18 June meeting, strong criticisms were made of the chair's attemot to use the rally at the end of the 16 June march to build the Right to Work Campeign, To prevent this happening again, it was decided to set •up an ad hoc committee of LACCId organise any future events of a similar слогастог, яло опу поти ст гнесня tions in LACC where two-thirds of the dologates wish It.
Before this poper appears, LACC will also have orgenised at Furzedown College a conierenos for South West London calleges involved in the camapign, to main in occupation and how to organise unemployed teechers. LACC is nota useless diversion, it is the leadership of the campaign in London in a situation where LSO and ULIESA have failed to provide that lead Finally, I find it amusing that John Webter should lecture me on observing democratic procedures in the light of his and the NUS Executive's behaviour since the Manchester Conference The democratic self organisstion oT stucents torough accupatan conmr tees and local and regional coordinating conunittees has been & meajor gain of the camapion so far, It is the existence of such bodies which has permitted the calling of the conterence in Liverpool on 26 June to give the campaign nationa where NUS Executive has abdicated its Far from us smuggling in politio through the beck door, it is the NUS Exceutive which has done that by throwing all politics out of the window with is arpenisational manoeuvring since the Manchester conference.
G for US GUI Or Red Weekly 24 June 1976.
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