Own waras oreanisine principled alternative to the Broad El in ine yu was laken ara meeting in Manchester last week.
40 students neard Huen Lan. ming, presidential candidate for the Socialist Students Allance, speak on the need for left unity in the student movement. Tne meene decided to set up a local branch of the SSA with regular meetings and a steering committee mandated to organise support for various campaigns.
21 students, including the presidents elect of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and Bolton Institute of Technology, joined the SSA as individual members.
• The national steering committee of the SSA have written to National Organisation of IS Societies asking to be able to observe and speak to the NOISS national conference due to be held this weekena ner am is io turner attempts at unity between NOISS and SSA in NUS campaigns and ACTION against fees creases which has spread to over 40 colleges in weeks stepped up Wednesday's In London.
The widespread and massive support tor tne campargn has shown the willingness students to tiaht the Labour Government's attacks. meetinos of thousands have been held in several colleges, some of these in right wing SUOHICHOIOS.
FUTURE By refusing to organise a national meeting to plan the future of the campaign and by aiding the witch-hunt against the all-London Committee, the NUS Executive clearly sees the national demonstration as the grand finale of the campaign.
and 300 per increases in fees overseas and stucents nares! bUT doesn't end there.
The Times Higher Education in- Suplement (4 March) reported that the resorces devoted the past Science with this Council to bia science nign energy physics, woule oe per cent. The only will be cushioned, if at all. is of through big increases in postCduudic ICes or Also, students who are not on degree COUlSCS at ClaHlo their local authorities drastically affected. authorities will only receive 55 per cent of the new fees for these students from result will students in Further Education will find it almost impossible Coordinating to get a discretionary award.
For students courses the local authorities will be able to retrieve 90 per cent rom centra covemament cent The other 10 per cent will have will hit to be found unrougn cuts in self-financed the rest of their budgets.
The NUS leaders argue that the demand to oppose all fee Increases will result in Research astronomy) cUt next vear oy2 way cuts nEXT Vect and Teceive discretion of will be Local central be that on degree .CUe City University students are determined to stay put in the fight against fees increases.
backs in college expediture by pointing to 114 U83 180 101 210328181 8111 in the University Grants ComFor un vers -Government's intention to offset this by the CeTeaT opposing LEO U EUUME OUM MOU SEUE over seas concentrating on economies in te porytecnnic sectors of education, NUS CUTS leaders' argument is that only of tunds can prevent cuts and redundIt is also one of the reasons opposition -IO Coordinating Com- the labour mittee, set up by occupying colleges, which has raised the demand for social expenditure to rise with inflation.
The Broad Left's fight for an alliance with the 'progressive' vice-chanceHors Corece authorities is recipe for One remanes. SORTy increases for ane se nacie students, isolates one of the hardest hit sections of student and paves the way for further Militants in the colleges will nave to torce ae Nuw eaoers to break with the vice chanceltors and ine Labour aovernment. Only nationally organisee acon a conCHO Wil movement can force the dropping of these sity College, Cardiff. proposals. The Labour Party conference last September supported a resolution calling authorities not implement the cuts. The NUS leaders should GanDalol force Councils to put their words into action.
national meeting, proposed by the Sussex students is urgently needed Such a meeting could decide and tactics for the ongoing campaign. National and local links with the trade unions have to be established. Only national action can combat the use of possession orders and police intervention of the type seen =OACOI School of Economics, Kent and Univer-