this weekend for two major thrusts. scale.
ALL-OUT CAMPAIGN against all these attacies spring term Students on the march earlier this month Just such a break will be proposed by militants fresh from struggle at Leeds. Oxford, Sussex and cise where. These delepates will be arguing First, the closest possible links must be forged between students and workers for the struggle against Phase 3, Students should work towards setting up support committees, which could contribute to picketing pools, collect money, and fight in the student body for the resources of students unions and colleges to be turned over to workers in struggle. There will aiso be a call for NUS to centralise the activities of these support commitlees, so that soldanty action i as effective as possible on a national Secondly, they will stress the need for students to make their own contribution to the strupale against the Tory Government, by making sure that the fight over the Grants Cainpaign really hits the Tories hand How can this be done? It is clear that the low level of the student grant is only one factor in their declining living standards, along with rising food prices, higher rents, worsening conditions, madequate teaching facilities, shortage of space, cte. Any serious fight, therefore, must obviously be directed This means that the Grants Campaign must be seen as only purt of the struggle against the ruling class's policy in higher education, and those who implement that policy, the college authorities, The NUS Conference should therefore mark the beginning of moves to prepare for an all-out carpaign, inchiding national rent strikes and occupations, in the TOO!
THE NIRS Militant tactics must be used to back up demands for an end to loan financing i where students pay once for the cost of accommoda tion and then again towards the cost of accommodation to be built in the future), subsidies for married women students and unmarried mothers to be provided jointiy by college authorities and local councils, a freeze on prices in the colleges, no rationalisation" through redundancies, and so on, It is by winning these kinds of demands in the colleges that the fight is really taken home to the Torics, not by protest actions which can be dismissed as of little actual consequence NATIONAL DEMANDS It is in this context of continuous activity, where the threat of disruption to the educational system is constantly present, that the national demands of the campaign can be most eifectiveiy raised. Instead of being sidetracked into depending on the "pressure" exerted by such intermediaries as the Vice-Chancellors, we can by these means force the Tories to listen to our demands directly.
At the moment, the NE'S Executive is not even discussing an offer with the Tories, but simply the extent to which students are going to lose out this time round. They must be toroed to pull out of these taike. Similarly, the artificial distinctions between the issues of granis, housing, and Tory cutbacks in bigher educa Lions, Imposed as a smokescreen by the Executive to conceal their bankrupt pressure polities, must be decisively ended With this kind of orientation to the coming fisht, students can both win the struggle for a higher grant and effectively play their part in finishing off the Tors.
RAY BURNS