CANTERBURY A picket of about 80 people blocked the entrance to Hail Carterbury last Fridey evening, (30 November), The picket preverted people entering the hail, until a squad of about thirty policemen broke through the Tine and ushered in ME suboorters amongst them Tormer Doy naze, wartin vaccoter. the pongeen doubled as National Front stewards by preventing picketers irom entering the meeting.
The picket nes orgunised by an Ad-Hoc Anti-Fascist Commitine which involved ING, OP and unaligned socialists, and was Initiated by tre Pro througn the University of Keet Socialist Society. BIRMINGHAM On Wednesday, 28 November a Generai Meeting of Birmingham University Students Guild pessog the following resolution by 18D votes to 96: '1. That this General Meeting reeffirens the decision of the Guild Council that Enoch Powerl should not speak on the camput. 2. That this Guild has a policy of no platform for lascisty and racists in this University. 3. That this Guild demands that the University throw Powell off the Court of Governors, and that if the University fails to do so the General Meeting should deode what action should be taken to put this policy into affect.
ERRATEM: The photo of firemen in thur week's nep plemenz should be credined to: John Stumock / Reporr No to "Third Force' Reading University Socialist Society has decided to demonstrate against a hush-hush seminar, restricted to academic staff and post-graduates. to be held on the campus on Thursday, 6 December, The lecture, to be given by MajorGeneral (and Doctor) Clutterbuck of Exeler University, is entitled "Does Britain Need a Third Force like the French CRS?" (the notorious para-military police force).
Reading Soc Sou has a good record of opposing military propaganda on the campus. Two years ago they stopped the Reserve Officers Training Corps from recruiting at a freshers fair. and shortly after the Derry massacre they prevented an Army recruitment campaign on the campus through which familles on bousing aists or in poor bouses can be squatted in good property (public or privatel, rather than go into the hostels in which the Correll dumps the home less. (One of these, the Burleigh Road Hostel recently had an outbreak of dysentery.) The squatters are placing the home for bomelessness squarely where it belones, they are refusing to let the Councils set the homeless at each others throats, and they believe that thei tactics can open up the road to a broad London campaign to achieve housing for all Piers Corbyn The next All London Squatters Fodaration meeting will be on Sunday 9 December, Rosbuck Pub, 7pm.
East Kent During the last strike, Kent miners picketed cement works in Gravesend and power stations in London and the South East. Battles broke out between police and pickets at Gravesend at the University hope to set up a support committee, and to prepare to turn the University facilities over to the miners if need be Interviews with East Kent miners work. The management, which is getting very Jumpy,