As we go to press students are preparing for a massive demonstration in London this Friday. in opposition to the Government's attacks on the living standards of students and workers. They will demand a 30 per cent increase, to hring the basic grant up from f485 to E655. and full grants for all students.
This demonstration can be the fucus for national direct action on these demands and the initiation of a campaign to beat back the massive cuts in educational spending by the Tories. It is also the first opportunity for students to solidarise with the miners" struggle.
Unily between students and workers has already heen reflected in the pledge made by ASLEF, to ensure that trains carrying students to the demonstration will get through, despite the sabotage attempts by British Rail. And a sizeabie contingent of miners will march in the demonstration to express solidarity with the students' demands.
In the University of Kent students and the local labour movement are discussing proposals for a picketing and transport pool, and the taking over of accommodation in the university to aid the miners. They are also providing accom modation for a big conference of East Kent trades councils, which is being backed by the Four fascist thugs made a lightning attack on London Student Organisation. albance with the miners struggle already won at Oxford Poly.
lion with campus workers. RAY BURNS NUM. Similar initiatives have been taken by the Broad-based support committees should be set up, and mass meetings between students, local trade unionists and miners should be held, so as to involve the maximum possible number of students in such solidarity activity.
A high level of local militancy is being shown on the students' own demands. At Oxford Polytechnic and University a conference on grants is being orginised. It will be addressed by Dave Jackson of the Strewsbury Defence Committee, and an NUM speaker, Manchester students will be bolding an area rally to discuss the way forward for the grants campuign, in Students at East Anglia University, following their occupation last term in solidarity with the Essex students struggle, have forced their vice-chancellor to concede a price freeze, a demand The experience in these colleges confits that Haringey area. the only way to nake sure that price freezes are enforced is to hold over the heads of the authorities threats of direct action, and active co-opers. ing the bank robbery at Stanstead Airport, but evinced great interest in political literature, and took away some IMG Internal documents Four Irish people were taken away for questioning, but all were released some hours later. It is evident that the raid was yet more intimidation aguinst this militant centre of the squatters' movement in London New racism conference planned The problem of racist influence on workers was discussed at a special delegate conference called by Haringay Trades Council last Sunday In the recent borough elections in Tottenham the Labour Party only just scraped home in one ward, with 964 votes to the 730 votes for the openly racist National Independence Party, and 50 for the National Front. This bas shown up the paralysis of the Labour Party in face of the racists.
The conference decided to set up a working committee, and to scek sponsorship for a broader conference irom all organisations of the working class and their allies in the
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