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on general meeting has inimously passed a motion givsupport to students who have upied a disused hotel in the am to give relief to homeless dents The students union will support squatters with legal aid, and pledged to defend the students the event of attempted eviction. i the students realise that this i in only a temporary solution. ry have decided to contact the al Trades Council with a view a joint campaign to demand that local authority provides adeite housing for all.
The students have also elected emittee of 20 to work out a legy not simply on the housing stion but which involves oppoon to price-rises and demands higher grants. hester students in residence at an empty cinema owned by the University SWANSEA The strupele to reinstate six victi mised students continues. The students were suspended by the University authorities for a year over their participation in the boycott of scoond year exams.
A defence committes was formed but it received no help whatsoever from the students union executive who did not want it to take action in support of the students.
This week a union general meeting of more than five hundred students throw the executive's spineless policy in the dustbin where it belongs. They issued an ultimatum to the administration. If the students are not reinstated, another general meeting will be held to discuss occupying the University. the student occupation at the local Polytechnic.
They clearly recognise that Portsmouth's 4000 registered homeless face the same problems as the 200 students from the Poly who also have no accommodation.
The Portsmouth students have occupied the administration building, demanding: emergency subsided housing; the municipalisation of empty property in the town to provide free housing for all, and the extension of the rent freeze.
The college principal and the pol ice have tried in vain to persuade the students to end the occupation. Now a summons to appear in the Royal Court has been posted on the door, The students realise that to win they need working class supporl, for the lack of bousing and the end of the tent freeze hit students and workers equally hard. To this end a demonstration has been organis ed for Saturday against the lack of housing.
A conference is also being organRed, to discuss how a joint trade union and student light can be launched against the whole series of cuts in public spending now being put through, Support is being sought from NUPE, NALGO, ATTI, ASTMS, and any other workers who face low pay or poor conditions as a result of the lack of money being put into the public sector. EDINBURGH One hundred students have nccupied the Principal's residence in protest against the accommodation crisis. As the occupation hegan police turned up to harass the students.
Once bitten twice shy Now the students have organised mass pickets for the evening to protect the occupation against future police harrassment. The students are also contacting the University workers with a view to conducting a joini campaign should the police intervene. Polytech not being held jointly. will not accept the cuts. them homeless. irrespective of whether it's Tory or Labour in office. Such a fight has to be in alliance with those suffering from the cuts, whether they work in health, housing or education.
Manchester, like every other city in Britain, has a housing problem. Students are not exempt from the search for a roof to put over their heads-hundreds have come to col lege with nowhere to live.
The students' response has been to occupy an empty cinema owned by the University. The occupation is heing used to house homeless students and as a base from which to get a joint campaign with tenants ONE SUOBILIS SUSIO ODEI DOE calling on the city council to municipalise empty property to provide housing for all.
While the University owns a cinema, the Polytechnic maintains an empty botel. Just the answer for Polytechnic students with nowhere to live, aller alterations and re-furn Unfortunately the minds of the college authorities move in a myst erious way. Because it would cost £30,000 to alter the hotel, the authorities have decided to knock it down! So much for the contribution of the Manchester college adminstrations to solving the accommodation crisis.
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