Reprend with the Pass Office as a newspaper, Published by Releocre for Rod Weekly, 182 Penronville Road, London MI. 01-837 6954 area NUS, representing 24 colleges, has organised around u squat demand ing that the local council purchases some of the capty property in the city for use by the homeless PROGRAMME The Margate conference must work our some overall programme for joint action with trade unionists to solve thie crisis in the social services, of which higher education is only one part. The days when students could stand alone are gone. Now more than ever, the question of student-worker solidarity is crucial.
Students, like other sections of socicty-especially those on fixed incomes are in a situation where inflation is rapidly cating away at their income. Only the IMG at this conference has any solution. We will be arguing for the grant to be tied to a student cost-of-living index, so that for every percentage increase order dilemma order!
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point. If we took away banners we didn't like we would be collecting hundreds every week". So said police Deputy Assistant Conmissioner, Wilfred Gibson, last week at the Scarman Tribubal on the 15 June anti-fascist demo in Red Lion Square.
Gibson's verbal slip proved one of the points that Rock Tansey, represanting the IMG, was making against a police proposal that the cops be given powers to confiscate any article likely to cause a breach of the peace. It would open up demonstrators to on the spot political censorship by the police.
..And they claimed the Tribunal was aimed at presenting public disThis incident illustrated a point which came out clearly from the procedings as The police are forced by the growing strength of the labour movement to demand ever more reoressive laws while al the same time pleading with increasing desperation that the police wish to re main impartial in the eyos of the public - it is the only defence we have'. This docounts for the lularity which greeted While the police were worry ig about the relation of class forces outside the Trihunal, Scarman was corpored by the relation of forces inside the Tribunal. The left -ING, NUS and Liberation answered the police proposals point by Scarmen had to admit that if he rec onended the second police proposal that demonscrators be forced by law to give seven days notice to the police, 'difficulties" would arise, Trade unionists union HO for instance, could tine themselves slapped inside for conspiracy And as Scarman agreed, this praposal no motor wholester 10 00 10 19 Lion Square, since Liberation had notif jed the police -tor weeks before.
The arly police proposal which atiod was one to miske it an ollence to