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THE 21 NOVEMBER 'National Shutdown' will see a huge and militant response from students. has finally had enough of being 'patient' and containing student protest to 'lobbying'. The time for action has come. time too! the abolition or the minimum anard de205 and The latest cuts to student grants, introduction of £520 tuition fees for students whose parents income is f20,000 are only the continuation of attacks on students' rights to education that have been going on for years. private education than ever before. dol, or cannot, pay laelr comabanon the £520 fees that have to be paid in advance — education will be denied to those unable to pay.
The call to hold nationally co-ordinated shutdowns and occupations is long overdue. to hold a National demonstration and rally on November 28, (for details see Diary below), should be built for on a massive scale. But these activities and mobilsations have to be seen as the start or a campaign of mass action to stop all Tory attacks rallel Education autonomy.
To survive, the national union has to integrate and build all the struggles of all sections of the student movement. This means paying much more attention to the struggles of the FE have been systematically stripped of their rights to & grant to support them through their education. It means supporting those unions facing legal attacks over ultra-vires payments to the Miners. supporting fascist Harrington from PNL.
This December's National Conference should not be forgetful of the fact that the current course of action being advocated by the NUS Executive has come about because of the Tories' intran sigence and contempt for students' demands and rights. The fact that NUS's 'key demand' is to get college Principles and Directors to repudiate the Chancellors cuts, is evidence, of the overall direction that NOLS wants to take this campaign.
However. tile kind to do anything other than build the oced. Mass action of the kind being organised will caucale students, brouga men struggies, as to Une type of activities and leadership they fend the education system. As be at the forefront of these mobilisations. Precisely in order to be in the best position struggle against the VUS leadership with them NOW STOP MIONS ACTIVISTS DIARY.
November, NUS Vueen Festival Hall), London, 3.30pm.
Every Friday, Socialist Action Student Forum; struggle for socialism, Marun collins, Lou, basl Building room E 195, starts 2.00 pm. Wednesday 21 November.
Refuse Cruise December 12, Square, called by Student CND.
NOW! The NOLS dominated NUS Exec And not before However, If parents do The plan HHUH It means attempting to get rid of the if any were needed, it would be leftism of the most infanneed to deto lead the backtracking of the current it is necessary to stand and fight THE CUTS! ALL OUT NOVEMBER 21 SONS DEFYING THE critics and sceptics who were all too ready to quote the Brighton bombings as an indicator that the disappointing EEC election results were to lead to the victory of the bullet over the ballot, and a retreat from the leftward advance of Sinn Fein, this years' Sinn Fein 'Ard Fheis' marked further gains for the anti-imperialist movement in