IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

KENT OCCUPATION GIVES FIGHTING LEAD

Red Weekly No. 178, 1976 · pp. 4-5 of the scan · 289 words

The scan: rw-no178-dec-9-1976.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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objective is a campaign to pressure changes in government policy. meant to De -Dursuee unrourn allances with left MPs and the trade union burcaucracy But these tactics run straight into the support which ex-lefts like Jones and Scanlon have given to the whole government policy of the Social Contract. ScanIon, in particular, demands more cuts in public expenditure which somehow will reflect themselves in increased industrial investment.

So student action organised by the Executive has been devoted to building suDDoror me ens ane tacir Doncies policies, incidentally, which have been rejected by NUS Conferences in the past, such as import controls, the strengthening of the National Enterprise Board, and so DOLE All of these policies try to pretend that there is some common interest between On 30 November over 350 students at the University occupy in protest at the lack of accommodation on the campus. At the same annual general meeting students also passed a vote confidence in the right-wing dominated union executive.

alternative to it. Following the votes of Kent voted to one college was immediately occu Spied, and the next day an emergency voted to extend the occupation. of no has been brewing Original plans stinulated that there

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Con In ine colleges.

be polic making is to 'advise the Executive.

women SInG discrimination women these policies must be based son organisation Identy posed. CLASSIC Campaign [or more precisely the have sacrificed building political nave THE RECENT NUS Women's Con should have the basic democratic right to self-organisa The conter. ence went on to cemand that thi NUS Women's Conference should at the mowomen students can do in ano vear ou militants have been 'advithe Broad Left dominated RED WEEKLY 9 December 1976 5

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