the Broad Left. To the Tory/Broad Left leadership.
The Tories and their new friends reversed the previous NUS position on not allowing a platform to racists and fascists. This reversal was made possible by the historic compromise: in fact it was a Tory who proposed the joint Broad Left/Tory motion on racism to the conference.
DOORS OPEN The NUS decision opens the doors of the campuses to the National Front and the Tascists. Slipman and friends are now in situation where they will back the right of fascists to organise on the campus. This makes a complete mockery of the democratic rights of the large numbers of black and Foreign students in polytechnics • Blackpool. The first was the grotesque, revealing, alliance cemented between the Tories and celebrate this 'historic compromise the Tory students produced a badge and universities, as Jewish students.
The Tories and the Broad Left also defeated a resolution which wanted to make the NUS into a campaigning union, but the emergency SSA resolution on the necessity to preserve the анолоту defeated only miniscule majority of less than ten voles. question the son. well organised after the first an alternative strategy to the Broad Left.
100 DELEGATES On most questions its hard core of over 100 delegates were supported by the 20 or delegates consisting of Socialist Workers Party porters (NOISS), though attempt by the latter 10 deny but funds to Zionist societies was not supported by the SSA and received a derisory vote.
On Zionism, a motion was passed accepting the rights of both Israeli Palestinians to their own states. though Stipman, display of referred to those arguins for a Palestinian well as favour of 'barbarism agains the Jewish people'. Presumably this refers 10. members of the Communist Party as well, since support for universal within that organisation.
On the explicit scabbing by by Slinman on a recent strike by staff every major conference overwbelmingly voted to censure its executive CATETT for crossing the picket lines, a clear sign that compromise was't totally student supan Tews and the , in an amazing blind bigotry, state as being in numerous Terrorism Act means effective in suppressing darity workers.
workers, the the historic On Foday night or me contrange BEDd soliwith the striking The shitt to the far lett obviously worried the Broad Left's more hardline supporters. The Leeds delegates drove this fact home by symbolising in a disgusting way their fears: they presented ito the loud applause of the Tories) an ice-pick replica to Slipmun with the hope that it would help her joke" deal with recalcitrant clements on the executive Colin Talbot was loudly cheered when he attacked this disgraceful and display, but Slipman → avid defender of democratio rights - said that SSA NEW INE was reieased the foliowing supporters were being moralis tic as the thing was merely a It is on such Jokes burcaucrats of all stripes flourish, Meanwhile the SocialStudents Alliance determined to make the soing a bir tougher for the historic compromise next Easter. yeur a lesbiun was attacked and
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TWO IMPORTANT developments dominated the Xmas Conference of the National Union of Students
showing students' president Sue Slipman and Pete Ashby (both members of the Communist Party) with the caption: "We're Tories Too'. The second feature of the conference was the emergence of the Socialist Students Alliance as the main oppositional force to
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