ly Mick Archer Member NUS executive THE outcome of the special open conference" for students held on 26 and 27 May was nothing less than predictabile.
A 'new left alliance in the NE'S was formed after two days of frank und sometimes healed debate, project of the Broad Left leadership a 'bine" of the Communist Party Party, ALCOC LUCIES Liberals → came into beingIt has been clear for some months that the Communist Party students, und those independents around them, were intending to form such an alliance.
Nevertheless, the debale at the conference revealed the reservaloons of somesections of the old Broad Left and the fragility of the reuched.
The divisions were helween those wanted retain commitment to a socialist strategy and these who remove any obstacle to unity with the LiberalsClose A close vate succeeded in retaining a senteace in the progrumime of the alliance STEE anti-Imperialist perspective But a phrase HESTEEL programme is a socialist one deleted in fuvour of saying it's one That is supported by both left radicals and socialists.
Although these differences did esist and grouped!
agreement This strategy HUGE anxious chuncellors!
of Thatcher and the Torics.
approached government.
that for an alliance there was general agreement on the usu whole. strategy underlying the new alliance - The "strategy for democratisation.
involves secking within education - whether they be expense It was urgued that this had become even more necessury with the election vague formulations and evasive policies of the programme do not muke it an adequate fool to tuckle the real dangers posed by & Tory Socialist Stadent Alliance memhers through at the conference argued consistentis Phased on socialist policies to meet the day to day issues facing stadents, linking them to the clus nature of education and sociely which Lie ahead.
The rejection of clear socialist policies, in favour of a superficial. "consensus' obscuring differences, poses new dangers for NUs and the student movement.
In the struggles In come sach 'unity" will only be maintained at the union organisation, democratie rights and standards of students as a whole.
Notionally the SSA has to continue the ficht unity of socialist ferces opposed to the new ailiance and to the policies and record of the Broad Left.
By confronting these developments debate action we can begin a national fight back agrinst the Tories and against any attempt fo disarm or neutralise NUS in the major political battles