coordinate and focus student revolutionary action. It was founded after the French events and in anticipation of future conflicts in this country. The rapid escalation by the university authorities and the Government against British students has created such a conflict. And as reported in the last "Dwarf", nationwide actions took place after January 24 in solidarity with LSE students, and in opposition to the closing down of the School, by actions taken against the local university bosses.
RSSF got its office -before the LSE crisis. But chaotic as it was, it managed to warn comrades in other universities and colleges in advance that the LSE was moving to a crunch. It sent them full information after the LSE was closed on what had happened, distributed leaflets and slogans and drew up a news bulletin on the struggles throughout the country. The RSSF assisted the Thursday march on LSE and organised the Monday February 3rd demonstration, which was called by the emergency National Committee (to which a member from each university and college is entitled to go) on the Sunday after the LSE was closed. It was the first national event organised by the RSSF. The march left ULU at 4 p.m. through the rush hour to Short's DES in Mayfair and then through Piccadilly to the Aldwich, stopping London's traffic on the way The beating-up that followed the march and the emergency N.C. that met at the Essex Revolutionary Festival", so called, showed that student action is really hotting up. At the N.C. there was a serious debate about political organisation and vigorous and effective criticiem of tha - 59 Fleet Street, E.C.4. and its telephone - 01-353 5735, only two weeks universities and colleges and reveal the class nature of higher education, how to effectively unite students and workers.
And in each sector, there are special problems. By the time this is printed RSSF will have held a conference at Hemel Hempstead for Techs, polys and colleges of further ed. The latter have special problems of their own as the most isolated, backward and repressed sector of higher education. And the art students, already the most advanced in terms of action in their own field, are badly needed by the students as a whole. Apprentices are especially important as future links between colleges and factories, but there is still very little experience in working with them. And the blossoming of revolutionary actions in the schools is being given every possible encouragement. All these are areas for future action, no current balance sheet can be drawn up for Dwarf readers. At the LSE students are entering a new stage in the most advanced stuggle the universities have seen. And groups of militants up and down the country are discussine tactics and strategy for the conference in November students who had experienced struggles on their own campus were still first time. The privileged, now, those who have not are merely backward.
RSSF is the arena within which the problem of our revolutionarv actions can ha diemic strategic problems - the enemy's next moves, how to smash the isolation of bourgeois Space of revolutionary activity has radically quickened. At the last RSSF
In the businessman's paradise of post war Britain many fortunes have been made but it is the property business where the profits have been the quickest and the biggest. And they don't come any bigger or quicker than Harry Hyams. the bookmaker's son. who built Centre Point. The Black Dwarf 28th Feb 1969