School Students Alliance

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the ascendancy of Stalin.

Among those taking part in the cadre school were two of Trotsky's aides, who were present at the time of the original address, Georg Jungclas and Pierre Frank - both of whom are still active as leaders of the Fourth International. The cadre school was attended by three hundred and fifty militants of the Fourth International's Sections in Denmark and Sweden and sympathising groups in Norway and Finland. Speakers at the school included Ernest Mandel, Fred Halstead of the American Socialist Workers" Party, Henri Weber of the French Ligue Communiste, and Robin Blackburn of the International Marxist Group. The failure of the leadership of the National Union of School Students to relate education to politics has prompted several members of the N.U.S.S. to form a movement within the Union called the School Students Alliance (S. S.A.). It has so far won support from schools members or sympathisers of the I.M.G., the I.S., the Socialist Charter, Rebel, the R.S.L and the Communist Party of Britain (M.-L.). The S.S.A. still believes that the N.U.S.S. is the right union for school students, but thinks that it will fail unless it goes beyond sectional issues and links itself with the class struggle. The S.S.A. supports workers' struggles, not only in this country but throughout the world, and is aiming to commit the Union at its next conference (October 1973) to concrete solidarity action with such struggles. If there is sufficient support, the S.S.A. will work for an emergency National Conference and hopefully win a majority for its policies. A letter from the S.S.A. says the following: "We call on all Red Mole readers at school to contact us if you are interested in putting forward suggestions and in helping us prepare a programme to be put forward at the next National Conference:

School Students' Alliance, 58, Burbage Road, London, S.E.24." ist policy at the present time.

To prepare students for the storms ahead will require the greatest possible unity within the revolutionary left. This is why the meeting to be held the afternoon that the conference opens, to discuss the work of the left, is of extreme importance. LAW AND ORDER Lt. Col. Derek Wiltord, para leader on Bloody Sunday in Derry, gets an OBE for meritorious behaviour. Noel Jenkinson, alleged to have taken part in the reprisal bombing of the Paras headquarters in Aldershot, gets 30 years in prison. Such is the law and order which the British Government is trying to impose on the North of Ireland.

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Pete Cresswell and Brian Slocock report on the occupation and interview Franny Martin,