Overseas students at Middlesex and Teesside polytechnics have attacks quota systems and racist laws is in sharp contrast to the NUs stand against the discriminatory fees, direct action, failing to see that it is through building national ine later nave warned orine cancers oi mass support for the actions of the overseas students themselves THE ATTITUDE NUS should take to student unions in other countries is one of the major questions raised by the present crisis in the student movement. The latest issue which has brought this to the attention of the student movement was the action taken by the NUS following the wave of occupations and strikes in virtually every college in France last spring. Executive member Al Stewart was sent to discuss with UNEF (National Union of French Students] and then invite a UNEF delegation For was it? al co-ordination' with the right to and call national actions procedure was adopted this year. 27A28 Aprilat densier in Paris, the national co-ordination on VINCE snould eno. ine position for the continuation of the strike won votes, while UNEF 42 votes for their position. indicates their real strength in the nas movement But it also reveals the тота Detravar or the er The central strike the tale t university and nicachine sian. in their union ones-ur, dominated at the leadership level by the CP joint strike rike ane SP tried to cal di The CP the strikes and not because Ine mccle class votes in the 1079 -and elections. . It is clear that of student strike to these considerations.
MINORITY Why then does the NUS exclusively support Uner when it only represents minority French student movement? Wh did the NUS only consult w Campaign. тесоспіноп _OT sell-oroanise in integral part of the struggle fo Such working class fighting the Labou covemn ments questions of women's oppressior in all its campaigns Not to do so is to dia not only whole of the student movement as What is Just at the Broad Lett the Labour For more information about the WLC. or for copies of the motion.
Diease Sarah Roelofs at North London Polytechnic Prince of NW5.
same STrIKe received only are The put forward by the Broad Left rejected and the CP-dominated UNEF. extena inem exambie conception that the international UNEF campaign proposals for peace and security, the attitude of the Soviet Commu. nist party. basicall debate within the world the basic promises cereno ine states or castern cur o0e. ane nence ne posite courtes To taco ity and peace means maintaining of NUS Women's Campaign been crawn Wich it is honed
6 RED WEEKLY 9 December 1976 harassment and degradation. conditions in which black people live taken from a bulging file of case histories compiled by Socialist Forum. that blacks have no alternative but to defend themselves.
Ms D.C. of West Drayton:
*Ever since we moved into this house, TO BE BLACK in Britain today means to suffer constant humiliation, There are the social and economic - heavy unemployment, slum housing and the rest. On top of this many black people are subject to incessant attacks, both verbal and physical. The stories we print below are examples of these attacks, and they are examples only.
The experiences outlined in these case histories are a shocking testimony to the tide of racism in this country. They also have a political lesson, because they speak both of the racism of the National Front supporters and the racism of the police. When those such as Lord 'Uncle Tom' Pitt tell black youth to join the police force, it is like lan Smith recruiting blacks to the Rhodesian Army. These histories show that the police offer no protection; and the only conclusion possible is .They are the Asian