the proposed STuGenTs. inal creases in tuition tees WIll been aiscredites. ne outcome o the stucents vote Tor who snoUTe Drodd electectorine seven positions.
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the LSE occupiers removes, tor ine time De no an important syloo versities: polytechnics such Middlesex ane Norn cast LongOn cubalion. Manly HOIC North London Poly and sussex November.
braajora area.
Switch nin blackmail. SIX HUNDRED police ended the two-week-old occupation of the London School of Economics. All the surrounding streets were sealed off at 3.00am last Saturday morning as the police moved in to evict the occupying students. The police were enforcing a High Court injunction sought by the "liberal' director of the LSE, Ralf Rait Danrandori-nis smashes Broad Left's myth University, are expected to tollow suit in the coming weeks.
Students at Brunel University are fighting both the tuition SanC Three hundred demonstrators marched through Bradford last Saturday to protest against police harassment of gays. Over 3,000 people have been questioned in connection with the murder of an 11 year old boy scout last But the investigation has been used as a pretext to harass gay people in This has now assumed the proportions Gays have been taken and interrogated late at night and sometimes taken from their place of work without warning.
been photographed and fingerprinted against their will and denied access to their solicitors, relatives and friends. Gay social gatherings and houses have been put under surveillance and there have been raids on gay organisations. Some of those questioned have been threatened with It is clear that these interrogations have nothing to do with the murder creche facilities.
explain government is munge ladl tionally weakly organised sectors such as overseas To fight the whole, direct action had to be the resoonseto nistactic Militants recognise that small level, but the main target must be the Labour Government and nationally organised direct action to ally students against the Social Contract As was most strikingly demonstrateo ar ine Loc. militants seeine necotormaximum to campaign and challenge the Broad Left. The present struggles be an important lesson for NOISS members wnose nationar orcansation still fails to grasp that they are not the sole alternative to the Broad Left.
national AS Nos area to oule for ine over seas students activists conference at Middlesex Poly on 12 February At that meeting they also opposed ine settine up action committee mnar could nave oro vided an alternative lead to that being given by the National ExecuThe sectarianism of the Socialist workers contrast to the positions adopted in practice by many NOISS militants -PrOVISIOH gained auring the investiganion of a They have demanded the to get more information for the files.
Photo: MATTHEW DAVISON Occupying stustudents and first and in a united left structure cuts as for a complete week's elections at growing class London Poly NOISS many socialist provide a lead for separate slate. used oase of their own membership organisation, established moment show stands in Start students are native, one that can the student movement. inquiry. People have thus been tricked into giving information relating to gay men between 16 and 21 years old. Oppressive legislation means that gay relationships are illegal below the age of 21. The police are now boasting that they could make over a thousand arrests from information Saturday's demonstration was an impressive display of solidarity against this state persecution of gay men and women. The demonstrators public destruction of all police files, an end to the witch-hunt in the local press and legal equality for gay men, which means the reduction of the age of consent to 16 But police harassment is not over yet. They sent a photographer along At the Nus scotiang conterence promised held last weekend NOISS particiExecutive elections. At Brunel and bristol universities tney participate •WnICA organises in campaigns and elections. At Southampton University they campaigned for the joint can- cussion. coate or me let for oresident. joint platform between NOISS and the Socialist Society was drawn up last Warwick Uni versity. Acreement nas so tar beer reacnee on a loin oatorm tor te Hull University elections and even in the NOISS stronghold of North ment Is LO approaches to the IMG for a join that my than com Many precede the development of a mass not in inne coneyes to practicene d even ov large sections Socialist Students Alliance month has hace orine socialist millants as a ested step in the process of developing a wi navetotaceustomnese tasno de well. The struggles going on at the that thousands looking to alteraains the richt wing have made in Amend us bargaining'.
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Dahrendorf. These events totally explode the leadership of the National Union of
defeated through alliances 'progressive college authorities of The Broad Left at the LSE have
resulted in only Left candidate being
coalition of overseas student acti- vists, independent socialists and members and supporters National Organisation of IS Societ-
Action against the fees increases is still spreading, but the eviction of
from the campaign. More than ever a national lead is required. Brunel, City and Sheffield Uni-
Royal College of Art and including