local IMG militants for more detail. The present resistance by students to repression from university authorities and the police at Kent, Essex, and Oxford Universities are important struggles in the defence of the right of students to organisation and militant activity.
But these struggles are even more Important in the context of the gencral struggle for political freedom and democratic rights, and the development of the means necessary to build a worker-student alliance around such issues. Such struggles take on burning urgesicy under repressive conditions in many colonial countries; under repressive regimes like those in Spain, Greece, and Argentina; in the anti-burcaucratic struggle in the workers states: and lastly in the growing moves towards strong state techniques in the countries of Western Europe.
STUDENTS AND WORKERS The universities in Crechoslovakia were strongholds of resistance to the Soviet invasion in 1968. After the received support from many factories. some going on strike in sympathy.
The present fighting in Cordoba, the largest industrial city in Argeetina, follows a whole series of struggies by workers and students against repression. In Cordoba and Rosano in 1969 there were armed uprisings organised by students and workers committees against the military junta of General Ongabia.
The uprisings were sparked off by the ferocious response of the police and army against students struggling over an issue which a very This article is the first in a series which will examine the tactics and | Oxford, the growing cooperation strategy necessary to build a movement of revolutionary students in Britain. The subject will be discussed at the International Marxist Group's Revolutionary Students' Rally to be held in London on 4 May. Speakers will include leaders of the student movements in France and Belgium, a leader of the Czech student movement in 1968, and leading members of the IMG. Contact your familar to students in this countrya humbic protest over rises in university caleteria prices. The same issue, Incidentaily, sparked off the recent student mass movement in Ibadan, Nigeria.
The present Argentinian Government of Peron is very well aware of the threat to the capitalist system in the country posed by an alliance. by the working class with other sections of the population against repression. In the universities, for example, as a leading defence lawyer Jorge Sivak has stated:
The Supreme Criminal Court functions as a super tribunal of overlaps with that of the deans. The Court rules on the norms of discipline In the college which the deans feel that students ought to chserve, In other words the State intervenes quite directly to act as a life jacket of law and order in the universities.
A simple occupation al a hookshop demanding that the price of books be lowered becomes en of freedom with a possible prison sentence of 10 years.
ALLIANCES IN ACTION Only by conducting each and all of their strugeles in the context of building a worket-student alliance in action, can students hope to tally enouch sirenia to win VItones In their struggle and defend themselves In this country we have seen in the forged between collepe authorities and local police. Police ringed the campus at Essex before breaking a picket: the violence. used by police and hired thugs against students in BETWEET SHE CALES SAL LON college authorities in dealing with occupations and reant strikes; and the possibility of conspiracy charges being brought against students at the Universities of Kent and Nottingham, All these moves take place at a time when strong state techniques are being used to deal with militant trade unionism, and there is increasing harassment of blacks, tenants and Irish people.
ary students must respond to ull these cases of repression no matter where they occur, Forms of organisation must be built which link students with other sections of the population, in particular the organised working class.
Revolutionaries should fight for occupation or action committees elected by, and accountable to, mass mcetings of students. In every case of repression on the campuses, links must be sought with workers in the Tocality, both campus workers, and the local trades councils and trade MAXIMUM PRESSURE This is what direct action really means. Not lust more mostancy or "confrontation, but the democratic fighting involvement of militants in forms of action that bring maxinum pressure on the authorities. In solved, but also for militants in the working class.
These were the sort of tactics that won the reinstatement of students at Stirling last year, the Steve Whitley in Newcastle, This is the sort of struggle that must be launched it we are to ensure that students are capable of playing a full role in the struggle for socialism.
RAY BURNS The lessons are clear-revolutiona polo of attraction, not just for those Agreement,