Students and staff at Swansea University at Deng made the vacaos or 0o muse thoroughgoing victimisation let loose in a British university.
Mike Weston, a lecturer in the Philosophy Department, has boon sacked. Six: students have been suspended for a year. Another lecturer, Colwyn Williaison, secretary of the campus branch of ASTMS and a member of IS, is heing witch-hunded. An incredible range of allegations have been made against Williamson, who is the subject of a college inquiry. Together with Weston, he is said to have masterminded a boycott of the second year exams To try to prevent further apposition several other philosophy lecturers-a number of whom are ASTS membersbave had their "tenure" deferred. Shut up or you den't get a permanent appointment* i the line against dissident stati.
From page 1 a well-known local cogincering militant, and Phil McGhee, a member hope to achieve.
RB: We're not simply talking about Ferranti's. It's not a one-off job, we're thinking about the whole structure of industry:
PM: It so happens that the Ferranti situation has given us the opportunity control. to plug nationalisation and workers' control-to get these ideas talked about, to make them current in working people's minds. Obviously the Labour leadership has never done this, and the present leadership never will.
R.B: It's got to be socialist nationalisation, it's got to be workers" control, workers taking up cheir rights. This Red Weekly 26 September 1974 Page 6 The University administration have already met with one sharp rebuke. Last week's meeting of stalf in the Philosophy Depurtment voted for the unconditional reinstatement of the students The professor, being a fervent believer in demo: cravy, then simply overturned the vote, Students recurning for the new academ in year are going to run into another attack from the Unmersity administration. New rent increases are on the agenda, and high er food prices are thacatened on top of last year's 20% price like. There is abou chronic shortage of accommodation.
The unity forged betwoon staff and students in previous struggles must now he bust an to meet this satest and most STELES HERES Messages of support and defence and donations to: clo A. Morgan, 14 Bryn-y-mone Crescent.
will certainly bo a reai challenge to the right-wing bureaucrats. It'll also be interesting to see what Henn says welcome to see it.
The councillons met this week to of NUPE, told Red Weekly what they discuss activity around their demands JMG militants are campaigning for accre support throughout the city's labour movement. Already, Edinburgh Central UCATT has bucked up Pilton AUEW by supporting the call for nationalisation under workers' The potential exists for a fight for Ferranti porkers which would cut the fect from under what Ron Brown calls one of the most vicious sections of the bureaucracy you could come acrosa. Then the only redundancies will be at AUEW Regional Office. Steward Maclennan (UCATT) edinburgh IMG rence of the socialist current of Defence Commities. last weekend One of the main discussions involved the question of domestic relationship between women's work in the home and the social and economic relations of capitalisnt.
sion was debated.
and large not joined the Women's Liberation Movement. One questhe Working Woren's Charter would help to draw such women into che WLM.
but it was decided to hold a conference on 'Future Strategy for the Socialist Current at which the Charter Campaign will doubtless be one of the most important ANDREW WIARD (fesort Over 400 women attended a confeWomen's Liberation in Birmingham labour, and the exact nature of the Out of this discussion, the possibility of seizing power in countries like Britain without tackling fundamental questions of women's oppresThere was also discussion as to why working class women have by tion raised was as to whether or not a campaign around the demands of resolution read:
No final agreement was reached, RAL
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We expect a reply very quickly. As Two of the councillors.Ron Brown soon as we get a copy, you te
women discuss future strategy