WEEKLY 2900,000.
is simple. If the State refuses to pay. then students and campus workers must. Virtually every college adminis proposing ront and price increases.
MUNICIPALISE
asE standards, the lack of housing and the prospects of worse to come, has been met by a militant student response, The term, only four wecks oli, has seen an unprecedented ware of dircel action. Ncar ly 50 colleges have boen levolved in strug. des usiog tactics from ront strikes, pickets. refectory boycatts to oocupations:
Students and camput workers have made it clear-thcy bear no responsibility for causing the crisis, they should not be made to pay For it.
The lack of housing has bitten all ov et the country. Students who took dieect action in Portsmouth, Manchester and Edinbergh were adamant timt if the authorities want to expand Richer soffer. Mince thee ones is on the admin istration to provide decent housing for all students 1 they do not have the buildings then they should hire hotels al Lancaster University. The root of the problem for the colleges is a cush For the authorities the answer stration, if it had not done so already Governmente The continuing decline of student Ev are to reap rewards 2000600 and subsidise the roads to college levels.
As a sort actin mcasure this is fine, yet next year the crisis will reappear, but worse. One demand that students must make is for the reintenduction and expan sion of building propramnes ruthlessly Ric Sissons chopped by hoth the Tory and Labour However it also: is the caso that enough property stands vacant to house all the nomeoss in Beta, student or beners Students are only a part of this wider problem their own accommodation erisis cannot be seen an bolton Housing campaigns launched from the colleges have to be taken into the tenants, squattors and trade union movegient if tlicy JOINT MOVES Portsmouth students have led the way by demanding that the Polytechnic and local ive if it is used as a springboard los a council take over and municipalie caryly property in the town lo provide housing for all the homeless. To hack this and other ilemands they have orpanised peti tions, a joint demonstration, and a local con on wage agreements and proposing redondTerence with the trade union morencut.
Links can also be boilt with the trade unions in the colleges themselves as the auth- of Further edscation, poly technies or un orities scab on puy deals they agrood with ASTM5 and NAIGO The sclective strike action this move provoked will become pars and parcel of college life.
The NUS kadership, Continated by the Broad Left, Have meanwhile stood Idly by.
They have neither direcled nor initiat od any of the strupples this team. For the future the host they can come up with for the week of action, hetwoon Nowensbor 11. 15 are petitions and 2-bour token occupations. Are they really serinus?
DIRECT ACTION
Will action like that roll back the cuts! Wil it roose the incqualitics of the grants system? We do not think so, nor do thoso shidents taking direct action.
Dering thie wook of action arca camp aigus of direct action, jointly with local trade anions should be sparked off Two Issues stand out—the nood to abolish disentionary awards and the discriminat ion apainst worsen students, and against At Leeds stodents have shown these campaiens nood to involve school students, teachors, tochnicians, porters and all those suffering from the spending cuts.
The week of action can he most effect continueg fight hack, The local odocat son and colleg: authorities will not conecde in a week, nor will they politely doe ide to step raising rents and prices, scabhing ances. It Holly with more direct action amolving all students, whether in colleges versities, with working clue support, that fral concessins can he utm We have built these barricades because we don't recognise the right of the GLC or anyone to nake us or any people homeless, even if that right is backed by E the Courts, Bailiffsand Police 9 NO EVICTIONS-HOUSING FOR So reads an inscription on the
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Not our words, but those of Charles Carter, the Vice Chancellor crisis a lack of money. Leeds Uni- versity is running an annual loss of
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