force in student politics
THE 'Beat the Blues' demonstration called outside Tory party conference by Sussex area National Union of Students (NUS) against student loans and voluntary membership of NUS drew 3000 students.
It was not supported by the Kinnockite leadership who claimed that it was a general anti-Tory mobilisation, rather than one focusing on education policies.
Yet again they showed their determination to put their support for political pluralism above the need to defend the interests of students. The Socialist Workers' Party (SWP), numerically the largest left force within NUS also failed to mobilise seriously, sending only their comrades from those WORKERS at a third Royal Ordnance depot, this time at Hamble, near Southampton, have walked out when faced with closure and redundancy by