IMGpapers 1968–75

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1968–75

Students Have Invade

Black Dwarf Vol. 13, No. 11, 14 February 1969 · p. 6 of the scan · 392 words

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Williams University, Montreal, by George miran tsu protest at the discrimination against five negro students at the university; students called for Black Power and Student Power. USA Numerous campusses in the US in crisis during January. At San Francisco State University 483 people, staff and students, were arrested on January during a protest meeting. Students had been on strike since November 6 calling for more negro admissions to the college. At UCLA two negro militants were assassinated on Jan 17. At Brandeis, Mass., negro students seized the administration building tc demand the setting up of a Department of Afro-American Studies and the of black professors. In Student agitation last summer was smashed Chicago Jan 30 more than 200 students invaded the administration buildings to demand the reinstatement of Marlene Dixon, a lecturer who had been sacked for taking part i demonstagons.

On a more hopeful note: the Students Robinson S5.000 to be their first ASSU (Associated Stanford University professor next term, as part of a campaign by students to appoint their own staff as opponents of the reactionary social science taught in the university.

IRELAND Students in occupied Ireland continued their role in against the bourgeois-Protestant ruling class, calling for people's democracy. establish crucial ties with homeless, umemployed and disenfranchised. ENGLAND Following the repressive closure of LSE, students in a score of universities struck and occupied. History continues who As the British student movement enters a new phase and students across the world are in revolt as agents of prote The campus has become a centre of conflict. The unive are plainly reactionary, some are directed against repre goverment-directed political and social process. In some c allied with progressive staff (UK, USA, Mexico, Poland (Spain, Italy Greece, Czechoslovakia, Japan...); in othe Canada... in others they are helping peasant struggles guerrilla struggles (Vietnam, Palestine, Venezuela... Colleges in the USA, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Greec invaded by police and closed down for periods of time. B over the past five years. In spite of the variety of the pc movements, their action is of utmost importance for the present the student movement in its world-wide perspectivi (The intention has been mainly to include material on st some historical material has been added. Sources: The T Der Spiegel, Time, Newsweek, Peking Review.)

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