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The Red Mole No. 2, 1971 · pp. 4-7 of the scan · 1,826 words

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Court, Baton, Edinburgh. "HAMILTON: Walter MacLellan, 37 Smylum Koad. Lanark, Scotland HULL: John Bearpark, 88 Park Street.

Spre bank, Hull. *LANARK: Walter MacLellan, 37 Smyllum Kond Lanark scotland Riddell. 35 West Road. LEEDS: Gwyn Vorhaus, 89 Victoria Koud.

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LEICESTER: Alan Leaton, 19 Gotham Street, Leceiter *CENTRAL LONDON: Frank Hansen, City Polytechnic, Stadents Union, Moorgate, EC1 *NORTH LONDON: Dave Kendall. 75 York Way, London N7. *SOUTH LONDON: Tony Jones, Furzedown College of Education, Welham Road, SWI 7 *WEST LONDON: Bob Pirdie, 19 Hamilton Road, W5.

LOUGHBOROUGH: Mike Smith, 59 Toothill Road, Loughbomugh, Leics NORWICH: Maicolm Harding, School of Chemical Sciences, University of bast Angliz University Pisin, Norwich SC *NOTTINGHAM: Nick Beelon, 25 Henry Road, West Bridgferd, Nottingham. *OXFORD: Bemard Reaney, Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

PLYMOUTH: Martin Dorhom, c/o 19 Clifton Street, Plymouths, Devon.

READING: Nigel Brown. St. Patricks Hal, Northcount Avenue, Reading, Berks *STAFFORD. Chris Pailthorpe, Dunston Hall, Dunston, Nr. Stafford.

STIRLING: Neil Williamson. 260 Stirling Street, Denny, Stirlingshire. *YORK: Mike Lomax, Failax House, Heslington Road, York 50 Tha KOt and Doorades 1 shan 1 muppos no existo in Locurberti Frina Radio Cheerna Referso Char Dan!

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Manchester: The Sit-in Occupation and Injunctions The occupation at Manchester University (February-March 1970) was the larges campus.

involved 4.000 apd lested 15 d cessions were academic community" was smashed, and the autocratic and repr sire natura of the administration revealed. ba Union on Pab o have bem debated i Ing to prote les, a log wing the Bad tied mili for bu 2 0e Fete any 23chc a conder of the motion, easurer of the Socialist be injure on old marble and se of the in ttack on the political Ee President of the Unice to rally mam support for an alling three General Meetings in one day day, the first two attended By 1,500 nople, the third at 9 o'clock berated sone", attended by 1.0i people.

ded try 2,50 doteal of the sentation: 50% student on all departmental an Squal staf studeat representation on Council Later a fifth general point was added or Chenic antees for the political autonomy These demands were liberal, not made on theie points. The Unirenity increase in representation on the bodie ecified, but undertook only to "tall bout taller", On the credit side th demands went fir enough to galanite a beral protest to the raningful concessions even afber th nivenity offered uncondition wilhdrawal of the injunetions Mistaken Taetic wad tarly were pouring in from in By Monday 2nd March r and workers' organisa one and the first tempt was made to escalate the struggle This remained the pare pad tutorial MOW HOVERTED Kruggle for a fall wed NOW THE 4 LIRAL the third attempt to call one led to n вома for a strike, but in a rhetorical slip for Lament of frenzied opt committed bimself to calling an strike only Ll a 75% majority of thi supported it, and the Tollowing day, with the University now offering unconditional withdrawal of the junctions, the majority for a strike zo official strice in the light of the hang-up one tope in the heation to trike ostastzophie in chat would have involved many more stadenta in the strugz : and all empts to build an anolficial sirike falled. Thie monting marked the pink of support for th strike and the occupation, but thi ineffective it this moment and support Tell away Too many studente saw the strike mong students in oner to light a long tefecsive struggle in the light of countrystudent militants, in Monday 9th March the right win light-Wing Pressar attempted to force a capituation time with th seale are a of lies.

it the principle of the occupati -which previously they had! anable to da. The 60% who supporter Indecismen nes, and displayed a continua mass mulitaney. The revolutionary lef the leadership for the man of stu followed from its connection writt elected leadenhip of the studenta union, yet the linion Executive was split from the start and contained a wanting bows". The opportunity wa taken fiy the socialists in the occupation to expose these heral demands and to relate them and otber questions about the unisenity to the environmen provided by class and capitalism. greitest achievement of in consciousness among mutants who tool pert and that Socialis heories, especially in relation bo cia: and education, and to the nature of the power structure in to most "liberal" Matitation af the "Iberal" state.

The Manebester occupation mist!

en as nart of i loup-lerm defensi struggle in the Isce of systematic attack upon student militants and stadents nuds. This is no struggle for the mytl f the Theral university this is n struggle to preserve an embryonic trades which carns sandent energies not to thi creation of a participatory mory tower bot towards a roass movement of youth for the destruction of moropoly also and the construction of a sociplies state. For tbe Vice-Chancellon and admbtistrators, such a conscionanes threates the every ossure of their concept of the univorsity, because the ruling class i nut pleased when iversities become a rectuiting groun i revulutionades mad of lisu schools for tha managers and forme nf capitalian.

Guy Swayland Listen Anarchist! pon she anarchis test in it conver gunpocare.

Since there is no singls, monothie theme to his anurchist tendenc as deficitional di faculties do at Eess aris among college radicals, SDS convention it sa good a piser to hegin as inticalation al what rany callege radicals win those who will bitterly protest th manchist labil, are thinkin mention in a ownher that desses recou time for it illustrates the materis of concer xpressed in this artine. A los morts sou Ding the minicer session, I cuescatoncé an of the shes freen the local S chapter il the crimitment te ridical bear zout actine. although, ake mast of her felloes in SIS. she was confused and scaptical an her cri theoretical uralyso of her radicalien. She has been to Chicago and was new marr confued and demayed Cia caer.

hool student, the told me that she had be fot being currenty ecold un a samo books fue her an ay 1.D. card. As the libcars Here in a dacy ite pamphle. lettenet and proofseed, a mistch chore the for side of the generation sep is mu sa out at hotes draw long a longsh hair, demand mero leisars time mother inares, so on wildests, and ust on Ca loo workers. Evie nome posing is the omegance hous, the renoir of tir int nts working at to come. To the degree that wotken banservatios of the established order into s feror for scrolaties ripping Ou imagine. The "doctraure Cation or Marat Ekatticked by theone opt af: *hy arwing sub-calluse Brios "Epond rot" h driended as a sericos poitical action at sail espiesion, Lames Mares opers a sistorical consciousness of the development an for a "shedding of the pad" to start ate beth. and with ardene of the past erad oo all consciousness. fp. 30)

There is, I suppose, to way of lonmeng how nen Meerist net how many moore pritate Id to smar wines, hat we shoald not am pong up in the colli ges.

assis of bed seirty. Their aim, in the ma sa Bozo to condems peat and present Amen rousy deflected it ir its splinter affiliat boon this garl. Hut a building the new socie sane has been po coal attempt to utilite a tr Buries discation. Granted Unt Be colle Left has accepted the ox deces at'a cha division it America, or at least chose whio son chalars have long bean croamfortable avan (alber do they fare rarely spoken al on the point, ull ta few of lhe conge radicals have hows math interest in the intripacies ef Maxist analys Th no wow bave done se bars "solleagnes and hine either been delen ta the margins of leadeship or oct of the morebelt altogether. Marcist scissi the degree that it was ever accepted by 1 ok and Tie and nast of the Sendership oft seat eide end any way a railerton. methodie world vies.

with its emphans an arsonal and private salut via sten the mastenulatic ce chieve me trus increment ef a ruing cases delicios eve the no die deny yu te snaply de set let elf Perceptiv tom bil euler o Left. Sicier states Even fur Corse intellectus who kentfec atlook ast remened parchial, licitad 2s fleetly word biasic et insa Sciently cam conscious and so Cabling thaa for dise dialed soci polinical action effolve for costing rheir cor nevitaticcas camprehed let called the funiccion), niber tits of clay Theis cor siousness, that is sO trained substantally alicanted from their own bruader, and bimore ly coccrete, lucmanity- Misy were aught in a tistorical sitation stace 1b maid not make the pusage don opparen Jacised radicals to classsorscions revolut marice."

might be acces Combat Penonalion Without the development of a radical bastatice aLrit of locit awn growth ar that of bei ociety, and goen their osm Eleespeence a owing up it a socery amphanning!

dindatite myshes, be incinatine af you (exine til modes is expiable, Jade. the the hindi are all hea Even these codi the sepeat post was ever whined. Hovenes, Be gast radical activity on the campus no#scatons se hring she hectofore sut merged Monster to be ultrictive, ands aude kiod of Enderdalistic acar chism is very likely to be the sixt plume for mach of the cola-losed left.

Koter B. Carson Sale Guirest of Now Yor

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67 Labou than in any year since the General Strike, From this time on there was also a considerble rowth in the incidence and scope of extra arliamentary agitation: the large and militar ns, the increasingly Robin Blackburn age a the potent are And ne tor ind can be ust as much psesdo There refurms as the roforms of the post-war Labour Gorernment were pseudo-socialist: thus no amount of Race actionary salveri edence for this a the captured minutes of t utes of the

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