to a meeting with the Court of Governors. They were decisively rejected.
As a result the union meeting of 14th January resolved overwhelmingly to: a) Implement the new constitution unilaterally: b) elect immediately a returning officer to arrange the new elections and new committees; c) prepare to resist by all means necessary any attempt to interfere with this implementation.
The same meeting also voted to take over the LSE from the evening of Friday, 21st January, to the evening of Monday, 24th January.
The situation at LSE will provide a testing-ground for all militants, as well as for NUS. A national campaign against the Government's attack on student unions can only have any meaning if it includes concrete support to those colleges who are themselves engaged in local struggles over union autonomy. LSE must now be seen as one of the focusses in this campaign; by their action, the students there have demonstrated very clearly that there can be no half-way house between complete public accountability/State control and full union autonomy. In their reaction to this struggle we shall judge the seriousness of those whose defence of union autonomy has so far remained at a purely voca! level. The Young Socialist Alliance (YSA), revolutionary youth organisation in political solidarity with the Socialist Workers Party of America and the Fourth International, met in Houston in Texas, for its annual convention between December 28th and January 1st. Some 1200 members and sympathisers of the YSA demonstrated the all-national presence of the organisation (coming from branches in over 30 states), and also their contempt for the local Ku Klux Klan which had conducted a campaign of harassment, including machine gunning, of local YSA and SWPers. Over 500 of the 1000 or so observers who had trekked from all corners of the US to celebrate their Christmas discussing politics were not yet members of the YSA, although 60 very quickly applied to join. And 250 of the people present had come from Texas itself marking the penetration of revolutionary ideas to even this Wallace-type area. ticularly in Bolivia and Argentina-which will be taken up by the Fourth International throughout the world as an important part of its activities in the coming year.