in growth. The pattern of student struggle and concern bears witness to this important change. In the late sixties, the fact of the re-orientation of higher education provoked ideological ferment about its purpose and function. Old established views about the relation of education to society and the relation of individual students were questioned and thrown to the wind. This crisis of social relations produced a deep going radicalisation which for many culminated in an identity with the colonial revolution.
Today, although a large section of students identify with these struggles, questions of conditions in the colleges are coming much more to the fore. At the last NUS conference for instance all the major issues debated were "student, issues. The old fight of socialist students to identify politics with issues external to the colleges has to be re-evaluated in this light. A political response to this new challenge has to be hammered out.
STRENGTHENING OF REFORMISM Throughout this whole period. the Communist Party has been working up an answer to these problems. Its two features, a fight for "comprehensivisation' outside the college and a policy of representation' inside the colleges now structures the approach of most of the student union leadership in the colleges and has been adopted in its essentials by the NUS. This approach locates the problem correctly at the level of the organisation of higher education but proposes a struggle to be fought (with the labour movement) in and around Parliament. In the meantime. it recommends struggle in the colleges only within the existing structure through fighting for representation On Saturday March 10th, the ISC is holding a conference in Leeds, sponsored by more than 70 organisations and individuals in the region, including Joan Maynard, Vice-President of the Agricultural Workers" Union, the York and District Trades Council, HoeCrabtrees Shop Stewards Committee, Ken Wallace of the AEUW and Leeds Clann na h'Eireann. The morning session will include speeches by a representative of the National United Front of Cambodia, Tariq Ali and Malcolm Caldwell.
This conference has been called in the knowledge that in spite of the cease-fire agreement the war in Indo-China is far from over. In this situation the need for developing the solidarity movement is greater than ever. Those wishing to attend the conference or make a donation to its costs should write to: la. Park Holme. Harehills Ave.. LEEDS 8.
The events in Ireland North and South over the past two weeks are the surface reflection of a deepening crisis of Whitelawism. Plebeian Protestant rioting in Belfast, the New Lodge massacre, the sectarian murders of Catholics, the desecration of Catholic Churches the decision of Lynch to go for an election in the South, and the withdrawal of General Tuzo, British GOC in Ireland, are all interconnected. Previously, Whitelaw's central Gery Lawless on the crisis North and South To defeat the IRA it was necessary for Lynch to go further. For Lynch with his small majority to go further meant that Whitelaw must first curtail the sectarian killings. To do this meant to curtail the "para-military" organs of the Oranga-Ultras. Hence the decision to arrest and intern some UDA memben In order to do this without provoking a Protestant backlash, Whitelaw attempted the sacrificial lamb tactics - i.e. to appease a