IMGpapers 1968–75

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

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Red Weekly No. 118, 25 September 1975 · p. 12 of the scan · 199 words

The scan: rw-no118-sep-25-1975.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 12 of the scan

Last weck His saga Look a new and yet more serious turn. Prompted by allegations by Lord Annan attributed the mass struggles at Essex University in 1974 (when over 100 student pickets were arrested) to a handful of extremist agitators' an extremist Tory politician asked 'questions' in Parliament about the use of student union funds at North London Poly. As a result the Labour Attorney General, Samuel Silkin QC, has ordered the Director of Public Prosecutions to look into the student So Scotland Yard - whose use of funds is never investigated by anyDOdy are now looking at the finthe police and the state at North London Poly. What is at stake is who the right of students to use their organisations and the money allocated to them to advance their-own political interests and side with working class struggles.

Cutbacks

In a period of intensifying class struggle and with even bigger spending cutbacks threatened in higher education, nothing would suit the ruling class more than the political and organisational castration of student unions. The working class and students must see to it that the ruling class's wishes are frustrated.

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