Thousands of building workers marched through Birmingham on Wednesday 23 October -the same day as 2,500 students also demonstrated in the city. The failure to link up the 'wreckers': while at Kent they were "International Marxist hooligans".
Now Sir Keith Joseph coins the phrase left wing bully boys'. Who are they referring to?
At Essex the wreckers were the hundreds of students who occupied the administration to demand lower prices and rents; the same students who were later systematically attacked and arrested on a picket line by over 200 police. At Kent the hooli gans can only be the 600 students who occupied, and thus won the reinstatement of a victimised student.
Sadly for Sir Keith, the left wing bully Boys' soem to be growing. With over fifty colleges taking some form of direct action this term, culminating in a demonstration al 1,500 in Birmingham last Wednesday, Sur Keith certainly has cause for concern.
*NO MORE CUTS The demonstrators in Birmingham, marching against further cuts in education spending, and taking up the slogan of liccan prices. Ireelt tunts, no more cuts at our uxpense, gave warning that the fight against the erosion of students" liing standards will continue. The presence of Pat Hickey, a local UCATT convenor, on the platform symbolised the nood for a common fight by students, college and building workers avainst coucation on the cheap and for more buildings and betIf the campuign against the cuts is to be maintained, then no section of students of collece workers can attord ta be defeat. ed. If the authorities can impose the cuts in one college, then others will take heart and follow suit, Hence a defeat on any issue for any soction of students will have the effect of weakening the ability of students nationally to respond to "education on the cheap policies.
Kent University 'again the soone for attempis by the authorities to expel, stuJents, Three social science students have been victimised for boycotting examina sions last term. The administration have chosen this issue for a showdown.
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The Kent Vice-Chancellor, while making the annual pica of don't rock the boat, recognised the link between the clamp down and the cash criss when he said: "Those who ger involved in these suet of thing.., are victims of their educ ation and of the general climate of soc sety. The authorities also realise they are playing for high stakes They have Bob Findlay and Will Rich appear in the Chelmsford Crown Court this week.
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the joint anny police macocavees, the of what the fature holds in store. it is two was a missed opportunity in terms of building a joint campaign.
cuts However, the clamp-down on student of the courts, and the police violence at of an iceberg This iceberg is now threat workers with a flood of moves to increase The use of the Spocial Patrol Group: authorities.
guoling of flying pickets and anti-fascists: the raids and harassment of the lett and Irish republicans -these are all indications WEEKLY in this light we have to see the attacks ap ainst weak sections of socicty like stud It is for this roason Bat we mest con dean the remarks of NUS President, John Randall, when he added his weighty voice to the chorus whipping up feeling against student direct action. His spooch curfer this term, lashing the wreckers who look direct action to defend their living standof Annen in his whitewash to the Essex Obviously Randall cannot openly Soin forces with the likes of Annan-be has to think of his voting base. But what he hopes to do is to cement a moderate within. He wants to do te Statex job for it.
A defcat for the Kent scudents, who have been in the forefront of stadent struggles over the past three yuars, would Union have called a national demonstratlo on the Canterbury campus for next Wednesday, 6 November, The authori ties have already ploaded with the stad ents to call off this action -they do not want Kent to becone a focus of public sty. Students, all over the country, musti make sure that next Wodoeszy that is cxactly what it becomes Ric Sissons 3,000 Lanilies on the council waitice
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