Sassex University students have stepped up their campaign in defence of their living standards, and in so doing have given a lead to all students as the NUS weck of action approaches.
The occupation of the University has been extended to the whole of the administration building, except those offices dealing with campus workers" pay. Approaches are being made to the local TGWU to help with picketing the University entran pes.
The students have heen driven to these tacties by the continuing decline in their living standards and the obstinacy of the authoritics in refusing to budge an inch on the students" demands for the dropping of a proposed 28 per cent rent increase, the removal of a 12% per cent price rise, and for the full registration of all students.
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The occupation has continued to draw in support, with over 1500 students Active support is being maintained through daily mass meetings, with a committee elected and recallable to them.
Every deleration sent to negotiate with the authorities or to explain the back in full to the mass meetings. It is in this way that all students involved can participale and control the decisions and future tactics of the campaign.
But it is the solidarity of the working class that will crove docisive. Both NALGO and ASTMS who have already clashed with the Unveraty over nay -have ofleroi support, while the chairwoman of the pation and has been around with the students asking her mcinces to allow them to take over.
Students are not the only section of society to have been hit by the crisis in Ce social survices For this reason soop stewards from NUPE, in the local hospi tal, and UCATT have been to addiess the Bus meetings strike fands, To help strengthen these links a demonstration has been called for Saturday, 9 November in Highton on the town's housing crisis, Both students and tenants realise that the problems onust not be solved at the others' expense. Whitchawk, Manor Farm and Fast Brighcase to trale union branches has to report. telegram of support.
The lessons of the Sussex strucele are crucial to students all over the courtry, sees tor enis reason that the occupa tion made the call for a national delegate conforenco on the cutbacks in education spending and how to fight them-to be held on the weekend of 23-24 November.
the NUS confercoc-gives students COM CAR HEUTEN ICEME - exporiences of this term's activities, and particularly when the rent freeze ends in January- the nant a guns me cuts era national affair, and this meeting will give mutants in one conceus one chane. to make sure that it really is Rick Sissons WEEKLY
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