This year’s National Union of Students conference passed a motion from UCL Union calling for NUS to lobby the government to ban the fascist website Redwatch. Education Not for Sale has published two contributions to the debate from left students who oppose calling for state bans on fascists.

In the first article, Manchester University delegate Vicky Thompson explains why she opposed the UCL motion. In the second, AWL supporter Sacha Ismail responds to a letter in the 23 April Guardian from the three SWP/Respect councillors in Tower Hamlets which calls for a state ban on the fascistic Islamist group al-Muhajiroun. See here [1].