NUS democracy – mobilise for extraordinary conference!
First posted 24/11/07 . After a month of organising their pet sabbaticals to request an extraordinary conference to push through attacks on democracy, the NUS leadership have succeeded; the conference will be held in Leicester on Tuesday 4 December. The task for left activists is now to get delegated to the conference. Where unions haven’t already held cross-campus ballots for their NUS Annual Conference delegation we should insist they do – there’s no requirement for Extraordinary Conference delegates to be elected, even by union councils or executives, and sabbaticals can hand-pick their...