Solidarity 090, 23 March 2006

The British student left in NUS

By Daniel Randall, NUS NEC (personal capacity) 2005/6 will not go down as a proud year in the history of the National Union of Student. NUS’s campaigning has detoriorated to the extent that its national demonstration was actually cancelled. Meanwhile the union continues to cosy up to both Blairite ministers and education sector bosses. The union’s democracy and the engagement of its members with its structures continue to diminish. Hundreds of thousands of pounds have gone to waste on needless fripperies while right-wing bureaucrats on the NEC told the membership that there was no money...

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On the Sydney (Australia) demonstration of 18 March, as well as London’s, there was a voice for the Iraqi labour movement. Members of Workers’ Liberty Australia and other supporters of “Aus-Iraq” distributed a leaflet headed: “No to occupation, no to ethnic and sectarian division, yes to the civilising, unifying power of Iraq’s trade unions”. The Sydney demonstration, however, was small — fewer than a thousand. There were 800 in Dublin, 450 in Warsaw, and according to the Los Angeles Times 1000 in New York, 7000 in Chicago, 200 in Washington. 1000 in Stockholm, 2000 in Copenhagen. The London...

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