The left's sub-minimum programmes have led to a bureaucrats' victory, writes Boz Cirrik After protracted birth pangs, the National Union of Students has finally passed its governance review under the 'inspirational' presidency of Wes Streeting. The package achieved infamy among student left activists for the comprehensive manner in which it destroyed what remained of NUS democracy. ...
At a National Union of Students extraordinary conference yesterday, the NUS leadership got what they have been wanting for some time. They have gutted NUS of the bulk of its already pitifully cramped internal democracy; after the passing of the governance review by a two-thirds majority at a previous extraordinary conference on November 12 2008, ...
by Laurie Smith, Communist Students The five rebel delegates from Sheffield University who broke a mandate to vote for the NUS governance review were called to a disciplinary hearing on Wednesday 14th. We were found guilty of breaking the mandate imposed by SRC (Student Representative Council) and have been banned from delegate elections for a year. At ...
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Here is our full report of NUS conference, following on from the teaser produced midway through conference by Dave Isaacson. Although the right’s governance review was not passed at this year’s National Union of Students conference, the fragmented left suffered a series of defeats. Chris Strafford and Ben Klein report If last year was a rightwing orgy, ...
Although the NUS is hardly the fighting organisation that students need, we must defeat the right-wing attacks on democracy in the NUS - and the April 1-3 conference is the last chance to stop the bureaucrats. By Tina Becker It wasn't really a surprise that at the NUS extraordinary conference on December 4 2007 just over ...
All democrats, socialists and democrats should reject efforts by student unions to actually increase state censorship. By Shelley Martin The NUS has an automatic ‘no platform policy' in place, which bans all members of the British National Party and the Islamic organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir from standing in NUS elections on any levels. It also bans them ...
The sectarianism and economism of the left has prevented a united challenge in the NUS elections. By James Turley Sofie Buckland, it seems, is very annoyed indeed. Buckland, member of the Alliance for Workers' Liberty (AWL), its student front Education Not for Sale (ENS), and the NUS's ‘block of 12' (a part-time group of officers), had been ...
It sounds almost farcical: why would the leadership of the National Union of Students try to abolish democracy in its own organisation? CS member Tina Becker reports Let’s be honest. Most students don’t really know what the NUS is, let alone what it does or how it operates. And who can blame them? Currently, it is ...