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 ...
This year's NUS conference voted to support a motion (moved by Workers Power youth group Revo) calling for NUS to lobby the government for a ban of far-right websites such as Redwatch. Vicky T, an anti-fascist and libertarian communist, who was also a delegate from Manchester University at NUS conference, explains why she opposed this ...
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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, ...
The National Union of Students annual conference saw a tactical defeat for the right, but the left would be wrong to celebrate too much. Dave Isaacson reports from Blackpool One policy issue dominated all others in the run-up to this year’s conference - the governance review. As we have previously warned, this was an attempt by ...
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 ...
Communist Students leaflets for NUS conference 2008
CS member Chris Strafford is standing for the NUS block of 12 on a full revolutionary platform. Join the facebook group! Here is his manifesto: As the NUS bureaucracy - ever more firmly in the grip of the right - prepares to gut what remains of the union’s democratic structures, the fight for free education faces ...
The National Union of Students annual conference was held from March 27-29. Ben Lewis and Dave Isaacson report on the consolidation of rightwing control A “rightwing orgy” is how Student Respect member Assed Baig summed up ...
Elections for the bulk of positions on the NUS NEC take place at annual conference. This year there were fewer candidates than normal for many positions. Sadly this was not because the left had pulled together a ...
The National Union of Students holds its three-day annual conference starting on Tuesday March 28. Dave Isaacson, a delegate from Leeds Metropolitan University student union, looks at the left, NUS and student politics Staff and students in universities ...