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candidate in the convenors elections in the plant since the secret ballot was introduced in 1974 in order to remove the left leadership and install the right wing.

The WRP's daily newspaper struggled to cover Tom 'Newsline' has White's humiliating defeat, since in previous elections he has topped the poll for the deputy convenor positions and WRP members have been led to believe that he was about to win this elecWas tion for convenor.

Ducked

Thursday's 'Newsline' ducked the issue, simply printing a few obscure words reporting Fryer's victory and noting that Tom White got "over 120 votes"

On Friday, Healy recovered himself and produced a lengthy "theoretical" rationalisation of White's defeat for the consumption of bewildered WRP members (who may have got hold of the voting figures).

Fryer's victory, he said, *represents the hesitations that are apparent in the working class as they face the: most momentous struggles in their history.

(Still no voting figures are given - this time Fryer is said to have won by a "clear majority").

Blame

To blame the workforce and point to hesitation is wrong from every standpoint. The reality is that following repeated sell-outs, Spread We're offering bundles of five each week for £1 post free, and bundles of 10 for £1.75 post free. That's £12 for three months for bundles of 5, and £21 for bundles of ten.

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Name Address. Call for labour move es of Socialist Organiser. I enclose Organiser FUND ment solidarity-p.3 Sell! THE largest all-student demonstration since the 1960s was how the NUS described the 15,000 strong march and rally in London last Friday. The rally marked the end of the NUS week of action designed to publicise the importance of Further and Higher Education and the increasing hardships that students have to face.

The aim, an NUS spokesperson told Socialist Organiser, has been to persuade Tory backbenchers to pressure the government into ploughing more finance into higher education. Yet at the same time, the Left Alliance (Liberals, SDP and Communist Party) which controls the NUS Executive has camrayons occupations and race paigned vigorously direct action students.

Recent

Karent accupations the Polytechnic of Central London and elsewhere have been denounced by the NIS leadership.

Yet a government which shows no sign of weaking its attach upon education at all seems encouraged by NIS feebleness.

massive Scep udent: innock increases in fees for overseas students, cuts and a grant rise of only 7%. This year the rise looks like being nearer 4%-well below the rate of inflation.

The scale of parental contributions has been frozen so that students from low-paid working class families will have to depend upon their parents to towards their grants.

Grants are becoming even harder to obtain for many courses. Most students in the Further Education sector receive no grants talk of Now there is closing whole departments in Universities and Polytechnics. The present NUS leadership seems to be bringing about cynicism and demoralisation amongst students. Yet also a degree of frustration could be seen at Friday's rally.

Heckling

tical and heck listened to Labour's fronteil itbench education spoke person, who promised thi Labour would honour i policy of guaranteed cours and grants for all 16 to 1 year olds.

The second speaker, SD MP lan Wrigglesworth w. met with howls of abuse ar rally organisers had to appe to students to stop throwi eggs. The NUS President m with only a slightly warm response from the crow fight for a WORKERS Orge So Pamy 40p plus postage from Socialist Orga iser, 28 Middle Lan London N°

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