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AFTER six months of deliberations, 'Socialist Students in NOLS? [the National Organisation of Labour Students] has finally got off the ground. At a meeting on Saturday 13th, Labour Club activists discussed the issues on which we felt both main factions in NOLS - Clause 4 and Militant - were weak, and came up with an agreed platform and plans.

We decided to set about changing NOLS policies:

* Palestine: for a democratic secular state: affiliation to the Labour Committee on Palestine.

* Ireland: troops out now, affiliate to the Labour Committee on Ireland.

* Poland: full support for Solidarnosc, recognition of the NZS (student Solidarnosc) as the sole voice of Polish students.

Outgoing

The workshops also felt that the women's work of NOLS shouid be developed into more outgoing campaigning, and that NOLS comrades on the National Union of Students executive should be accountable to NOLS.

The workshop on NUS agreed that the far left didn't have a coherent set of tactics. It was generally agreed that indefinite occupations were a recipe for disaster, and that we needed to be pushing for joint action with college trade unions.

Budget

The Labour Party workshop was taken up with a discussion about the possibility of the Young Socialists being closed down. We agreed to ask Labour Clubs and YSs to write to the NOLS national committee demanding that NOLS rejects any offer of money from the Labour Party budget diverted after a shutdown of the YS. We also thought Labour clubs should affiliate to 'Labour Against : We agreed that Socialist Students in NOLS should hold a couple of meetings at National Union of Students conference, and produce our own briefing document. To keep in touch with each other and involve new clubs we shall be producing a bulletin.

If you want the bulletin, or your Labour Club wants to affiliate to SSIN, send £5 (clubs) £1 (individuals) to: Jane Ashworth, 13 Buxton Road, London N19. THE Guardian is running a series this week called 'Organising Women' Sounds promising?

So what's number one about? "In the first of a series this week: looking at the way women in Britain get organised, Hugh Herbert talks to Lady BadenPowell about the evergreen quality of guiding..

Radical stuff this! •When she came to England to marry [from what was then Rhodesia, don't you know], Lady Patience met B-P's widow, Olave, the World's Chief Guide... 'I thought, well, I ought to do something now I'm married, so perhaps |'I do the organisation the family's connected with, the Guides' And' we find that the principles of the Girl Guides "have always been about self-reliance and leadership, which for girls is surely feminist enough