Unions must back Brightol quotas fight

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More than 200 police were called in to defend scab copies of the Nottingham Evening Post last Saturday after 400 workers turned up to picket the building. Ten pickets were arrested when police from Nottingham and the neighbouring Lincolnshire force charged as the picket line gathered for a meeting.:

The picket was called by the NUJ after 28 journalists on the Post were sacked for taking part in the recent national pay strike.

Although NUJ members joined the picket from Glasgow, Ipswich, London, Oxford, Birmingham and other places, a promised mobilisation by the dUBS Police hold back Nottingham pickets TGWU offices.

Petty sabotage and evasion have increasingly become the method of the union leaders.

Socialist Press appeals to • Last Thursday, after a 2-1 majority decision, students moved into occupation of the main administrative building to take direct action against the implementation of quota restrictions against overseas students. • The administration had been carrying out this policy in line with DES policy.

The quotas are a racist attack on a particularly vulnerable sector of students but hava wider implications for alt students in that they provide a stepping stone to imposa, more offectively the Labour govern.

*For TGWU mobilisation effecting picketing.

*For full blacking:

*For a TGWU national delegate conference to map out a decisive policy for the ment's consistant. attacks on education and other social services expenditure.

The Broad Left union executive had full knowledge of these attacks since last June but had carried out no fight to initiate a campeign against them.

Their opposition to independent action was clearly shown when the leading Stalinists on the Union. Executive in a frenzied outburst announced his resignation, being incapable of abiding by the democratic dacision of the meating.

The Broad Left was conspicuously absent from subsequent occupation meetings.

The students' initial demand on the administration-for an emergency Sonate meeting and for a revarsal of their present policy-was stubbornly rafused.

A WSL member on the occupation committee strassed the importance of approaching the various unions involved in the admissions procedure-the AUT and NALGO-to win from them a commitment to carry out in practice their national policy of opposition to the quotas by withdrawal of labour.

NALGO has so far issued only a verbal condemnation of Senate policy.

The NUS Executive must now be forced to take action to make this occupation part of a national campaign:

The issue must also be taken by students fighting to build strong contingents for the grants day of action on 9 March and picket the DES in London.