Students Fight Cuts

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The wave of occupations now taking place in colleges and universities throughout WAGE PENDS the country is clear testimony to student willingness to fight the proposed tuition fee increases.

The proposals were announced last November by Shirley Williams and will mean an average 313% increase in fees. These increases represent nothing more than a direct governmental attack on education in Britain.

Overseas students will be particularly hard hit; Williams has already declared her intention to reduce the number of overseas students from 80,000 to 70,000 by 1980.

And as 47% of all nostoraduates are self-financing, the increases will obviously mean a clearing out here also.

The proposed increases are thus clearly an education cut, and go hand-in-hand with Williams' other proposals to shut down as many teacher training colleges as she can.

Needless to say these attacks on students will soon be followed by attacks on all workers in the education sector: lecturers maintenance staff and catering workers alike.

Less students, therefore less work, therefore less jobs: this is the real nature of Williams' Education "Mahata"

In the face of these attacks the Broad Left leaderhsip of the National Union of Students have done absolutely nothing.

Or more accurately, they have gone out of their way to defuse existing struggles and to prevent any new ones from getting off the ground.

Recent struggles at Essex, LSE and elsewhere (see p.5 for details) prove once again that the fight against the nronneed inaraacac VAAN MAVANGOVO necessitates a fight against the Broad Left within the NUS, and Cont'd Back Page, Col 5.

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Essential to preparing an all-out attack on the trade unions is the issuing of cards and the formation of crews, 20,000 fishermen withdrew their labour.