Police used at LSE
Socialist Press1977 1977-03-02Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 5 →
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A Students Union meeting decided on February 9th to occupy the administration building of the London School of Economics in order to fight the fee increases.
After a week of occupation, the four executive members who were participating in the occupation, (two Tories, a Liberal and an "independent"") tried to sabotage the occupation by giving slanderous press statements that the "extreme left was using the occupation for its own ends"
They then went on to engage in private discussions with Dahrendorf asking him to somehow end the occupation.
However, a union meeting soon established who the real 'extremists' were.
It voted by over 500 votes to 140 to throw out a motion submitted by these four calling for an injunction by the 'liberal' Dahrendorf, led another section of the students' leadership to capitulate.
The Broad Left at the next union meeting sided with the Tories in voling to call off the occupation and they were likewise defeated this time by 314 votes to 299.
On Tuesday February 23rd, the 'friendly' Judge granted an order for , possession of the occupied sections of the college. But when the Sheriff of London came to the school with the police escort - he found the doors leading to occupied sections of the building padlocked and chained.
Unable to gain entry, he left, threatening to come back with a