[Charles Clarke, Stalinist backed "Broad Left' candidate, was…]
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Charles Clarke, Stalinist backed "Broad Left' candidate, was elected the new President of the National Union of Students at Llandudno last week, ousting right-winger John Randall.
The International Socialists candidate, Terry Povey, moved into second place with an increased vote over last year, while the Workers Revolutionary Party continue to move from weakness to weakness picking up only 5 votes in all reflecting that party's complete failure to challenge the opportunist, reformist leadership of the NUS.
The growing vote for IS and the removal of Randall indicate some of the pressures within eve: the heavily bureaucratised lavers who frequent NUS conference. The blatant inability of *he previous leadership to lead success. ful struggles in students' detence became an embarassment even to the Stalinists who had maintained alliance with Randall against the revisionists during most of this term of office.