The results of the recent postal ballot in the AUEW hold: some important lessons for student militants. The acreal or me terts Jimmy Keld and Bob Wright) and the consequent rightwing majority on the executive was achieved through a mass propaganda campaign on TV and radio and in the local and national press under the banner of moderation What moderation' means, of course, is equally clear - wage restraint, unemployment, cuts in the social services, etc.
This defeat came about precisely because, in the absence of debate in branen meetings and on the shop-hoor the isolation of workers in their homes made mem suscepubie to une only source of information available - the media. This situation was worsened by the absence of any clear perspective from the Broad Left leadership for orLamsine a smuggle aramnst wace-curs and unemployment.
Only by linking the campaign for a class struggle perspective with a fight for the improved operation of union structures - tought tor and developed in the course of struggle class interests be aerenaca. AS IL IS through postal ballots union leaderships become the terrain of the right. conference to discuss these questions. We are also askkng the left tendencies to meet to draw up a joint statement at the conference. Finally we call on all socialist students to discuss our differences and support this call OT WIV