Essex University students have pled- Coventry, and the University of East Ang the sudeets' onion on Toesday vored bi tinal answer, do you think this can be braught about through Parliament? No chance. We'll have to fight If you ask the capitalists to step down they won't do that without a struggle.
What ahout Gormley's iden of only having 6-man picket?
If we had mase pickets we would have stopped the lot today and only 'union coal' would have been allowed through. Instead of organising hig demonstrations everywhere we ought to have mass pickets to stop the coal now. ged their full support to the miners the present strike and offered facilities and asistance to miners pickets operating in the area.
The Student General Mooting which look this step on Tuesday (12 February), went on to affirm its helief that solidarity with the miners strugee was the best way of strengthening the stadents light for improved grants. An action consmittee was set up to prepare a campaign ol action, which will inclade a public rally on the Miners" Strike and the Fight Against Phas 3*, to which a miner, a calleyman, and a spokesman of the Shrowsbury building workers" defence committee will be invit od.
The Essex students also decider to step up their struggle aguest attempts by the University adminetration to victimise students involved in activily around the grants campaign, and are planning a day of action" during the week in which disciplinary bearings directed against students inwill inchant mackets and canteen boscotts The meeting instructed the studente union 10 Sus the Coman st tic tion and the vice-chancellor should reluse to implement Government policy which acts against the interests of students.
Essex students, with the backing of the National Union of Students, and organising a natiocal antivictimistion confercice for 16 March, Muses lowands organising practical solid urity with the miners have also boon taken lia in Norwich Al Warwick over 300 students attended a mass meeting on Monday addressed by Warwickshire miners, and decided to set up 1 support committee which is receiving full backinp and financial support from the students" union students ar Warwick Liversity, In At Norwich an emergency meeting of a large majority for a motion that staled This union inconditionally supports th NUM in Its struggle against the Govori ment. They decided to send a messag of sotidarity to the NUM executive, in vite a member of the executive to give a public lochire for a foo of 1250, and to se up sapport commo to organs local assistance for the miners' atruggle call on Irish issue ety in group of left-wing laayen) referred to the trials of picketing building worker at Shrowsbury, saying: The confrontation between the miners and the Tories differ only slightly from the confrontation bet ween the oppressed minority in the Nottl of Ireland and the Scatc, It is the differ ence between Winchester and Shrewsbury Other speakers at the meeting include Journalist Famonn MoCann and traine pay chiatrist Dr Dominic Costa.
The meeting passod a resolution sur porting the call made by the Irish Tran port and General Workers" Union to th British TUC, for the British labour mow ment to hack the demands of the politica This week the Finchley Garage (Lon don) branch of the T&GWU passed a reso union condemning the barbarism won in the force-feeding, while the shop stev ands committee at University College Hos Dial London has called for the prisone to be trunsferred to Nortern Ireland.
BOR PURDIE