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When Jonathan Guinness of the Monday Club turned up to speak at Portsmouth Polytechnic on the same day as the Essex meeting he met a different situation. A united let caucus, including the IMG. IS, LPYS, and Communist Party, had decided to implement the NUS policy. Two hundred students and staff stopped Guinness from entering ers from getting out. The Student Union supported the action Following this success, the united left caucus decided to send out a letter to the local labour movement, explaining their actions, and to organise a teach-in on fascism and racism in the near future.
There was saccess also for antifascists in Cambridge where a united front of trade unionists and socialists heid a big public meeting in the Market Place. This was to oppose the sale of NF literature, which hud taken place there recently The fascists did not dare to show their faces, BIRMINGHAM VICTORY But the biggest victory was in Birmingham, where the NF had called a demonstration for Friday 17 May. They were protesting at the decision by the Council to cancel their booking at the Digbeth Civic Hall. The Birmingham Campaign Against i Racisa. which had campaigned to get the NF banneid from the hall. called a counter demonstraton Whille only 100 drageed themselves behind the NF, 500 rumed out for the counter-demonstration. They came from diverse organisations, and ACCORDING TO STEVE PARRY. a Communist Party member and secretary of the National Union of Students, the NUS Conference resolution on "no platform for racists and fascist is 'being used by Trotsky ists and the idual acts of violence which merely salve their political purity rather than for mass action involving the mass of students Parry secons to be looking for an opportunity to salve his policical purity and get rid of the NUS's 'embarrassing' policy. He will get his chanco with the calling of in Extraordinary Conference of the NUS for 15 June, which will also discuss the response of students to the recent increase in student ACTION The 'no platform" policy of the NUS has been taken up in action by students from the word go. Actions hy students in Oxtord avainst Harold north of Ireland), ultra left to justify indivthe reaction of the Association of University Teacbors, the Councit of Vloc Chancellors and Priocipals, Lahour minis ters and all the people who, in their eyes.
far as students ingercats ane concerned organise. Do they support the LIYS stewards? Do they think that this is the way to forge unity against the far right in the labour movement?