The Socialist 10 September 2008

Housing Crisis: Brown has no answers

End the wars and occupations

USA: Defying police, students walk out against the Republican national convention

US mortgage bank nationalisation - sign of deepening crisis

Scotland council tax to be scrapped

Scotland: Council pay battle at critical stage

Workers' anger surfaces at TUC

London bus workers inspired by strike

Fighting for decent pensions

In brief

Come to Socialism 2008!

May Day detainees fight for justice

No to post office closures

Boom to bust in Cardiff Bay

Fans pay for the success of the 'beautiful game'

Protest against harassment!

Fighting start to freshers fairs

Young workers ripped off

Bangor University students union fees referendum

Can we have 'the right to travel' - without adding to climate change?

Richard Dawkins: The genius of Charles Darwin, (Channel 4)

Thailand in grip of political deadlock

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Bangor University students union fees referendum

Over the last year Socialist Students and the Campaign to Defeat Fees (CDF) have been tirelessly campaigning for our students union to take a campaigning approach to the question of tuition fees.

Iain Dalton, Bangor University Socialist Students

April last year saw us hold a small protest to accompany the handing in of a 250+ strong petition calling on the students union to organise a referendum on whether the union should adopt the CDF demands on free education as its own. In the last few weeks the students union have finally got back to us with a proposed date for the referendum - Thursday 16 October, which coincidentally is the same date as the next CDF day of action.

In addition to this we have been informed that the national NUS leadership would like to come down and take part in the referendum. It has even been suggested that they would form the main opposition to our proposals. Although, based on their failure to campaign effectively against fees, we find it unsurprising that the current leadership of the National Union of Students is opposed to the CDF.

Surely the NUS's resources would be better spent on doing something about the ridiculous amount of debt just about every student gets into (of which fees are one part of), rather than using bully-boy tactics against students who don't want to accept the poverty we have to endure.