The preliminary agenda of the 15th Annual General Conferonce of the National Association of Labour Student Organisations shows that the Labour students are retaining their left tradition.
On defence, Koo1$"*qu11 condemn the resumption of tests by the Vest Keole furthermore doplores the attitude of the Parliamentary Labour Party on this question. Hull calls for the Labour Party to implement conference decision on the removal of Polaris bases from Britain, Nottingham calls for support for the Committee of 100 and Keole condemns the moves to put up separato C.N.D. candidates in olections.
Three resolutions condemn the Government's colour bar Bill from be rystwyth, Loicester and Nottingham. Both Leicester and Nottingham support the stand that the Parliamentary Labour Party have taken on the Bill and call for the extension of the campaign. Leicester also calls for support for Fenner Brockway'!s Private Member's Bill which would outlaw recailist propaganda. Threo resolutions on Algeria all call for support for the struggle of the Algerian people, Swansea deplores the vacillation of the Labour Party on the question, while Manchester urges a campaign on the question and calls for the Labour Party to ensure that N.A.T.0. facilities are refused to the French for their military operations in Algeria, and Nottingham calls for full support for the F.L.N. and the Algerian Provisional Government by supplying money and materials, Ina further resolution, Nottingham also calls for the expulsion of the liollet party from the Second International and in particular the Mollet Youth Organisation from I,U.Y.S, and instoad the recognition of roeprosentatives of the United Socialist Party, Hull condemns the colonial wars being waged by Portugal and calls for the British Government to stop supplying arms to Portugal and expresses dis~ says it would like to see a reforendum on the question, whilst Hull deplores the Governnent's deliberate failure to make kno the political implications of joining. Nottingham calls for the readmission $.D.S. (Gorman Socialist Students) to the I.U.Y.S as a full member,
On industrial affairs, Nottingham has two resolutions one demanding the withdrawal of the T.U.C. from the Goverments planning board (N.§.D.C.) and the other condemns Frank Cousins for congratulatin,; Lord Rootes on the so-called successful conclusion of the Actin strike, Manchester has a resolution calling industry democracy and Koele deplores the Governments wages pause and affirms support for industrial action to oppose this policy. Swansea calls for a biennial (instead Of quinquennial) reviow of students grants and a sliding scale based on the cost of living indox,
Two resolutions oppose anti democratic practices in the Labour Party, Aberystwyth opposing the expulsion of Jack Sheppard from the Pembrokeshire Labour Party for his C.N.D. activities,and Nottingham condemns the rejection by the N.u.C. of the Labour Party of lirnie Roberts candidature for Horsham, Two resolutions reject Woodrow Wyatt's proposal for the Lib/Lab. alliance, from Liverpool and Hull,
An interesting resolution from Hull calls for a policy aimed at merge ing the Young Socialists and N.A.L.S.0. into one "Independent Socialist Youth Movement", It suggest working for the rapid movement of the Young Socialists towards independence, significantly calling for the working with Young Guard on all this, Leicester calls for the “xecutive to work cut plans for increasing links with the Young Socialists,
N.B. We will be publishing a report of the Conference from one of the delegates.