MORE ANTI-APARTHEID NOTES: New boycott struggle in Aberdeen

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NEW BOYCOTT STRUGGLE IN ABERDEEN frou Robert Gray and Alec Bagley

Boycott supporters gained 4 victory when the AGM of Aberdeen University Union passed - by 33--31 - a boyeott resolution on May 8th. The low turnout and the narrow majority may not look good in universities further south: here it represents a breakthrough for political awareness among students normally politically immobile. It should encourage the boycott movement in all Scottish universities, and is an unofficial vote of confidence in Aberdeen's Town Council. Moreover, such resolutions, by university unions and all the innumerable elected bodies in our daily life, build up a climate of opinion in which positive government action becomes feasible, the demand for it irresistible.

As this is written, a campaign by right-wing students to call a Special Meeting of the Union on this matter - as is their right - is under way. Aberdeen Town Council has shown us the way; for the University to lag behind in this world issue of human rights would be disgraceful..

Messages of support for those students involved in the struggle to preserve the boycott decision will be appreciated, and should be sent tosPresident, Students! Union, Aberdeen. Letters to Gandie (the student paper) would also help, and should go to: 9, Shoe Lane, Aberdeen.