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| November | | 12 NUS Extraordinary Conference, Wolverhampton | | 15-16 Student Action for Refugees Conference, London | | 15 Unite Against Fascism protest outside BNP conference, Blackpool | | 19 Palestine Solidarity Campaign lobby of Parliament, London | | 22-23 NUS Black Students’ Conference | | December | | 6 Latin America 2008 Conference, TUC Congress House, London | | 6 National Climate March, London | | 6 Abortion Rights AGM, TUC Congress House, London |
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|  | In April NUS Annual Conference rejected the NUS leadership’s ‘governance review’ a proposed new constitution that would have seriously weakened NUS’ democratic structures. But instead of respecting this decision the NUS is now seeking to push through the proposed changes at an Extraordinary Conference on November 12th in Wolverhampton.
All those who want to see a diverse, campaigning and democratic NUS must come to the Extraordinary Conference on November 12th to vote against these proposals. Many students’ unions have already selected their delegations, others are doing so now find out today how you can attend the Conference as a delegate from your students’ union. Read more |
|  | The student movement faces a number of challenges over the next year. The government’s 2009 review of top-up fees is almost upon us. Those who support even higher fees for students, commercial rates of interest on student loans and graduate tax have been lobbying politicians hard and using the media to air their views. Without strong opposition to this agenda there is little hope of students avoiding a defeat like that in 2004 when Parliament voted to support top-up fees.
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|  | The core of the international financial crisis is the uncompetitive state of the US economy reflected in its huge balance of payments deficit. This reflects major overvaluation of the dollar, which in turn was reflected in the last period in an unsustainable overpricing of US assets compared to their real international values.
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|  | On the 35th anniversary of the military overthrow of Salvador Allende in Chile on September 11, 1973, which had the overt support of the United States, the presidents of Bolivia and Venezuela have asked the US ambassadors accredited to their countries to leave. They both believe they are facing the possibility of an imminent coup d้tat in which they accuse the Americans of being involved. A third country, Paraguay, announced ten days ago that they had detected a conspiracy involving military officers and opposition politicians. Latin America now faces its most serious crisis since the re-introduction of democratic practice at the end of the last century.
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|  | The Let Palestinians Study campaign has recently been launched to call for the release of students trapped in Gaza. They have a number of campaigning activities upcoming on campuses across the country and supporters of Student Broad Left are encouraged to get involved.
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| The tide has certainly turned. For decades, ideas that were once were a reference point for social progress have been derided and marginalised. Now the neo-liberal consensus, which was certain of its own invincibility, has been swept aside by what could well be the greatest financial crisis in history. Millions can now see with their own eyes that the emperor has no clothes.
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|  | Almost daily we are seeing what rich countries can do when faced with a debt crisis. Hundreds of billions of pounds have been made available in recent weeks to bail out western banks whose reckless lending has been found out.
Meanwhile, the developing world is still suffering the impact of a decades-old debt crisis which has had catastrophic consequences for the people of the Global South. Like today's crisis, the developing world debt crisis was based on reckless lending decisions and is hurting those least responsible. But unlike today's crisis, there has been no instant bailout for the world's poor.
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