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NUS conference: radicalism continues
NUS conference: radicalism continues
Last Modified: 01 Apr 2008
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Darshna Soni
Billed as a struggle between left and right, a motion for modernisation is rejected by delegates at the NUS annual conference.
The National Union of Students was the organisation that led student sit-ins against Vietnam, apartheid and the abolition of grants - and it seems that radicalism is set to continue.
A motion by Labour supporters at the NUS conference in Blackpool is defeated after critics said it would destroy the union's democratic heart.
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