Students support radical motions

BY NICOLE HILDER

WOLLONGONG — Wollongong University Resistance Club injected radical politics into an otherwise inane annual general meeting of the students representative council on March 20. Instead of actively building the meeting, the SRC set up the PA system on Duckpond Lawn, where students gather for lunch, to achieve a quorum of 50 people.

Resistance members successfully moved three motions: a condemnation of the March 12 attack of the offices of the National Student League for Democracy in Indonesia by right-wing thugs associated with former Indonesian dictator Suharto; support for the National Union of Students' (NUS) April 5 national day of action against the corporatisation of universities; and support for a student strike on May 1 against global corporate tyranny.

Resistance Club member Bronwyn Powell told Green Left Weekly that "the SRC has so far been reluctant to organise students for April 5 or M1. The near unanimous support by students for these motions will now force them to act."

A motion proposed by Gareth Ward, president of the Young Liberals Club, for a referendum to disaffiliate from NUS was defeated.

From GLW issue 442