Firstly, sorry about this rather belated post, no real excuses apart from waiting to find out exactly what'll be going on in the University this term.
Another reason for this post being so late was that we originally wanted to report on Union Council although have decided, for the time being at least, that participation would be useless and worst and boring at best.
I'd also like to thank all the students who signed up during the Societies Fair. We spoke to loads of people and it certainly seems that the drought of left-wing, activist students has finally subsided! It was good to see the Socialist Workers' Student Society and Young Socialists present, and we plan to have a joint open meeting with the latter in a couple of weeks: Watch this space!
I'm going to post each issue as separate pieces so people are able to comment on each individually without getting wires crossed. These are the main issues as we see them. (Yes, there are quite a lot of 'main' issues, but unfortunately history seems to have left HUU in the dark-ages politically) So, in no particular order:
- · HUU Governance Review
- · No Platform Policy and anti-fascist work.
- · Campaign for free education
- · National Union of Students
- · Emergence of other Left Groups on campus.
- · Men's Officer
Comradely,
Hull-Left
2 comments:
If you're committed to "grass-roots action", why are your meetings so poorly advertised? Few people know you exist. Please ignore your preconceptions of advertising as trashy and populist, and embrace the 21st century. Create a Facebook group for Hull Left and groups affiliated with it, put a few posters up, and hold regular meetings which Leftist Hull students (and there are many you're not aware of) can attend should they be interested. I'm sure that you'd vocally agree that what you're fighting for is one of the most important endeavours in the world today. Start acting like it. Make people you don't already know aware of what you do and how to get involved.
Interesting thoughts Anonymous. Fair point about the poor advertising. However, for obvious reasons left wing groups are often underfunded. Also you have very cleverly shifted the blame for the lack of activity. If you want a left wing organisation at Hull uni go out there and push for it. One more thing - there are reasons why the left dislike facebook. Peter Thiel, a director on the board, is a well known neocon while one of its investors, Greylock Venture Capital, has links with the CIA.
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