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Lockdown Skeptics
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Colleges hit election mode - will the Left for once be organised? national |
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 Thursday January 23, 2003 11:55 by Lefty student
 or will infighting on the left let in more hacks? This is just a plea to left wing students everywhere to get organised and stop people like Aonghus Hourihane getting elected! I've been watching this website for a while and it seems much of the time people on the left spend more time attacking each other than people like Aonghus Hourihane or other right wing Students' Union officers. Surely this is pointless. We have bigger fish to fry. Election time is coming up in Colleges around the country. We can work together to get as many people elected to SU's around the country or we can choose to fight each other. And thus let more FFers into positions of influence. There's been a lot of talk on indymedia about "hacks" in students unions and how they aren't interested in students. Fair enough, many (not necessarily all) are. But why are they there? Because they were elected. Why did they get elected? Because they were better organised than the left. So let's get organised, and let's get organised now. The alternative is more of the same, with a conservative Students Union leadership and those of us who want a more progressive SU on the outside shouting in. |
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