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Labour Students is one of the most powerful factions within NUS. From the founding of NOLS in 1971 until the the late 1970s, NOLS worked within NUS as part of the Broad Left, a student co-alition which also included the student wings of the Communist Party of Great Britain and Liberal Party and other non-Trotskyist left-wing individuals. The Broad Left stood slates of candidates in NUS elections. The Broad Left is not to be confused with the [Student Broad Left], a grouping led by the 'Socialist Action' faction. In the late 1970s NOLS broke with the Broad Le ...

Labour Students: Encyclopedia II - Labour Students - National Union of Students

Labour Students - National Union of Students

Labour Students is one of the most powerful factions within NUS.

From the founding of NOLS in 1971 until the the late 1970s, NOLS worked within NUS as part of the Broad Left, a student co-alition which also included the student wings of the Communist Party of Great Britain and Liberal Party and other non-Trotskyist left-wing individuals. The Broad Left stood slates of candidates in NUS elections. The Broad Left is not to be confused with the [Student Broad Left], a grouping led by the 'Socialist Action' faction.

In the late 1970s NOLS broke with the Broad Left and presented its own slate of candidates in NUS elections.

In 1982 NOLS won the presidency of NUS for the first time. A succession of NOLS candidates were elected to the NUS Presidency until 2000 with the strongest challenges generally coming from those to the left of the Labour Party. Throughout this period, NOLS members of the NUS National Executive Committee were a minority, but exercised effective control in alliance with other non-Trotskyist members.

In 2000, facing defeat Labour Students decided not to select a candidate for NUS President choosing instead to support the Organised Independent Owain James (who was an ordinary member of Labour Students) as an independent. Labour Students officially regained the presidency in 2002, but in 2004 lost it to a candidate of the Campaign for Free Education, an organisation dominated by the Trotskyist Alliance for Workers' Liberty.

Labour Students currently holds five places on the NUS National Executive Committee: the Presidency of both NUS Scotland and NUS Wales, two positions on the part-time Block of 12 and the National Women's Officer.

Labour Students supports more targeted support for poorer students rather than universal grants.

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