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Labour Students tend to be broadly supportive of Tony Blair's New Labour Government's policies. However, Labour Students have opposed the Government's planned introduction of university "top-up" fees. Many Labour Students members are also members of the Labour Party and are involved with the day-to-day organisation and work of the party.
Labour Students currently has policy supporting fair trade ...
In the 1960s, the National Association of Labour Student Organisations, the Labour Party's student organisation, was (except in Scotland) taken over and destroyed by Trotskyists. This left the party without a national student body.
In 1970 a group of mainstream members created Students for a Labour Victory to co-ordinate campaigning in that year's general election. That organisation became the National Organisation of Labour Students (NOLS ...
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 has three full time sabbatical officers who work at Labour Party headquarters in London. Together with twelve other members they form the National Committee. Labour Students also has a seven member policy forum and a three member steering committee. The policy making bodies are National Conference and National Council, both held annually to which each Labour Club is entitled to send delegates.
Within Labour Students there are separate women's, LGB, Students with Disabilities and Anti-Racism campaigns. There also exists a separate organisation for Labour Clubs in the constituent nations ...
