Anti-nuclear campaign opposes weapons

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to the objectives of the Anti-Nuclear Campaign at its first annual meeting last weekend.

Over 120 people attended, with the national organisations affiliated to the campaign. The latter includes the International Marxist ament was defeated. paign to make unilateral disarmament by Britain one of the campaigning priorities, reference to the Cruise misiles. but the debate explored how divisive it might be to adopt this as a major objective.

resoutions dealing with focuses called for an anti-nuclear carnival sometime next year, education of the public on nuclear power, and work within the and the Socialist A proposal to adopt a demand for unilateral nuclear disarm But a later resolution called for the camano tnis was passeo will specul Most speakers agreed with unilateral nuclear disarmament, national campaigning SUNDERLAND's Labour-controlled council has vetoed bursary scheme • that would have helped •overseas students to pay the two hundred per cent increase in their fees at the town's polytechnic.

The huge rise in fees, im. posed by the government fo racist reasons. , means that it is be a foreign stu at Harvard Universil) than at Sunderland Poly.

The bursar scheme had approved by the por authorities, the loca council says that it would b This is in spite of th jaci inal reessiae una ore polys are already running such a scheme Brabban, student union president Sunderland •describes counci decision 'disgusting and prejudiced.

• 19 June 1980

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THE demand for 'no nuclear weapons' was added week. delegates from local and regional anti-nuclear groups or from representatives, Sylvia Jones from the Wales TUC,

Sunderland ditches