Why we say no to Campus Watch at South Bank Uni

Socialist Resistance no31 | page 2

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Maxy Newton (Vice President Communications South Bank University -personal capacity) AT THE START of the year the Students Union at South Bank University promised students radical changes. A new intake of officers, a new year and lots or probiens to acal will.

As one of those officers, responsible for communication, I realised in September that our work would be cut out for us. The Guardian published a front page article claiming that the Islamic Society here were harbouring terrorists.

It was my job to issue a response arguing that they were not terrorists and this was a political attack, not just on them, but on the student body itself. I wrote the Guardian a letter which they refused to print, in spite of me ringing them and they agreeing they would. So much for open

We organised a Respect meeting at the beginning of the year with George Galloway and the cousin of Jean Charles De