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70-660: Labour Students’ main activities include providing political education and training to its members, sending activists to by-elections and marginal constituencies across the country and organising politically within the National Union of Students and Student Unions . Labour Students was disaffiliated from the Labour Party by the Party's National Executive Committee in September 2019, with the intent of replacing it with

140-525: A graduate tax was abandoned in favour of calls for free education funded through progressive taxation. The 2008 Conference in Blackpool was dominated by the governance review debate and vote. The proposals were for a restructuring of the running of the Union but the vote was lost by 25 votes (a two-thirds majority was required). The review was criticised for what was felt by detractors to be an attack on

210-565: A charity to drive improvement in students' unions. It will focus on students' union quality, talent management, equality and diversity, strategic development and turnaround, ethical and environmental work, and fundraising. Ethical and environmental work To encourage environmental sustainability , the NUS organises behavioural change programmes among staff and students, such as Green Impact, Student Switch Off, and Student Eats. NUS's ethical and environmental department originated in 1995, forming

280-635: A committee tasked with investigating allegations of environmental bad practice at Bass breweries. In 2016, the department managed the pilot year of NUS Students' Green Fund – a £5 million grant from HEFCE, supporting 25 student-led, transformative sustainability projects at students' unions across England. In 2019, this department became an independent organisation called Students Organisation for Sustainability UK. The NUS has come in for criticism from those students' unions who are not affiliated. Sen Ganesh, then president of Imperial College Union , said in 2002 that "NUS's claim to be representative of students

350-506: A consequence, about half of member clubs, including Oxford University Labour Club and Cambridge University Labour Club , disaffiliated from Labour Students. Further to the disaffiliations by Labour university Clubs, a motion was tabled by Jon Lansman at the Labour Party NEC meeting in September 2019 to dissolve the current organisation on the grounds that it did not pay its affiliation fees nor submitted its political rules to

420-568: A delegate (currently James Asser) to the Labour National Executive Committee and can affiliate at a local level to Constituency Labour Parties . A second seat was allotted to BAME Labour in early 2007, when its membership rose above 2,500. The Socialist Societies also elect three representatives to the National Policy Forum; currently, these are Sina Lari, Andrew Harrop and Paul Clarkson. Since

490-675: A meeting held at the University of London . At this meeting, the Inter-Varsity Association and the International Students Bureau (which organised student travel and had been lobbying for a national body) agreed to merge. Founding members included the unions of University of Birmingham , Birkbeck, University of London , London School of Economics , Imperial College (who first left in 1923 and have subsequently rejoined and left three times,

560-545: A minority, but exercised effective control. Labour Students' flagship policy in NUS was the rejection of campaigning for universal grants, in favour of targeting student support funds towards poorer students through means testing. National Conference 2006 narrowly supported this policy, but it was renewed with a much increased majority in 2007. However, the position was reversed again when National Conference 2016 voted to campaign for universal living grants, funded through progressive taxation, in both further and higher education, in

630-486: A national student body. In 1970, some Labour supporters created Students for a Labour Victory, a group intended to coordinate campaigning in the general election that year . That group then became the National Organisation of Labour Students (NOLS), which held its founding conference in 1971. Despite changing its name in the early 1990s, the current body, Labour Students, is still sometimes referred to by

700-529: A new student organisation. Although campaigning activity continued to be organised under the Labour Students branding during the 2019 general election , the organisation subsequently ceased to exist. A new, refounded National Labour Students (NLS) was passed at the 2021 Labour Party Conference . National Committee elections were held in August 2022 and Ben McGowan was elected as the inaugural chair of

770-624: A policy change that had been pushed forward by the left-wing group, the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts . Recent graduates of Labour Students have often gone on to work in Labour Party headquarters , as ministerial special advisers, Trade Union officials and as members of left-leaning think tanks. Many also go on to enjoy successful careers outside of the politics. National Union of Students (United Kingdom) The National Union of Students ( NUS )

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840-417: A referendum on disaffiliation. In October 2014, NUS National Executive Committee rejected a motion to condemn the militant group Islamic State because some executive members "felt that the wording of the motion being presented would unfairly demonise all Muslims rather than solely the group of people it set out to rightfully condemn." NUS received criticism for this stance given its previous condemnation of

910-617: A result of this, Labour Students was viewed as an influential faction within the NUS and its members were frequently elected to the NUS National Executive Council (NEC) and to full-time officer positions, although 2015 saw a majority of their candidates losing to those to the Left. In the late 1970s, Labour Students (then NOLS) worked within the NUS as part of the Broad Left , a student coalition which also included

980-825: Is a confederation of student unions in the United Kingdom . Around 600 student unions are affiliated, accounting for more than 95% of all higher and further education unions in the UK. Although the National Union of Students is the central organisation for all affiliated unions in the UK, there are also the devolved national sub-bodies NUS Scotland in Scotland, NUS Wales ( UCM Cymru ) in Wales and NUS-USI in Northern Ireland (the latter being co-administered by

1050-437: Is a discount card which can be purchased by students. It is produced by NUS Services in conjunction with NUS, and affiliated students' unions receive a commission on every card sold to their members, however the card is available to all students regardless of whether they are members of an affiliated student union or not. TOTUM users are also eligible to apply for a NUS PASS -approved identification card . NUS has established

1120-618: Is a membership organisation that is affiliated with the Labour Party in the UK . The best-known and oldest socialist society is the Fabian Society , founded in 1884, some years before the creation of the Labour Party itself (in which the Society participated). The Society's membership is relatively small (around 7000) but it exerts much influence in Labour circles. The Co-operative Party

1190-476: Is an "arms length public sector body" and must therefore remain politically neutral. The NUS claimed that the removal of the posters was an attempt to "gag" the union. NUS president Toni Pearce defended the union's actions saying that the breach of a promise regarding tuition fees: "Wasn't a minor misdemeanour. It was an outright lie. We have an obligation to hold them to account for this, and we will." Socialist society (Labour Party) A socialist society

1260-766: Is co-ordinated by the Socialist Societies Executive. This is a regular meeting of the chairs and key officers of all the societies to share ideas and co-ordinate work. These meetings also co-ordinate regular meetings with senior Labour Party officials and MPs. As a collective, the societies try to co-ordinate campaigning work and hold a joint event at Labour Party conference. A small group of officers are elected to co-ordinate this work. The current committee is: As of January 2020, there are 20 affiliated socialist societies: There are other organisations, such as Labour Arts Alliance, Muslims for Labour and Labour Humanists, which are not formally affiliated to

1330-405: Is not borne out by their work", especially as "the NUS is dominated by Labour students and this diminishes the ability to address student issues in an impartial fashion". Another criticism leveled at NUS is the absence of direct democracy in electing national officers. Officers of NUS are elected at conferences by delegates chosen by affiliated unions of NUS. Critics, from both within and outside

1400-448: Is not strictly a "socialist society" in the context of the Labour Party; it is in fact a separate party with an electoral agreement with Labour. It acts as a socialist society for the most part although it has certain additional rights. Affiliation means that the socialist societies – like a number of British trade unions – pay an affiliation fee to the Labour Party, and the affiliates' members become affiliated supporters of

1470-497: The Browne Review into higher education funding. Before the 2010 General Election , the NUS invited candidates to sign a pledge not to raise tuition fees , receiving over 1000 signatories from prospective parliamentary candidates. This became a very high-profile campaign when many Liberal Democrat MPs, who all signed individual NUS pledges stating they would vote against any rise in tuition fees if elected, had to abstain or do

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1540-741: The Federation of Student Islamic Societies and the Union of Jewish Students are deeply involved in the internal democratic processes of the NUS. NUS Services provides collective purchasing, support and marketing services to NUS-affiliated students' unions. Its shareholders consist of over 200 NUS-affiliated students' unions, and it is directed by a board and committees composed of volunteers from these shareholder unions. The Association for Managers in Students' Unions voted to merge with NUS and NUS Services in 2010. TOTUM, formerly known as NUS Extra,

1610-630: The Trotskyist group People's Democracy in 1968, which played a role in the Northern Ireland civil rights movement . Following a meeting in Galway in 1972, to combat divisions, it was agreed that a group called the NUS-USI would be founded with dual-membership to cover Northern Ireland. One of the NUS' protest campaigns which was of particular significance during the 1970s and the 1980s

1680-520: The UKIP political party. Despite a statement from NUS confirming that "a new motion will be taken to the next NUS National Executive Committee meeting, which will specifically condemn the politics and methods of ISIS and offer solidarity for the Kurdish people," media coverage of the vote caused some students' union members to speculate that the NUS itself has been infiltrated by extremist sympathisers. At

1750-617: The Union of Students in Ireland ). NUS is a member of the European Students' Union . There are four types of membership of NUS: Of these types of membership, only constituent members may vote on or submit policy proposals to the National Conference. Constituent members and associate members are required to pay a subscription fee as a condition of their membership. The NUS was formed on 10 February 1922 at

1820-652: The Vietnam War , while Fisk advocated neutrality; Straw's side won and the "no politics" clause was removed. A new era began for the NUS, where political agitation and protest became institutionalized. Straw was followed up as president by Digby Jacks , also representing the Radical Student Alliance (formed in 1966 by Fergus Nicholson) and a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. According to contemporary British government reports,

1890-548: The Women's , Lesbian Gay Bisexual & Trans , Disabled Students and Black Asian Minority Ethnic (BAME) Students campaigns, all of which are entitled to elect an officer to the National Committee. Labour Students holds caucuses for each of the liberation groups at every national event, has an equal opportunities policy and ensures all events are fully accessible. There are separate organisations for Labour Clubs in

1960-517: The acronym NOLS. In its early years, NOLS was divided between two factions — members of the entryist Militant group and a mainstream left group, associated with the Tribune group of Labour MPs, which formed in January 1974 called Clause Four , after the central political statement of the Labour Party constitution. Militant controlled NOLS from January 1974 to December 1975. Members of NOLS in

2030-520: The 1960s were from The Queen's University of Belfast (Queen's or QUB); T. William Savage and T. Geoff Martin. The 1968–69 unrest in Northern Ireland saw the onset of The Troubles and a sectarian divisiveness come to the fore. After members of the QUBSU organised a protest against the hardline Unionist politician Bill Craig , the then Minister of Home Affairs , some members such as Bernadette Devlin , Eamonn McCann and Michael Farrell decided to found

2100-464: The 1970s included future parliamentarians Charles Clarke , Bill Speirs , Peter Mandelson , Sally Morgan , Mike Gapes , Mike Jackson, Nigel Stanley, Margaret Curran and Johann Lamont . During Tony Blair 's premiership, Labour Students opposed the Government's planned introduction of university "top-up" fees . Labour Students were broadly supportive of Gordon Brown 's government. In 2016,

2170-465: The 1970s, the NUS came to support what it called "liberation campaigns", including; homosexual rights (the first national group to do so in 1973), radical feminism and black nationalism . At the same time, the NUS adopted a No Platform policy ; a concept pioneered by the IMG in 1972; to stifle the campus organisation and speech of nationalistic British groups that it declared to be "racist or fascist". At

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2240-590: The 2011 'refounding Labour' process, seats on the NPF have also been allocated to LGBT+ Labour and the Disability Labour . Each Socialist Society can nominate, and since 2015 Socialist Society members can vote individually, in the Labour leader and deputy leader elections. The socialist societies are also involved in the Labour Party's policy reviews, and the work of the Socialist Societies

2310-428: The 2019 National Conference; however after around five hours of debate, 700 delegates voted in favour of the package. Martin welcomed the vote, calling it a "momentous decision to endorse reform and deliver the vision of members". In 2020, NUS official split into two organisations: NUS UK and NUS Charity. NUS UK focuses on campaigning with students while NUS Charity focuses on supporting students' unions. In May 2022,

2380-580: The International Students' Conference (created in 2004) were run to enhance the representation of the specific members they included. Post-2019 the Women's, LGBT, Trans, Disabled, and Black Students' Conferences have been merged into a single Liberation Conference and the Mature and Part-Time, Postgraduate, and International Students' Conferences are no longer in operation. In July 2014, due to

2450-437: The Labour Party (a different status from full member), unless they specifically choose otherwise. In return the societies receive a formal role in Labour decision-making, and the affiliated supporters can take part in all-member ballots in certain circumstances. For example, they can participate in the election of Labour Party leaders and deputy leaders, have delegates and votes at Annual Conference. Socialist societies also elect

2520-553: The NUS presidency was dominated by the Broad Left , within which the Communist Party of Great Britain (where Eurocommunism was most popular among students rather than the pro-Soviet " Tankie " anti-revisionists) predominated and usually supplied the president, but were backed up by Labour and the Liberals. They did so to work as a voting bloc against both the Conservatives and Militant . The first of these Broad Left presidents

2590-443: The NUS. Newcastle , Portsmouth , Hull and Loughbrough disaffiliated; the remainder maintained affiliation, although NUS reportedly broke campaigning rules at Oxford , Cambridge , and Christ Church . In April 2017, Bouattia was defeated in her re-election by Shakira Martin , the union's vice-president for further education, who received 56% of the vote. Martin pledged "unity", "pragmatism", and putting "NUS back into

2660-750: The RSA was connected to the Trotskyist-led Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and had close links with the Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund (organising a protest following Rudi Dutschke 's shooting). The government report stated "If they have an ideological bible it consists of the work of Professor Herbert Marcuse , One-Dimensional Man ." In line with the Marcusian viewpoint of championing politicised minority groups , throughout

2730-847: The UK Government announced it would sever all ties with the NUS on the basis claiming that it had failed to tackle “antisemitic rot at the heart". Also in May 2022, NUS announced that Rebecca Tuck QC would lead an independent investigation into allegations of antisemitism within NUS. Following her inquiry, Shaima Dallali was dismissed as NUS President in November 2022. The independent investigation found that NUS has failed to sufficiently challenge antisemitism and hostility towards Jews in its own structures. Jewish students have been "subjected to harassment" and NUS policies have been breached. The NUS apologised to Jewish students and said it would implement

2800-442: The affiliates section of Labour leadership elections. The refounded National Labour Students is a formal branch of the Labour Party, and as such is not responsible for its own governance. Any Labour Party member who is a student is automatically a member of National Labour Students Generally, before the organisation's relaunch, Labour Students held four main national events each year, attended by club members from institutions across

2870-630: The building. With an attendance of over 50,000 people, it was the largest British demonstration since the Iraq War protest . This led to various more demos until the rise in tuition fees was passed. The day before the vote to allow a rise in tuition fees, the Daily Telegraph reported that they had seen emails that suggested Aaron Porter had supported, rather than increase tuition fees , cuts of up to 80% should be made to student support packages including grants and loans. Porter responded to

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2940-415: The claims on NUS Connect that "In all of these meetings and communications we stated our firm and clear opposition to cuts" and that the distortion of the discussions was "political desperation from a coalition government losing the arguments on its own policies". On 9 April 2014 the National Union of Students passed policy at its national conference to reverse its position on education funding. The call for

3010-422: The climate emergency and ecological crisis. The Fairtrade Foundation collaborated with the NUS in awarding The Fairtrade Universities and Colleges Award, which started as a pilot in 2017. As of 2020, twelve universities had achieved Fairtrade status. Under the leadership of Wes Streeting the NUS abandoned its long-standing commitment to free education and backed a graduate tax as its preferred outcome of

3080-428: The cost of education. At an estimated cost of £40,000 and consisting of a social media campaign alongside billboards, the campaign was well-received by many students, but also came under criticism for being politically motivated specifically against Liberal Democrat MPs as opposed to members of all parties. Posters promoting the campaign were also removed from several railway stations on the grounds that Network Rail

3150-548: The country. Liberation Conference sees the election of Labour Students’ four Liberation Officers (see ‘Liberation Campaigns’). It also includes panels and sessions around issues of particular importance to Liberation groups, for example mental health services or tackling antisemitism on campuses. The National Labour Students Committee convenes regularly and works together to ensure the organisation runs smoothly and works effectively to represent members. Within Labour Students there are four autonomous liberation campaigns. These were

3220-645: The creation of a new NUS London area, the first NUS London conference was held. Most of these conferences, and in particular the elections held at them, are contested by factions including Conservative , Labour Students , the Young Liberals , National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts , the Organised Independents , Young Independence , Socialist Students , Socialist Workers' Student Society , Student RESPECT and Liberation Left . In addition to these political factions, interest groups such as

3290-434: The devolved nations, known as Welsh Labour Students and Scottish Labour Students respectively. The Chairs of these two organisations also sit on the committee of Labour Students as full members. Labour Students took on a major campaign each year, voted for in an all-member ballot. Recent campaigns have included: Every year, Labour Students actively organised and campaigned within the National Union of Students (NUS). As

3360-734: The first black NUS president, who later led the race relations group the Runnymede Trust ) and David Aaronovitch (who was then a Eurocommunist, but later became a journalist aligned to neoconservatism ). From 1982 with the election of Neil Stewart , until Andrew Pakes stood down in 2000, the presidency of the National Union of Students was controlled by the National Organisation of Labour Students, which shortened its name to Labour Students in 1994. Notable NUS Presidents of this period included Phil Woolas , Maeve Sherlock and Stephen Twigg . The Fairtrade NUS Campaign

3430-580: 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. Several former NOLS NUS Presidents, including Charles Clarke and Jim Murphy, went on to serve as Cabinet ministers, serving as members of a Labour government. Throughout this period, NOLS members of the NUS National Executive Committee were

3500-413: The following executive meeting on 3 December 2014, a similar motion, which condemned ISIS, expressed solidarity with the Kurdish people, and called on NUS to challenge "Islamophobia and all forms of racism being whipped up" was resubmitted and easily passed. At the 2016 NUS conference, Malia Bouattia was elected president with 50.9% of the vote defeating Megan Dunn who had sought re-election. Bouattia

3570-482: The hands of its membership". Moderate groups such as the Organised Independents and Union of Jewish Students sought to reform the organisation to prevent further disaffiliations, passing major democratic reform motions . The changes, developed from "two [years] of consultation with hundreds of students' unions, [as well as] legal and expert advice," were described as "the most comprehensive and wide-ranging structural reforms in NUS history". On 2 November 2018, it

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3640-405: The inaugural chair of the organisation on 2 September 2022. Prior to 2019, Labour Students was a ' socialist society ', affiliated to the Labour Party . This means that, whilst its aims were broadly in line with the wider party, Labour Students was an independent organisation and was entitled to democratically determine its own policy and governance. Labour Students members were entitled to vote in

3710-717: The last time being in June 2008), King's College London (who supplied the first President, Sir Ivison Macadam ) and the University of Bristol . In the aftermath of the Second World War and with the onset of the Cold War , the National Union of Students had adopted a "no politics" clause in its charter in an attempt to distance itself from its 1930s flirtations with communism . During the 1950s, it had thus concerned itself with collective bargaining over student grants, teaching salaries and education. This apolitical consensus

3780-405: The mid-2000s, NUS faced a financial crisis, caused by a coinciding of spiraling expenditure and decreasing income. A series of measures were proposed to address this, of which the most controversial included a series of changes to the constitutional and democratic processes. In 2004, two emergency conferences passed some of the changes proposed, albeit not without fierce dispute between those claiming

3850-420: The national conference adopted a one-member-one-vote (OMOV) system for internal elections, through an amendment of its constitution. However many member clubs perceived this as being implemented incompletely and slowly, with accusations of vote-rigging in 2019. In the early 2019 Labour Students leadership election there were 507 eligible voters, out of a claimed approximately 30,000 Labour Party student members. As

3920-494: The opposite as part of their coalition agreement. The NUS, under new leader Aaron Porter , organised a national protest attended by thousands in November 2010, demanding an end to education cuts. The march route passed Whitehall and the Conservative Party headquarters at Millbank Tower . As they marched past the building, some protesters diverted in to the courtyard of Millbank Tower and began an occupation of

3990-620: The organisation on 2 September 2022. The Labour Party's first organisation for students was the National Association of Labour Student Organisations (NALSO), which was founded in 1946 but had its recognition by the party withdrawn in 1967 after it was taken over by supporters of the Trotskyist Socialist Labour League . While the Scottish organisation continued, the Labour Party was left without

4060-456: The organisation's democratic accountability. Its supporters however defended the review as providing a more 'innovative' corporate structure which was hoped to make it more credible in negotiating policy, rather than simply 'reactive'. This was not well received by many in the executive with President, Gemma Tumelty, vowing to press ahead with reform. The perceived lack of progress on governance reform also prompted Imperial College Union to hold

4130-449: The party. At the NEC meeting this motion passed and Labour Students is no longer affiliated to the Labour Party . This action was challenged by the incumbent Labour Students leadership, but they were unsuccessful. A new, refounded National Labour Students (NLS) was passed at the 2021 Labour Party Conference . National Committee elections were held in August 2022 and Ben McGowan was elected as

4200-422: The proposals were necessary reforms to maintain the existence of the organisation and those arguing that they were aimed at curbing democracy and involvement. The 2006 NUS Conference passed a policy which enabled NUS to launch NUS Extra in September 2006. In the run up to the 2015 general election the NUS launched its Liar Liar campaign aimed at unseating members of Parliament (MPs) who broke promises regarding

4270-537: The report's recommendations. The NUS holds national conferences once a year. National Conference is the sovereign body of NUS, and is where NUS policy is decided. Regional Conferences are run to enhance the representation of members from Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Prior to the 2019 reforms other conferences such as Women's Conference, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Trans Students' Conference (changed as of 2004), Disabled Students' Conference, Black Students' Conference, Mature and Part-Time Students' Conference and

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4340-411: The student movement, have argued that consultation by unions with their members over who should represent the students' union at national conferences is often minimal, and some have argued in favour of changes to the NUS constitution that would result in a one-member-one-vote policy. The NUS has also been criticised for prioritisation of NUS Extra over campaigning on issues which affect students. In

4410-531: The student wing of the Communist Party of Great Britain and independent left wing students. The Broad Left stood slates of candidates in NUS elections. (The Broad Left is not to be confused with the post-1997 grouping Student Broad Left .) In the early 1980s NOLS broke with the Broad Left and presented its own slate of candidates in NUS elections. In 1982, NOLS won the presidency of NUS on its own for

4480-527: The time, this was aimed at the National Front and the Monday Club (a faction in the Federation of Conservative Students ). The union was also involved in affairs in Northern Ireland , where most higher education establishments there were members of both the NUS and the Union of Students in Ireland (USI), though this differed from case to case. Indeed, two presidents of the NUS earlier on in

4550-627: Was Charles Clarke (later a Home Secretary under Blair) who as a member of the Clause Four Group , won the National Organisation of Labour Students back from Militant influence. Other presidents included Sue Slipman (who began on the Eurocommunist wing on the Communist Party of Great Britain but ended up a founding member of the Social Democratic Party by 1981), Trevor Phillips (a Broad Left independent and

4620-543: Was challenged in concert with the international protests of 1968 and as the Cold War intensified. At the 1969 NUS conference, then president Trevor Fisk came up against Jack Straw (then close to Bert Ramelson of the Communist Party of Great Britain , but much later Foreign Secretary under the New Labour government of Tony Blair ) over the issue. Straw supported student protests against US military involvement in

4690-481: Was reported that the NUS faced bankruptcy. The 2017 reforms had not been delivered, and several years of financial mismanagement had created a significant decline in resources. Martin wrote to members that the union would be "taking urgent action to stabilise", with reforms being developed for "consideration and refinement with the help of our members". Martin faced criticism for developing a drastic programme of financial, governance and campaigning reforms for approval by

4760-771: Was soon subject to several allegations of antisemitism ; an October 2016 report by the House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee described her comments as "outright racism", and said that she was not taking issues of antisemitism on university campuses seriously enough. Bouattia was condemned by over 300 Jewish student leaders, the Union of Jewish Students and Oxford University Student Union . In response to her election, students at Durham , Loughborough , Hull , Aberystwyth , Oxford , Cambridge , Manchester , Essex , York , King's College London , Nottingham , UWE , Leicester , Queen Mary University of London and Reading University began campaigning to disaffiliate from

4830-578: Was started by students at the University of Edinburgh in autumn 2005. The campaign, which has now been joined by numerous other students' unions in Britain, is calling for 100% of the hot beverages (tea, coffee, hot chocolate , etc.) sold by member unions of the NUS to be accredited with the Fairtrade Markchart . The campaign has since been extended into Students Organising for Sustainability (SOS-UK), an educational charity responding to

4900-701: Was the boycott campaign against National Party governed South Africa as part of the Anti-Apartheid Movement . In 1970, NUS vice president Tony Klug visited South Africa and met with Steve Biko of the SASO among others. Members also attempted to disrupt South African rugby and cricket matches in the United Kingdom during the 1970s. In the 1980s, the NUS played a significant role in getting Barclay's Bank to divest from South Africa, attacking it as " Boerclay Bank". Throughout this period,

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