Near-win for left at NUS Women’s Conference
The success of ENS Women at this year’s NUS Women’s Conference (13-15 March) in passing radical left-wing policy and mobilising a significant number of conference delegates around socialist feminist politics, is testimony to the hard work of our activists both within NUS and outside it with Feminist Fightback over the last two and a half years. So is the result of the election held at the conference for NUS National Women’s Officer. Our candidate Sofie Buckland very nearly won the election, getting 29 votes against 33 for Labour Students’ Katie Curtis. Sofie’s activist record persuaded a...