The Socialist Worker Student Society, commonly known as SWSS , is the student section of the Socialist Workers Party

Socialist Workers Party (Britain)

The Socialist Workers Party is a far left party in Britain founded by Tony Cliff. The SWP's student section has groups at a number of universities...

 in Britain.

Mark Bergfeld

Mark Bergfeld

Mark Bergfeld is a member of the National Executive Council of the National Union of Students , spokesperson of the Education Activist Network and is a prominent member of the Socialist Workers Party . He is one of the leaders of the UK student demonstrations of November/December 2010...

 was elected onto the NUS

NUS

NUS may refer to:* Nu Skin Enterprises* Neglected and Underutilized Species, or Neglected and Underutilized Crops* National Union of Students * National Union of Students * National Union of Students...

 NEC in 2010 and re-elected to the NUS NEC in 2011 with the highest number of first preference votes along with Ruby Hirsch

History

In the 1950s and 60s, student members of the SWP's forerunners were active in the National Association of Labour Student Organisations (NALSO) in line with the group's policy of membership in the Labour Party. In the early 1960s, a leading member of the International Socialists, as the SWP was known prior to 1962, became editor of Clarion, the NALSO publication. Having departed the Labour Party, IS students were active in college based Socialist Societies and then in the Revolutionary Socialist Student Federation

Revolutionary Socialist Student Federation

The Revolutionary Socialist Student Federation was a militant student body in Great Britain launced in 1968....

. When that body collapsed, they operated as the National Organisation of International Socialists Students (NOISS) and from 1977 onwards as the Socialist Worker Student Organisation (SWSO). The name was changed to SWSS in the early 1980s.

External links

• Socialist Worker Student Society official website
• Socialist Worker newspaper official website, newspaper of the SWP
  Socialist Workers Party (Britain)
  The Socialist Workers Party is a far left party in Britain founded by Tony Cliff. The SWP's student section has groups at a number of universities...