Socialist Workers' Student Society
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The Socialist Worker Student Society, commonly known as SWSS (pronounced swiss), is the student section of the Socialist Workers Party in Britain.
Mark Bergfeld was elected onto the NUS NEC in 2010 and re-elected to the NUS NEC in 2011 with the highest number of first preference votes along with Ruby Hirsch
[edit] 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. 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.
