Vote Ian Drummond No 1 ULU Vice President

This is his manifesto:

I'm a final year student at SOAS and an experienced campaigner who will fight for progressive education policies to defend all London students.

As the economic crisis deepens and calls for our education to be cut intensify, London students need strong representatives to ensure that our voices are heard and our right to education defended. With youth unemployment soaring to 1 million now is the time for our government to invest in education, not cut back.

ULU, representing students across the 22 Colleges of the University of London, can be a vital part of co-ordinating the necessary campaigning to Save Our Studies. Despite often being seen as irrelevant by students, it has potential to connect to the issues that students face across London and stand up for them city wide and nationally.

As vice president, responsible for participation and internal campaigning, I promise I'd get noticed, and raise the profile of ULU.

I will:

• Demand investment not cuts - Education is an investment in the future, and a well educated workforce is good for society as a whole. I would keep ULU relevant as a campaigning student union, which puts this alternative vision forward.
  
  
• Demand equality in education: no more student debt, no to excessive international fees and for free education - the trade unions call for it and so should the student movement.
  
  
• Lead active, high profile campaigns - for example I would campaign for the London living wage for cleaners and other support staff across London universities, having been part of the campaign which won it at SOAS, and set a good example by arguing to pay ULU staff the living wage too.
  
  
• Actively support a diverse and inclusive London. Challenging racism and Islamophobia, sexism, homophobia and disability discrimination and celebrating diversity with dynamic entertainment and events.
  
  
• Defend our One Society, Many Cultures! Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, culture, religious expression and consciousness. Support a woman's right to choose what she wears and no demonisation of Muslims on campus.
  
  
• Campaign for international peace and global justice - fund education not war! Not just because it's the right thing to do but because its in the interests of students too - the government continues to spend billions on war in Afghanistan and the renewal of Trident nuclear weapons whilst it cuts back on our education.
  
  
• Support the right to education across the world. Last year in Gaza schools, universities and colleges were destroyed by Israel during the war. We must stand in solidarity with students in Palestine and defend their right to education too.
  
  
• Run an environmentally friendly union and campaign against climate change.
  
  
• Work hard to seek out students across London and assist with their problems and issues.
  
  
• Bring together all the student unions of ULU in standing up for our right to education.
  

• Active on campus in societies and the student union for many years.
  
  
• NUS Delegate for SOAS
  
  
• Delegate on the successful Viva Palestina convoy which broke the siege of Gaza, having led a fundraising campaign for aid to bring on it on campus.
  
  
• Active in my university's occupation in support of Gaza last January.
  
  
• Active in the Justice for Cleaners campaign, and successfully proposed Jose Stalin Bermudez, a cleaner and trade unionist fired after winning the living wage for SOAS cleaners, for Honorary President of the Student Union in a show of solidarity.
  
  
• Involved in making a film about the G8 protest in Edinburgh in 2005.
  
  
• Active in peace campaigns, Unite Against Fascism and anti-racism campaigns.