Digby Jacks

Digby Jacks (16 May 1945 - 21 October 2011) was President of the UK's National Union of Students between 1971^[1] and 1973 and was subsequently a trade union official for the Manufacturing, Science and Finance trade union.^[2]

A member of the Communist Party of Great Britain when elected NUS President, he was the second candidate from the left - in this case the Radical Student Alliance, succeeding Jack Straw, also elected on the RSA ticket, to win since the beginning of the Cold War: national student politics having previously been dominated by an ant-Communist alliance.^[3]

After his term as NUS president he wrote the book Student Politics and Higher Education (ISBN 0853153264), which examines the broad left's political strategy in student politics.^[4] Retiring as a regional officer for the Amicus trade union in 2005, he was a Labour councillor in the London Borough of Hounslow until 2006 and secretary of the lobbying group Alliance for Finance.^[5]

He died in October 2011. ^[6]

References

1. ^ Nelson, Robert (10 April 1971). "British student union picks Red chief". The Christian Science Monitor. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/csmonitor_historic/access/264031672.html?dids=264031672:264031672&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Apr+10%2C+1971&author=By+Robert+Nelson+Staff+correspondent+of+The+Christian+Science+Monitor&pub=Christian+Science+Monitor&desc=British+student+union+picks+Red+chief&pqatl=google. Retrieved 28 May 2010. 
2. ^ "Amicus gets amicable". The Guardian (London). 10 May 2003. http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardian_jobs_and_money/story/0,3605,952504,00.html. Retrieved 28 May 2010. 
3. ^ Sampson, Anthony (1973). The new anatomy of Britain. Stein and Day. p. 179. ISBN 9780812815832. 
4. ^ "Student Politics and Higher Education". Marxism Today 19: 321. 1975. ISSN 0025-4118. 
5. ^ Tan Parsons. "Young and fearless ... | Education | guardian.co.uk". Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2006/apr/14/studentpolitics.students. Retrieved 2011-11-22. 
6. ^ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/digby-jacks-student-leader-who-took-on-thatcher--and-won-6265758.html

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Name	Jacks, Digby
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Date of birth	16 May 1945
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Date of death	21 October 2011
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