International Union of Students Collection
Period (1943) 1946-1970 (1975)
Total size
1.7 m.
Consultation Not restricted
History
Founded in Prague 1946 as a world wide nonpartisan association of National Unions of Students (NUSes); aimed to foster international understanding and lasting peace the IUS supported contemporary efforts to continue the anti-Hitler war coalition in peacetime; with its secretariat in Prague the IUS was strongly influenced by communists in key positions from the beginning; left by most Western member unions after the communist take-over in Czechoslovakia 1948 (see International Student Conference), became a communist controlled front organization; from 1956 noncommunist NUSes from the Third World (Latin America especially) got some influence on IUS policy; in 1968 IUS strongly protested when the host country was invaded by its socialist allies; periodicals: World Student News and News Service.
Content
Collection of mainly stencilled documents and printed material (partly photocopies). Files on congresses 1946-1967, Council meetings 1947-1955 and Executive Committee meetings 1949-1968, consisting of proceedings, reports, resolutions, circulars, clippings; proceedings of Secretariat meetings 1952; files on relief work 1950-1957, the struggle against colonialism 1951-1970, the action for peace 1951-1970, the Vietnam war 1964-1969, contacts with the International Student Conference (ISC) 1954-1967 etc.; files on student organizations in various countries 1947-1970; documents of the British National Union of Students 1942-1962, including some correspondence with the IUS and documents on the International Student Conference, London 1949; circulars 1946, 1950-1970; leaflets 1952-1968; press clippings 1952-1960.
Processing information
Inventory made by J.R. van der Leeuw in 1970
INTRODUCTION
In this collection documents from different sources have been brought together. Uncertainty about the origin of many documents - there are numerous photo- and xerox copies among them - concerning the International Union of Students made the reconstruction of the files in their original order an impossibility. The main part of the documents were found in the papers of the International Student Conference (Co- ordinating Secretariat), the western opponent of the IUS, that ceased its work at the end of March 1969 and transferred its archives and library to the International Institute of Social History. Many of these documents were sent to the ISC by affiliated organisations, e.g. the NUS, the NFCUS, the SUS, the g1043 SFSlain , and the Nederlandse Studentenraad. The file from the NUS is by far the most important one, giving data on the origins and early history of the IUS (to be found in the part with the title '(British) National Union of Students (of England, Wales and Northern Ireland) 1942-1962').
There are, however, also documents from other sources in this collection: documents sent directly by the IUS to the IISH, documents collected by the Arberarrörelsens Arkiv at Stockholm, etc.
Periodicals, printed reports, booklets and pamphlets published by the IUS as well as literature about this Union can be found in the library of the IISH; the audiovisual department of the IISH contains a number of photos and posters.
Amsterdam, January 28, 1970
J.R. van der Leeuw
Corrections
The list of the collection of the International Union of Students was corrected due to later insertions in December 2001. At the same time the set periodicals, inserted in the collection in 1970, was separated and transferred to the library of the IISH.
List of abbreviations
DSF: Danske Studerendes Faellesråd
ISC: International Student Conference
IUS: International Union of Students
NFCUS: National Federation of Canadian University Students
NUS: (British) National Union of Students (of England, Wales and Northern Ireland
SFS: Sveriges Förenade Studentkårer
SUS: Scottish Union of Students
UNEF: Union Nationale des Étudiants Français
USNSA: United States National Student Association
INVENTORY
Congresses
- 1-3
- First Congress, Prague. 1946. 3 covers.
- 14
- Fifth Congress, Peking. Reports of the Congress a.o. by the Unione Nazionale Universitaria Rappresentiva Italiana, printed resolutions, etc. 1958. 1 folder.
- 15-25
-
Sixth Congress,
Baghdad.
1960. 11 covers.
- 16
- Report of the Executive Committee on the international student movement since the fifth Congress.
- 26-39
-
Seventh Congress,
Leningrad.
1962. 14 covers.
- 27
- Report of the Executive Committee on the international student movement since the Sixth Congress.
- 28
- Working papers commissions A-E and a message from the World Congress for General Disarmament and Peace.
- 36
- Communiqué of the 4th European meeting of student organisations, initiated by the UNEF and the ZSP, Warsaw, June 1962; documents circulated bu delegations, printed main resolutions.
- 40-50
- Eighth Congress, Sofia. 1964. 11 covers.
- 51-65
-
Ninth Congress,
Ulan Bator.
1967. 15 covers.
- 54
- Report on the development of the international student movement in the struggle for peace, against imperialism and colonialism, headed by US imperialism, for the reform of education and for World Student Unity and the IUS since its last Congress.
- 56
- Draft resolutions commission B: peace, national independence, imperialism and colonialism. Nrs. 1- 45.
Council meetings
- 67
- Fourth meeting, Sofia. Statements on the development of the IUS and on peace by the NUS and report of its delegation to the meetings; printed proceedings. 1949. 1 folder.
Executive Committee meetings
- 91
- London. Comments of the Austrian delegation on comments of the NUS on the meeting. February 1950. 1 cover.
- 94
- Peking. report on the student movement in colonial and dependent countries and resolutions. April 1951. 1 cover.
- 95
- Budapest. Documents on activities in the field of culture, exchange, travel and sport, interventions by the NUS and the SUS. March 1952. 1 cover.
- 96
- Berlin. Preparation of the third Congress, resolutions and a report by the NUS on the meeting. March 1953. 1 cover.
- 99
- Leipzig. Printed decisions, a report by the World Association of Youth, etc. January 1958. 1 cover.
- 100
- Tunis. A report on solidarity with the Algerian and other African students, an open letter on international student unity, printed resolutions etc. February 1960. 1 cover.
- 103
- Djakarta. Report on IUS activities since November 1960, draft report of the Executive Committee to the 7th Congress, and printed resolutions; a statement of the International Solidarity Meeting on West Irian at Djakarta. May 1962. 1 cover.
- 104
- Algiers. Note on the succession of Ji?í Pelikán, president of the IUS by Zbyn?k Vokrouhlický. May 1963. 1 cover.
- 105
- Budapest. An open letter by the IUS to the ISC on international student unity. February 1964. 1 cover.
- 106
- Karlovy Vary. An open letter to the ISC on international student unity, a report on the meeting by the Institute for International Youth Affairs, and a report copied by the ISC from 'International Communist Front Organisations' December 1965. 1 cover.
- 109
- Berlin. Reports on the international student movement and the work of the IUS since its 9th Congress in the fight against imperialism and colonialism, the activities of students for peace and against fascism in Europe, against militarism in West Germany, and the activities of students in solidarity with the Arab people against imperialist Israeli aggression, a report of the Union of Students in Ireland on the meeting, printed resolutions, etc. March 1968. 1 folder.
(British) National Union of Students (of England, Wales and Northern Ireland) 1942-1962
Various files
- 145
- Address of the IUS to the International Student Service Conference and Assembly and the Executive Committee of the World Student Relief (Århus 1947), and correspondence between the IUS and the World University Service concerning the liquidation of World Student Relief. 1951. 1 cover.
- 146
- Information booklets about the IUS: This is the IUS and 19 questions and answers about the IUS. 1949, 1956. 1 cover.
- 148
- Printed materials concerning the relief work of the IUS and its sanatoria in Czechoslovakia and China. 1950-1957. 1 cover.
- 150
- IUS Article Service nrs. 7, 10 , 11; IUS Documentation and Article Service, nrs. 22, 24 , 25, 27, 28, 31. 1951- 1952. 1 cover.
- 151-153
-
File concerning the
struggle against colonialism.
1951- 1956. 3 covers.
- 151
- Students against colonialism, Bulletin of the Bureau of Students fighting against colonialism of the IUS, 1951, nr. 15; 1952, nrs. 1-4; 1956, nr. 1. 1951-1952, 1956.
- 154
- File concerning the action for peace. IUS-leaflets concerning the World Council of Peace and the Congress of the Peoples for Peace, 1952; a resolution and the appeal of the International Student Peace Conference, Prague, 1959; a document concerning the International Conference on Nuclear Disarmament for Students and Youth, London, 1960; a list of participants of the International Student Seminar on Peaceful coexistence and Disarmament, Cracow, 1961; a poster concerning the World day against the A and H bombs, for Disarmament, 1961; The IUS and the question of nuclear testing, a documentary survey, 1962; a document The IUS and Peace, 1964 etc. 1952-1964. 1 cover.
- 158
- File concerning South Africa. A report on the IUS- Commission concerning the exclusion of the Yugoslavs, notes on the representability of the IUS, An analysis of the Babak report, comments regarding the Report of the IUS delegation on the VIIIth ISC, and Questions [to the IUS], by the Nasionale Unie van Suid-Afrikaanse Studente; On apartheid, a pamphlet published by the IUS; etc. 1952- 1960. 1 cover.
- 159
- File concerning Sport. Documents concerning the world student chess championships, world university games and Universiade; Sport, Bulletin of the Student Sport Council, 1957, nrs. 4-6, 1959 nr. 3 and special nr. 1960 nr. 6 and 1961 nr. 1 and a letter of the students of Ireland Sports Union concerning Sport. 1959-1961. 1 cover.
- 161
- File concerning Switzerland. Rapport sur les organisations étudiantes internationales, congress document of the Verband der Schweizerischen Studentenschaften, etc. 1954, 1968. 1 cover.
- 162
- File concerning the different branches of study. Statement of IUS to the International Federation of Medical Student Association [1954]; Agristud, Bulletin des Étudiants d'Agriculture, 1954 nr. 2; Architectural Student nr. 1; Education Student nr. 1; a report of the International Seminar of Law Students, Sofia, 1958. 1954-1958. 1 cover.
- 164
- File concerning the United States of America. Analysis of IUS-membership; USNSA and IUS relations 1945-1955; IUS-program of activities; IUS Council meeting, 1955; a letter of the USNSA to participants in the International Preparatory Committee for the Seminar on the colonial countries, 1956; a decision of the 20th Congress of the USNSA concerning the IUS and the ISC, etc. 1954-1967. 1 cover.
- 168
- Report on the relations of the Suomen Ylioppolaskuntien Liitto to the international student organisations. 1961. 1 cover.
- 169
- Documents of the Documentation Centre of the World Association of Youth concerning the IUS. 1957. 1 cover.
- 170
- A paper concerning the attitude of the Association of Zrzeszenie Studentów Polskich to the IUS. 1957. 1 cover.
- 171
- Booklets concerning the Algerian liberation war and the Union Générale des Étudiants Musulmans Algériens, published by the IUS. 1957, 1960. 1 cover.
- 172
- Resolutions of the eighth and twelfth congress of the Fédérations des Étudiants de l'Afrique Noire en France, published by the IUS. 1957, 1961. 1 cover.
- 173
- File concerning Bolivia. Report on the IUS by the Confederación Universitaria Boliviana, and a report on a seminar concerning petroleum. 1957, 1961. 1 cover.
- 174
- File concerning the ISC. Correspondence IUS-ISC; booklets report of the IUS delegation on the VIIIth ISC and The IUS at the 12th ISC (published by the ISC); statement of the IUS on the close relationship between the CIA-USNSA and the ISC, with a reaction on it from the Hong Kong Federation of Students. 1958-1967. 1 cover.
- 175
- File concerning Latin America. A report of the 2nd. congress of the Union des Étudiants Guyanais, published by the IUS; the 'Natal declaration'; a booklet on the National Union of Haitian Students; IUS-Latin American News, 1969; etc. 1958-1969. 1 cover.
- 176
- A report The International Student Seminar on Higher Education in the USSR, published by the IUS. 1959. 1 cover.
- 177
- File concerning Germany. A report on an international Seminar on the peaceful solution of the German question. Berlin, 1960, and an interview with Walter Ulbricht, 1962, both published by the IUS, etc. 1959-1963. 1 cover.
- 178
- File concerning Asia. The report of an IUS-delegation to the Korean Democratic People's Republic and resolutions of the 8th Congress of the Union Nationale des Universitaires du Liban, etc. 1959-1965. 1 cover.
- 179
- File concerning Spain and Portugal. The case against Salazar, Freedom for Portuguese Students, booklets published by the IUS and other printed materials. 1959-1969. 1 cover.
- 182
- File concerning international student unity and 'Round Table Conferences': the report of te Committee of three, a letter from the IUS to the Verband der Schweizerischen Studentenschaften, a statement of the NUS, data concerning the unity discussions at the 50th Congress of the UNEF, articles in the Komsomolskaya Pravda about the seminar on universal student co-operation in Tunis, 1963, etc. 1960-1964. 1 cover.
- 183
- File concerning Africa. Booklets published by the IUS: Africa and its students and a report on the 2nd national seminar of the Fédération des Associations d'Étudiants de Madagascar etc. 1960-1964. 1 cover.
- 186
- File concerning the 15th anniversary of the IUS. Materials circulated by the IUS and a camouflaged publication by opponents of the IUS: 15 Years of the IUS. 1961. 1 cover.
- 188
- File concerning Cuba. A pamphlet on the international student work camp of the IUS and the Federación Estudiantil Universitaria, Havana, 1961, etc. 1961- 1963. 1 cover.
- 189
- File concerning the campaign against illiteracy. Reports UIE-FEU Seminario Internacional sobre Analfabetismo, Havana, 1961; Conclusions First national University Seminar on the Training of Literacy Teachers, organised by the Unión de Federaciones Universitarias de Chile, 1963, etc. 1961-1963. 1 cover.
- 197
- Booklets on the seminar on students from developing countries studying abroad, London, 1962 and the underdeveloped world student seminar, Salvador (Brazil), 1963. Salvador declaration. 1962-1963. 1 cover.
- 198
- File concerning Puerto Rico. Booklets concerning the Federación de Universitarios Pro Independencia de Puerto Rico and the report by the Research and Investigation Committee of the ISC on the island. 1963-1964. 1 cover.
- 200
- File concerning the democratisation of education. A report Education, a political problem, national service by the UNEF; D.E. 67', IUS journal on the democratisation and reform of education, nr. 1, 6, 1969 nr. 4. 1963-1969. 1 cover.
- 201
- File concerning the Day of international solidarity with students and youth, April 24th. 1964. 1 cover.
- 203
- File concerning the Vietnam War. Information on Vietnam and Information Vietnam (in French) 1967-1969 (incomplete). Documents concerning the World meeting of youth and students for the final victory of the Vietnamese people, Helsinki, 1969, etc. 1964- 1969. 1 cover.
- 204
- A report. The IUS - a chronological history, published in the Bulletin of the Independent Research Service. 1966. 1 cover.
INDEX
Africa,
100, 103, 106, 107, 158, 171, 172, 183, 205
Agristud, 162
Algeria,
100, 103, 171
Arbetarrörelsens Arkiv, Introduction
Architectural
Student, 162
Article Service, 149, 150
Asia, 14, 37, 51/56, 94, 102,
107, 174, 178, 196, 203
Austria, 91, 97
Babak report, 158
Bolivia, 173
Brazil, 175, 197
Bulgaria, 40/50, 67, 89, 162
Canada, 25, 37, 81, 88, 191
Chess-tournaments, 139, 159
Chile,
189
China, 14, 37, 94, 148
CIA, 174
Colombia, 202
Colonialism, 19, 28, 31, 56, 57, 94, 107, 174, 151-153, 164
Cominform,
155
Confederación Universitaria Boliviana, 173
Congress of the
Peoples for Peace, 154
Congresses, 1-65, 96, 98, 139
Constitution,
10, 24
Coordinating Secretariat, Introduction, 38, 50, 104, 105, 158, 164,
174, 198
Council, 66-89, 141, 164
Cuba, 26, 188, 189
Czechoslovakia, passim
Danske Studerendes Faellesråd, 23, 49
Denmark, 12, 49, 145
Deutsche Studenten-Zeitung, 25
Developing
countries, 194, 197
Documentation and Article Service, 78, 150
Dominican Republic, 207
Education (reform), 20, 28, 32, 54, 59, 152,
176, 200
Education Student, 162
Egypt, 106, 107
European meeting
of Student Organisations, 36
Executive Committee, 11, 16, 27, 41, 69,
90-109
Fascism, 76, 84
Federación de Centros Universitarios
(Venezuela), 199
Federación de Universitarios Pro Independencia de Puerto
Rico, 198
Federación Estudiantil Universitaria (Cuba), 188, 189
Federación Universitaria Nacional (Colombia), 202
Fédération des Étudiants
de l'Afrique Noire en France, 172
Finance Committee, 21, 35, 44, 62,
75
Finances, 7, 21, 35, 44, 62, 70, 75, 85, 89
Finland, 168, 203
France, 88, 172, 182, 200
French Guyana, 175
Germany, 23, 25, 93,
96, 99, 108, 177
Great Britain, 3, 9, 12, 25, 64, 66, 67, 73, 82, 88, 91,
92, 95, 96, 134-144, 197
Guadeloupe, 167
Haiti, 175
Hong Kong
Federation of Students, 174
Humboldt University, 23, 93
Hungary, 95,
104
Illiteracy (campaigns), 189
Imperialism, 19, 28, 31, 56, 57,
107, 108, 147
Independent Research Service, 25, 150, 204
Indonesia,
102, 181
Information (on) Vietnam, 203
Institute for International
Youth Affairs Inc., 39, 105
International Communist Front Organisations,
105
International Council of Students, 2
International Federation of
Medical Student Associations, 162
International Student Conference,
Introduction, 38, 50, 104, 105, 158, 164, 174, 198
International Student
Conference 1949, 138
International Student Day, 192
International
Student Relief, 156
International Student Service, 135, 145
International Youth Conference, 1942, 134
Iraq, 15-25, 196
Ireland,
108, 159
Irian (West-), 102
Israel, 108
Italy, 14, 90, 195
Khartoum University Student Union, 205
Komsomolskaya Pravda, 182
Korean Democratic People's Republic, 178
Latin America, 23, 167, 173,
175, 188, 189, 197-199, 202, 207
Law students, 162
Lebanon, 178
Madagascar, 183
Mongolia, 51-65
Nasionale Unie van
Suid-Afrikaanse Studente, 158
National Federation of Canadian University
Students, Introduction, 25, 37, 81, 88, 191
National Union of Haitian
Students, 175
National Union of Students (England, Wales and Northern
Ireland), Introduction, 3, 9, 12, 25, 66, 67, 73, 81, 88, 91, 92, 95, 96,
134-144, 182
Nederlandse Studentenraad, Introduction, 206
News
Service, 78, 190
Norsk Studentsamband, 88, 149
Nuclear disarmament,
154
Palestinian refugees, 187
Peace (action), 18, 28, 30, 42, 43,
56, 57, 68, 108, 154
Pelikán, Ji?í, 38, 103
Po Prostu, 97
Poland, 5-9, 68-73, 97, 170, 185
Portugal, 179
Press (Student-), 20,
28, 33, 60, 65, 165
Press-releases, 194
Puerto Rico, 198
Salazar, Antonio de Oliveira, 179
Scandinavia, Introduction, 9, 12, 49,
65, 66, 88, 149, 193
Scottish Union of Students, Introduction, 64, 88,
95
Secretariat, 110
Sino-Soviet conflict, 37
South Africa,
158
Spain, 76, 179
Sport, 20, 28, 33, 60, 95, 139, 159
Student
Sport Council, 159
Students of Ireland Sports Union, 159
Sudan,
205
Suomen Ylioppolaskuntien Liitto, 168
Sveriges Förenade
Studentkårer, Introduction, 9, 65, 66, 193
Switzerland, 161, 182
Travel (-Student Conference), 9, 65, 66, 185
Tunesia, 100, 182
Ulbricht, Walter, 177
UNESCO, 180
Unión de Federaciones
Universitarias de Chile, 189
Union des Étudiants Guyanais, 174
Union
des Grandes Écoles, 88
Union Générale des Étudiants Musulmans Algériens,
171
Union Nationale des Étudiants Français, 36, 182, 200
Union
Nationale des Universitaires du Liban, 178
Union of Socialist Soviet
Republics, 26-39, 82-88, 92, 176, 182
Union of Students in Ireland,
108
Unione Nazionale Universitaria Rappresentiva Italiana, 14
United
States National Student Association, 164, 174
United States of America,
25, 39, 54, 60, 105, 107, 164, 174, 198, 203, 204, 207
Unity
(International Student-), 11, 17, 28, 29, 42, 43, 54, 58, 80, 83, 100, 104,
105, 161, 182
Universiade, 159
Venezuela, 199
Verband der
Schweizerischen Studentenschaften, 161, 182
Vietnam, 53, 55, 203
Vokrouhlický, Zbyn?k, 103
World Association of Youth, 99, 169
World
Council of Peace, 154
World Federation of Democratic Youth, 2, 140
World Student News, 163
World Student Relief, 2, 139, 145
World
University games, 159
World University Service, 145
World Youth
Conference 1945, 136
World Youth Festival, 140
Yugoslav Union of Students, 9, 139, 155, 158
Zrzeszenie Studentów Polskich, 39, 170