What can we do about it?

The most important thing, in the present circumstances, is to be aware that New Zealand is in a state of economic crisis, and to understand the effect that this is having on the New Zealand people. In due [unclear: cour economic] situation will improve doubt improve, but the crisis may become a great deal more severe in the meantime.

What we must do, then, is to struggle against our having to pay for the economic crisis, and make the cost of it be borne by those groups which are benefitting from it. The distribution of income and wealth in our society is not fixed as any god-given law, but is a reflection of the ownership and control of the means of production, and thence of state power.

Students should not accept government statements that they cannot have a cost-of-living bursary, on the grounds that it would cost too much in the [unclear: present] economic climate. Rather, we must get out on the streets and fight for one.