Digby Jacks

Career

After his term as NUS Grad. Medical School president he wrote the book Student Politics and Higher Education (), which examines the broad left"s political strategy in student politics. 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. He died in October 2011.

Achievements

• A member of the Communist Party of Great Britain when elected NUS Grad. Medical School President, he was the second candidate from the left - in this case the Radical Student Alliance, succeeding Jack Straw, also elected on the Republic of South Africa ticket, to win since the beginning of the Cold War: national student politics having previously been dominated by an anti-Communist alliance.