Digby Jacks, British president of the National Union of Students (1971–1973), died he was 66.

Digby Jacks  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]

(16 May 1945 – 21 October 2011)

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 anti-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]

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