PEACE MOVES Glaister, Don Redding and John the ANC a wall calendar based on CONTRIBUTORS After the Icelandic summit Update Scott for their help on this issue. the Freedom Chater by artist Ruth yourself on the peace movement in ••""Contact Jane Critchley 01-608 Carneson is now available as well all its different forms 0265. as greetings cards in the same This month's contributors include: design. Calendars £3. Greetings Jon Bloomfield is a member of CND conference MEETINGS cards with envelopes £1, available CND's international committee A selection from the 100 meetings Against the Burnings from ANC, PO Box 38,28 Penton St, and of the Communist Party's at Blackpool Winter Gardens, Nov Chile Solidarity meeting with N19PR. executive committee. 15-16. Open to observers. Veronica de Negri - mother of Barbara Rogers edits Everywoman WDetails Martin Jones youth burnt to death by Chilean Part-Time Workers magazine. She has has written 01-2504010. troops - Denis Healey, Alan Beith One in every five workers now several books on Southern Africa. MPand others. works part-time, the vast majority Jeff Ferry is a London-based Making Coalitions Oct 30,7.30, Conway Hall, London. of whom are women. This booklet American newspaper Speakers include Ken Livingstone, examines the situation and sets out correspondent. Dafydd Elis Thomas MPand The Politics of Mental Health legal rights and an approach for the Virendra Sharma is an Ealing Martin Jacques. Annual conference of the Socialist unions. Available from Labour councillor and ethnic minorities Health Association. Research Dept., 78 Blackf riars Rd, officer for the Labour Party. CND and the political parties Nov 8,10.30-4pm London SE1.E1. Tony Levene is a freelance Is there a clash between the •^-Details 01-703 6838. financial journalist. interests of the peace movement Critical Mess Jackie Wills is a freelance writer. and those of the political parties There is an Alternative The latest issue'of Third World Beatrix Campbell is a journalist on which support some or all of its Day seminar on formulating an First's quarterly magazine City Limits magazine and she is policies? alternative benefits system. examines the real costs of global currently completing a book called Speakers include Ron Smith, Peter nuclearisation. £1.50. The Iron Ladies to be published by CND and the nuclear power movement Essam and Joan Brown (PSI). Virago next year. Speakers from CND, the trades Nov 24,9.30-4.30 VIDEOS Gerard Holden is a research unions and George Pritchard from WDetails Camden Action on Moving Away From Home officer at Sussex University's Greenpeace. BenefitsOl-8316734. A video resource pack from Shelter Science Policy Research Unit. for young people. Eric Hobsbawm was formerly A New Wind from the East Isaac Deutscher Memorial Lecture ••"Details 01-633 9377. Professor of Economic and Social Gorbachev's impact both inside the Robert Brenner, winner of the 1985 History at Birkbeck College, Soviet Union and on its foreign Isaac Deutscher Prize will talk on Northern Newsreel No 3 London and is a member of policy will be examined by Joan 'The Autonomy of the State?'. The main feature on this half-hour Marxism Today's editorial board. Ruddock, Gerard Holdenand Nov 26,7.30 pm. bulletin is on the Fowler Review Gareth Stedman Jones is the others. W"London School of Economics. plus items on the MSC and regular author of Languages of Class and features. Outcast London. Talking Sanity New Food Politics W*Details: Northern Newsreel, 36 John Grahl is a lecturer in A series of debates on A full menu of the contemporary Bottle Bank, Gateshead, Tyne and economics at Queen Mary College, implementing nuclear issues in food politics. Wear,NE8 2AR. London and a member of the disarmament in Britain. 'The peace Nov 29. Communist Party's economic movements and a disarming W^Details from the British Society Open Eye Catalogue committee. government': Ken Livingstone, for Social Responsibility in Science Videotape catalogue now available Bob Rowthorn is a member of Clare Short and Bruce Kent; Nov 01-607 9615. - on women and trade unions, Marxism Today's editorial board. 24, Camden Town Hall. international issues and media He is Reader in economics at W~Details Colin JamesOl-250 Islington Remembers Spain representations - and other work. Cambridge University. 4010. A evening of discussion and music WDetails 90-92 Whitechapel, For Mainstream roundtable to mark the part played by Liverpool LI 6EN. participants see p36. Peace Tax Campaign Islington in the Civil War. Nov 20, Steve Vines is a journalist on The Dr Richard Lawson, a GPand 7.30 Who's Next For Privatisation. . .? Observer. He was previously a Green Party councillor calls on GPs •f Red Rose Club, Seven Sisters A video record of a campaign by freelance journalist specialising in to join in support of a test ban Rd N4. local authority and hospital Middle East affairs and secretary treaty. workers against private of the Labour Party NEC's Middle W^Details Richard Lawson 0934 Britain at the Crossroads contractors in the North East. East sub-committee. 835140. Child Poverty Action Group Available from: 5Side(Rear), Nick Newman is a freelance writer conference with Buchi Emecheta, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 3JE. who interviewed Nigel Mansell in Left Unlimited Malcom Wicks and Ken Austria earlier this year. Denis Healey debates with Fedor Livingstone. Michelene Wandour is a Burlatsky, editor of Liturnaya Nov8,10.30-3.15,ULU,MaletSt, Entries for the December Update playwright. Gazeta,- preference to weekend London WC1. should be sent to the office by Victoria Wood is an actress and ticket holders, so book now! ••'Details 01-242 3225. November 4. For information: tel commedienne. Her series Victoria Nick Mirzoef f on 01-673 3450. Wood As Seen On TV starts this NEWS Local Strategies for Work Please try to ensure you give month. Nancy Astor Luncheon The first national conference. details of disabled access. Rosalind Brunt lectures in To commemorate the entry of the Speakers: David Blunkett, communication and women's first woman into the House of Margaret Hodge, Rodney studies at Sheffield Polytechnic Commons in 1919-Nancy Astor. Bickerstaf f e and others. Nov 14-15. and is a member of Marxism Organised by the 300 Group WDetails: CLES Heron Hse, Today's editorial board. ••"Details 01-734 3457. Brazennose St, M2. David Berry is a freelance writer. Stuart Cosgrove writes for the A Night for the People of South Africa PUBLICATIONS New Musical Express. Tim Curry, the Communards, Peace Through Non-Alignment Janie Glen teaches in adult David Hare, Hanif Kureishiand Ben Lowe on British withdrawal education and is a member of the many more brought together by from NATO. Verso £150. Communist Party executive War on Want to aid refugees in the committee. front-line states. Peace by Chris Sewell Anthony Barnett is the author of Nov 16. An easy to read introduction to the Iron Britannia. WShaftesbury Theatre, London issues of peace and the campaigns David Forgacs edited Rethinking WC2. for civil rights and disarmament. Italian Fascism (Lawrence and Spokesman £2.50. Wishart, 1986) and is a member of AIDS - a Trade Union Issue the Communist Party's theory and The London Strategic Policy Unit Hard Cash ideology committee. has produced an information pack A report by Change and War on Ian Williams is a member of the to be used by trade unionists Want on the damaging effects of Liverpool Labour Party and dealing with problems associated racism and sexism on the aid northern correspondent of the with AIDS. agencies and how to combat them. . W^Details from 15 Highstone Alan Leaman is a member of the Mansions, 84 Camden Rd, London Black Woman Liberal Party's standing policy NW1. A monthly magazine from the committee. perspective of anti-racist, Hywel Francis is chair of the Marxism Today continues to expand anti-sexist, class-conscious women Wales Congress in Support of and we need volunteer staff to help will be launched in November 1986. Mining Communities and also with merchandising and design. ••-Details Black Woman 01-608 chairs the Welsh Communist You will receive expenses and play 0447. Party's energy and mining a full and active part in every advisory committee. aspect of the magazine. Many ANC Anniversary Calendar Joan Smith is a freelance thanks to Lawrence Budge, Dan To mark the 75th anniversary of journalist.

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