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The TUC after Wembley John Kelly and a speaker from the Left in EETPU. Women Alive Children's Festival Mar 25 8pm at THAP Bookshop, & Creche Women Alive will have an Whitechapel Rd, London El. Orga­ accompanying children's festival and nised by 61 Marxism Today Readers creche. As Women's resources will be Group and Tower Hamlets CP. stretched by the main event, men are being asked to give money and sup­ Women and the Man-Made En­ port. Contact Jonathon 01 272 4756 vironment Speaker: Ben Foo, Mar 3 or Women Alive, 16 St John St, Lon­ 8pm at King's College. Babysitting don ECl.Tel. 01 251 4406. available. Organised by Cambridge University MT discussion group. Achilles Heel is an anti-sexist men's publishing collective looking for help with their publication: articles, poems, drawings etc. They also need more members for their collective. All What is Marxism? Roger Simon (au­ material for the next issue to: 79 thor An Introduction to Gramsci,) Pembroke Rd, London E17 9BB. (01 videos and discussion groups. Mar 1 521 4764) by Apr 30. 10.30-4.30 16 St John St, London EC1. Details: Jackie Heywood, tel 01 251 Left Alive '86 Nov 1-2, City Universi­ 4406. ty. Anyone interested in helping with the event contact: Sally Townsend on Coal and Community The Miners' 01 608 0265. Strike - One Year On. Mar 7-9 at University of Sheffield. Details: Joan Keogh, Continuing Education, Uni­ versity of Sheffield, 85 Wilkinson St, Sheffield, S10 2GJ. Doomsday 1086-1986 Who owns the Arts? with John Pick Mar 6; Who's How We Live and How We Might Speakers include Martin Jacques, news is good news? Who owns the Live Symposium organised by Wil­ Alan Booth, Brenda Kirsch, Richard NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Media? with Patrick Hughes Mar 13. liam Morris Society and Friends of the Dyer. Mar 1, 10-5 at University of Andrew Gamble is senior lecturer in politics 6.30-8.30 at University of London Ex­ Earth. Mar 8, 2.30 at London Ecology Bath, Claverton Down, Bath. Tickets at Sheffield University and the author of tra Mural Studies Dept., 26 Russell Sq, Centre, 45 Shelton St, London WC2. £2 and £1 unwaged from Left Turns, Britain in Decline. London WC1. Helen Hague is on the labour staff of the 78A Northend, Batheaston, Bath, BA1 Financial Times. 7ES. Tel. Bath 852458. Disabled Access Keith Dixon teaches at Grenoble University The Spectre Haunting Education and Creche. and is a member of the PCF. Speakers Brian Simon and Marian Jeff Ferry is a freelance journalist who Darke. Mar 12 8.00 at Muswell Hill Moving Left Show '86 A day of What's Left? All day event with writes on the City for the Miami Herald and Library, Queens Ave, London N10. discussion Mar 1, 10-4.15 at Friends discussions, video festival and Red the Washington Post. Sponsored by London District CP. House, Bushwood, Leytonstone, Lon­ Wedge Cabaret. Speakers include Jesse Jackson is America's leading black don Ell. Sponsored by Waltham politician. Sarah Benton, George Bolton, Ros Stuart Hall isa professor of sociology at the The London Feminist History Forest CP and Marxism Today. £1 Brunt, Anna Coote, Dave Cook, Jerry waged, 50p unwaged. Open University. Group London Women Hoppickers Dammers and Peter Tatchell. Mar 15, John Lloyd is the industrial editor of the with Gilda O'Neill Mar 14 7.30 at 10.30 at Wolverhampton Poly. Spon­ Financial Times. Wesley House, Gt Queen St, London Left Turn All day event. 2 major sored by Marxism Today and New Emily Driver helps to run groups for WC1. Tel. 01 703 5275. debates: Peace - Life After Cruise? Socialist. Contact Mark Perryman, 27 children at the Child Sexual Abuse and The Realignment of the Left. Church Rd, Netherton, Dudley, Mids. Preventive Education Project in London. Tel: 0384 238216. John Robson is a GP and a member of the Communist party. Arnold Kettle his thinking, he brings to these stu­ Michael Bleaney isa lecturer in economics Arnold Kettle, who this month dies an unusually wide and deep at Nottingham University and a member of reaches the age of 70, is retiring from knowledge in the field of culture and the CP Economic Committee. our Editorial Board. In a sense, this social development, as well as a pro­ Jo Richardson is Labour MP for Barking and marks the end of an epoch. Arnold found humanism. The study units he Farewell to the Welfare State Dagenham. was an original member of the Board wrote as Professor of English Litera­ focusses on the 1940s and today look­ Nathalie Hadjifotiou works for a local authority women's committee. on the establishment of Marxism To­ ture at the Open University are re­ ing at the forces undermining the welfare state. Mothers Don't Gerry Pocock is head of the International day as the theoretical journal of the markable for the easy informality of Department of the CP. Communist party in the wake of the their style, though firmly leading the Forget Women talk about their ex­ was the CP's industrial traumatic events of 1956-7. He has student to tangle for him/herself with perience of the welfare state. For hire organiser from 1965-77. been a member ever since. profound and complex issues. His or sale from: Northern Film & TV Brian Morton is features editor of the Times Radicalised in the student move­ election as Pro Vice Chancellor at the Archive, 36 Bottle Bank, Gateshead, Higher Education Supplement. ment in the mid-late 30s, as were Open University towards the end of Tyne & Wear, NE8 2AR. Tel. 091 Kenny Mathieson is a freelance writer. his period of active teaching reflected 4773601. Graham McCann is a research student at many of his contemporaries- a move­ King's College, Cambridge. ment in which he personally played a the trust and respect - even venera­ Sally Hibbin is a film producer and member leading part at Cambridge (and, tion - of his colleagues. oftheCP. through the University Labour Fed­ As a member of the Editorial Board, Paul Allen is a broadcaster and playwright. Arnold has always taken a keen in­ Basil Davidson has written widely on Africa. eration, nationally) - Arnold has con­ National Campaign Against Be- terest in the development of Marxism Tony Davies teaches English at Birmingham sistently made his own unique con­ rufsverbot West German art teacher Today. And, until his recent ill-health, University and is a member of the CP. tribution both to socialist thinking Ulrich Foltz will be making a speaking was ever-present at Board meetings. John Grahl isa lecturer in economics at and action, and to Marxist scho­ tour of Britain in April. Foltz is a Queen Mary College, London and a larship, especially in the field of litera­ Marxism Today is glad to pay tri­ Christian who has been sacked by the member of the CP's EconomicCommittee. ture and the arts. A member of the bute to a remarkable scholar - a education authorities because of acti­ Paul Webster ed its Marxism Today's Close executive committee of the Commun­ marxist and true humanist. Modest, vities in the peace movement. For Up section. ist party for many years following often tentative, profoundly serious details: Graham Dane, 2 Stevenson Charlie Leadbeater edits Marxism Today's 1957, he found the way to combine yet with a delightful sense of Focus section. Court, Livingston, West Lothian, EH54 Peter Wilson is the Morning Star's sports activity in the day-to-day political humour, Arnold has been through­ 5NW. Tel. Livingston 34603. struggle at Leeds with pioneering out his life a true educationalist, in editor and a CP member. the broadest and most distinguished studies in literature notable for the European Nuclear Disarmament sense of the word. Long may he new dimensions he has given to marx- has launched an Anti-Star Wars Cam­ Entries for the April Update should be sent to continue to be so. ist interpretations. paign in Britain. For further details the office by March 14. For information: tel Never dogmatic or mechanistic in Martin Jacques Diane Dixon on 01-965 7482 (evenings) or 608 contact END, 11 Goodwin St, London 0265 (day). N4 Tel. 272 9092.