10. June Phil Hearse (IMG), Ernie Roberts Ms) amon Tendeter Party)
School, Northwold Rd, E5. 7.30pm ciceste Stephen Marks (IMG)
16 June Valerie Coultas (IMG), Stuar Briston Toam Hall 7.30pm Holland (Labour 17 June Wolverhampton Steve Potter (IMG)
20 June Cardiff Tariq Ali (IMG)
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norses, cannoce LONDON SC Humble sale, Sat 14 June. Essex WHILE agreeing wholeheartedly with your paper's call for a mass movereit un uns colnery ano 1n the imperialist West against war and against the deployment of the ruse aid resume mussues m Europe, I have to take issue with some of your arguments, and particularly with Sylvia Bliss (22 May).
Can it be argued that if imperialism were to be overthrown tomorrow, me soviet Union and the other Warsaw Pact bureaucracies about dismantling the repressive apparatuses of the • described unbelievably by Sylvia 'gains' of the Russian Revolution?
Surely it is more probable tilal, in tne event or widespread revolutionary upsurges in the capitalist West, the Soviet Union he intends the level of its preparedness to use wowu be more nkely to step up the Red Army to thwart any parallel developments of the political revolution in Eastern North Europe.
ne cover oceanor ol Afghanistan flies in the face of the spheres or intluence argument consistently pushed by World War Two, and given the ammunition this has given the west to up tne stakes so dramatically, tion of "solidarity with the Soviet Union In a niguy Invidious posttion would argue that it also paces a maor cuesuon over uc concept 'workers' state", for we are forced to ask ourselves what Today history poses this problem defensively, and giving the right answer is a pre-condition for the future destruction of the soviet ourcaucrac tion of healthy workers' states.
But if Martin is right, and the •fitteen revo umons lois century have simply resulted in another form of capitalism, pianism pure and simple and millions have died for a chimera.
Alter all. n aler ov vears ol wars and revolutions there is not even one mutated anti-capitalist stale anywnere in the world, wnal hope is there? : Red Ármies - Logically, the working class must be congenitallv incanable of becoming the new ruling class, and to keep exhorting it to historic tasks it cannot achieve. as Martin seems to do, must surely be criminally irresponsible.
focus for an anti-imperialist campaign, well, troops left Humber ports on a NA IU reintorcement exercise. They are going again in September. Hull CND could really start here.
NOEL HIBBERT, Hull Correction SEVERAL weeks ago we publishon the proposal for a West Bank state for the Palestinians. Inadvertently, he was described a: being a supporter of the British Zionist Organisation. In fact he is a member of the British AntiPalestinian Solidarity. Last month 25,000 UK FESTIVAL OF FOLK Bob Davenport & Webbs Wonders Leon Rosselson Saffron Summerfield Dick Gaughan JAZZ CONCERT Humphrey Lyttelton Big Chief with Dick Heckstall Smith Modern jazz from Poland MORNING STAR BEATTHE BLUES SUNDAY 15 JUNE THEATRE against sexism.
FILMS Day long including puppet theatre, TRADE UNION CITY trade union movement.
YEARS With the political comedy-cabaret of Threepenny theatre plus Theatre programme of films 'Comming home', with Jane Fonda, and Horace Ove's 'Pressure KIDS FESTIVAL & CRECHE with inflatables, films, punch & judy, with stands and displays from the Socialist Challenge 5 June 1980 Page 11
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