'Minorities' and issues

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Sunday April 24, in London. Please make plans to choose and mandate your group's delegate Subscribe! I FEEL I must write in response to the letter by Brian and Gregory of the Gay LPYS Group. -although I am in complete sympathy with their/our cause, the article they had publishedin Socialist Organiser was more a plea for legitimacy on the grounds of minority status.

I am totally opposed to the categorisation of certain struggles as 'minority issues"' I concede that certain "causes" directly affect a minority of people, the best example being immigrants. We never consider the four Leeds. Contact Garth Frankland, 623322. SO is sold at Books and Corner Books, Woodhouse I ane. :

Bradford. Contact Barry Turner, 636994. SO is sold at the Starry .. Plough bookshop.

Sheffield. Meets every other Wednesday, 7.30pm at the Brown Cow, The Wicker. SO is sold outside Boot's, Foregate (Saturday 12 to 1), and at the Independent Bookshop, Glossop Road. Contact: Rob, 589307 Hull. Meets every Wednesday, 8pm: details from SO sellers. Childcare available. SO is sold at the Prospect Centre (Saturday Halifax. Contact 52156. SO is sold at Halifax Wholefood, Gibbet St, and at Tower Books, Hebden Bridge.

• WALES Cardiff. Contact 492988.

• MIDLANDS Brimingham. Meets alternate Fridays, 7.30, the Hen and Chickens, Constitution Hill. Next meeting Friday March 17.

Next meeting: Thursday March 31: an Islington councillor on 'Can Local Councils fight the Cuts?' SO is sold at the Other Bookshop, Digbeth High St million unemployed as minority issue, but then again one is predominantly social and the other the "all-dominant econoric" issue.

The best example of a minority issue that is never a minority issue is gay and lesbian rights and liberation.

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For this struggle to be successful would mean a revolutionary change in the role of the dominant monogamous heterosexual relationships in this society - the subservient role of women in our society, and the whole existence of masculinity and all the ings, and at the University on Friday mornings. Coventry. Contact Keith White, 75623. SO is sold at the Wedge Co-Op, High St. Meets on first and last Thursday of each month, 7.30 at "The Queen' Primrose Hill St, Hillfields. Next meeting: March 31, 'Rosie the Riveter'.. Film Leicester. Contact Phil, 857908. SO is sold outside Supasave (Friday 4.30 to 6), the Co-op, Narborough Rd (Saturday 11-12.30), and at Blackthorne Books, • High Street.

Northampton. Meets alternate Monday. Next meeting March 21. For details contact 713606.

Nottingham. Meets every Friday, 7.30pm at the International Community Centre, 61B Mansfield Rd. SO is sold outside the Victoria Centre (Saturday 1l to 1) and at the Mushroom Bookshop, Heathcote St.

Oxford. SO is sold* at the Cornmarket (Saturday 1lam to 1pm) and outside Tesco, Cowley Rd (Friday 5pm-7pm). Also at EOA Books, Cowley Rd.

Basingstoke. Business meetings March 25 and April 8. Public meeting: May 16, Is a Socialist Revolution possible in Britain?' All meetings, 7.30pm, Chute House. •LONDON North-West London. Readers' meetings first Sunday of month. Phone Mick, 624 1931, for details.

So is sold at Kilburn Books.

Islington. Next meeting March 27, 4pm at Thornhill reactionary values within that. The gender system would have to be smashed and with it the role of the family in our society.

But Marx, Lenin, Trotsky never wrote anything about it, so it must be a marginal issue.

We must never go capin-hand to socialist organisations, especially the ones that claim to be Trotskyist. They have a lot to learn from us. If the socialist society that they are ourselves are fighting for is to be truly free for all, they not only have to learn from us but put what they learn into practice and make it an integral part of their policy.

Neighbourhood Project, Orkney House, Caledonian Road/Copenhagen Street. Martyn Honeywell (Latin America Bureau) on 'The War in El Salvador' • For childcare phone Nik; 278 1341.

Haringey Contact 802 0771 or 348 5941. Meets every other Thursday, 7.30 pm, Trade Union Centre, Brabant Rd. Next meeting March 24.

Tower Hamlets. Contact 377 1328. Meets fortnightly on Fridays, 6.30 to 8.30pm. Next : meeting March 24.

Southwark/Lambeth meets every other Wednesday, Lansbury House, 41 Camberwell Grove, SE5. Business meeting 7.30pm. Open Forum discussion at 8.30pm. Next meeting:

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Name Address I enclose £ To: Socialist Organis0r, 28 Middle Lane, London N8 8PL.

Granted, being gay in our society at present is not cosy — but let us never fail into the trap of being taken in by the half truths, lies and hypocrisy of this primitive and repressive society we live in.

I also agree that the Trotskyist groups have done little to promote or respond to gay issues.

With that kind of response no wonder many of our gay brothers and sisters turn to the Liberal and other reformist groups -who can offer them only legal rights but never to liberate us and create a society where all forms of sexist expression are as valid as the heterosexual's.

JEFF EVANS Wednesday B0 March -speaker from South London Women's Hospital.

Educationals in basic Marxism: Sünday March 20 at 7.30pm. 'How do bosses make their profits from workers?' For details fo venue phone lan on 609 3071.

Hounslow. SO sold outside All Saints Church, Hounslow High Street, Saturday 10.30-12. Next meeting: Sunday March 17, 'Socialists for a Labour Victory'. For venue ring 609 3071. Hackney: Contact c/o Andrew Hornung, 28 Carlton Mansions, Holmleigh Rd, N16.

SO is sold at the following London bookshops: Collets, Central Books, The Other Bookshop, Bookmarks, Bookplace [Peckham Rd, SE15], and Reading Matters [Wood Green Shopping City]:

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