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Where to find Socialist Organiser Next Socialist Organiser delegate meeting:

Socialist Organiser Annual General Meeting: Sunday October 30, 10.30-5, County Hall, London SEI.

National Socialist Organiser day-school. Saturday Oct| Liverpool. Contact 733 | Sheffield. Meets every | Coventry. Contact Keith I thorne Books. High St. Sheffield. Meets every Coventry. Contact Keith other Wednesday, 7.30pm, White, 75623. SO is sold at at the Brown Cow, The the Wedge Co-op, High Wicker. SO is sold outside St. Meets on first and last Boots, Fargate (Saturday Thursday of the month, 12-1) and the Independent 7.30 at the 'Queen' Bookshop, Glossop Rd. Primrose Hill St., HillContact Rob, 589307. fields.

Fighting back! CONFERENCE of Socialist Economists conference 1983: The World Economy in Crisis. July 9 to 11 in Sheffield. Details from 25 Horsell Road, London N5.

'VOICE of Solidarnosc': £8 for 6 months to Solidarnosc Information Office, 314-320 Grays Inn Road, London WCIX 8DP (01837 9464).

LIBERATION Network for People with Disabilities: meeting to set up a steerins group to establish a London resource centre. Saturday July 16, 2pm, Room B28, Morley College, 61 Westminster Bridge Rd, London SEI. Further info: contact Micheline Mason 01-673 4310 or Neil Harvey, 01-311 2002. • SCOTLAND Glasgow. Next meeting Tuesday July 5, 7.30 at AUEW Halls, West Regent Glasgow: 'Support Cardowan's Fight for Survival'. Speaker: Alec Hogg, Cardowan delegate to NUM Scottish Executive. Edinburgh. For details of meetings ring Dave 229 4591. SO is sold at Muirhouse (Saturday 10.30-12) PALESTINE Solidarity public meeting: Lebanon, one year on' • Friday July 8, 7.30 at County Hall, London SE1.

LONDON Labour councils, CLPs, and trade unions against the Tories: conference called by Southwark Labour group. Sunday July 17, Ilam, Southwark Town Hall. Delegates invited from CLPs, council Labour groups, and trade unions in London.

SILENCED Women: an eventers Preild and indee Writers' Guld and Index on Censorship. Friday July 15, 7.30 at the Little Ship Club, Bell Wharf Lane, Upper Thames St, EC4. U.S. HANDS Off El Salvador and Nicaragua! Picket Liverpool. Contact 733 6663 for details of meetings. SO is sold at Progressive Books, Berry St., and at News from Nowhere, Whitechapel.

Hyndburn. Contact Accrington 395753. Meetings weekly - see SO sellers for details. SO is sold at Broadway, Accrington, Saturdays 11.30 to 1pm.

Stoke. Contact Paul Barnof US Embassy, Grosvenor Sq, W1, Tuesday July 5, 4.30-7.30pm.

LABOUR Movement Conference on Ireland: July 15, from 10am at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1. Sponsors include Clive Soley, Tony Benn, Ken Livingstone. Delegates £3, observers £2, details from LMCI, Box 189, 32 Ivor Place, London NW1. PREPARING for power: a labour movement conference for the '80s organised by the Revolutionary Communist Party. July 16-22, Central London Poly, New Cavendish St. Pegistration £10 (£6 UB40), cheques payable to RCP Association, to BM RCP, London WCIN 3XX.

Hull. Meets every Wednesday, 8pm: details from SO sellers. Childcare available. Halifax. Contact 52156. York. 'Fighting the Tories' MOST OF the Socialist Organiser EGM on June 26 was given over to discussion on perspectives after the election.

According to our constitution, the AGM must be held in May or June. The General Election made a full meeting impossible, so we held a short EGM and have scheduled the AGM for late October or early November.

Jonathan Hammond opened the discussion. Paradoxically, he said, after the election defeat there are great opportunities for Socialist Organiser to expand its influence.

The labour movement will be re-thinking - and the other currents on the Left are clearly inadequate to the task. The SWP has been confirmed by the election result in its blinkered orientation to factory and workplace struggles only, neglecting the wider labour movement.

Militant remains attached to its view of inevitable objective processes driving the working class to the left Leicester. Contact Phil, 857908. SC › is sold at Blackand into the arms of Militant. And the Communist Party is increasingly turning to cross-class 'alliances' against the Tories - renouncing the most elementary Marxist notions of the class struggle.

The condition of capitalism points to drastic crises before years are out. We prepare.

Jenny Fisher stressed the need to recruit more women to the Socialist Organiser Alliance. Possibly as many as one third of all SO groups have no women members at all. In a drive to set up Labour Party workplace branches, special attention must be paid to places mainly employing women.

Jean Lane described moves to set up a Labour Party branch in her workplace - the post office in Coventry - and commented, 'I think the regional Labour Party offices are scared of workplace branches:"

The main from the discus thorne Books, Northampton. 713606.

Nottingham. Meets Thursday evenings, 7.30 at the International Community Centre. SO is sold outside the Victoria Centre (Saturday 11-1) and at the Mushroom Bookshop, Heathcote world new, many must conclusions ision were:

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Contact Heffer •To support Eric Heffer and Michael Meacher for the Labour Party leadership and to make every effort possible to establish broad-based campaign committee.

•To schedule a 'Fight the Tories' conference for September 17, and try to gain sponsorship for it from labour movement bodies. To make building of Labour Party workplace branches an important item •To make a drive over the summer months for recruitment to SO groups, particularly among people who have joined the Labour Party during the election tember 3, in Birmingham.

ober 29, in London.

St. Contact: 585640.

Oxford. SO is sold at the Cornmarket (Saturday 11-1) and outside Tesco, Cowley Rd., Friday 5-7. Also at EOA Books, Cowley Rd.

Pete By Alan Thornett.

Socialist Organiser, campaign or since.

In the discussion on finance Jenny Fisher pointed to a growing list of debts and said that the best way to redress the situation is increased paper sales. It was also agreed to subdivide our £1,000 monthly fund target into area-by-area rolling targets.

The EGM decided to co-opt Brian O'Neill and Les Hearn to the Secretariat, and fixed the next Socialist Organiser delegate meeting for September 3 in Birmingham.

Socialist Organiser 'After the election, what next?' meetings Islington. July 3, 7pm at Caxton House, St Johns Way. Speakers: Jeremy Corbyn MP and John O'Mahony.

Leeds. July 1, 7.30, Chapeltown Community Centre. Speakers: Cllrs Garth Frankland (Leeds) and Barry Turner (Bradford). Rochdale. July 11, 8pm, Castle Inn, Manchester Rd. Hounslow. SO is sold outside All Saints Church, Hounslow High St, SaturIslington. Vontact Nik, 278 1341.

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

Next meeting July 6: Bob Sutcliffe speaks on his new book, 'Hard Times' South-East London. Contact via 28 Middle Lane, Lundon N8.

Newham. Contact via 28 Middle Lane, London N8. Tower Hamlets. Meets fortnightly on Fridays, 6.30-8.30pm. Contact 377 1328 for details.

SO is sold at the following London Bookshops: Collets, Central Books, The Other Bookshop, Bookmarks, Bookplace [Peckham Rd., SE 15), Kilburn Books, and Reading Matters [Wood Green Shopping Centre).

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