As European bureaucrats prepare to tone down their proposals to placate Margaret Thatcher, 10,0000 trade unionists have demonstrated in Brussels to show their support for a Social Charter to Include among other things, pension rights: here the rally is addressed by British pensioners' leader
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NUN: DE Jack Jones. Outlook for Socialism, the weekend of debate and discussion organised by this journal, is now taking shape, with many speakers from across Europe confirmed, providing a full programme of socialist discussion on many of the key questions facing the working class in Europe, East and
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Socialist Organiser and Socialist Outook on the nature of!
the Stalinist States. November 6th 7pm.
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The weekend of rallies, plenary sessions and workshops will be based around five main themes - The crisis of stalinism; Socialists and 1992; Lesbian and gay struggles in Europe; Women's struggles in Europe; and Is Socialism in Crisis?
Opening the event with a rally on the Friday evening, marxist economist and writer Emest Mandel; Zbigniew Kowalewski, exSolidarnoso organiser and marxist writer, Branka Magas, a contributor to New Left Review on Eastern Europe, and Ai Meun Lim, a leader of the Chinese Solidarity Campaign, will speak on the Crisis of Stalinism in Eastern Europe and China.
The Saturday morning begins with a plenary on Socialists and 1992, where the European editor of The Guardian, John Palmer, will be joined by Oliver MacDonald, editor of Labour Focus on Eastern Europe.
Later on, there will be two sessions of workshops, giving
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participants a chance to air their views on numerous questions facing socialists in Europe:
On Easter Europe, for example, Peter Tatchell will address the question of lesbian and gay liberation; Barbara Holland, author of Soviet Sisterhood, has been invited to look at the position of women in the USSR; Gunter Minnerup, author of Citizens and Comrades -Socialism in a World of Nation States, will address the questions posed by the national movements in Eastern Europe; Zbigniew Kowalewski, along with a speaker from the Polish Socialist Party, will explain recent developments in Poland.
On Western Europe and 1992, Patrick Camiller of New Left Review will discuss the workers' parties across Europe with Dave Packer of Socialist Outlook; and Penny Kemp of the Association of Socialist Greens will survey the evolution of the Green movements across the continent; Joy Hurcombe, of Labour
CND, will look at recent develop ments in NATO; and a roundtable discussion will take place on the student movement, involving representatives of the Greens, the Communist Party, and Socialist Outlook.
in the evening, representatives of the Spanish, Dutch and British lesbian and gay movements will lead a plenary session on Lesbian and Gay Struggles in Europe. This will be followed by a social with a disco and licensed bar.
The Sunday sessions will begin with a plenary on Women's Struggles in Europe, with Irene Breugel, of the Socialist Society; and we have invited Alice Mahon MP of the Socialist Campaign Group of MPs to join her, in addition, a leading representative of the Fourth International will be on the platform.
This will be followed by another session of workshops, and a final session entitled Is Socialism in Crisis?, with Ken Livingstone MP and marxist writer, Tariq Ali, among others.