MURRAY BOOKCHIN, as one pokespeople on the left of he US Green movement will be in Britain during National Environment Week (16-24 May) for a speaking tour.
While many SO readers may be unfamiliar with Bookchin's ideas and work, his is a refreshing voice from a country that nas spawnca some of the miuse reactionary ecological politics When leading members of the radical Earth First! activist group calling themselves 'deep ecologists' - • began talking of AIDS and famine as nature's just revenge, Bookchin fiercely took the debate up, pioneering his Ideas about social ecology - incorporating the state, class, race and gender into ecological philosophy and politics.
With the pathetically watered-down Earth Summit aking place in June, with every crisis is worsening day by day, Green arty in that has lurched rightwards oblivich, socialists cannot afford to be ignorant about left ecological politics. Getting along to one of the Bookchin meetings would be a useful in• 12 May: Cambridge UniverLady Butcher flam, 7.30pm. Donations • 14 May: Bristol University Students' 7.30pm. Donations. • 18 May: Leeds University, Rupert Beckett Lecture Theatre, New Arts Block, 7.30pm. Donations. • 21 May: London, St James's Piccadilly, 7.30pm. 5/2.50 More information from Gideon Kossoff on 081 802 3932.
Published fortnightly Solidarity price £1 Strikers and claimants 25p No 21 May 16, 1992 socialist Don't get sore: lew realiems brings catastropde