HUNDREDS of Ernest Mandel's comrades, friends and readers will meet on October 13-14 for two important memorial events in London.
Around 8,000 leaflets advertising the rally and International Symposium - advertised left - have been mailed out to many of the people in this country whose lives Ernest touched in over five decades of revolutionary leadership.
Over 400 people are expected to join a Friday-night rally at Congress House. the headquarters of the Trade Union Congress. Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn, of New Left Review, will speak alongside Duncan Hallas, a long-standing leader of the Socialist Workers Party, and Fourth Internadionalists from bergium, britain, France and Ireland.
The rally will also see the launch of Ending the Nightmare, a volume of essays fascism and racism, to Which Mandel is a maior contributor Tickets are selling quickly for a 150-seat international Symposium to the held the following day. Speakers at the Symposium will include Fl leaders Penny Duggan and François Vercammen. Plenaries and workshops at the symposiura, introduced by present and past leaders and supporters of the Fourth International, will look at the contribution Marxism made by Mandel movement ne touris to build. International Symposium 1.00pm Saturday 14 October Upper Hall, University of London Union, Malet Street, London WC1. tude: Duncan spin. Per ariages, bie Hilman, Charlie van Ge arena. ane kely. Andy inster elke. include: Duncan Chapel, Penny Duggan, Ellis Hillman, Charlie van Gelderen, Jane Kelly. Andy Kilmister, Rick Simon and Geoff Ryan. Tickets £7 (E3.50 UB40/NUS). For more details, 'phone: 0181 800 7460.
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