red r@g red r@g free or 2p red r@g : fortnightly diary for Reading : 7 june (too faint to read) copy date for next issue Friday 20 june for events to July 12 phone details to Reading 662285 or 868194 : this is v2 no12 DIARY MONDAY 9 JUNE The Adwest strike goes on, and the numbers on the picket line are growing. The strikers welcome support outside the factory, particularly on Mondays at 7am and again at 8.15pm at the Woodley site. There is no strike pay, so they particularly need money. Donations to, and collection forms from Danny Broderick, Flat 4, 46 Berkeley Avenue, Reading. Cheques payable to ‘J Dhoot’. PLUS At 8pm Reading Women’s Group meets in the Old Town Hall to plan a conference of local women’s organisations, and a public meeting. All sympathetic women welcome. Contact Pat Ford, Reading 596004 WEDNESDAY 11 JUNE Reading Abortion Rights Campaign planning meeting, all sympathisers welcome, 8pm Old Town Hall. Please come along and help carry the campaign forward. THURSDAY 12 JUNE The Socialist Workers Party has an open meeting on ‘Trotsky’, 8pm at the Red Lion pub, Southampton Street. Tommy Ewing speaking. FRIDAY 13 JUNE Nuclear war debate: ‘How can we avoid the next war?. Several ‘prominent people’ and you & I will try to find ways of stopping the next, and last, war which our leaders seem to be blundering towards. Speakers will include Hugh Jenkins, chairman of CND and ex-Minister of Arts in the last Labour government; Guy Smith, BBC Radio Bristol journalist known for his work (alone and with Duncan Campbell) on emergency planning in Berkshire; Tory MP Julian Critchley; Peace Tax man Stan Keeble; the Ecology Party and, hopefully, assorted socialists, communists and even (gasp) anarchists. 7.15pm, Students Union, Whiteknights Park. SUNDAY 15 JUNE The Morning Star presents a Beat the Blues festival to celebrate its 50th year at Alexandra Palace, London. There will be jazz, the Slits, John Cooper Clark, rally, crèche, theatre, films. Coach from Reading at 7.30am, at £1.75. It’ll cost £2.50 to get in if you are waged, £1.50 if you’re not, and less if you are a school student. For more details contact Eileen Chisolm on Reading 477913 MONDAY 16 JUNE Reading Womens Group meets at 8pm in the Old Town Hall TUESDAY 17 JUNE ‘Learning to be women’. Women’s Liberation Group presents a dis- cussion on sex role conditioning. 8pm, women only. For details of venue contact Heather on Reading 868308 WEDNESDAY 18 JUNE A debate on Nicaragua, presented by The university socialist society, featuring International Marxist Group central cttee member Alan Freeman, and Stuart King from Workers Power. 8pm, probably in the Palmer Building, Whiteknights Park more… page 2 ..regard 2 THURSDAY 19 JUNE Ireland – Kieran Kelly of the Socialist Workers party speaks at an open meeting in the Red Lion pub, Southampton Street, at 8pm FRIDAY 20 JUNE The women’s health group talks about ‘Skin’. Women only. 7.30pm at 106 London Road SUNDAY 22 JUNE Labour Party march & rally: ‘Nuclear arms, no; peace, yes’ in London. Coach will take people from hereabouts, picking up at Pamgbourne at 10.30, Reading x West Station at 1o.40, Cemetary Junction at 10.50. Return fare £1.75, in advance if possible to Berkshire Anti-Nuclear Campaign, c/o TGWU, 36 Kings Road. MONDAY 23 JUNE Berkshire campaign for Economic and social advance, a broad-based campaign that’s just starting out, meets to formalise its structure and decide on actions. Trade unionists are welcome. It is at 8pm, at the Labour Hall, Station Approach, Newbury. WEDNESDAY 25 JUNE Berkshire anti-nuclear campaign meets to formulate demands and proposals for: a nuclear weapons ban; scrapping nuclear power; neutrality for the UK. 8pm, AUEW Hall, 121 Oxford Road. SATURDAY 28 JUNE Reading Council for Community Relations, Future Policy Conference, Old Town Hall, all day. ‘The chairmen of the RCCR subcommittees will outline their programmes for the next two years. The object of the conference is to afford the wider membership of RCCR and the ethnic minority organisations the opportunity to contribute to the developing policies of the RCCR.’ Creche available, but not lunch. If you want to go tell RCCR, 46 Caversham Road, as soon as possible (they say by 9 June). THINGS TO CHEW OVER CHIX This dispute was settled at ACAS behind the workers backs and publicised as being over. As we reported last issue, the workers were pissed off about the deal, and in fact rejected it. Some minor and vague concessions were made, and the workers have now accepted revised settlement, despite the fact that some remain unreinstated. ZAPPA About 7 tickers (5 in a block) for Frank Zappa concert, Wembley Arena 18 June. Face value £6.50. If you want some or all, call Reading 84961 between 9-10.30pm, ask for Jonathon Cowie and make him an offer near the face value. ‘What’s a for sale doing in Red Rag?’ ‘I don’t know, it just walked in confidently and sat down as if it owned the place.’ ‘Does it?’ ‘What? Own the place? I don’t know, I’ve got more important things to think about…’ FILLER There is no filler material this week.