CARRIER PIDGIN VOLUME 2 NUMBER 6 SATURDAY 15 MARCH 1980 VALID TIL 29 MARCH PRINTED & PUBLISHED BY US FOR YOU DIARY MONDAY 17 MARCH Get along to Chix, Farnham Road, Slough, with Reading Trades Council, to picket this sweat-shop. 6.30am. Some transport from Reading available. Offers of lifts welcomed. CONTACT Alan Hooper, Reading 864067 PLUS Reading Women's Group open meeting (ie men are welcome) on 'Women and Ireland'. 8pm, Old Town Hall, Blagrave Street. WEDNESDAY 19 MARCH Reading Abortion Rights Campaign meets at 8pm in the Old Town Hall, Blagrave Street. This Campaign is working for safe, free, early abortion facilities in Reading. CONTACT Sue Jessup, Bracknell 57296 PLUS Friends of the Earth meet at 8pm at the Cap & Gown, opposite the tech. college, to talk about varios aspects of nuclear power, a year after the 'China Syndrome' incident at Harrisburg. THURSDAY 20 MARCH What's the Chix dispute all about? Come along to a public meeting at 8pm presented by the Chix strike committee. The aim of the meeting is to spread information, raise funds and organise regular support. It's at the Central Club, Chain Street. MONDAY 24 MARCH Reading Women's Group starts a series of educational meetings open to all women, on women's places in different cultures. 8pm, Old Town Hall. PLUS Chix picket. Do your picketing duty and be finished in time for work! see 17 March for details. SATURDAY 29 MARCH with the Friends of the Earth in London against Nuclear power. A coach or coaches will take people from reading. Tickets at £1.50 from John Booth, phone Reading 868260, or (probably) from Acorn Books, The Emporium, Merchant's Place. Well, that's it for this fortnight. This can't be all that's happening over the vast spectrum from the Labour party through the far-left alphabet soup to the utopian mystics, organic gardeners and flying- saucer spotters. Where are you all? This paper can advertise your events in your own words for free, reaching quite a lot of people in and around Reading. All you have to do is to write to us c/o 31B Milman Road, or 65 Cardigan Road or Acorn Books before Friday March 28 and your info will be in the next issue, which covers events up to April 15 or thereabouts. Frankly, you'd have to be mad not to take advantage of this wonderful offer. After all, it's free and might do you some good, I mean you can never tell, can you? We may be anarchists (gasp! 'shoot them down like partridges' – Trotsky) but we'll advertise almost anything from lefties or loonies. And if there isn't the information we have to dribble on endlessly like this (and see over). If this is shoved through your letterbox tell us what you think. If you want it shoved etc tell us. READING SHOTGUN "The paper for the van guard" PAGE 2 REVOLUTION Revolutionary youth organisation - international. Three people are trying to set up a branch of this group in Reading. The group is for young people generally, but particularly organising around school students, unemployed youth and young workers. Learn to turn a table tennis bat into an instrument of liberation! Thrill to the sight of dole officials squirming as they hand over your full entitlement! A bulletin with news about DHSS, apprenticeship rip-offs, shoplifting (dos & donts), abortion, gay rights and NUSS is being prepared and will be available in a couple of weeks. CONTACT - no address yet, but watch this space. I'VE FOUND IT! YOU CAN FIND IT TOO! Christians are fond of talking about 'uplifting moral and spiritual values'. As their bible clearly shows, by this they mean glorified cheating, deceit, lying, jealousy, intolerance, trickery, crime, thievery, debauchery, rapine, murder and revenge. Their leader, Jesus, is quite candid about his intentions in the 10th chapter of Mathew: 'Think not that I have come to send peace on earth. I come not to send peace, but a sword.' 'For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in- law against her mother-in-law'. And true to his word in Luke 22 he orders his followers to arm themselves - 'whoever has a purse had better take it with him, and his pack too; and if he has no sword let him sell his cloak to buy one.' Many people have tried to fortell the future but few have been as successful as Jesus. Christians worship death and suffering. Miniature symbolic corpses are hung around their necks. A replica of a corpse forms the backdrop of their alters. Giant symbolic corpses adorn the highest parts of their holy buildings. If Jesus had lived fifty years ago in America, Christians would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks today. I have often wondered why they don't go all the way and strategically place a few stuffed vultures in their homes and churches. We must protect our children from these morbid people. In the celebrated indulgences issued by the popes to pay for the building of St Peters, and which led to Luther's defiance of Rome, we find that one of the few crimes for which the indulgence could obtain no forgiveness was the traffic of alum (used in the cloth and leather industries) from sources other than the monopoly controlled by the pope. Christianity is always linked to financial and economic systems based on exploitation. Its purpose is to show that those who do as they are told will prosper and those who disobey will suffer. St Paul describes the ideal Christian society as one where children must always obey their parents, slaves must always obey their masters, and everyone must obey their local ruler. In practice this society would be totalitarian, similar to a fascist or stalinist society. the concordat between the catholic church and the fascist Mussolini verifies this. In return for a vast sum of money the church introduced religious teaching in all state high schools, thereby producing the sort of zombies that fascism needed for its society. - extracted from Should we ban the bible? , Peter Priestly