RED RAG VOLUME 2 NUMBER 9 april 26 for vents to may 14 X2p OR FREE FORTNIGHTLY EVENTS DIARY FOR READING PHONE DETAILS TO READING 868194 COPY IN BY 7PM, 9 MAY FOR NEXT ISSUE. P&P READING ANARCHIST GROUP SUNDAY 27 APRIL Remember Blair Peach – Demonstration in London roughly a year after SPG goons murdered this teacher in Southall. There will be transport from Reading; CONTACT Jim Fagin, Reading 666660, evenings MONDAY 28 APRIL Reading Women’s Group meets to discuss future action. Old Town Hall, 8pm Get up early and go on the Reading Trades Council minibus to the Chix picket. Leaves station 6am, cemetary junction 6.15; back in time for work TUESDAY 29 APRIL Chix strike support meeting. 8pm, AUEW Hall, 121 Oxford Road. WEDNESDAY 30 APRIL NATIONAL MASS PICKET AT CHIX. Take the morning off to support the Chix workers. Transport from the station at 6am, cemetary junction 6.15. Reading Abortion Rights Campaign meet at 8pm in the Old Town Hall. THURSDAY 1 MAY O what joy to be a worker now that Mayday’s here. If you don’t take the day off, at least chuck a joyful spanner in the works to show who’s boss. Employment Rights 1, first of two on this from the Bulmershe/East Reading Rights Group fights training course. For beginners. Session at 2.30 at Bulmershe College, repeated at 7.30, Wycliffe Community Centre, cemetary junction. For more details, CONTACT Reading 663387x296 (days) or 666184 (evenings) ‘The Police – who are they protecting?’ Joanna Rollo, Author of the bit about the SPG in the recent book Policing the Police, speaks. Presented by the Socialist Workers Party. 8pm, Red Lion, Southanpton Street. SATURDAY 3 MAY READING MAYDAY CELEBRATIONS As follows: 10am assemble outside Shire Hall, the Forbury, with banners etc for march round the town with jazz band followed by ( if last year’s anything to go by) boring and offensive speeches from assorted hacks. 2-5.30pm St John’s School, Orts Road, for exhibitions, side-shows, food, bookstall. Creche and kid’s tea. 7.30-12 Lounge Bar, Students Union, Whiteknights, jazz, rock, drama,drink - £1 in advance from Acarn etcetera. No tickets at the door. London- Brighton bike ride. Speakers Corner, 7am. Details, CONTACT Roger, Reading 666176 evenings TUESDAY 6 MAY 8pm, ‘Women under attack’ public meeting, presented by Reading Abortion Rights Campaign, AUEW hall, 121 Oxford Road. THE HERALD OF ANARCHY PAGE 2 THURSDAY 8 MAY 2.30 & 7.30 Rights training course, employment rights 2. For details see Thursday 1 May entry. FRIDAY 9 MAY ‘The Trial of Oscar Wilde’, 8pm Letters theatre, University. 50p. presented by University Gaysoc. SUNDAY 11 MAY Women! Is your body a mystery? Do doctors tell you Enough? Reading women’s health group present Women’s Self-Help Health Day, 10am-4pm, 75 Kings Road. am, self-examination & breast exam – demonstration & DIY if you want. pm, workshops: menstruation; vaginal infections; contraception; cystitis. Creche by arrange- ment (call Mary, Reading 598127 (day)). Pub lunch or bring your own. MONDAY 12 MAY Reading Women’s Group social. For details CONTACT Pat Ford, Reading 596004 WEDNESDAY 14 MAY Who runs the country? We do! ALL OUT ON THE TUC DAY OF ACTION. Events in Reading, Slough, Bracknell, Newbury. Warning – there will probably be no public transport today. Offers of, and requests for lifts co-ordinated by Trades Council secretary Alan Hooper, Reading 864067. Key events are: 6am from rail station to Chix, Slough (9.30 picket Farnham Park Rehabilitation Centre, Slough – an NHS facility being sold off. 10, rally & march starting at Chix) 12 noon Newbury rally, details Jeff Pepriat, Newbury 43571 work, 34454 home. 2pm assemble King’s Meadow, READING for march round the town & back to hear ‘a member of the TUC General Council’. 8pm ‘Philosophy or Common Sense?’ alternative life styles, ecologism etc examined by Friends of the Earth at Cap & Gown, opposite the Tech. All welcome. RED RAG NEWS 1 – At present this sheet goes to groups, mainly – it’s too much work to distribute to individuals. But some friends have been working for some time on a computer system which will make Red Rag available to more people, and which should allow us to distribute other people’s newsletters, announcements etc, economically. The system is now working and will be operational once the programme has been developed. So, if you’d like Red Rag delivered to your home, let us know. And if you want your newsletter delivered to your members/Red Rag readers, talk to us – Rdg 868194/662285. The system xxxx will be secure and flexible. 2 – should we give social/cultural events as well as ‘politics’? Feedback. FILLER The moment of revolt, which means now, is hollowing out for us in the hard rock of our daily lives, days that miraculously retain the delicious colours and the dreamlike charm which – like an Aladdin’s cave, magical and prismatic in an atmosphere all its own – is inalienably ours. The moment of revolt is childhood rediscovered, time put to everyone’s use, the dissolution of the market and the beginning of generalised self-management. YOU’RE FUCKING AROUND WITH US? – NOT FOR LONG!