Red Rag fortnightly * free * march 3-17 next time Co-ordinator.............. Mark 782178 Copy deadline....... Thursday 14 March Going out................. Mark 782178 Events.................. Marcus 667060 Distribution............... Guy 669562 Red Rag, c/o Box 79, Acorn Bookshop, 17 Chatham Street, Reading, Berkshire - - - A SUNDAY ON SALISBURY PLAIN On the afternoon of Sunday 17th February about 15 cars formed a cavalcade, starting at Woodhenge (near Stonehenge) in Wiltshire, and proceeded onto the narrow roads and tracks of a snowy Salisbury Plain, in search of the Cruise Missile Convoy which we knew was hidden nearby (pretending to have melted into the British countryside, as Heseltine would have us believe). We were soon followed by a Police car. We were within half a mile of the location when we found a couple of army landrovers blocking the public road; we parked the cars and struck across country - it was a beautiful, clear, crisp day giving rise to good feelings unsullied by the reality of what the Cruise Missile is all about. So there were about 60 people strung out across these snow-covered fields, who could not be stopped by the half-dozen soldiers; fortunately for the security of the country help was at hand, courtesy of Her Majesty, ably funded by us tax-payers. Jeeps began coming across the hill in front of us, and several of those big lorries full of soldiers. We joined hands (no, not with the soldiers, who were too busy) and advanced, surrounding the army vehicles, and singing songs, including the Hokey Cokey. The soldiers were alarmed at people who were still wandering off in all directions and kept having to haul them back. Police and military police were also there. Finally this "terribly nice" Commanding Officer, or an actor who looked like one, allowed us to go back towards the cars in order to get rid of us. Some people were arrested though it's hard to say what for. Other people had been arrested the previous day. As we went back towards the cars I counted the army vehicles and found 5 jeeps, 4 large troop-carrying lorries, and a couple of scout cars; I don't know how the police arrived, unless by army transport. During the period of confrontation on the Plain, we found out later that a large number of cars had tried to join us but had been stopped by army roadblocks thrown up around the area. It was good to meet these people when we rejoined the main road after the action. We drove back and stopped for a photo-call with the local press, at a small village just over the hill from where the convoy was. To round off the day we joined in a demonstration outside Devizes Police Station where a woman was still inside from the previous day's arrests. We held banners and signs up to passing cars, and sang songs at the back of the Police Station where we hoped the woman could hear us. What was achieved? 1) We showed the security forces that Cruise won't melt into the countryside, but will be followed and put in the limelight by those who see no place for such an offensive, not defensive, powerful nuclear weapon which is unlikely to reach enough reliability to make it "safe" to fire from such a crowded island as Britain. 2) The large number of "first-timers" among us saw the power of the military in this country, the horrendous number of British and American bases in a small area in the south of England, the destruction of the countryside of Salisbury Plain, which should be so beautiful but is littered with the detritus of war caused by little boys playing, games of "Goodies and Baddies", and gouged out by the passage of tanks and other vehicles of war; it felt good to reclaim it as somewhere you walk and enjoy on such a splendid day. 3) It felt a very practical action where we could each estimate our own strength as individuals, and collectively, while behaving in a very non-agressive way. It felt to me as if we were testing the meaning of democracy and hopefully stretching it a bit. There was a good atmosphere among us, considering that few people actually knew many others. 4) It raised the question of arrest, of whether I am prepared to get arrested, or if I am going to be satisfied with having made the protest, of feeling bad at leaving those who have been arrested and so on, points which again are going to be important to anyone involvement with direct action groups. 5) It gave real emcouragement to local peace groups who will monitor the movements of the Cruise Convoy to and from Salisbury Plain, and keep the national network on the alert (British Telecom permitting). 6) Finally, it was thought provoking, exhilarating, and enjoyable, and made me feel good. Strongly recommended. Don't forget to bring some food, lots of layers of clothing, good strong footwear or Wellingtons a map, a camera and a notebook if possible. Contact Reading Cruisewatch via CND, BANC etc. Signed: P.C. - - - LOCAL MP IN SEX FILM Reading M.P. Dr. Gerry Vaughan is one of the stars of a film about teenage sex. The film, intended for distribution to schools, is produced by the Responsible Society - vanguard of the 'moral' right and backer of Victoria Gillick's legal battle to outlaw the supply of contraceptives to teenagers without their parents' consent. Adopting the moral theme of countless rugby songs (and displaying about as much empathy and understanding) the film tells the story of two young women and the sexual choices they face. The good girl says 'no' and goes on to college and a career. The bad girl says 'yes' and end up with an abortion, disease, death and general destruction. Oddly, in 1980 when Vaughan was health minister he issued guidelines permitting doctors to advise under-16-year olds without their parents' consent. Judging by the company he keeps now, he has apparently changed his mind. Zed - - - COOPERATION Within a workers' co-operative, people are individually free from the traditional exploitation of one person ("employee") by another ("employer"); the history of the movement goec back to Utopian socialists like Robert Owen. Today there are about 750 co-ops in Britain. In Reading, there are Acorn, the Orts Road Housing Co-op and UBCycles, whilst another half dozen are in the process of formation. They are bedevilled by the self-same problems which dogged existing co-ops in earlier days, and caused many potential co-operators to give up:- a lack of readily available advice, support and resources tailored to the unique needs of this unique form of economic organisation. Recently co-ops have received central and local government support due to their perceived job creation potential - councils often fund a Co-operative Development Agency (C.D.A.) to provide advice and assistance to those who want to set up a co-op. Over the past year or so, a Steering Group based at Reading Centre for the Unemployed (R.C.U.) has been trying to do a CDA's job without the resources. With more people interested in co-ops, it's argued, a separate CDA should now be established; hence an open meeting was called at RCU on February 19th, which attracted about 55 people interested in setting up a West Berkshire CDA. We heard speakers from the Greater London Enterprise Board, the RCU, and Coventry CDA. Though an admitted non-participant in the work done by Maureen Cotter and others at RCU, I am concerned at: the form the CDA could take. For example, John Goodman of Coventry advocated the full involvement of the Trades Council and Labour Movement in the running of a CDA. But co-ops are in no way the same as traditional exploitative capitalist firms, whence unions et al. originate. Collective bargaining is superfluous, and is a hierarchical, formalised bureaucracy needed to attend to health and safety, or to argitrate grievances between "co-operators"? Likewise the (Utopian socialist) philosophy behind co-ops is not particularly compatible with traditional left politics; many Labour politicians are interested only in the political utility to be squeezed from co-ops. Labour councils give support for the same reasons as Tory ones - they recognise a good political PR possibility when they see one. Workers' co-ops are forced into this partisan swamp in order to get financial help, and must, like CDAs, market the concept of numerical job creation above all else. But playing the employment numbers game is risky: co-ops might, ironically, fit in with Thatcherite DIY employment ideology, but this makes their funding vulnerable to political change or to out-performance by other dole-reduction schemes. And co-ops need too many skills and too much commitment to offer a panacea for mass unemployment. Most co-operators in Reading are too busy with their own projects to offer help to others via a CDA - so the Agency would most likely not be 100% co-operator at first. People with skills are all the more urgently needed if the CDA is to be delivered from the traditional fallback of status-seeking hacks. At the meeting a management committee plus employed advice workers' structure for a CDA was advocated - a popular structure of the hierarchical left. Yet if the advisory body (i.e. CDA) is to be true to co-operative principles, there should be no distinction between advisors and the management committee which nominally employs them: equal salaries and authority, with minimized bureaucracy, power and hierarchy. As the meeting did show, people in Reading are interested in what co-ops have to offer; Reading WEA's Industrial Branch will shortly run a basic course on co-ops - enrol whether you were at the meeting or not. Interest and enthusiasm are what counts! Committed people are urgently needed to take over the work at RCU, including the preparation of a funding application, but also giving direct help to co-ops. If you have experience or skills to offer, phone Maureen on 596639 (also for the WEA course). Yes, co-ops are political; but in such a personal and adventurous way that they show up the usual adversarial bickerings and back-scratchings as the reactionary vacuum they are. "Be braver in your body, or your luck will leave you." Mark - - - A RED COLUMN A Pulpable Conflict The Manpower Services Commission administers an unwieldy collection of schemes intended to reduce the dole figures permanently or otherwise, Locally, as I have said before, it is administered by an Area Manpower Board comprising the great and the good and the largely anonymous, which meets in secret to determine details of schemes affecting thousands. A prominent member of the Berks. & Oxon. AMB is Miss Heather Turner, in her spare time a Tory member of Newbury District Council but perhaps better known as a manager for one of the subsidiaries of the Reed Group. The same Reed Group which is causing real headaches to Newbury District Council and to the MSC by its decision to close one of its paper mills at Thatcham and throw 400 workers on the dole... Tinned 0n with the new, out with the old. It is sad to record the decision of Nabisco, the US multinational that took over Reading's famous Huntley & Palmers biscuit firm and stopped making biscuits in Reading, to sell their subsidiary Huntley, Borne & Stevens, which for something like a century has been making the tins they put the biscuits in. Although they are talking of the company having a secure future, the decision does seem to mean they're not going to be tinning their biscuits any more and they do make an awfully high proportion of British biscuits. So it could just be they don't want to spend anything on either diversification or redundancy. Turn(er) again Staying with Newbury for the moment, there is of course no connection between the decision of the Director of Legal and Administrative Services, Mr Turner (no relation) to remove the Greenham women from the electoral roll and his early retirement on terms that have not been disclosed but are widely believed to be generous even by the generous standards of redundancy for senior local government officers. Although it will be interesting to see what job opportunities now open up to him following his reversal of his earlier decision about protesters' right to vote. Ollie's Run Two good John Oliver items this time. He was in trouble at the last Council meeting, firstly when fellow Redlands Cllr. Tony Markham attacked Leisure Chairman Hamza Fuad for advertising in 'Red Rag' only to have Labour's Martin Salter point out that these advertisements had been authorised in the past by Ollie himself. And secondly when former Housing Chairman Ron Jewitt was being attacked for promising to repair the Whitley flats by April and Ollie lept to his defense to point out they hadn't said which April. To do him justice, even Ron was embarrassed. But Ollie was still smarting over the elections in the Reading East Conservative Association, for not only had like hated Hamza been elected as Chairman but our Ollie had failed to be elected even as one of the six or so Vice-Chairmen. Excluded The Brengreen group, run by St Albans Tory Councillor David Evans, are getting in a bit of hot water over the quality of their cleaning at Wokingham Hospital, where they've been found to employ school-children who haven't even undergone health screening. The contract there is in the name of Exclusive Health Care. Meanwhile, Exclusive Cleaning and Maintenance (Hampshire) Ltd. have lost the contract for cleaning Reading's Civic Offices because the Civic Offices Manager was not satisfied with the quality of their work either. Citizen Cain - - - PEACE PLEDGE UNION Peace Pledge Union held a meeting in Caversham on Wed. 27th Feb. Among things discussed were a visit to Molesworth soon, the Swedish peace journey which will pass through this country in May. The Pacific Islands Women's Tour: hopefully a representative from the women would accept an invitation to speak to a group in Reading. Possibly a meeting with Prem Kumar can be arranged when he is in Berkshire in mid-March. Some form of anti-military demonstration was discussed to coincide with the Wessex Regiment's 100th anniversary celebrations, 22.3.85 - 13.4.85, to express the pacifist viewpoint. The next meeting will be on Wed. 20th March at 8pm at 44, Gosbrook Road, Caversham, tel. 483416. It will be a practical meeting, making placards etc and writing letters to amongst others the New Zealand government expressing our support of recent actions. Val - - - A GREEN COLUMN Gardening for Rag Readers By way of an introduction. This is intended to be the first of a series of short, practical, down-to-earth (ouch!) gardening columns for the Rag, mainly because of the time of year. Obviously, there's no lack of gardening books, or gardening columns in other papers (if you read other papers), but they're all frustrating. They assume you "have" "a garden" - i.e. that you own land. Now a lot of Rag readers aren't in that happy (?) position anyway. Those that are probably haven't got a lot of it, and certainly not what most writers would term a "small garden". So if you're surreptitiously removing concrete or lawn without the landlady noticing, or despairing of a north facing backyard, or overrun by giant slugs that terrorise your cat, or constantly about to move, or just plain ignorant about plants but feeling the spring stirring, this could be your year. What I intend to do is give basic advice and encouragement to anyone trying to grow anything anywhere (and not those sort of plants any more than any others). Depending on your circumstances, you'll probably need some equipment. You don't need all those lovely contraptions illustrated in Victorian garden books, except for atmosphere. If you're in the houseplant / windowbox league, just a trowel or large spoon, scissors, bucket or ice cream tub type of things and lots of news- paper. Much more than that and you're talking about a spade (no, not any old shovel), maybe a fork (little hand forks are fun but not essential) and if you're fighting such invaders as brambles and buddleia or psyching up to prune the rosebush out the front, a decent pair of secateurs. Don't bother buying tools you're not too comfortable with; most of those can be borrowed or shared til you know what you need. Buckets with or without holes are worth fishing out of the river or wherever as of now whatever your intentions. I'm assuming in all this that you don't want to spend much money at all, and that what you spend needs to pay off. I'm also assuming you won't expect me to tell you all you need to know about everything! The next few articles will cover l) compost (the new religion) 2) digging up the lawn & your back 3) repotting houseplants and 4) slugs. Chemicals will be shunned as the anachronisms they are, but in the case of slugs, genocide will be cheerfully advocated. All moral complaints and requests for particular information to Ladybird, c/o Red Rag, Box 79 etc, etc. - - - EVENTS mon 4 R.O.A.R. - meeting at st. marys centre, chain st at 7.30pm, all welcome...! Acid rain - one day conference, expert speakers council chamber, shire hall, shinfield park. llam-3.30pm. organised by the national council of women, tickets £3 from 113 altwood rd. maidenhead. Peter gillies. - exhibition in the hexagon of oils, acrylics, & mixed media, until 9th mar. wed 6 'One year - the strike foes to whitehall' a march to mark the first anniversary of the miners strike. starts at mallet st (goodge st tube) 11.30 and walks to jubillee gdns. via whitehall. Southill park media centre - open day; 3pm - sound, video equipment fri 8 Humanists - meeting to review leaflet 'how to deal with doorstep evangelists?' before its release. also a weeks scripts for bbc radio 4 (thought for the day programme) at the friends meeting house reading at 8pm. Veggie dining - at fairview community centre at end of george st. tickets in advance from acorn (chatham st.) another vegan spectacle(?) sat 9 International fund for animal welfare - demo in london, trafalgar sq. no other details, try ringing dave (roar) on rdg. 54098. sun 10 Ecology - county meeting at bracknell. ring philip unsworth for info on rdg. 65533. Cycle campaign and cyclists touring club - ride to farley hill. meet at 10.30 at caversham bridge. mon 11 Cycle campaign - business meeting, 8pm at ub cycles, london st. David merryweather - exhibition in the hexagon until 30 mar. tue 12 B.A.N.C. - meeting, owen green (open university) speaking about cruise (a scientific expert on it) though not too academic a speaker! also talking about where to next after molesworth. at rcu 8pm wed 13 Tree club talk - 'tree preservation - protection or pious hope?' by Caroline davis, tree preservation officer, lon. borough of hillingdon. 7.30pm university london rd site, old library bdg. thur 14 Bracknell cnd - joan ruddock speaks - jobs for peace (reducing arms expenditure without loss of jobs) also greenham and molesworth where to now! at bracknell college, 8pm. ring alan furly for details on bracknell 420628 Red rag copy deadline and editorial meeting. contact co-ordinator whose name and number should be on the cover, for details of where and when. Reading christian socialist movement: 'christianity and socialism' talkl 8pm, st giles church, southampton st. fri 15 R.O.A.R.- talk on vivisection by margaret manzoni from the british union for the abolition of vivisection, at the stelthorn adult education institute for 9.30pm (? ring dave on 54098 for conformation of details). Red rag headlines typing etc. co-ordinator's no. on cover. sat 16 Jumble sale - for the unemployed (profits!) at the rcu on east st. 10.30-1pm 10p adm. includes a raffle ticket, refreshments available. Red rag paste up and printing. Get Involved 4 fun. Head of the river race - mapeldurham to caversham bridge. starts at 2.30pm over 100 boat crews competing. Women's self expression project - introductory session at reading women's centre: penny henrion 10:30-12:30. sun 17 Ecology fun dig - a member has acres to dig up in order to create an organic market garden, if you want to help ring andrew during the day on 550649. Cyclist's touring club - ride to goring to meet up with the oxford section. (35m) start at 10.30 am at caversham bridge. Red rag folding and distribution, usually at acorn but ring no. on cover for details. mon 18 Cycle campaign - general meeting 8pm at the crown pub, crown st. tues 19 Talk 'first aid for the under-fives' given by mrs richards of st johns ambulance. organised by the reading branch of the national childbirth trust at st andrews united reformed ch. hall, london rd at 8pm adm. 50p. wed 20 B.A.N.C. - business meeting, forward planning for molesworth (easter demo), two double deckers will leave at 8am from alder valley bus station on easter monday. buy tickets now from ed wilson 594855. £5 waged £3 unwaged children u5 free. thur 21 Ecology national conference until 24th at dover if anyone's interested ring philip on 65533. fri 22 Veggie dining as for 8th. sat 23 Three exhibitions - reading camera club, tofrek centenary and ridgeway photgraphs. at the reading museumm, blagrave st. adm. free! Conference - federation of claimants unions, in cambridge. although there is no claimants union locally, any individual interested in going will be welcome there. details from nick 666681. keyskeyskeyskeyskeyskeyskeyskeyskeyskeyskeyskeyskeyskeyskeyskeys B.A.N.C. = berks. anti-nuke campaign R.O.A.R. = reading's organisation for animal rights rcu = reading centre for the unemployed, 4-6 east st. - - - READING ADULT COLLEGE - READING CENTRE FOR THE UNEMPLOYED Learn To Grow Your Own Food And Run An Allotment: Wednesday, March 6,10 am to 12 noon. Come and join a group that will run the centre's own allotment. Free transport provided from RCU at 9.45 am. Colour Photography: Thursday, March 7, 12 noon to 3 pm, for 10 weeks. Learn more about the art of taking colour photographs; discussion and project work. Materials provided, camera useful, but not essential. Unemployment: Whose Problem? Thursday, March 14, 2 noon to 3 pm, for 10 weeks. Find out about the effect of unemployment in our town. Investigate the impact of unemployment on health, on the family, and other important topics, explore possible solutions. This group aims to be practical and informal if you feel angry and puzzled about unemployment, come and join us. Cartooning: Monday, March 14, 1 pm to 3 pm, for five weeks. No drawing ability needed - just interest and willingness to team. Just think how good cartoons could brighten your tenants/community/church newsheet. Alternative Medicine: Wednesday, starting in March, 1 pm to 3 pm, for 10 weeks. Worried about toe side-effects of modem drugs or just interested in positive health care. If you'd like to know more about Acupuncture, Herbal Medicine, Homeopathy and Natural Birth Control, then this is the course for you. Women's Self-Expression Workshops: March onwards. A series of Saturday morning workshops in which ordinary women can taste a variety of subjects - mime, dance, writing, assertiveness, improvisation. No experience needed. If you'd like to know more, ring RCU and leave your name. Courses already running include: Silkscreen Printing, Carpentry, Dance, Women's Self-Defence, Women's Confidence Building. Some still have places available. Free trips to the country to watch birds, for walks, to observe flowers or fungus. If you'd like to leave your chair in polluted Reading but haven't a car or friends to go with - join us. Free transport provided. Free creche available for all the above activities. Many more courses and activities are planned. For further details contact Reading Adult College, Wilson Centre, Wilson Road, Reading, telephone Reading 55575, or Reading Centre for the Unemployed, 4-6 East Street, Reading, telephone Reading 596639. - - - READING CND GOES TO MOLESWORTH Last month's overnight invasion of the peace camp at Molesworth was a challenge. The Government gave up the argument and fell back on muscle. As a result, the Easter demo there may be even bigger. Buses leave the Alder Valley bus station for Molesworth at 8am on Easter Monday, 8th April, and return about 8pm that night. Tickets cost £4 return (£2.50 unwaged, children under 5 free). Please buy your tickets Now. We need to know how many buses to book, and we can't guarantee seats if you just turn up on the day. Contact Ed Wilson (594855) for details and to reserve your places. - - - GREENHAM SUPPORT GROUP celebrates International Women's Day at Veggie Dining (Fairview Community Centre) on Friday 8th March - 8.00pm There will be lots of fun... cabaret, songs and poems; so come along. Men and women welcome. - - - LETTER 1 Orrin Close Tilehurst Dear Red Rag, We are very concerned about Colin Howlett's letter in the last issue of Red Rag. It gives the impression that Vegans are normal, and actually like socialising, going out for meals, dancing, even dressing up in pyjamas for a party. What a ridiculous notion! Vegans are really serious minded dedicated ascetics and the socialising is really a front, because we spend every minute of our waking moments trying to convince others of the truly virtuous Vegan ideal. We never waste our time merely socialising, and certainly never ramble (except perhaps in conversation). I hope this puts the record straight. Steve Shiner Entertainments Officer RDVG Social Club - - - GAY SWITCH Reading Gay Switchboard changes its name to Reading Gay and Lesbian Helpline as from March 1st. This catchy new name is designed to emphasise that the organisation helps lesbians as well as gay men, and also that it can provide support and a listening ear as well as information. The helpline operates on Reading 597269, Tuesdays and Fridays, 8-10 pm. All volunteers are gay men or lesbians and are carefully selected and trained by the Helpline volunteers. - - - Dear Red Rag, We were pleased to see your article on AIDS. However, we are surprised you prefer to suggest that general enquiries should be made to London Gay Switchboard rather than to the local Gay line. People wanting information would probably do best to contact us initially as we do have some expertise in this area and plan to acquire more. We also have plans to assemble a group of people able and willing to befriend AIDS sufferers. Yours sincerely, Luce Green, Reading Gay and Lesbian Helpline Secretary. - - - KRONSTADT 1921 This month is the anniversary of the Kronstadt rebellion. Kronstadt is a city and naval base on Kotlin Island in the Gulf of Finland. With its fifteen outlying forts it is the protector of Petrograd (now Leningrad) twenty miles away at the end of the gulf. During winter the sea freezes over and it is possible to walk from Leningrad to Kronstadt. In 1917 the citizens and sailors of Kronstadt were fierce and ardent revolutionaries. In those early days Bolsheviks, anarchists and Social Revolutionaries in Kronstadt worked together to build the Kronstadt Soviet - Free Kronstadt. Ironically (in the light of later events) Trotsky described the Kronstadt sailors as 'the pride and glory of the Russian Revolution'. Free Kronstadt had been committed to the idea of free Soviets, not Soviets dominated by the Bolsheviks or any other party. The Baltic Fleet was also influenced by anarchist ideas - many of Kronstadt's sailors came from the Ukrainian peasantry, the stronghold of Russian anarchism. During the 'White Guard' offensive the Red Army deserted the Ukraine as 'undefendable'. The Ukraine was held, and the White Guards finally driven out, by the peasant organized Anarchist Insurrectionary Army. That accomplished, the Red Army reoccupied the Ukraine. By 1920 the Anarchist Insurrectionary Army had been totally suppressed by the Bolsheviks - its commanders and tacticians were assassinated (in some cases inviting them to meetings and murdering them in their beds), its rank and file scattered, massacred, hunted down or driven into exile. In 1921 in Russia things were bad. There were strikes in Petrograd and Moscow. Everywhere there was shortages of clothing and food and the constant complaint that communists were given preference over other workers in the rationing of scarce resources. Public meetings were banned. The Cheka rounded up 'counter-revolutionaries'. Baltic Fleet sailors from the Ukraine heard of the Bolshevik excesses in their home towns. In March, 1921 the sailors, soldiers and citizens of Kronstadt lived up to their revolutionary reputation. They spoke out once again for free Soviets and the revolutionary demands of the 1917 Revolution. What follows is a diary of the 'Kronstadt Days' of Feb/March 1921. Feb. 28th. Due to widespread strikes the government declares martial law in Petrograd. After some workers are found frozen to death in their homes a strikers' proclamation appears on the streets demanding the issuing of winter clothing and a more regular issue of rations. In the afternoon an anonymous proclamation is posted all over the city - "The workers and peasants need freedom. They don't want to live by the decrees of the Bolsheviks; they want to control their own destinies. We demand the release of all arrested socialist and non-partisan workers, abolition of martial law, freedom of speech, press and assembly for all who labour, free elections to factory committees, unions and Soviets". March 1st. A mass meeting of 16,000 sailors, soldiers and workers is held in Kronstadt's Anchor Square. A sailors' investigative committee sent to Petrograd reports on what it saw there. There are many speeches condemning the Petrograd Soviet and Zinoviev for their handling of the strikers. The sailors of the battleship 'Petropavlovsk' present a resolution to the meeting. Among its fifteen points it calls for free elections to the Soviets, free speech for workers, peasants, anarchists and left socialist parties, and the equalization of all rations (except for those employed in trades detrimental to health). The Petropavlovsk Resolution had already been discussed and passed by an overwhelming majority of the Kronstadt garrison. The resolution was accepted by the mass meeting in Anchor Square with three dissenting votes - those of the Commissar of the Baltic Fleet and the two senior Bolsheviks of the Kronstadt Soviet. Zinoviev wires Moscow for more troops. March 4th. Lenin and Trotsky issue a manifesto declaring Kronstadt guilty of mutiny. The demand of Kronstadt for free Soviets is denounced as 'a counter-revolutionary conspiracy against the proletarian republic'. Radio Moscow accuses Kronstadt of damaging the chances of a trade agreement with the United States. In Petrograd Zinoviev rounds up relatives of Kronstadt rebels to hold as hostages. March 5th. Trotsky arrives in Petrograd. Aircraft drop leaflets on Kronstadt ordering the population to surrender at once or 'be shot like partridges'. March 6th. Radio Free Kronstadt broadcasts a a statement of its position: "Our cause is just, we stand for the power of Soviets, not parties....in Kronstadt the power is firmly in the hands of revolutionary sailors, soldiers and workers...get in touch with us; demand admission to Kronstadt for your delegates ....Long live the revolutionary proletariat and peasantry." March 7th. At 6:45pm the communist heavy artillery barrages on both sides of the gulf open fire on Kronstadt. The battleship 'Sevastopol' returns fire. Red Army troops - with Cheka machine-gun units at the rear to discourage 'waverers' - advance across the ice towards Kronstadt. The attack is repulsed with many Red Army soldiers defecting to Kronstadt. March 8th. International Womens Day. Amid the noise of exploding shells Radio Free Kronstadt broadcasts programmes and revolutionary greetings to the working women of the world - "May you soon accomplish your liberation from every form of violence and oppression. Long live the free revolutionary working women! Long live the worldwide social revolution!" The Kronstadt Soviet distributes food - one tin of condensed milk per person and, for children only, 500g of butter. Bread is still being baked and distributed. March 10th. Kronstadt bombed by soviet aircraft. After nightfall Kronstadt is shelled from both sides of the gulf. March 11th. Another assault across the ice repulsed. The leading article in the Kronstadt Izvestiia (the daily newspaper published throughout the siege) states: "We do not wish to return to the past. We are neither servants of the bourgeoisie nor mercenaries of the Entente. We are for the power of all the workers, not for the unbridled and tyrannical power of a single party, whichever one it is." March 12th. Kronstadt suffers air raids and artillery bombardment. One Bolshevik plane shot down. The Kronstadt Isvestiia states: "Everywhere that the communist dictatorship has been established a new slavery has been created. The peasant has been transformed into a serf in the Soviet economy, the worker has become a mere employee in the state factories. Intellectual workers have been almost eliminated. Those who protest are thrown in the jails of the Cheka. And those who still dare to rebel are simply shot. The air has become unbreathable. The whole of Russia has been turned into an immense prison camp." March 13th. Dawn attack across the ice repulsed. March 14th. Fresh units attack across the ice repulsed. March 15th. Air raids and artillery bombardment. All stocks of flour exhausted - there is no more bread in Kronstadt. A massive assault across the ice is being prepared. In the event of its failure, Trotsky and Kamenev have already authorized preparations for a gas attack on Kronstadt. The Kronstadt Izvestiia says: "He was right, that peasant who declared to the Eighth Congress of the Soviets: Everything is fine - the land is ours but the bread is yours, the water is ours but the fish are yours, the forests are ours but the wood is yours". March 16th. Air raids and artillery bombardment. March 17th. 3 am. Massive Red Army advance across the ice begins. 5 am. Outlying forts illuminate the advancing soldiers with their searchlights. From the forts loudspeakers blare out "Comrades, turn back! We don't want to shoot you!" With massive Bolshevik casualties the outer forts are taken one by one. 3 pm. Red Army at the north-east wall of the city of Kronstadt. Hand to hand fighting for the rest of the day. 11:50pm. Crews of the battleships 'Petropavlovsk' and 'Sevastopol' surrender. March 18th. 1 am. The two main garrison forts of Kronstadt surrender. 2 am. Red Army troops still advancing across the ice from the south are repulsed by armed militia. 5 am. Two regiments and one brigade of the Red Army fight their way into the town. Fierce house to house fighting. 12 noon. Most of Kronstadt now in the hands of the Red Army. 3 pm. All resistance ceases. Eight thousand rebels escape across the ice to Finland. Red Army undertake reprisals and summary executions. The 10th Party Conference commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Paris Commune. Trotsky and Zinfcviev denounce Thiers and Gallifet for the slaughter of the Paris rebels. Soviet government signs trade agreement with Britain. Zed - - - GOING OUT Sun 3 Readifolk: Caversham Bridge Hotel, 8pm. Jazz - The Butler, Chatham St, 8pm, free. Hex - Harmony on the High Seas (barbershop) 7pm; £3/£4 SHP - "Company of Wolves" (18) 7.45pm/ SHP - Wilde Theatre - London Sinfonietta: 7.30pm, £3/£2. SHP - Studio Theatre - local writers' festival - 7.45pm, £2.50. Mon 4 Univ - Union lounge bar, free jazz, 9-ish. Thatchers, Woodley - jazz / funk / soul. 8pm, free. Univ. Palmer Building G10 - "Pleasure at her Majesties", 7.30pm, £1. SHP - "The Natural" (PG) 7.45pm. Hex - The Smiths 7.30pm. £5 but sold out. What difference does it make? Tues 5 Gay disco, Tudor Arms - 8pm free. Univ. Palmer Building 104 - "The Wave" (anti-racist film) 7.30pm. Paradise Club - Free Festival Benefit with Funktion at the Junktion + disco + support. 8pm, £1/1.50. Univ. Students' Union - Grandmaster Melle Mel + breakdance crew 8-1am, £4. Univ. Campus Concert - renaissance + baroque music. Palmer Building, 1.10pm. Hex - Foster + Allen, 8pm, £4 - £6. SHP - George Melly + John Chilton's Feetwarmers, 8pm, £4.50. Woodley Players - Abilgail's Party; £2 + concessions: tel. 690827 / 479953 (Headley Rd, Woodley). Mill St Sonning - Ayckbourn's "Absent Friends": tel 69800. Until 6 April. SHP - "The Natural" (PG) 7.45pm. SHP - Bracknell Fusion dance night - jazz / salsa / latin. £2 / £1.50. Weds 6 RFT: "Sous les Toits de Paris" + "A Nous La Liberte" - Rene Clair. 7.30pm. Hex - the JOeys, 8pm, £3 / £4. SHP - "The Natural" (PG) 7.45pm. SHP Wilde Theatre - "It's For You" (Roger McGough) 8pm £5 / £4.50. Woodley Players - as 5th. Jive Dive at the New Yorker club. Univ. Soil Science Rm 123, London Rd - "Use of Sewage Sludge as fertiliser" - 4.15pm... Thurs 7 The Sportsman, Shinfield - Country + Western. Paradise Club - ISWE present Saxon International Studio. 7.30 - late, £2.50. Miner's Benefit - Horse + Barge, Duke St. Jazz Faculty, 8-late £1 / £1.50. Woodley Players - as 5th. Hex - Lindisfarne; 8pm; £4.50 / £5.50. RFT - "This is Spinal Tap" (15) 8pm + 10pm Progress Theatre, Christchurch Rd - "An Enemy of the People" (Ibsen). 7.45pm, £2.20, tel. 477594. SHP - folk: Pyewackett + Keepers Gate Band, 8pm, £2.50. SHP - Geneva 8pm, £1.50 / £1 / 50p. SHP - "A Shadow of Doubt" 7.45pm, £3. Bradfield College - cello concert - 7.30pm, £3, tel. 744868. Fri 8 Horse + Barge, Duke St - Tymon Dogg, plus Chris Parr + Mark T. £1.75 / £1.25, 8pm. Hex - "hilarious adult entertainment" (sic) with Jonny Jones, 8.30pm SHP - A Shadow of Doubt as 7th. SHP - Chamber Music recital, 8pm, £2 / £2.50. SHP - "The Bounty" (15), 7.45pm. Progress - as 7th. Gay disco, Tudor Arms - 8pm free. Woodley Players - as 5th. Folk at the Lamb, Eversley. Veggie Dining at Fairview - International Women's Day benefit organised by Greenham Support Group. Target Club - Tobruk. Friday Live (SHP Cellar Bar) - Brian Knight (r&b). 8-12. £2/1 UB40. Foley Hall International Social Evening - £5 incl. supper - for Oxfam / African famine relief. 8pm at St. Andrews Hall, Redlands Rd. Sat 9 Progress - An Enemy of the People, as 7th Woodley Players - final show. Central CLub - Young Lion + Coxsone Sound, £4. Meadway School, Tilehurst: Indian CLassical Dancing (Kathak) by Sujuta Bannerjee. 7.30pm £1 / £1.50. Hex - Wallingford School Fun Band, 12.15pm. Hex - Peter Powell Disco, 8pm, £4. Chiltern Edge School, Sonning Common: "The English Dancing Master" - music dance + speech. 7.30pm, tel, Kidmore End 722254. SHP - A Shadow of Doubt as 8th. SHP - Come All Ye: folk, 8pm, £1.30 / £1.50. SHP - "The Bounty" (15), 7.45 + 11pm. Sun 10 Readifolk, Caversham Bridge Hotel, 8-ish. The Butler, Chatham St - free jazz at 8pm. Hex - Wellington College Concert, 7.30pm, £2.50 - £3.50. SHP - "The Bounty" (15) 7.45pm. Progress - as 7th. Mon 11 Progress - as 7th. Univ. Students Union - free jazz, 9-ish. Thatchers, Woodley - jazz / soul /. funk, 8pm. Bull at Nettlebed - local funk at 8pm. Univ. Faculty of Letters - Rhinoceros - play in French, by Ionesco. 7.30pm, £1.10. tel 875123 ex. 303. SHP - "The Bounty" (15) 7.45pm. SHP - Zap Theatre Co: "In Preparation" 8pm, £1.20 / £1. Tues 12 Gay disco, Tudor Arms - 8pm free. Progress Theatre - as 7th. Paradise Club - Miner's Benefit: Boys from Brazil + Ant Hill Mob + support 8-late, £2 / £1. Even if...? Univ. Faculty of Letters - as 11th. Hex - Rose Royce, 8pm, £5 / £4. SHP - "The Bounty" (15) 7.45pm. SHP - Zap Theatre Co. as 11th. SHP - Owen Bryce Band - dixie jazz - 8pm £2.50 / £1.50. Weds 13 RFT - "Swann In Love" (18) 8pm Jive Dive at the New Yorker. Hex - Barron Knights, 8pm, £4 / £5. Univ - Faculty of Letters - as 11th plus 2.30pm matinee. Progress - as 7th. SHP - "The Bounty" (15) 7.45pm. Thurs 14 RFT - as 13th; UB40 £1.10. Progress - as 7th. Univ. Faculty of Letters; as 11th. Sportsman, Shinfield: country + western. ICL Club, Blagrave St: Art Themen, Dan Weller, Ron Hetherington Trio - 8pm - 12, £3. SHP - "The Gondoliers" - rock version 0 7.30pm, £3.50 / £2.50. SHP - local band - Eleventh Hour: 8pm £1.50 / £1 / 50p. SHP "Autmun Sonata" (15) (Bergman) 7.45pm. Fri 15 Folk at the Lamb, Eversley, 8pm. Gay disco at Tudor Arms, 8pm, free. Wokingham Theatre, Norreys Ave: "The Heiress", 7.45pm, £1.25 - £1.75. Target - Seducer. Friday Live at SHP Cellar Bar: Chicago Breakdown (50s Chicago blues) 8pm, £2 / £1 UB40. Progress - as 7th. Univ. Faculty of Letters - as 11th. Saint Patrick's Day Dance - The Boys of Blue Hill at Town Hall, 9pm - 1am, £2.50, ticket only, tel: 28263. (Reading + District Irish Association.) SHP - The Gondoliers, as 14th. SHP - "1984" (15), 7.45pm. Hex - Bootleg Beatles 8pm, £3.50 / £4.50. Recuperated Nostalgia. SHP - Top B Sharps and Tiaras: "good music, wine + fun". 8pm, £2 / £2.50. Paradise - Brilliant Corners + Diatribe. Sat 16 Univ. Faculty of Letters - as 11th. Progress Theatre - last night. Wokingham Theatre - as 15th. Reading Centre for the Unemployable - Jumble Sale, 10.30-1, 10p. University Great Hall, London Road - Concert by Univ. Choral / Orchestral Societies. 7.30pm. SHP - Gondoliers, as 14th. SHP - Top B Sharps + Tiaras, as 14th. SHP folk - Roaring Jelly 8pm £2 / £1.80. SHP - 2 day Workshop on Using Video: 10-5pm, £30 / £25. Barn Dance, Loddon Hall Twyford: Pete Gregory + the Hay Wainers. 8pm, £2.75, Checkendon 681512. All Saints Church, Downshire square - Handel's Messiah 7.30, 56873. SHP "1984" (15) 1pm + 7.45. Folk dance at Watlington House, in Watlington St. 7.30pm, £3. Sun 17 Readifolk at Caversham Bridge Hotel 8pm. Butler, Chatham St - free jazz at 8pm. Wokingham Theatre - as 15th. St. Patrick's Day Ceili; St. Colineilles Girl Ceili band Presentation College, Bath Rd; ticket only (28263). SHP - Using Video workshop - day 3. SHP - "1984" (15) 7.45pm. Key SHP - South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell: 0344 484123 RFT - Reading Film Theatre Hex - Hexagon, Queen's Walk: 591591. Entertaimments by local bands, societies, pubs, clubs etc are especially of interest. All info to Mark (782178) phone before 10:30 please! - - - PARADISE CLUB London St. Reading Free Festival Benefit given by Funktion at the Junktion plus Temper + dancing & fun with EL Groova Disco 9.00pm - late £2 or £1 unwaged Tuesday 5th March Will you die laughing? Reading Anarchists 20th Anniversary - - - (Paid Ad) TYMON DOGG - PREVIEW Now's your chance!! Tymon Dogg is "the most original musician you'll ever see - that's if you come; which you will won't you? He has an endless supply of brilliant songs, ranging from hard hitting social/political comment to wild fantasy. Both words and music twist and turn in inspired madness. The other surprise is the fiddle, few have used violin to accompany voice, none quite like this. He also plays a mean guitar and competent keyboards. Then there's the energy. No-one else puts so much pure sincere energy into performing a song. He seems to become the song in a whirl of limbs, how and sound. And as for his voice... - - - TYMON DOGG + Chris Parr + Mark T Friday 8th March Horse + Barge, Duke St. 8.30pm £1.75 waged £1.25 unwaged - - - REGULAR EVENTS Anarchists: meet every Mon Details via Box 19 Acorn Bookshop. Also Autonomists. Alcoholics Anonymous : groups meet regular in Reading (9 meetings a week), Pangbourne, That chain, Henley, & Bracknell. Day and night info and help line - 597494). Amnesty: meets 2nd Thurs of month at St. Marys Centre, Chain St. Contact Jean 472598. Astrology; A beginners class. Please contact Sue on Reading 669571 for details. Aikido Club: Relaxation, body / mind co-ordination, self-defence for women and men. Every Tuesday St Saviour's Church Hall, Berkeley Ave. Ring 667863 for details. Books and Records Sale: every last Sat of the month. 10-4 at 4 Culver Rd (side of College Arms). Contact 65533. Proceeds to Ecology Party. Berkshire Humanists: meet on the 2nd Friday of every month, at the Friends Meeting Hse. For details ring the secretary on Crowthorne 774871. Cruelty-Free Toiletries : market stall every Sat behind Tesco's. Cyclists Touring Club outings Sun 9.15am from Caversham Bridge or Henley. For details ring Richard on Bracknell 50849 Ecology Party: meets 1st & 3rd Hon of the month at 8 College Rd and 38 Long Bam Lane respectively. Contact Maria 55415 History of Reading Soc.: meets 3rd Tues of month at the Abbey Gateway. Housing and Welfare Rights: 1st Thurs morning every month at the Community Hse. 117 Cumberland Rd. Incest Survivors Group: meets regularly. Write c/o Rape Crisis Line, 17 Chatham St. for details. Labour Party Young Socialists: Weds at Fairview Community Centre, bottom of George St. 8pm. Labour History Group: meets monthly at Red Lion, Southampton St. Contact Kathy 590139 or Mike 867789 for details. Men's Group: meets weekly. For dates and venue, contact Box 28 Acorn Bookshop. Miners Support Committee: meets every Thurs 7.30pm. at TGWU office, 36 King's Rd. Ring 590311 for details. Mini Market: Thurs 9-1 St Marys Centre, Chain St. Greenham Support Group (Women): meets fortnightly. Nightwatch every Thurs. Contact via Womens Centre, Abbey St. National Council for Civil Lib: meets 2nd Mon of month at St Marys Centre Chain St. Ring Paul 861582. Newtown Community Association: meets every 2nd Wed, 7:30. 117 Cumberland Road. All welcome. Peace Pledge Union (PPU): meets monthly. Pacifist group. Contact 588459, 374532 or Box 10 Acorn. Reading Cycle Campaign: meets 2nd Mon of month at UB Cycles London St 8pm. Membership enquiries ring Chris Mayers 589178. General enquiries John Nixon 483183 or John Rigby 64667. Reading Birth Centre: meets 3rd Tues of month for food and chat Ring 61330 for venue. Reading Gay & Lesbian Helpline: Tues & Fri 8-10pm 597269. Information & support. Reading Organisation for Animal Rights (ROAR): 1st Tues of month at the Crown, Crown St. Details from Dave 54098 or Jeff 476529. Reading Recreation Arts Centres: painting for pleasure at Town Hall, Blagrave St. Mon 7-9 Tues 10-12. Details 55911 or 861289. Socialist Workers Party: meets every Wed at the Red Lion Southampton St. 8pm. Silkscreen Workshops: at Community House, 117 Cumberland Rd. Details from Clive via 665806. Sahaja Yoga Meetings: Every Fri. At 7.30pm approx. At St. Davids Hall 26, London Rd. Rm. 3. All welcome, no charge. Traditional Festival Dance: Every Wednesday, at the Friends Meeting Hse. 6 Church St. From 7.45-10, Adm. 75p. Ring Anna on 864665 for details. Tai Chi Classes: Every Wed. at R.U. Students Union in the Main Hall. 16/1-20/3. 12-lpm Long form (intermediates) and 1-2.30pm Short form & General practice (everyone). Contact Nick Booth on 873672 or 875123 ex 6221. Vegans: meet 1st. Sun of month at 1 Orrin Close, Tilehurst. Contact Liz & Steve on 21651. Women's Centre: open Sat 11-3. All women & kids welcome. Free pregnancy testing Tues 7-9. Bring urine sample from 1st Pee of the day. At the basement, Old Shire Hall, Abbey St. Beside Abbey Gateway. Dance: Penny Bodman welcomes all women who want to improve their self awareness and confidence. Every Wednesday at 8pm at the Womens Centre. Indian Community Centre, 2 Norris Road: Hindi Classes every Monday 4.30-5.30. Contact 667262 Punjabi Classes every Wednesday 4.30-5.30, also at Indian Community Centre as above. Courses at Centre for the Unemployed All courses are free to the unemployed. No enrolment, just turn up. Free creche available. Silkscreen: Come and print your own posters, cards etc. Tuesday l-3pm. Womens Self Defence: Learn to value and defend yourself in the supportive group. Wed. 10am-12 noon. Carpentry: Learn to use woodworking tools and chose your own project. Mon. l-3pm at the Wilson Centre. Wilson Rd. Dance Fitness: Learn basic routines, and develop your creativity and fitness. Men & Women welcome. Thurs. 10-12 noon. Womens Confidence-Building: Gain confidence in your own abilities working in a supportive group. Friday l-3pm. Skills for Co-ops: A 10 week course starting in the beginning of Feb. Market research, Raising finance, & Financial records and control. Contact Maureen Cotter on 596639. Reading Shelter Group: meets on the first Thursday of the month at the Centre for the Unimpressed, South St. 8.00pm Start. Details Mark Goldup 863153. Drinking or Gambling Problem? Feel you cannot talk? Alone & lonely? Then you may want to talk to Michael at RCU, who will be pleased to talk in strictest confidence. Every Tues 2-4pm. Box office community arts workshop: Mon-Fri at the RCU, Jo & Dave can be contacted at 596639 or occasionally on 666681. Writing workshops at RCU. Thursdays 1-3pm. 10 sessions. All welcome. Women's discussion group, 10.30 every Wednesday in room 1 Joint Oxfam, Reading WDM, and WEB Conference, 'Debt Crisis and Hunger - two sides of the same coin' on March 9. We will explore these issues through games, working groups, speakers and panel. RCU: 2-5. To register send £2 (waged or £1 (unwaged) to Reading World Development Movement, 22 Hemdean Road, Caversham. Creche available (50p per child) Unemployed tutors wanted for Photography (basic) and Home Maintenance courses at RCU Also: Coming shortly; Improve your English / Improve your Maths, Alternative Medicine, Basic photography, Living in a multiracial society, Running an allotment, Unemployment: Whose problem? Womens Performance Group (Sats, March), Writers Workshop, Motorcycle Maintenance, Operating a small offset-litho printing press, clothes making, cartooning, outing planned to Nature Reserves. - - - SMALL ADS Small ads in Red Rag are free! We're a playgroup and seek property urgently in Reading. We are being forced out of our current premises and so need, for example, the ground floor of a house on a full time basis. We're willing to pay rent. Phone 860957 Wanted for soon to be homeless Rag readers house share or room. Please contact Jo on 666681 or 596639 (day). Large Double Room available from 9th March for couple in vegetarian household. Rent £60pcm plus share of bills. Ring Veronique or Pogle on Reading 599995. 'Peace And Celibacy', the new radical electronic punk tape from Orgasmic Death, now available at Acorn, price £1. Also still available is 'Always Hopeful', also £1. Both tapes are an hour long. There's never been anything like it before. Workers wanted for No. 5 counselling service. Four MSC funded posts. Ring John Taylor, or Barry McInnes on Reading 58585 for details. Four kittens need a home now. If interested, please ring 861305. Wanted: someone to compile the events diary, as from the issue after next. It's easy and fun. Please phone Marcus on 667060. Also wanted: someone to distribute the Rag in the town centre, mainly large bundles to the outlets. Phone Guy on 669562 for details. - - - WRITE ON Being a miscellany of curious and interesting Songs, Ballads, Tales, Histories, &c, adorned with a variety of pictures, and very delightful to read. By members of the Creative Writing Group (Reading Centre for the Unemployed). This booklet containing over thirty pieces of writing by local people is now available at Acorn Bookshop. - - - MONEY Red Rag desperately needs money! We will be partly printing this one on tic, and if there isn't lots more cash by next time --- well, maybe there won't be a next time. Cash to collecting tins in Acorn, Harvest, Rag Doll, Pop Records, Eurofoods. Cheques to "Red Rag" to us c/o Box 79, 17 Chatham St. Or fill in the standing order on the duplicated page in the middle of the Rag. Just because it's free doesn't mean you shouldn't give us any money. - - - WOMEN'S SELF EXPRESSION PROJECT Starting in March - free to women - no experience necessary. A series of half-day workshops on Saturday mornings, led by different women. Specialists will include an Ova voice workshop, dance, mime, acting skills, yoga, assertiveness. Creche facilities. Most workshop will be at the Women's Centre. For more information contact Penny 662646. Introductory session March 16 10:30am-12:30pm. Reading Women's Centre, Abbey St, Reading. See you there. Women's Self Expression Events Sat 16 March: 10.30-12.30, Reading Women's Centre, Introduction to the project - Penny Henrion Sat 30 March: 11-5, prob. at Reading Adult College, Wilson Road, OVA voice workshop Sat 13 April: 10.30-12.30, Women's Centre, Dance - Penny Bodman (loose clothes please - not jeans) Sat 27 April: 10.30-12.30, Women's Centre, Yoga - Penny Barrett (wear comfortable clothes and bring a mat) Sat 11 May: 10.30-12.30, Assertiveness - Joyce Chesterton Sat 25 May: 10.30 -12.30, Acting skills - Dee Anderson - - - RED RAG What is Red Rag? Is it Reading's only newspaper? An indispensible source of local information? A forum for the self-indulgent and self-important? A continuous experiment in collective, de-centralised organisation? Who knows? It's over five years old, anyway, fortnightly and free. 1600 copies of each issue are printed; two thirds of these go to various shops and other outlets, the remainder to people's doors. Red Rag depends on its readers for articles as well as for money. Copy should be legible, should have some signature at the bottom, and a phone number or address for us in case we want to discuss it with you. Our address is c/o Box 79, 17 Chatham Street, Reading. Collective meetings are held every six weeks or so: the next one is on Sunday March 24th at Flat 6, 107 Castle Hill, at 4 pm. Everyone interested welcome. - - - RED RAG MONEY Twenty odd people contribute money to Red Rag by standing order. Are you an odd person? If so there's a form below. Please fill it in---it gives us some much-needed regular income. 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