Estimates are scheduled to be published on Tuesday, February 16th). It is expected that Weybridge and Bristol C.N.D.s will organise activity on the same day.
LCS takes Peace initiative
HE Political Committee of the
London Co-operative Society is to convene a special conference on problems of disarmament, jointly with the Labour Party Committee of CND. The meeting will take place on 20th March, 1965. Further details will be announced as they be come available. The LCS is seeking a new secretary for its Political Committee. The post was held until recently by Frank Beswick, a staunch supporter of Labour’s Left wing.
New Left Forum
HE Labour Club at the London
School of Economics, jointly with New Left Review and NALSO, the Labour Student Organisation, is sponsoring a most interesting programme of lectures and discussions for London students. Under the general heading ‘Lectures in Marxism’, it will probe into a number of key problem areas of social and political thought. The first lecturer will be Isaac Deutscher, the world-famous historian, and author of the definintive biographies of Stalin and Trotsky. Mr. Deutscher opens the series with a general introduction, ‘Marxism in our Time’. This meeting will take place on Thursday, 28th Tanuary, in the Old Theatre at the LSE. Other speakers who will take part in the series include Eric Hobsbawm, Tom Bottomore, Ralph Miliband. This is a most promising initiative, which could well be imitated elsewhere in London, for non-students. It is high time that London had a socialist forum at which serious ideas could be seriously discussed. Perhaps this is one of the things that should be treated as a priority job by the new socialist educational body which was set up last November at a meeting in London of a whole number of left-wing journals and educationalists. Labour will never be able to evolve clear-sighted strategies until it can come to grips with the problems of socialist theory, in a vital and creative way.