Harrow Centre for Socialist Education

The first major step has been taken towards setting up a C.S.E. in Harrow, Middlesex. More than twenty socialists - half the number invited - packed the front room of a house in Kenton on Friday, December 10 ani unanimously agreed that attempts should be made to launch a local Centre early in the New Year, Following a detailed discussion, they appointed a provisional organising committee, comprising Geoff. Carlsson (Harrow), Peter Jenner (Ruislip), Manuel Macedo (Wembley), Neville Maurice (Harrow) and Paul Russell (Watford). This committee will produce concrete proposals for the operation of the Harrow Centre, and these will come up for discussion at another informal get-together on January 14 at 56, Salisbury Road, Harrow, In addition, the committee is making arrangmments for a public meeting in Harrow in February to which a leading leftwinger is being invited to talk on "Where Labour is going wrong", It is hoped the Centre will officially come into being at this meeting. Meanwhile, a “contacts register" is being built up so that every Labour Movement organisation in and around Harrow can be circularised with details of all developments, particularly the public meeting in February. N.B. Readers should contact Peter Jenner, West Middlesex Convenor C.S.Ee, 13b, Deane Way, Eastcote, Ruislip, Middlesex, for details of activities. Any possible C.S.E. memberst addresses should also be sent to hime C,S.E, BRANCHES AND STUDY GROUPS DRAW UP PLANS by Ken Coates Meetings are now taking place all over the country to form branches of the C.S.E. In Sheffield a branch is being formed on the 19th December, in Nottingham a meeting has been convened for the 17th, in London one took place on the 13th. The newly formed Yorkshire Regional Committee will meet in leeds on the 18th, as will the national steering commitice,in London. Preparations for the read-in on incomes policy are already well~advanceds John Palmer, of 2, Clock House Mead, Oxshott, Surrey, is already in touch with a number of contributors, and would like to hear from others. He proposes to convene a seminar of contributors to the read-in late in Jaruary. The papers read by these contributors might be taken as a basis for the range of topics to be covered in the read-in. A very comprehensive document on workers! control in municipal transport has been received from the Hull group, This may well be a model for the other centres, in that it shows how the creative application of socialist principles to practical problems can be tackled by a croup of trade unionistse It is to be hoped that this excellent document can quickly be published. A comprehensive register of lecturers fer the Centre is now being prepared. A most encouraging response has been received to the initial circular which has gone out. There is little doubt that the Centre will be soon able to call upon the widest range of expertise ever made available to any socialist education enterprise in Britain.