Sally Camp­bell, Author of A Rebel’s Guide to Rosa Lux­em­burg will be appear­ing to speak at the Phoenix Com­munity Centre, Brighton, on Sunday the 19^th of Feb­ru­ary at 3pm to dis­cuss the import­ance of Rosa Lux­em­burg, revolu­tion­ary thinker and polit­cal activist.

The book launch is being held by Brighton and Hove Social­ist Work­ers’ Party as a fun­draiser to raise much needed money for the cre­ation of a book fund for newer mem­bers and students.

Rosa Lux­em­burg took part in two revolu­tions dur­ing her short life, andwrote on such con­tem­por­ary con­cerns as whether cap­it­al­ist soci­ety can be trans­formed via par­lia­ment (‘Reform or Revolu­tion’), the nature of imper­i­al­ism (‘The Accu­mu­la­tion of Cap­ital’) and per­tin­ently in the light of Nov 30^th, on the role of the trade uni­ons and of the strike (‘The Mass Strike’). And it is her work, her con­tri­bu­tion to wider socio-political think­ing, as well as her life which will be dis­cussed at this event.

Tick­ets £6 waged / £3 unwaged&students  Ticket price to include food, drinks will also be avail­able! If you have par­tic­u­lar food aller­gies or needs please post on the wall below. Please com­ment on the wall below if you require child­care in order to attend, and arrange­ments can be made.

All Wel­come!

Fur­ther details can be found here

Wed­nes­day 11^th Janu­ary, Seven Thrity pm, The Pheonix Com­munity Centre.

Organ­ised by the Social­ist Party of Brighton and local grass roots act­iv­ists, this meet­ing, open to all regard­less of polit­ical affil­i­ation will be dis­cuss­ing the pro­posed Abstin­ence Bill, its implic­a­tions, and what can be done to oppose it. From their faceook -

“The extreme right-wing MP Nad­ine Dor­ries is spon­sor­ing a private mem­bers bill to ‘end ‘teen­age preg­nan­cies’ through com­puls­ory ‘abstin­ence’ courses for young women in sec­ond­ary schools.

Dor­ries and the ‘Evan­gel­ical’ churches want to launch a ‘moral cru­sade’ of blame dir­ec­ted at young people.

Social­ists believe how­ever that the real need is for women to have access to full con­trol over their bod­ies through genu­ine sex-education, proper birth con­trol and polit­ical and social equality.

The Social­ist Party is totally opposed to a return to hypo­crit­ical, pat­ri­archal ‘Vic­torian’ val­ues and is build­ing for the lobby of par­lia­ment when Dor­ries bill is read on 20^th January.

For more info: www.brightonhovesocialistparty.blogspot.com/2012/01/stop-nadine-dorries-abstinence.html

This meet­ing will include an intro­duc­tion as well as a discussion.

Speak­ers:

Beth Granter — organ­iser of the ‘Stop Dor­ries’ cam­paign www.facebook.com/stopdorries and Brighton Social­ist Party member

Julie Donovan — Brighton SP mem­ber and national organ­iser of Cam­paign Against Domestic Viol­ence in the 1990’s which fought for the issue to be taken up by the trade union move­ment en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_Against_Domestic_Violence ”

It’s also worth check­ing out local Brighton act­iv­ist Beth Granter’s blog to be kept up to date.

Hello Brighton! Here are a few dates for your cal­en­dar com­ing up in the next couple of months -

Thursday 26^th Jan Coun­cil Meet­ing Lobby on Music Ser­vice Cutsgoes to Coun­cil Time to be announced later by Trades council.

LONDON, 31^st Janu­ary  The New Green Team: Local gov­ern­ment, sus­tain­able energy, jobs and skills, 11–2, TUC,  Con­gress House Great Rus­sell Street.
Speakers include Car­oline Lucas MP, Leader of the Green Party
Frances O’Grady, Deputy Gen­eral Sec­ret­ary, TUC
Cllr Richard Wil­li­ams, Oppos­i­tion Leader, Southamp­ton Council
Solar industry rep­res­ent­at­ive 
Mark Bramah, Assist­ant Chief Exec­ut­ive, APSE
Union speaker.
To register, please visit http://thenewgreenteam.eventbrite.co.uk/

With insight and wit, cur­rent com­ment­at­ors explore the strategy, polit­ics, and social con­texts of “Occupy Wall Street” and sim­ilar gath­er­ings around the coun­try. And they give the move­ment a solid “Thumbs up!”

Fea­tures com­ments by Jim Hightower, Glen Ford, and Ken­neth Dowst… new songs by David Rovics and Attila the Stock­broker … and a stir­ring speech by Chris Hedges at “Occupy DC.”

BE SURE TO TUNE IN AND H EAR ALL THE LATEST OCCUPY WALL STREET NEWS.
TODAY, Tues­day 25^th Octo­ber, 4PM.

Start­ing this Thursday 29^th Septem­ber at 7.30pm, Car­oline Lucas will be present­ing her very own radio show on Radio Free Brighton.

Hear Caroline’s pro­gramme again on our Mix Cloud site:    http://www.mixcloud.com/RadioFreeBrighton/caroline-lucas-show-29–09-11/

As Brighton Pavillion’s MP, and the Green Party’s first Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment, we are delighted to have her become a part of RFB.

Car­oline will be dis­cuss­ing cur­rent affairs that affect her as an MP but also as a Brighton resident.

www.carolinelucas.com

Be sure to tune in on Thurs 29^th Sept 7.30pm.

Afgh­anistan, Iraq, Liby

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There will The Anti­war Mass Assembly on Sat­urday con­tin­ues to attract high
pro­file pledges, the latest from Noam Chom­sky and oth­ers who have
issued the fol­low­ing statement:

After 10 years of war in Afgh­anistan, more than 100,000 Nato
troops remain and tens of thou­sands have died. Gov­ern­ment claims
that the war is con­trib­ut­ing to Britain’s sta­bil­ity look
increas­ingly hol­low. Opin­ion polls sug­gest the major­ity of
Bri­tons want a speedy with­drawal of Brit­ish troops, a view
recently endorsed by the trade uni­ons. Politi­cians have to get in
step with pub­lic opin­ion and announce a date to bring troops
home. We will be attend­ing the mass anti-war assembly this
Sat­urday 8 Octo­ber in Tra­fal­gar Square. We urge you to join us.also be an Anti-war mass assembly in London

Sat­urday 8^th Octo­ber
12pm
Tra­fal­gar Square, London

Phone 07763 773450 for fur­ther info and local trans­port details.

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The Anti­war Assembly on Octo­ber 8 will be a mem­or­able day

Many thanks to every­one who signed the pledge to join the Anti­war Mass Assembly in Tra­fal­gar Square. Thou­sands have pledged and there is a steady stream of new sig­nat­or­ies. Thou­sands more who have not pledged will be there. Trans­port is being organ­ised across the coun­try to bring pro­test­ers from out­side Lon­don (see http://bit.ly/oM17x9)

Recent pledges

Julian Assange from Wikileaks is among the latest to sign the pledge — he will be speak­ing on the day — and we’ve just got con­firm­a­tion that the remark­able 106-year-old Hetty Bower will be there too (see this video and you will know why: http://bit.ly/mWvU9e). Watch out for more announce­ments in the next few days.

Timetable

The ini­tial pro­gramme for the day has been pub­lished here: http://bit.ly/poSQPd. A full timetable will be avail­able soon, with details about the musi­cians, writers, artists, MPs, film­makers, act­ors, trade union lead­ers and act­iv­ists who will be per­form­ing or speak­ing on the day.

Spread the word

Please, in the few days left before 8 Octo­ber, do all you can to pub­li­cise the Anti­war Assembly, among your fam­ily, neigh­bours, work col­leagues, fel­low stu­dents, com­munity or faith group etc. Encour­age every­one to sign the pledge here: http://www.antiwarassembly.org/

Please Donate

We have launched a fin­an­cial appeal to help us fund 8 Octo­ber and have had a tre­mend­ous response so far, reach­ing nearly half of our tar­get to raise £10,000 to cover the costs of Tra­fal­gar Square, two stages, pro­jec­tion screens, sound sys­tems and a mar­quee, as well as the expendit­ure on pub­li­cising the event through leaf­lets, posters etc. If you haven’t already done so, please con­sider mak­ing a con­tri­bu­tion. We rely entirely on the dona­tions of our sup­port­ers to fund our activ­it­ies. You can make a dona­tion online, by phone or by post. See:: http://bit.ly/n0eEh2

Why you can make a difference

The war in Afgh­anistan is a dis­aster, with the latest fig­ures show­ing an increase of viol­ence by 39% in 2011 com­pared to last year. Most people in Bri­tain oppose the government’s war policies, and not least the spend­ing of bil­lions of pounds attack­ing other people’s coun­tries at a time of huge cuts in pub­lic ser­vices. The gov­ern­ment is bank­ing on this wide­spread oppos­i­tion not being vis­able or act­ive. On Sat­urday we will give voice to the anti-war major­ity in this coun­try, as part of the con­tinu­ing fight to make it polit­ic­ally impossible for the gov­ern­ment to wage wars which are both unjus­ti­fied and immoral. See you there!

Con­tact:

info@antiwarassembly.org
Call 020 7801 2768
http://www.antiwarassembly.org

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10 reas­ons to join the Anti War mass assembly

1. We were told the war was won at the end of 2001, but today the fight­ing, casu­lties and air strikes are all worse than ever.
2. Record num­bers of Nato troops, includ­ing 100,000 Amer­ic­ans, have not brought secur­ity, but ever rising levels of death and destruc­tion.
3. There are three times as many air strikes on Afgh­anistan today com­pared to a year ago.
4. The war was launched to cap­ture Osama Bin Laden — ‘wanted dead of alive’. He is now dead but the war con­tin­ues.
5. Life expect­ancy in Afgh­anistan is 43, the low­est in the world.
6. Afgh­anistan is one of the worst places in the world to be a woman.
7. Mil­lions of Afghans have become refugees as a res­ult of the war.
8. The war in Afgh­anistan is cost­ing £5 bil­lion a year, at the same time wel­fare spend­ing, hous­ing and pen­sions are under attack.
9. Politi­cians talk of with­drawal, bu8t have no cred­ible exit strategy.
10. Par­lia­ment is ignor­ing pub­lic opin­ion, which opposes the war. A mass turn out in Tra­fal­gar Square on 8 Octo­ber will send a mes­sage to MPs and gov­ern­ment, that it’s time to go.

For more on this Listen to our latest Act­iv­ists Corner epis­ode on Mix Cloud:

http://www.mixcloud.com/RadioFreeBrighton/activists-corner-bikes-for-africa-and-brighton-stop-the-war-public-meeting/

SATURDAY 8 OCTOBER
1 2PM
TRAFALGAR SQUARE
LONDON

A TALE OF MODERN-DAY OUTLAWS.

www.justdoitfilm.com

UNDER THE BRIDGE STUDIOS
are proud to be screen­ing
JUST DO IT
on the 9^th Octo­ber 2011.

There will be two screen­ings in the com­munity room.
12pm — For people with children/toddlers/babies (bring toys!)
3pm — For every­one else.

£2 entrance fee (sup­port for the film)

Come down and see one of the most ground-breaking films in the world of activism.

Under The Bridge Stu­dios
(Under Brighton Sta­tion)
7 Tra­fal­gar Arches
Brighton
BN1 4FQ

JUST DO IT lifts the lid on cli­mate act­iv­ism and the dar­ing trouble­makers who have crossed the line to become mod­ern day outlaws.

Doc­u­mented over a year, Emily James’ film fol­lows these act­iv­ists as they block­ade factor­ies, attack coal power sta­tions and glue them­selves to the trad­ing floors of inter­na­tional banks des­pite the very real threat of arrest.

JUST DO IT is an inde­pend­ently pro­duced film made pos­sible by over 100 volun­teers and 447 crowd funders.

Review by The Guard­ian —
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/jul/14/just-do-it-review