CRITIQUE FOLLOWING London's Ocloder the work conference.
CONFERENCE ON BAHRO, 12-13 OCTOBER the success Congress For and About Rudolf Bahro' last November in West Berlin, which was attended by 3,000 people, the journal Critique is organising an 'International Confer. ence on the Socialist Alternative and Conway Hall on 12-13 In the words of the organisers, this will he 'very much a continuation of of the West Berlin Speakers like Ernest Dutschke, André Gunder Frank, Ernesto Laclau and Michel Raptis guarantee that there Will be plenty of interesting debates, but a look at the agenda reveals little directly connected discussion of Rudolf Bahro and his book, The Alternative.
But this should not detract from the importance of the questions that actually be debated the conference, and from the fact that it will provide a welcome opportunity to defence A delegation from the conference will, in fact, visit the East German embassy on the first day to deliver an appeal for Rudolf Bahro's release and for political prisoners on the occasion of the 30th GDR. One of the conference workshops will also be with the defence cam• And a new pamphlet on the Bahro case, produced by the Rudolf Bahro Defence Committee, will be on sale for the first time.
Registration starts at 9.30am on Friday, with the opening address by Medveder 10.30am.
Saturday's sessions begin at 10am. The conference fee is £2.50 per day (or for both days for Critique students and un EXTENSIVE coverage of develop. ments in Nicaragua continues in the issue of the weekly Intercontinental Press/Inprecor (Vol 17, No 36). Individual copies cost 30p plus 10p post, but subscriptions work out much cheaper at Ell for a year (48 issues), fó for six months (24 issues), or £3 for 10 weeks. Cheques or POs made 'Intercontinental Press' and sent to: IP/I, PO Box 50, London NI 2XP.
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