from Malcolm Caldwell The South East London Centre reports that the poor respon
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bald announcement of its formation is being te apc ss a si ao dbacceat interest as its activities have become known. A series of informal pos — meetings has been initiated, the first being held in May, when Sean Gervasi ntroduced a discussion of the National Plan. Subsequent meetings will focus in the first instance on domestic issues, following through into the related issues of international policy and developments. Increased interest has obviously been stimulated by the icy of go ut
other organisations and to the public, rather than sitSine tas Wh thee ka“ Saaeeet to set meetings alone. Members of the local Centre have spoken on a mumber of occasions to local trade unions, and have also recently started to speak at street cormers and other public places at week-ends, with an encouraging response. Contact is being sought, and in some instances has already been established with other relevant organisations and groups on particular issues of a local nature, for examination of the possibilities of campaigning and other action. As already announced in The Week, the Centre is holding, on Saturday July 9th
at 7, The G Blac S an! ", with enter tainments and refreshments, the object of which will be to collect money 4s a contribution to the acquisition of arms by the National Liberation Front of Vietnam. The entertainments will include live music (Indian and Western), poetry reading and an art exhibition. In its publicity for this "Event", the South East London CSE declares "its conviction that appeals for negotiations to resolve the conflict in Vietnam, through concessions by ‘all parties', are neither realistic nor morally justified. Such appeals imply an equal allocation of responsibility for the conflict to victims and aggressors alike, and a moral equation of social revolution with unqualified reaction?