NOUTTINGMAM KED CIRCLES: Wide-ranging series of discussions based on the politics of the Fourth International. Every second and fourth tuesday in the mont, o p.m. at the Lion motel Clumber Street.
REVOLUTIONARY XMAS CARDS: Trotsky slaying the counter-revolutionary dragon (old Russian poster), 50p for 10 from Red Books, 24 Boundary Road, London NW8.
NATIONALSARON OR EXPROPRIATIONS Translation of a pamphlet originally produced by the Communist League in France as a critique of the onion or ine Lett. very relevant to ine present debate in Britain around the Labour Party's programme of nationalisations. Produced by Birmingham IMG for the Red Weekly Fund Drive. Rush orders to: Alex Stein, 281 Tiverton *Road, Selly Oak, Birmingham. 10p per copy plus ING HED rOHUM: series or introductory dis• cussions for those in the London area on the politics of the Fourth International. Every Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the General Picton, Caledonian Road (5 mins. Kings X tube). 18 December: 'Internationalism and the Fourth internationan DEFEND POLITICAL PRISONERS in Iran. Public meeting Friday 14 December, 7 p.m. in Mechanical Engineering Department. (Room 342) Imperial College, Prince Consort Road, London, SW7. Organised by Confederation of Iranian Students. The Politics of Homosexuality, by Don Milligan (Pluto Press, 10p).
This pamphlet should be welcomed by socialists and revolutionaries as an interesting document for preliminary discussion on the much neglec. ted issue of homosexual oppression, Milligan analyses various aspects of discrimination in jobs, housing and legally, and discusses the factors which lead to the oppression of homosexuals.
He particularly discusses the role of the family, which is essential to capitalism as a mechanism of social control in that it imparts the ideology of capitalism. Homosexuals are seen as a threat to the family in general, in that they are outside its structure. Further, they are not absorbed effectively into the family structure of the working class, which has a further function under capitalism-namely, to reproduce and maintain a labour force for the capitalists. Milligan's descriptions of the nature of homosexual oppression are thorough and excellent. His analysis of the law reform lobby is that law reform makes no practical difference to the plight of the homosexual, but that the demand
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