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W8 Ã‘n in pairs to diffamrh want their children to learn, -and they a n ail m without exams if they wish, and went Â Europeancommune*, Kill maintain emittarianismas a b d Â¥( unimd in o m of two main central p r o m . It Ã ˆ aociaiism tedmtions. The- visits to quita of proarm, taring little for 8 k degree dktgted the content -logy, pore& the end rewits ofn?confmnc*; mcortimunt of ~hc~lfotl'output. M d kiiioinÃˆÃˆvwrftÃ‡f i iThLkttAutznikaÃ‘(n*dt am8 mommmt 8nd mh8t a n b w havadummto let tha p r o b i m turn from weh othar? of wxuai Â¥qualitand challenging Thd kibbutz Ismymtat i t f * d i Ã § Â ¥ r < ~retationihipf n

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of ita indmtry. cuttun 8nd Kibbutznib Ã tfromlnwt kithe uimd forces and m n r w n t . TIMÃ stmtetia ahow to whit exthe kibbutz is 8 s y f m WY much tied to the State of 1Ã‘Ã‘ It b hard to we the coÃ§ hym, th8 b i f n t diwiaimn of tabour when woman do the Ã‘rvic 8nd men the productive work, and to we thb m mciÃ§ijÃ§ But then am important ftem in a movement which he bmn w niccanful at taking on capitalism compOTitiwiv and is proud of It that they a n provide wort#cÃ§ntres Khoois neffe and funded 8nd teaching wtut they

provocÃ§thÃTtK-e wm wm*'mmtoiltv'th8 muiytauMttiof indM.ifmwi of the various c o m u n Ã which one rnlitv to w r war-dk. Thia wÃ pÃ§r<icul*rl imporunt for the kibbutznib. wmny of whom h*d KHM IdÃ‘

Brftfsft .l++j&th&a An enormous but gentla crowd'surtwSfrom the smtiwnkkifit e i b & and not until 4.30 MIS it announad that thelast of the mdmrs W e r r i v a d in Hyda Park. Below the ciiclln# heliqptar enthusium and adrenalin ran high. I heard Michael Foot say It wÃˆ a

a , Anmrimn imperieli$m or iohaend g u w w f f h r e ~ w m prisinglv, the letter. Pew Kelly in ~ ' c u l w ~ p a - nwvem*nts in other E u r o m n not mare so than here in the the rally, Eruct Kent added a taking Reagan out in hi: Ann Pettitt suggest& th mllitery bases as they'd ftom tinct passed e resolution 14thtodojustthat. ;

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bw,tha&ythoPatOff~bÃ§o* to UMTI, or r i l i n g linn~ 'bmkwi' as the CB rodiMdu a11 thammlwh In the fir% fortnight the airWVU hew been dominant! by boring conwmtlons about CB equlpnwnt. The lncomprahensIbla Arm-iun jargon affected by thi b m k u s wunds rtdlculous from Engllih lips. Swnrlng, musk end edv*rtl~Ing a n lllml, but In KIngs Crou b i u u u w k n w thing* Ilke this prwtltutu am already udng CB wen wrong with Dliblo m d now to play JInglasoffarlng their Â¥vryorknow. On* PQtE mrvlws. rÃ§)nnnt*tl hlmmlf -Id that If Then am 40 chinnds on e It wan r o t for the block&, this standird CB 'rig' (the jargon for P T B W m would hm bnn nlotnnsmlttÃ§f)but tha breakers dhortly aftw tta A b i l o ~ Allbnw announwd tha wd of thÃ ~odud* gaud to tha 33rd DM* of thÃ m ~Hch t otter on channel 14 of the Dlablo Cmyon nuolar power plant, tho o m PÃ§oHIQÃ ft nfwMUMr! m d then mow to anothir channal Elmtrlo IPOftR) rnwlMi t tta Nuolear R q u l t o r y Comml-bn (NRC) By thÃ tlmÃthe bloekid* Ã‡ lor 'window'l for w n l n g f u l Reaotor Inquiry ttat (Ug-up will be lddlnlfly potporcd. ullod off ldtÃ§two m k i ) , conwrntlons (bout the road conr PQtE clmd problÃ§mwith 1,900 w r n q h i d bun m a , dlwams a n und In a t r c dltlonh 1. one of tha#tructum In tha m ~ y s lof s piping hÃ§ngis ~ m , abom BOO of them Â¥toond-tlm Now a group of breakor* In J plant's mollno svmm and Its and the mlx.uo has m ~ ~ i n t l v B T M ~FourdÃ§ ~, 1111term and the London uu t a w announcad englnnn war* mid t o b* 1120fInn w r e handod out to Â¥ffftifb o t h m o t o n w n - . that the Altsrnatlw Brukars Inwnl~ftIn9tho n d d d h-t nructlon. Ope NRC offlclal flm-tlma offenders, (om* icond- Chmml {ABCI Is chenml 13. 'In ramowl witem whkh f u n a t h i mllod lt 'a first ram s o w uo'. All timars maclwd 21-dm la11 c r m lutum', b i d founekrmtnbf na coollna Wsmm In thfvtnt f i w w m m i un&r I n n Iftlon , and a $300 flna. ~hoii'pludlnÃ 0lla E l m of lalineton, Â¥ in Involwd In ooollng t a not-gullty wn n l don bill. of a nuchr maoldtnt uwall 8s will onlvalk on ohinn*) 13. Wa tha h i t d l ~ fduring ~ r rÃˆfirtllna motor during shutdown or In but eta1 dtÃ§ warm not i t . won't uia tin stuptd lingo, and Homer, the NRC 11 now laoklnj amarganey ~ltuitlons,Delay d w Th* A b i l o ~ Alllanm hi) Mid the only no-na lubjtot pill be Into Impfoptr wmtructlon ind to tha mix-up could b* u much that pupla will raturn Dteblo cq tiulpintnt.' tha PtTIt'aablllty to withstand as SIX moqths. If and whm n m c r y , AlrÃ‘d A&& mtmb*niB>n*tlmÃ§t d k an nnhquaka, foounlng on f l w A ipakaiptrwn for tha membw a n dolng mom IOQBIon ohtnndl 14, but'only to idwrtAbibna Alllmc* -Id whan thÃ k w u f t t y svmmi. orgmldng work, and m a h d to channal13, With thÃ words PQftE haw wnflmwd that mix-upwas rtvulfj: Â¥w frit f s t l f h d to the Ctntral Cont turn on, tun* In and drop out', b l w r l n t s for thÃ unlt 1 motor, that It Ã‡ only a m t f r of ttaM ' 'Rqlonil Wacr Qudlty Boird, t h w dl on CB u ~ tontwitch Wor* wmething Ilk@this would now comphfd, h i d lomahow which h a yÃ§to (pprow PQ&E1s from t t a phlllnlm 14 to Ur cool ' come out. Ewn though w'rÃ§not b u n switchod with plms for tha dumping of v w m coollng w t ~ 13, Elflood 4 thÃ§rw*r@ surprised, w ars very ~0nctrntf mwnd unit, now uridir contwo hundrt*rs of ABC in the In the am, about tha dingen of and w ' m hippy that It h * p p Ã § allowing tha utility to dump 1 structlon. Thls w notlMd by an London am, and convrutlons now WONth* full W U anglnnr who MW t h l what was mdloictlw wtfr Into tha local war* malnly about 'art, drugs and In a nnM w f l t l It Juit w k Ã § muslc'. trlng-bullt w s a mirror lmÃ§gof wafr syitem. our sfmmmt much w o w r WISE how it should b*. The iwltched Nick Roan

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With Am OwumÃ‘i moving towrjb a dMbkn fdu* In tho spring) to hat ulousty in w*w Â ¥ f ~ ~ for l yto out luck fn ~ ~ o n smral dawmft alculaloni Â¥bouth* amount of mugy milÂ¥blehwbÃ‘nnud* rht Edinburgh Unb a*. They show that we could obtain twice as much n the lamt figuresfrom the CEGB from inshore voters done and, by going further out to KM, could Â¥ctuall produce more electricity than we now uu from ail wurcei.

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ow of SmphÃ§ ~ t w inventor , of altar's Duck, show t h e thÃ§r ma 120 tW#wtt hours ( t h t b, 120 million mtgtvwtt hour#)from the standud slta a lsngth of l c s thÃ§ 1,000 kllom*t~s.By W m pÃ§rlwnthe CEGB l i t April ulculled that thare ware only 81 TWh out of m awn longer string of devlui 1,460 km. And within ~ t h r~u months,~ the CEGB ~ (in its internal journal, Power N w l had slashed hiown figure by 25%and put the total down to 60 Wh. Given the vast quantities of electr kity that am being dbcuued, such magisterial manIPulati0nof the numbers b breath-taking. The argument may mom to some propla a little actdmic w*wn Britain still has not launched, a wen pIw& e

slngbfull-wle Ã‘v Â¥nwg gen-. eut his ~ ~ f t r niar n ow now In thÃ tnmÂ¥ndou~W run-UP to* 8iMMll Inquiry ~d tho nukm h8W tried W W actla to support their wumont that bra Is no aItuMtW <to quota a wail-known phrase) to the Qwunment's TM Commandmonts: on0 nuclear power smtlon e y w r for ten years. It k there fore t enentlel a for them to belittle the aIternMives.

h a d*cld*d to w n d Â£ million on a ubll Ilnklno Orknw with the

Orknay's normal demand is around 27 MW. So, Instetd of pluming to mnt this by building wind-farm, each confining three 3 MW ititchlnm, end then UW the d i e d MU n back-up, the w d (and the m n t of ~ m g ~y l c hprovidh moat of the money) laying In advance that It dow't take wind orkney Link energy ~ u s l v . The word In Edinburgh is that CEGB ~ r r ~ o f l aisi bat Prmnt the aero-generator Is intended as a lifting the claim of O f f S l W t wind proving ground on the windiest LleIWMtOh, as ElllQtttWRY s b in Europe. But H will not be in U n d 48 (Wind ~ over ~ ~ permitted ~ ~to grow into a full-sized Â¥me) But while h e w witimi, power station instead, electricity an e x f o r t t t w v devlo~mentwas will he fed acroa the seated as 0 being reported from tha sitter demonstration that you can't rely oreanisatton, thb North of Scoton the tend HydpEbctric Board, which OwU Row

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During W d d War 1 and World War 2 the food produetion of Bdtalo changed to that by the end of both win Britbh forms wen feeding mot* Brim people. In put this w u achieved by food rationing. In part by the ten* growing more food** being leu reliant on Import* (uch m (rain. Future Internation*! dluuptions m y be more severe and totd defence would require both stocks of food md afiricultuill

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Indowndenfly from the LwntnHied S* aystemi. In Ã‡ddiUonthi6udi Imulatlon and other e m conurvtng techniques, Industrial and domatic energy men would pgtetttve4 made lew deprodent oncentnttud

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reported jobs has not changed in severity but has grown in volume. For instance 51% of US women now have paid employment. One hundred years ago it was 5%. This sounds like progress until You apply the one measuring stick that counts. The median yearly earnings of the average full-time employed woman

Every modem institution, from school to family and &om union to courtroom, incorporate* this assumption of scarcity, thereby dispersing it throughout society. For example, men and women have always grown up; now they need 'education*@ do so. In traditional societies, they matured without the conditions for growth being,

growth leading t o a convergence of GNP north and south of the equator. But it Is now possible to invert the issub. Instead of clinging t o the dream of n o p sexist growth. I t now appears more , sensible to pursue economic shrinkage as the policy along which a non-sexist or, at least, a less sexist sotiety can . , come into being. I now see that an industrial economy without a sexist hierarchy is far-

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over certain collective tfiictiOM md the placeof aoquisitiveness": This mutudity b the*disti~ilishtngfeature of new institutionaltyrttms and is the antithesis of the present order of capitalistic acquisitiveness. For this ~4noftco-optatives cannot k4y on support from the current system of Institutions, but mu@ draw on selfreliance &their strengths. But'supportto needed, Apart from a few local authorities and voluntary agencim, we haw to look for support from meof* VW-ptopfe who will benefit and the present network of co-operative organizations.

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ONCE it was the Wort Coast ef America that.#ovit#j, $0 international focus for experimental livingfar thoÃˆ d i s s a t ' i i with the direction society was taking. Nick Wares reports from j ~ l a n d, on another West Coast which could ttke its place.

BANTRY BAY'S Rwn D m New Y e s Eve was, at Hotel first sightjetheperfect tourist brochureimage ofIreland with h d d p & i$couplesof 9]!ages whirling around thefloor to a

streamofjigs.

Cioserinpction revealedthat : everything -not as one might have expected.HaltWw prefent wen obviously of local origin. .The other half were equally obviously not. They were pie -mainly in their twena-irties -with shaggy . halt, l&d@coloured clothing and ,..:

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frequently weird appearance the new arrivals are not a threat. Furthermore, they provideincome by paying rent For cottages whfih would otherwise remain empty,& they"ptovldecustom forthe mall Isolated shops."' ' Many of the older generation also feel m e t for thtscydung people who ÃdUm,whit theywuuh) fwv Hked their o children to doT-instead of heading off to the bit! cities in search of higher wtges and modem life. In addition. the laid back*humanit~alignphilosophy 'of the new settlers is, paradoxically and despite outward diffdtengs in appearance, similar to the traditions of the local strongly rooted moralistic Catholic community.

the Irish'talk about "resignation to the will of God"; the new settlers talk of "going with the flow of things and accepting karma". The Irlth and English have not yet integrated much on a deeper social level -there are no mixed marriages for Instance -and there has inevitably been the off conflict. But in most cases everyone knows what everyone else is doing, and the two communitieslive harmoniously side by side.

Back to the land fife in the mountabs of West Cork is

not easy and the new settlers initially flrid themstlvet preoccupied with day to day living: fetching water in buckets from streams; digging turffor cooking andheating; learnid about life without The ney settlers ft electrid*, ahd discovering how to keep People both c o ~ u n i t i 6 . can q and' goats and &ow vegetables without the former eating the latter. in and gut of each other's do Not'to mention coping with psychic houses, and never get vssy without being offered Ã clip 'of tea if not some- and supernatural forces which even the thing stronger (against pressure born the &ratiorri npwcomem soon accept M a major influence in daily life. (Few church ma the media the L-bh soon people do not have tales of their own accented that tile hew settitragenjoyencounten with 'wandering turf, ment of abundant marijuana wu, standing stones or 'the fairies'. Whethermorally, little different to their own it's a product of the mounttlni or consitmpllon of large quantities of dmply a natural reoult of living 10 dm illegally dhtnled whUky). to nature h hard to ucortate.) ' Desolteatr6n< morals. there kin Then an virtually no private tebof others both &mmuni&, a tolephone*, few s t e w -so that people with afferent view*, and a mlgution 1earntodngfin)andno-oneteem* tokgerf&-wWchantomÃ§Ume

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- 4 i t e H s t busineaws. On the ether hand they may be incorporatedjntoatarget co-operative structure. Either way,the developments in Weft Cork yill be of interest,in, the cimiing years,'p@cularly for t4ase .,. who .. have . , believed .,,., that . .., . - : . . ,. .

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I ;il'll l'i'hY michlnery and equipment n'comuuptbn', bit m it Ir been tmted by aU conviitlonal economlM. In W t y . It ihould be s ~ uncapltal,a+kd themor* nich apltal b : p a d uounc)tho bqtter. I am not nuggeiting that thÃ rle of councilhow:, or the c q n to tb Borne, nuclw or any of @'printl-tlon' i p U d M of thit *nd o w rtehtQoveramenti b a good thlng. But in wtnt WMODI* want foodpublic

Â¥S' only buietucratically-detlilod nods, * * they will continue to distanc*thta- ' lelm from pÃ§oploreal wphntlo~l, and will continue to.lom out -and I don't mean j u t electenlly) to slicker, ,dmpler propaganda from the Right. Instead, radiak ahould aim to bdp . people to determine for them*elÃˆe their own priocltlei, theirowqenvironment and the urn of local mouicM. A* the Britlih Empire withdraw to Its London centre from the north and wed (well, tbateione eflriUMtton of the cuts), mme placw are aheady looking at their own mourcn, tbI# own real needs. T need all the help theyÃ§ng*t-*IK naylum' ghen them a phlkxopby towork StoplMi Jaieph .-,,

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DID YOU KNOW that h training of Military penonnelin "...Ithinktint{Ãˆofl*wintpeacei much t h a t o ~ o f t h Ã ‘ d n the US alone cogto twicea* much gowluiumbbaÃ§brtt*#oh out of thdr per ear as the Education budget for 00 millid school children in w l y n d t e t w b a v e l t . " WhoatÃ§tlMt,Ã§whMi? No,% South Asia?Or th& research on wuntBNiMitart-crBdÃ‘r new weapons receives eight time* Thomwoti In IWt. It w U8 as much public money Mresearch on new .goiircea of energy?Or that, in the US, 'twenty Umes as much public research money goeÃfor transportation Wo space a# for maetransit on earth? vrutereifnwnttmy backin 1976. (You Them and a multitude of ether read~tftntta Undies). Ako sohering fact8 are culled h&m Ruth Leger Slvard't World Mflitatv artd Socialhpenditures 1980 (Â£2.6ftem -

WMSE publications, c/o CUT, tiCaledonian Road. London N1 ÃˆDX)

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WORK

Word and Action (Corat) community themre/publications co-operative Isubsidised by ACGBI - requires two theatre worker; (woman/man, preferably mid-20s) for non-conventional work in Domt and touring Britain, abroad. W&A(D) emphasises language, audience participation, seeing the ordinary afmh; pay low, hours long; long-tarm commitment. Non-smoking/vefletarian ethos; ability to type, cook, share work of houie and garden desirable, to drive eitentiai. Write: W&AID), 23 Beaucroft ~ a n iColnhill, , Wimborn*. Dome BH212PE. Phone: Wimborna 10202) 883197 HARDWORKING, -k, VMMttfknrCimr toOn Tha Eighth Dm idwork long hwd hours, for mnuts,.h tha anpandin# co-opuatiwlv run wholefood (hop. Wrim to 111 Oxford Road, Mmchdtw M l 7DU or ring 061 273 4878.

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