leaves room for hope that its political weaknesses will be remedied as a growing experience of struggle shows them to be such. Phil Cohen La Hora de los Hornos is being shown by the PKK Politkino Klub on August 3rd (part 1) and August 10th (Parts 2 and 3) You have to get membership in advance from Il Greck Street, London W.1. (01-734-4131); the film will be shown at Sudbury House, 15, Newgate Street, E.C.1. (St Pauls tube).
RED CIRCLES Weekly meetings to discuss revolutionary politics.
North London meets every Tuesday at 8pm in the General Picton Pub, Caledonian Road, N.1. (near Kings X station)
Notting Hill meets every Monday at 7.45pm in the Britannia Pub meeting room, Clarendon Road (near Ladbroke Grove tube). Buses 52, 7, 15.
Glasgow meets on Thursdays at 7.30pm in the lona Community Centre, 214 Clyde St.
BUILDING WORKERS STRIKES A new pamphlet on the background to the present dispute and in particular the rise of the Building Workers Charter Group and its politics is now available, price 2p. from IMG Publications, 182 Pentonville Road, London N.I.
WHAT'S HAPPENING IN ITALY?
Meeting at 5pm on Sunday, 30 July, at the Centro Iberico (directly opposite Holborn tube station).
Organised by Italian Red Help, 21 Theobalds Road, London W.C.I. the scientific discipline most germane to the development of a science of the biosphere". (p. 7)
•However knowledge of the totality of the eco-system, which if put into practice can help man re-harmonise his distorted and destructive relation with nature, can only be useful if the economic rationality and social structure are compatible with this end. "Scientific knowledge or even the will to plan are not enough if the human environment, which is determined by its political and economic structure, is not favourable. It is not difficult to demonstrate ... that industrial capitalism has no functional conception of the welfare of mankind as a whole". (p. 19)
Rothman goes through a study of how human society has developed, based on different and developing modes of production (i.e. the control of man over his resources). The advancement of capitalism was accompanied by a rise in rationality which broke the grip of traditionalism. Production was organised with a future goal in view, rather than being based exclusively on how things had been organised in the past. A central organising concept at which all industrialists could aim arose - the concept of profit. However: "The development of capitalist society encouraged the intensification of economic rationality, together with the parallel and intimately related development of science and technology. which led to an unprecedented increase in the productive forces of society. But the fatal contradiction of capitalist rationality was that it was confined to the private interests of individual enterprises, which predominated over wider social interests." (p. 42). Part two of the book consists of a comprehensive empirica study of the present 182 Pentonville Road, London N.I.
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