MembersNEWNew in the Members’ Room: Zinovy Zinik reflects on vodka and life; John Ozimek takes up the new Vetting Database; Viv Regan presents a film on youth volunteering; JJ Charlesworth has a piece in Art Monthly on the trouble with art education; James Panton discusses ethical consumerism and child protection on BBC Radio. New on the Vetting Blog: Photography in pre-school; Serving police officer CRBed; Checking once, checking twice; Manifesto Club wins government u-turn; Model flying events cancelled. Read on… |
Radicalism then and nowFollowing our club night on the legacy of 1968, people might be interested in these articles on Culture Wars, by two of the speakers at the event. The most disappointing generation ever produced? 1968ers from the Barricades to Baghdad The ‘68ers’ failure to lead a revolution in the West was followed in the 1970s by the failure or corruption of many causes they held so dear in the Third World. The end of the Vietnam War took much of the wind out of the sails of the American ‘68ers, many of whom were more interested in dodging the draft than fighting imperialism. Lee Jones Radical Oxford Blues Oxford Radical Forum, Wadham College, Oxford, 29 February - 2 March 2008 If anything came out of the forum at all, it was a snapshot of the radical state of confusion on the left today, combining nostalgia for the themes and slogans of the past with many of the prejudices of the present. Maria Grasso, George Hoare and Lee Jones
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The Manifesto Club supports:All those who oppose the new Mayor's ban on drinking on the London Tube... 'Enlightenment is humanity's emergence from self-imposed immaturity. Dare to know! Have courage to use your own understanding!' Immanuel Kant 'What characterises man is his extreme abundance of imagination; therefore, that man is a fantastic animal and that universal history is the gigantic, continuous and insistent effort to go, little by little, putting some order into the crazy fantasy.' José Ortega y Gasset |
