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WHY SOCIALIST ACTIVISM?

Solidarity will kick off the second installment of its Summer Discussion Series with two talks in May at the Guild House. On Tuesday, May 9, Solidarity organizer Peter Landon will speak on the topic "Why Socialist Activism?" On Tuesday, May 23, Padraic Kenney from the University of Michigans History Department will speak on "Solidarnosc and the Current Situation in Poland ." Both talks get under way at 7:30 pm and they are free.

Solidarity is an organization committed to building a non-sectarian socialist movement in the U.S. We are socialist activists who particípate in the struggles against racism and sexism, as well as the struggles tor lesbian and gay rights. In Ann Arbor, our members participate in FSACC, LASC, POWER, UCAR and Concerned Faculty. We firmly believe that any socialist movement worthy of the name must join in such struggles now, rather than perpetuate the iIlusion that they can either be separated from or take a back seat to the class struggle.

We oppose the growing U.S. drive toward war, whether that be in the Middle East or Central America. We support the PLO and the FMLN in their struggles against Israeli and U.S. oppression We see the need for international solidarity among working people and the oppressed in a period of concessions, deindustrialization, unemployment and the growing debt crisis. We believe in a creative rethinking of socialism for the 90s in which an open environment and a variety of views is more important than presenting a monolithic face to the world or engaging in pretenses of being "the vanguard ."

Solidarity, 4104 Michigan Union, Ann Arbor, Ml 48109, 665-2709.