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Vol.63/No.35       October 11, 1999  
 
 
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Celebrate the political experience and communist activity of Ethel Lobman

New York City 
Sunday, October 10 
Reception: 1 p.m. 
Program: 2 p.m. 
Dag Hammarskjold Lounge 
Sixth Floor, School of International and Public Affairs Columbia University 
420 W. 118th St. (at Amsterdam Ave) 
 
Speakers to be announced

Sponsored by the New York and New Jersey SWP 
For further information contact the SWP at (212)399-7257 in New York, or at (973)643-3341 in Newark, New Jersey 

 

Upcoming fund events

ILLINOIS 
Chicago 
Cuba: 40 Years of Workers and Farmers in Power. Speaker: Martín Koppel, one of the interviewers in Making History: Interviews with Four Generals of Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces, coming soon from Pathfinder.  
Sat., Oct. 9, 7 p.m. Dinner 5:30 p.m.  
Pathfinder Bookstore, 1223 N. Milwaukee Av. At Ashland and Division  
(Division station on the Blue line). Program: $5. Dinner: $5. Translation into Spanish. 
For more information, call (773) 342-1780. 
 

PENNSYLVANIA 
Pittsburgh 
Iran Today. 20th Anniversary of the Iranian Revolution. 
Speaker: Ma'mud Shirvani, editor for Pathfinder Press. 
Shirvani has traveled throughout the region and written for the Militant newspaper on political developments there. 
Sat., Oct. 9, 7:30 p.m. 
Dinner 6:30 p.m. 
Grand opening at new Pathfinder Bookstore, 1003 E. Carson.  
For more information, call (412) 381-9785. 
 
Canada 
Vancouver 
Puerto Rico: U.S. Colony in the Caribbean. The Fight for Independence. 
Speaker: Mauricio Arevena, Socialist Workers Party. 
Fri., Oct. 8, 7:30 p.m. 
At the new Pathfinder Bookstore, 4321 Fraser St. (between 27 and 28 Ave.  
For more information, call (604) 872-8343. 

 

The Cuban Revolution Today!

Mary-Alice Waters, editor of the Marxist magazine New International, has traveled to Cuba frequently over the last 20 years, returning recently from having visited this past September. Author of a number of books including Che Guevara and the Imperialist Reality and Defending Cuba's Socialist Revolution, as well as acting as editor for the Bolivian Diary of Ernesto Che Guevara and To Speak the Truth: Why Washington's Cold War Against Cuba Doesn't End, Waters will provide an inside look at the current state of both feminism and Marxism in Cuba at the turn of the millennium.

Berkeley, California 
Mon., Oct. 11, 7:30 p.m. 
Barnes and Noble Booksellers 
2352 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley. For more information, call (510) 644-3635. Free and open to the public. 
 
 
 
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