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New on the shelves of Housmans
The back of Housmans bookshop has been newly painted and there is now a notice board by the peace section with leaflets for people to take away. So bring your leaflets in! All the peace magazines are now in a rack under the new noticeboard. Unfortunately disabled access to the back of the shop is poor. There are two steps very inconveniently placed and we can't do anything about them.Bhikhu Parekh,Gandhi's Legacy (Gandhi Foundation, 1.50). A short introduction to Gandhi's thought, this pamphlet is the text of a lecture given in London last year to mark the 125th anniversary of Gandhi's birth.
CJ Stone,Fierce Dancing (Faber, 6.99).
Celebration of recent forms of protest in Britain from a personal account. Like Senseless Acts of Beauty, Fierce Dancing has interviews with members of Crass, (the anarchy-pacifist punk band from the 70s and 80s) about Wally Hope who founded the Stonehenge festival and died shortly after being released from a psychiatric hospital.
Lost in Concrete: an activist guide to European transport policies (A SEED Europe; 3.50).
A dozen articles opposing the worship of the car ant the economic and political interests that lie behind it. Opposition to the Newbury bypass and all the other new roads is part of a Europe-wide resistance, not just a local issue. Find out what a TEN is.
Two magazines which cover the rave/traveller/anti-road protest spectrum are Squall and Frontline. Each has a new issue out. Issue 13 of Squall is 1.80, as is issue 3 of Frontline. The 96 edition of Festival Eye, the 10th guide to Britains's festivals, is 2. There is also a new issue of Fifth Estate, the veteran anarchist paper from Detroit. Their 30th anniversary issue costs 1.50 and includes the first instalment of a history of the paper.
Brian Moseley