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6 Jan.: subjects include housing and bed and breakfast landlords; police actions during anti-nuclear protest in Whitehall (personal description of arrest). 19 Jan.: subjects include community arts; Reading fringe festival. 4 Feb.: subjects include miners' strike; monogamy and celibacy; vegetarian dining; Shelter. 17 Feb.: subjects include anti-nuclear movement (including Molesworth); Nicaragua; AIDS; animal rights (enclosed: Miners Support Committee leaflet for public meeting). 3 Mar.: subjects include anti-nuclear protest on Salisbury Plain; co-operatives; 1921 Kronstadt rebellion (enclosed: Red Rag standing order mandate). 17 Mar.: subjects include squatting; 'a green column' (composting); situationist take on consumerism (enclosed: leaflet promoting events to be held at the squatted former Unemployment Benefit Office). 1 Apr.: subjects include anti-nuclear blockade at Molesworth; squat at the old Unemployment Benefit Office; co-operatives. 15 Apr.: subjects include housing benefits cuts; prosecution of and physical assaults on Greenham Common protestors; co-operatives. 28 Apr.: subjects include funding for hospitals on USAF bases; anti-nuclear movement (including Greenham Common food van) (enclosed: leaflets for May Day festival and production of 'Not quite Jerusalem' at Progress Theatre). 12 May: subjects include arrest of Greenham Common protestors for trespass (extracts of diary entries); miners' strike. 26 May: subjects include Reading District Council's 'highway strategy'; Bash the Rich at Henley Regatta; cinema squat; deaf television. 9 Jun.: subjects include proposed boycott of the Tudor Arms ('Reading's only 'gay' pub') due to its pornographic beermats and views of the landlord; Battle of the Beanfield / Stonehenge; Bash the Rich; anti-nuclear movement; squatting. 23 Jun.: subjects include Bash the Rich; Tudor Arms boycott; transport policy of Reading Ecology Party. 7 Jul.: subjects include Bash the Rich; Tudor Arms boycott. 21 Jul.: subjects include Bash the Rich at Henley and the police; Tudor Arms boycott; pesticides; whaling. 4 Aug.: subjects include prosecution of Greenham Common protestors; squatting. 18 Aug.: subjects include anti-nuclear movement (including prosecution of Greenham Common protestors); benefit cuts; Shadow Project on Hiroshima Day (including personal account of arrest). 1 Sep.: subjects include anti-nuclear movement (including prosecution of protestors who broke into Aldermaston Weapons Research Establishment on Nagasaki Day and exposure to radiation at Greenham Common); proposed marches by evangelical Christians; proposed festival to celebrate 20 years of Reading anarchism (enclosed: 2 Reading Campaign Against the Benefit Cuts leaflets on the social security reviews). 15 Sep.: subjects include acid rain; anti-nuclear movement (including Greenham Common); 20th anniversary anarchist free festival. 29 Sep.: subjects include radical chic; anti-nuclear movement; Handsworth riots; Bash the Rich demo in Hampstead. 13 Oct.: subjects include housing benefit claimants; EEC food mountain. 27 Oct.: subjects include anti-apartheid demo in London; AIDS; council transport policy. 11 Nov.: subjects include boycott of South African produce; inner city riots and racism. 23 Nov.: subjects include anti-apartheid demo; inner city riots and racism; Campaign Against Police Repression; the National Front. 8 Dec.: subjects include Reading Men's Anti-Sexist Collective; University Women Reclaim the Night; Indianer-Kommune ('children's commune' linked with paedophilia); anti-apartheid movement; racism; the Well-woman Association; Cruisewatch and Greenham Common. 22 Dec.: subjects include Reading Direct Action Movement; housing and homeless; sexism and homosexuality. Also includes: minutes of Red Rag collective meetings, 13 Jan., 24 Feb., 5 May, 16 Jun.

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