The first five papers in these proceedings focus on the organization and process of the International League for Social Commitment in Adult Education (ILSCAE). They are "Product into Process: The International League, Its Background, Organization, and Structure" (Anette Svensson, Alan Tuckett); "The Language Question" (John Payne); "Gender Issues" (Jenny Scribbins); "Education for Women and Parent Education" (Jenny Scribbins); and "Non-Formal Social Education in Japan and Its Social Commitment" (Kenji Miwa). Five presentations on literacy are "The Politics of Research: What Should ILSCAE Do?" (Sue Gardener); "A Legal Literacy Project" (Lorraine Marx-Singer); "A Tale of Three Cities" (Ruth Nickse); "A Proposal to Revamp Literacy Education" (Bonnie Orr); and "Writing and Empowerment: Women in Residence" (Ruth Lesirge, Jane Mace). The introduction (by Titus Alexander) to Part 3, Across Institutional Barriers, is followed by "The Workshop Workers' Investigations" (Keith Forrester, Colin Thorne); "Urban Studies" (Julian Agyeman); "Economic Self-Management" (George Burt); "Adult Education and Librarians as Linkers" (Maj and Algar Klasson); "Adult Education for Popular Planning" (Titus Alexander); "Labour Market Training in Sweden" (Birgitta Thellman-Gustavson); "Participatory Action Research in Rural Chile" (Patricio Donoso); "Educating Adults as a Means towards Transforming Society: Some Lessons from Developmental Programmes in the 'Third World'" (Alan Rogers); and "Development of a Decision-Making Model for Cooperative Extension Participation in Community Issues Programmes" (David Deshler, Deborah Wood). Part 4 contains "The Peace Discussion" (David Waterman) and a "Response" (Piet Dijkstra). Appended are (1) a complete list and three-line summary of all papers given, and (2) a list of papers proposed but withdrawn. (YLB)