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The idea that the world appears to us as it does on ly as a result o f a long process o f integrating various form s o f thinking about the w orld into a single fabric o f language, and that this fabric may have to be torn apart to allow new conceptions to develop, has never been heard o f in those bastions o f reaction. t w o o f the best known o f these pieces are micro i — in which a large sheet o f paper is wrapped in a has ceased to expand, and no longer offers apparently unlimited oppor­ tunities to bright young men and women, and is — as a list published in urinal shows — not renewing the contracts o f a good number o f them.

Life:

This included, for example, workers’ control of produc­ tion (as distinct from mere ‘representation’ on phoney factory councils); greater popular control of government, through referenda and ‘direct action against bureaucracy’; ‘democratisation of the mass media’; an end to élitism by drastic reform of the educational system; and — in general — ‘power to the people’ in every available form, which naturally entails a somewhat revised concept of political leadership (‘rather more in the moses tradition’) aiming ‘to create the conditions that will allow the people to do it themselves’. The statesman concluded its broodings by saying: ‘unless a totally new line of thinking, a totally new defiance of myths and illusions, and a totally new determination are grafted on to the ageing frame o f the labour party, that will be the end of that’.

Capitalism:

(wlg also recently set up another investment bank with various inter­ national groups including the royal bank of canada, the rockefellercontrolled chase manhattan bank, and the national westminster bank: this investment bank has also been linked in rumour with the bastogi takeover) michele sindona michele sindona, the financier in the bastogi case is an intimate associate of hambros; he has assisted many foreign firms, including hambros, to buy ‘interests’ in italian business, and his recent successes include selling much of a large property company owned by the vatican to the american cinema con­ glomerate gulf and western. Huge sections of industrial enterprises italian industry and finance are german if the bastogi affair does not reach a now controlled by the govern­ satisfactory conclusion, the ‘inter­ ment: the state-owned holding national group’ involved will pre­ company iri is the largest sumably remain anonymous, at least national enterprise outside the us, until the next round of public ta eland bigger than any industrial firm overs.

Industry:

(wlg also recently set up another investment bank with various inter­ national groups including the royal bank of canada, the rockefellercontrolled chase manhattan bank, and the national westminster bank: this investment bank has also been linked in rumour with the bastogi takeover) michele sindona michele sindona, the financier in the bastogi case is an intimate associate of hambros; he has assisted many foreign firms, including hambros, to buy ‘interests’ in italian business, and his recent successes include selling much of a large property company owned by the vatican to the american cinema con­ glomerate gulf and western. Hambros have said that they do not want to buy bastogi; in any case, the cost of the bastogi shares requested by the international group was £36 million, while hambros bank, although the largest british merchant bank, made (on their most recent public figures) a total annual profit of £ 21/2million.

Shadows

and ben, though hip, becomes a meaningless unexplainable set of respones, a sealed-off symptom with no explanations, because cassavetes did not understand that you cannot be hip without living hip, that you cannot assume hip like the latest in pose or attitude, that hip is a language, a rhythm, a way of life that springs out of action, out of the doing. ben’s repetition of tony’s words both intensifies and mocks what tony says, and the slow smile on ben’s face, that builds as he closes the door until it bursts into humor as he turns toward his brother, releases the tension that has flickered in them in their contempt for tony’s posturing.

Vietnam

the viet minh the french attempt to re-establish their colonial power over the next 84 years revealed two things; the pre-eminence of the viet minh as leaders of the anti-colonial struggle and the strengthening of the viet minh despite all attempts by the french to subvert their political support by military means. by continuing the war they risked losing the considerable economic interests they still had in vietnam, particularly direct investment, while in europe the pressures for german re-armament and capital for the re-building of the french economy made the continuation of war in vietnam even less of a priority, the french therefore agreed with britain that indo-china should be put on the agenda of the geneva conference along with korea.

Reviews

By making ‘liberal’ and ‘humane’ or ‘humanly relevant’ almost interchangeable terms, by stressing an explo ratory openness as a defining element in liberalism, anyth ing short of fascist or totaliy dogmatic writing caa be neatly included in the liberal camp, and life, liberalism and literature identified; by seeing the need for a deep renewal of liberalism as part of a genuine liberal stance , radical criticism can be absorbed and interpreted as a salutary aid towards the new liberalism, and assaul ts on the ideological bases of liberalism subtly deflec ted into helpful checks or counterbalances; by embracing all the left-wing virtues when safely abstracted from actual historical contexts and making left-wing analyses from a conservative centre, criticism can be confused. r4 <) 1965-66 series: <) g 4 orientations <) 4 ~) ¢) coming dates: <) g <) g cc <) s$ s) sy) ¢) ¢) <) g psychology <) <) sy) g yy <) g y j) gy y <) <) <4 <) 4 <) <) <) <) =) 4 <) drama december 9 — david mercer — ‘a suitable case for drama’ therapeutic communities january 6 — david cooper — ‘the transformation of the mental hospital’ < <) sy) y ~ <) <) 4 ¢) y 4 <4 g q q g xy s ¢) writing january 20 — clancy sigal — ‘the writer, commitment, and moon mullins’ thursdaysat 8.30 p.m. <) g <) <) 4 s kingsley hall, powis road, bow, e.3 (bromley underground) <) 4 <} = <) admission — § shillings <) <) sg <) 9 vv yvvyyvyvy pov vv vv

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world of personal love and sorrow is all of a piece with the world of social feeling: the common line reminds us that the loyalties and ties of love are socially determined, as well as showing that auden’s auden’s availability of feeling, and his ability to enact and image it in an unabstract fashion, indeed making good his appreciation of clio as the ‘muse of the unique historical fact’, is bigger than any of the causes and ideologies of party, has survived events and conversions, has linked the personal, the social and the religious feeling. in his book an existentialist theology, a seminal comparison of heidegger and the german theologian bultmann, prof. macquarrie suggested that ‘the secular and even atheistic existentalism of the twentieth century with its insistence on the long neglected phenomenaof fallenness, death, care and guilt, and its quest for an authentic existence, is nothing other than a partial rediscovery of some aspects at least of the biblical understanding of the christian concern for love, brotherhood, equality, the building of community in the world seems rarely in this century to have escaped its traditional polarisa- man.’ and, even on the showing of his own work alone, one tion into the immediately personal levels of individual out; the biblical understanding of man was insistently that of man in community.

Reviews

The long term moral aspirations of marx, of professor ginsberg, of hobhouse, and one might add, of adam smith, all fall within approximately the same range; a social science making possible the rational control of the environment is a moral demand central to them all; all too share the emphasis on individual responsibility and development, the "leap from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom", which is designated by professor ginsberg in the idea of "self-direction". What mr. lowenthal is anxious to prove is that not merely considerations of defence against russian aggression require the preservation of the alliance between britain and the united states, but that in being opposed to soviet communism the labour party must be committed to a close association with american capitalism.

Encounters

in the women’s movement, the ‘more-feminist-than-thou’ accusation that lesbian separatism has directed at hetero­ sexual women has caused many women to collude with essen­ a seventh demand at the south west regional women’s liberation conference in january, a workshop was introduced jointly by members of bristol women’s aid and anti-rape group. Sexuality is politics at its most general; sexual oppres­ sion, including violence, is perpetuated through pervasive social practices, pre-rational, ‘common-sense’ notions which assume certain ‘natural’ dynamics in social relationships between men and women, although of course it is reinforced by laws and state institutions.

Abortion

Since then the women’s abortion and contracep­ tive campaign (wacc) and the women’s right to choose campaign (wrtc) of the abortion law reform associa­ tion (alra) have also affiliated. the anti-abortionists’ argument, posed both in the emo­ tive terms relating to abuses of the nhs and the 1967 act, is pervaded by the notion that women don’t know their own minds: ‘the pro-abortionists speak of women’s rights; the anti-abortionists of women’s needs’.

Editorial

RED RAG

LIFE

k in g s h e a d t h e a t r e c l u b 226 1916 john g rillo's m is t e r b ic k e r s t D c a t a d v e n t u r e t r e k s 10 days camping in scottish highlands.

Arts

Mayakovsky’s agency, rosta, when he toured the story and tragedy concerns the special soviet union giving unprecedented historical relation which existed public poetry readings to large between him and the russian language. Although it seems ironic that the programme does not include any of the newsreel films on community politics or black peoples struggle (for instance ‘the young lords’, ‘the black panthers’, ‘community control’, ‘child care: people’s liberation’, ‘high school rising’, ‘the meat co-op’) the films are certainly worth seeing as represen­ tative of important aspects of what newsreel stands for.

HOME

Mike was appearing before judge macleay to appeal agains a deportation order, but the judge refused to listen to the case, and told mike to take his appeal to another court, after the hearing special branch officers let by the notorious habershon, who has been chiefly responsible for bringing alleged members of the angry brigade to trial, swooped on mike before he was even out of the building. On the ruins of fascist west germany the americans built a state that would stand firm in the front line of the cold war: the socialist and communist lefts were harassed and disqualified by the us occupation forces; the bruised but still vital bourgeoisie were given huge sums of money (marshall aid) and encouraged to create a new set of conservative political institutions (the christian democrats); and many old nazis were kept in office to serve their new continued on page 4 15 march 1972 might argue wouldn’t be won.

SPORT

A y march 10___________________ c a r d iff : public teach-in on n orth­ ern ireland, (fri, sat, sun.) See events/ th u r s d a y march 9 ______________ manchester: south manchester claimants union weekly meeting, 1.30pm, nello james centre, 136 withington rd., manchester 16 w ig an : international socialists public meeting on ir ela n d .

INTERNATIONAL

T h e l a s t t h r e e y e a r s h a v e s e e n r e c To say that assessing china’s general line: china’s the chinese have a different foreign analysis of the current world situation policy now from what they had during as a whole and of the policies to be the cultural revolution is not in itself a pursued in the current situation.

IDEAS

mao’s political practice too was based both on a general economic analysis of china’s position as a semi-feudal, semi-colonial country but also on an insistence on analysis of each specific situation in its concrete conditions, understanding “what specific position each aspect of a contradiction occupies, what concrete forms it assumes in its interdependence and in its contradiction with its opposite, and what concrete methods are em­ ployed in the struggle with its opposite, when the two are both interdependent and in contradiction, and also after the interdependence breaks down. In 1914, when he was asked to write an encyclopaedia article on marx, lenin read hegel’s logic and noted: “aphorism: it is impossible completely to understand marx’s capital, and especially its first chapter, without having thoroughly studied and understood the whole of hegel’s logic. ”

LIFE

__________________ read.  7 days 23 february 1972 tom woolley a l l p h o to g r a p h s b y t o m w o o lle y tenants fight council housing allocations glasgow tenement housing red road flats, glasgow.

INTERNATIONAL

7 days 23 february 1972 india: end of the naxalites biplap das gupta he naxalite move­ ment began in early 1967 when some members of the communist party of india (marxist) (cpi(m)) defected from the parent party and formed an organisation which owed allegi­ ance to the thoughts of chairman mao and believed firmly that the conditions were suitable for im m ediately launching an armed struggle in india. chinese support for yahya khan’s military junta against the freedom fighters of bangla desh, the chinese silence about the atrocities committed by the pakistan army during march— december, 1971, and then the modifica­ tions in the chinese policy towards united states imperialism, all these raised serious doubts in the minds of many young naxalites about the validity of their uncritical allegiance to china’s leadership.

ARTS

L t d p r e s e n t s " r o l l e r d e r b y ' a jerry seltzer-michael hamilburg film presentation r o l l e r d e r b y charlie o'connell and all the other stars of roller derby mike snell christina snell butch snell his lather, and his inends executive producer l. s. fields producer william richert director robert kaylor in colour christine, “but it was worth it” . following panther spokesmen, huey newton, bobby seale and eldridge cleaver, emphasis lies on political work in the penal institution precisely because the peoples’ incarceration there is the outcome of racism and repression; not just because racist police go out of angela davis: p o rtra it of a r evo lu tio n ary a со-featuring w ith donald shebib's g o in ’ dow n th e r o a d x opens thursday, 17th february, at the venus cinema (4 8 5 8 0 8 0 ) bartholomew tow n r o a d ,off k e n t is h kentish town 22 road n.w.1.

LIFE

The cobden report con­ cluded that without legal representa­ tion, a suspect who had been remanded in custody was better off not appealing against the decision of a magistrate after all, he could only be remanded for 8 days, and he stood more chance of getting bail on a second appearance in court if the magistrate wasn’t already prejudiced by a judge in chambers quashing his appeal. They have produced the first issue of a duplicated magazine ‘people’s defence’ which documents local cases of police aggression and harassment, including the mangrove n the grim, stuffy court one nine trial and the further charges o f marylebone magistrate’s against roddy kentish and rhodan court last thursday and fri­ gordon (two of the nine).

INTERNATIONAL

(6) the anti-us national resistance of the vietnamese and indochinese peoples is not only aimed at protecting their basic national rights, but is also of great international significance as a positive contribution towards the destruction of the us imperialists’ counter-revolutionary global strategy and nixon’s doctrine; as a contribution in blood and bones to the defence of the socialist system; as encouragement to the national liberation movement of the asian, african, latin american and oceanic peoples; and as a safeguard to peace and democracy in the world. after world war two the us imperialists implemented an extremely reactionary, global strategy aimed at undermining the socialist system, at repressing the communists and inter­ national workers’ movements, the national liberation movement and the democratic movement, at sabotaging peace, at carrying out us neo­ colonialism, at preparing for a new world war and at ruling the world.

ARTS

It’s known as the responsibility of knowledge, so don’t tell me about love and hate, tell me about freedom, tell me about struggle, tell me how i can make my people just a little bit happier and freer, tell me where i can get some money to buy guns and food for my people, tell me where i can beg for it, tell me where i can steal it, tell me how i can ease their pain, tell me how i can ease their suffering, tell me how i can break the whip, tell me how i can stop the hand, tell me how to stop the indifference that makes men turn on their fellow men with such utter disregard for basic human feelings, them you will know the meaning of the word soul, then you will know the meaning and the feeling of the word brother, then you will know the meaning and the feeling of the word love . . . telephone 01 734 4344______________________ assoc.

ARTS

groups disco lightshow licensed bar in t e r n a t io n a l m a r x is t saturday january 29, 1972 r eview no. 2 contains: the end of from 8 p.m. to midnight american dominance — the devaluation hammersmith town hall of the dollar. f l y in g к l ig h t r em o v a ls , trans port, deliveries 01-348 0944 gentle ghost r e m o v a l s '.