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 7 days 12 january 1972 television______ _____________ i t’s t ___________ to: 19 great newport street, london, wc2 a gay manifesto 5p.

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th o u sa n d s m o re have discovered th a t g e ttin g a n y m o n e y o u t o f s u p p le m e n ta ry b e n e fits has involved g ru e lling a nd d e g ra din g inqu isitio ns, h o u r after h o u r o f w a itin g , and endless, p ry in g in to o n e ’s p riv a te life. O s ta l o r d e r p a y a b le to a n a n d a c e n tr e l td fo r £ : ...........................

International

the police story leaks on every side: technical details (no cry, no marks on the hands which are instinctively raised to protect the head, almost perpendicu­ lar trajectory, absence o f bleeding from nose or m outh, all factors which point to the fall o f an inanimate body rather than a suicide); contradictions between police and press timing o f the incident (the journalists w ho were on the spot g e r m a n y : police fight with red a rm y the management 7  7 days 15 december 1971 international 7 days 15 december 1971 international r ex italy: pinelli assassinato v alpred a innocente by terzo fabbri today italy celebrates tw o sordid anniversaries: the arrest o f pietro valpreda (december 15 1969) and the police-murder of pino pinelli (december 1 5 /1 6 , 1969).

Arts

nightclubs and sophisticates race records and rack jobbers b. b. king is heir to a rich legacy of after american audiences discovered blues, b. b. king went on to enjoy a the blues tradition which began its success far beyond that achieved by history as recorded music in 1920. charles sawyer is currently working on a book on b. b. king to be published in the spring by november books ltd. — tentative title — the arrival of b. b. king.

Levers

" as he said this, he seemed to be pressing the switch of a magi mechanism : everything in the room began to be transformed beyond recognition - the people, the objects and even, it seemed, the air shchukin and konoplev noiselessly moved away from the table peter kuzmich remained in his seat The gist of his report was that the district would doubt their ability and efficiency to fight for the party line of the kolkhoz crop rotation plan for next year was not amended immediately and unreservedly in accordance with the in structions of the district committee and the district e.c.

Beyond Ideology

The new constituent elements included universal suffrage, education in state schools, the given that by politics we understand the activity of the state and of people in relation to the state, the thing that stands between politics on the secret ballot, the legalisation of the strike, recruitment of the civil service by competitive examina- tion, the reconstruction of local government, the provincial universities, new advances in the eman- one hand, and industry and science on the other, is social structure and function. The main killing area at the momentis laos, but when the crisis season opens again in the autumn whois to say where the war will in total war mass co-operation is essential and the flattening of the pyramid in two wars has therefore twice brought about a situation in which the organised agencies of mass opinion—hitherto extend to next? regarded as outside the pale—have either become this analysis of the situation provides an intelligible and principled foundation for new thinking and unprecedented action.

Special Feature

I l f o r t h e w e lf a r e o f im m ig r a n t s n e e d s h e lp e r s to a s s is t ch a rg e any in it s w o r k . A s e o f f ic e 7 2 7 8 6 3 6 m a tte rs r elea se e m e r g e n c y 6 0 3 8 6 5 4 (2 4 h rs) support r elea s e b efo r e 2 4 h o u r r e g is t e r

Home News:

london prompting but by tuesday october 19 it had become clear that the original prompting had come from london: the irish times were told by dutch police on monday that the “original inspiration” had come from the special branch in london; moreover while on the saturday the dutch police said they had “good reason to believe these arms were destined for the ira” by monday dutch police chief major erik gerritsen stated that special branch envoy winslow had failed to convince him that there was any connection with the ira. Home news 7 days 27 october 1971 camera press after ten days of lies a nd planted stories 7 d a y s exposes the fraud of the amsterdam arm s haul it is now clear that the dramatic “dis­ covery” of 116 crates of czech arms at amsterdam airport on october 16 was a hoax, set up by the foreign office and the special branch to whip up an anti-ira scare and add some substance to their faltering campaign against the 105 russian “spies”.

Other Views

There has been a certain amount of deliberate confusion here, in labour’s arguments, and, worse, some evidence of choice of this group as an electoral image, whatever 14 labour government, but for an increase of political activity, in the labour movement, which would be capable of helping the government—itself not strategy be “incorporated into a socialist base” are specifically, the appeal connected with the white not merely likely to be set on “‘a firmly individualist collar workers, the lower-middle class whose claim course” if the government takes the wrong kind of to educational and social opportunity has been legitimised by the gradual acceptance of ability as the action; they were on that course as long ago as the criterion for individual mobility.

Cinema/Americanism/The Robot

This would require a new reason, not the instrumental reason of utility and the machine as tool but, we might speculate, an ornamental reason in which the 'magic force' of the tiller girls (no longer girls) was directed to a new form of mass art (for mass art's sake) with the same technical and formal rigour but with a re-situated hedonism and transformed eroticism. Fundamentally, mcluhan, like huxley or celine, was an opponent of fordism who saw, in the advent of the new electronic technology of the media, the possibility of superseding it and reconstructing, on a new basis, the old pre-fordist (indeed, pre-gutenberg) 'community' in the form of the 'global village'.

University Society

Student Social Action

Altered Images

As independent film-maker mandy rose has pointed out: 'although porn is in many ways flawed, and particularly for women, the fact is that porn is the only sphere that exists for a non-moralistic exploration of women's sexual fantasy and desire.' to remove all depictions of sexuality would effectively return us to an era of repressed morality. 25 marxism today november 1988  'page three, sunday sport and the sport draw on a long and british tradition of smut: the sexual innuendo and titillation of the schoolboy joke' despite an array of viewpoints, and seven years after its publication, andrea dworkin's pornography: men possessing women still sets the main agenda for feminist discourse.

Green Alert

The everyday aerosol can was abruptly implicated in the integrity of the stratosphere and its global green alert prolonged drought in the american midwest has unleashed a new wave of speculation and concern about global warming, the result of the 'greenhouse effect'. Jean palutikof discusses the possible implications of the greenhouse effect and assesses some of the ways the problem might be solved what is the result of increasing the tropospheric concentration of a gas which selectively absorbs long wave radiation but is transparent to short wave radiation arriving from the sun?

Camp War

Women's aid federation, rape crisis centres, wav aw (women against violence against women), the glc women's committee, rights of women and a number of black women's groups, have all suffered from the attentions of women from the king's cross centre. recently, a group of women from the king's cross women's centre in london has established a presence at greenham's yellow gate.

JESSE JACKSON

6 march 1986 marxism today jesse jackson stuart hall interviews america's leading black politician former martin luther king lieutenant and civil rights organiser, reverend jesse jackson was active in equal rights, vote registration and affirmative action campaigns before emerging in 1984, from a host of possibles, as the first black presidential candidate. They would not force you to stick to african policy, yet one of the great centres of african people - afro-american people - in the western world, is new york.

Whole Volume

Son image dans des differents milieux sociaux, by chombart de lauwe and others: to show how the discrimination against wo­ men relates to racial discrimination in the united states, a comparison may be made of the following figures for average annual income, taking the white man as 100%: white men........................................ 100% black men.......................... 63% white women............................... 59% black women............................... 42% (statistics from the labour department of the united states 1965) b) by assigning to women those tasks in produc­ tion which are considered to be ‘light’, to justify the working women’s obligation to continue replac­ ing labour power in the home on returning from the factory. the root causes of women’s oppression may be summed up as follows: a) the original economic necessity for the pri­ vate replacement of labour power, b) the division of labour between the sexes which obliges women to shoulder the responsibility of invisible labour, c) the consequent development of a hidden sex ideology which deforms our ideas of what men and women should do in life.

Letters Notices

women’s information, referral & enquiry service wires, a national information service, was set up in leeds in october to inform women of the activities of the women’s liberation movement in britain. finally we do not believe that the cp was really the point - the point about the conflict and falterings on red rag was as much to do with the tension that exists for many non-aligned socialist feminists about both their individual connection to socialism and to class, and also about something which is a problem for us all: the movement’s connection to socialist politics in britain. val adah bea a womens liberation magazine spare spare rib subscription rates for 1 year: uk £4.44; europe — £5.00; elsewhere seamail — $12.00; elsewhere air­ mail - $20.00 subscriptions, c/o rib publications distribution linda phillips, 114 george street.

Rag Bag

pluto 1976 big red diary an illustrated political diary this year it records women in history, women at home, and women at work, in words and pictures £1 from hookshops post free direct from pluto press unit 10 spencer court. The slogan, ‘men and women are equal; whatever men can do, women can do’ expresses itself directly in changes in women’s participation in production (heroines’ brigades) and in the creation of the conditions for equality.

Quick Reviews

pluto 1976 big red diary an illustrated political diary this year it records women in history, women at home, and women at work, in words and pictures £1 from hookshops post free direct from pluto press unit 10 spencer court. The slogan, ‘men and women are equal; whatever men can do, women can do’ expresses itself directly in changes in women’s participation in production (heroines’ brigades) and in the creation of the conditions for equality.

Union notes

Per­ haps in the last analysis, because so many women were writing things, it was decided optimistically to go on with another conference without really considering who such conferences were designed for—women in the movement or all socialist women, what role such conferences had with­ in the movement, eg whether the conference was to be like a school or whether it had any organisational function, and finally from that how the conference itself should be structured. three and a half years later ruskin organised another conference on women—this time on women’s history—and what came out of that was the first meeting of women historians, a feminist conference organised in london, an assertion of autonomy from history as written by men.

Moving on

consciousness-raising groups (cr groups) the most important function of cr-groups has been bringing women together — out of individual isolation into a conscious­ ness of women as a social group. women’s centers women’s centers have served as a public place for women to gather and as a visible expression of the movement.

Playgroup Politics

RED RAG

Growing Greens

The conventional wisdom of mainstream politics was that, with the onset of economic recession, individual material interests would reassert their precedence over the  greenpeace & green politics 'luxury' of environmental concern. The royal commission on trated by established conservationist sir environmental pollution's recommendapeter scott's launch of greenpeace's new tion for a new coordinated pollution antarctic campaign ship in july.

SPECIAL FEATURE

name______________________________ destination required___________ 280 old brompton rd. sw5, tel. history workshop 6 childhood in history: children’s liberation may 5 t o f riday evening 7.30 -9 .3 0 p m christopher searle (tower hamlets) dave douglass (ruskin) derek blunn (ruskin) may 7 ru skin co lleg e. o x fo r d divide and rule: english e d u c atio n and the w orking class divide and school c’ stream at wardley selection and authority friday evening 9.30-11 pm h istory w orkshop t h e a tre kathy hodgkin (star cross primary school, islington) the overseers produced by mike rosen david selbourne (ruskin) three class plays produced by robert walker s aturday m orning 10am -l pm peter burke (sussex university) peter wollen (ladbroke grove) t he c u lt o f the child origins of the idea of childhood toys saturday a fte rn o o n 2-4.15 pm the a thompson (essex) paul thompson (essex university) mike fit7.gibbon (ruskin) t he fam ily child rearing in edwardian england at war with adults seventy years ago growing up in the blitz s aturday a fte rn o o n 2 -4 .1 5 pm t h e fam ily (alternative session) laura mulvey (womens lib.

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