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Notes From France

in the swagbag of our lives there is hunger and misery the earth is just a big fairground each man must dig his own sweet hole the war’s got under way again all god’s little children were asleep a man alone can make a mistake but any crowd that surges forth has surely reason on its side the drum beats out the drum beats out and punctures early morning light 19  the drum beats out the drum beats out you go on marching, grit your teeth but never will you stop the tide. ” in his rewrite of marlowe’s “edward the second”, roger has composed a marching-song for the soldiers: the harvests of young men will be ample this year the wind which strokes a man’s temples has all the tenderness of death the war’s got under way again mixing flags in with flesh a man alone can make a mistake but any crowd that surges forth has surely reason on its side the drum beats out the drum beats out and punctures early morning

American Peace Movement

The shift of the locus of the movement to the academic-scientific community is indexed by the emergence of at least a half dozen major national faculty or scientific organisations, by the existence of over 35 research institutes on questions of war and peace, by the initiation of many college classes and seminars on peace, and bythe fact that at its peak the ranks of the peace movement included at least seven nobel prize winners in the natural sciences, the presidents of the american academy of arts and sciences, the american sociological association, and the american psychological association, and numerous other prominent academic figures. The peace movement was more critical for the emergence of a dissenting politics because the stands taken by the peace movement were at variance with the beliefs of the ‘“‘establishment,” the kennedy conversion perhaps the greatest paradox of the peace movement is that, just as it was achieving its great function of politically arousing the privatised progressives.

The English Gentleman

mr. raven’s own attitude to the gentleman idea comes when he says this :“true, it may sometimes have seemed that i was trying to indict the age for ruining the gentleman rather than the gentleman for being at odds with the age, and certainly i find much in modern life to detest. the eighteenth century - the gentleman further defined civility, good breeding, manners, control, self-discipline, scepticism, and pity, augustan pity - the essence of the gentleman - do not laugh at catholics or lower orders or foreigners - do not stir up trouble, but pour on plenty of oil, and if some bargee or ignorant fellow thinks himself as good as you, let him think that, pour on the oil and go your way, 10 do not cause trouble.

Imagination and Labour

The design of the machinery, the layout and beauty or ugliness of the factory, the noisiness of it, and, in the main, the speeds at which it works and the jobs to which a man is allotted, are outside the control of the individual worker; they are controlled by a set of men who themselves work in wholly different conditions - at their own speed, in light and quiet offices, doing non-routine jobs - and whose official duty under the present system does not include the transformation of their workers’ condition at the expense of their shareholders’ dividends and of their firms’ economic survival. E r c h a n t s turl street oxford only an advertisement 43884 telephone head office and cellars b road s t re e t • readi ng 40 p a g e w in e l i s t choosing your bank is much too im portant fr e e o n a step to take on the recom mendation of r eq u est an advertisement: you want something more than a bank’s good opinion of itself before you make your final selection.

The Foolish Virgins

Most people in cnd sensed the hollowness of the scarborough victory and though for a few months the main field of campaigning shifted back, as in 1958, to the labour movement, it was too late, and was responsible for the melting away of a lot of fringe support for cnd when, as at first seemed likely, the scarborough decision rooted the matter firmly back in the area of labour politics. The fact that the campaign to implement the scarborough decisions (the appeal for unity) was run on the dry, narrow (and now irrelevant) issue of the constitution and the authority of conference decisions, shows that the main strength of cnd is not in the labour party - otherwise the campaign would have been on foreign policy (especially non-alignment).

Approaches to Disarmament

Polaris is a symbol of a new turn the arms race is taking, in that it can be said of polaris with absolute scientific certainty that it is more likely to cause a war than to prevent one. Only when internal pressure for peace in the u.s. and russia is as strong as the war interests are at present, and only when the international pressure for disarmament, especially in the u.n., has begun to conquer the present international atmosphere of fear and distrust, will the abolition of nuclear weapons begin to seem possible.

Report from America

Bundy had also grasped a simple truth which, like many simple truths, eluded the academic liberals: while the campus debates may well establish i inereade ans eo orf demics and mcgeorge bundy’s high-handed reprimand to the washington university professors who originally proposed a public debate; then the state department’s truth squad; then johnson’s news conference pieties about open discussion and bundy’s agreement to debate in the national teach-in; finally bundy’s failure to provide any government replacement when he had to dash off and(fail to) resolve the dominican deadlock. I don’t mean to explain this, but to ask: how effective a surrogate? up until now (june, 1965) student and faculty opposition to the vietnamese war has taken two different and not entirely compatible forms: demonstrations, culminating in the sds*-sponsored march on washington of april 17, in which over 20,000 students participated ; discussions, culminating in the national teach-in of may 15, to which over 100 schools were tuned in.

Men Without Language

to the primitive men of the inheritors, language is a crude and difficult device, inadequate to the intensity of their ‘pictures’; for pincher martin, isolated on his rock, language is superfluous or unsatisfactory, remembered pieces of civilisation with which the dark centre tries to “net down’ its environment; on the island of lord of the flies, the breakdown of language, of argument and consultation, is the breakdown of a society; jocelin in the spire has his head full of a dazzling vision which crowds out ‘the world of routine communication. Because language is a social activity, the medium within which a man’s experience becomes intelligible to himself and to others, golding’s sharp division of private and public reality is cancelled: communication is not a line thrown wide from one private cell to another, but a common process of making and receiving meanings.

Politics of Adolescence?

For that reason, the emotional centre of the lives of young people falls outside of the school-walls, and school is seen as a barrier to "experience" (increasingly to be picked up on the streets and in the cafes), rather than the source of experience for young people. There must be something radically wrong with a working class party which can't recruit enthusiastic young working class people.

Hungary and Socialism

hungarian writers republic the decisive importance of the role played by the intellectuals in awakening the national conscience, both political and social, of the hungarian people could serve as a lesson to those revolutionary intellectuals all over the world, in whom stalinism encouraged a feeling of inferiority, vis-a-vis the working class, just as it also skilfully exploited the intellectuals' sense of responsibility (not to say culpability) for the downtrodden of bourgeois 6 in the italian, more complete edition of my book on the hungarian tragedy, angheria: 1945-1957. The majority of the world communist parties, with the soviet communist party at their head, have been reinforced by the hungarian revolt in their conviction that any liberty of discussion within the party must be severely limited if it is not to lead to the division and liquidation of the party.

Student Social Action

Student Social Action

Angola under attack

South africa's ten year old undeclared war with angola had the country on its knees, and the angolan authorities were deeply sceptical about western journalists, who mostly reported angola out of johannesburg, or through interviews with the fluent and media-friendly leader of unita, jonas savimbi, at his headquarters in south east angola, under the vigilant protection of the south african military; and none were allowed in except with a programme carefully controlled by the authorities. 143  soundings since independence from portugal in 1975 south africa had repeatedly invaded and occupied the southern provinces; a camp of swapo refugees, including many children, had been massacred from south african helicopter gun ships at kassinga; an anc teacher at the university of lubango, jeanette schoon, and her small daughter, had been assassinated by a south african letter bomb; tens of thousands of peasants had been killed, kidnapped, or driven from their villages by land mines - victims of unita terror tactics.

Little And Large

That, for example, the embryonic welsh state which exists in the welsh office with its cluster of dependent quangos should be controlled by the people of wales, not by t marxism today april 1989 'if we look across the channel, we can't stop looking until we see vladivostok'  the thirteenth state the abolition of internal frontier controls scheduled for 1992 will have very different meanings for the citizens of the 12 ec countries to those it will have for the 16m non-ec nationals lawfully residing in the community. For there is one glaring exception to a general trend - the separatist and authoritarian british state we live under, which marxism today april 1989 'we are in for great storms as 1992 approaches, frontiers start to dissolve and state sovereignty begins to become redundant'  is offering an increasingly determined resistance to a social europe, a real parliament for europe, a disarmed europe.

After The Accord

three days before the agreement was signed, thatcher told the official unionist mp, harold mccusker: 'negotiations are still underway with the government of the irish republic and the only result from them will, i assure the honourable gentleman, be in accordance with the rule that decisions north of the border will be taken by the united kingdom government and decisions south of the border will be taken by the dublin government'. The communique afterwards said: 'the conference agreed that the dreadful events of recent weeks underlined the urgent need to give new impetus to its work on a programme of special measures to improve relations between the security forces and the community in northern ireland and to build confidence in the administration of justice.' om king and the republic's foreign affairs minister, brian lenihan, were very positive about the meeting.

Jingles, Jangles DRAMA

the clues potter's hero comes up with about his own life are all to do with betrayal - his mother's sexual betrayal of his father, his own childhood betrayal of an innocent classmate, the betrayal that sent him away to strangers in wartime, his wife's suspected betrayal with a film producer, the likelihood of his betrayal as a writer if one of his novels about a detective who is also the national's on to a good thing with the appointment of richard eyre. Interviewed in this very periodical, (mt, august) the national theatre's director-in-waiting richard eyre argued that the whole thing had been much exaggerated; while trevor nunn, director or co-director of three of the top four (starlight express, cats and les miserables), mounted a highprofile defence of his musical work in a spirited piece in the guardian, arguing that, far from being a trivialisation or a travesty, his 'hugo' transformation had made a masterpiece accessible.

ACTT CIA Letters

with respect, rosie. dear red rag, i am putting together four or five pamphlets on the following subjects: 1) women’s poetry and short stories 2) women in judaism 3) women’s experiences with the medical pro­ fession (vd clinics, psychiatry and other). The agency’s main involve­ ment is in the us league of women voters, a powerful and conservative body of women, sufficiently influential to receive briefings on international women’s year from un officials.

Women in Chile

The statistics for 1970 show that:-  30 out of a population of about 5 million women, of whom 3.3 million were of working age, there were a total of 681,000 ‘working’ women, and of these: — 270,000 did domestic work (more than one third of the total 127,000 worked in public administration (mainly clerical) 97,000 worked in industry (see below) 53,000 worked in small business the main industries the women worked in were metallur­ gy, textiles, chemical and pharmaceutical, and the food industries). It is the women of the country, say the junta, who will rid the country of the evils of marxism; the women of the country who will support the curfew because it keeps their husbands at home and their families together; women, who if they are dutiful send their wedding rings to support the junta.

Brixton and After

Police stereotyping of black youth as criminals, the use of laws such as sus and the harassment and criminalisation of sections of the black community have been documented in studies by the institute of race relations police against black people and lambeth council's inquiry into the police. st paul's and brixton the centres of the revolts in st paul's and the railton road area of even more police were sent on to the streets, many with riot shields; brixton are where police confrontation with the black community is at the tube station was closed, buses halted and the whole area sealed off, its sharpest.

Ted Knight - interview

We should proceed to prepare our budget for next year on the basis that we are making no cuts; we should estimate the likely rate increase at 70% or higher; we should detail the cuts that would be required in order to bring down the rate increase to an acceptable figure (perhaps in line with the current rate of inflation); and that we should use that as a platform and as a basis for a campaign against the government over the next 2-3 months, and to demonstrate to the people of lambeth and to the government the importance of local government in lambeth by a week of industrial action in which we actually bring local government to a halt in lambeth. would have to work on others through their national organisations and we would be contacting other councils and their workers. What we have done in lambeth is to expose these limitations by the government, and we took a deliberate decision to enter a public debate with the government on this matter, because we felt that it was something that we needed to get across to the public — that we needed to get across actually to the labour party itself — that it wasn't possible to continue local government as we understood it and as the people of lambeth had come to understand it under the limitations that we're facing from central government.

ITALY AFTER BOLOGNA

These are: (1) to strengthen the unity of left wing forces, primarily the pci and psi, and of those forces with wide sectors of the productive middle classes and the catholic world; (2) to defeat the right wing line of the present christian democrat leadership; (3) to bring forward more and more the working class as the leading class, that is as the class positively capable, in present day conditions in italy and abroad, of showing the country as a whole the way out of the economic and moral crisis which threatens to suffocate it. the reappearance of fascist terrorism in such a serious form (and we must not forget that, again, unlike 'red' terrorism, it does not aim to arouse any sympathetic movement among the masses but aims instead to paralyse their reactions) points to the existence of a plan for an autocratic solution in italy which certainly has its 'brain' in important sectors of the ruling class, of the state and probably in the secret services, both in italy and of other countries.

Goodbye to Detente?

Whereas in its early years it depended for its very survival upon the support it received from the soviet foreign policy peace movements of other countries — and set great store by this — nowadays the soviet union places relatively greater reliance upon its in practice the soviet union has built socialism without peaceful own military and economic capabilities. the peace movement during the cold war there was some basis for a peace campaign based upon support for soviet foreign policy, because the soviet union was then actively campaigning for gcd and was not conducting a worldwide interventionist policy.

The Cruel Star

Everybody was asleep in our hut, the air was heavy with their snorts and groans, searching shafts pierced our windows intermittently like the flashing neon-lights of the great city, and i, tossing about, cold and sore, on my plank bed, thought of the future: to endure, to survive, because one day i must talk to irka's child and tell her everything. Woroszylski: the cruel star w. woroszylski the cruel star selected from w. woroszylski's the cruel star, warsaw, 1958.

Racial Fact and Fancy

there are of course, correlations between the size and shape of most parts of the body, and between sex and size (female skin colour too is rather lighter in at least some populations), we can say, then, that the various features in which individuals and populations differ are generally the door to studying small-scale evolution in proare now known—the blood groups and other biofrom view which we can study unprejudiced, and many of them showing contrasts between populations. A gene need increase the fitness of its carriers only marginally (either by improving the prospects for sur- vival or by increasing fertility) for it to oust an inferior form, in the same way theslightest advantage for the carriers of two forms of a gene (as in the sickle-cell case) will maintain both forms in the population indefinitely, when changes in disease or climate call for new forms of genes, conditions up to then rare, like albinism today, can rapidly increase through natural selection.

The Struggle for Humanity

He told me not to men- autumn/winter 1963 107 views no. 3  probeintellectually, without a trace of emotionalism, i could see that any concrete gains for the negroes would occur through purely economic pressure, negroes would be admitted to white schools because otherwise the desperately needed federal aid would not be forthcoming; negroes would be admitted to white restaurants because, while they were prostrate in the doorways, white patrons could not enter, and the proprietors lost money. It immediately labels its owner outsider and he is doomed, to the southerners a yankee opinion on the “niggra problem” is sheer impudence; they regard the family lives in a house the white man built for them on his land, because they are utterly dependent on the white man—it is not totally inaccurate to conclude that he, in a sense, owns them—they are quite understandably terrified of any disturbance that might provoke their em- emphatic “jolly good!”