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The Flag On The Road Bruce Springsteen And The Live

New formations number 3 winter 1987 steve connor the flag on the road bruce springsteen and the live bruce springsteen and the e street band live/1975-1985, cbs 450227 4 (1986) the release of this monumental five-album live compilation confirms bruce springsteen as 'the boss', the dominating voice of us rock through the 1970s and 1980s. for this writer, the live recording is a derivation, or supplement to the original, so that whatever power it has must be 'assumed', but this supplementary power bruce s p r i n g s t e e n and the live 133 is given authority by being seen as original - so original, in fact, that it lies somewhere behind the studio versions, which only imperfectly repress the strength threatening to 'break out' of them.
New Formations Number 3 Winter 1987

The Impossible Object: Towards A Sociology Of The Sublime

1 taking advantage in what follows of the critical licence opened up within the post i shall move back and forth across this landscape mobilizing different kinds of knowledge, different voices, different kinds of writing, to reflect upon the provenance in the modern period of the idea of aesthetics and aesthetic judgement and to summarize two different but related critiques of the 'aesthetic': on the one hand, pierre bourdieu's work on the social origin and functions of aesthetic taste and, on the other, the postmodernist promotion, following nietzsche, of an 'anti-aesthetic' based on a rejection of the enlightenment idea(l) of beauty. 5 bourdieu has argued that it is only by understanding the social function of bourgeois and ostensibly anti-bourgeois, 'radical', avant-garde tastes that we can properly grasp the significance and the long-term effects of kant's work on aesthetics.13 for according to bourdieu, the pure aesthetic taste constitutes itself precisely in the refusal of impure taste and sensation, in the refusal of the 'vulgar' 'taste of the tongue, the palate and the throat'.
New Formations Number 1 Spring 1987

Does sex have a history? 'Women' and feminism

To put it all schematically: 'women' is historically and discursively constructed, always in relation to other categories which themselves change; 'women' is a volatile collectivity in which female persons can be very differently positioned so that the apparent continuity of the subject of 'women' isn't to be relied on; 'women' is both synchronically and diachronically erratic as a collectivity, while for the individual 'being a woman' is also inconstant and can't provide an ontological foundation; yet these instabilities of the category of 'women' are the sine qua non of feminism, which would otherwise be lost for an object, despoiled of a fight, and, in short, without any life. feminism and the identity of ' w o m e n ' the active status of woman has been proposed by some lacanian work,1 while others have argued that in the end sexual identities are nevertheless firmly secured by psychoanalysis.2 from the side of deconstruction, derrida among others has advanced what he calls the 'undecidability' of woman.3 i want to sidestep these arguments in order to move to the ground of historical construction, including the history of feminism itself, and suggest that not only 'woman' but also 'women' is troublesome, and that this extension of our suspicions is in the interests of feminism - that we can't bracket off the evident hysteria which has enthroned 'woman', whose capital letter alerts us to her dangers, and has also overshadowed the modest lower-case 'woman', while leaving unexamined the ordinary, innocent-sounding 'women'.
New Formations Number 1 Spring 1987

From Radicalism to Socialism - Paisley Engineers 1890-1920

parkhall, ibid, pp59-65. d gilmour, ibid, pp121 —2 gives an example of this when he tells how his father's involvement in the '93 movement rendered him an object of suspicion into the 1820s; j foster in class struggles, ibid, details its existence in oldham; f k donnelly and j l baxter, sheffield and the english revolutionary tradition, 1791-1820, international review of social history, volume 20,1975, does the same; while f k donnelly, ideology and early english working-class history, social history, volume 2,1976, gives examples of it for areas of england. the sources of this study are the minute body of the amalgamated society of engineers, paisley 2,1891-98; ase, paisley 3, 1827-1900; united machine workers' association, branch 67, 1907-20; society of amalgamated toolmakers, 1914-20; paisley trades and labour council 1909-20.
Socialist History Society Pamphlets From Radicalism to Socialism - Paisley Engineers 1890-1920

The Struggle against Fascism and War in Britain

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Socialist History Society Pamphlets The Struggle against Fascism and War in Britain

Problems of The German Anti-Fascist Resistance

now a v a i l a b l e reprint of no. 7 of "our history" "enclosure and population change" price 2s for further information, write to the secretary of the history group, t. ainley, 16 king street, london, w.c.2. problems of the german anti-fascist resistance, 1933- 1945 allen merson i. was there a german resistance? in most countries in which fascist regimes prevailed before and during the second world war, whether as native growths or as an aspect of foreign occupation, broad anti-fascist resistance movements developed and played an important role in the country's liberation. it is particularly necessary that this question should be asked, because the widespread tendency to underestimate the german resistance to fascism and the part played in it by the working-class has led to a dangerous underestimation, 'even among sympathisers, of the historical roots and the moral and political strength of the g.d.r. page the most influential accounts of the german resistance to appear in english have been versions of books by west german scholar, notably hans kothfels' the german opposition to hitler (1948, expanded l96l) and gerhard ritter's the german resistance (1958).
Socialist History Society Pamphlets Problems of The German Anti-Fascist Resistance

The Class Struggle in Local Affairs (part 1)

Justices of the peace, "who shall constitute a local board for the due performance of all local business, thus destroying that system of centralisation which has grown up" in this and other countries, and leaving the" assessment and levying of local taxation as well as the enforcement of education, of instruction, trade, and labour regulations, to be legislated upon by this local board of twelve magistrates. obstacles to local democracy there was more democracy in some local elections than in general elec-tions, for in the boroughs the municipal corporations act of 1835 had given the local vote to all ratepayers.
Socialist History Society Pamphlets The Class Struggle in Local Affairs

From Oldham to Bradford: the violence of the violated

from oldham to bradford: the violence of the violated by arun kundnani from april to july 2001, the northern english towns of oldham, burnley and bradford saw violent confrontations between young asians and the police, culminating in the clashes of 7–9 july in bradford in which 200 police officers were injured. And whereas the 1981 and 1985 uprisings against the police in brixton, handsworth, tottenham and toxteth had been the violence of a community united – black and white – in their anger at the ‘heavy manners’ of the police, the fires this time were lit by the youths of communities falling apart from within, as well as from without; youths whose violence was, therefore, all the more desparate.
Race & Class Articles From Oldham to Bradford: the violence of the violated

Paradigm lost? Youth and pop in the 90s

other 'death of pop' allegations have been aimed at cultural forms which have displaced pop's force, but dance music is different, because all of its offspring 182 techno, hard house, handbag house, ambient, hardcore, jungle, drum and bass, intelligent house, goa trance and what london's time out calls 'other moves and grooves' - are original musical forms. Britpop v dance is of little importance because both are on the same side: original 90s pop music by the young, for the young, against the aged voices of reaction who attack youth.
Soundings soundings issue 6 Summer 1997

Complexity, Contradictions, Creativity: Transitions in the Voluntary Sector

For the citizen in her daily life, the flows of information and lines of responsibility which run, for example, between local authority officials, voluntary organisations, joint planning mechanisms linking health and social services, local council social service committees, community health councils, with the addition of the various charters of user rights, and 184 complexity, contradictions, creativity finally the electoral process, are enormously complex and often messy. Soundings issue 4 autumn 1996 complexity, contradictions, creativity: transitions and the voluntary sector anne showstack sassoon voluntary organisations stitch together, often in contradictory ways, people, society and the state.
Soundings Issue 4, Autumn 1996

Inner City Mama - a talk with Neneh Cherry

growing up listening to salsa, latin music as well as reggae and then punk, you are one of the generation of people who can pull from and respond to world music in a comfortable way. Atellite andrea stuart talks to neneh cherry inner city mama for many women, the sight of neneh cherry in black leggings and matching top, grooving, hugely pregnant and totally sexy, on top of the pops, may well be remembered as the real start of the 1990s.
Marxism Today December 1989

You've Never Had It So Good - Again!

While nationalised industry, state planning and consumer aggregate demand were popular images of the consumer boom as a game of chance or wheel of fortune 31 marxism today may 1988 'advertisers and marketers are not simply the "slaves of capital", driven by the frantic search for markets' cornerstones of the economic theory and practice of consensus politics, there was little attempt to translate postwar macro-economic policy into a political vocabulary which tapped into people's imaginings of personal as well as social good. And if - and it's a big if- labour can begin to think through its economic policy in cultural terms, in images as much as policies that pull on the commonsense of choice, fulfilment and styles of life, it may indeed have the making of the big idea to challenge popular capitalism on its home ground.
Marxism Today May 1988

THE APARTHEID EFFECT Britain & South Africa - THE SOUTH AFRICAN CRISIS

In a country which has long found its own politics tired, stale and lacking in any it demands that white people play a supporting role while black people make history moral imperative, the momentous issues of freedom and repression being fought out in south africa allow british people a faint involvement in grand political passion. 6 august 1986 marxism today the south african crisis the apartheid effect britain & south africa sarah benton when it comes to south africa, thatcherism is isolated, beached, stranded.
Marxism Today August 1986

Males. Morals and Majorities - interview with Gloria Steinam

The context of a plan for coal, and the re- graham gudgin fuelling britain: the future of coal assurance that closures could be agreed with the unions under the industry's colliery review procedure were powerful influences leading to industrial harmony. The original target for the coal industry to break even by 1984/5 was forgotten, and the electricity industry was prevented from buying foreign coal.
Marxism Today June 1984

What has socialism to do with sexual equality?

None of the economic inequalities between women and men is particularly hard to explain, for whether we look at the sexual distribution of full-time and part-time employment, or the disproportionate number of women in jobs that require minimal training, or the difficulties women experience in reaching the higher levels on any career ladder, they all point to the unequal division of care work that requires so many women to interrupt their working lives, or opt for part time employment. i am not claiming that a more equitable distribution of care work between women and men resolves all problems of sexual inequality, for while i do see the sexual division of labour as crucial in sustaining sexual hierachies and oppressions, i would not want to present equality in employment and care work as the only feminist concern.
Soundings soundings issue 4 Autumn 1996

Complexity, contradictions, creativity: Transitions and the voluntary sector

For the citizen in her daily life, the flows of information and lines of responsibility which run, for example, between local authority officials, voluntary organisations, joint planning mechanisms linking health and social services, local council social service committees, community health councils, with the addition of the various charters of user rights, and 184 complexity, contradictions, creativity finally the electoral process, are enormously complex and often messy. Soundings issue 4 autumn 1996 complexity, contradictions, creativity: transitions and the voluntary sector anne showstack sassoon voluntary organisations stitch together, often in contradictory ways, people, society and the state.
Soundings soundings issue 4 Autumn 1996

Africa's National Congresses and the British Left

One important step in this direction would be the persuasion of the left of the labour party and the left outside the labour party that the sort of struggle which the africans of northern rhodesia or kenya are waging and in which they are gaining some measure of support from labour, is of central importance for british socialists. The new reasoner autumn 1957 number 2 africa africa's national congresses john rex and the british left two events of considerable importance have occurred recently which affect the relations between the british labour party and the congress organisations which are the main vehicles of political expression for the africans of east, central and south africa.
New Reasoner Autumn 1957 issue 2

The Three Ecologies: Translated By Chris Turner, Material Word

Thus traces of the story-teller cling to the story the way the handprints of the potter cling to the clay vessel.10 to bring into being worlds other than those of pure abstract information; to engender universes of reference and existential territories in which singularity and finitude are embraced by the multivalent logic of mental ecologies and the social-ecological group eros principle; to face up to a dizzying confrontation with the cosmos in order to make it in some way liveable; these are, in short, the intertwining paths of the triple ecological vision to which we should now turn all our attention. Capitalist societies - amongst which i include not only the western nations and japan, but also countries under socalled actually existing socialism as well as the new industrial nations of the third world - produce and deploy both types of subjectivity: the serial the three ecologies 14 subjectivity that is the province of the wage-earning classes and the immense mass of the 'insecure', and the elitist subjectivity of ruling social strata.
New Formations Number 8 Summer 1989

What Future for the Past in the New South Africa?

J. b. peires, the dead will arise: nongqawuse and the great xhosa cattle-killing movement of 18564857, ravan press, johannesburg 1989, pl2436 what future for the past in the new south africa? affair as a revolutionary war against the british, in which many xhosa retained a healthy scepticism towards the chiefs and the rulers of their own side. In discussion with the narrator, clara, a happy child of this future socialist society, expresses her disdain for the history books of the past, 'they were well enough for times when intelligent people had but little else in which they could take pleasure, and when they must supplement the sordid miseries of their own lives with imaginations of the 32 what future for the past in the new south africa? lives of other people.1 for william morris, one sign of a healthy society would be precisely its lack of interest in history.
Soundings Issue 14, Spring 2000

Angola under Attack: Watching the Revolution Being Taken Away

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.
Soundings Issue 7, Autumn 1997

After El Dorado: Alejo Carpentier'S The Lost Steps

The self-consciousness of his attempt to counter the colonizing march of his westernized imagination in 'the gran sabana: world of genesis' needs to be referred historically both to the earlier originary encounter of europe and america, and to europe's rediscovery of latin america in the twentieth century, particularly that of the 'ethnographic surrealists', as james clifford has called them, with whom carpentier had been involved in the late 1920s and early 1930s.7 in june 1931, he published an article in the cuban journal carteles entitled 'america before the young european literature', which presents extracts from the paris-based, spanish-language journal iman, of which carpentier had been editor-in-chief (the only number had appeared the year before).8 it gives the responses of philippe soupault, nino frank, georges ribemont-dessaignes, georges bataille, michel leiris, robert desnos and walter mehring to the questions: 'how do you imagine latin america? . . See also gonzalez echevarria, 'historia y alegoria en la narrativa de carpentier', cuadernos americanos, 1 (january-february, 1980), 200-20, which uses de man's distinction between symbol and allegory and auerbach's notion of figural new formations allegory to suggest that carpentier's unmasking of the interpretative act of narrating history is directed 'at the very mode of production of the novel'; and e. gonzalez, 'los pasos perdidos, el azar y la aventura', revista iberoamericana, 81 (octoberdecember, 1972), 585-613. 17 'the critical question about the ideological thrust of the novel and its expression in contrasting groups of characters is whether it is intended to be taken at face value, or whether it is meant to be read as indicative of the way the narrator (as distinct from the author) sees things', d. shaw, alejo carpentier (boston: twayne publishers, 1985), 45.
New Formations Number 6 Winter 1988

Islands Of Enchantment: Extracts From A Caribbean Travel Diary

The us navy owns 70 per cent of the island and uses much of it for target practice, thereby islands of e n c h a n t m e n t 89 poster for archaeological exhibition about vieques, held at the museum of the university of puerto rico, march-april 1983. The aim was to locate the cave where several of the most spectacular pieces of caribbean wood-carving were found in 1792, having presumably been hidden by their islands of e n c h a n t m e n t 85 arawakan wooden figure (jamaica, c. 15th century).
New Formations Number 3 Winter 1987

The Homeward Path: Fragments Of Journeys Into New Worlds

And throughout this drifting course, a figure was always carefully put on things: three girls met at the fountain on one of the juan fernandez islands, a peak ioo metres high scaled to gain a vast panoramic view of the pacific and the andes, which is itself also judged to be some fifty leagues in extent and is studded with twenty little islands; ten gourds to be earned in valparaiso to pay for a wedding to a fiancee who, during that time, died of leprosy; four whaling boats and twenty-four oars beating through the waves in an attack upon a whale whose blood spurted up in columns some fifteen to twenty feet in height; five inches of snow covering the hill from which the traveller attempted to view - with the temperature at 150 centigrade - the kamchatka landscape which was still plunged in the boreal night; four big black dogs pulling the funeral cortege of a native to the top of the same hill, four ship's biscuits shared by this sailor on shore leave for the funeral meal on the dead man's tomb; four kilometres covered in a dizzy five-minute downhill sleigh-ride to catch up with the unleashed dogs that had set off three minutes before; the yourt 100 square metres in volume his companions took him back to - a phalanstery with soot hanging in black stalactites where bear and otter-meat and grilled fish mingled with the odours of men, women, children, foxes, and dogs; eighteen polynesian canoes coming alongside the ship to propose the unacceptable barter of a cargo of coconuts for the kitchen utensils it was carrying; the exchange - this time accepted - of a french sailor picked up by an american whaler for an american sailor picked up by a french whaler; 467 francs brought back to granville as a prize for four years' peregrinations and reduced in one night to 13 francs by the obligatory coup de parlance. 41 what buchner sought to discover, no doubt, was how these dreams and grievances would go on to become, for instance, the feverish but undiscriminating desires of plebeian magdeleines who, like the grisette marion in danton's death, made no distinction between carnal sensuality and the pleasure of looking at holy images,42 or like the character marie, in woyzeck, to whom everything was indifferent, but not, however, the fine appearance of drum-majors or the sparkle of an earring in a sliver of broken mirror; no doubt, too, buchner was obsessed by how they would grow, for instance, into the superstition and dread felt by the soldier woyzeck in his desperate attempts to come to terms with his 'dual nature', with the noises he heard underground and thought were perhaps made by freemasons, or with the shapes he saw mushrooms make in the grass, or with the world itself as it seemingly went up in flames; and buchner saw them at work, too, in the stories which idiots told, or which were passed on by grandmothers, repeated in the patter of the fairground or in the barrel-organ tunes and entertainments of those artisans who 'pissed cross-wise so a jew might die'.
New Formations Number 3 Winter 1987

History and Social Structure on the East African Plateau

in the course of trying to find answers to such questions it may be found necessary to answer quite a few of the subordinate questions which marx raised;, even if he did not attempt to answer them all, in his "introduction to the critique of political economy": questions such as the role of trade and money in differently constituted agrarian societies (he instances the apparently contradictory features of, e.g. society in ancient peru)and the study of the whole range of individual societies, including the physical and geographical conditions of their existence, their relations and interactions with other societies, the development of communications, the role of accidents in history; in short, the entire complex of factors which have contributed to the merging of the histories of individual societies into world history in the course of time (l6). 288-9. (6) history of east africa l.c. (7) oliver, r: "the traditional histories of buganda, bunyoro and nkole (royal anthropological institute 1953)* page seven historians are still engaged in collating the various traditional histories of the peoples of the plateau with a view to arriving at a more precise time scale; but even without waiting for this difficult and complex work to reach a more mature state there are a number of useful lessons to be learnt about the structure of these societies from the picture the traditions give us of their development in the course of the generations.
Socialist History Society Pamphlets History and Social Structure on the East African Plateau

What future for the past in the new South Africa?

J. b. peires, the dead will arise: nongqawuse and the great xhosa cattle-killing movement of 18564857, ravan press, johannesburg 1989, pl2436 what future for the past in the new south africa? affair as a revolutionary war against the british, in which many xhosa retained a healthy scepticism towards the chiefs and the rulers of their own side. In discussion with the narrator, clara, a happy child of this future socialist society, expresses her disdain for the history books of the past, 'they were well enough for times when intelligent people had but little else in which they could take pleasure, and when they must supplement the sordid miseries of their own lives with imaginations of the 32 what future for the past in the new south africa? lives of other people.1 for william morris, one sign of a healthy society would be precisely its lack of interest in history.
Soundings soundings issue 14 Spring 2000