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Whose Right To Life A Roundtable Discussion

The latest, the alton bill, has its second reading in the house of commons later this month the participants in the roundtable are: teresa gorman, conservative mp for billericay; jo richardson, labour mp and shadow minister for women; wendy savage, senior lecturer in obstetrics and gynaecology at the london hospital; and jane woddis, birmingham co-ordinator of fight the alton bill campaign and member of the communist party national women's committee. While well-off women could get an abortion and always will, poorer women had to resort to jumping on and off the table, having drunk a bottle of gin, or worse, knitting needles... t e r e s a it is very serious because you can see in the house fairly popular measures, such as sunday trading, 19 marxism today being defeated by organised and very successful lobbies representing a minority.

KILLING TIME Life on the Assembly Line

The older black women seemed to trundle on all day, but us younger ones would try to go to the loo, not in the breaktime, to give a couple of minutes, and be overjoyed if we were stopped work for a few minutes or a light was missed. Last nights telly was pulled apart, then it got onto general issues - what age was best for marriage, having children, what to let men get away with, and when to put your foot down, a lot about contraception and questions about whether or not you should have an abortion if you are married, and stories about what had happened at doctors or family planning clinic.

What is Definitely Not to be Done

 15 spot the difference puzzle answer oniiaaw her husband ivdiulod is at avpolitical iv si un1v8st1h meeting nth equal pay is only one of many issues on which the trade union movement has failed to fight for women: child care faci­ lities, equal opportunity for training and promotion, abolition of ‘men only’ jobs and restriction of women to ‘women’s work’, equal pension rights-all these and more must be won before women can enjoy any semblance of parity with men in industry. but since the working class is divided, this essential function in no way rules out the necessity of parallel organisations among other sections of the working class with special interests in need of protec­ tion: claimants unions among the wageless, women’s liberation groups among women and the black liberation movement among black people.

A BIT OF UPLIFT TUTUS AND TIGHTS

Classical ballet celebrates the potential harmony of the human body, the utopian ideal of collective endeavour, the a bit of uplift tutus and tights richard dyer possibility of the interchange between the sexes of human qualities we now label masculine or feminine. going to evening classes to learn classical ballet convinced me of the value of ballet.

Michael Jackson THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST?

We find president reagan (somewhat unsurely) extolling michael's temperance, jesse jackson fluctuating between public support and grudging toleration, whilst his aide louis farrakhan castigates michael for his 'sissified' influence on black youth. As charles chaplin embodied 'charlie' the endearing ingenue and 'chaplin' the obsessive businessman, today we are fascinated by the et naivete of gifted michael whilst hearing of the calculating commercial acumen of jackson the dollar multi-millionaire.

WAYS OF WITNESSING Interview with John Berger

36 december 1984 marxism today ways of witnessing interview with john berger john berger's writings on art have fundamentally changed the way we see painting and sculpture. His new book and our faces, my heart, brief as photos will surprise many with its personal and poetic treatment of love, time and displacement.

Interview with David Yip The Chinese Detective

October 1983 marxism today 19 interview with david yip the chinese detective interview by alan clarke how did the idea of the chinese detective come about? I mean whether you do two or three series i'm now the chinese detective actors do — that they can go for months, years in fact taking small parts and then something huge comes along because a writer has either written a part which suits them down to the ground or some enlightened director has given them a lead.

Campaigning Against the Cuts - the South Yorkshire experience

In part this stems from the self-confidence of a powerful labour movement so sure of its own strength that it under-rates the importance of allies; in part it stems from a kind of 'labour party sectarianism' — an anxiety to assert labour party hegemony over the movement. Labour councillor george wilson, leader of sheffield council, had made a statement supporting a proposal from another labour councillor, peter price, to the effect that, if sheffield council had to cut anywhere, it would make its cuts  16 february 1980 marxism today in the one part of sheffield that had registered a tory majority in the election.

Heroines: black skin, blue Eyes and muslin

Heroines: black skin, blue Eyes and muslin Becky Hall Becky

Making spaces or, geography is political too

a place of their own: geography and the middle class power over space and place is, then, a major weapon in the negotiation of today's world. whatever one's view on international migration, it is difficult to base it on any 1. 1 came across this story in russell king, 'migrations.globalisation and place', in d. massey and p. jess (eds), a place in the world?: places, cultures and globalisation, the open university with oxford university press, oxford 1995, pp5-44 193  soundings simple notion of inalienable rights.

The National and International Significance of the Adenauer policy

I s h a n d c o n t i n e n t a l cuisine q u i c k s e r v i c e p a r t i e s r e s t a u r a n t 12 n o on to o p e n 3 p.m. and 5 . Its members are international fascism doing organized youth work; with holiday camps (17 youth even people who deal with the problem of german neocamps in 1959); etc. in the above-mentioned publication mr. gnielka writes: fascism very thoroughly seldom realise that most of these “the number of radical fascist organizations, groups and movements are in a very well-organized network of fascist societies has become immense since the removal of the obligation groups in other countries as well.

Reimagining the Inhuman City: The 'Pure Genius' Land Occupation

processes which he conceived of this as a right to direct and internalise the shape the character and direction of the city spacial inequality of through forms of participation and appropriation cities' which are distinct from, and transcend, the right to property and the right merely to visit the city.9 expelled from the centrality of the city by the omnipresent walls of property and the enclosure of public spaces, and also expelled intellectually and symbolically from the representations of the city which pervade and structure official decision-making processes, marginalised groups find their ability to form this 'meandering cry and demand' crushed. the argument of gramsci, that advanced capitalist societies depend for their legitimacy on the 'spontaneous consent given by the great masses of the population to the general direction imposed on social life by the dominant fundamental group' can inform our ways of thinking about how social/political movements can challenge and reshape this direction.3 dominant groups elicit this 'spontaneous consent' by constructing hegemonic power relations which, through a complex interlocking of political, social and cultural forces, diffuse their own lived system of meanings and values throughout the whole of social life.

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.

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.

The Content And Discontents Of Kipling'S Imperialism

4 among the studies which appeared in the mid-1960s were andrew rutherford (ed.), kipling's mind and art (1964), j. i. m. stewart, rudyard kipling (london: gollancz, 1966), c. a. bodelsen, aspects of kipling's art (manchester: manchester university press, 1964), alan sandison, the wheel of empire (london: macmillan, 1967), louis l. cornell, kipling in india (london: macmillan, 1966), bonamy dobree, rudyard kipling: realist and fabulist (oxford: oxford university press, 1967), t. r. henn, kipling (edinburgh: oliver & boyd, 1967). The foremost exponent of this view is alan sandison who argues that empire for kipling was simply a 'place des signes', his real concern being with 'man's essential estrangement, illumined with such clarity in the imperial alien's relationship to his hostile environment'. 10 because for sandison, as for kipling, india is 'a very powerful symbol of a nature intrinsically hostile to man', the figure of 'a world inimical to his physical and moral survival', a potent image 'of the forces of persecution ranged against the individual in his struggle to sustain his identity', 11 his commentary colludes with kipling's specification 50 new formations  of india as the negative pole in that ubiquitous structure of oppositions - mind/ body, reason/passion, order/chaos, intelligibility/incoherence - deployed by dominant orders to legitimate relationships of power.

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.

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'.

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'.

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.

The Struggle against Fascism and War in Britain

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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).

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.

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.

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.

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.