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levels of crime has been articulated with a campaign to promote 'the strong state' illustrating what Stuart Hall described as the 'authoritarian populism' which is a central and defining feature of the ideological dimension

The Falklands Factor

alleged, up to that date. 1 See various articles in this journal, especially those by Stuart Hall, January 1979 and Martin Jacques October 1979

Thatcher - make or break

weakening of Conservative electoral support in my previous article. Marxism Today, May 1980. 2 See Stuart Hall, Marxism Today, February 1980. 3 Marxism Today, April 1980

De-industrialisation and the Tories

Department of Employment Gazette. Mike Bleaney Nov 1979; Andrew Gamble Nov 1979; Martin Jacques Oct 1979; Stuart Hall Feb 1980 etc

AND ABROAD

Studies, Birmingham University, Birmingham В15 2TT. Contents: Phil Cohen: "Sub­ cultural conflict and Working Class community." Stuart Hall: "Picture Post and Social Democracy." FROM MARX TO MAO TSE-TUNG,by George Thomson. A Study

LIFE

Contents: Phil Cohen: "Sub­ cultural conflict and Working Class c o m m u n ity." Stuart Hall: "Picture Post and Social Dem ocracy."

Chartism and The Trade Unions

he knows that the charter would remove, by universal will expressed in universal suffrage, the heavy load of taxes which now crush the existence of the labourer, and cripple the efforts of commerce; that it would give cheap government as well as cheap food, high wages as well as low taxes, bring happi¬ ness to the hearthstone, plenty to the table, protection to the old, education to the young, permanent prosperity to the country, longcontinued protective political power to labour, and peace, blessed peace to exhausted humanity and approving nations; therefore it is that we have solemnly sworn, and one and all declared, that the golden opportunity now within our grasp shall not pass away fruitless, that the chance of centuries afforded to us by a wise and all-seeing god, shall not be lost; but that we do now universally resolve never to resume labour until labour's grievances are destroyed, and protection assured to ourselves, our suffering wives, and helpless children, by the enactment of the people's charter. lord melbourne, home secretary and afterwards prime minister in the whig government of the reform bill, wrote on 26 september 1831 to sir herbert taylor, private secretary to king william iv: "when we first came into office in november last, the unions of trades in the north of england and in other parts of the country for the purpose of raising wages etc., and the general union for the same purpose, were pointed out to me by sir robert peel in a conversation i had with him upon the then state of the country, as the most formidable difficulty and danger with which we had to contend; and it struck me as well as the rest of his majesty's servants in the same light".

Playing With Real Feeling: Making Sense Of Jazz In Britain

The negro players may be born with swing in their hearts, and such musical souls have outnumbered the white jazz players, but it took the scholarly, trained musicians like 'ragtime frank' guarente, to first analyze the swing motif, and to add this faculty of improvisation to the rudiments of american jazz music as it was first written and then recorded on the phonograph disc by white musicians.25 these arguments were formalized in the first american jazz book, henry osgood's 1926 so this is jazz, and had a particular resonance for white british performers, struggling to assert their own creative authority. For the problem of treating jazz as an art music see mary herron dupree, ' "jazz", the critics and american art music in the 1920s', american music, 4, 3 (1986), for jazz and the fine arts see simon frith and howard home, art into pop (london: methuen, 1987), ch. 3.

Short story

The plays which are this year presented in the west end are next year’s plays for the professional theatre outside london, and two years later are the plays of the amateur theatres. What most repertory theatres fall back on in this situation is a steady stream of “west end successes’, in the hope that the old audience will be bound by the nostalgic memory of the days when the west end was equatable with ‘their kind of play’ and in the hope that indiscriminately the outside public will be attracted by accrued commercial publicity.

Letters

Or perhaps, now that he is a highly bankable star, springsteen should give it all up, and come and write some ideologically pure articles for marxism today} john fallon, penge, london inglorious garden in an otherwise very penetrating study of the problems facing the arts, i think colin chambers (mt july) may be mistaken in taking the arts council's 'glory of the garden' as a positive document which the left ought to endorse. underlying this is a subtle ideolocial motivation, which sir william has more or less openly stated in the television debate he had in may with sir peter hall and others, to break what he sees as the 'elitism' of london where close links exist between, in the theatre at any rate, the radical fringe and september 1985 marxism today 53 the drama departments of radio and television that form mass culture.

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.

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).

A use for documentary

Universities & left review winter 1958 issue 3 a use for documentary karel reisz if you think of documentary films as the occasional travelogue you have to sit through at your local before the main film comes on, or as the film about how sulphuric acid is manufactured which is probably useful to science teachers; if in fact you don't know much about them, and care less, it is largely because the people who make them don't care either. From the 'film-makers point of view this is particularly disturbing because the film represents the almost complete abdication of the creator of the film, the director.

A Question of Choice

 22 january 1983 marxism today certain women's jobs, like mechanical office jobs are disappearing, there is also a trend in some technologies towards making more and more jobs home workers jobs, traditionally done by women kept at home with young children. And the tensions between women's two roles in the home and the workforce can only worsen, as the increasing demands on the servicing work still done largely by women in the home are ignored or exploited by the conditions of women's paid employment.

The Organisation of Science - Science as social activity

Too many remnants of the 'gentleman amateur' tradition exist today: the government is reluctant to deal with the organisation of science as a national matter, and one to be taken out of the hands of private enterprise; science graduates form a small minority among industrial executives and the top civil servants; scientists are poorly remunerated in comparison with business executives and pop-singers - the pleasure of scientific work is supposed to be an adequate recompense in itself; and the scientists themselves are slow to achieve the effective trade union organization needed to improve their situation. The culmination of the drive towards the technical university was the formation of imperial college of science and technology by charter in 1907 from an amalgamation of the royal school of pines (which was descended from the royal college of chemistry), the royal school of science and the city and guilds central technical college.

White Skins/Black Masks: The Pleasures And Politics Of Imperialism

in the late nineteenth century, 'slumming' expeditions with police protection were not uncommon 40 and sociological and philanthropic literature was prolific; titles such as henry mayhew's london life and london labour, andrew mearns's the bitter cry of outcast london, william booth's into darkest england (echoing stanley), and charles booth's multi-volumed life and labour, made visible the underside of london life. The argument which stoller presents may also be read as describing a fantasy of subjugated alterity, which identifies cross-cultural dressing as a violent expropriation or castration; the white man as native tearing the body of native from his self.

The Anti-Fascist People's Front In the Armed Forces

£5.00 orders to : (please include 25p per pamphlet postage & packing) history group, 16 john street, london ec1m 4al eds: bill moore, george barnsby isbn 07147 30882 published by the communist party history group £1.95  foreword on september 26, 1986, following the publication of richard kisch's book the days of the good soldiers, the history croup called a conference of communist party members, past and present, primarily those who had been in the armed forces during the second world war, in order to record a wider picture of communist activity that it was possible to present in the book. the anti-fascist people's front in the armed forces the communist contribution the contribution made by members of the communist party in the armed forces to stimulating discussions on war aims, and especially discussions about the kind of britain the troops wanted to come back to (with the usual conclusion about how to get it: by electing a labour government) was present almost from the beginning.

Arts:

he says the trip has been fixed up d erek c ha p m a n “despite the highest level o f unem ploy­ m ent since the war and persistent doubts about the long-term health and resilience o f the british economy, the record business at least is enjoying a present rate o f trade which belies the stagnation and cutback in other areas, and bodes well for the christmas market prospects. He then contrasts the policies of the independent record by mitch howard s ilv e r d isc f o r a silver age 24 contusion surrounds the reported new year tours of china and the soviet union by english rock revival bands.

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

__________________ ' a d v ic e the im m igrant advice centre invites you to a grand bazaar at th e ir premises 313 upper st. n1 on december 11 from 10 am onwards. well, in the play, his second speech to the workers would rate as pretty harsh, if naim had read or remembered i think; and in his first scene with more of the letter than is printed in the kabak, he’s cold, suspicious, and un­ english version of fiori’s life of yielding for a long time, until kabak’s gramsci, however, he would have identity is finally established beyond known that the description refers to a doubt; certainly “hard”, one would much earlier period, to those “sewers of gramsci’s two factory speeches are a device for projecting two very different sets of theses developed by him in ordine nuovo essays at the time.

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.

Murphy's Lore

PREVIEW Andrea Stuart on Hollywood's streetwise screen success

The Second Reform Bill

This was a great relief to cobden who wrote to parkes on august 9th 1857: "the social and political state of that town is far more healthy than that of manchester; and it arises from the fact that the industry of the hardware district is carried on by small manufacturers, employing only a few men and boys each; sometimes only an apprentice or two: whilst the great manufacturers in manchester form an aristocracy, individual members of which wield an influence over sometimes two thousands persons... the great capitalist class formed an excellent basis for the anti-corn-law movement, for they had inexhaustible purses, which they opened freely in a contest where not only their pecuniary interests but their pride as "an order" was at stake,: but i very much doubt whether such a state of society is favourable to a democratic political movement...." the "state of society" in birmingham itself did not really provide a oasis for a reform movement, and bright was shrewd enough to see that nothing could be done without the organized workers. it is true that the reform act of 1832 had suppressed a number of rotten boroughs and had reduced a number of small towns to single-member constituencies, the representation being transferred to counties and new boroughs, but this was very far short of establishing the "equal electoral districts" demanded by the people's charter, thomas love peacock who in his "melincourt" of 1817 had brilliantly satirized the old unreformed system wrote in his preface to the 1856 edition: "the boroughs of onevote and threevotes have been extinguished; but there remain boroughs of fewvotes..." on the other hand greater london, with one-tenth of the population of england and wales; only returned 22 members to parliaments  page four during the generation following 1832 the disproportion grew worse, since the under-represented towns were rapidly increasing in population while the old-fashioned county towns were often stagnating.

Ammunition for the Campaign

After proclaiming several times during 1957 that the united states would produce 'an absolutely clean bomb', he was forced to admit that an absolutely clean bomb is an impossibility, and that the 'clean' bomb to be exploded in the pacific this year will only be 96% clean. The tests must go on in order to perfect this weapon, described by the chairman of the u.s. atomic energy commission as the 'humanitarian h-bomb.'  30 the new reasoner of course, the admiral did not explain the scientific principles of the weapon, and for more than two years people have wondered what he meant; but the respite was gained, and that was what mattered.

T.A. Jackson - A Centenary appreciation

This dead¬ lock meant that walter and tommy had to abandon what might well have succeeded in being a successful revolutionary break-through into modern journalism - the party might have pipped it at the picture post. walter holmes devoted a complete workers notebook to this sad story, in 1955.i quote from it: "among the tributes which tommy jackson's death has evoked there is no mention of this win episode because few know the story. 26 27  our history titles available no. 18 no. 24 no. 36/7 no. 42 no. 57 no. 58 no. 60 no. 61 no. 62 no. 63 no. 64 no. 65 no. 67 no. 68 no. 69 no. 70 no. 71 no. 72 sheffield shop stewards (bill moore) 'the lancashire cotton famine (s broadbridge) 'prints of the labour movement 'class and ideology in bath (r s neale) nazis and monopoly capital (allan merson) kilsyth miners in the 1926 general strike (carter) time and motion strike (mick jenkins) middle-class opinion and the 1889 strike (g cronje) 1945-year of victory (george barnsby) ... the origins of capitalism (a christozvonov) imperialism and the labour movement (maclntyre) the general strike in lanarkshire (maclean) spain against fascism 1936-39 (nan green and a m elliott) workers' newsreels, 1920s & 30s (hogenkamp) rank and file movements in building 1910-20 (latham)