Macdonald: on these stylistic differes. rested. Without exception, its outlook lus remained the same: a fascination with th Parlamentary machine and a desire to express all politics within it. The situation ha unconcerned as ever with the question of rising consciousness among the working class; is aim remains to divert all agitation into pressure at Westminster, to reduce all politics to a level acceptable to Mr Wilson and the Labour whips.
many gencrations of dedicated devoted their lives to the aruggle to elect a majority of Labour M.P.s un Partimicht. Amonest the vast mass of tae working class who regularly ture out to vote be a degree of synicism, but there is abo a complete lack alternative The formoutition of 3 correct altitude towards Parlament which will help in the transition to a revolutionary conscinusness in the working class is therefore an important priority for British socialists.
parlament since the days of ai to swing the policy at the state, Rather it is 871 wil entirety descroyed ting in Algua 1917 or the eve of the Belhe okoamen af socil democracy ze-emplasised th bons which Mart hoel dawn from the exponens lamentarism, if criticius of bourgoois socie desine, and not a men 1s domination.
& in this seme tat a hourpois democracy is in Find mon duralk insicamiert of as naked reality bone the alone has politics within the Labour Party not changed today. The fire of Bevan is missing but the Parlamentary left is as Retorm movement, the Kerorm Lengue of the 1860 the formation of the Lahour Reprisentation Comn 1900 ever)
OCCE0O 21 Chanolly and John When the Labour Party notion wite e anos o as an machine. The willingness of its members, (both left and right) to acopt dependent • Industral. Reorpnis Baer, allen more e poletic atemper st -#justification. So tentatione Tric letir, M.P. sought, with the quotations fors Mars and lenin to ground this "theory" in marxist. As in so many other teld:
Scans to the establishment or sozoss frocly admitted he saw his main role as a ether to fight electors. In retrospect it is that 1bk Tiral We ape determined te do U0CO 1O 2 0 100 вка CICCOMO OCEDE CADOUR parlamentary Hevantes allowed themscives to muled by the te impoæd Standing Orden of lin to Tory gorrewat policies orescd, responsbility"
und file of the Labour Movement: "Themselve for the overthooor af capitalism.
It must be made illegal for anyone to own a house that he does not live in.
Nor must rent exceed ten per cent of a person's income -- to be paid to the state dont be silly said Land must be nationalised immediately.
and used for the construction of new houses.
the vicar On Saturday 2ist December the London Squatters Campaign occupied a 15 room vicarage in Capworth St.Leyton. The place had been empty for three years, in spite of a request from the Squatters in 1966 that it should be offered to homeless families as a place to live.
The same day, squatters in Notting Hill occupied a block of half-empty luxury fats and stayed there for five hours, The squatters movement is growing, and no wonder: there are 15,574 poopie in the UK. living in homeless hostels; a housing list of 160,000 in London alone; 1,800,000 poople living in houses that are "unfit for human habitation".
Meanwhile, Up to mic luxury tais and l ffice blocks - because this is London 1969 and there are big fat profts to be had in land-speculation. They're fatter still if you charge impossible rents and keep the building empty, because prices go up SO 12s1 1ha1 sonner dE licE boccone wil pay what vou ask no matter how much it a.
So Ron Bailey and his friends went into the empty vicarage in Capworth St. Leyton. Soon after, two homeless mothers, Mrs Beresford with them. car had taken one look at thi of the pite of the believe it.
Under arrest ple hiding your sek piped renera but thys There is only one solution to the Housing Problem. up, and we were free again.
Mrs Beresford looked on with approval. "You're doing a damn good job." she said. And added, такшь в оссирутя bubougs generally, "It's the only way to get things Al this point, your intrepid Black Dwarf reporter noticed that the cops were all busy in the road, he dashed into the vicarage and ran up the stairs. But the sqyatters had barricaded on tae second nour, so ne couldn't join them.
"Hey you! Get out of here!" said a voice from and watery-eyed, his weak lips tembling with Christian embarrassment. With him was an ineffectualooking pink gentleman in a DOW CHE homeles family merein, replied Black Dant "Certainly I'll get out "Don't be silly!" snapped the vicar unhappily. "Anyway, this building is already occupied It's used as a church hall. "Why then!" cried Black Dwarf, suddenly going all religious. •What better use could a church 1 hall have at Christmas time than to house a homeless family?"
Pink gentle "Don't be Now look here, not supposed to he in here." "Ta sorry," said Black Dwarf manfully, "If you want me to go, you'll have to get the cops to come and take ine out Who are you It is a simple one. I talked to Mrs Beresford and Mrs King, They both live in Council Buildings, having run the whole gamut of condemned houses, rat-infested flats and nomeless hostels. Whal were these council buildings like" "A dump!" said Mrs Beresford.
Mrs King tuned to the television men: "You should take your TV cameras down to take pictures of the toilets where I live, sle said.
conditions of the place. She gave graphic description of the "Why don't the Welfare do something abou it?" someone asked.
Killed or drowned "They're useless." she said. *It takes a kid to be killed or drowned for anything to be done."
By now the occupation attention from the local people, particularly the ones living in St.Mathews Court, the block of flats opposite. Ron Bailey, leaning out ef Vicarase megaphone, asked them for some help: We have a slight problem in here," he we're in Could any of you let us have a Within ten had appeared making it quite clear where the local people's sympathy lay. We started to throw the buckets and various items of food up to the squatters, It was at this point that Her Majesty's Noble Cops, still smarting from their defeat carlier in the day. decided to nake their puny g ice felt, and proceeded seen for a long time. Thank you J 121 and 1 728 The arrests didn't affect the squatters, thoug The Black Dwarf 27 Jan 1969 by a Black Dwarf reporter victorious and untouched the next day. Their next step To move some homeless families into an uncccupied building and keep them there Finally - a last ward from the Archdeacon of West 1am:
Coloured Christmas "What you don't Understand is that we're doing a lot for the homeless families. I'm chairman of a committee on the subject. And hating a coloured family staying with me for Christmas Last word from Mis King "Tim not bringing my kids up in the church." Last word from Ron Bailey: •We want everyone ID take is ug including all the Blake Dwarf readers. And some last words from Black Dwarf You're doing a great job, Ron, and Blac Dwarf supports you all the way. But don't give them the chance to take the sting out of what you're doing by writing you off a starry-eyed idealists - "good" oung peof JALAL T the kind who go on demonstrations.
lustrate the fact important than people. Lord Shaftesbury got them to stop childexploitation. Most adults are still exploited. Capitalism may just solve the housing problem (though it's unlikely). But new towns will still be planned, like the old ones, with big houses with big gardens for the boss class, and little houses with little gardens for the workers.
Let the scandal of the housing situation be shown up again and again. But let's explain why as well. In other words: let the slogan of
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