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wrong, I always thought revolutions were made by the masses. And the problem is therefore: how do we do it?

Yours fraternally, Martin Bashforth, 11 Kyndhurst Road, Wolverhampton, Staffs.

LOST GLOVES

Dear Sir, I lost a pair of black gloves in the balcony of the Central Hall Methodist Church at Friday's debate. They were not found by the cleaner or in the caretaker's possession on saturday.

If a reader did find them, I live at 35 POETRY Sir, am editing, for Penguin Books, anthology of Socialist poetry. This will be completely international, in English and English translation, and will include poets from the 1830's to the present day. In many cases extant translations of Socialist poems diCi inadequate: crippled by archaisms and inversions and unlikely to appeal to modern reader. Is would, therefore, be delighted to hear from the poets among CARCS who have translated Socialist poems of any language into English. A stamp-addressed envelope would be appreciated.

Yours faithfull. Dear Sir, The issue of equal pay is more complicated than you seem to suggest "Equal pay would cost British Capitalism up to £600 million a year". What makes you think so? Over the past 20 odd years, the share of wages in National Income has going to profit remains constant, and we assume the share going capital does too (it is hard to see how its being reduced could benefit the worker), then the only people to suffer would be the male workers, who would effectively by paying the women via increased prices and reduced real wages. Perhaps it is men and not big business who are exploiting the women and are "so determined to prevent women from getting equal pay"

To avoid this conclusion you must demonstrate how the share of profit can be reduced an issue which you did not touch on at all.

Is this analysis accurate?, or is it a load of unsound bourgeois economics? (Perhaps that is sound in the context of an unsound bourgeois economy).

Yours, Jonathan Chiswell Jones, 12Yarrell Mansions.

Queen's Club Gardens, London W.14.

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The Black Dwarf 14th February 1969 P.5