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To the Editor, As the father of a young policeman of 22 Land myself an ex- I, like many other people, arrived serviceman who fought in the last at Charing Cross on the 27th ready war and wounded and still suffer- to demonstrate both solidarity with ing, I think it a disgrace that a the NLF and opposition filthy swine like you can be allowed capitalistic-imperialist states evervin our beautiful country. A man who where doesn't even COme from Britain The Ad-Hoc Committee had asked and never fought for it. As regards that all follow the official route and your Communist party the whole not break off to Grosvenor Square lot of you should be packed off to which, as all will agree, is a killing Russia and Siberia to rot with your ground. friends. Since when did you have a The majority of marchers comdemonstration against the invasion plied with this request on the underof Czechoslovakia by the Russians? standing that confrontation would I think you will have a short life as come with the occupation and holdsomeone will get you. Why don't ing of Whitehall for one hour. This the Russians stop supplying Viet- was believed to be the main tactical nam with arms? Why don't you go objective march. a clear out there and fight for them? You demonstration, not necessarily vioswine. lent the determination and G. R. LEWIS. power of those assembled. It was Wrexham, N. Wales. not expected that the state should OCTOBER 27 - II Dear Dwarfs, 'comrade' to 'friend' and similarly What a naive performance! (I translate any other more dogmatic refer to the speeches made at the terms. Progressivism must be a living Hyde Park rally.) If this is the stuff thing, continually taking up new, designed to swell the progressive more vivid and more embracing movement, I don't think you are phraseology and not bogged down going to make much advance. The by stale cliches. Such cliches only point is as Roland Muldoon said in help to make the movement sound the October 27 issue of Black Dwarf, conservative that you must speak to the tradi- So much for dogma. The second tionalists in their own language in point is that vou must give tradiorder to sway them; only the con- tionalists situations they can pertent of speeches should be different. sonally and deeply identify with Constant use of terms like 'capi- before they become convinced protalism', 'imperialism', fascism', 'com- gressives. It is no good pouring out rades" and so on will only antagonise emotional statements like "We must the traditionalists and lead them to smash the fascist capitalists" without assume that those concerned are all saying exactly why they must be communists of an extreme type and smashed. not nany war concerned with You must explain in detail what practical, rational progressivism. harm is being done to the VietIf you want to express the concept namese way of life heenes land ic behind the word capitalism' why not being destroyed by American chemicall it "materialism" or 'selfish cals, innocent people are suffering material gain which sound less like and so on, and why the Americans Marxist dogma and appeal more to don't need to be there at all, because the sense of reason? Why not change the communism' the Americans are imperialism to arrogant colonial- afraid of is not just communism but ism'. "fascism' to "blind dictatorship'. also religious and nationalist feeling