Comrades, On Thursday February SULLIC 2,000 marched through London to Westminster. GLC tenants protesting. Obligingly "protected" by 3 busloads of police cocky arrogant and safe The people on the march were predominantly middle-aged', men and woman of 40-50 years some older, some younger, some intim - Dut all united against the fascism of a council that can decide to increase rents by as much as 30% while sitting on its fat conservative arse without knowing what 30% means to tenants in Tower Hamlets and Poplar.
When will our movement realise that this is where we need to be? OK - spend a few hours at Claridges - make a smell for Nixon - but in the end realise that the smell doesn't destroy profits it just makes them a little harder to collect. We must support, but support, the GLC tenants the Ford strikers the 'Royal' dockers. Alright its not easy to involve yourself in things out of your immediate orbit. But we know that these are different facets of the same malaise the same system. Without our support for them, how can we expect their support for us?
Trowbridge, and Kingshaven and Explorers A Womanl struggle which takes place everyday for the working man in his own environment. Only if we can take ourselves and our ideas out to the population do we have any chance of really changing anything. And it seems to me that, at the moment, we are throwing this very opportunity away.
That march of February 20 was totally unsupported by our members. After all - who really makes more impact? Those stopping profits, or those stopping police leave for 2 days. Why is it that the press works itself into hysteria because the car men are out again' because MONEY is being lost. We have got to get more money lost - - faster.
Why can't we give as much support to a GLC tenants march or a strike picket - as we can to October 27 - and which strikes more at the foundation of capital?
Lets start by really supporting those people who are taking the struggle to their own work situations. We need the experience, the help, of people who are prepared to march from Poplar to Westminster on a rainy winter evening to protect their homes.
For christ's sake lets support them - they need us, whatever they may say initially, and
The Black Dwarf April 18 1969 In the form of one work, his new book Art and Revolution (subtitled Ernst Neizvestny and the produced two essays possibilities of revolutionary art and the social implications of the artist's role. The most worthwile of these two pieces is the composed of Berger's own perceptive theoretical insights into a universal dilemma; SOCIALIST