urban guerilla war as the main form of struggle. In Arabia it has been possible to create a liberated area. But it is separated by hundreds of miles of desert from the oil cities of the Gulf, where political life is centred. It will be relatively easy capture the cities of Dhofar still held by reaction: it will be a lot more difficult to translate the guerilla war in the mountains into armed insurrection and military invasion of the Gulf cities.
There is a political movement among the workers of the cities. The struggle in the mountains is both an encouragement to them and will increasingly form a concrete military and political ally. It is precisely when the two arms of such a struggle are controlled by a revolutionary party that victory is possible.
A GOOD START Dear Sir, We are a group of revolutionaries in break-up of the Labour Party, even in its traditional strongholds, makes it vitally important politically that our confrontation with the Labour Council in Tower Hamlets be used to raise the consciousness of people in the district as to what the Labour game is. Thus we would hope that a confrontation between C.C.H.S. and the Council will interest the Left generally, and we want the Left to help us when the time comes.
What we would hope for is that if the confrontation is large enough and we use the issue correctly, far from being a defeat for the squatters' movement and the Left in general, it could be a victory. The larger issue is that Tower Hamlets Coucil has, like a parasite, lived off the Labour movement for too long, and as you correctly state in your article, while hypocritically supporting the rent rebels against the Tory G.L.C., they make no effort on their own part to spell out the economic realities of housing. If they did so, they would indict, along with the G.L.C., the APRIL 31 and MAY 1: Literature Festival in Old Theatre, L.S.E., Houghton St., Aldwych, W.C.2. MAY 1: Merseyside dockers strike against unemployment, Tory anti-union plans and Vietnam war. Construction workers strike at Dista site in Speke, and at Girlings. Organised by Liverpool Trades Council.
MAY 1: Eviction of young couple with children from Grafton Terrace, N.W.5. Demonstration or ganised by St. Pancras-Camden United Tenants, Association. If you want to help stop this eviction, ring Mrs. Luby, 267 1299.
MAY 1: Left Unity-the Working Class. I.S. public meeting. Holborn Road, Kentish Town, N.W.5. 8pm Contact R. McGibbon, 22 Estelle Rd., N.W.5. of Camden I.S.
MAY 17: Enoch Powell rants in Wembly at Wembly Conservative Club, Copaland High School, Wembly. Details from Ad hoc Cttee., c/o 15 Taylor's Green, W.3. 743 1172 MAY 22-5: Unfree Pop. 1 mile from Keele, miles from Newcastle. under-Lyme. Organised by Blackhill agency.
MAY 22-25: March and rally planned about David Kitson. From Ruskin College to Trafalgar Square Organised by Ruskin College Kitson Committee.
JUNE 1: South Africa Cricket team arrives. Demonstration at Heathrow Airport. Organised by Stop 70 Tour. JUNE Cricket demonstration March from Marble Arch to Lords Cricket Ground. Organised by Stop 70 Tour.
JUNE 6: Party drinks and music at Camden studios, Camden Street, N.W.1. at 7.30p.m. Organised by Accomhly Hall lohn'e Mawe • Pennles
The Black Dwarf 10th May 1970 Page 16 For flagrantly and deliberately drinking a cup of coffee Paul Hoch has been sent to Jail for 28 days. At the Court No 2. he was jailed for break- today, Queen's Bench ing an injuction that LSE had put upon him not to enter the School. He explained to the court that he did not break the 'spirit of the injuction, and he offered to promise never to enter the schools for disruptive reasons. This was not enough for the LSE, who insisted on taking their pound of flesh.
Hoch pictured here, an ex-editor of Senate, the London University newspaper, is a Black Dwarf contributor. He has just written a book for Sheed and Ward on Academic Freedom in Action', and the next issue of Black Dwarf will carry an article by him on the ownership of the press.
As we go to press the repression of student militants is escalating sharply. In Cambridge, Liverpool, Essex, Oxford and the LSE university authorites are on the move. We have dropped our student reports from this issue, they were overtaken by events, and there will be a full discussion of the repression in the next Black Dwarf.
CELEBRATING LENIN The Lenin Centenary has created severe ideological 1 pis been for the Soviet regime. menace was so great that at a celebratory show ing of a film on the life of Lenin at the Soviet Embassy in London, an official had to get up before the film and say: "In order to avoid questions on this being asked afterwards, I would like to say before hand that the reasons Stalin and Trotsky are not shown is that they were both away at the Front at the time".
In London they try to chase histor off to the Front. Things in Moscov were not much better, where four leading members of the Party's ideological section have recently been dismissed. The following incident, in particular, is rumoured to have been the cause of the dismissal of Vladimir Stepakov, former head of the Central Committee's Department of Propaganda and Agitation.
Last December Pravda published a set of political theses to commemorate the hundreth anniversary of Lenin's birth. The fourteenth theses contained the following passage:
"In his preliminary notes on the report about the international situation and the principal tasks of the Comintern, Lenin listed five social factors of the proletariat's force: 1) numbers, 2) degree of organisation, 3) their place in the process of production and distribution, 4) activity, 5) education"
This passage does indeed occur in Lenin's report to the Second Congress Social-Democrat Otto Bauer and come TrOm his anti-Leninist book Bolshevism Social-Democracy? Lenin prefaced his use of these sterile categories by saying: "This is example of how Marxism has been de based, of the level of banality and de fense of the exploiters to which most revolutionary theory can be duced. It is only the German variety of the petty-bourgeois spirit which could produce a theory according t which the factors of social force " Lenin went on to say: "Perdici haps this example is a bit lúdicrous but it is of the nature of contemporary opportunism that its struggle against contemporary Bolshevism does become ludicrous" Collected Works, Vol. 31 pp.229-230).
This "mistake' was corrected, without explanation, when the theses were reprinted in the theoretical journal Kommunist a month later. The incident is politically very significant: not only does it reveal the staggering ignorance of Leninism that characterises the Soviet regime to-day, it also shows how the modern revisionism of Brezhner and Kosygin naturally re produces the old revisionist errors of fifty years ago.
The Spanish Workers' Defence Committee is calling for solidarity with two young Basques who are awaiting trial for throw ing molotov cocktails at the Spanish Embassy. The last person tried for this offence got seven years. More important still, one of the Basques, Juan Echebarria, wanted by Spanish for political crimes that could carry the death sentence. The Spanish Authorities are asking for extradition. The British must be stopContact:
SWDO 31. Dartmouth Park Road, London. NW5.
GUERNICA The Franco government recently in vited Pablo Picasso to return and allow his famous painting of the fascist atrocity "Guernica" to be shown in Madrid. He refused, saying that only when Spain was a democratic republic again would he allow the painting to Now in the wake of the My Lai massacre 265 American writers and painters have written to Picasso asking him to withdraw the painting from the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
THE DAILY ETHICS In a series on the Left in The Daily Express guresomely entitled The Bloodstained Banner the writer Alain Cass finished with these words.
"And as if to symbolise this recent insidious growth an organisation calling itself Agit-Prop (Agitation and Propaganda) provides a world-wide contacts service for extremists.
It charges £3 to £5 for information on groups in Britain. Thus in the few years that street politics have grown in Britain, a small industry has sprung up for the New Left.
It deals in slogans and political diatribe. It is as mercenary and as adaptable as the sex-industry of Soho, and violence. Product end -significantly As most readers will already know Agit-Prop is an excellent voluntary organisation of comrades rubbing along on a few donations and trying to provide a much needed Left information service. Though not illusioned about the role of the bourgeois media two Agit-Prop comrades decided to gently question Cass on his motives for this particular distortion. So they phoned him at the Express. His first reaction was to deny that the comparison with the sex-industry referred to Agit-Prop at all. That didn't work and he was asked whether he would publish a correction in his paper, but of course he refused. He then said that he had "Great respect for the New Left" and he was only referring to, "The idiots who chase around waving red and blacks flags and shouting confrontation and bourgeois and who wouldn't know Das Kapital from their arse".
Well, came back the answer, if he liked the New Left so much, why didn't he write positive things about the contents of its actions and writings, rather than a lot of destructive become an intellectual prostitute "Fine" they said "As long as we can print that, then our opinion of the role of the Express is confirmed"
*Print that said Cass "And I and this isn't Alain Cass you're talking to anyway"
"Yes it is" they said, "There are two of us this end who heard you answer the phone. And we haven't got any money anyway *This is a personal conversation' said Cass, "You're breaking every code of ethics if you print it out of context"
So the two from Agit-Prop asked us to print the story in its full context.
IWC v. DUNLOP Inspired by the Institute for Workers seven militants picketed Dunlop's head office in Ryder Street on April 17th. Dunlops are closing down one of their three Canadian Plants. The men there offered to buy the factory and keep it in production. Dunlops refused. Charles Levinson, of the International Chemical Workers. has threatened retaliation against Pirelli, the giant Italian Rubber comany now merging with Dunlops. excited by this unprecedented pos sibility of international action against a branch of monoploy capitalism, the Institute are trying to stir up opposition in Britain as well.
KINO FIST Agitprop has now published a useful preliminary film-list, classifying most of the available left wing movies by subject, distributor, and cost of hire. The difficulty they had in compiling the list led to discussions with a number of socialist filmgroups, with the aim of rationalising the present situation so as to avoid duplication of effort and increase co-operation. There was disagreement on the priorities of socialists in this field: should the main job be to use a few selected films as political weapons, incorporating them in a general agitational offensive-or should the main aim be to build alternative distribution networks to the big commercial ones, including the possibility of printing new films from abroad and providing an outlet for radical film-makers generally? The different groups represented had different views on this problem, but they agreed CHOLAND SHOULD MY LAND FOR THE PEOPLE • A GARLAND FOR • MAY•DAY • 1895• • DEDICATED TO THE WORKERS BY WALTER: CRANE • streamlining to the existing revolutionary film-scene Meanwhile, the main groups working with films are Angry Arts Film Society (6 Bramshill Gardens, NW5, 01-263 0613); a groups that regularly shows revolutionary films with well-prepared discussion handouts as preparation for the showing, and lengthy discussion after the film on its implications for revolutionaries.
Newsreel (11 Liston Rd, SW4 01-622 958); the group that handles films made by the newsreel group in America, plus any other films that come their way including one or two British ones. Most films cost £1.0.0. to hire.
London Film Co-op (1 Robert St. NW1. 387 6573); not concerned with the politics of their films, they nevertheless have facilities for making and distributing films for anyone who wants to use them Membership of the film-making group (entitling you to free use of their equipment) is f5 p.a., or £2 per quarter Polit Kino (5 Beaufort Gardens, SW3, 01 584 2735); handles exceptional foreign films-usually very left-wing-that wouldn't otherwise get shown in this country.
Cinemantics (117 Hartfield Rd., SW19 1 542 3018); a bi-monthly film magazine aimed at rethinking the process of filmmaking in the direction of understanding film as a socialist activity. Important interviews and feature items on many aspects of the industry Grip (The Other Cinema, 18 Carlisle St., W1. 01 734 7448); another radical film-magazine, First Issue includes important theses by Godard in revolutionary film-making, plus an interview with Glauber Rocha ("Black God and White Devil.")
STOP PRESS The Black Power demonstration, on Sunday April 26, against the Trinidad High Commission met with appalling police brutality. First there were provocateurs, then snatch squads, finally trunchon whippings, as demonstrators fought back and went to help individuals who had been singled out. 20 comrades were arrested
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