PATRICK PROCTOR, JOE TILSON, CLVE BARKER, Lack of money has made this issue of the Black Dwarf extremely late. With proper would have been out every fortnight. As it is many articles, from a full analysis of America and a discussion of the Labour Party in opposition, to a major clash between two of Britain's leading writers on culture and the working class, and a concise and simple analysis of the Common Market, postponed because of our Election coverage despite the patience comrades who wrote it, our decision to Russell has deprived them of the cover.
the Womens Lib articles and towards groups that are already committed in their opposition to capitalism but who have no voice capable of unmasking and exposing the nature of modern imperialist and debating how they can BLACK DWARF BENEFIT PAINTING SALE AND EXHIBITION ROBERT SELF SALLERY HORSESHOE YARI BROOK ST. WI 21ST tO 26H SEPT The enormous amount of material that demands to be published shows the urgent need for the regular publication of such a The current wave of repression further urgency, the bland and complacent escalation of punitive sentences must The only way that this can be done is through cool well informed exposes. For too long the left has been weakened by its tendency to hurl hysterical insults ruling class without backing these up with This year the Black Dwarf has managed to experiment with new developments that can help the left to confront and overcome First of all we have pioneered exclusive -an interview with Eldridge Cleaver that his wife Cathleen said was the best she had ever read, the first report from behind the lines in Dhofar, the liberated zone of Muscat and Oman, the transcript of the interview that the daughter of Sam Devenny gave the day after her father was killed by the Royal Ulster Constabulary in Apri Secondly we have attempted to shift the centre of the paper away from the narrow rhetoric while at the same time with such articles as our centenary discussion of Lenin we have begun to pose some problems that revolutionary forces have still to solve. It is imperative for militants to appreciate and important in Britain where institutional constraints are so oppressive. So we have commissioned controversial articles Football, Holidays as exposes of such men and institutions as Jack Straw and the Arts Council.
All this is only a start.
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