ELECTIONS VoTE countries or even be branches of those organisations. It is our contacts in Africa or vurselves, when we go back to Africa, who shall form these Progressive Circles. 7. There shall be comissions of OAPPA dealing with different countries or regions of Africa, as Is appropriate, which shall deal specifically with the issues of those countries or regions. These commissions shall be made up of people mainly from those places concerned. 8. From the constitution of OAPPA and this general programme of action each branch or commission of OAPPA shall be free to decide exactly where to start from and how to proceed.
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Road, W.14 BLACK PEOPLE'S LEGAL AID AND DEFENCE FUND On Sunday, 26th April, twenty brothers and sisters were arrested on the Solidarity nd sisters in Trinidad and Tobag After the Court hearing on Monday, the lack people who attended left the Court a about 1.00 p.m., peacefully on their way home escorted by a mumber of uniformed pigs. On reaching the ticket office at Oxford Circus tube station, they were suddenly pounced upon by a number of pigs in plain clothes, resulting in the further arrest of one sister and two brothers.
Brothers and Sisters, bocuuse of what appened on the 26th and 27th of April and n loubt what will continue to happen, we hav seen the necessity to launch this Defence and Aid fund.
The Brothers and Sisters who have fully commitled themselves to the struggle need moral and financial support from all Black People so we can function more effectively in the coming confrontation with the law.
The welfare of brothers and sisters who are held in prison must be looked after, eg. rent, food and clothing.
Please contribute what you can afford financially or otherwise.
Your donations will be used solely for this All donations to be sent to:
A. Williams. 3 Hornsey Rise Gardens, London N.19.
AGAINST
In a eat Te are often attributed eated by a hiberal deolog s to pay agical causes. Crude examples Had the student movement is the resalt of permissive upbringing;
ramicy is due to inadequate rental models for identification, ete. n such a milieu psychology students, often drawn to the subject out of inatufaction with other ones, mat egin to see it as relevant to social issue Witchcraft/Frivolity/Pornography Yet what do they actually study in British universities? Academically, psychology is a subject striving to live down a discreditable, unorthodox past.
tandard neurological views on ideas ranged from "s modern form of witchcraft mania" through "frivolity" to pornography". Reich was committed to in asylum, where he died; Jung became Eu mystie. To increase its prestige, mic psychology has aped the hods of the natural sciences, which.
the societal function of the university hunges, naturally receive an evererasing amount of money and prestige secluse of their economic potential.
This "bientistic" development in mychology has been encouraged by pitalist society, particulary in th nited States, for two further reason It leads to an emphasis on the prediction and control of behaviour instead of on the understanding of people and their thought; the former is clearly more valuable to a social system which treats people as machines. Also, it leads to an the integrative function of industrial psychology and of the tendency in clinical psychology to identify cure with the ability to work; yet very similar arguments could be produced about the study of medicine, which one could hardly call reactionary as a whole even if articular practices are. In general, th eterogeneity of perspectives, the larg unchaired sessions, the lack of time for preparation and the novelty of the conference made low-level arguments virtually inevitable.
If one rejects Althusser's non-dialectical view of Marx, then Marxist thought should contain a theory on the in the younger Marx, have proved eminently satisfactory for mediating political theory. However, just as Marx's economics have required elaboration, so may his psychology. There seem to me to be a number of questions where modern psychology might be able to contribute to Marxism. In a time when the unmasking of social democracy is the overriding problem, can anything be alvaged from Marcuse's analysis of false consciousness? His relatively uncritica cceptance of the psychology as opposed to the metapsychology of the later Freud means that he has no prychological concepts mediating class consciousness, but perhaps a synthesis of Freudian with more cognitive psychological ideas such as Piaget's might be fruitful. Can a psychological perspective add anything to socioconomic analyses both of fascism an if the phenomenon of the increasin rejection, both political and non-political, of capitalist values by middle-clas youth? Or, less plausibly, can it add anything to the polemic between Lenin and Luxemburg on the organisation of Bolshevik parties?
In addition to combatting distorted ideologies based on inadequate psychology, such as those produced by Ardrey and Lorenz, it seems possible that Left Prychology could have a meaningful positive function by contributing to Marxist theory. One major reason why it has almost completely failed to contribute until no now is the positivist and isolated nature of modern scademic psychology. Thus this conference in its chaotic way may indicate a more promising direction for British psychology. (For anyone interested in these developments, the conference produced a legacy in the form of a bülletin, which will probably reflect all three positions mentioned above; for information write to Ruth Davies, 197 Goldhurst Terrace, London, N.W.6.)
Tim Shallice This article has been held over from previous issues for space reason. Although the conference which it reports happened some time ago, we think it is sufficiently interesting to our readers to include it here.
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