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Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1968–1988

Virtue

Red Weekly No. 174, 1976 · pp. 8-9 of the scan · 162 words

The scan: rw-no174-nov-11-1976.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

Uncorrected machine reading. This text was read by machine (Apple Vision OCR) from a scan of a newspaper page, and the page was cut into articles by machine, at the headlines found by their type size. Nothing has been corrected: expect misread words, text from a neighbouring article, and titles that are the machine reading of the headline, some of them only fragments. Quote from the scan, not from this page.
How this article was cut and titled: headline found by type size in the OCR geometry (split_tabloid.py); 6-6 of 7; machine-segmented newspaper page; uncorrected Vision OCR.

page 8 of the scan

report new statistics abour 2,000 immigrants entering Britain. choice of headlines, both of which are grants flooding in' reads one; the other, "Immigrant rate down', is nearer the truth. Which will they choose, and why? Even The answer is self-evident. As the play *The best barbed wire is that which grows inside people's heads.

Weakness * Thousands of immi There's a certain virtue in this brutal. no-nonsense style, but the possibilities for humour and drama are lost under the suffocating blanket of facts which sur round each liule gem of this kind. The audience is reduced to a passive receptacle for the theory which the theatre group is dishing out like medicine. Swallow it and -vou feel better. There is little oppor tunity for the audience to react, and as Brecht said, to think feelings and feel

page 9 of the scan

ine necessity and tional conclusions were fully in line RED WEEKLY 11! r 1976. 9 was simultaneously a leader of both

← New play breaks agitprop formatTHE CLASS STRUGGLE IS INTERNATIONAL →

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