A classical hour to an hour and a half, they class authorisation, combined with seemed -ace substantial than tional solidarity of the dockers and general ones. The dockers accepted change in the docks as necessary, even their propensity to take a nice day off, does not adeguately explain the local- as desirable and what fears they had ised character of the protest. Why Lon- were handled rationally. don It's got to come, common sense ain't within the London it? (Mr W.) "It's all so much easier than a year's pay. (Mr D.) the area. What Cable Street has, howDash talked about £5,000 and ever, done is to reinforce their stereo. everybody laughed, but 5,000 doesn't type of the lazy coloured man on too much after 40 years work. assistance, (tha (Mr K.) off prostitutes: Yet the stereotype is I'm 57, what chance have I got of not systematically applied. A distinc getting another job, I've got another trog made between long-term favour of the the ten years, that a lot of money at £25 a week. It would pay them to give us coloured residents and the newcomers; speaking of coloured neighbours, 25,000. (Mr C.) E. said oh they are alright, they are black English, like English Jews, not But they can't get rid of us, again immigrants Several dockers pointed imited the dimensions of anxietv, and out there were coloured members of the new awareness of concealed over- the local social club. but these-like minost the docks in the best coloured tenants in the council flats suggested that in practice the volun- -were and there.
A man will accept not visis on a wite privations for him uf That he and children.
So the established hierarchies of prosperous nations do not tremble at some students outside the House Guevara. The the mention ot Commons called the dockers 'fascist sighted respectable 12am may and Talkine about this one docker main- "racist? the dockers hit them. outraged; They know that they the long-sighted are faced only by are tained that although he was anti- violence and attacks on liberal institu pugnarnting whose sporadie coloured immigration, he was not in tions ultimately strengthen authoricolour bar and angrily new moral recalled that he had stood up with revolution without open to craste the Mr dockers alongside the Tews in which he cannot he born. Gradualism Cable Street. While it would be wrong really is inevitable. to pretend romantically that all the ROTAN T OUTPATT dockers supported the lews-it does To a new level indicate the attitudes and incompatible stereotypes very real confusion of THE PRESENT and change Western society, in a socialist nast failures which simultancously 'they look like family rentin fully worker's bring trona hmionists into • antonia s about £50 an hour. imposes on its working populatic the not OnV Mr B has a small car he bought humanity inherent in treatine per the second-hand and works eight hours commodities. a day as a foreman in a sweet factory employer it is irrelevant it work saving to keep his children at school. but alec the sheer stupidity of Mr C ho has t work for three system Each lost time iccidi not months since they closed the coal £300. vet they admitted mine, his wife works 12 hours a day poete to try to earn some money to feed the preventible by sensible running of children, who now have school dinners factory. on tick. The figures you give are only Then lastly, Mr D, who is said to be tha start accidents noninst deaths have can soar tramp. he walks the streets all day 300,000. and this begging and on park benches. factories alone covering only Why should there be four types ine man people, after all we're all human and hos chronic branch why can't Mr and Mr Pha the 0.000- lareely a workine year die from it, same?
TONY HARTE. London. able part.
Gardep a route away. I'm in favour of We thousht the local situation SHEE THERE volvement and also the nature of the docking's very hard you know." (Mr C.)
They were the reverse of Luddites in that they were critical of the London symbolises the problems of the working class, wage freeze, cuts in the social The question of job security was more services and a generalised disillusion- difficult, the anxiety was contained but ment with the Labour Government; not eliminated by the dockers" knowDevlin decasualisation, modernisation moving the industry from labour-to its been guaranteed by Ray Gunter in the special localised factors the holse (Wapping is earmarked to shut down in September), the proximity of Cable only the start.' (Mr F.)
Street, and the future development of affect the physical and social character spoke of the How important were these localised fears? In the focussed but unstruc- I'm earning £35 a week with overOPEN DAY AT PORTON These bottles are being filled madness, kind of liquid madness concentrate Which can be drooled across the land Leaving behind a shuddering human highway::.
A welder trying to eat his arm.
Children pushing stale food into their eyes To try to stop the chemical spectaculars Cinemascoping inside their hardening skulls.
A health visitor throwing herself downstairs, Climbing the stairs, throwing herself down again Shouting: Take the nails out of my head.
There is no damage to property.
Now, nobody likes manufacturing But if we didn't make madness We wouldn't know how to deal with bottled madness.
We don't know how to deal with bottled madness.
We all really hate manufacturing madness But if we didn': make madness in bottles We wouldn't know how to be sane:
Responsible madness experts assure us Britain would never be the first To uncork such a global brainguake:
But suppose some foreign nut sprayed Kent With his insanity aerosol:::
Well, there's only on answer to madness:
ADRIAN MITCHELL i dial, brother they re cheed, they ve been Having thus modilledcatch the aine minutes past seven nuancha, to the whole a long day. It would also cost 50s working class situation. In this context more a week on fares, but these were immigrants Were seen, despite their very slight numbers in Wapping. seen as deficits on what was otherwise unanimously seen as an improved situ- a threat. We haven't even got enough ation. work and housing for our own people? The prospective redevelopment of the Particularly where housing was con. area, (which might be considered cerned immigrants and to some extent discipline to the community) held homeless and problem families promise rather than threat, even though were seen as living in places a cat they expressed caution about the speed woulda't live in, which then forced at which the local administration might the local authorities to rehouse them be capable of achieving this. It'll be Although nOL une green belt stretching from Tower needs of working they have Bridge to Poplar—wide open spaces to Tollow me work, they were hostile that their rehousing was to be carried green frontage all along, a garden city gardens, gardens. out on the backs of the working class. -PICasure It will destroy the old community, •TeA I've been on the waiting list for 13 But redundancy was seen masked in part is going already because it was years. (Mr A) a community of griel and of poverty- Implicitly and explicitly it's only making it a bit quicker Cable Street, they simply said party It had been there for years, why underdog should it worry us They coexist with conal strenot? LIne around so far. for new look with S spoke privileged.
Shermes Dod the but there was little support for the B5108s The 'some parentnesis why in theit Wapping They seem out of it:
madness, in bottles in (Mr A)
worked force, laboriously, as a white aline marian. had to vote them As long cerned about trita (Mr C.) when did we except (M- C.)
We've MP. Peter —not once.
You tag. (Mr K.)
But these common Cor potentially the whole factor over and above these which explains Bast End dockers and East End porters crystal. lised an anti-immigrant feeling into a hostile and blatam display of racism.
But one of the curious things about they symbolise all too faithfully ambivalences of the society and the Labour Goveroment itself. Thus when basis of propie! Mr F was asked: human needs changing from a tree marker The new the How many blacks do you think there are in britam, One of long-term consumer plan Pause: state intervention and advance. st tor taken over long pause About eight million' were advocated in OLLIE COHCCUVISI TOTEE ine past. ast. But which withand how many do you think there contents and are?' Chis has caused confusion, eg remarks Something under a million.
into leads to a slackening of rank and file Very long pause:
That's what THEY SAY:
living renlisation of the necessity Yet the counter attack on racialism emphasising that there are only discuss 800,000 is in itself an implicity tem- cause real perate racism, accepting as it does that ion and eco nomic theory and The public ownerthere would be a real problem if there and distraution WELL morE The distinguished teature seems Clause radical into political- the be the fact that Wapping exemplifies.
analysis of produc even caricatures, the ideal of the old ocial responscane tiVe resources: estimate W7h91 style working-class community, inter-knit familiarly. and services, would LenseU JESOULCED stable socially, intensely militant -pecific local economic issues, but duction and use.
La planned economy sentially corporate in character: self-contained, not seeking 10 on the rest of society, impose asking THE REACK VARI should and has to be left alone to continue its way consciousness an entirely undisturbed by social change. accomplished no GT1IC but accepting some change provided can achieved.
for problems become soluble when numbers enthe process.
gage oh. merristent capitalist ethods of sense of community While Labour DOSSCTS enormous brought to For are required, the intense of ot the labour parochial up may # G. TAYLOR White Paper. their McWilson's Price (Customs treat Tario Ali missed a great opportunity when Peregrine Worsthorne was talk ted implicit ino shout nur democrcy on a recen TV programme. He might have Told (vilifying eroding unions. him that we spirit, in this C0U1117 generaily have to wait 5 vears in order to record and about half the -which population votes Socialism. We maiority of 300 Labour Party Yese dinbe Sociatist hepbre the ele pro before the election we find that there are very few for Labour masses. them host ominot them and HISES & ONESE are more Torv than Churchill. miner Lney are trving to Con and was bey but give 2600 millions of public money allow to 0o nin and up, Steel owners and shareholders same Industry nannie in Charde 9 te now under no run heinesses efficiently to make of profit. ›pinion Harld The MacDonald who received 30,000 shares Wilson Ramsay in McVitie and Price the class. annoys 'corporatism tentina rubbish that given out this Government:
There must be an increase in produc tion before the worker ere are con ernest increase in only comparatively workers who emploved in producing any thing and they keep all the rest of goaters.
population. can postmen, bus drivers or railwaymen increase producSystem would wort Thomas Pained 1 a vital element in the mi instrates BLACK DWARF with 9S1SE the basis 10 Do in and real improvement in present, would safety at work. his full first name-Thomas-rather glad to hear from any than ine goorewinice version one who can help us in our campaign G RICHMAN.
Taines political enemies as a sneer against him and it seems rather a pity Socialist Medical Association, ROBERT MORRELL Thomas Paine Society. THE STUDENT/WORKER LIAISON COMMIT (Editors Note: We thank Comrade TEE against Racialism has recently Bob Morrell for his apt rebuke anG launched an appeal to both black and assure him that the mistake will not be white militant students and workers to repeated.)
unite in order to combate racialism Red Paint, Red Paper After explaining The COr while while an anarchist sym exploitation the Committee proposes pathiser, the only that any anti racialist organisation form of power which matters IS the must include the following aims in in power over the economici not see another form of power which does not depend *To reveal the economic roots of racialism; racialism being product of the economic system seems to have a lot of exploitation, and to show that I feel it is directed against the interesti with of all working people. the fist on is it is direct simple, for To expose fully the part played two reasons by successive governments in spreading racialism.
To unite all Students and Work ers, Black and White in opposi argelv Teasons tion to racialism.
rarely ke equipped. but they To give active support to all business'- and tedium feel ill, but it of people victimised on grounds of DrOSDEGE maKeS is only race.
To oppose discrimination elderly as w grounds of colour, language, cul ideology and seem Wel ture or country of origin—all of clever argument which are essentially different which ratap to revotion, or membner reactionary to manifestations of racialism.
after the revolution. not liking The address of the Committee is: political police, •eTC (Smain, and slen SWEAR, The Polytechnic Studeats to the revolation to refer in the same piece of writing as a fixed moment Union, Elsely Court, Great in time and as 2 continuing process. Titchfield Street, London WI Ideology eems to me te compartmentalize issues in such a way as to guarantee BINITIN OF MARTIST inconsistency. think general STUDIES editors Ken Tarbuck, feeling among the young is anarchic Chric Arthur issue contains extent that they don't have to cussion of Lenia articles Cadres Sect dis do with the 'official anarchist move- and Gramsci's, ment. and largely and epis of a revoltitionard nort emotional and to do dea of the Fourth Internationat the as onnosed To anyway), Therefore reason (which is suspect in my opinion with ne senses theory ism. Cuba, practice Vietnam of international Workers wrong, or in page like page like Control ete.
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• THE - BLACK DWARF 89.3 THE CLIMATE IS WARM, sunny, tropical, the sea turquoise, the carth dark brown coffee. The girls are beautiful, black, mulatto, fair, with an easy sensuality of movement.
The arts are in a ferment of revolu- power resources, few natural rivess, tionary fervour, eclectic and inter no coal in the earth, no oil, though national in flavour. free of burcau- prospecting goes on and some deposite cratic social realism and tolk lore. 1 have been found. And I cannet but remember driving in a jeep into marvel at the determination of this Sierra Maestra along narrow dirt small island to win, to construct socialtracks, through streams that incan 19079 Everythine that Cuba neede dered into the sea, along a rocky and desperately has to be imported. the pebbled beach that was fringed by machinery, the tractore so vital for lush vegetation, 1o a small village the mechanisation of agriculture. plant
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