nation a hundred years hence.
RACE AND CONTRACEPTIVES the colour problem will have been solved (unless, of course, it has not) by intermarriage: though it does not occur to him that the "colour problem" includes the prevalence of a prejudice against intermarriage, so that the means which he sees as able to solve the problem in fact presupposes its solution. (One down and several thousand to go). The use of effective contraceptives will be universal; food supplies will be adequate, because this is a mechanical problem, and "mechanical problems can be solved" which is not the same as saying they will be solved. (Keep it up. Gnome). Women ill no longer be obliged to produce thei hildren in their bodies; the right to voluntar euthanasia will have been acquired need machines installed in every home. PR exercise Wildernesses will have vanished, and if we wish o escape we will have to go to the bottom of form of his idealist philosophy. It is certainl the sea.
This is an exhausting list of rophecies; not least because there is not even an attempt at coherence or argument. The HOW? of all these langes is left unexplored. Perhaps because t istence of the Mind behind the Univer provides a ready made answer; perhaps because 1 £5000 p.a. (excluding expenses) one loses a lot in making estimations of a man if yo curiosity.
Most strikingly, the agencies of change do not exist for this bewildered snob • his is a fully determinist world, distinguished only by us lallure to ten us wnat are te determmmm Factors. Deprived of explanations we can see "one dimensional thought". What comes to pass comes to pass for no obvious reasor ertainly not because any class has determiner upon it. Could one get any more alienated?
NIXON'S NEW FRIEND Johnson is blind to the existence of power one's nightmares, one ceases to lationships between men, since all men are i le grip of some unidentified power. Hence, it Harold's ear that Part is not surprising that the Editor of the New doesn't give a tuppenny damn abou aides-de-camp). He was there because it wa buttie he has apropiate black teahoul This is the measure of consistency of the not consistent in content. In November 1962 he weakness is for the taste of famous bo polish. But when a man's on the way out Squire Johnson is eager to put in the boot: to a chum to correct his grammar?"' excrutiating bits of snobbery might removed TWO CONSISTENCIES In two things, however, Johnson, despite himself, maintains consistency: pro-Zionism for once one sees the world as the repository of and anti-Trade Unionism. With regard to the latter, he even went to far at the time of the Wage Freeze (the original one), as to whisper in - Statutory Restraint - could replace Clause 4 as the foundation of are wrong", and called upon them to submit new translations of the International, ready for the time when Britain has its own May Events. Of the French ones, Paul le Rouge excelled himself in adulation:
"The power of the bourgeois-communist or bourgeois-capitalist state will not surrender unless it is directly challenged. A wild theory? Yes, but it works!" * The revolution Gaullism" Again, Berlin's revolutionary students are "the only healthy element in a formal democracy which ha never really come to life tohnson could equally have added: And the most in which to People are of course Lawson and Hugh Fraser.
social-democrat, 1 state absolute conviction that anything to the left of social democracy must be to a greater or lesse extent be totalitarian and therefore traffic in violence". The Yes apparent in May but han in arch 62: "absolute conviction' perhaps the real convietion is that one can enjoy foreign revolutions from a safe distance, and even send funds to keep them going. That doesn't rule out clinging to one's own country seat when all around are losing theirs.
COLOUR PREJUDICE
Indeed, it is frequently obvious that for all Johnson's hyperbolic moral protestations, justifications for doing bugger all: "It is not mainly having salved his conscience, can continue t upport it. Or he shoulders blame off wher we can't be expected to do anything about it: "Colour prejudice in my guess is only an instinctive human revulsion against overpopulation" a non-argument which provides no ground for picking on blacks rather than red-haired men.
SIR ROBERT PEEL
Consistency is an unfair demand to make of a paid propagandist, but the following cannot be excused. 1967: Mr. Johnson tells us he will go to a fancy dress ball as Sir R. Peel: "True, he founded the modern Conservative party. But true also that by repealing the Corn Laws he smashed it to bits and kept the Tories out of power for "I see M Wilson's role as similar to that of Sir R. Pee in 1841-6 when he switched the bias of government policy from agriculture to industry. " Almost as big a gaff as Mervvn the Duke of Splendid pub"
"I treat the ridiculous seriously when I treat it as ridiculous, and the most serious ack of intellectual restrain estrained about a lack of restraint". (Marx But we do not expose Mr. Johnson as an individual. What interests us is the poverty of a culture which has editors such as our Paul for its "intellectual" weeklies. Paul Johnson symbolises dying culture,
Alain Krivine was one of the leaders of the May-June revolt in 1968. He was the leader of the JCR, which played a vital role in those events. The JCR has now merged with the PC! to become the Ligue Communiste. At the last world congress of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International, the Ligue Communiste was admitted as an official section. Krivine's campaign represents one of the biggest breakthroughs for Trotskyism in Western Europe since the war. Rouge, the journal of the Ligue Communiste, is now being produced weekly with a run of 50,000. The French government has had to print 30 million leaflets and hundreds and thousands of posters for Krivine. Throughout his campaion Krivine has maintained a completely principled position and has not pandered to any electoralist illusions. He does not expect people to vote tor tim. He samerely using, in une best tennist tradition bourgeois elections to propagate revolutionary ideas. In his television and radio broadcasts, as well as on his posters, he is stressing that these elections are a pathetic masquerade. The only way to change the social structure of France is throuch the shop floor and on the streets. The campaign is costing the Lique Communiste approximately 28,000. Contributions would be welcome. Creques —70 5 snoutd be tert Drank out sent to. Alan Krin The Black Dwarf
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