Some comrades who are working on a sociological survey concerning the sex-life of socialists have compiled this questionnaire. Please mark your answers OPPRESSED AND THOSE FIGHTING OPPRESSION.
FOR THE COMPLETE REALIZATION OF ART.
POLITICAL INDIFFERENCE.
He •• WE DO NOT EXTREMELY IMPURE ENDS OF REACTION.
ON THE FATE OF SOCIETY WE BELIEVE THAT THE SUPREME TASK OF REVOLUTION. As a female, you believe that birth control is your responsibility. Do you:
Drench yourself with strong perfume to kill that telltale Ortho-Creme smell?
Brazenly insert your diaphragm in 2. full view of your partner?
Tell him how much your breasts since you started have grown taking the pill?
She looks at her watch and says, "Oh, is it that late? I had no idea. Look, you can sleep over, but you have to promise that you'll behave."
Do you behave by:
1. Starting with the touch-her-cold-toes-with-yourwarm-toes ploy?
Start reciting loudly extracts from Engels and Reich?
Assure her. "T'll only put it in a little way. I'm not a deep entrist."
Your favourite music to make love by is:
International (Chinese version!
Street Fighting Man (Rolling EXPLOITED BY CAPITALISTS AND BUREAUCRATS. WE ACT IN SUPPORT OF WE ARE DEFINED BY SOCIETY AS ART STUDENTS. WE WOULD THEREFORE WISH CLARIFY WHAT WE RECOGNIZE TO BE THE POSITION AND ROLE OF ART IN SOCIE WE BELIEVE IN THE REALIZATION OF ART FOR THE REVOLUTION. THE REVOLUTI IN DEFENDING FREEDOM OF THOUGHT WE HAVE NO INTENTION OF JUSTIFYI SUPPORT SO CALLED PURE ART WHICH GENERALLY SERVES T OUR CONCEPTION OF THE ROLE OF ART IS TOO HIGH TO REFUSE IT AN INFLUEN ART IN OUR EPOCH IS TO TAKE PA ACTIVELY AND CONSCIOUSLY IN THE PREPERATION AND PERPETUATION OF ISSUED BY THE ACTIVISTS FOR REVOLUTION, HORNSEY COLLEGE OF ART. MAY 2: TONY CAREY. JOHN CROWLEY. CHRIS CROWLEY. JOANNA DALE. JANE HARRIS. K HOWELLS. JANE HOWELLS. MARILYN NEWING. JOHN REMMY. PHILIP TAYLOR. VIVI WILLIAMS. CHARLES. ALADDISE. THEO. KIM. JANET URWIN. KATHY HILTON. VARI During intercourse, how do you communicate to him verbally?
Call loudly upon the diety with remarks like "Oh, my Mao!"
Give full utterance to cherished slogans like "Ho-Ho-Ho-Chi Minh."
Keep repeating "No, it's my fault!
It's not you! It's an inherent contradiction berween the Dase and the super-structure."
During intercourse, how do you communicate to her verbally?
Indulge catethetical interrogation, like "What am 1 doin" to ya, baby, what am I doin', huh?"
Say, "That'll teach you to criticize Stalin"?
Inquire with cold sarcasm, while to read the NLR: "Well, did you come yet?
The morning of the demo (Sunday):
You pledge never to repeat the experience on demo eve.
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To start "The Black Dwarf" on a mass distribution basis was something of an adventure. But then. weren't the barricades of May 1968 in Fans something of an adventure too? Well, de Gaulle is out of the picture now, and ne black Dwarf" is still alive. So we have to become concious or the act mat we are uvine m a period in which revolutionary daring, audacious initiative. can achieve much greater results than ever before.
The reasons for this astonisning turn in objective conditions have to be understood. the crisis of capitalism continues, with its ups and downs, - and we are just now witnessing a sharp "up". The conservative bureaucratic apparatus or sochi cemocracy and work stalinism, which for four decades controlled and canalized the revolutionary mass working calss aspirations the world over, is losing its enp on the youth, both student youth and working class youth. There does appear a vacuum, which bold revolutionary initiative can 11l] The first example was offered by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. ten vears ago. The revolutionary youth movements - some independent, some inspired by the Fourth International - which organised world-wide militant protest actions against American imperialism's dirty war in Vietnam, and achieved spectacular successes in Japan, west Germany, al that: because in the same way as te France, Britain and above all in the USA itself, were a secone examme ine revomutionary students bord initiative which triggered off a revolutionary general strike in Mav 1968 in France was a third example. Its echoes are still resounding in many countries and have been followed up in a spectacular way by the Mexican and the Pakistani students. The courage and militancy with which the revolutionary students and workers of Czechoslovakia have stood up against the occupation armies of the soviet bureaucracy and their lackeys was another inspiring example of the same type.
This is the spirit of the age. That spirit inspires "The Black Dwart. It is the spirit of socialisi world revolution, to call things by their name. 'The Black Dwarf" has tried not without success to throw a bridge between the somewnat insular and traditionalist moods of the British students and radical intelectuas on the one nand. and tne temper of "Che", of the Vietnamese, of the French May on the other hand. It did an excellent and necessary job in that field. That's why it merits our heartiest congratulations on this first DIrinGaV.
Now another bridge must be laid, a bridge between the rising revolutionary mood of the new youth vanguard in Britain too, and the advanced Dear Comrade, Socialist Worker sends warm revolutionary greetings to The Black Dwarf on its first birthday. Socialist papers have a vital role to play in the growing working-class revolt against an ailing capitalism and its frenzied attempts to shackle the power of the workers' organizations. Using the brilliant cutting edge of marxist analysis, our papers gue / Steadman / Connolly / Another Vietn cCarthy | Poverty Capitalism Kais ine qu Paris / Hull / RSSF | Tariq Ali -ARY • workers of that country, which have a tremendous to those propagandists and agitational points which present direct links with the working class aspirations: educational conditions of working class children; transfer of the revolt to secondary schools and technical colleges: working out ol specific demands for the young workers and apprentices, which are among the most exploited sections of the working class, claboration or a real strategy for workers control.
his aiso means that an increasine empaasis must be laid upon organisation. Workers, whether young or adult, cannot be attracted to peopee who just play at politics. For them political activity is a serious business, once they are ready to involve themselves in it. Capitalist production teaches them to take tools seriously And organizations are tools for the overthrow of some ramca students baraciDate m course the right to do so, - nobody should tr to bring them up on charges for their moves. We have to judge them on their activities, and on The Black Dwarf The Demonstration October 27th Mart, Pages vi /Malevim Caldue WORKERS AND YOUR SCHOOLS YOUR FACTORIE wham/[apan Frankfui Also:/de PRESS MASCHEN SHRY MARS.98, Capitalis ALL POWER TO THE CAMPUS SOVIETS! Black Dwarf has succeeded, in spirt of widespread scepticism, in creating a large-circulation organ of the revolutionary Left which cuts across traditional sectarian divisions. Its success has come first and foremost because it has incarnated the idea that the revolution is actual; because it has understood that the victorious struggle of the Vietnamese people against U.S. imperialism is a model for revolutionaries in the advanced capitalist countries as much as it is for those of Asia, Latin America and Africa - as the May events in France demonstrated. New Left Review sends fraternal greetings on the occasion of Black Dwarf's first anniversary New Left Review 7, Carlisle St,
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WE SHALL FICHT WE WILL WIN PARIS LONDÓN ROME
Socialist Worker
revolutionary potential. This means that great attention must be paid
revolutionary movements today especially, if not espression and self-emancipation. They have of
Their veroa racerism anew are i realty usu another variant of reformists, and not a new one reformists they believe that within the framework of the capitalist system, of commodity production, of exploitation, of amenated labour, and or degradation for the overwhelming majority of numka venes, a niche or maviduat emancipator cam be somehow conquered. They are the more honourable equivalent of those trade union bureaucrats, "socialist" mayors and labour ministers, eager to achieve socialism immediately for themselves, and for themseives only.
Our ambition is a bit larger. We are out to achieve socialism for the working class as a wole, for the whole of mankind. It is a hard and difficult job. It takes the efforts of a whole life. and of several generations. But for anybody to whom the word "solidarity" remains meaningful, it is worth all the effort. "The Black Dwarf"" has shown that this effort can be undertaken in a way which excludes neither irony nor outrignt tun, neiner bitterness not outright hatred. That's all to the good. For no human emotions should be left out of that most human of all endeavours, the endeavour at total human emancipation, the endeavour to build a socialist society on a worldwide basis.
So without saying that "The Black Dwarf" is the red sun in our neart, we snal persist in wishing a long, long, long, long life!
Emest Mandel The MINEWORKER, organ of the militant and revolutionary miners group — Mineworkers Internationale - extends the most sincere and warmest revolutionary greetings on the occasion of the Dwarf's Ist anniversary. We fraternally wish very many happy returns and look with confidence to the growing strength of the Dwarf as it develops an even greater revolutionary consciousness and perspective. BLACK DWARF has confounded the pessimists and the opportunists.
It has shown that a revolutionary mass popular newspaper is possible in Britain.
Those who prophesied its speedy demise have been shown to be wrona. Those who said that one had to "be careful" what one wrote to maintain circulation have been shown to be liars and hypocrites - or at least 1 hope they haver BLACK DWARF has won its support, without an organised movement and without strong financial backing, because it has boldly supported every lett cause to the best or its aDity It has championed the struggle of the Vietnamese, the student militants, trade unionists in revolt against the Labour government, tenants protesting against rent increases... the list is a very long one BLACK DWARF has won its position because people know that it will champion any cause dedinst imperialism, against capitalism, against the bureaucrats, without prejudice and sectarianism. Its courage, its refusal to compromise have so far been the source of its success It has, however, not confined itself to mere support for activism, BLACK DWARF has in a remarkably fresh manner carried a wide range of theoretical material. It can be proud of the part it has plaved in presenting the ideas of European marxists to the Druis Scene Of course issues vary and of course as the advocate of a well-defined political position I have had many points of disagreement with articles in BLACK DWARF But I can say quite trankly that the British political scene would be a much less interestino and oromising arena witnout f. LONG MAY IT FLOURISH AS THE CHAMPION OF THE REVOLUTIONARY IDEAS AND ACTION IN ITS OWN INIMITABLE MANNER' "We recognize, our old friends, our old mole, who knows so well how to work underground, suddenly to appear: the Revolution. " Marx Komrade Karl was bery bright. He knew about old moles. His mind would be flown by Black Dwarfs. Our spectre is everywhere. Revolutionary Birthday Greetings.
The Old Mole, Harrard University, Boston, Mass. The Institute for Workers' Control greets all Dwarfs on their anniversary. Giantkillers of the world unite!
Ken Coates.
Institute for Workers Control
Black Dwarf
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Boston's Revolutionary Newspaper The Old Mole
The Institute for Workers