So we have given over our front page to Cinema Action a London experience of striking against their bosses and is challenging them to relate their based group engaged in the production and dietribution of films as weapons of Ught lo the real forces of repression that are being mounted from the boardroom The illustrations are excepts from what they call a cinetract: that is a three war is bloody difficult and is not going to be achieved by chanting Marxist truisms. minute film shot without sound or editing and costing about E5 to make. IL is shown To the roneoed leaflet, the conversation in a pub and the all important mass meeting to provoke discussion. Members of the group always accompany the films and insist we must now add the cinetract and the photo-offeet newspaper.
At the end of May this first cinetract on the White Paper was taken to instrument of this struggle. So let's have many more cinetracts, and let's have some Leylands and shown to groups of shop stewards and workers involved in the strike, of our famous "left-wing' directors go without lunch one day a week and give It was shown several times and stopped at certain points to allow long discussions of Cinema Action the money to make them. films to a mass audience of strikers and is now at work on a cinetract about the breach it we will need to use all possible forms of explanation and argument. And The Left has always faced the problem of raising class consciousness, its own This summer, as last summer, we will only be appearing with one issue in July and as well as workers'. Something which can only be done step by step using all the one in August. Let's all get round as much as we can this summer :so travel. lear One of the most extraordinary things about the Revolutionary Left is its resistance to change.
that cinetracts are not presented or hired for consumption but used as a catalyst of discussion and action.
the issues involved. Cinema action has now been invited back to Leylands lo show Leyland struggle itself.
support that can be given to the day to day working class struggle.
means at our disposal. Nor is it simply a question of linking local and national issues, economic, and political demands, factory and socialist organisation. What Cinema Why are we called The Black Dwarf? So many readers seem not to know or have forgotten that it must be time to remind everyone.
The Black Dwarf is not a new paper, it is a revival of an old one. The original was founded in 1817 by a Sheffield man, Thomas Wooler. We like to think that the two papers have much in common.
Wooler supported revolutionaries at home as well as abroad, in Spain, Latin America and among the slaves in the West Indies. He believed in unlimited immigration and haled the authority, the judges and the businessmen of his time. His constant struggle for working class power eventually landed him in gaol.
The Black Dwarf existed for seven tumultuous years.
It was very influential and there were many imitators.
Since then we have had 150 years of struggle to learn from. We are now in a different tradition with a new history but still with some links with our great grandfathers who gave us the name.
QUOTES FROM THE BLACK DWARF 1817 - 1874 Black Dwarf intends to expose every species of vice and folly. To political delinquency he will give no quarter. Neither the throne nor altar, will be a Although only in embryo as yet this is a magnificent example of the kind of socialist. sane luary himself and each division remains a perfect animal), he will be ... listening in the gallery of the lower secking for honesty in the mazes of the law. ECONOMICS Could the rich exist without the poor? It is the labour of the poor that gives currency to wealth originally created what we call treasure, and still continue to increase it. The poor are indebted to the rich for nothing but the miseries they endure. GOVERNMENT Our junta of rough riders and political jockeys. LIBERTY The great folks make a merit of bestowing liberty on the little ones. I would ask them how they became possersed of it to give? Do lhey make the air we breathe, do they make the water we drink, do they and talk-agitale, educate, organise.
against his intrusion. Secure from his invisibility, and dangerous from his power of division (for like the polypus, he can divide and redivide REFORM house; comparing the disinterested independence of our journalists; besides the stranger occupation of substantial.
Il has long - that OPPRESSION exists good and support of all. Action is doing is trying to help workers express for themselves their immediate and from Whitehall. To make this link between the immediate struggle and the class The opportunity for this revolutionary politicisation comes during strikes or student confliets. At Leylands, Cinema Action is learning how to develop one such Capitalism's monolopy of communications is its first line of defence. To this means not only bow to combat capitalistie propaganda but how to project Finally, our revolution will be achieved not only by reading but by action. make the land that with the labours of the poor produces everything we want.
The people are too well informed to be amured with a patch-work reform. They must have something EXTRA PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITION ceased lo be a question with the opposition without the walls, as to what party should govern the country, under the present yatem.
The right of the people to resist oppression always and the requisite power to do this always resides in the general will of the people.
When the fortunes of the rich spring from the labour of the poor, when the latter are oppressed and called upon by the higher orders to comply with exactions, they have a right to demand that the higher orders should share their wealth with them, for the general