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dr. miller, who is presenting the case, presents the brown: (nods) man. brown: — miller: did you ever think of that? : “come in, mr. brown. on the evening of that first day, the prime minister went ontelevision to confirm to the nation what he had told the seamen—that the strike would do direc, perhaps irremediable damage to the nation’s economy, that it was a strike “against the state, against the community,” that it would “breach the dykes of our national prices and incomes policy” ... then the key passage “our determination to insist on these principles (prices and incomes policy) when the cost is so great will be taken by everyone, both here and abroad, as a proof of our determination to make that policy effective.” ‘40 so on the tuesday morning the nus found itself confronting the government and the incomespolicy while the shipowners federation, not reluctantly, stepped into the background.

Reviews

The long term moral aspirations of marx, of professor ginsberg, of hobhouse, and one might add, of adam smith, all fall within approximately the same range; a social science making possible the rational control of the environment is a moral demand central to them all; all too share the emphasis on individual responsibility and development, the "leap from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom", which is designated by professor ginsberg in the idea of "self-direction". What mr. lowenthal is anxious to prove is that not merely considerations of defence against russian aggression require the preservation of the alliance between britain and the united states, but that in being opposed to soviet communism the labour party must be committed to a close association with american capitalism.

Appeasement

, hitler now brought off his biggest coup: at munich came the crowning betrayal of czechoslovakia — a triumph for the all-out appeasers: "the french and british governments went so far in appeasement that when the soviet government offered to stand by czechoslovakia if the latter resisted hitler, even though she were let down by her ally france and by great britain, the czechs were told by mr. chamberlain and m. georges bonnet, the french foreign secretary, that if they fought with the soviet union as their ally, france and britain might not remain neutral and might supply hitler with arms and munitions (i.e. become the arsenal of fascism). when the foreign affairs committee of the french chamber in february 1933 passed a unanimous resolution calling for an international embargo on arms to japan, sir john responded on 27th february with a speech in the commons in which he again formally repudiated the covenant of the league (which bound all signatories to come to the help of victims of aggression), declared that the british government would not in any circumstances take action against japan, and proclaimed an immediate embargo on the export of arms both to china, the victim of aggression, and to japan the aggressor— an early example of the illegal as well as totally immoral device of "non-intervention" that was to cripple the spanish republican government a few years later.

1968

Its strengths were profound: the extraordinary power and liberating effect of people in movement; the re-emergence of the working class as a mass protagonist; the articulation of a new set of demands; the coming into play of new areas of conflict; the constitution of new social antagonisms; the emergence into struggle of new social subjects. Much of the revolt of 1968, drawing on the movements of the early 60s, took a cultural form: it was expressed in music, in a new preoccupation with lifestyle ('the personal is political'), in libertarian and antiauthoritarian themes, in a stress on pleasure, in the spectacle of consumerism, at its extreme in the fusion of politics and culture in the underground and hippy philosophy.

Spend, Spend, Spend?

Why should these countries insist on spending less than they earn - thereby generating huge trade surpluses, which is the form in which the deflationary pressures of their excess-saving decisions are transmitted to the rest of the world - when, with an increase in expenditure, all of their citizens could be made better off, as a result of the increased imports which their trade surpluses and huge foreign exchange reserves allow them to purchase? certainly, the failure of west germany and japan to enjoy to the full the benefits of their new-found economic prosperity is unhelpful from the point of view of sustaining international levels of effective demand. That is to say: their savings, in the form of the huge financial surpluses which have, hitherto, been going to finance the us budget and trade deficits, must be recycled to other participants in the world economy, thereby providing them with the 'the spectacle of the richest nation on earth receiving a massive injection of resources from the rest of the world' purchasing power to increase domestic spending and finance any resultant trade deficits via rapid increases in indebtedness (both internal and external).

1997

and thus it had been that the checkers, in collaboration with the general parents unions (for did these things not start off in the home), had finally combined with the national kindred volunteer detachments (now combatting the distressing rise in pre-teen crime) to form the kindred groups of britain, who had generously taken on the task of administering the growing network of retraining and reeducation centres, now re-named the general utilities for the location of all anti-social groups, in one of which was jane. (and he passed the gaping window of a junk shop, in which appeared to be a kind of strange, brown, box-like object, which was obviously some form of visionless receiver, from which a voice emerged, which explained how, in response to the liberation of the south ukraine, the forces of the warsaw pact — in a 'protectively offensive operation' — had taken braunschweg and hanover and were half-way to the rhine). And of but she had admitted, always, that it course harold did as he was told, and they could get out of hand, that one of these were standing in the garage, with the bags 'adventures' would prove to be unstoppaand sacks and boxes, when bryan ble; and he knew, because he'd heard it screeched in through the jaw-like doors, talked of, seen it flashing on the vdus, of and the two of them humped all the food the sino-soviet rapprochement, and the  january 1984 russian/chinese mutual defence pact, and the growing tension as the chinese government prepared to repossess hong kong at the ending of the british lease on june 30, 1997. .

SUPERGIRL

supergirl is a good example of a film which while appearing to accept a change in the status quo (by having a woman in the role of a traditionally male hero) in fact reinforces the status quo and reassures its audience that any apparent challenge to the status quo is probably illusory and anyway containable. When supergirl arrives on earth she is full of wonderment at what she finds from daisies to bunnies, to bras- by making supergirl an adolescent girl who is sexually naive, much of the threat of a strong woman is taken away - it is worth noting that tomboy characters are conventionally shown as being sexually naive.

Arts

Mayakovsky’s agency, rosta, when he toured the story and tragedy concerns the special soviet union giving unprecedented historical relation which existed public poetry readings to large between him and the russian language. Although it seems ironic that the programme does not include any of the newsreel films on community politics or black peoples struggle (for instance ‘the young lords’, ‘the black panthers’, ‘community control’, ‘child care: people’s liberation’, ‘high school rising’, ‘the meat co-op’) the films are certainly worth seeing as represen­ tative of important aspects of what newsreel stands for.

HOME

Mike was appearing before judge macleay to appeal agains a deportation order, but the judge refused to listen to the case, and told mike to take his appeal to another court, after the hearing special branch officers let by the notorious habershon, who has been chiefly responsible for bringing alleged members of the angry brigade to trial, swooped on mike before he was even out of the building. On the ruins of fascist west germany the americans built a state that would stand firm in the front line of the cold war: the socialist and communist lefts were harassed and disqualified by the us occupation forces; the bruised but still vital bourgeoisie were given huge sums of money (marshall aid) and encouraged to create a new set of conservative political institutions (the christian democrats); and many old nazis were kept in office to serve their new continued on page 4 15 march 1972 might argue wouldn’t be won.

INTERNATIONAL

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3  7 days 8 march 1972 exploitation in th ird w o rld the films black burden - m an s china - legacy of unvanquished - murder by empire - the n egl e ct + gl a ub e r morte s & terra rocha's em antonio transe s e mi n a r s/ di sc u ssi on s - b ri ti sh , u.s. overseas free sample copy from: the institute of race relations 37 jermyn street london sw1y 6du (01-734 4606)  7 days 8 march 1972 power cut scandal how the cegb conned the people andrew cockburn he central elec­ tricity board spoke of the “calculated risk” it was taking on march 1 when the government breathlessly announ­ ced that it was lifting practically all restrictions on the use of elec­ tricity.

ARTS

L t d p r e s e n t s " r o l l e r d e r b y ' a jerry seltzer-michael hamilburg film presentation r o l l e r d e r b y charlie o'connell and all the other stars of roller derby mike snell christina snell butch snell his lather, and his inends executive producer l. s. fields producer william richert director robert kaylor in colour christine, “but it was worth it” . following panther spokesmen, huey newton, bobby seale and eldridge cleaver, emphasis lies on political work in the penal institution precisely because the peoples’ incarceration there is the outcome of racism and repression; not just because racist police go out of angela davis: p o rtra it of a r evo lu tio n ary a со-featuring w ith donald shebib's g o in ’ dow n th e r o a d x opens thursday, 17th february, at the venus cinema (4 8 5 8 0 8 0 ) bartholomew tow n r o a d ,off k e n t is h kentish town 22 road n.w.1.

LIFE

The cobden report con­ cluded that without legal representa­ tion, a suspect who had been remanded in custody was better off not appealing against the decision of a magistrate after all, he could only be remanded for 8 days, and he stood more chance of getting bail on a second appearance in court if the magistrate wasn’t already prejudiced by a judge in chambers quashing his appeal. They have produced the first issue of a duplicated magazine ‘people’s defence’ which documents local cases of police aggression and harassment, including the mangrove n the grim, stuffy court one nine trial and the further charges o f marylebone magistrate’s against roddy kentish and rhodan court last thursday and fri­ gordon (two of the nine).

INTERNATIONAL

(6) the anti-us national resistance of the vietnamese and indochinese peoples is not only aimed at protecting their basic national rights, but is also of great international significance as a positive contribution towards the destruction of the us imperialists’ counter-revolutionary global strategy and nixon’s doctrine; as a contribution in blood and bones to the defence of the socialist system; as encouragement to the national liberation movement of the asian, african, latin american and oceanic peoples; and as a safeguard to peace and democracy in the world. after world war two the us imperialists implemented an extremely reactionary, global strategy aimed at undermining the socialist system, at repressing the communists and inter­ national workers’ movements, the national liberation movement and the democratic movement, at sabotaging peace, at carrying out us neo­ colonialism, at preparing for a new world war and at ruling the world.

INTERNATIONAL/CAPITALISM

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INTERNATIONAL

the people of chief mudavanhu of belingwe district had long asked their chief to allow them to meet and be read and explained the white paper (the settlement proposals), but the chief refused and told his people that it was unnecessary to do so and so as he was emphasising that the people were not concerned with the settlement and that it was going to be decided by the white inhabitants of the district including the d.c. who had told the chief that he was in favour o f the settlement proposals. much of the time of a professional california at berkeley, the university has three full-time employees who just university coach is spent travelling handle public relations for the athletic throughout the country recruiting high department — and this is not school athletic stars to attend his uni­ versity.

ARTS

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SPORT

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SPORT

But inspired by the actions of such athletes as tommie smith and lee evans and challenged by the writings of athlete/intellectuals like jack scott, whose underground book, athletics for athletes, provided the manifesto for jock lib, groups of athletes have begun to organize. one group, the jock liberation front (five chapters to date) describes itself as a “loose formation of athletic freaks, former jocks, some women’s lib people, health food freaks, people coming out of speed and into their own bodies, fraternity and sorority people, and academic people.

LIFE

They are gifts which descend on children from another world, the world of adults: every toy tacitly contains the truth that children are dependent on adults, barred from the adult world and expected to enjoy life in a world of their own. If you go round a big toyshop it is easy to see how the world of toys really follows a whole set of unconscious rules, rules which are later reflected in another form, in the minds and attitudes of the children who receive the toys.

International

the police story leaks on every side: technical details (no cry, no marks on the hands which are instinctively raised to protect the head, almost perpendicu­ lar trajectory, absence o f bleeding from nose or m outh, all factors which point to the fall o f an inanimate body rather than a suicide); contradictions between police and press timing o f the incident (the journalists w ho were on the spot g e r m a n y : police fight with red a rm y the management 7  7 days 15 december 1971 international 7 days 15 december 1971 international r ex italy: pinelli assassinato v alpred a innocente by terzo fabbri today italy celebrates tw o sordid anniversaries: the arrest o f pietro valpreda (december 15 1969) and the police-murder of pino pinelli (december 1 5 /1 6 , 1969).

Life

7 days 24 november 1971 l if e how the daily m irror found britain’s huggable mum in a million report by john hoyland mrs britain interview by rod caird just as the ballyhoo round the miss world contest was reaching its climax, the daily mirror announced the results o f its very own “mrs britain” competition. the mrs britain contest has been an annual affair since 1967, when mirror editor hugh cudlipp told his staff: “a good family is the bedrock of society, in spite of all that’s said against it.”

Book Reviews

Mr. hinsley’s description of the concert as a coalition of states founded on public law for the defence of that law (p. 196), with a consensus about the there is a great deal in the book that the student nature of european society and a habit of diplomatic restraint, show it not less clearly at work in the international community. Mr. hinsley roundly denies it, and minimises the ideological element in present soviet policy; though there is evidence that mr. khrushchev has believed that the “many roads to socialism” will all lead to the consolidation of a single world economic system, under a shadowy oc 1963, 40s.) vattel, that the theory of the social contract did not apply to the “state of nature’ between nations, 93 views no. 2  aim was the maintaining of peace.

Book Reviews

This present volume is an amended is likely to leave substantial numbers of both these important age groups—the youngest workers and the older workers—without employment: the younger because they have been inadequately educated and trained for the technology of the growth sectors—the negro workers and rural labourers being the obvious the united nations autumn/winter 1963 economic commission nowtechnological change, rapid as it is going to be, 153 ‘views no. 3  examples—and the older age groups who are being displaced by technical change and who, without retraining, can no longer fit into the industrial machine in the age of automation and computation. Little that is new will be gleaned ductivity and expanded trade with the less developed from these pages, but even mr. walt rostow’s latest ‘discovery’ that the unfavourable terms of trade between the industrialised and new nations are less nations—a point upon which mr. barratt brown rests much of his owncase.

Kenya Revisited

With the campaign for nuclear disarmament and the committee of 100 in the forefront, the peace movement in britain shows strength and organisation ; it has widespread support in british society especially among youth, trade unions and church groups; it is represented in the highest councils of a political party which, if present trends are any indication, stands a good chance of coming into power before the year is besides the intellectual independence for which free men search, neutralism holds a strong appeal to the political left. The relevant question now is not “is neutralism dead?”: it relates to the state of neutralism with special reference to the commonwealth; and, with the probability of a labour government in britain, to the prospects of com- anti-bomb, anti-nuclear test campaign got rolling.