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Green Alert

The everyday aerosol can was abruptly implicated in the integrity of the stratosphere and its global green alert prolonged drought in the american midwest has unleashed a new wave of speculation and concern about global warming, the result of the 'greenhouse effect'. Jean palutikof discusses the possible implications of the greenhouse effect and assesses some of the ways the problem might be solved what is the result of increasing the tropospheric concentration of a gas which selectively absorbs long wave radiation but is transparent to short wave radiation arriving from the sun?

Golden Delicious

Or did a jaundiced, threatened' eye gaze upon her virtue and find it a vice? when carmen callil, ursula owen and harriet spicer named the virago press in 1973 and created a company 'dedicated to publishing books which illuminate and celebrate all aspects of women's lives', they had the archaic definition in mind but they must have enjoyed the symbolism provided by its corruption. Every generation of active feminists', carmen callil has written, 'from mary wollstonecraft and before, through the "new women" of the 1890s, to the suffragettes of the early years of this century, to the unsung women who laboured on through the 30s, 40s and 50s, had to start again, had to search through libraries and come, with astonishment, upon the accounts of women who had had the same hopes, problems and experiences.

Patriarchy�Patriotism

The nf inroads into ( a critique & analysis of left strategies against racism & fascism but mobilisation against fascism needs to be differentiated to where military tactics are necessary — such as at lewisham where it was necessary to stop an nf march through an immigrant area — and where they are not - such as a picket of an nf meeting. Your theory disgraces the proletariat, sexual problems only concern the bourgeoisie.’ and as macciochi comments after quoting this*, the left has not made much progress since, macciochi’s work on fascism and sexuality is set polemically against two absences: marxism’s ignorance of sexuality (she cites reich and the bitter and violent reaction to her work in france and italy) and also the fact that feminism has ignored a question vital to its practice - fascism.

Caroli Mullen

 15 spot the difference puzzle answer oniiaaw her husband ivdiulod is at avpolitical iv si un1v8st1h meeting nth equal pay is only one of many issues on which the trade union movement has failed to fight for women: child care faci­ lities, equal opportunity for training and promotion, abolition of ‘men only’ jobs and restriction of women to ‘women’s work’, equal pension rights-all these and more must be won before women can enjoy any semblance of parity with men in industry. but since the working class is divided, this essential function in no way rules out the necessity of parallel organisations among other sections of the working class with special interests in need of protec­ tion: claimants unions among the wageless, women’s liberation groups among women and the black liberation movement among black people.

Growing Greens

The conventional wisdom of mainstream politics was that, with the onset of economic recession, individual material interests would reassert their precedence over the  greenpeace & green politics 'luxury' of environmental concern. The royal commission on trated by established conservationist sir environmental pollution's recommendapeter scott's launch of greenpeace's new tion for a new coordinated pollution antarctic campaign ship in july.

YUPPIE CULTURE

Yuppie culture gets its stylishness from the traditional urban culture of gay men: it is from areas of retailing developed by gay men • clothes, hairdressing, interior decoration, flowers - that yuppies buy much of their style. Yuppie styles in dress and body language express a playful  48 october 1985 marxism today attitude towards sex roles clearly drawn in part from gay culture, while their rejection of family, procreative sexuality is both gay and hippy.

Paternalism Revisited

revisionism' as it has been termed, constitutes some sort of betrayal of a argued earlier, mount is right to associate classical socialist or marxist heritage, that socialism with a concern for the poorest the only solution is to batten down the and a positive valuation of the communal, hatches, stand firm and await the return the fact is that neither of these preoccupa- of a class consciousness of a more tions are socialist as such. rethinking, socialism at the beginning of his piece, mount complains with some justice that although much is to be found in marxism today and other socialist periodicals about the need to rethink socialism, the contributors to such a discussion tend to be pretty timid or unduly laconic about what this means in practice.

Class Conundrum

conclusion i have tried not to pretend that the articulation of class and non-class issues is easy, or is somehow an easy recipe for overcoming the serious decline in the traditional organisations of working class politics. Whilst mentioned are production and consumpthese are certainly related to class, they are tion, class and non-class issues, public and not directly centred around production — private spheres, and gender divisions of the crucial notion in the marxist definition, interests.

CHANNEL 4

Broadcasting is certainly one area in which attempts can be made to challenge the hegemony of the ideology which is used to hold our society together; the fourth channel may conceivably provide an opportunity to challenge that ideology at some times and in some programmes; but we should not look to the new channel for any sustained critique of our society or indeed of our media. nor must we fall into an error, of which workers in the medium as well as those who theorise about the medium are sometimes guilty — namely that of suggesting that by changing the most widely-used of the media we can somehow change society. 34 january 1982 channel five marxism today channel 4 stuart hood in 1982 we shall have a fourth television channel.

THE TUC

both these decisions are demonstrative of the advanced political position of the british trade union movement, and follow significant the tuc the key question facing the trade union gains for left policies made within individual movement, following the debates and discus- trade unions over recent years. as the battle sharpens between right and left in the labour movement as a whole, the communists are making a greater contribution to winning understanding of the nature of the present crisis and of the role of the working class in defeating the present right offensive, alongside the fight for longer term change.

Special Feature

the dirty labyrinth of britain’s ultra right hancock w o r th in g d eb a tin g s o c iety racial preservatio n society brighton m o nday club sussex forum bamford no rthern league ex ss men in europe diplomatic service ormow sussex powell for p.m n a t io n a l farmers unio n. n a tio n a l dem ocratic party essex powell for pm ian paisley baron coleman grace woods natio n a l party of st george conservative co uncillo r national front association of british people british israelites rev g.h. nicholson marches to the cenotaph, to take a service there, held by the anglo-rhodesian society. im m ig r a t io n control association integralists powellite association anti common m a r k et league c_ о cd monarchist press association campaign for rehousing aged a nd needy south a fr ic a so ciety mary howarth hesketh london & counties tenants association powell has links with only one extreme right organisation: the para-fan club, called the powellite association.

SPECIAL FEATURE

Their 50 per cent wage building trade workers covered by concession compared unfavourably to the national joint council for the the 7 per cent offered by the federation building industry, no more than to the unions’ national pay claim for a 300,000 were in any of the £30 guaranteed wage and a 35 hour unions, and now the streamlined week. When employers, c. bryants, refused phil beyer work because he was a known activist, the lads who attended a lunch time meeting voted unanimously to march through the city in protest against the lump, and promptly elected their own shop steward to hit back at the employers.

SPECIAL FEATURE

10 11  7 days 9 february 1972 7 days 9 february 1972 m e crowd starts its peaceful march a steward gestures at the crowd near the last barricade derry march: shots and then the crowd runs for cover. 8 9  7 days 9 february 1972 7 days 9 february 1972 on the g illes perress-magnum streets- derry ja n 3 0 о тз the newry march by richard trench nly a dog barking, and the tramping of 100,000 feet broke the silence as the two mile column, eight abreast, zig-zagged down from derrybeg estate towards rooney’s meadow.

HOME NEWS

People on the left must know what their rights are: that they can refuse to go to a police station, that they have to be arrested, that notes have be be taken of an interview, that their flat cannot be searched without a warrant, that officers have to identify themselves with an identity card, that a solicitor can be present at an interview, that everything taken from your flat has to be itemised and listed. 7 days 12 january 1972 t h e police and pauline conroy the situation and prospects in northern ireland ast week’s dispute over the bbc programme illustrated how the conservative government aim to resolve the irish ‘problem’ by suppressing it both militarily (internment, 15,000 troops) and politically (censorship).

Political news

The journalist w.t stead, editor of the pall mall gazette in the 1880s, wrote that the telegraph and printing press had 'converted britain into a vast agora, or assembly of the whole community, in which the discussion of the affairs of state is carried on from day to day in the hearing of the whole people'.2 from the 1880s, the more popular papers provide a fitful and meagre ration of political news with a heavier counter-tow of the stories about the threatened collapse into disorder of this new mass society, terrifyingly unpoliced by the natural order of masters and servants. Radio provided political news for the masses; although the bbc adopted the authoritative, impersonal tone of the broadsheets, the speaking voice and the brevity of the items fashioned an appeal for listeners, creating a new mass audience for some sort of political news.

CAMPAIGN NOTEBOOK

nothing that sir william penney has done - or, indeed, could do - will alter the spontaneous fission-rate of pu-240; and it is unlikely that any power which can obtain the far safer u-235 would use plutonium as the trigger of a hydrogen bomb in view of the disastrous consequences which would result from the uncontrolled  20 the new reasoner explosion of such a weapon. Tests have already been made of nuclear warheads for a wide variety of missiles but, if an agreement to stop nuclear tests were reached, it looks as if britain would have to equip her blue streaks and other missiles with warheads based to some degree on theory rather than experience.

Imre Nagy

Rakosi and his gang gravely violated our national decency and pride ... in a glorious uprising our people have shaken off the rakosi regime ... ' the evidence of the white book merely shows (assuming it, for purposes of discussion, to be true), that nagy, losonczy and other antistalinists formed a group for the popularization of nagy's ideas, used the petofi circle debates and such newspapers as they could influence for the same purpose, and were responsible for calling the popular demonstrations of october 23rd. And even on november 4th, when kadar had formed the soviet-sponsored worker-peasant government, his first announcement said that the movement of october 23rd had the ' noble aims of remedying anti-party and anti-democratic crimes committed by rakosi and his associates and defending national independence and sovereignty', though he then added that both socialism and independence had been endangered by the weakness of the nagy government and the increased influence of counter-revolutionary elements.

The African Contribution

negritude the second article, in which she deals more specifically with the values of african literature, music and visual arts, will appear in our next in any case, if a rigid demarcation could be made at all, it would be out of place from the african point of view; rigidity is “un-african” issue. and regarded as a deplorable western characteristic : — iews has dedicated itself to the service of humanity.its first editorial describes the compelling vision of “a world society in which each is responsible not only for himself, but for all new york! Thus the stress laid on the content of poetry, which expresses communal world-views, communal emotion and communal ethic, rather than on the individuality of the poet training the responsibility to the lineage, clan or tribe, was deliberately fostered by training, how important this african training still is was brought home to me some years ago by malam isa wali, a nigerian diplomat, who is of moslem fulani origin—people who are usua'ly moreinterested in islamic culture than in purely african traditions.

Economics of Equality

of all laborers (except farm and mine), negroes were 27.6 per cent in 1960 as against 21.2 per cent in 1940; among operatives and kindred workers, negroes constituted 11.6 per cent as against 6.1 per cent; amongclerical workers, 6.7 per cent as against 1.6 per cent. between 1945 and 1961, the percentage ratio at  economics of equality—iom kahn of whites who escaped from the below $4,000 category (63.3 per cent) is almost double that for negroes (33.1 per cent), despite the fact that a larger percentage of negroes were in that category in 1945 (90.1 per cent as against 75.5 per cent of white families).

Notes From France

in the swagbag of our lives there is hunger and misery the earth is just a big fairground each man must dig his own sweet hole the war’s got under way again all god’s little children were asleep a man alone can make a mistake but any crowd that surges forth has surely reason on its side the drum beats out the drum beats out and punctures early morning light 19  the drum beats out the drum beats out you go on marching, grit your teeth but never will you stop the tide. ” in his rewrite of marlowe’s “edward the second”, roger has composed a marching-song for the soldiers: the harvests of young men will be ample this year the wind which strokes a man’s temples has all the tenderness of death the war’s got under way again mixing flags in with flesh a man alone can make a mistake but any crowd that surges forth has surely reason on its side the drum beats out the drum beats out and punctures early morning

Race in Britain

A further factor, which may besignificant, is that in both smethwick and southall, as the temperature rose, the labour candidate retreated, more or less painfully, into a me-too position, pargiter eventually recommending a complete ban on immigration to southall, gordon walker asking chaps to be fair, and blame immigration on to the tories. He’s clearly worried by the analogy with gordon walker—several little freudian slips, like saying that sheila patterson lived for s- her own book regret five years in brixton, whereas t her inability to do just that; like forgetting tha  hampstead’s immigrant proportion, not just camden’s, was in 1961 the 3rd highest in london—and even its coloured immigrant population came 8th.

Conscript: A Story

In one corner of the bungalow a group of conscripts plays poker on a metal trunk; across the way someone strums and continually readjusts the tuning on a guitar; near the door a large group listens to an olive-skinned 'ou man' with oily black hair who has just returned from the border and fields dramatic accounts of near-contacts with terrorists, daring escapades, sadistic officers, riotous booze-ups and how we are going to 'affkak' (shit off) in the bush. 'kom, jong the sergeant growls, continuing to pump his hips, 'moenie voorgee nie datjul' blerrie swartes nie lus vir 'n bietjie lekker pink doos is nie' (come, don't pretend you bloody blacks don't lust after a bit of luscious pink cunt).

They Were Better

1st peasant 2nd feasant 3rd peasant 4th peasant we want boreholes we want clinics we want schools we want pesticides we want land we want food we want roads bridges medicine jobs 5th peasant all all all all all mai fadzi in addition to all the developmental needs of our people, we also demand that you and your government should stop arresting us for hunting antelopes for food and cutting trees for firewood. chairperson we set up the pans club in 1974 in order to coordinate our influence over the donor recipient countries' development policies while at the same time our countries continue benefiting by strengthening our sucking strings and straws of milk, blood, honey and minerals from the third world countries.

'Young Britain': Introduction

In 1986, david marsland, in a melodramatically entitled essay 'young people betrayed', written for the right-wing think tank the social affairs unit, called for the restoration of the family's responsibility for young people.4 he argued that society should stop treating young people as if they were adults and recognise their need for caring support and firm leadership. The picture is complex, and, despite the problems facing young black men, young people from ethnic 116  'young britain' minorities are now relatively over-represented in higher education.

A Crying Shame

A crying shame the public displays of emotion after the general election and diana's death created the hope for a new kind of political expression, susie orbach laments a lost opportunity |ighteen months ago millions of people came together to create a new social contract and a new set of possibilities for britain. for while the ideas propelling the black liberation movement, the new left and the women's liberation movement had marked a generation and had flowed into the environmental movement of recent years, such ideas and practices preoccupied only a minority and were far away from the centre of the political stage and public space during a 1980s and 1990s dominated by neoliberalism and individualism (the personal without the political).