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out singularty ugadie 1 revolutionary journal. The "il the nottien vacuu! role of such a journal is which has now been created in capitalist deninea on me one nand by the objective political situation in which it finds The British left is the most narochia deters ve and divided of any in a groups are najor Capitalist nation: vorkine, ana on the our the task of a revolutionary Dy Is own aD Hes. ILs estimates or the journal is to change this potentialities for truggle and by its ideas inat is internationalise. about what a revolutionary aoressive and united To do this we have to fill a The British left is now political tasks related to pacer win a set ol political opportunities it agitation and propaganda;
we are not a theoretical the day to day piling up magazine anougn neory of the contradictions and is an essential part of the DrOD eInS OE brIOSI society in its post- heoretica imperialist decline: the magazine we are trying to traditional container of convey me monaton the working class, the ana the concepts needed Labour Party, though by by revolutionaries.
Our most obvious no means ucau, 1s de problem is that we are least temporarly not the organ of a party weakened ane discredited; in addition or group. This has a numbers of young recincar side to Eu people have gone people do not automatically give us tonio ur opposion by capitalist society whic publication and we have varw rom me intensely notice socia 1st student. no acduy mauc way ou asunibuane me magazine once we have got OUt religous aberrations of the It is also a political we can state our policy on issues and ane collapse of want to be collared by an Demystication Is existing group, and there are many people within Done? insisted on exisune groups wao die the LSE Directors (issue not satissed win ne productions of their own no. » and or me traul organisations. We cannot about strikes (no. Iz) are precisely the kind of British left nor can we call revolutionaries can use to combat the On Hass SuDDOEL, DEE W picture put out by the can get a readersnio mat transcends the boltea! DOUrECOIs Dress Zooul divisions of existing students and workers groups, Fantasy and policy orum where comrades ure the tw + tasks we have. The can wite Every pontical movement in France was oraanisaaons needs a not orry revolugonary I publication; but every Does. Dul aso in solt publication does not need it used ideas and sumbols a political organisation. from all revolutionary As a non-affiliated and Maoism and Trotskyism revolutionary ournal we have tour essential tasks Guevarism - and from information, demystifi- movements mal dre normaly considered as caron lantasy. ana poncy being separate from the intormation on revolutionary struggle revolutionary action in Britain and abroad is from Dada, and surrealism soreled is both eatin and what is and theories of individual liberation. The normal ene ur picees on studene heavy-handed response is quer ua ane worker. to write off rival political struggles and short items of news. This kind of to condemn movements trends as deviations and information is important in several ways: inal are not exoney that a group of student political as "petitmilitants or squatters will DULLECUL "individualist" Denert oy seamue or te ete. ete. what is needed experiences and acuvite is the confidence to learn it prolns e sewhere from Trotskv and Mao another is that a constant and Ho and Che and wide nature of the Freud ana keich are Marx and William Blake revolutionary movement CAPITAL movement and not to Palestinian revolution cling, defensively, to one These questions have been strand in it in adanon. opence up on me lett fantasy in the sense of within the last year and enmusiasm can Do we have played some part contributed by a in pusning them forward revolutionary journal. It In more general terms, we is interesting that the are smuttanicousy slogan "Don't Demand, advocating a revolutionary Occupy" on the cover of position and advocating issue no. 6 was both the policies that are within the realm of political most condemned and the most popular thing we reality. Precisely because ever published: the we are not the organ of a traditional political groups accused us of have been able to convey irresponsibility and the the renewed revolutionary young militants in contidence waich factories and universities although it has begun to put it on public display. later. nas sprcad over une If we could come out European left in the past more frequentlv it would few years be essential to publish Two other problems provocative revolutionary need some mention: style positions on contemporary and audience. there is no events - congratulating existing style of the Koreans on shooting revolutionary journalism down American spy which we can use. The theoretical concepts of manes. or avine oul solidarity to guerrilla Marxism nave to be introduced, but they acuons oy raiesuan and Vietnamese which cannot be assumed. or were reported with the other hand a horror in the bourgeois revolutionary journal press. Instead of the that confined itself to enteenice mounte o the vocabulary and sectarian tone of much of concepts of the bourgeois the publications on the press would merely be left, our job is to convey an orman or tocra a sense of unrelenting, radicalism. The aim is to enthusiastic and dynamic fuse Marxism with the
Last August we printed an issue which contained a complete text of the BBC script CAUSE FOR CONCERN which Scotland Yard had tried to suppress because it proved beyond doubt that certain policemen were racists and this came over in their dealings with black citizens in Britain's ghettoes. In the same issue (B.D. 14 August 1968-back numbers available) there was a small diary item which referred to the fact that a Notting Hill Gate policeman was not very popular with the borough's black population There was one mistake in the report. We referred to the policeman as a Sergeant whereas he was and still remains a simple Constable. We also promised readers that in subsequent issues we would further investigate the activities of the aforesaid Sergeant'. However in typical Dwarf style we forgot. The Black Dwarf (with thanks to Det. Sup. Moody and Det. Sgt. Cressy) PC Pulley as seen by the Sunday Mirror LATE NEWS FLASH 16th Constable . Over to you Superintendent Merrick. and charged * has decided Are result Gate puller As a result On Friday This time the owner of the equipment May arrested the sound