IMGpapers 1968–75

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1968–75

PEACE

Black Dwarf Vol. 14, No. 26, 1969 · pp. 8-9 of the scan · 472 words

The scan: v14-n26-christmas-1969.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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in the ranks of the solidarity workers internatioally. This type of jourhalism can only assist the SA regime and the imperialists. Can you blame me for wondering whether your organ is really in agent of imperialism?

I have not even attempted to answer all the accusations made in the document, because this I necessitate writing another article. Moreover is is an imperialist trick. I am sure that you are unaware of similar attacks on other revolutary movements all over the world. Have you ready forgotten the articles written about Che (eg. his love-affair with Tania, etc.)?

Lastly I can only hope that one's fears and oubts about the Black Dwarf are not proved to be true. Moreover, when such articles are pubished in the future, at least check on it thoręhly; anyone who has bothered to even investhis document in a limited way would ve found many discrepancies and lies. Yours sincerely, A. Pahad, 83 North End House, Fitzjames Avenue, W.14.

You devote two whole pages to an article, "Southern Africa: A Betrayal" in your latest issue. In your editorial introduction you present this as an atonement for your previous sins in reporting the struggle in that area.

If you are serious in your journalistic endeavours, you should not have published this article. You talk about "proof" and produce none. situation easier for the private landlord, and an overwhelming desire by big City property interests to get back a stake in the residential letting market, having, of course, first manipulated Parliament into making the necessary relaxations on rent controls and other profit-limiting restrictions.

Before going into this, and it is undoubtedly one of the most dangerous aspects of a chaotic housing situation, it is interesting to take a look at Sir Cyril Black, whose career was a copy book flight from residential to commercial property after the last war.

Sir Cyril Black, Conservative M.P. for Wimbledon (mercifully he has announced that he Will not stand again at the next election) epitomised the Puritan backlash in Parliament. He railed against homosexuality, premarital sex, abortion, pornography and drink, forming a terrible duet with the equally notorious Sir Cyril Osborne-who is now at last dead.

Black frequently intimated that he was speaking with the voice of the Christian conscience: a Christianity which wanted society to incarcerate minorities such as homosexuals.

He is a Baptist; when an enlightened member of that sect wrote to the Baptist Times, suggesting relaxation of the censorship laws, Sir Cyril thundered back that the correspondent was "a traitor to the Christian cause". He also personally paid for the prosecution of Selby's well• known book Last Exit to Brooklyn.

He could well afford to; despite all this talk ON SPIRO "I TRAINED HIM MYSELF!"

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