Bertrand Russell | IMGpapers 1968

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The death of Bertrand Russell means that a great man has left us and the void that this loss leaves will not be filled easily or by one person or even Several. Bertrand Russell's intellect was of the kind that is only rarely seen, and we are all the poorer for the loss of it.

This dees not mean that we thought that everything thal Bertrand Russell did was correct. On the contrary like the resl of us he was human and fallible. But his humanity was of the heroic scale, While the bourgeois press have poured out their eulogies aboul his great achievements in the field of philosophy and mathematics, and also about his early ‘rogue elephant’ periods such as in the first world war; none of them mentioned or gave credence to his last and perhaps most outstanding work, This work was the setting up of the

International War Crimes Tribunal. Whilst the Tribunal was harried from one country to another, and presented as some sort of stunt Russell reacted with dignity and calm, This was possible because he knew, as we all did on the left, that crimes against humanity were being committed by the United States in Vietnam. The vindication of the findings of the Tribunal has come about by the 'discovery' of such atrocities as look place at 'Pinkville’. It will be for his work on this issue if for nothing else that Bertrand Russeli's memory will be cherished by the youth of the West, by the victims of aggression and by all those who have suffered from inhuman indignities of hunger and want and who have been brutally attacked by predalory imperialism. In the last few years of his very long life Russell grew in stature as; he attacked these injustices. This last phase of his life was perhaps his greatest and finest hour. For this we salute him.

This Issue

This issue is almost wholly devoted to the question of workers‘ control or self-management, We feel that this question is one that needs to be explored theoretically and practically, Inthe pages of this journal we can only explore in the ‘abstract', bul we are sure thal many workers are shortly going to explore it in practice. This is why we fell the need to publish the material here presented. We have deliberately chosen material that ranges fairly widely in content and concern because we feel that this question is one that is central to socialism.