IMGpapers 1968–75

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

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· Red Weekly No. 106, 19 June 1975 · pp. 5-6 of the scan · 394 words

The scan: rw-no106-jun-19-1975.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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Spokesman Books has published Stuart Holland's Strategy for Socialism, 75p roost oo. moiland played a key role in elaborating policies on the National Enterprise Board, public accountability, Planning Agreements, etc., which became known as Bennism (indeed he got the reputation or berne neir neoretician.

BENN SPEAKS Spokesman has also published a collection of speeches and articles by Benn, covering suca topics as naustrial bemocracy, the Common Market, Mass Meda, Civil Liberties, Open Government and Labour rary democracy. TWO CONNOLLY CLASSICS The Cork Workers Club has reprinted The Connolly-Walker Controvers 25p post 5p); and Ireland upon the Disse ting Table, 60p (post 8p). Connolly's polemic with Walker (Beltast ILP leader concerns the problems of Irish socialist tween Bolshevik leaders. unity and the need for socialists to take up the national question. Many of Walker's arguments sound suspiciously LABOUR PARTY like tnose or present day sectarians Ireland upon the Dissecting Table is a mai or collection of Connolly's writing on such topics as Partition, Orangism and the Protestant workina class, TnevatIonal Question, Imperialist War, Strike StratSOVIET ECONOMIC DEBATE in Soviet Economic Debates, £3.95 (post 18p), This book demonstrates that these debates of the 1950s and vous. altnouan couchec in tecnnica.

terms, were still at root political disputes. mocee Levin relates unem to sky -to the disputes of the early 1920s be The discussions going on about the Labour Party, the evolution of the Labour Government, bennism, eEc.. make Raloh Milihand's Parliament ary Socialism, £1.50 (post 24p And works no worse than us lads.' extremely relevant. Sub-titled A study of the Politics of Labour', the book is an extremely well written account-and conservative backwardness of the home. Today the school wages no serious fight to combat reactionary attitudes to women. Although education is co-educational, the school uniform accentuates the two groups. Boys do metalwork and carpentry - the girls do needlework and cookery. The now deceased Sukhomlin- a modern and officially well-received Soviet educator - sanctioned this division saying it was important to teach girls to be mothers and to possess the 'feminine virtues One reader wrote in 1968 to Kominomolskaya Pravda asking: 'Why should I humiliate her (his girl friend) by bowing and fawning?' He explained: 'She does the same job as I.

The editors referred him to General Igniatev, who said: *One should never forget for a moment that

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