Unless the same questions are taken up again now, the way will be left open for the right wing to under mine the campaign against the cuts by deepening the divisions inside the working class. It is this question among others that will be taken up by the Conference of Socialist Teachers.
SOCIALIST
TEACHERS CONFERENCE nowon 25-26 October For further details write to: Bernard Reagan, 24 St Agnes Close. London E.9.
Sarah violently rejects the male-dominated basis of their relationship, in which. he sees her simply as an appendage of himself and his politics - the strike has given her the chance to realise fully her own personality, her own political views, and finally her own independence. Very vividly we see how politics is about real life, and how personal relationships can very clearly illustrate more general social relationships.
CENTRE STAGE Far less, successful, however, was the way that the social democratic mislead ers, whom the series worked to expose, began to dominate the action and take over the centre of the stage. This illustraces a very real problem for marxist dramatists, who understand - contrary to what we are taught and read - that history is ultimately made by masses, classes, and their huge social force, not by individuals who at best express. personify or respond to the pressure of large numbers of people For example, the main reason that the TUC leaders called off the General Strike after nine days was not their own naturaly tranorous personalties, but the fact that they feared the developing organs of workers power, which threatened to take the strike out the bureaucrats control. This was not stressed sufficiently in the programme - in that sense it was a partial failure. Nevertheless, the series still stood head and shoul ders above the rest of this year's TV offer