LETTERS Not by politics alone | IMGpapers 1968

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Clay Cross councillor David Skinner -"the heroic councillors of this town have by their actions exposed all the nonsense about Labour being unable Dear comrade editor, Red Wecki: No 33 (4 January 74) carrios a revion of the book Not by Politics Alone: The Other Lenin'.

wac show aways assume chat derer tas actually road what he criticses. However in this particular case one hopes he did not: or eis one should conchide that there is deliberate distortion ar barrow mindedness on his part.

The introduction to the book states very clearly: *It is not the aim of this volume to introduce the SEE BELI neither the humordess mono lithic colt-bero of the officil mythology not the This it the purpose of the book and therefore any criticism of ii should bo made within this frame of reference, Instead, from the outset, the revawer classifies it in the category of these deceas of books now pouring from the bourgeois publisting houses in an attempt to explain" Lennam. This is his bask mistake, or. kit intellectual disrenesy?

If it is neither, it is even more scrious indeed, it would mean that the very eriteria according to waich the book should he judeed ane reparded as trite or irrelevant, If the needer thraght that, he shockl Bare sue tantace 1.

We, on the contric, thank that there is every ching to learn from Lenin'; remarks on literature, art, wam en's ridib and the bearaucracy luch cops fate tur wwk or the book. tong tilsson: at bara that yes soon the Bolshevik leader was a bit of a philisanu when it came to questions at itlerature or set bul at least he was aware Bat is wara shortcomice and understood frat other Bolshecks soould devote tie: to these questsens, We advise all those esper to fight baurpaois culture toscad Not by Polities Alone: The Oiher Lenin': (Most books boing expense, use thraries. Juliet Wynter and odier comrades from London IMG. to oppose in practice the decisions of the Tory government.' RS: 945401 12300 MONDAY Red Weekly 25 January 1974 Page 9

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Brian Faulkner's dash to Dublin last week did 'official" Ulster Unionist Party, Despite his old