William Petar Blasty, the author and producer of The Exorcist is a forme top dog in the psychological warfare department of the United States Air Force.
His orthodox Catholic beckground, making of the film, also seems to have stood him in good stead in his previous emploved in the flight to freedom! operarion which the Americans bunched in Vietnam in 1965. designed ta convince Catholic peusants in the North to flee southwards from the Communist lemor, The Exorcist' is the latest instalment in Blotty's unending Blatty and his frients have done badly in the battle for the hearts and minds" ot American vouth, Thay hope to turn the tide by redirecting attention away On this plane the more repugnant features of life under cepitalism can be swept under the rug, and the world's problems presented as a struggle between the the family, religion, middle class life yes and Dad sexual perversions look of religious taith. stranor asietic The reactionary polities of this film i orin trom the soreen in a jarring series of images centring around the possession of a young girl by the devil, and the 'struggle' to free her from this EMIL The clash of the horritic, mutilated child and her middin class background is only resowed by taking the more ridicul.
elevating it to the level of the ultra serious. The mumbo jumbo of "Exorcism' is the onlo force that con nestore cuoro Trong to as normal state. Grustn-t forces of darkness and their only antidotemiddle class family can only throw in its lot with the rituals of good and ride the ON THE RETREAT Blatty and his friends are already on the retreat. The only effective war cries agsinst communism which they can find Tendernes Toron000 Unocernocd, are drawn from the rag bag of mystic. irrational honsense. Jcous freaks. The "festival of light", defence of the unborn child, and Moral Rearmament have become the last line of defence for capimust coilsation, The devil is now no longer in the dusty lands at the bast (where the first part of the film opens). LETTERS original, he simply asserts that e advocute a policy which capitulates ло горег гена, ство Democcass and bourgeois partied!
One can only conclude from this. and his talk about unity depending on the achievement of the Socialist Revolution. that comrade Grohan is opposed to any form of united action with other workers? organisations-homever limited, or howevet lemporary Alter all its rust a diver sion from the task of beilding a Revolu tionary Party to overthrow the military junta by armed force'.
But, hold on one moment. Just how are we going to build such a party (of