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In the picture WE THANK you and your reviewer, Larry Herman, for his useful review (17 January) of our new publication Photography/Politics: One.
However we would like to point out some inaccuracies following his remark on 'how language can unwittingly be used to confuse'. In the course of making his point your reviewer has misquoted the article (for 'feminists' read 'feminine' crucia difference!) ano cut out an important explanatory footnote and a specific reading reference which even included page numbers. Additionally it was a highly We have tried to work towards a consistent use of nonmystificatory language in this publication, this does not mean we should ignore technica anus wien erev are necessary, especially it we give ample back-up indication of where ceria cle iull.
It's far too easy to dismiss exploratory or theoretical work with nit-picking attitudes.
PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP, London N1 Advising the SUCH is the level of hysteria in petty bourgeois circles over the war i Afgharstan that some oi vour correspondents have been infected with it.
Richard Carver (Letters 31 January) for example mocks defencists as organisers of Red Army welcoming committees. He was shocked to see the word "invasion', in one letter, placed in inverted commas. Yet Trotsky used the same inverted commas around the word 'invasion' when the petty bourgeois opposition in America base yourself solely on the features position will be devoid of the cheapness to vulgarity when he tries to sav that detencists wond denv every action of the Red Army. Again we look at the social content. once more again on the nature of workers' strikes or peasant protests: 'We have never promised to support which is the instrument of the Bonapartist bureaucracy.' Likewise:
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A FEW weeks ago you were suggesting that the failure of the abandoned the practice of proletarian internationalism in favour of 'detente'.
you state your opposition to the on the grounds that it aids a Western imperialist 'war drive'.
development in the Marxist dialectic, is just old-tashioned hypocrisy!
SE4 Young Socialists needn't falsify history in the Socialists...
Keep Left' the SLL (now WRP) which SOCIALIST CHALLENGE EVENTS CARDIFF: SC More inlo rine chone Colin. 57406 Nick, 605052. High OLDHAM BRITSH TRADITION those forms not because they are the expropriations but our advice to conduct revolutionary propaganda against the Kremlin oligarchy; fight masses in the course of the struggle, their struggle and give it the greatest possible independence. Only in this insurrection against Stalin.' (Open Soviet Union to assist the Iranian left was a result of an internatiónal conspiracy, in which the Russians And yet, in your latest issue, Soviet intervention in Afghanistan Does this represent some new For am I to assume that it ANDREW GOODWIN, London PHIL HEARSE is right to defend the Militant tendency against Lord Underhand's witch-hunt, but he process. He claims that his Lordship was 'instrumental in the 1960s in driving out the leaders of the Young who had won the YS to Marxist ideas through the paper As a founder member of the YS, and, from 1961 to '66 a member of produced Keep Left, I am qualified to dispute this statement. The YS was overwhelmingly Marxist right 10B Books, Salisbury OisIde COAS — foI OLDHAM SC sold every Saturday omside Yorkshire more iniormaton about loca Public Meeting Kick Out the Seward James Neli, Shett. 2). Bath in Thompson mare. Tel. 061-236 4905 Yor more informatien. ers г тоге птогта S GENANG HYSTERCAI ABOUT THE SOVIETS WHILE KISSING THE BACKSIDE OF THE YANKEES OR (GIVEN THE CHANCE) ORDER ING TORTURE IN IRELAND WAC HICVaOUCKU Double departure YOUR 'General Strike/No World War" issue (31 January) expresses a "Is there going to be a Third accompanying. barbarism?' of 'war and revolution'. Only fools Faced with fresh danger of war, main question: What can the years before 1914 refused to support the war plans of the imperialists and A third world war will not be a repetition of the first or the second, but a war between East and West, capitalism and communism; and it will be fought with the most horrendous weapons. All the more reason, then, for the workers to - STABBING WORKER!
-CONDONING refuse support to the imperialists and prepare to meet war with revolution.
If, upon the outbreak of war, the workers of the West fail to overthrow their governments and take their countries out of NATO, the consequences will be more terrible than in 1914 and 1939. The peoples of the West will have to choose between revolution and probable annihilation On the front page of the paper you call for the steel strike to be turned into an indefinite general strike. But you say nothing about the fact that a general strike will bring the country to the brink of civil wal It matters little whether you propose a general strike against the Tory 'offensive'. All general strikes turn political. In 1926, the TUC declared that it was merely coming to the aid of the miners and dREes CESTOLIC tdut government. Trotsky called this "ridiculous' On another occasion, Trotsky wrote: 'Nothing can be on a higher plane than the general strike, except the armed insurrection. history of the working class movement proves that every genera strike, whatever may be the slogans under which it occurs, has an internal tendency to transform itself into an open revolutionary clash into a direct struggle for power. (Whither France? p.79.)
He continued: "The leaders of the proletariat must understand this internal logic of the general strike, unless they are not leaders but dilettantes and adventurers 'Politically this implies that from now on the leaders will continue to pose before the proletariat the task of the revolutionary conquest of power. If not, they must not strikere tp. Beak of the general strike.' DAVE BAILEY, Newham I WAS amazed to read in Socialist Challenge (31 January) a statement allegedly signed by myself and three others about the last conference of the Liaison Committee for the Defence of Trade Unions.
I never signed any such statement. I never made any such statement.
You even claim in your report that an attempt was made to mové this statement as a resolution at the conterence and was prevented b! heckling. No such attempt was You also say I signed my name under the Rank and File Co. ordinating Committee. No such committee exists I did make an attempt to get moved a resolution calling for a conference organised jointly by the LCDTU and the Rank and File Defend Our Unions Committee. I am still working for a united opposition by both organisations to the Tory Employment Bill.
It would be rather more useful if you had printed that resolution and the call for unity which I made. Nothing at all is to be gained by snide attacks on the Communist Party.
All you have done by your illresearched inventions is io make the search tor a united fightback against the Tories slightly more THE LIST, . WELL-NIGH OUR TASKS WVl-k VUN difficult. and for accompanying published the statement.
The entire attempt favour of the class struggle However, tor the mos differences.
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APOLOGIES several issue. strike, Grant; pages abortion Journalist.
Our Spare journalists Jnuary Journalist.
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- AND DO JOHN DEASON, Secretary Rank and File Defend Our Unions Patrick Sikorski replies: First on the coverage of the LCDTU conference.
John Deason was approached by supporters of Socialist after the conference chairperson had moved to cose the meeting it wo delegates that it would be better to come away from the conference with a positive statement calling recall conference rather than have the conference split on an organisational Verbal agreement was reached on worked on and agreed. John Deason was given and took a copy.
It is true that no signatures were appended in the heat of the moment, this reason the text in Socialist Challenge explicitly uses the word 'agreed" and 'signed' both above and below Secondly, we do not claim that an was made move resolution; simply that it was judged impossible (sic) to do so.
We apologise for appending the wrong committee to John Deason's As is well known we are always in united action of those fighting in the workers' interests in as John Deason has said, this cannot cut across the need eNECINEYC debate It is for this reason that Socialist Challenge is in favour of a democratically run recall conference. Torchlight procession to Fleet St from Temple Place at 5.15pm for crediting illustrations week's Photo of 3, Paul Highfield; Chix strike, page 6, PM Photo of abortion march, and Топу Sleep CALU. page 16, The apologies are also due to Rib. The article on trainee sexism appeared on Under Review in the 24 issue was credited to The In fact originally appeared in Spare Rib (Septembes
Thus while it has called for a retum of a Labour government since the war, each of
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