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"No coloured please

· Socialist Challenge No. 215, 1 October 1981 · pp. 13-15 of the scan · 1,022 words

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up what he says. The first wher group of well-healed Har vard students celebrate their graduation. They arc lippant and hollow The:

ecorate as men wane cu women watch them from •WIRDOWS This is the class which rules, Cimino is sayıng. They may look harmless but.

The contrast is with a aler scouence wnen ine immigrants who are out for their few acres of land discuss what they should do about the attempt to liquidate them. There is passion, warmth and humanity on display. It is take the political lead.

Every cliche wild west is turned upside down. For example, there is the traditional between the marshall and woman brothel keeper. She rejects him and when the battle bet ween the immigrants anc Cattle bosses is joined she goes off to fight while he initially, stays behind - a woman got-to-do, what a woman got-to-do.

During the battle the cattle bosses are encircled the immigrants who ride around them firing. Just like the Indians says one of the bosses, bu the Indians in this mn. stance are the goodies Heaven's Gate slammed by most critics, WEtS especially those in the USA. Yet there are some stunning sequences, the photography breathtaking and the tale is told as authentically as it could be, for indeed it is a true story.

Down The film was howled down because it was total Reaganism against the stream of and viciously of all it used 28073 own mythology of the Wild West to make political statement could make such liberal noises in good old TRICH But we are living in a different climate now.

Heaven's Gate is made by rarezan rroductons and Cimino leaves no doubt as to whose side he is on. *It is a bad time to be poor in the film. It always has been says another. And IT IS nO! so comfortable now to be on the side of poor.

Michael Cimino, all is SOUTHALL Fascism/Southall Rights. Cost £1.30 Advert in Southall shop, 1958:

To Let: Decent Single Bed Sitting need apply. No coloured please days' recalls an Indian worker.

The back room had a similar number.

room four beds.

workers", live and work are recorded in this mainly Asian community of Southall.

Tavern last July.

and employment, source of bitter resentment by many several occasions.

interested in the history everywhere.

lessons were actually put into the pamphlet to conservative community Youth Movement.

Handbook for campaigners Fucts Against the Bomb Nottingham for /uclear Disarmament 75р postage Mushroom, Heathcote St, Nottingham digest of material on tal digest material nuclear issue IT IS well-written and an invauaDie Commoner.

ting leaflets or simply wishing to educate Although somewhat expensive. Its importance HOS SHEET arenensiveness pamphlet nuclear weupons.

real state of the arms race NATO strategy right the - the Birth of a Black Community Written and published by the Campaign Against Racism and Room with facilities to cook in basement kitchen. Suit a working gentleman or woman. Only respectable people *You cannot imagine how barbarously we lived in those The front room had three beds, two of them double.

The two other bedrooms on the first floor had five beds, the large front "The number of people there fluctuated between twenty and twenty five. Some of the beds were used during the day by night shift workers and at night by the day shift Conditions in which Asian immigrants were forced to 70 page history of the The pamphlet describes events from the recruitment in the 1950's of Punjabi workers by the notorious Woolf's rubber factory to the burning down of the Hambrough Although the government and employers encouraged immigration in the 1950's, the black people who came here faced terrible conditions and discrimination in housing Over the years they gradually established a strong com munity in the West London area of Southall, But even the nousing and joos occupica by blacks became a source o miserable nousing and loos occupica by blacks occome local people. A The self-declared aim of this pamphlet is to 'expose the history of Southall's struggle as a political lesson for those of black COTTEE very interesting read. It could be improved if the political Though just describing events, the pamphlet leaves you with the impression that the same type of struggles tha took place in the past will continue, and it gives credibility DEEWHISALEOH Southall Indian Workers Association and the Southall way through to Home Complex and statistical made accessible.

The one missing factor is any NATO to the fact that its reconcile with some of it claim to be a defender hard amined but its role in the Defence is securing of internal orde categorised as the scope of the pam connection bet ween Britain s arsena one the oresery ton or economic exo Gite tion internally and exter- •grasp be nally is crucial strategy established finally of these weapons.

Julian Atkinson

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Socialist Challenge Lsbour against the bomb Some 2000 peopte supported the CND merch outside the Labour Party conference in Brighton last Sunday MARCH

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