By late of Brighton.) when they brought him in The right arm, from so, roak taking a tip the elbow joint the Aztec down, priests, they Is a beautiful piece Tore his heart out, of craftsmanship: gave it to me. Nickel alloy, (I was duly grateful)
swivel-jointed, safe And almost sound- The brain, I less. believe, at one time belonged The left arm-well, Nobody really needs To Soho stripleft arm. club owner;
And though, at I lost both legs in times, I seem to the Second African recall War Somewhat bizarre But get about events, perfectly well On the whole it serves me well.
On my stainless steel runners; And I have my blood The teeth, as I completely changed said, are false. Once every twelve But the lips thousand miles. And the tongue Are mine.
And the authorities are building A girl For me to kiss.
Pete Roche.
3..g 1938 4. Thursday 11 AJ * 7 Sundry 1 B Mortay Saturday 13 9.00 he place Emitted to see anvone except his ter PFE and his antics has been full of lawyer and his wife. errors and political CistorIons Members of the publie (and coupled with a nasty sense of pleasure wishful thinking. this has been would obviously be an advantage to that the ever H. Wilson is humiliated in public! capitalist press derives included are asked to Cleaver if well-known names were write or, However nauscous Wilson's consensus TO THE BLACK DWARF preferably, to wire their protest we are in no doubt whatsoever nolitics against his imprisonment stand on question Ray conditions on obviously Gunter PFE. specious grounds, and to demand we are concerned he has alwavs been a nasty, bag renowned mainly for the evangeli- tar right-wing shit- Address: -Henry W Kerr, Chair. his release.
Labour Party. trate suite with elements which he has hounded he same out zeal has dis- the Office Building No 1, Sacramento, 17917. California, USA. Adult Authority, 413 State tinguished his tenure at the of Labour where he opposed all strikes - EIN VOLK EIN BRUNDAGE His handling of the on principle. men's strike, in particular, brought him 1968 may vet see the military to the fore as an uncompromising and being inflicted on the United States • folk from battlefields of Vietnam being extha tended to a gigantie sporting defeat ai whence he came.' His attitude on race-relations has been the Olympic Stadium in Mexice Ciry disarmingly simpathiser of the racialists. When thẻ blantant he is most later this ois year: Afro-American athletes This is, courte naposed and sen Wilson finall go-it-alon stick by represent sneedless Thair white, pledge racist, and refuse sanctions Mr Gunter PFE But, y Mr. Avery Brundage 100 at But. this Caesarin quoted saying: we 10o much shouldh't sacrifice our economy for a Mr Brundage he the oad of blacks International Olympic Committee and He is disliked by liberals for his atti- responsible for rain roop for his implacable hostility when office. and by For him to pretend the trade unions to them Betting South set hen Various tro-Alian, countrie auch WAS Africa into the Game harplore very In now that he opposes Wilson is enough threatened to withdraw the rochowed to make one puke in disgust- even more upset when the J0c| Eepresen its love a sick social-demo- the inevitable pressure and rescincracy at its led its earlier decision THE BLACK DWARF pleased that his There used to be a similar problem in at nely face will no longer been the organisations the screene exhortine British used Nazis and there 1oa to extone workers to StOD holding the country and there was a strong to ransom? We believe that he is iniquity who an the Tates lobby which argued "that down inthe history of the Labour Olympic Games movement of this country as a 001 R held in Nazi Berlin At that stage I believe that nothing is more im wieth a hell that only death portant than this struggle. It is to can end. That hell is the present this that in direct and devious ways conditien of the world - if one is not we should devote all our energy. For engaged in terminating that conthose who cannot do so the logical dition. The dimension of eternity conclusion is suicide which made the medieval vision of Let us be clear about why this is hell absolute is replaced in our terThe present conditien of the restrial hell by the hotion world, if accepted as it is, if ap- inevitable and absolute inequality of proached with anything short of deman. termined impatience Chance This is an extract from "Art and utterl, renders every value meaning- Rava stion published by next less. Two-thirds of the people of January. Neidenfeld & Nicolson. the world are being robbed, expoited. The torture within the absolute deceived, constantly humiliated. con- dimension of this inequality JnO1 demned to the most abject and arti- pain inflicted upon indestructible, ficial poverty and denied as human ways sentient bodies but the pain of beings, Furthermore, if this con- totally denying our indestructible.
always pressing need for the recog dithion is accepted - or even more less accepted with the qualification nition of ourselves in others. totture is the existence of the other that there should be a few reforms. a little restraint and a little more for- as an unequal. eign aid it is quite clear from the Fanon. although he had evidence to date that the condition no pity for it, understood the nature of this torture very well: will Imperialism is insatiable. become Lavan more extreme It can never done talking of Man. Leave this Europe where they are vet murmodify its methods but never its der men everywhere they find them appetite. at the of every one of their Yet the situation is not so new. own streets, in all the corners of the The plundering has continued for a ahe stifled almost the whole of humanity centuries they have centuries. Why must one's reaction in the name of a so-called spiritual to it now be so violent? Why speak Look them today of suicide? ex nerience waving between atomic and spiritual disintegration.
(Continued from page 1) And yet it may be said that she Because we have reached the has attempted has succeeded. the leadership Europe indortant stage where no justification of world with ardour, she ride me the he th the world status que is possible.
Even the concept of justification even further! Every space and clined all humility and all modesty: thoucht. Europe has dedefeats live in the world as it is, we must but she has also set her face against deny every purpose and every al solicitude and all tenderness Until comparatively recently the value which, as social beings, we condition of the world was not inhave inherited: not only those we tolerable The conditions under have inherited from Europe which two-thirds of the world popusame as now. The degree of exploimade in so many ways suspect, tation and enslavement was as great.
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This diary of events is intended as a service to all militants and militant groups throughout the country. However, if you or your group ki oe as yet, not as complete as they should be. If you or your group know ar 31e organising a meeti OLIVIEV InaL yal try to gope it publicily. want people to know about, just let us know in good time and we 25 JULY:
Not a Penny on the Rent." Tenants' Demonstration at County Hall. March from West Smithfield, 7.30 p.m. 26 JULY: 10th Anniversary of Cuban Revolution. Teach-in on Cuba and Rave'. Speakers: Tariq All, David Mercer. David Cooper, Michael X. Andrew Salkey: Music: The Koobas. Entrance 5s. -Roundhouse at 7.30 p.m. - British-Cuba Association. The Class Struggle" - Socialist Party of Great Britain. Woodside House, Wood Green. 8 p.m. 27 JULY: "The French Revolution" - Speaker: Ernest Mandel, JCR Speaker. Conway Hall - 7.30 p.m. IMG/NLK. 27 - 28 JULY:
Fast in Canterbury Cathedral against Vietnam war.
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the police shot and killed the the participants, a Mr Jairus year old Bobby Hutton, and woun- Bannerji St Tohn's Collece. coffee-coloured, ded Cleaver in the leg. On the grounds that Cleaver had CroODY infoet he moustache and has long hair. bears a resemblance to one broken parole for a previous politi- of Editors. cal sentence, he is being kept in ACTION. sight Mr Bannerji in the thick of it all. punch-up develops prison under special security COS- Six brave policemen descend on ditions, unable to receive or send Bannerji and cart him off to a waiting BLACK • SELF-DEFENCE PARTOLS ' IN CAMDEN The Camden Branch of the Campaign Against Racial Discrimination has decided to organise " patrols' to defend the black community and to prove ' that organised self-defence is the only effective answer to racialist violence."
This decision follows a series of incidents in the Gower St, Euston area where there have been numerous cases of Pakistani workers being beaten up and robbed.
Camden CARD has tried to make these incidents public but so far the Unfree Press has refused to publish them and the police has ignored most requests for help. We print two of the cases below. 'On Saturday 25 May at 3.45 am Mr Abdul Khaliq, a night-shift worker at the ABc food factory near Camden Town was attacked on his way home from work a gang of six whites at the junction of Pilender St and Bayham St. He was robbed of £49 Chis wages and holiday pay) and seriously injured with knife wounds. The police were informed.
On Sunday 2 June, Mr NUdin, a carD member who lives near Fitzroy Sg was attacked by two whites at 12.30 am in Cleveland St near the Middlesex hospital. He was robbed of £10, a rent book and his personal papers. Mr Udin was kicked savagely in the groin and received serious injuries necessitating hospital treatment. observed by a Camden CARD patrol which intervened. One of the attackers escaped with the money. The other was detained until the police arrived and handed to them?
The Camden Branch of CARD would welcome help. Their address is:
Camden CARD, 54A St Giles High St, London, WC2.
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This attack was the Principal, dated 21st June, 1968. Each drop of blood spilled in a country under whose flag one has not been born constitutes experience for those who survive to apply later in the liberation struggle of their own countries and each nation liberated is a step toward victory in the battle for the SURREY EDUCATION COMMITTEE SOUTH WESTERN DIVISIONAL EXECUTIVE Education Office, Park Street, Guildford. 26th June, 1968.
It has come to the notice of the Governors that certain members of the teaching and technical staff have been visiting the premises or curtilage of the Guildford School of Art, since it was closed on 21st June last, without In the circumstances at present prevailing at the School, every member of the teaching and technical staff will appreciate that such conduct must necessarily constitute a grave breach of discipline and the Governors wish it to be understood by all members of the teaching and technical staff that such conduct will, in the Governors' view, amount to a prima facie case for dismissal of the persons concerned. Further, such visits amount to acts of trespass upon the School premises and the Local Education Authority and the Governors will, if necessary, take all necessary steps open to them The Governors also wish to emphasise that they intend, quite apart from the foregoing, to take the appropriate disciplinary action in respect of any other acts of misconduct by members of the staff in the present difficult The Governors appreciate that the above observations only apply to a small minority of the staff and wish to renew the expression of their gratitude to the other members of the staff, which was conveyed by the letter from Yours faithfully, E. INSTONE.
Clerk to the Governors.
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, out written material, and not per- yet again: their reporting of Ray
movements has burst the bounds falls apart. If we now choose to
lation lived were approximately the which European hypocrisy has
but also those which we might The suffering involved was as intense that subjects his unarmed brothers to approbrium and poverty.
the written permission of the Principalor Vice-principal. to prevent such wrongful acts.