Monday, October 14th ANGRY ARTS FILM SOCIETY: Cuba Si — Chris Marker's partisan documentary of the aims, the mood and the rhythm of People's Cuba.
NEWCASTLE SOCIALIST SOCIETY: 1 p.m. Union Debating Chamber. Speaker: Tarig Ali.
NEWCASTLE VSC: 7.30 p.m. Old Assembly Rooms. Tarig Ali on the October Mobil isation.
Tuesday, October 15th EDINBURCH: VSC. 7.30 p.m. Hume Tower.
Tarig All on Vietnam and its implications for Revolutionary left in Britain.
Wednesday, October 16th DUNDEE UNIVERSITY LABOUR CLUB 1 p.m. University Building. Tariq Ali on The Collapse of British Social Democracy. GLASCOW VIETNAM AD-Hoc CoMMITTEE: 7.30 p.m., Typographical Halls, Clyde Street.
Tarig Ali on October 27th Demo.
Thursday, October 17th STRATHCLYDE UNIVERSITY VSC: 12.30 p.m., Union Hall.
Taria Ali on VSC.
GLASCOW UNIVERSITY R.S.A: 7.30 p.m., Men's Union.
Tarig Ali on 'Student Power. VIVA ROSA LUXEMBURG!
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Thestreet-fighting Popgroup Roland Muldoon out!
writes: — trate in London.
Sir John's transfer comes as TURKISH no surprise to NATO circles. For months he had been argu- FITT for Democracy DELIGHTS ing that he was fed up with The recent outbreak of viol NATO and wanted to ence on the part of the hooliForeign Ministry sent out to A note from the Turkish was pointed out that Britain where the action was When it TAne Northern Ireland police force who comprise all its foreign embassies has was as yet not involved mili- should surprise no one familiar with the repression and cor
Monument to Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, Berlin, 1926. The massing of horizontal forms foreshadows some of Wright's later houses. The monument is a thick wall treated as a massive relief. (Courtesy, Museum of Modern. Art)
The opening of Mies van exercise for German neo- our Comrades of der Rohe's new temple-like capitalism. And called for the Diagnose reminded. the 50th art gallery in West Berlin last rebuilding of Mies' marvellous anniversary of the murder of month was certainly enhanced Luxenburg-Liebknecht mem- Rosa Luxemburg and Karl by the demonstrations of cul orial of 1926, smashed up by Liebknecht will fall on Janutural revolutionaries (Mus- the Nazis, abandoned by the ary 15. Black Dwarf readers eums to the museum!) who Stalinists. It was good to see wanting to mark the date pointed out how sad it was clean, crew - cut American meaningfully should write to that the old master's first acolytes, glancing nervously us at the Dwarf office. building in Berlin for 30 years over their shoulders, before should be a propaganda- signing their names in support.
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Roland Muldoon The last article I wrote in this column was so severely mutilated by an "economising" editor that it wasn't worth printing at all. (If one didn't know better, you might suspect C.I.A. divide and rule tactics.) But for anyone who did bother to read it, it might be of use to explain that the mystical "we" 1 referred to was in fact the Cartoon Archetypical Slogan Theatre. (A revolutionary theatre group.Ed.)
Pop music for years has been a Beatles as "socialist in practice if useful way of reading the pulse of not in theory". They say it's all one society. The Top Twenty over the happy world when they appear on last 15 years reflects the best and television with smiling immigrants the worst of the so called younger and David Frost. And on the back generation. Regular mum's darlings of their latest money-maker is a Frankie Vaughan and Engelbert lecture for all of us who have forHumperdink have been willing tools gotten that "all you need is love", of the capitalist society, their images called Revolution. That record is have been cardboard imitations of selling well in Wallace's America Hollywood stars. These so-called and I think it is the first of many celebrities are the types that you are "intelligent" establishment propalikely to meet when you win the ganda records. So, these blue eyed pools. Glittering out of their tele- fellows of the Maharashi of Holyvision sets, they are the symbols of wood don't dig Mao'. I doubt if he all our yesterdays and the Cold War. cares. He's got the biggest fan club But on the other hand there has been in the world. I care because I have the violent pulse of a hard Rock looked up to them as a group and I world. We saw the light in Little know that millions still do, and I Richard and Eddie Cochrane and think wrongly, that the interest then, as we came of age, groups shown. in them by the establishment the Rolling Stones and The is an acceptance of us all. It's my Who reflected our stuttering state- opinion that the beatles are deliberments: "Get off our backs". Records ately safeguarding their capitalist inlike the Stones' "Satisfaction" and vestment. But as they themselves say "Don't play with Fire" and The "It's all a big con". Who's "Substitute" are classics of What a difference it is to know our time. They constitute the seed that the too often persecuted Rolling of the new sub-cultural revolution. Stones have answered it all with At present times are a changing their record "Street Fiehting Man" fast and all over the globe youth is How long will it be before the big becoming the vanguard of revolu- record companies only release tionary agitation. The one-time easy records that justify the status-quo.
TURKISH For months he had beeo arguDELIGHTS Wing that he was fed up with NATO and wanted to go A note from the Turkish where the action was. When it Foreign Ministry sent out to was pointed out that Britain all its foreign embassies has was as yet not involved milirecently reached the Dwarf. tarily in the Vietnam war and Our Turkish correspondent that the Federal Nigerian govhas confirmed that it is not a ernment was averse to visits practical joke on the part from senior British officers, Turkish civil servants. The Sir John remarked that he was note reads thus: in fact talking about Britain. "Rowdy student leaders He had heard that there'd Sartre, Simone de been some trouble with student Beauvoir, Marcuse. Taria Ali, demonstrations and he might Regis Debray (whose where- become a top military adviser abouts are unknown but who to the Vice-Chancellor's Com. micht try and enter Turkey mittee. His request was from any frontier). Yevtush- accepted and there is no doubt enko guitarist Margaret Seeger are and British woman that vill bring Sir John's appointment a badly-needed Breath of fresh air to our under no circumstances to be eiven entry visas to Turkey." fuddy-duddy educational inAmusing though this may stitutions. be it corresponds with an extremely inside Turkey itself. Lack of repressive situation SOFTLY, SOFTLY space prevented us from print- When one of our Humbering an article on the subject side darfs phoned up a local in this issue of the Dwarf. but coach company to book evidence is beginning to mount coaches to go down to London of a secret list which is being at midnight i on Saturday, circulated among top govern- October 26 (a sensible time to ment officials Turkev. go down), the coach operator Known appropriatelv enouch before asked as THE INDONESIA FILE it is a list of over 10.000 Marx- the London demonstration on ists. Stalinists. Leftish liberals Vietnam. On being told that and procressives who are to it was, the coach operator be wiped out at the first sign helpfully mentioned that the of any serious trouble. Need- police had instructed him that less to sav there are various thev wanted to know about copies of this list. One of any such bookings and had them is with the CIA who told him that all coaches gave the final OK after their carrying demonsrators will be FITT for Democrac The recent outbreak of vio ence on the part of the hooli Northern Ireland police fore who comprise should surprise no one familiar with the repression and cor ruption which prevails there The presence in the House of Commons of Mr. Gerry Fitt, the Republican Socialist M.P from Belfast, has been useful in exposing some of the demo cratic traditions" which are encouraged by the Ulster Tories, but usually the issue has been played down, both by the mass media and the Labour Government. Two days before Parliament was recalled to discuss the Czech crisis the police thugs broke up. a civil rights procession an Ireland. The demonstrators were walking from Coalls. land to Dungannon. Their demands were: More houses, more jobs and One Man One Vote. The police erected barricades and dispersed the demonstrators. When Fitt mentioned the dictatorial state of affairs to the Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, the latter replied that while of course he was interested to hear when there were breaches of democracy under the Union Jack his greater interest was restoring it under the Hammer and Sickle. End of argument.
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