cil (57 Labour and 3 Communists 10,000 who marched on the last on it) have agreed to rehouse any tenants march of September 22nd. GLC tenant evicted and obviously All Dwarf readers should remember this has aided the struggle tremen- the slogans— dously. Tower Hamlets is now the "WE WON'T PAY" leading borough in tenants solidarity. One daubed with red paint. of its rent-offices the slogan was HELL" CUTLER TO GO TO being "NOT A PENNY ON OUR "NOT A PENNY ON THE RENTS — DON'T PAY THE IN- RENTS"
CREASES". The Council haven't You'll hear a lot more of them bothered to clean it off yet-pro- before the London tenants are bably it would be put on again through! Logue Poster 5s. post free kom The Black Dwarl, 7, Carlisle St., London, WJ.
the World remarked to The Black class.
Dwarf: "Let's face it. we all know Does the News of the World corwhy people buy the sheet. Because rupt and deprave? These are the it's dirty. They buy it for the dirt. words which lawyers use when they ban serious novels and plays about So why is it full of Tory propa- sexuai behaviour. Both these words ganda? Who wants to read about mean make bad. If pornography make people bad, so does the News politics in a dirt sheet?' This printer's of the World. All they mean, really, theory was that it all stemmed from is that sex-books encourage peole to the joint managing director, Mark masturnste Plenty of people will Chapman Walker, who lives at 4 swear In COUrT if necessary, that Cliveden Place, SW1 (SLO 2808). they masturbated over the News of the World in their childhood. An The printer believes that Chapman action could be taken against this Walker has close links with Con- seedy paper - but it would be hyposervative Central Office. But maybe critical, since the law on obscenity is this is mere gossip and rumour. idiotic, and sex stimulation is not always evil. The News of the World He is unfair, though, to the British is horrible not because it is sexy, but public in thinking that we buy the because it is anti-sex - always eager paper only for its lip-licking, yet to punish sex-offenders, while getting prudish, tales of sexual diversity, It the thrill of their 'crimes'. also has good outdoor sports This relates to the paper's politics. coverage. Here we may detect the It likes scapegoats. It likes punishinfluence of Sir William Carr (who ment. It wants to make its readers controls the paper through his own feel NORMAL and pleased with and his family shareholdings). He is themselves. So it persecutes the odd keen on golf, athletics, boxing, man out. It has steadily fomented cricket, rowing and dog-tracks. He feeling against coloured people. It lives at 26 Cliveden Place, SWI (SLO demands severe penalties for sex2403 and 6248). He also has a little It longs to hang people.
crimes place at Bentley Wood, Halland, These are Tory feelings. If you can Sussex.A typical public-school and only get the working class to forget Cambridge produces their own troubles by making them paper which his own class treats with hate someone else _ criminals. percontempt - but which they are glad verts, Negroes, Jews - you have won Chorial favoured by Enoch Powell. This was swings under the sign of the hang- all handy in the Smethwick period ing Negro. Ask Ian Smith and of Tory racialism. Some readers felt Duncan Sandys. that the News of the World sexOne of the few pubs in Brixton crime reports were concentrating unwhich has ever been boycotted for duly on coloured criminals. Since banning coloured The then we have had further News of George in Railton Road. Now the the World surveys on coloured imlandlord has a new craze. His saloon migrants, very like Peter Earle's. One bar flaunts a poster calling for the was by John Deane Potter, the wellrestoration of capital punishment. known normal-family-man Alongside it is a letter from Duncan talised in John Osborne's play "The Sandys letter from the World of Paul Slickey. The most Licensed Victuallers Central Protec- recent was by Graham Stanford tion Society of London, both asking and it culminated in the News of the for a hanging. (Think of death while World's ballot-slip, asking readers to you drink. Last time the publicans vote whether they wanted restriction demonstrated it was against the on coloured immigrants. breathalyser. They want to keep A few weeks before, the paper Death On The Roads.) printed voting-slips asking readers Can you smell the News of the whether they wanted to hang people. World? Like other Sunday papers Punishment and restrictions are the main interests of the News of the they maintain a punishment corresWorld. They get the votes they want. pondent, Graham Stanford. Like Keen punishers, and those readers ancient John Gordon and poor, sick Robert Pitman of the Express news- who have been brainwashed by the papers, he writes as a plain, bluff paper's weekly drip, write in support. Most of us are too lazy to family-man, attacking, accusing and exposing. Who do they expose? Big oppose.
Noyes Thomas became the politibusiness? Bristol Siddeley? Dow Chemicals? Ferrari? Not on your cal correspondent. His first big stories were about George Brown life. Local councils, nationalised industries trade unions - these are the drinking and about Harold Wilson's targets. With a sprinkling of petty secretarv. Marcia Williams That's This kind of politics. The sad thing is crooks who send holy water through that this paper has such a big circuthe post.
lation that few people are willing Graham Stanford may be seen to refuse to write for it. Journalists drinking around Fleet Street, often who want to attack Harold Wilson in the company of colleagues Peter from the Left take advantage of its Earle and Noyes Thomas. These two columns. Clive Jenkins, the ASSET together on the Christine inside the students"). The story is a typical case of downright lies and bogus bullshit. Unfortunately for Regan, October 27th passed off TITO'S TROUBLES without incident, but readers of the Soon after the Russian invarag had been infected with a good "healthy dose of anti-student hyste- sion of Czechoslovakia there was ria so what the hell. worried exchange Why did they pick on Jagger? between Yugoslavia and the 'Youth' is one of their scapegoats. United States. The They like looking for youtntu! orgies, it gets the readers excited -and then Graham Stanford can wondered whether they recommend a good spanking, more sign a defence pact with the thrilling still. Their favourite photograph is that Grosvenor Square one (17 March) showing a uniformed was interested but not interested policeman "spanking" a girl demonenough to shatter the status-quo. strator with plenty of leg. They reprinted it twice, by public demand. So what they suggested was that Who edits this rag? Stafford Yugoslavia sign a mutual assistSomerfield. a Barnstaple man who ance pact with Greece as this joined in 1945, a dog-breeder who has written a life of the murderer, would be a fairly convenient cover. But at this even Tito Haigh. He married for a second time in 1951 one Elizabeth Mont- balked. Sign a deal with the gomery. Mrs. Elizabeth Somerfield fascist colonels. Never! Result: lives at 2 Cliveden House, Cliveden boring stalemate with the Place (730 7032) - very near Carr colonels extremely upset that and Chapman Walker. Somerfield's address is given as 26 Chelwood they have not been able to House, Gloucester Square, W2 PAD 2194). Does he know how filthy his paper is? Does he like it that way? the C.I.A. liberals seriously want The News of the World keeps up La foothold in Yugoslavia they a steady six million circulation. It started building itself up in the 19th will have to do 'something" century and during the first World about the colonels. After all this War, by breaking the Sunday observ- is Europe and not some nigger ance laws and by publishing lists of continent like Africa. war casualties. Now it has interests DWARF regime in power. The main BOOBY-TRAPS student demand is for political FOR SALE liberty and for socialism. Of of notes course the mass media in this We bring to the attention country has ignored the butchery Dwarf readers the firms, G.
Yugoslavs being perpetrated by the Ayub Garland and Co. Ltd. and N feared Russian intervention and regime. He is after all very rovar Ltd. They occupy prem could nearly one of them. How dit- on 100-101 Nibthwaite Re ferent it was in the days of Harrow. Dwarf corresponde United States (a secret one, of Nkruma and Sukarno. We still who visited the area tell us t course!). The State Department remember the stern editorials in it is a small family conc The Times or the faked torture (non-union) and employs won photographs in The Daily Ex- part time (because of the | press. On the arrest of Mr. rate) and three full time m Bhutto the leading Oppositionist Though the official purpose on the liberal Left The Times the firm's existence is to ma remarks that perhaps it is facture television compone beneficial. Of course it is but yet our reporters have to whom. While we do not agree covered that this is merel with most of Mr. Bhutto's views front for the manufacturing we are in complete solidarity anti-personnel devices amon with him in his opposition to the which is a propelling pencil t Ayub dictatorship. The struggle blows your hand off please the United States and in Pakistan is only in its infancy. turned. These devices are ferred to euphemistically understandably upset because if It will inevitably develop till the four families who rule Pakistan "switches.' They are packed are overthrown and the reign of the premises in British ex-ar terror is over. ammunition boxes and tal away in small loads in the b of a large pantechnicon.
THE GAULLIST They are then sold to vari SCHOOL OF African states not well-kno FALSIFICATION
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