THE distinguishing characteristic of socialist militants is their virtual anonymity. They work quietly. Here they can be seen selling a paper, there wielding an ageing duplicator.
Ask them what their weekly activity consists of and you will receive a litany of meetings: trade union brasches, aggregates. anti-racist committees.
The list could be Itisar irritating There at Do won there personal rewards. A revolutionary fighting for the emancipation and victory not of individuals, but of a social class and of all the oppressed.
This existence is not widely acknowledged. How could it be otherwise in a bourgeous society! Is not the aim of this existence the very extinction of the bourgeoisie? Never dreamed, though right was worsted, wrong would triumph Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.
regular internal party They adefi nea the militant is -Robert Browning Thus recognised only by those with whom they are in contact. Friends and Comrades, trade union colleagues, union bureaucrats, Special Branch operatives, employers.
They alone know the militant in question wickling a cost a tiny group of peo death was reported in Britain aad throughout Bourgeois society utilises all its institutions to seal off those who are its most consistent opponents. It seeks to enclose them in a small circle, whose diameter is the only boundary of the dissent that the ruling class is prepared to tolerate.
acknowledged and the medis, enemies.
lovers, abnormal existence. те Стогу till then to iversal. His Council.
Mahboob Ahmed, strike committee, If this border is violated then all hell is let loose. We saw this in Southall.
In 'normal' times the militant is reviled by atomised by capitalist society, treated as an oddity by many work mates. Toe life he or she leads is a constant battle againsi As such it cannot but be su It is only in death that the qualities of the militant can be safely appreciated.
Bair Peach's Da = Union lead Gill spoke officially But the mass of people were militants like Blair. Jayaben Desai marched silently recalling SPG's brutality the leader of the Garners was also there, hundreds of Asian a Joba convends Охуда speaks murderer Phoenix S with the Ra as Tony Cliff Then "International' reso movement.
brother. forgotten must be seen as a priority.
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Blair Peach Southall Defence Fund.
Micky With fists katr Peach? painting from Dan Jones, available as a colour poster 20 x 30 ins. The price is Tower Han (Publications), 2 Call Money raised will be contributed to th Fund Socialist Challenge 21 June 1979 Page 3
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Photo: ANDREW WIARD (Report) One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break,