IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

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· Socialist Challenge No. 115, 27 September 1979 · p. 15 of the scan · 181 words

The scan: sc-n115-sep-27-1979.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 15 of the scan

crashed from on high overnight. For a start it has to be admitted thai, if you can ignore what he's saying. the music on his new LP Slow Train Coming' is as fresh and exciting as anything he's produced in rears.

But, more importantiy, Dylan is no idenlogies. Over the years he has been a consistent woman-hater, Women 'break just like a little girl' or have to cook, sew, make flowers grow' or 'Lay across my big brass bed'. He has played the patriarch, the hastion of the nuclear famil, and then fought hard against giving up any of his property in his recent divorce seltlement.

He is a confirmed Zionist, reporiedly giving huge sums of money to Israel. He's owned huge mansions on the richest reai estate in C'alifornia. It has been a long time since Bot Dylan was tren remotely on our side.

What is different now is that he has openly come out with a solution to the probiems his songs hare previously only This position. his individualism we could hardly expect that solution to be

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