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Astrid Levar, 57 Trinity Rdi, Landor N2 BIJ REVOLUTIONARY Not so long ago, I went cumping there. The city has a famous old cemetery- But I didn't see it. because a local citizen warned me away: the authorities were hullozing some graves of peop uried there decades ag those who went fora last look were being photographed by the KOB.
were a symbol of Ukrainian bourgeois national TRAFFIC Then thereis the L vivtraffic. For example, driving through city's deserted streets at 10.30 one evening notice a couple in a car bebind. -not goo close, not too far off. Our curiosity roused after a while, we drove twice round a roundabout and the couple followed us: round and round the rather nondescript crassy island Who did they think we were? Bourgeois Airlonalises?
Then there was this personable boung dial at the wis camp site who offered us Our Savier Ukraine, a book written by one of the lan most poweriu men In toe USSR: Pyotr Shelest, First Secretary bF the Ukrainian CP and mem сег Dile зана голове The a Bailed in the sover press when it came out in 1970 We were suspicious, Could this Se to know that one had ben jettisoned in 1972 and his book a beaned Fatalist 'bourgeois TREMBARSI course. We taid our kind official that our suitcases were full.
Shelest, a Podgorny map, seems to have been locked in combar with Brezhner for some time And to Ivan Dryuba both men beforettis fall and that was how he became a "bourgeois nationalist' under pressure he tried to bid for sopular support in the Likinin For example, in the face b Moscow pressure for more arrests ch wann reportedly said: "This is not th 1930s and Tangot Kaganavich.
ADVANTAGES Mascoa: concluded he was the wrong man for the job. After his fall Kommunar Ukrainy of April 1973 explained: says nothing about the advan gained on entering the unified, centralised Russianstate":
Naive socialists and communists in the West may bare chought that ista' were all right-wing people. Quite wrong. They coite in every non religious.
Dayuba beone —they'reeverywhere.
elementary dissidents, Shelest's book people 'bourgeois nationalshape and size: religious people and Stabrust chieftains like Shelest literary people and Marxists like and Leonid the man whom Plyushch. It's precisely this which mnkes them so dangerous: you never know who may turn out to Why is there a relentless drive Ukrainian 'hourgeois nationalison? The answer lies in •Soviet for Marxists, is a bitter paradox: 60 years after the over HITSCUS throw of the bourgeoisie in 1917 hourgeois MATHSTR dices Fights are being trampled underAfterwards, anyone, including Stalusts, who had the slightest experience of Leninist nabsonalaty policy was treated, quite rational bourgeois nationalise", or even a lasciss ay Lenin called a Great Russian Chauvinist hully'. Russian bureaucratic donnacion is justified by the trans parently consensical idea of a of the nat resists this is nothing but narionalist sticking crimunally to anriquared prejuBack in 1866 Marx hiew such RATICE quated prejudices".
The English laughed very much when I began my speech by saylay that nor friends others, who had done away with mationalities, had spoken to us in French, that is, a language which was incomprehensinie lo nine tenths of the meeting. 1 also suggested that hy the negation of natlonulities he appeared, quite unconsciously. her scorpion My the mode understand French nulice.
Exactly. What will this new Soviet nation" speak? Soriet: No such thing they will speak Russian, of course INDEPENDENT Back in the 1930 Trotsky did not finch from drawing the conclu sions From this Russian dorion Son of the Ukraine: the Likrainian betraved by Stalinism. would fight to destroy the rotten frontiers of the old Russian Tsarist Empire and build a new, inde pendent stare of theirown declared in 1960: We are struggl Ing for an independent Ukrain which will provide for the macerial and spiritual noeds of her citizen DO LEC basis 1 socialise: economy as it develops toward communism.
The writer of these lines was jailed for 15 years. The bureauc racy knows irs mortal enemy. Eor These ideas can become the hanner of millions of Ekrainians in The yearsrocome.
And in alliance with the workers of the rest of Eastern Europe, they can wrench the Ukraine from the grip of Stalinism and embark on tbe cond to a genuinely TTEE voluntary union of Socialist State of Eastern and Central Europe
IN HUMANITY'S battle to control nature, international socialism and anti-alcoholism once marched shoulder to shoulder. It is a fact that labour organisation lessens alcoholism and that everything which decreases the consumption of alcohol increases the helping powers of labour movements... those who can rule themselves are able and worthy to rule the world' warned the Belgian socialist Emil Vandervelde in the early 1900s, echoing the views of the mass of revolutionary militants of his time. Today, while the left ignores or avoids the issue, alcoholism raises two mighty obstacles in the path of proletarian advance. PhysIcally it stands as the single most widespread health hazand encountered in the capitalist world, Culturally it masively restricts the most basic social intercourse and selfexpression of the working class, narrowing its militancy and sustaining male chauvinism and other reactionary Teatures of bourgeois sociely in its turn.
damage is rarely popularly ackof Health officials have counted victims and alcobolism is statistically rared third in the US list of health hazards causing fatalities, measured nationally. Add to that the deaths and non-fatal injuries due to alcohol consumption assisting heart disease. cirrhosis pneumonia, road and industrial accidents. crimes, cic, and the cale of the problem is clarified. The medical consequences extend to bundreds of thousands of workers every day → yet the cultural impact presents arcoer treat to socialist pro gress.
PROLETARIAT Lenn proclaimed that the prolerariat is an ascending class;
cocic nor stimulant" Yet the Only Soc the ists. SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 15 September 1977 Page 13 therefore often visited шров women Dy wilt beaung or agre sive husbands returning from the pab. For this reason the British Women's Total Abstinence Union once counted 250,000 memhers (in 1935), the over whelming majority being work ing class associated with the Cooperative Movement. Today. in fresh contrast, alcoholism actually ancreasing women in Britain, who fine themselves in bouse-baund seg lusion. Lone drinking appears a one antidote to exclusion for social activity.
Male chau-stism and alcohol ism reinforce cach other - man pubs outside of modern urbar centres •practio beavily male-oriented. The broes baving been briefly oudlined, the dearly passes to the socialist left and to the coming working class revolu tions in the West Working class self-organisa tion was born in English put meeting rooms. The carly trad unions quickly encountered al coholism in their midst and fought agaiast it as a form o exploitation of the workers by the brewery trade interests.
ed its approach emphasising total individual ab stention as opposed to the need to combat human reliance on alcohol and notevery occasional drink.
TEETOTALLER The emergent labour leaders, in cluding Keir Hardie, Joseph Arch JOE DUETS STRAW MEREL son were teetotallers and in 1893 a widely-supported Labour Manilesto" called for a Veto Bill to put the rights and bberties o he peopl in relation to the Liquor Trade into the hands of the people themselves The American socialist wriser Jack London in his brilliant auto biographical John Barleycorn swayed thousands to support legal probibition, and one of the founding bodies of the Commu nist Parly of Oreat Britain was a league of socialist prohibitionWith the birth of the first workers state in 3917, a rigorous campaign to abolish alcoholism was introduced in Russia by the Soviets, It was a condition of membership of the Young Com
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