as With concern that a note Doubter the Labour Mea Nontrampion. We inink a misFE acked by ICL and Sociallai Challenge supporters. Colquhoun's removal poor blacks and poor whites In misunderstanding. But the dam Workem and Left Action for real The central question at issu was the tact that sho is a lesbian Dally Mirror recognised this fac We don't advocate blankel upport lo confused witch hunts. It's probably 1oo late fo redress Challenge ended its silence and abour Party ALUM TURNER [Secretar Newport LPYS] We have scheduled an Interviow with Maureen Colquhoun for a forthooming issue — Ed.
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vehicle for JOHN BERGER'S A Painter of our Timo is andeed a fine nove in an article (22 doals so fully with the relationship betwoen art Peter Fuller's praise for it is axclusively in political terms: that 'it raised the of a socialist tuture' where contemporaneous novels screamed tacogy or to lot given meaning by their placing n a fictional work, like the wa) in which Lavin the painter wrest es with the problems of form in painting, a guorou By caricaturing all English reactionary (Dorls Lessing? Jonn Ardenti and by reducine i all to a monolithic Angry Young phenomenon (are Colin Macinnas and Alan Stilitoe really Storey and Keith Waterhouse?).
pluck Barger any cuttural context, mak dons this invoive?) of his time our time and an exile from his country.
The assumption that a novel ideological correctnesa is a Talsification of the experience of reading: do we h ave to deny that much of Lucky Jim Is funny? it to understand that humour than repress it in the name of politice virtue. And what do we make o the great bourgeois writers? Are LISTELA that few recent British writers have achieved any kind of world view and that moat recent novels have been Ine bourgeors Aron FougH painers sind by Marian attempt a fuller world view: the question of the extent of his achievemant is not simply one o correctness but creative relationship If we do not see this, we will simply produce our awn New Left' novels as predictable and Stalin's sociallet reallem. And if, like Fuller, we Inalst on treating our favoured novellats as some how delached trom our cultural There are worse ways of finding working cless is not in a state why David Storey has not writter Marxiat novels and Ethos 'ways When I was in the Inter MONS SOCHISS CENTRI Socialist Workers Party, I once suggested leading a diacussio on Berger's G. One comrade said road it (the meeting was solled uled for three months aheedi nather suggested that I spok Dout whatever it was that th Book was aboul and brought i In 'as an axample' Too much alk like thal too many of the assumptions that Pete makes and we'll bo lucky to have anything worth reading after the Revolution And A Painter of our Time le TEPHEN CHALKI . [London ПОшЕНН Лай З МОПДОВЧО the most up-to-date rethods of information and data distributian We are all aware that antispecifically sociallat ones, are stances as to aither ridicule denigrate them BULLICO TH mos conspiracy of silence on a whole serles of issues and news items When did anyone last see strike commitle@ given time ti state their case?
in the carly nineteenth century mero were stamp taxes Impose upon newspapers in this cour try, so that they NUTE HOUS relatively expensive for the work spread The Imposition:
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