police, writes S. WALKER.
The political tensions exploded November when the popular Wolf Biermann was delouring West Cermany at the inmetalworkers mion. Within 24 bours 13 prom nent authors signed a protest, followed the same week by over a Sents disrupted lectures demanddiscussion of the whole affair, and hundreds of workers agned petitions in his support.
In the carly summer months.
ews of fresh repressive measures expubIons THEALTERNATIVE It is im mediately apparent from Rudolf Bahro' book The Alternitted communist altempting to ind thoroughgoing critique LE CIDE DE CAR LIT my and to put fotward & real ternative to it. And of course hich the regime cannot mopt by putting him in jail.
THEFORUM From 1967 he was employed at te Herlin Kuhher Works denThe arrest of Rudolf Bahro in August of this year attests to a deepening ferment of Fast German society and politics. Fresh evidence of this was provided last Friday when a seemingly minor incident — the ending of a jazz concert at 9.00pm — led to 1,000 people demonstrating in the centre of East Berlin and bloody battles with the Wing with questions of work He had alrcady started questioning ine nany's allcelance to Marxism when he was editor of increased Farsaw ract toog zechsiovakia. H this event the biggest political crane ot ine soviet since the Second World War.
RECONSTRUCTION Bur Bahro did not leave the thanking correct 1o begin to develop a theoretical critique of the regime Party. Unlike the leaders af the considers now thal the communist muwement nas to b wholly reconstructed and that the Communist Party is bureaucrati cally fossilised and unreformahle.
AGREEMENTS Bahro's critique of the policies and structures of the East Ger man rerime must ne sepously considered by all Clearly there will be many paint agree fundamentally with him.
Some of these are indicated in ETICSEMECS ET DE LA book in the last edition of Imprecor, There can be no doubt, hom ever, that Bahro's work is bu sion and one product or a deer and wide-spread Marxist elaboration in many. Hahro will Dor be the ins major Matter wears of maturine But this first contribution deswork of tremendous vitality and , but his doubts considered catership Bakke's case is thal be was not of the minority admissions programme operaied by the UniverFessional schools. In September cam bo socialists. the California Supreme. Court found the Univerity of California dis"reverse discrimination' for opcrating a minority process East Ger appear underground like him from jail.
Last week saw the first stages of the review of the case of Alan Bakke In the US Supreme Court. Bakke, a 37-year-old white space engineer, claims that he was discriminated against by a medical school, writes by both the state open bousing jobs including hired, first fired"
minorities and касионату Jorces pro-war cra.
gunity conditions admission ment and slui bousins honesty — as well as one of great cournge. It is essential thai the Browing Cast Laman oppostion should nor be isolated from socialists in other parts of the It is essential, too, thar the international workers movement SOLITE TENECIICE bureaucratie repression in East Berlin to halt their campaign iation from and to ENHARTE free Rudolf Bahro and others not ooly national minorities but This decision has given delight strength to those forces cradication of all constitutional made by the black a massive attack on black righrs cannat and oulier anti-black forces: the Supreme Court décisions on school sogregation, and affirmative EST 20E teaching: IRS The Bakke case is one of vital importance for black people, other national women. Mast are squarely селіла шакае ш ши австрь к pur black rights back into the seich is the quota system, is muite simple Given the historical exPenence ones, present avine high unemplay and increasing discrimination, black * For information on the GDR and Enstern Evrope read Lahour Focus on Eastern Europe. No. / contains on analais of the Bier Marxists in the GDR and the nekr issue, No. 5 will солім г of the Subro cone, the chapter in his ALLETISUVE GEOLIRE with the phenomenon of bureaucratiserion in the GDR. demonstraton agars ine cocke rung un ine camornie oupreme coor Many significant advance withour thie inscicution Like employment and education. The quata system is not a long-tern solution to the problems bational oppression, but withou it the situation of blacks can only BROK DOVEILY BAS CCCn Ou BG particular relevance to the rising cnst of medical care and modical oducation in Americr TENDSITNE facilities availahle to Hacks. Acoording to a report by one physician for every TON people nacionally: hach commuraty it is anis car for every 3,000, There are only 6,048 black doctors 3,000 black dentis. and (cHA) tezisteren Blacks continue ro live shortes lives and die from hear, disease mothers die in childbirth three tires as after. Black -children surrer twice as aruce tron Hoi dericiency and malnutrition an receive aimost no dental care.
the California Supremie Court decision on Bakke, there can be ao doubi that prescot conditions will warsen. Il is also certain that & wonld give a hoost to antiвав зовст ано толос скашь! blacks would increase.
Whichever way the decision learn ou the value of constirational methods as a final salusuper-exploitation of blacks in America, Such kssons are just as TUILE TEE DES TIEN
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