Special for the Oper iscuss cuts by the Inner Londo dure 30pm, Westers Fiade Schoel, and the Mustard Gang disco. This Is conserts planned sor Jungand July. SCORES of Bengali socialists demonstrared Bangladesh military Tacy were workeis coonging 1 the British branch of the JSD (atiyo Samajtancrik Socialier Narianal Partsi which has been brurally suppressed.
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hms been executed prison and there date in prisomers. Rebinan's regime 1 Uaf democratic Macist currents and the JSD is the major socialist force appos- withdrawal Baluchistan Fartber detalls from JSD t/o oclulist Challence, 323 Eppe As Prime Minister Bhulto moves lowards a negotiated settlement with the opposition, the mass disconient appears to be subsiding. However a number of militant trade-unionists, who oppose both Bhutio and the rightwing opposition parties, are uniikely to be released.
Uuman Balech, & lender of the Imprisoned several times under Emergency regulations over the inst eight yeurs is in Baloch campaigned as a candi1977. provincial assembly elections on a platterm and transitional of troops testeration of all of wages and the right of recall of all elected representativos.
The impact of the campaigo was felt in Baloch's stronghold:
of JES ESLER SUCULES Karachi. On May Day, Baloch and his comrades organised a working cis com a do of the military authorities. Immediately after the raily Baloch and several other lenders of the United Workers Federation were Martial Las Court to six months arrested and senleniced hard labour.
It is obvious thar Bhutto's deal with the opposition will nor help them, MOHD AKHTAR
IT WAS IMPERIAL domination that provided the Crown with its brightest jewel in both the figurative and literal senses of the word. India provided the material basis for enveloping the working class in bourgeois mythology. It also provided the Koh-i-noor, the largest uncut jewel in the world, which to this day is mounted in the ceremonial crown.
Such remarkahle external success had deep internal repercussions. It served to fixtheold, transitional polity of England into an unbreskable shel. What could mossibly ne wrong with a society which bad won these triumphs? The newer bourgecisie of an industrial century was won over, first to tolerancethen to love of the bastard-state. All the marks of crypto-feudalism were rhapsodized into supremse virtues. That generally backward-looking, shambolic character in flicted upon it by historical isolation turmed government.....) "The British monarchs do not stand alone in the social sky [as fairy-tale accounts pretend]. They are surrounded by a necrophiliac state-order groaning with beatified relics, rusty talismans and mystic precedents. Reconstruction of this tomb was a priority of TOM NAIRN concludes his article on the post-1945 Labour SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 18 June 1877 13 present circus look like a village fite It ir odious, but not surprining. that so much of the working class in four countries remaits enthralled by this geriatrie symbolium. The social conservatism in question is not a confidence-trick practised on them by th guvernors (allhouch of course there an dements of this in the stage-management of the Royals). It is a deeply-embedded can of mind, and one not yet shattered by man experience. Imperialistn bas left behind a detritus far bigger than superficial judgs ments on the left admit, and several generations have squerzed this substanceinto compacted, resistant form. It is transmitted in a thousand ways chrough the capillary vessels of popular culture, as well as whipped up by Ministers and press barons.
For this reason counter hysteria against the Queen has small effecs. Denuociations of what she coses, or how many actes she owns. are a futile side-track. This is not in any way a counsci of despair. Igoes wirboucsayingthai an uncompromising republicanism WEl
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