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it's OK • ГИГНЕ ІНГ National Front, since it is more respectable, has financial backing, and assumes a Mrs Thatcher's position is not new. Since the carly "60s, the "mumber theory of prejudice (.e. the fewer there are, the beller race relations there will be) and the belief that black people are undesirable per se has increasingly dominated the legislation of the two parties a way of avoiding racism inside Britain. But che ambiguous: onis isolated individuals such as the late Sir Cyril Osborne, Ronald Bell and later Enoch Powell ased openly racist language Mrs Thatcher's speech represents che culmination of this process. No longer is the Tacist basis of her programme veiled, although it is 'people' who fear the demise of the British character and of nur way of life. Nevertheless, il is clear that Mis Thatcher explicitly identifies DESD DE MIM DELUS characteristics. Every country can take some the richness and variety of this country. matten the mooriy tireatens to ciccome d Dis ne, people get Inightened growing support for the National Front: her solution is not to fight but to surrender, to concede the basic ideology of the NF at every For it is clear that what Mrs Thatcher is offering is pure racial nationalism, She muy seem more genteel than Hitler: that perhaps is pert of the "British character'. But she and her opulation of Germany was 1 per cent whe tareen: Kevd ADLINGTON, Assistant Priest, Si Mutther, Destion Cure Arte Re Rei Rehabillation Centre, Aldgale: The CHRIS IRVINE, Assistant Priest, Si Mars, Stoke Newington: The Rend R.G. KIRKBY Ficar of St Paul, Bow Comoo: The Ren "riest-in-Charg Mement Notiine Hill: The Revd BIl Assistant Priest Chaplain for Mission 1o the Bishop of Stepney Socialist Challenge -1 HAVE noticed within the paper various hias" existe in its articies (f by this term it is meast the Socialist Challenge is developing clectic analyses and debates then the asserto hould be made explicitly and suhstantiored ? Jowing that the paper is separated from issue raised by the class seuggle, In the main CarlGardmer(London NW6 enthusiasm for lim Tound it a literally hopeless experience class mudiences, recognition in the characters, location. unusual for TV drama tradition vica that arl be betray reality"The process deconstruction of teatrancementand with the slawish copping Be shine ora TERRY socialises the SI Team MESESIS FICH the rest of us.
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the world as it is ПИСА ПИТЕ RAISMHE Allen's Spangers in your Under Review" column, 1 pessimistic. demoralising And that is the way Ithink it would be "read' by mast warkinu despite a degree of sel. dialogue and Bat that effect is, 1 helieve, intimately linked Within tat •progressive in its time und taken job of art to depict reality, lo minute and honest detail. Such a practise is based on the bourgeois reflects" reality and should atlempt o passively demonstrate whats?. Ams suggeation of what is possible — "what could -is impermissable, for that would be ro But for Marx The philosophers have onis nerpreto me world, te job is in change 1' Surely then the same responsibility rests equally heavily on dramatists and all creative artists' And that means that within their art there sus!
CICISICH present reality demandins new fores. Me cannot be content the esclation" of a sapposed objoctive truth Within the framework of a naturalistic production like The Spongers, opposition or resistance to capinslist oppression can only take depiction of politica] orthodos political struggle When ta reality such rexistance is not present (though Allen ignores the campaigns against exise, even in the Norte West) the artist or the pervading mond hecomes despair - and fe despair. True the forces which oppress Pauling in The spongers are identifinhle economic and political poe. But the marralive depices her abject surrender to those ruthless, barbang and semingly inevitable forces. In the absence of any resistance, the vision ol an all powertal historica, fite te-enters, as in the tragedies o Shakespeare or ibe novelsof Thomas Hardy despite Jim Allen's sympaths for the working class The Spongens bourgoois "reality" and a bourgeois world The conne remark ditae bavie sie shouldn': have done ir (killed herself and be four children). She should have stuck it out witt pur that this is bow oppressed people think. Bur socialist artists are siot obligedto simply pichere This their joh, like al revolutionary activists, lo transforma ic, to point to the future. And that task demands a cinar
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