the list Chullenge for its conceprion of 1h working class readership and advancer general criticisms of the haven the per pa practin berweer theory I would argue that to anempi to an Prower is terr endles ol workers) under conditions isolation and fragmentation for the revolutionary left is a self-defeating and incorrect tacle. Lenin's artitude to the sounding of a workers puper in the South Wales in 1921 may have bee excessively demanding, but reveals B deep scepticism nhout all forms o substitutionism:
If the CP of this district cannos chis: ellect a few pounds in order to publish small never beginning of the really proletariai communist newspaper every miner will not pay a penny for it then there is not genuine galvanize a working class readerstup to forge a direct link between the vanguard and the working class, while real political influence over workers remales to be won.
This is not to say that the pape should not he readers,. immurable Women's indispen Education and mule SucHlist Prone sage mis Ca * abeul Socialist Rafern HAMMEHSNICH Socialst Challenge which a practice. acaravate the we all acreel politics)
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The danger is in the attempt to serious hint anisation aimed al warker This kind. contact with the day-to-day striggles | NEI.BEI.TON (Camden INh COMMUNIST UNIVERSITY of LONDON July 15-23 Polydechole of Central London Widerange of specialist and general courses, includio! Blisa Labour esenical, Theory, British Stare and British Rond 1o Socialiser, as well as City Polities. Popular Music, Sex and Class Liberation, Student Politics etc. one-day Symposium on the Future of Post-Schoo Further decails from The Organiser, CUL 10, 16 King St. London WCZE SHY.
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18 Camdes Socialle nature and theory of a system of discipline control rivalling the bourgeois state. As we so timeless formula for correcr political Sournalsai but Ordine Nuoso workers paper, remains a profoundly counter-grain en comrade Kirkwood's notion of what a revolutionary paper can achieve.
li could be argued that these ambitions should not findspace in the weekly paper, but in other organs of the revolutionary press This would Richard's argument berween the rather dismalls absiract program fon the essentials of which, he is sure (wich is to be the rest of each others' This failure to fuse action and programme raises scrious questions about the organical peal Tores of the movernent which might emerge from such a politics. invoked by the International Socialise Allante tends lo reproduct dichotomy berween propramme and HE EDC division between 'activists and intellectunis Iris hardly alone in this, but in this split The one-sided emphasis on rapidiy freezine into and purges ar the try of systematic political differences. Unfortanately, an orealreudy exists whose militanisare a study in pragmatism o Contonporary Marxis Special and BroD sympathetic to Socialist Challen /0P3Bax50. London NI on SC organise MIDLANDS For deta s 425 sa Biminghsm NOTTINGHAM Sociallit Challengi Interraticnal Spoakor Ph neat Comfies member eli LEICESTER Socialist Challeng
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