taken from a continuum The SACRAC tion of a continuam in a variety ol ways. juxtaposition of their photographs SUCCILS. printed texts, raises questions political strategy and the form о зітргор.
If you look at the two photos placedside by side here (as they were in the exhibition when it was on display at Centerprise in East London 1, you can imagine Two very different sorts of "continuums".
HISTORY Look first at the photo on the left — the moment of the image seems to be an arbitrary stop in struggle overcome insufficient space, of adequate HILLA facilities, and loneliness.
The photograph's intention is to place the viewer within a WHAT'S LEFT Word. Display 22 per colun ch. Deadline: 3pm Saturday bela publication. Paymont in advance. TOWER HAMLETS Socisiat Unily is street, NT. or phone 247 2717 for NATIONAL March seen, always and by its nature refers to what is not seen. It isolates, preserves and presents a moment - John Berger.
ANNIE JANOWITZ reviews Who's Holding the Baby? an exhibition on women and childcare.
history of oppressive condi In the photo on the right, - the advert 'continuum' into which the and image might be inserted really has no movement at all.
Rather it refers to, on the one hand, host advertisements, static in time, and on the other, seemingly endless set of repetitions before the biscuits will emerge from the oven. in other words, photograph on the let invites the viewer into history, the advert suggests that there is no history beyond the limits of the paper on which the image has been printed.
The effect of the justaposition of the two photos is to produce a clash of continuums nursery in the viewer, and the result is a sharper appreciation of the gap hetween life as it is lived and as Zaman collect want HOMELESS office worker. The posnian raqures a menal health A working Contras is a The Strand, WC2 Tel 01-240 1401 12 Closing for applications other all equally single vision of each photo might elicil. of that moment The effect of the technique of juxtaposilion is not only invite the viewer to experience a while the sense of continuum, but also 1o force the political judgements possible continuums.
If the adverts act as one set of comparative boundaries to the DIMON, SUC DRS OL MOUCH FOX which accompany the pictures create a very ditlerent kind oi limit.
A picture may say a thousand wurds, but a combination of the two can set toundaries for it is represented through the the kind of words the photo ARE and of August. The only shill require is wollability, but own transport obliety bo drive an solage. Pay 25 # Bodie Wappler on 01:358 0371,21 bourgeois media than any may suggest.
intentions begin to emerge viewer to make on the photos along of a revolutionary strategy.
8 VINDE DE LOC conditions The written texts make the Live, of the photos specific, and it is as this point has what seemed to me to br problems with the exhibitior For the texts which comment suggest an answer to the extubil's question of "Who's Holding the Baby!' Goveransent. which forecloses the possibility answer or The exhibition is arranged in what you might call a storyline. or plot, raking the viewer from controlled which CHILLI WILLE mothers without proper murLa to Spin and 5.00 10 1 London Fosters circus 02 Hame S London Hill Place 4pm trom 21 Aug Organised by sery facilities for their children conditions which are oppressive not only matenally hut emotionally, into a more general analysis and exposition oflack of government funding.
Agaut, an important contrast is grapitically explored between nursery funding during the war and the cuts of today's Labour The exhibition then moves its analysis into a report of the struggle to establish the Markel nursery in Hackney, parents created a community nursery through Rd.
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REVOLUTIONARY Communis shie: Under a National Flag: FascisT Cheques Jayable to RCT Association accompanying manner which sugpests chat the way to deal with cuts is to find an alternative to THE Sure financine Because the SUg gested is simply more Market nurseries", the exhibit is foroed to quickly degenerate into a premature closing shifting the terrain of analysis away from a light against the cuts into a look at the ways in which advertising, toy. and attitades in society While the exhibit certainly opens up areas of technique for making agitational propaganda more effective, it seeins unable.
political end, and seems to ONCE IS CHE HUCK E changing the subject at a crucia juncture.
*Who's Holding the Haby?" is asailuble for hire Flashers Collective, BECAME c/t 152 Upper Street, Londor NE. Tel 01-226 0367 It will be on display at Holbom library, Theobald 4-28 September. each for orders of 10 or more Socialist Challenge 17 August 197H Page 9
Soldier Home'.
anniversary of internment.
over Belfast on the night of 8/9 ALLUS WC internment. The kids had been COLICCURA WOOG 100 They organised into what one woman described as wet patrols" to guard the wood ON SATURDAY 19 Augest a march in sapport of trish political prisoners will take place in Glasgow. The march been called by Glasgow-Irish Committee and Is being built by the Irish Defence Speakers from prisoners organisations have been invited for a rully afterwards.
There Is always a danger in mounting. an Irish march in 4 the Glasgow. Orange sectarianism is strong in the city. - just how Belfast on a week that saw the Great bonfires burned all | North of Ireland, "the Brits"
On the night anniversary, tyres are added to. make the fires burn longer.
Buses are gutted on key road JunctIons:
The Brits are out in force:
squads in rior gear. The nexr they're known throughout the night, 11-year-old Martin Tally strong was demonstrated last autumn when an Irish bar was bombed.
On top of this the National the Front have been putting up unti-Republican stickers in ih centre of lown.
We believe that militants should not he intimidated by the sectarian thugs. The best answer to them is to have the largest postible numhers out on stufus for the prisoners und THEN TUE. loses an eye after being fil by a plastic bullet.
In the streets of Short Strand where we are staying. KUC land rovers around and aroand As mc seventh near the bonfires they are met WITA BATESTICS On the street corner, women their fists at the Royal Ulster the ONCELLEY DENSERS. HELL mille of the night the RUC snatches a 12 year old into custody.
BINLIDS patrols and There are some 23 arrests throughout the city. Ar 4am the hinlid banging begins.
This ycar the internment day protests are dedicated to the pusoncis demansing porca status in the H block of Long prison Before the bonlires are lit a massive march of some 8,000 people winds Woun Old. babies in pushchairs are there.
BANNER The pace of the march is set by hands from different areas. Thirty feet above the road flies a huge banner, will not break them' them are unrecognisable. po persistently DEFORMED tive polities countries.
We visited a News worker who is Crunlin CUBICLES West young even can po throug!
months without trial Stonemason women were pregnant.
Protectin The prisoners in Long Kesh are, say their relatives, in such poor condition that many of Men previously 13 stone are reduced to cill stonce IncI ankles deformed through the denim ol Exercise InCI SKin white and crupting with rashes, Yet their morale is high, and they are somehow managing lo conduct political debates on such subjects as the compara socialist Republican In Road jail, Visitors have to be let through a succession of huge iron gates to reach the cuhicles where the visits are taken, Even the silver paper from cigarette packets is temoved belore you internees under another name. smuggled They could be in jail for 13 -nine remand prisoner 01 парст has been in for 22 months But spicits are high in the the Crum, Altbough Repebbean sukant was chreacened with prosecution if he continued to periora carly menstrual iracson ithe simples and safcit Speakers will farin el abortion yet dessed! wilow waiting to find out i Read, And we had the infamous case of Willan Paton who. egged on by the Sociers for thie the Unborn Child, ined to get a High Coun Injunction lo stop his wife Joan A THOUSAND people marched in London on Sunday to mark The 7ih anniversary of the introduction of internment. literature is Forbidden, political discussion continues.
As in Long Kesh, letters are handwriting on precious scraps PAININ clasped hands with one hand inscribed Irish Resistance and other English Support believe a woman should be free so choose when to have a child inchede Judith Hune of AUEW (TASS), Mel Pat Terner Maric Patterson former Prendent D the TUC, and Alan Fisher, senscral secrerary of the Pubhi Emplosses union.
Your uminn branch, shop aunts connie or trades Goine night after night to packed clubs in Republican areas lo show the as thai the strugale is far from over. In These clubs we were enthusia stically welcomed.
Everyone stressed that the light goes Brilish soldier leaves Trish soil, fund, care of NAC: inviting a NAC contacting other local unions about campaigh And Trying to make sure the issue is raised al rationa level Delegate forms and further details from: National. Ahor lion Compaign, Koad, London NWI Copies al this available from NAC. Send a
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FOUR MEMBERS of the United Troops Out Movement and a member of the Poster Collective are now touring the North of Ireland with the film "Home LIZ CURTIS, one of the UTOM members, reports