The approach of Burchill/Parsons is totally subjective and cannot even altempi to analyse rock and roll Decause it geis no turther than personalities. They fail to give reasons for the rise of new wave or for its They make no attempt to explain the growth of new wave as a youth culture or why new wave was, and sull remains, much more political than any other movement in the history of rock and roll.
Rock and roll is possibly the culture of late capitalism and deserves to be analysed as seriously as any other art-form by Marxists, objectively and LOSN HISTORY Workshop is a Marxist, socialist conecuve dedicated to the democratisation of mistorical icarning and une overtnrow of the capitalist system. The political positons or une editors, various, are probably not different from those of contributors to Socialist Challenge - indeed, at least two have written for your paper in recent months.
Among the major articles which have appeared in the journal are a two-part study of women in Nazi Germany. examining the compies interplay of economic and ideological TCDICSOn WeNI THEO making of Nazi Labour Front policy; a long article by Charles Van Onselen on the drink trade in 1890s South Africa, disclosing the contradictory competing capitalist fractions in the exploitation African mineworkers; and (in the forthcoming issues) a two-part study now in his 49th year of work as a car worker, on Morris Motors in the 1930s: the first part is on tyranny and paternalism in the labour process, the aDoue ne difficulties clandestine trade union organisation On 11-12 November peorkshop 12 to discuss Britary Canne to KusKIn mistory La self-critical and reflective weekend on industrial and political struggles over the quarter of a century and some of the material and cultural determinants shaping them. In none of this can 1 recognise John Ross's characterisa, November History Workshop as an "epic poem"
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