Two articles in Red Weekly of 30 Sept ember referred uncritically to the demand for one man.
UHIC article whitewash proposals, INE the main Telenoelu -ATrICan nationalsis wich moles the excusion or Atticar notreoons witnour comment Tor one man. OnE suggests on tne nousing question Is a be allocated Pat Jordan's CrucisinG ne AIss stated: 'There is no man the nuclear family!
manner vote one mar ORE Cology Classes evisoces -DIans.
city, problems, any struggle.
Brays dreadful one; namely that houses should tamily basis with tenancy rights going to the man as head siocans rent it mnev are acecuate v to to deported mine say pee, mothers, people anyone bise wHo cHooses to Hye outSidE Red Weekly has carried articles on Ireland and southern Africa. Why then do womer's invo vement in ine struccies ir these outdated and sexist demands for 'One man, one vote' appear in the paper? It's not just a 'minor question of termin.
important get political reflect and develop the struggles of the - LIZ LAWRENCE (Newcastle].
'agit-prop' form - short chronologica - DroKen oy sones commerc on the plot — is too naively euphoric in tone to teach us a great deal everytning in the play flows smooth/y and easily: the reporter's allegiance to the workers, the defeat of management's IN S OUSuIne convenor in a mass factory meeting ['A disorganised rabble taking over a factory that sort of is norine way to socialisi thing gives socialism a bad namel, the occupation itselt and the militant response oy me orinters on te local payer Throughout, the play is almost devoia of contradictory elements tions or the characters. It is this simpli rather than several inaccuracies concerning the functioning of the press, which imrits scope ane erectivenes:
The class struggle is not necessarily helped by a demonstration of the idea course of events. Much more importan at this time would be study •OT TRE set-backs, conflicts inadequacies and confusions which will inevitably be encountered during the course of left theatre could remain simply a big Hooran tol
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vote". If African nationalists do raise a demand for the suffrage, in a
women from the vote, Red Weekly should take up the inadequacy of this demand
Geoff Bell's article on Ireland refers to the demand of the civil rights movement action
house' without any clear criticism of this demand. position
demand of unsupported