their husbands to cook twice a week has little to do with women's liberation.
The very title itself comes from a game of bingo, motif for one of the sketches. But the futile and destructive nature of the game itself, played by millions of women, class thus enhancing its mindless content with a new validity.
The whole project of a mass working class political theatre is happened? In misconceived at the present time, given the defensive, incoherent and rather largely demoralised state of the left/fringe British labour movement Red Ladder has Good left theatre, some seeds for expansion, will for some time find its audience limited to a relatively narrow number or class-conscious workers, around their struggles, as well as radicalising previous sectors. There are no short cuts through so-called popular ot bourgeois tre.
What has Ladder is a sad but timely warning of a process that they and others which forms the never questioned, developing its future mass theahappened to of political and
- DEMOCRACY AND Silberman The policies that are being pursued are so obviously failing to solve our difficulties unat the Government and right wing have decided that the best means of defence is attack. To divert people away from the serious faces, turned this vicious attack on the left in the Labour Party.
Its also possible inat some people are interested Joan Maynard is Labour MP for Sheffield, Brightside. She has been an active member of the Labour Party for 30 years. For six years she was a member of the Executive of the Agricultural Workers Union. Today, she is a member of the NEC of the Labour Party. Last week she told Jonathan man of the Committee which interviewed for the appointment was Bryan Stanley. don't think that Bryan would claim that he's of the left. ointed it the NEC, he dap pointed at NEC. attention to they've that Andy has had Militant. Nobody took that up, and the appointment was carried unanimously.
Following that, the Agents raised n at une rary conterence the General Management Comwee - mir werent tor tem t would never have had the opportunity to serve the working people in my constituency.
Callaghan and Prentice, is that ale liament. But none of the individual MPs, including Ministers, would be in Parliament today if it weren't for our parties.
I therefore think that you can't escape the final responsibility, he drew connections WHIC select you, work for you, and IS TO raise money for trade unions that sponsor you and so on.
TASSE & Harlington, Young Socialists.
right-wing policies own great asset class support.
argument, used by REPEATED respons Die to and 1970.
people that tralia, you, the sealed. of the Labour Government.
It is Healey and Callaghan, Jones and Murray, who are the real "asset-strippers'. They attempt to lay down the blame for the bankruptcy of their own policies at the doors of so-called "Trotskyist infiltrators', be they in Newham North-East, Hayes Hammersmith North or the Labour Party But by-election after by-election has shown that it is their which are stripping the Labour Party of its - its working Thousands of workers are saying: Why take Tory policies via Callaghan and Healey when we can get them directly from the Tories?
They said it about MacDonald in 1924 and repeated it in 1951 Last year, workers said it in New Zealand and Ausand repeated it only They months ago in Sweden. It is only a matter of time before the end of the Callaghan Government is As the Labour Party NEC meets to discuss the appointment of Militant support Andy Bevan as Labour Party youth officer, 500 yards down the road Denis Heal will be announcing the most savage cuts to date. It's anyone's guess how such 'coincidence' came to pass. But it takes no guessing to realise that the attacks Andy Bevan are nothing more than a criminal cover-up for the wage-cutting polici ANDY BEVAN But the right-wing leaders know that the consequence of their disastrous policies will not only be the defeat of Labour at the next election. It will also mean a deepening of criticism and self-criticism in the ranks of the working class. fear such open and democratic discussion because it threatens their positions. And so they are preparing to place the responsibility for Labour's decline at the door of the left The attack on Militant is o the first step. In 1966, hours of Wilson's wit hunting of reds in the seam beds, Sir William Carron denouncing 'outsiders' allege 'influencing the Amalgama Engineering Union.
SIMPLE Today it will not stop at "Trots' They'll be round the "Tribs" in the afternoon!
The policy is simple: comb the attack on working living standards with an att on democracy in the lab MOvement Through rule changes Trades Councils and secret 1 lots in the unions they attemp weaken the power of the r and file to start any fight ba Through witch-hunting in Labour Party they try to iso the activists and put the fin on the left.
A united fight against witch-hunt is vital if the smo screen is to be cleared away the real infiltrators exposed.
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oppose the witch hunt JOAN MAYNARD
STRIPPING LABOUR'S ASSETS?