Fritz Cremer sculptor, Kunert were among the promiincensed by the television broadcast - of Biermann's stutigar concert (vest german pro grammes are easily picked up in the East), this wa • Kunze had already Union aste nave now been arrestes, the smeer wria nage! writer Thomas Braasch and actress Khatarina Thalbach have also been forced to leave the GDR in the GDR, from Kunert to Kunze, Biermann regards Bertolt Brecht as his Hence Un all these poets Brecht's later work written in the GDR. which pares "And I always thought: the very simplest words must be enouch. when sav wnat mines are like Everyone's heart must be torn to shreds down if you don't stand up for yourself This is Brecht's last poem. But for Biermann the must have been Brecht's earlier work, the songs and poems written for performance.
importance here, but Cconomy is suilo orary concessions are made to the demands of song and verse. The very simplest words' present poetry which s not a monument to individual talent, but an inter Biermann is not a poet of the order of Brecht, but he is a unique performer and He also nas a clearly denned position or bureaucracies of the workers states. On each of his - he acknon edges the quisiaacknowledges tively superior character of the workers states constitute the basis on which socialism will be bullt inis wim me hercest Doreinie parasitic bureaucracy: ine bureaucrat/cries, for triumphed/as soon as he has his job/as soon as he has his cash.
For Biermann, as for Trotskyists, the unconditiona For artistic expression trom narrow-minded But roaring above everything came a ceatenme munger or apoldust From beyond the Sector boundary.
Freecom. roareo. creecom fortre artists Freedom all round! Freedom Freedom for the exploiters! Freedom for the Softly my dear fellows......
The Judas kiss for the artist follows nare on me vucas Kiss Torte worners The arsonist win nis bottles or perror Sneaks up grinning to The Academy of Arts.
But it was not to embrace him, just we asked for elbow room Even the narrowest minds They In which peace is harboured who is aiso a lover orre are orwar smanest his | BERTOLT BRECHT When the Academy of Arts demanded freedom bureaucrat:
There was a howl and clamour in its immediate vicinity warmongers!
Freedom for the Ruhr cartels! Freedom for Hitler's generals!
To knock the bottle out of his dirty hand thai Are more welcome to the arts than the art lover /Crom Brasht Prame 1012.56 edited bv John Willett
THE PEOPLE'S NATIONAL PARTY, led by Michael Manley, retained office in a landslide victory in last week's Jamaican general election. With the high 80 per cent poll favouring the PNP, they gained 48 of the 60 parliamentary seats.
REFORMS The swing to the PNP in poor ane rura areas snows mar Man ley's policies have been working Tor many Jamaicans. a eastror the present. However it is worth Havuk a lOOK al mnem m Somnt detail to see if they are going to continue working in the tuture Soon after coming to power in 1972 the PNP embarked on crash programmes to tackle the counyear), without really eradicating political violence, then the ground will remain fertile tor continuec foreign interference by the CIA.
Two choices face the PNP Manley can continue to attempt to carry through his "democratic soclalism under a mixed economy seeking aid and trade from both bast ana west In this case, he will be in a very