Manchester, the mos liberating thing he had ever done.
These poems mSC. Somme euI rEnar the smug self-satisfaction of the sectarians an excellent example.
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Films dike this discredi the fett, in eweru wow. This hav nor to te de Worr fim every amade with radical preiensions and Schionduff and von Trona showld ABOUT FIVE YEARS AGO, 1 met Steve Cohen outside Kings Cross THI OW ULAMA ARME HEUCHSKA AE NOI SEEUAG8UONEHE! the IMG, and borrowed a couple of guid from me to get back to The other wock, when he came to Liverpool to read some of his poems, I nominac SIEC OF ns prv CnouDic te ГЕриС Dl GscPnwn:
which are very funny nical, extremely intelligent and Jollen poienant - stow ussteve Cohen as he is today: a gay. Jewish, stealis comedian, and how be got there Irom havile been a revolutioary Nisrxist meltaDt The result is a pamphilet thar all isilitants, especially Marxists, should icad The micase subjectivil, even scil-obscssion of these poonss. l something we can all learfrom. Wencedto, if only to save ourselves from sieve spoem anour ine blackmarn anti-sasct demoostrattan lastycar ts But when we aw to/heendof chedemoscration And we Moltrerare to our individual isaicson Like did she person marching next to me through Blackburn town Orea dame thar muhead was going througho ner vous breokoown /koew fuck all about my commades personal simition COnCaV uet Tamer ncon eaRnat For chem their heads michi hove been /ailaysuicide. pontussod itinernpeon e ponen And resocine ir with world wide personal relanions.
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Thar's why /w gor the ecen Zionist note Jane Clarke and Carl Gardner ofit Germany dealt with a situatiog politically JACK BEAUMONT reviews 'The Jews and the Genitals', the poems of a gay, Jewish, socialist comedian.
Thisatso gives us Steve's own highly personal and ultra-left definition of politics. Not only is socialism personal relations, but sois fascism)
Northe fascism of organised movement - costie jac chops wew inside curon heads As weanempred tn smash she skals of those we love Accusations orse! Eshness and noncoring made in the mosse fah and non corine may Steveis obsessed with the problems of antisemitism, homosesuality, and Fascism. The real subcet of all his pocus is himself and like any middle class individual, betendscoconfuse his own problems with rhose of the rest I've eor the pred end rudica businessman 's Jawpers" blies TV do ane cuse you cheose T'l even appear for Christions and Jews 'Cepr / wor't do prosecutions Delend rupiss, landlonds, Jiscisrs Or director generals of seate instrurions Poor sired radical hasinessans" inuyes" hises Steve's amritudes reflect the confusion and immaturity of nany of those worse. A canoon depicts Trois as pies. A brillant satire on the Jewish ramily → The Epsteins and the Frankensteins — ends on a reachonary, ever be allowed near a cam safet ar. Aur no doubt they walt preciser becuse they represen no danper to the statis quo at u having no unefal andennandes nd thi is in spie of the furo e film caused on releas because it omessibl; Baader-Meister tral. 1 the film goes on, however, one realises that far from being beaune fighet aguinst capitalsm — an 'anarchist' - the man soemingly being pursoed by half of Germany's taco vocca is smoes a acsene whe has robbed the regimental The way she cemenal fieure Kenterina: — is représented is with commenting on. On one Irvet the fulm is prabewornhy here strangest carry ti man is Fi i punished for Ludwig and sepe with hims the nises bc grane passion. Hy inscribing such a corally mywity. ing "phenomena" as che mainspring of the film's action, il endorses the view that it is wrong OT WEE TEa acure Lacs I's love. So while the love theme S JEROOMU LO ECHUCE BLECM more sympathetic, it in lac anderines the oniy progressive theme the film has.
from South Africa.
Air Service In Malaya.
After five days the inva ding racist troops withdrew. Nad Such as messing nothing new. They are a regular feature of life on the castern and southern borders. A year ago Mapai was attacked leaving 18 civilians dead, Two months later the Zimbabwean refugee camp at Nhazonia in Mozambique was devastated by Rhodesian troops. 800 blacks were massacred.
David Owen, Labour Foreign Minister, throws up his hands in horror. Not particularly for the sake of the Rhodesian troops mounted a major raid Into Mozambique last week. After killing 32 people in an Initial raid on two camps, they moved on to occupy Mapal, 47 miles Inside Mozambican territory and only 30 miles The commander of lan Smith's army, the man who ordered the raid, is a former British officer Lieutenant-General Peter Walis. Formerly an officer in the Black Watch, he got his brutal training with the Special because the raid could threatAnglo-American peace* formula. same reason as Vorster's racist government in South Africa was so concerned about the raid.
Both imperialism and Vorster want a negotiated settlement and an end to the armed struggle. In this they have the backing of the front line states, Hut such a provocative attuck threatens to lose this black support, and particu Larly from the President of Mozambique, Samora Machel.
Some initiai reporis atteninted to nonas Rhodesian attack as the work of the army behind the backs of the more reasonable lan Socialist Challenge the beaded by LODEL LI up.
Walls the butchar Smith. Later it became clear that the raid was agreed on 29 May by the War Council, Smith. The Covernment knows it is losing the war with the guerillas. The white population is emigrating as fast as possible. White farms sland vacant with no buyers. Foreign investment is drying Smith recognises the need for a negotiated seitlement and wants to establish the best possible bargaining position. Raids, such as the one on Mapai, in trying to weaken the black puerillas, are bound up with the talks: Snich wants to negotiate, but with a pistol at the head of the Zimbabwean nationalists.
Inside Zimbabwe the repression of the black population is equally fearsome the African National Council were sentenced to hang for allegedly recruiting to the guerilla army. Since April 1975 112 blacks have been given the death penalty. How many have been carried out is unknown as the Smith gorernment refuses to announce the names of those executed.
Every week hundreds of Zimbabweans lee the country from the harassment and repression of the racist security forces, In Francistown, Botswana, HOU refugoes arrive every week, David Owen and US Secretary of State Cyrus Vance are not going to sop the white racist offensive with their diplomatic notes. Nor do they want to. The 18 June Sowete anniversory demonstration in London must be o massive display of solidarity with the struggle of all the Liberation movements of southern Africa. *Support can he sent to the Zimbabween refugees and the camps in Mozambique through Zimbabwe Medical Aid. Donations should be sent to ZIMA, 84 Tindall Street, Balsall Heath, Birmingham B12 90S RIC SISSONS