cians at the National Theatre in London returned to work after e shop steward sacked for bis 'technical attitade' to work.
Strangely, it took management wo years to discover that the steward, plumber, was not a satisfactory worker. Even more extraordinarily. the several Looper nau peca pronuncot 1! leading opposition to manageHEL SNELC IUDICIA UC. marcation in the mechanical The strike ended when the National Association of Thealre and Kine Employees, were given an assurance that Cooper would be re-instaied pending the case going to a board of arbitrators acceptable to NATKE, management, and the striking technicians.
But the serskers demand for an Arts Council inquiry inco the cunning of the refused It is Hall'sarbitrary running of ThE NTe uiC adOC THEM atheroot of the problem, Plans for future roductoas are made with proper-consultacion with and in a row that flared up four eks ago over the planning adras House', Hail made dear he was not interested in "technical problems', bur only LHE artistic policy Hall is paid approximately E26,000 a year, plus a free flat, Ralph Cooper. nat to mention a hetty sum lar the "Aquariur' TV programme.
Manvol His actorsare on a basic of E5S pez week.
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performance, TENEINEI momentous events Tha Comintern and Indien Nationalism callyZion Insel - as inevitahle. examination of the rale played by the central figures of the Russian revolution. particularly thar of The play, ät the National I neaEre In LOndOn, OPCES WIER FRE Bolshevik school in Capri, and ches wim wc rans congress which confirmed with Stalin as In berween Bolt atrempes to deal WHITTA OENEICYCIS D. the February and Oetoher revolu TOES MCA-TIDER, BaISEL NEP, and the beginning of the degeneration of the Soviet ComInvitably, in spite of the long is a skeichy history and the characters are often over-simplified or mis-repHowever, the play is essentially an honest attempe to deal with the of revolutionary Russia; and the problems confroeting the Bolshevik Parly after 1917 are treared sympatheliESME CONE SIO DONCCHE THOTHE s a fundamental one. He regards and todend the revolution Trotsky [Michael Kitches] and Larin |Michae/ Bryant) Time and rime ogain, Lenin - history plaved by Michel Bryant gf 'Roads to Freedom' Jame emphasises thar if is not what he, Lenin, does or decides thar i bur the hitorical forces ar work in the class strogele. concentrating - deliberatels - on the general hiscorical factors operating on the new Soviet state Bolt omits the supremely scif conscious role that Lentin mapped oat for the Basheviks, wbo led the Russian working class to act on The rise of the bureaucratic clique above the workers and peasen s me apressd0 workers democracy, the tragedy finally Stalin's domination are all viewed with a definite fatalism The last-dirch struggle by Lenin, and after his deach by Troisky aai tis opacran appea as a hopeless task in the face af As a result, the real political SU PAPEHRE DU. BrYE -ali vou christion: wow/arechrisr.pn.communists, christien Trorsk pins CArstion Stalinis pw who analyse eierysbing burjeef norkengpow jasr gotta k.now aor shing ue dide ego voluntariao rhegiert -anr we went crying inra Zion -and wedidn iser any of you revolutionanics doma much @bourani-semitiom Mary of them murderons -and thar 's vour fawlt.
Which is, of course, a sander against the militants of the Fourth International, such as Abraham Leon, Marcel Hic, and many orhers who deu in the teslance lo Nasm. But then. a Steve himself admits:
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