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BIRHHESDOS Socialist Challenge in world. Not at the Policy Committee - or at least an control.
about socialist ideas and theory.
Weekly or future.
DENIS personal capacity| Supporters Conference on Saturday? We hope so.
because it will be the first national meeting of the paper's supporters, who will be discussing where the paper is gring und where it should be going.
There will be reports on the progres of heap is of opportunity to discuss ever workshops and in generu sessions of the conference.
Don't miss the conference if you support the paper.
We need four ideas about how it can he improved, And if you're serious shont your commitment to the aper, why not consider standing for the Nationa body which will meet quarterly and decide the averall direction and policies of the Aggressive socialist journalism is a vital component in the fight. So too is serious and comprehensive debate Any journalst who cares for a free and varied expression of ideas should welcome and be pleased at Socialist Challenge's successful arrival. I look equally vigorous MacSHANE, President, National Union of Journalists fin boss Dobson's Besides, what is the touchstone of genuine popularity? There is limited point in citing the reactions of this or that "advanced worker': particular Instances can prove anything. On the other hand, impressions prove nothing - and the Workerexperience suggests that thosc who unilaterally decide what average worker is, wants, needs or is capable of, are liable to produce a militant prevating journalistic stereory pes.
The most reliable test al present 1s the historic experience of independent working class organisation experience that includes not onl unions and parties reading circles and newspapers of formidable range and difficulty.
The overtlion of capitalism fundamcotally working class becoming more than capital requires' it to be. The political transformation of the class is, among other things, a process of learning Revolutionary intellectuals are sometimes reluctant 10 300ept "advanced have doubted it.
A parallel misconception occurs in comrade Kirkwood's remarks on the and the living experience revolutionary programme must be groanded in the experience of the working anything che would be an arrogant contrivance. But il does not Tollow that an adequate programme is one crealed Du! particular condicions of Britain in 1978 or that these constitute a decisive test of existing programmes.
The reservoir which programme draws contains generations of living experince'; and its final version would concentrate what working class struggle, prost Bit i does late Gc a relatively autonomous exisience, tellocied in a resolelionary paper in an process political theoretical debare. Such debate is not an imellectual' laxury; it is a binding duce.
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.45.5.30 Conway Hull, Red Lion Sq. London WC Nearest tube: Holborn El registration fee: : Socialist are with strategic forced magistrate alternative the Micialist press in and астану class: really ass strangl Indine workers and sections of the already politically-defined "vanguard seeking overall political allernative — it should concern itself Vision on polities an Sision* Comrade Kirkwood accuses the IMG of cquating polities with ideas programme cather than with •Provisi COLLIE articulate response 10 the hold ol chauvinist and parliamentary-demo cratic themes on the British working evoking" the concrete forms in which workers power can emerge and he realized. It is obviou that the INfC as presently constituted cannot achieve these programmatic 8085-90 contains wateres graspof ideas and programme Fused with active work in all areas of the Nuovo under Gramsci's editorship during the occupation of the Tactories in N. Bials 1919 1920) was an attempt to claborate the