appear to attack these rights will be Neither the left nor the right are By denying the NF the right to impart its message we are denying the workers the right to receive it, and to engage in opeit and unfectered debale The Tact that these rights are limled ionaries have the obligation to be the most consistens, persistent defenders CARL and extenders of these rights. Every argument we use, whether for sate or can be used But who gains from this? The scate is able to intervene and stifle political debate with less fuss and the NF is seen as the defender of democracy, or censorship:
While it is true that, during civi wat, democracy isa luxury, that is not If the N physical. mUst demand clementary justice and protection, Il the police and state cannot provide this then we use this in our fight for HIS DIULEhence Above all, the revolutionary fights demo cratic rights alien to the whole concept of racisen, and by motivating the COP ME THUGS, Never NAZIS mobilisation of the by building the autonomous back movement, and by persistent propaganda and agitation.
GARDNER's letter
September about science "classical Marxism" is pure bluff. He ascribes to Marx, Engels and others monolithic conception of found in their work: they were more than tentative in giving a scientific basis to historical materialism.
This basis had more in common with the natural sciences than the (Mars intended dedicating Capital to Darwin) For TEASOn historical materialism cannot be categorised a and mechanistic 'undermined' by post-Einsteinian physics Gardiner should sop equating 'classical Marxism' with Stalinism and perhaps re-read Feuerbach anu End of Clasical German Philosophy where scientific absolutism is dealt with - for example.
Science... mounts from lower higher levels of knowledge withoul ever reaching, by discovering so-called absolute truth, a paint i which it can praceed no further... Just as the bourgeoisie by Jarge-scale industry, competition and the world market dissolves in practice all stable time honoured institutions. dialectical philosophy dissolves all conceptions of final absolute truth and of absolute states of humanity corresponding to it."
PAULTICKELL (London SW9 insight into somecue's emotional life with almost sadilated plee *Of course she was they said. dubo wondn t he Comntunist Pany: etc. understand what these poopic meat when they: talk ahout the personal abd Political'; exploiting I utterly reject the strategies and theorisations of the CP. 1 am entirely in favour of winning militants from and the CP who begin reformien which is starine them in the face. Rut there is surely no shortage of polical arguments with which to do This Incident subordination of che "personal' to the 'political'. Bea Campbell's subjoctive experience of her relationship to the CP (in which, incidentally, J am traumatised". in the Now extreme right, they mean personal "cakiiess far the Challenge's marked the clear Carbolic Church sure will and even Paul VI's period in office was as anyone who has taken the trouble to find out will know, Charactersed by Sentiant Pretal seen tron, lead opposed hy the by the former fascist Archbishop Defebvre.
TE socialists are to link up with and strengthen the radical anti-capitalist tendencies in the Catholic Church, especially in connection with the vital question of women's rights, which is at the centre of the ideological crisis in the Church, we shall need to develop an analysis and a strategy which go beyand the mere abuse and bigotry which appear to represent Socialist posture towards the DAWSON (Bradford)