No Fun No Threat "THE BOY LOOKED AT JOHNNY! TIE CUTLY OF ROCK MOROL JULIE BURCHILL!

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this important set of essays will aid our rebuttal.

of Thompson presents us with the 'conventional an dominant historical traditions of the British workers movement. The essay In entitled *The English' is an eloquent statement of his positions The contained in the latter have been defended by diverse forces on the left. The ideologues of the theoreticians of the SWP, Michael Barratt-Brown, Workers Control, have all expressed strong approval interpretations of English history One makes this point not in a polemical spirit, but merely to register an important fact. positions then? What makes them so attractive to the British left?

E.P. Thompson's thesis is simply that the English working class movement is peculiarly in advance of colntries is vew eas toacca theoretical framework and orienta If the English workers movement is weakly so advanced then clearly the empirical embodiments Accordingly different manifestations are cited. that William Morris' contribution...seems to me to be quite as significant as those of (let us say)

Some of Thompson's less talented and supporters save proofs Challinor Socialist Labour Party, Kendall the pre-war syndicalists and Hinton the Shop-Stewards attempt to find a more generalised and diffuse "collective' tradition is embodied in the History Workshop project which, as Nairn has put it, projects an poem' of popular achievement.

Since a particularly Labour movement must be advanced relation to Thompson is critical of the Thompson's What are these fundamental workers in other of this must exist.

Thompson himself argues *original produced POLICI idealises the movement An progressive answer, Tom *epic and radical advanced something else The Boy Looked at Johnny by Julie Burchill and Tony Parsons.

Pluto Press. £1.25 UNK rock-rebel music. Challenging the values of an apathetic society that ignores the length of the dole queue (despite Saatchi and Saatchi) and tolerates the fascists of the NE Music that encourages people to tnink and not to lake no for •all while musicians are taken over hv the business and forced to sell out on their principles - if they had any to lose in me hist piace Julie Burchill and Tony Parsons are not (voical music Journalists. They claim to stand outside the world of record company payola as 'the only -unbiased rock writers in the world. and are prepared to expose the sham