Writings Federation of Writers and Community Publishers, El.
ANYONE who has been intimidated by a blank sheet of paper knows how difficult it is to cover it with words that someone else might find worth reading. All too often the blankness of the paper comes to reflect the blankness in the mind. At least this is what I am finding more and more.
Mass education has done very little genuinely encourage the great majority of people to express their experiences and ideas (although there are still those hacks who will put pen to paper at the slightest tickle between their ears).
The needs of capitalism condemn the majority of working class people to be semi-articulate. The creativity of the working class is still La few exceptions, preserve of the ruling class and those who work happily under its shadow.
It is the aim of the recently formed Federation of Writers and CommunPublishers -LO OTOmOLC encourage working class Enei mrs venture is an antnology ol writings (modestly called Writings)
many of their The collection mainly of poems, short extracts from novels and autobiographical fragments.
There is much to read with benefit WOMEN'S LIBERATION She is somebody tunnelled with desires, longings.
There was nothing I could do to embody these, give them shape whereby her needs, destres.
could be fulfilled.
The channels of her body gave birth only to flesh turned strange;
not the child she had wanted all her life, carefully designed, but a cluster of redundant cells gone wild.
The surgeon's scalpe cut away this deadly turmoil stopped its stranglehold perhaps bourgeois culture hands.
To overthrow and master in writing would undertaking, it is wrong.
struggle.
Class honestly and articulate the experiences and achievements and" the writing. ments constituent COISISS stories, this book are not them. 'writers" workshop' She lay prone, imprisoned in the tiny world, her ward, shackled kept in place by catheter, nose-tuDe. drip-feed needle.
So are many women flattened out, fastened down, our bodies, heads, encumbered with distorting tumours, stunting growth, araming viany, hindering activity.
But then they took away the tubes. She left the bed and went about her business freed from pain and feebleness.
Perhaps we all need surgery to get up on our teet and set to work.
Perhaps the surgeon's skill can heal us all.