read as calling for a freeze not abolition • included the key question of opposition Which side of the net?
NOT BEING in the habit of turning to the left press for guidance on my leisure activities, I had not paid much attention to your TV column.
In any case, I thought it strange you should be suggesting that militants spend their time watching TV rather than conducting the class struggle.
But having cast my eye over the telly column in SA 10 June I felt that I had no choice but to suspend revolutionary activity and put pen to paper.
Support McEnroe
against Connors!
I had to read it twice to make sure l'd seen right. Surely both Congratulations but ...
CONGRATULATIONS in maintaining a good quality socialist weekly;
would be Du SuICill better to build a revolutionary alternative independent of the Labour Party in a united front with other left groups (SWP etc) and the Labour Party left activists?
I'm afraid while you are trying to reform the fortunes of the Labour Party election machine me ones ano el friends will be putting to a renewed witch hunt • placed the specific call for industrial actior at the centre of McEnroe and Connors are overpaid, overexposed and over-endowed (except ip top) representatives o JS arrogance and worl domination trying to lord it over the British sporting establishment in the same way that Keagan holds our would-be president in willing thrall.
Hastening back to study the classics of Marxism, I can only conclude that the correct poston for suclails Action would be to call intolerable mega-brats to break a leg (or both legs) while playing each other.
Come on Socialist
Action. be consistent.
Southall. the boot in on the streets, communities.
The Labour Party will not lead an extrafor fear of losing votes!
A socialist unity campaign organised independent of the Labour Party uniting the more productive than electing another lett Labour leadership! CHRIS GURLAND. East Yorkshire. Labour's fightback.
RICHARD HATCHER, Birmingham.
HIL I HOPE that your readers may be able to help me in For a Deser called Thoing for a book called Pub on the Left. It is a history of the pub (as a meeting place) and the socialist movement.
The earliest puk meeting places I have been able to trace that are still standing -date from the Peasants Revolt in 1381.
From then on it is a mad dash through Leveller pubs, Chartist pubs, Corresponding Society pubs, anarchist pubs, SDF and SL pubs CP pubs (from the trade union pubs and the pubs associateu will radical individuals like Tom Paine and radical intellectuas from time immemorial!
Bringing the study up I have included the gay anu women s movement. early CND and the revolutionary left.
I would dearly like to Include some puds wner both Isaac Deutscher and Bernadette Dev in (as she then was) addressed meetings, along with their
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