the demise of the Atkin's Dian Was onte extraordive that Does he_really believe theo noroi of serangy north believe it was a revamped Sunningdale, and that the ruling class in the world has growr reDeal mar ceace The reality is a little different I think imperialism only well LUC ELICIC Donatal SOULOT TOI hecause it knows than that strong native bourgeoisie to which it can party designed to tie the working population to tructures there's Chalice The Atkin's plan was a Tom Marlowe forgets this plan was first announced in the UNA une ambassador at a time when Edward Kennedy had tem porarily ediscovered vote-winning power of the arish ouesdor.
The Democratic and Labour anlics ended the ATKIn's plan compliery nto hide complicity o course centree neil row on tne H Blocks. When Tom Marlowe gives them redit for wrecking whole political strategy' he unintentionally aos une orotecis or une collaborators by spreading illusions about them think Tom Marlowe underestimates the importance • naugney s mena comble e v fails to understand that the tion southern irish wur Kille class accisive 1n lnc lerm. dul aiso une immente struggle for political status:
Socialist Challenge immediately comal Licic on crisis soulier une border to impressions in Tom's article. AILEAN London Watch out, All the letters on this page have been editeep letters to 30% edited...so, please words. TRADITIONALLY itself alstinguisnec forms of racism by having both a right and a left wing. The left wing an wucu voulo orner se nove been branded as reactionary and racist.
LIONISI Israel is there for all to see, defend Zionism by an appeal Tine Jete Rosenburg (20 Nov) of the Jewish Group Solomons (6 Novi. While proclaim themselves Zionists (and Mark appi thesis contrai that There people and hence an Israeli Jewish minority!).
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pity that the Jewish Socialist Group dévotes its time to whitewashing Zionism instead of this reactionary ideology people. Socialist Challenge would not have printed a letter seeking to whitewash apartheid; inis is due to a general cort fusion and ambivalence on the left. about the subject. Can I suggest a tull page article on Lionisin is te least you can do to help rectify this situdlior TONY GREENSTEIN, London lalking aboul. rnal s some And i mean after dies (they) put him in the Down Beat hall of fame. 'The same people who put him in poverty.
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Lennon/Ono
Woman is the nigger of Yes she is... think about it Woman is the nigger of Think about it... do something about it.
We make her paint her face and dance If she won't be a slave, we •say that she don't love us If she's real, we say she's trying to be a man While putting her down we pretend that she's above us Woman is the nigger of the world... yes she is If you don't believe me, take a look at the one you're with Woman is the slave of Ah, yehi... better scream the slaves about it.
We make her bear and raise our children And then we leave her flat for being a fat old mother hen We tell her home is the only place she should be JOHN Lennon was one of the most talented of Britain's postwar musicians. hands of a young lunatic will probably force some contemplation by those normally complacent of the deep-rooted cancers which exist in American society.
is as much a reflection of the sickness of American capitalist values as of the individual in question.
In his short life John Lennon Klanners, officers in Aldershot, from religious maniacs. expect was at the hands of a of achieving fame.
In the late '60s and '70s, John Lennon was part of a radicalisation which affected millions of young people. radicalisation and revealed him as His murder at the The derangement of the assassin received many threats: from Ku Klux from racist British army.
The one death he did not mindless assassin, no doubt desirous His finest songs fed that someone who cared about the world and its problems. In 1969 he returnec the MBE he had been awarded four years earlier, as a protest again British policy in Biafra The extracts published below are from an interview which Robin Blackburn and I conducted with him for the Red Mole in 1971. We discussed everything under the sun and the final published version was greatly shortened.
The day following the interview I received a phone-call at The Rea Mole's offices on Pentonville Road. I was Lennon. He wanted to say how much he'd enjoyed the interview and then came the bombshell:
'I was inspired by that talk to write a marching song for our demos. Do you mind if I sing it to you on the phone.' He sang the words of Power to the People without musical accompaniment. We then discussed the tune and the same month he released it as a single.
Following that Lennon and Yoko Ono came on a number of demonstrations and he normally a good thing...
establishment.
male chauvinism.
songs.
TARIQ ALI somewhere. acid days; that would be around '65 or repression.
way, you know insisted on holding up a copy of Red Mole, though in private he used to say: 'I can't understand half the articles in there, but i suppose that s Unlike many others like him Lennon never forgot that he was of Irish and working class origin. He had a deep contempt for the ruling class and its ideological and cultural Even though his departure to the States heralded a flight from politics and commitment he never became a spokesperson for the other side. In his most recent interview he stressed the necessity to combat Others will pay their own tributes. Ours is to reprint an extract from the Red Mole interview as well as the words of his most political.
This was Lennon at his most powerful and for that reason the Lennon that will always live.
I'VE always been politically-minded, you know, and against the status quo. It's pretty basic when you're brought up, like I was, to hate and fear the police as a natural enemy and to despise the army as something that takes everybody away and leaves them dead I mean, it's just a basic working class thing, though it begins to wear off when you get older, get a family and ge swallowed up in the system In my case I've never no been political, though religion tended to overshadow it in my '66. And that religion was directiv the resut of all that superstar shit -religion was an outlet for my I thought, 'Well, there's something else in life, isn't there? This isn't it, surely?' But I was always political in a POWER TO THE Power to the people Power to the people Power to the people Power to the people Say we want a revo We better get it on r Get on your feet And into the street, Chorus... Powe A million workers n You better give 'em We gotta put you d When we come into Chorus... Powe I gotta ask you com How do you treat y She got to be hersel So you can free you Chorus... Powe 1g the flu ing at that rate, touring continually and always kept in a cocoon of myths and dreams.
It's pretty hard when you are Caesar and everyone is saying how wonderful you are and they are giving you all the goodies and the girls, it's pret ty hard to break out of that ha to say Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real.' ba
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