DEN Anwar Ditta reunited with her children after a six vear fight.
sion, partly because the faced Commission and Court.
The right to repeal the Immigration and Nationality Acts must be stepped up Manchester Labour Party Conference Against Pasport Checks Saturday 4 December 10am Manchester Polytechnic Students Union, Sidney Building, Oxford Rd. N.I.
His poetry gives a per sonal and vivid picture of the awful repression and poverty in the country that statistics and news reports cannot show. He wrote not as a passive commentator but as an active insurgent.
He believed that the revolutionary is 'the person most uscful to his epoch' The view also applies to the revolutionary poet and therefore he thought it foolish to even discuss the matter with those who assert that, in poetry, the function and the DOHre are least. extra-poetic elements.
He did not believe that the revolutionary poet's job is to write *foretelling of socialist society before raising to the category of poetic material the contraditions. disasters defects, and struggles of our present society.
His poems are of torTITE PrISOn AOWERS rulers scheme, the violence around him and the sor didness of individual deeds told with a bitter sarcasm that can only come from experience of many years oppression. What he wrote of shows how the rulers rule. How he wrote shows how people resist.
In "looking for trouble" WC SC idea o1 how natural the repression and resistance Is seen in the COCHE *The night of my first cell meeting it was raining the way I was dripping was much applauded b four or five characters trom a Goya painting everyone present seemed rather bored perhaps with persecution or even torture forever in Poesia Militante/Militant Poetry by Raque Dalton, availab Jrom E/ Salvador Solidarity Campaign, 29 Islington Park S bes than the many countries which have awarde But he was not just a poet. He was a revolt tionary from his youth through his many yeat in prison and exile, to his death in El Salvadori 1975. This made him more than a revolutionar poet. He became a spokesperson for his clas their minds •When we left it was no longer raining my mother scolded me for coming home late.
He showed that he ha no time for reformers an charlatans who construc fancy notions of wh Salvadoreans suffe repression He showe where the blame lay. In 7 Few Lines' he wrote:
Dear philosophers, dear progressive SOLIDUSL dear social psychologists, don't fuck around so much with 'alienation" here what fucks us up the most is the alien nation.
This pamphlet gives a Roque Dalton shows now DOCODC IIVCI Salvador and Latin America.
The book contains th poems in . their origina Spanish with an Englis Salvadorear culture cessible to speakers. But most of alli makes clear the need fo •Because otherwise the people-child will still go naked stabbed by the most bemedalled thieves choked by all the rubbist and hith in this country like the river-bank slums of Acelhuate unable to demolish this great shanty town of El unable to flatten once and ror an ws mound. and potholes to leave the land ready for the bricklayers and carpente LOCHE and raise the new HUUSCS.
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ROQUE DALTON IS EL SALVADOR'S him prizes for his poetry. and of the oppressed of El Salvador.
known poet. His recognition as a major cor tributor to Spanish literature spreads furthe