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Fra International Socialism (1st series) nr. 3

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Contents (ISJ 1:3, Winter 1960-61)

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dec 60

Notes of the quarter: Labour and the Bomb

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1

dec 60

The irony of a Labour Party having to argue whether to accept or reject nuclear weapons might not be widely appreciated, but it can have escaped few people that defense policy and the fate of the party are now mutually contingent.

Russia and China

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2

dec 60

Differences of emphasis are one thing, but when they reach the proportions they have done in the recent Russian-Chinese altercation on matters as fundamental as nuclear war and colonial struggles, it is clear that ‘comradeship’ and ‘common interests’ have taken on an unfamiliar ring.

Revolution in Cuba

3

4

dec 60

As this editorial was being written news was coming in of American preparations for the invasion of Cuba. By the time it is read the history of the Cuban revolution will have been taken a stage further. But some of the key reasons for defending the Cuban revolution will remain as valid as they are now.

A Note of Protest, Michel Raptis & Sal Santen Case

3

5

dec 60

Ray Challinor: Zigzag: The Communist Party and the Bomb

3

6

dec 60

In May 1960, the Communist Party’s Executive Committee called upon all party members to join the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Five months later, at the Labour Party conference, Hugh Gaitskell described supporters of unilateral nuclear disarmament as ‘neutralists, pacifist, and fellow travellers’.

Jack London: Two Songs from Essex

3

11

dec 60

Jack London left school at the age of 12 to work as farmboy for 5s a week. This was in 1911. Three years later he joined the Essex Regiment in answer to ’Kitchener’s Call’ and remained with it for five years. He fled the post-war depression here only to meet it again in Australia whence he returned in 1925. For the last thirty years he has been driving buses for London Transport in Romford, Essex.

Jean-Jacques Marie: France: The March of Despotism

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12

dec 60

Big business and its Gaullist Government are pursuing an unprecedented offensive against the working-class and against middle-class groups: the Algerian War must be paid for; so too the nation’s own Atomic Bomb, and the nuclear ‘strike-force’.

Slawomir Mrozek: The Lion: A Moral Tale

3

16

dec 60

Slawomir Mrozek is one of the youngest of the ‘Poznan generation’ of Polish writers.

Peter Sedgwick: The Fight for Workers’ Control

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18

dec 60

Centralization of decision-making is, to a certain degree inseparable from the organization of any kind of collective labour. In particular, large-scale and complex production requires as part of the specialization of labour, some kind of practical division as between ‘management’ and ‘workers’. However, as Marx emphasized in Capital III, exploiting and antagonistic system of productive relations exaggerate, distort and sharpen these centralising tendencies.

Alasdair MacIntyre: Is A Neutralist Foreign Policy Possible?

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26

dec 60

What weighs most heavily against unilateralism with those willing to consider its claims seriously is that it appears to be a demand without a context, a demand isolated from other questions of policy.

Martin Grainger + Bob Pennington: The Labour Party and the Bomb

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26

dec 60

The undersigned members of the Editorial Board find themselves in complete disagreement with the whole tenor of the current Editorial on Labour and the Bomb. We welcome this opportunity to address readers directly.