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Besides selling their newspaper, the SYL offers Marxist study classes, attends various political rallies both on and off campus, and tries to recruit people "willing to fight racist oppression." Although they recognize that their organization does not appeal to the majority of Harvard students, the Sparts remain hopeful that the working class will eventually triumph and revolutionize country...
...authorized to carry a gun; in London, the ratio is 1 in 5. The shootings have hardened resentment among blacks who accuse the mostly white police force of insensitivity and racism. That lingering bitterness was evident the day after the Tottenham riot. Bernie Grant, a black Marxist who heads the local borough council, not only refused to condemn the killing of the officer but declared that the police had received "a bloody good hiding." The remark outraged much of the country. But it was especially embarrassing for Neil Kinnock, leader of the opposition Labor Party; Grant is expected...
...challenge to that view is led by former Agriculture Minister Michel Rocard, 55, a political moderate and longtime Mitterrand rival. The Rocardiens are urging the party to shed its Marxist ideological trappings and modernize its image along Social Democratic lines. They say it must reject the Communists and court centrist and independent voters. Said Rocard: "The French people do not want another version of the (Socialist-Communist) common program, warmed over for today's taste...
...cries of "Liar," "Scab" and "Traitor," and thunderous cheers clashed with raucous catcalls. That was the scene at last week's annual conference of the opposition Labor Party, which quickly developed into a shouting match between supporters of centrist Party Leader Neil Kinnock, 43, and Arthur Scargill, 47, the Marxist president of the National Union of Mineworkers. The most contentious issue at the conference was Scargill's proposal that a future Labor government reimburse the N.U.M. nearly $2 million for court fines and costs stemming from the union's violent yearlong strike, which was broken by the Conservative government last...
Freedom of expression implies, literally, the freedom of interpretation of individual process. While Professor Susan Suleiman's textual reading of George Bataille's "The Story of the Eye" as pornographic art may have felt marginal and esoteric to those uninitiated in the Marxist-Freudian syntheses of feminist literary criticism on which she drew, nevertheless the premises of authority and desire questioned had a very practical aim. Such a reading as Suleiman's illustrates how pornography, like art, lies in the eye of the beholder. The process of intellectual questioning is crucial to transforming cultural values and the kind of sexual...