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...welfare mothers from New York that handles most of the vocals. Half of the album is devoted to folk songs, half to rock. The PLP-LP concentrates on a broad evocation of working class solidarity, with only a little emphasis on the PLP itself, although many songs reflect PL's peculiarly arid brand of communism. And it is PL's position against drugs, often the focus of a facile dope smokers' criticism of PL, that provides the album with its best song. "Politicians and Pushers..."Here the PLP-LP picks up where the Knapp Commission left...
...MORE serious political criticisms might he made of the PLP-LP. Those who wrote the songs say in the liner that they were attempting to create the beginnings of a "working class culture" which would embody socialist goals. But the same ideological certainty and simplicity which allowed PL to create this album undermines its broad cultural aims. In many of the songs, the lyrics present a simple world of workers fighting with a small, tightly allied group of..."bosses." The songs say that the bosses must be smashed, but one gets very little idea of what "smashing the bosses" actually...
...military supplies." This refers to the agreement in connection with the extension of American basing rights in the Azores. What we did was to offer the loan of a research vessel, a grant of $1,000,000 for education, $5,000,000 in nonmilitary surplus equipment, and PL-480 credits of $30 million for the export of surplus agricultural commodities. Export-Import Bank financing may also be available. The $400 million figure frequently mentioned in this connection relates only to projects under consideration by the Portuguese, no commitment having been made by the U.S. as to amount. "Military supplies...
...Pl Eta Club, sporting a team of five unclad thinclads, held its annual nude "Run for Daylight" last night. The race--one of Harvard's more exciting spectator sports events--was run on a course including Harvard Square and Lamont Library. The team's performance was a true credit to the Harvard athletic tradition with all competitors showing everything they...
...state has accused Hosken of attacking two police officers and destroying a policeman's watch and pair of pants during a welfare demonstration in downtown Boston last May 7. The demonstration had been organized by the Progressive Labor Party (PL) to protest cutbacks in the Massachusetts Medicaid program...