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Est. 1817 Vol. 13 Number 2 5 July 1968 FORTNIGHTLY 2s Logue / Steadman / Connolly / Another Vietnam McCarthy / Poverty / Capitalism Kills / The Queen Paris / Hull / RSSF / Tariq Ali 2 THE BLACK DWARF 1 3 . 2 The New Vanguard a n y a n a l y s is OF t h e s t u d e n t r e v o l t must start from one basic budget isn’t large enough to guarantee consideration: the university explosion. A new social grouping has all of you the university buildings, emerged from the very vitals of capitalism, from all that it considers professors and assistants, restaurants, dormitories and, above all, the high its essential ' achievement ’: the higher standard of living, the advances quality education you demand right in technology and the mass media, and the requirements of automation. away. You have to be satisfied with There are six million university students in the United States, two and gradually changing the existing situa a half in West Europe, and over a million in Japan. And it proved im tion, which we all agree is unsatisfac possible to integrate this grouping into the capitalist system as it tory. ’ And when the students are told this, they are a thousand times right functions in West Europe, the United States, or Japan. to answer: ‘ Stop this bilge about the The students have not found the rate among the youth in the black appropriation for education and the necessary material facilities for their ghettos of the United States exceeds resources of the public bodies. Talk in studies in the universities. They have 20% — which explains a lot of things. terms of the economic resources avail not found the kind of education they In brief, what he, like innumerable able in this society. Admit that while were looking for. And above all when devotees of capitalism, failed to see there isn’t enough money for the uni they leave the universities it is getting is that this system, far from solving versities, there is more than enough harder and harder for them to find all economic and social problems, for advertising and superfluous gad the kind of jobs they rightly expected has not even remedied the basic evils gets. Admit that the reason you can’t when they started their university of 19th century capitalism, while it find the billions needed for a univer education. has added a series of new contradic sity system fit for the 20th century is A young student writing in Le Monde tions that have proved more and more because you’re squandering billions the other day described ‘ our ’ society insoluble. for your 1 force de frappe ’ [France’s as a ‘ society of abundance ’, a society Capitalism confronts the student nuclear striking force]. Admit that you Hull demands ‘one man - one vote’ in which ‘ everyone ’ is now guaranteed youth with insoluble contradictions are stifling immense productive, tech full employment and a steody rise in not only in the university but nological, cultural, and intellectual DAVE COLLINS PETE LATARCHE PAUL GERHARDT his standard of living. also in the economy and in bourgeois forces because you prefer to create He did not put his glasses on when society, which is in permanent crisis. ON THE NIGHT of 8 June Hull Univer other Universities are at the point of reality. We hope that our action may destructive forces. he read the West European unem Some people have talked about the sity students took a major step forward catching up, now is the time for us to show that the practical application of In this sense, and rightly, the students in creating a free, democratic univer be moving on. this principle is not only possible, but ployment statistics. He did not see inadequacy of the universities and, ‘ reject dialogue ’ and reject ‘ univer sity. We occupied the nerve centre of And moving on as far as the students is the only basis on which education that in the last two winters there were like good reformists, called for univer sity reform ’ in the context of bour the institution — the administration are concerned is moving on to the cita may meaningfully advance. three million unemployed in Western sity reform. Therefore, when the stu geois society. For, they have under building. dels of academic power: A challenge We have received support from the Europe. He did not see that the num dents turned their backs on this reform stood the nature of this society. And The fight had been a long and hard to the prevailing assumptions of pater socially away members of the staff, ber of unemployed in France itself of the bourgeois university, they ac this awareness in combination with one with many setbacks. It all began nalism. If it is hard for many of the whose position with regard to executive topped a half million — and this in cused them of rejecting dialogue. But their special situation in society has thirteen days before when Tom Faw- Faculty to come to terms with what is representation is little better than our the midst of a government-proclaimed what the students in revolt rejected was throp, a third year politics and soci at stake, some of our students too find made them the weakest link in the neo own. We are continuing the struggle economic expansion. He did not notice in fact dialogue within the pre-estab ology student, arrived back in Hull liberty a difficult concept. This ac for re-organisation of the University capitalist chain today, the first to crack the large number of young people in lished and supposedly immutable from Paris. Tom contacted a few mili counts for the nerve-wracking days of on a democratic basis of one man, one throughout the Western world. tant students and an emergency meet the campaign — days in which the men vote — students, staff — everyone who this mass of unemployed — to say framework of the bourgeois state, of the What the student revolt represents on ing was held in his house. At this who wait for liberty to be handed works on the campus, from the oldest nothing of the still larger number bourgeois governments in West Eur a much broader social and historic meeting Tom spoke of his experiences down, and the men who know that to cleaner to the youngest freshman. which the statistics don’t include. He ope and Japan. scale is the colossal transformation of at the Sorbonne and proposed that a get it you have to fight, struggled for We won’t settle for less. did not see that the unemployment The students have been told: ‘ The the productive forces which Marx Socialist Society meeting be held in the soul of the movement. The im foresaw in his Grundrisse [Outlines of support of the French students and portant point is that the people in the a Critique of Political Economy]: the workers revolution. He emphasised centre of the campaign were ‘ engaged ’ reintegration of intellectual labour into that if there was ever going to be an in the existential sense of lives tied to productive labour, men’s intellectual ' issue upon which the Left in Hull the determining of their own possibili ... and in Yugoslavia. would unite it would be in solidarity ties. capacities bebecoming the prime pro- with the students of France. After Thursday’s token sit-in we were ductice force in society. A meeting was arranged for Thursday, forced to face eight days of verbal For nearly twenty years the watchwords in Yugoslavia have been Self-govern workers could be very close, and This is still embryonic and is unrealis- 30 May. But on the Tuesday Tom diahorroea and confusion. The ‘ mod ment and Self-management. The march towards the ideal of a new Socialist immediate. The straws have been able within the framework of capi Fawthrop ripped up his finals papers erates ’ stepped in to confuse the issue man is proclaimed everywhere you go. But the reality has been somewhat in the wind for some time. Last talist society but it is already power in front of lecturers, professors, and with requests for negotiations and the different. If real self-government was to be introduced it would at some stage year Belgrade students put on a fully announcing itself. In speaking of examinees, it was the climax of his ‘ permeation ’ of the administration. threaten the position of the political leaders themselves. This was not to be satirical review, ‘Reserved strictly a third industrial revolution, of a one-man campaign. (His book ' Educa The failure of the administration seri for the Working Classes’, which scientific revolution, many Marxist tion or Examination ’ had recently been ously to entertain our basic demand, tolerated. So every seemingly Socialist measure tends to get hedged with sociologists have not always drawn the published by the Radical Students or even to seriously consider it, proved restrictions that weaken it and cynicism results. emphasised all the criticisms men Alliance. ) beyond doubt that our only true way For instance the law stating that set up voluntary associations to tioned here, and many others. The obvious social conclusion about the The resulting publicity made Thurs to democracy was to show, by our every political office holder (except relieve poverty, and to provide Vietnam war was the catalyst of place of intellectual workers in society. day’s meeting the largest in the Social united action, that we could deny the the President) has to be replaced every money to educate ‘ children of the action. In early 1967 massive stu They do not understand that as a ist Society’s history.