Reader's Letter

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I would like to raise some points from the review of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" in Socialist Press 34.

The argument is that the film tries to "direct the audience's feelings away from reality" and towards "the whole bag. of campaigns in America which substitute for revolutionary However the reviewer incorrectly lumps together in this bag campaigns which have nothing or next to nothing to do with the struggle for socialism, such as "back to nature" and "ecology" along with campaigns which do actually represeat the struggies of oppressed groups SEI FI DACE OCTE DEI ATE DE DOE ENTIE METE Stain - LOEs IT The struggles of women, blacks etc., are precisely such protests.

The problem with them is their limited form and the illusions that they frequently soW in the possibility of avoiding and evading the central issues.

Yet we do not reject and should not parody and deride them for their weaknesses and worse; but actively seek to channel their struggles into the building of a revolutionary party based in the working class but carrying forward the struggles of all oppressed groups.

LETTERS Me readen Lettes shoeld be kept s and Ias 10 Yours fraternally, Di Parkin (Oxford)

eters frue or potdicaicn briet as postibie One of the industries in which unionisation has spread most rapidly over recent years is the book business.

A consequente of this has been struggles for recognition against emplorers muting to concede emen basic-trade union rights.

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5/83 WORKERS BLACKWE UNION BRANCI The latest, is a strike by NUJ Book Branch members of the St. James Press Chapel.

The company have agreed in principle to recognise the union but refuse to concede the union's claim that 16 freelance workers who work full time for the company storld retire full nationa marance socinbutions fom the

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