grand old departure for Wildeat. Formed Tiratre Company, Pavilion The Celric Story", Wildrat company, they ee devoted breakaway from the 7:04 in the latr seventies as a Theatrr, Glasgow: to. "They do not love your neck, Stand up and talk about me Auri put so plays alma me - someday somebody I And wiile about mr — Black and beatiful — And site alout mi. Treckon ir'll be Yes, it'll be me. Me mysels! unnoosed and straight' drove her husband insane, Sethe Beloved returns to claim her life and her mother. For Sche thore chooses death as the only place is no escape but to exorcise the While the horrors he faced name is the one word no her daughter, a daughter whose of safety for her first baby tombstone Beloved'. Yet was called but nobody anywhere and unaccounted for, she cannor he lost hecause no-one is looking knew ber name. Disremembered Toni Morrison Belowed, Charro EVERYBODY KNEW what she TRACY DOYLE & Windus, L11.95
produced to mark the cententary ot the butball club bounded by a events like the miners strike or community centree and welfare ingrants as its main support priest in Glasgow's east end in commentary on contemporary assured then a wide audience acting and musicianstup have This piece by contrast was. 1888 and baving recent Irish A high quality of writing: for shows put on mainly in the Nicaraguan revolution. clubs throughout Scorland. therselves previously to Pungent left political Sethe is required to acknowledge her own actions and then to turn reconcile bersell to Lie results of and fren of the ghost that hauits free. Free of the raint of slavery; can learn to fight. In doing this judge her or see her as a victim hand to free. To be showa the but to learn how we ourselves Finally Sethe contes to lind her cnergy to shaking herself dark in Setle's past is nor to the source of her pain, to Tungrise Haber Nate an Commeicial Thentre! vow.can.rake.comfort in knowing horror; only to hold and fift you, you, to seize and river you while Morrison's technique is to hind be too frightened. You're going co find our about it, but it's not bending past and present, the happened so you don't have to linu and lights. 'As the reader she plunges vou into pain and to show you how Sethe stands Building layer upon layer, anger back towards the evil past and turn ber rightoous story moves on incxorably. whatever it is has already thrust upon her life. struggle for freedom is only Just the power to curry you througl more poctry than prose, with a aholitionists, Boozed describes: Bubs, Son of Soloman and Sula, depth of imagination that bus Set in north America in the auctior bE The Blust Ere, Tor complex new novel. at times mid-1800s, as slavery comes Foni Morrison, brilliant has written a heautiful and 500 pages without it pausc. the struggle to escape of'a woman called Sedie This under artack from the for her. Beloved:
club's achirvements, Ikr the first potential vero on material, hut in McLennan and David Anderson the esent author/directors Dave Sponsorship by Golic carriod a majority ul the audience wants, Furopean cup win for a British cluhs throughout Scotland are however. As usual Wildcat are atracting many people new to live rheatre: Celtic supporter: produced an acceptable show that's now playing tightly to making block bookings arkd therelors, it a cuingy to the There's at prublem bere running buses. What the packed horscs; laughs, lesh that dances on hare out vonder, bear me, they do not don't love your eyes, they just as soon pack them out No more do. And O my people. place, we Desh: lesh that weeps. Herself as no-one elsc will, least. dearns to heed the words of her hard. Yonder they do not Inve destroved her husband, caused vour fleshi they despise. They foct in grass. Love it, Love it they love your back. Yonder self-alErmation, to rejoice in the death of her child: Sethe musher-in-law: in Lins here. of all those who beat tier, self-conlidence and hurt you but 1 don't want to pull given their attention to a specific writes Morrison elsewhere ahnut though it might De awful. It may Many black writers, male and female, have written to celebrate Like Pecula in The Bluest Ev. going lo be a big surprise, even and other black wumen writers Black survival. Toni Morrison, tradition — following the tears such as Nozake Shange, have the rug out from under you," and hattles of those who BAlL and distinct aspect of this on and Now. me using my own birthed them and I got them out crossing the Ohio river, drawing swollen. Sethe gives birth to ber did on my own Each and every: one of my babies and me tou. 1 till then it was the only thing 1 was ine doing it, mc saying Go fourth child, Denver, in a boat on the strength and spirit that *I did it. Tgot us all our. Up aud it wasn't no accident ...it children and flees the snuth. beginnung as she takes hor characterise many of Toni Sick, beaten, feet raw and Morrison's heroines.
giant birthday cakc at the end of when the latter played hy Dave MeLenman) Icaps to his feet and chab in 1967. Indeed the biggest near throttles his grandson. The commens about Mark Walters, nineteenth century immigrants une of the present icam from a herr awaits die curgence of Club are loosely woven around whose grandfarher is also just Events in the history of the One of the best moments is boy Has been making racist the story of a tumuly of fare struggle by black writers. Beloned became the first novel by a hlack wamen provide a powerful focus that holds a thousand messages for us all, but which is uniquely awarded the equivalent of the author to win a major literary marginalised and silenced by socicty, in their writing black for reclaiming and resistance prize in the Lisa when it was love vour neck unnoosed and Bonker Prize this year. Inng Belored is a beauriful and moving hook. Following u and home. Oner her house was a: as the ghost vents childish anger daughrer and all rhat remains to happy place, full of visitors and having killed her own child she succeeds in capturing the heart boards will shake and shudder samic name, Sethe is a woman empty and the very Boors and child retarns to haunt her lite When the ghost appears in human forms, the girl Beloved now faces retrihution as that who is cast down or outcast, her of the family she tried so of Denver, Setbe's surviving friends. Now it is cold and and frustration SOCIALIST OUTLOOK no. B July/September 1988 But the freedom of the north b hear. Ir was a kind of selfishness througl the veil, out, away, over just flew and collected every bit No No No No No No No urshe: If she thoughc anything it was carried, pushed, dragged them one sanctuary for her children. parts of her that were precious there where no-one could hurt recapture, Sethe can see only 1 never knew nothing about of life she had made, all the little more than an illusion. and fine and heautiful, and Faced with the threat of
previnus crisis of the ancien regime Memors of a renolationist (Century republished, Peter Kropotkin's Hurchinson, £6.95) sheds light on the options arising frum the MOVE commune — a group of occupied a fortified house in a Philadelphia. At dawn on 13 backwash from 1917, Newly May 1985, the Philadelphia Alexander I's attempts to incideut of May 1985? The brought ahout by Tsar radical black communes - "respectable' part of black ® Remember the MOVE reform from above. sensible answer; you cannot talk Mat s! is actually more about subjective clement (the party), of a situation being 'objcctively situation in May, Krivine and the far Jeft and political events On the question of whether revolutionary but lacking the defeated in a plebiscite-like serivus injury. (De Gaulle Bensaid give an eminently following year after being there was a revolutionary because the two are laughing all the way to the bank. garage owners, the bookies and tradition. Meantime go and see have been more in the Wildeat "The Geltic Story' — if only for l'o do a play exposing the real singing — and supporr Partick: the priests and ministers are hature of the old firm would Torry Neason's magnificent however, the builders, the TONY SOUTHALL Mai Si! work for ycars But the club gues the black Rangers player whose debut in an 'old firm" game was marked by a delugc ol bananas thrown onto the pitch hy Celtic twentieth century with its wars: Ir's the women relations who members of the family go away have the best lines here about and economic depressions — to light and die or are out of supporters. That, he savs, is exactly the way us "paddies" were treated 100 years ago! unfolds so does that of the As the story of the club:
dropped from a police helicopter were killed in che bombing. Only Mow! Tins ir America/ by Margot police, acting on orders of black destroyed 6i more houses in the Harry (Bauner Press, (5.95) is a strect. Eleven MOVE memhers, house and started a fire which culminated at 5:25pm when a detailed account of the MOVE mayor Nelson Goode, began large improvised bomb was building. It demolished the six adults and five children, year-old survived. Attention, onto the roof of the MOVE their assault. The attack une adult and a thirten- since 1968 than about the evenes themselves. But the authors deal revolutionary socialist in France Francois Minterrand, and so on Impression from the book is the parts like a whistle-stop tour.of have been sucked into an ever the 1970s and 19805: on your left, Nicaragua, terrorism; on Over the past twenty years with so much that it reads in many lurmer revolutionaries rightward moving Socialist The most lasting overall your right, Alghanistan, difficulty of being a and grow up. Analysis of the real Beginning witl a cool analvsis of Alain Krivine & Daniel Bensaid siguilicance of the events of that ever-cnergetic students running. Available Grom La Breche, 2 rue hook is ouly availahle in French. Mai S/ Lu Breche, 1988. (This not while waiting to graduate Montreail-Sons-Bois, France. THE PREDOMINANT media Mus sil is an exception. Richard Lenoir, 99108 image of May 58 is of 75F F plus postagc.) Yoar is hard to find. specially when it combines with century immigration and played the apparent acceptance of war and recession. Their senriments Lie pointlessness of their men's impossible to do a political job are overwhelmed, however, by relevant truths about the cinh: a key part in giving an identity The conditions surrounding hat Celtic were an important lat continuing tale of Celte's to a discriminated-against product of the mineteenth blind fanatical support this production made it
resisting arrest! After conducting contemporary transformations of coori collection of Claus Offe's essays: trial of the only adult survivor, Ramona Africa, for aggravated her own defence she was found [8.95) is just our. Ode's work bombing and the subsequent guity and sentenced to up to post-Althusserian 'structural assault on police officers and and pouties (Basil Blackwell, functionalist marcists like. dovctails with the ideas of • Onto high theory: A Disorganised capitalim — seven years in prison. Party because it, at least, seemed and therefore understand how to out of fashion. But Marxit, in ins popularity has declined from 22 among intellectuals is decidedly per cent ol the vote in 1968 to 7 per ccul in 1988. And marxism likely one day to govera, il not critically analyse May and its helping to understand the past fulfil the hopes of May 1968. legacy, plays a small part in carry on the struggle in the The communist party's allempt to objectively but NICK HEWLETT the general strike of May 1968 in peak of the widespread strikes of the significance and potential of there were hetween six and nine million in 1936 (at the time cif Teading members of clie Ligue Communiste Revolutionnaire Krivime and Bensaid, both then and now, point out that two-and-a-half million at the million workers on strike in 1968, compared with three France this book leaves the Popular Front and remuries of personal minority. That Celtic have never Murray, author of a recent book employment policies as Rangers source of the success of the two maintaining a religious bigotry clubs. It has brought them the MrGrain and Jock Stin are a employoes. And that in the late success depends, however, on in the vid firm, has been the best players in Scutland. the - Konny Dalglish, Danny twenneth century Celtic 9: that, in the words of Bill had the same sectarian most supporters and
SOCIALIST OUTLOOK no B July/Sephember 1985 the labour market, are in urgent post-Fordism". As expected it's fairly indigestible fare. Some of differentiation and cleavages in political coonomy of the lahour Lirpictz and lellow Germans, the phenomena he addresses, revolutionary standpoint, For especially the first essay The this reason 1 suggest at least Hirsch and Essen, and their attempts to construct a new however, notably increased need of examination from a some of you give this a try. abstract idcal rype of centralised incrtia. This problem between 'capitalist' reforms and Soviet Union (forget Spain and presence in the bureaucratising Bookends apparent to the visitor to the go there!) how the same old structures reasserted their THE SOVIET bureaucracy autocracy. It is shorkingly appears increasingly torn bureaucracy's historical predecessors, the tsarist slipped off to Baden Baden on 29. Grenelle which centually ended extreme governmental confusion But real self-organisation on thr almust all aspects uf French life, Power vacuum perhaps there the French labour movetnent: biggest strike in the history of was not, cven when de Gaulle part of strikers was relatively dependent on tight control of at the end of May indicated rare and the negotiations al the strike brought little of May. But for a regime historic significance. One of the saddest sights to be confronting, at the other end, the we'd get more money for a strike consequenrly the biggest proline. union jacks and the cries of god And it's truc, consciousness 15 at the Celtic end, and the fascist BNP c attempts to get a loothold seen is a mass of yung Celtic in Scotland include leaflecting ground waving tricolours and supporters at one end of thr a little different at cach end: Up in the directors" box, singing repuhlican songs Rangers supporters. save the queen" 36
REVIEWS Wall Street Inhabitants of the stockbroker belt could be beard on television and radio either disclaiming the decurate portrayal of their own heads solemnly over the shame: shaking their Wall Street, A film direcred by opened there was much noise WHEN WALL STREET frE ahout this exposure of stock 1 think that their tongues hailing it as a devastatingly whole film, or, more afien MACDONALD exchange dirty dealing: dirty dealings Oliver Stone. HELEN nfit all.
The only woman with any sort People that is. (We all koow that signiticance as belonging to both way or anothcr, aki being a sorr than it is aboul high finance. As with both power and cach other when Gekko says to Charlie at: specialses in making vour fat itbout met and their struggles they exist as girlfmends, louse Gekko and Charlie Sheen one This lilm is probably more ofrole is Dars| Hannah, the look like a building site. But manhood: And that folks is dien she is allowed special one point I gave vou your if sab-plor to their power interior decorator wlin women and muthers.) what it's all abour • struggle, Yuk. Heights meets ligh finaner with a Trads, but the film's main failing Dever to emerge from wimpdon. sunubly malevolent manner and proves that if you re going to be dog of a part as che honcurabic credit still manages to convince a bad buy, it pays in be a mally Martin Sheen is stock with a able to write abour the woma bad guy as his somewhit nicer philosophy stalke around in a hospital scene where Wathering trade umion leader, but to his (alheir class collaboralionist) Apart, that is, from a hideous It would be pleasant to be acolve Charlie Sheen seems forgotten that they exist. As even in his moment of glory is that in appears to lave swing fairly doot chap. Sumehow this (large) puddle of corruprion, hur although biased rowards the evil. scems a contradiction in termEs. your average broker trally 1s a The performannes are good, Michael Dunglas as Gordon Gekko of the greed is good" - this is more of a moral tale for machinations uf big business and niust have been lodged larly m: espect anyrhing vaguely political The general impression is that But it's a fairly enjoyable way Werc you to take this film ton uf'spending a couple of hours at their collective checks, Hthis is our times than a critique of the prelerable to Michael Douglas Wall Street may have the odd reckon that we/ll live happily wlien it conies to having your your local cinema Jusr don't company taken over by some capitalism lias to offer ns, I scriously vou might end up slightly confased — why is the wuest that monopoly Terence Stamp infinitely rampaging entrepreneur? insider dealing. after all.
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