We have to hand the latest issue of Free Algeria, the December 1961/ January 1962 number, It is a Meee Art te and informative issue as well it might be seeing that John Baird, M.P.. Balint returned from North Africa where they have seen, at first hand,many things. Of note are articles on the Paris pogroms in October (a first hand account by a conscript soldier), impressions of a journey through Latin America by Benkchedda, the president of tuo c.P.ui., anyone who wants to learm something of his political ideas should wco23 this and an article by Mrs. Baird on the plight of Algerian children.
Many of the readers of the International Bulletin already read and sell Free Algeria, we would urge any who don't -already to get copies in the future. In particular it is important that organisations of the labour movement should place orders. An assistant editor has been appointed, she is: Gertmde @lias, 8/29 Abercorn Place, London N.W. 8.
John Baird will be reporting on his recent trip to North ifrica at the following mestings and schools:
Sunday, 2lst January South Nottinghan Federation of Youns
Socialists school starting 10.30 et Co-op
Education Centro, Heathcote St-
Thursday, 25th, January Iraqui Students! Society, Panton 5t. London
S.W. 1. at 7.30 pom
Friday, end February Jacari Socioty, Oxford University at 8.15pm
Monday, 1léth February Arab Students! Sociuty, Sheffield University
at 12,30 p.m.
Monday, 19th February Afro-Asian Society, Leeds Universitr
(details locally)
He has already spoken at the M.C.F. and at the Arab Students’ Society hiverpool University, and would no doubt bo prepared to speak at other organisations if the comrades can make the arrangements, SOCIALIST RIVIEW AND THR CONGO by T.Ii.
A recent article in Socialist Review, January 1962, by its editor, ilisdair MacIntyre is a perfect example of the petti bourgeois nature of the State capitalist tendency. MacIntyre, in the conclusion to his article, strongly Supports UNO intorvention in the Congo. Some time your correspondent protested to the journal about a discussion article which had supported UNO intervention in the Congo and the Tditorial Board condemned the article in question. However, now Alisdair MacIntyre, one of the leading lights of that tendency is now seriously putting forward this idea (which is incidentally much in vogue among centrists)
He does this by arguing that UNO supports a unitary state and a unttary state would be useful to the African socialist movement. He denies the existence of a Congo proletariat (true is small, but there are so I am told miners in the Katanga region.) It is true that an effective leadership has not asserted itself, but socialists do not for that reason support an agency of imperialism, UNO was indirectly responsible for the death of Lumumba, and is interested in neutralising Gizenga - however unsatisfactory he is - and any possible aid from the workers states. MacIntyre cannot grasp the nature of the permanent revolution and would accept a unitary bourgeois government in the Congo, largely dependent on America, It is no coincidence that Adoula is meeting Kennedy.
MacIntyre's views aro in lino with the "critical" support given by the journal International Sochlism to the Common Market. They add up to this how to give support to imperialism without actually saying so. .