ABSTRACT
A small event which illuminates an aspect of the contemporary culture took place in the Stephenson Room of Euston Station in September 1978. Many would agree that working-class people are recipients of an education and a culture over which they have negligible control and in which they have little significant say. They have transmitted to them conditioning images and interpretations of their lives which have been largely refracted through middle-class perceptions. The attitudes of the workshop members and the appearance of the magazine in 1975 found a response in another working-class area on the other side of the city, the Liverpool 8 area with its significant proportion of black people. Racism, unpleasant living conditions, individual and collective struggles against authority, the hurly-burly of pub, street and home get due treatment. Politically the class struggle would be felt and communicated, even if indirectly, even if the writer has no such design on the reader.
