News Sheet of the Auxiliary Christian Left/Christian Left
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N°1 - July 1st, 1936
[1] […] John Macmurray
N°2 - August 1, 1936
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[10] Reinhold Niebuhr
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N°3 - October 5, 1936
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Christianity and the Churches - John Macmurray
[20] We of the Christian Left stand for Christianity. By Christianity we mean something actual, objective and independent of anyone's private beliefs. We mean a real power working in human society for its transformation, whose origin is the life and teaching of Jesus.
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The Significance of Durham - Kenneth Muir
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N°4 - November 14, 1936
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The Manifesto of 'New Earth'
’We print below the manifesto of a French Christian Left Group. They describe themselves as Christian Communists. Their Magazine, 'Terre Nouvelle', has a monthly circulation of 15,000 copies.]
I.
Because we are Christians
On the March
The Auxiliary Movement: Post-Durham
N°5 - January 4, 1937
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N°6 - February 28, 1937
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N°7 - March 20, 1937
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Facing a Decision
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The Religious Task of the Christian Left - John Macmurray
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N°8 - April 24, 1937
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N°9 - July 15, 1937
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N°10 - February 1938
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[83] The Committee of the Christian Left At the General Meeting in November, the following were appointed to the committee:
| David Basillie (Scotland) | Alice Lloyd-Williams (London) |
| Barbara Cass-Beggs (Oxford) | H.A. Phillips (Manchester) |
| David Cass-Beggs (Oxford) | Gregory Vlastos (London) |
| C.H. Edwards (Northampton) | Avrille Williams (Bath) |
| Kenneth Ingram (London) | Dorothy Wise (London) |
N°11 - March 1938
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N°12 - April 1938
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N°13 - May-June 1938
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N°13A - September-October 1938
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[114] … “Democracy”, wrote Karl Polanyi, in a letter to David Cass-Beggs, “is a method of running the affairs of community; it is not a method of creating be no more at best than a more or less adequate expression. Communities discover themselves to be in existence - historical events, slow spontaneous growths, or acts of leadership may have preceded the discovery. […]
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Members of the group belong to one or the other of the socialist working-class parties.
| a. Prophetic | To proclaim our message by pointing to the signs of the times and to the true nature of the present world crisis; by denouncing the apostasy of the Churches; by preparing the minds of man for the inevitability of the transformation of society; by showing the certainty of the significance of a life committed to the services of the working-class movement and to the truth of socialism. |
| b. Practical | |
| c. Theoretical |
Kenneth Muir
The St. Asaph Conference
[120] The conference on 'The Christian Answer to Fascism' which the Auxiliary Movement had asked … July 30th and terminated on Friday, August 5th.
… Karl Polanyi spoke on Monday on Fascist philosophy and economics, Hilde Vernon followed on Tuesday dealing
N°14 - November-December 1938
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The Committee
The following were elected as the Committee for the ensuing year:
Barbara Cass-Beggs,
David Cass-Beggs,
Ted Edwards,
Nellie Howie,
Kenneth Ingram,
Douglas McClelland,
Geoffrey Miller,
Fanny Street,
Elsa Young,
Alice Lloyd-Williams
Kathleen Saw, (Treasurer.)
Janet Jordan, (Secretary.)
Conditions of Membership
[128] […] 3. Members are committed to be members of one of the socialist political parties, … […]
N°15 - March-April 1939
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N°16 - May-June 1939
The methods of Propaganda
[143] Some time was spent at the Committee meeting held in London, on April 29th and 30th, in exploring certain fundamental … […]
N°17 - November 1939
N°18 - March 1940 | Socialism and Democracy - John Macmurray
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3. Christianity and the Organic Society
4. The Practical Results of this organic conception
… The Organic view is false. …
N°19 - April-May 1940
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Edward Every
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