[Marxism] General Strike: What is the Pathfinder Mural

[Christopher Hutchinson <christopher.hutch@xxxxxxxxx>]

Recently General Strike has been working on creating a new site for not only
comics but also revolutionary art history and hopefully in the future
animation.  Currently my hard drive in filled and I can not create any new
comics until this problem is resolved so in the mean time I am posting
pieces from our artistic revolutionary past.  Below is a link to an article
written by Mike Alewitz in 1988 as a response to the conflict and
controversy that surrounded the creation of a  mural on the wall of the
Pathfinder Press building.


*The Life and Death of the Pathfinder Mural*

* *

The Pathfinder Mural Project was initiated in 1988, inspired by global
revolutionary struggles, including in Grenada, Nicaragua and South Africa.
Eventually, the effort involved hundreds of international artists and
activists in the creation of one of the largest political murals in the
world.



Pathfinder Press is the publishing house of the Socialist Workers Party
(SWP,) of which I had been an active member for two decades.  I proposed the
project at a time when it seemed that the party had developed serious
problems with bureaucratic functioning. The willingness to sponsor a serious
cultural initiative made me hopeful that it would be a contribution to
combat those tendencies.


My optimism was misplaced. As the project progressed, I began to receive a
series of arbitrary and bizarre demands to paint the "right line."

link to the full article...
http://www.generalstrikecomics.com/2009/01/12/what-is-the-pathfinder-mural-by-mike-alewtiz/

in solidarity,

Christopher
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