"poverty will ■ ■ ■ anarchist^fortnightty always exist! Yes, so long as property does.”9f p-j. Proudhon Vol.Freedom 55 No. 12 FIFTY PENCE 11 JUNE 1994

MAJOR BEGS THE QUESTION OF HOMELESSNESS or Mr Major the homeless living in The official figures have shown a “It concludes that ex-service people are Fthe streets and doorways of our monthly decrease, but as everybody more disadvantaged than other homeless cities are ‘offensive* and quite by now must know, the government’s people. Most of those interviewed stayed unnecessary. His vitriolic attack on statistics refer only to those in receipt less than a year in their first the youngsters among the ‘beggars’ is of the dole. Those wage slaves who accommodation after leaving the forces. understandable. After all it was he, More than one-third have never had a have been unemployed for more than settled home after leaving. when Social Securities Minister, who a year no longer exist, even as a About 70% said they had physical or deprived the 16-17 year old statistic! mental health problems. A quarter unemployed school leavers of any With the Labour Party’s Mr Brown suffered from depression or stress-related social security payments unless they declaring that if returned to power Illnesses while a quarter also reported an took part in some kind of training then full employment will be their alcohol-related condition. More than 40% scheme - which anyway could not first priority, we wonder how they had been in prison and 23% in a absorb all the school leavers and intend to achieve these ends (apart psychiatric unit. doesn’t provide jobs for most at the from declaring war) unless they are Even when periods of homelessness end of the ‘training'. Not because they occurred some time after they left the prepared to reduce the working week forces, those interviewed often traced back don’t want to work (okay, some don’t to 30 hours, ban all overtime and their unsettled lifestyle to the ‘culture but the majority do) but for the simple provide material incentives for shock’ of leaving. A significant proportion fact that the jobs are not there. And parents to spend more time with their had care backgrounds or unsettled only an idiot cannot see that the more young children. childhoods before joining up and had no technology is directed towards Major and his gang who reject the family to return to." dispensing with human labour European Union’s Social Chapter, So much for the ‘land fit for heroes’ unemployment must inevitably which puts a limit of 48 hours on the myth! continue to rise. working week (and he accuses the All commentators, other than the European ‘socialists’ of wanting to government’s paid parrots, have no reduce it to 35 hours), are also doubt that homelessness is an China calls Clinton bluff proposing to remove the long-term artificial creation thanks to a whole unemployed from the dole after six series of policies which have resulted months and that all receiving benefit in a shortage of housing, chief BUSINESS IS be directed to jobs for their dole and amongst them the selling off of rented a bit more - an obvious incentive to housing which has not been replaced BUSINESS employers to sack full-time by rented accommodation which employees and take on part-timers (continued on page 2) n spite of all the evidence to show for whom no national insurance, Ithat Beijing’s record on human holiday and other charges apply. rights leaves much to be desired, and in spite of pressures from human o return to Major’s ‘offensive’ BT PROFITS SOAR rights activists, President Clinton Tbeggars who among other things AND ANOTHER 15,000 decided to renew its most favoured are discouraging tourists and FOR THE SACK nation status trading privileges with shoppers from coming and spending the US and no longer Unk them with their money buying useless souvenirs ritish Telecom announced record the human rights issue. and being ripped off anyway, and not Bb pre-tax; profits of £2,760 million Chinese virtually told Mr by the beggars. InThe Independent on for the year to the end of March and Clinton to mind his own business and Sunday (29th May) one learns that: said it would be making a £750 threatened to pass on future “One in four single homeless people has million provision for redundancy alrcraft or

he art market is proof, if needed, that there So long as there are the poor, the sick, the disabled, the homeless and has either the will or the power to dispossess Tis plenty of cash around but in the wrong the unemployed in a society where a growing minority can flaunt their the rich. At most there could be a bands. Recently at the Serpentine Gallery a wealth while governments cut back on benefits, the social services, redistribution of wealth by taxation. In the last dead sheep preserved in a glass tank of fifteen years of Tory government there is no formaldehyde was sold for £25,000. A poster housing and education, we anarchists say it’s ... escaping the fact, as Jean Corston the Labour ‘Keep London Going’ by Man Ray for MP for Bristol East, was able to ascertain from London Transport was auctioned at Christie’s the government’s own statistics, that: last month for £26,000. A Matisse cut-out THE RICH WHO “... the poorest 10% of families with children are (when he could no longer paint he cut out £9 a week worse off than they were fifteen years shapes from coloured paper and glued them ago - while the top 10% are £250 a week better off.” into semi-abstract designs) was auctioned at Sotheby’s for a record £9,300,000 last ARE ‘OFFENSIVE’ One of Major’s arguments is that the 16-17 November. The London National Gallery paid year old school leavers should go on living £3,570,000 for a painting by the French with their parents - again showing a complete painter David. The last complete copy of ignorance of the real life problems of the poor William Blake’s Jerusalem in private hands and the unemployed families, which the rich was sold at Christie’s for £617,500 to “an don’t experience since they get rid of their anonymous telephone bidder”! And so on and children by sending them to £12,000 a year so on. But that’s not all. boarding schools. Ridiculous things such as Charlie Chaplin’s We cannot resist referring to a recent court trademark bowler hat and cane were sold for case where the rich reveal themselves in their £55,000 to “an anonymous British collector'’. true colours. David Cocks, a millionaire QC The former newspaper owner Eddie Shah seduced Miss Hammerton who had joined his secured a “1930 4.5 litre supercharged London chambers as his pupil aged 22 in ‘Blower’ Bentley” at a Sotheby auction of 1973. A year-long affair and innocent Felicity ‘classic cars’ for a mere £386,500. And at was with child. He did the honourable thing another Christie’s auction, this time of motor moneywise, but didn’t bother to see his son for car number plates, one “anonymous British the first fourteen years of his life. He is now buyer” paid a record £203,500 for a plate with 18 and more than ever dependent on mummy, simply KINGS on it! The same buyer paid and she is demanding more for her boy. In fact £13,200 for LI ONS and £12,100 for 1 XXX. she is wanting an extra £17,342 a year. After There were other lunatics with more money all, his private education at a London crammer than they knew what to do with at the sale. The costs £11,500 a year! Mr Cocks has offered to named developer of Pine Ridge Gold Centre pay the college fees and £10,000 towards his in Camberley paid £52,800 for a plate with 1 son’s “general care” but disputes “the extent TEE (golfers will appreciate the man’s taste). of extra tuition and expensive private psychological counselling he needs”. he Sunday Times provides an annual 1994 list is that whereas in 1989 they “struggled of the seriously richer include the odd farm, It’s not that Mr Cocks can’t afford an extra Tsupplement on the seriously richer. To be to find 200 names to fill it...” the second or third home here and abroad £17,000. After all, he makes £500,000 as a QC included you must be worth at least £20 ‘Today we can - and do name - 500 people we among their hard-earned fortunes. Take for and of course he owns a 50 acre farm in Devon million. Perhaps what is most revealing of the estimate to be worth £20 million or more: and there instance the case of Mr Alan Clark, known in addition to his £400,000 London house. We are many hundreds clustered just below that level more for his Don Juanesque escapades than are not told anything about the pictures, the ready to move up in the years ahead.” that he is worth £25 million towards which he cash in the bank, etc. Not only does the survey find more seriously has cotnributed very little. The family wealth Aren’t these really offensive, despicable MAJOR BEGS THE richer in the years of recession and originated in the textile trade but was creatures with all their wealth, status, the lot? QUESTION OF unemployment for the rest of the community, tnmsfonn^into an arts fortune by his fatherT but that: When he died all that Alan Clark had to do to HOMELESSNESS pay the death duty was to sell a Turner for £7.4 “Those at the top have become considerably richer million. And it left him with a large collection too: five years ago the top 200 were worth £38 in his Kent Castle, a 27,000 acre Sunderland 0* (continued from page 1) billion between them. Today the top 200 - not the estate, farms in Wiltshire and Dorset, as well Raven 25 could have easily have been provided by same 200 who were on the list in 1989 - are worth 14 36% more, or £54.3 billion. So much for the as a Swiss house and oil interests. Poor man, local councils with the proceeds from how can he afford to bum the candle at both Es?’ those sales and which at the same time recession.” would relieve some of the serious ends! Religion unemployment in the building trade. But There are among the 500 names 65 described the government has prevented local simply as landowners who between them own hen Major says it would cost £145 I 2$4 councils from using capital derived from nearly two million acres, that is the equivalent Wmillion to keep the school-leavers off council house sales for new building. As it of a strip of Britain 50 miles wide from the streets surely our 500 seriously richer who is, they have also prevented some Brighton in the south to Aberdeen in Scotland! are worth at least £65,000 million between 250,000 empty properties from being They include fourteen dukes, six viscounts, them quite apart from loose cash in the bank \($ repaired and made habitable with these nine marquises, fifteen earls, eight lords and (officially) and in off-shore tax-free havens lit funds. But like the fox and the sour four titled owners. A few of these worthies (unofficially) could manage to put together the grapes, they are also making life difficult own less than 10,000 acres but others such as £145 million to help Mr Major clean up our for the squatters who have in many cases the Duke of Buccleugh lord it over 275,000 streets? After all, only last month we were able improved the derelict properties they have ‘occupied’. Likewise with the New Age acres, Lord Lovat a more modest 100,000 to witness on television the opening night at Travellers - seizing and confiscating in acres, as with the Duke of Northumberland the new Glyndeboume Opera House with Sir worth 90,000 acres. In Scotland Captain George Christie (himself a millionaire, thanks m some cases their mobile homes. 1 A Major and the Portillos, Lilleys, Howards Alwyn Farquharson heads the clan bearing his to dad, but not in the seriously richer category * 4 et alia, are the spokesmen for the rich and name and sits on 300,000 “not very fertile” yet) thanking the invited audience who had 00 A ‘successful* moneywise - a class or caste Highland acres. Still, a pad of 470 square generously donated the £33 million that the .00 7 which we anarchists consider offensive miles to play the bagpipes or dance a reel in is new opera house had cost Make no mistake, 96 pages £3.00 (post free anywhere) 10 and which no society professing to be not too bad. there’s plenty of money around. The problem democratic should tolerate any longer. Apart from these landowners a large number is that it is in too few hands and no government

Welcome to Britain G et off the street. Quite ri$it! In my country MI’m I’m a refugee,a because when the Cold War but I’d managed to save You’re the sort of immigrant . we got rid of all unsightly ended, the United States decide to turn all a few million dollars, in You are an eyesore my Swiss bank accounts* this country needs. , ------' and 3 nuisance, beggars by shooting them. its client states into electoral democracies;

M ------77e a ITU 4FBVICE WILDCAT £1.95 POST FREE INLAND (ADD 30c TOWARDS POSTAGE WHEN ORDERING OUTSIDE U.K.') JUST OUT!! "! ■ *USTOUT*» tuc mcw ia/ii ncAT BOOK HEALTH 5HKVU.C 11th June1994 • FREEDOM home news Top level blacklegs in BBC journalists strike McLibel case to start n the recent 24-hour strike by BBC 27th June Ijournalists and technicians, which was a conditions of service. ButI would ask them to think 90% walk-out, pickets failed however to back to the days when their professional lives were he libel case brought against our apologies in court Then they seem to have persuade leading television newscasters Anna more of a struggle and consider where they would Tcomrades Dave Morris and Helen Steel by done everything possible within the law to get Ford, Michael Bueik and Ed Stourton to join. have stood on these issues when they were in their the McDonald’s fast food chain is set for the case delayed and messed about, in the twenties and thirties. Among leading journalists who helped to hearing at the High Court, beginning 27th hope, it may be presumed, of wearing Dave June. It is expected to last three or four present the news were John Simpson, Robin One of the reasons why I have stayed with the and Helen down. But without success. Oakley, Stephen Sackur, Fergal Keane and months, with a break for August. Helen and Dave are conducting their own BBC for nearly 50 years is that I have always felt I The case concerns a leaflet first issued in the Ken Cargill. could argue with - and even make an enemy of - defence, as legal aid is not yet available in libel by immediate boss, without risking my career. One early 1980s by London Greenpeace, an cases. But they have some assistance from Veteran BBC newsman Charles Wheeler anarchist group whose name pre-dates that of contributed a telling rebuke to the blacklegs could always move to another programme or unexpected sources. McDonald’s have argued department. In these days of tight markets and Greenpeace International, by which successfully that the case should be decided (The Guardian letters, 26th May) when he McDonald’s say it has been “gready damaged wrote: short-term contracts that’s a great deal more by a judge, as the details are too technical for difficult. The trouble with performance-related pay in trading reputation, goodwill and credit and a jury. Dave and Helen resisted this at the ‘1 was saddened to see how many of the BBC's is that it tends to reward obedience, discourage brought into public scandal, odium and Appeal Court and the House of Lords, where senior journalists crossed the picket line on non-conformism, and to put too much power into contempt”. Quite an achievement for a leaflet, Patrick Milmo QC argued the case for a jury Tuesday. Admittedly this is not ‘their’ strike - the the hands of programme editors and middle but the trial is likely to do McDonald’s more without fee. highly paid and famous have no reason to feel managers. The fact is that thousands of BBC people harm, in that regard, than the leaflet could. Jeremy Corbyn MP has put their allegations threatened by innovations like performance- do feel threatened by the latest reforms; I admire Whatever the outcome, McDonald’s will related pay and the devolution of decisions about their courage in trying to stick up for themselves.” in an Early Day Motion at the House of lose. They have no chance of recovering any Commons, which may be reprinted without award or any of the vast sums they have spent, getting done for libel oneself. Linda are spending and will spend on lawyers, McCartney, the vegetarian food processor, because Helen and Dave are both on income has given £1,000 towards their expenses (they support And however the judge decides, the need money to pay the travelling expenses of Through the anarchist press facts and allegations will receive publicity seventy witnesses, many from abroad). which McDonald’s will not welcome. The McLibel Support Campaign calls for a What McDonald’s would have preferred day of action, leafletting McDonald’s stores would have been to stop the leaflet and get the on 25th June, and for a picket outside the High otteries are about as interesting as religion Court in the Strand from 9.30am to 1 lam. ' Ctiupm (adatjg t+ool I |.7 0 1 matter shut up. They originally sued five W&tX ppfrfntrmn x f,, \ 'v . - Lfor vacant minds and if the Italian method members of London Greenpeace (the group as Further information from McLibel Support is going to be copied the numbers will be such, not being a legal entity, cannot be sued) Campaign, c/o London Greenpeace, 5 1 picked out of a revolving drum by young and dropped the case against three in return for Caledonian Road, London N1 9DX.j people especially chosen for their angelic Telephone: 071-837 7557. looks. That the recipients of this windfall will come off a list of trusted government toadies Rli is saying nothing new, for the winners of the €> NEW FROM FREEDOM PRESS $ premium bonds of the ‘You’ve never had it so Humanist Centre good’ society are evenly distributed among Health Service the favoured sons and daughters of SAS, MI5 opened and the rest Wildcat rief is a comparatively new-jgoqjl-evea . he opening of a new Humanist Centre is As it says on the front cover, “this boo* ft if it sounds English like grave, gravitas nother joke is, in the worst possible taste, an exciting advance for British G the Bill now nodded through the sleeping T dedicated to the daft doctrine that people and the rest, conceals its ruling class Latin A Humanism. A single site for all the national Commons nicknamed the ‘Injustice Bill’. trained in making profits can run a better origin - whereas sorrow is as old as tears, grief Humanist organisations in this country has for health service than people trained in caring has its political uses. The nation mourns its This is about the worst piece of legal rubbish the first time been established in central that has ever been perpetrated and will be for the sick". It is the fourth book of Donald greatest son (nobody gave him a second London. The shared headquarters of the Rooum’s “Wildcat' cartoons to be published thought while he was alive). Another nation (a given the same treatment by the enraged British Humanist Association (BHA), the populace as the poll tax. One thing it shows is by Freedom Press, but the first in which republic no less) mourns the demise of its first Nationalist Secular Society (NSS), the Donald has worked with a collaborator. lady queen (nobody remembers a single thing that the executive have run out of legal prose Rationalist Press Association (RPA) and the Most of the hilarious scripts are by a about her). The ex-prime minister (well, stylists, unable to cope with the imprecision South Place Ethical Society (SPES) is now at Major Major delights in. That this last piece well-known writer, not an anarchist, who almost) contemplates living in a cardboard Bradlaugh House, 47 Theobald’s Road, of legislation by a discredited bunch of crooks works for the National Health Service. It is not box on the Strand and grieves at the unsightly London WC1. This is next to Conway Hall, will never be put into effect is little joke but a real fact, that the writer's new prospect. The future contender with the and the two buildings will together provide consolation for those who will be subjected to conditions of service include the threat of unfortunate name of Blair remembers a once offices and meeting rooms for the whole random violence given the rubber stamp of the dismissal for'causing the managementto lose ambitious novelist who rejected the same and Humanist movement The national Humanist chose Orwell as his pen-name. Bad name for law. How anybody can define music confidence in you as an employee’ . So the (prosecutable) as a succession of “repetitive organisations have different origins and writer has prudently elected to use a a politician and a godsend to lampoonists different emphases, but they cooperate closely (remember the brilliant Rooum cartoon?) the beats” is beyond comprehension. Another bit pen-name for this book, Victoria N. Furmurry. of the Bill is the most ridiculous thing since for the common cause of advancing a positive When ‘she’ retires from the NHS, people may shepherd and his flock, the faithful sheep alternative to supernatural religion, and this blairing obediently. Lex invented the law. That is what is called the be startled to leam ‘her’ true identity. ex parte injunction (i.e. to make accusations task will be made much easier in one building. Meanwhile the book is as thought- The SPES began in 1793 as a Nonconformist ppermost in everybody’s mind is the about you without you being present or provoking and laughter-inducing as the other informed) and turf you out of your home chapel in East London, was an independent Wildcat’ books, and none the less so fof Ucoming festival season. Festival guides organisation in South Place, Moorgate, for have replaced passports in their importance, within 24 hours on a bad-wishers’ say-so, being on a single topic. rubber-stamped by some hireling judge after more than a century, became an Ethical and quite rightly for knowing where the thing Society in 1888, and has been based at is at is more important than how to get in. payment of the appropriate fee. You cannot There is always a gap in the fence. But because legislate against homelessness, but this Bill Conway Hall since 1929. The NSS was founded by Charles Bradlaugh in 1866, and of the unwelcome attention of thugs (i.e. actively encourages private violence to be agents of government) what was openly used by people who do not even have the has ever since been the most militant advertised in the past is now given by word of remotest interest in the property involved. organisation in the Humanist movement The mouth and at the shortest of notice. It is And how can you legislate against repetitive RPA was founded by C.A. Watts in 1899, and estimated that over a million people attended beats? And how can you legislate against three has ever since been the main publishing these festivals last year - a population on the village philosophers walking along the road? organisation in the Humanist movement. The move. There are now gatherings all over the All I can say is the sooner we shall have BHA was formed in 1963, deriving from the country and these camps have really caught on anarchy the better. Ethical Union which began in 1896 and is the in Russia, Spain and Slovenia. Those were the largest organisation of the Humanist days, though, when there was an anarchist hoever wrote the following is a far movement. camp in Cornwall. Even if ideological W better writer than anybody the The new Humanist Centre will be formally differences between the French and executive can produce on their pea processors: opened at midday on Tuesday 21st June 1994, which is the Summer Solstice and also Manchester comrades over the siting of "Anarchism is a definite intellectual current of Freedom Press lavatories have lost us the local farmers’ social thought whose adherents advocate the International Humanist Day. The main goodwill. We had the best chef reduced to abolition of economic monopolies and of all speakers will be Sir Hermann Bondi and Bookshop tears by the introduction of the rota system as political and coercive institutions within society. In Michael Foot, and representatives of the he stood by waiting for his turn to stir the pot. place of the capitalist economic order, anarchists various Humanist organisations will be 84b Whitechapel High SW* would have a free association of all productive present. There will be an informal social London E17QX ote that the arming of the police in forces based upon cooperative labour, which would beginning at 6.30 that evening for members — open — NLondon was mooted by the tourist board have for its sole purpose the satisfying of necessary and sympathisers (admission free by ticket to “reassure continental visitors”. The taking requirements of every member of society.” available in advance). Monday to Friday lOam-or of a million pounds for one year residences is Legislate against that Major Major! Saturday 10.30am'5Pn1 part of a deal with the Mafia. Humanist Centre, Bradlaugh House, 47 John Rety Theobald’s Road, London WC1X 8SP international n e w s FREEDOM • 11th Jun# 1904

in order to create a right wing alternative of a •SMI tha cssme me %k ift mtr ‘Fee**9 to Per on hi style to the left coalition or Emnt^e mmd A f *cham%n ’ which are bemg progressive alliance (Social Democrats, reported m ftait W hatfM owt m a statement Focus on ... Italy Greens, various Catholic groups, Socialists) rriem n f recemMy by the Commmtkm for and in the centre (he residue ot the tonner poH ttU fff ttjM Could ftiH have without the fwtermMtimmmi Keimtiomt o f the Italian Piedmont* etc,; which obtained a high degree political establishment: the Christian ^•mrhmt Federmtxm... o f success by leamug existing discontent advantage* of ftfiajictaJ trn^ulartue^, Today 00 ^ese partMj^ present theniHelves us a h&rfier Democrats including the new Popular Party boro oftheamfJict wrtfr central power CfJtMBfe m aim t the deleattsirj of flic League mid it is and the Italian Pact. local xiiUiMkiti sw*i from Rome %rnl expressing itself m the slogan womtc me ■ me*] N f coaoept of 'W W not by chance (hat they ettjoy i high degree of Given its need for experienced politicians, » _ 'Roma ladrona, la Jega new perdona* Cthe the For/a Italia has not hesitated to seek allies ^■ cvitss4 _J reality, M um I l i t support from the bosses ‘ cla** m the tndu»t/iaJ league will not forgive the E « d *ief - a from die old political scene such as Casini, o f t l&gandsL we find a process mjopinp* and elcanenu within progre^ive bn more catchy m the original Itafiao you wtD Mastella, Piro - leaders who had seen better ^Uaw^r^txBfapoiittalclMftaotip agree: translator). caihdidsm^ o i e drmafch of i t Emope of Ac cub—g Aboot two month* ago a new grouping days or less scrupulous opportunists like the ssdeaniML The Leagues pofcticai programme bring* radical Pannella. forth new elements compared with past appeared, Forza Italia, led by Silvio The pofiicai changes v te d arc emergvg a member of the masonic group In reality all the political programmes are fa rt i i i peood jk l • U . symptomatic of pdkioi programme* winch have always had very similar with regard to the economic 7 a centrafisi approach to state power. Firstly, known for h* mafta intngues and for to call 2 a w at Ac heart of Ac orfflg d a» wfhdk for a reorganisation of the state along situation: whereas the left and the centre insist & been iaocfesf off LianrclyaoQncaiWfiriiffli stale organisation 00 a federal basis is on maintaining a minimum of social 12 proposed leaving die northern repcm with authoritarian lines. tenes uf 1 bi — ra m r tk E^wwW ty of Ekrhisconi (one o f the richest men in Italy) ownership and the right represents the law of c o t t i m t f 10 hold power against a power over the central and southern regions, the market and economic liberalism as the f a old power bases of tie ruling political wm mecem&l thank* to the support of the old to 1 j nmrf of 1 w ipth i wd pnhfir jr h fhr political das* (notably Craxi former leader of solution to all evils, the League represents the emerprmcr of new growpmg* capable of hmxancracy. the socialists) who allowed him an open field real populism that could throw a spanner in the fara^gjig fc f s k r Ae vaoovi dissatisfied The stasagili of she League 19 essentially works. One must remember that the last groooded 00 the iowCT-roiddle and inkkfle in editing television broadcasts (he owns three government, that of the former governor of the groupings* the ao K x sleao e of a new television stations, a newspaper, various tn r r wrn Thirh nmi Jhin mill 1 dbsiev of te noc^ who wa« 10 escape heavy Bank of Italy, Ciampi, in his attack on workers ±e fennrca} *ar>.mx rjr of d r old pdfettoi taxation - doe es»entia 0y (o die nabonai debt periodicals, financial companies and other in both the private and public sectors had the d a s which has now been left bri^&l the new - and the movement of piMc e%penditare economic interests). support of the PDS, the League, the centre, the This new force puts itself forward as a bridge aBKEsaso^ seaeaBr* IbBowiag & 6 il of dhc towards ^ootheni repom wfnch do not and socialists (with Berlusconi's support). cannot enjoy, for historical, political and between the League and the Fascist Party (the Bedcl^vlicikttlRi^ioAtteaKe (continued on page 7) j o b jfie «cmr^c zaapmance of fe ij for te geographic reasons, the developmental MSI now the National Alliance) in the south A*adcaB affw", advantage* of the norfc Taear caacasx caK Q p iJflsalead a^ er To die benefit of dm breakfeongfa by the Northern Leagne^ bronght aboot at the iK aiffiaes&»t decboei of "93 wises yw, expense of the principal hnrtoric parties, there — SPAIN — s p n e ra i ssm. fe ftoanc» offeokf appeared a process of clarification and mess ofpo&Ocai gEwraaaefflt, fevced ink? a deannaaooo at the mnxairvc of a group of rscsd of pfey5JOgse«f* msme aod Mifaasse mag»tiaie& who led, for a year and Repression Follows Strike Action ]jdfac5 and the dmrfaiigof tie 'fcxmerprjh&at a half, a campaign against the old political ;ricr k> reader k a s d i t i nace afaandoaed by apheid kat an anb-cnmm»git^/yw^ft se seax2K x te ■M b. in Grenada, Southern Spain me members of the Spanish CNT-AIT Tie aua o^vm pteacwaoi of th» Those n u s t reprcieaaive of this group i communiqud, the essence of which is as ^ C a u , AednaoiiL, Fodani, De Mkhefas, Gava, i Nhave been charged with various offences follows: caae. 6ob ipcieica pOBKaf iicarr» » *e after their participation m the general strike of M Q U t fjjg^ggace of (fee Leg* Marti ctc.j w e st compiesd y d m m a d from the j So long as the national Basque liberation pcsaBicas scene and irailed o£f by cocrupoon I 27th January. Having avoided various movement is met with torture and oppression Nr^en L2W i»«ie^£2fKiiaQi taHng the individuals ... The number of arrests ^ # o c^ and fcecpngto Ae opportunism of Jos£ Luis Garcia Rua, and an English comrade vsrsous autnors j whose expulsion was narrowly avoided. demonstrates the political dimension of the A cc^oieflc os. sue ryfam G gagan 4 e pee«, Ae odber oficaMtalsast ^Party of affair. Taking account of all these aspects, we p r » -** attearpec: aH am aaz rxri&a.c2tj6c The regional federation of the CNT has C o E a w m Refomdation> a minority reaffirm our solidarity with Karim and with r»«s«3es. opcswMB^ dbe »SOTiftl uahiasts of die 1 organised a solidarity campaign. |gK«K ry2 rrzzzfjft i^afcrzt 'Zrx, ^ all those in the same position ... and call for I k t feraser pere^r winds dbew so itself odier naarxist immediate action. n e : s 2dL gpyepegs Aemx&kynt*. These Contact CSNIDA 17, rue Paul-Bellamy, £2-» sen im l * e jttiiciaj cessiae^bt desp« 44000 Nantes Aear *&rm% ccw&om&ed Aea&eive s with Basque Country from Le Monde Libertairey 27th April 1994 b c a i^ s r iif e 'f & f acxasanddespnediev taflEMPIES n ^ r m ^emdpabon with ceneal power et another person has been charged and S^WMfedafd fS^Sret^Lrtnifift £1 "^JS, o r n f geooc of Inacne compromise* of Yimprisoned in the French part of the Ebpcccjbmmwme wties it defended the s» e I Basque country - the seventieth. Karim Extremadura: t o apfadr.i. by Ae awletioiaary left. j A Chakrotm was arrested, brought to court and j sent down on 7th March this year, having call for international f fallen foul of the laws relating to irregular residence and criminal association relating to solidarity fem*i*t activities. The 21st Congress of the Tim latest arrest reveals the willingness of fter a series of actions taken by peasant the state 10 keep up the pressure on those who Agroups in Extremadura there were a have shown solidarity with political prisoners number of arrests. Most of these were at a Italian Anarchist Federation not recognised as sod) by the state. Today the demonstration, but one comrade was arrested T p te 21-.se Cmgt&& of FAJ mJc pfazt m ,1— rinpnt iirrr9 was dboi» of the judge who was decorated by the Spanish two, one of whom is our comrade Jos 6 worid of wrjifc, it was corm&y teamed government for his contribution to the Paredes. M i nf a m m t wm trodkm iv& L totsi A e scne^es Mnt be psr^pgd ontswie of anci-ioTorisi struggle. Now, we're not idiots. Now his lawyer is asking for money to There is no documentary evidence. The continue working on his case and his trial is w< Hi #iiii m w and a gne l 11 iiliilinirfi nnion fameworfc, m im arrestees are not the ‘bkxxfthirsty terrorists* imminent. We believe that those charged will left: te^sr> seansfiel « § ass *5r.Teme fyook the case m Italy an parucaiar in ■fe g awwyJ i on t e portrayed by those in power. To the great be sentenced for their opposition to the repcx of the legal system Chose in ire dock are agricultural policies of the local government _ *ui5k M ^iHlnttee ntfhmce was?3^edwas F& rtr>m maAof dl / fm & n k was nEMHaied ftat since anavchisa' S 'Can I m ciMiry i o e is a netdfor flctel mupiy Basque militants who, since their right This is why the collective Paideia and Los xxrim k itti wly w a^rtoOT ^aMe fo asykun were taken away, sought to go Adelfas are calling for solidarity from can lopei&-tesg f^gawnca*nam a—4 devel4>pn^ni; as a amKyc tt njpnt cJk mem made for tbt mderfroend rather than risk prison and anarchists and anarcho-syndicalists to help .’ ^^ i i ^ nafy hi s tr&exq. torture on post-Franco Spam, and the irony is defray the costs of the legal expenses and so coodUtitig- an^ after exhcMiNe o f fht hatrmsmmd fU&mum O m m m tt o f i r FAJ m& unpprjn Car ibe that the locals freely gavetheir support. There that our comrade should not have to pay the ^ cr>M>rAfe^ (fcewserf itc IFA OkManucKwiI Ajutrdom ■*ifl be more Karum! It was the same in May personal cost of a prison sentence. w t ix i a M r d Wwm - ftie x & e m t- ’93 when twenty locals were accused of You can send donations, for example ^ ^7" ^ ®fcrw«e - need »> n^fce Wkc dnnkinf coffee with or lending a bicycle to giMp^ wfa> widfc ft> international postal orders, to: Collectif A tfA f Acse terrible members of ETA. Paideia, apartado 133, 06800 Merida, ^ Tfcnn Ae r*m*Amt*d frmm U M*mde IjbcrUtwt, S m ct Karon’s arrest a support p o o p has Spain. m • Hteh the ktfam >&%g'2u&L U ttM b f im been vex up which has issued a press frmmrmty fdksr& m ~Sfcerarssan from Le Monde Libertaire ,27th April 1994 11th June 1994 • FREEDOM FEATURES

s it is a century and a half since a small Agroup of workers started the Rochdale — ANARCHIST NOTEBOOK — tim e ( it was called the Co-operative Society of Equitable Pioneers, the first viable Independent Commission Report) was full of co-operative society, I was asked by the pre-echoes of the debate happening today within the co-op movement. His conclusion journal Co-op Commonweal to contribute to a was that: symposium responding to the question Those Talking Co-op ‘Should we be celebrating 150 years of “The co-ops find themselves faced with the old Rochdale co-operation or are the ideals of the dilemmas. How many of one's principles should co-operative movement no longer relevant?’ one be prepared to sacrifice in carder to survive? Is Blues it possible to survive at all without imitating the I don’t know how other readers would principles of one's opponents? And if one imitates bureaucratic management and control of respond to such a question. Personally while I multiple retailers sticking to the High Street, them, what exactly has survived? If past history is don’t follow co-op politics and have never production and distribution. Consequently the one they lost custom, just as they did to remaining hope is worker-controlled and any guide, the co-op movement generally chooses exercised my vote in the succession of retail rock-bottom limited-range outlets like Kwik ‘survival' rather than ‘principles' -but usually only consumer-controlled management of production co-op societies to which I have belonged, I’m Save, Aldi and Netto. So the two wholesale after a considerable time-lag. Its constitution based and distribution. Knowing all about the failures and on ‘open membership’ provides the means by aware of belonging to a co-op family and can disappointments of the past, we have in every societies opened up under a variety of names, rattle off my grandmother’s co-op number as so that you have to look hard to perceive that which the movement in the long run adapts itself to generation to re-invent die Rochdale principles. changing circumstances; in the world as it is, only well as my mother’s. My mother-in-law was This applies equally to producer co-ops, housing you are trading with the Co-op. a closed oligarchy can remain ‘pure'. a feminist heroine of the Women’s co-ops and food co-ops. We have to broaden our The co-operative movement has a complex For the co-op movement, however, it looks as Co-operative Guild. We get our groceries vision to embrace them all.” structure, carried over as a legacy from the though time is now running out Without radical every Friday from the local co-op, and when I I don’t know how other anarchists would have past. There are the retail societies, ever changes, this century may see the eclipse of the examine my wardrobe I find that everything responded. My last two sentences were an diminishing through amalgamations (the co-op movement as we know it today. With radical that doesn’t come from the charity shop is obvious reference to the fact that whenever a latest of which was that of my local society, changes, such as are envisaged in the report, the either from Ipswich Co-op or Marks & the Ipswich, with the Norwich). There is the co-op movement will survive but only in a very group of people have sought to set up a different form ” Spencers. (When these multiple retailers workers’ co-op, a housing co-op or (saddest of CWS, the manufacturing and buying body, embarked on their big post-war expansion all) a food co-op, they have been kept at arm’s theoretically owned by the retail bodies, and His words could have been written today, as I years ago, they searched the country for the length by the official co-op movement and the CRS, a non-local body whose speciality if the co-ops face yet mote reports on how to I brightest managers of co-op stores and offered have had to re-discover the Rochdale in saving failing societies from insolvency. retain their share of the consumer retailing to double their wages. This offended the lay principles on their own as though history had For example, Clive Woodcock reported in The market. At this year’s celebratory management committees of the retail societies never existed. Guardian eight years ago that: Co-operative Congress there will be more who clung, not to equality but to an acceptable “The old London Co-op went in strongly for agonised debates about streamlining the However, having voiced an opinion I was co-ops in the face of even more aggressive differential, and consequently forfeited a lot of sought after to contribute to a co-op political activism and democratic theory and ended marketing expertise.) up in financial disaster, the rescue of which caused competition from the capitalist chain-stores supplement to the New Statesman expanding and hypermarkets. Perhaps it is the inevitable collision between on this point of view. So I dutifully responded, even CRS to stagger under the weight.” market wisdom and co-op ideals that makes Co-op history is full of disappointments. trying to stress the dilemmas faced by Negotiations went on for decades for a merger One is the failure to expand the tiny enclave me one of the indifferent majority of co-op believers in local co-operative democracy and between the CWS and CRS and were resumed members when it comes to the political side of of worker-controlled productive co-ops. The those who are dismayed by the declining share in May this year. There are other federal new ones that spring up have to look the movement. Certainly I have been repelled in the retail market of the retail co-op bodies, the Co-operative Union and the annual in the London Co-operative Society's past, by elsewhere for advice and have to pick up the movement Co-operative Congress, which is not the Rochdale principles from other bodies like the noting how the faction of the former To be specific: in 1900 l 3A million members ‘Co-op Parliament’ as it is often called, since Communist Party adopted the technique of Industrial Common Ownership Movement in 1,400 local societies were involved in 7% individual co-ops are autonomous. And of Another is that even though co-op housing prolonging meetings until ordinary citizens of retail trade in Britain. By 1960,12 million course, there has been since 1917 a had gone home in order to pass the votes and was one of the original aims of the Pioneers, members in 950 local societies amounted to Co-operative Party. Many years ago, Geoffrey (continued on page 8) resolutions important to them. 11% of retail trade. Today about 8 million Ostergaard stressed in Freedom that this But how was I to respond to the Co-op members in about 50 societies still have a body’s then secretary, Jack Bailey, was Commonweal request? I’m unwilling to write remarkable share, but 40% of retail co-op perhaps *‘th§ most vigorous exponent Mithe off the co-op past, so I couldn’t ignore the sales are handled by the two wholesale co-op view that socialism is not to be equated with 1, anniversary. I was in the familiar situation of bodies, the Co-operative Wholesale Society statism” and that his writings were JVaiu Chuutamz anarchists faced with a forum not of their (CWS) and Co-operative Retail Services “impregnated with libertarian sentiments”. choosing. What I actually said was: (CRS), trading directly with the public. Ostergaard was at that time involved in Freedom to Roam ‘Whether as producers or consumers, we have tried Both these bodies have effectively sociological research resulting in his book on Harold Sculthorpe out capitalism for 200 years, we have experimented by-passed the tedium of local control, not Power in Co-operatives, and under the Short, witty essays by a rambler on the with co-operation for 150 years, and we have because they don’t believe in democracy but pseudonym Gaston Gerard, wrote what I have problems encountered in walking in the experienced nationalisation through 50 years of because they are in competition with the other always seen as the most thorough anarchist countryside as the military, large landowners, factory farmers and, more recently, water centralised public corporations in Britain, and of multiple retailers, Sainsbury, Marks & analysis of the co-operative movement in course 75 years in the former Soviet Union. What companies try to exclude walkers from the Spencer, Tesco, Safeway and Asda, and are seven issues of this journal. Readers with land. ran we conclude after all this history? Today we desperately striving to defend their share of access to files or microfilms (or soon, no 68 pages ISBN 0 900384 68 9 £350 see capital roving the entire globe in search of new sources of poverty-stricken unorganised labour to the trade. When the army of retail analysts doubt, to CD-ROMs) should seek out his exploit, in exacdy the same way that it seeks decided that the future lay with car-driving series of articles in May and June 1958 Iran FREEDOM PRESS cheaper sources of raw materials and unregulated shoppers and predicted that the future lay with (volume 19, numbers 20 to 26) under the title sources of dumping-grounds for industrial wastes. out-of-town hypermarkets, local co-ops ‘Report on the Co-ops’. 84b Whitechapel High Street, London El 7QX Similarly we see the absolute failure of declined to pursue this trend. Like some other His account of the document current at that

distinct from natural, organic processes. To conflate I organic tradition (and the participatory and sjrobu The Ecological World View relationship with nature that it implies) with religion is nig misleading, as it is to conflate life with spirit. The prayefs n his book Problems of Knowledge and Freedom (1972) of clan-based societies, and esoteric Christianity - as well as religious rites of tribal and peasant communities do INoam Chomsky mentions a Japanese farmer who had on anything that strikes the fancy of the New Age acolytes. But express a religion of ‘nature’ but rather a reverence towa his wall a poster which read: of course these various traditions are not ecological but or communication with, the spirit world. “Which road is the correct one, which is just? Is it the way of spiritual: they are theocentric rather than ecocentric. ‘Spiritual The whole idea of the ‘sacred’ means to be separated Confucius, of the Buddha, of Jesus Christ, Gandhi... or is it the way ecology’ has always seemed to me a contradiction in terms, a as John Zerzan has suggested, shamans and pnes of Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Hider, Napoleon, President bit like Christian anarchism. intimately linked with hierarchy and institutionalised p° Johnson V In terms drawn from the Hindu context the choice we are But an attitude of domination over nature begins no therefore given is that between the Kshatriya, who expresses Whenever ecological issues are discussed - by such worthy language, classificatory systems and agriculture, 3S l* aggressive violence and political power, meat-eating, sexual writers as Fritjof Capra, Carolyn Merchant, deep ecologists seems to argue, but with the rise of gender and < assertiveness and an attitude of domination towards nature, like Bill Devall, Peter Marshall, Vandana Shiva and Edward hierarchies and the state. and the Brahmin priest. Holding religious power, the Brahmin Goldsmith - we are invariably presented with this kind of Of course, many religious figures throughout history exemplifies non-violence, vegetarianism, ritual and sexual dualistic vision of the world, one which suggests no purity, and a sacramental view of nature, seeing its unity expressed in their writings an ecological sens* alternatives. expressed through spirit or various deities. (essentially derived from the organic communities You can either support Cartesian mechanistic philosophy, What is completely overlooked in all these radical ecology gave them sustenance) as well as indicating an with its radical dualism of humans and nature, its reductionist appreciation of nature. And many early intellectual tra® science, its ethic of domination and power and its texts are two things. One is the organic tradition of clan-based and peasant such as Taoism and Samkhya philosophy, expre^ anthropocentric attitude to nature (and such a world view is ecological ethos. Of this there is no doubt. But relig10 1 often misleadingly equated with science or, even worse, with societies, a tradition which is expressed in their herbalism, their biocentric attitude to nature and in their subsistence is distinct from people’s everyday life-world. ., European culture generally). Secondly, radical ecologists like Capra, Merchants" Or you can support various religious traditions - falsely and economies. This is an empirical tradition that is quite distinct with their rather static conceptions of two modes o misleadingly equated with ecological thought - which are from their religious culture. The latter culture only comes into seem to lack a real historical sense. They . alleged to be holistic and ecocentric. Under the label of play when the organic links between humans and the natural down-play the fact that the Western philosophical ^ ‘ecological thought’ or the ‘organismic perspective’ are thus world have broken down - through inexplicable disease or placed a wide variety of religious traditions - Platonic natural calamities. Religion implies an institutionalised as well as science, has changed tremendously | philosophy, Buddhism, Sufism, Hinduism, the mystic separation of people from their life-world, and posits a two centuries. For Merchant, European intellec philosophies of Plotinus, Aquinas and Eckhart, the religions ‘higher’ order of reality (god, spirit, ideas, deities) that is seems to have stopped in 1750, enabling her f ‘new’ ecological paradigm is now needed THE ARTS FREEDOM • 11th June 1 994

ll those years ago when innocence was the security camera photograph of a small child A political correctness of the day and our being led away. Enlarged and blurred and cider* statesmen and women wore blue ribbons highly coloured, it has the appearance of a in their hats, their prams and their nursemaids, Click a de click click French Impressionist painting. Its cri de coeur the annual Summer Exhibition within the is that it is a police released supermarket plays peek-a-boo with his ding dong with a Royal Academy was a thing to be taken purely for affectation, one follows the Town security photograph of a small child being led seriously and then, as now, the revolutionary and his giggling frau one second off Bond beer can, now you see it now you don’t. An away by two other small children to be activists within and attached to the anarchist Street to the Anthony d’Offay Gallery for it is exhibition of minor importance you might savagely murdered. Without that brutal fact, movement of their flirtation were of the in this exciting yet unadvertising gallery that scream to the intelligentsia of the Clutterbucks the photograph as a minor work of art is of penned and vocal opinion that 'art* was not a (n6e White Hart) and you are protestingly small, nay no, worth and one must question concern of the ‘struggle" for the ‘message’ or correct, but Sarah’s art ‘Got a Salmon On who would enjoy and want it and why. What my common labouring soul. It was all those (Prawn)’ lies in the gallery’s manifesto and one does, and exhibits, is a purely personal long years ago that the Supreme Soviet of the their’s and the St James’ Bible deserve to be matter but not, unwittingly, to supply material Royal Academy discovered that some quoted in their own right as art beyond to those who find pleasure in the exploitation unfortunate dissident had painted his content, Sarah Lucas , 'Got a Salmon On of human or animal. The murdered child’s ‘landscape" over a photograph of a landscape (Prawn)’. Sarah Lucas is telling a joke - a parents have protested their anger and Wagg and expulsion and the public removal of the crude, vulgar joke. It’s the one about the man has protested his regret and the Whitechapel offending work was the order of the hour, in who boasts that he has a salmon on (an Art Gallery word is that “the final decision lies lieu of the pre-common market bullet in the erection) and it turns out to be nothing but a with the organisers: it would be inappropriate back of the neck in the cellar. Fortunately prawn. For her exhibition at the Anthony for BT to act as censors”. I cry no censorship those terrible days are temporarily gone and d’Offay Gallery, Sarah Lucas has installed a and that is a noble gesture, but if one finds freedom has inevitably produced its licence single new photographic work - a large pleasure in the crude-photograph of a small and if you cannot paint then borrow a Polaroid nine-panel narrative of a naked man and his child being led away to be murdered then why camera and send in a photograph for instant posing progression with a can of beer. There not accept the lesser complaint of the Sun 's Andy Warhol style instant fifteen minute is a straightforward jeer at the machismo tabloid page three girls, all harmless naughty glory, Alan Clark thou should be living at this masking the inadequate here, but also a trace nudey nudey. hour. This year Guinnesses are staking the of the role reversal evident in her earlier Arthur Moyse Royal Academy Summer Exhibition with five self-portraits: photographs of herself in a beautiful girls in close fitting black handing greasy leather jacket, eating a banana; a cast free filled glasses of Guinness to the members of her genuinely hairy armpits; a pair of her N ew title* now (w ailafile of the Fourth Estate who volunteered to make own Doc Martens with razor blades set in the the supreme sacrifice. Not only does the free toecaps. In ‘Got a Salmon On (Prawn)’ o o o black gold raise the level of this year’s Lucas’s look at the male nude is essentially AGAINST POWER AND DEATH exhibition, and the five maidens of the night, that of the voyeuristic male artist and the but also fee 1,359 works hung out of the model’s body, perfectly arranged within each The Anarchist Articles and 13,000 submitted with the exception of but a frame, echoes the large soft female nudes of Pamphlets of Alex Comfort few and as usual these were from the Old Gang French classical painting. Sarah Lucas has edited and with an introduction by David Goodway led by Peter Blake. A gentle and a pleasant exhibition after exhibition delivers that one attitude - aggressively stereotyping her person, Blake’s, to me, lade of talent and Articles published between 1943 and 1986 in the has to visit The concentration style ward with subjects by gender, race and especially class, journals War Commentary , Freedom, Now, Peace News success always bemuses me. Maybe it’s that the piss in the centre of the bunks, the life-size leaving little space for other interpretations. hard graft and obvious lack of talent that, as in and elsewhere, together with the pamphlet figure of the old man jerking in and out Like the cruelly accurate characterisation in Peace and Disobedience (1946). so many other fields o f life, explains it or fucking through the bung-hole of a huge Mike Leigh’s film about contemporary British 168 pages ISBN 0 900384 719 £5.00 probably because as a natural genius I am just man-size wine barrel. One may choose to society, Sarah Lucas’s unflinching pig jealous of his crude painting of two maid reject the work, dislike it or curl the upper lip illustrations of the categories in which we © © © servants holding a milk bottle each but with a in distaste, but where other galleries who try unhesitatingly place one another (hard nut, tins typeoiexJiitinoriDo^^E^tat^na ~Mch7wariker7dyke, tM, fag^nobTanaso HERBERT READ the sad heart of the childish paintings. public acceptance, the d’Offay Gallery bares familiar and so uncompromising. But slice the A One-Man Manifesto Photographs on canvas or hardboard can now their breast for those who climb their steps. In salmon where you will it ain’t and its and other writings for Freedom Press lake a place on any gallery’s wall, and here the lower gallery there is a room full of the late ‘message’ like Blake, Sarah and all the other edited and with an introduction by David Good way within the Royal Academy Summer Art Andy Warhol’s fast-fading "fifteen minutes of camera clickers is but of the casual minute and Exhibition, and to me it is not an art form but glory’ hardly worth one’s troubled time, but the permanent printed explanation tacked onto The complete texts of all the articles, broadcasts, a parasitical growth in that those without talent up the steps are the collected photographs of it. reviews, poems and speeches of Herbert Read published can hang some unknown’s photograph on a Sarah Lucas. Last year she and oF Tracey did in the anarchist journal Spain & the World and its But in comedy lies tragedy for but thirty successors Revolt!, War Commentary and Freedom, gallery wall, place a human turd on a pedestal a six month stint in a derelict shop-front in the seconds stroll from the anarchist Freedom from 1938 to 1953, together with the pamphlets or declaim someone else’s political manifesto east end selling their art for the benefit of the Bookshop is the Whitechapel Art Gallery and The Education of Free Men (1944) and and step forward out of the shallows and take culture-mad colonials exhibited in the Project its open exhibition of local work. It is of a high A n and the Evolution of Man (1951). a bow for sinking down to the intellectual level Room at the Museum of Modem Art in New standard and compares well or even better of swine that dine on trash culture. Our lads York in these United States of America. What with much within the Royal Academy 208 pages ISBN 0 900384 72 7 £6.00 and lasses will demand to know what has that Sarah and Tony are exhibiting ‘up those little Summer Exhibition, but within the © G O to do mit the ‘message’ and I neither know steps too’ is a large over-tall man-size frame Whitechapel exhibition is the worm within the nor care. containing nine large panels to form a rose and it is Jamie Wagg’s photograph on FREEDOM PRESS With the collar erf one’s dirty mac turned up, narrative of a nude man posing forward as he view in the upper gallery. It is the supermarket 84b Whitechapel High Street, London El 7QX

‘dominant mechanistic paradigm'. This would imply, of nature; in undermining completely - long before quantum consciousness (culture) have historically evolved, a world course, that all the earlier religious traditions - which are physics - the ‘mechanistic world picture along with ‘cosmic which can be lived and understood without recourse to a supposedly ecological - are not really ecological at all? teleology’ and ‘essenualism’; in emphasising the crucial postulated god or spiritual agencies. The relationship between No one will deny that reductiomstic, mechanistic science is importance of openness, chance, probability and the humans and nature is this neither one of spiritual unity nor not dominant in contemporary culture. How could it be individuality of all organisms in the evolutionary process; and one of radical opposition (humans being identified with spirit, oiherwise, serving as it does the needs of capitalism and the in suggesting a way of understanding that was both nature with mechanism), but rather it is one that is organic suae. As Capra has perceptively written, it is pervasive in such naturalistic and historical (rather than static and spiritual) - in and symbiotic. disciplines as economics and psychology, and it underpins all these aspects Darwin initiated a new world view that This ecological world view has long been expressed by tribal and peasant communities in their organic traditions - both biomedicine and agribusiness. But to imply that critiques spiritual ecologists still seem to yearn for. traditions that are still sustained in those contemporary t*?^ mechanistic science only emerged with eco-feminism and John Seymour has just written a book arguing against what he calls the “ultimate heresy”, namely the suggestion that movements advocating organic farming and permaculture. It deep ecology indicates a woeful ignorance of the history of was equally expressed in the writings of many naturalists Western culture and philosophy. For modem (Cartesian, humans are separate from nature. Seymour proclaims - as if it was some brand new idea - that this is not the case and that throughout the centuries, at least from the time of Aristotle i C 9r ttfcchamsiic) science has been under fire since the end of the and Theophrastus. Yet students of natural history hardly get ^gbieenth century. It was critiqued by Kant, by the romantics "we are a part of nature”. Needless to say, although it purports y to delineate the history of humankind’s attitude to nature, the a mention in Peter Marshall’s Nature's Web, which although by biologically-informed thinkers. Both Goethe and an excellent text is focused unduly on the philosophers such attempted to develop an alternative scientific outlook, book makes no mention at all of Darwin. An ecok>gical altitude to nature has been around a long time. as Heidegger, many of whom even if they ventured out of their conceptually, it was dealt a fatal blow by Darwin over a study probably wouldn’t be able to recognise a woodpecker hundred years ago. It is a naturalistic auitude to the world and views nature not as an organism (spiritual or otherwise), nor as a machine, nor or distinguish a celandine from a buttercup! It was expressed either from the physical sciences - both Capra and also by such philosophers as Jan Smuts in his Holism and toiva were trained as nuclear physicists - or from academic as some female deity, but as a historical process. The world is thus seen as a natural process from which both life and Evolution (1926) and by Whitehead in his philosophy of the Podosophy, radical ecologists rarely mention Darwin. Yet it 'organism*. But whereas Smuts was an avid botanist, Darwin who not only provided the basic ideas and Whitehead, like Plato, was fundamentally a mathematician of ecological thought, but as Hans Jonas and Ernst References and could never fully rid himself of the idea of a god who ayr long ago suggested, provided us with a new world view sustained the world. And finally, the ecological world view _ completely undermined the pretensions of both religion fteler Mart hall Nature's Web: an exploration o f ecological thinking , 1992, Londoo, Simon & Schuster. has been cogently expressed in the last two decades by ^®echanisuc science. Murray Bookchin, building on the insights offered by « introducing the idea that humans are not the special Carolyn Merchant Radical Ecology , 1992,1.x>ndon, Routledge. Hegelian philosophy, contemporary biology and writers in 1/jr „ thaT*** of godf $ creation but evolved according to principles John Seymour The Ultimate Heresy , 1989, Bideford, Green Books. the anarchist tradition like Kropotkin and Mumford. JTfJ tntrii!^Cra*c tk^ghout the living world: in stressing the Brian Morris m organic (not snirituatt links between humans and John Zei 7iao Elements o f Refusal , 1988, Seattle, Left Bank Books. 11th June 1994 • FREEDOM INTERNATIONAL i m e v v here are in France stringent laws against Tthe traffic in drugs and against those who take them. And as always happens, the Malatesta on the drug problem F o cu s on • • • Italy scourge grows and spreads in spite, and More th™ seventy years ago there was then themselves, the evils of cocaine^ no one would (continued from page 4) perhaps because of, the laws. The same is too a drugs problem9 and governments engage in counter-propaganda because Beyond the propaganda the old few. p happening in the rest of Europe and in could only think in terms of more severe nobody could exploit the misfortunes of pillage public resources for private America. Doctor Courtois Suffit of the French penalties to counteract it, Malatesta was cocaine addicts. and pass private debt on to the State is the Z t Academy of Medicine, who already last year saying then what at long last even those in Certainly the harmful use of cocaine would being sung by most competitors for power [1921] had sounded the alarm against the authority are beginning to realise: that the not disappear completely, because the social dangers of cocaine, noting the failure of penal b ig stick only drives the problem causes which create the drive those poor devils The unions legislation, now demands ... new and more underground and the mafia get richer. to the use of drugs would still exist But in any stringent laws. case the evil would decrease because nobody wS?fntthtSi?n Hbiggcst unim It is the old mistake of legislators, in spite of be the profits made by the speculators avid for could make profits out of its sale, and nobody bosses agreements with the could speculate on the hunt for speculators. experience invariably showing that laws, money. ffietne case c L e In in the th^w biggest ™ companiesWages' ™ (Fiat, s was however barbarous they may be, have never It is useless, therefore, to hope for anything And for this reason our suggestion either will Olivetti, Montedison, Pirelli, etc.). s l £ served to suppress vice or to discourage from the law. We must suggest another not be taken into account or it will considered agreements penalised workers and created a delinquency. The more severe the penalties solution. Make the use and sale of cocaine free impractical and mad. climate of confidence among the middle imposed on the consumers and traffickers of [from restrictions] and open kiosks where it Yet intelligent and disinterested people classes and the enlightened middle classes of cocaine, the greater will be the attraction of would be sold at cost price or even under cost. might say to themselves: since the penal laws the left, notably within the PDS. forbidden fruits and the fascination of the risks And then launch a great propaganda campaign have proved to be impotent, would it not be a A consequence was a drawing together of the incurred by the consumer, and the greater will to explain to the public, and let them see for good thing, as an experiment, to try out the establishment unions and these groupings , anarchist method?* ^ aided by the Cooperative League (of popular * From Malatesta: His Life and Ideas , Freedom origin) which today represents a colossal Press, 309 pages, £5.00 (post free inland). economic body. This is seen as a good thing I by those bosses who want a dod\e trak; umon I but capable of controlling the class snuggle. Inside India Never mind the workers ... he idea of development, especially in the direct pesticide poisoning do not include still Other components of the world of work, Tpreceding four decades, has been closely births, cancers, miscarriages and congenital Middle E ast small but grassroot (such as the US1, CUB, idended with those of progress, modernity CIB, COBAS, SLA, etc.) express their deformities. Calestous Juma of the n April 1948 commandos from Begin’s and emancipation. For that reason it has opposition and continue to mobilise and build Environment Liaison Centre in Nairobi has Irgoun organisation entered Deir Yassin, a successfully maintained an aura of I a veritable syndicalist alternative opposed to suggested that the actual figure of pesticide village near Jerusalem. The Red Cross indisputable inexorability normally traditional unions like the CGIL, CISL and the poisoning cases worldwide is in all reported 250 men, women and children killed. associated with the law of falling objects. probability two million, of which 40,000 end WL. , .. This was prior to independence on 14th May This view is misleading, development is as fatalities. From this viewpoint we can discern the 1948 and the declaration of war by the Arab more a label for plunder and violence. Human beings today allegedly possess a inability of the League to conquer one corns Such an image of development sharply Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but states the following day. Begin declared: “Not of the world of work- The League s union contradicts the benign association this charter is worthless compared to the only was the massacre of Deir Yassin justified (SAL), created with this in mind, is of do disseminated by development propaganda fundamental rights that have been granted to but without it there would have been no state significance. and related literature. Disillusionment with modem technology. Even when it kills and of Israel”. Other elements of the right have ignored the the development promise has though well and maims the modem machine is not culpable, More than forty years later in the occupied problem. For example the Forza Italia havej truly arrived in India and many other southern neither usually is its owner. Culpability is territories the same logic reigns between the leant on traditional fascist unions lib nations. usually attributed to incompetent operators. settlers and the Palestinians. From the Hebron CISNAL who shows itself incapable of; If is no longer possible to conceal the fact The modem machine has its own rights which massacre to the six Palestinians killed by a organising workers other than fascists. second place to. [special unit of the Israeli army in the refugee This lack of a mass base may prom ik dm dc\dopiu£ui bccri camp at Jabalia in the Gaza Strip, there is more What is noted here is true not only of the Achilles’ heel of the Right Allianoraspfe than officially sponsoredtriage. This term to this than mere ‘extremism’. south but the north too. Wars against the everything the left has done to hand ft victory was brought into circulation during the The Israeli government, by outlawing Zionist production of hazardous goods were first in a plate. dehe&r on the global resource crisis forecast I groups like Kach and Khana Hai, have by the Limits to Growth report of the club of waged in the north and they still continue. Remember Adolf Jan, president of Hoffman managed to hide the nastier side of the Rome where western ecologists and problem, but haven’t they themselves always La Roche, who when asked about the doomftlayisis argued that if indeed the collaborated with the settlers? Thus in January resources of the world were limited then suffering his company had caused in Seveso Subtitling needed *92 Moshe Arens, Defence Minister, gave those who had access to them and were in July 1976 in a dioxin accident replied: A Spanish comrade resident in London te authorisation to civil guard units to patrol the several videos of a Spanish television already well o ff should strengthen their ‘Capitalism means progress, and progress can perimeters of their settlements in a policing documentary about the life of Federia pn viieged positions while societies already in sometimes lead to inconvenience/* role. Bt’selem, the human rights organisation, aooiogicaUy impossible situations should be Montseny. Has anyone access totk has registered from December ’87 to left to fend for themselves. If in the process The Bhopal gas disaster was the climax of a equipment and skill needed to subtitle * December ’93 thirty-nine cases of homicidal | (bey perished, to be it. hazardous system sponsored by a video in English. I so, please write to 'Subo» settlers. Three have appeared in court, the The Bhopal gasin*gcdy is an apt instance of development paradigm that has been c/o Freedom, and we shall put you in toodt development &s trutge. In December 1984 a profoundly anti-people and anti-nature. The heaviest sentence being three years pts produced by modern technology escaped association of development with suffering, imprisonment Israeli society is shocked at the from the factory of a multinational with increased threat to survival and with Hebron massacre and stays silent about everyday events. oofpormoo* invaded enure settlements, violence is not a surprising occurrence. Itmay N e w F reed o m P ress titles | Jolted aod matmed thousands, disrupted the be politically difficult for our ruling mobs In order to absolve itself of international itMtt o f hundred* of thousands and caused with their twentieth century pretensions to condemnation, the state has recourse to mudoilabAc vioibfjee to Ite rnvmmmeiii, The practise open triage. The Europeans could methods used elsewhere: the Governmental Social Defence: Social ; afiemarth of that du*Mrar has been mure eliminate the indigenous peoples of America Commission of Enquiry. Thus the Israeli state Change pnutiol fef fte victims who survived. They or Australia because they were will be hailed as having tried to confront have heuffif the living (kadi adding id the simultaneously able to provide themselves reality, but will there really be an open debate Brian Martin Dumber* of htbmku&faa kpawned by the with unchallenged theories of extermination concerning human rights in the occupied territories? Argues for social defence as a grasspo0!^ moitem ngt based un nouon& that these groups of human initiative linked to challenges to Of ooune d i juoderc hmjtId tin c&ctc&cd bemgfc were um part of the human species but For Michael Warchanski, a journalist at the structures in society, such as patriarchy* the ghokt of the Bhopal di^dai^r by t&kjcuig boutethwg lower ui the scale of being. Centre for Alternative Information:* "Even if and the state. Filled with example ^rc*n ii id the id a um gtJt m xtiktu Jihupal* Development therefore comes the army, the security forces and the Finland to Fiji* though occur every day. A rauau sun ofhand ui hand wiA displacement. For. while government are condemned by the evidence wvtiter* Mpfayu i| jtad in *t m p o to b k io maintain targe masse* of the condemnation w ill be stifled by 168 pages ISBN 0 900364 0*7 dwumg operummh in five diMiiuu of(kywM people on a relatively less intensively* international recognition of its autocratic revealed (fan nunc of the labourer* ejLptou&S {m m ix burn, suopkr technology capacity/' pmvidttJ with ouitib it*prtvm iik uthidMMJO aud a wider array of and trade*, Meron Benvenuti, former mayor of of to w vimjtic&te Go££l&to prutout the this it hut jm**iMe *f di the industrial project Jerusaieut, state*: “The bias of the enquiry eye% were also riui available Only90% of the routed m iiaafcttJ km**. allow* (he government to mask the real council announced on 5th December worker* look the pipunuuoQ of Fur tbu tm*Mi the p m three decades have problem. Pcmx wdl remain an impossibility a campaign of civil disobedience m m Mid mouth mib. a cumI* dtvtlufMfMtoi bfiMMtit wm", ( r n m m m m for a* long as the que*uoa of the settlers setting up of armed militias. There Hie Wurid Health Otpmuatidti (WHO) o f fiie totiih have (earned up with remain* unresolved." At a time when water supplies being sabotaged, mtmmm Him ih&t me 500,000 o u t* o f uueniauuttal fwmwud imuuMMjmlokill that negotiation* have started again the of which came to a climax with the ^ pcMUotk puwm ng every yem in the tooth. ow o people, weapon* purchaied by government i* bell'bent on acquiring massacre. The Israeli government ^ Of che*e c mm 5XMM) m laud A m d y m Si% # o v tm m w supposedly to fight external Huutmum territorial control in areas outside forced by public opinion to react - Lank* bated on an cxaisiaaiioii o f eoatuc* are toed agaio&t their own people in I (hat designated for autonomy ... thus some 46 •Hamas uuutu ... Wjgjj* government hospiu] rc^^di ( m 1975 to development battle*, la m l* a way has iquare metre* have been acquired since 1993 The future will decide if the 1980 showed ifoM annuallyover the period am UMiflM emerged between UMlu^trtahsatsxi by the seakiv, between Arafat and Rabin will really P avenge of approximately 13,000people were and tubiiitence. Shall we then call Por how long will these opposing camps Palestinians. admitted for acute pesoade poisoning. Out of development melf&& quesuua? UH5X1M in the occupied territories? As the from Le MondeLiberUiire9 20th r . these about 1,000 died. Such statistic* chi . rt jv 1 John Shot ton 'peace process* continues the settlers accuse * Centre for Altemadve InfonB£ 0 ’ their government of treason. The settlers 31417, Jerusalem. Fax: 0 2 2 5 31 51 READERS’ LETTERS FREEDOM • 11th Ju n e 1994 8

others work? A society that is suffering Anarchism and breaking free » world depression, has millions out of Money from work who want to work, that has prisons Dear Freedom, topography and interaction between another feminist adjudicator, to force her full to choking point and cannot J. Wood (Freedom, 2Sth May 1994) says different peoples. The Australian to slant her paper in a particular way. adequately distribute its economic and the State “Science is the study of natural reality”. Aborigines had no draught animals so Another friend submitting an MA social resources, is that what is called Dear Freedom, This is incorrect Science is the study of never invented the wheel so could not dissertation was rejected for a year success? Anarchism might work, there is A comment on Derrick’s 'Should we natural phenomena. Reality is our have invented machinery. because he had attempted to critically no reason why it should not. But it will accept money from the state?’ (14th objective interpretation of what is going on. In medieval society and later we had the examine feminist aspects. not work if linked to purely orthodox May). Since the suite makes up anywhere He also confuses technology with alchemists, one, and only one, of whose This authoritarian aspect of feminism I scientific reasoning. Like sociology, from 30% to 50% of a modem economy science. Technology is the developed skill interests was to turn metal into gold. find frightening. It does not do anything anarchism must develop its own rules of It is understandable that some we have in manipulating our environment Until recently modern scientists have to improve the lot of women, in fact it analysis, use scientific method where libertarians will be employed by the at any one time. Technology existed as laughed contemptuously at this. How makes men avoid any interaction except appropriate, use creative, unscientific government or in quasi-goveromental SS soon as man used tools. Science is merely could they think such a stupid thing? But in a very guarded sense. But it gives methods where necessary, magic if you jobs. If thrown out of work or physically a modern method of interpretation. the alchemists were right You can turn enormous power to authoritarian like. But let's keep anarchism pure. or mentally handicapped it is often Our interpretation of reality is through base metal into gold by atomic individuals worthy of Holy Office. Avoid authoritarian inputs like necessary to live on the dole. When we a number of paradigms or world views bombardment The alchemists’ reality Orthodox science at one particular time censorship. I am willing to read a few are too old for wage slavery there is the which in their broadest sense might be was correct it was just that they had not can be hijacked in similar ways. I have marginal articles just in case they might old age pension. These examples are <5 religions, sciences, and so on, but in a got the technology to achieve it. They already mentioned Velikovsky in an advance my thinking and improve my matters of personal survival, but to make narrower sense might become also had no knowledge of the social early submission. Velikovsky submitted action. Editorial censorship is bad some kind of 'principle’ out of taking ideologies. sciences. The economics of the process his work for scrutiny by other scientists editing. If the editors of Freedom say government money is a complete Examples of paradigms which govern makes the gold so costly to produce its using the specific criteria required by the 'Neville’s article is not good enough for perversion of anarchism. With the f e perceptions of reality are the Christian production is pointless. The only ruler ethos of orthodox science and had his publication' well I might resent it, even exception of matters of personal survival religion, or splitting it further who made anything out of this was an work rejected unread because he was reject it but do not tell me I should not we should have as little to do with the Catholicism, Protestantism, etc. Other Elector of Saxony who wanted money to questioning the validity of the concept of protest state as possible. Government grants, so examples might be Alchemy, Western buy china. He set his alchemists to the gravitation central to orthodox science's As to feminism. Let’s not confuse a freely used here in Canada to fund Science, Newtonian Physics, Feudalism, R S i task and as a sideline they experimented existing paradigm. misguided chivalry with an equality activist and cultural groups, have turned Capitalism. Marxism, Social Democracy with pottery and were successful. The Take dowsing. For centuries dowsing imposed by powerful gatekeepers. Just their members into the loudest apologists and Anarchism. Elector made a fortune by selling methods have been used by as I, as an anarchist would reject male of statism. How can anyone take us Primitive peoples had a view of reality. Meissen. technologists: by mineralogists, by water chauvinism and male domination I reject seriously if our attitude is 'Smash the They had a technology sufficient unto Science and technology interact but so engineers and so on. Yet orthodox female chauvinism and female state! ... but please don’t touch my SS their needs including a method of does sociology, economics and so on. science rejects dowsing because they domination. Two wrongs do not make a welfare cheque!’ ^ an d C conservation through totemism. But they They have different paradigms, different cannot prove its existence by using right To say that we should accept the state's did not have western science. views of reality, but the danger is when existing scientific methods and scientists Peter Neville money because our taxes pay for it is a Reality is related to cultural factors they become ideologies, sets of beliefs are unwilling to admit their methods rationalisation. The state soils everything themselves influenced by climate and p | accepted as valid irrespective of whether cannot cope with this phenomena. It is it touches and that includes us. Clear true or false and not subject to not scientifically provable so cannot opposition to statism in all its guises is discern^ examination and refutation, such as for exist But it still works. The scientist's Getting away what distinguishes anarchism from 'r onecttse notion of reality does not allow for the ■leftism, start freely taking the •gue’suifti Correction inclusion of what is seen as unscientific government's thirty pieces of silver and with murder I we become indistinguishable from the nd, is of( Dear Freedom, Initially an exploration, examination phenomena, so instead of saying 'This One hates to criticise an organisation and critique, of society, of social reality, one has caught us out, let's make our Dear Editors, Trots or social democrats. which functions entirely with volunteers which then for some became a morality, methods more sophisticated' they reject Howard Marks’ "higher moral standard” Larry Gambone eigoonii such as Freedom, but you could really do then an ideology, for some almost a dowsing as unscientific and therefore leads him to the conclusion that "in all » ltabahii with some better proof-reading. Enors religion, not to be subject to critical untrue, i.e. it does not happen. In my situations” the bombing of civilian | unions | were made in transcribing my article examination and review where, were one book this makes orthodox science look populations has been “totally” wrong — incapable! ‘Let’s stop screwing ourselves' (14th to ask to examine it, one might be pretty silly and hardly a valid view of except in the case of the Allied bombing i astisis. May) which completely changed its attacked and pilloried as a heretic. One is reality. If you want to call dowsing magic of German cities. m.«mmg You have published "... there is that’s fair enough. Magic is phenomena The only reasons he gives for this fPteaAe m w m 0 not now flogged or burned at the stake no real limit to how much their wages... but one finds if one submits to unprovableby scientific analysis. strange view are: a) the bombing of I h an sel can be beaten down”. In reality my publication one has to walk across an Thanks be to technology the trains run on German cities was "a far more complex | keep deriding, landkffip sentence said the opposite, "there is a invisible minefield with concealed time. What is interesting is how issue than most likewise situations” and real limit to how much their wages... can trip-wires. technology is forced to use non-scientific b) the whole German populationl be beaten down”. One of the women attenders of the phenomenon to achieve results like supported Hitler. inyowc In reference to bureaucracy. I wrote London Anarchist Forum said she finding water, pipes, electric cables, etc. We are left to wonder why Howard's “O ur nomenklatura is far more recently had a research paper's What has this got to do with anarchism? higher moral standards have favoured tettew and vulnerable than its Stalinist variety”. publication held up because she had not Well simply anarchism is a view of Japan and Iraq, to mention but two This came out as, “Our nomenklatura is entered the feminist aspects of the case reality, it may differ from capitalism, situations, and how Goebbels managed in Looi*1 far mare valuable ...” — which turns the although she thought to do so was from Marxism, from the religious views to train German babies to shout 'Heil donation* sh idea* nonsense. inappropriate. In other words she, a of reality, but it is an equally valid view Hitler’! eofft** Larry Gambone strong feminist, was disciplined by of reality. Can it wade? How well do the Royal Air Force Bomber iccessjjj id sub#1 is said or implied that everyone thinks it sad U Talking Co-op Blues because he or she was so valuable to the country. 8 Anarchists and Mind Control When John Smith (leader of the opposition) dies, (continued from page 5) the media spent a massive amount of time and space usiness people, politicians and all those who control our minds, but it is far from harmless when it has had to be re-invented from scratch in the telling us about him and how wonderful he was. B■ w o u l d have us behave as they desire, know that the state does it And state propaganda is getting at People must be told to make their own judgements past two decades. Most ironical of all is the they must first control our minds. Our thoughts us all the time. The fine music, dresses and about people and things, and anarchists must help fact that from the ’60s onwards, little local direct our actions. When we believe that it is right uniforms that are present at a state ceremony look them do it Knowing what John Smith was and what food co-ops have had to grow by trial and error to do something, we do it good so we think the state is good. The engineering he did, for example, they will then be glad to get in poor neighbourhoods with no help at all Anarchists need to know the way minds are achievements, like the Channel Tunnel, are good, him off their backs. from the retail co-op movement controlled so that they do not deceive themselves so we think the Queen and the other dignitaries who Anarchists should remember the effect of the I hear that a commemorative volume, Co-op: and so that they can spread their ideology. are at the opening ceremony must be good. subconscious on those they wish to convert. They The way to combat the control of the must always behave well and be clean and tidy so the people ‘s business, is about to appear from Fortunately, although the methods of thought tin Manchester University Press. It author is control are many and sophisticated, it is only subconscious is to bring our thoughts to a conscious that the public will have no reason to associate them necessary to understand a few facts. level. We must realise, for example, that a car or with anything that is not good. Anarchists should Johnston, who wrote the best of the books on When we are awake one part of the brain allows any other product must be judged on its merits. We also be aware of the power of state propaganda and housing co-ops (Building Communities, us to be conscious of the environment that we must not think hunting is good just because the realise that if they are behaving in the same way as Roudedge, 1988) and if it comes my way I'll perceive through our senses. But there is another hunters with their red coats look good and the hunt everyone else, they are probably doing something ¥ discuss it. part of our brain which we call our subconscious. is exciting. The hunters must be recognised for Meanwhile, let’s ponder a further comment It is our subconscious that stores all our knowledge what they are: savages who get their kicks from Derrick of Geoffrey Ostergaard’s from 1958: and some past emotions. It can also solve some of chasing and torturing animals. Likewise, it is wrong our problems. Unfortunately, it can also cause to imagine that to be in the army is good just "Another reason why I find the anarchist neglect of problems. It makes us unhappy when it cannot deal because the soldiers have fine uniforms and march co-operation odd is that ideologically anarchism with past emotions, and it will mix our emotions with precision. We must remember that soldiers kill DEEP ECOLOGY and co-operation have a good deal in common. and thoughts as thoroughly as flour mixing with an fellow human beings, often in the most horrible a Both emphasise mutual aid on the basis of egg during the making of a cake. As a result, it way. And we must certainly not believe that the & non-exploitative relations; both, in their different cannot dissociate certain thoughts. presence of politicians and others at some civil ways, insist upon self-belp as opposed to political Those who would control our minds know that event makes them useful and good. Seeing the ANARCHISM action; both understand the evils of competition and people have this weakness and they make use of it. Queen at the Channel Tunnel opening, for example, A POLEMIC: laud the virtues of co-operation. Both, in short, Advertisers always place their product alongside should remind us of her utter uselessness. She could Murray Bookchin, I belong essentially to the libertarian wing of the not plan or build a tunnel, and would not do it if she something they know we like and may also want. Graham Purchase, Brian Morris, wider 'socialist' movement I am talking about An attractive young women, for example, sits on could so what the hell is she doing there? H ideology, of course, not practice. It may be that Our subconscious can trick us in other ways. It Rndney Aitchtey the bonnet of a car at a motor show. Men think she — with — % c°'Operative practice falls short - far short — of is desirable and so they think that the car is tells us, wrongly, that If everyone is behaving in a co-operative theory; but alas, does not the same desirable. Many products advertised on television certain way it must be right to do so. It appears to THE APPLE FALLS FROM apply to the anarchists? Co-operators, my cynical are shown against beautiful scenery with delightful argue that the majority muit know the behaviour to self tells me, have merely had more opportunities GRACE * A music in the background. People do not dissociate, be right and so we should behave in the same way. by Chris Wilbert than anarchists to 'betray' their principles!” and so because what they see and hear is good they Advertisers well us that their product is selling, so £2.50 (post-free inland) A It’s a wry reflection, worth thinking about. think the product is good. we must buy it; politicians tell us everyone is <* / rviHn Ward It is comparatively harmless for advertisers to voting, so we must vote. And when a ruler dies, it 29th October to 26th November Vacant slots The London Group of the FREEDOM AND THEMav,? 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