Workers’ Gontrol at Briant Colour Printing
SPHERE WAS A TIME, not so going into voluntary liquidation andJoint Chapel Committee. Existing creditors. So they think the whole Wc make all the things they need A long ago, when employers could all the 150 workers (except a dozen orders are being completed andthing stinks of financial manipu in the printing and allied trades and close down factories and shove menor so who were required to finish off customers are being asked to pay lation and speculative deals in whichwc must use all our industrial and women on to the scrap-heap some outstanding orders) were out, in cash if they want delivery. All the owners will come out with plenty strength to see that they get the like so many old boots—and the pity finished, sacked, on the dole, withmonies so received are placed in while a the workers will take their supplies they need. of it was that the workers accepted out a livelihood. special fund. New orders are being places in the dole queues. SLADE (a printing craft union) But these workers are not pre has made the ‘work-in’ official and it. But not any more. Times have Ten years ago they might have sought and are now starting to come changed, and a bloody good job too. in. The liquidator has come down pared to go tamely like lambs to the are now paying dispute benefit to got away with it, but times have slaughter; they are determined to their members. It is to be hoped It is ridiculous that working men changed. The FOCs called meetings to the factory but couldn’t get in. and their families should be reduced The posters don’t lie. Briant fight for their livelihoods and thethat the other three Unions soon do of the workers and then told the welfare of their wives and kids. the same. They are going to need to poverty because some rich man director that the dismissal notices Colour Printing is now operating can no longer make a profit out of under Workers’ Control. That’s why they wouldn’t take the money and it is up to all of us to were not accepted. From now on dismissal notices, and that’s why see that they get it. There arc wives their labours. If an employer goes the factory would be run by the There is complete unity among into ‘liquidation’ he has abandoned the members of all the unions in they are now in complete control of and families to be fed while all this workers themselves, and. within a this beautifully built and equipped is going on. They are asking for his so-called right of ownership and few hours it was done. Work was volved—NATSOPA. SLADE, NGA the workers have every natural right and SOGAT—and a leaflet was modern printing factory in Old Kentorders and wc can surely all use our continued without an employer and influence to see that they get them. in the world to take over and carryunder Workers’ Control. immediately issued informing the Road. on production under their own con rest of the printing trade what was I wouldn’t say that they are all This factory is functioning under trol producing things that people Posters appeared at the doors and happening, asking for support, and raving revolutionaries. They arc notWorkers’ Control and all Trade need. in the windows stating that ‘This calling a meeting outside the factory fighting to uphold some political Unions should place their print Workers haven't yet gone this far. Factory Is Not For Sale’ and is last Friday. philosophy or some great ideology. orders with it right away. but already at UCS on Clydebank, ‘Now Under Workers’ Control’.A I myself went to the meeting (as They are much better than that. Speaking to the meeting last at Piesseys, at Fisher-Bendix, and workers’ management committee a representative from my own They are men and women who haveFriday, Bill Freeman, the popular at the women’s leather factory in was elected and got down to arrangChapel in Fleet Street) and I was had the guts to stand up to an FOC of the NATSOPA members at Fakenham, they have refused to be ing the business of work rosters, able to talk to a lot of the Briant employer and refused to be kicked Briant Colour, had this to say: ‘A tossed on to the dole. ‘Work-ins’ looking after safety, canteen faci Colour lads. They are rightly scep in the teeth. They just don’t think long time ago all the land we are and occupation of factories havelities, etc. A day and night guardtical about the firm being skint. that anyone has some god-givenstanding on was owned by ourselves now become an accepted part of the was posted on the factory gate and After all, they made a handsome right to toss them out of a job and and we lived off it. Then some rich industrial struggle. And now it hasnobody got in or out without their profit of £665,000 last year and there they are determined to resist it with men came along and took it off us happened in the printing industry. permission. is plenty of work in the plant. all their strength. and made us go to work for them. On Wednesday. June 21. the The Works Director holed him The workers know that Briant It is possible that the employer What we have done today is to take managing director of Briant Colour self up in his office and had his foodColour came under new ownership will change his tune and keep the it back!’ The statement got a big Printing in Old Kent Road. Southsent up in a bucket on a rope last year and they also know that factory running, or perhaps some cheer—especially from us older wor London, sent for the FOCs (shop from the main road—but the shop the new owners have interests inother employer will step in and buy kers who have been longing for this stewards) and calmly informed themmanagers and supervision carried onother printing firms as well as a it. But, on the other hand, it is sort of thing for donkey’s years. that as of that moment the firm was working under the direction of thefinancial interest in one of the mainequally possible that none of this But what Bill Freeman said is a will happen and instead the workers simple truth we all know in our will have to make the attempt to hearts is right. A group of very take the firm into their own owner courageous workers have taken back ship (as the women did in the Fakenwhat rightfully belongs to them— ham leather factory) and run it as a the land, the factory and the tools co-operative without anyone making by which they earn their living. A a profit out of their labours. Time section of the employing class who will tell, but 1 have the feeling that for centuries have lived on the backs these men and women will do justof working people have been well 4»pHE GREAT MAJORITY of wrong- course, an accepted cliche that punish accused himself elects to go to trial that, if they have to, in defence ofand truly knocked in the Old Kent doers cannot be deterred because ment is, in the majority of cases, no by jury). If, the accused is prepared their livelihoods. Road. If we all make the effort and their actions are motivated by sponta deterrent (even Mr. Mark can accept to risk the possibility of a longer sen Meanwhile there can be nothing use our strength outside to support neity, weakness, stupidity or other this). It is usually stated that the tence by pleading ‘not guilty’ in the but praise for this gallant little the lads and lassesinside we may yet characteristics rather than by deliberate certainty of punishment would lessen first place and in the second place, band of printworkers who have remanage to keep it that way. and planned wrongdoing. The Englishthe crime-rate. This has been common asking to be tried by a jury he is ob fused to be pushed around by a Send your messages of support judicial system . . . is. in reality effective currency for some time. Mr. Mark viously more convinced of his ownprofit-hungry bunch of employers. and your money and your print only for dealing with the compliant— quotes the Home Office Criminal Sta innocence, than the police are, whatever the true sense of the word is! They are an example to all of us, orders to: Tony Austin. Treasurer, the weak, the stupid, the illiterate and the tistics that ‘a burglar stands only a and we must make sure that they spontaneous wrongdoers who comprise one out of three chance of being caught * * * Joint Chapels Fund, Briant Colour the vast majority of cases/ Who said in the provinces and a one out of five The National Council for Civil Liber don’t fail for want of our support. Printing, 651 Old Kent Road, Lon this? It sounds on the face of it, a chance in London. For robbery the ties, in a memorandum onCivil Liberties They may well be faced with prac don, S.E.15. continuation of the anarchist anthology' chances would be slightly better than and the Judges' Rules, quotes Mr. Mark tical difficulties—especially in the J ohn L a w ren ce , of self-justification on law and order one out of two in the provinces andin 1965 as suggesting that accused matter of supplies of ink, paper, etc. which, some may reasonably think, too one out of three in London.’ These persons should enter the witness box NATSOPA FOC. often infuses the pages of F r e e d o m statistics would seem to cast some re and the caution-rulc should be abolished Press Association. with a heady self-righteousness. flection on the efficiency of the police, in order to entrust (quotes the NCCL However, our excuse for returning and some would even carry it so far from Mr. Mark) ‘to the criminal lawyer ‘In practice the NCCL found out that so swiftly to this topic, besides the grim as to reflect on their corruptibility. part of the task of the police officer that of 134 suspects 15 did get in touch continuance of the Old Bailey trial, is This is not entirely the case for changes seems to arouse most distrust and with their solicitor, 108 did not, and that these words were not uttered by in social behaviour (for example a vast criticism of the police by lawyers gener 11 had not been taken to a police some latter-day Kropotkin or (up-to-now) proportion of such cases involve motor-ally, namely, the interrogation of the station. The 108 were asked if they mute inglorious Bakunin but by the new vehicles). Whatever has caused the accused’. The caution (goes on the had asked the police to allow them to MARCH & MEETING Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. change the Police Federation have been NCCL) Mr. Mark argued, has never speak with a solicitor. 42 said they in support of Mr Robert Mark. It has often been behind pressure to revise the law been of the slightest use to the innocent. had asked but been refused. Refusal observed in politics as in public life, to make it unnecessary to issue cautions There should be no restrictions on took odd forms, one was asked if he Briant Colour Printers had a solicitor. He said “no” so the that new brooms have a tendency to to those arrested and to make it obli questioning ‘other than a reasonable ‘Work-In’ spread just as much muck about as the gatory for the accused to go into the limitation of time and absolute pro policeman said, “Well, you can’t contact old ones That a crusading, reforming witness-box. hibition of duress’. The caution, goes him can you?” ’ Another was told he Assemble 2.45 p.m. Wue-eyed boy is all-too-oftcn responsible Mr. Mark skilfully passes the buck on on the NCCL paraphrasing Mr. Mark, could use the phone—but the room he for as much injustice, brutality and to the high rate of acquittal. He went prevents the establishment of the truth was locked in had no phone. A comment Bricklayers Arms moral corruption as ‘the old gang' which on following the burglary and robbery and creates an atmosphere of distrust. on this was made by an cx-suspcct or (top of Old Kent Road) he has cleaned out, often the new boy statistics to say, ‘It is even more dis The Judges’ Rules arc neither, now police-victim. ‘When one is in a police- adds a sickening hypocrisy which at turbing that, if he is caught the like wholly the product of the Judges, nor station how many can recollect off-hand March down Old Kent Road to le::s! was absent from the old gang. lihood of conviction if he is tried by have they ever been ‘Rules’—they havethe name and telephone number of a the factory for a Mass Meeting Truly it was said. 'Lilies that fester jury is only one out of two.’ Earlier, no force of law. They were revised in solicitor to defend one?’ Bring your Banners smell worse than weeds/ Mr. Mark said, ‘Under our present 1964 by the Home Office—space and time * * * Mr Robert Mark is no exception. system of law only a small proportion forbids one to go into details (the NCCL To return to Mr. Mark’s thesis. The Organised by These sentences are culled from an of those acquitted by juries are likely address is 152 Camden High Street, gist of it repeated by various journalists address delivered to the Royal Society to be innocent in the true sense of London, N.W.l). To take but one is that the really big criminals behind BCP Joint Chapels of Medicine, on June 20. entitled. ‘Thethe word ’ This, to be quite fair, is example of a rule: A person in custody organized crime are, by their knowledge FRIDAY, JUNE 30th di*£2ae of crime—punishment or treat- not what Mr, Mark said but what should be allowed to speak on the tele of and usage of the law. getting away w m tv Mr. Mark said a hypothetical policeman phone to his solicitor or to his friends with almost literally murder. Tn ortjer Having thrown his bouquets to pro could say were it not improper for him provided (Catch 22!) that no hindrancethat this minority be successfully pro gressiveness Mr. Mark went on, in to comment Mr. Mark himself admits is reasonably likely to be caused to the secuted (catching them is no problem) the short, to toss back the ball so frequently that the majority of cases are tried by processes of investigation, or the adJudges’ Rules and certain other aspects ministration of justice by his doing so. Continued on page3 thrown at the police. It is now, of magistrates (unless, in some cases, the REVIEWS
war broke out in July 1936, the Spanish of asserting that violence either does of P art II anti-militarists could do nothing else thandoes not ‘degenerate’, it it necessary to to resort to arms before the military distinguish different c>pes of violence, invaders.’ But to admit this is not tofhe inutility of the defensiveoff cosine concede or to weaken the non-violentdistinction I have already discussed. A Spanish Lessons case: it is to underline the imperative more useful set of distinctions would need for revolutionaries to re-thmk their be in term* of- individual versus coUco- defence. And this is not sheer hypocrisy: strategy of revolution and to prepare live: unorganizedv organized, unpre it is difficult to establish an objective and implement a non-violent alternative.meditated or spontaneous v calculated; ANARCHISM & VIOLENCE definition of what is ‘purely defensive'.Non-vjolcnt methods are never likely toand short-lived v long-lived And I be employed successfully if they are would hypothesize that, in terms of these other anarchists. In large part, I think, Moreover, from the perspective of the LESSONS OF THE SPANISH REVO revolutionary who recognizes that the turned to only after armed conflict has distinctions, violence of the 5r*Muned LUTION by Vernon Richards (Freedom the difference between the two positions broken ouL type* in this set would be levs likely to derives from a difference of meaningruling classes make constant use of Press, 1972,* £1.50). various forms of institutionalized viol degenerate. I would expect, however, attached to the term ‘non-violence*. The JIU-JITSU that the degree of degeneration would HE SECOND MAIN issue discussed term itself is negative, suggesting simply ence to maintain their dominance, it be comes possible to justify almost any act of Richards underlines de Ligt’s concluvary between peoples with different poli by Richards is anarchism and violence.the absence of violence. But to advo T violence by the oppressed classes as sion that, if the international working- tical cultures and traditions He begins by pointing out that, contrary cates of principled non-violence it usually class movement had not Deglecied its to popular belief, violence is not part means, in addition, something positive:‘defensive*. In face of such difficulties, PROLONGED STRUGGLE non-violent anarchists doubt the practicalduty, ‘violence would have been kept of the anarchist philosophy. Anarchists the active state of love, in the sense of down to a minimum and the possibility Although Richards reiects whit he sees have repeatedly insisted that an anarchistrespect and concern for the dignity andvalue of the distinction. But this does not imply that they equate the violence of a real revolution would have beenas ‘dogmatic’ non-violence, he find* him society can neither be established nor individuality of others, including—and so great as to change the face of the self ‘on common ground with ihe self- maintained by armed violence. Recoursethis is the hardest bit—those we may of the oppressor with that of the oppressed. Non-violent anarchists cannotworld'. He takes this as an admission styled non-violence anarchists’ m ques to violence is an indication of weakness,regard as our enemies. In this positive on dc Ligt’s part that ‘under certain contioning the validity of prolonged armed not of strength. ‘The use of violence,* he sense, it is at least arguable that non be neutral in any struggle between oppressor and oppressed. And they will ditions violence need not degenerate,struggle. a In Spain, he believes, the penal continues, ‘has been justified both as a violence merits the status of a principle at which anarchists should have ques side with the oppressed, even when theposition which many advocates of non principle and as a means to an end;father than of a tactic. That it deserves tioned armed struggle ‘arose after a few latter use violent methods—adding, howviolence dogmatically sweep aside as hardly ever, however, by anarchists. At to be considered as a central principle months’. This. I feel, is a more signifi ever. that recourse to violence will notuntenable’. But this. I feel, misunder the most, anarchists have justified its use of anarchism is suggested by the fact cant concession to the non-violent posi achieve liberation and may well be stands de Ligt’s point. Non-violent re as a revolutionary necessity, or tactic.’ that Gandhi arrived eventually at the sistance can never hope to do more thantion than be perhaps realises In the In his view, those who call themselves conclusion that the ideal society was en counter-productive. And. of course, they actual situation of Spain and the world will act on this belief by not resorting minimize violence. Any non-violent re pacifist or non-violent anarchists arelightened anarchy, not by theorising in 1936. there was little reason to sup to violence themselves and by seekingsister who thinks he can avoid the partly responsible for the popular mis about the meaning of anarchy but by violence of the opponent is destined forpose, once the militarists had launched understanding. The fallacy of the nonspelling out all the implications of alternative non-violent methods of their well-planned attack, that an armed resistance. a rude awakening. Indeed, the theory of violent anarchist is that of ‘making accepting the principle of (positive) non non-violent action assumes that the oppostruggle, to be successful, could be any non-violence a principle, when it is inviolence. BART DE LIGT nent will, if at all hard-pressed, use thing but prolonged, fn such a situation, fact no more than a tactic. Furthermore, OFFENSIVE AND DEFENSIVE In developing his argument in theviolence; and the dynamics of nonif one is not prepared to engage in pro the "non-violent” advocates fail to make With respect to Richards’ second point, context of the Spanish Revolution, violence posits a process of moral and longed armed struggle, it is more sensible a distinction between violence which is the distinction between ‘offensive’ andRichards quotes extensively the opinions political jiu-jitsu which transmutes the not to engage in it at all. There is also used as a means for imposing the will ‘defensive’ violence, it is not my exof the eminent non-violent anarchist,opponent’s violence in such a way as to a practical problem for anyone holding of a group or a class, and that violence perience that most thoughtful exponents work to his disadvantage. Advocates ofRichards’ views. In taking to armed which is purely defensive*. Bart dc Ligt, expressed inConquest of of non-violence have failed to recognize non-violence have never denied struggle that one has joined a train that rolls Two points arise here. As a simple Violence, 1937. He does so partly to the distinction. What they have argued ‘under certain conditions violence needwith increasing momentum until the final matter of fact, non-violent action has bring out the naivety of de Ligt’s presen is that the distinction in practice is far tation of the non-violent case. But, onnot degenerate’. That would make noncrash that brings either victory or defeat often and. indeed, most frequently beenfrom clear-cut. This lack of clarity is Jumping off a rolling train at some used as a tactic. But Richards begs the my reading of de Ligt, his advocacy of sense of their own position! What they suggested by the popular aphorism: non-violent resistance by the Spanishassert is that the only condition undernicely-judged moment is not altogether question when he flatly asserts that ‘non ‘Attack is often the best line of defence’. impossible, but it is a difficult and violence is no more than a tactic*, for workers and active non-violent intervenwhich it does not is when the violence When politicians authorize the unleash tion by the international working-class of the opponent is met, not by counter- dangerous feat, achieved successfully whether it is so or not is precisely the ing of violence, they almost invariably more often on the films than in real life. issue in dispute between non-violent and movement in their support was not to violence but by the determined and per seek to justify their action in terms of suggest that, in the actual circumstances sistent non-violence of the resistors. The non-violent anarchist, therefore, de of 1936, a non-violent solution was a In principle this assertion is a matter clines to join that kind of train and practical possibility. De Ligt was aware of fact, open to empirical confirmation chooses another form of transportation, that it is not possible to make a non or disconfirmation. Determination of the non-violent struggle. But he does so violent revolution in the absence of matter, a however, is difficult partly be sharing the conviction of the contem movement which has committed itself cause of the vagueness of ‘degenerate’ porary advocates of armed guerrilla war to, and trained itself in the use cf, nonand partly because the use of violence fare that the struggle for liberation is violent methods. Indeed, in a passageoften has long-term and disguised effects:almost certain to be prolonged. which Richards quotes, dc Ligt says ex violence may apparently succeed in G e o f f r e y O stergaard . T UNFORTUNATELY ATTITUDES to of the faithful selling Workers' Press. plicitly: ‘Considering the ideological achieving its immediate objective but television has still not recovered What did not emerge was a clear traditions, and the social, political, andsow the seeds of future violence. To (This is the second of a three-part from tbe snobbishness with which the picture of Bimberg himself. He had moral conditions under which this civiladvance beyond the dogmatic positionsreview.—Eds.) middle class dismissed this innovationsome things to say which really did de which destroyed so much of their elitist serve the label ‘radical*. He made clear world of intellectual pretentiousness, andthe violence underlying ‘law and order’rP H E DAILY TELEGRAPH devoted its disseminated much of worth to the and the basic (if sometimes unconscious) editorial on June 15 to the subject common man and woman. The best role of police and army in maintaining of ‘Wage Inflation’. The paper makes playwrights of the 60's who captured the the status quo. But then he went and it clear that price inflation is not worry mood of the times were TV playwrights spoilt it all! In a tut-tutting discussion ing them. ‘One thing the Government who later became the darlings of the with Reg Gale of the Police Federation would have to resist (if there were a middle-class trendies in the theatres. The threat of force. Force, in this context, laws’ or ‘natural laws’ as opposed to both agreed that it was scandalous that wages freeze)’, they emphasise, ‘would most searching journalism outside the involves not simply killing but the inthe law of the State. For myself. I am the sentences for robbery were greater •be the temptation, and the pressure, to radical press was TV journalism. TV fliction of pain, the lowering of a standardsatisfied with our recognition that hu than that for ‘child rapists’. (T presume bring in a price freeze as well: for it acted as the bush telegraph which spread of living by fines and imprisonment,manity is held together by solidarity they meant rapists of children not is necessary to increase profits and thus the often unspoken word of political and rampant six-year-olds!) Whilst fully sup etc., etc. The authority of the Heath and mutual aid. Our way of life is to investment for the sake of the long Government is said to lie with the obtain agreement by acknowledging res cefturaJ dissent to the sleepy world of porting the contention that the prime term growth of the economy.’ my small-town adolescence. Despite the function of Law is to protect property, electorate but the authority of the State, ponsibilities to the reality of social co censorship, despite trivialization. the feet I cannot join the cry for revenge on As far as the unions arc concerned which ‘employs’ the Heath Government hesion. The method of the State is to o f clay of the mighty have been revealed the sick people created by a sexually- the Telegraph thinks ‘the bleak truth to impose the will of the ruling class, obtain ‘agreement* by whatever means for all with eyes to see. repressed society. is that they arc too strong*. One policy is the use or threat of force. are most effective: hangman's noose, Tbe recent programme ‘Radical Law In another discussion with Baroness mooted to deal with strikers is to make The authority of shop stewards is prison cell, machine gun, massacre, yer* which was a profile of the work Wootton and an assortment of instantlysocial security benefits to strikers and their fellow workers’ support. However napalm bomb, concentration camp, gas and viewsof Ben Birnberg. the solicitor, forgettable legal big-wigs Birnberg got their families returnable loans: ‘There the law of the State which the Con chamber, starvation, torture—the list is showed that television really does try bogged down in a plea for what he is no humane or compassionate reason servative Government passed with theendless. sometime*— e v e nthough the end product called ‘democratic’ magistrates. The dream why the community should be obliged Industrial Relations Act, attempts to With Wilson in the wings sensing his h r .c * always altogether successful. The is that if only some worthy proletarians to subsidise a striker during his efforts destroy the authority of the shop opportunity for the regain of power, we programme which wa« heralded by a critic were magistrates then everything would to force the community to pay him more stewards. The decision of Lord Denningneed to remind workers of the efforts in the Sunday Times as ‘the most left- be miraculously changed. No doubt wages that he is really worth.’ Naturally, is marginal as compared with the real of the recent Labour Government attempt wing programme ever on British tele Birnberg believes that ‘socialist’ laws ad the Telegraph, renowned for its com source of the stewards’ authority. If to introduce legislation similar to the vision’ earned a nervous prologue fromministered by ‘socialist’ judges would passion in defending the powerful againstthe Industrial Relations Court deems Industrial Relations Act If moves to A TV pointing out that the views ex usher in an era of freedom and social the weak, is not favouring a lowered the shop stewards are acting as if they wards a General Strike do emerge it pressed were the personal views of one justice. If only life was that simple! standard of living since ‘it is arguablewere ‘above the law’, they pose the is vital that the lessons of the last General man but that the questions raised should Whether or not I or the TV programme that, in the long run, the unions haveold argument so often used against the Strike are remembered and the same be debated in a free society, etc. There have done Bimbcrg an injustice will bedone more to hold back, rather than anarchist. Our answer is at one with outcome—‘many years of relative peace were some well presented reports on better known to those who have availedadvance, the living standards of theirthose who do not recognise the authority to the industry’ must be avoided. Unless, a number of cases in which Bimbcrg themselves of his services. But he members’. One only has to remember of the State and who see their ‘law’ of course, the outcome is also worker*’ has been involved: the Mangrove Case,tries—and so do TV men sometimes. what happens and happened to workers as based on mutual aid and solidarity. control. tbe Qua ye Case and (after tbe Lord without the aid of a trade union to Some comrades might speak of ‘moral JW. Mayor’s Show') tbe harassment of one T erry Phillips . ridicule such nonsense. The Telegraph finally argues that al though ‘no sensible person would wish to sec a repetition of 1926’, the General Secretary: Strike ‘did signal a diminution of union Peter Le Mare, 5 Hannafore Road, power, and gave many years of relative Rotton Park, Birmingham 16 peace to industry’. The paper would LESSONS OF THE SPANISH like to get the results of the General Strike without the trouble of having the confrontation. REVOLUTION Ay Vernon Richards ANARCHIST The Industrial Relations Act, to the editorial, is ‘a move in the right direction’This is not a reprint of the work with the same title published by FEDERATION but Lord Denning’s Appeal decisionfreedom pr e ss in 1953. It is a new and considerably expanded version of BRITAIN ‘largely destroyed its power to deal with which the author prepared for an Italian edition published in 1957, and unofficial strikes and blacking’. Thus, recently published in Paris in a Spanish translation. they conclude, ‘the underlying question Additional chapters deal with such important topics as the Militarization AFBIB—To all Group*. AFB REGIONAL GROUPS in British politics is the question of ire now azzftrchxst groups in authority. It may be that it will not of the Militias, the Cult of the Organisation and of Personalities, the Rank The next AFBIB will be produced in part of the country. To find jour near** group prove possible to govern this nationand File’s Responsibility. Sheffield at 4 Havelock Square. Sheffield, write to: N.E. EagUadt Mick Ren wick, 34 Durham Road. successfully until this issue have been As well as a Select Bibliography, the author has contributed a 20-page 10. Send material to Secretary, Peter Le Gateshead, Co. Durham. resolved.’ We note, the following day, Mare. Also needs offers of help from A E. Herts*: P. Newell, 'Aegean*. Spring Bibliographical Postscript in which he discusses the most important Lane, Eight Ash Green, Colchester. i R THE FIRST TIME in nine years The union’s tactic is to have the maxi by the government, while many railway- their jobs. the unions in the building industrymum effect on the employer with the men have to work four years just to get The dockers were, in fact, after other Any book not in flock* but in have called an official national strike tominimum hardship on the unions andthat increase. men’s livelihoods. While they are claim print am be promptly mppIML secure its demands from the employers. their members. The industry is not only BR in its haste to make profit has ing the agreement as a victory, their Since 1%3, amalgamations have meant poorly organised by the unions but stop discovered that posters advertising daywhole campaign has come too late. Even f la w ndd portage A em%b with that most trade unionists belong cither pages have little financial effect on antrips to see Boeing 747s at Gatwick Air if they' manage to secure the work at order belpt. to the Transport and General Workers’ employer or the economy of the country. port have had to be scrapped because container depots this will only mean Union or the Union of Construction, But although the tactic might be cor these aircraft do not use that airport. about 500 jobs. If new ones are built Terrible Garden World Allied Trades and Technicians. rect, the unions first six selections in But BR arc mad bent on causing more then the work should be done by regis (22 Dryings in Folder) London do not seem to be very wellchaos. They plan, in their crazy drive tered dockers rather than sec more men Arthur Moyv« £0.25 (4p) The unions arc claiming £30 a week to make railways financially viable, to Bakunin on Anarchy for a 35 hour week and longer holidays. organised. At a meeting last week of made redundant. make 20.000 more men redundant. The But although dockers are fighting for (cd) Sam Dolgoff £5-25 (2?p> This represents a 50 per cent increase in London shop stewards some of the six ban on rest day working, during their jobs the formula of reducing the hours Call to Resolution: The wages, much of which would be ab sites were not even represented. Reports recent dispute, proved that BR arc in Mystical Anarchism of sorbed from bonuses. The employers from others indicated not only surprise of work has not been raised. Meanwhile Sir John Donaldson, presi Gustav Landaoer have only offered £5 for craftsmen andat being selected but also doubts of fact short of staff. whether the men would respond. With As with other public services, all have dent of the National Industrial Relations Charles B, Maurer £4M (lip) £4 for labourers, spread over an 18-month Native American Anarchism period. so much ‘lump’ labour, and companies to bow before the Altar of Mammon. Court, is unhappy about the way and Mr. Marsh’s Labour Party background the number of dockers who picketed Eunice M. Schuster £6.00 (l31p) Strike action is being taken at selected moving in their ‘royals’, some of the does not prevent him from wielding a General Idea of Revolution sites and workshops throughout the sites are not so well organised. Certainly Chobham Farm. Sir John seems to be one could have picked a stronger six toBeeching axe. With Socialist friends like a law unto himself and determined to In the Nineteenth Century country. The unions’ ten regions each P-J Proudhon £6.60 (21p) have six selected sites on strike in the first hit the employers in the first week. I Mr. Marsh, the railwaymen and the completely undermine the trade union only hope the other areas are stronger public don’t need Tory enemies. movement. Although not so well paidThe Movement towards a new week of the campaign. Six more from America: The beginnings of each region will join these in the second in this first crucial week. as Mr. Marsh he gets paid handsomely As usual workers are going into battle CHOBHAM FARM for attempting to jail trade unionists. a long revolution week and a further six in the third week. (cd ) Mitchell Goodman £3.95 (30p) In all, this will mean that 180 sites and with one arm tied behind their backs. An agreement has been reached where Paradoxically, the people who actually The employers arc determined to keep by registered dockers will be employed contribute the least to society get paid The Parts are all around us workshops will be affected after three (Parts 1 & 2) Boh Dickens £0.16 (2Jp) weeks. basic wages down while paying high at Chobham Farm. Between 30 and 40 the most. While those who do the most rates to ‘subbys’. This undermines union are expected to start work there in July. essential jobs, arc the lowest paid. The Revolution in Everyday Places selected are those where penalty organisation and sets one worker against Men already employed will not be losing P.T. Life (Parts I A 2) clauses are most likely to be a part of another. The employers’ federation has Raoul Vancigcn £0.60 (4p) the contract These include hotels where instructed their members not to make Anarchy and Organisation contractors are rushing to finish before individual company agreements. So it Murray Bookchin £0.06 (2Jp) the government’s £1.000 subsidy for eachlooks as though building workers will The Invasion of Compulsory bedroom, ends in April next year. On have a tough fight on their hands. The Sex-Morality those sites not selected, members will be thing is, arc the unions up to it? Wilhelm Reich £1,40 (7*P> banning overtime. The Spanish Laby rinth As UCATT finances are in the red, a ORGANISED CHAOS CALLED Gerald Brenan £1.40 (I2p) £1 levy is being collected from each RAILWAYS Franco’s Prisoner member to give those on strike trade British Railways’ chief has just been Miguel Garcia £2.25 (!2p) benefit. given a salary increase of £4,000 a year The Utopian Vision of Charles LIBERTY, EQUALITY AND RADIO zone, and hope to join up withGreen - Fourier ACTIVITY, Freedom Press Pamphlet, 5p. peace III. (ed.) Beecher and Bienvenu £3.95 (21p) The Stockholm Conference on the PUBLISHED six or seven years ago, at Environment has condemned the tests.Please send foolscap (9" x 4/r) SA.E. -*• the time of an earlier series of French Dockers and airport workers in New if you would like to receive regular nuclear tests in the Pacific, this pamphlet Zealand and Australia arc refusing to booklists. hardly dates at all, except that Mon service French ships and aircraft. An Turkey on the Way general has left the scene. Douglas Australian textile firm cancelled an order Kcpper, Jack Robinson, John Rety, Mike worth £116,000 from a French firm. Walsh, Mary Hays Weik and Anne The French consular agent in Adelaide Vogel write on different aspects of nu has resigned, and in Auckland fire bombs clear technology and its dangers, the were placed at the office of a French to Socialism poison it spreads, the eathquakes it has airline. The Peruvian government has caused in North America and the Sovietbroken off diplomatic relations with reedom - Today wo can see that the Turkish AM WRITING this article in London, Union and the monstrous births (so farFrance, or threatened to do so. In Can mind is confused. The Turkish people I where I came on my way to Scandi only those of animals can be established) berra someone painted slogans on the are reacting very emotionally. Turkey navia to seek, political asylum. I was an which radioactive contamination procar and the home of the French military economics student at Ankara University.is the only country in the Middle East duces. attache. (Most of the above information which is a member of NATO. There are Two and a half years ago I joined the At the time when this pamphlet was has been taken from Peace News, 23.6.72, US bases (rockets) at Izmir for example. underground to fight alongside my com written there were protests in the various which is following the adventures of ress rades for socialism. The rockets are pointed towards Russia. countries which lie around the Pacific. GreenpeaceIII.) I happened lo be discovered by theThe position of Turkey in the Palestine- But these were much less vigorously Nowadays people arc much more con Israel conflict is a rather neutral one. publish Turkish police, and I had to leave the pressed than today. They were mainly scious of environmental pollution than Wc have diplomatic relations with Israel, FREEDOM weekly country’ because of this, otherwise I official protests and these governmentsthey were a few years ago. When the the only Islamic country which does. and distribute would have run the risk of being executed were content to express their alarm, Freedom Press pamphlet was published This is probably the result of political or being sent to prison for six to eight which of course had no effect on the it was a number of voices crying in the ANARCHY monthly developments after 1914, 1917 and 1922. years, a rather long time. It is some French at all. Conditions are differentwilderness. The American bomb was Our country has almost no industry Mb Whitechapel High Street times more horrible to be imprisoned today. hated because it was a symbol of the at alL We are a completely agricultural London El 01-247 9249 than to be executed immediately. A boat called GreenpeaceIII, with a most powerful and hence most detested The reason why I am going back now state. As a result we do not have a real Entrance Angel Alley, crew of four, has sailed into the danger country in the world. The Chinese and Whitechapel Art Gallery exit, and taking these risks is that I have had class of proletarians, so to begin with zone and escaped a French warship we do not have a mass to politicize as the French bombs were rather approved Aidgate East Underground Stn. trouble in continuing my journey, and which tried to take it in tow. Whether you have in Europe. It seems to be a of. They were gestures of defiance aimed SPECIMEN COPIES ON there was no real chance for me to settle on account of this boat, or because of at the Americans. in Britain. I found it rather sad here,sociologically proven fact that agricul REQUEST tural regions are rather conservative.the widespread protests, the tests (at the But the voices in the wilderness were many comrades are talking about things time of writing) seem to have been The structure of our society is a purely not crying in vain. The much greater happening far away about which they delayed, although the French deny it. feudalists one. We have not reached sophistication of the present time is the probably know nothing. If they knew A group with inflatable rubber dinghies the later phase of capitalism as it might produce of their efforts. more perhaps they would do more. are planning to parachute into the testing Before I go back I want to write the be called in Europe. Turkey is not to J o h n B r e n t . Bookshop following in order to show what we arc be compared with Europe. That is why doing and what our people are struggling it is necessary to explain the reasons for Open Afternoons for. The authorities may kill our com our struggle. A C orrespondent . Tuesday to Friday rades. they may torture our wives and 2 p.m. to 6 pm. they may ask our children at school to Open Evenings find things out about us. they may put us MORE LAW Thursday dose at 8.30 p.m. in prison and may execute us . . . they Letter from Australia Saturday 10 am. to 4 pm can. of course, destroy our comrades* Condoned from page 1 of the law mast be revised to the right to live, but they cannot destroy our TT’S GREAT to receiveF r eed o m regu- school kids, free at the school gates. detriment of the other 90% (who may resistance movement There will be Icarly—my copies are soon disposed The ‘authorities’ are silent! But there others who will continue the fight until possibly be innocent in some sense of is a new law being pushed for aban the word). One is reminded for some of as more and more people groove on they have broken the system which is doning trial by jury for obscenity cases inexplicable reason of the trial by ordeal the concept of anarchism as an alter destroying us. our rights and freedom. native and not just an establishment—magistrates arc far more reliable, and The more the authorities destroy, the of witches who were thrown into water for allowing a crack-down on ‘obscene SUBSCRIPTION If they swam they were held to be smear word used by the mass media. more the struggle will go on. That’s what andobjectionable ’ literature. (The second witches helped by the Devil. If they Black power is coming of age here we want! For this great goal we should with the ‘Aboriginal Embassy’ outside word aroases particular interest in me). BATES, 1972 be prepared to give our lives,if neces sank it was another innocent to go to Enclosed is the May 1 proclamation heaven, after aiding the course of justice.Canberra—the collection of tents and FREEDOM sary. but we must never give up. tin sheds opposite the pomposity of from Melbourne anarcho-syndicalists. Since 1968 our movement has been The myth of the big criminal exactly 10,000 have been circulated; Melbourne Inland, and Surface Mail abroad suits the newspapers' • passion for sen Parliament House. The Gurendjc tribes growing continuously. It was the year men in their bid for total control of postered up a five-language poster; 1.000 for one year £3.00 (57.50) of students* riots, and Turkey was in sationalism. A recent 'expose' of the four-page leaflets on the Haymarket six months £1.50 (53.75) Mafia in Britain on the BBC seemed their environment have thwarted capi volved. Before 1968 wc had only a very talist (Vcstcgs—a fine ol’ British firm!) Massacre and the origins of Workers’ three months £0.80 (52.00) small movement consisting of someonly to disclose that the Mafia wanted May Day have been distributed. 300 Airmail somewhere to invest its money in Britain, and government threats and meddling students at the Universities of Izmir, since 1966. Jt seems that their ferocious people marched in the Festival. Europe & ! year £4.00 Ankara and Istanbul. But these movesurely a laudable business aim. When hold on 8 square miles of the Northern While the ever-growing National Soci Middle East 6 months £2.00 ments were not very important Sincecrime becomes really big it becomes Territory as ‘their land* is now sinking alists (on radio their spokesman said, The Americas 1 year 512.50 the Ru«sian-Turkish War in 1914-1917, respectable big business. To parody through—the government, to induce frag‘Hitler would have burned thisLittle 6 months 56.25 Russians have been hated in ray country.Harrington, 'Crime ne'er doth prosper / mentation, have built a group of little Red School Book*—wonder why?) con India, Africa, Ac. 1 year £4.50 The Russian Revolution of 1917 has in our time, / For if it doth prosper / boxes (however, far superior to the ferred in Melbourne, a group of Zionist 6 months £2.25 made one reason more. The Communists None dare call it crime.’ Or in prison one window, one door, fibre shacks they Youth (Zcig Goldamcir?) burnt down Australasia & 1 year £5.00 were known to be against religion, and graffiti, ‘Steal a loaf and go to prison, usually supply) jast outside the com an outhouse and smashed up the windows Far East 6 months £2.50 religion is very important in Turkey. steal a railway and go to the House of the National Socialist training camp. munal territory—with genuine folk soli ANARCHY We believe in Islam which means 'the of Lords.’ The crime of adulterating darity the aboriginals have let these It is very amusing too that the National only correct belief Another reason may food, cheating the shopper by shoddy rot. Right On! They'd rather build Socialists wrote an open letter in a recent Inland, and Surface Mall abroad be the ethnical difference between these goods, swindling the population by intheir own with the resources they could newspaper, pointing out their parallel 12 issues £2.25 ($6.00) two peoples In the course of time all flation or currency devaluation arc all muster. thinking with The Returned Service 6 issues £1.13 ($3.00) these dements seem to have got mixedcrimes carried on in this society on an Ur Red School Book again. Banned men’s League. The prominently pub Airmail up. and anti-Communism (basically be extensive, respectable scale, which no as obscene in Victoria (one of our licised response from the League pointed USA & Canada 12 issues $11.00 cause Communism is atheist) is confused policeman may touch whilst they are glorious hanging states), the bureaucrats out that they wanted nothing to do 6 issues 56.00 with war memories. The result is the in the defined bounds of law and order.have been thwarted again! 15 to 20,000 with ‘these ratbags’, however the points Australasia & 12 issues £4.50 development of racial prejudice. J ack R o b in s o n . copies were circulated this week to made weren’t challenged. C.P. Far East 6 issues £2.25 those trains.’ Schoolroom Maoists That’s a clear enough and brave enough statement, but its implications trouble Dear Friends of Freedom* me. If we say that each trainman is free As a si\tcen-vcar-old new convert to to combine to strike for higher wages, anarchism (a rather self-styled kind), and do we as part of the other half of the a victim of the State school system, I freedom say that each railway is free to ontact would like to voice my opinion on what fire people at will, or free to hire other Contact Column Is has been named by the capitalist press free individuals who choose to work for 'Pupil Power*. for making contact! lower wagcs7 If this were granted, Use is free, but 'Pupil Power* to the Maoist, red book Sutherland makes a statement, ‘The harsh strikes would have almost no effect. donations towards tossing SAL), I gather is the replacement by the capitalist system, and we need to be addressed. fact that women are, generally, far more (Furthermore, why aren’t union com typesetting costs of the present system in school with a inclined than men to support the Powells binations in a strike as great a coercion are welcome sort of porticipationary democracy within I personally (although others may not) envisage a sister federation to the LTA, and Goldwatcrs of this world wouldas a law?) a general revolutionary society. doubtless bounce off Susan Griffin like I raise these questions because Mr. Their national organ Vanguard has a federation of undisciplined school cells, that will put into practice libertarian rape off a duck’s back/ Why was there Lawrence states the individualist position advised each branch to impose certain strongly; yet it makes me fear that the codes of conduct on members, which arc: methods of education at lunchtimes in no citing of source for that ‘harsh secluded places and on the playing fields,fact’? I’ve heard that the majority of absolute freedom to strike implies the (1) All members shall attend branch absolute freedom to employ who one Help Fold and Despatch ‘FREEDOM* meetings. If a member is unable to a sort of school underground. women are inclined to support whom wants. Could Mr. Lawrence speak to Thursdays from 2 p.m., followed by attend he or she must send an apology I am not however naive enough toever their husbands or companions sup believe that all students could go back port rather than think independently. these doubts. discussion at 7.30 p m. to the Branch Secretary. Fraternally, (2) All members shall sell Vanguard to their schools after the weekend and Around and around we go, need a stat and other SAU literature. organise lunchtime classes. They would istic, it is bound to be there! USA E l io t G l a s s h e im . Sussex University. Society for Direct (3) It is the task of all members and most likely be told to fuck off by those He believes, ‘birds in hot pants, see- Democracy formed. Those interested supporters to recruit as many people as happy to be repressed, or by the followers through blouses, minis, kinky boots, etc/ Bill Dwyer contact Brian Behan, 36 River Bank. possible as soon as they themselves have of trendy socialism. are inviting rape. The reality that Shorcham-by-Sea, Sussex. joined the SAU. Fellow libertarian school students must women dress to please men nine times Comrades, Two Young Italian Anarchists urgently (4) SAU members shall refuse all form a correspondence club working to out of ten points out the vicious circle Bill Dwyer, who was busted with 1.400 need accommodation in London for punishments if they arc concerned with wards a future anarchist/libertarian of a woman’s existence. Damned if you tabs of LSD last December, is now re one month from about July 10. Con their work within the SAU. school students’ federation and must workdo and damned if you don’t. manded in Brixton Prison awaiting trial. tact Box 5 at Freedom Press. (5) No members shall speak to the in co-operation with the LTA. Mr. Sutherland says, ‘Capitalism prac He needs two sureties of £500 each (no Magic. All kinds of alternative com press or put posters up without the One of the most important things that tically exists on the fact that we are all cash required). munity info. 10 a.m.-10 p.m. 7 days permission of the branch press officer. pcaceloving anarchists can do is to work too shit scared to do anything about it*. If you can help or want more infor at 7 Summer Terrace. Manchester, Thus for SAU members the 'Dic within the school system, for there is to He then says in his next breath, ‘my mation please contact Peter Bell 01-229 14 7WO. Tel. 061-224 9087. tatorship of the Head* will be replaced be found the bedrock for a future woman gets three meals a day and clean 5655 or write to: Bill Dwyer. Number Return Appearance. Song and poetry from by the ‘Dictatorship of the Majority of anarchist society. straw once a month*. Now there is 110679, HM Prison, Jebb Avenue. Brix Maureen Benjamin, John Sivycr, Bill their Elitist Group'. This seems to be Peace, love and sunshine! May wea nice capitalist attitude, boss toward ton, London, S.W.2. Fay, Jeff Cloves. Cockpit Theatre, a far cry from their demand that school all one day bathe in the sparkling and worker, which apparently is all right Paul Pawlowski . Gateforth Street, Marylcbone. Sun discipline be replaced by a ‘code of purifying waters of anarchy. to have when it proves advantageous day. July 9, 8.00. 25p. self-discipline’, which I believe is a feeble Blackburn, Lancs. J. for him. Malcolm X - Teace News’ for theory and practice of slogan in any ease. P.S.—How about a Little Black School I don’t know if Mr. Sutherland’s non-violent revolution. £4.95 p.a* Their recent strike will probably do book someone? attitude is indicative of a large percentage (students less 10%). Trial sub. 7 more to help legislation by the govern of men who call themselves anarchists / a correction weeks for 50p with free M. Duane ment to repress students rather than Politics of Rape libertarians, but if it is then the sisters Dear Comrades. ‘Biological Basis of Anarchism*. gain for them greater rights. They are who hold with anarchist ideas should While agreeing with Jack Robinson’s 5 Caledonian Road, N.l. caught up in the whirlpool of the Dear Comrades, start pointing out male chauvinism whenargument (Freedom , May 27) that viol BLAST — Bristol Libertarians Against socialist-capitalist system, the whirlpool Ian S. Sutherland's review of Susanever it rears its ugly head. Otherwise, ence is rather a symptom of the problems State Tyranny. Address c/o 8 Cowper of power struggle, which only anarchists, Griffins ‘Politics of Rape’ in F reedom , what change can really take place if we face than a true problem in itself, I Road, Bristol 6. April 22, was one of the sexiest articles and one or two minor groups, know how libertarians believe ‘three meals a day feel he is wrong in describing Malcolm X Vancouver Social Revolutionary Anar I have read inF reedom . In the past to escape from. and clean straw’ is enough togrant any as a ‘right-wing figure*. I have not read chist Federation has begun to publish It is at this point where I ask the year that I have been readingF reedom , human being, especially if that human Malcolm’s ghost-written autobiography, this attitude has run in low-keyed form a monthly newsletter in an effort to question, ‘What the hell are we going to being is a ‘bird’. but if Jack reads his collected speeches foster communications between an do about the mess in education at the through certain articles but this review USA L in d a L e w is . he will see that, while initially adopting is too blatant to be ignored. archists scattered across Canada. To aocnest?’ the narrow racialist ethos of the Black receive a copy write to SRAF, c/o The libertarian Teachers’ Association The entire review treated Susan Griffin’s Muslims, Malcolm developed and ma article as a joke or a case of paranoia. Anarchy & the Law Volunteers, Box 34074, Station T)\ is proudly advocating libertarian educa tured after his break with them from a Vancouver, B.C., Canada. tion methods, but there seems to be no He claims Miss Griffin does not back up Comrades, bigot (however understandable his back anarchist school students' movement.her statements but pulls numbers out In a recent essay setting forth the ground made this) into a free, loving,Inside Story. 25p. ‘This beautifully pro School students must act. I see a certain of the air, i.e., number of rapes com anarchist opposition to laws (6.5.72), and articulate human being. While he duced magazine is a sort of anarchist amcent of adult chauvinism mixed upmitted in US in 1968 multiplied by 10 John Lawrence argues that workers have lacked some of the unique moral force Private Eye . . . an excellent publi in the anarchist movement, and libertafor true count. Whereas, the article every right to strike even if their refusal of Martin Luther King, he had more cation’—F reedom . ‘Well researched rian educationalists seem to be addressingstates specifically, Tn 1968, 31,060 rapes to work prevents others from working awareness of the life of black urban and well produced*—Mole Express. ad Jts on bow to encourage our natural were reported. According to the FBI or going about their normal business. ghcttocs and a more thorough grasp of ‘A lot of research has gone into social, intellectual and sexual growth. and independent criminologists, however,Referring to railway strikes, he says, ‘No political realities than King, and his producing this paper . . . good hard Bui wbat about us? We are the people to approach accuracy this figure must man has any natural right to use the death was undoubtedly a considerable information*—Frendz. who are being moulded into complacency be multiplied by at least a factor of labours of another man. People can loss to America’s black people. Catonsvillc R. R. 36 contains articles on ten to compensate for the fact that travel on trains only so long as other Fraternally, S. Africa, Kids’ Lib, Teacher-Pupil most rapes are not reported. . . / Mr. people are willing to drive and service Roderick A. Parkes . Relations, etc. £1.25 for 12, 1 copy for 8p. 28 Brundretts Road, Man chester 21. Two Cats need a home as owners are going abroad. Contact Chris and PRESS FUND Rose Reeve, 3 Holywell Street, Oxford. T>EADERS WHO SAW mention in a few Tory MPs and representatives ing manner possible. Oxford Anarchists meet every Friday, Contributions F reedom recently of the New Banner from such subversive groups as the ‘Libertarian capitalist’ is one of those 8 p.m., la Woodstock Road. Monday Club, Aims of Industry and Jmme 15-21 fee. and the American anarcho-capitalists will contradictions in terms like ‘good poliS.E. London Dwarfs & Anarchists meet doubtless be overcome with excitement other ‘libertarian’ organisations renownedtician’ and this jolly band of guerrillas Sundays 4 p.m., 61b Granville Park, Martov: K.GB 25p: Hamburg: I.L. £1; at the news that Britain now has its for their defence of the principle of reveal their true nature in wishing to S.E.13. Street theatre starting. Con G tagw .: 5J . 40p; Vanemner: S R A F. Guerrilla Capitalists who also call them wringing every possible penny out of retain the State for maintenance of law tact J. Dixon, 44 Pendragon Road, 33?. Bangor, M : JT £5; Harrow: selves ‘libertarians'. Present at an inworkers whilst they produce the most and order. (The State is not, of course, Bromley, Kent. 01-698 8596. M .J SD L 50yr,Hoiurlumpton: J.L. 40p; augural meeting in London recently wereuseless of junk in the most soul-destroy- ultimately essential to the capitalist: a Stoke Newington 8 Trial. Send all aid JKW Yfp. Taustoo: D P. £2; Aber>«t- private bunch of thugs could also pro to ‘8’ Fund, Compendium Bookshop, wryib: A-oei £2; Ontario. Canada: D.N. tect his property rights. However, the 240 Camden High Street. Meals, £1; Lari hat!: Aaoa £2.97; Hove: HC. legalistic veneer of the State helps to fruit, papers, books (new ones only), 35p. London. N.Wj*: R R £22; Man- hide the big stick.) In other words they cigarettes and money needed. tkMtr: G.B 26p; Oxford: J H. 50p; WHAT IS ANARCHISM? do not wish the State to take any of Holiday Accommodation. Will exchange WltterUiain: VS £2; London. N.W .ll: their profits but they find the armed 2-bedroom cottage in Gloucestershire J H. £5; Coventry: I.L.20pr. Hull: F K WHAT IS ANARCHISM? by Noam socialism. Here again is a grave omis might of the State very useful to defend Chomsky. sion. None of the groups like Solidarity for similar accommodation in Nor £2. Hull: B II. £1. their property rights against those wor folk or Suffolk. August 13 to 26. Total: £49.25 (UK), Socialismc ou Barbaric, or the kers who might be impressed by the N THIS ESSAY Chomsky sets about Situationist International arc mentioned, A. Jacob. Grove Farm Cottage, West- Sale* fVolioe): £4.00 I the unenviable task of consolidating notions of ‘free enterprise’ and who end, Stone House, Glos. and certainly their varied ideas arc notmight decide to seize control of their recent libertarian practices and conceptsexplored. There is a strange idea that Changed Addresses. Jeff Cloves now at TOTAL: £53.25 into a general critique of both Leninism own industries and run them without the 26 Grosvenor Road, St. Albans. Lenin’s The State and the Revolution parasites who control them at present. and the bourgeois state form. The in is his most libertarian work, and the Terry Phillips now at 7 Cresswell (1) INCOME FROM POSTAL SUB ternal battles of anarchism arc largely T.P. Walk, Corby. SCRIPTIONS AND SALFS author continues with a brief study of ignored except perhaps that of individuLenin’s ‘left-wing deviation* in 1917, (Target for 1972—£45*1) alism which Chomsky defines with a Amouni received This is surely when Lenin, swimming quote from Humboldt: ‘The isolated man like a fish with the current—a concept to June 21 £1.654.21 is no more able to develop than the onehe had refuted earlier—began cashing his (2) PRFSS FUND CONTRIB1 TlO V f who is fettered ’ Chomsky places rather political capital in the revolution by (Target for 1972—TI500) too much emphasis on the syndicalist supporting first the factory committees Amount received aspects of anarchism quoting Rocker, then the soviets and eventually himself. rpHE Parliamentary Commissioner for June 15-21 inc. £53.25 dc Santillan and Pcllouticr hut ignoringHe then swims like a fish against the The Registrar General has accepted Previously acknowledged £601.49all the anarchist-communists. At least current by which time he is in fact the Administration, Sir Alan Marre, this, and is ‘to strengthen measures to having investigated the wording of theensure that census correspondence is not Chomsky does not try to find a glib cen current. tral definilion of anarchism but he docs census forms has decided that it is ‘conpassed inadvertently to officials of the TOTAL TO DATE £654.74 come close to it with an emphasis of In a way Chomsky falls between the tradictory and misleading’. The wordingdepartment’. anarchists as ‘sons on the enlightenment’two stools of the past and the future is to be changed for the next census. Sir There is a much simpler solution, for and the heart of socialism. without answering his question. How Alan began his investigation after athe individual who wants to protect his ever a valid introduction to the fringescomplaint by A. F. Lightfoot. who was privacy, don't fill up the census form at Most of the polemic centres around of the growing libertarian socialist move fined £20 for not completing his form. all. the recent developments in workers* ment is made. For those interested in A. F. Lightfoot complained that despite Jack Robinson, Freedom editor, is council-communism. Chomsky sees these council-communism l can only suggest the assurance on the form that no infor due to appear in court on July 4 for non Holiday administrative organs as the very' basisreading Solidarity Pamphlet 40,Anarchy mation about named individuals wouldpayment of his fine, imposed on him for of a free society always intent on further No. 7, and perhaps one or two histories be passed on to other government departrefusing to fill in his census form. liberation from the social, educational, of the Algerian, Yugoslavian and Hunments his census form was seen by both A.W.U. Closing and political fetishes of the old state garian revolutions—but certainly not themembers of the solicitor’s office of the The bookshop and office wilf society. The examples of Spain are official nor the academic ones. Council- Department of Health and Social Security, quoted but unfortunately Hungary in communism and workers’ control are be closed for one week Monday- not to mention by a private solicitor 1956, Algeria in the early sixties. France bound to be increasingly important issues employed by the prosecution. Safurtfay, July 24-2* inclusive- in 1%8 and the many councils createdin British socialism as the authoritarian It cannot be said that Sir Alans pro A TTENZI0NE will be dealt during occupations of factories and colparty monoliths crumble and the newer posals have much to recommend them. Comrade Michele Corsentino has beer* leges are not discussed. The area of groups have at least to take on a liber All he wants is ‘to remove misunderknown to us for many years and despite with as usual council-communism is one which is filled tarian facade, and often come very closestanding’ and make the solicitor of the rumours In circulation he is NOT n with students from syndicalist, ‘left wing to the anarchist idea of self-controlled Department of Health and Social Security police-agent. Italian papers please copy* Marxists’ and many other branches of production. the solicitor to the Office of Population Printed by Exppma Printer*. London. E.l D a v id B r o w n . Censuses and Surveys. Big deal! by Freedoms Prtm. Laodoa. J B