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Derby DE3 3BY KENT ABERYSTWYTH ANARCHIST GROUP Ii '_I II-II-fl*’1__—1_l;—i EAST ANSLIAN libertarians. Martyn Everett, Ramsgate: Peter Ford, 22 Royal Road II Gibson Gardens, Saffron Walden, Essex. Sevenoaks: Jim Endesby, 70 Bradboume Rd. EXETER. Anarchist Society, Univ. of Exeter, MIDLANDS Literature Devonshire House, Stocker Road, Exeter. Secretariat: awaiting information TO RIGMA, the magazine for Greek anarch- NORTH-WEST ANARCHIST FEDERATION ists and libertarians in Britain, No. 3 now HASTINGS: NEW ADDRESS. Steve, 1'55"‘ Change of address to: out. Obtainable from TO RIGMA, c/o Black Markwick Terrace, st. L....rd. on s..T"s><. c7o Grass Roots, I09 Oxford Road, Man- and Red, $_tu:lents' Union, The University, HIGH BENTHAM. Ask at the "Dragonfly" on che:"'er I. ‘ _ Market da (Wednesda ). LeeclsLS2 9JT. The various groups in the federation are as HUDDER£lELD anarcliist group meets lott- Follows: minus owe, iEiv Reprint of Pierre Chardon 955°)’ 0" Individual nightl in the 'Zetland'., Queensgate. Bolton»- Group tel. Bolton 3875I6. ism, further discussion of John Clarke's ‘Max LEAMINGTON E Warwick, c7o 42 Burnley Anarchist Group, 5 Hollin Hill, Leamington g. Stirner's Egoism (Francis Ellingham); reviews Burnley, Lancs. _ l 8- articles on literature and art. I2p (post 7p) LEE S. Tony eamey, 5 oronto Place, C/o Grass Roots: from Freedom Bookshop (sub. £ I six issues Cha el Allerton, Leeds L574LJ(tel.624096). Lancaster Anarchist Group. from S.E.Parker, I86. Gloucester Terrace, LEICESTER, c7o Blackthorn Book}, 74 High- Manchester Anarchist Group. cross St., Leicester. London W.2. Manchester Syndicalist Workers‘ Federation. MANCHESTER Anarchist Group, $88 A ‘- RED AND BLACK, an anarchist ioumal from J'l\ Nmwo I:eCl8|'Cll'l0fl. Newsletter 8. Quarterly meetings. Contacts Sydney, Australia. No. 7 includes biograph- 084325902. ‘-I INETII/-CALSTLE upoT'T‘Tyne,flBlacl< Jake: <5/F’ W in other areas. ical article on Johan Most, anthropologist -bl Kenneth Maddock on ‘Anarchism, Regionalism hane II5 Westgate Road, Newcastle NEI 4AG. SCOTTISH LIBERTARIAN FEDERATION and the Fourth World with special reference to ;—l NORWICH Anarchist Group meets-weekly. Secretary: Nina Woodcock, I7 Cheviot Cres., Australian Aborigines. repr. of Max Nettlau Contact Students Union, University of East Fintry, Dundee. article, Sexual liberation &c. 40p (post 7p) Anglia. Aberdeen: c/o A.P.P. I63 King Street. "weedkiller", "wiring", and unseen "doc- from Freedom Bookshop. International Anarchist Conspiracy, NOTTINGHAM, c7o Mushroom, I0 Heath- Glas gow: c/o Box G.P.P., I46 Holland St., PEACE NEWS lor non-violent revolution. Cur- umentary evidence". And, of course, the cote St. (tel. 582506) or I5 Scotholme Ave., Glasgow G2 4NG. reaching out to destroy the fabric of H son Green (teI . 708302). rent issue Features Women in N. Ireland 5pp, civilisation. An old favourite, sometimes word of the police. OXFORD, Steve Busliell, Balliol College,-- plus regular news of anti-racial, anti-arms The "International" part is not being Oxford. activities 8. things affecting libertarians. the details alter slightly, sometimes it's PORTSMOUTH. Caroline Cahm, 2 Chadderton Fortnightly, I5p (post 7p) from Freedom Communist, sometimes Zionist. But the neglected either. The police have taken Gardens, Pembroke Park, Old Portsmouth. Bookshop. Sub. £ 5.50 p.a., £ 3 sixmos. SEND US NOTICES OF YOUR EVENTS TO to including a couple of German-speaking READING univerty anarchists c7o Students‘ trial sub 5 issues £ I from 8 Elm Avenue, long runner is Anarchist. It has a nice HAPPEN AFTER 22 JULY. TO BE ABLE Union, Univ. of Reading, Whiteknights, Nottingham. officers on their raids. And a number of TO INSERT THOSE TO TAKE PLACE BEFORE ring. to it. The truth doesn't matter, it's Reading, Berkshire. POVERTY and POWER, first issue of bi-month 5 AUGUST WE MU—ST_-RECEIVE NOTICE BY German nationals have been singled out SHEFFIELD Anarchist groups. F 341 Iy by War on Want. ‘Who's paying for our the image that works‘. If there are hatted I7 JULY when our next issue goes freedom'?‘; interview on Eritrea explaining th for attention. Glosso Rd. Sheffield I0 (tel.667029). it-1 to press. and cloaked figures lurking in every sha- SWANSEA. Don Williams, 24 Derlwyn, that the Eritrean People's Liberation Front are |_|\/ERPQQL, Sun... I6 July ‘Liverpool- CT9KentTeT22Margate,UAPS/Europe,Road:vices2AA.Daneo dow, what sensible person could demur All four must be released, with Iris Dunvant, Swansea. trying to reach a self-reliant Eritrea without l-I Fun City on the Dole‘. Sun. 23 Jul Film THAMES VALLEY . Adele Dawson, mymeade, massive support from_ outside‘ ; criticism of at slightly over-zealous police methods’? as a priority. At the very least she must -4-1 ‘Behind the Wire‘ (Ireland I974). Liberty aid agencies‘ use of a.contraceptive method Se—lnng 6 Con ress Rd.,Maidenhead, (tel.062 2974). -as Hall events at the Everyman Bistro, Hope St. not approved in US, Canada or Britain widely Our comrades, Iris Mills, Ronan Benn- be moved to a prison for women, where WESTON-super-Mare. Martyn Redman, Flat Prnit 5, 23 Milton Rd.,Weston-su er-Mare, Som. every Sunday 8 p.m. _r W1 I used in the ‘Third World‘ &c &c. 20p (post I-4 ett, Dafydd Ladd and Stewart Carr are she can mix with others. This aspect has I0p). Sub. £ I.50 six issues from War on Want WILTSHIRE. Comrades in SWINDON wish to MANCHESTER. Wed. 26 Jul ‘Repression in 467 Caledonian Rd. London N7 9BE. byMagic still being held in Brixton Prison, as the been taken up by women's groups and there start an anarchist group (as well as existing West Germany, plus a general report of an- 4-I Community-' Arts Group) . Get into touch with archist movements throughout Europe. 8 pm in Published by Freedom Press, London, E.I. Anti -Terrorist Squad raid homes all over has been an all-w_omen's picket of the pri- Prined Mike, Groundswell Farm, Upper Stratton, the back room of the Castle Pub, Oldham St. Printed by Magic Ink, Margate, Kent. the count1'y.So effective is the stereotype son (see inside). Cautionary note: never believe a printer, we are all incurable optimistsl which is another way of saying that yet again there won't be a nice green IJ3.l'1l'lBI‘. that they can be held on the grounds of Whose conspiracy is this ‘? However I have a good excuse! I have sprained my back - but as a bonus you should soon be able to buy the latest Black Bear leaflet "Voltairine De Cleyre - The Making Of An Anarchist" (25p). It has a truly beautiful front cover — and I should know ‘cos I spent half the night trying to print it and then delivering it in the pouring rain - which did not help the sprained back. But next issue I definately promise. . .' "ian the printer from a wet and windy margate - summer 1?
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-. w-I LAST TUESDAY, July 4, was the first has been that of direct action. As a re- by Matilda Roaue naa been taken over ~ -=. anniversary of the beginning of the trial sult, the main practical effect of Mary while she was in prison by William Baker I | of Gay News for publishing James Kirk- .Whitehouse's prosecution has been to "of the United Order of Blasphemers, O up's poem "The Love That Dares to increase the circulation of Kirkup's London". It is believed that the resurr- I-"IIHIHSand"ion Speak Its Name. " poem far beyond its original specialised ected body. with the same name is based outside London, and is not a not a mill- I-in. $1 iii 1 M __ The date was marked by the Committ- readership. It has been reprinted in ee Against Blasphemy Law, which had half a dozen political papers (including ion miles from both the Free Speech THE following is the text of the ‘All Women ‘ TO vtsrr RONAN BE ALLOWED TO circulated copies of a petition to be post- FREEDOM) and in several student and Movement and the Committee Against * She is forced to exercise in full view I picket leaflet being distributed outside Brixton vrsrr EACH ornsn As COMMON LAW ed to the Home Office on that day. The community papers, and it has also been Blasphemy Law. of male prisoners. II The first publication of the United prison on I JuIy:— HUSBAND/WIFE. petition calls for the abolition of the re- I widely distributed in various leaflet edit- Not only is this treatment insulting and maining laws against blasphemy, as ions. It is clear that, whatever happens Order -of Blasphemers is a duplicated FOUR anarchists - Iris Mills, Ronan leaflet. On one side is a slightly inacc- Bennett, Dafydd Ladd and Stewart Carr - humiliating, it is clearly designed to make Note: The prisoners are not technically being already urged last September by the in- to Gay News or anyone else, the poem her crack up. The effects of prolonged held in solitary confinement but under Category augural manifesto of the Committee cannot be suppressed. urate and slightly incomplete version of are being held in Brixton Prison, charged Kirkup's poem. On the other side is a A with "conspiracy to cause explosions solitary confinement include incoherency, A which amounts to effective isolation from Against Blasphemy Law, and last Jan- The current issue of Gay News reports disorientation and loss of identity. The other prisoners. Ronan, Dafydd and Stewart uary by the Statement Against Blasphemy a meeting of Harrow Gay Unity last description of the organisation. "Our with persons known and unknown. " immediate aim is to set up a network of result of such psychological tortures will are being allowed some social interaction Law which was signed by more than a -4 month, where Nicolas Walter described Police say they are part of a country groups all over the country to distribute wide group of "idealistic persons who be disastrous for herself and her ‘trial. ' among themselves. Iris has none. hundred well-known people, including his involvement in the Free Speech Move- A support group, PERSONS UNKNOWN, several churchmen. ment, which has produced thousands of leaflets and pamphlets. Only works would take positive steps to overthrow which have resulted in blasphemy pros- has been formed to support those arrest- B E N EF IT for It is recognised that there is little I copies of the poem, one edition being society. " l signed by more than a hundred well-known ecutions will be published. " There is There have been pg left-wing political ed. We demand: ‘PERSONS UNKNOWN‘ chance of such legislation in the near I a slightly exaggerated account of its explosions in Britain for over two years future, in view of the general support people. It also reports the latest threat 1. Free all those arrested Support Group of prosecution made against him - the background and activity, and a sensible and the only concrete evidence alleged 2. Get rid of all conspiracy laws of the prosecution of Ga News and the overwhelming support for the Blasphemy third during the past year - arising from explanation of its clandestlnity. "We by the police is weedkiller, found in Iris 3. Abolish the Prevention of Terrorism regret the necessity to go underground, and Ror~an's flat! .at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London law shown in the House of Lords debate complaints about such activities by ex- Act (PTA) . W.C.I (Holbom tube, several buses) tremist Christians to the authorities, but see no reason to present ourselves All four prisoners are being held in 4. Expose the activities of the ‘Anti- last February. The campaigners hope for more rational responses from the Law who are now reluctant to take legal action as sitting targets for despicable Christ- solitary confinement but Iris seems to terrorist' Squad and all special security ian informers. " It is stated that recip- have been singled out for particularly on Commission, which is currently studying if they can avoid it. forces. i But the Free Speech Movement has ients of the leaflet will include Mary brutal treatment: SATURDAY I5 JULY I978 at 7. p.m. all criminal laws concerning religion, As a first priority, we demand: and the Williams Committee, which is been relatively restrained, sending the Whitehouse (who prosecuted Gay News), * She is the first woman to be held in currently studying the law of obscenity poem only to people who ask for it. On Alan King-Hamilton (who judged the THAT IRIS MILLS ( AND THE THREE Bonds and musicians: Dire Tribe, lord this men's prison since the Price sisters and related subjects. But the main prac- July 4 appeared a more aggressive org- trial), the Director of Public Prosecut- (Irish Republicans) in I975. OTHER PRISONERS) BE GRANTED BAIL. Okokowoko, Keith Armstrong, The tical aim of the campaigners is to prev- anisation called the United Order of Blas- l ions, church leaders and editors of rel- I Nipple Erectors. Failing that, THAT IRIS BE MOVED ent the law being made any more restrict- phemers. The name comes from the- igious papers. * For her allowed hours of ‘association’ Plus: Poets, Folk Singers... organisation which continued to sell blas- As we go to press the response is un- with other prisoners, she is given a TO HOLLOWAY FOR NORMAL ASSOC- ive than it already is - for example, by IATION WITH OTHER WOMEN PRISON- being extended to cover other types of phemous publications in Edinburgh more certain. But at least it is certain that television set! -1-L-I-‘FTTIDV There will be a creche, food and drinks. ERS. . Christianity than Anglicanism, or other than a century ago during a series of a year after the Gay News trial the issue * During visits, a table is placed between religions than Christianity. successful prosecutions against one free- is not yet dead. Free speech, in relig- her and her visitor and they are allowed THAT sns BE ALLOWED TO VISIT TICKETS £ 1 (claimants 50p) But a more fruitful area of campaign- thinker after another. On January 13, ion as everywhere else, cannot be pre- no physical contact at all. Two screws‘ RONAN, DAFYDD AND STEWART ron § ing, as has been obvious to libertarians 1844, G. J. Holyoake's paper The Move- vented by the criminal law. M.H. vu hover around and listen to every word. SOCIAL INTERACTION AS ws LL As since the Gay News casebegan in 1976, ment announced that the bookshop run 1- _ DEFENCE PURPOSES. ‘Persons Unknown‘ support group: Box I23 I ‘-Iljl3b Before and after each visit she is strip 1-nu’ searched. THAT SHE AND RONAN BE ALLQWED I 182 U er Street I Islin9 ton I Lond0n N on"1 opposite systems of authoritarian rule world Are monarchs and communists would have little ~ or nothing in common (so-called) about to throw away their with one another. But there is business differences and dance together in love and profit involved, and that, we are and harmony How can we interpret this assured by the government-controlled great rapprochement otherwise? mass media, is the reason for this seem- Unfortunately, the realities are far ing rapprochement of diametrically opp- grimmer. What links these seemingly osed systems. diametrically-opposed groups of power- $0 7 I """""'""""" Subscribe- ANARCHISTS have known it for years 1_Mir‘ If the Romanian spectacle were not crazed persons is their craving for pow- 4=I’.,*"s;<‘_%_>.,;,’,,Q» but if_any proof is still required for ‘ hyp@¢riti¢a1 enough, an even more Cy“- er. Whilst they ostensibly represent We regret that from the issue after SCGPITICS the recent OffiCl3.I VISIIZS by igal meeting took place at abgut the varying creeds of monarchy, commun- ' 1| so-called Heads of State is ample evid- same time, The sugcesgor of the late ism, democracy etc, the reality behind next (Vol. 39 No. 15 15/8/'78) we will SEND THIS FORM to FREEDOM PRESS ence for the cynicism of power -hungry demented dictator of Spain, Generaliss- their facades is that of solidarity bet- have to raise the price of FREEDOM. I 84B Whitechapel High Street, London El 7QX 7 "“<>."'° rulers. Firstly, we have been treated to imo Franco - so-called King Carlos, ween so-called sovereign powers against We have held the current price for three _:Z-éi all the pomp and spectacle of men in anything which alters the status quo - years despite steadily mounting costs. ‘ was 8'1‘eeted bY numerous boiler -suited one year ‘H510.00) their de facto power. Doctrine, creed The rises immediately before that were f"m1Y uniforms. 5_0me Of them even OH ‘ functionaries of another revolutionary six months @@ $5.00) horseback. Paradlng and ITQOPITIE 31901111 socialist people's republic - China. and principle come a poor second when solely to cover increased postage.How- Five issues wrhtfl —'|\)U"| 8U't@ coo ¢"'\d-'~f-H $2.00) 3 LOIIGOII railway terminus in order I20 H113, K119-Feng, whg has effectively elim- the issue of power is at stake, as for ever we cannot maintain this price any 'we1come' the dictatorial head of the mated Maoism from China by identify- instance in the case of Russian involve- longer. _ government of Romania. Now this detest- ing its results as the dgings of the ment in Eritrea, where communist sep- " From Issue 15 the cover price will I O O I I O O O O O O O O U O able character masquerades under the tgahg of Four, thus abolishing Mao's aratists are being bombed and strafed be20p. L title of President and, worse, 'commun- acct;-mes whiisi; keeping the father fig- by Soviet-supplied Ethiopian aircraft. ist. ' In London this upholder of the prol- ure, a¢1;ua11y Showed the Spanish despot The true principle which all these rep- Current subscriptions will be hon- I O H O O O O O U O U O G O I resentatives of government uphold is oured at the old rate. New subscriptions etarian revolution was greeted by an<>th- the mummified remains of Mao, which —Ir-Ii:j---u—.--—|-.,.,.- __ ,. ,,____ -i@_<1.¢_-1- 91' l~1Pl1°1de1' of a11th°1‘it-'=11‘l3-B Politics " ought to have, but evidently did not, turn that of their own power structure, and and renewals, after that date, will be at Elizabeth Windsor, commonly known by in its glass ¢3,_ge_ the only true opposition to both King £6. 0_0 (inland). 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:3 COOL contempt has already been expressed powerful industrial and farming lobbies, are 2) SABOTAGE. The whaling industry is in in this paper at the antics of the International no different in their relation to their govem decline. In no sense is it necessary to the exist- Whaling Commission. This is a commission of ments than the great feudal lords of the past ence and prosperity of human life. It is very whaling nations formed in I946 by the London were in relation to their king. Former great costly to build new factory ships; it therefore Convention to control the murder of whales by whaling nations like the USA, Holland and makes sense, given especially the urgency of its own members. In his book on whales Jacques Britain have only ceased to whale because it the situation, to destroy the existing ones. Yves Cousteau, the marine cinematographer, is no longer profitable for them to do so and If a quarter of the energy cmd dedication that says that for the last quarter of a century the because decreasing industrial resistance has has gone into fighting the new Tokyo intemat- IWC "has actively met its responsibilities", met with increasing public pressure - but always ional airport could be spent on the sabotaging done. but he is not supported by the facts. By the coming too late. And the British government of the factory ships (hacking them to pieces SOME IMPRESSIONS OF THE LANCASTER This came to a head when Sunday's discussion as the airport has been, blowing them up, or - Inter-grou solidarit was brought up again l970s 'whale weight‘ has been reduced to 6 continues to permit the importation of sperm CONFER ENCE WHICH TOOK PIACE AT on racism and fascism was interrupted by child- '5 setting fire to them while in dock) then the and again throughout the conference. Many million tons from 43 at the start of the century. whale oil to the measure of ll,O00 tonnes a - CLAPDALE FARM ON I7 AND I8 JUNE ren who were distracting their mother. It be- picture could change fast (that is, in time). people thought that although it was reasonably During the last 30 years of the IWC regime year. came apparent that many people at the confer- 3) Similarly, other means of direct action WE arrived at Clapdale Farm at I0 a.m. on easy to maintain tight small groups this feeling blue, fin and humpback whales have been re- Given this situation the only way to save ence were failing to face up to their responsib- against the IWC and industries using whal e Saturday after a I6 hour journey which should of solidarity didn't necessarily follow through duced to numbers from which they may not re- the cetaceans - one of the greatest and most ilities to those around them, especially child- products. While these need not go in for ass- have taken 5 hours. We were frustrated and tired to the national movement. For one thing, the cover, even though 'protected'. The sperm, sei magnificent and most mysterious races to in- ren and parents. As one women observed, it habit the earth, and to inhabit it for over‘ assination and kidnapping (though again why and this clouded our initial viewpoint. An was hypocritical for us t'o be complaining about required level of trust cannot be expected and minke face the same fate. The most recent meeting of the IWC in Lon- 3.0 million years - is to do the followings- not kidnapping?) they could certainly take agenda had been drawn up on Friday night and amongst people who don't know eachother well. l racism and fascism on the right whilst failing ll dona fortnight ago managed to ordain a ban 4| more militant forms than the peaceful picketing a scheduled progaramme of workshops was be - A suggestion for overcoming this problem was A to overcome sexist dynamics in our own rcnks. which goes on year after year to so little avail. ginning as we arrived. As was remarked at the time, "The personal is for groups to more or less randomly select other on the hunting of the relatively small sei whale ------..,r.. in the southern hempisphere (against Japanese / 13;?"-"'5*l a" ,-"‘ " 2- 1". ' "T "l-kt" """ l""'$i' “'.~'."'-‘.'-.',\' "-‘-iii " Even the 'blood' throwing incident theother On Saturday morning a scheduled discussion groups from the various contact lists they have '-i'~‘¢/*.‘ ._-F'|r.v_ -C _._,'&;E;:;;. j. J _, .6VI}r.€*":.as+iierf»=.*i‘i?;§}1<;?‘s;:¢
FREEDOM 7 5 FREEDOM have also seen the ‘Christian‘ white people never hesitate to use brutality in many forms - imprisonment, flogging, executions, massacres, torture, starvation, you have it - to ensure ILLy their continued domination from one generation- to the next. We are asking a lot of people fin- ally revolting against all this, when in anger they take their revenge on the present generat- Comrades I ion, to stay their hands against the next. the working class. I‘-‘-7 Ann W Gleave‘s letter, taking FREEDOM to Of course we can weep for one white child. It was nice of Arthur Moyse to send Ame a ° H The way this is going to be changed is not task for the front page comment ‘Legacy of We can weep for those ‘good‘ religious people just by permitting‘ ‘the community‘ to choose copy of your no. I2 (24 June) but oh dear, oh Empire‘ (May 27), ironically enough under- in the Pentecostal Mission. We can weep for u E bookstock, in fact it will not come via the dear, what a silly billy he must be! O Moysey (sic) really has boobed with his lines one argument of that short piece, which one young man in British uniform shot on the medium of any institutional policy changes. It E streets of Belfast. But in the end we come to will come by creating an awareness of what the comments (page I6) on the April exhibition of pointed out that we are given precise numbers Dear FREEDOM I the same question: What the hell are they doing‘ I the Armed Forces Art Society. Didn't little I{O- fl#l{I of whites killed - but an ‘unknown number‘ of real causes of alienation are in th<--;:-:~:;- who are A Dear FREEDOM I read Bob Potter's article ‘Anarchists, Free- I Arthur listen to what Teacher told" him at Re- blacks. - there in the first place’? dom and Parties‘, vol. 39 no.l2 with interest most afflicted by it, out in the CQIT'i1i"iUI"Ii'I'y it- I lagree with Wendy that Anarchy must come Philip Sansom porter's school? He hasn't learnt to get his Ms Gleave gives us precise details of the and on the whole I agree with what he says. I self. Passively sitting back, saying ‘power to from within. Without itwe are all divided. ' London I the people‘ and letting it all happen, leads to Our own personal revolution is a first step facts right. _ death of precisely one European child, age However, when he speaks of soviets represent- Q -i __—:;; L, —_ cf-,1, > - ~::I-- --Ii _ 1-.* ‘I...-_.:::_p-u-q -i You see, it wasn't Bunny Vuulliamy who precisely documented, and rightly denounces ing ‘just the sort of rank -and-file management one thing and that is a strengthening of the -i-owards attaining Anarchy on a large level. It ‘s II I a necessary form of mind if we are to achieve commented on the Duke's painting - it was the the implication that we should not weep for I LI foothold of the more powerful sectors of society. of affairs that anarchists fight for‘ I must beg to Q-__ Anarchy will evolve by active intervention by it and interact with eachother later on. We must Society's chairman. And the picture he ‘slated‘ that poor little infant because it was white. disagree. I committed people. If we are afraid of ‘imposing‘ I cleanse ourselves fully of the dross society has LIE’ publicly, but in answer to a reporter's How did she know such precise details? I do not dispute that the ‘All power to the Because when whites are massacred our Press soviets‘ slogan was originally an anarchist one: our views, then the existing norms will be I heaped upon us and our own materialism. question) wasn't ‘Steel Mills in India‘. In fact strengthened. Thus deliberate blocking of cert- Anarchy eis evolutionarye but Iit needn | t take he praised. both this. and | Windsor.I Castle | as goes to town on telling us every gory detail - I Foe we learn from our mistakes, for there is an in- I Dear friends ain materials is essential, and making a lot of generations to achieve. Part of Anarchy is inter- excellent paintings - the latter in his own but when white ‘security forces‘ wipe out a herent danger in power, whether 'soviet' or I I am a senior citizen and get your paper when fuss about librarians who try to be 'balanced‘, action with other people. At the moment it means words as ‘worthy of a young Constable‘; - the ‘terrorists‘ hide-out‘, precise details of the ‘parly‘ power and the aim of anarchists must be U-III--I-aw=8- I can. It was nice to see a few food tips and we have to deal with people who are not sympath women and children and old men who are killed I quite misled people usually , with good intent- one criticised was ‘Cumberland Lodge.‘ to destroy it, not to give it to anyone. j I ‘I ‘I" you asked for more, so here are some. 7-1- I ions, is also essential. V‘I etic to Anarchy and its true goals and meanings. As for there supposedly being no NC Os or are very cursorily presented, if at all. In such For in giving power to the soviets an institut- I I ' I ‘ Ox liver "I5p I/2 lb (2 pieces usually) I Anarchy will not arrive through two- fingering men on the ‘governing board‘ or amongst the cases the guilt of the 'native‘ village, in pro- ion was created ready for bolshevik infiltration. I I 1 Pigs feet 3p each. Two make a meal with the neighbour. members, what about Richard Walker, whose viding shelter or food - under whatever circum- In his ‘April Theses‘ Lenin stressed the need to I bread and marg. Goat meat 60p lb. in Pakis- build up bolshevik power in the soviets, as he I We need to spread our ideas more, through paintings Moysey describes as ‘good solid stances - is implied. And so much the worse I I tani shops. Cheese bits 35p lb, ok on toast. I I I i.e. stickers, flyposting, articles and making our academic work‘? Richard was an aircraftsman for the children. I recognised that they were more powerful than j I I I Like your last reader I like dock leaves too I presence felt more on marches, instead of bright- 2 in the RAF and is now (since I976) on the The gist of the FREEDOM article surely was the provisional government, and although Bob t 4.. ‘ but boiled with fish and spuds. If your garden‘s Potter points out that the Petrograd Soviet Mil- I ,.4. ening the cover of the magazine as priority if ‘governing board‘ (we call it the Committee), that all the bloodshed is a legacy of imperial- II we are not to remain a small ineffective esoteric ism cihil thus, almost by definition, those res- wild dandelions ok boiled with spices or itary Revolutionary Committee had four anar- 0-—-—-__. together with two others who had served in the I-I 4;_ _1.:;£III.fl.-I-_ fried chickweed with rice. Fish heads I5p a chist members he fails to point out that it also group. ' ‘ranks of the WRAF and have been on the com- ponsible for that must bear the heaviest burden I I bag ok boiled. Ham off cuts 20p qtr = two I These may well be simple and naive statements mittee for 5 or 6 years. I of guilt for the consequences. What after fill <1l‘6 had 48 bolshevik and I4 social revolutionary sandwiches. Tripe I5p I/2 lb. Black pudding -i-o make but I'm not that good a scribe anyway. On.the list of members are about 40 who the Europeans doing in Africa today, if not ex- members. - II§eIC_4_:_-4.? ;1.-_e_.._-.fwe 9p qtr. My dinner today is fried fish bits, The creation of this institution made Lenin's I I Yours faithfully served as NC Os or private soldiers, sailors or ploiting the Africans‘ labour to get the valuable ._... _ | 5p. Boiled dandelions (free) and spi ces. upa-.-Q1I-n--.-q_'- ‘II airmen, but most of them don't use their ranks minerals or cash crops out of the land and on to job in l9l7 much easier. True he adopted the I Mr W. Serdiuk - II Mushy peas 9p tin = l4p dinner. ‘All power to the soviets‘ slogan for opportunist I now - possibly to confuse dummy reporters! the commodity markets - just as‘ they have al- I II Tameside . II This is how us old ones have to live today. Finally, the comment about ‘black people‘: I> Naughty Moysey on all counts! He really ways done? _ reasons but there will always be opportunists like It (The above has been slightly shortened) P j Yours Lenin and for this reason power must be destroyed it is not because they are lacking in self--con- I i- L';;_-e‘_‘C:‘~ pi--7-=i______-I —~u-l__ _ . _—J&-IulL' J-_.r-an ' ‘I-171 I ll III 7 -Pi should do his homework properly and not per- The peoples of colonial countries have seen I. i Frances to thwart their attempts to create another auth- fidence and pride that they don't come to lib- i haps rely on the bourgeois press for his misin- generations of such Europeans grow rich out of . Wakefield . ortiarian state. n raries. It is because they see the library as part formation. their labour and the wealth of their lands. They Yours fraternal ly of the authoritarian structure of society to which \ Sincerely I -.IiIu-I-Inner-..--.1-.\.Iu--Ina.-u-ow-1.:-I—u.Iur~ -Io-we-vn..-wIn--mien-an-v4Iu¢1—=.ur - ni@»I-%¢@n;~ u6aaa13- -A:-—;|:* an :3.-_i_11'_'_I~uu-Iii--Q:-¢Invci—-lunch;-1-lnuil I Q Neil for very good reasons they are irreconcilably Ii ‘ . Iii¥Z€I'\--1-41'-$821mlII\-nnoflnv-IDA-I11-¢hlIlIlIII'4lli-Jr-nnImn1—‘-1-I-i-i—Iu--_-u-up-1-Q-Inq-n.\.I@q.¢-III_---uuI.,.j-MI-a_ -11-1;-in-wig-In-—In I opposed. For a local government institution to . Bunny Vulliamy OBE Surrey (Colonel - retd.) ji THE BOOKSHOP IS OPEN: Tuesday - Friday 2-6 p. m. I allow its readers to choose books would be just (Thursdays until 8 p. m. ) I I Hon. Secretary the kind of paternalism that they, and hopefully jI jl Armed Forces Art Saturdays 10 a.m - 4 p. m. A - .1-p--4-._...-1-¢€__--ufiI.-.n-uI-1-.-y--.--=-.- all of us,decline to accept. It is just like the r I11 I Society idea of workers‘ capitalism that says you improve (Aldgate East underground station. Angel Alley is a few yards Dear friends 5‘ the workers by letting them run their own assem- from Whi'Iie'chapel Art Gallery). ; j I I should like to comment on the article in bly line - you've still got the assembly line, - ‘ ; Illl I -_ B-56 -_ '47 I‘ "II"I\l\‘|U1'IinIl'I:'.Iriluiwrrir.I.-llllltmiliii When ordering by mail please add postage as in brackets. Items. I FREEDOM of I0 June on Lambeth libraries, and you haven't changed its basic nature. marked * are published in the USA. both as a soon-to-be library worker and as a Neither will your contributor‘s suggestion change I A EIGHT BBITONS- -gait;-l.__.-is-4_:-I--1:11 -.~Jib--_.-Q--.— 0 t ' .I> I" reader. the basic nature of public library service. 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It may be possible to let the ‘community hoped that groups will use it for this purpose. ‘E2. 95 (54p) 1 The main feature of the festival will be a 4_ of readers‘ decide what sort of books they want -in .- -1- -- *Michael Albert: What is to be Undone: A Modern Dear Friends, H € . large number of workshops on a wide variety Q’. .- - in ideal conditions this would, of course, be —-— 1--_ --1--5|-“'1 7-1 Q Revolutionary Discussion of Classical Left Ideologies of topics. If you have any suggestions/ideas "IQ necessary. But we know what sort of people the I would like to communicate with friends . ‘£2. 50p (54p) please write and let us know. We would be anarchists in Europe. I would be grateful if I majority of library users are, i.e. the educated ______- _.__-_,-- Alexander Herzen: My Past and Thoughts (edited and grateful if you could pass on this information 0-;--I-.I.-.-.i.:-~...~-_I *1-.~--.\‘ ~ '-l”“; - -— - - -0 '------r - -- '-'- middle class. 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H03, c/o I78 Waterloo Place, SAUDI ARABIA FOR POLITICAL REASONS Tel-Aviv, Israel M000 Manchester I3 9QQ. * Paul Goodman: Drawing the Line: Political Essays s hood residents‘ associations for example) than 1n.i11q-i so YOU'LL HAVE ‘(OUR CANING IN __ £7. 50 (54p) (M045 cw I-s. 7) rue LITTLE ROOM UPSTAIRS AS USUAL. edited by Taylor Stoehr — 7 =r_.¢--— - r—~- —_1q--— -r==-|-in-4 qq;1 R . Anarchlst evrew 8 JULY '78 co- o1°en.n-nve .Sé1_F- Heaurdq (‘Ff-Of“ p5_\,_'1..) istic attempt to create with my comrades a lively cooperative Today, my daily regimen takes about 45 minutes. At first 7 community. I couldn't bear to look at the defeat of this vision. I had difficulty in integrating it into my daily life. I solved this My group helped me 5 perceive my feelings, express the anger by rising an hour earlier. Also the support I received from my and grief I felt and release the energy that had become dammed ,\ radical therapy group at this time was enormous and a real up behind them. Another example. Last September I gathered factor in helping me overcome the resistances. When, however, together a group of friends and acquaintances and proposed that MOST anarchist periodicals are newspapers or at least papers Black Fla ' Walker C. Smith's Sabotage , first published in my intuition was confirmed and my interocular pressures we form a leaderless, self healing group. There were eight of which mainly reflect current events, or else are sectarian " 1913 by the author, a leading IWW publicist on the American started to drop, my, I should say our, elation was tremendous. us to gegin with, most of us middle aged, We brought with use organs or at least papers which mainly express single lines. r West Coast; D. Ferraro's article on "Anarchism and Free- From January 1977, to date, my eye pressure has remained a variety of long standing problems that we wanted to work on. *We need such papers; but we also need other papers - literary, masonry", first published in 1963-1964 in the French Noir et in the normal range, without the use of drugs. Today, even Glaucoma, phlebitis, back problems, nerve damage and Park- historical, theoretical magazines which avoid being tied to Rouge; a "Short History of Anarchism in Bulgaria", with no my 'straight' opthomologist agrees that I seem to have learned inson's disease to name a few. I brought the relaxation tech- particular events or particular lines, and which let ideas have indication of author or source, but reading like a translation how to control my interocular pressure. niques I had evolved. Ida, our beautiful dancer, Struggling as much room as facts and let a hundred ideas bloom. There from the French; a new article by Tohyama Hiroko and Wat against the crippling effects of Parkinson's disease, intersper- is no doubt that the British anarchist movement has suffered Tyler on Komeko Fumiko, the Japanese companion of the Kor- - When I think about self healing I find myself upset by what sed our relaxation exercises with dance movements and stret- ean anarchist Pak Yul, who killed herself in prison at the age. seems to be the trend today toward seeking miraculous, quick from a lack of such papers since the Second World War. It is ches. Frank brought in his knowledge of self hypnosis and yoga. true that, after a few short-lived or ill-fated attempts, there of twenty-one after being tried for treason in 1926; the second cures at the hands of ‘psychic healers. ' My anarchistic, rad- Nancy brought her knowledge of healing back problems. Every- (Spanish) half of Noam Chomsky's well-known e ssay "Object- ical therapy, oreintation rejects the idea of looking outside of was one during the 1960s in the original Anarchy, edited by one contributed their caring energy to the group. We learned Colin Ward and published by the Freedom Press. But after ivity and Liberal Scholarship", first published in 1969 in his oneself for change. There are, obviously, knowledgeable, from eachother and supported eachother in our desire to get book American Power and the New Mandarins, with an intro- intuitive individuals who can'help in discovering techniques we its metamorphosis in the early 1970s the gap opened again. well and stay well. We all know that when you discover a means FREEDOM, Black Flag, Direct Action, Black and Red, duction by Frank Mintz; William Archer's essay on Francisco can use in healing ourselves. But the bottom line always is, of controlling and improving a physical condition, you must Ferrer, the Spanish anarchist educationist shot for rebellion 'I will heal m self. ' Another intuition that I have is that one Anarchist Worker, Libertarian Communist Inside Story, practice it practice it and incorporate it into your daily life. Wildcat, Zero, and the various papers oi local groups - all in 1909, first published in 1910 in McClure's Magzine, preced- doesnlt ‘cure ' oneself of a long existing physical condition, You can't be a dilettante about self healing. Each week we ed by an introduction by Dave Poole and followed by three Ferr- but rather, one learns how to control the symptoms. Like these have filled the first need of the anarchist press, but work together in group for two and a half hours. At times, there is still the other need. During the past three years er letters and Kropotkin's memorial speech of 1909: an essav liberty, the price of good health is eternal vigilance. To get someone will arrive in group up-tight, in pain or unhappy. three periodicals have tried to meet it. Interrogations has by Dave Poole on Ricardo Flores Magon and the Mexican Rev- well one must affirm the desire to do so, and to remain well. But in every case has left group feeling better. scarcely done so since it began in December l9'7Z, because so olution, which serves to whet appetites for the recent Cien- j A My anarchist convictions point toward mutfial aid and co- I'm convinced that this mutual aid approach to health is a few of its articles are in English or about subjects of interest fuegos Press book on the subject; an essay by Roland Lewin operation as a powerful tool in implementing a programme of viable alternative to a moribund, disease oriented, conserv- to British readers. The FREEDOM Anarchist Review has on Erich Muehsam, the German anarchist writer, first publish- self healing. The support group can help you discard reasons ative, basically authoritarian medical system such as that successfully done so since it began in March 1975, but it is ed in 1967 in the French and Italian anarchist press; extracts for remaining ill and offer you support and affirmation of your which dominates almost every western society. I also think limited by being produced in a tight eight-page format and to from the correspondence between Lenin and Gabriel Myasnikov, desire to get well. For example, in my work in group and in my that mutual aid, self healing groups are prototypes of healing a tight fortnightly schedule, and by being sold as a supplement the boldest bolshevik opponent of Leninism, first published in body work, I found my glaucoma tied to a deep unsuspected dep- in a free society. -DpN,b Kim, H4 to a newspaper (rather like the supplements to La Révolte and 1921, presented by Sam Dolgoff; an article by Martyn Everett _,_ression and sadness stemming from thedefeat of an early ideal- Les Temps Nouveaux which Jean Grave produced in France on Stepniak, the main theoretician of nineteenth-century Russ- at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth ian populism in Britain; a situationist article by Jeanne Charles century). The third such periodical is the Cienfuegos Press A on women in revolutionary movements, first published in 1975 of assassination but a satire on war, pointing out that select- Anarchist Review, which emerged from the Black Flag Group in the French Chroni ue des Secrets Publics; two statements ive murder would do the job better than mass murder. a couple of years ago. on anarcho-feminism or anarcha-'-feminism (both spellings are QNT) The Cafiero article is worth reading in English, though So far three issues have been produced under the editorship used), first published in the American Soil of Liberty; Marius again Jean Weir's translation is uncomfortably literal. It of Stuart Christie, supported by a growing team of assistants Jacob's speech at his trial for burg ry in l9 4; a satirical should have been placed in the context of the campaign in the and sustained by a growing list of subscribers, and they have article on "The Benefits Moral and Secular of Assassination", Poole rescues Ferrer's anarchism by documenting his work anarchist movement following the assassination of the Tsar steadily increased in price but also in both the quantity and first republished in 1965 in the new Cuddon's Cosmopolitan for the anarchist papers La Huelga General (1901-1903) and for a policy of propaganda by deed - what is now called urban the quality of the material published. The first issue, which Review; and Carlo Cafiero's call for armed libertarian revol- Solidaridad Obrera (1907-l909l, but he runs the risk of getting guerrilla - and it could have been added that the result was appeared in March 1976, had 28 pages for 30p; the second, ution, first published in 1881 in Il Grido del Popolo. involved in a minor whitewash job on behalf of international disastrous for the anarchist movement. which appeared a year later, had 64 pages for El; the third, The remainder of the issue is much more uneven - a two- anarchism. For it does seem that, while Ferrer was almost which appeared in November 1977, has 136 pages for E2. If page parody newspaper report headlined "Easter Cancelled: certainly not implicated in the Tragic Week for which he was The Easter poster is a good piece of secularist satire, this seems a lot to pay for a magazine, consider that with its Christ's Body Found" (available as a separate poster, at 65p judicially murdered in 1909, he was almost certainly implicated made especially apt by the recent revival of mystification small "type, three-column, large page format (similar to that for 25 copies post paid), two pages of poems, two pages of in Morral's attack on the king for which he wa s imprisoned about the so-called Holy Shroud of Turin. The other items of FREEDOM) it is actually the equivalent of a very large letters, a page on children's books, an account of the Berufs- but eventually acquitted in 1907; the evidence appears in Joaq- in this general area are less valuable, and the attack on orth- book - or of a whole year's run of the old Anarchy or of the verbot (job-ban) systemrof excluding leftists from state em- uin Romero Maura's article "Terrorism in Barcelona 1904- odox science and the defence of Velikovsky are worse than new FREEDOM Anarchist Review. In sheer quantity it is a ployment in West Germany, an obituary of Chou En-lai, an l909"(Past and Present 41, December 1968). This at least valueless. marvellous bargain; just look at it. account of the Gnostic heresy, an attack on the scientific ideal- relevant point is also ignored in Murray Bookchin's recent After about the first hundred pages, indeed, the level of After an editorial article (saying among many other things ogy, a defence of Velikovsky, an article on Dennis Wheatley, -9 book The Sgnish Anarchists. Incidentally, what the Anarch- information and interest tends to dip sharply, and the standard that "the history of anarchism is the history of people who are ' ist Review calls 'Ferrer's Last Letters" were not actually of argument often disappears. The detailed article on the virtually unknown", and that the purpose of the magazine is to his last letters. Kropotkin's speech is a good example of ' West German Berufsverbot system manages to describe the change this situation) and a financial statement (showing that liberal protest, but it could hardly have been anything else a attacks made by the state on the left without even mentioning the Cienfuegos Press is taking a considerable risk in this bare week after the execution. the attacks made by some of the left on the state - but how enterprise), the first hundred pages contain the following woRTH ‘F0,3 Poole's essay on Flores Magon is informative and interest- can we complain if when we tear off the mask of repressive major items: Albert Meltzer's Aims and Principles of Anarch- ing, but anyone who is really interested must get the Cienfueg- tolerance we find the face of repressive intolerance? A short i_§1_n, a revised version of the pamfilet first published in 1968 os book Land and Liberty! Anarchist Influences in the Mex- review of a book by Sheila Rowbotham and Jeffrey Weeks on and republished in 1970, followed by his Objections to Anarch- ican Revolution. "lie articles on Muehsam and Stepniak are the sex pioneers Edward Carpenter and Havelock Ellis sugg- 1513, first published in 1975-19:16 as a se -. also informative and interesting; though it is a pity that Ever- ests that sexual problems are preoccupations of the middle --I ett doesn't investigate Stepniak's connections with the anarch- class and can be solved only by joining the working class - ist movement in. more detail. ‘ but are we expected to take this kind of thing seriously ~ The anarcho-feminist items are useful additions to the " So the Cienfuegos Press Anarchist Review is very good in growing literature, mainly represented so far by the Amer- most parts, even if it is not quite as good as it seems. l 1» ican pamphlets reproduced by the Black Bear press. Apart from all its obvious merits," one which should be emp- The Jacob speech is worth reading in English, though Jean hasised is its good humour - not just its amusing entries and Weir's translation is rather too literal for comfort, and its pictures, but its amused attitude to the libertarian movement thesis - that theft is property - is not an entirely convincing it serves so well. Let me quote one little remark from many: Tbe right to govern ourrelver reversal of Proudhon's thesis that property is theft. "The Benefits Moral and Secular of Assassination" is - If you Find mistakes in this publicotion, please consider that v 1-hey ore there For 0 purpose. We publish something For attributed to "A. C. "; when it appeared in Cuddon's Cosmop- . P ‘I Kl oli-tan Review it was attributed to Ambrose Cuddon, an ' everyone, ond some people ore olwoys looking For mistdkesl English libertarian who was active in the 1860s. .It is in fact Point taken, comrades! extracted from a pamphlet with the same name which was published by Charles Lahr in 1932 and which was then signed No "M. M. " - i.e. Myles Mordaunt, which is believed to have been one of the many pseudonyms used by Charles Duff, the The Cientuegos Press ANARCHIST REVIEW, vol. One, no. 3. linguist, translator and journalist who was associated with Price £ 2.00 (Free to Cienfuegos Press subscribers and prisoners who the anarchist and rationalist movements and whose best known request o copy). Published by Cienfuegos Press, Over-the-Water, book was A Handbook on Han%'n§ (1928), a brilliant satire Sunday, Orl
Freemasonry as perhaps the largest secret society in this no-nI\w—u--13-it-I-U-mi- qt-1tu.-it;-a$-but-u&I-I-I-UQI-1'1‘IQ-Q.I-QQt-%h\»I\.%-1 'I-i 1 Russia were too. I have never seen any evidence to suggest rejuvenation of 'The Dreaming’ (the period of the creation of itution) but I feel it is important to point out the hypocrisy of country, containing perhaps about almillion members, mostly that he was himself a Mason, but it is at least suspicious. the landscape and life, including human society). The elders many monogamists, and the variation that can exist beyond and the knowledgeable or skilful undoubtedly maintained inf- the simple classification of marriage types. Undoubtedly, in the middle and upper classes, and involving not just social =lI * * activities and commercial contacts but much more sinister luence in many spheres, but this was not transformed into Aboriginal anarchism was far from perfect, and lacked some things. Freemasonry pervades the aristocracy, the Church, authority or power in daily affairs. What an elder or an accom- of the freedoms we expect to create for ourselves, but they local government, the civil service, the intelligence service, The articles on Bulgarian and Japanese anarchism are ;k~ plished person gained in ritual and totemic knowledge (as a were nevertheless a living example of society withotit_govern- and the diplomatic service, as well as small business, the informative and interesting, wherever they came from. result of age and experience) he lost in matters such as de- ment and other suchlike coercive institutions. police and the legal profession. This is a subject which is ‘ Chomsky's article is very valuable, but it has long been creasing dexterity in hunting. The balance between eauals ex- Their anarchism cannot be reduced to their 'economic level' notable by its absence from the media, though a rare article available in various editions of the book and seems rather a hibited an important principle - individuals may be -experts’ or their simple material technology as Marxist evolutionism did appear in the Guardian on April 10. waste of space. or practitioners in one activity, but are less able in other maintains. The Marxist ‘primitive communist mode of product- The second type oi Freemasom'y shows what the first can William Archer's essay on Ferrer is also valuable, but fields. It was obviously difficult tor Aborigines, with their ion‘ is not only unscientific and unempirical, but far too simp- lead to, with rival secret societies killing eachother in the 1-xnq-\--9.;-1..-1-I-.-up-¢-|.-.-pump-\pv---¢.;—~..&¢.--..-,- its value is limited. Dave Poole's introduction is useful as traditional stress on egalitarian mutuality and concurrent ind- listic. It assumes a straightforward correlation between a streets; but the first type already has plenty to answer for in far as it goes, but it doesn't go far enough. The following ividual variation, to come to terms with the European compet- group's mode of subsistence and survival techniques EH19 the the past administration of the British Empire and in the pres- points should be mentioned. Archer is described simply as itive, acquisitive society. Aborigines valued 'good sleepers' nature of social organisation. Marx, in his infinite wisdom ent corruption of British society. "a freelance journalist", but he was more than this; he was or 'good talkers’ or 'good eaters' as much as they valued 'good not only looked down on peasant and agricultural society, but The editorial introduction to the French articles tries to a distinguished dramatist, translator and critic - and, more hunters’, 'good fighters’ or 'good sharers. ' There was no was virtually ignorant of any other economic systems and play down the serious nature of the issue. The French articles to the point, he was a leading liberal rationalist. His essay, discrimination or pressure to conform to everybody else's social systems as working and viable realities. He drew his themselves similarly try to play down the connections of an- and his subsequent book The Life Trial and Death of Fran- abilities, as long as people valued and performed their kinship limited deductions from simplistic and primitive sources such archists and Freemasons in Continental Europe. . For example, cisco Ferrer (1911), represented a major atttmpt to pEy duties and ritual acts. Kinship duties included widespread meat as Morgan - and other armchair anthropologists-. Marx and they note that it is sometimes claimed "that Proudhon, down Ferrer's anarchism so as to present him as the victim sharing and the transfer of artifacts to those who.needed them. Marxism assume stages in human socio-economic ‘develop- Elisée Reclus, Sébastian Faure, Voline, etc., were Free- of religious persecution. Poole mentions Joseph McCabe's Relations between the sexes was a more complex affair to ment’ and are unable to cope with (in terms of distribution l assess by European standards. In many cases men and women and need satisfaction) ‘advanced’ social organisation coupled masons", and they comment: "It is possible, but not certain, ! booklet The Martgdom of Ferrer (1909), but not that it was for they never confirmed it themselves to our knowledge. " a better journalistic account than Archer's - and, more to the were expected to perform separate, sex-attributed roles and with a limited material inventory, and only approach a satis- This is just silly. Proudhon described his Masonism in E point again, he too was a leading liberal rationalist. In fact functions. Women, for example, were largely barred from factory analysis of exploitative socio-economic arrangements la Justice dans la révolution et dans l'église (1858). The both Archer and McCabe were involved in a major whitewash the secret male ritual life - including the passing down of in societies with a more complex technology. They attempt i most recent reference book on Ee subject - the 1400-page job on behalf of international liberalism. , to force societies such as Aborigine hunter -gatherer systems . LC-ents f§ ll-L)
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Review Review into a standardised, narrow formula. By positing ‘stages of short-sighted overstocking - sheep farming for rapid profit development’ they doom them to the ‘inevitability’ of capitalism for instance. Aboriginal society was particularly vulnerable and exploitation." Marxism itself, in its Judaeo-Christian to intensive interference by people intent on its destruction prophecies, if anything, is far more archaic in its formula for and the takeover of their land. A white anthropologist who has social controls and coercive institutions (state systems, such lived with the Central Desert Aborigines all of his life, and is 9 as proletarian dictatorships and democratic centralism) than accepted by the blacks as a member of the community, Streh- anything the 'primitive' Aborigines have devised. For exam- low, has written extensively, intelligently and sympathetically ple, ‘ownership’ and 'territory’ (and 'territoriality') for the on the Aborigines. In a moment of contemplation he remarks:- Aborigines were not equivalent to European and Marxist con- HQ\ ceptions. Individuals or clans or 'tribes' did not ‘own’ tracts of land - their tie with a few sacred spots was ritual, not econ- "The original inhabitants had lived for thousands of years in a omic or political. The ceremonies they performed there guar- state of loving closeness to nature, content with meagre material anteed (they believed) the continuation of the land and its re- possessions. These people had Felt certain that despite disease, sources. Outsiders (from other regions) could easily gain drought and natural catastrophes, the continued existence of men, IN 1975, during ga. routine eye examination, it was suggested that diagnose and cure just about any illness. However, despite the access to neighbours’ areas - a result of various kinship, animals and trees was assured For all eternity: they believed that I may have developed Open Angle Glaucoma. (A condition in which often conflicting ideas offered us, it became apparent that many affinal and totemic ties and friendships. There existed no all living organisms were a part of the total lite of an eternal increased inter-ocular pressure can damage the optic nerve, and of these practices contained some materials that might be use- borders or boundaries between linguistic groups and ’hordes'. earth. White settlers, within a Few generations, inaugurated a 20th may result in blindness). This diagnosis was confirmed by fur- ful. It then became important to evaluate and implement those People were largely sensible and sensitive about food and century material civilisation. Yet these changes, on the whole f ther testing by an opthomologlst. He prescribed one of the stan- materials most pertinent to our personalities and needs. The water resources, and their availability, they respected each- materially beneficial , have not brought with them a commensurate dard treatments for glaucoma, the use of a number of chemical techniques that made the most sense to me were three differ- others' needs and rights. ‘ Private property’ did not exist increase in human happiness. Most Australians now share the Fears, agents that seem capable of controlling interocular pressure. ent meditative relaxation exercises: breath awareness, derived (except a few minor possessions, such as hunting weapons, doubts and the strong sense ofdisillusionment of that present-day Pilocarpine. He also advised me to resign myself to the use of from early yoga, breathing exercises; energy redistribution, which everybody had or could easily obtain). Aborigines bel- Fictitious person, the ‘Common Man‘, wherever he is to be Found the eye drops for the remainder of my life. E dervied from Shiatzu and acupressure concepts; and especially , onged to the land, rather than vice versa. Residential and on the globe. Perhaps even ‘civilised man‘ could improve his What followed was an orgy of self trashing. Anger and de- autogenic relaxation, with its concentration on body awareness. economic units were assured access to resources in eachothers' prospects of a more secure Future by adopting some of the concepts pression, resentment and self pity, I felt betrayed by my body. (Directing of one‘s energies and intuition to those ‘parts of the subsistence ranges (especially when times were harsher). oF toleration and cooperation on which the Aborigines based their (As though it were a separate entity from my consciousness). body that need the most attention). I learned and began to Permission was easily obtained - hospitality, generosity and social and political systems." I went through a bad time and it took a while for me to come practice a number of ‘Bates eye exercises, and a marvellous sharing were highly valued. An ungenerous individual, or an out at the other side. It seems that glaucoma is one of those spine stretching exercise derived from the concepts of Felden- accumulative one, was considered unsociable and strange - systemic conditions about which very little is known. It is de- kreis. I was also impressed by one of the experts who had been few such people existed until the whites arrived. fined by its symptoms rather than by its causes. Influenced by invited in, Dr Lee Sannella, who made a good case for the in- Abophobia among the whites generally and the Australian Reichian ideas since the early forties, my ‘take’ on glaucoma So much for capitalism, christianity and Marxism; what administration in particular was comprised of a variety of corporation of some form of strenuous exercise, regularly into about anarchism? Aborigine society, inits past record and in was that it was somatic response to the accumulated pressures one‘s regimen. Such exercises as jogging, swimming, hill fears, prejudices and hatreds. The blacks were despised in my life. The read back from the self trashing formed around the contemporary setting, holds the promise of a stateless because they refused to settle permanently (until forced to do climbing or cross country hiking, all of which have the effect of future, with a well-adjusted and environmentally adapted the concinvictlon that if indeed the glaucoma was self induced, elevating and maintaining a high pulse rate, resulting in a deep so), were not interested in planting crops or keeping animals it should be possible to reverse the process. If pressure and i material technology. or humans for profit. They were subdued and suffered prej- post-exercise somatic relaxation, are of ineffable value. _ tension cause my glaucoma, then the process of reversal must ' (over) -s» udice because they were black. They were feared because lie in developing techniques of deep relaxation. (i.e. opthomol- The Walbiri Aborigines (of the Northern Territory) were -their life styles and values contradicted white superstitions oglsts know that interocular pressure is reduced by smoking divided into a number of communities, and had no political about social order. Governments and their numerous repres- grass or even taking a few drinks. Though, alas, the effect is leaders or governmental hierarchy. Behaviour in common entatives interfered with them continually, especially because relatively short lived). activities was initiated and guarded by peoples’ own know- they did not recognise any overriding authority, and had con- I started to investigate meditative techniques but found ledge and expectations, and the acceptance of established, structed and reproduced their social relations without central- those available to me too ‘spooky’ for my pragmatic bent, and traditional norms. Thankfully, European contact has not ised power or the monopolisation of coercion by any institut- I was unable to sustain them. The turning point in my search greatly altered this enduring pattern, even though the whites ion. In total they countered white European standards, and for self healing was my joining of one of Claude Steiner's rad- -0--' have increasingly attempted to establish some centralised therefore had to be transformed into renegades and helpless ical therapy groups early in 1976. My prime contract with the administrative structure among them - by delegating authority incompetents in order to satisfy white assertions about human group became ‘to heal myself of my glaucoma. ' It would be nice to males specially selected by them (chiefly those possessing nature. ~ to say that my progress from that time on was immediate and the new, highly valued skills - valued by whites - and speaking direct, but of course that wasn't the case. For more than six English competently). Social relations among the blacks were months I struggled and thrashed in group, working on many more enlightened in many respects. The old, disabled and Aboriginal society, even after white pollution appeared, was long repressed problems, especially the difficulties in my rel- ‘unproductive’ were well taken care of by the physically strong, a form of living anarchy. No doubt they also possessed many ationship with my long time comrade/companion. But despite and had their own individual and common contributions to features which would have no place in an anarchistic world- the ’sturm und drang’ and indirection, indications began devel- _"______, social and ritual life. Decisions were made and disputes were wide future - such as the strict definition of sex roles. Nev- oping in group work and especially during the sessions of bio- settled through widespread participation and mutual agree- ertheless the Aborigines present a significant living hope for energetic body work, of events and feelings that were directly ‘ ment. European and white Australian society was in many Australia as a whole. At present they must be given the great- related to my eye condition. ' comparisons more restricted and restricting. R est help and encouragement in their attempts at self manage- In late September of 1976, I was invited to join an experim- Q "'4
ment. Their oppression is ours, their anarchism and struggle ".1-I-tn ental group working on glaucoma. The group met at the Center . ---- -rs.r__ _ against state control and destructive interference is ours, for Attitudinal Healing in Tiberon, California. The group had I their race is ours as well! 1-___ ._,'- 4%? ANA RCHISTS A S A BORIGINE S been formed by Jerry Jampolsky and Marguerite Craig, both in " ' .-- JAN deeply involved in developing self healing techniques. ‘Marge’ ‘Q r Iwould argue that the destruction of Aboriginal society was Craig had ‘cured’ herself of glaucoma and was eager to share largely promoted by white misunderstanding, envy, ignorance, her insights with fellow sufferers. Let me give praise to them fear, hatred and ‘white-washing. ‘ An aggressive, arrogant, here; for though I was broke at the time and couldn't afford the pushy population confronted one with almost diametrically Useful Books on the Aborignes fees that had been set for the group, they were undeterred and opposite ideas about mutuality. Aborigines presented one generously invited me to join them. For ten.weeks, the group, example of social organisation where egalitarianism, recip- about twelve of us from different social and economic back- rocity, mutuality and a measure of individuality were compat- grounds, all of whom had glaucoma, ‘met and worked with a J.BOOT ible and operation_a'l:—At present they must be very careful not (l) C.D,, Rowley - ‘Aboriginal Policy and Practice':- ‘Dukes Mixture‘ of holistic health practitioners. We were ins- to emulate the whites in their own organisations - not to fall tructed in techniques of breath control; visualisation exercises; for materiality and the appearance of well being and satisfact- — Vol, l — 'The destruction of Aboriginal society' — Vol.2 - ‘Aboriginal policy and practice' ‘religious’ meditation, Bates eye exercises; and energy redist- i0fl. ribution techniques. We worked with experts in body-alignment, L. Lipmann - 'Words or Blows (Racial attitudes in Australia)‘ reflexology, iridology, bio-feedback and autogenic training. We In the Aboriginal view their loved country, where every did Feldenkreis exercises; our eyes were examined and photo- detail of the landscape and environment was beautiful and imp- K. Maddock - 'The Australian Aborigines - A Portrait of Their Society‘ graphed; our feet were massaged; we were advised about our ortant, was ruthlessly ripped away. Australia became a con- diets‘ we were induced into trance like states; we were even T.G.H. Strehlow- 'Aranda Traditions‘ quered land, unloved by its white robbers. Central Australia, — ‘Personal Nonototemism in a Polytotemic community 4' sung;howled over by a beautiful young mystic who claimed her for example, was for the first time subjected to a merciless ‘healing sounds‘ could make people well half a continent away. _,, .a-._. .1 __, - materialistic exploitation, so that the greed of its ‘civilised’ A.P. El-kin — 'The Australian Aborigines - how to understand them‘. After ten weeks, our heads reeled with all these revelations. -wig-" '""., Q. .' . “' pioneers and absentee landholders could be rapidly satisfied. For inherent in each approach was the inference that if we Its Aborigines and animal life were shot down liberally, often followed the suggested regimen of the ‘healer’ we would be simply for sport (Sunday afternoon, after church was a favour- For the other three articles in the series see FREEDOM vol. 39 no. 2 cured. Too many of these ‘healers’ seemed to propose, to able hunting period), while its vegetation was devastated b (4 February l978), no. 8 (29 April) and no. l2 (24 June).