PEOPLE ARE NOT SURPLUS’

compromise position maintained purely out and so the strike weapon becomes for electoral purposes by ‘wets’ (public ineffective against him if workers in school jargon for cowards) as distinct from other national newspapers joined in, the ‘courage’ of saying avowedly give since the disadvantages he suffers would capitalism its head. Ultimately, it is be overcome if no other papers were hoped, technical ingenuity will create coming out bar his. The other newspapers prosperity. Meanwhile nothing can be are avoiding his problems by throwing done or anyone displaced unless they money at theirs. While they inveigh can be paid for it. That this means that against the ‘unlawful’ picketing of by the time prosperity comes, those Murdoch (made illegal by new laws) they who are missed out will be stuck at the openly ‘unfairly dismiss’ people, admitting bottom of the pit for self-perpetuating its illegality — but pointing out that they generations does not bother Thatcher too are offering more in compensation than the much — they can seek to mend the law allows, and the unions then find that boilers or service the cars of those who everybody concerned in such an offer managed to make it. wants to be unfairly dismissed too — ‘cop The only force against her is the it and hop it’ — because how else is a organised working class, but this has been worker to accumulate money in hand? weakened firstly, because the trade unions have let those without work be The Right To Work lumped as ‘unemployed’ and be divided The workers have traditionally had from them — in some cases from the nothing to sell but their labour, now very start of what should be their suddenly sections of the workers have working lives; secondly, because of something else to sell — their jobs — and legal trickery which has outlawed the this nonplusses the labour movement unions but made breaking of the law by built on the ‘right to work’ to whom it is employers worth getting away with. a betrayal (‘you’re selling your children’s jobs’) ’"it if they don’t, they are given That situation can now be seen away fc ^ pthing. All over the industry clearly mgU^jjouLift. (he prjjjt industry.,.^ jobs are ' mg sold and the workforce Murdoch provoked his employees to gradual! 'rinking. Why should calculat­ going on strike after his solicitor pointed ing ■t '1 * crs face the confrontations out that under the new laws he could b a Murdoch — which will, we evade paying redundancy providing ne -i, ultimately finish off some or sacked them all at the same time they _n all of his papers — when by throw­ were on strike.The strike weapon thus ing money at the workforce it will go became ineffective because that was away? where he wanted them — out. He has managed to continue getting his papers Continued on page 7 ------NORWAY------PROTESTERS STORM THATCHERS CASTLE

. Over a thousand angry protestors (includ­ to the demonstration as ‘professionally ing many anarchists) managed to invade organised’. She also commented on some Akershus Castle, Norway’s own northern of the sounds coming from the demon­ ‘winter palace’, where British prime minister, strators as like ‘jungle drums...obviously Margaret Thatcher, was due to shortly arrive from the ANC contingent’.(the demon­ The accumulation of scientific anomaly of capitalism: unlike prevous and spend the evening as a guest of the stration and protest condemned Thatcher’s know-how is the application of the (and subsequent systems of exnloitat- Norwegian ‘socialist’ prime minister, Mrs support for the apartheid regime in South ion, it pressed on with technological Gro Bruntland. The ‘surprise attack’ Africa, as well as condemning the acid experience and knowledge of the invention relieving people of burdensome caught the local police off guard and the rain pollution in northern Europe caused whole human race (not just of a tasks, but if its new inventions are protestors came within yards in part by Britain’s power stations). provileged few who are able to capable of bringing disaster in their wake, photo) of penetrating the actual hall they will do so ( if profitable); and it where Thatcher and the rest were to dine. direct its introduction). Its acceler­ The banquet, as a result, was delayed for ation in recent times has opened up creates immediate misery with every around an hour. More importantly advance. the prospect of liberation from Norwegians witnessed their own govern­ Though it has happened time and ments version of the ‘new realism’ as boring, time-consuming, life-wasting again in the last two centuries, capitalism riot cops went overboard, violence-wise, tasks. is still unable to find a satisfactory after the initial loss of face. Criminal Statism abuses, such as answer. The ‘surplus people’ problem To get into the castle, amazingly the slavery, hold back such benefits. still exists, aggravated because there are protestors had succeeded in fighting off the police, who were clearly un­ Because there is no concern for the no longer countries to send them to (until they colonise a planet, perhaps); only prepared for the level of resistance. workforce, and a plentiful workforce Taking the main gates, the protestors glorifies the powerful, such useless tasks one more possible war in order to kill them then stormed a bridge, burst through more are perpetuated. In any total State, the off; industrial conscription ie making them gates blocking their way, and finally made duty to work on any such tasks is part work at whatever is going, such as it to the door leading to the actual banquet and parcel of its achievements, apologists perrorming the domestic chores and hall. Unfortunately it was at that precise for — Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia menial duties for the better-off, still moment that the door was securely bolted glorify their ‘full employment’ as an end remains a Fascist dream of the rising from the inside by lackeys, otherwise all in itself. young Tory — though not necessarily hell would have broken loose. Also, by that Under capitalism the work force has a dream unlikely to be achieved. time the police had managed to drum to be paid for and is there tore exploited up some reinforcements and horses, dogs along with the raw materials with which it No Free Lunch and tear gas were used to evict the invaders. works. Great technical achievements — This was the point when the police went The problem of ‘surplus people’ — a beserk, raining their truncheons repeatedly the invention of steam, for instance — more honest way of saying ‘unemployed’ have replaced labour and thrown it on — dominates the political scene because South african style, on the heads of protestors, the scrap heap, while at the same time the Prime Minister re-introduced tradition­ in full view of the world’s TV cameras. immensely improving the quality of life. al Capitalism as the self-confessed aim Later Thatcher condescendingly referred This is a perpetual and well-understood of the Conservative Party in place of the BLACK FLAG - BLACK CROSS BM HURRICANE, LONDON WC1N 3XX HOME NEWS Published* typeset and layout ____\_!__ __„______BLACK FLAG COLLECTIVE Printed by Aldgate Press El. LUTON ANTI-PORN ACTION SUBSCRIPTION RATES: On Saturday 9th August, wimmin from been Our first action but it will not be bothered by our demonstration, came 12 months: £12 inland the newly formed Sisters of Luton the last! outside and started to hurl sexist abuse Anarchist Group took W.H. Smiths the S.L.A.G.S. 2 at the wimmin and then set a dog on us, £15 surface, £19 Air. newsagents., by surprise by removing On Friday 22nd of August, twelve which almost got run over. 6 months: £6,50 inland their disgusting pornographic magazines wimmin and-men held a demonstration This is part of a continuing campaign : £8 surface. £10 Air. from the shelves and throwing them in outside a sex shop in Luton. A banner aginst the sale of pornography in Luton a dustbin liner which just happened to and further actions are planned. PRISONERS: Free on request. was attached to the shop front and leaf­ be smeared with oil and margarine. lets were handed out explaining why we SOURCE: S.L.A.G.S1 GIRO ACCOUNT No. BLACK Meanwhile supporters, both then and were opposed to the sale of pornographic FLAG 58 552 4009 wimmin, handed out leaflets inside the literature. Another group of wimmin shop arid the Amdale shopping centre. used a megaphone to draw attention to GIRO ACCOUNT No. ANARCHIST Everyone left the shop, except our the customers going in and out of the BLACK CROSS 51 172 0009. spy who told us that the manager thought shop. Photographs were also taken of that we were mad because we couldn’t them and these will be put to good use For a social system based on niutual aid spell wimjnin correctly,*and then ordered over the next few weeks. About an hour and voluntary co-operation — against his staff to return the magazines to the later five police turned up and prevented State control and all forms o f govern­ shelves* only to find that all the maga­ us from using the megaphone and made ment and economic oppression. To zines had been completely ruined and us remove the banner from the shop but establish a share in the general prosperity had to be thrown away. A later news­ it was immediately put up on the adjoin­ paper report estimated the damage at ing wall. We were then ‘allowed’ to carry fo r all — the breaking down o f racial, £129 ! Clumsy old us. religious, national and sex barriers^§dnd on with our protest. After a swift brew, we took-to the It lasted for over two hours during to fight for the life o f one world. streets again and seven wimmin stormed which time only three men dared to go one of Luton5? sex shops and pulled the in the shop meaning that the. action was DIRECT ACTION contents off the shelves and oh to the successful in its attempt ter stop. the floor in full view of the shop assistant. Direct Action (The Voice of Anarcho- shops’ business. No animal products Of police were in­ As were about to leave the manager Syndicalism) the paper of the Direct volved in'either -action.rThis may have Action Movement (International Work­ who had told police that he was not ers Association). No. 32. 8 pages. 25p. It is with great pleasure that -we can now announce the return of Direct g The drilling contractor^actirigfor the Action after an absence of several months NIREX nuclear industry ’s waste executive^ NIRE- (It was during this time that a bogus issue X,,appear to be Norwest Holst from of D A appeared). Now we can happily Leeds. report that its better than ever. Pull of ; - Norwest Holst Soil Engineering Ltd. industrial reports and International is one of about twenty subsidiaries own­ Anarcho-Syndicalist news, (the Chile ed by Norwest Holst Ltd. It is a small company with a tumover-of only £125 article is particularly interesting covering million-a year and-1986 profits (pretax) recent attempts to set up independent predicted at a irier&£T0 million. They workers organisations). Highly recommen­ mainly build' rqadsfetc. .and the odd ded to our readersj Direct Action is storehouse foritheArmy.The parent available from better bookshops, news- ■' company has had a\d^dgy past, within­ agents, street sellers-or direct from: fighting ^fwe^lfeehto^'and failed cfo Raven Press, stock-mark­ 75 Picaditty, Manchester. et. Also they bank With Barclays in Pah Mall. -Nor west HolstLt& ' MYSTERY ATTACK? 92 Durham Road, Altmigham Seventy five -youths attacked police for Cheshire WA14 4AD' three .hours in the Butetown-area of Tel: (061) 928 7812 Cardiff on28.8-‘8j6. Police stopped a ( Chairman) ^suspected -stolen car* and locals; set to Demonstrations continue against Nirex testing for sites for nuclear tfee^task*'oT aiding those harassed’ Four " dumping/at Fiilbebk, EIstbW^tfd KillidgHoIm^Pi&UTe above'® of a demonstration at'Fulhack Airfield). Howeverras reported-in cops were injured and several police cars CivzT Engineering Division damaged as barricades^ were put up. some of the organisers are trying to keep a 'respectable image'. A t Parkside Lane, Dewsbury. Police claimed to be clueless asfo Killirigholme a Mr. Hawkes told Leeds anarchists that troublemakers' Leeds LS115SX what-sparked off the incident.. . Well- wou Id be handed over td the police. Tel: (0532) 711 111, they would say that wouldn’t th ey ^^l ^fe^ m s!

Plastic Bullets Video LIBERTARIAN EDUCATION CONFERENCE

As part of the nationwide Plastic Bullets that they are tb keeprthe distance between The m^azmejki&erfara planning :^ 3 ^ “ 4,30. WORKSHOPS Video Tour organised by the Direct Action' {rioters’ and^thejpphce^OT a conference at Countesthorpe College, Leicester l. Ai^chism^spciiilism and education Movement (DAM), South London victims have been shot aft-close range and not On.October 4th. 19.86, around the theme of liber­ 22 Hartland S^ooTl Cbuntesthorpe College in riot rituations. The reahtyqf these weapons is tarian education. Creche facilities will be avail­ % Popular CuitureJ- DAM/IWA held a public meeting at Rock­ that they are Jo population well Library on September 3rd. About able and there will be wheelchair access. The 4. White Lion Free'School/SummerhilL of Republican areas of Northern Ireland. C0jstfe^5, m advance, £6 On the day (£2/£3 '5. Handicapped by society? m fifty people viewed the video ‘Plastic Watching the video made me feel sickened,' unwaged, school students free) will include a & Open space. Bullets’, heard a speech by a Belfast very upset and enraged. To give an idea of the vegetarian lunch.. Free accomodation will be 4.30 - 5.00. Coffee and chat. Anarchist and a debate followed. kind of situation where these weapons are available as will transport to and from the 5.00 - 6.0(X Building a Libertarian education The video , made by the United - Campaign used, I shall describe just one: coach and railway starions in Leicester. network., Against Plastic Bullets was a mixture of film On-22nd May 1981 in Belfast, Carol Ann, 9.00am—10am Transport leaves on the &hour. 6-00- 8.00. Coffee, chat and videos. footage of police and British Army terrorism aged twelve, was returning home at about 10.00- 11.00. Coffee, chat and signing on. 800-11.00 Gig featuring that well know liber­ against the Catholic working class of Northern 9.30pm with a carton of milk for her mother. 11.00- 11.30. Introduction to conference. tarian band Frankie BARCELONA.SPAIN FASCISTS INFILTRATE SKINHEAD MOVEMENT

treated his case as that of a ‘common delin­ the skins outside a punk bar was about to have My friend L was sitting one Friday night quent’, but evidence was there in abundance a go at them along with some recently arrived in 113 bar on Aribau — a regular music to prove that he was being manipulated by Germans when the Barna punks told them not bar with a mixed bunch of customers — far-right groups. He himself was later found to, it was ‘better to talk’). Hie problem is when a group of ‘caps rapats (Barcelona out to be a member of CEDADE (an extra- made more complex by the fact that many of parliamentary Spanish fascist organisation). the skins are old friends of the punks, and skins) entered. Seeing his recent and not For example on the 15 th of December ‘85 know exactly where they live, who they are very large mohican they started strying to in Guineta Park, belonging to the district of etc. (though of course the reverse is also true). pull off his jacket and his boots. L told Nou Barris, a stand was set up from which For all that, it is interesting that the scope them to piss off. various people — including skins — handed out of the Barcelona skins, is still relatively limited. The rest of the story he told me two days manifestos defending Castilian (as opposed to They restrict their activities mainly to El later in a ward in the St. Pau hospital, with the regional language Catalan), sold fascist Masnou and its surrounding area of Maresme difficulty because his mouth was stuffed full emblems, photos of the 23-F coup d’etat (on the Costa Brava) — coincidentally an area of whatever it is they stuff your mouth with organisers, and CEDADE propaganda. Soon well known for its fascist activity ever since when you’ve got a broken jaw. He’d also been afterwards they attacked a group of commun­ Franco's day. When in Barcelona proper they cut across the forehead, but the mark had ists. On the 22nd of December die same folk normally attack the punks — who they feel are gone. About a year ago his brother was stabbed returned, this time carrying out a military easy game, a ‘marginalised group’ — or any and hospitalised by the same group of skins. style occupation of the area, arriving in cars, defenceless passers-by. Once they petrol bomb­ At the time of writing, L. is now recovering working in coordination with know ultra- ed an independentist centre in Girona. They at home. His mother is wondering what the rightists of the area, and carrying sticks and have never been known to attack more obvious world is coming to, and his friends are plann­ guns. They began to intimidate the people of targets like the CNT offices or the African ing what to do. L. is the latest in a series of the atea. When the police were called, they community, probably because they know increasingly violent actions organised by the said: ‘We can’t intervene because these people they'd be hospitalised, all seven of them, if Barcelona skinhead movement, which has (meaning the fascists) are doing nothing to they did. The lucky ones, anyway. For the seemingly been politicised overnight. Here is undermine the Constitution, which is more time being they concentrate on recruitment a brief history of events: — than you can say for the independentists. and infiltration among the self-confessedly The skinhead movement was brought over Then one of the older men who was with fucked-up youth of Barcelona. How they go to Catalonia and Spain by a Barcelona based the fascists addressed himself directly to some about this is interesting: — group called the Decibelios. In their own cops, ordering them to arrest some of the A good example of their methods is the words: ‘We only imitate the skin image, and people protesting against the paramilitary ‘in­ skinhead fanzine Descarga (translates: ‘unload’) not the fascist symbols or the ultrarightist vasion’. Other police refused to search the At first this magazine (produced in the Maresme ideology; no doubt in other countries skins fascists who had before brandished pistols. but sold mainly in Barcelona) is like any other have fascist connections, but in Catalonia we Meanwhile in Ribera, near Nou Barris, a Barcelona fanzine, in other words it is almost are antifascist’. And according to reports from group of skinheads attacked two old people, entirely about music, and fashion. There is often totally opposed to each other, selling people who knew them a year ago (the time who were later hospitalised. The anti-fascist page after page of interviews with bands, and the idea that fascism is acceptable to a public of this declaration) that was indeed what they committee of Ribera, working in tandem with even a longish article about the skinhead scene (the kids in Barcelona) which is otherwise believed. They seem to have changed their the libertarian centre of Gracia, has reported in London, translated from Rock & Roll maga­ completely depoliticised. tack, but more of that later. What is certain that groups of skinheads ‘wearing military- zine, in which the fascist side of the movement Since the post-Franco euphoria a tremen­ is that when a few people started shaving style anoraks, military boots, swastikas and is played down — even denied openly in some dous disillusion with politics set in, at least their heads and wearing boots and braces in other Nazi regalia’ have been roaming the paragraphs — and in which the ‘good time/ with the post-Franco generation. They laughed Barcelona three years ago, there was absolutely streets of the old part of Barcelona attacking good atmosphere’ aspect of the skinheads is at the ‘progressives’ of the 70s, told them all no political connotation in what they did or anyone who they hear speaking Catalan with emphasised (the what? well, that's what it says to fuck off, and developed an apolitical life­ in the article: the skins are just trying to have . style centred around music, booze, etc. and a good time and living their lifestyle, despite fashions imported from the north (like the the fiendish misinterpretations of Fleet Street punks and mods). Some of the punks, it's true and the alternative press...). But then you adopted the anarchist symbol, but were only have to read between the lines — and you find anarchist in that they rejected everything they for example, that the name of a new Spanish saw around them: the majority rejected organ­ group is Die Neue Rasse, and that they like ised anarchism of any kind, and the result has Sham 69 (but also Screwdriver, the National been a whole generation of politically naive Front ‘Rock Against Communism’ band); people (would you believe a punk saying what they also think the ‘punks anarquicos’ are shit the Africans were, or slagging off the stupid; they emphasise the importance ot gypsies for being backward at the same time their lyrics, such as ‘Marxist pigs get out of saying fascists were disgusting — they, and Germany'. The next page is dedicated to The many other folk I met here who wrote their Business, a British band with rousing anti­ names with an @ sign, didn’t have any idea authoritarian lyrics which as far as I can see what anarchy was, and avowedly didn’t want to); The far-right has movedorfto this new_ - haven’t got anything fascist about them, rather the opposite — they'd go down well with most recruiting ground with ease. With fanzines young people in Barcelona; but then later on Mike Descarga, they’ve taken advantage of some there is an interview with another British band people’s political ignorance, exploited their — Special Duties — in which that band’s anti- boredom, and offered them ‘fulfilment’ in the CRASS campaign is highlighted. To finish, form of organisation and easily attainable and there is an interview with a new Barcelona band punishment-free violence. The next stage, of called Alternativa-3, in which it is mentioned course, is further politicisation and organisation. in passing that some members of the group are This should have happened by the time you read ‘neonazism that all are ‘very patriotic and put this, late in August, at a massive tascist confer­ Spain before Catalonia’, and that they ‘consid­ ence in Roses on the Costa Brava, to which er themselves to be quite racist*. They go on skins from all over Spain and Europe will be to claim that they have the odd punk friend, going, (taking advantage of the fact that but that in general they hate punks. This band almost everyone who could oppose them in has record company contacts with — surprise, Catalonia is off somewhere on holiday). surprisethe Decibelios , who sing with them What solution is there to the problem? One and are apparently friends of the band. The thing is for sure: all this has finished the old very same Decibelios who a year ago were dream of apolitical ‘tribalism’, that has been making anti-facist declarations... And then dominant in Barcelona for so long. The punks there is an information section of the magazine have started to get themselves organised, the which is clearly written by someone putting libertarian centres are getting livelier again, over a fascist viewpoint, attacking anarchist good anarchist fanzines are beginning to appear and Basque bands, praising Screwdriver, and and contacts are being established on a practical suggesting that the riots m Brixton and Birm­ basis with other groups, notably the CNT. For ingham, though started by coppers and ‘the the time being the anarchopunks have limited blacks' were bravely carried on by ‘a lot of themselves to information gathering. What they thought at alL They were solely interested in iron bars and knives. In other words, there is skinheads'! plan to do in the future remains to be seen. But the ‘image’, the music and became one more no doubt that the skinheads have been politic­ The Red Skins (a British band who other people in Barcelona — not obviously ‘tribe* in a Barcelona already known for its ised by the far-right. If these reports weren’t members are in the Socialist Workers Party connected with the punks - have already had punks, Hevis, rockers, and mods. The Decibel­ enough, there is the regular evidence from the and have used CNT imagery on their record enough of the skins. Word has been circulating ios played alongside punk bands — including anarcho-punk centre Kafe Volter, which is sleeves) are criticised for their ‘filthy commun­ that something needs to be done to finish with bands with an avowedly anarchist message — attacked frequently by the skins (the police ism' and their ‘declared anti-fascism*. And so them once and for all, before they start taking without there being any problems with the then use this as an excuse to provoke and on... In short, what you have here is not an themselves too seriously. mixed skin/punk audience. 1 saw one Decibel- arrest punks). The next obvious question is — openly political magazine, but a music maga­ After all, the only good fascist.. . ios gig in Barcelona over a year ago, and even how did this happen? How did it start? zine with a mix of bands and ideas that are MT. though the place was packed full of skinheads Here reports differ, but it seems that one there wasn’t one single fascist emblem, or of the Barcelona skins, probably ‘El Tete* Spanish flag, to be seen, and no Nazi cheers to visited London in the summer of ‘85. There be heard. The music wasn’t what English he came into contact, logically enough, with people would call skinhead music, it was more the British skinhead movement and its neo- like garage music, or straight rock and roll, with fascist ideology. Finding this more interesting anti-authoritarian lyrics. $o what changed? than the booze-and-music-and-image type of The first sign that the skin movement was life that he had left in Barcelona, he brought becoming ‘European’ appeared last summer. back the ideology in the form of badges and There — during a Decibelios concert in the books and pamphlets, and started ‘spreading Placa de Catalunya — skinheads wearing fascist the word’. Neo-fascism - in the form of beat­ badges attacked a group of punks. In the ing up people — proved popular in Barcelona, autumn of ‘85, during the massive St. Merce offering an alternative to the punk lifestyle. festival, numerous small attacks were made by Most of the Barna skins are ex-punks. For skins on punks, passers-by and non-violent all that, ‘El Tete’ is not the ringleader of the skins (in other words, those skins who were active skins - the ‘brains' behind them is a still in it only for the image). Similar attacks woman, whose real name isn’t known (yet) continued through the year until in J anuary but whose face can be seen in the group two people were stabbed by skins in the Gracia photograph on this page. She organised the district, one of them seriously wounded. The knifings, and works out the strategy for any two people attacked were in the non-violent planned attack. She — like all of them - is skin category. The police - seeing things get a into discipline and training, and the Cafe Volter little too out of hand, and with massive cover­ collective think she might be trying to get age in the Catalan press making them look contacts with the French skinhead movement, ridiculous — arrested Antonio Lario Barbaran which is extremely well-organised and has a (‘El Tete*) and two of his skinhead mates on fully fledged training camp near Le Havre. In violent assault charges. Perhaps ‘rounded-up’ the photo you can see clearly that several would be a better expression than arrested: members of her band are wearing CEDADE after all the police had already received one symbols on their sleeves. CEDADE has a hundred and eighty (180!) separate complaints ‘cultural’ wing called Nuevo Acropolis which (complete with witnesses, times, places and organises paramilitary summer camps. The physical descritions) from members of the skins’ fitness and their organisation might ex­ public by the time they finally pulled ‘El Tete’ plain how seven of them have managed to in. The bloke, in fact, was already something terrorise the entire Barcelona punk community The group of Barcelona Skins (note European fascist symbols of a public face before his arrest. The police with impunity (a friend who found three of on sleeves) BLACK FLAG PAGE 3 THIS WAY FOR THE GAS,

This Way For The Gas, Ladies and from other aspects of life. He describes camp (free) people flood morosely onto the plat­ wasn't directly involved can really say. But Gentlemen is the title of a book by the fashions as if he were writing for Vogue or form. You notice they’re proud of their Borow ski's book gives some indications: The Face, describes the better camp cooking clothes and their looks from the way they love-and-sex was one. In Auschwitz (Our Polish poet Taseusz Borowski. In it as if he were writing a cookery book, describes catch their reflections in the window/you Home) he tells the story of a 19 year old SS are twelve short stories carefully written, the countryside and the seasons a la Thomas are too/you step into a concrete awning/ guard who found the camp orchestra conduct­ nicely rounded off, some of them Hardy, the concerts as if he were writing for sudden shadow, everyone looks tired/you or, ‘a stout, respectable gentleman', and The Listener, and the boxing matches and are too/you are all coming back from work/ several dentists, all crouched together inside containing fine descriptive passages football matches as if he were doing a sports work is very important here in Barcelona a medical van in compromising positions* i (especially of countryside and seasonal article. I’ve put it crassly — he does none of you know, because witnout it you nor any­ with women from the FKL (e.g. Birkenau, this with the slightest trace of affectation: one else on the train would be able to survive the women’s adjoining camp) who had changes). The bulk of the narrative is on the contrary, he lived so long in Auschwitz you would have to either kill yourself slowly apparently come to have their teeth pulled. economic and precise. For example: that many aspects of life there become ironi­ through lack of food and shelter or risk Love letters were exchanged constantly and 1Several other men are carrying a cally normal; (one of the stories is called tremendous punishment through petty crime interestingly enough delivery of these letters, Auschwitz (Our Home). Everything he and you notice everyone talks about work punishable by death, was always done for small girl with only one leg. They hold describes with the attitude of a man immune like it was a gift, a passport to survival and the free. It’s known that there were also a lot of her by the arms and the one leg. Tears to the daily horrors, wilfully making the ones who don’t have it are slowly wrecking serious homosexual and lesbian affairs in the are running down her face and she point that he, and thousands like him, adapt­ their bodies to cope with the added problems FKL and Auschwitz but very little is available ed themselves to the new situation with which not having work brings. / ‘Above the on this side of camp life, though as I remember whispers faintly: “Sir, it hurts, it moderate effort and a reasonable amount of gate leading to the camp, these words are Kitty Hart has some accounts of it in her hurts.. . ”They throw her on the truck time. As I said, the implication behind this inscribed on metal scrolls: “Work makes one book Return To Auschwitz. Slackness was is that all that happened in Auschwitz was free”. /Of course there is no comparison another: again and again the work teams in on top o f the corpses. She will bum that normal life didn’t change, it simply whatsoever with the world of the camps Auschwitz would down tools as one man alive along with them. ’ Or again: became concentrated and unmistakeable. and the world you make your living in now/ when the SS went for a stroll, appoint look ‘We climb inside. In the comers A football game: ‘One day I was goal­ *We divide the loot, add to it what we have outs and start up again when they came keeper. .. The ball went out and rolled all received in our packages from home, and cook round. This common practice, well-known amid human excrement and abandoned the way to the fence. I ran after it, and as a meal on our stove with the colourful tiles* throughout industrial society, can be seen to wrist-watches lie squashed, trampled I reached to pick it up, I happened to glance /you walk into bright natural tight and save lives given the type of overseer... infants, naked little monsters with at the ramp. A train had Just arrived. People think about the work you still have to do/ General disobedience: here it’s Kitty were emerging from the cattle cars. .. The you notice for the empteenth time, every­ Hart’s book which offers the evidence. She enormous heads and bloated bellies. women, it seemed, were already wearing one around you looks pissed-off, dispirited, stresses how her constant mischievousness We carry them out like chickens, hold­ summer dresses, it was the first time that drained, or suicidal/ 'Musselman was the camp and disregard for authority since childhood ing several in each hand. “Don V take season. The procession moved along slowly name for a prisoner who had been destroyed were her greatest assets in surviving Birkenau. . . . I returned with the ball and kicked it physically or spiritually, and who had neither Borowski too makes the point that anybody them to the trucks, pass them on to the back inside the field. It travelled from one the strength or the will to go on living - a who seriously abided by the rule in Auschwitz women ", says the SS man, lighting a fo o t to another and, in a wide arc, returned man ripe for the gas chamber*/ people are (and punishment for disobedience of to the goal I kicked it towards a corner. streaming across the station forecourt to Auschwitz law was far severer than the cigarette.. . 9 equivalent punishments in Europe today) There are dozens of books about the was doomed. A general attitude of disgust concentration camps, the gas chambers, the with authority — either that of the SS or Einsatzcommandos, the Jewish ghettoes, that of the Kapos - was essential to survival. the mass graveyard at Babi Yar.. .Less has In a sinister book called Five Chimneys, been written or at least published about written by a Hungarian who was one of other attempts at mass extermination/ Mengele's assistants in the Auschwitz internment this century (Cambodia, South hospital, there is an introduction, by a Jew Africa, Russia, Chile, Nigeria, Armenia, and who escaped the camps just in time, who Yugoslavia, among others) largely because points out that if each family or individual far less material has been available. A Pelican who was wanted by the Nazis had acquiried book called Genocide gives a brief sketch of a gun before the round ups, a very different most such events. For English readers trying history of Europe would have been written. to find out about the German attempt (or Looking just at the last sentence, let alone rather that of the German state and its the ones which precede it, we can see why it numerous supporters from around the world) is so important that an experience like that of at genocide, there is, as 1 said, a lot of reading the concentration camps should be publicised material available. However there is, in most of as something completely out of the ordinary, the books, which treat the subject, an element or even as an aberration which only the which doesn’t ring true; when they describe Germans were capable of (a view still held the atrocities which happened in Europe over by many English people alive at the time). this period, all of them, no matter how The Nuremberg trials - a sort of State impartial they attempt to be, feel the need to response to the shock of public outrage - were explain these events as something that was stage-managed, in the sense that every single not normal. In the end, the only way the one o f the accusing governments had had writers of these studies can answer the detailed information about the camps question ‘How did this happen?* is by fall­ (available through the extraordinary effortsof ing back on the old argument of a sudden a few escapees, some of whom even managed to ‘collapse into insanityr (Fest, in The Face O f take photographs) since 1940, and some of the Third Reich), or ‘a takeover by thugs them had even had detailed aerial photographs and gangsters* (Lucy Dawidowicz, if I remem­ of both the camps and the railway lines which ber in her thorough book, Wars Against The delivered the cattle truck to them at least since Jews) and other similar phrases, all of which 1942 (see Martin Shaw’s book on the subject carry the same implication, namely that of British reluctance to sabotage the camps, these horrific events represented a total published in paperback by Granada). The break with the (normal, European, demo­ ludicrousness of the Allied States* response cratic) way of life that preceded them. This to the supposedly ‘shocking* discovery of the is an instinctive reaction of horror, a way camps (when they had known about them all of distancing these events from our own the time and done nothing about them) is time, from ourselves, (we live in a Europe Again it rolled out into the grass. Once where the buses wait on this bright summer made clear in a Borowski story called Silence, not very dissimilar from that which preceded more I ran to retrieve it. But as I reached day/‘We stroll along the Birkenweg, elegant, which describes how a group of camp prisoners the holocaust, in terms of political and down, I stopped in amazement - the ramp dressed in our civilian suits’/You notice that seize an SS guard, then hastily hide him under commercial structures). But this dissociation was em pty... Between two throw-ins in a there are couples kissing, walking arm in arm, a blanket while a US soldier comes into the of the holocaust from the way of life that soccer game, right behind my back, three pointing at things in shop windows/‘For block to inform them that the Allied powers preceded and followed it is false =■ it formed thousand people had been put to death \ every Juliet there are at least a thousand will do everything to punish the SS, but an integral part of the twentieth century Romeos... It is not unusual for a Juliet to ‘according to the law*. The prisoners applaud way of life. Of course, and I say this not to say anything have a steady admirer and, along with the speech, wait for him to go, and then Experiment for yourself: read carefully shocking but as a simple statement of fact, promises of undying love and a blissful life trample the SS guard to death... any of the non-fiction about the concentrat­ between two throw-ins in any soccer game together... along with reproaches and bicker­ TTie obvious human response to the ion camps; take the biographic angle (John played anywhere in Europe, a great deal more ing, one is apt to hear exchanges of a more memory of the camps in Europe is absolute Toland’s biography of Hitler, which is exhaust­ than three thousand people are put to death, basic nature, concerning such particulars as disobedience to the attempt of any authority ive), or the psychological angle (as does through starvation, political repression, poor soap, perfume, silk panties or cigarettes’/ to impose any kind of control which is consider­ Gitta Sereny in Into That Darkness), read housing conditions, racist violence, sectarian you remember some of the people you know ed unreasonable and or limiting. personal accounts, sociological accounts, warfare, government policy, lack of medicine in Barcelona, the obsession with marriage-flat- Power functions by offering certain privil­ statistical accounts. All these books, you will . . . and concentration camps — all of which car-children-in sura nee-WORK/To get inside eges to a few in exchange for the continuation find divide approximately into two parts: — factors are mentioned because if European the Puff — the camp brothel — you need a of that power to a lower level (the hierarchy the period before the mass exterminations, people decided in large numbers to do any­ slip of paper issued by the clerical office as of power in Auschwitz: high-ranking SS/SS and related atrocities, on the one hand, and thing about them, they would stop immediate­ a reward for good conduct and diligent work.* guard s/non-combatants — Kapos/‘ciminaT the period during which those events took ly, no matter how distant they might seem. /and over all the couples and all the single prisoners — Aryans/assistant Kapos — Canada/ place, on the other. First read the whole Last year, sixty people were put to death men and women walking like you — looking Sonder kommando members — old numbers — book, then go back. Read over again very before a football game in Brussels; and des­ at their reflections when they can whangs Musselmen — new arrivals designated for the carefully the end of the first part (as outlined pite the fact that the event was fully close a moral vice, waiting to pounce on their gas chambers). At any point in the structure of above) then read into the second part, even to home, the game was played afterwards heads and tighten until they remember what European life now, it’s possible to see exactly the more carefully. Try to find the bridge between much as if nothing had happened. On the is right and what is wrong, many disregard the two, that is: a series of events which the same exchange/offer (power/privilege) same day the death of several hundred Afghani it, but many, you notice, are tight-lipped and functioning at all levels, from company/ explains or at least charts the jump from a refugees was reported, but by that stage near hysterical, men and women alike/Then non-genocidal society into a genocidal one. government level to gang/social worker level. most European people had switched over to prisoner M goes to room 8. Before he enters, On a personal level, the same sex/material You won’t find them, I guarantee. You’ll the football and couldn’t see the news... he must read a notice on the door saying that find in the first part hints of violent racism, goods exchange that flowered in the camps Read the account of working on Canada such and such is strictly forbidden, under operates on nearly every level today, no matter political and racist legislation, attempts at kommando in Auschwitz .-= the transports severe penalty, that only such and such (a what the type of relationship. The insinuation deportation and repatriation, it’s true, as well coming in, the blazing heat, the senile old detailed list follows) is allowed, but only for as factors such as mass unemployment and of every advertisement, every social custom man who demands to see the Kommandant so many minutes’./ concerning some kind of sexual relation is growing inflation. But none of these factors and continues to do so as he’s thrown on a Regulation of movement/mindless work/ merely a watered down version of the straight alone or taken altogether is/are enough to pile of sick-and mentally ill which shifts in sexual behaviour and a corresponding passivity dealing that went on in the camps, where the ‘explain’ the camps. After hunting through the heat: The bolts crack, the doors fly on the part of the people affected are the word love took on a marginal role. Of course concentration camp literature for years, you open.. . ’ the people flood out, gasp for factors which made the camps what they might be lucky enough to stumble on a work of many people are struggling now to avoid this air, get pushed by other prisoners onto were: a grotesque reflection of everyday life. sexual programming, as many suceed, but the ‘fiction’ (in fact thinly disguised autobio­ trucks, as their possessions get taken, It has been pointed out time and time again graphy): Tadeusz Borowski’s book, mention­ pressure and influence around always weighs selected, and the valuables go into the by commentators and victims alike that if heavily on them, and the fight is continuous. ed at the beginning. If it affects you in any­ briefcases of the SS men; you feel sick, constant rejection of such control (rejection thing like the way it’s affected this writer Short of carrying guns and suspecting any but the professional thieves are saying you of the work ethic, rejection of sexual straight- attempt to impose authority — both common (ie me), then you will have found your have to filter off some of the goods into jackets, rejection of authority in general, both answer to the question ‘how did it happen?’ sense measures given the kind of legal thuggery your pocket, otherwise you’ll never state and parental) had been the norm before that went on in occupied Europe and goes on and it will come as something of a re le vat ion. survive back in the camp, so you try, but the camps, they would have been near imposs­ largely because it is so obvious and yet so today around the world in various smiles and now the next train is coming in, you have ible to control, or even to build. The eliminat­ guises — what alternative could be offered? different from all the attempts at answers to sweep out the shit, the vomit, the corpses, ion of any kind of racism or sectarianism made in every other book about the camps. Given that the current set-up (identical in including those of the babies which must be among people would also have helped prevent essentials to that before the camps) is fostering Only once does Borowski put it into, words, passed to the women who are being herded them. As it was people were made to do otherwise it is implicit in every line he writes. onto the trucks politely except when one of thoroughly unnecessary work, conform to the new generations of people ‘ripe for the gas The words are from a story called The January them complains in which case she is whipped strictest of sexual taboos, accept the absurd- chamber*, or worse, what can be substituted Offensive: ‘Our concentration-camp existence or shot or kicked to the ground and her neck est of rules, and taught to hate individuals for it? Many of the Auschwitz inmates, who . . . has taught us that the whole world is stepped on. You scream at them to take the who would otherwise have been close friends, often took to philosophising (‘German literature, really like the concentration-camp*. babies and then throw up, but there’s another because of their political affiliations or racial wine, romantic philosophy, problems of Unlike other personal accounts of the transport coming in .. . you read this on the background. Sounds familiar? materialism’ were among the subjects discuss- camps, Borowskfs stories make few attempts train/yellow metal walls/hot sky/numbed What were the factors that gave people to show the horrors as something distinct people/it stops and the door slide open and in the camps hope? Of course no one who Continued on page 5

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continued from previous page it, vibrantly alive. Underneath was the caption: been wearing a uniform, the paper would be question but that the police had to be there, ed at one chat Borowski overheard) also came 'Cynthia Jarrett Dispute over how she died’. talking about murder... but no, there was a fulfilling their responsible functions.. the local out with crystal clear beliefs in what would She died, as you know, as a direct or indirect ‘dispute’ over how she died. Nothing serious people, or the young local people, saw through happen after the war when the camps had result of police action (almost definitely cock­ you understand, she won.t be around again the whole nonsense in a split second and been discovered and the obscene logic of them eyed police action at that: searching for some ever, but they were doing their duty, the only used their common sense. But the rest of the made known: (comments from a child who one who at worst had committed a motoring problem is to what extent the doing of their island did less than nothing: most of them, was hidden by friends in Auschwitz then offence). If the people concerned hadn’t duty assisted her to pass away - there is no I’m sure, don’t even think that there is anything finally discovered and selected for the gas) It is for them to do, or even say, such is the our last fight, you understand? You will go to my passivity... obviously, given the current level my mother and tell her I died. Died so that of acceptance, the police don’t actually herd there would be no more borders. Or wars. Or people into internments camps and shoot them concentration camps.' Anatoli Kuznetsov, Book Review or work them to death, but they are able to who wasn’t actually interned, but witnessed occasionally randomly shoot them, beat them, life in the camps and also the mass shootings Remember the Fire; Lesbian Sado­ survival,’ The fact that sadomasochistic hospitalise them, and constantly insult them and the use of the mobile gas chambers which discipline rituals occur with the mutual consent and imprison them on idiotic charges without he descdbes in his book Babi Yar, says: 'It is not masochism in a Post Nazi-Holocaust and enjoyment of both women involved does anyone (except friends, relatives and a few good if a few rhinoceroses can drive masses of World HerBooks S2.50 (about £1.75) not stop Reti from feeling disturbed. She calls members of ‘the movement’) lifting a finger. people to their deaths, and if those masses This is a pamphlet printed by independent it 'an incredible trivialisation of the suffering This is the situation now. The mentality, follow obediently, waiting their turn. If HerBooks Of Santa Graz, California. It is a and deaths of millions of human beings,’ and exactly the mentality which came into its own masses of people are forced into slavery for personal and poetic analysis of the existence asks ‘is what you are doing really free of the in the concentration camps of 30 and 40s life and meekly allow themselves to become of sado-masochism in an authoritarian world. bootprints of history? Which of these desires are Europe, is widespread, and acknowledged slaves. If books are banned, burnt and thrown The author deals with lesbian s/m and its really yours"! ’ within the police/security forces, and is support­ on the scrap heap. If millions of people never relation to the Holocaust as an exploration of It is an interesting and thought-provoking ed tacitly by every civilian who acknowledges say aloud what they really think from the day the ideology of power and the feasability of pamphlet Although Reti tries not to condemn the right of those forces to hold sway in Europe. they are born to the day they die.. .’ These and 'free sexuality’ in a world which is not fiee. other lesbians for their sexual practices, she Going back to Borowski, he, in the end, other comments (often made by people who The s/m debate is one of the most ferocious does imply that as a Jewish lesbian she feels lost faith in any way out for the world lived in Soviet territory before the Germans controversies in feminism currently, and it betrayed by s/m lesbians. She feels that their from its current situation (one in which for came, and who were therefore cynical about also has relevance to anarchists. sexuality has implications outside of the bed­ him, as for Kuznetsov and Kitty Hart, any kind.of state socialist alternative) point Irene Reti makes it clear that she does not room, and states that advocating s/m is anti- the concentration camp experience or worse to a kind of hope for the future, anarchistic in wish lesbian s/m banned or censored and that Semitic, racist and contradictory to feminism. could be repeated at any moment). In the nature and even ideology ..(though many of the she is not accusing s/m women of being Nazis. However, she limits herself to personal years before his suicide in 1951, he described survivors of the atrocities have declared them­ However, 'In a world where torture, slavery opinion and does not advocate any particular his vision of the Vorld of stone’ a sad, obscene selves heartily sick of any'kind of ‘ism’). The and violence are our legacy, I believe we must course of action. Is s/ffi also contradictory to shell of a world, waiting to be spiralled out .of aspirations of the survivors were for a state­ question why we find handcuffs and chains anarchism, or an assertion of sexual freedom? existence; that was his conclusion to the life less, frontierless, nOn-hierarchicaTworld. alluring, slavery erotic, torture pleasurable.’ Whatever the answer, s/m could only stem he’d seen: ‘Through half-open eyes I see with BorbwSki was different. For him hope in The author contrasts passages from lesbian from a society in-which domination, exploitat­ satisfaction that once again a gust of the a better world was dangerous: it made people s/m publications with eyewitness accounts of ion and torture are possible and commonplace. cosmic gale has blown the crowd into the air, passive in the present one '— ‘It is that very. Nazi torture, internment camps and mass L.B. all the way up to the treetops, sucked the hope that makes people go without a murmur rallies. In 'Handsome Sadism’, she traces Remember the Fire is a 25 p booklet available human bodies into a huge whirlpool, twisted to the gas chambers... never before has (hope) Hitler’s rise to power in a fairly Reichan from: HerBooks, P.O. Box 7467, Santa Cruz,' their lips open in terror, mingled the children’s done so much harm, as it has in this war, in this account of the eroticozation and worship of CA 95061 USA. rosy cheeks with the hairy chests of the men, concentration-camp. We were never taught how power as embodied in the ritualistic trappings entwined the clenched fists with strips of to give up hope, and this is why today we Of militarism. She asks 'Why are we attracted women’s dresses, thrown snow-white thighs on perish in gas chambers’. He persisted in his to people who have power over us, who the top, like foam, with hats and frag­ writing with the implication that the world could hurt us?’ she doesn’t entirely answer ments of heads tangled in hair-like seaweed we now inhabit, and the world as it as it this. peeping from below. And I see that this weird was before the camps, are themselves vast The next section, ‘Beautiful Masochism’ snarl, this gigantic stew concocted out of the concentration camps, but easier to livein, for - speaks Of the dangerous romanticizationof human crowd, flows along the street, down some, and well disguised. For him, there is no suffering that people use to rationalise the the gutter, and seeps into space with a loud hope. The camps-were merely its condensed brutality they see around them which allows gurgle, like water into a sewer.’ form. By wilting about camp life as if it them to accept it. ‘This insidious form of The idea that the world, and Europe just as was part of everyday European life, he reminds sado-masochism tells us that punishment much as anywhere else, is indeed a vast con­ us of the extent to which everyday European purifies, suffering is good for the soul. This is centration camp, for Borowski ceased to be an life is like the camps. The fundamental inaction, the ideology that ‘elevates’ oppression to idea. For him it was real, in the special sense passivity, urges to lie and to be willingly I martyrdom, that claims that the oppressed described in the article (real in terms of mental­ deceived,'theminute indications ofprestige are tetter than the powerful because they have ity and often in fact), and he wished to make (fashion, physical brutality, tiny privileges "suffered __ others realise that this was the case. Those and powers), which made the camps What they The problem with this romantic story is who try to make theworld otherwise or to at were, which allowed them to both be built that it confines the oppressed to a suffering least tap it in that direction find themselves are built deep role.’. trapped in sectarian ghettoes, merged with the into all our daily lives now,.just as they were- In her exploration .ofJhe,dynamic of the systems they- are. supposed to be resisting, _ buUtdeepm.toj'eople’sJWesbefore.thelN.azi^ JHoJtocaust and anti-Semitism, shkpoints out > j (none of the.camp prisoners belieyed in reKfrm i holocaust that "the ideology of masochism masks the from within’, by the way) or totally alone, Example"- wme'ihoirths ago Thought an MstoticaTfact that people can and do resist for the sole reason that they have decided to English-newspaper. I’d heard about the*" i and that they do not love their oppression. think or act sincerely for themselves. Every­ Tottenham nots, and wanted to get more She also points out that we have all been where else the ‘loud gurgle’ Of obedient, passive', ‘information. I read about a" woman having a forced to accommodate ourselves to forms Of and subdued humanity deafens the ears... heart attack after a police raid, about the oppression until they just seem ‘ordinary’, If you’ve bothered this far, you’re barricades, about Hie police refusing to allow and we become happy and grateful that they probably thinking ‘fuck what a depressing an independent enquiry. The way it was aren’t worse. article’. The point is we are all in the same presented in the paper made it all sound Reti also draws parallels with racism and boat, in that no one is ‘outside the camp’. This ratoer routine - a wee ruffle in the green and sexism. She quotes a Black lesbian: T don’t offers, for everyone.twe possibilities. One is pleasant land. A few days later I caught sight want to live Out the fantasies or to remind my the title of this article and Borowski’s book. of the paper again; it was lying around in my myself of the people that are living out the The other__ _ _ room — I saw a photograph of a smiling fantasies of power when those same powers M.T. Barcelona woman, someone who clearly had exactly the are used against me in the struggle for same sensation of life as we all have, someone who looked, without getting too poetic about

Thug Landlord Linked To European Nazis NICHOLAS VAN HOOGSTRATEN ASussex based property millionaire, stein. The attack was no ordinary one, 7 van Hoogstraten employs Nazi heavies recently taken to Court for repossession but.involved the use of handgrenades, to harass and intimidate tenants in his of his properties because of gross harass­ A year later he was convicted and sent­ houses. His London properties include ment of some of his London tenants, is’ enced to four years (this Was later in­ houses where Nazis are allowed tojstay M a leading British Nazi and has responsib­ creased to nine years): At his trial van 1 rent-free and we are investigating a ilities for supervising links with European Hoogstraten admitted to the Court that claim that van Hoogstraten owns prop-, fascists. We believe that in addition he he was a member of a fascist organisation. erties let out as centres of prostitution, helps fund British Nazi groups, runs In fact we can reveal that he has been managed by Nazi, pimps. certain rif their financial affairs and helps... involved with the National Front for As regards van Hoogstraten’s current in the arranging of the safe-housing of almost 20 years and is: a long tirnelfriend position in the British Nazi hierarchy , European fascists. The person in question of former NF leader, Martin Webster. . itself , clearly’it is/a very important one,_| is Nicholas van Hoogstraten. The 1968 Court hearing also revealed H eisnot only a_major somte and:brgah; Van Hoogstraten (who also goes under that van Hoogstraten was the centre of iser of funds, butis one of the main, if the aliases of Nicholas Hamilton,-Robert a local (Brighton) crime syndicate , that not the main contact with the criminal Gates, Reza Ghadomian and Adolf van took in and passed on stolen property. underworld. His close relationship, too,. Hessen) of Highcross Estate, Frpnfield, We know this is just theTip of the icer - with the Hancocks. (Nazi publishers/:^ East Sussex, owns extensive properties ” berg. JN|an Hoogstraten-has yirtuaBy ^'tf'?'. based in Brightqn^who are known to in the Brighton area as well as in London. up his own mafia organiSation in East- be one of the main links with European A recent survey in a public enquiry Sussex as well as having extensive con­ fascists), suggests that he may well be initiated-by officials of the Kensington tacts with organised crime'syndicates in one of the organisers of their European and Chelsea Borough Council, found - parts of London. In addition he how connection and with his extensive prop­ extensive evidence of intimidation and has properties and ‘business’ deals in erties he is in an excellent position to. violence by Hoogstraten against his ten- Portsmouth (where he owns a night help out in safe-housing! ants. One of his property companies, . club). But his financial interests do not - Image Properties, was represented at the stop there. Known to few, he has an N.B. Onthe question. Of NF, funding, if . hearing As well as physically threatening estate in the Bahamas, which he uses as is interesting to note that’Derek Holland his tenants van Hoogstraten arranged for a base to launder funds accumulated was appointed two years ago as the NF’s'- their gas, electricity and water supplies through his property and other unsavoury liason officer to Colonel Ghaddafi of to be cut off, for rents to be arbitrarily-; ; deals-. It is belieyed that through this Libya, An allegedly Ghaddafi-funded increased, for. phones to be disconnected estate he acts as a major conduit of the NF publication soon followed, Also?a; and for details of the landlord or agent funds'to-the nazi organisations^ Britain. rival Nazi organisation fo the NFrecently to be changed so as to create confusion. claimed that the .new ?(F directorate has. Houses were also allowed to fall into In 1976 van Hoogstraten again came made further advances to Libya for financial support. This is not at all contra­ NB. -Van Iloogenstraten’s. office in Sussex disrepair, with asbestos left lying about before the Courts, this time on charges is at etc. ' dictory given that Ghaddafi has been 21-, Second Avenue, Hove, Sussex, relating to physical assault dti the tenants from which he runs around three hundred We can reveal th at this is not the ,of one of his Brighton properties in Vere shown to be a source of funding to the Spanish Falange (SeeBlack Flag No. 15$f. properties in the Brighton and Hove areas first time van Hoogstaten has come to - Road. Two of his accomplices convicted alone (and a similar number in London). public attention. In 1967, for example, on similar offences, Rodney Markworth We wonder how the readers of the WRP he was sent to trial for an attack on a. and Leon Mosscrop,»were members of | (Sforkers ;ReyolutionatY;Par^-)7Yews~ Jewish minister, the Reverend B. Braun- the National Front. Similarly,-today, ,* pine w'oiild jredoncile m at one?

BLACK FLAG PAGE 5 INTERNATIONAL ------SOUTH AFRICA------CHILE TOWARDS A SOCIAL REVOLUTION

RICOCHET SAVES PINOCHET At the beginning of this month at the who are urging democratic participation. Port Alfred, the local community centre and On Sunday, September 7th (at approx. White City of Soweto, police opened Quietly the state forces are beginning school have been collectivised. 6.30pm) General Augusto Pinochet, the Fire on rent boycotters who they were to acknowledge that many of the town­ Already liberals have been quick to call 70 year old head of Chile's fascist regime trying to evict. Barricades were erected ships are virtually ungovernable. for these organisations and intiatives narrowly escaped assassination while on after a warning that police were on their In the absence of state control or to be officially recognised (ie, co-opted) his way back to Santiago after a weekend way to break up a community meeting. stewardship by the lackeys, people in the and be given some form of municipal ‘away from it’ all at his country retreat As the police arrived unarmed Sowetans townships have begun to organise status. On the other hand leaders of (a bunker worth £20 million!). marched towards them chanting themselves into street and area committees vanguardist movements like AZAPO The assasination attempt took place ‘We are not fighting’. The police, on a bridge 20 miles east of the capital. in conjunction with the defence militias, are complaining that the resistance in According to Pinochet (who appeared seeing the vast numbers of the crowd, who also help deal with anti-social elements. the townships is becoming ‘too political* on TV just hours after the attempt) his retreated, while at the same time firing The new community organisations have, and that the violence is becoming motor-cade came under fire from auto­ into the advancing crowd. in some townships, taken over the running ‘populist’. In other words the social matic weapons, rockets and grenades. Minutes later the police themselves of essential services, such as rubbish revolution has to wait until a new 5 of his body-guards were killed outright came under armed attack as a hand grenade disposal and sewerage maintenance. And government under AZAPO (or ANC) while 12 others sustained injuries. Alas was hurled at one of their vehicles. More in one township, Kirkwood, the local bus control has been established ( a familar Pinochet, travelling in a bullet-proof car shots were fired by the police as the network has been reorganised to serve line, similar to that adopted by the with his 10 year old grandson, miracul­ crowd continued to converge on the ously escaped serious injury. community interests under direct control Stalinists during the Spanish civil war). According to the Chilean government police vehicles. Within the crowd was of the local people. In another community. an anonymous caller phoned press agen­ a ‘comrade’, armed with an AK47. cies in Santiago 1 Vi hours after the hit Shielding the trained guerrilla fighter and claimed it on behalf of the Manuel the crowd allowed themselves to Rodriguez Patriotic Front (a Marxist/ be shot at. Every few seconds or so they ‘National Liberation* armed group set would part to let the ‘comrade’ take up in 1983). pot-shots. Suddenly more police vehicles A state of siege (more repressive than appeared on the scene and the crowd was the State of Emergency Chile has been forced to make tactical retreat. There under since November 1984) has now been imposed. Although the assassinat­ was more shooting from the police and ion attempt occurred outside Santiago. at the end of the evening there were Pinochet is using his new powers of de­ (according to UDF figures) over 200 tention to reign terror on the working Sowetans injured and up to 30 dead. class districts in Santiago. Around 20 (Some days later the state forces arrests were made within 24 hours and refused to hand over at least 12 of the many more have been made since. The bodies to the relatives, burying them precise figures aren’t known because of secretly to avoid funeral disturbances). a South Africa style media censorship. What is really scaring the state author­ Soldiers blocked off whole districts of the capital to conduct house-to-house ities is not just the boycott itself (now searches. The bodies of 3 people arrested spread to over 48 townships), nor the fact (Journalist Jose Carraso Tapia, Teacher that many of their stooges in local councils Gaston Vidaurrazaga and Electrician have been ousted by the people, but the Felipe Rivera Gazardo) have already been knowledge that blacks are now creating found dead — dumped in various parts their own form of local organisations of Santiago. Jose Carrasco had at least that are neither acceptable to the state 13 bullets in his body, 10 of them in the authorities or the reformists and liberals head. ------—— ------AUSTRALIA------——— THE SPANISH REVOLUTION REMEMBERED

JULY 19 CELEBRATION young people mostly, listened to their Spanish Revolution/Realisaciones experiences of work and membership of Anarquistas En La Revolucion Espanol. IN MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA the CNT (many started work in their This 36 page booklet, with different On the 19th of July the Anarcho- early teens and joined the CNT soon articles in Spanish and English (favouring Syndicalist Federation (Melbourne) after); and of fighting in the militias; bi-lingual people) contains material on celebrated the Spanish Revolution with and the constructive work of collectivis­ agriculture and industrial collectivisation a day of discussions, exhibitions ation. There was much discussion of the justice, revolutionary democracy, and videos. political situation in Spain in 1936 - the women, education and culture, as well A hall in the ‘Spanish Quarter* in the entry of a few CNT members into govern­ as a reading list in English and Spanish. suburb of Fitzroy became an Anarchist ments, and the role of Britain, France Copies are available from the ASF space for the day. and the USA in supporting international Melbourne: PO Box 1066 , Some 200 people attended to view an Fascism’s attack on the Revolution and North Richmond , Victoria exhibition of over 200 images of anarch­ the Spanish people. Much time was 3121 Australia. ism in Spain — the early days of the spent discussing the importance of Booklet is also distributed by 1870’s through to the 19th of July 1936 anarchist education and culture in the Jura Books, 417 King St. defeat of Fascism, by armed workers, on growth of the Spanish Anarchist move­ Newtown, Sydney 2042. the streets of Spanish cities. The achieve­ ment. The booklet costs $2 Australian and ments of the Revolution were portrayed To remedy the lack of information in cheques should be made out to ASF or in stark comparison to the refugees, flee­ booklet form the ASF Melbourne has Jura Books. We highly recommend it! ing across the border to France, after the produced: To The Daring Belongs The Black Flag is distributing copies here in Fascist victory, and the contribution to Future: Anarchist Achievements In The Britain which are available for £1.00. the continuing struggle for Freedom -f. The increased repression coincides in Spain and around the world. with the 13th Anniversary of Pinochet’s Many people watched the videos: murderous regime. Resistance against the tiomenaje a Durruti/Homage to Dumiti, regime has been steadily growing over a newsreel of his funeral where half a the last three years. 4 people were murd­ million people turned out on the streets ered by State forces during the last 48-hour of Barcelona; and De Toda La Vida/For hour national protest held at the beginn­ All Our Lives, a video tracing the history ing of September. and experiences of anarchist women As we go to press it is still unclear as who participated in the Mujeres Libres/ to who actually tried to assassinate the Free Women groups (set up in 1934). dictator. The official version, that it was The highlights of the day were the work of the Manual Rodrigues Patriotic discussions. First up was a talk by an Front, is open to question. The wording Australian Anarchist, Harvey Buttonshaw of the original communique (‘The MRPF who, through the Independent Labour is still alive. We fade 1 but won’t fad next Party in Britain, fought in Spain with the time.’) is unusual compared to other pre­ POUM (an independent Marxist party) vious communiques from the MRPF. militia, and later the anarchist militia. Then a day after the assassination attempt He described his experiences on the the MRPF phoned press agencies denying Aragon Front where he fought alongside responsibdity. (To confuse matters stdl George Orwell, and in the May Days in further, a MRPF representative in Europe Barcelona, where he was involved in the has since claimed the attack was theirs). defence of the Revolution — against the If the MRPF wasn’t behind the attack attack on the anarchists and the POUM who was? It is not at ad inconceivable by the Communists and Republicans. that Pinochet himself organised the assass­ The second discussion was with a ination attempt, thus giving him an ex­ number of political exiles of the CNT cuse to clamp down on opposition to the (Spanish anarcho-syndicalist union) and regime. In early august the government the Spanish anarchist movement, now claimed it had uncovered 12 tons of living in Melbourne. A large number of rifles, rockets and explosives belonging to the MRPF. Most people now believe the government itself supplied the weap­ ons in an attempt to con people (espec- FOR RESISTANCE NEWS - READ BLACK FLAG Continued on page 7

PAGE 6 BLACK FLAG INDUSTRIAL COAL CHIEF FAILS TO STOP OVERTIME BAN Petrol, Prices And Profits

The apparently clever move by the new ments can proceed no further). Last months increase in petrol, diesel of these plans is already being considered British Coal chief, Sir Robert Haslam, On the other side British Coal is attemt- and heating oil which came in two stages by the Department of Energy , that is to impose an £8 a week wage increase, ing to limit the damage caused by the ban is just one of the many ways the major the British Oilfields and offshore constuct- for all miners has failed to have any by threatening more pit closures if overall oil companies, who have an almost com­ ion yards be turned into ‘enterprise impact on the seven week old overtime productivity drops, which it inevitably plete monopoly on all sources of energy zones’. New explorations in the North ban, solid in the South Wales area and will. Already in South Wales alone a available, are going to wring out and ring Sea have decreased sharply over the past now spreading to other coal areas too. further 2000 jobs are to be cut and the up the profits, be they dollars, sterling, couple of months and the decrease is pits of Cwm, Aberand and Mantgarw are francs or guilders. . . likely to continue for months, possibly The overtime ban was initiated because threatened with closure. British Coal is If trends and manipulations continue of British Coal’s insistence not to pay a years. 40 — 50% of the rigs are expected at the same time increasing its pressure on the cost of a gallon of four star will be to remain idle for some time. The trend £5.50 pay increase until the NUM agreed miners to accept voluntary redundancy to new conditions affecting pension around £1.90 before the year is out. in the USA has been even more sharp as by pointing out that the state-enhanced Chopping down the workforce is yet 1200 out of 1930 rigs have stopped rights. These new conditions would have redundancy scheme is due to be dropped another tactic being used by the oil com­ operating completely. meant that pension benefits accrued next March. panies in their quest for maximum profit. According to the Financial Times’. during the 8.4/85 strike would be suspended If the overtime ban spreads even more Britoil gave the push to 25 0 workers this ‘The fall in exploration will not be and that all future pension rights would and if other ‘guerrilla-style’ tactics are year already and this is to be followed up reversed and this will contribute to be similarly affected should strike action adopted as well (eg go-slows, work-to-rule, next month with a further 800 redundan­ increasing the price of oil on the ever be taken again - a virtual no strike more sabotage, etc), then we may well see cies, about 650 in Glasgow and 150 in markets’. clause. This stipulation was later backed by an area by area (with the exception of the Aberdeen. But please do not shed any tears for the courts. these oil exploitation companies, during What has riled the miners about the £8 a scabs) dispute come about. The fact that Shell, BP and Esso are likely to follow many mining families involved in the ban suit although they are said to be taking a 1985 the 15 major oil companies stood week pay rise is that firstly it is only are still suffering from financial hardship more cautious approach to their announce in the world’s top 50 companies as backdated to September 1st of this year, as a result of the 84/85 strike indicates ments. regards profits and total sales and one and secondly all scabs (UDM members how important it is for the Strike Support These redundancies arc said to be a of them Exxon was at the very top. and others) who worked during the year Groups to be revived, where they have direct result of the world oil price collapse £360,000,000,000 a cool three hundred long strike will get it backdated to lapsed. The Strike Support Groups can a while back and a prelude to the immin­ and sixty billion quid for the fifteen and November 1st of last year as a special also (and do) play an important part in ent takeover of Britoil by a consortium Exxon alone had sales amounting to loyalty bonus. widening the campaign aimed at reinstate including RTZ (Rio Tin to Zinc, mining £72,000,000,000 seventy two billion. Haslam claimed he was trying to ‘wipe -ment and early release. etc. multinational). The layoffs at Britoil These energy thieves and profiteers are the slate clean’ with his pay rise, but it will amount to 40% of the total work­ the enemies of all people who are fighting has obviously backfired and has only force. to exist in this world of unequals. Be succeeded in widening the justified rift Exxon the parent company of Esso they Black workers in South Africa, the between scabs and NUM members even ftas plans to get rid of a total of 40,000 Native americans in Arizona or other further. Nor will Haslam’s maneouvrings jobs most of which will be in the USA, people in Latin America, the Middle East help the ossified double-dealings of these will come through early ‘retirement’. or Asia or even us in Europe we all come Euro-Communist stalwart, Mick McGahey, To bring this policy into effect Law­ up against the multinational oil compan­ the retiring Scottish NUM chief who rence Rawl ‘Exxon’s axeman* is taking ies. has been recently playing his Labour over as chairman and chief executive at These companies wherever they may Party card and urging appeasement with the end of this year. ’At a time when the operate show a complete disregard for the scabs. outlook for (oil) prices has never been ordinary people, but then what can we Meanwhile the overtime ban is currently more uncertain’. expect from any capitalist enterprise. being taken up by some pits in the Along with the price increase and Only The organised working class will Yorkshire area, where miners are linking getting rid of the workers, oil companies bring an end to this mass exploitation the campaign to demands for the rein­ and that is why the anarchist syndicalists statement of dismissed miners and for who are operating in the British sectors the early release of those jailed (the of the North Sea through the UK Off­ within the international working class new British Coal chief is reported to have 'Some day, son, all this will be yours. Closed pits, no work, shore Operators Association have sub­ must start presenting a realistic program mitted some tax reform-plans which are of direct action which can be taken on stated that the negotiations for reinstate­ dying communities, no future’ being examined by the government. One to defeat multinational capitalism. SPAIN Trade Union Merger ‘CORREO CATALAN’ WORKERS ON THE STREET The Communist-controlled TASS (the white-collar APEX along with several draughtsmen) which has already swallow­ craft unions are also talking. If successful ed up several small left-controlled unions the new ‘moderate’ confederation would The Correo Catalan, a daily paper on sale their ex-bosses listen. Who are their boss­ is to merge with the white-collar ASTMS. hold 1,800,000 members dominating in Catalonia in North-East Spain was es? None other than Migual Roca, who Meanwhile the huge Transport and over the TGWU (1.200,000). The result closed down by its owners eight months ran for President on the most expensive General Workers Union has been talking will probably be seen in 1987 when the ago. The paper was one of the best known election campaign ran by Madrid and camped outside the what is impossible is to solve the problem submit to being exploited if they get while capitalism and the State remain. syndicalist union called S.O.C. (country Prime Ministers’ residence on the out­ sufficient out of it to prosper. That is why Workers Syndicate) has revitalised tactics skirts of the city, a hunger strike also too Without laying the axe to those roots such as the occupation of estates, sabot took place. the fortunate ones ‘cop it and hop it* — ‘all that can be changed is a way of looking age of farm machinery, sponsoring hunger The Socialist Party introduced a pro­ but they don’t ‘hop’ it very far, they at the problems that arise inculcated by strikes and picket lines. gramme for expropriating.land that was carry their skills into the underground the media. The campaign of occupying land and left idle. Apart from this land being the estates owned by absentee landlords has worst, the programme was stopped by resulted in brutal repression by the Civil court action from the landowners, after Guard, and about 600 people are await­ only two expropriations. Chile Continued from previous page ing trial. The hardships of the day workers will some of the many power-hungry Military The Campaign to get these people increase when Spain enters the EEC later ially foreign journalists) into believing who surround Pinochet, to put someone released began with the occupation of this year, encouraging mechanisation and that a major terrorist/communist threat more acceptable (to the U.S. and Chile) minicipal buildings in El Coronil by about changing the crops grown in Andalusia to the regime exists. The assassination in Pinochet’s place. Pinochet wants to fifty women. El Coronil is the home village away from olives and grapes, picked by attempt could have been staged to re­ stay in power until 1997! of the SOC General Secretary, Diego Can- hand, towards yet more cereals, not inforce this myth. Alternatively, the Whether the assassination attempt is amero, himself a landless labourer. In because they are needed, but because the assassination attempt could have been a genuine one or not is unclear. What is 1984 he led a march and occupation of landowners can get high EEC prices, and carried out by anti-Pinochet elements clear is that Pinochet has used recent an estate, and has since refused to pay thus more profits. The SOC has seen within the Armed Forces (probably the events to step-up his reign of terror over any fines imposed by the state. He enter­ through the socialist tinkerings with the Navy in competition with the General’s Chile. ed Saville prison on September 5th beginn­ system, and are demanding land. Army clique). The U.S. has recently Comrades collecting to help the Chile SOURCE: D.H. been trying to distance itself from the Anarchists should continue to do so and Pinochet regime, which is becoming an we will help in whatever ways possible. increasing embarassment, and through Practically heavy surveillance is current the CIA could well have made a deal with but the resistance continues.

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BOOKS! BOOKS! BOOKS! OBITUARY

A Year o f Our Lives is a collection of JOSEPH S. GIGANTI (1904-1986). and Roosevelt universities in Chicago. HOOLIGAN PRESS GOODIES! texts written by the people of Hatfield Joseph Salvatore Giganti, co-ordinator A frequent participant in forums Main Colliery, Doncaster, about what of Sacco-Vanzetti defence activity for held by the anarchist Free Society Group the Miners’ Strike meant to them. Dave and the Industrial Workers of the World Ideal Home — Survival Edition Chicago and the midwestern United Douglas of Hatfield Main NUM, who States in the 1920’s, who in recent years (IWW), Giganti was a close friend of Max- £2.40 wrote the narration, describes it accurat­ chaired the Board of the Charles H. Kerr imilliano Olay, representative of the ely in his introduction: ‘I have not Publishing Company, died July 6 at age Spanish anarcho-syndicalist Confederac- A Year of Our Lives — Hatfield attempted to edit any of the texts that 83, in Chicago. ion Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) in the Main Colliery Community I received from anyone who wanted to U.S. during the Spanish Civil War. He submit a piece to this book. . . perhaps Born of Sicilian immigrant parents, helped form the Friends o f Workers* £3.50 the book would have been academically Giganti grew up in the coal-mining area Spain to promote the cause of the Revol­ better aclaimed, or easier for non-miners of southern Illinois, and worked as a ution and to distribute the publications Ideal Home is, according to the blurb, to read, if someone had done so. I did miner before moving to Chicago as a of Spain’s revolutionary organisations. about surviving in modern Britain ‘if not think it was my place to cut out young man. He devoted his life largely One of the several old-timers who you reject the State or if the State pieces of what my fellow pit folk, the to the twin causes of labour defence helped reorganise the Charles H. Kerr rejects you’. Basically its about alternat­ children, women or men wished to say organisation and agitation and workers’ Company in the early 1970’s, Giganti ive (rent free) housing: squatting, living about their dispute, so it appears here education. Although he had never finish­ took the chair — a position involving on the road (without or with a horse), in it’s original raw state’. It is this raw­ ed high school, he took adult evening much work and no pay — in 1973. * living in a boat (over 2,000 miles of in­ ness which makes it a truly authentic classes and earned his PhD hj 1951. Under his administration, the venerable land waterways in Britain), living in account of the strike. The people in it firm (it is 100 years old this year) enjoy­ yerts, teepees and benders. Well illustrat­ are real, not ‘miners’ or ‘mining commun­ ed a noticeable resurgence, and became ed (lots of comics, some of them very ities’ of political propaganda. Lots of an important publisher of books in the funny), it is packed with info on every photographs. After working long years as a barber, he field of anarchist and labour history in conceivable aspect of living without later taught economic history at Depaul the U.S. supporting the landlord class. The info Both are available from: is very practical, with the exception of squatting, most of the forms of alternat­ Hooligan, BM Hurricane, ive housing there in are fairly full-time London WC1N2XX. ANARCHY ON T.V. -PART 2 activities and definitely for the dedicated. Review: F.J. Fighting Back (BBC1) is a really grim Drowned Rat publications for that touch show, full of sub Grange Hill (school of the ‘real’. students relationships) social realism, and Anyway, don’t bother tuning in for a totally banal slice of life. Yikes, the the next episode, but given the local wimin shout a lot, see the social workers press’s fabric of lies concerning various look at the children ‘in care’, and on and Bristol @narchist groups as ‘into assassin­ ,on. ation and child sex’ with a spot of However, though it’s all cliche after ‘Anarchy On The Rates!’ (shock horror!) dripping cliche, it does feature lots of the Fighting Back version is a bit closer wimin and Black people, a bit rare in the to some of us than others. Terry & June (middle-class sit-com) Bristol Anarchist. world of BBC TV. So, why mention it? Well among all the old stereotypes, we have a ‘new’ one, Comment: Previously, in July, the BBC yes the (Bristol) Anarchist. This new had a Play For Today Brick is Beautiful cardboard cut out is presented in almost set in Manchester. While sitting in the a positive way. Yes, it’s okay to squat if pub the local stars of the tale of flogging you’re homeless, and with a slip of the bricks to get rich are confronted by the pen, we have a representation of the seller of an Anarchist paper in this case , ‘Demolition Diner’ (a local social squat) Black Flag. The cover asked Why N ot Court case, as a fab plot device. See the Riot? (published following the September squatters beat the Council! One draw 1985 anti-police riots), unfortunately our back of the Anarcho-Fem, 1983 style, is intrepid pub-seller is abused and evicted the lack of a dog on a piece of string, by the pub Landlord before to&Jnuch but this fault is more than made up for dialogue takes place. Anarchy on the TV by the BBC’s Prop Dept, spending on licence, whatever next?

VIDEO REVIEW OPPOSE PA RLI AM ENTARY HYPOCRISY JF YOU HAVE AN AXE TO GRIND,THEN SHINE ON JIM of Commons and was to instigate a A 35 minute video available on VHS special report into the Ashford prison, system only sells at the low price of £10 especially the procedures taken to pre­ and is available from: vent prison suicides. Phil Stebbing, Nothing can bring him back, but now 20 B Kellet Roadt one side of the story has been document­ London SW2 1EB ed that would have remained silent, with The film about the poet James Heather- only government speak as the reference Hay es has been shown at 121 @ Centre in to a tragic death. The embarassment Brixton to a good response and to other and sensitivity of this film was clearly groups and some festivals. reflected in the numerous refusals and After an arson attack on Teddington lack of help we received from people in Police Station he was imprisoned in the the prison service and the government, Ashford Remand Centre for three months both gaolers and MPs clearly wanted before his case finally came up at the the name of Jimmy Heather-Hay es and Old Bailey. the part they played to be forgotten From his diary, letters and the recoll­ forever. ection of family and friends a drama/ The film took over a year to make, documentary of the period he was held for many months were spent on research was made. and talking to the family. We experienc­ It is not an authorative documentary, ed poverty and made maybe too many in the way it excludes a domineering sacrifices to raise funds. With a little bit and ‘knowledgeable’ narrator. The story of begging, luck and benefits of one is told by Jim through an actor’s voice nature or another we got about three reading out the diary and poems. thousand pounds together. After his ‘suicide’, there was an in- ' Everybody who helped gave their quest which came to the unprecedented time freely, and they worked hard when verdict that his death was due to ‘lack we were filming. There were a number of care’ by the prison authorities. In a of unusual incidents, once the film lab­ sense they had allowed him to die, to oratory ruined 400 feet of film and make him so low and depressed that he another time the actor playing Jim near­ took his own life. ly drowned during the filming of a Jimmy caused quite a stir in the scene.. official world. The papers put up head­ We urge all those who have not seen lines like Arson Boy Found Dead In Cell the video to do so and not to forget the and his inquest was raised in the House comrades inside.

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Dear Friends, refugees in southern Mexico. Enclosed find a cheque for $50. raised We are trying to track down the add­ at the libertarian picnic in Detroit this ress of the Friends and Famly of Political July to commemorate the 50th annivers­ Prisoners group in Barcelona. They pub­ If you are interested in helping.co-ordinating or contributing in any way ary of the Spanish Revolution. People lish a newsletter in Catalan. If you have then contact the Gasworks Show Stoppers at 121 Railton Road,Herne Hill, attended from Detroit-Ann Arbor area; their address, please send it as we have London SE 24 any Saturday after 3-00pm or just leave a message.or else also from Toronto and other parts of misplaced it. Ontario, Canada; Montreal, Quebec; and Please pass this money on to the ABC produce your own publicity .Send a small donation if you can. Pennsylvania. Money was raised for the and let us know that you have received it. No leaders no organisers Anarchist Black Cross; various libertarian STOP THE ROT AGITATE DON'T VEGETATE publications in the US and Canada; Big Thanks. For anarchy! Mountain; and to help Guatemalan Indian Fulano (for the Detroit area libs)