TT IS NOW IMPORTANT that we atically discriminated against. It is allowed the police to retreat behind 1 should consider at length the true that the Protestant working their lines and bombarded the Bog- circumstances of the struggle, the class are conned into believing that siders with petrol bombs from pre­ manner in which it Was carried on, what marginal advantages they have pared positions. On the Wednesday and the subsequent effects of the can only be maintained by the con­ night of the fighting, after 36-hours Dublin Squoners various confrontations which have tinuation of this discrimination. But non-stop battle many of the police taken place all over Northern Ire­ it is also true that the vast majority handed over their riot shields, hel­ land. Since I was present only in of the Protestant working class did mets, batons and weapons to their Derry during the week of August 12, not take part in the invasion of Bog- fascist friends, while they themselves I shall concentrate on conditions in side with the police. took a well-earned rest. that area and leave details of the The two hundred or so Paisleyites, Most of the fighting took place at Sent to Prison fighting in other centres to corre­ with their white armbands, who very close quarters. This was espe­ spondents who should also be re­ attacked the area in conjunction cially true after the police began to porting in this issue; with the police are indeed Pro­ fire batteries of tear gas shells into rpHREE DUBLIN FAMILIES live liament) which stated explicitly that the Many of the cancers in Ulster testants; it is more important to the area. Since most of the fuzz under the tyranny of an order for family was the fundamental unit of society have already been well docu­ recognise that they are also fascists. themselves did not have gas masks, the committal of their breadwinners to society and had rights prior to private mented in F reedom , notably No. 23 They did not come from Derry it­ we discovered that the area freest Mountjoy Prison. The Order was made property or any matter whatsoever, and (Derry: Springboard of the Struggle). self, but mainly from small rural from tear gas was the area nearest at the High Court, Dublin by Justice that some of the members had after­ In the light of reporting of the con­ areas like Molenan, Ardmore and to the police. For this reason, there Kenny on August 28. The three men, wards affirmed the promises given with was a gap of only ten to twenty young workers, had not obeyed an in­ their blood. flict in the mass media, where it has Kilaloo (areas which also provided junction ordering them to discontinue Many times the Judge said, ‘I don’t been represented simply as a sec­ the attackers of the PD march at yards between the people and the squatting in the Carlton Hotel, thus in want to send young men to prison, I tarian Protestant versus Catholic Buratollet). They had a clearly- pigs, and this facilitated the accurate effect they were guilty of the ‘crime' have no choice in the matter, I am squabble, it is necessary to reiterate defined role to assist and support the throwing of petrol bombs. (A new of not putting their families out on the obeying the law.’ that in Derry, at any rate, the con­ police. Usually they remained be­ refinement was a bottle filled with street. Patrick Geraghty said, ‘We are only flict is between the people and the hind police lines, content to smash grass, some sugar poured in, and The Carlton Hotel is ‘owned’ by Mary being sent to prison because we ignored police as representatives of the state. up houses in Rosville Street when topped up with petrol—very ad­ Duigenan, a middle-aged spinster. She the court, not for being squatters in This is not to deny that religious the police made a drive into the area. hesive and long-burning!) is financially secure. She has stated 74 Harcourt Street.’ elements enter into the problem. It On other occasions they mani­ Tactically the fighting was rather that she has contracted to sell the hotel Justice Kenny then asked if they is true that Catholics are system- fested a little more courage and Continued on page 5 for £23,000 and that the sale could not were still determined. Each answered, be closed until she could give vacant ‘I have no alternative’. The Judge said, possession. So, we have in the ‘Irish ‘I am sorry, neither have I.’ Republic’ the ethic: property before A young man in the body of the people. court read, despite efforts to stop him, Patrick Geraghty, holding a baby in from the 1916 Proclamation: ‘The Re­ his arms, said that for the past two public guarantees religious and civil years he had been looking for un­ liberty, equal rights and equal oppor­ Sion Press Mews ; Bellas! furnished accommodation through the tunities to all its citizens, and declares Corporation, through TDs (Irish MPs) its resolve to pursue the happiness and and through landladies: there was no prosperity of the whole nation and of rpH IS WEEKEND has seen some of Falls Road. Troops and RUC arrived on The Paisleyites are going to be even unfurnished accommodation to be had all its parts, cherishing all the children the most important1 events take place the scene. The troops appeared to be more enraged than ever at their inability in the city, legally, though at the same of the nation equally. . . .’ since British troops moved into Belfast very hostile to the Paisleyites while the to get their hands on the Papists on the time there must be 200 big houses lying Patrick Geraghty said: ‘You are de­ and Derry. A man has been shot dead in RUC took the opposite view and actually Falls. They are unlikely to want a idle waiting to be knocked down to priving our kids of a living.’ Belfast and troops have used CS gas lined up in front of them. When the straight up fight with the army, but they make way for office accommodation. The Judge stated, This is the end of against Paisleyites (who were joined by advance continued the major in charge are so stupid that it is possible they will Two weeks ago he went after a flat the matter.’ the RUC). of the troops ordered tear gas to be used. manoeuvre themselves into a position in the North Circular Road and they This was answered from the body The man who was shot dead was a Those who suffered most from the effects where a shoot-out between themselves wanted nine guineas a week. Almost of the court, ‘This is not the end of Protestant. First news reports stated he of the gas were in fact the RUC, who and the troops is inevitable. overcome with emotion he said, ‘Your the matter, you may be sure of that,’ was shot in the street from a passing car.. were immediately in front of the crowd. The RUC are absolutely demoralised. Honour, we are only labouring men, and ‘This is only the beginning of the Latest reports from Belfast contradict When the gas cleared, one of the RUC The Bumtollet book noting their con­ none of us earn more than fourteen matter.’ this. According to friends in Belfast, a officers harangued the crowd stating the nivance with the Paisleyites, the an­ pounds a week, what chance have we?’ There was cries of ‘Shame’. An Catholic house off Manor Street was be­ army had used the gas without his per­ nouncement that 16 of their members The Judge then asked if Patrick elderly lady quoted Jesus: ‘I was home­ ing attacked and petrol-bombed. The mission. The major promptly retorted are to be disciplined, and the forthcom­ would give an undertaking to leave the less and ye took me not in.’ This was family inside had been ordered to leave that he didn’t need any RUC officer’s ing Cameron Report, which is to indict Carlton Hotel. loudly applauded. A young man read earlier but had refused. They had re­ permission to use gas and if he didn’t them even further, have been a series of He answered, ‘No, I am not going a relevant extract from the Constitution quested protection from the CDC on the keep quiet he would get another dose such shattering body-blows that they are to ask my wile and family to get out which was further applauded. As the Falls and received two guards. During up his arse! on the point of mass resignations and on the road for anybody'. case closed, there were cries of ‘This the attack on the house shots were fired The mutual hostility between the army go-slows. This is pushing them even Then the Judge said, ‘You do realise is a crime’ and ‘This will be settled on and the dead man was found lying in the and the Paisleyites, the coming together further to the right, and can only result that a judge's order must be obeyed the streets of Dublin.’ back yard of the house. of the Paisleyites and the police, and the in closer co-operation with the Paisley­ and I have no choice in the matter?’ This is going to be a long and a Earlier in the day a group of 3,000 shooting which followed the gas incident ites, with what fearful results it is only Patrick replied: ‘I realise one thing, hard fizht. When squatter Dennis ‘loyalists’ had attempted to march into has serious implications for N. Ireland. too easy to imagine. I realise the landlady has a problem Dennely was imprisoned, demonstrators The barricaded areas are preparing for were baton-charged by gardai and but she has money. We have a pro­ IK32m2K£& further attacks. A series of bloody repri­ blem but we have no money.' He blood flowed on the streets of Dublin. sals is expected. Radio Orange (a pirate would, he said, get out if he got other We, the Workers in Ireland, will fight station) is calling on all able-bodied accommodation; otherwise, he was stay­ for liberty whenever and wherever it volunteers to assemble on the Shankill ing. is denied. Road tonight (Monday). At least 10,000 Repeatedly the Judge asked if he D onal McCarthy . are expected. With Madman McKeague realised that he (the Judge) had no there to whip them up Hitler-style into a choice in the matter. frenzy, there can be only one result. Yes, he said, he realised that. CS Gas At this time, it is expected that the In answer to the Judge. John A FTER MANUFACTURING CS Gas, Unionist right-wing, waiting in the wings MacNamee said, ‘The same goes for * * supplying the police with it and Prof. E. H. S. Burhop are ‘Extreme lying in the gutter for anything up to with daggers drawn, will soon be making me.’ John, holding one of his children firing over 1,000 grenades of it into a burning and tearing of eyes; constricts five days. their bid for power. It remains to be in his arms, was asked by the Judge small residential area, the Government respiratory tract; bums moist skin; in­ The Americans seem quite happy about seen whether slippery Wilson will use the if he realised the severe hardship which has decided that it might be interesting duces nausea’. At a concentration of 1-6 CS Gas on the strength of their own situation to gain some badly-needed elec­ would be imposed on his wife and to have an inquiry just to see what the milligrams per cubic metre of air, in­ experiments, but the results obtained toral advantage among the Irish voters children if he went to Mountjoy. stuff does. capacitates. At 20 mg/m“, irreparable from muscle - bound, football - playing in England, or whether, true to his prag­ He replied: ‘They need a home.’ CS Gas is standard equipment in the lesions. Irreparable lesions can lead to marines is hardly valid for, as they say, matism, he will take the same action The Judge then asked if John was UK, USA, France and a host of other systematic poisoning. Over 30 mg/ma, the man on the Clupham omnibus. against a right-wing take-over in N. Ire­ prepared to leave by next Monday. countries where the umbrella term ‘tear possibly lethul (Operation Crimp 1.12.66, Nevertheless, a British ex-serviceman land as he did in Rhodesia. In answer, John said he would go if gas' or ‘riot gas* is used to denote its Australian Capt. R- Bowicll died of whom I spoko to who had been given a COLUMCILLE. he got a home from the Corporation, equipment. asphyxiation from CS while wearing controlled exposure to CS claimed that otherwise he would stay. CS Gas. or O-chlorobenzalmulononi- music). ho was still vomiting three days later. Patrick Brady told how his wife was trile- for the chemically-minded, is manu­ The grenades used by the CKS in Paris Schcrmuly’s managing director, H. C. in hospital, at which the Judge said, factured at the Ministry of Defence, last year were Igm grenades, in the UK Fairbrolher, said that 'properly used’ CS bility of carcinogenesis (cancer) ought to T am sorry to hear that.' Nancekuke, Portreath, Cornwall. From the police have 40gm grenades. The is not lethal and added that if anyone in have been investigated.' If CS is nor­ In answer to the Judge he said that there it is transported by road to Scher- militury use 200gm grenades, and 801b. the factory wanted to get rid of a cold or mally destroyed in the liver, a person he was prepared to move if he got muly Ltd., Spra Works, Ncwdigutc, drums for helicopter use. The British sniffle then they should ‘work for un hour suffering from a liver disease may not a place to go to, otherwise he would Guildford, Surrey, where it is put into police are equipped with ‘pure’ CS, or or so in the CS section’. On the other be able to detoxicate it properly. The stay, he would not give a promise to canisters and grenades. CS is also ex­ more properly termed CS|. However, side are people like Mr. McDowell who formor director of Canadian medical ser­ leave by Monday. ported and estimates have been as high this name CS1 implies a CS2 or 3 thus was gassed unconscious in Derry. A few vices in Vietnam reported a 10% adult The case against Edward Chambers, as £250,000 worth. Nancekukc has a giving weight to the rumour that the duys later his lungs began to fill with and 90% infant mortality rate in patients the father of a family squatting in the capacity of 60 tons per year which, French had extra irritants added to their liquid and Mr. McDowell, a bronchitis treated after being gassed with CS. But same building, was dismissed on the in simple language, is enough gas CS. A spent grenade can contain u sufferer, was admitted to hospital. The then it was being ‘improperly used’ by grounds of hearsay evidence. Applause if given in clinical dosage, to kill the caustic, corrosive substance and there US Federal Police Manual says ‘CS the Americans, it wasn't reliable old CS! filled the crowded court as the Judge population of the world twelve limes was at least one report that this residue may be extremely dangerous to persons On July 4, 1968, the Home Secretary said, ‘Mr. Chambers, your best course over, has been poured over the bare skin of with cardiac or pulmonary (lung) condi­ said that it was misleading to suggest is to say nothing.’ CS Gas is supplied in hand grenades, demonstrators cuptured by the French tions. . . . Buildings, rooms and furni­ that CS gas might be used for maintain­ Maureen Burke of the Housing launched grenades, cluster canisters and CRS. In Bogsidc six-year-old Keenan ture cannot easily bo decontaminated.’ ing public order. Action Committee read an extract from canisters to enable it to be sprayed from Barret was put in hospital after picking Dr. Matthew Meselson said. ‘As CS is so the proceedings of the First Dail (Par­ helicopters. Its effects as recorded by up u spent grenude that could have been easily dispersed in the lungs the possi- L arry . It has taken a generation to smash has never impressed an employer. the craft unions with their contempt Solidarity all along the line it our for the unskilled workers and one views only chance of survival for, as workers, with nausea Clive Jenkins' well-paid it is our only strength. Within a united attempt to breathe new life into the working-class front we can fight and John Neal Lies Dead managerial white-collar workers' elitist fight again and win and win again but union. Contempt for a fundamental let any greup of workers isolate them­ that the Bromley Ration, only 200 yards reason in that these people always and selves and they become meat for de­ A NY MAN LYING pinned under the passing striker to minister first aid and almost without exception feed like car­ struction. There arc always workers wheel of a ten-ton lorry and vainly to hurry to his own ambulance station away, was not allowed to accept the emergency call as a deliberate part of rion from this industrial battlefields of who rightly feel that they have a self- waiting for the arrival of an ambulance 200 yards away to try and then to the rank and file workers. Always the accepted moral obligation to perform must, by the very nature of bis circum­ succeed in getting the officials there to GLC industrial policy as it related to this strike action f°r H took 21 minutes white-collar union base their claims for those tasks for which they have a paid stances, take a jaundiced view of any send out an ambulance that 200 yards. better wages and working conditions public acceptance. inter-union dispute. What are valid prin­ As in all these matters, the ancient for a second ambolance *° arr*ve ^f0m Lee only to find that the striker had on those that the rank and file workers The fireman, the ambulance man. the ciples in the comfort of the committee industrial ritual took over in that a have managed to win after months of nurse, or any worker who is called upon rooms, the cosy bar, or the plastic- faceless authority had rejected any mo­ talked the official at the Bromley sta­ tion into sending out their own ambu­ miYid-dulling negotiations or bitter to give immediate aid t© the old, the walled directors’ office, become matters ral or social responsibility unless the strike action, and after every strike one sick, or those in physical danger, feel of minor interest to an audience of one men returned to work. John Neal is lance but it was fl®w too late to save dead and the striking ambulance men the life of John Neal- has the sour krtowledge that the white* that they cannot walk away from that who has to pass away the fleeting min­ cellar unions within that striking in­ self-accepted moral obligation and we, utes in watching his life-blood drain Have claimed all through the fifteen- 1 for my part kave little feith in day-strike that they were willing at any break-away unions f°r> while one can dustry are waiting like unto some can­ in our turn, be it worker-consumer or into the waiting gutter. cerous growth to drain off their un- just consumer, must in our turn accept To argue that this is an extreme time to turn out on a voluntary unpaid understand the daily feeling of frustra­ basis to answer emergency calls but tion that particular groups of workers fought-for rewards. their cause if we are prepared to accept view is correct, but two things are in­ their moral obligations. disputable and that is that the newly- this the GLC, as with almost all em­ feel when they believe they are isolated These are the very men and women formed Federation of Ambulance Per­ ployers, have refused to accept and for within a major union structure, the who deliberately stand aside in the The striking {imbalance men at Brom­ sonnel have won their demand that the this John Neal died. For the GLC had answer has never lain in splitting the rough-house of strike actions rather ley did their best to honour a self- Greater London Council should begin ordered that any man who did not ranks but working and fighting within than soil their lily conscience and for accepted moral obligation and the immediate negotiations with the view of do his full day’s work as laid down the whole. Every employer loves the them the plaudits of the sewer press Greater London Council, nameless as in giving the Federation official union re­ by the GLC should be sent home and small union or the breakaway union and the greater rewards. all these matters, ignored the phone call cognition, and that 64-year-old John that if any station was undermanned as for it is so easy to handle and to de­ The Federation of Ambulance Per­ and the cry of common humanity in Neal is dead. a result of the GLC ruling then that feat, and in any prolonged dispute the sonnel have won their fight for official the matter of John Neal. The GLC John Neal did not die in the dra­ station must not accept emergency calls. workers within the small or breakaway recognition but they will find that they principles are those easy ones that can matic manner of the opening paragraphs, It is surely a matter of classic irony union must turn once more to the mass have merely taken the same old evils be filed away when the office closes and but for all that he lay in the public that it was a striking ambulance man of their fellow-workers for help and with them. Frustrations and delays in in that most unimportant of battles, the road a dying man and. it was left to a who tried to save John Neal’s life and support. matters of working conditions will still recognition of another breakaway union, be their lot as with all of us, and wage no one has won. Only the strikers at negotiations will still continue to drag Bromley can hold their heads high for' on month after month, and without the they waved aside the rules in the cause white-collar back-dating, for a change of humanity but for all that John Neal of name and a public affirmation of died. On the Isle of Wight splendid isolation in the industrial war A rthur M oysb . NATIONAL (Liberation) FRONT-A Denial HELL, BOB DYLAN has been and way that brought some of the Incredible that is inevitable in an affair like this), WI gone, and much, possibly too much, String Bandfs sounds to mind. I enjoy not enough entrances to the arena, only Dear Friends, fact, support the Democratic Popular has already been said and written about them very much indeed. two for 120,000 people—it took you A. Meltzer's piece on Palestine and its Front for the Liberation of Palestine, his visit. Tom Paxton was also on the The staggeringly high standard of this 1± hours to shit! Queuing for everything supporters in this country in your edi­ which has consistently attacked Nasser, Isle of Wight. He is the nearest thing I day’s proceedings was maintained by was another inevitable drag. The press tion of August 23 was misleading and and the other ‘socialist’ regimes in Syria know to a modern-day troubadour, with Indo-Jazz Fusions and Pentangle present­ reports that appeared subsequently, apart factually incorrect. It is possible to and Iraq as being petty bourgeois. the possible exception of Pete Seegar. ing respectively their Eastern-influenced from the Guardian and The Times, and point to many mistakes and half-truths P eter H ellyer . Tom in fact came dangerously near to music and folk-jazz, rather than folk- this one of course, were a load of un­ in it—indeed, it reads as if it were stealing the show from Bob Dylan, sing­ rock sounds, that have lent to these two mitigated lies and crap, as far as I could written with the deliberate intention of A. Meltzer replies:—Not that all ing some of his oldies like ‘Ramblin’ groups individuality, imagination and see. misleading, to persuade Freedom ‘pro-Palestinians’ wore pro-fascist but Boy’ and bringing the house down with inventiveness that is all their own. Finally, British Rail fell from grace a readers that all pro-Palestinians were that those who attended a demonstra­ his fine ‘Talking Vietnam Pot Blues’. It In between we had Gary Farr—the little on the way home because of the either pro-fascist, fascist, or prepared to tion together with fascists were doing was largely this that earned him three brother of MC Rikki Farr, backed by way they shut many people up in the co-operate with fascists. The gratuitous what the CP did in Germany. The CP encores. the Mighty Baby, who has, for a change, railway station all night, with 10,000 insults, against Tony Cliff or the IMG was not ‘pro-fascist’ either, It was de­ He certainly got the best reception of an excellent singing voice, and Tom others behind crowding them in and not for example, might tend to obscure the monstrating against the very state that the entire three days—including Dylan. Paxton whom I have already mentioned. realising what they were doing, and one fact that the demonstration against had killed the German Revolution, mur­ Tom is also largely venturing away from By the way, while on the subject, despite of those iron-railed gates in front of us Golda Meir was one against the Prime dered Luxemburg and Liebknccht, etc. the realms of protest into the realms of his somewhat cloying mannerisms of threatening to grate us like so much Minister of a state which is based on The question is whether in demonstra­ poetry, and why not? speech, Rikki Farr did an excellent job cheese, if the^ shoving kept up. The a racialist, exclusivist ideology, which ting against that State one could not act But let us-approach the Weekend_more right through—the ^weekend—he kept ‘uniformed stalwarts of the Isle of Wight has occupted~The land' of others aERTTSP 'in a idffiewh^rdlHe1^f'-manner “T have chronologically—what actually happened? things moving—gave the people as far railways and constabulary were on hand engaged in exploiting them. A state given a little study to the Palestine First, to my surprise, the as possible what they wanted, and had of course to jeerafrom a distance through moreover which is identifiable with question—Peter Hellyer might care to amplification set-up was first-rate. There none of the condescending superiority the bars at our Mght. A plight that in­ other imperialist powers such as the look up the files of this paper thirty was a free concert on Friday evening, one sees at, for example, the National cluded not being feble to sit for fear of United States. years ago for the first, when (one may including the Marsupial Army, Heaven, Blues Festival, when some aged square being trampled, minting and not being The issue of the Palestinian Revolu­ say) Zionism was still popular among Mighty Baby who gave us some nice from the National Jazz Federation or able to fall dowrf for the crush, falling tion is one worthy of more serious atten­ the Trots. The anti-Zionism they pro­ flute work, Eclection, a very fine Group Marquee ClutrTias a go. Rikki managed and being tramjped on and not being tion by anarchists than A. Meltzer fess was only picked up with the Rus­ with a fine lead singer in Doris Hender­ to remain fairly popular to the end. No able to get medical help through to the seems prepared to give. He might, for sian switch. son, who recorded some time ago with easy job in a situation like his. injured, being side, inevitably over your his part, like to spend some more time ‘ If friend Hellyer^ imagines that cri­ John Renboume. This is a folk-rock After Pentangle came Julie Felix, next door neighbour, in short it was like studying the subject before he rushes ticising this type of anti-Zionism plays group rather after the style of Fairport whose material was slightly better than the black hole of ^Calcutta. into print again, linking pro-Palestinians into the hands of the Israeli Govern­ Convention. usual, including a pleasant performance As far as I could see the promised all- with the National Front. He might, for ment, he might ask himself how the They were followed by Free, Gypsy, of Cohen’s ‘Bird on the Wire’, but she night trains and boats were not running example, like to do some research into Shin Beth manages to infiltrate Western­ Blonde on Blonde and the Bonzo Dog was a bit hesitant on stage. until 5.30 a.m., and neither was the loud­ the Committee for Solidarity with the ised Jews into Arab countries except by Band—who put on a genuinely funny but Ritchie Have\s was in good voice, and speaker system, which surely some twit Palestinian Revolution, to find that it posing as militants of the broad Trot’ entirely musical entertainment of their has quite a personality, and can com­ could have used in order to try to alle­ does not support Nasser, but does, in left. own. They are unique and brilliant. The municate with an audience. After him viate, in some cases, the very real dis­ Nice were the evening’s finale—by now came the first bad idea programmatically tress of the trapped and angry crowd. most will be familiar with their con­ of the entire thing, an interval of \\ The crowd, however, were fantastically siderable instrumental virtuosity—repre­ hours. People got up, left the vast arena self-disciplined, a fact that had been an senting the classics of everyone from —holding 120,000 at this point—wandered outstanding feature of the whole week­ TACTICS ON DEMONSTRATIONS Bach to Khachaturian in a way that does around, and it was a difficult and time- end. It was only thanks to this that A NALYSIS OF OUR own experiences prepared and carried out. No attempt not show any disrespect for these worthies consuming job to get them settled down there were not serious injuries—especially is one of our primary tasks now, not was made to carry a larger part of the of music, rather its own kind of rever­ again even for the Band. with the fuzz provocatively leering just debating May ’68, Makhno and demonstration with them by stopping, ence. It is pleasant also to hear a purely The Band were a well-drilled lot who through the bars at us all night, and Malatesta. It is in this light that the linking arms, telling everyone about the instrumental group once in a while. obviously know their material well. Here laughing their shrinkable heads off, as experience of last Sunday’s Irish Demon­ new target, etc. As it was, they dashed The Saturday and Sunday concerts was C & W given a professional tinge if we had been bound for some con­ strations must be seen. off screaming ‘Anarchista, Anarchista’. were mammoth affairs of twelve hours that may rob it of some of its earthiness, venient concentration camp. The Anarchists, who very often prove This was totally irrelevant and meaning­ each, midday to midnight. Despite the but gives it a polish that is in many Isle of Wight fuzz, Ryde British Rail­ themselves to be among the most mili­ less to everyone else on the march who fact that Dylan and others were making ways its own compensation. It is not ways staff—may you get yours when the tant sections on demonstrations, this time obviously thought ‘Oh, another Anar­ a bomb out of this, one' could not com­ better than other, more ‘ethnic’ (to use revolution comes! Still, fantastically, it proved themselves to be lacking in poli­ chist freak-out’. They should have been plain of not getting value for money, at a horrible word) C & W sounds, it is just didn’t rain, did it? tical and tactical judgement. It should shouting ‘To the Unionist Office, the least not yet. different, that’s all. Unionist Office’, which was extremely Paddy F ields . have been obvious to anyone on the On Saturday we heard Blonde on Then Dylan—I have not heard ‘Nash­ march who reflected on the possibilities relevant to all on the march. Blonde again, Blodwyn Pig, Edgar ville Skyline’—so I was immediately of militant action that the necessary The lessons of this action are that Broughton, Marsha Hunt, Free, Who, struck by his singing, which is different factors were not present. The London Anarchists must understand the dialecti­ Fat Matress, Aynsly Dunbar, Joe Cocker, in tone, and in many ways better than Irish workers, who had been the most cal relationship between minority activist White Trash, Pretty Things and Family. his earlier recordings. He was as good SUMMER CAMP active element in the previous Sunday’s groups and the mass of demonstrators. For me the hit of the day were Family, as on record, something that one cannot demonstration, were not present, due to That for a small group to be effective in who rightly were the evening’s finale. say of many performers. He sang ‘St. lack of publicity, inefficient organisation initiating mass actions they have to be a Of the sing out, shout loud and rave Augustine’, ‘Lazy Lady Lay’, ‘Tambourine DEFICIT on the part of ICRSC and lack of time, part of that mass, to have common aims groups that proliferate at present, Family Man’, ‘Will Ye Go Lassie Go’ (a pleasant the cool-off in Ireland, and the march with them and not be manipulative. In strikes me as being in a class of their surprise that), ‘Highway 61’, ‘One Too T H E International Summer Camp being confined to Central London as militant situations, the services of affinity own as regards presentation, imagination Many Warnings’ in a lilting C & W style, in Cornwall ran at a loss. opposed to starting off in an Irish area. groups and the experience of militants and musical ability. They were superb. ‘Pity the Poor Immigrant’, Tike a Roll­ Although well over 200 comrades The police were highly concentrated com­ can be invaluable in creating and deve­ Apart from Dylan and Paxton, Sunday ing Stone’, ‘I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight’, attended, many ^ere unable to pay pared with the numbers of demonstrators loping new forms of struggle. The revo­ would still, however, have been the day ‘Mighty Quinn’ and others. In fact it their camping charges. Money was (showing how seriously they took the lutionary concept of a demonstration is for me. Gypsy opened—followed by the was developing into a fine climax to a given to help out foreign comrades demonstration as a threat after the pre­ surely that of a publicity/morale boost, utterly incredible Liverpool Scene— fine weekend’s music when he walked vious week). Lastly, the march was of practical and self-educational lessons Adrian Henri is his own kind of pop off, and that was that. in need, also equipment was unfor­ largely made up of social democrats in street tactics, mass-actions and as part group; and Andy Roberts has struck me, Dylan gave us an hour when at least tunately destroyed and a big loss whose conception of a march has not of the ongoing struggle against capital ever since the original Liverpool Scene two had been confidentially forecast by was incurred by the camp shop. changed from CND days. It should be and its guardians. LP came out with Roger McGough, as the promoters and expected by the The deficit is in the region of £80 noticed that the basis for militant action Thus in future there must be a respon­ one of the finest acoustic guitarists audience. At £35,000 per hour, Dylan is owed to the site owner and to indi­ is in the quality of the demonstration sible involvement in a demonstration, its around in his own stream—as Ren bourne, doing pretty well. Admittedly what he vidual comrades who lent us money. not the quantity—500 Irish workers are creation, aims and organisation. We can­ Jarsch, and Graham of fond .memory are gave us was pure gold—was it ungrateful Therefore we are making an urgent provedly more violent than 5,000 stu­ not afford people just going on demon­ in theiris—all of them unique, incom­ to expect more? Personally I do not appeal to all groups and individuals dents and armchair revolutionaries. strations as an excuse to riot for its own parable. Liverpool Scene presented an think so, and yet was still a little dis­ Despite this, the majority of the Anar­ sake and to indulge in narcissistic heroics. excellent skit on Powell ism, which went appointed quantity-wise. Apart from that who can help financially to send a chists on the march, about 50, led their This was written after much self- as near to slander as pop can get. They he was first-rate. donation to: Ann Lindsay, 39 Upper abortive breakaway in Parliament Square. criticism on the part of the authors, of were followed by the Third Ear Band— There were really only one or two Tulse Hill, London, S.W.2. Those This breakaway, which was as sectarian their own role in last Sunday's demon­ another instrumental group employing hang-ups, continually noisy, low-flying who were unable to pay their camp­ as their rigid grouping throughout the stration; which was in some cases similar the unusual combination of oboe, violin, aircraft and helicopters during the music ing charges at the time are invited demonstration and their ‘Anarchista’ to that of the criticised Anarchists. ’cello and bongoes, and using Eastern- that I could cheerfully have shot down, to send their luoney as soon aschants (how would you like to hear influenced techniques and moods in a people walking around too much (but possible. chants of ‘Mao Mao’?) was extremely ill- N otting H ill L ibertarians . Home is Evemody’sRight?

m m w s B ? ' The Fulham Squatters Bou Strut mm Pal'tu jHH ET ANOTHER NIGHT has passed enter the premises. They then pushed Y in the squatters occupation of an 8- past the bailiff and another man and the S ta k i& t roomed house in Rumbold Road, Ful­ police were called but, once again, the ham, where once as many as 20 to 30 squatters were within their rights and comrades gathered prepared to use all were allowed to stay after PC B.489 had the force necessary to hold the property threatened to smash the camera of one for the family then in occupation (the of our supporters. Fosters) who, no doubt every comrade The squatters then helped to load the knows, were rehoused in Camberwell. family’s furniture on to a lorry which '. ionic* m Then we must not forget Grace Craig had been supplied by a friend of the who, after a short period of squatting, squatters. Mrs. Keene and six-year-old S t m t C a t m m allowed herself to be put into the home­ daughter Susan then started the short less hostel (Battersea Bridge Buildings, journey to Rumbold Road while Mr. known locally as Battersea Bridge ‘Man­ Keene went to the Chelsea Welfare M 0 § * to i sions’) because the Council would not Department to ask for accommodation take care of their responsibilities to the for his family. family (or any family!). The accommodation offered to him We are resolved to carry on the cam­ was by Mrs. Tribe, head of the Chelsea paign for the homeless without authorities Welfare Department. Mr. Keene was •or personalities. We intend to ensure offered one room, a small kitchen and that no more sell-outs take place. We one toilet shared by eight other families. welcome the help of anyone who is pre­ The rent was £3 17s. 6d. a week for one pared to work and contribute for future month only, then out again. Mr. Keene operations. We regret that at the moment did not accept this offer and that was we are unable to support any more when he finally decided to squat. who are unable to support themselves. Joyce and David Keene have spent The squatters have held this house most of their married life in homeless since May 13, 1969. Thanks to the many, hostels including four years in Battersea many people who have helped in the Bridge Buildings. They have been on the fight for adequate housing for all, but we Hammersmith Housing List for nine must stress the fight is not yet won. years and were still homeless. While There are still homeless families, one of there are homeless families we cannot, which we squatted in Rumbold Road last we must not, give up squatting. Friday after they were evicted from 20 We need all the help we can get will bievicUdoo September IS ? Redcliffe Square, Chelsea, by the County physically, mentally, and financially. We Court bailiff Ronald George Bevan who appeal to all comrades—do not forget us was wearing a blue shirt and black tie or what we are fighting for. •(maybe trying to prove how superior he was). Members of the South West Lon­ For and on behalf of don Squatters’ Group arrived on the South West London Squatters , scene at the same time as the bailiff and c/o 22 Rumbold Road, Squatting Victory in Edinburgh the squatters were told they could not Fulham, S.W.6. h e " edingbt A h squatters of some of the helpers, so we leafletted off and has set a marvellous precedent • group was conabted on August 27 the street explaining how the issue of the Not only did the police not take action by Bill and Sheila.Henderson, a young squat affected them. under the Trespass Scotland Act 1865, couple who had njjwed into an empty The excellent press coverage so em­ but the Ministry has been forced to rent Collect Money flat in the centre oiftdinburgh. The flat, barrassed the Ministry that they decided out property that might otherwise have at 6 Brighton Styt,. whieff had been to drop the thought of any legal action stayed empty for years, till the area be­ empty for five^ydafs, was owned by the and instead said that they would want to came due for redevelopment We are Ministry of Public* Building and Works. move in a more deserving homeless now looking for more empty property in Bill and Sheila had 8pen there for two family. (Bill and Sheila have no children the area. Edinburgh has a housing list for the Homeless! weeks before they were discovered and and Sheila is a student . . . thus making of 6,000 and a recent report showed that visited by police ^ho^told them to move them less deserving we supposed?) How­ there are over 10,000 families living in Sir, was committed to prison for occupying out as they wereglrespassing. ever they seemed unable to find a more overcrowded conditions. Ultimately we 1 would like to draw the attention of a room in a house owned by a million­ On hearing this news a small band of deserving case as, after the weekend, Bill must battle for a complete change in your readers to the terrible housing si­ aire who was (and still is) letting it activists were collected on the day of the and Sheila were told that they would be priorities so that more people are housed tuation in Dublin. We have 10,000 decay away.. Dennis repaired and did threatened eviction and advised Bill and offered the tenancy at a reasonable rent. in the centre and organisations like the homeless or housed worse than rats. up one room. Dublin citizens en masse Sheila to barricade themselves in. They The flat is in 19th century property university and the Ministry stop specu­ Yet all over the city are large solid turned out onto the streets in protest agreed to do this,- not having had any­ sandwiched between the university and lating with property. empty houses that would provide flats at this wicked gaoling, and we were where decent to Jive for a long time. the museum. The whole area is being Edinburgh Squatters is a loose grouping of great comfort for from 3 to twelve cruelly batoned by the police. Never­ They put a chest rpf drawers behind the bought up for ‘educational’ buildings and of people interested in various types of will soon be a ghetto of culture without families and 2 to 6 bedsitters for our theless our protest led to the release of front door. Two Ministry officials, two community action. We are involved in almost below-the-breadline old-age pen­ Dennis who was given a caravan on a policemen and twoj joiners came to the a house in sight. The traditional element helping people to start tenants associa­ sioners. Corporation plot. door. In the presence of the squatters’ of working-class homes will have been tions and a newspaper about the housing The Government has the power to Yesterday in the High Court three lawyer, they tookilno action and went deported to the outskirts of the city. In situation and recent vicious rent increases requisition any of these houses that it more men were committed to prison away saying that they would return in a recent speech a rector of a central in the city. does not indeed really own. It prefers because they refused to put their wives the afternoon. church called the university a ‘vandal and children out onto the streets so that gobbling up property’. Perhaps nearly a There will be a conference on Com­ to sell them to rapacious English specu­ By 3 p.m. in the afternoon about 30 a monstrously rich elderly spinster could third of the centre of the city will be munity Action in Scotland on October 25 lators who bulldoze them down and sympathisers had gathered to lend their erect monstrous concrete office blocks. sell the building (once a small hotel) owned by the two universities or the art in Edinburgh. moral support and jpecide what action to We have the worst housing pro­ to an English firm to convert into college or a big teaching hospital. The Details of these and other subversive take if there was a iorcible eviction. The offices. The price she is getting is last area of housing is being gobbled up activities in a city ripe for revolution gramme in Europe. True, the Corpora­ officials never tumejd up. tion has built a few ghettoes miles out­ £23,000. We are all poor working-class in a deal between the university and a from: Tom Woolley, 14 West Preston side the city, which it lets at rents few people and need money desperately to The neighbours Rad been rather anta­ branch of City Centre Properties Ltd. Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9PU (031-667 working-class can afford to pay, especial­ support these families while their brave gonistic, mainly because of the long hair Bill and Sheila’s direct action has paid 7241). ly when living out in one of these husbands are in prison indefinitely. Can ghettoes means bus fares of about 5/- you help? Will every reader send even jg day. 1/-. More if you can afford it. All will The Dublin Housing Action Com­ be gratefully acknowledged and received. mittee exists to help these victims of Meanwhile we will continue the speculation, capitalism, and imperialism. battle and brave the batons. We take over suitable houses and put families in squatting. This leads to bu­ Mrs. H ilary C. J. BdYLE. reaucratic reactions. Dublin H(fusing Action Committee, Last January, Mr. Dennis Dennehey cfo 30 Gardiner Place, Dublin Ho Chi Minlt

6TTNCLE HO’ DIED a paternalistic War, the cadre of professional agents those who served under arch-Machiavel­ M leader of North Vietnam. The was combed out, to be utilised or lian Borodin, enabled him to play Russia tribulations of war sometimes soften the executed. National origins became of off against China, so that even now, no­ Token Squatin Harrogateharsher features of dictatorship when the importance once more. Dimitrov remem­ body knows which of the two rivals is state is doing well; or make brutal facts bered he was a Bulgarian, Nguyen that going to influence North Vietnam. No­ AS THIS COPY of Freedom comes out This will be only a token 24-hour more obvious when the slate docs badly. he was an Annamese (as they then were). body repeated Trotsky’s mistake, not on sale, the squatters move into an squat as the house is shortly to be de­ The Vietnamese people shll do not en­ The ‘rootless cosmopolitans’ were sent to turning up at the funeral of the leader empty Council house in Knaresborough, molished to make way for a Council flat tirely understand that nobody intended Siberia, but Nguyen returned to the East because of a cold in the nose. But the near Harrogate, Yorkshire, development. The reason for the squat victory, that it was all a move on the as a Vietnamese patriot, to rally his Chinese were outflanked into leaving too is that it has stood EMPTY FOR SIX chessboard, und Ho Chi Minh acquired countrymen around the French and soon. YEARS. This, coupled with the fact that the image of a Churchill, Americans in the cause of ‘national Ho Chi Minh, whose greatest achieve­ there are 300 families, in a town of only Born into the mandarin class, Nguyen liberation’ which was his from then on. ment before the war had been (as Lien 9,000 people, on the Council waiting list, Tath Thanh became*' one of the many ‘Worid communism’ had become a name Fu) to penetrate the Chinese seamen’s shows the criminal attitude of the gumshoe men of Michael Borodin in his only. union and become president in order to BROADSHEETS Council, which is made up of small- ill-fated 'Red’ Chinese ventures back in As ‘Ho Chi Minh’, the latest in many dissolve it (since Moscow could not minded shopkeepers and retired managing the twenties. The bureaucracy survived aliases, Nguyen became the post-war dominate it), became the most revered The Anarchist directors. all disasters like the legendary talking leader in Hanoi, where he was to become hero in the Marxist pantheon. War-time We will be handing out leaflets all day head after the axe had fallen. a figurehead in the struggle first against gave the old diplomatist, like Churchill, Revolution Saturday to passers-by and shoppers. We One after another the professional the French, then against the Americans. a charisma that he may have dreamed of will be pleased to welcome any comrades agents gravitated to Moscow as the When French imperialism ceased to be once but must long since have ceased to 4s.6d. a 100 to our beautiful house, which is in Castle schemes failed all over the world. expansionist, Moscow re-discovered it hope for. It is amazing that when he Ings Road, if they are in the area. The Patiently the apparatus was rebuilt. Some was imperialist. died, at 79, he was being hailed as a 30s. a 1000, postage 6s. comrades of the Leeds group have already became party leaders* some became pro­ A persistent, plodding bureaucrat—his symbol of international student rebellion Cash with order—please!promised major support for our cam­ fessional spies, others remained in the patience born in years of inter-party and the hopes of youth. Nothing in his paign. mysterious Stalinist hinterland where the manoeuvring and the endless gambles the life was so revolutionary as the name he Russians had played in China—he came had when leaving it. It was the best alias FREEDOM PRESS R ooer W illis & distinction was often blurred. With the ‘Great Patriotic War’, as Moscow called to the top and could not be moved. Skill he ever used. Harrogate Group Dave Howes. the second half of the Second Imperialist in diplomacy, noticeable in almost all Internationalist . OPEN FORUM

Anarchism demands 1 LETTER TO THE ANARCHISTS Mutual Aid T THINK MY VIEWS on anarchism As a former anarchist and frequent from about 1908 which grew, then de­ tarian movement no less innocuous than kin, Bakunin and Proudhon (two aristo­ A must be somewhat idiosyncratic since reader of F reedom I was interested clined most markedly in recent years. the SPGB and othi?T splinter socialist crats and a peasant, and scarcely they don’t seem to run with any sort of by Farquhar MacLay’s article (26.7.69) His analysis of this decline rests upon groups. forward-looking figures). main current. 1 dislike tying labels on *Wha Kens Maist Marx?’ It made the the assumption that your enemy, the Although the State may aPPear to It’s no good dressing up the old plati­ myself, but I have been called an indi­ point that nowadays it is much more State, is much less obvious than in pre- most Anarchists as tb® main enemy it tudes of State hating in more modern vidualist difficult to know your enemy and he Welfare State eras. I would suggest is significant that Anarchism in Britain garb as F. MacL. does. If the Anar­ I find lla picture of the individual com­ makes the analogy between the man that this is only a half-truth, more at any rate poses no problem to the chists really want to destroy the bogey­ peting in a divided society not only re­ suffering from T.B. who could be ‘pal­ importantly I think the Anarchists in faceless men who wield power and man of a State, then let them under­ pugnant but impossible. We are all liated' by drugs and thus be less aware Glasgow, and in other parts of Britain make the main decisi°ns- ^ ^ e un" stand it and evolve some alternative forced to co-operate at some time or of his condition and modern man under also, have failed to capture any con­ likely event of the present State machine which is not merely ‘pie-in-the-sky’. ~ other, even in our present jungle. Free­ the State System being in this position siderable portion of the working-class breaking down, there & little chance Without some attempt at re-think, the dom is not an absolute, it is conditional also. movement. Most of the advances made of an Anarchist altefnat*ve being real­ Anarchists will continue to remain cafe on the large majority placing some Unfortunately F. MacL. appears not by the workers have been gained ised because the so-called Anarchists debaters and saloon bar revolutionaries voluntary restraints on their behaviour. to ken very much Marx himself or he through the Trade Unions and the now are not organised to be in a position to ‘full of sound and fury, signifying no­ Helping others is part of this behaviour. would know that the State is a mythical much-discredited Labour Party. The do so. Anarchism is another of the thing’. Thus, while I am against any brand of being which symbolises the rule of a Anarchists have always stood aside from impossibilist religions that has to wait Anarchism and the State (or present- communism, I am in favour of co-opera­ dominant class, it is therefore impossible the real struggle, they have rejected for the last man in the world to be day society) are like two different tion and mutual aid. Furthermore, I to know it or to hate it, you come in„ organisation and all elementary forms of converted before salvation can be worlds; unlike the astronauts, how­ believe that the complete abolition of touch only with its representatives who, leadership and kept to their moral ab­ attained. If there was any evidence ever, the Anarchs have still to build capitalism and the monetary system is like the attendants in the gas chambers, solutes with politics, voting and elec­ that any mass conversion was taking their vehicle to get them to their desti­ essential for a free society. are ‘merely carrying out orders'. tions as primeval taboos. It has been place, then there might be some justi­ nation. I don’t have a utopian view of what F. MacL. mentions that there has this ^failure to become involved that fication in holding oil to the ideas of Tommy Phelan . that society should be like, because I been an Anarchist Group in Glasgow has kept Anarchism an exclusive sec- nineteenth-century figures like Kropot- 145 StockweU Street, Glasgow believe that we are certain to remain in a state of change and there will be no Freedom is an ide& Ideas are com­ Meltzer says the young people who point at which we can say we .have municated by discussion, by argument, made their presence felt at Dulwich arrived. What concerns me is the di­ rection of change. I am in the anarchist by debate. Slogans—whether daubed on were exercising their freedom. To my walls or shouted iriSprocessions—con­ mind they were abusing it. Forcing an movement because . I think that society Discuss, Argue& Debate! is moving in the wrong direction, that vert nobody. The mail you think con­ entry into an empty house in order to is in the direction of greater centralisa­ Dear Friend, (I want to abolish verted by a slogan will be converted provide a home for a family without one I can respect and admire. Forcing tion, larger and larger units of pro­ If A. Meltzer wants to quote the Dullish Collish back again tomorrow fby another slogan duction, bigger and bigger inter­ an entry just in order to . deface the scriptures, I can offer him something But as I cannot burn it all shouted louder. Freedom will spread by dependent communities and conse­ walls is , another matter altogether, more to the point^—his point—-than I ’ll just , •slap ’ paint upon the wall) the intelligent portrayal of its benefits, quently less and. less freedom. I would serves no good end, and helps to create Mene mene, etc., namely, ‘If the trum­ I suggest that he reads Steinbeck’s by the clash of mind upon mind, not like to see society moving- in the oppo­ pet give an uncertain sound, who shall The Moon is Down, . . . ‘You cannot of fist upon flesh—or of paint upon enemies to our cause. site direction, in the direction of greater prepare himself to the battle?' Enthu­ shoot the mayor; the mayor is an idea w all! W. David W ills. individual independence,, self-sufficiency siastic young rebels daubing .Anarchy in the minds of free people’. In the and freedom—in . the direction of anar­ on the walls of Dulwich (of any other) same way you can’t destroy Dulwich chy. It follows that I am against the College certainly do not give an un­ College and all it stands for simply by welfare state, local authority housing, certain sound. No one at the college burning the building. If only it were state education and the health services, can now be unaware of the existence as easy as that! Those who believe in against any of the paternalistic services of anarchists (whatever they may think the Dulwich College kind of thing-rand Individualism— that go to rob a man of his individual of them) and if there should be any some of them may be men who have initiative., There would no doubt be there who had leanings towards anarch­ ideals which they cherish just as warmly less security in an anarchic society, but ism but were faint-hearted, this event as Meltzer cherishes his-^will still be­ I would rather have freedom than secu­ may have given their morale a boost. lieve in it when their building has been rity. . . . If A. Meltzer had used arguments immonsense ? destroyed. Furthermore (and this is the of this kind instead of wasting space point I tried to make in my first letter) Dear Editors, horror news of the press demonstrates on personal abuse of me based on the Self-sufficient Units they will have had their prejudice Mr. Parkeris extreme ideas on indivi­ every day) or the removal of the cause entirely erroneous supposition that I am against our kind of thing greatly dualism have taken him to the anti­ of strife, conflicting interests consequent W H A T I WOULD particularly like to a schoolmaster, we might have had the strengthened by such an occurrence. To socialist position; This'is (not surprising on the private and State ownership of see is the break up of our mass beginnings of the dialogue I had hoped assume that your. opponents are evil since these ideas are merely those of the instruments of wealth production. society into smaller and smaller self- for. men fit only for destruction is to make existing Society with the |power of the True individualism will be possible supporting units. Here is something to Instead he talks of wanting to abolish enemies. To assume that they are in­ State to check the worst excesses re­ only in a free Society (I know you hate think about in this connection. Holland Dulwich College, thinks that end can be telligent and well-intentioned is the first moved. Without this safeguard, capital­ the word but you persist in cpnfusing is the most densely populated country achieved by burning it down, but as and essential step towards making them ism would have been unable to function. it with the State). When people have in the world, yet there is enough land he cannot burn it down just now ___ g| _allies; and-.converts. -s - ______^ ^ m ^ n tiv e icr Lgive’ or^ rneir oesr1 Ldnd TO '^fve eVefy- ifn iFY>Y rSfrpeffpl&^me/ud- Parker dreams, iflt ever it could be determine their own needs, Society will ing everybody from new-born babies to tested, would fail f e the same reason. be free. Your way does not lead to the bedridden old) acres, which would Inevitably the ‘strong arm’ individualist liberty, Mr. Parker, quite the opposite. make them self-supporting in food. It would take over and instead of the To be free, people must be indepen­ has often been said that this country libertarian utopia ($ Mr. Parker (and dent and this they will be only when cannot produce enough food to feed the his ideas really are fthe path to utopia’, they have economic liberty. To dream population, yet our density of population of which he is so sebrnful), what would of liberty on any other basis is to is only five-eighths that of Holland. If LITERARY NOTEBOOK emerge would be .the Slave State all we take another example, there is build your castle on sand (or in the over again, barbarian, ruthless, and we air). enough productive land in the Argentine AST YEAR TWO of Victor Serge's a very foolish man.) know that, as compared with latter-day To make a ‘profit’, someone else to give every unit of ten people 165 L novels were published in English, Finally, as part of the series of books barbarians, Genghis'' Khan was a mere must be exploited, and anyway it would acres. one, I think, for the first time. This is issued under the collective title of ‘The amateur. If we consider liberty to be be without meaning in a Society where It must not be thought from the above Birth of our Power, a moving and well- Documentary History of Western Civil­ a desirable thing, we cannot at the same wealth was free. A society based on that I am advocating a back-to-the-land, written story of Spanish anarchism in ization’, Macmillan have just published time set any limit toV it. the elimination of existing evils is not rurally primitive sort of society. I am the early and mid-thirties, and it is pub­ Modern Socialism, edited by Massimo *Liberty is absolute.’ It can be neither utopia, it is common sense, or what trying to bring some light to bear on lished by Gollancz at 30/-. The other Salvadori. This sells at 90/- and qualified nor conditioned. Is this agreed, might be common sense. We may not the possibility of creating very small is the better-known Case of Comrade frankly, unless one is totally ignorant Mr. Parker? If not, where does the be able to transform lions into sheep self-sufficient units. It seems to me that Tulayev, first published in this country of socialist literature, C. it is largely a limit apply and who, in a free society, but we can live sensibly, in accordance the rapid advance of technology is by Hamish Hamilton in 1951, and now waste of money. Such a well-known and will determine when? ‘Consistent with with natural social instincts, when actually making this more possible, reprinted as a Penguin Modern Classic easily available work as the Communist the liberty of othersV An impossible wealth is produced for use instead of particularly the little advertised progress at 7/6d. Actually, I discovered that it Manifesto, for instance, is reproduced precept. Only two corrections to abuse profit. If you value freedom, Mr. in micro-miniaturisation. We are pos­ went out of print almost immediately here in full, as are selections from are possible, the coercive power of the Parker, think again. sibly within sight of a technology that but it probably won’t be too difficult to Thomas More’s Utopia, (which is avail­ State under individualism (and this has could givq to a unit little more than the find a paperback bookseller with an able in its entirety in a Penguin edition), a very limited effect# as the front page Woldingham, Surrey 'H enry Ball . size of a large family, the means to odd copy or two still on his shelves. Mao Tse-tung’s infantile quotations, support itself entirely at a highly so­ Both these novels are well worth read­ G. B. Shaw’s Fabian Essays, and, in­ phisticated level. Of course this would ing, and although the first will probably evitably, the first chapter of What Is require large resources in manpower be of more interest to readers of this Property? taken from the Tucker trans­ and materials for its initial creation and newspaper, the second novel, dealing lation. The Anarchist interpretation of would therefore be too expensive in with Stalinist Russia and a purge of socialism is further expressed by a few capitalist terms to spread widely; but if the ‘Old Bolsheviks’, is, by far, the chunks of Bakunin (Maximoff edition) The Law Can Boomerangwe can devote enormous resources to better from a literary point of view. I and two articles by Sorel (?), the first landing men on the moon, we can surely hope that those who have already read being the Introduction to Reflections on HE LAW is basically and essentially armies at a given notice. However the devote them to making the men on earth independent. Memoirs of a Revolutionary will bear Violence, and the second on the pro­ T constituted to protect the interests French syndicalists had a way of sur­ me out in saying that nobody has suc­ letarian strike. I find it hard to imagine of the wealthy. It js merely incidental mounting this obstacle. They pointed ceeded in describing revolutionaries in how somebody by the name of Salva­ that it protects the ^working class from out to their fellow workers in the rail­ Need such a vivid and memorable fashion as dori could overlook Armando Borghi, time to time. And this is only to con­ ways that there were thousands of laws Victor Serge. Errico Malatesta, Ugo Fedeli, and Lujgi ceal its real function: the legal sanction and rules made for the running of the for Independence Still on the subject of reprints, Edgar Bertoni—to name but a few! railways. If these were adhered to in­ of the exploitation of labour. /AF COURSE WE are up against the Snow's Red Star over China has also i suppose though that, as far as this But the law can boomerang. When the stead of using commonsense in the run­ just been re-issued by Gollancz at 70/-. book is concerned, anarchists shouldn’t ning of the railways there would be Sjg old dilemma. We need men who work-to-rule strike!was born it was are independent, self-reliant and widely This was, I believe, the first account in complain too much. Trotsky is allo­ illegal for French railwaymen to with­ chaos. The French railwaymen decided English by an on-the-spot observer of cated about 17 pages, Lenin one more, to adhere to the rules and made the law skilled to fight for our free society, but draw their labour.T The railways in our present society tends to produce the Chinese revolution and was first Stalin 14, while Che Guevara ends up France were then as now nationalised look an ass. The work-to-rule strike was published in 1937 (?)—a Chinese equi­ with three. If you really want to know born and the law had boomeranged men who are dependent, acquiescent and for the convenience di .transporting largely unskilled. To change society we valent, perhaps, of John Reed's Ten what fills up the rest of the 396 pages, against the powers-that-be. Since then need to change people, but if people are Days That Shook the World. How­ you can get a copy of the book for the work-to-rule has been used by many shaped by society, how are we to change yourself and look. But I wouldn’t advise workers. ever, as a corrective to Snow’s some­ them without first changing society? It. what rosy optimism—justifiable I sup­ can say of his translators! As well as it* is necessary to break out of this vicious The myth surrounding the life and the books, the lilmTof his J1&? starring pose at that time—I recommend readers circle at some point. Fortunately it is to have a look also at Jacques Marcuse's death of Che Guevara continues to Omar Sharif as th$ man himself and Jack Pal lance as Castro, is getting a not complete, the existence of an anar­ Peking Papers, (published by Barker at grow. Last year saw the publication in chist movement, small as it may be, good deal of advance publicity which WE GO TO PRESS ON MONO Av 36/-), which is witty, urbane and very English of Reminiscences of the Cuban shows this. As long as the gap exists much to the point in its exposure of Revolutionary War, (Allen & Unwin, Allen Lane are turning to 800(* u.se as there is hope. Perhaps we should be they have just published a new biogra­ LATEST DATE FOR RECEIPT OF some of the worst failings of Mao’s 42/-), Venceremos: Speeches and Writ­ trying to consolidate the breach by mak^ phy of Fidel (5 0 /J If the film is a China. (Marcuse, incidentally, is the ings (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 50/-), MSS., LETTERS, MEETING NOTICES ing ourselves more independent, more Belgian journalist who offered to ex­ Bolivian Diary (Lorrimer, 25/-), Com­ commercial success, fjt could set a dan­ self-sufficient, as well as trying to per­ change places with Anthony Gray, the plete Bolivian Diaries (Allen & Unwin, gerous precedent and we may yet see IS THE MONDAY IN EACH WEEK suade others to do the same. If enough 42/-), and odd pamphlets. Castro is Orson Wells ‘doing’ [the JifP of Bakunin Reuter correspondent now held prisoner OF PUBLICATION. of us do this, we may one day make in Peking. Considering his outspoken reputed to have said of Che, ‘He wrote (‘I have manned the barricades at mid­ the state redundant. night. . A criticism of Chinese Communism, M. with the virtuosity of a master of our G eoffrey Barfoot . Marcuse is either a very courageous or language.’ It’s certainly more than one Kropotkin os on Encyclopaedist Publications Now on Sale NYONE AWARE that Kropotkin so of notes and come away with the F reedom (since 1886 ). A was, in his early life, an explorer impression that someone, somewhere, The attractive and jeadily under­ and geographer of note would not be has missed the point. Not so in the standable style which Kropotkin used surprised to find articles by him in 1911 edition; the article is complete, was obviously too much for the editor, KROPOTKIN’S journals and encyclopaedias of the turn concise and one of the best on the sub­ Ernest Babelon. He feltjthat he should of the century. He had explored from ject that I have read. It runs to over put a note at the bottorp of the second Finland, across Russia, to Manchuria, 7,500 words (nearly three times the page to explain the name ‘anarchist’ The State-lts and soon after his thirtieth birthday length of the article on Communism He eventually takes up h?lf a page with produced a map and paper that in the same edition) and is, of course, his ‘note’ which starts off as an attempt showed the existing maps of Asia by Kropotkin. ;toj vindicate the name ‘anarchist’ from Historic Role entirely misrepresented the physical Kropotkin traces anarchist philosophy criminal connections, then he changes New translation by Vernon Richards formation of the continent. from Zeno (270 B.C.) through Godwin his mind half way through and rambles 4 /- (+ 5d. postage) Recently I had the time to thumb to his own contemporaries. Kropotkin on about spies and the Haymarket through a set of Eleventh Edition En­ said that Godwin’s answer was com­ affair, eventually in thejjlast paragrai.h From FREEDOM PRESS cyclopaedia Britannica published in munism and criticizes him for not hav­ gives up all pretence .of impartially Write for full book-list 1911. Twenty or so articles in these ing the courage of his opinions because and adopts the familiar ‘nasty-anarchists* volumes on subjects from the Cossacks he later rewrote much of his work. threw - a - bomb - at - our - beautiful to Estonia, from the geography of Rus­ (This is heartening to many anarchists princess’ routine. sia to Turkestan, are by a , contributor who, like myself, feel that although In the same edition |s a biography of credited as ‘PAK.’ A glance at the list Godwin was a piercing critic of the Bakunin and a short biography of Kro­ of contributors reveals this to be Peter system, his solution has as much to do potkin himself. The latter appears Alexeivich Kropotkin. with anarchism as Micky Mouse.) Kro­ shortly after Kropotkinas factual and Inevitably, I looked for the section on potkin mentions the important anarchist impersonal article on Kronstadt, written books1 ^Anarchism’. Those who have seen this newspapers of that time, Freiheit (since in ignorance of the betrayal that was section in . recent encyclopaedias will 1878), Le (and La) Revolte (since 1878), to leave the streets littered with dead have quickly read the half a page or and the only one now remaining, but a decade later. Larry L a w . we can supply any book in print champion of the downtrodden, John of the lighting than their television The most notorious culprit in this SECONDHAND SOLIDARITY Hume, having rounded up a couple screens. Having arrived] to claim their respect was Eamonn McCann, who has We have a large stock of secondhand of frightened women, intervened and share of the victory, the^hacks are now always had a. reputation for being an books. Try us for what you want. This ACTION WANTED I allowed the pigs to scurry to safety attempting to sell out.J'They opposed ardent revolutionary. Yet on this occa­ weeks selection. street meetings because! as P. Doherty, sion his failure was abject and total. All Experience Ethel Mannin 6/- In Bogside, meanwhile, they had vice-chairman of the ‘defence committee’ When the fighting was at its toughest, Continued from page 1 managed to push the pigs out of Thc Question Edward Clodd 6/- said, ‘Public meetings arfetoo dangerous. McCann was spending most of his time The Angel of the Assassination disorganised, with no overall stra­ Rosville Street across a road junc­ People tend to ask awkward questions talking to reporters, and drinking with Joseph Shearing 6/- tegy, otherwise the pigs would have tion, and just as they were about to and they are not prepared to com­ Mary Holland of the Observer. When Utilitarianism John Stuart Mill 3/- been beaten» much sooner. Some complete the push into the wealthy promise.’ the fighting stopped, McCann was just as The Proletarian Heritage flanking attacks were carried out by Strand Road commercial area, the When the revolutionaries, anarchists elusive, refusing to participate in the Frederick Longden 5/- individual groups. The most spec­ people were surprised by a police and socialists began to lipid public meet­ setting up of Radio Free Derry, or in Chartist Studies tacular was an assault on Rose- charge from their left—the same ings every day, we weifedenounced in street meetings organised by those who Asa Briggs (paperback) 17/6 statements by the defence committee. had been fighting. His only contribution Man’s Worldly Goods mount Police Barracks. This was police who had been freed twenty to the struggle has been to duplicate carried out at a time when Bogside minutes earlier by Hume. When its chairman was! foolish enough Leo Huberman 4/6 to appear on our platform, and tried to broadsheets for the reactionary ‘defence’ Britain and the Beast was under severe pressure* and re­ Much of the fighting was like tell the people, ‘your committee will in­ committee, and thereby increase their this, with the pigs never shy to use (ed.) Clough Williams-Ellis 3/- quired some police to be drawn off. struct you how to behj&e’, he had to stranglehold on the minds of the people, The League of Frightened Philistines Rosemount Barracks was attacked, their guns. Two people were shot leave very quickly with th$ crowd yelling giving them an apparent legality, and James T. Farrell 6/- and all the doors except one were in the mouth and chest from close for his blood. making it more difficult to demonstrate Ambassador on Special Mission petrol-bombed (even a rat needs an range as they were caught in a gate­ Now this same defence committee is to the people that their wishes and the Sir Samuel Hoare 4/- wishes of the committee were not alike. •escape hole!). One lad managed to way during a police rush. On an­ attempting to manoeuvrJthe people into Friendship’s Odyssey As libertarians you can sit back smugly other occasion the vanguard of the a general feeling of disSitent so as to Francois Delisle 15/- get on to the roof and was merrily and say, ‘As usual, the leaders sell out get them to take down the barricades. Biologists in Search of Material pulling slates off so as to be able to Bogside charge was machine-gunned on the people.’ This is true, but it was chuck bombs in. when the police had to retreat to FAILURE OF ‘REVOLUTIONARIES’ as difficult to find an anarchist at the Scott Williamson Strand Road. All this time, of barricades in Derry”~and "Belfast as it is and Innes H. Pearse 5/- Reinforcements were rushed from Despite all HieT ‘tropRes5 ~oFthe past Bogside and were neatly ambushed course, tear gas was being fired in to find a revolutionary (not the armchair The Police Ben Whitaker 12/6 bursts of five or six shells every ten months the revolutionary and poli­ kind) on the streets of London. This is Critique of the Gotha Programme T>y Ja Corporation bus which was tical consciousness of the people is riot Karl Marx 3/6 commandeered for the occasion. couple of minutes. After fifty hours where it’s at, comrades, and when we very well developed, frhey are aware needed your help, your money, your The Pillars of Security Trapped in a narrow street, their the battle came to an end when that their struggle is against the state and British troops arrived on the scene physical presence, and your political ex­ Sir William Beveridge 3/- way out blocked by a bus, with its hired thugs. They ire as yet unaware perience, it just was not there (with a Ten Lean Years Wal Hannington 3/6 petrol bombs raining down on them and interposed themselves between that those people whri’claim to represent couple of honourable exceptions). When POSTAGE EXTRA and their only escape route through us and the pigs. them do not have their interests at heart, it breaks out again, and make no mis­ that they are preparedito sell them out take it will, and soon, it will be a the burning barracks, the fuzz began DEFEAT OF THE RUC in order to further their own devious hundred times worse. Let us hope that Freedom Bookshop to fire tear gas and revolvers all This obvious defeat of the RUC was ends. The most unfortunate aspect of around, but they need not have your help will also increase to the same hailed as a victory for the people of this was the total failure of many of the extent. feared for help was close at hand. Derry by the local opportunist politi­ local left in Derry to participate in any The well-known moderate and cians who had been no nearer the scene meaningful way. COLUMCILLE. HERE WE ARE! Harlow. Note new telephone number: . LOUGHTON. Group c/o [Students’ Union, WELSH FEDERATION BIShopsgate 9249 Anarchist Federation of Britain Loughton College of Further Education, Borders ABERYSTWYTH ANARCHISTS. Contact Steve Lane, Loughton, Essex. Mills, 4 St. Micnael’s Place, Aberystwyth, Cardi­ ganshire, Wales. Aug.-Sept, correspondence only. New address: ANARCHIST FEDERATION OF BRITAIN 1969 CONFERENCE NORTH-WEST FEDERATION CARDIFF ANARCHIST GROUP. Ail corres­ 84B WHITECHAPEL HIGH STREET, September 26, 27 & 28 — LONDON pondence to:—Pete Raymond, 18 Marion Street Secretary: Phil, 8 Stonecroft Road, Leyland, PR5 Splott, Cardiff. (entrance Angel Alley), Friday & Saturday in Conway Hall Sunday in Freedom Meeting Hall 3AE. SWANSEA ANARCHIST GROUP. WHITECHAPEL, E.l. Agenda to be sent to groups. Any not listed please write. All motions and written papers BLACKPOOL. Contact Christine and Graham, Ian Bone, 18 Windsor Street, Uplands, Swansea. submit to LFA in good time for study by the various groups. Papers to be duplicated where Top flat, 4 Ruskin Avenue, South Shore, Black­ Meetings at the above address every Sunday at (Underground: Aldgate East. Exit: necessary. pool. 7 p.m. Whitechapel Art Gallery. Turn right BOLTON. Contact John Hayes, 51 Rydal Road, LLANELLI: Contact Dai Walker, 6 Llwuynnendy LONDON FEDERATION OF ANARCHISTS. CROYDON LIBERTARIANS. Meetings every Road, Llanelli, Carm. Tel: Llanelli 2548. on emerging from station.) All correspondence to LFA, c/o Freedom Press. 2nd Friday of each month. Laurens and Celia Bolton. BLACK KNIGHT GROUP, 5 Nelson Road, N.8. Otter, 35 Natal Road, Thornton Heath, CR4 8QH CHORLEY. 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Od. the cards are still stacked in. the same order The lower half may be shuffled slightly but the t0P half is status quo. 80% of the national wealth is still in the hands of fewer than 10% of the population, after THE RITUAL 101 TUC Cong^®^®^* People still go to the polls in the | ^POKING around the industrial analysis the Government of the day hope they can change this situation. scene one sees the usual skir­ will make the decision, no matter Or do they? Is it a fact that, be­ mishes, odd sections of workers how reactionary that decision may cause we can go to the Costa Brava struggling to improve their wages be. If the decision is difficult to every year for two weeks, we are and conditions. Fifty members of implement it will persuade the TUC satisfied? Or, if we cannot do that, the NUG&MW entering their twen­ to implement for it as per the wage make sure we have a car? tieth week on strike, whilst Lord freeze. A minority of the younger gener­ Cooper, their General Secretary, was Year by year the drift is from one ation say ‘No!’ to this emphasis on busy supporting the Prices and conference to the next, union con­ materialism. Are the rest of us Incomes Board at the TUC Congress. ference to TUC Congress to Labour drugged by the persuasion of the What about the 101st Trades Party Conference. Each year sees mass media? If we are, then the Union Congress at Portsmouth? In the facade of Left versus Right in outlook is bleak to say the least. terms of names it would appear that each gathering. What precisely does What can be done? For God’s sake the left wing is making a bid to call it all mean? ‘Bugger all’. But this not the ritual of the conferences. the tune Scanlon AEF and Jones is democracy, we are told, and yet Bill Christopher . T&GWU. They carry a hefty block vote between them. In their speeches they informed Prime Minister Wil­ STINKS son as to their views on Prices and CHIVERS Incomes. Frank Cousins laid the HDHIS IS WRITTEN mainly for people law down about equal pay as did ‘Chivers’. One of the chargehands—a big, living in and around Montrose. As hefty bloke—spat in a student’s face; his successor on the plight of the some of you will know, I had a rather not once, but several times. I don’t know lower-paid workers. One lo w violent disagreement with a representa­ what the boy is supposed to have done, Many speakers mounted the ros­ tive of ‘Chivers’ management. I’d like but this kind of behaviour from a fore­ trum on many subjects and it is to start by making it clear that, though man is like something out of Dickens. possible to learn how the other half occasionally short-tempered, I have no At the very least there should have been live, so to speak. Speakers from the ill-feeling towards any person whatso­ an immediate stoppage of work by the medical profession and the Health ever. I blame the system. whole factory, forcing the management Service in general can always be for the Bosses The royal burgh of Montrose (pop. to suspend the chargehand until he had relied upon to impart new and start­ approx. 10,000) doesn’t have much indus­ learnt his lesson. Nothing happened. try. This suits the few main employers. Scotland the brave? Fve seen more spirit ling information to delegates. W H EN AN ORDINARY bloke breaks in one case led to an outbreak of what They want to keep it that way. For in­ in a Babycham. What about major policy deci­ f * the rules or a worker ignores ‘proper might have been a mild form of derma­ stance, take the outfit which is still During the busy time some ‘regulars* sions on economic and foreign procedures’, most managements come titis among some tyremen, and it took a referred to locally as ‘Chivers’. This firm work ridiculously long hours. I know affairs? Do they really mean any­ down like a ton of bricks. But when the nurse to complain before things were affects the lives of many people, yet most one or two who wouldn’t go home at all thing? If the resolution passed in culprit is a boss, then the firm turns a put right. of us aren’t even sure who owns it. if the management allowed them a couple 1800 on equal pay is any criterion, blind eye. A dire shortage of drinking fountains First, Hartleys took over. They were of hours’ kip on the premises. Of course, one is forced to say ‘No!’ The Con­ Such was the situation at Dunlop, is also in evidence throughout the seven swallowed up by Schh . . . you know who. they do it for their families’ sakes—but gress provides a platform for an Rochdale, where the tyremen struck last flats of Dunlop, Rochdale. Brewing is Now, Cadburys are said to be in con­ perhaps the wife and kids would prefer month. Where on Friday the 15th, an made hard by a faulty boiler. trol. One thing is certain—none of the to see them a bit more often? The sen­ expression of opinion, in the final employee, who is aware of certain mis­ bosses give a damn for us, their wage ALL CHANGE sible thing to do is fight for a decent demeanours committed by a supervisor, slaves. basic wage so you don’t need the over­ was harassed and mucked about to the This month could be critical at Dunlop. ‘drivers’ (whoever that may be) have time. verge of victimisation. As has already been said, the Dunlop actually prevented new industry from It won’t be easy. The workers are A meeting of the ‘unofficial’ Works’ workers want to change from the Muni­ entering their territory. A big engineer­ divided. Though night shift is more or Committee was called to consider the cipal Workers| Union into the T. & G. ing firm wanted to build a factory in less finished for another year, there are Contact Columncase. And it was on returning from this F reedom backs this move mainly be­ Montrose. ‘Chivers’ and Glaxo joined still daytime ‘casuals’, and the evening This column exists for mutual aid. meeting that the shop steward was told cause it’s what the workers want. forces with the tourist trade, retired shift, who will carry on till just before Donations towards cost of typesetting by the manager, Burke, that his name But it isn’t ’the only reason. colonels, et rcetem, jin claiming that ‘this Christmas. The women must learn to will be welcome. had been put in the works’ punishment The Dunlop^ workers can’t safely look proposal would destroy the character of stand up for their rights also. Many of book (three warnings, then the sack), and out for themselves without linking up our community’. Their successful oppo­ you are young, and quite a are few that his sentence would follow. with tyrewofkers at Liverpool. Birrom^ sition L^t ne^Wrr'centnry'wa Subnet* Fred- bonny. But if you want to know what is- FREEDOM MEETING HALL, 84b The following Monday it came. The ham and elsewhere in the Dunlop Group. by the Montrose Review, sometimes meant by big words like ‘exploitation’ or v— 4* Whitechapel High Street, E.l. This shop steward was to be sent home for Membership of the T. & G. would make called ‘The Two Minutes Silence’. ‘bureaucratic indifference’—just take a Sunday, September 14 at 7.30 p.m. two days for holding an unofficial this easier. The atmosphere in ^drivers’ is terrible, look at some of your older workmates, GLC Rent Struggle: Plan of Action. meeting. The T. & G. is against the Government and I don’t mean the smells which are who have had a lifetime of toil and WEA Day. School. Poetry and Jazz. A mass meeting of workers agreed to wage freeze policies, and favours free inevitable for a food factory. I’m talking drudgery. Lascelles Girls School, Porlock Ave., strike for two days if the firm didn’t collective bargaining, thus making pay about a situation where you have to be The first step is to discuss things openly Harrow, Saturday, September 20, reverse the suspension decision. A claims free from political interference. careful what you say, because there’s with each other, and decide to act. If 2.30-7. Jeff Cloves and Poetsdoos manager from Fort Dunlop, Birmingham, A worker at the Windmill (working­ always somebody ready to seek the you want to join a union, by all means Jazz and Poetry Group. Tickets 4/- agreed to meet the men at 7.30 Tuesday men’s pub where some Dunlop lads hang management’s favour by informing. The do so, but don’t expect somebody with (including tea) from Mrs. A. Russell, morning, but he didn’t turn up, though out) last week /suggested that to swop reasons are obvious. While the straw­ an office in Dundee to solve your prob­ 24 The Gardens, West Harrow. he was seen boozing with Foster (per­ shops to the T. & G. won’t in itself bring berries, rasps, peas, beans, and so on, lems for you. It has to be ‘do it yourself. 01-427 5539. sonnel) the night before. better things at: Dunlop, and that what are rolling in, a lot of people are em­ Friends, fellow workers—if ever you are British IWW.—First leaflet out soon. So it was that pickets turned waggons matters is the determination of the men ployed. So, for a few months each year, to act like free men and women, the AFB Conference (September 25, 26, 27). away, and the Dunlop tyre store was at a to put things right whatever union the regular workers are able to look time is now. they’re in. Offers of accommodation from Lon­ standstill. down on somebody. Not only is a tem­ Dave C oull. don comrades please and requests TWO DAYS’ PAY AND PRODUC­ Such comments often appear in F ree­ porary worker the lowest of the low— from Provincial comrades to Brenda TION LOST by the actions of a pair of dom . he is a rival. After all, if he’s a good P.S. We anarchists believe in free ^ Mercer, c/o 84b Whitechapel High silly supervisors, who are, in the words All right! But what can we do when boy, he might get kept on ‘permanently’. speech. If anyone connected with Street, London, E.l. of one worker, ‘not fit to look after a the Municipal Workers’ Union is deli­ An incident occurred a few weeks ago ‘Chivers’ has a comment to make on this Blackguard!—libertarian student maga­ flock of sheep, let alone men.’ These berately dragging its feet? Backing the which illustrates what is wrong with article, F reedom will print it. zine appearing on September 25 two trouble-makers have long been the Government clamp-down on wages! (copy date September 19). Keith cause of trouble at Dunlop and further A union should do its best for its Nathan, 138 Pennymead, Harlow, revelations can be expected, if Dunlops members. How can the Municipal Wor­ Essex. don’t act to bring about good working kers’ Union do this when it is bent on Nick. Congratulations on surviving for relations in the department. It is worth keeping the Government in power, so so long.—P. F. C. Wintergreen. saying that the other supervisor, Murry, that Lord Cooper and the likes can col­ APPEAL TO IGI WORKERS Badges? Contact Pendarves Workshop, is a decent bloke. lect titles and jobs for services rendered? 42 Pendarves Street, Beacon, Cam­ It is the aim of the North West Trade unions should be free from JCI, as a mammoth industrial corporation, manufactures many things. borne; tel. Camborne 3061. Workers to weed out and attack these party politics! For the capitalist bosses money doesn’t talk, it screams. But one of the Artist/Cartoonisl wanted to turn idea into industrial trouble-makers, ‘little Hitlers’, Meanwhile back at Dunlop, Rochdale, the management and the officials of the nastier things that ICI manufactures is cartridges for CS gas. Maybe some poster—an adaption of illustration and roughnecks, who seek to set them­ of you turn out these pretty pale green containers, with their copper bases on front of Pelican ‘Anarchy’ by selves up as miniature dictators and Municipal Workers’ Union are still stop­ ping the workers from joining the T. & G. and their distinctive red lettering, and you haven’t thought how they are Woodcock — able to caricature make the lives of ordinary folk a hell on going to be used against Vietnamese peasants, French workers or students different types of London people. earth. The factories are full of these Perhaps when these people talk of rules John, 229 9994. people, they are like maggots, and but and ‘proper procedure’, they really mean or American Yippies. But now they’ve been used in Britain, and against Students—going to Cardiff/Newport area? for papers like Freedom showing them forcing people to do things they don’t women and kids as well. Perhaps some of you are Irish, maybe some of Drop a line to Chaz. c/o Cardiff up. nobody would be the wiser. want. N orth West Workers. you even come from Derry. If so, perhaps your mother or younger brothers Anarchists soon. Now the North West Workers, who and sisters spent the night of August 12, or the 13th or the 14th, lying on Synic-10 now out: libertarian broadsheet are in fact a handful of ordinary workers, the floor of their slums coughing their lungs up, wheezing asthmatically for September. Send 2 x 4d. stamps and, more important, the scores of work­ for weeks, or lying in their own diarrhoea all night. According to the to Room 209, Abbey House, Victoria ing blokes who supply us with the facts ‘Sunday Times’, hardly an alarmist paper, the ‘police fired the 1$ in. I Street, S.W.l. at their firms, can slam this seedy section The Price cartridges with reckless enthusiasm, at anyone in the street and into the Leveller One, a new libertarian maga- of society. bedrooms of most of the flats’. This is the gas that they know very little zine; includes articles on education DANGEROUS DUSTIIOWL about—the 60 babies suffering from severe diarrhoea in the Bogside today,, (David Page); revolutionary organi­ it is now said that the lads in the of Freedom three weeks later, and the men and women whose asthmatic conditions zation (SDS); and ‘Politics and Cul­ have been gravely worsened as a result of coming into contact with it, are ture’ (Tom Barrett). 2/6 post paid, Regent tyre store are hiring a chimney EADERS MUST have noticed that from above. sweep to help them siphon the shit from R the Press Fund’s financial statement the guinea pigs. This is the gas that is TWENTY-FIVE times as powerful JSR-CNT—39 rue de la Tour d’Auvergne. their noses. has been omitted in recent issues. The as the gas used by the police last May in Paris—and that is the gas that Articles wanted for Combat Syndica- Such are the dirty conditions in the reason for this is that we are trying to Professor Kahn says can cause severe damage to the kidneys, lungs and lisle on strikes, industrial struggles, Regent department. re-assess our financial position in the brain. This Is the gas that smiling Jim Callaghan, the coppers’ friend, anarchist activity in factories and of We now know that as a result of our ljght of many price increases. These in­ said, in the House of Commons (July 4, 1968), ‘will only be used to effect social concern to workers. Address reports on working conditions some Dun­ clude paper, ink, typesetting and the the arrest of dangerous and violently insane persons or armed beseiged k lop shareholders are showing concern. to Michel Le Marec, c/o above. recent 10“/, increase in blockmaking criminals’. Is this a description of Keenan Barrett, aged six, who picked London Schools Anarchist Group. T. We hope that recent falls in share prices charges. It seems to us that we may have to won’t prevent them doing everything to up one of the cartridges you made, two days after the RUC and B-men’s Swash, 49 Popham Road, London, raise substantially the price of F reedom vicious attack and as a result is still in Altnagelvin Hospital? Did the N.l. Regular Friday meetings. influence the management to improve the because of the present rate of inflation. Manchester Schools Anarchist Group. working conditions at Dunlop. We would not like to raise the price scientists who made CS try it ou on themselves first—or did your ICI Sylvia Lemer, 15 Chandos Road, One thing is sure—the Municipal without adding further pages and/or bosses? Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester 21. Workers’ Union hasn't done much to issues and we are considering these alter­ I have in front of me one of your cartridges. Its markings are CY 7/60. Birmingham discussions. Every Tuesday right these things. natives and would welcome your sugges­ Lot 12. QWIIOGF. A/RIOT L2A2. IRRT CS. ICI) 3/60. Did you 8 p.m. at the Arts Lab, Summer Lane Both among the Dunlop and Regent tions and views.—Editors. make It? Did you ruin the lungs of a six-year-old boy? Are you an ally Peace News. Six weeks trial offer for 5/-. workers there have been shortages of gloves and other working materials. This of the murderous B-Specials who’ve killed eight already? Or will you go I 5 Caledonian Road, N.l. Into work tomorrow and make some more gas containers for them to» I If you wish to make contact let US know. Printed by Exprmt M atm . Lamdcm, E.l. hMkhat by praadam Pres*. Lamdam. MA use tomorrow? BELFAST WORKERS.