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ANARCHY $$ Rwo Shrllrngs Or Rhrrry Cenrs I ANARCHY $$ rwo sHrLLrNGs oR rHrRry cENrs I ANARCHY e6 (Vol e No 2) FEBRUARY l96e 33 Other issues of "Anarchy": Gontents of ilo. 96 Please note: Issues 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, t5,26,34,35, 36, 37,38, 39, February 1969 0!.j9, Zt o"t ot prinr __ Vol. 1 196l:".e 1. Sex-and-Violence; 2. Workers' control; 3. What does anar- chism mean today?; 4. Deinstitutioni- Grass roots or hair roots: sation; 5. Spain; 6. Cinema; 7. Adventure playground; 8. AnthropoloByi 9. Prison; reflections on the revolution I 0. lndrrstrial decentralisation. Ir Grass !"oot$ oP root$ : game Richq.rd Mabey 33 Vol. 2. 1962: ll. Paul Goodmanj. S. hair Neilll 12. Who are the anarchists?; 13. Direct actionl 14. Disobedience; 15. David Wills; 16. Elhics of anarchism; 17. Lum- Reflectlons on penproletariat; I 8. schools; a Comprehensive What is anarchism and is it 19. Theatre; 20. Non-violence;21. Secon- Bakunin tenable doctrine? dqv=49de1q; f2. Vfarx and _ Vol. 1963: 23. Squatters; 24. Com- the revolution game 38 3. John Howkins munity of scholars; 25. Cybernetics; 26. Thoreau; 27. Youth; 28. Future of anar- chisrn; 29. Spies for peace: 30. Com- HGHABE MABEY munity workshop; 31. Self-organising Non-politicalpolitics Munas 46 systems; 32. Crime; 33. AIex Comfort: 14 Science fiction. Vol. 4. 1964: 35. Houalng; 36:-Fo,ice; 37. I won't vote: 38. Nottingham: 39. Demythologising Guevarra Homer Lane; 40. Unions; 41. Land; Wrrerevrn HArrENED, I wonder to that great Winter of Discontent Iturens Otter 56 42. India: 43. Parents and teachers; 44. which was to have been ushered in by thc October 2Tth dernonstration? Transport: 45. The Greeks; 46. Anarchism and historians. Did the comparative failure of that action set off a general process of self-examination amongst direct actionists? I hope so, and in this short article want to try and cxplain why, and to examine with the All their loving Charlie Gillett 59 Lord of the flies; 49. Automation; 50. I Anarchist outlook: 51. Blues. pop, folk: benefit of a few months hindsight thc way that demonstration seemed 52. Limits of pacifism: 53. After school: to dramatise many of the contradictions inherent in contemporary 54. Buber, Landauer, Muhsam: 55. Mutual aid: 56. Women; 57. I-aw; 58. direct action. Boom Nickl{ilde 63 Stateless societies. Vol. 6. 1966: 59: White problem; 60. I should, in all honesty, add that I spent the afternoon in question Drugs; 61. Creative vandalism: 62. Orya- curled up in front of a TV set, unable either to commit myself to 63. Voluntary by Rulus Segar nisation; servitude: 64. Mis- demonstration resist participation. Cover Epent youth: 65. Derevolutionisation; 66, or some sort of vicarious But even Provo: 67. USA; 68. Class and anarchism; after an hour of ITN's monstrously biased live coverage I rcmained 69. Ecology: 70 Libertarian psyschiatry.-of convinced that I was in the right place. Vot. Z tS67: Zt. Sociotogv school; 72. Strike City. USA: 73. Street School: 74. Anarchism and reality; 75. Improvised Let me say right from the outset that I think the shocked debate violence was point Subscribe to drama; 76. 1984: 77. Anarchist group about so far from the as to be almost hypocritical. "Anarchy": handbook; 78. Liberatory technology: Single copies 2s. (30c.). Annual subscrip- The vast majority of our population have shown themselves to bc as (t2 27s. ($3.50). Airmail 47s. 79. Latin America; 80. Workers' controtl favourable towards the use of violence political ends as most tion iisues) 82. Braehead for the ($7.00). Joini annual subscription with 81. Russian anarchistsr militant demonstrators. (which School. of And as it turned out the violene in rnpro6r"t, the anarchist weekly Grosvenor.Squale was infuriating not s,o much because was parti- readers of arqencHv will find indispens- Vol. 8. f sOSt S-3. f"n"ntr t"k" o*i: it able) 54s. 4d. ($7.50). Both bv airmail 84. Poverty; 85. Anarchist conversations: cularly vicious (it wasn't) as because it was as feeble, undignifial and 95s.-($12.50). Cheques, P.O.s and Money 86. Fishermen: 87. Penal System; 88. ;rointless as kicking little boys in the pants. Ordeis should be made out to FREE- Waste'land culturel 89. France; 90. Stu- DOM PRESS, 84a WhitechaPel High dents; 91. Artists; 92. Two schools: 93 Street, London, E.1, England. Radio: 94. Machinery of conformity. I must confess that my misgivings were of an altogether less nroralistic kind. They concerned not so much the ferocity of the action trlnhd lrv Erorc[ ?rlnten. L.!d.n. E-l AS its function. What wan this ritual we were bcing asked to join? A revolutionary prelude, a sort of mass shaking of the fist? A vast 't 34 36 syrnbolic nlorality play, starring the Metropolitan Police as Satan, and then the question of the quality of demonstrations becornes crucial- TaLiq Ali as L,veryman? Or a mini-coup, an acrual attempt. to take For their nature and style, their contribution towards the sharpening over the control of certain key institutions? of revolutionary awareness, will become the nature and style of poli- tical change itself. '['he fact that nor.vhcre to my knowledge were these questions even discussed, le[ alone answered, seems to nre a sad reflection on orrr lack To me this means thal. any viable demonstration shoulcl be of any theory of demoustrations. I suspect that we may be drawn Ir possessed of some or all of the following characteristics (thoug! I doubt towards l.hcnt for no better reason than a mountaineer is drawn towards if lohn Berger would want to be associated with this conclusion). They unc<>nr;uercd pcaks: because they're there-and, God help us, because should have a dignity, of a sort, 'Ihe old Aldermastons, for all their there seems prccious little else that we can do. But if our actions are shortcomings, had this. (And coming at the time of the spring festivals Lo be ellective, and to be nrolc than static self-indulgent political trips, they had additional gifts of strcngth and rcncwai for the players.) Tbey we must rcpeatedly ask the question: why t/ru sort of action at lftrs should show the potentiality for-*if not the exercise of-self-discipline tinre in this place? and restraint. (Let's have no ntore talk of "revealing the lion's fangs"': contemporary demonstrators can bc provoked as quickly as any lacley Is lhcrc arry lclati<ln bctweeir paracling lhrough the streets and the into showing their "basic violenrc".) T'lrcy slror-rld be as abundani 1vii"h pattern of political chanl.tc in this country" ict alone the course of a war wit and intelligent as the Provo's happcnings or that magnificently 6,0(X) rnilcs rrway'/ What is it thal, in tnonrcnts of crisis, draws us l"o ingenuous "laugh-in" at Govertlor Wallacr,. 'f,hey should try .lo be mrrl,e liris lthtt,sicrtl cornlrrilrncnt, 1o show orrr faccs, lo gather together, soaiable. Above all tlrey should demonstlatc a close and unambiguous [o enter tlre arcur, to bc counted? connection between their style ancl purposc. No one can belicvc any longer thal. rlcnronstrirtiurs influence public A number of these qualities were dotrbtlesri appalent in- the main opinion, do -ccriorrs rlanragc to llrc systcnl <tr';rcrsuadc the authoritieq body of lhe October 27th March. BUt othcrs were so expllc.l-tty coll- lraving once n.radc rrlt tlrcir rrrincls. 1o chulrgc lhcnr. Why then do we tradictecl that one wonclers if in any scnse it was a rneaningful action" bolhcl to stagc thcrrr'/ I bclicvc thut un]css wc bcgin to give very It was, for a start, a discordant, fractiotrs affair. Thosc of us watching serioLrs corrsiclcratiolr to this clucstion, and to l.he relation between at home were privileged to see something probably denied the nrajority proicst action ancl political changc, we arc in danger of mistaking the of participants-: the unedifying spectaclo of rival groups mauling for synrbol for tlre rcv<llrrtion, to l"hc lastilrg clctriment of botlt. I l<now of the lead banner. only one writcr who lras itttcmptcd an criaminal.ion of this question. Writing on "The naturc of Mass Demonstrations" in New Society just But it was the pointlessness and lack of objectives that were the after the Paris uprisings, John Rerger said: march's most damaging qualities, and tho onos most relevant to what we are discussing hEre. It was, you lnay rctnember, a protest about "The truth is that mass demonstrations are rehearsals for revolu- the Vietnam war] Yet I doubt if ihis was in the nrincls of many people tion: not strategic or even tactical ones, but rehearsals of revolutionary that Sunday afternoon, in or out of the demonstration. The announce- awareness. A dcmonstration, however much spontaneity it ntay ment of t[re action six months in advauce, and the bloodletting it contain, is a creuted event which arbitrarily separates itself from suffered at the hands of the media drrring thxt period, both servcd Lo ordinary life. Its value is the result of its artificiality, for therein lie sap its energy and reduce its symbolic nrcaning to-the trite and vacant its prophetic, r'ehearsing possibilities. The more people there are, level of the aims stated on the briefing leaflct: to fill the street, to sweep the more forcibly they represent to each other and to themselves those avaay obstntctions, etc. It's difficult to cotrccive of intentions more who are absent. In this way a mass demonstration simultaneously indirect.
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