Against Franco’s Ussia had nothing to do with those arrested in Madrid. The handwriting of the note, which was sent to the Press and was transmitted by Apence France on November 1, can easily Tyranny be verified to be the same as the one sent out by the Group at the TQURING the last week in October time of Mgr. Ussia’s kidnap. There­ Anarchist Weekly © ordinate protests and acts of fore the boasts of Franco’s police to five militant anarchists Were solidarity, as swiftly as possible, so NOVEMBER 26 1966 Vol 27 No 37 have arrested and destroyed the arrested in Madrid and accused by as to prevent the Franco regime Group ‘1st of May’ are completely the Spanish police of intending to, from committing a new crime. false. They emphasize that none kidnap the American Ambassador Spain, November 1, 1966.’ of the comrades arrested in Madrid to Madrid, Mr. Biddle Duke After three days of interrogation took part in the abduction of the (Freedom, 12.11.66), so as to at the Security Headquarters, the Spanish prelate. This is confirmed awaken world opinion to the farce five militants are at present being by Mgr, Ussia himself who stated in of the ‘Trade Union elections’ at kept in the cells of the Palais de II Tempo (29.10.66) that, judging IndecencyC in present taking place in Spain and Justice in Madrid, at the disposition from the photographs of the five, to bring pressure to bear on the of the Tribunal of Public Order. arrested in Madrid, none of them Spanish authorities for the release of (We are told that the men are in the had participated in his abduction. political prisoners. Carabanchel Jail, Madrid, and the Our comrades are resolved to A group of ‘Libertarian Youth’, woman comrade in Women’s Prison show that these accusations, which to which the five militants belong, of Ventas, Madrid.) carry the air of usual police methods hurch-by Whom? had already carried out ap operation Luis Edo, former secretary of of ‘throwing the book’ at arrested of the same kind in kidnapping in Jeunesse Libertaires and present people, are false, and they will Rome, last April, Monsignor Ussia, secretary of the CNT local at Paris, demonstrate this at the appropriate ecclesiastic counsellor to the Spanish had already, last May, organised two time. Embassy in the Vatican. press conferences in Madrid We have also received a communi­ Following the arrest of Luis Edo denouncing the farce of the ‘liberali­ cation from a French comrade, Jean (38), Antonio Canete (51), Jesus sation’ of the regime and the so- Coulerdeau (68 rue Montgolfier, 33 m m m Rodriguez (32), Alfredo Herrera called ‘Elections syndicales fibres’. Bordeaux, France), a member of the (26), and Alicia Mur (28), the Since the 28th October he has been ‘Anarchism and Non-violence’ Peninsular Committee of the FUL on hunger strike and his condition Group, who proposes to enter Spain gave the following details:— is giving rise to anxiety. as soon as the date of the trial is T. Our comrades’ mission was to A Defence Committee has been set announced. This is meant to be a carry out an action which would tend up in Paris with a central fund to pro­ non-violent demonstration of soli­ to show the falsity of the “liberalisa­ vide a legal defence. Donations darity and he wants to hear from tion” of the Franco regime, and to should be sent to Clement Fournier, comrades who would go with him. continue the campaign, started in CCP, 13 536 34 Paris. He says: ‘The supporting action that m m 1964, for the liberation of all Also, a co-ordinating committee we have to take must take into • political prisoners in our country, has been set up in Belgium and account public opinion, which was which campaign our organisation donations should be sent to: favourable to the kidnappers at the continues. Gurucharri, S. — CCP, 2269.41 time of the abducting of Ussia. ‘2. We ratify all that the “Group Bruxelles. Now they are accused of banditry 1st of May” affirms in its com­ (Comrades in British Isles please and terrorism!’ munique giving the lie to the declara­ note: Money cannot be sent CCP Our detained comrades need our tions of the Franco police (see ■ (giro) through our post office. help and we expect solidarity on this attached). Please address donations to Clement matter from all libertarians, whether ‘3. The Peninsular Committee of Fournier, c/o Freedom Press. We groups, individuals or sympathetic the FIJL, appeals urgently to all will transmit.) newspapers. organisations, groups, and individual The Group ‘1st of May’ further anti-fascists of the world to co- declares that the abduction of Mgr. Ed s. i El Greco: Jim Radford Driving the Traders from the Methodist Temple

fa correspondent other in ‘riotous, .violent or indecent simply gave evidence that the church was there might really be trouble in the iiH-E nine people who were arrested in behaviour’ in the church. Originally all a church and the service was a service church. Of the 20 or 30 people who the Brighton church demonstration the demonstrators except Sue Abrahams (in cross-examination he said that war demonstrated during the service in one Wilson shakes October 2—-Nicolas Walter, 'Susan had been charged with riotous behaviour was ‘un-Christian’ too, which may explain way or another, only nine were taken Lbrahams, Derek- Russell, Bernard Miles, in the church, and four of them were also his unexpectedly sympathetic attitude); to the police station, where they were charged with other minor offences. The and Albert McCabe, a Daily Express detained without being charged for leather Russell, Andy Anderson, Meg photographer, and Douglas Eatwell, a between five and nine hours, and were hands with IWalsh. Jim Radford, and Faith Barron— new charge was brought so late that the morning of October 31 .was taken up Sun photographer, who simply gave evi­ then refused bail (though they were [were held in custody by the Brighton dence that they had taken the photographs allowed visitors). On the following day I police for a night, and were then with procedural arguments and adjourn­ ments, and in the afternoon it was found used in the case. they were taken to the court in handcuffs, Anarchy ( remanded in custody for seven days by The civilian witnesses were: James and the magistrates accepted the police the Brighton magistrates on October 3. that the charge was technically inadmiss­ ible anyway—it was ‘bad for duplicity’, Moody, the senior steward, who was in application for a remand in custody and A BOUT 20 supporters of the ‘West | The five men were taken to -Lewes Prison, the main body of the church and the for photographs and fingerprints to be and the four women to Holloway. They because it included more than one distinct Ham Anarchists’ infiltrated the corridors; Donald Lain, a house-father in taken, quite regardless of anything the meeting at Poplar Civic Hall. There was were released after two or three days offence. At first the police wanted to a children’s home, who was in the church demonstrators said. One df the reasons when Mr. Benedict Birnberg, a solicitor change the wording to ‘riotous, violent no other main heckling except for when gallery; William Page, a steward in the police said they opposed bail was the group started, although there was a instructed by the National Council for and indecent behaviour’, but after realis­ charge of the relay system for the over­ that the demonstrators might repeat their | Civil Liberties, made successful applica­ ing the difficulty of proving all that, they group of dockers heckling a lot Just flow hall, who was in the corridors; offence, although they said they were after Wilson began to speak, one of the tions for bail to a Judge in Chambers on settled for just ‘indecent behaviour’. Then William Groves, a steward, who was in prepared to give undertakings that they October S and 6. Faith Barron then all the demonstrators except Nicolas group jumped up, pointed to Wilson and the aisle where most of the demonstration would not do so. Another was that the said 'Killer of the Vietnamese’. As the travelled to the United States. At the Walter and Jim Radford refused to be took place; Albert Herriott, a regular police didn’t know enough about the tried on more than this joint charge; heckler was gradually dragged out, next court hearing, on October 10, the congregant, who was in the body of the demonstrators, although they had taken anarchists all over the hall stood up. other eight were remanded (on bail this so that Nicolas Walter would be tried for church; and Margaret Savage, a teacher, ‘characters’ from some of them—i.e. time) for three weeks, because the police riotous behaviour in the church and Another slogan which wdnt down well who was in the choir. obtained answers to personal questions— and was reported was, ‘Wilson you are a had referred the case to the Director of threatening behaviour outside the church and although they checked the address on his own and for indecent behaviour The police witnesses were: Det.-Insp. dirty fascist pig’. As these two of the Public Prosecutions in the hope of Field, who was both inside and outside of only one of them. group were dragged out there were shouts bringing charges of conspiracy. in the church with the others, Jim the church, and is the detective who It emerged that on October 5 , as soon of McCarthy. This came from a group of On October 27, the Director of Public Radford would be tried for riotous as the police knew that the five men had behaviour in the church on his own and made most of the inquiries in the case; anarchists and militant dockers. Prosecutions told the police not to bring been granted bail, Field hurried to Hollo­ such charges; but just before the next for indecent behaviour in the church with Sgt. Head, who was outside the church; Then it was the usual ructions, the the others, and Susan Abrahams, Derek Det.-Sgt. Osborne, who was both inside way Prison to interrogate the four bourgeois old dears tutting, etc. Some of court hearing, on October 31, the police women, knowing that they would soon brought another charge—that the demon­ Russell, Bernard Miles, Heather Russell, and—as it turned out—outside the church, the group stayed in at the meeting strators had been concerned with each Andy Anderson, and Meg Walsh would and is the detective who works with Field; get bail themselves but that they wouldn’t heckling, while others went outside with and Sgt. Sullivan, who was inside the know this yet and might therefore be a few who had been out there while the be tried for indecent behaviour in the inclined to co-operate. He didn’t church with the others (the other charges church. meeting was on. should technically be heard afterwards in The main features of the prosecution manage to interrogate the men until they evidence, as of the general conduct of came to Brighton again, on October 10, There were no crowds outside at the fresh trials). Derek Russell, Bernard although he described his inquiries as end as there had been in the beginning Miles, Heather Russell, and Meg Walsh the prosecution case, were confusion and of the evening. So when Wilson came CO's somewhere are contradiction. ‘urgent’. When the police were resisting were represented by Ben Birnberg; the applications for bail. Field swore an out the main crowd was the “West Ham Nicolas Waiter, Susan Abrahams, Andy Over and over again, witnesses who had Anarchists’. To get to his wife, sitting waiting for a Letter been produced by the police gave evidence affidavit which summarised the police Anderson, and Jim Radford defended allegations against, the demonstrators, but in their car, Wilson had to go through IV A R REGISTERS INTERNATIONAL themselves. which conflicted with what the police had them. There was hardly any fuz? about, I " have once again compiled a lisT’of alleged or later gave in their own evi­ when he gave evidence in court it came The trial finally begap at 2.30 p m. on out that the allegations against five of funnily enough. Wilson went over to I conscientious objectors who are in prison October 31, and continued on November dence. It was generally agreed that very the two who had started the uproar and ’for their beliefs in many parts of the few people had been upset by the the nine were based not on what he had 7 (all day), November 14 (all day), seen ' but on what he had been told, spoke to John Clark and Stephen Higgs, I world. The list includes prisoners in November 15 (morning), and November demonstration and.that the demonstrators and asked them why they disagreed with Denmark, US, Germany, Yugoslavia, themselves had not used any violence. although the affidavit read as if he had 16 (morning). It will continue on seen everything himself; he was obliged his policy. They said (although amazed) I Italy. France, Sweden, Greece, but not November 21 (all day) and November 22 But the most important and interesting that they were against all his policies and [.Russia, Hungary or Spain. evidence was of course that of the police to apologise to the defending solicitor. (all day). The prosecution originally It also emerged that his friend Osborne against all governments. Rather than Individuals or groups intending to send intended to bring 17 witnesses, but four witnesses themselves. While they were in argue jie shook hands, grinning, and went the witness box, on November 14 and 15, had a peculiar memory. At first he L greetings may receive the entire list from dropped out on the way. There were into his car. WRI, 88 Park Avenue, Enfield. (Nominal the court heard most of the strange story swore that he spent the whole of the three formal witnesses, six civilians, and service inside the church, although he was | contributions to defray costs are four policemen. of the case. By the way it was on TV, both the only witness who did not remember channels’ news, in national dailies welcome.) The formal witnesses were: Leslie Detectives from the Brighton police had that Wilson made two separate attempts WRI have been compiling this list for Newman, the minister of the Dorset attended the service as part of their (although it was twisted in the Daily Mail) to read the lesson, with a hymn being and front page coverage in locals. Seems the past ten years. Last year an Italian Gardens Methodist Church, where the ‘normal duties’—i.e. they had been co­ sung in between. This was partly ex­ war resister received 500 congratulatory demonstration took place, who had opted into the Special Branch while funny that just over 20 people can get refused to prosecute and now refused to plained when he suddenly remembered more coverage than 20,000 in Trafalgar messages. This year it is hoped that Wilson, Brown & Co. were in Brighton after being pressed in cross-examination each man will receive many congratu­ give evidence against the demonstrators for the Labour Party Annual Conference. Square on Easter Monday! latory messages. because this would be ‘un-Christian’, and But apparently they had no idea that Continued on peg# 3 ‘West Ham A narchists ’ it has inspired— the Pat Arrowsmith and for □. long while. While il might savs j M iller George Clark cases, the Wcthorsfield 5. one particular meeting 10 throw me 1 the Trafalgar Squarearrests—to cite only hecklers out. whai arc you going io as Revolutionary a few. about a situation where a large part ol the | The NCCL considers that the time has audience are enjoying the tight? rhey ■> BOOKS Dear Editors, LETTERS come to undertake a survey *of recent just get a kick out 01 u_ Is it really J Having studied the bulk of Henry cases involving political protesters. The worth running meetings for the benefit) Miller’s work in detail for the last few immediate objective is to prepare a of such people? Wouldn't they be huppiefj for years in preparation for a full-length memorandum for submission to the watching all-in wrestling? study, I disagreed vehemently with many Drugs Government in support of the introduc­ ft isn t as if this situation was recent^ of the points raised by Paul Potts in his Dear Friends, v■” tion into the law of safeguards to There has been disorder and a certain assessment of Miller’$ talent in last an anarchist who publicly advo­ guarantee the right of political protest. amount of petty bullying at the meetings week’s F reedom . cates the responsible use of certain To make the case as authoritative as for the past year and more. It was I am sick and tired , of critics and re­ chemical and non-chemical hallucinogenic possible it is important^ that the survey this even before J. P. Schweitzer appeared viewers who waste time disputing the techniques, to induce and guide, mind- should be comprehensive. We, there­ upon the scene, and long before Chaflea Presents fore, appeal to all those who could sup­ Radcliffe started his crusade to reiorrJ indisputable fact of Miller’s genius, but expansion, I obliged to answer J. Mr. Potts goes even farther: he doubts Jack’s criticisms of such propaganda and ply detailed information from their own the anarchist movement. Please order in good time. Books can experience to contact us. A questionnaire whether Henry Miller, musician, painter, to darify “ y own position. In fact the behaviour of one mcetiqjfl be sent direct to your friends, with I agree about the actual and potential has been prepared and is available on when a speaker from the Homosexual] cards if necessary. Invoices to you. and the most important and influential prose writer of the age, can really be dangers of drug addiction and its deeper application to the Secretariat Needless Law Reform Society addressed us, SUGGESTED BOOKS called an artist. Of course, it is true authoritarian implications. Opiates are to say that if you know of others who so bad that I had to apologise afterward could help please put them in touch Qu’est-ce Que La Propriete? that he doesn’t wear a beard but even addictive and destructive. Alcohol is to him. both to a lesser degree. Most junkies with us. Evidently what the public want Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Yours sincerely, cliaos, not anarchy. It is no use lookup (paperback) 7/6 have obvious personality disorders. And what is wrong with comparing Others manage to control and contain National Council forTony Smythe, for individuals as scapegoats. This dPhilip Sansom and Frances Max Stirner (paperback) 15/- tear the heads off live chickensT^ that his technique is impressionistic healthy neurotics into an acceptance of Sokolov suggest. In die Struggle for Equality (the great thing is to be violent, tefl rather than naturalistic, and the impres­ the values and aspirations of an un­ 1 would appreciate the publication of story of die Anarchist Red Cross) humiliate and destroy. In some-! sion women make on Henry Miller is this note. Individualists have enough B. Yelensky 17/6 healthy society. In both cases with is supposed to be good for youj made quite plain. Let me recommend tragic results. misrepresentation to contend with, with­ Pilate’s Question Alfred Reynolds 12/6 as a catharsis. It makes it£ app^i Mr. Pottspage§ 1II-I14 of The I advocate such drugs as short-cut out being identified with groups having Conscription Conflict Denis Hayes 7/6 in anarchist meetings too. ;'4^l0gUs'. Maroussi,. Penguin edition, little, if anything, in common with them. paths or vehicles for the attainment of These meetings never seemed S and let him dare say: that the woman deep revolutionary insight and a* wider S; E. Parker , ^^pjPcourse) ... to be a prelude to a revolution^ there described does nd£ come alive! visionary wisdom. That is t o ■ realize Editor, M inus One. Freedom Press Publications listed below were a social club for libertarians the certainty of the inner-identity and I could ..write a t great length (in fact, shades. 1 still think there are |g I hay# already done so), on Miller as solidarity of all. The global anarchist genuine libertarians around toJ ^evolutionary. In my opinion he is the The Audience Wanted impetus. Yogic breathing and meditation periodic meetings worthwhile, but « Freedom Bookshop most jreyjoilutionaiy writer alive . . . at is- less open to abuse than chemical know how this is to be done suf* ' ■jeas# using the English language . . . methods but is perhaps even more risky. Chaos-not Anarchy {Open 2 pjn.—5.30 pan. daily; attracting the rowdies, and the but I don’t want to spend a lot of time Collapsed lungs the least worry. It is people who, while not inters 10 am .—1 p.m. Thursdays; labouring the point Suffice it to dose ultimately a personal decision. As such Dear Comrades, 10 aan.—5 p.m. Saturdays). As one of the speakers whose meeting themselves, enjoy the rowdiness. with a short quote (and Miller is never it must be based upon knowledge and The subject on which 1 was spejj / at his best in short quotes), from the not on irrational and emotive fears. As was wrecked by Charles Radcliffe and 17a MAXWELL ROAD his followers, I would like to participate although I did not get far with ta ~ Preface of Remember to Remember. I must any anarchist criticism, dissent and curiously apt. 1 was attemptimfl in this correspondence. What 1 found FULHAM SW6 Tel: REN 3736hope people will, if' possible, read the public warnings. develop the theme that it is not juscT wholgfpf tfaiBPr#&ce which is . a fine Best wishes, most disturbing about the incident was the acquiescence of the audience, who, people say, it is also the way they | | piece' dJ' -^VoluJionary writing, as I in­ Blackburn, Lancs. D aV^C unliffe . that has to be watched. A revolution with some exceptions, did not attempt to terpret the phrase. may preach freedom, peace and broq -- T oday the' w orid is bound, cramped, silence the hecklers, or make any kind of Political Protest reply to them. The chairman. Axel Hoch, hood in words, but the tones he uses FREEDOM PRESS j||tiffed by those existing forms of govern­ did his best to control the situation, but those of an authoritarian, a man^ ment known as the-State. Does the practically no one backed him up. violence. He is therefore a dangerflj \ PUBLICATIONS State protect us or do we protect the Survey man, who may, when put to the test, tur9 State® Whatever form of tyranny exists A friend of mine said afterwards, ‘I’m Dear Friends, out a tyrant. SELECTIONS FROM -FREEDOM5 today exists by our consent,. No matter surprised you let them rattle you*. To There is a widespread assumption that tell the truth. I was not so much rattled We had a beautiful illustration of this^ Vol §2 19§§g Posteript t&Fosterity intdywhat comer .of the globe we cast in the meeting, because the hecklers uses Vol 3 1953: ColoniaJiam on Trial in Britain political non-conformity is by the heckling as by the behaviour of our ey#- today, we . S the spectre of jealously protected, some would say 'Leftist’ terms like ‘bourgeois’, bui theirj Vol 4 l^fei Living . ; the audience, who seemed rather to be r/ranny. Perhaps -the worst tyranny is over-protected, as is the right to protest. behaviour was that of a Fascist group. 1 ^ V & l $ l9S$z The Immoral that which Created for pur own good. enjoying the performance. I felt that Yei the last .decade has seen a wave of there was no reason to offer myself as a felt as the evening went on that physical! 6 l^ ^ g il and There' (pan #e no' common good unless violence was not far away. K^/coI 7 195# *' Year '^^gSputnik Era radical and * anti-consensus protest— spectacle to people who want to make the individual is recognized first and fore­ largely centred on the activities of the Yours fraternally, H SS S' 19$S: ^ i^ m in # Wheefc&air most—^and until, die list, the weakest of trouble, and to others who merely want movement against nuclear weapons and A rthur W. U loth . 1 IPrint, ^ ^Public inen M induded. Everything proceeds to watch trouble being made for someone offshoots from this—in direct confron­ else, themselves remaining safely on the ||% bl 10 1960 : The T ^edy from die living, individual. The State is tation with tiie Government and the law. ' ■ ^ b l 11 i $ 6 1: The People m ^ S t r e e t an abstraction, a bogey which can intimi- sidelines. For that reason I refused to go The authorities hav^reacted time and on, and later walked out. Poetry & Anarchism -Vol 12 196#:- Pilkington vC Beeching .dite but ncy^^c^h^^® ’ man among th#^||pat inffuences of his or inappropriate, weapons from the rusty available to readers of FREEDOM Bomb movement to develop into a social ' any enlightening articles by anarchists otf armoury of the law including the Official revolution, or even to get rid of The P. B. Shelley, Byron, and John Milton. would a|£|| like .to point out that he is the Public Order Act, Bomb. The problem is, what are we I’m at work on these and other poets, and one\pi & y^^V^^ wri^ra I know who; , Sessional Orders, ffieRace Relations A&t going to do in the future? am keen to be^aware -of all valuation VERNON RICHARDS when he u ^ ^the -anarchic*, and common law provisions, and have Philip Sansom and Frances Sokolov that’s gone before. Malate^v'His fifb.and Ideas inevitably d<^#p^in a^yptnUblC sense. even resorted ito such anachronisms as have written a swashbuckling letter. It Best Wishes,. 10/6 Yours fraternally, the Ju s^ & ^ q f 1 361. The stirs the blood. The only trouble is that - l i a i i l i F S tuart M it c h e l . > result is of pro­ they were not there at the time. Indeed Rotters Heath, Anarchy Paper 1/- tect may by the prosecutions they haven’t been coming to the meetings Welwyn, Herts. IR O P D fiH ^f Regional Secretary: J. Bromley, 44 Doncaster MANCHESTER PROVOS. All interested contaa M Avenue, Manchester, 20. 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Con­ Ford. 82 North Road, Highgate, N. 6. (Tel.: peace group contaa Derek A. James, 1844 '] tact J. Hill, 79 Underlane, Plymstock, Plymouth, Grand Boulevard, - North Vancouver, B.C., ^Kronstadt 1921, Ukraine 1918-21) O- J. Austin, 5 Kingsbury Road, Erdington, Canada. TeL: 987-2693. d o th 'W mC* READING ANARCHIST GROUP. Contact U.S.A. VERMONT/NEW HAMPSHIRE. Dis-^ Alan Ross. 116 Belmont Road, Reading, Berks. PROPOSED $R0UP$ a cussion/Action group anyone? Contact Ed Straus^j BSBSe^wfciwftNaafc&BfcYreiniorfa. CtxiML SHEFFIELD. ^Kega^ ^ meexm^^cg S is q is ^ a ^ ^ RFD 2 Woodstock. Vermont 05091, USA. DUNPHjLgkOtJP^^^^ ^ ^ Bc^> asd . Uaa the Foresters. Division Street, Mondays. Contact Anyone interested get in touch with SWEDEN. Stockholm Anarchist Federation. T he Expanding E n ^ o n m i^ ^ I f i S J H c/o Doctors' Residence. Stracathro RP^R^yihu^^^S^S^Sents^ Union, UnjSsraty,; Brighton, 7. ' C ontaa Nadir, Box 19104, Stockholm 19. Sweden..;' {illustrated) boards 8/6 Sheffield. T d . 24076. /S^^K EA ^^^ay^xtegested-f in^Lnarchist group ■ b and with his wife moved to San the People’, appeared in the December make majority verdicts operative on a Praises Success of Spanish Workers’: ■Francisco where he lived with h is' ■1941 issue, .and it is significant that he jury refer to Me ‘contamination of juries, T he international war crimes tribunal ‘The Soviet Communist Party yesterday fo am ed daughter.^ There he Was al- was even then thinking in terms of the not only on behalf of the accused, but sponsored by Me Bertrand Russell Peace sent a telegram to the Spanish Com­ fjvays more active than his heart would individual—as opposed to the class— also on behalf of the police. These latter Foundation called a press conference at munist Party congratulating it on Me feulow, and it was at a counter-demon­ struggle. Thinking of John Pilgrim’s practices,’ Mey say, ‘tend to go unsung: the end of Me Tribunal’s preliminary •‘big successes achieved by the working- stration to one organised by the Ameri- recent article in the October issue of but they are known to the Council and sitting. Historian Isaac Deutscher ‘em­ class of Me country in the elections to ^|n Nazi movement in San Francisco Anarchy (‘Salvation by the Working to many lawyers practising in the criminal phasized3, according to the Morning Star the official syndicates”. The message a,st month that our comrade collapsed Class: Is it an Outmoded Myth?’), it .courts-.’ . • (on Thursday), Mat rumours of resigna­ also noted with satisfaction last Friday’s jjd died a few minutes later. is perhaps worth while quoting from tions from the Tribunal were completely announcement by the Franco auMori- Laurie Hislam’s article which was written The prime minister (on behalf of the unfounded. On Me preceding Monday ties of an amnesty for those accused or Another Italian friend of freedom a quarter of a century ago in F reedom's Home Secretary) assured the House of the Mornitig Star printed a ‘rumour’ (?) convicted of political acts against Me "Je£l pearlier this.. year, in London. He predecessor: Commons, *1 feel it right to inform the that Presidents Kaunda of Zambia and fascist regime during the Civil War, which Vittorio Taborelli, who came to . . The time' must come when House Mat Mere is no tapping of tele­ Nycre of Tanzania have joined President it said was a result of Me struggles of on don probably in 1922 or 1923 as a ' conditions will compel serious thought phone numbers [of MPs], nor has there Senghor of Senegal in withdrawing from the Communist and progressive forces pli tical refugee,* and was over 80 years on social problems, and, in prepara­ been since this Government came into sponsorship of the Tribunal. Diplomatic of Spain. “We hope,” it said, “that Mis jage when he died. Though he was tion for that occasion, the direction of office.’ The Opposition immediately took pressure by the USA is alleged. . . . decision of Me Government will permit Jtotical 'as to the effectiveness of our ouf efforts must be carefully con­ umbrage at the innuendo but does not all the exiled Spanish democrats to re­ Jd ' of propaganda (he belonged to the sidered. By all means let us expose Me innuendo apply to the previous (also G eneral franco proclaimed an amnesty turn home freely**.’ Come home Pas- Jpropaganda-by-the-deed tradition), he the repressions and tyrannies contained Labour) Government? Chapman Pin- for ‘political offences’ committed during sionaria, all is forgiven. 2| always among the first to support in a class-society, but beware of hold­ cher of the Daily Express (who should Me Spanish Civil War. On Tuesday the M new initiative of ours. During the ing out false hopes to the oppressed* know) says, ‘Most of Me tapped phones Morning Star denounced this as ‘white­ Jon Quixote. EEpar j^qats; when all but (most of whom alas are not aware of ' belong to suspected spies, criminals, ^Salists and . anarchists among the it) in the manner of political parties Customs evaders, Communists, Fascists jan polony in London were rabid who are, in effect if not by intent, work­ and Nuclear Disarmers.’ He also men­ jpasts, Taborelli was always in trouble, - ing for a mere change of oppressors. In tions a figure of 11 million microphones Cathy Come Home l&ys involved in discussions, which striving for the removal of all govern­ [installed?] waiting to be abused. ‘Any VERY now and Men, Me BBC has a and the effect it has on the individual. lbt| infrequently ended* in Ms being mental and regressive institutions and relevant parts of Me conversations help limited by Mussolini’s supporters, Me liquidation (used in its old sense) to swell police files,* says Pincher, ‘or E fit of conscience and stages a pro­ The play ends with what is probably hen war was declared . Taborelli re­ of the ruling class; let us always be Me two million dossiers in Me registry gramme of value rather Man the usual its most powerful scene in which CaMy, gained faithful to Ms anti-militarist vitally aware that this can only be at M.I.5.’ A writer in Me Guardian crop of addictive rubbish which would played extremely well by Carol White," "Snciples and supported Me anarchists acMeved by the‘willing acceptance of states Mat ‘clicks’ are no indication of seem to be their normal standard. is turned out of the hostel into the "phis Country in their anti-war stand entirely new values by the individual.’ phone tapping, an efficient tapper can Such a programme was, in my estima­ streets, ostensibly for having overstayed tion, Jeremy Sandford’s ‘CaMy Come the time allowed her but in reality for fend was always generous with help for TMs paragraph is too provocative of eliminate ‘dicks’. In fact Me Guardian Home’, screened as one of Me Wednesday Comrades who were ‘on the run’^ p thought to be discussed now, though it reports a well-known political activist having talked to the press about condi­ :r:; serves to illustrate the complexity of a who said Mat one of Me benefits of Play series. tions in the hostel. She is followed out 1 will not attempt to paraphrase Me A third friend of freedom, who died -personality such as Laurie Hislam’s. using a tapped (US bugged) phone was by the welfare officer, who having turned script now but for those who missed Me last month, was Charles Duff, probably There is no. question, in this writer’s Mat abusive calls were cut off by the her out of the hostel, then proceeds to play it concerned the descent of a family Ihest known as the.author of the -Harul- ' mind, that he was dominated and in­ monitor. In a cartoon on Me phone take away her children, because Mey have through a succession of varied lodgings ” book of Hanging. It was the rebel in fluenced in the worst sense by Fredrick tapping debate the ex-directory number nowhere to stay, in much the same way until they are. forced, Mrough hardship, Lohr, a propagandist of outstanding abili­ as a bailiff would repossess an unpaid ^Charles wMch made him always have a to enter a home of the old King Hill soft spot for the anarchists and man-y^ ties {who was in his fifties when he television set. pattern where, due to the various feiends in the movement, but ho , died Some six years ago), a man who; propaganda, Mat Mey were so critical And so the film ends on a note of pressures they are subjected to, the family never a declared anarchist. If one could in 1939; up a profitable job as a to one’s face and yet such good- anarchist despondency, if not despair, and one is eventually disintegrates. left wondering if there can be any hope l $ar' salesman in Great Portland Street, • >giyep:him%3 political label it Would jbq propagandists with the non-anarchists? The film successfully captures the with huntin’ and fishin’ at weekends, to of .a full life for everybody in a system jM at :df \J ^ o p u la r ' 'F ro n ti^^ ThisMW^^ Long ago Mis writer had said to misery and degradation of a family Ms ^sitionV in the Spanish Civil ^ a r , further theftaus^|of the oppressed. Laurie: ‘To hell wiM your politics and which allows such things to go on. I trapped in Me cul-de-sac of exister^e in the expeijei^e of which, hqwoVefy left Fredrick Lohr was great personality. your Pope; I love you as you are* and imagine Mat this is the impression that this state without property to cushion presumably he thought likewise because the author intended to give and as Anar­ Mm feeling much more Sceptical about So far as^the anarchists were concerned themselves against sickness and the result­ whenever we met (generally at a demon­ chists we should, I think, be grateful to the possibility of working with Qom- he was an asset whenever he spoke from ing poverty and praise must go to auMor munists. But Duff was not a Man^to stration) we were boM happy to see each him for preaching for us. their platforms or at mass meetings, Sandford for his honest, perhaps brutal, label; like so many freelancers jie’ was . other and exchange notes. It was Sad even, for a short time, after Ms conver­ study of a coercive and inhuman system strongly individualistic and resisted any. sion to the Catholic Church. Laurie to learn from one of Me obituary notices Bill Benfield. ^attempts at being tied down, politically Hislam followed in his footsteps; he even Mat he had joined Me Labour Party .'speaking. But when it was- a question^ ^confirmed this by ^porting a beard like but on reflection it probably meant that of civil liberties, Chariesi. Duff al- h§-Master ! Yet both Lohr and Hislam as a result he would be more critical, ays ojp thej^devjo f freedom. J^:ai§ o of this world. Tbosfe^hqj publicly, Of the Labour Party Man of Me Indecency in Church-by Whom ? attended the former’s outdoor meetings anarchists. What is really important is The- d^rb^of Laurie Hislam in a-jg^3L;: in Lincoln’s Inn Fields in the 50’s can Mat Laurie Hislam was a character, a Continued from page 1 delegates who attacked Me interruptors accident in Fiahce in ^August came as vouch for the sound commonsense argu­ personality in his own right, who at the Mat he had left the main body of Me and had protested when Mey were taken shock to his many ‘friends. He was ments with which Fredrick countered same time had no ambitions to dominate. church to help bring Nicolas Walter down out of Me church. not yet 60 years old and was full 15^ the solicitors’ ^objections to his I|!nd to Me extent Mat Mis assessment from the gallery, Mough he still swore he This week evidence should be given by HBttgjl and one cannot doubt thaf^he anarchist, anti-^pitalist point of view. of his personality is valid, it is difficult hadn’t left Me building. It was more the four people who are defending them­ still had many schemes for demonstra-S And Laurie • was just as provoking! But; to link it to his attachment to Fredrick fully explained when he suddenly selves and by defence witnesses-—includ­ tions^up Ms Laurie^ was another did it matter., from the point of yiew of Lohr who, in this writers opinion was, remembered after being shown some ing Donald Soper at-^ p.m. on Tuesday. on the whole a negative; destructive in- photographs that he had actually been After Mat there will be Me closing flU'enegfe far as iri'teUigeht 'j&fale were qntsitiq for several minutes when speeches by Me defending solicitor and by ^Ojfgefried. Nicolas’ Walter was arguing with M|m the ’ self-defenders. A notice of appeal PRIGEfWNCOMES BOARD AND * * * police;* Incidentally, his was the only has already been prepared for Me Young peppleS don’t havef to write evidenclp against Derek Russell gand expected conviction of all the demonstra­ tors, to Me case will going on for a obitoaries. It is a job for tol^middle- Heather Russell. ALL OUR READEI^IM iBii Note aged, :a difficult job, because! they are The only evidence® against Qerek long time yet. One reason why the case has gone on talking .about something which is part Russell and HeaMer Russell was Mat STARTING JANUARY 1967 the pric£, some book-keeping, all subscription^ fefiqtbena. But if ,we’ hay^anyM ing to of DeL-SgL Osborne, The only evidence to long already is Mat it is being heard by lay noL stipendiary magistrates—i.e. o f Freedom will be raised ^tcr j$d>- falling due during November and D^p'm-I ^H^timcate to the young people of against Sue Abrahams was that of Donald It .will continue to be published on each ber will be filial to the ejr^qf the <^^r today it is Me spirit of a&enture and Lain, syho had seen her walking down unpaid part-time magistrates who are not Saturday except the firat in each month, on the easting subscription, and Will be independence of these frieti«fe^§©v whom the church aisle and identified her from qualified lawyers and. only sit on one or when ^na^c^f cornts out, but the last pnewajbLe Me itew rates from JanuarY p^hsfe/^anted tq introd^^^feead^K of ,’^ome blurred photographs a^ someone tyto vd^ys^ week, rather Man paid full­ issue qf F reedom in qach month ||ijl i|e: 1/ l96^SYou ;dan help P^EDOM^J^n Osvaldo Maraviglia who |lyhOv had been taken x out q f the church. time magistrates who are qualified lawyers Pr? ei^b t pages> hppq M £°r - jgfeithe Atlantic, The. only Igyidence against Bernard Miles and sit every day o f Me week. AnoMer is four pages to deal in greater s^peSith newal notice, and;'b^ paying spbscrip Pphs his living and' tlte ^nie ti^ae jfiat of Margaret Savage, who had Mat every witness; has been liable to be current important matters, and to include tions separately from other accounts. furthers aparchist propaganda nqt^nl^ $een hum standing up but hadn’t been questioned by six people—the prosecuting som e' theoretical material, ;as *woll as in the Iinited|^tates but ^e^^here; a abfevfo bear what he was saying. land defending solicitors and the four giving m op .attention to cultural matters The pew Vittorio Tabojrdli whq^ W her than '«rje*. The defence case began by submissions >;who are defending Memselves. Y et an- beside pur regular art column. FREEDOM only ^ e r ;^|'ar) nounce his /ldea&, . that Bernard Mil^§^§fie Abrahams and oMer is Mat dozens of photograohs have The increase in price entails an in9 £1 10s.v^4:.5<))' surfro|j mail ;(2h^3^ ;Duff who as. a^ ^ e^ Officer in , Nikolas W alter had no cases tOL^nswer, been put in evidence by both rides. And crease in subscription. Existing sub­ 16s* ^$8,QP) airmail the ^Foreign Office had; a . ^ ,eetxqn§ured Mqt all overruled. Then the a final one is .that ever since Me trial scriptions will be honoured; at th^old IgMARCHY only (unchanged) (per hito,. hut prefers the defence evidence began on November 16. began the demonstrators have been ratfe R ip d ^ ^ w b o p .subsimpfioijs Jail £1 mail .. ggue of Me Sptoiish ^ y ^ ^^i;.|Lnd . . . ;Qf Me four people .represented by Ben treated with extreme courtesy and :djp' up^^the end H$! # 2 ^ ^ ($7.00) airmail well, how does one explain Xaarie? Bmubcrg, 'HeaMer Russell and Eterek leniency, and have Merefore been able to now have received jeniewal notices. COMBINED SUBSCRIPTION He was the dearest of them all, because Russell gave evidence for themselves, say a' great many things Mat would not These will be aocepted for a whole yp^r FREEDOM (per year) . Mis Writer feds he knew him more in- ’while Bernard Miles and Meg Walsh will normally be admissible. The trial should a t the old rate ff paid before thir&'/ul ^ a -iOs. ($7.50) surface mail both timately, and as a contemporary. \Bur not be giving evidence. Heather and come to an end within a couple of weeks of November for subscriptions in the £4 15s. ($12.50) airmail both all of Mem -will be remembered because Perek boM stated on qaM Mat they had U X and Europe, and before the end FREEDOM (airmail^ c they ^contributed something to enrich and not taken .part in Me interruption^ of Don’t forget the appeal fund: Felicity of the year for other places ^brba MmweP Ro d . London. 3 W b TUC & Entployeis

ment will step in anc* justify a con­ tinuance of control over matters which should essentially be the responsibility of industry.’ Both are Gang Op prepared to work together for fear of State intervention and control and wish to see an end to free individual TF THE LABOUR Government from the working class, but now it union wage bargaining. They want f or Workers’Control cannot claim anything else, it can is part of and serving the interests to provide the ‘norms’ and to do claim that it can run capitalism of the ruling class. away with the industrial disputes NOVEMBER 26 1966 Vol 27 No 37 better than the Tories. Certainly ‘MUST GOVERN’ that now take place. capitalism needed a Labour Govern­ When the Labour Party won the This type of ‘voluntary’ regulation ment to get it out of its crisis and one General Election in 1964, Wilson of wage increases will be of even that would ‘get tough’ with the trade and his Ministers promised a new more importance if Britain is to unions. The Tories might have industrial revolution, one of effi­ enter the Common Market. Compe­ preached this, but would have been ciency and technological advance. tition will be strong and a regulation unable to achieve the comparatively British industry had to be of wage levels will be an asset for smooth transformation that has strengthened and streamlined and those competing in the Market, Mr. Another Para of taken place in trade unions over the this is precisely what the Govern­ Wilson said at the Lord Mayor’s question of free, collective bargaining ment’s present economic measures banquet that British industry should and an enforced wage freeze. are intended to do. Wilson told the emerge strengthened and streamlined W hen The Economist told its TUC General Council to ‘accept the from the present economic diffi­ readers in 1964 to vote for a Wilson incomes policy or have two million culties. But in order to do this Government, it was right for it knew unemployed’. They did accept; they there must be increased investment. that this Government, because of might have had regrets, but they ‘For years,’ he said, ‘we have lagged Pan IV in Action the special relationship between the have gone along with the Govern­ behind Europe in the proportion of Labour Party and the trade union ment. They also accepted that the our national income devoted to TEWART has used a new section of that benefits for the apprentices woulj leadership, would be able to bring Labour Party ‘must govern’ a productive investment. We have to S1 Part IV of the Prices and Incomes follow on as a matter of course. in a statutory incomes policy. Of capitalist system, and from this rid ourselves of the destructive Act, he has signed an order to prevent The management in their reply ai course those who control industry in acceptance follows the fact that they doctrine that when times are good pay increases, which have not yet taken flashing the new Apprentices’ Chart our society are wary of Government will comply with the plans of the we do not have to modernise and place. He has previously made orders, which, they claim, will benefit the a | ' intervention. Their attitude has Government. under a different-SSction, which stopped prentices more than their inclusion in I invest, and when times are bad we productivity agreement. The boilermajcH always been that ‘if we can get along The TUC General Council seems, employers from continuing to pay their cannot afford to.’ workers increases they had received, such and their apprentices do not accept t| without you, we will’. Nevertheless in fact, more intent on taking a hand Investors are, after all, only position of ‘one, and not the other’, in this governing. The Economic as Thorn Electric and the print workers’ they have at all times been quick interested in the return and apprecia­ cost-of-living bonus. one stage the boilermakers decided prfl to ask for any assistance when the Committee of the TUC is to recom­ tion on their capital and are therefore On September 27, Rockware Glass, dP token stoppage in support o f . going got tough for them. mend to the General Council that cautious. When a good stock comes Greenford, agreed to pay their mainten­ apprentices, but this was called off ubd Workers and their trade unions they draw up annual wage ‘norms’ on the market, like the recent ance engineers an increase of 41d. an a week before it was due to take plsT have, of course, done the same, but after the conclusion of the period of Imperial Chemical Industries’ loan hour, when working in exceedingly hotbut to date the apprentices are confirm^ now the Party that they brought into severe restraint in July. They also stock, then they are ready to over­ conditions in the areas arohnd the their strike. being is in fact destroying free trade propose that there should be regular subscribe too. Mr. Wilson is furnaces. Shop stewards at the plant Workers at Fairfields have the threafl maintain that this type of payihent did closure hanging over their heads alii _ unionism. However the trade consultations between themselves trying to instil confidence. More and the Confederation of British not come under the Wage Freeze, and time. It is claimed that a contract wl union leadership do not see it this investment is needed to modernise Norway is in the balance unless ‘no strij Industry. Both of these would have have, therefore, encouraged the men, to way. They see themselves as part industry and to take advantage of refuse to do ‘hot work’ for the past two guarantees given earlier in the yearj of the leadership of the country, to be more centralised, and have the slack capacity of labour and weeks. Staff workers have carried out the the unions will be honoured. It is P serving the interests of the country. more control over the constituent machinery. necessary essential maintenance. The claimed that a Royal Navy order This leadership might have come bodies. ON THE DEFENSIVE management claim that, if normal work­ lost because Fairfields’ chairman ,< The coming tpgether’of the TUC Where do working people fit into ing is not resumed, they may have tounable to promise delivery within f(ft| and CBI closely resembles what has all this? The measures taken by face the possibility of closing the plant. years. The ‘no strike’ guarantee isl already happened in Sweden. The the Government have weakened the This is a classic example of the vicious­ millstone around the workers’ necgl They have no other weapon with whicH reasons for it are probably the same. power of the workers and their ness of the Wage Freeze, where workers Mr. A. J. Stephen Brown, President have negotiated an agreement with to fight Take away the right of ‘wiflS organisations. With 700,000 expected drawal of labour’, and the employer can Contact Column of the CBI, has suggested, ‘But of management and a third party has inter­ to be out of work by the end of the vened. This is the whole basis of opposi­ do what he likes, how he likes, when hel This column exists for mutual aid. one thing I am convinced — that year, the struggle now is a defensive tion to the Wage Freeze, where agree­ likes. Joint consultation at Fairfield^ Donations towards cost of typesetting unless between us (TUC and CBI) one of maintaining employment. ments have been made, and then been is a farce, the management can make! will be welcome. we can devise some workable Employers have taken the opportu­ blatantly broken by Government inter­ demands backed up by the threat of | alternative, assuredly the Govern­ nity to attack the union organisation vention. closure. The workers, for their part," Libertarian Teachers’ Association. Meet­ The 25,000 print workers in the News­ have nothing—they have handed over! ing to discuss organisation/future and their shop stewards. Where these attacks are successful, the paper Section have had their 2s. cost-of- the only weapon they had. activities/ publications, 7.30 p.m. Fri­ living bonus frozen. Many will cry that day, November 25, 5 Caledonian management will reassert their full FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION prerogative to manage. Even the 2s. is not very much and not worth the Road, N.l. Of First bother, but this is just plain stupidity. A clerical worker at a Cardiff steel- 9 Accommodation. Twenty-year-old girl trade union leaders who oppose the The cost of living has risen far more works got the sack for distributing trade- | with five-month-old baby wants Government’s policies have been than 2s. in any case. union leaflets. The district secretary of I accommodation (with or without Importance unwilling to call any really effective The Newspaper Proprietors Association the Clerical and Administrative Workers’ j work) where she could take care of opposition. Isolated official support have stated publicly that they wished to Union stated that they had 150 members baby. Box 41. Dear Brothers, and court actions are not going to honour the ‘cost-of-living agreement’ but, in the plant and were trying to interest Every now and then well-intentioned ‘Vietnam. Open-air Protest Meetings held smash the wage freeze or the nevertheless, complied when Stewart the other 450. Brian Evans, the worker every Saturday in North Hanover persons associated with anarchism get slapped on the order. Their honour concerned, dished out the leaflets in his Street, Glasgow at 3 p.m. Glasgow upset with its semantics. Some dislike statutory powers. own time. The leaflet was of a very The power of organised labour soon shrank when faced With the Law. Anarchist Group and USM platform. the very name ‘anarchy’ (it gives offence After all it is their protection. revolutionary character—it was advertis­ All libertarian groups invited to to others!) and want us to use other could do this, but Cousins and ing a union meeting. The personnel attend and participate. terms. Some, like Francis Ellingham in Jenkins are both afraid of the SHIPYARD WORKERS DISARMED manager refused to discuss the matter. Accommodation. Young couple (with Anarchy 63, want us to cease using the consequences of action of this soi;t. The company headquarters said it was a two small sons) urgently need 3-room word ‘society’, replacing it with ‘milieu’. If any industrial action did start and Fairfields is the Clyde shipyard which labour problem for the local company s.c. flat at reasonable rent, filling Now, ‘Workers’ Control’ has upset spread, it might prove difficult for has been run for the last ten months to handle. The union is to fight for Peter E. Newell. He tells us that we Evans’s reinstatement. to decorate, baby mind, help in the . trade union bureaucrats to as a trade-union-Government-private- house, garden, etc. Box 42. ‘can still support working-class militancy enterprise consortium. It was to be the For some employers, ’ to have their Soho Football Club. Footballers needed and the class struggle without it’. The contain. The initiative would soon show piece of British shipbuilding. clerical workers organised means the for Sunday mornings. Contact Harry latter, as pursued by our unions today, pass into the hands of the rank and Management and worker acting together day of bloody revolution is near. They Marsh, TUD 1615. Evenings. consists of seeking higher wages and file. So far the main impulse for for the good of all, no more disputes or prefer the ‘company staff’ system, whereby Accommodation. Martin and Sue Gilbert improved conditions for the workers— direct action has come from them, industrial trouble of any kind. Ship­ workers and management can discuss the seek unfurnished accommodation in commendable goals in themselves but but if workers are going to maintain building workers at Fairfields were given staff Christmas party and, if they disagree, Greater London area — consider purely reformist also. The workers’ their wages, conditions and shop' a choice ten months ago: the ‘sack’ or they can all stamp their feet with no sharing — phone PARk 4701. position in society (as a paid slave) re-: floor organisation, only direct action sell the ‘Rule Book’, it was decided to do great harm done. Accommodation wanted. Tourist accom­ mains unchanged. can do it. It is no good relying on the latter. Three weeks ago boilermaker modation wanted. Australian woman, Colin Ward in his excellent article in apprentices struck work in support of THE LAW GRINDS EXCEEDING travelling in Europe needs CHEAP Anarchy 62, ‘Anarchism as a theory of the trade union leadership or politi­ their demand for inclusion in a pro­ SLOW accommodation in London for ap­ organisation’, quotes Stafford Beer’s cians. Only the efforts of those ductivity agreement affecting iron and Thirty-nine workers at the Square Grip proximately four weeks in February, Cybernetics and Management: ‘Our directly affected will ensure that working tradesmen in the yard. The factory in Lanarkshire have been on 1967. Prefer relatively centra] loca­ whole concept of control is naive, primi­ these policies of the Government are Boilermakers Amalgamation district dele­ official dispute for eight months. The tion. Would also like companion tive . . . control to most people (and defeated. gate maintained that in all negotiations company secured an interim interdict for travels in March. Box 43. what a reflection this is upon a sophisti­ P.T. with the management they were assured preventing the extension of the dispute. Sleeping Accommodation Wanted. Three cated society!) is a crude process of The court case dealing with this matter libertarian Dutchmen want tolerant coercion.’ will not be heard until May, 1967, 13 London accommodation for a few Workers' control, in terms of partici­ months after the dispute began. Details days Dec.-Jan. Cheap. Albert pation by the worker in the control of of the dispute have been covered by Rynberg, Casa Acudemicu, Room his own life at work, is obviously an SWF Conference P.T. in previous issues of Freedom. 652, Amsterdam, Netherlands. anarchist activity of the first importance. The basic argument is the desire of Concord Theatre Group. ‘A Night Out’ Admittedly there are dangers of non­ A WELL ATTENDED conference of tarians. The new secretary of the SWF the workers for full trade-union recogni­ (Pjnter) and a revue both directed by anarchist workers thus functioning as the Syndicalist Workers' Federation is Joan Christopher. A new feature of tion by the management. The manage­ Shirley Newman. Wednesday 30th capitalists but even this would be an unanimously supported their comrades the National Committee is the election ment claim that it has no objection to November, Thursday 1st December, improvement on the present position. under persecution in Spain, Bulgaria and of provincial comrades who will have its workers belonging to a union. That is 7.30 p.m. Kingsway College, Sid- Even in an anarchist society—which now in the Argentine. The Eighth certain responsibilities, particularly with all very democratic until the union mouth Street, W.C.J. 5/-. Students some Utopians seem to think will come National Conference raised £24 towards regard to the organisation’s paper Direct attempts to improve the. workers’ lot-’— 2/6. without organisation, sacrifice, and steady the defence of the five members of the Action. The delegates were so pleased then trade-union recognition is Accommodation:Bristol anarchist sympa­ social change—workers’ control (the FIJL arrested recently in Madrid with the Manchester venue that it was veniently forgotten. The T&GWU thiser, studious, responsible, tee­ term, then, would probably have lapsed) (F reedom , 12.11.66). Most of the con­ agreed to hold the next annual meeting cannot allow this to develop into a totaller, needs bedsitter in Bristol. would only be one manifestation of the ference business was of the liature of an at the same place. Delegates pointed miserable defeat, as happened with the Clifton, Redlands, Hotwell area pre­ anarchist principle of individual auto­ internal discussion, but all delegates out that money and aid would be required bleachers’ and dyers’ dispute, in Yorkshire, ferred. Large house. Box No. 43. nomy and self-organisation. agreed that the Prices and Incomes Bill for the defence of Luiz Edo and his last year. Eight months is a long time Fraternally, should be smashed and’ co-operation will comrades fox' all the libertarian move­ to struggle to gain a defeat. T vmi winii m mnkf contact let us know. N.S.W., Australia Bill D wyer . be sought on this issue with other liber­ ments in Britain. H.H. Bill Christopher .