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rPHIS WEEK will see ihc publica­ of masking his lack of victory in ing politician's capacity for survival. As long us we place power and in messy deals with China, probably tion of Harold Wilson’s memoirs. Vietnam. There is no regard by Unfortunately for him, or fortunately confidence in die hands of tfic.sc ai ihc expense of Russia. That I ho Last week saw the publication of either politician for principles of for us, he lacked i fie .qualities—for power-seekers, so long shall we be Common Market is a political Lord Butler’s memoirs entitled The social justice or peace. It is just finding the right backside at the victims of their tortuous confidence gamble of a decayed imperialism Art of the Possible. He is referring convenient and possible to pul over right time?—to mak$.|J -successful tricks. and a desperate capitalism is no of course to •politics’. It is untrue the ideas and gain political advan­ politician or even a fa .Statesman, The Pentagon papers revealed dial reason for so-called ‘Socialists' to that Harold Wilson’s memoirs will tage. However, he did pari tc in the the Vietnam war was a carvc-up. swivel about on it. They should be called the ‘Possibility of Artful­ Harold Wilson was quite solid on vulture's feast at Muo (he still That il was bungled, loo. is Nixon’s have been against it from the start. ness’, but it will be recalled that a the idea of the Common Market defends appeasement^ the only cue lo pull out—not lo get involved J ack R o b in s o n . saddened politician said one day. when he was in power. Has the tiling ‘possible') and h around ‘I’ve a shrewd suspicion I’ve been Market changed, then, from being to bless Sue;*. crawling up the wrong backsides all a capitalist-technologist super-power We cannot blame lUcians for these years.* Last week saw two idea? Not a bit. All that has hap­ trying to survive an irking out exhibitions of arschole crawling un­ pened is that Harold is no longer in all the possibilities, lean only paralleled in the history of spele­ command—not even completely in blame ourselves for ig for it. ology. Mr. Harold Wilson retreated command of the Labour Party. To seek for ideals in lies is like from his stand on the Common Richard Nixon was a devoted looking for a Mack (which isn't Market and Mr. Richard Nixon member of the anti-China lobby there) "in a darkened (ex Red-baiter alongside McCarthy) both when in and out of office. Has The only comfort in extract decided to visit ’Red’ China. Mao’s China ceased to be a Com­ from these mnnocuv that they Politics arc indeed the art of the munist police-state? Not a bit. All do know what we wan do look possible. Mr. Wilson saw the possi­ that has happened is that ‘Tricky from time to time a$ '.they were bility of dishing the Conservatives— Dicky’ has found a new trick—and satisfying us. ’Hvpoc ‘is Ihc trib- and incidentally silencing his party the elections arc looming up. utc that vice pays t firtuc.’ said rivals; and Mr. Nixon saw a wav Lord Butler, loo. has this astonish­ Aldous Huxlcv.

The Tolpuddle Martyrs SIX MEN OF DO

TPVERY YEAR, the National Union field's house into a room upstairs. . . . 1 Loveless and his five companions walked of Agricultural and Allied Workers saw James Loveless and George Loveless with the constable seven miles into Dor­ hold a demonstration, in the sill age go along the passage. One of the men chester, where they were immediately of Tolpuddlc. to honour the memory asked if we were ready. We said. yes. arrested, and put into prison. All their of ‘the six men of Dorset’ or the Tolpuddlc One of them said. "Then bind your eyes”, clothes were removed, and their heads Martyrs as they arc generally called. and we took out handkerchiefs and bound shorn. The attorney who was supposed • • • over our eyes. They then led us into an­ to defend them, inquired if they would During the summer of 1833. agricul­ other room on the same floor. Someone promise the magistrate that they would tural labourers’ wages in Tolpuddlc had then read a paper, but 1 don’t know what have no more to do with the union, that been reduced to seven shillings a week, the meaning of it was. After that we were they would give him all the information and shortly after the farmers told their asked to kneel down, which we did. they had about the union and stale who employees that they would have to lower Then there was some more reading. . . . else belonged to it They s-rid that they them to six shillings. The workers were It seemed to be out of some part of the would rather undergo. punishment than half-starved. 'The labouring men.' wrote Diblc. Then we got up and look our betray their companions. George Loveless, their spokesman, in bandages off our eyes. Someone read The six were then sent to the ’high’ 1837, ’consulted together what had to be again, but I don't know what it was. and jail. The chaplain visited them. George done, and they knew it was impossible then we were told to kiss the book, Loveless, commenting on his visit, re­ to live honestly on such scanty means. I which looked like a little Bible. . . . They marked; . . after upbraiding and taunt­ had seen at different times accounts of told us the rules, that we should pay Is. ing us with being discontented and idle, Menaced again! This cartoon wits first published in ‘Freedom* Trade Societies; 1 told them of this, and then, and Id. a week afterwards, to sup­ and wishing to rain our masters, he they willingly consented to form a port the men when they were standing proceeded to tell us that we were better regarding Wilson's ‘In Place of Strife*. Friendly Society among labourers, having out from their work. They said we were off than our masters, and that the govern­ sufficiently Icamt that it would be vain all brothers; that when we were to stop ment had made use of c\cry possible ‘unlawful oalhs’. lion, the Rt. Hon. Harold Wilson, MP. to seek redress oithcr of employers, for wages we should not tell our masters means to make all comfortable.* They Two days later, they were brought to But in spile of Mr. Wilson’s appearance magistrates or parsons. Shortly after, ourselves, but that our masters would were hastily tried. the bar of the Court to receive sentence. at the demonstration, we should remem­ two delegate* from a Trade Society paid have a note or letter sent to them.* ♦ • ♦ Tho Judge told them that they were to ber what those humble agricultural us a visit, formed a Friendly Society Nothing occurred from that time until The cruel, ambitious, newly-appointed bo sentenced not for anything they had workers of Dorset hoped to achieve, among labourers, and gave us directions February 21, 1834. But Lord Melbourne, Judge, John Williams, ordered them on done, or intended to do. but as an and whnt the State did to them. Wo how to proceed.’ This was about the the Home Secretary in the Whig Govern­ March 18. to be tried for mutiny and example to others. He considered it his should also keep in mind what the end of October. 1833. The ‘Trade Society' ment, chose to make an example of the conspiracy under an Act passed in 1797 duty to sentence all of them to seven previous (Labour) Government intended mentioned by Loveless, was Robert six labourers of Tolpuddle and their for the suppression of the Norc mutiny years’ transportation to Botany Bay in to do. what the present (Tory) Govern­ Owen’s rather ambitious Grand National little ’Society'. Placards were posted up amongst mariners and seamen. But Love­ Australia. ment Is doing and what atl governments, Consolidated Trades Union. in the village by the local magistrates, less and his five companions had not On April 21, tho Grand Consolidated whatever their so-called labels or names, The Tolpuddlc workers did not actually slating that should any man join a union gone on strike, or even planned or ad­ Trades Union organised a giant demon­ would like to do to active, militant, become part of the Grand National; they he would be punished by transportation vocated a strike. In the words of George stration of between 50.000 and 100,000 workers and trade unionists in modern formed a Lodge of their own Society or for seven years. And on February 24. Loveless: The Grand Jury appeared to workers in Copenhagen Fields, near Britain. union. John Lock, one of the labourers, the constable of the parish approached ransack heaven and earth to get a clue Kings Cross in London. They then pro­ P e t e r N e w e l l . recounts his initiation into the Society George Loveless and said: ‘1 have a gainst us. but in vain. . . .* In the end, ceeded to Westminster to petition the thus: *Wc all went into Thomas Stan­ warrant for you. from the magistrates.’ they were convicted of administering King. Agitation on behalf of the Dor- chester workers was not at first success­ ful. Indeed, the Grand Consolidated began to break up owing lo its inability berately refrained. Next year, after to provido adequate support of sections PAMPHLET thinking the matter over I have decided of its membership who went on strike. not to grow 150 apple trees and for n Taking advantage of ’public’ alarm about change. I’ll not grow 50 pear trees also. the spread of trade unionism, many SUPPLEMENT ‘ IF I HAVE NO APPLES’ employers attempted—with varying de­ I calculate that by this I shall save a lot grees of success—lo eliminate it among^ Next week’s paper will Include o 'in an effort to keep up the quality has been serious overproduction of applesof work and in the interests of good ngriculturc and sound economics I should their own employee*. The London build­ Pamphlet Supplement on the Purls Com­ and price of home-grown apples and and pears within the Six for several ing trades employers, for example, were mune. We will be reprinting the speech pears, the Government is to pay years' a —Guardian. 16.6.71. get about £26. shall I.make a claim for 1968-1969. and 1969-1970. and 1970 to ablo lo smash the Builders' Union. How­ nude by Louise Michel at her trial to­ grant to fruit growers If they gel rid of ever, following the agitation for their gether with a new translation by old and uneconomic orchards To the Minister of Agriculture. J97I. or it it not retrospective? Remem­ ber (hero are trees not growing today release, and a change of Home Secretary Nicolas Walter of Kropotkin’s three ‘The Government expects about 15,000 Dear Mr. Prior, —to Lord John Russell—who was more essays which )>c wrote for ‘Le Rtvotlc* acres of orchards to be grubbed I up, see that you are giving money to which would have been but for my sound husbandry and our ©conomic wizardry. dependent on Radical support in the for the anniversaries of the Parts Com­ with grant payments of about £1,250,000. people not growing apples. I didn't grow Commons, tho Dorchester six were given mune in March 1880, March 1881 and Gr.owers witl get up to 13p for trees of apples last year. I estimate I didn't grow By ihc way I am estimating ihc dimen­ free pardons in 1836. And after a while, March 1882. Nicolas Walter has also three to five inches in diameter . . . one about 100 trees, the year before that I sions of tho trees; I should look silly they all made their way home from written an article oo Che Paris Common© condition is that the trees should didn’t not grow 75 trees and when I came going round measuring them. Australia. and the Anarchist Movement. be replaced within five years.' to this area T didn't plant fifty trees al­ P.S. My neighbour lias several trees This year, following Bert Hazel, presi­ Extra copies of the Pamphlet Supple­ ‘British growers are anticipating largethough I always wanted to have an which I believe grow uneconomic apples. dent of the NUAAW, tho main speaker ment can be ordered to be sold oo their imports of cheap French apples and Italianorchard but in the interests of good Would I get a grant if I cut them down? will be that not very apposite martyr own. pears if Britain joins the EEC. Thereagriculture and sound economics I deli­ J ack S pr a tt . and champion of proletarian emancipa- Editors. com of the studentj ii with tho language ANARCHISM TODAY, edited by David of revolution. E. Aplcr iind James Jnll (Macmillan, 75p). By contrast, the Latin couotrle* and rpillS FIFTEEN-SHILLING paperback India contain radical groups which aim A is unlikely to reach many working at improving everyone’s material con­ people, not only became of ii» price ditions. In India tho active membership, but became it probably won't be dis­ as opposed to the concerns, of the Sarvo* played in many places where they might STUDENTS' ANARCHISM daya movement is upper class: *Iu leader­ .sec it. Since it makes no pretence ship is largely in the hands of religious of being aimed at a mass audience, men . . .' hut in tho Ijiiin countries there this isn't a complaint, merely an illu­ walls of I’aris. “Never work” comet in are proletarian lefts, with student parti­ stration of the type of product it is. view that my binh certificate makes me *. . . showed no ambition lo battle for cipation merely nn added element. It’f It's a Macmillan Student Edition, pub­ a pillar of society is comforting, in control of American capitalism anil n direct line from the surrealist slo­ true that only extreme poverty produces lished under the heading ‘Studies in the same way as it's comforting to fail to make It serve the working class. gans of the 1920s. . . . The situation!*!! mass rebellion, but this isn't because Comparative Politics', in association with a means test, but from the standpoint They spoke in embarrassingly utopian proclaim . . . that only the orientation workers In rich countries have no ma­ the quarter 1) journal Government and ol my qualifications as a radical, it’s terms of dunging people's minds. . . . towards play is n guarantee agninst terial problems: it's because their num­ Opposition, where most of the essays in a slander. There arc a lot of middle-aged Drug-induced or not their words were alienating work. . . . An appeal to bers are less, and the demonstrable it first appeared. and old alcoholics, mental patients, indistinguishable from those of an­ the primitive-irrational traces iu roots improvement in conditions since earlier The countries dealt with arc Britain, pensioners, etc., svho arc also not pillars archists as dissimilar ns Tolstoy and a long way back into the past. . . limes makes them easier to convince America. France, Spain. Holland, Japan. of society, and 'youth as a counter­ Bakunin who thought that the revo­ When you ask such people how life*! that they ought to be satisfied. J. Romcra Agentina. Uruguay and India; there arc culture' has little time for them either; lution hid to be in men's minds. needs arc to be procured, they say 'Oh, Maura's article on Spain tries to explain also general articles at the beginning the programme of the Kabouters (dis­ (Bakunin didn't behave as if he thought just relax and it’ll all get done,* or words why anarchy gained mass support there, and enj by the two editors, and a cussed. along with the Provos, by Rudolf this.) ‘There will he a qualitative lo that effect; showing that they sub­ and doesn't really succeed, but still it bibliography by Nicolas Walter. do Jong) includes 'an alternative service transformation, a new living, life-giving scribe to the superstition, held by all contains many sound observations and, The theme is the influence of anarchist for elderly people*, which is commend­ revelation.. .**, Bakunin wrote, n vision kinds of people in regard to all kinds of like Eduardo Colombo's history of an­ doctrines on the new left—a question able, but not the same thing as that the toogs of the counter-culture desiderata that, if you don't try to get archism in Argentine and Uruguay, il which presents two problems of definition integration. described precisely.' it. your indifference will be rewarded informative. at the outset, 'anarchist* and 'new left*, Also on the youth kick, Michael His article it full of this colour- with success. Unfortunately, it's not There’s no denying that the traditional and which also drawls an artificial dis­ Lerner in his American article writes, supplement gush about the hippies. It's true. Later. Gombin says, 'In analysing stream, although virtuous, is uptight tinction. 'Libertarian left*, cutting across 'Timoihy Leary has accurately described quaint the way-he pussyfoots around the situationist writing, one has the impres­ and naive, especially the Sarvodaya both, scents more realistic. Where the the rock musicians as the true prophets question of violence in some American sion that one fine day the militants movement (whose similarities lo and theme is dealt with there’s much of the counter-culture’. cults: ) chanced upon the political dimension of differences from classical anarchism are theorizing of the sort that one's called lie recognizes that 'The new anarchists ‘Most would Judge the return to per­ contestation. On that day they decided outlined by Geoffrey Ostergaard). A anti-intellectual for disliking, although arc from the middle class rather than sonal violence as a step backward that “the revolution must be reinvented'' synthesis is needed between the callously surely passages like: the aristocracy or the peasant or factory from any ‘standpoint. But in other and adopted the programme of workers’ bohemian and the drearily heroic. ’True the anti-role is not rolclessness. poor', while James Joil, much of whose ways personal violence—if boundaries councils. . . Their viewpoint is that One useful idea f found in the book It is a role. too. and one directly reason has sun ived his academic career, of its sacred sphere and non-lcthal of Wilde's sonnet to liberty: is the ’philosophy of the daily struggle’, involved with other roles. Perhaps writes similarly: 'In Europe, the revo­ ritualizatiofli of its enactment become ’Not that I love thy children, whose which has been adopted, with different we need to distinguish between the lution has so far been the work of better defined—may be a more satis­ dull eyes emphases, by many schools of thought "anti-role” which produces a fierce students, and largely middle class ones fying and less dangerous persuasion Sec nothing save their own unlovely and continuous controversy over the in different places. At its worst, the at that*. In France, a workers' movement than the Aniklcarisni that has tried woe, idea of 'permanent protest', based on the terms of group action and sheer role- exists alongside that of the students. to rcplaoe it* Whose minds know nothing, nothing lcssncss. Moreover, there arc "nd- belief that There can be no such thing According to Richard Gombin. Obviously heTi'afraid that if lie came care to know, as an anarchist society: or if there can santages” to "anti-roles" as distinct 'In most modern sectors of the econ­ right out agaiast it. lie might later be But that the roar of thy democracies. from "rolclcssncvs". The ami-role sets it is such a remote goal that . . . It omy . . . one sees in France a gradual shown to havie overlooked something. Thy reigns of terror, thy great becomes a deception* can lead to in­ itself against socially validated roles', change in the methods of social con­ The Situatlonisi approach takes anti- anarchies etc. activity and compromise; but at its best flict. It is remarkable that though cconomics ai^ar as they’ll go: Mirror my wildest passions like the it can free people from the crippling arc by anyone's standards an abuse of this change did not start in May I96S, sea the state of consciousness. Where the 'To be completely emancipated, the habit of testing every * contemplated neither did it cease after the end individual must-must . . . Mi;shake off the theme is ignored, the book contains And give my rage a brother. . . action against a utopian ideal, and thus of the strikes in June 196S. It seems .shackles which hinder hiiim. One of Wilde ends on a sentimental note: lead to things Iikc the squatters’ cam­ lively docription. particularly of the indeed that a movement, a trend, modern cults, as well as useful historical ____these ___ shackks is work...... Of course. . . And ycl, nnd yet / These Christs that paign. which changed people’s lives by began in about 1966 and has spread it is the aUtirhted and alienating work dio upon the barricades, / God knows overriding, nol just confronting, authority, information, pinpointing of causes and for some years. . . .* of burcaucritjc societies—but it is also categorizing of different schools of it I am with them, in some things.’ Hut and in which anarchists were ‘possibly Moreoscr, 'The initiative (in these strikes) every paid# kiruclurcd and directed nowadays the barricades themselves arc more active in relation to their re­ thought. I ihir.k that David Sinllord. in is taken by the younger workers . . . activity whlU is meant. . . . the in­ his article on the British scene, is right manned by cynics. Where a superficially sources than any other political group*. My emphasis. This seems more sig­ scription wktgh was written up on the syndicalist approach exists, the real con- KS. in mentioning the Twentieth Party Con­ nificant than the romantic stories of gress and the Hungarian revolution students propagandizing and 'fraternizing' (among other things) as catalysts to with workers. the present-day libertarian trend. These In Japan, anarchism is almost com­ my grandmother, dying before she was dramatic failures of socialism must, more pletely a student affair. Some worker forty after bearing eleven kids. than anything else, have given people, activism exists together with the student Somewhere between the subsistence Si to whom socialism had previously seemed left, and has joined with it on the issue life of the cave-men and the hell of the only sensible radicalism, confidence Ain’t Folks Daft ? of peace; but Chushichi Tsuzuki's article modem city life there’s a good and rich in their own suppressed libertarian shows that for the most part, the melo­ AM, MORIv.dian most, of course: available—country is absorbed into cities, life, with the best that nature and man’s impulses. dramatic, fashionablc-idca-riddcn. elitist I ingenuity has to oiler. Some anarchists The picture that emerges from the not only 'do JSknow about a civilised motorways and airfields; small (own* students have been unable to come within way of life, but it was within my grasp. become large ones. So—people travel find it and take it; a world where no book's wide but random spectrum (note a hundred miles of understanding the So what did J do? Chose to work and farther and farther to work; walking and man is another’s master, all work equally no articles on Italy. Germany, Scandi­ workers or taking an interest in economic exist in the city-^-and to grapple with all to obtain necessities and the worthwhile navia or any communist countries) is cycling to work are replaced by buses, problems. the modem problems of pace of living, trains or car*. Instead of leaving home luxuries that make life really full and the predominance of a modernist stream David Stafford says that ‘a significant increased leisure, energy—we all know early, and making a leisurely progress to worth living. For the rest of us—who in the richer countries, n.s against more change in the nature of anarchist support them all. I had excuses naturally; I've de­ the job, workers leave home at the lost maybe lack courage, or who have been a* traditional types of anarchism elsewhere. since the earlier years of the century veloped sonic expensive tastes—machine- minute, run to their transport, travel in made cautious by years—the job of edu­ The modernist stream isn't the only one when it was to be found amongst the made cigarettes, records, books and the conditions we don’t allow other liv­ cating calls for every minute modem life in the richer countries, but the book mainly Jewish working-class population motor-bikes; then, I haven’t produced a ing creatures, increase their whole tempo saves. stresses it. Its three main features arc of London's East End', but the statistics litter of kids svho could feed me when of living—rush back after work to find Peggy Kino . youth orientation, uppcr-classncss, and on which he bases the statement arc I can't produce the necessary supplies, oblivion before canned entertainment, indifference to economic problems; the weak. Observation suggests, however, and I'm averse to any more contact with or to seek, in mechanical sardine tins, three arc connected. that whatever the actual number of the state—cash-wise or in other ways, the illusion of seeing the country. Grass, David Aptcr echoes the popular workers in the anarchist movement, the than I can avoid. trees, birds, flowers— people — through scntimcntalisation of youth when he upper-class outlook is prominent At least I don’t kid myself that this is glass. APOLOGIA writes. the best—or only—way of life. My In economic history 1 was taught that ‘Each conflict in the context of youth Like the youth outlook, it's an un­ T HAS BEEN pointed out by Albert economic one, springing from the belief great-grandfather* had more idea how to the industrial revolution, and almost all is pari theatre . . . in which public live—isolated in the Cumbrian hills, modem ‘progress’ was made possible by I Mcltzer that our paragraph on Freie happenings arc staged in order to common to all reactionaries that the Arbetter Stimme (June 26) ‘is totally lower class has a soft life, perhaps even keeping their own protein from birth, developments in communication. Well, demonstrate the falseness, the empti­ growing or making everything else they there arc plenty of modem developments inaccurate It was never published in ness and the perfunctory quality of loo soft; we live in an affluent society Germany, never edited by Rudolf Rocker and only spiritual problems remain. Even needed. And there are folk* today who I like—the availability of books, the the symbols of society, law. school, don’t manage so badly. People who have, wider spread of better music than one can and had no connection with the paper family, and church, i.c. of the stable the emotional stresses on workers, which {Workers' Friend) published in London. arc the result of material conditions, and for instance, the sense to know that if produco oneself, some of the develop­ institutions of the middle-aged.* you stick to one partner all your life— ments in medicine and cleaner living Its origins were in the New York, garment I am middle-aged and. like most people arc quite simple and biological in nature, trades unions, in which many anarchists are falsified by terms like alienation. if it’s the right one, anl you have a decent where people are in communities. No of any age, don’t consider those in­ sex life—you don’t have to worry about doubt wo need transport and communi­ were active, but in its 80 year* it has stitutions to be my institutions. I had 'A breakdown of issues dealt with in the way you look, bother about the cations for all these—but docs the price not been noticeably anarchist except for nothing to do with creating them and Anarchy since 1961 would show a deep changes made by years—there’ll be some­ have to be so high? I’m not Thoreau; a vague “libertarian socialist" trade have no influence on their operation. concern with what have in 1970 become one to desire you and to be friend and I like to bo within reach of the fellow- unionism*. We plead pure ignorance Such humble members of the establish­ known as “quality of life" issues.’ While comrade when uo one else want* you. humans who’ro my kind; I do appreciate on the part of willing comrades who ment as come into contact with me. in America, the hippies (who are mainly Most of the British population today the better things industrialisation has drafted the introduction in a hurry such as bank-tellers and health visitors, the people Lerner means by ‘American live in large town* or cities; the number produced. I enjoy manual work—if I’m when they realized there was no ex­ consider me cxircmcly disreputable; the counter-culture') of lucky people who can accept life in not being paid lo do it—but I want to planatory note accompanying the article. the country or in small towns decreases use my brain as well. The world has too Albert Mcltzer adds that: every year. So. of course, does the space many people—and I’d hate to have been 'The book by Miguel Garcia Garda on his prison experiences in Spain will Secretary: be published by Rupert Hart-Da vis in Peter Le Marc, 5 Hannaforc Road, the Spring. The title will probably bo Rotton Park, Birmingham 16 Count and See How Many. ‘SERAPHINA’ 'Floodgates of Anarchy by Christie &. Mcltzer is being translated into Spanish a is not afraid to attack capitalism, the long boxes under the pseudonym of Science and Anarchism by Kropotkin (Accommodation provided if necessary.) E on A E. H*ru.i P. Hawaii, 'Act***'. Spring awaken people to the problems of world (30p). Origins of the Anarchist Move­ lana, Eight Axh Greco, ColchccUr. (QM, FL-) poverty, to inform peoplo about the 'aircraft parts' and can be bought in dim Address all letters to: Sarraj-i O. Wright. 47 Collect Rood. Epaotn. cafes in minor capitals. ment in China is nearly out of stock, Yortuhirn Marlin Watkina. Flat D, 90 CUrmdoe cause* of these problems, and to encour­ and is reprinting (it has gone through t*Ij 95 West Green Road. London. N.15. R oad. LccdLi. LS2 9L. age people to tak© relevant action’. The Still, n start of a radical approach to Material that cannot wait for the Maarholcr Anarchist and Siadlcaliti Groapi the Third World—a long way from an two editions of 850 and 1,000). Sur­ S Nekton, 406 t.ightbownc Road, Motion, object of the organisation is, further, to realism and Revolution is also out, bulletin to be sent to R. Atkins. Manchester 10. raise money for educational campaigning anarchist or libertarian socialist approach Vanbrugh College. Heslington. York. Scotland: Secretary. Mike Maiet, 1 Lynnewood —but different from the nice Tory having gone through two different revised Place, MaryfteJd. Dundee. and lo raise money for oversea* projects. editions of 850 and 1,000, on top of The Contact Column in ’Freedom' is Walcai a/o P. L. M art (addroa sfcova). ladies of Oxfam. also available for urgent Information. N. Ireland: c/o Freedom Praaa. This is where they begin to sound like Get Seraphina—price Hp a copy plat the original American edition. The The American Federation of Anarch lata i P.O. Oxfam, War on Want, 3WI and all the Origins of the Revolutionary Movement Qrwipi ifeould Mod latest addresaea Hoi 9MJ Minneapolis. Minnesota 55440. USA. postage—from 405 Chiswick High Road, to M n k |b a . New inquirers should S. Ireland: *0 CoUaga Lana. Dublin. 2. other middle-das* conscience • salving Gunnersbury, W.4 (to which address the in Spain (same figures) is nearing the te them or to the APB UmhtnUj mmdSladenl Cr iagn •/• P. L. Mam bodies, which Is a pity. interested may also contribute articles). end of supplies.' M mating; Ml True, that, unlike Oxfam, etc., CRISIS Jim S p r ig g s . j .r . J r IS A SOLEMN moment for any are acceptable, or were. But they have BE SS S ECaCs&Is SB Ga SS S0 B B S 0 F community when hippies decide to since been expelled. No doubt American settle in iu midst. A couple of years ago influence, the CIA and all that, has had we had iho London Street Communo something to do with it, but their own be­ descending on us at Freedom Press, so The Baffle of Ibiza haviour has also contributed. They made bolts we speak from experience. The ferocity a nuisance of themselves even in Nepal. of tho Spanish polico in their attack on Tho Ibiza hippies are now moving ofl tbe hippies of Ibiza will come as no sur- they often have little to cat, having no them anyway, believe in the simple life, towards Amsterdam, where the Dutch seem to bo remarkably tolerant. My own prise to anarchists. What is surprising money, they are generally very PW«vflbut the simplo life is not the same as BSSBBSSBSSSSBSSSSSSSS it that they were ever allowed into n people. If told to go, or even just asked squalor, and the hippies usually tend to experience of Holland is that the people Fascist, or moro accurately a clerical* politely, they will movo on. They are cncafo squalor wherever they settle. there, though traditionally tolerant in matters of religious belief, since their military country like Spain in the first certainly quite defenceless. But this seems The hippies are rejecting the compul­ Any book not in stock, but in place. No doubt the reason for this if anything to stimulate brutality among sive cleanliness and neatness of the bour­ struggle against Spain in tho sixteenth century, are pretty stiff and starchy, and print con be promptly supplied. anomaly was that Spain depends so much tho skinheads, both those in uniform geois world, and in this they are a Book Tokens accepted. on tho tourist industry, and it is difficult and those without, who take a sadistic thousand times right, ft i$ something in fact very bourgeois in every way. That Amsterdam should have become a Please add postage St cosh with to encourage tourists of a more respect­ pleasure in knocking them about. sick and obsessional. But they have order helps. able kind without admitting a certain There was no practical purpose served failed, or perhaps not even realised the hippy paradise is something I find ab­ solutely incomprehensible. I hope that Modern Science St Anarchism number of hippies. These distinctions by beating them with clubs and firing need to create a viable alternative. To Peter Kropotkin £0.30 (2|p) are often harder to draw in practice than guns at them. This was purely to satisfy live from hand to mouth and then move it remains that way, but judging by what has happened elsewhere I fear it War and the Intellectuals in theory. tho frustrations of the polipe. There is on. leaving a mess behind, is no way to Randolph Boumo £0.90 (5p) Accounts vary as to how unpopular no doubt that the sight ofsomcone idle crcato an alternative society.* will not. Tragic indeed is what happened in Kropotkin’s Revolutionary the hippies really were, and whether it is always irritating to someone who They are also parasitic on 'straight* Pamphlets (paperback) £1-25 (7)p) was tho local people who resented them works. To someone who is smart the society. They do not create anything. Sweden. Not being part of the NATO alliance, the Swedes were ready enough Selected Writings on or the respectable tourists. According to sight of someone untidy is infuriating. The gypsto. who live on the fringes of Anarchism St Revolution some, the tourists were the principal Certainly it is true that a person who our cities, collect scrap-iron or make to accept American servicemen fleeing tho Vietnam war. Sweden is usually Peter Kropotkin (paperback) £1.85 (7Jp) complainers. and the Spanish police docs not work must ultimately live oil various small objects for sale or even The Gentle Anarchists (The moved in to save the tourist industry. someone else who does, and this docs tel! fortunes. They provide a service to thought of a.* a permissive country, and sexually perhaps it is. However the Saoodaya Movement for Amusingly enough, however (amusing, upset the worker. There is envy in it. the community. The hippies provide non-vioknl revolution in that is, to someone a long way away though no one who has seen a hippy nothing, oxccpC perhaps a spectacle. At Swedes fear ‘drugs', and the young men India) GcofTrcy Ostcrgaard £5.50 (l5p) from the scene of hostilities), once the 'commune' dose to can really envy the iho same time they condemn the society who escaped to Sweden brought these with them. Soon tbe tolerance began to Memoirs oTn Revolutionist police got going, and started raiding bars hippy life-style, the discomfort and in­ that they live off as wicked and im­ Peter Kropotkin (paperback) £2.00 (l5p) and such-like places, they swept everyone security strike a chill to the heart, and moral. It is, but they expect it to support diminish. Surely this could have been foreseen, and a little responsibility exer­ Soul of Man Under Socialism into the net, short-haired respectables and one wonders how anyone can bear them nonetheless. & other essay* Oscar Wilde and hippies alike. It is quite a good such an existence. The hippy movemctu has spread across cised in this case, since it was a matter of life or death to the men involved. (paperback) £1.00 (10p) idea in this modem world of increasing Tho hippies in the rejection of authority the world, ranging from Nepal in the Politicn! Theory of Anarchism police brutality not to call in the police have something in common with anar­ East to St. Jvw, Cornwall, in the West, They had to find a country where they could live, or be sent to die in the jungle. April Carter £1.50 ( lOp) to protect you, but to learn to protect chists. but they difTcr from us in other not to mention California where it all Enquiry Concerning Political yourself, otherwise you may find your­ ways. Anarchists generally believe in a began. Everywhere the story is the same. It was worth giving up a drug, one would have thought, to secure a safe place for Justice William Godwin self being beaten and arrested by your certain degree of non-compulsive re­ At find they arc accepted and then feeling (abridged) £1.60 (15p) protectors’ sponsibility. Anarchists, despite the accu­ hardens against them. Turkey and Nepal oneself and those who would come after one. But no. Now it is more difficult Tolstoy on Civil Disobedience Our experience of hippies seems to sations made against them, do believe originally accepted them willingly enough. and Nonviolence £0.45 (5p) indicate that, (hough they arc thievish in organisation, only they believo that In there countries the mass of the popu­ for a deserter to find refuge in Sweden, whereas before it was almost automatic. Russian Literature and dirty, or some of them are anyway, organisation should be small-scale and lation arc as poor ns hippies, and ‘drugs' Peter Kropotkin £4.50 (15p) they arc not violent types. Whether be­ decentralised and without a ruling clique. The whole thing is depressing. Is ihc •fn fairness It should he said they cleaned Radical America Magazine* £0.421 (5p) cause they take 'drugs', or simply because Most annrclmts. or a good many of only alternative to bourgeois obscssional- (Back issues available) up after them when they left Angel ism and police thuggery a sort of chaos? Alley. But this was not the case every­ Michael Bakunin E. H. Carr £1.10(lOp) where. AAV.U. The Paris Commune and Ihc Idea of the State (CIRA) 8 pp £0.15 (21 p) •Subscriptions invited for this magazine London. N.W.2: W.S. 7Sp; Shop: Anon £2.85 p a. to Freedom Press. NOTES FROM 45p; Wolverhampton: J.L. 40p; J.K.W. (Please add postage as in brackets) lOp; Lanark: D.T. S0p; London. W.C.2: Minority Rights Group £1: Ontario, Canada: D.K.G. £1; Leeds: A.C 25p: Glasgow; A J. 20p; New York. USA: THE WEST OF ENGLAND P.A. £1.121; Wolverhampton: J.L. 40p; J.K.W. lOp. HE HISTORY of the worker in the this matter. Total: £13.82 Ire e d o m T South-West has been one of great There nrc 14 American firms in the Income Sales and Subs.: £266.37 exploitation suffered in silence except Plymouth district at the moment with for tho rare occasion—the Tolpuddlc the prospect of 10 or II more moving in £280.19 martyrs. —hence the name ‘little America*. DOWN AGAIN! During tho general striko strikers from For a long time Plymouth's Conserva­ PRESS FUND Expenditure (2 weeks): £300.00 Plymouth played football with the police. tive Council has been boasting about the Deficit Bl./fwd.: £354.55 ress In Plymouth, the main centre of em­ number of new factories being built in July 1-14 Inc. } ployment has been and still is the Naval tha area—jobs for all!—most of there Toronto, Canada:,J R.W.K. 25j>; Bath: £654.55 Dockyard—the workers here are mainly factories employ mainly women. R.E. lOp; Pittsfown, USA: A.R. £3.30; Less Income: £280.19 publish ex-RN personnel—conservative, 'services And then wc found out why the New York, USA: LM. £2.10; Taunton: FREEDOM weekly unthink’, filled with fears of red agents Council had not spoken of their indusiry- D.P. I0p; Norfolk': J.B. £1: Alberta. DEFICIT: £374.36 and distribute and men in black cloak*. ottracting methods. A big advertising Canada: W.G. 50p;lPlymouth: R.G. 20p; ANARCHY moothly Tbe ex-serviccmcn also have a large campaign was set up in the States. Ply­ K pension which would, when coupled with mouth's three main selling points were:— 84b Whitechapel High Street high wage*, lead to tax problem*, so the (i) the low level of wages; London £J 01-247 9249 (ii) the lack of organisation amongst urgo to fight for higher wages is not anarchism, or that Moll, Woodcock. Entrance Angel Alley, very great—even so the dockyard rate the workers (it was easy to ret up ANARCHISM TODAY Whitechapel Art Gallery exit, for unskilled labour is £23 pw, about £6 * non-union shops) — but Trade Aptcr et aT have anything at all to do Dear Comrades. Si. with 'shrewd high Toryism*? Aldgato East Underground Stn. higher than the semi-skilled rate and £3 Union membership has gone up David Pickett (J}Sy 10) unfortunately J.V. SPECIMEN COPIES ON higher than the skilled rate at Fine Tubes by 200.000 in tbe last year; criticised my review^q£ the book About REQUEST before the strike. , (iii) the high level of unemployment Anarchism (June 12) without reading tbe Wages in the South-West are lower —competition for jobs—ease of longer review—to ^whkh I referred— than anywhere else in Britain—unskilled replacing workers on strike. And yet after all this the attitudes of of the special issue of the magazine labourers take home £IO-£!J per week, Government ami Opposition on which skjtlcd labourers up to GO pw. skilled tho workers in the South-West seemed to Sit-in-Striker Bookshop remain apathetic (I don't consider tho tho book is based' {October 31, 1970). women about £13. In the original revieftf.] did indeed expose Most workers arc forced to work many workers of the $W or Britain in general Open Afternoon* to be apathetic—rather more a feeling of some of the inadequacies of the sym­ hours of overtime to obtain a standard posium—the basic tnbcooception behind Fined £20 Tuesday to Friday of living above the poverty line. contentment, after all they never had it 2 p m. to 6 p m. so good, many have cars and all the the editorial approach, the omission of The low cost of living the West is Sweden (and also oTG^nnany, llaly, and RIAN UAMFOKD, a mlltworkcr, who supposed to enjoy is a myth, nothing electrical gcodies, things were getting Open Evenings better—the media drummed it In—a Switzerland), the cmkrion of Spain since B wux arrested during a sit-in strike Thursday close at 8.30 p.m. else. Rents are lower than most places 1936 (not 1939), an4 tho poor quality of al Arrow Mill, KiKhckite, wax fined £20 —hut try to find a house/Aat. Food is situation fast changing). Saturday 10 »jn. to 4 p.m Also one has the strong conservative some of the contributions (especially plus £18 costs after uo eight-hour hearing about the same price as in London— Apter, Lcrncr, Stafford, and Joll). at Koehdutc Borough Magistrates' Court London supermarket prices are lower— nature of the Dockyard overhanging the area—all this coupled with the helpless­ Anyway, is it so certain that the Swedish oo July 15. A fuller report will follow produce grown in the West is trans­ Syndicalist Union tea much to do with in two weeks* lime. ported to Co vent Garden and then back ness of the Trade Union movement. again—clothe* are the same price and But in 1970 things began to change— SUBSCRIPTION in some cases higher—the same thing long and bitter strikes were fought at w goes for everything else. Cent rax. Exeter. Holmans of Camboumc. RATES 1971 Last September the Plymouth Post• Ottery switch-gear. Workers began to , printed a front page story which shook wake up—a wave of militant feeling be­ INLAND many people—Plastic Carton Corpor­ gan to sweep through the area—but it is Freedom 12 months £2-50 (£210*) all being smothered by the Trade Unions An Arrow in his Eye 6 months £1.25 (£1 5s.) ation, a US-owned firm, planned to build down here—it is up to us to inject new Anarchy 12 issues £2.25 an 800-job factory at Liskeard, Corn­ S YOU MIGHT EXPECT, libertarians were in the event imposed—had wall. They were officially advised. ‘Pay ideas into the factories—show an alter­ 6 issues £1.13 native to life in the area at the moment A won’t find much to their taste in sought its aid for publicity purposes. Combined 12 months £4.50 lower wages than you planned to—you’ll Harold Wilson’s now book, The Labour i}Ve hud not yet reached the position still be paying above the average.' and the failings of the official TU 6 months £2-25 movement. Government 1964-1970: A Personal where telegenic situations were planned ABROAD (in $ US.) The giver of this advice was the Record (Weidcnfeld .* At Nicolson, and in advance between a television auth­ Department of Employment and Produc­ THE TOLPUDDLE GROUP Freedom 12 months 56.40 This group, named after the TolpuddJe Michael Joseph. £4.80), except confir­ ority and the demonstrators. or where 6 months 53.20 tivity. When questioned by a Post mation of everything they have always television crews were to be seen in­ reporter, a representative of the D of martyrs, was formed towards the end of Anarchy 12 Issues 55.00 thought about parKtsoentary socialism. voking trouble in the course of some 6 issues 53.00 B A P said that this was regular policy the Cent rax strike. A group of workers public ceremony. / was to learn more —any firm from ouuide the region could front this factory arranged to meet wor­ But those who remember the Brighton Combined 12 months 511.40 Church Demonstration five years ago will of these practices later.) As l reached 6 months 56.20 consult them. kers from other factories to oifer what the pulpit to read the second lesson, The advice given is based on regional help they could to the increasingly mili­ enjoy one charact«iitkally paranoid AIRMAIL paragraph in the doacription of tho pandemonium broke loose. The mini­Freedom 12 months 510.00 rate* not trade rates and is in cITect a tant but inexperienced West Country ster vainly appealed for quiet. I decided way of averaging down wages In the workers, this was coupled with the second Labour Party Annual Conference in Octo­ 6 months $5.00 ber 1966 (p. 288): - to carry on with the lesson, though, Anarchy 12 issues 510.00 West. Our man from the D of E A P aim—‘to fight for a fair deal for West despite the public address system, little went on to explain that iho reason for Country workers'. 6 issues 5600 On the Sunday morning. as usual, could be heard by the congregation, all this was to keep all factories in line Tho group will not affiliate with any whose attention was. In any case, dis­ so that workers would not be tempted one political purty but will welcome the l war due to read the lesson at the ftre-conference ierrtc#, on this occasion tracted by the tvrest by uniformed to leave their places of employment to help of anyone who It going to work for pidice of the men and women demon­ANARCHY 3 seek higher wage* elsewhere. tho betterment of workers' wages and at the Dorset Road Methodist Church. Just before / Uft the hotel, I was strators. D was one of the mast Inoenscd Tmdo Unionists demanded a conditions in the West. unpleasant experiences of my premier­ They cull for a strong rank and file tipped oR by a •friendly television top lovci probe, Mr. Robert Carr de­ employee that thwa Would be trouble ship. The Acid Issue manded a full report from his department movement in Iho factories that will not Well, for one of the demonstrators on toe tho lino of tho trade union leader­ in church front tOUl-Vlcttuuu demon­ —aa yet nothing elso has been heard of strators. blot for the first time television whom gaol sentences were imposed, that from Freedom Press ship, or tho slow, ponderous procedure last renurk makes it all worth while! of the union bureaucracy. H*4jj involved In rifuartonr where de­ • Plymouth Post, Not. 10 and II (Sep­ monstrators—in this case gaol sentences N.W. (50c) 20p tember and October, 1970). O.R. I

Building Slums for the Eighties t a c t r i t a i n , a t a l l t i m e s . w m to 500. house* a year bv |9?0. Their administration! and the building th.it h:..as while it is also not generally recognises! Contact Column 1* B have l^con suffering from a homing White Paper showed the magnitude of taken place has gone to private industry. that some local authorities charge slum for making contact! problem the task and how successive governments Hammersmith and Wandsworth were clearance costs and debt charges on G Use Is free, but Iff ami administrations had failed to direct donations towards In the iv'Ov. Geo nee Orwell wrote prime example! doctrinaire reasons buildings during erection to the Housing typesetting costs in ho to U'lfon Pier, *llack to hack the necessary capital and resources to­ overruling both Ooinmon sense and finan­ Revenue Account. Slum clearance cosit •re welcome houses are two houtev built in one, each wards fulfilling one of mankind’s basic cial consideration! for keeping and ex- should bo met from the General Rates side of the home being somebody's front requirements The White Paper slates ponding ihc perfectly good Direct Labour paid by all ratepayers. door. %o that if you walk down a row lhat 3m. families were living in slums, schemes. *,« i Increased rents go towards meeting the of what iv apparently twelve houses you near slums or grossly overcrowded con­ higher interest charges on loans. Unlike arc in reality seeing not twelve houses ditions Four million new homes were ‘FAIR RENTS'•lr •' * i those buying their own homes, council b> twenty-four The front houses give needed, with another 180.000 a year to Because of. the delibemtely crcalcd tenants get no lax relief for what is vir­ onto the street and the hack ones on the really solve the shortage. Out of the shortage of hornet, rents rise just like tually the same interest burden, except Help Fold and Despatch 'Freedom'* yard and there is only one way out of fifteen countries of Western Europe, Bri­ the price of any other commodity that that they arc buying for the general Thursdays from 2 pm. each house Ihc cllcct of this is obvious. tain was spending the least of its Gross is in short suppiy:fl-|lcW i (ifc.itcr London community rather than for themselves. The lavatories arc in the yard• at the National Product on housing. To give Council claim that their rents should be The selling of council houses to American Comrades. Anarchist and back, so that if you live on the side Labour lhc»r due. the number of homes related to lair rents' in ihc private sec­ tenants is another step away from the American literature. Send for list. facing the street, to get to the lavatory built each year increased until 1967 when tor. but when flxihg the latter, rent communal and social responsibility for the figure of 400.000 was achieved. Friends of Malnfesla. Box 72, Bid- or the dust-bin you have to go out the tribunals in London have taken the housing. Under capitalism, home* are well Station. Buffalo. N.Y. 14222. front door and walk round the end of the By then the economic climate was scarcity value into consideration. The just another commodity on the market block—a distance that may be as much changing ami following devaluation. GLC arc now increasing their rents to and with the ever-increasing demand for O.R.A. No. 3. The Bomb Throwers, 12p as two hundred yards; if you live at the Anthony Greenwood, the Minister of the level of Ihc prls^itc sector, when, in land, prices and costs arc rising all the plus postage lo Keith Nathan, c/o back, on the other hand, your outlook Housing, announced that the Govern­ fact, unlike this, lector, their Housing time. Homes arc built primarily for 138 Pennymead. Harlow. Essex. is on u row of lavatories.’ ment had decided ‘to make reductions in Revenue Account I* not required to make profit in tho private sector, while many Agitprop — Bookshop / Coffee / Political Although most of these old back-to- the public authority house-building pro- a profit. of those being erected in the public lec­ Lounge / Educational Collective—248 back houses have been pulled down, con­ gramme below the level previously The Tory propaganda that council tor today are to a poor standard of Bethnal Green Road. London. E.2 ditions similar to those described by planned*. T he one thing that the two tenants arc a privileged class docs not finish, with cheap materials and will (01-739 1704). Free Coffee July 14 George Orwell arc still the lot of many Wilson Governments can claim as a hold water on ewinination. The Family become the slums of the eighties. to 21. Literature on Racism. Sexism, families today. When governments have success is that they achieved a surplus Expenditure Survey for 1967 showed Instead of providing for social needt. Industry. Imperialism. Education, made promises they have usually failed balance of payments. Every other con­ that income* wetgfgVe.-itcr for the head with communal amenities, barrack-like Children’s Books, Ireland. Bulletin to fulfil them and one of the most dis­ sideration. including housing, was sub­ of the household living in private rented dwellings arc being creeled which fall a Board and left journals to read. mal of these was the promise by Labour’s ordinated to lhat end. To back up this accommodation than those of the council long way fhort of the real requirements Commune In Ramsgate, Kent, starting post-war Government to the reluming tiim-arouml in policy, ministries created tenants. Contrary fto the general view, for a decent home and environment Sept. ’71 needs members. Craftx/cdu- armed forces of increased housing. Dur­ figures to justify it and said that if council tenants do pay rate* assesses! by ing their period of government the cational bias. Write: 36 Devonshire Labour’s 500,000 homes a year con­ the Inland Revenue' Rating Authority. P.T. Road. Mill Hill. N.W.7. number of houses built only rose from tinued, there would be a surplus of 55.500 in FU6 to 104,700 in 1951. housing. Obviously for all who profit The Individualist Forum. For further Obviously this came nowhere near from housing, such as building firms, information, contact; J. Galt, 19 what was needed to solve the housing landlords, finance companies and building Newport Court, London, W.C.2. problems cf that period. George Wood- societies, this situation would he abhor­ Electro-Stencils cut. 4Sp each (inc. post). c*vk wrote in 1944 that ‘it appears that rent. Their profit margins and high in­ Liberiaria, 95 West Green Road. at the present day we need at least terest rates on loans were based on the COLLECTIVE GUILT London, N.15. 4.000.000 new houses to relieve over­ exploitation of the misery created by a crowding. and to replace slum and ob­ IMPORTANT CASE took place stating that ‘the prosecution is not re­ Comrades in Japan would like to contact shortage of homo. A surplus was a anarchists who are interested in solete housing and dwellings destroyed threat and would mean that at last people in Uxbridge o Magistrates' MagiMrutcs' Court last quired to prove an overt act but if a in the air-raids’.* month when seventeen youngsters were group of people undertakes a course of Commune Movements. Write to could pick and choose This would then Hiroshi O/cki. Japan Commune MOKE Itlill.T BEFORE T1IE WAR force down the artificially high cost of charged with ill mg behaviour. The action and any individual by his action During successive Tory- administrations circumstances that they were un- identifies himself with that action it is Assn., Asahi Bldg. 5-7, 2-Chome, houses Such a situation would never do Akasaka, Minato-Ku, Tokyo, Japan. more houses were built. In 1954 the in what i\ basically a landlord's country. able to get into a ool dance and were not necessary to point a finger at any figure had reached 347.600. but even this The housing problem today is getting alleged to be ma a noise and block- ono individual—the mere association is The Match!—a monthly Anarchist jour­ compared unfavourably with pre-war worse. In London alone. 200.000 families ing the road, licc were unable enough . . . if the behaviour of the nal. Send to Box 3488. Tucson, figures, when over the years from 1934 arc on waiting lists, apart from the many to identify any the youngsters in- group is criminal it is sufficient to render Arizona. USA. Year’s sub. $3.00. to 1939 the average number of houses others who have not put themselves down dividually. The culion maintained tho individual liable.' Minority Rights Group’s recent reports— built was 358.000 a year. bccrui** they know they haven’t a chance. that it was not wiry to point to It is most disturbing that the prose­ on Northern Ireland; Fast African When Labour returned to power in There arc also 8.000 families registered any one individ the fact that they cution felt able to advance this the claim Asians; Religions in Russia; Japanese 1964. Harold Wilson promised to build as homclc^ Local authorities arc build­ were in a crowd ich was behaving of collective guilt and it is equally serious Outcasts; and (just out) a double ing less. Many of the Direct Labour criminally was su cut. The defence that the magistrate did not reject the report on the Southern Sudan and 9Hornes or Hovels. Freedom Press schemes have been abandoned by Tory submitted that thcr«\vas no such thing claim at the outset. It is quite likely Eritrea—price 30p each from MRG, in English law as (Lilt by association that there will be further eases of this 36 Craven Street, London. W.C.2. with a group and ar;$cd that there was nature and the NCCL will keep a care­ no case to answer against any of the ful watch to see that this dangerous doe* North East London Poly (Barling) accused. Tho magistrate rejected the trine is not pursued. Anarchist Group, c/o Students submissions but la tea acquitted every­ Union. Longbridge Road, Dagen­ one after all the evidence had been —The Bulletin of the National ham. heard. ?>• . Council lor Civil Liberties, Axis Bookshop, 6a Hunter* Lane, off Ireland The prosecution opened the ease by • July. 1971. Yorkshire Street. Rochdale. C allif Week in in town. Proposed Group—Exeter Area. John and THIRST THE TWO innocent unarmed of soldiers. They arc out to kill. Jill Driver, 21 Duke* Orchard, Brad- civilians shot. The evidence that The Provos have acknowledged re­ ULSTER Letters cinch, Exeter, EX5 4RA. they were unarmed, whatever the Army sponsibility for killing the soldiers in Leeds Direct Action Pamphlets: The say. is far too strong and convincing to retaliation, a tactic which never gels any­ Dear Comrades, British army and their actions os well Japanese Anarchists'. Ip; *Who are be disbelieved. It was actually picked one anywhere. There is some truth* in the view that as to Ihc IRA. the Brain Police', Ip (Breakdown of up on wirelesses thul just before Seamus Meanwhile in the twenty-six counties H’s coverage of events in N. Ireland There arc definite criticisms which the Power Structure of ycr Leeds Cusack was shot the British Army radio we have fires and explosions every night, lends to be one-sided and over-simplified. libertarians can and should make with University—stripping away of liberal said. 'Let's push them into the Bogsidc starting with Silver-mines in Tipperary, But the criticisms voiced by M. Morris regard to both branches of the IRA. bullshit, etc.). Coming soon: "Liston and have .» death.’ My informant is then in Wicklow the burning of a holi­ (26.6.71) go to the opposite extreme. But the only one Morris explicitly asserts Marxist*, 5p. AJ1 these available Frank McManus. MP, and I know him day resort a German was building, and His plea for undemanding of the is their unsporting refusal to wear uni­ from the Anarchist Bookshop. 153 well enough to know lie is incapable of then the burning of the British Legion British soldier in Belfast is ill-founded form (which, being illegal, would amount Woodhousc Lane, Leeds 2. inventing a thing like that. I have picked building which endangered the lives of and emotively argued. Even if we to a request to bo arrested or shot up our own garda walkie-talkie messages, the people in the two attached houses. accept the highly dubious description of on sight anyway) 1 Perhaps revolutionary Anyone interested in forming a Cam­ once on the electric cooker! Seamus had At the moment everyone in Ireland hates the desire for roenge os a 'natural groups in Britain have been too ready bridge Anarchist Group contact John stooped down to pick up a soldier’s and mistrusts almost everyone else, and human reaction', we must oppose the to echo the slogans of the IRA uncritic­ Jenkins, 75 York Street, Cambridge. helmet which had fallen ofT. Another we arc all afraid. I get poison pen military machine winch foster* such feel­ ally, but the remedy is not to echo Kropotkin Lighthouse Publications. Tho impeccable wiiness is the Rev. Tony letters and this last week poison phone ings in their crudest form and unleashes the assumptions and rhetoric of the Revolutionary Catechism', Necheyev, Gillespie, a visiting priest, who saw it calls and as my number is cx-dircctory them indiscriminately against whole politicians and bourgeois press. We don’t 5p + 2Jp post. ‘Song to tho Men of all from less than twenty yards and says I’d give a lot to know whom the crack­ groups of defenceless people. have to support one side because we England'. Shelley; 'Poster Poem’ with the man was running away to get the pots arc. By an extension of Morris's reasoning. oppose the other. Walter Crane’s 'Worker*' Maypole*, helmet and was shot in the back. The How the Uniled Kingdom papers and IRA terrorism could be condoned as At the same time, if we invoke a lOp + 2 jp port. greatest tragedy is that his life would wireless and 1 suppose TV misrepresent showing ’natural' resentment against the plague on both their houses we should ‘Poems', Jim Huggon, 5p + 21 p post have been saved if a tourniquet had been all that happens over here to the tune of troops who have invaded and oc­ be able to back up this line with u Discount available on bulk order*. applied. ‘Wonderful England saving the brutal cupied their home area!, harassed their considered analysis of the NI situation Jim Huggon. c/o Housmans Book­ The stubborn refusal of the Army to frish from murdering each other'! When families and neighbours, killed several in its various aspects. This is some­ shop, 5 Caledonian Road, London. permit an in\obligation by an impartial will UK LEARN? of their comrades and some innocent thing which has still to emerge from N .l. group into the shootings shows clear This afternoon vve picket that Quisling bystanders. The words 'thug' and ‘mur­ the libertarian left in Britain. LAV. Spanish lessons given in London. Rate* guilt, for if they were innocent what from South Vietnam when our Foreign der’ can be applied to the ‘lads’ of the on request. Write, in first instance, to would they have to fear? The hatred and AfTairs Minister takes him to a press Box 02/71, Freedom Press. anger in all Ireland can be smelt. Per­ conference, and this evening there is a haps the withdrawal of all opposition big meeting to put the cons against the DIFFERENTIALS Meetings at Freedom: Every Wednesday members front Stormont except the two EEC. Ian Mikardo being the guest for it is a change of differentials for at 8 p.m. For details see T h is World* Comrades. column. Paislcyitcs and Mr. Simpson may act as speaker. . . . We arc not a happy country I feel, in reply to G. Boardman’s letter which one is askingt a shock to Stormont, or to Westminster, at the moment. (Fru -Dom . 12.6.71) about my article on Unionism is only just emerging amongst but one feels hopeless. The Provos and the Regular IRA have pay claims in the electricity supply in­ power engineers. (The EPEA has been 1 hold no brief for the retaliatory actually announced publicly that in effect dustry', that I should explain why I said in existence a long time, but ha* a long shooting of two young soldiers. Violence what they' arc going to do is have a that when a charge engineer gets less history as a ’scab’ employees association.) begets violence and it will go on. competition to sec who can he the most than his foreman it a ‘ridiculous differen­ Some regard it as elevating their status Just off the Press! The utter madness of bringing back violent. They seem absolutely intent on tial’. by raising their wages, others consider the Royal Scoh last night. . . . They arc forcing the Governments to bring in in­ The charge engineer is, in general, themselves to be exploited white collar Anarchist Classics Series reared in the same bigoted ghetto con­ ternment to save face. It is all so absolutely more qualified and probably more ex­ workers, the latter naturally being the ditions as the extreme Protestants and idiotic and without subtlety, and will perienced than the foreman. The fore­ minority. Obviously the two factions ABC OF ANARCHISM arc loathed. They celebrated their re­ turn all the rest of the u'orld against us man takes responsibility for part of the merge in action as their aims arc the —Alexander Berkman turn by using CS gas. not at rioters, but both sides of the border. Personally I plant, whilst the charge engineer takes same, if not their motivations. thrown into the homes via the windows think Westminster will soon do a Pontius responsibility for all of it and for the Tt is because Ihc emerging awareness 20p (2*p) of three old people who are now in Pilate and in spile of the resulting civil safely of the men, the latter responsibility of these engineers interest* me that I hospital, of whom one at least nearly war it might in the long run be the best being a legal one. Thus by current stan­ write these reports (remember the actions Reprint of Freedom Press died. Old people cannot take this way. We need the hard-headed Nor­ dards he would be judged as deserving and effects of power engineers in France. Edition with a new Intro­ poison. In the Bogsidc last winter the therners and they need us. and together, more pay. which is what I tried lo May ’68), not because J support claims duction by Peter E. Newell, doctor said he had three times the normal sans even foreign investments, we might indicate. for more pay as such. Personally I re­ amount of deaths of the old and he put build the nation Pcarsc and Connolly However, personally, I would agree gard all pay claims as divisive. No pay Biographical Notes and it down to this illegal weapon. . . . A dreamed of instead of being Ihc UK's with Mr. Boardman that all differentials claim has to my knowledge raised the Historical Background reporter friend of mine saw a little boy lick-spittles as we arc at present. arc ridiculous, as ridiculous os the wage level of the workers relative to the of only eight beaten up by the batons H. system itself. However if one engages capitalists. by BBprwa KWm«. Lo*d