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www.freedompress.org.uk 7 APRIL 2007 How green is biofuel? The Bellanaboy Bridge pipeline Anarcho-punk review IN S ID E ►► LP“ ling page 4 page 5 page 7 ZIMBABWE: ONGOING CRISIS imbabwe gets a disproportionate to unsuccessful Zimbabwean policy amount of media coverage in the which has become increasingly erratic ZUK. State repression is equally and violent as the economic situation brutal across Africa; for example worsens. Nigeria, Ethiopia, Angola have seen There were demonstrations this similar violence against activists and week in Harare and Mutare, against forced evictions but have received the murder and brutal beatings of pro considerably less media coverage. democracy activists. Grace Kwinjeh, a Mugabe massacred tens of thousands single mother active on women’s rights in Matabeland in the mid-1980s to was beaten around the head with an little response from Western leaders or iron bar while in police custody and media. It is only since his policies have lost part of her ear. Police opened fire impacted on the white ruling elite that with live ammunition on a crowd of he has begun to face criticism. mourners after the funeral of Gift To distract attention from the harsh Tandare, who was shot by police in effects of structural adjustment in the riots in a Harare township. Morgan early 1990s, Mugabe began a long Tsvangirai, a veteran MDC pro- overdue land reform process. At this democracy activist, was beaten time white farmers made up just 1% unconscious three times while in police of the population but controlled over custody, fracturing his skull. When 70% of the agricultural land. asked about Tsvangirai, Mugabe Thirty years ago, Britain (the ex- / resp o n d ed “Of course he was bashed”. coiomai po-wet) used promises oL; m m The s u m m it oLsouthern African hundreds of muiion^o^pounds for the leaders in Tanzania on the 29th March country to negotiate an ‘orderly’ publicly backed Zimbabwe against transition to black majority rule with international pressure. The South the armed wings of the social African Development Community movements. These financial pledges (SADC) failed to criticise the also aimed to provide a resolution to Zimbabwean president’s actions and called for an end to international the land distribution problem by , The Fourth Reclaim the Future (inset, before the party) was a well organised, well attended and very allowing the Zimbabwe government to sanctions against the country. purchase land from farmers willing to President Mbeki of South Africa is ! successful event until, as night fell and April Fool’s Day approached, a few cops decided to stop anyone sell. However as the money never said to be engaging Mugabe in “quiet else joining those inside. Despite this provocation, the people outside remained calm, while those inside materialized the ZANU government’s diplomacy”. However, regional were allowed to leave at a very slow trickle. Meanwhile the police set up road blocks along Holloway Road land reform efforts were substantially leaders, especially Mbeki are i - in a repeat of the ridiculous over-reaction of Anarchist Bookfair 2005 - the riot squad turned up and, limited. When New Labour took office responsible for the situation. South in 1997, they reneged on previous Africa is Zimbabwe’s largest trading without warning, piled into the people outside the gates as they violently cleared the area with batons agreements and refused to provide any raised, pushing the small crowd up the road away from the gates. page 6, column 3 funding for the process. This has led UNITED IN CONDEMNATION UNGDOMSHUSET
police and local press ‘crackdown’ zone ‘too often’ warning them to pledged to help prostitutes to “overcome he past few years have seen an to imagine - but still the movement has begun on prostitutes in the stay away. drug addiction”, no money has as yet intensive struggle develop over an born in the struggle is growing A Ipswich area just months after a • A ‘clean-up or jail’ approach to been pledged towards this. T occupied building in a working stronger and mobilising new forces in series of murders prompted promises prostitutes, offering rehab to arrested Although the measures are being class area of Copenhagen called demonstrations, short term of progressive solutions. prostitutes, but tied in with the presented as an indirect means of Norrebro. In the early ’80s a number occupations, reclaim the streets parties Ipswich police, the local council and imposing of Asbos and lengthier ‘cleaning up the streets’ not targeting of houses were occupied by a militant and street happenings, as well as regional paper the Evening Star joined prison sentences should they be prostitutes directly, the measures have movement inspired by the German militant actions against the groups and forces to announce the package of new caught again. been attacked by the English Collective ‘autonomous’ activists. The Youth corporations behind the eviction and measures, which include: Police used the opportunity presented of Prostitutes (ECP), who say it will House, ‘Ungdomshuset’, was the last demolition of the Youth House. • A sustained attack on ‘punters’, by the red light killings, which saw them drive prostitutes further underground squat to remain from this cycle of From being a question that involving heavy police presences in set up a text helpline for prostitutes, to and away from better-lit, safer contact struggle. concerned only quite small group of the red light zone aiming to arrest gather details on more rhan 100 women zones as their clients become more After Copenhagen’s mayor decided sub-cultural activists only a few years customers, which is then to be thought to be involved in the trade, wary of surveillance. to sell the building to a Christian ago the whole Danish left has been followed up by their ‘outing’ in the which they are now using to help In a statement, the Safery First fundamentalist sect a few years ago revitalised in this cycle of struggles. Star in court and heavier sentencing. inform the campaign. coalition, part of the ECP, noted: “The the low intensive struggle has attracted Everyone from some of the most • Police letters to be sent to any men Around £260,000 is to be set aside proposals replicate almost exactly the a number of new sympathisers, and famous Danish artists to lawyers seen on CCTV walking the red light by police for high-visibility patrols and policies in place before the murders. when the police decided to evict the critical of illegal police methods, other surveillance operations, while Once again no lessons have been fifty or so activists that permanently groups of parents supporting their kids Ipswich Borough Council will spend learned. Women will have even less guarded the building on the morning in jail and certain trade unions and ISSN 0016-0504 £300,000 on gating alleyways, more time to check out men fearful of of the first of march all hell broke political parties has backed the lighting for the red-light zone, £65,000 arrest, Instead, they will be pushed loose. After a week of street fighting anarchist led initiative and defended on CCTV for the area. into more isolated, less well-lit areas unequal to anything that has happened the rights of the Youth House Suffolk County Council have set where they are more vulnerable to in Scandinavia for at least fifty years Activists. aside £400,000 over two years for attack. Whatever anyone thinks about the situation seemed to calm down. With the Youth House now gone programmes expected to include men paying for sex, safety should be Over 700 were arrested, the building forever this movement instead “education and better lighting”. the priority. It is not even mentioned was demolished and police harassment demands “more liberated spaces”, a 9 770016050009 Although all three authorities have page 6, column 4 reached levels that seemed impossible page 6, column 4 Beanz meanz finez A council is set to use secret cameras hidden in baked beans tins to catch residents putting rubbish out on the wrong day. Around the world Ealing Council in London will also put rhe tiny CCTV bugs inside house EU IDs to have photos and provider is given a certificate that for modem and secure ID cards, and boost, and some companies have said bricks, reports the Sun. fingerprints by 2009 authenticates it and tells the user what contains a chip that holds not only the costs surge might delay projects. Householders caught breaking strict European Citizen Card offers security information to supply in order to personal data such as the holder’s name, Exxon’s Chief Executive Rex Tillerson new rubbish rules will be fined up to for travel, e-govemment and e-commerce complete an internet transaction. date of birth, height, and eye coloug but said at the company’s analysts meeting £1,0 0 0 . Giesecke & Devrient has showcased During the transaction, the online an electronic photo and two fingerprints. on 7th March that it had seen a 9% to It follows a £2m scheme adopted by its advanced smartcard technology at provider sends the certificate to the At the same time, these ID documents 10% rise in drilling prices over the six councils to put the devices in this year’s CeBIT show in Hanover citizen’s card, which verifies the will also be used for e-government past year or so, although costs may wheelie bins. where identity theft has been a major certificate. Essentially, the card acts applications. Individual countries will have hit a plateau. A spokesman for Tory-controlled theme. like a bouncer. Importantly, it only lets be free to add more features, including Kenney at ING estimates that Ealing said the £200 movement- The company said that all EU member data enter the internet if it is absolutely a digital signature if they desire. average capital spending per barrel of sensitive bugs would become a vital states will have equipped their electronic necessary for the transaction. oil equivalent of supply among the tool in catching wheelie bin mis-users identity documents with facial images For booksellers, that might include Big oil spending up European oil firms he tracks has risen and graffiti artists. and fingerprints by 2009. Giesecke’s the customer’s name and address. For The world’s five largest fully publicly to $4.75 from $4.35 since December He said: “To catch vandals and smartcards will offer security for travel, a kid’s chat room, it might be the user’s traded oil firms are planning to invest 2006. enviro-criminals, cameras disguised as e-govemment and the internet. age. That way, children can only log in billions of dollars more this year but Adding to the challenge of rising anything from tin cans to house bricks Giesecke was one of the first players if they are under 16 years old, which extra spending may not translate into costs, countries such as Venezuela and will instantly email images to the to implement the Extended Access helps protect them on the internet. higher production. Russia are grabbing more cash and council’s CCTV control centre.” Control (EAC) protocol in national ID Hans Wolfgang Kunz, group executive Exxon Mobil Corp., Royal Dutch control from companies that work He added that people who put their systems, and EAC-online now provides at Giesecke, said: “If you want similar Shell Pic, BP Pic, Total SA and Chevron their oil and gas fields, a trend dubbed rubbish out at all times of the day and secure access to websites as well. applications in the EU member states Corp. plan up to a total of $97 billion resource nationalism by some analysts. night will be targeted. The firm foresees the EU adopting a to be interoperable across national in capital spending this year, up In addition, oil and gas resources are The Ealing Tory councillor single card standard, by which citizens boundaries, you have to ensure com around 9% from 2006. increasingly in places where production responsible for environment Will will identify themselves in many parts pliance with the ECC standard.” BP, Chevron and Shell have also said is technically more difficult, such as off Brooks said anyone who broke the of the real and virtual world. Powerful encryption ensures that the output may fall in 2007. shore the Gulf of Mexico. The oilfields laws would be considered a fly-tipper. The future European Citizen Card sensitive data on the card can only be “Most companies have dressed down of top reserves holder Saudi Arabia are Bur local resident Danny Christie, (ECC) can be fitted with an e-passport read by authorised parties with special their volume growth estimates,” said off limits for foreign companies. 64, branded the scheme as “utterly function and an electronic ID. authentication certificates using card Jason Kenney, analyst at ING in “The international oil companies are insane”. As such, users will be able to chat readers. Edinburgh, referring to the European facing a tough challenge,” said Fatih He said: “I’ve lived here all my life on websites, shop on the internet, or Giesecke is one of the first companies oil sector: “Essentially, they are spending Birol, chief economist at the International and have never heard of anything so even change their official residence to roll out the EAC protocol for pass more and getting less.” Energy Agency, adviser to industrialised screwed-up. Since when did forgetting and confirm their identities online ports and the EAC-online protocol for Violence in Nigeria has cut supply countries. to put your rubbish out make you a throughout Europe. national ID cards in order to protect for companies such as Shell and Total. “Their existing fields are declining and criminal?” All of these activities use the same electronic business processes. Higher costs for rigs, steel and wages they do not have access to major oil | underlying technology. First, the online The ECC supplies the basic services are soaking up much of rhe spending / reserves.” . TOmJeTeno^tom^ __|ficg split John Reid's plan to split the Home Office into an interior ministry and a ministry' of justice was yesterday attacked by his predecessor as “irresponsible'". Charles Clarke, home secretary until Prison news May last year and a possible challenger for the Labour leadership, said the reorganisation would delay Sea containers to be used to Yorkshire police informer lengths that our enemies will go to in Green Scare sentencing dates reform of the criminal justice system house prisoners unmasked order to fit up activists. During a US federal court hearing on and undermine government policy. Overcrowding is so bad in British Robin Steele (pictured below), a young Read the full extraordinary story on Indymedia 2nd March 2007, the following Mr Reid said the split would refocus prisons that there are plans to house Leeds man, from a Jewish background, a t https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/ sentencing dates were finalised for the the department “towards the priorities prisoners in converted sea-containers has had a chequered political history. 2007/03/365587.html?c=all eco-sabotage defendants from the District of today's world and the priorities of imported from China. The Home Office Originally involved in animal rights, Listen to recordings of the grass in action at of Oregon ‘Operation Backfire’ cases: today’s people” - terrorism, organised plan to have the modules installed in he joined the Socialist Party, and then https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/ • Tuesday 15th May at 10am: Oral crime and mass immigration. five prisons by June, at a cost of £3.5m later started sporting Anarchist symbols, 2007/03/365802.html?c=on#comments arguments on application of the An Office for Security and Counter- each. Prisons earmarked for the new and trying to join Antifa. After being Sentencing Guidelines ‘terrorism’ Terrorism would add “huge capacity” units include Stoke Heath Young rebuffed by Antifa, Steele then changed Fourth issue of 325 magazine enhancement for all defendants (which to the fight against extremism, with Offenders Institution in Shropshire and his politics completely, embracing fascism now out could add up to twenty years to 300-400 officials redeployed to Wayland Prison in Norfolk. According and joining the neo-Nazi ‘Bridsh People’s The latest issue of the anti-prison sentences). strategy and ’hearts-and-minds’ to Harry Fletcher of the probation union Party’. While his conversion to fascism magazine 325 is now out. Issue 4 Dates for 'cooperatingdefendants’ operations, be said. Napo, “using containers to house is apparently genuine, Steele was also contains interviews with Japanese • Tuesday 22nd May at 9am: Stanislas This beefed-up ‘strategic centre’ prisoners, even for short periods of rime, working for the cops as an informeg Anarchist ‘Rebel Jill’ and former Meyerhoff would bring political oversight, is extraordinary. There are clearly something which came about as a result Catalan long-term prisoner Patricio • Thursday 24th May 24 at 9am: strategic planning and better analysis health and safety and environmental of his arrest on bomb-making charges. Pallares Beyona; a letter to the FAI Kevin Tubbs to counter-terrorism efforts- 1 issues which would have to be While Steele seems to have had little from Gabriel Pombo da Silva; an • Friday 25th May 25 at 9am: Chelsea Other Whitehall departments have 1 addressed. The units are likely to be genuine information about Anarchists article, ‘Society, Reformism and Gcrlach resisted an enlarged Home Office role. 1 cramped so there will not be much room and antifascists, this did not stop him Insurrection’; ‘International Resistance • Tuesday 29th May at 9am: Darren Mr Reid eventually prevailed, with I for activities such as education. No from making it up, or from attempting News’; and much more. Forty pages Thurston Gordon Brown’s backing. But he will decisions appear to have been made on to act as an agent provocateur. While for only £11 I Thursday 31st May 31: Suzanne not take command of the Secret staffing and it is unclear where the Steele’s days as a useful state-asset may Contact 325coiiective0hush.com and check Savoie and Kendall Tankersley Intelligence Service and intelligence | money will be coming from." be at end, we should not forget the out their excellent website at 325coliective.com Dates for 'non-informants' will still be co-ordinated by the The prison population in England • Friday 1st June at 9am: Nathan Cabinet Office. and Wales is now over 80,000, and is Block and Joyanna Zacher Links between private security firms expected to reach ‘crisis point’ in June. • Monday 4th June 4 at 9am: Daniel and Whitehall departments would be McGowan strengthened with the creatiun of a ABCF spring update out i Tuesday 5th June 5 at 9am: Jonathan body to represent major suppliers, The latest issue of the American ABC Paul trade associations and academics. Federation’s quarterly update is now Addresses for support The Security and Resilience Industry out. The spring 2007 edition focuses • Nathan Block, #1663667, Lane Suppliers’ Council would identify on the recent arrests of the San County Jail, 101 W 5th Ave, Eugene, technological gaps in the counter Francisco Elgin and the continued OR 97401, USA. terrorism arsenal and accelerate harassment of the accused. There are • Joyanna Zacher, ,#1662550, Lane research and development, leading to also a range of other news articles, County Jail, 101 W 5th Ave, Eugene, the manufacture of products to thwart including an update on the Daniel OR 97401, USA. terrorist attacks. McGowan case, a piece about the Daniel McGowan and Johnathan Paul The Department for Constitutional work of Los Angeles ABC, and a are currently out on bail. Affairs will be renamed the Ministry certain amount of international newt. For mote background information see: of justice and take over prisons and You can download a copy from portland.indymedia.org/en/topic/greenscare/ p s |s >, column 4 abcf.net/abcf.asplpagespdfs. cldc.org or greenscare.org/ Freedom 7th April 2007 3 News London calling If you're setting up a local solidarity group or network, then the Haringey Solidarity Group is here to lend a hand
s regular readers of Freedom will develop community-based and know, the Haringev Solidarity workplace groups, linked together to A Group has been organising with improve our lives and to try to bring relative success, in the London borough about the total transformation of of Haringey, for nearly 15 years. Like society. We often talk about it- Loads any group we have our highs and of words are written about it. But, it lows, but generally we reckon we have doesn’t happen very often. There are a been a positive contribution to number of shining examples. But it libertarian politics in Haringey, needs to happen all over. London and further afield. “Without groups like us, all that’s left for people Getting our hands dirty 5 ? pissed off with the main parties are If you live in London and these words groups like the SWP. This alone is a strike a chord, but you are not good reason to keep going, but we involved in a local group then isn’t it want to be more than just an example about time von were? The worst that of what community activists can can happen is you get to meet like- achieve. “We want to encourage Other minded people around where you live. people to get active on a community There are already groups in Haringey, level all over London. Walthamstow and Hackney and As anarchists and anti-authoritarians, initiatives in Other areas. So why wait? we often see our ideas as being different We are happy to, act as a co-ordinating from the rest of society’s, yet on every point Where there is a local community- street there are people who despise based groups, we can put you in touch authority, are rick of their shit working with them. Where there isn’t a group, conditions and tired of watching their there may be one or two (or dozens area turn into a yuppie playground of)or individuals who are thinking there | " T ^ **> Groups from the far left and right c s the corporations and authorities ] pressure isn’t allowed to be laid within ing the protest and illegally holding O the issue has been decided ... by mystical (mythical?) “special press on with their ridiculous and ten miles of houses, due to the risk of them in a worker’s bus for hours, 413 votes to 167;, a majority of relationship’, demanded and A outrageous pipeline project, activists j leaks and explosions. But here it runs finally releasing them with a warning S 246. On 15th March the motion guaranteed it. The puppet-masters in from both South Wales and further j through villages and past schools. and a ban from the area. to replace Trident was carried in the Washington and the Pentagon will afield continue the campaign to stop The environmental impact is massive, The blockade continued for six hours House of Commons, I’m a Commoner tolerate nothing less than total it. The proposed 150 mile pipeline as the pipeline slashes through ancient despite police threats to use pepper spray but I wasn’t there. I wasn’t invited. obedience and fidelity from their pumping liquefied natural gas at a woodland including parts of the Brecon and to lift people locked-on, risking Notwithstanding the commendable Whitehall puppet in the execution of dangerously high pressure is intrinsically Beacons national park flattening every- broken arms. Police played good cop/ courage of conviction of the 95 their geopolitical economic wrong on many levels. ' thing as it goes. Despite government bad cop depending on whether their Labour rebels, nor the help of the masterplan. GE and Lockheed's The jetty under construction at j greenwash and public recognition of cameras were on. The blockade resulted Tories, upon whom Blair was forced shareholders even more so, in terms of Milford Haven hasn't had an adequate the very real threat of climate change in a tailback of over 50 lorries unable to depend in order to secure his the loyalty to their profit margins and risk assessment by the harbour authority. £7m is being spent on a project which to enter and many vehicles unable to precious ’legacy’, nothing in any of dividends demanded of their captive Ex-pilots for the harbour have expressed j only serves to increase our dependence leave the construction site. This this was the least bit surprising. In ‘valued’ customer. Blair's legacy is now severe concern for the positioning of on fossil fuels. resulted in an estimated loss of spite of the dead-headed posturing on complete on all levels. The sorry the jetty, which is so far out into the £700,000 for Esso/South Hook LNG. both sides of the floor and the Blairitc wretch must be having orgasms right channel to accommodate the enormous This is terminal! More and more people are realising high-command’s angst over partisan now at the prospect of his impending ships bringing in the gas tanks, that a On Wednesday 14th February activists that our governments aren’t to be regress, whether actual or perceived, tenure on the payroll at Carlyle, which serious risk is posed to other ships blockaded the main entrance road to trusted and that the only way to into the bad old ‘loony-left’ will no doubt commence in just a trying to navigate into dock. In the the South Hook LNG terminal maintain a world for our children and unilateralism of the ‘80s wilderness couple of months' time. His reward last six months Acre have beet) 1,200 construction site. Five people locked grandchildren is to take matters into years, the ultimate result was never in for delivering up Britain’s Commitment reports to the health and safety onto heavy arm tubes in a circle, block our own hands and take responsibility doubt. for another 3,0-50 years to a ruinous executive of leaks by tankers owned ing the road, which is owned by Esso. for our own future. Make no mistake, the replacement and entirely un-independent strategic by a single operator: The risks involved The police arrived within a few minutes of Trident was a foregone conclusion,; - ‘defence’ system, is now assured. But with the construction of the pipeline (basically, they were expecting us) and Taken from Gagged! South Wales anarchist perhaps even as far back as the Trinity again, make no mistake: there is now and it’s associated reprocessing stations aggressively attempted to pulj the people newsletter, for more details see test. The sick economic logic of the more reason than ever to fight and to hasbeen called into question several I in arm tubes apart. The large police fightthepipe.co.ukww.safehavenpembs.co.uk US-led military-industrial complex, oppose this abomination. MacqJonz times. B?fhe USA a pipeline of this “ I presence dragged away those support or risingtjde.0 rg.uk/brist0 l/p ip eline I under the jaundiced guise of our News Not so green Sam U explores why biofuels will lead to further deforestation in South East Asia and threaten wildlife bis month, Chancellor of the lowland habitat of orangutans Exchequer Gordon Brown disappearing much sooner. produced what was promoted as-a : W ith their rainforest homes I converted into palm oil plantations, Igreen’ budget, but in its own promotion of south-east Asian sourced orangutans are becoming an biofuels, the spending plans are agricultural pest and are suffering anything but environmentally friendly. because of it. S Michelle Desilets of The 2007 budget maintained a 20 the Borneo Orang Utan Survival pence-per-iiire 'differential’ on Foundation UK, told the Observer's. biofuels, which is essentially a subsidy r David Smith, "they become easy . for such fuels, and it is a move which targets. Some plantation owners put a has prom pted jFriends-of the E anh to bounty of $10 or $20 on the head of express concern that "Government is orangutans* which is worth a: few promoting biofuels before trobust weeks’ salary for the workers ... We’vfe sustainability crireria are agreed for . seen them beaten to death with wood the sourcing of biofuels. ” sticks or iron bars, doused in petrol Much of that fuel will be derived and set cm fire, trussed up in nets or from palm oil and will be sourced tied up with wire which cuts-through from south-east Asia. Malaysia, where ; their flesh.” a 2005 Friends of the Earth report The rights of indigenous groups are. found that 87% of deforestation had just ;as threatened by die expansion been due to the expansion of palm oil ^ i ofudLs^lanmriopS^. yridiia^ epi^m ^ m d o a e s ts—wnere p? palm oil production rockered under province of Sarawak and in Sumatra and the Suharto dictatorship in | the Indonesian colony of Irian Jaya, - coniuncrion-adriathe World Bank — j the western portion of New Guinea. will be the major beneficiaries. There is aj§0 bo guarantee that Together the two nations accounted biofuels .are; a, better means of fuelling for 84% of giobal palm oil production 5vejKcf£: ih^^n:olepni' Iiiu^iveY^ in 2004. production reqnif^huge amountsof Endangered spedes, including the energy m.grow theicfeps^propess and orangutan, are direedy threarened by transport diem; wffle^dv^ d^fipg og this expansion. 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FREEDOM a ve gg ie make people aggressive), so why was and fees for state parastatal and local Mr Reid said the reorganisation Volume 68 Number 07 ‘Hitler was a vegetarian! And he the ‘opium of the people’ the first authority services have been imposed. was the culmination of a programme opposed vivisection! It was well controlled drug? And why did the The past weeks have witnessed massive of reform to a department he documented!’ ti ^ ^ ;> CIA use LSD abnd ecstacy, etc., to increases in water bills, electricity, described as “dysfunctional” when he A narchism These chestnuts arc thrown at us, torture people. LSD is a chemical council rates, school fees and drug costs took over from Mr Clarke last year. A Anarchists work towards a society of and frequently, by the left to silence weapon. including HIV/AIDs ARVs. succession of mistakes and mishaps mutual aid and voluntary co-operation. US vegetarians and anti-vivisectionists. Ex-Beatle John lennon invested The cost of every basic commodity have cast doubt on the Home Office’s "We reject government, and all forms For presumably if the twentieth billions of dollars in New York real has risen, and inflation is heading competence. of exploitation and domination. century's greatest bogeyman was a estate. Squat on his property and he’d towards 1,750%, while the dollar The idea that a single department Freedom Press es an independent vegetarian and an anti-vivisectionist, have armed police evict you. continues to slide on the parallel guaranteed co-ordination of law and anarchist publisher, founded in 1886. then that is evidently supposed to Fuck the ’60s! market reaching US$1 to Z\VD12,000 order was “belied by the experience Besides this newspaper, which comes: settle our hash once and for all and Graham Whitehead and the government continues to print of Charles Clarke”, Mr Reid said, out every two weeks,; we produce books finish the argument in oiir opponents money. Workers are earning wages of referring to the scandal over foreign on all aspects of anarchist theory and favour around US$16 per month - not even nationals convicted of crimes. practice-see our website for a full list. Firstly, let it be known that if Hitler The common enough for transport to work. Mr Clarke was not the only former In our building in East London we run ittpas-ia. vegetarian and anti-vivisectionist, However, the later ’90s fighting minister to express his concern. John Britain’s biggest anarchist bookshop it makes not the slightest difference to enem y spirit seems to be reverberating again Denham, Labour chairman of the and host the Autonomy. Club meeting our ethical position, but is totally Terrorism can be divided into two in the people’s minds. There is a home affairs select committee, room and the Freedom Hacklab open- irrelevant. . . main types. Type A uses plastic growing wave of resistance from suggested that responsibility for access IT space, , ; Secondly, these supposed ‘facts’ are explosives while Type B uses petro social movements, workers, students, criminal justice would be transferred .Our aim is, to ekplam anarchism false. It ii:not possible for the head of chemical explosives. A third type of HIV and AIDS activists, those in the to a department instinctively more widely and tb.skSW-that .people : .a capitalist state and its military terrorism is hijacking, kidnapping informal cross-border trading, sympathetic to lawyers. can work together and;ius%idirect machine to be an anti-viviseetibnist, (and others) which is a previously -constitutional reform activists and the Alun Michael, a former Home acaon'to.rpracticalfiimprOVeiour ® 8 1 | and the myth Of Hitler’s vegetarianism underestimated third option. Type A rank and file militants in the political Office minister^ said the and build a better ^ r l d . ^ p s deliberately propagated by plastic explosives arc generally parties. As a result of this growing reorganisation “appeared to JStiebbels (arixio.us to,'portray'his regarded as being associated with resistance Mugabe has imposed a de downgrade” the emphasis on local BrOad.range^bf anarchist thought,. and master as an ascetic),-)iyhti& propoganda security iseryicds. of states who facto state of emergence in Harare. policing and tackling low-level crime. -as suck the views, expressed in the paper. : has bfcen sw-alioWed wholesale by the sometimes act against their own ’ There is a heavy police presence on The Conservatives said the are those of the individual contributors, i gullible and ignorant lefties and others jpeople. Type B: petro-chemical home- „ the streets of Harare and all political reorganisation was rushed and would and not necessarily thos&yo'f .the hatd yegetarian^and anti- mades are associa.ted.wtib individuals gatherings have been banned. “leave public security undermined”, ^ ts ® a i and -groups and spmetitees; called Doctors in government hospitals “Breaking it up will solve none of OOpyCat because, Orice a security who, won salary increments after a the Home Office’s problems,” said o f animals and the holocaust by C. seryfce has struck its. own people, • two-month strike from January ignited David Davis, shadow home secretary. Angel Alley Patterson and The heretics feast - a . dissatisfied •indiyiduals and groups- - ; the fighting mood. Teachers again “It will just create a whole new raft of history o f vegetarianism by Colin Iftillowed suit and won better salaries, problems.” Spencer. own. 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