Chinese Woikers’ Puzzle Anarchist Weekly# *JX) READ the present stream of enough to put up with in China point) and listen for two or three hysterical reports coming from hours to an harangue by a load of without the added frivolity of the JANUARY 14 1967 Vol 28 No 1 inside China at the moment you layabouts, who. are never going to Red Guard on the rampage. would think that the whole Red lift a heavy load in their lives, on Nor will the peasant tolerate it if Guard affair is a complete and why they should work harder, they are wished on him. The great meaningless mess. The trouble with produce more and then go back to social and cultural revolution has trying to make head or tail of what work and make the time up by nowhere to go. It will either disap­ goes on is that a considerable part of unpaid overtime. The average pear in a welter of blood and iron the reporting is done in the spirit of Chinese industrial worker works a caused by a panicky and huge army, IEET STREET sensation and the rest is preformed ten hour day (in’the national interest) or the workers and peasants will by a specialised group known as and is then expected to add a couple follow up the logical consequences P ek in o lo g ists, Marxicologists,more at lunch time to listen to the of their present actions and throw Kremlinologists or just plain toxi­platitudes expressing Mao Tse off the shackles of the monomaniac cologists. These gentry, unable to Tung’s more recent and senile ideas. bureaucracy. The present impetus understand the concepts of revolu­ THE ARMY SHIFTS of the workers will lead them to tion and what it means, are busy seize the organs of production to Unfortunately for the Red Guard INDRESSED playing chess with the fallen bureau­ hold, and attempt to cotavince the the factories are armed with militia crats’ names and trying to guess the army to throw in its lot with them. units and it appears to be these holy lines of succession. None of this is impossible since we Economist Intelligence Unit's re- respondent, made a charming contrito- units who are deliberately going out Of course the simple solution, and have already seen the election of two fft on Fleet Street’s efficiency has tion, at least it will ensure that he w to processions and demonstrations the true one, escapes them. The workers' committees who already a stir, if nothing else. It has not be one of the redundant reporters and ordering them to take down their Bated chubby Wilson to pontificate emptied out of the Guardian. He laid workers have had a gutful of non­ appear to have gained control of sacred slogans. The Red Guard \ e more subject that he knows very claim that the printing unions were pro­ stop poetical rubbish pumped down Shanghai and partial control of appear to have been backed up by |about. When that lad gets stirred tection rackets. He attacked the ‘closed their throats morning, noon and Nanking. regular troops until recently but now puts on his very best Churchillian shop' principle and the overmanning of night. It is no accident that Chair­ Reports are only reaching us from it appears that as the Army itself is [land attempts to lay down the law. machines. If he had his way 4.000 men man Mao picked on the young places where foreign correspondents threatened by the lunacies of the presenting the awards for the would be on the industrial scrap heap actually are. Much information programme. 'What the Papers tomorrow. student class to purge the party and Red Guards it is not lifting a finger appears to have been accepted ver­ •expounded his theories on the Cecil King was tackled on the question the country and redirect the masses in these clashes. In the Shanghai batim from the Red Guard posters R eport, and on Fleet Street in of weak management in terms of the to revolutionary thought. and Nanking street fights they were Of all the groups available he which hardly appear to be the most K Daily Mirror. He accepted the fact that nowhere to be seen. ~RtfnIy point that can be gleaned up to five years ago it could possibly be picked the cadres that would largely reliable source. ■be report so far is the fact that claimed that the Mirror management NOT FOR BUREAUCRATS be absorbed by the bureaucracy. So THE ONLY CHOICE B Fleet Street is caused by Weak were weak, but not now. His maxim who would tje more keen? No work, The position is not quite as simple fment. Whilst it is true that the for dealing with the unions is to be firm, a bit of excitement and all on the as presented by inference in some Ten years ago, when the press criticises management for their fair and, in not too much of a hurry— reports came in from middle Europe, Kitence in some cases, the main in other words ‘let them sweat’. right side of the law. reports, that the workers and their jjs is on the weakness of the news- Journalists were criticised for their The worker on the other hand armed militia are working with the everyone was cheered on against the [ employers to stand up to the complacent attitude towards news. What has been battered into believing that old bureaucrats. Firstly it is because Russian oppressors. Fleet Street The report claims that the news- is news? It is anything the editors think industrial production is the most of the incidents and his inability to certainly never mentioned—unless it gjpresses are overmanned to the you should read, and in some cases what important thing for China today. stop them that Mr. Tao, the former was unavoidable—that the workers’ • 40 to 60% making a saving of the Government think you should not Industrialisation must be carried out Mayor of Nanking and Propaganda committees were the backbone of the I for the Daily Mirror and read (D Notices). at a rapid pace for China and for the and Trade Union Chief, was reported revolution. And so in China today for the Guardian. Restrictive Where do we, as printworkers. go from workers themselves to survive. The arrested. Even the party-controlled (as in Hungary), the workers and s, claims the report, have only a here? Do we care if all the national peasant working in his field and the trade unions and their daily news­ peasants driven by despair have |ra lively small impact and are un- papers go to the wall? Unfortunately bus driver and factory worker are taken the world in their hands. [to have real influence on the at the moment we must, we have to work paper have been officially closed l or failure of any individual news- to eat, but we don’t have to like the way now expected to stop work (at gun­ down. The workers have had Sp a r k s. they are managed or the unadulterated ! this respect the report was dis- tripe they print. It has been pointed out inting for very many people but that the plant at Printing House Square gelid not prevent Wilson from dimb- will now lie idle from Monday to the bandwagon. Wilson in the Friday. Would anyone question the fact kt tradition of the working dass that printworkeis could not run the THE GREAT AMERICAN LIE jjvement called for solidarity, but don't plant themselves and produce a real [s get carried away. He was calling newspaper? TYR. BENJAMIN SPOCK, the child- Printing is in urgent demand not only casualty rate is so high. The US is not, but the American-man in the street, and solidarity of the employers against care expert, has endorsed an article however, as communists claim, practising many of them must realise it although prinlworkers. He thought the indus- in this country but all over the world. School text books are always in shortin the January issue of the Catholic genocide in Vietnam for genocide means doubtless publicly they ease their con­ might consider an insurance or in- magazine Ramparts which charges the that the extermination of a people must sciences by prattling about ‘democracy’ enmity policy among themselves to supply because profit comes before need and, until that position is reversed, we US and South Vietnamese governments be an end in itself. But the US must be and the need to defend it L. B. Johnson, over the cost of unofficial hold-ups of gross neglect of hundreds of thousands coming close to exterminating the peoplewhen he visited his men in Vietnam ^official ones would be another matter). will continue to drift from crisis to crisis. Bill Christopher . of Vietnamese children burned by in some areas of Vietnam whatever the after the recent Manila conference, did [Too true, official stoppagesmight be napalm. The writer of the article, technical name for it. On today’s TV not bore them with all the fine-sounding another matter! Union affiliation fees William Pepper, spent six months in newsreel there are shots of US troops in spiel about ‘freedom’ that he had come ! come in very handy to the Labour Party South Vietnam and estimates that 250,000 action. They are standing up, in the out with at the conference. Instead he funds. Even this will not worry the children have been killed since 1961 and open, blazing away at an enemy not talked much about American living stan-, ; Labour Party for very much longer once 750,000 burned or otherwise’ wounded. shown. I asked an ex-serviceman with dards and the need to safeguard them. the. Labour Government has ^nadc un­ Dr. Spock, in his preface, accuses the battle experience if he could possibly He received an enthusiastic, response official stoppages illegal. C M YOU US government of callously refusing to imagine any situation in which troops in from the troops. Australians and New | ITV decided to add its twopenny-worth combat fire without first taking cover. Zealanders, too, are fighting in Vietnam j to the attack on Fleet Street, such a assist the Swiss relief organisation, Terre des Hommes, by flying wounded children He could think of none. What was the because these countries feel that the iprogramme probably worked out cheaper defenceless target these troops were firing high living standards they enjoy are than the usual load of canned tripe im­ to Europe for treatment. He writes: T H E M ORE ‘With crocodile tears, they explain that at? threatened by the turbulent demands of ported from America. The star comic Not only is the US not fighting for Asia. To many US servicemen, and of the show was Wilson, even though children are unhappy when separated from their families. The fact is that a the people of Vietnam, it is not fighting especially to the brash, extrovert Austra­ his speech was usifi as an authority on lians, a Vietnamese is someone who the printing industry. Having one's an­ FREEDOM? third of all Vietnamese children in insti­ for a democratic government in Vietnam tutions have already lost both parents or either. All the governments the US have cleans your kit, waits at table, provides cestors connected with the Guardian sex and gets in the way of the fighting. does count for something I suppose. The been abandoned.’ He adds that few toppled or attacked in the cause of 17'OLLOWING on an experiment, which wounded Vietnamese receive hospital ‘democracy’ have been leftish govern­ A second reason why the US is in programme itself was something of a J- was well received by old and new Vietnam is that it wants an early show­ f rehash of contributions made some time care while American troops receive ela­ ments (such as the Guatemalan and readers last September, Freedom will' down with China. The US administration ago, Mr. Eastwood's. Secretary of the borate medical attention. Dominican) on whom the US could not I Printing and Kindred Trades Federation, contain four extra pages once a month This is yet another refutation of the rely to protect American financial in­ hopes to escalate the war to such an | certainly was. starting from the January 28 issue. This US administration’s big lie that Ameri­ terests. All the dictatorial governments extent that China is drawn in. Why else should US tacticians now be proposing Peter lenkins, Guardian Labour Cor- means that comrades who wish to help can troops are in Vietnam to protect and the US doesn't topple in the cause of us to increase our circulation will have defend its people. Not only the disregard ‘democracy’ (and they abound in Asia an attack on North Vietnam just north two weeks to organise a special sales for the welfare of civilian wounded and and Latin America) are right-wing of the border with the south in order to drive. We hope that groups and indi­ refugees, but the methods of warfare governments that the US can rely on to drive a wedge across the country to viduals will co-operate with us as they employed by US troops reveals the protect American financial interests. prevent supplies from the north reaching did last September (when the extra cfTort general callousness of Americans towards However, I don’t think the US is putting the south? Could not such a wedge by our comrades added 700 copies to our the Vietnamese. Troops of most armies, up such a massive military effort in equally well be made just south of the sales that week). when encountering Are from a village Vietnum to protect its interests there, for border, i.e. on South Vietnamese terri­ The extra pages also involve extrathey are approaching, especially if it is the country is small, and quite poor, and tory? Why was something like a minor [ANARCHY 71 work. Comrades in London who wish to in a land they are supposed to be free­ much of its wealth has been destroyed Maginot line not built along the border help should contact this office. ing, would go In and take the village in the fighting. It is a different sort of seven or ten years ago, before the NLF Editorially we also need help. We by ordinary infantry methods, risking a financial interest that motivates the US was formed? The border is only about NOW ON SALE DISCI)S8ES receive numerous foreign anarchist few casualties to themselves. It is not so administration. War is such a marvellous 70 miles long. It’s all very odd! publications and we would dearly like to in the US army. If only a couple of boon to the economy of a highly indus­ A third reason for the war is the vanity hear from comrades proficient in pot-shots are fired at them from a vil­ trialised, advanced capitalist nation. of L. B. Johnson. Like all nonentities languages who would be willing to do lage, the pampered, idolised soldiers lie While war lasts production soars, share he dreams of ever more power and glory. EDUCATION short summaries and translations for low and call in the tactical bombers and prices rise and there is prosperity. Does What worse background can there be for Freedom . We also welcome contribu­ artillery. Obviously as soon as com­ any American reader know of firm evi­ the most powerful man in the most tions on industrial and local matters from munist snipers in the village hear the dence (perhaps in the form of general powerful country in the world than vul­ RCHY is Published by our readers. planet and shells coming, they sneak out directives to field commuadera) that the gar, cultureless Texas, with its private Groups are especially asked to send in the back way leaving the old men, US administration encourages US troops swimming pools, folksy barbecues and DOM PRESS a t 2s. reports of activities for the ‘News from women and children to face the holo­ to use as many bombs and shells ns they cult of bigness? rst Saturday of every month Anywhere' column which will appear caust. This it as much an indictment of can? It is not only American capitalism As for the communists, they seem to each month in the ‘meatier, bulkier, more the communist guerillas as the US troops that gains from war and the economic have sadly miscalculated when they de- comprehensive' Freedom . and i* the reason why the non-combatant domination of Asia and Latin America Continued on page 4 the right thing to liberate ‘Alice from being a funny ha-ha play, and instead made it into a funny peculiar one. Dennis Potter, the playwright, was opposed and books? ALICE’ SEEN AFRESH outnumbered by two to one, with a pair of MPs (‘24 Hours’, by the way, on be­ half of the BBC, seems to think MPs Wecan supply A F T E R THE MAXIMUM in advanced could entertain the children without insult to free thought, but some people are experts in all walks of life, so accord­ publicity, due to certain novel de­ baffling them too much, while perceptive did delve into the unaccepted parts of ingly the tub-thumpers strengthen the partures from the much-loved original. adults could delve more deeply if they human thoughts and action, though with dead hand of authority) sitting in mum­ any book in printAlice in Wonderland was shown on wanted to, though it does seem awful to Freudism still to take Europe by storm, mified dignity opposite Potter, with one! SECONDHAND BOOKS BBC-1 shortly after Christmas, to a think our forebears couldn’t call a spade most writers and artists were entertainers of them peevishly contending that ‘Alice’] television audience which was massive a spade, but an animal instead. who could produce limitless conjuring shouldn’t have been shown because thug We cannot supply the latest best­ enough to have filled every cinema in Jean Vigo’s 35-year-old masterpiece tricks with objects and words. Jonathan is Christmas and it wasn’t a pantomime! seller cheap or that textbook at a cut London to capacity. In these times, Zero de Conduite is similar in some Miller was interested principally in what Dennis Potter hadn’t come to the studio! rate but we have a large stock of second­ when budget considerations are closely ways to ‘Alice’; one thinks of the way an organized society could do to an to hear this sort of nonsense, and when hand books. allied to artistic strivings, nobody can the adults are seen through a child’s unsullied mind, a mind which reached it was his turn to speak, he earnedh iJ Try us for what you want or better still be forgiven for not knowing that ‘Alice’ eyes, and the way certain figures and the frontiers of freedom, but never fee with a robust, rational analysis; latea visit us. cost £25.000 while in the making. Fur­ set-pieces are reminders of the less crowed over to the other side. Miller for though this discussion did develop into! This week's selection. ther regaling us with facts, the agents savoury aspects of the personality. Lewis a short while was editor of ‘Monitor’ a scrap between Potter and the elder OH It’s Later Than You Think (1939) of publicity could display a cast of Carroll’s ‘Alice’ arose from his friendship which often looked back on European the two politicians, with the writer tellinfl Max Lerner 3/6 talent and culture— a blending of satirists with a friend’s daughter, and her Lolita-ish art and the ‘marriage’ of today’s trends the MP that he was unfit to judge tKT The Menace of Japan (1938) and Shakespearean actors. Parents hadself-independent quality found Carroll with former styles, so Miller’s choice of work of others. Dennis Potter oiT T. O’Conroy 5/- also been advised to tuck the under-10’s playing a discreet Humbert. He became an old story that had a psychological stood as a Labour candidate at a 9 The Stakes of Democracy in South- snugly into bed before nine, so the fascinated by her mind, and since their motive, but which also allowed baroque election, but his honesty made himj Last Asia H. J. van Mook 7/6curious and the sceptical alike waited to relationship was perforce platonic, he groupings was most apt. The film was a heavy loser; thereafter he has turned jfl The Unknown Citizen Tony Parker 5/- see if Jonathan Miller had made a horror did the next best thing by writing a book little too measured in part, though the back on political materialism.Anarchjj Sex in Society Alex Comfort 6/- story as a salutary aftermath to the long to and about her, which helped Carroll Victorians trod so heavily and gloomily could do with people like him. Prophecy of Famine weekend of manufactured dreams. to get ‘inside’ her mind, though by the through life, every event must have been Jonathan Miller wasn’t the only peri H. J. Massingham and The film was far from being a wash­ time he’d finished the book, ‘Alice’ had played out in a solemn tempo. ‘Alice’ who found a skeleton or two in the cfe Edward Hyams 6/~ out, which is the risk which is always made friends with a boy her parents was one of the better and more interest­ board one Wednesday evening The Red Decade Eugene Lyons 7/6 run by too big an advance build-up. thought well of, though Carroll was pos­ ing things shown on any television net­ December. Too many moneyed re] Salvation Without Saviours ‘Alice' was worth seeing for certain sibly the only really human adult she’d work last year. tionaries wish to put artists from ev<| W. H. Parke 4/6 parts rather than the whole. Miller used met up till then, though Carroll was Directly after the film, *24 Hours* age into pre-conditioned blinkers, and! The Question: A Brief History and the abundant visual possibilities which always extra careful to be at his kindest had one of those debates between the they get the chance they’ll put todfii Examination of Modern Spiritua­ the story offered: a sprawling house, in case ‘Alice’ fled. ‘pros* and ‘antis’, with this discussion artists in chains. centering round whether Miller had done lism Edward Clodd 6 /- perhaps the prototype of Xanadu or Collectively, the Victorians were an Ron Pear M My Fight for Birth Control Marienbad. surrounded on all sides by Margaret Sanger 8/6 croquet lawns of fabled smoothness, and Equality1 R. H. Tawney 5/— impeccably kept flower beds. One of This Human Nature Charles Duff 4/6 the few scenes outside the dream showed his own individual importance. Community and Environment Alice and her elder sister walking Ironside is the English fam iliarfl E. A. Gutkind 4/6 through a painterly landscape of mea­ gentle, pleasant English middlefjp A - f Building Scotland: Past and Future dows and tall grass, their cocooned and ROUND THE GALLERIES male, with a modicum of good taleni Alain Reiach and Robert Hurd corsetted figures thrown into relief by a desire to only serve in a secdf (1944) 3 /- the shafts of sunlight, as they took what rpHE ENGLISH DEARLY love a line. known shadow and it is doubtful if any­ capacity in life, in politics and irfl The Yoke and the Arrows the Victorians liked to call ‘an afternoon one will ever again consider it worth and there are always those wh® Not for us the pale ethereal and accept that service. Herbert L. Matthews 5/- constitutional’. Alice, overcome by the metaphysical washes of the introspective their while to reassemble this slight and The Face of Spain Gerald Brenan 12/6 It is left to Elizabeth Lablache tS heat and the stillness of summer and East, of the voluminal plasticity of the charming work (for slight and charming Growing up Absurd Paul Goodman 16/- her muscles in defence of EnglislT time itself, when only die distant growl European heartland. We reject the it is). Ironside’s theme would appear to Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 4/6 of thunder was in any way disturbing, reflect his own sad and gentle way of tancy in the arts. Her single pal Transformation Four Mediterranean elevation of colour into in last year’s Royal Academy was vq lapsed into sleep and the workings of the visual manifestation of the Godhead life in that it is the loneliness of aliena­ of attention and with her currenn Berdyaev. Miller. Patchen 7/6 her sub-conscious. Throughout the dream and the Nordic obsession with shadowed tion against an English literary surrealist Education and the State E. G. West 7/6 bition at the Leicester Galleries! Miller used depth, light and angle with whites and muddy blacks. We are the background. Despite his play with POSTAGE EXTRA discreet inventiveness, as Alice tries to colour he used it always as a backcloth Audley Street, W.l, one feared th ^ _ creatures of the illustrated Punch joke painting of the crucifixion may hav«p( regain her identity in that awkward gulf and our visual art lies in the pages of for a lined drawing and that the line is but a single good but accidental p a |^ i t between girlhood and womanhood. The Dickens. Forever rejecting our national white instead of black does not invali­ In this exhibition, however, sfjT tea-party gives us time to explore the genius for watercolour as but a pastime date the proceeding point for picture k Freedom Bookshop proved her worth, for her work hj faces of well-known actors seen un- for women, we have paid our native after picture gives one the feeling that explosive qualities of Turner’s studj (Open 2 pan.—530 pan. daily; flatteringly in a variety of comic postures, compliments to the artist of the pen, the one could peel off the surface drawing light and she handles her difficult 16 aon.—1 pan. Thursdays; while the Duchess and the Queen of National Gallery to the contrary, and to leave a pleasant but meaningless ject with a craftsman’s confidence, Itf] 16 aon.—5 p.m. Saturdays). Hearts symbolize the Victorian matron our native sons are Boz and Beardsley, puddle of colours behind. encroachment she gives her black] and governess respectively. Rowlandson, Hogarth and Gillray. A loyal satrap of Sir John Rothen­ the monumental feeling contained! 17a MAXWELL ROAD In an age when children weren’t sup­ Yet we are a tolerant people, give or stein, when that boy was shaping up in Piranesi’s prison etchings, but whehl posed to think for themselves; or even take a hanging, and we have accepted the punch-happy days of the Tate Gallery FULHAM SW6 Tel: REM 3730 seeks to lighten her canvases we ara if they could, the parents pretended the tinted print though only as long as Battle of Succession, he was found, m i with the coyness of the bad a mat! otherwise, frustration in Alice’s case gave its colouring does not seek to influence Rothenstein states, in an office where he way to fantasy—with the mind over- the actual drawing. The Memorial had been abandoned by a previous But for all that she is a painter w ife stimulated and too free with a fantasy Exhibition of the work of Robin Iron­ IXrector with the injunction not to show of future note who still seeks a m il FREEDOM PRESS world, full of word-play contradictions, side is a classic example of work that his face around the gallery. So, for a subject for her brush and a discing and the collapse of logic, which if it cries its nationality to the observer. Yet year, Ironside sat in a silent office and for her formidable talent PUBLICATIONS ever surfaced into reality in present Ironside has been ill-served so many drew his weekly pay-packet. A rthur M o y se S times would be diagnosed as schizo­ times that it is probably sad but fitting A sweet and pallid creature full of SELECTIONS FROM ‘FREEDOM’ phrenia by the head-shrinkers, no doubt. that despite this well-mounted exhibition hypochondriac phobias, he gently failed Vol 3 1953: Colonialism on Trial Alice was looking for order, but found at the New Art Centre, at 41 Sloane his way through life. The publisher for V d 4 1954: Living on a Volcano only chaos when probing beneath the Street, S.W.l, his death should reflect his collected essays went bankrupt, com­ New Sub Rates Vol 5 1955: The Immoral Moralists surface (the caucus race was yesterday’s the failure of his life. missions for portraits were abandoned rat-race, which ends in a grovelling free- Even the article by his friend. Sir John and theatrical productions were can­ Vol 6 1956: Oil and Troubled Waters The new rates are: Vol 7 1957: Year One—Sputnik Era for-all just like a parliamentary debate Rothenstein, contains little information celled after he had worked so long on Vol 8 1958: Socialism in a Wheelchair in fact; the trial where Alice is ordered concerning the man himself and neither the decor. If he is to be remembered FREEDOM only (per year) Vol 9 1959: Print, Press & Public to be beheaded, which becomes a symp­ Rothenstein or the gallery catalogue it will always be by oversight for, with £1 10s. ($4.50) surface mail Vol 10 1960: The Tragedy of Africa tom of a society mad enough to dispose bother to even give the date, cause or his brother, he designed the space frame £2 16s. ($8.00) airmail Vol 11 1961: The People in the Street of a person who menaced their self- manner of Ironside’s death. The four that formed the centrepiece of White­ ANARCHY only (unchanged) (per year) Vol 12 1962: Pilkington v. Beeching interests—a collective insanity madder paintings reproduced in the London hall’s contribution to the Coronation £1 6s. ($3.50) surface mail Vol 13 1963: Foroes of Law and Order than the caperings of the Mad Hatter), Magazine give a completely false im­ decorations. £2 7s. ($7.00) airmail Vol 14 1964: Election Years a surface full of wasteful pomposity, in pression of the intimate and childish Like the newspaper seller within the COMBINED SUBSCRIPTION Each volume: paper 7/6 cloth 16/6. which adults wore disguises of voice, charm of this work for, by giving a newspaper photograph whose placard FREEDOM & ANARCHY (per year) The paper edition of the SeftectioK is carriage and manner, which precluded false impression of the scale of the work, proclaims the outbreak of some war he £2 10s. 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Meetings on the list month at Jeannie's, 6 Epsom Close, Northnlt AUSTRALIA. Anarchist Group, PO Box A 389a BEXLEY ANARCHIST GROUP. Correspondence (Kronstadt 1921, Ukraine 1918-21) Saturday of each month at 7.30 p.m. at Robert Park, Middlesex, at 7.30 p.m. Sydney South. Public meetings every Sunday in] to Paul Wildish, 2 Cumbrian Avenue, Barnehurst. Barltrop's, The Old Vicarage, Radwinter, near EALING ANARCHIST GROUP. Get into the Domain, 2 p.m. and Mondays. 72 Oxford] cloth 12/6 Kent. Saffron Walden. touch with Adrian Derbyshire, 2 Oakley House, Street, Paddington, Sydney, 8 p.m. BELFAST. Contact: Roy McLoughlin, 46 Moore- E. A. GUTKIND ORPDfGTON ANARCHIST GROUP. Knockhok, Oakley Avenue, London, W.5 DANISH ANARCHIST FEDERATION. 52 land Park, Belfast 11, Ireland. Nr. Sevenoaks, Kent. Every six weeks at Green- LIBERTARIAN TEACHERS* ASSOCIATION. Mindevej, Soborg-Copenhagen, Denmark. The Expanding Environment BIRMINGHAM ANARCHIST GROUP. Contact ways. Knock bolt Phone: Knockhott 2316. 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Every Sunday 8 p.m. Next meeting: Richmond House, Devon Road. Cambridge BELGIUM: LIEGE. Provoe, c/o Jacques ChCriuH Turnbull, c/o Doctors' Residence ‘ Strata thro January 13. Subject: A Certain Visit. SOUTH COAST. BRIGHTON, ETC. Eastbourne. II Avenue de la Laiterie. Sdessini-Liege. HelgiuiaH OUT OF THIS WORLD WIDEN THE AREA OF Whatever happened to Frank Mitchell & Ian Smith ? correspondent, 5% are for the Ameri­ Some heimjddled with alcohol , some according to the Guardian, owes the intoxicated by speed, some jusl confused acceptance by the Vatican of his Presi­ cans, 5% against, and 90% have no The rumpus at the ‘Lamb & Mag’ opinion. In areas where the Americans and the inability to agree at Factory for by power, were among causers and dential candidacy to his sponsorship of ‘FREEDOM’ Peace, can also be regarded as dangerous nlfectcd of 158 deaths on the road over this Bill. Now, with the Italian flood are based 20% do not like them, 40% signs of a divided movement. It is this Christmas. Not unexpectedly there died disaster, the MP says that it does not say they do and the rest (40%) have no A NY assessment of anarchist failures or inability to agree on internal matters a man, whose life (and that of his father make sense that the Vatican should be opinion. « - - * * successes can easily be bogged down and the failure of the AFB ns a living before him) was dedicated to the achieve­ exempted from taxes which others must by a discussion on the meaning of words. organisation which has made our voice ment of that same speed, power and pay. . . | T he secretary TO the Governor of Leaving semantics safely in the lap of so curiously mule. recklessness with the accompanying in­ Macao has had conversations in China individualist 'philosophers' we hope that On the back page of F reedom wo toxication of fame and publicity, quali­ C ardinal hpellman , Roman Catholic and is said to have agreed to settlement readers will know what we mean when have consistently reported the industrial ties which arc to be deplored in the Vicar to the United States Armed Forces, of a dispute which led to pro-Chinese we say that our guiding line is still those struggle of the day and so to bring our individual motorist but which found told American fighting men who had seen riots. Macao has handed over to China three Graces: Mutual Aid. Direct Action ideas to the industrial worker. plaudits of honour in' the obituary Vietnam action that without their sacri­ seven Chinese Nationalists. . . . and Voluntary Co-operation. Workers have faced considerable columns for Donald Campbell; a few fices ‘we would soon be overwhelmed government figures died of departmental and be the victims of tyranny' . . . 'I T he Russians and the Americans each Even a cursory look at last year’s problems during the six months’ legislated carried out underground nuclear tests. F reedoms and our bulging file of news­ wage freeze. Traditional free wage euthenasia (including Fred Lee, Arthur believe that in these circumstances, you bargaining is in danger and the future six Bottomlcy), and Mr. Walter Padley (for­ are not only serving your country but The Americans have found a method of paper cuttings will show that anarchists making underground tests detection-proof have come in for a certain amount of months of severe wage restraint hold out merly of the 1LP who died in Aden). . - - you are serving God because you are and are now accordingly suspicious that attention last year. Tentative efforts to little better prospects. Mounting unem­ defending the cause of righteousness, and i make a stand against encroaching ployment, which is an added difficulty, Y oung conservatives in Bournemouth the cause of civilization and God's further undetected Soviet tests have taken I Authority are however counter-balanced forms part of the Government’s policy discovered that only half of 160 people cause.* . . , place. The Japanese are taking measures ’ by iack of quality and quantity. But the for a viable economy. interviewed in the street knew the name against fall-out from Chinese weapon believed f fight at King Hill, the anti-election cam- These policies will not only reduce the of their MP. Only 65% Britain Mr. HARRISON E. SALISBURY, of the New tests. A pact has been signed at the to have a future. . . . [ paign. the formation of a Libertarian standard of living, but will aid the em­ York Times, reported that ‘block after United Nations against using the moon I Teachers' Association, the solidarity given ployers’ plans for the rationalisation of block of ordinary housing, particularly for atomic tests. On the Montebello T ub editor ov the West German Der Islands descendants of the rats which i to comrades in their hour of need industry. Speed-ups, mobility of labour, miegol, Conrad Ahlers, has joined the surrounding a textile plant' in Namdinh ■ (whether at Aberdeen on a Civil Defence cuts in manning scales and general in North Vietnam had been ‘smashed to survived British nuclear explosions are Bonn Government, a member of which, still a menace and are to be killed off I arson charge, or at Blackburn on a tightening in discipline face workers in Herr Franz Josef StraussMiss ordered ordered the the rubble’ by repeated attacks. Commander Robert C. Mandeville, of a naval attack with poisoned Frankfurter sausages. . . . ■censorship charge), all these and many almost all industries. editor. . . 8 arrest —77 . i four J years ago. Herr What can Anarchsists do to hold back squadron which carried out such raids, Bothers show that comrades will help Ahlers task will be to explain government An author is trying to get an injunction Rfhose who help themselves. and revise this trend? Every assistance policies. The new Chancellor, Kurt Kic- said, ‘I’m not questioning Mr. Salisbury’s honesty, but I found his story about against the BBC to prevent them from 1 On a cultural and educational level must be offered to workers who are singer, is stated by the Democratic Ger­ screening his TV play with the line (ex­ I we are glad to welcome the emergence fighting against these attacks. Rank and man Report (East Germany) to have Namdinh simply unbelievable. He's de­ scribing what he’s seen on the ground. plaining how a girl got pregnant), ‘My io f film^nd theatrical co-operatives and file organisations like those in the build­ been William Joyce’s (Lord Haw-Haw) friend Sylv told me it was safe standing ■ ittempw towards the establishment of ing, sections of engineering, print and departmental head. It also reprints from I guess we’re looking at it from different points of view.’ . . . up’, cut out. Peregrine Worsthome, of I free schools. other industries must be strengthened. Der Spiegel a memorandum from a the Sunday Telegraph, commenting on ■ pthere have been many complimentary Attempts should be made, where possible, member of the Radio Political Depart­ Lord Harewood’s impending divorce A Chinese exporter in Hong Kong ad­ E articles last year on anarchism or to organise these committees in other ment of the Foreign Office to the SS says, ‘To the Christian moralists the mitted in court that he had falsified docu­ | anarchist activities. industries. They should not confine stating that ‘Kiesinger, former liaison most scandalous feature of the Hare- ments in order to ship to Thailand ■ Here is a typical phrase from the themselves to the passing of harmless man with the Propaganda Ministry and wood affair must surely be that it has £23,000 worth of steel bars made in ■Kew Zealand Herald (!) (30.3.66): ‘The resolutions, but should organise action Reich Radio, and present deputy depart­ caused no scandal at all.' . . . 'lost vociferous, most consistent voice ofin defence of the trade Unionists' ment head, is demonstrably responsible China. Thailand has agreed to send _jsscnt in the general election campaign interests. for placing obstacles in the way of anti- troops to South Vietnam. . . . T he new s of the world deplores the ■as been that of British Anarchists'. Resolutions, lobbies and deputations Jewish actions. For instance he prevented gloom in Fleet Street and says of itself, ^Another journalist described us as will not stop the attacks of the Govern­ the implementation of a diversionary M ilitary operations have commenced . . will continue to give its readers B ie *£astest-growing political movement' ment and the employers, but action by action’. . . in the Mekong Delta, which is a great the unrivalled service of fearless opinion, Som e exaggeration here, what?). these rank and file organisations, who rice-growing area, containing one-third news, entertainment and sport which has ™ But before we discuss the reverse side have the support at shop floor level, AN Italian mp has given up his proposed of the population of Vietnam and is con­ made the News of the World a national _J the coin, it may be important to can defeat these attacks. backing of a Bill to legalise new tax trolled by the NLF-Vietcong. The for­ institution’. Among its stories on January Jiote from an interview given by We will continue to report and com? exemptions for the Vatican. It is cal­ mer Vietnamese commander of the area, 8 are: ‘Strippers at a Working Men’s Jerbert Read, who was once in the ment on all aspects of the struggle, culated that the Vatican owes the Italian General Quang, who was opposed to Club', ‘Bedroom Party in Girls’ Home’, efront of anarchist struggle and whether reformist or revolutionary, as State £3 million in, taxes but some put large-scale operations in this area, has ‘Vicar Chased me over Pews says Choir­ inking. He said to the S u n: ‘I have long as they widen the area of human the figure at £23 million. The Bill is now been removed—into the Govern­ boy' and ‘400 Girls in Stamp Forger’s ■Joe my best to make the movement freedom. Eds . partly the work of Signor Saragat who, ment. In the Delta, states the Guardian Mfe*. J o n Q u ix o t e . Tectable. I think it is a serious Jfiosophy, and a serious political level of differences with the ILP, Soli­ only wanted the front of the hall cleared jlory, and one should try to give it that Too Bentlo ComradeP darity or within our own movement; to let passengers from the bus enter. He Hfity- but all four Fourths are like the Sta­ may fool some people who do not know |*The movement today is more Comrades, linists, right outside the boundaries of the real background to these events with serous, but I don't think it has the In commenting on Ernie Tate’s letter Letters *I libertarianism, and we are no more con­ this story, but not many who are familiar fllectual Strength it used to have.' you were far too gentle with him. Not cerned with their internecine feuds than with recent issues of the Newsletter can J K his, of course, is regrettable. It is merely is the thuggery of the SLL con­ we are with those of the fascists. fail to see the incident as a logical out­ prue to say that the anarchist movement sistent with Trotsky's actions when in Yours fraternally, come of the hysteria, hostility and abuse lap this country receives very little help at power, but Comrade Tate belongs to in this way because he is three-parts Witney, Oxon. Laurens Otter. being whipped up by the SLL leadership Ithe moment by such luminaries as the American SWP which for years anarchist. Lest anyone thinks this is a 13.12.66 against its opponents on the Left. This Kerbert Read, who perhaps want to countenanced Healy’s disciplinary mea­ mere mistake, reference to the pamphlet itself is a reflection of the political weak­ become ‘respectable’ first and anarchist sures against dissidents, Fryer, Cadogan, in question, Healy ‘Reconstructs*, re­ ness of these leaders, of their inability Second. Pennington, Grainger, to name but four ference to Geoff Coggan’s recent article Revolution by Writsto deal with criticism and consequently I Where else did we fail? On organisa- —though four who have since been in in The Week, reference to comments on Dear Friends, of their need to prevent a discussion at tional basis: the AFB now only exists in contact with the anarchist movement (it Healy in the International Socialist Having failed with physical violence all costs. Thus, on the night when I name. Does anybody know when and was for no lack of attempts that Brian Review ever since the split, have all to suppress my views, Gerry Healy is was attacked I was selling the pamphlet where is the next annual conference? Behan is not numbered with these). It attempted to equate a revolutionary non- now trying legal threats. I circulated a Healy ‘Reconstruct*f the Fourth Inter­ There is also an international anarchist is almost certainly true to say that if entrist and anti-Castro position with letter to the Labour and Socialist press, national describing Healy’s high-handed, conference to which anarchists in this from 1953 on Healy had not been able thuggery. As early as 1963 an aside in describing a beating I received outside a bureaucratic methods in dealing with country are not sending delegates. Why to shelter behind the international repu­ an- ISR article coupled Healy with the Socialist Labour League meeting on the opposing political tendencies at a recent not? tation of the American Trotskyists, there anarchists. This is what is known by Hungarian Revolution at Caxton Hall on conference. On August 22, the News­ Our imprisoned comrade Stuart would now be no SLL. They would not, Marxists as the Amalgam, more widely November 17, 1966. The beating occurred letter had noted the early sales of the Christie is . still languishing in the Cara- in 1956, have been the principal benefi­ known as Guilt by Association. Just as while 1 was trying to distribute Socialist pamphlet and warned: ‘We shall not banchel. What can we do to get him ciaries of the breakdown in the Com­ Healy is resurrecting Stalinist lies about literature to SLL members and sup­ hesitate to deal appropriately with the out? Or help our Spanish comrades munist Party, and would not have been the anarchists in Spain (regardless of the porters. handful of United Secretariat agents who recently arrested? able to build themselves within the fact that the charge would rebound on This letter included the following hawk it around the cynical fake-Left in Forum Movement and the New Left the Trotskyists and POUM), so the paragraphs (F reedom , December 10, England.’ At the time, this seemed like groupings in 1957, would not then have Fourth International (‘Unified’ Secre­ 1966): a thinly veiled threat to prevent the been able, as they did, to exploit the rise tariat) is doing what the ‘left’ Social- ‘At 7.50 Gerry Healy and Michael views expressed in this pamphlet from £57 SHORT! of CND or the formation of the Young Democrats did in the thirties, recording Banda entered the hall. A few seconds reaching the rank-and-file members of Socialists. the crimes of Stalinism and implying later Healy came to the entrance and the Socialist Labour League. The beat­ WEEKS 51 & 52, DECEMBER 31, 1966: Nor can the SWP leaders plead igno­ that these emanate from lack of commit­ indicated to his followers that 1 should ing I received on the night of November Expenses: 52 weeks at £80: £4160 rance of the matter; not only did, on ment to parliamentary democracy, claim­ be removed from the front of the hall. 17 indicates just what the Newsletter Income: Sales and Subs.: £2960 many occasions, dissident members of ing that anarchists like all other ‘I was immediately set upon and physi­ meant by this threat. the SLL write to the SWP leadership, anti-parliamentarians wish to impose a cally assaulted by six or seven Socialist Until now there has been no public DEFICIT: £1200 but also, as far back as 1959, a group of one-party police state. Labour League supporters. My literature comment from the SLL on the beating. ex-Trotskyists of varying present political I believe that this is the sort of basis was knocked from my hands—I was A month has passed. Is the SLL leader­ London, S.W.15: R.P. 2/6; Harlow; J.G. complexion wrote a letter personally toon which we should ground anarchist punched and thrown to the ground, my ship too embarrassed? Is it too much 3/10; London, N.6: P.F. 10/-; Northoll: Cannon, to plead with him to break his refusal to be greatly worried by Tate’s glasses were smashed, and as I lay on to hope that the other leaders of the Anarchist Group 4/-; California: J.F. ties with England’s miniature Stalin; misadventure. For all Trotsky’s actions the ground 1 was kicked repeatedly in SLL find Healy’s methods indefensible? 3/6; Oxford: Anon* 5/-; Chicago: J.K. they were dismissed as mere petit bour­ in power—which were after all what the groin and stomach.’ Or are they calculating that time is on £8/3/7; London. N.10: R.W. £1/1/2: Pen­ geois liberals whose stomach turned at anarchists would expect of anyone in It is these paragraphs which I assume their side and that if I can be intimi­ nington: F.K. £2/15/-; Aylesbury: H.B. the harsh realities of revolutionary power, and Ai;chimov makes comparable Gerry Healy does not like. They vividly dated by the threat of a court action 17/2; Goteborg: D.W. 2/-; London, action. So it is sheer dishonesty for the accusations (on a smaller scale) about show Ihe lengths to which Healy is pre­ into remaining silent, the incident will S.E.I3: M.M. 4/-; Plymouth: D.L. 10/-; SWP now to claim (hat it did not know Makhno—he wasn’t, when not in power, pared to go to suppress criticisms and be quickly forgotten? New York: B. & D.L. 10/6; Vermonf: that the SLL was in no sense a Socialist in any sense a vicious little petty dicta­ differences with which he is not able to If so they have calculated wrongly, B *S. £3/10/-; Shropshire: J.P. £!/»/*; grouping but merely an unpleasant resi­ tor. I Ihink there is room for profound cope. When 1 refused to be intimidated for 1 refuse to be intimidated. I still be­ Brooklyn: O.A. £4/10/-; Utopia: M.K.W.* due of Stalin-lype thuggery. Their bleats anarchist regret that of the four organi­ by these strong-arm methods, and made lieve that the most effective way to deal 10/-; Kirkby Mallory: P.C. 1/-/-; Not­ now about democratic rights, the brother­ zations claiming to be Ihe Fourth Inter­ an appeal through the Left-wing press. with the actions of Gerry Healy and to tingham: H.T. £1/10/-; Northolt: Anar­ hood of all Socialists of whatever tradi­ national and Trotsky’s successors, one is Healy took the next logical step in his prevent this kind of conduct from re­ chist Group* 3/6; Cheltenham: L.G.W.* tion, is only so much eyewash. It would, Ihe privalc preserve of a megalomaniac, campaign of suppression. He invoked curring, is to expose his methods to the £1 /-A; Manchester: R.C. 2/6; Rugby: CM7. for instance, be an interesting though one is led by a psychotic who believes the power of the Stale against the Left working-class movement. Therefore, I 6/-; Ruislip: L.B. 10/-; London, S.W.8: probably dangerous experience (0 sell thul socialism will come out of a nuclear press, instructing his solicitors to threaten plan to keep on distributing the letter B.L. £5/-/-; New York: W.S. 7/-; Detroit: anti-Victcong pamphlets at a VSC meet­ war, and the remaining two manuge it? with libel action both Peace News and which Gerry Healy finds so offensive. Grupo Libertad £3/11/-; Vermont: E.L. ing (I will tell you how it goes when a curious wuy to combine abject be­ the Socialist Leader. who had printed This is consistent with the democratic £1/-/-; Wolverhampton: J.K.W.* 8/-; J.L.* 1‘ve managed to produce n sufficiently trayal to nol merely the reformist labour my Original letter. Healy calculated that tradition of socialism. If Healy wishes 12 /-^ California: F.A. 3/9; London, N .l: good one). (or in America liberal Democrat) leader­ the hard-pressed Left papers wouid yield to attempt to stifle this tradition with N.L.A. Disc. Group 1/5; London: Anon. However this is not the only objection ship hul also on an international plane to his intlnrddUlioh rather than go to the power of the courts, I am prepared 3/6; London, N.l: P.D. 10/-; London, to Tate’s letter; you will note thnl Heuly tq conflicting sections of the Stalinist court and pay the expenses of a legal to fight him. W .ll: M.G. 10/-; London, S.W.I7: K.K. is referred to as Ultra-Leftist and the hurcuucracy, so that at one and the dispute. A shrewd judge of how to kick I am asking all those who receive this 3/4. suggestion is made that his behuviour same time they support Mao and Castro fellow-Left-wing militants where it hurts. letter, who believe in the importance of TOTAL: £42 4 3 emanates from this leftism. Apart from although these are in basic rivalry Healy was rewarded with apologies and full and open political discussion on the Previously Acknowledged: £1101 I 7 the fact that Healy was behaving in this throughout South America. There ore a 10 guineas costs from each paper. l^eft, to send a financial donation so way at a lime when he was while washing few- -a very few—other Trotskyists, with The apologies he made them print that the letters I am sending out will 1966 Total to Date: £1143 5 10 Nye Bevan, the people who are normally whom we disagree on many fundamental were instructive in themselves. Whereas receive even wider circulation. referred to ns Ultra-Leftists in Trotskyist issues but whom nevertheless it is pos­ shortly after the original incident, he Fraternally, ♦Denotes Regular Contributor. circles are anarchists and a few dissident sible to see us part of a broader socialist, maintained that I had provoked meni- 8 Toynbee S tr e eE t rnest Tatb . G ift of Badges — Harlow: Anarchist Leninist groups. So the letter-writer is libertarian and anti-rhilltnrlst movement bers of (he Socialist Labour League into London, I E. G roup. muking the inference that Hcaly behuves —our differences with these ace on the attacking me, now he suggests that he 15.12.66 - - — WUW. Load on, C.l e m .% Strike for Safe 1 Service For Workers’ Control HPHE SOLIDARITY of the bus *“• men and women at Fulwell and Southall garages have won the JANUARY 14 1947 Vol 28 No 1 sympathy and unofficial support of the delegates at the special con­ ference called to discuss the strike action that is, at the time of writing, going into its second week and which has every chance, should the London Transport Board refuse to Led All the Way give way over the savage schedule cuts that they have imposed, of in­ volving other garages. A YEAR AGO Mr. Wilson, the Prime few weeks out .of work really shows his J For 15 years there has been a Minister, said that 1966 would be a position in this society. Perhaps it -waslj chronic shortage of men and women though negotiating would not give ‘make or break’ year for the British a myth that the trade unions would buck f to man the London buses and the pected 4£% cut in duties but 16% economy. It was in fact a period when and they have point-blank refused way. Finally after unrest at a against the Tories if they had carried ] Transport Board has used this fact the Government put into operation out what Wilson is now doing. But] to operate these vicious schedules number of garages the Board slung as a cynical excuse to cut services measures which were intended to put traditional working-class opposition to! while all the other London garages in the towel and ended the modifi­ in the name of labour shortage. British capitalism on a more competitive the Tories would have meant widespread! cation to the gearboxes and agreed footing with its rivals. With a shortage of 4,000 working have agreed not to cover any bus unofficial action. However, this has not! to change the other gearboxes to the Thesehmeasures are working, the trade staff the Board had already stated route served by these two garages. happened except in isolated cases when aJ If one examines Highgate’s new original second gear stopping. gap has warrowed and the figures have Labour Government carries out w h aj that they intended to make drastic schedules one finds that there are even shov—P a surplus. A Labour have been Tory policies. cuts in bus duties in January 1967, Except for one single garage and 33 duties cut from Monday to that was the Mortlake garage Government the has brought about an 1 but with the Government freeze economic recovery and in so doing have STREAMLINING LABOUR driving a flow of fresh labour into Friday, 18 from the Saturday sche­ only garage that went through the dules and 13 from the Sunday moved further to the right in the political The unofficial Joint'S hop Stewarcfl the bus industry this excuse became official machinery of negotiationj spectrum than the Tories ever did during Committee at BMC, for all its lobbying a sour joke. schedules, giving a total daily cut While the Board accepted that the their 13 years of rule. This fact is worth talks and a chat with Wilson, achieve It fa d been slated that the new of 196 duties. This means that in rest of the bus fleet had won their considerable thought by those between- precious little, while BMC achieved thcS schedules would contain a further place of the present 306 crews there point they insisted that the Mortlake election anarchists and the different ‘shake-out’. This term, first used by cut in bus duties involving the will only be 268 crews operating men should still work those buses. shades of left-wing Socialists who at Wilson, does not mean that you wff have your old job back later on. ThiSi loss of 1,333 men. Fulwell and from Highgate garage, an elimina­ One could argue, and I have within every General Election tell us to vote tion of 80 men and women or, as the garage, that the Board could Labour. just not a recession, but goes much deed Southall garages found themselves This is not to say that the Tories would and is aimed at a long term reorgania| carrying the can not with the ex- the London School of Economicsclaim that as they were in official negotiation with Mortlake garage not have liked to try the same measures tion. Already this process has begufej would say, 13% duties. BMC, for this week they announm they could not, for fear of a legal as the present Government. They would Collections are being taken up have, but no doubt fear of the trade their increased production target of 15.50J in all garages still working and the backlash, admit that the men were unions stopped them. However, Mr. units per week. This will mean, delegates have pledged their unoffi­ right without accepting that these Wilson has done all the things the Tories workers on short time, but their loij cial support. But the Board are buses might conceivably be a public used to be accused of doing. Since term aim for 1970 is ‘to produce, witnl reported to be standing firm as a danger, as the men claimed. . Yet Labour came to power there has been a streamlined labour force, 1,250,000 a§ Contact Column matter of principle in that they will when' the whole of the London bus Slower advance in social services than a year—without overtime’. fleet threatened to strike for a when the Tories were in. It has used the The long term aim for Britij This column exists for mutual aid. not negotiate until the men have SINGLE day as a protest the Board old weapon of unemployment to weaken capitalism, which both the employers al Donations towards cost of typesetting trailed back, cap in hand. the Government want, is less men doij This rubbish would be acceptable caved in and agreed that Mortlake the bargaining power of the unions and will be welcome. to make them acquiesce to the Govern­ the same amount or more work, if it were not that this same Board should also be included in the anti­ will be accompanied by unemploymeM Furnished Accommodation. Available £2- mental policies and has used the monetary casually, and without any attempt modification programme. policies of ‘stop-go*. N ot only in its Mr. Wilson said on July 20: ‘If the figura £3 per week in semi-community to save face, gave in over a This of course makes nonsense of unemployment were, after all re" house near Crystal Palace. Box 46. dealings with the economy has this threatened one-day protest strike of their present stand on principle. reactionary trend been noticeable, its absorption, after all the re-deploymeqtl Accommodation. Accommodation wanted that was to have called out the Let us understand where we, the handling of the Rhodesian crisis is and after all the measures for regional anywhere for unmarried mother and distribution, to rise to a figure between! baby girl victimised by Birmingham whole of the London bus fleet on workers, stand in this matter. What another example. the Board feared was a complete li% and 2% (470,000) I do not believe! City Council in their divide and rule January 9. This was a situation in FOR THE FIRST TIME which the Board had a legitimate strike of the whole of their working that the House as a whole would consider ! policy while acting as militant that unacceptable/ The Chancellor ini spokesman in Birmingham Homeless case on which to stand fast but a staff. Isolated pockets of protest The economic measures already taken are the basis for a healthy economy, that a New Year’s ; message said to the' Hostels Struggle. At present on broad streak of yellow glowed in they can deal with but one single Financial Times readers that ‘the Govern-! NAB. Hopes to return to trade as is a profitable one. For many workers, the darkness of the boardroom. day of mass defiance and the top it has meant that for the first time in their ment’s long term objectives continue to | paint sprayer as soon as day nursery Some twelve months ago the brass bled milk. be based on a viable balance of payments, found. Prefers own door key for lives they have been really unemployed. Board decided to make modifica­ We, the working class, have only Although the unemployment figures show full employment (my italics) and an change. Contact through Peter expanding economy’. However a month | Neville, 12 South .Grove, Erdington, tions to the gearboxes of the Route-one weapon and that i$ the strike that there is a levelling out, there is no master buses. Instead of the buses weapon. We should use it sparingly, doubt that more workers are going to be previously, he echoed Mr. Wilson when Birmingham, 23. Urgently. he said—‘We do not aim to return to a l Accommodation Warned, Girl wants flat automatically dropping back into but use it wisely and, having de­ out of work before very long. second gear each time the bus cided to use it, use it ruthlessly and Many still unemployed after the ‘shake­ position where there is a constant collision in London sharing with 2/3 others. between pressure on our resources and the Lesley Owen, 24 Oawshay Drive, stopped they were modified to save fearlessly. For if we are prepared out’ are the ‘big-money workers’ in the car industry. They might have earned capacity available to meet that pressure. Emmcr Green, Reading. fuel in that they were made to to use it again and again in our It was that situation, the collision which Work, Urgent; young couple, both big money, but a lot of this was made up automatically fall back into neutral own defence then, win or lose, no of overtime earnings. Graham Turner, we constantly had, which has been graduates, seek work in which gear. The drivers claimed that this strike is ever lost. For if we are responsible, more responsible than any­ they can be together (for personal in his book The Car Makers wrote con­ was a public danger for the buses prepared to attack whenever the cerning the scramble for extra earnings: thing else I would say, for the continuing reasons tint is more important than drifted backwards at stops and in inflation’. So to prevent this ‘constant the money). John Titicnsor, 103* time demands, then a single lost ‘And beneath all this furious scramble traffic and with a duff handbrake strike is but the losing of a single there is the old desperate desire for collision’, nearly half a million men will Camden Road, London, N.W.I. be unemployed, not as bad as the Thirties, Am— iidiitoe. Young couple (with one could unwittingly cause an acci­ battle in our endless war against security, and the failure to find it. The dent to some elderly person or find those who wield, and attempt to cloud on the horizon for the young men but when you are out of a job, it is not two smalt aons) urgently need broom much consolation to know there is only sx fiat si nmsunahfo rent. Willing oneself smashing in the radiator of who cannot remember the despair of wield, their authority over us, the half a million like you. to decorate, baby mind, help in the vehicle behind. men and women of the world, who pre-war slumps is a cut in overtime/ Now young men are facing unemploy­ house, garden, ek. Boa 42. Mortlake garagewent through all have naught to sell but their labour ‘SEVERE RESTRAINT Whisper and f a s t . Fog and Ballad the constitutional motions in their ment and, although they perhaps bought in return for that small portion of houses for their wives and families and Group tourmg England 1967. Waul negotiation with the Board to have However, even now that the ‘wage the harvests of the world that they had all the modem conveniences, the freeze’ is over and we are entering the recruits (poet* and g o g n i and these buses altered back to the bookings Cootaci Travelling Poets, alone brought forth. security they sought was an illusion. For period of ‘severe restraint’, one wonders 36 Jackson Avenue, Mtcfcleover, second gear stopping but the Board L ijmpenproletariat . any worker with a wife and children, a whose claims are going to be passed. The Derby. Incomes Policy would, we were told, A Certain Vhtif. Anarchist Welcoming benefit the lower-paid worker, but so far Commiftee meets outside InioimM the Government has not made up its (Moscow) Ltd., 314 Regent Street, mind who or what it means by this W.l, February 4 at 11 ijq Then THE 6REAT AMERICAN LIE Diem. But because a majority preferred definition. The TUC has already let march to another pUoa Bring your left-wing dictatorship to right-wing die- ten pay claims through its own wage own potters Corniimwed tram pi£t> I existing lighting, but by fear that it will tutorship, does it follow that, given a vetting committee because they apply to Accommodation wanted- Tourist imiKB- aded tc? h it over South Vklnatn by escalate into all-nut nuclear war. Tins choice between dictatorship of any kind workers earning about £10 to £12 per vnodation wanted Australian woman, Son*. They no longer Rave the *Jighte*i danger has receded now that the Russian and something better, they would still week. travelling in Europe needs CHEAP change of a military w lw y and if they government U sitting on (be fence and have chosen left-wing dictatorship? Does The Prices and Incomes Board criteria accommodation in Ixaedoo for ap­ could hod some way ol wiUulrawin$ hence public concern has diminished loo. it follow too that because a majority for productivity bargains are such that proximately four weeks hi February, without taflfaf loo much face, they would In Britain, the lying, hate-sodden, fascis- favoured union with the north ten years even the General Sc Municipal Workers’- 1967 Prefer relatively central loca­—America being willing And ai fur the tic dirt of the communist party discredit* ago they also favour an attempt to en­ Union have said that they are *001 worth tion. Would also tike companion Chi— government, in tpite of all it» big ail genuine anti-war campaigns with its force this union by guerilla warfare espe­ u candle’. So not much is going to get for travels in March. Box 43. talk, the last thing it want* Jf war with hypocrisy and Us inane chanting of rub­ cially as they and not the guerillas are through there. The only way to force Accommodationi Bristol anarchist Bycrip* the US. It knows full well that if dial bish like ‘Hey. hey, LBJ How many kids the main sufferers? wage or any other demands is to take timer, studious, responsible, tec happen* It It China and not die US that have you killed today?*—shouted by I think that all this shows that the action. In the main workers and their totaller, needs bedsitter in Bristol will fee thuwn to be the paper tiger. people who* blatant insincerity is world is still at square one as far ns shop stewards have gone along with Clifton, Redlands, Hot well arm pre­ Meanwhile there doesn’t Mem much shown by their pleasure •filled, smirking anarchism is concerned. Read Greek or the unions and the constitutional pro-; ferred. Large house. Box No. 4A. that anyone cIm* can do to tlop the faces. Roman hiatoriuits and you will see that cedure, and this has got them nowhere., Work Wanted In France. Long shot. Can fighting and if» escalation. Allthe war- The only argument these intellectual in spite of modern science men haven’t The ‘shake-out’ has gone on and wagesj anyone help married couple (30’s) ring part ice have shown themselves to and emotional perverts present that has changed much since ancient times. Rulers have been frozen. Let us face it* tow find permanent work—France/Switz be quite indifferent to appeals to reason, validity is that before the fighting started then were the same as rulers now, and Government and the employers h*vc Box 47. moderation and decency. Much of the I majority of South Vietnamese would I’m sorry to say that the ordinary man led all the way in the last six months. public concern about Vietnam that has have preferred unjon under Ho Chi Minh is much the same too. What about the next six months? existed has been caused by, not (he to rule by odious American puppets like Jeff Robinson . \