Another point to remember is that JULY 22 1967 Vol 28 No 22 THE .CAMPAIGN for Stuart • Christie’s release is now meeting the British Government is now so with stiff opposition from the British right wing that even in Franco’s Foreign Office. Cabinet there are Ministers who are Stuart Christie, now 21, and three more ‘liberal’ than them. This years of his 20-year sentence almost praise, however faint, must go to behind him, has received practically Fraga Iribame who, as Minister for no help from the Foreign Office. Tourism, has no other choice but to SONIC BOOMS be liberal. Whilst Stuart Christie, Now that Stuart is appealing for clemency, Lord Chalfont has told or any other foreigner, is in jail in a deputation of MPs that the time Madrid, any mention of them was ‘inappropriate’ and left it in abroad will have an adverse effect doubt whether the British Govern­ on the Spanish tourist trade. ment will support this appeal. It is also true to say that Stuart’s OR STANSTED ? Two members of the deputation forthright behaviour and direct have accepted the Foreign Office action in the Carabanchel jail has \ line. earned him the grudging respect of his opponents. His threat that he FOREFATHERS said that if God One of them is Mr. Niall countryside as I know full well that they MacDermot, a junior Minister, and will go on hunger strike must have meant man to fly he would havedo not know any better; but I am influenced the sentences on Louis Fim wings: yet if God had meant questioning everyone’s seemingly calm as such he is bound by Cabinet con­ to make sonic booms he wouldacceptance of this situation. Where I siderations. Another is Tom Fraser, Edo and the four other anarchists live, in Hendon, we are well out of the the MP for Hamilton, in whose con­ who were tried on J uly 4. Sentences Bence, marches on but man stays noise zone around London Airport but stituency Stuart’s mother lives (in of 15 years each were expected. In Jpe he is. Science has given us aircraft, quite often we are deafened by some Blantyre). He has accepted the the end they only received a sen­ ■fagines and airports, it has also given Boeing or other, screaming loudly over­ offer of two appointments to tence of three years each. This in Knpise. head drowning all conversation. Just as Government boards and is resigning itself is monstrous on a trumped up [thought I knew all about noise until much I will not be surprised if the Con­ charge; but not large enough (by enenced a sonic boom. It was a his seat. This was announced five corde booms louder than expected and days after the deputation saw Lord Spanish standards) to have pro­ |erclap of a jet fighter passing over over the unsuspecting, in fact we are all duced more than a paragraph in |1 Europe. One minute there was likely victims. Chalfont. the next just noise, powerful and We know full well, however, that no­ Two of the MPs who have not the British Press, and so the piling. I realise now that then I thing can be done about it. The Members been frightened off are Hugh Spanish tourist trade was not Iperienced a sonic boom from the of Parliament and the Courts of Law are Delargy and Alfred Morris. They This photograph of Stuart Christie affected. ■possible position, that is directly powerless against delegated legislation. have now been joined by Eric Lub­ was taken in Carabanchel Jail in George Gardiner has summarised heath a low flying aircraft. The To march through the streets proves no­ November 1965. This is his fourth the case for remission of sentence bock, the Liberal Whip and MP for summer in prison. gpers and radio all agree that the thing but our presence—in fact all areas Orpington. Together they will con­ which the MPs are pursuing. j sonic boom tests are no incon- of permitted political and social protest tinue to do what they can to change He writes: ‘Christie was only 18 |e, in fact ‘similar to a gun being are designed to produce no effect. So One reason Lord Clialfont gave at the time of his crime which he 1 block away’. Yet are these tests what can we do to protect our sanity? the FO attitude. Bic reaction in the same decibel The reason for this attitude is was that on no account must any­ did not instigate. He was un­ We all know that if we shout in the doubtedly foolish, but the sentence els that likely from a Concorde streets we can be arrested for ‘disturbing still not clear. Ever since the re­ thing be said that will irritate the T? I must be forgiven for this the police’ or ‘assaulting a police officer’, newed publicity (especially the excel­ Spanish authorities. He instanced seems unnecessarily savage. In lotion but not very long ago I was but what if several hundred people lent articles by George Gardiner in a long report (Spanish readers please gaol he has proved a well-behaved psd by government experts that gathered in one spot, outside No. 10 fpr the Sunday Times) and the efforts of oblige) which appeared in ABC, prisoner. Once released, he obviously Tcorde would only break the sound instance, and shouted ‘Bang’ at the one Mr. Morris and Mr. Delargy, Stuart the Spanish newspaper, and which would not enter Spain again’. lover the Atlantic far from popu- and the same time. What if the people has received very good treatment was ‘pointedly adverse’. He did There is no need here to disagree jareas, but these experts have who live around Stansted destroy the new and was transferred to the Alcala not say whether this was adverse to with any of the assumptions. They |d their minds, the Concorde will airport as it is being built, as Harold de Henares jail where he has his own Stuart or to the British Government! are clearly written in a political Joom over Bristol or Cardiff. I do knows they don’t want it. They must Lord Chalfont seems particularly language by people who are versed pioubt their minds will change as realise that government can only exist cell, where he is allowed letters from ; as their estimates of the Concorde’s by the docile acceptance of the governed; friends by a more liberal censor, and ignorant, even for a Minister, of the in the language of politics. and they must ask what came first, the where, at his birthday party on July situation in Spain. There are many What matters is that Stuart [do not question the government’s government or the people? 10, he was allowed beer and wine to people in Spain, and not only revolu­ Christie has not changed his mind ility in making bangs over the Nigel Wilson . offer his guests. tionaries, who are now openly criti­ about the validity of his ideas or cal of this sentence meted out to his action. He had written to Stuart. They are also embarrassed friends emphasising this point. He by the ‘adverse reaction’ abroad on also had written to the Spanish their ever-increasing number of poli­ authorities affirming that his action tical prisoners. There are many was activated by the highest motives. who are similarly outraged for This is understood by people in OT SHOTS FOR THE PRESS sentences of 12 years each on two Spain where he is now a nationally- British youths recently for ‘joy­ known person. •HE INCREASED BLATANCY of the to say whether they intended or expected When the police came by they were riding’. The British Government The least the Foreign Office can narcissism and hedonism of English the rally to take the form of a smoke-in, very well behaved and didn’t bother to does not back up this protest, it do is to support Stuart’s appeal for youth have boosted exports, tourism and as a consequence a number of people, enforce the music-making by-law. They even encourages soothing stories in clemency. Stuart is very hopeful at the circulation figures of the gutter press. especially the police, were extremely were greeted with chants of either ‘down newspapers to the effect that the the moment that his appeal will ! The gratitude of the press and the Wilson apprehensive. with fuzz’ or ‘we love fuzz’, and to both sides the two phrases seemed virtually ‘sentences may seem harsh but they succeed. Friends of Stuart Christie [ government seems to have taken the form As it turned out, the rally went sur­ are part of Spain’s 1,000-year-old prisingly smoothly, a number of speakers interchangeable. From what could be must urge Lord Chalfont to jof persecuting the geese that have been penal code’. laying the balance of payments eggs— and poets appeared briefly. They in­ seen, no pot was smoked and so the reconsider his decision. f swinging young dealers like Robert cluded Michael X, Brian Patten, and of police had nothing very substantial to | Fraser, groups like the Rolling Stones course Mr. Ginsberg. Only twice did the fuss over. They did move into action a and types like pot smokers. The perse­ police noticeably intrude themselves: on few times, but surprisingly few. When cuted have been quick to fight back in the first occasion to get the few placards they did it was hard to determine whether [their own idiom. that had been brought along put down or not the victim was actually ‘escorted’ Their idiom is the be-in—a type of on the ground out of sight of the TV all the way off the park. Treated to MORE IMPRISONMENTS gathering that has as much in common cameras, and then to tell Mr. Ginsberg flowers and protestations of love, the with a picnic as it does with a demon­ that he couldn’t play his harmonium in police seemed very ill at ease 'and uncer­ stration. At a be-in organising and mar­ the park. From the centre of the rally tain as to what game they should decide shalling are at a minimum or are non­ it seemed that the photographers to who play. IN SPAIN -existent. The conveners seldom give out wouldn't comply with repeated requests In every national assembly a great deal more information than the rough nature (o sit down had greater nuisance-value of status is conferred on the official *A CCORDING to the Spanish news first to be caught and it was from him of the occasion, the time and place. In than the police and their little regulations.opposition. The reason is quite simple— the Spanish police extracted information It must be asked what the rally as such governments thrive on confrontations agency ‘Efe’, the group of comrades the case of Sunday’s pot rally, the con­ belonging to the ‘Federacion1 Iberica de which led to the other arrests. veners (the International Times) refused accomplished. It certainly provided the with oppositions, lobbies, dissenters and press with a lot of attractive pictures and rebels. They thrive on these disagree­ Juventudes Libertaries’ received over 13 The sentences seem light compared to give more than this essential informa­ years in prison sentences between them. with past experience of Franco’s justice, tion to anyone. They consistently refused television with offbeat footage, but ments because they are over-agreed upon especially since the prosecution was de­ whether the rally nudged the state a issues. If you quarrel with the govern­ Charged by the ‘Tribunal of Public Order’ with intending to kidnap an officer manding 15 years apiece for Luis, An­ single inch toward the toleration of ment or the police over a specific issue, tonio and Alicia. Six-and-a-half years cannabis is extremely doubtful. you in- fact validate them and the game of United States army, they have been sentenced as follows: for Jesus Andres, and another six for Once officially over, the rally spawned they are playing. Davito. The failure of the prosecution half a dozen or so focuses of attention But say you love them, say they’re Luis Edo to three years’ jail, fined, which were much more effective exercises just silly children playing silly games, plus six months of detention, apparently to pin the charge of the successful kid­ to cover the time he was awaiting trial. napping which took place in Italy last NARCHY 77 in communication than the rally itself. say you don’t care what kinds of knots year, may have helped here. A few girls wandered around blowing He was charged with illegal association, they get themselves into provided they A Correspondent . SALE NOW soap bubbles and offering children a turn leave you pretty well alone—start saying conspiracy and using a false name. at it, a few people scattered flower petals, that kind of thing and then you start Antonio Canete got three years for conversations were struck up between deflating them and all their pompous illegal association. Alicia Mur was given lo-lt-Yourselfthose for and those against the smoking self-righteous hypocritical scandalous three years’ prison and six months de­ of pot, despite park regulations instru­ inhuman games. tention for illegal association, conspiracy Subscribe ments of various kinds were played and At their be-ins the hippies have and use of a false name. Alfredo Herrera narchism people started dancing. The dancers were stumbled onto this fundamental truth. Davito received three months’ detention surrounded by large numbers of on­ This posture of total rejection and in­ for conspiracy. Jesfis Andr6s, held by for a Friend difference is potentially even more effec­ JA R C H Y is Published by lookers who seemed to find the flower the prosecution to be an alcoholic and children better entertainment than the tive than civil disobedience. If the tech­ SIX SHILLINGS EACH WILL E E D O M PRESS at 2s, not responsible for his actions, was given regular comer speakers. To these people nique doesn’t pass with the summer, the three years for possession of armaments BRING THEM ‘FREEDOM* * AND first Saturday of everymonth the nature of the ‘flower power now’ state is in for some real trouble. and three months’ detention for illegal ‘ANARCHY’ FOR TWO MONTHS message became fairly apparent. David Wilson . association. Andr6s, it is believed, was WITH YOUR COMPLIMENTS. A T THE MOMENT of writing Robert ham-fisted pastiches of William Blake's Fraser is still imprisoned awaiting watercolours. the outcome of the Rolling Stones appeal. It is said that it took five years to pro­ Fraser is young, rich and very much a ROUND THE GALLERIES duce this book and 3,500 blocks had to books? creature of his time in that he is of that be hand-cut yet there is a lunatic logic second generation of acquired wealth in this demonstration of how the skill who use money not only for their hedo­ But Fraser is in prison and, despite should be so honoured, the publishers of an artist, blockmaker and publisher nistic creature comforts, but as a drum the open warfare that exists between him would then announce that one of the can be wasted. Yet now let us pray that to attract the attention of the Town to and those performers who have primped Great Masters of our Age would dedicate the greatest comic artist of our genera­ We can supply that which happens to amuse them at into his gallery and left face down his brush to illustrating this glorious tion will waste no more time on these the moment screaming vengeance over his alleged rhubarb and, five or ten years later, a snob brochures for the Hilton habitants any book in print Yet it was always so, and many a financial dealings with them, a major limited edition would be flogged to those and return to his oils and his stretched Greek and Roman ancient soured his group of these minor artists have pub­ with money and little taste for, let us canvases, for the world owes Dab a Autobiography L in c o ln Steffens 15/— papyrus by reflecting on the evils of in­ licly protested at the State’s intrusion be brutally frank, these huge and un­ debt, and we are eager to add to it by Can Parliainent Survive? herited wealth, and many a desert pro­ into the private lives of Fraser and, by manageable volumes are valueless as binding our knee in mock homage to Christopher Hollis 3/6 phet joined hands over the dusty years association, the Rolling Stones, by open­ works of art or as reading matter. his mock majesty for, though we may The Burden of Our Time with the American wealthy of World ing up the locked gallery and exhibiting Like the encyclopaedias that are jeer at him, our world would be much Hannah Arendt 17/6 War One to cry calamity as the second their work. It is a gesture to be com­ hawked from suburban door to door, sadder without him. A rthur M oyse . Human Ecology generation buy the applause of the mended in that, like the jongler of Christ, they are to be owned but never opened Thomas Robertson (proof copy) 8/6 pseudo-intelligentsia and play tootsie with they have displayed their public accept­ for they are but a visual sign of social The Monteasori Method this month's Beautiful People on the ance by offering their widow’s mite of affluence and a claim to good taste. Dali, Maria Montessori 6/- strength of a free meal and the use of talent when public support is sorely who dearly loves the dollar, has been POLICE j Light and Liberty: Six Years of the the key to the wine cellar. And, like that needed, for again and again let it be called upon to illustrate Dante’s Divine ETU Gordon Schaffer 3/- sad old woman who lifts her stained known that, if Robert Fraser is broken Comedy and though by the 19th century AT IT AGAlH Tbc Philosophy of Conflict skirts and dances a grotesque jig across by the State, then one more avenue of there were at least 350 different versions ■DECENT events make us think th*d Havelock Ellis 6/- the floor of the public bar after a few communication is closed to us and the of this book floating around, one feels the police are paying a lot of atteo3| Fire of Life Henry W. Nevinson 4/- free drinks, we are amused and then, on right, even to be outraged, will be denied that Dali’s will not enhance the score tion to the anarchists in Liverpool. Twig Our New Religion H. A. L. Fisher 3/6 reflection, ashamed that we dared to be us. for, in all honesty, one feels that Dali pubs in the city, the ‘Cracke’ anfl The Legend of the Latin Quarter amused. But the third generation of acquired could have amused us more and been ‘O’Connor’s Tavern’, in which a lara Arthur Moss and Evalyn Marvel 5/- Robert Fraser, of his bank-book, gave wealth is still with us and, as they pad more effective if he had been paid to number of anarchists and anarchist! Morality Fair Geoffrey Williamson 7/6 us the Robert Fraser Gallery and from from their suites from within the Hilton illustrate the London Telephone Direc­ sympathisers gather, have recently The Anatomy of Frustration across the deep waters flowed all those Hotel onto the alien pavements, they can tory for it is at least one book that can raided and several arrests were made 1 H. G. Wells 5/- American performers who made up for turn for relief and pleasure into the claim a mass readership. It is claimed drunk and disorderly charges. Two ui| Living in the Clouds their lack of talent by the audacity of Hilton Art Gallery in Park Lane, W.l. that Dali worked from 1950 until 1959 formed policemen came into the ‘Crac. Charles Humana 4/6 the monumental trivia that they offered This is a beautiful little gallery forming to produce these 100 watercolours and at 10.25 p.m. one Saturday just as The Paganism in our Christianity the pseudos and the Beautiful People. part of that expensive necklace of shops judging from the work on display one were finishing the third verse of j Arthur Weigall 5/- And we wandered around the gallery that cluster around the central figure of feels that the old exhibitionist was slip­ Coppers Are Bastards’. They said t Children of the Dead End viewing the huge plastic false teeth, the Hilton doorman, so very tiny yet so ping for I would have held that in the they would give everybody two minif Patrick MacGill 3/- examined with a jaundiced eye Johnny attuned to wealth that nothing is priced. old days Dali could have churned this to clear the place. In the meantime jf The Story of Creation Apple’s sauce bottles cast in bronze, Forming a costly background to the tiny inferior work out in two or three months sent for a couple of vanloads oftm Edward Clodd 3/6 searched with an aesthetic eye for the decorated clocks that silently fill each and still found time to pose for his photo­ forcements who managed to make | The Last Link Ernst Haeckel 3/6 clumsily-drawn fanny in Dimes trashy table, hang the water colours of Salvador graph. arrests. Gerry Bree, who was one] A Chance for Everybody paintings, sighed over Peter Blake’s lost Dali. I have always held, of my cyni­ All the old Dali cliches are there, and those arrested, was driven round to Hyacinthe Dubreuil 5/- talent, and cursed the Arts Council for cism, that one of the least harmless con they range from his soft watch period to in a police car before being taken The Anatomy of Spirit wasting public money in buying the games of the art world was the repro­ his perennial use of exciting rock forma­ the station and was beaten up inj Jack Lindsay 3/6 public posturing of men and women duction of some particular literary tions. Yet by Dali’s standards this is back of it. His watch and glasses Brave New World Revisited whose major crime is that they take classic. Having decided on the minor bad work and never more so than in his broken and one of his teeth knocked Aldous Huxley 7/6 themselves seriously. problem of which literary printed work profile of Dante and his clumsy and and he had to spend a few daj hospital. Postage Extra There have also been raids on thp parties and reactionary candidates. The of a few people. Terry opened thoj Through the Anarchist Press sums are not stated, but it is suggested to the police one day but it tuns" that they are sums varying between a to be a friendly visit. They asked K Freedom Bookshop few tens of thousands to less than one he was one of ‘those anarchist b| million dollars. A little further up the road from (Open 2 pan.—530 p.m. daily; USA $100,000 worth of compensation. Some The Government has also added that Mark has also been visited. TheT I t ajn.— 1 p.m . Thursdays; 6T\ISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS’ have protest. Communist countries have financed par­ knew which rooms they lived in a 10 a.m.—5 pjn. Saturdays). brought lessons to a standstill in a YUGOSLAVIA ties and candidates of the left in a more houses, and even how to open a] school in New York’s East Bronx slum, Sentencing the writer Mihajlo Mihajlov open manner. lock on Terry’s front door, and wi 17a MAXWELL ROAD reports the teachers’ bulletin' of the to four and a half years’ imprisonment, USA pect that one of our number is ) FULHAM SW6 Tel: REN 3736 British school magazine Everyweek. A the judge who announced the verdict In its last sitting of the judicial year type of anarchist who is a friendj breakdown of the student body of 2,000 declared that ‘the freedom of thought 1966-67 (June 12 ult.), the Supreme Court police or a rare type of policemaj gives figures of 75% Puerto Rican, 19% and expression guaranteed by the con­ of the US has given its judgement in the is a friend of the anarchists. We IT Negro and 6% ‘others’; racial tension is stitution does not entitle anybody to ex­ case of the married couple Richard and decided yet but we are waiting fon not regarded as a problem in comparison press ideas hostile to socialism or the Mildred Loving, condemned in the state lopments with great interest. with the endemic violence that has led to well-being of the state’. of Virginia for the offence of miscegena­ Liverpool Anarchk the resignation of 79 teachers, 60% of PAKISTAN tion, marriage between individuals of the staff. After emergency discussions The building or expansion of a modem different races. The nine judges were FREEDOM PRESS with the school board, the United Federa­ city almost always involves wholesale unanimous in declaring that everyone Genoeide Square tion of Teachers stated that its members massacre of the countryside. Things are has right to love and marry whom he PUBLICATIONS would return to their classrooms only if different in Pakistan if a recent official wishes and there is no authority in USA rpwO FURTHER CASES arisinl the total of 14 security guards—nick­ bulletin is to be believed: ‘Islamabad, territory which has the constitutional of the re-naming of Genocide Sqtfl SELECTIONS FROM 'FREEDOM’ named the ‘brat patrol’—were on hand the new capital, will be a city of gardens power to prevent it. were heard on Monday last. Lenny P ay to “protect staff against assaults by pupils, and open spaces, with the emphasis on We are not surprised that they agree was fined £5 for insulting behaviour a y Vol 3 1953: Colonialism on Trial as teachers may not defend themselves beauty and the enjoyment of leisure . . . on this point; but we are surprised that £1 for illegally affixing a poster. He Vel 4 1954: Living on a Volcano by counter-attack. 700,000 trees have already been planted in the last third of the twentieth century bound over in the sum of £50 to belB Vol 5 1^55: The Immoral Moralists An investigation has been promised; . . . an overall harmony between land­ there are still 16 of the 50 states of the good behaviour. In the course of h| Vol 6 1956: Oil and Troubled Waters but only into the situation at the school, scape and architecture is aimed at*. Union which prohibit marriage between evidence P.c. 518C Roth said that P ayfl Vol 7 1957: Year One—Sputnik Era not into the personal degradation and un­ It might be interesting to see just who individuals of different races: Alabama, gave a Nazi salute and made insultfl_ Vol I 1958: Socialism in a Wheelchair heeded squalor which engender such will live in the lovely houses and enjoy Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, obscene remarks about the Americany Vol 9 1959: Print, Press A Public frightening problems and such barbaric their leisure in the delightful gardens of Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Mis­ whereas no Nazi salute was given and nd Vol 10 1960: The Tragedy of Africa ‘solutions’. this marvellous new city. souri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South such remark was made. Vol 11 1961: The People in the Street USSR INDIA Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Tommy Farr was refused permission Vol 12 1962: Pilkington v. Beechiag As a protest against US policy in The Government of India has con­ West Virginia. for an adjournment since the magistrate Vol 13/ 1963: Forces of Law and Order Vietnam, Russia last year cancelled a ducted an enquiry on the financing of John T hurston & j.w.s. said that it was only a minor offence|j Vol 14 1964: Election Years trip by its atheletics team to Los Angeles political campaigns and has found that (Sources: La Revolution proletarienne, nevertheless he was fined £2 with costs.’ Each volume: paper 7/6 cloth 14/6. for a big USA-USSR track and field the CIA (the notorious American Defense de VHomme, Le Monde liber- He wished to call Jim Radford as a The paper edition of the Sdectiooi is competition. 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Jrd Wednesday of each month at Jack Robinson address. EAST LONDON FEDERATION SWEDEN. Stockholm Anarchist Federatit The Expanding Environment •nd Mary Canjpa's. 2l Rumhold Road. S.W.6 IPSWICH ANARCHISTS. Contact Neil Dean, 74 Contact Nadir. Box 19104, Stockholm 19. Swetlfil (off Kina's Road), 8 p.m. Cemetery Road, Ipswich, Suffolk. CANADA: Winnipeg. Anybody interested (illustrated) boards 8/6 3rd Friday of each month at 8 p.m. at Donald KILBURN, LONDON. Contact Andrew Dewar, WEST HAM ANARCHISTS. Contact Stephen Higgs. 8 Westbury Rood. Forest Gate. E.7. Direct action/anarchy contact G. J. Nasir. GEORGE BARRETT and Irene Roourn's, now at 13 Savernake Road, 16 Kilburn House. Malvern Place, London, Matheson Avenue. Winnipeg, 17. Manitoba. I ondon. N W 3. N.W.6. Meetings 8 p.m. every Tuesday. LIBERTARIAN TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION. The Pirst Person (Selections) 2/6 Meetings—discussions—activities. Contact Peter BELGIUM: LIEGE. Provos, c/o Jacques Charlfi LEE, LONDON, S.E.12. Anarchist-Radical 11 Avenue de la Laiterie. Sclessini-Liece. Beleiiu MICHAEL BAKUNIN Oroup. Contact ‘Paul’, c/o Lewisham Group Ford. 82 North Road, Highgate, N.6. (Tel.: REGIONAL FEDERATIONS (above). MOU 5702.) EAST AFRICA. George Matthews would like: Marxism, Freedom and the State make contact. Secondary school teacher fq AND GROUPS UK. PO Box 90. Kakamega. Kenya. (•4.) H L Kenafick (paper) 7/6 Nr. Scvenoaks, Kent. Fverv six weeks at Ore USA: NORTH-EASTERN MINNESOTA. Confl ways. Knockholt. Phone: Knockholt 23*" Br SOUTH WALES James W. Cain. 323 Fourth Street. Qoqt MARHE-LOU1SE BERNERI ALTRINCHAM ANARCHIST YOUTH GROUP. and Maureen Richardson. Oct In touch with Stephen Richards, 25 North Minn. 55720. USA Neither East nor West (Selected PLYMOUTH ANARCHIST FEDERATION. C ANARCHIST FEDERATION GROUP-(T)REASON. Australian Anarchist. Vale Road. Tlmperley. Cheshire. tact J. Hill, 79 Underline, Plymstock, Plymou Writings) (paper) 6/- ABERDEEN GROUP. Correspondence to Melbourne University Union or A.R. 3 Devon. CARDIFF ANARCHIST GROUP. SWANSEA Peters, c /o same. this summer, it was simply a fight be­ T he greek government explained chat Don't Mourn—Organise! OUT OF THIS WOULD tween men who had no clear tactical or the reason why The Suppliants and The strategic purpose on either side. . - . Phoenician Women by Euripides; A fax T he long hot summer of discontent by Sophocles; Prometheus Bound by 'DOTH JIM RADFORD and Nicolas to the Peasants’ Revolt He hoped that continued despite attempts of hippies to J im radford , now jailed for the Brighton Aeschylus and three comedies by Aristo­ Walter emphasised, during the even­ at the Labour Party conference at Scar­ play it cool. Negro riots, continued in demonstration, has suggested a movement phanes have been suppressed from this ing meeting in Brighton on the eve of borough, even if there were no similar America, Charles Humana suggested (in summer’s festival programme was not demonstrations, Harold Wilson would round a pledge ‘I affirm that I will never commencing their two-month sentence the Guardian) swimming-pools for Hong- vote or work for the Labour Party as because of the texts, but because the for interrupting the Labour Party church still have to be protected by hundreds cst Kong, Egypt and Israel confronted each background music had been composed policemen—this would show that Harold long as they continue to support the service, that members of the anarchist other in the Suez, reports of cannibalism American military presence in Vietnam’. by Mikis Theodorakis, the communist and peace movement should not waste Wilson was not safe—even amongst his in the Congo were discounted, but MPs youth leader. The Greek Minister of the own people. He suggests mass burnings of Labour time in sympathetic demonstrations on after a long hot night of abortion were Party cards by dissident workers through­ Interior announced that Melina Mercouri, their behalf. Their sentence of two Jim Radford in a forceful speech asked annoyed with their philosopher-king Mr. the actress, would be deprived of hear the meeting to sign a pledge that they out the country and a badge to be worn months was a great nuisance, they do not Crossman for opening his trap too wide. by supporters saying, ‘Labour—No’. A Greek citizenship. ‘The order,’ said the wish to be separated from their families will neither vote or work for the Labour Nigeria continued its war without benefit minister, ‘will be signed soon and it wiU but they would rather that people con­ Party as long as the Party continues to worthy citizen in California has started of newspaper correspondents and General a campaign against the Vietnam war by apply not only to Miss Mercouri but to tinue demonstrations about Vietnam support the Americans in Vietnam. He Westmoreland conned more lives from all those who act anti-nationallyv Miss also spoke out against the sentence of one a petition affirming that the petitioners rather than about Jim Radford and President Johnson to squander in the Mercouri’s property in Greece will be Nicolas Walter. month against Terry Liddle for the will not buy a new car until the Vietnam Vietnam gamble. As if this were not war is discontinued. A third worthy is confiscated. . . . Nevertheless Tony Smythe of the demonstration at Genocide Square and enough the Institute of Phenomenological NCCL promised the meeting that he will condemned the continued imprisonment wearing a black tie and leaving his car Studies commenced its series of lectures lights on for the duration; when asked THE SPANISH minister of the interior see if there is any legal precedent where­ of Stuart Christie. He also issued a ‘The Dialectics of Liberation’ in an at­ by their sentence still could be quashed. statement which is available from Viet­ ‘why* he explains about the Vietnam announced the arrest of twenty-five active tempt ‘to demystify violence’ for which war. . . . members of the Communist Party. Tibor He also thought that the civil liberties nam Action, 5 Clockhouse Road, Becken­ feat they have enlisted the aid of Stokeley aspects of the case ought to be reviewed ham, Kent. He called upon organisations Szamuely in The Spectator describes a Carmichael among others. . . . T housands of unnamed citizens of the and instanced thirteen examples of to consider it and re-issue it. recent account of conditions in Potma, We were also given a long rambling Mid-Western United States and the City a Soviet labour camp, about 200 miles breaches of the law by police and Bench. T here was no mystique about the vio­ of Chicago. Illinois, paid The Times to Tony Smythe was especially concerned talk by William Warby (ex-MP) about south-east of Moscow. It occupies 750 lence in a report from Dong Ha in the explain their support for the war in square miles and Sinyavsky, Daniel and about the growing assumption of power social justice as it appears to a young International Herald Tribune by Richard Vietnam. Jeremy Campbell, the Evening (to an almost ‘political’ extent) by the and an old man. Those that were patient Brooke are among the 100,000 labourers. Harwood commencing, ‘The bodies of Standard's Washington correspondent, re­ The daily ration is twenty ounces of police. enough to wait were provided with vague the dead Marines, antiseptically encased ports a panel s findings that whereas in The first speaker was Dr. B irnstingl evidence of secret treaties signed by Wil­ bread, three bowls of soup and a bowl in green plastic bags, were heaped along 1962 the US had up to 50,000 nuclear of porridge. It is now prohibited to wear who visited North Vietnam last March son and Johnson, by Home and Johnson, the airstrip this morning ready for load­ megatons of weapons compared to 12,000 and told the meeting of the effects of and by Eden and Kennedy. Some re­ ‘non-convict’ clothing and the weight of ing in a cargo plane. A dry-eyed sergeant megatons of the Russians; in 1967 the parcels permitted has been reduced to less t American anti-personnel bombing and of search to check is being done on this. was cursing, grinding his teeth, “They’re US has only 29,000 compared to Russia’s the destruction of towns, schools and Meanwhile the fund for Nicolas and than it was under Stalin, the number al­ killing us off one by one and what’s it 37,000 and in 1971 it is expected that the lowed in the Stalin era was unlimited. . . . hospitals. He showed us a ‘pineapple Jim and their dependants is open. Please getting us? Not a goddam thing. Why Russians will increase to 50,000 megatons bomb’ which contained thousands of send to Jean Smythe at 68 Hewitt Road, D r. trevor weston addressing the Bri­ don’t they wipe out Hanoi or Haiphong leaving the US with 15,000 megatons. tish Medical scientific meeting solemnly pellets which when discharged would London, N.8. or do something? Why do we have to The Pentagon’s reply to this is that it is \ destroy anything round about to the area It must be an ipsane society that sends told the assembled doctors that people fight on their terms?”.’ . . . What had quality that counts. Campbell explains, whose names began with the letters S to Z of a football pitch. men to prison for murder and for pro­ frustrated the sergeant and no doubt the ‘At the root of this thinking is the philo­ I Nicolas Walter summarised the lessons testing against murder. . were twice as likely to get ulcers and generals who sent the Marines into action sophy of Defence Secretary Robert three times more prone to ‘coronaries’. to be learned from the demonstration was the apparent purposelessness of the McNamara who calculated that the US and traced its historical antecedents back M.H. Their life expectancy was on an average fight. It had as far as one could tell, no has ample nuclear security when it can twelve years shorter than the rest of the destroy any enemy who initiates a nuclear territorial objective. Like many of the population. Jon Quixote . bloodiest engagements in South Vietnam attack’. . I .

Laing at the Roundhouse Freo A rt Whose Dear Friends. LETTERS ResponsibilityP fc hi UNIQUE gathering to demystify up to an ‘electric chair’ arrangement. I have a few words to say about the rpHERE HAS BEEN a great outcry of mj; human violence in all its forms andEach volunteer was led to believe that article ‘What Price Free Art’ by ‘Hubert ment of this meretricious attempt to anger and disgust at the harm done pc social Systems from which it ema­the ‘victim’ strapped into the chair was Selby Senior’ in your issue of July 15. to natural life in the sea, and to the nates and to explore new forms of action!a volunteer like himself, and that the I don’t intend to plunge into the murky canonize Artaud as the patron saint of beaches of Cornwall and Brittany by the tis is how the handouts describe a series controls he was to operate would inflict waters swirling around the subject of the hippies. I have no intention of enter­ oil tanker which recently ran onto the lectures, seminars, meetings and hap- electric shocks of up to 400 volts. Each British and American copyright: there ing into correspondence about my rude Seven Stones. But while there have been jnings that are taking place at the time the ‘victim’ made a mistake in his is a good deal to be said for all three remarks in thjs paragraph: I refer the attempts to pin the responsibility on reader to the review Tel Quel, No. 24, fitoundhouse daily until July 22. learning, the volunteer had to administer interested parties (publisher/bookseller/ various persons and organizations, I do KWhen you consider that the word an ‘electric shock’, each time more severe. member of the reading public) and as a Winter 1966, Paris, containing Paule not know if anybody has thought of iviolence’ is used here in its widest sense, The ‘victims’ had been trained to simu­ modest member of the fourth estate Th6venin’s article ‘L’imb6cillisation par condemning the true instigator, an im­ §> include coercion of every kind, physi­ late the appropriate degree of agony (writer) I have my own reasons for be­ la Beat Generation’ (any university re­ personal one if you wish, but cluttered ference library or the Institut Fran9ais ol and mental, and that ‘demystification’, according to the voltage shown on the ing occasionally exasperated by the fact with vested interests, that is to say, tech­ eans simply seeing through the propa- control panel. that translation rights are frequently in London). Yours fraternally, nological progress tied to more and more 'anda—not believing that ‘our policemen Most of the volunteers began to show held by separate publishers in Britain production and maximum profit. fare wonderful’, ‘it is better to be dead signs of distress as soon as their victims and America for the same work (or Simon Watson T aylor . Tf the Torrey Canyon had been much than Red’, ‘mother knows best’, etc..— registered pain, and they eventually pro­ series of works by the same author) and London, S.JF.IO failure to negotiate a co-publishing 14.7.67 smaller, the damage would have been far it is clear that the basic ideas and aims tested to the experimenters in charge; less and much more easily rectified. How­ [of this congress are very close to those when this happened, they were firmly told arrangement inevitably entails the frustra­ tion of mutual exclusion or the waste­ ever, small tankers, with which oil mag­ ^of anarchism. to carry on. Some nevertheless refused Libraries & Freedomnates made themselves rich in the past, Ronald Laing, who addressed the open­ at an early stage to continue the experi­ fulness of ‘rival’ translations (two of my books have recently appeared in paper­ Dear Editors, no longer satisfy them now they have ing meeting last Saturday, made it quite ment; others dropped out at later stages; found means of constructing giant vessels. § clear what this congress was about: but a fewr sweating profusely and trembl­back in America, and neither of them I noticed with regret the decision of can be imported into this country be­ Glasgow librariesr to cancel their sub­ Japan, which this year has made 47% I namely, revolution. His main theme (see ing in every limb, continued to obey of the world’s tanker tonnage, has already Anarchy 70) was the part played by orders, administering (as they thought) cause in each case a hard-cover English scriptions toF reedom but, being a libra­ edition is still available). rian myself, I am probably more aware built monsters such as the Tokio M aru coercion and mystification both in caus­ electric shocks to an innocent fellow- of 150,000 tons and the Idenitsu Maru ing mental illness and in present attempts human right up to the point clearly But I definitely want to set the record than the majority of your readers as to straight in regard to your pseudonymous the likely reason behind this decision. of 210,000 tons, and expect to make, to ‘cure’ it. marked on the control panel: DAN­ within the next dozen years, some of GEROUS. correspondent’s accusations against John The number of periodicals on the mar­ But he went on to point out that the Calder and the fact that he controls the ket is increasing rapidly and a conserva­ half a million tons! violence found in the home and the I think few anarchists would dispute Industrial greed and megalomania mental hospital is only a part of a vast the relevance to us of this kind of infor­ translation rights for Britain of the work tive estimate of the number available in England alone would run into many know no limits. They are implicit in network of .violence and mystification mation; and if Dr. Laing’s lecture was of Antonin Artaud. John Calder has most certainly not been ‘sitting on these thousands. Librarians are constantly our industrial civilisation which also in­ that pervades every aspect of our lives, characteristic, this congress has a great cludes the state capitalism of the com­ from toilet training to the Vietnam war. deal to offer to anarchist thought. rights for three years’. I can inform your badgered by their clientele to take this or munist countries. It is the mentality He wound up by talking about that chief CONGRESS AND ORGANISATION correspondent that he has been making that periodical but, unfortunately, library according to which the whole earth is cornerstone of the whole mad edifice— After the lecture there was a meeting the most strenuous efforts to find an committees, who are responsible for pro­ just a deposit of raw materials and all obedience. of the 200-odd ‘participants’ (those who adequate translator for this supremely viding public libraries with funds, are nature is for exploitation. Fortunately, He described an experiment conducted have paid the 15 guineas to attend all difficult author since the time he acquired notoriously niggardly when asked for in­ it is now not only poets who are revolt­ in the psychology department of a univer­ the seminars, happenings, etc.), to arrange the British rights. He asked me in June creases. Librarians, therefore, find them­ ing against this type of mind but also sity, in which a number of volunteers the timetable for first few days. The 1965 if I could undertake the translation selves in the unpleasant position of hav­ scientists are joining them in ever greater were asked to take part in a so-called public lectures obviously had to be at a of the entire Works and I declined, with ing to make economies where they can, numbers. It is, in fact, in the Soviet ‘experiment to test the effects of punish­ fixed time and place, but we were told great regret, because of prior commit­ and this usually means cancelling their Union that for over a year now there ment on learn iqg\ The apparatus con­ that seminars would be arranged accord­ ments. I know that he has never stopped subscriptions to the less popular papers. has been a battle against those produc­ sisted of some simple learning material ing to demand. looking for the right person tp tackle Because of this, though, they usually tion fanatics for whom nature has only and a control panel apparently connected Some people had been asked in ad­ this most demanding job. welcome a gift subscription to practically economic aspects. It is a question of vance to conduct seminars on their par­ Your correspondent is equally mis­ any periodical that can get past the preserving from harm, due to the con­ ticular subjects, but anyone was invited informed when he continues: . . there censor, and this being so, it should be struction of paper mills, the flora and to add his own interest to the list of is no sign that [he] will publish an Artaud possible for nearly every group in the fauna of Lake Baikal, 70% of which has proposed topics (which ranged from book even in the near future’. I can in­ country to get a copy ofF reedom regu­ not been found in any other part of the transcendental experience to the Middle form him that John Calder has found larly displayed in their public library. world, nor has any other part the ex-, 8-page East war). an excellent translator who is at present Here is the recommended technique. tremely pure water and natural beauty The evenings would be given over to working on the entire Artaud oeuvre, First, create a demand. This can be of this region. . . . tr.: j.w.s. any artistic activities, happenings, dances and that the first volume of the Collected done quite simply if each member of (Source: Umanita Nova.) FREEDOM or what-not that anyone cared to orga­ Works will be appearing this autumn, the group, within a fairly prolonged nise, and all these arrangements would and the second volume before the end period (say a month, no less), asks the PRESS FUND: be reviewed and, if necessary, altered of this year. I understand that the third library staff if they take F reedom . Don’t next week after three days. Even this was not volume should be out early in the New forget to ask by phone, thus enabling Week 28, July 15, 1967: spontaneous enough for everyone: a Year and the fourth volume next summer. everyone to ask twice . . . at least. Expenses: 28 weeks at £90: £2520 speaker from the floor proposed that I am truly sorry to hear from your Secondly, provide the librarian with Income: Sales and Subs.: £1954 even for the public lectures, the seats correspondent (although he is so abys­ the means to meet the demand by offer­ Order N o w ! should be arranged in a circle: since our mally misinformed that I hope that in ing him F reedom free. Perhaps the DEFICIT: £566 aim was demystification, we should start this instance too he is incorrect) that editors themselves can co-operate in this by demystifying the roles of ‘speaker’ John Calder is no longer opposing the matter by introducing a special subscrip­ Oxford: Anon* 5/-; London, S.WJ5: and ‘audience’. Someone else was anxious sale in this country of the City Lights tion rate for any group or individual who I. P. 5/-; California: C.S. £2/5/6; Selby: that we should not regard the seminars publication called the Artaud Anthology, wishes thus to endow a library? Alter­ H.N. 5/-; Los Angeles: J.E. £4/11/6; Subscription Ratos as being ‘conducted’ by anyone in parti­ since reasons of scholarship and aesthetics natively, any group already receiving Wolverhampton: J.K.W.* ^2/-; J.L.* 3/-; bundles can make a point of providing Wembley: B.C. 5/-; Cheltenham: L.G.W.* FREEDOM only (per year) cular. On the other hand, a chap at the alone would demand that the farther this bungled hotchpotch is kept from our their library with one of the inevitable 10/-; Maidstone: M.D. 4/-; Nottingham: £1 10s. ($4.50) surface mail back kept protesting that the whole thing was too vague and disorganised, and shores the better: the appalling incom­ unsold copies. Naturally the thing would R.G. 10/-; Oxford: T.P. £1; Pittsburg: £2 16s. ($8.00) airmail that we must have a definite timetable. petence of most of the translations is have to be done carefully, and with L.K. 14/-; Wolverhampton: J.K.W.* 2/-; ANARCHY only (per year) The whole situation was neatly summed matched only by the disgraceful editing subtlety, but I think it extremely worth­ J. L.* 3/-; London, S.E.1: J.H. £5/8/-; £1 6s. ($3.50) surface mail up by a distinguished Dane, who quoted which makes a travesty of Artaud’s while to increase the readership of Bristol: B.G. 10/-. £2 7s. ($7.00) airmail an old saying that ‘confusion is sweet thought by juxtaposing texts of abso­ F reedom in any way. TOTAL: £17 3 0 when taken to heart’, and added, ‘I lutely separate intention and by printing I hope people will comment on this Previously Acknowledged: £653 13 9 COMBINED SUBSCRIPTION should like to congratulate the people (through ignorance) false documents. idea, either to criticize, or record success FREEDOM & ANARCHY (per year) who have dared not to organise this Mme. Paule Thevenin, the literary execu­ and failure. 1967 Total To Date: £670 16 9 £2 10s. ($7.50) surface mail both congress.’ tor of the Artaud estate, has already Yours fraternally, £4 15s. ($12.50) airmail both A. M. F earon . published a scathing and justified indict- Manchester 14 Davey Jones . * Denotes Regular Contributor. WE. HAVE long maintained in meat that reorganisation of industry sion will not be made by them. The these columns that in many can be carried out. Certainly the steel workers on the shop floor might ways British capitalism would be reorganisation is needed in the steel be able to put ‘their point of view’ better served by a Labour Govern­ industry. The Labour Party is but that is all. ment than by another Tory one. honouring its election pledge of This is especially true where basic nationalisation of this industry, but REJECT THE SCHEME industries have grown unwieldy and who will benefit from this reorgani­ There is a great danger that not their manufacturing processes are sation? Certainly not the workers only will the idea of workers’ con­ out of date. in the industry. trol of industry be discredited in all Even the Tories, or at least the Many Socialist groupings and this, but that shop floor union ROUND 1 majority, recognise that capitalism workers think that nationalisation is organisation will be emasculated. needs the intervention of the State a step in the right direction. It may Steel workers should reject the whole for often it is only by State invest- have brought certain benefits, such scheme because it does nothing in as higher safety standard in coal the way of altering the power mines, but &11 it has really meant is structure of the industry. It may be a change of boss, and a much bigger a reform* but like many other TO PRINTWORKERS and more powerful one at that. reforms carried olit by the State, it Contact Column However, the nationalisation of steel serves to divert people from real will mean a departure from what is This column exists for mutual aid. revolutionary demands and keeps SCOTTISH printworkers accepted the tish newspaper owners then threatened Donations towards cost of typesetting usually recognised in that the the present system intact. ^ challenge of the Scottish Daily News­ to use 'the big stick* by suggesting that will be welcome. National Steel Corporation have Reforms as such are worth paper Society (SDNS) when they banned thousands of printworkers would get the plans for the ‘involvement’ of shop- striving for, but should be recog­ overtime and worked to rule last week. sack if production was not resumed. I Floor Space Required, Sheffield. For floor steel workers in management. nised for what they are. The The printing union concerned was the Production was interrupted for about three comrades, July 21-23, in or The decision to have steel workers capitalist system has proved very Society of Graphical and Allied Trades four days, after which printworkers re­ around Sheffield. Contact B. P. on the steel boards is no doubt a flexible and is quite clever at adapt­ (SOGAT) which was seeking to secure a turned to work on the understanding Norcott, 116 Lower Cippenham three-year package deal with the em­ that the employers would make an im-j Lane, Slough. result of the pressure exerted by ing itself to pressure. This is not some left-wing Labour MPs and to say that steel workers should ployers. The offer made by the employers proved pay offer. Camping. Weekend camp in bucolic sur­ was 2% for day workers and 2\% for This should be a warning to print! roundings. If anyone is interested in organisations such' as theWeek and reject the scheme and that’s that. night workers and was conditional on the workers in Fleet Street, for when theii a camping holiday in late August in the Voice of the Unions. However, I think it must be recognised and elimination of restrictive practices, and agreement terminates at the end of the* Lyme Regis, please contact B. even the Corporation’s proposals fall accepted that steel workers are not the non-continuation of the cost-of-living year they have no reason to supposes Shuttleworth, 103 City Road, Bristol, a long way short of what these in a strong position to fight the sliding scale arrangements. In other that the NPA will be any more generoiuj 2. organisations had campaigned for. Corporation’s future plans of re­ words the SDNS wanted to draw blood, than their Scottish counterparts. A Experimental Non-Violent Sabotage. At organisation. Many rivalries exist, and they succeeded. It would not be at all surprising ifl Porton. Planning Meeting, Diffet’s WORKERS SELECTED especially between process and The union’s claim was for 5% imme­ within the next few months rumours on Cafe, Market Place, Salisbury, 2.30 The Corporation allows for three diately and a further 5% next July with possible closures of newspapers agaif p.m., Sunday, July 23. craft workers. The Corporation steel workers on each divisional wants to see three unions for all the continuation of the cost-of-living take the air. Cecil King has always V Change of address. Ian and Peggy sliding scale agreement. The previous threatened closure of the Sun up h? Sutherland are now at 8 Esslemont board of the nationalised sectors of steel \yorkers. the industry. These men will not contract expired at the end of 1966, since sleeve even though it has a three ycag Avenue, Aberdeen. There is no doubt that this will that date no agreement has been in opera­ lease of life. Accommodation. One or two comrades be elected by their workmates, but happen, but it is some time off yet. tion, due to the Government’s incomes Rumours of closures are an excelleA offered share of country cottage will be selected by the Corporation But what is essential is that all policy. dampener of militancy, and the question] (West Country) in return for few from names submitted by the TUC. steel Workers, whatever the job, Most of the main Scottish daily news­ posed is a simple one. How long are wr^ hours work weekly. Own transport Numbering only three on a board of organise themselves at rank and file papers were affected by the dispute, ex­ as printworkers, to be blackmailer essential. Box. 12, they will only be a minority. If level to fight the sackings in the re­ cept the traditional enemy of Scottish Answer that question, we then can Libertarian Teachers’ Association Bul­ they are shop stewards, they will organisation plans. If steel capacity printworkers, D. C. Thomson, which con­ down to the fundamental questions ofL letin No. 3 now on sale from have to give up this position if they is to be cut or new methods need less tinued to print the Dundee Courier. not only increased benefits from the in* bookshops and by post (2/- p.o.) want to go on the board. As such, men, then the only answer is a English national newspapers were pre­ dustry but holding on to present condij from P. Ford, 82 North Road, they will act in a personal capacity vented from sending their Scottish edi­ tions. Highgate, London, N.6. shorter working week. This will be tions across the Border. SOGAT warned The Sunday Citizen was murdered b jl Holiday Camp. There’s a few vacancies and will not be subject to recall by control, because this is a decision the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association managerial incompetence, it said nothing left. Come and join us in Kent, the people they are supposed to acted upon by the collective power that any such action could endanger their and ended up being, nothing. The print! either or both of first two weeks in represent. of workers. While the Corporation other editions, and the dispute could unions administered blood transfusions,' September, it’s only £9 full board, The only concession the TUC holds control, participation by spread south. but the blood was poured down the drain.* less for children. I’ve organised gained from the Corporation was workers on these boards will lead to The employers referred the matter to Print unions have been blood donors for1 speakers, films and poetry readings that the men would sit on the disillusionment, while strong shop the Ministry of Labour who claimed to other papers, but there must be a limit i so far. Information: B. McDonald, Regional Group Board that repre­ floor organisation can not only con­be ‘considering the matter’, but only in to the amount of blood available. 80 Marten Road, E.17. sents the area in which they work, terms of the incomes policy. The Scot- Bill Christopher . Holiday for Children. Weekend holiday strain the Corporation’s plans, but offered . for children in Kent. at least they are only part-time and also make demands which give steel Deprived or hard-up, gardenless so will not be completely cut off workers far more control than any children welcome. Small contribu­ from the shop floor. Even the scheme of ‘workers directors’ can. tion 8a Montacute Gardens, Tun­ Guardian has called the scheme a A challenge to the management’s bridge Wells. ‘sham’. Under this system the so-called ‘right to hire and fire’ Flats and Houses Cleaned. Simple re- MUCH ADO Corporation will still maintain con­ would be a good start. The real decoration and gardening jobs trol and the so-called workers’ repre­ extent of control over the job wanted. A. W. Uloth, 75 Templars sentatives will soon be absorbed in depends on the solidarity and Avenue, London, N.W .ll. the routine of management. At best strength of the men on the shop Come Home All is Forgiven. Wanted their good intentions, to represent news of whereabouts of Lewisham floor. ABOUT NOTHING Anarchist banner arrested in Geno­ workers’ interests, will be frustrated P.T. at every turn. cide Square. News to Lewisham HPHE T&GWU at their annual con- T&GWU is a breach of Parliamentary Group. These ‘workers directors’ will be ference claimed the right to discipline privilege. The rules of the GAME must Accommodation—London. Any kind of involved with decisions affecting the their sponsored MPs. The union is on be observed at all times, otherwise the accommodation wanted from Aug./ reorganising of industry, so they Parliamentary sham would be exposed Sept./Oct. for anarchist-inclined Vouxhall record as being opposed to the Govern­ could be held responsible for the ment’s Prices and Incomes policy which for all to see. student (male). No petty restrictions. redundancies that will be brought Jack Jones, Assistant Executive Secre­ Apply Paul Kiddesy, 1 West Hill is more than can be said for the majority about during this reorganisation. of its 26 sponsored MPs. One of the tary of the T&GWU, called for workers Way, Tottcridge, London, N.20. participation in industry based not on Wanted. Financial help to establish According to one investigation, steel Tty it on conference delegates put the position capacity will be cut by 25% in the very clearly when he said, ‘You cannot ‘tea parties’ but on trade unionists backed anarchist press (or printing facilities) by powerful organisations. His idea is in Far East. Box 62. next ten years, which would mean rpH E HIGH-HANDED attitude of expect us to buy dog licences for dogs that trade unionists should have a say Dialectics of Liberation. July 15-28. sacking about a third of the present Vauxhall’s management forced a that bite us.’ f and report back to the members, thus Roundhouse, Chalk Farm. Laing, labour force. stoppage at their Lufon plant last week. A new Parliamentary panel of pro­ involving the whole of the membership. Bateson, Carmichael, Marcuse, It is important that this scheme be The company issued leaflets on the new spective candidates is to be made up Goodman, Ginsberg, etc. 10/- per wages proposals. The union officials before the next General Election. Can­ The delegate from Walsall exposed the exposed and pointed out as not begged the management not to take this fallacy of Jones' case when he said, ‘It lecture, 7/6 students. Further details: being what anarchists mean by didates are to be asked if they broadly The Roundhouse. action as nothing had been negotiated— support union policy. Obviously the is impossible to sit on two sides of the workers’ control. It was dreamed up they were purely management proposals. answer can always be truthfully ‘yes’ at fence. It is still a problem of us and Sommer School. Committee of 100. by Ron Smith, Ex-General Secretary Aylesmore Farm, Shipston-on-Stour, The idea was to by-pass both union that stage but when elected, the MP is them.’ Warwicks. July 29-August 9. Details of the Union of Postal Workers, and officials and the shop stewards. The sug­ responsible to his parliamentary party. The Walsall delegate was probably gested wage increases had strings attached from John and April Majoram, 47 even the Director, the journal of Whilst it is true that there appears to be thought to be old-fashioned, by the ‘we with regards to productivity, shift work, St. Alban’s Road, Leicester. the Institute of Directors, which is rebels in abundance at the moment, it must work together school’, but funda­ women employees and transfers from one Broadmoor patient soon to be released all in favour of the scheme, has must be obvious to all that the Govern­ mentally they know he is right; it’s just part of the factory to the other. needs job. Replies to A.R. Reading said, ‘More important, they (the ment can tolerate such a situation with easier their way, and the risks are not so Vauxhall car workers reacted to the their present majority and, besides, it great. Ask the boys who have ratted Group. Government) want the unions to proposals as forecast by union officials presents a show of democracy. and now sit on the nationalised boards. Former Junkie. Wants job and accom­ share the responsibility for some of —there was a stoppage of work. A re­ modation in London. Box 54. Cousins knows the score when during B.C. the expected unpopular decision.’ luctant return to work has been accepted the debate he said, ‘Before the 1964 and Accommodation. Anarchist seeks accom­ The Minister of Power, Mr. by the workers, with counter-proposals modation in Camden Town or 1966 elections the union had questioned Marsh, has said this about the being submitted to the management. the candidates. Some replies convinced Islington. Box 50. A few months ago Vauxhall manage­ WE GO TO PRESS ON MONDAY. Musicians. Required for a South-East scheme, ‘Management clearly has to us they were a bit ahead of Lenin, but have the right to hire and fire. ment tried the 'big stick’ with their Parliament would tame them down to be London Anarchist Social on Septem­ draughtsmen, but were forced to fall in LATEST DATE FOR RECEIPT OF ber 23. Enquiries and quotes to They will have the right to make nice Social Democrats.’ decisions, but the people involved line. Vauxhall’s new group of American We always knew that the House of MSS., LETTERS, MEETING NOTICES Lewisham Anarchists address. executives think they are still in the land Blues. Piano player wishes to join/form also have the right to express their Commons and th<£ other place was full of the Pinkerton men. The car workers of actors, it’s nice to have confirmation IS THE MONDAY IN EACH WEEK R & B group. Please phone Eddie, point of view.’ This is it in a nut­ will have to cut them down to size or now and again. 722 9188. OF PUBLICATION. shell. It has nothing to do with real their jobs will not be worth a carrot. The Speaker in the Commons is to V vou wish to make contact lef us know. workers’ control, because the deci­ Bill Christopher . be asked whether the suggestion by the *H1 || by hprai Piialni, L—4—, E.I. PaUtaM by Fu ll— f n m . Mt MwNi M , I imm