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T'HE USE OF torture by members of the Special Branch of the Royal Ulster Constabulary on in- ternees belies the statements made by the British Army and the Unionist Government about the 'increased flow of information to INTERNMENT & the security forces'. If such is the case then why has it been necessary for both the Army and the RUC to use these methods to extract in- formation? The documentation of the allegations of torture is backed up by signed statements from those affected. These go into considerable CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE detail about the methods used to disorientate internees. by its populace. treatment of those arrested even be- IRA has deliberately widened the against Stormont. Mr. Heath, with the agreement While the Daily Mirror cries out fore internment, their deliberate use gap between Catholics and Pro- The campaign of civil disobedience of Mr. Wilson for the Labour Party, for a public inquiry, the 'liberal' of rubber bullets at short range and testants. The latter genuinely fear a holds a glimmer of hope, a chance has turned down demands that these Guardian gives comfort and support their abuse of women has made union with the South, which under that once again people can forget allegations should be subject to a to Mr. Heath and the oppressive them as hated as the old 'B' a Provisional regime would be very their religious differences and work public inquiry. They will instead Unionist Government. The com- Specials. authoritarian and right wing. It together against the exploitation, be referred to the existing tribunal parisons with South Africa, Rhodesia The hired assassins of the ruling does not lack for arms or the that is common to all. Stormont's under Sir Edmund Compton. Such and Greece are mistaken ones, says class are there to protect and defend means to get them and its success emergency legislation, enabling hearings in private will only white- the editorial of the latter, and goes the interests of that class and to would mean yet another privileged authorities to deduct payments from wash the Army and the RUC. Sir on to comment that this is 'because enable that 'privileged minority' to minority taking over the reins of supplementary benefits and wages Edmund, a well-paid functionary here the army is trying to protect continue to exploit a divided work- power. The campaign of bombings of those supporting the campaign, of the State, is not going to bite the the whole population, not just a ing class and source of cheap labour. and shootings forces the two com- shows how much it fears this civil hand that feeds him, as was amply privileged minority'. The Faulkner Government says that munities apart, while the Ulster disobedience. Over half a million continued disruptions will damage Defence Regiment is being armed pounds are now outstanding and proved in his role of Ombudsman. DELIBERATE USE OF The State does not want to wash the economy. However it does not with high calibre self-loading rifles, the Government has started evic- its dirty linen in public and like the VIOLENCE attack the companies who have and Protestants are being recruited. tions and prosecutions. Civic ser- American Army in Vietnam and Any Catholic in Ulster would taken advantage of the loans, grants Such a situation will only cause vices have completely broken down the French in Algeria, it will deny, pour scorn on this lie. The welcome and tax concessions, only to move more violence. in some areas and people have the Army first received from the out of Ulster when the period for started their own do-it-yourself make excuses and talk of the SAME INTERESTS 'stresses and provocation suffered by Catholics was shortlived and the these concessions expires, neither administration to remedy this. the Army. Yet the fact remains that mistaken belief held by many, does it attack the discrimination in The moderate Civil Rights cam- Initiative and control is being taken systematic torture has been used by Bernadette Devlin included, that an employment against Catholics, be- paign tried to bring the two religious by ordinary people who have lost the forces of occupation and will army of occupation would help the cause its power is based on the communities together, while the all faith in Stormont and the alter- continue to be used in the future situation soon collapsed about their exploitation of religious differences. People's Democracy attempted to native assembly of opposition MPs. whenever the rule of an oppressive ears. The shootings by the Army, Its hand-outs to the Protestants are dispel the mutual hatreds and fears The campaign of civil disobedi- government or power is challenged the smashing of homes, their rough only marginally better than those to and to bring the workers to the ence illustrates what can be achieved Ciithoiics. While the former have a realisation that their interests are by the people themselves. It can better chance of being less exploited the same, despite the teachings of prevent community violence, draw as a cheap source of labour, all are church and political leaders. The support away from the Provisional oppressed and exploited with low Unionist Government, the Paisley- IRA and bring the Catholics and wages, bad housing, unemployment ites, the Provisional IRA and the Protestants together. Ultimately it and extreme authoritarian laws two churches saw these efforts as a can, through solidarity and brother- which are the envy of the South threat to their power and influence hood, overthrow the whole appara- The Queen's African Government. for the two communities were be- tus of exploitation by the State and The campaign of the Provisional ginning to make a joint effort the employing class. PT.

HPHE DOPPELGANGER activities of -■- the paid Brahmins who control the Uniformed Thugs London Passenger Transport Board con- tinues to amuse and bemuse me, the \FE COURSE THERE is brutality, length, with men of EOKA, FLOSY, hired help of this dying industry. Each 0 thuggery and torture taking place in PLF and more recently the IRA, and new public advertisement, each new ONE-MAN BUSES detention centres and security prisons having lived with, and shared the same public claim, is a sick joke that fails to in Northern Ireland today. Carried out 'European' clubs as ex-officers of the amuse the horny - handed and committed by the sons of the sneaks Palestine, Hong Kong, Aden and Kenya working for this self-destroying social and the warders of the nineteen-twenties. police and military forces, it seems un- service as we wait for our 'redundancy' By the so-called Security Forces in the likely that the men in uniform in notices while the thwarted passengers name of the English Queen. Northern Ireland today are not the brood by the hour for buses that no Has not the same thing happened the successors of those who invented and longer appear to operate. Each public & REDUNDANCY world over where British Imperialists employed the special torture techniques holiday the same tired old advertisement have divided the people in order to rule? like the magneto electric shock applied appears stating that extra buses will be for they are the bureaucratic front men If in this matter I sound parochial it How about Egypt, Kenya, Cyprus and to the genitals, sitting on a bottle whilst on the road to carry London's millions for whom Malthus wrote his manifesto is because I write as one of the rank and Aden to mention but a few? being pressed down at the shoulders, on their round of merrymaking family- and Thomas Hobbes gave authority to file of London's bus service and for too When it comes to facing up to this being made to taste human shit at the wise or beerwise and each public holiday in his Leviathan Tory bible, that the role many long years I and others have spelt sort of thing British people appear blind, end of an officer's boot plus many other sees schedules posted in every garage of the State should be no more than the out the facts and given our detailed gullible and oft-times schizophrenic. inhumanities. with massive cuts in services and offers physical protection of private property account of how a major city's bus ser- They seem unable to believe that their I have witnessed British police officers by the LTB to grant unpaid leave to and that the welfare of the individual, vice should operate. We explained, all own men (and women) can act as all in the Nigerian Police Force take away the surplus and unwanted bus crews of be it poverty or profit, is a matter of those long years ago, that every society men in the world act when they find the driving licence of a Yoruba taxi the day. Posters appear in every garage private practice and conscience. is drifting into a moneyless economy themselves in some kind of uniform and driver, tear up and throw away the stating in the language of the confiden- The Tory Government, with their and that it should be anticipated and carry titles of security forces and special licence and then instruct the driver to tial ingroup that 'we' must try to win usual vulgarity, chose as their new organised not as a managerial paternalist branch security police, etc. report with it the following day. If any back the lost millions of transport users hatchet man for the slaughter of Britain's way of life but as the answer to the old It is difficult for most of them to of them were ever foolish enough to while at the same time plans are made railways the political opportunist Richard socialist dream of from each according accept that the 'good old British Tommy' report to dare ask for a licence renewal a year ahead for garages to be closed, Marsh and this creature, with the mass- to his ability to each according to his can and does become a thug and a bully a couple of hefty Haussa NCOs were services withdrawn and bus routes media smile and the palest of pale pink need and that the foundation of an when thrust into a Northern Ireland- detailed off to take the driver out back slashed on the principle that the less you backgrounds, has walked into the shadow anarchist-socialist society could be laid type situation. The only difference from and beat him into insensibility. have the less you will need. left by Doctor Beeching to join that in- in our own lifetime and one of the first German, French. Polish, Russian and The British really excelled in ferocious It is this workhouse philosophy that is famous company who have crawled into faltering steps could be a moneyless American brutality is that the British brutality in Kenya. Read in 'Sic Per- the basis of all contemporary social ser- the boardrooms across the unmarked public transport system. It simply are so damnably hypocritical about it. secution' (Peter Benenson 1959—British vice administration when the final solu- graves of our revolutionary and evangel- means that one would use the pub- Recently I visited the refugee camp and French atrocities in Algeria and tion is a complete withdrawal of the ising dead. And their task? Destroy. lic transport system without any pay- at Fermoy some seven miles north of the Kenya) of the methods employed in that service. Bus or children's milk must One must surely ask why it is necessary ment of fares and the running costs, as City of Cork. In there are approximately area of operations to extract information both conform to this political dogma. for any political party to choose men with armies, libraries, parks and prisons, four hundred people, mostly Catholic from prisoners. It was not always of the But there is no finality of death for the like this for there must be a sufficiency would come out of the public treasury. families, who have fled Ulster in fear most sophisticated kind. Probably be- London millions for we exist in time as of capable and intelligent men within To many, inside and outside the anar- not only of being hurt or killed in the cause their freedom fighter captives were a permanent social group and we walk, each doomed industry to take full com- chist movement, it was a lunatic fringe urban fighting but also because of their black and therefore thought not worthy yea, even we with the 'free' bus passes, mand and responsibility to make it a joke until the Tory-controlled GLC \ dread of being taken by the Security of the more 'refined treatment'. little comrade, for no bus services means valid factor in the nation's life but each made it a matter of a long and public Forces if caught helping their own Many terrible and gruesome atrocities everyone. Every social service is shaped time a Hill, a Robens, a Sfewcross, a examination and rejected it on political people. are being committed in Ulster. Some of by the party in office and is the product Beeching or a Marsh floats to the sur- grounds. We have explained how towns The British Army and the RUC have them will be quite unimaginable to a of the class for whom it acts and their face like shit on stagnant water. And should be built up as small collective mounted a campaign of terror in the large number of people in Britain and political directives are acted upon by the their actions are our hurt when the units and this was dismissed as another six counties designed, in a frantic they will continue until every single paid bureaucracy in charge. From My miner is forced to leave his ancient 'lunatic fringe' joke until the Drummond . attempt, to frighten Irish men and British soldier and policeman is with- Lord Robens to Archibald Gilchrist of valley, the ship-worker sees his honoured Report arrived at the same conclusion women loyal to the cause of a united drawn to allow the free and unhindered the Clyde shipyards is a roll call of in- yards closed, the small village is isolated with their 'honeycomb' town planning Ireland into betraying anyone engaged unification of the whole of Ireland. dustrial and social murder, and never and you have to walk the long wet but it was now too late for all the vast in the struggle for freedom. at any time have the clerks in office streets in the early morning dark where and mindless working-class estates had Having spoken in the past, and at HARRY TURNBUIX. refused to act out their political brief once a bus service ran. Condmad on page 2

% Centra de Documenta;ao e Apoio a Pesquisa 10 11 unesp Cedap 22 23 24 25 26 27 2S 29 30 31 32 certain contradictions in revolutionary a visiting English professor at an MM politics which tend to be neglected American university and his involvement on washing-dirty-linen-in-public grounds. with political history, student politics, They attack simplistic attitudes and try Black Power, publishing, women, etc. Book Reviews to examine the complexity of the posi- Caute's '' method is sometimes a Political Art tion of the radical academic, the in- little more tiresome (self-conscious) than cipient fascism of some student politics, seems necessary but it is essential to his students involving the take-over of the David Caute: THE DEMONSTRATION novel which illustrate some of the essay's etc. Caute uses a 'dialectic' method of intentions and does not prevent the university. As a partial retreatment (or (£1.40); THE ILLUSION (£2.50); THE conclusions. juxtaposing scenes and ideas, obscuring reader from following the narrative pre-treatment) of themes in the novel, OCCUPATION (£2.00). (All Andre One of the problems facing a com- the border between illusion/imagination which is otherwise straightforwardly its primary importance is as a performed Deutsch.) mitted writer in particular is how to get and reality, jumping around in time, etc., written. play, but there is enough new material his 'message' across clearly without fall- to oblige the reader or the audience to The play The Demonstration (which to make it worth reading in addition to THESE THREE BOOKS are, respec- ing into crude propaganda which, besides think for himself and make his own was recently broadcast on the radio) is the novel. tively, a play, an essay and a novel, usually being bad art, tends to be re- conclusions: there is no simple message basically when performed a physical What I have so far failed to convey and lorm together a trilogy called The jected on sight by the 'unconverted' and (this may explain the refusal of German demonstration of some aspects of the (and it is no footnote) is that both these Confrontation. I have not yet read the to produce a righteous glow or an un- actors to perform The Demonstration as novel. It takes the professor and stu- works (especially the novel) are very essay The Illusion which deals with productive renewal of anger in the 'con- they considered it would offer comfort dents, transposes them to an English funny and very readable—which is not different techniques used by politically verted'. This play and novel probably to a bourgeois audience—which, even if university as a drama professor and his so common in political art. and should committed writers: therefore I shall not aren't going to radicalise anyone, and true, seems no worse than offering com- students, and concerns the performance encourage you, and others, to go out and refer to this, which will anyway have a probably aren't intended to: what they fort to a radical audience). of a political play written by the pro- enjoy them. smaller audience than the play and the do is to examine certain issues and The novel The Occupation centres on fessor and a replacement written by the MICHAEL SKAIFE D'INGERTHORPE.

ness, studiousness and religious identity. Wilson, had said Love thy brother does Their languages, religions and customs not mean the white race, but people of put them in many ways further away all colours'. The North Wolverhampton from white society than does the culture Working Men's Club, by the unanimous of the West Indians. consent of its members, barred coloured Be not Forgetful to Srangers That slavery and exploitation have not people 'under any pretext, either as simply affected the coloured peoples who members, visitors or visiting artists'. BLACK BRITISH WHITE BRITISH, the idea that black people are inferior. informers who report to the 'massa', is suffered but destroyed the humanity of And yet on its walls stood the following by Dilip Hiro (Eyre & Spottiswoode, It is not a matter of simply that 'in modern times "moderate" black the owners and rulers is well portrayed motto: 'Honour All Men. Love the £3.95). savagery around the globe, but eager leaders in America and Britain are in this book. In terms of black liber- Brotherhood. Use Hospitality One To acceptance throughout society of the known to be in the habit of briefing the ation, as with women's liberation to my Another. Be Not Forgetful To Strangers'. DILIP HIRO has produced a useful stereotypes and caricatures of the white authorities on what they have seen mind, it is vital for the libertarian to The author's views that racial pre- and well written book on the ques- coloured people in the world. or heard in the black districts, a service remember that emancipation is in the judice is widespread in Britain, that the tion of race relations in Britain today. The consequences of slavery are not for which they are duly rewarded'.) real self-interests of the exploiter. The official bourgeois race relations industry He claims the aim of the book is 'to forgotten in the years since its legal Today, the concept of black pride is white male will be a happier fellow with is probably doing more harm than good create a better understanding of the control, the whip has borne very deep vital to black people. It is an attempt black and white brothers and sisters— and that 'if past history is any guide, problem by highlighting the historical into the psyches of both black and white. to drum out what centuries of humili- his soul is burdened with the shackles the chances of a future government perspective'. The system of the slave society is well ation drummed into the black con- and the oppression and freedom from yielding to popular pressure, howsoever To do this he divides the book into analysed: 'The total helplessness implicit sciousness. the master/slave relationship is in the generated, and promoting repatriation of three parts, with one section on the West in the slave system made the slave The Asians as a separate cultural interests of all. black immigrants, are high'—these co- Indians, another on the Asians, and a dependent on the master. . . . The cruelty entity are well portrayed by the author. Dilip Hiro depicts the sordid journey incide with my own. third on White Britons. He draws the of slavery bred into the slaves a deep To the libertarian there are aspects of of recent post-war race relations in World society will not tolerate this historical lines together and reminds or hatred and distrust of the white man. Asian culture which are anathema, how- Britain with a healthy realism. Anyone however. Someone's going to wake up reveals the vital need to always bear the But since open expression of dislike or ever it is as well to understand and with doubts about the Labour Party soon and realise the world is not accept- past in mind when looking at the present. disobedience was summarily and bar- appreciate the length of historical con- should read Black British While British. ing the claptrap of racial bigotry any The emphasis is on the fact that black barously punished, the slaves devised tinuity involved in the Asians' heritage. Anyone who believes the working class more. That modern industrial people in Britain from the West Indies subtle means of expressing their feelings. Asians are unlike West Indians in is free from racialism (anyone?) should grew from the enforcement of an in- have three centuries of slavery as a ... In short, they developed repression many ways. They are possibly less un- read Dilip Hiro. human slavery and exploitation is the recent heritage, that Asians suffered a of their feelings and "playing it cool" as like the British—yet the fact of colour As the New Statesman (1.3.68) put it lesson of the past. The message of the similar fate as indentured labourers defence mechanisms against the system undeniably places the Asians and West about the '68 Immigration Act: 'this is future is that the new emancipation trans- rted to be a working force where . . . the white masters dubbed them as Indians against the whites. British legis- the first incontestably racialist law to must destroy the exploitation of they .yere required by their overlords. "devious, shifty and habitual liars", the lation has seen to that. be placed on the statute books' from a capitalism. The most useful reminder is that white traits which are still today, to a certain I think the English reader should find Government whose Prime Minister, Mr. J.W. Britons have therefore a recent heritage extent, associated with negroes by many much of in Dilip Hiro's expla- of being slave owners, inculcated with whites'. (A useful tip, as regards the nation of the Asians' communal cohesive-

; >■ .3.5 comrades? The Dutch Social Democratic class, that men should be carried on Government did it and found that it a payroll at the expense of other men was acceptable to the rank and file and but when labour-saving methods of work minority rank and file spelt out the case for, slice it how you will, it means the they did not close a coal mine until become available they should lead to against them and the old cries of sack and no hope of employment for a new and better place and way of shorter hours of work and a phasing 'commie', 'reds' and 'trouble makers' too many men and women. out of the old methods with the welfare were bruited about by the vested in- William Francis was sixty years of age. employment ABOVE GROUND had One-man Bus been made ready for their mine:?. When of the workman involved as its major terested. Yet everything that we stated He was not an employee of London factor. That the conductor should form is now an established fact. The OMO Transport, just one of their millions of they closed a mine, the miners walked Continued from page I from the mine head into their new a crew of a passenger bus is not only buses do lose money, they are an inferior unremembered passengers. The firm that employment that same week and even in the interest of the community as now been built and all that the planners service and they have been responsible employed William Francis in the 1984 as apprentices those men continued to a whole in the matter of safety and can do is to discuss the 'mistakes'. And for a massive wave of job losses in the jargon of our age made this sixty-year- draw their full adult pay rates. This comfort but his welfare and his job we were always right for we argued London area alone. There are 23,000 old worker 'redundant' after 25 years' is what the Labour Party in government is the pattern of your own treatment, from the standpoint of social service to a weekly-paid bus staff employed by the service. Three days after getting his in this country never learned to do little comrade, when your own future community that can accept the responsi- LTB and this month the LTB stated cards (the sack), William reported to the and this is what social democracy means. is at stake. bility and administration of its own tools that 'the change to all one-man oper- Ponders End Labour Exchange and 'they No one will argue, among the working ARTHUR MOYSE. of living be it schools, housing or ations by the end of the decade will asked him what he was doing, being out transport. mean that there will be 10,000 fewer bus of a job, and told him he was simply be- In 1965, after years of union nego- jobs to be filled'. October 1971 and the ing lazy'. For two weeks William walked tiation, the LTB foisted the One-Man LTB's own statement. If you are a the streets looking for work sick in heart Operated Bus onto the Londoners. Its thirty-year-old man or woman then this and spirit and then in despair PLACED only reason for being produced was to and the 1,000,000 unemployed figure HIMSELF UNDER A LORRY. This reduce the crew-operated wage by pay- offers a grim hope for the future. With is not 1931, little comrades, but 1971, VIOLENCE & ALL THAT ing one man a small portion of another garage after garage closing down it is and his death is the black image for every worker streamlined onto the man's wage to do both jobs. We of the futile to talk of 'alternative employment' Dear Comrades, were tyrannies, waged war upon each streets. The TGW union have always Quite possibly there are liberatory ten- other. An example of progress and failed abysmally in dealing with the dencies in the various nationalist and freedom? matter of garage closures, route-slashings separatist movements all over the world, I am not sure about economic causes and the operation of one-man buses. We but to me they seem to be mainly being the origin of war. They are part stated all those long years ago that a Secretary: authoritarian. They aim to set up new of the picture, but I don't think that one moneyless transport system was a work- Peter Le Mare, 5 Hannafore Road, governments, although these are local can explain things so simply. The same able system and that as it operated from Rotton Park, Birmingham 16 governments. They are based on 'national applies to religion. Religions vary stop to stop a conductor or guard was identity', which is something of a myth enormously. Peasant cultures are much a necessary factor in the public interest anyway. The horrors of Biafra and the same in their economic structure and that if the fare-collecting system Bangla Desh should not blind us to the all the world over, but they have thrown ANARCHIST was to be retained then a conductor fact that these countries are as much up the most amazing varieties of religious FEDERATION working within the huge buses was the belief.* What possible economic basis only way that it could be made com- can there be for the Parsees' belief of BRITAIN mercially viable for the loss of fares that bodies must be neither buried nor and the time spent at each bus stop LETTER burned, as this would pollute the elements defeats not only the transport manage- of earth and fire, but that they must be Address all letters to AFBDJ at above address. U. of E.A., Witberforce Road, Norwich, Norfolk. ment interest but, more important, the artificial creations as Nigeria and Paki- The Contact Column in 'Freedom' is available NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. Jim Hewson, 43 Henry exposed on 'towers of silence' to be for urgent information. Please inform AFBIB Road, West Bridgeford, Nottingham. community interest for to double the stan. All nations are the artificial of new or changed addresses of groups and CAMBRIDGESHIRE, c/o AFBIB Birmingham. length of time spent on a journey to save creations of ambitious politicians, and federations. New enquirers should write direct to SURREY. Lib. Grp., 81 Mytchett Road, Myt- *Practiqally all modern religions, how- the Regional addresses listed below or AFBIB chett, Camberley, Surrey. one man's wage is a poor return to a of the masses who misguidedly believe office in Birmingham. YORKSHIRE. Trevor Bavage, Flat 3, 35 Rich- community who merely wish to be trans- that their interests are the same as those ever urbanised they have become, mond Road, Leeds 6. SCOTTISH FED. Secretary: Mike Malet, 1 Lynn- ported from A to B in the quickest and of the politicians. Latin America was originated in pre-industrial, peasant so- wood Place, Maryfield, Dundee. most comfortable w&y. once all one country, part of the Spanish cieties. Perhaps foodgatherers and urban AFB REGIONAL FEDERATIONS GLASGOW. Jean Macleod, c/o Spalding, 50 Cranworth Street, Glasgow, W.2. But let the worker within any and every empire, a tyranny, but at least there was workers can manage without it. At AND/OR GROUPS WALES, c/o AFBIB Birmingham. industry due for the political chop be peace. When the empire broke up the least they lack the impulse to create N. IRELAND, c/o Freedom Press. There are now anarchist groups in almost every various independent republics, whicb also new religions. Continued on page 4 part of Britain. To find your nearest group, write STUDENT FEDERATION, c/o R. Atkins. Van- honest in his claim to survive. The to:— brugh College, Heslington, York. worker's claim to a job may be a matter N.E. ENGLAND. M. Renick, 122 Mowbray LIB. TEACH. ASSN. Peter Ford, 36 Devonshire Street, Heaton, Newcastle on Tyne. Road, N.W.7. of fear for his physical survival and, MANCHESTER ANARCHIST/SYND. S. Newton, PLYMOUTH. John Northy, 16 Adelaide Street, with the Prime Minister, we do not 406 Lightbowne Road, Moston, Manchester, 10. Stonehouse, Plymouth. CROYDON LIBERTARIANS. 682 Mitcham Road, OXFORD. Jeremy Brent, la Woodstock Road, make the point that jobs should be Croydon, Surrey, CR0 3AB. Oxford. created and maintained as an end in ESSEX & EAST HERTS. Peter Newell, 'Aegean', SHEFFIELD. Tikka, 4 Havelock Square, Shef- Spring Lane, Eight Ash Green, Colchester, Essex. field 10. themselves. No one, least of all a DORSET. Bob Fry, 30 Douglas Close, Upton, MANCHESTER. Jenny Honeyford, 33 Clyde coal miner, would wish a man to spend Road West Didsbury, Manchester 20. 40,000 say no to Fascism! Poole, Dorset. CORNWALL. Arthur Jacobs, 13 Ledrah Road, EIRE FEDERATION, c/o 20 College Lane, the rest of his working life in the depths St. Austell, Cornwall, or Hazel McGee, Hillcrest Dublin, Eire. of the earth digging for coal simply MILAN IS NOT the ' of the who were distributing literature in Piazza Farm, Hicks Mill, Bissoe, Truro, Cornwall. ABERYSTWYTH. Keith Fletcher, Rhyd Fach, protest of the silent majority' as Cinque Giornati was a serious provo- HERTS. Val Funnel, 10 Fry Road, Chells, Tal-y-bont, near Aberystwyth, Cards. because that had been the only regional Stevenage, Herts. way of earning a living when cleaner, Almirante affirms, and yesterday this was cation, and Almirante's invitation on / DURHAM. Mike Mogie, 6 Nevilles Terrace, clearly proved. Only 5,000 'sympathisers' behalf of the of MSI Durham City. ABROAD easier ways for creating fuel power were NORTHANTS. Terry Phillips, 70 Blenheim Walk, BELGIUM. Groupe du journal Le Libertaire, 220 available. attended the fascist meeting, and many had the air of a challenge. Besides ANPI Corby, Northants. rue Vivegnis, Liege. What we do argue, nay state, is that of those came from far away, chiefly two other anti-fascist demonstrations LEICESTERSHIRE. The Black Flag Bookshop, RADICAL LIBERTARIAN ALLIANCE, c/o were staged—Unione Studentesco and 1 Wilne Street, Leicester. LABS, 2487 GPO, New York, N.Y., 10001. no man should be displaced from his Rome. The anti-fascist demonstration, SOMERSET. Roy Emery, 3 Abbey Street, Bath. AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ANARCHISTS. region and social group without his organised by ANPI (National Associa- groups of the left. The exceptional KENT. Brian Richardson (phone Knockholt 2716). P.O. Box 9885, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55440, number of 6,000 police armed with guns HANTS. Ken Bowbrick, 26 Hambledon House, USA. consent and that a workman should tion of Italian Partisans) on the other Landport, Portsmouth, Hants. hand mobilised almost 40,000 people. and clubs guarded the fascists. There BERKSHIRE, c/o New Union Building, White stay on the payroll of his parent Knights Park, Reading, Berks. place of employment until fresh employ- A day of rioting was feared. The were only two incidents. SUSSEX. Nick Heath, Flat 3, 26 Clifton Road, Please notify us if entries in attack of three days ago by a fascist Translated from Stampa Sera Brighton, Sussex. ment for him has been created for EAST ANGLIA. John Sullivan, Students Union, these columns need amending. him. Lunatic-fringe stuff again, little squadron against four trade unionists by Stuart Maxwell.

% Centra de Documentatio e Apoio a Pesquisa 2 3 4 5 10 11 unesp Cedap 22 23 24 25 26 27 2S 29 30 31 32 (a) the effects of the impact of the Business Review that 'lying and cheating car upon whatever it hits; and (b) the is institutionally functional, one couldn't impact of the occupant of the car with have the system [American capitalism] the car's interior surface. Nader and operate any other way". the researchers' case is that by accident- One is inclined to think the Harvard YOUR MONEY'S WORTH proof designing the results of accidents Business Review correct but nevertheless could be considerably minimized—to the people like Nader, Consumer Research TT WOULD SEEM that the interest in terests, Ralph Nader, came into public him from the Minister of Transport. occupants of cars that is! (US) and the Consumers' Association ■*■ consumers' rights, stimulated by the prominence with the publication of Un- Nader's retort that he thought the M of T A Mr. Wilson, chairman of General deserve support. activities of Mr. Ralph Nader, is a safe at Any Speed (1965), a critique of was a servant of the people and not of Motors, went down into history by saying JACK ROBINSON. completely new phenomena. Not so. the motor-car. Criticism was directed to the motor trade was well said and well 'What's good for General Motors is Where does the following quote come a great extent to General Motors Corvair deserved. good for the United States'. Mr. Peyton, the Minister of Transport, in his reaction from? model and Nader's criticisms were suffi- On the car in general Nader quotes 'As turnover is the chief aim of the ciently damning to get the car withdrawn an engineer's saying: 'Every car is a to Nader's criticism of British cars for their lack of safety features, seemed to advertiser, a tremendous temptation is from the market. General Motors were compromise with economic and stylistic take up a similar stand. Nader described always present to adulterate goods, limit unwise enough in retaliation to harass factors.' Nader criticizes this as a mean- bolts this in an interview with Adam Raphael their service, ability, shorten their life, Nader by putting spies on to follow ingless statement, even if true and adds: in the Guardian as a 'kind of dignified and bring the purchaser back the sooner him. He brought suit and was awarded 'Who authorizes what compromises of idiocy' and suggested that Mr. Peyton for another sale.' It comes from a book $270,000 damages for 'invasion of pri- engineering safety?' should resign immediately. called Your Money's Worth by Stuart vacy'. At a shareholders' meeting of General [alarals [slats fa [sraSlslsIalaBtslsraSIa The impression is often given that Chase and F. T. Schlink in 1927 (sub- At the moment the motor show is Motors it was said by the management the motor-car trade is a sacred cow titled 'A Study in the Waste of the going on in London, so it is Nader's that it would have been too difficult to and the decision of the Ministry of Consumer's Dollar'). This preceded the contribution in the field of motor-safety recall the Corvairs in order that life- Any book not in stock, but in Transport to omit publication of holiday setting-up of Consumers' Research in which is chiefly prominent but he has saving stabilizing components could be print can be promptly supplied. accident figures and the institution of the United States and was followed by had notable victories in other fields— installed. It was calculated by Nader Book Tokens accepted.' motor tests on the basis of age smack many other books such as 100,000,000 air-pollution, the quality of food, pesti- that on an estimate of 750,000 cars more of a concern for the motor trade Please add postage & cash with Guinea Pigs (1933), Counterfeit and Skin cides, the medical profession, and the having survived for recall it would cost rather than a concern for public safety. order helps. • Deep. treatment of old people in nursing homes $25 million—equal to under half-a-day's That thirty years later we should still to name only a few. gross sales and less than five days' net The newspapers too, in the interest Homage to Catalonia have to agitate and ferret out the truth Voluminous reports have been issued profits (after taxes). This was not done, of their advertising income, are not George Orwell £0.30 (2ip) about the products we consume might by Nader on the motor-car. Recent despite the fact that General Motors above falsifying the implications of Anarchism Daniel Guerin £1.10 (lOp) give one to quote the cynical proverb, reports have been issued on (among knew of the fault in design having had Nader's research. A collection of Post-Scarcity Anarchism 'The dogs bark but the caravan passes others) the Volvo, the Volkswagen Beetle; a report of the instability of the Corvair news-cuttings about Nader's reports Murray Bookchin £1.50 (15p) on'. and Nader's criticism of British cars from the head of research and develop- on motor-car defects is an interest- Bamn: Outlaw Manifestos The latest watch-dog of consumer in- called down a strong criticism upon ment of the Chevrolet division of General ing sidelight. The New York Herald- and Ephemera Motors. Tribune (3.9.71) reports Nader as critic- Stansill & Mairowitz £0.75 (lOp) It is revealed by Nader that the ising the Chevrolet and General Motors Prison memoirs of an anarchist American postal authorities had a prob- (which manufactures the Chevrolet), the Alexander Berkman £1.50 (lOp) lem of children standing close by postal Sunday Times (12.9.71) and the Guardian Floodgates of anarchy vehicles and being 'invisible' in the (13.9.71) mentions Nader's criticism of Stuart Christie standard driving mirror to the van driver the Volkswagen, and the Evening Stan- & Albert Meltzer £1.05 (7ip) when starting off—consequently children dard (6.9.71) mentions fys criticism of Political philosophy of were occasionally injured and killed. A the Volvo. All of these were presumably Bakunin E. P. Maximolf £1.50 (lOp) Converts postal worker solved the problem on his referring to the same group of reports The Paris commune and the van by using a saucepan lid which gave the but all of them picked out different cars idea of the state driver a full view of the entire front of and not one picked out an English . (Published CIRA) £0.15 (2|p) his vehicle down to bumper-level. No car which no doubt gained a mention. 'What is property? mirror of this type was marketed since The New York Herald-Tribune may be Pierre Joseph Proudhon £2.10 (lOp) it could not be patented. thought to be lacking in patriotism but Libertarian Analyses £0.50 (2|p) The whole field of research into motor the issue seen was published in Paris. Subscriptions invited for this magazine or Hypocrites ? accidents was in danger of being aban- Patriotism begins at the advertising cash (Quarterly) £2.10 p.a. to Freedom Press, doned for lack of financial support when till. (Back issues available) Comrades, of direct democracy', but, really, what the Army discovered that more soldiers It will be seen from this brief survey Radical America Magazine £0.42£ (5p) I realise that we might be a bit short sort of anarchist is it that can talk thus were being killed and injured in motor of some of Nader's' work on the motor- (Back issues available) of ideas in the British Anarchist move- of working 'towards a system whereby or- accidents that were being killed and car industry that he is a man to be Subscriptions invited for this magazine ment and that it is natural at times dinary people can run the country them- injured in Korea. This was under the reckoned with. Perhaps a closer survey £2.85 p.a. to Freedom Press. to grasp at the weakest of straws in selves'? How naive can you get? And technical guidance of the Armed Forces of his ideas' will reveal some limitations The Anarchist Prince— order to encourage oneself that things anyway, what bloody country? Run it? Epidemiological Board! The main findings of his approach, beliefs and methods. Peter Kropotkin are not quite so bad as they seem. All of us? What do we have in mind of much of the research is that each For example Mr. Nader is a lawyer and George Woodcock But are we really so bankrupt and de- exactly? Suppose a referendum supported motor accident is really two accidents: quoted (with regret) from the Harvard & Ivan Avakumovic £2.00 (15p) moralised that we have to embrace the entry to the Common Market, say—or Enquiry Concerning Political nonsensical demands being made by some rejected it—so what? What about those Justice (abridged) people (who believe that a majority of who disagreed with the result? Surely William Godwin the people who would bother to take part anarchy is not about how to run the (ed. Codeil Carter) £1.60 (15p) agree with them on some particular State but how to abolish it? The Political Theory of issue) for referenda? And .even talk as Anarchism April Carter £1.50 (lOp) though this would be a 'system of direct VICTORY FOR PALACE democracy'. These demands have been B given incredible coverage in FREEDOM LETTERS vivacious sister Princess Margaret has recently culminating in John Lawrence's landed a pay rise from £15,000 to plea for a referendum over the Common Let's face it—we don't have much £35,000 and for family reasons Meg has Market. This coverage contrasts sadly support for anarchist ideas or action need of the extra money for her photo- with the lack of informed news or despite the current trendy academic in- grapher husband Jones Imperial, bending comment about the situation in, say, terest—we won't get (and certainly won't 1VITL1TANT WORKERS have reason the family car in the course of duty, has Northern Ireland, an archetypal State deserve) any more by the dishonest *■"*■ to be proud of the victory of their need of the money for a paint spray job v. the People- situation in which the practice of taking up ideas because they comrades at Buckingham Palace. Despite on the old family bus. We of the mili- State encourages division between sec- seem to have some support (in the the actions of the anti-working class tant working class in our industrial tions of the people in order to maintain Labour Party??). That is the politician's Tory Government and despite the claims battles can only wish Brenda, Phil, Meg power over all of them. way. Converts or Hypocrites? of various industrial employers that they and the rest of the Palace workers a I agree that we have not yet had an thumbs up for they have fought the Fraternally, will not pay the wage increases de- |ress article in FREEDOM calling for a ref- manded by their workers the lads and good fight and they have won. There erendum in Northern Ireland as a 'system ARTH HUMPHREY. the girls working at the Palace have won are still battles to be fought and won at publish a massive wage increase that should be the Palace in the matter of working con- FREEDOM weekly right on all sorts of other things as well. the red light for every militant shop ditions and lodging allowance when And so they would—and that is why I stewards' group in this country. working away from home but we know and distribute A Reply: support the idea. There are those, and we can have that Brenda, with the loyal help of her ANARCHY monthly husband and her sister Meg will sound It is no bad thing to be naive (artless, little sympathy with them, who feel that ARTHUR HUMPHREY wants to disingenuous, frank) on this issue. I a rallying call for all the embattled 84b Whitechapel High Street our Palace comrades have won a wage London El 01-247 9249 ■*"* abolish the State, not run it. I agree think ordinary people (as opposed to award that the rest of us can never hope workers within these islands. Entrance Angel Alley, —but what is the State and how, prac- vested interests and power groups) can to attain but that is for us to test. Are They have fought and won their battle, tically, does one abolish it? and must decide for themselves. That, so let us send fraternal greetings and Whitechapel Art Gallery exit, we to sulk because a band of workers Aldgate East Underground Stn. Can we accept that the State consists to me, is the essence of anarchism. by their own efforts have broken the congratulations to' our fellow workers of all those institutions of coercion Anyone who says that to believe in at the Palace who, by their action, have SPECIMEN COPIES ON Tory percentage figure for wage in- REQUEST designed to take away from the people people is naive but still calls himself an creases when their action should be a placed themselves in the forefront of the the right to manage their own affairs, anarchist, is, in my opinion, a cynic. I flag to urge us on to greater efforts in battle. Long live the workers, long live in order that a small minority can main- hope A.H. is not a cynic. The questions the industrial battle. the proletariat, long live the Palace tain its position of wealth and privilege? he raises are worthy of exhaustive study Elizabeth Windsor has long been soviet for we of the revolutionary work- If so, it follows that the State will be and discussion. I hope he will write known as a tough fighter and negotiator ing class salute you in the name of the revolution. Bookshop abolished only when the people regain further and in more detail, to tell us and for her job as Queen she has upped that right. That is what I mean by . just how he believes we can get from the ante from a miserable £475,000 to Open Afternoons 'people themselves running the country'. this hell of capitalism to the libertarian £990,000. True that this is only a yearly Tuesday to Friday Managing your own affairs in co-oper- society. Unless anarchism is to become wage and not a weekly take-home pay 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. ation with others is not 'running the completely esoteric, it must act, get its but Brenda, as we know her, has set the State'—it is abolishing it. feet wet, make mistakes and learn from pattern for future wage claims on behalf Open Evenings I believe that if people have a right them. Otherwise the field is left clear of her fellow workers. Thursday close at 8.30 p.m. for the authoritarians. Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m to decide questions directly by a referen- Her husband Philip who works alter- JOHN LAWRENCE. • dum, that is a step towards the abolition nate shifts with Brenda takes his pay up of the State. Advocating a referendum from £40,000 to £65,000 while little Anne exposes the basic assumption of all their working daughter pushes her rate authoritarians—namely their conviction VOLINE up from £6,000 to an £11,000. PRESS FUND that ordinary people are incapable of The Unknown Revolution SUBSCRIPTION managing their own affairs. What we have to admire is the fact October 14-20 inc. (Kronstadt 1921 : Ukraine 1918-21) that the Palace workers kept the wage Miami, US: J.L. £6; Boston, US: MJ.P. By 'education', propaganda and the RATES, 1971 We have had a great many enquiries rates of the old workers in the forefront £7; Saffron Walden: B.W. £100; Toronto, mores of this society, people have come for this title since it went out of print. of their wage battle and Brenda's old Canada: R.D.K. 25p. INLAND to believe that they are not fitted to do We recently made the find of some of mother found her pay packet weighed Total: £113.25 Freedom 12 months £2.50 things for themselves, and that they need the sheets which we have completed down with an extra £25,000 for no longer Income (Voline Sales): £2.00 6 months £1.25 'strong men', 'educated men', to act as and bound (hardcover, rcxine). will this sweet and gentle old lady have Income (Sales and Subs.): £44.21 Anarchy 12 issues £2.25 their 'leaders'. We shall never achieve to eke out a living on £70,000 a year 6 issues £1.13 an anarchist society until the myth of A few pages have damp-stained margins. for with her £95,000 she can live her £159.46 ABROAD (in $ U.S.) leadership is destroyed. I think the This makes a very limited edition, and last years in some small degree of com- Freedom 12 months $6.40 •demand for a referendum helps to do with a view to helping our own finances fort. Even the old Duke of Gloucester Expenditure (1 week): £150.00 6 months $3.20 this, and find it most significant that no and making sure that people who have managed to get his small retainer bashed Deficit bt./fwd.: £746.74 Anarchy 12 issues '$6.00 politician or political group supports been asking for it get first chance, we up from £35,000 to £55,000 and we all 6 issues $3.00 popular referenda. Enoch Powell, for are offering it at the price of £2.00 plus wish the old lad well for he has been a £896.74 AIRMAIL (USA & Canada) example, condemns referenda because, in postage (inland lOp, abroad 15p), ONLY good and loyal worker and an honour Less Income: £159.46 Freedom 12 months $11.00 his own words, once give the people the 5 TO READERS OF TREEDOM to his class. 6 months $5.50 right to decide on this issue of the All profits from these sales will be The working class can feel proud of DEFICIT: £737.28 Anarchy 12 issues $11.00 Common Market and they will want that put into the Press Fund. the fact that Brenda's eurvaceous and 6 issues $6 00

% Centra de Documenta;ao e Apoio a Pesquisa 10 11 unesp Cedap 22 23 24 25 26 27 2S 29 30 31 32 me Mr. Lynch seemed stronger and more countries of their distant forebears. Was forthright than heretofore, but the it not time the Unionists did the same? Opposition are scarifying him. The Ireland had need of them. If they debate continues today. couldn't do this and insisted on being Our students have come out in protest 'British', well, as de Gaulle had said to This Week in Ireland about the raised fees, and the instant those who refused to integrate in Algeria, dismissal for political reasons of two art 'There is the ship back home fcrenenst teachers. yez'. She had to leave then as buses are whites'. long to the IRA. He is a gentle some- I WILL BEGIN by the one good and like time and tide, but some 'kind' per- Yesterday a young man who had never what timid and diffident man) and he On the Saturday before last ur cheering heartening thing. As fast as son sent her down the Northern papers. belonged to any political party, and who should have been arrested under section writer spoke in the border . ..a of the British troops crater the border roads She is surprised to learn she is a vicious had lain bleeding to death on the floor 10 of the Special Powers Act. Monaghan. She thought her speech, so do the farmers from BOTH sides of war-maker. She thinks she will keep out the border bring out their tractors and of a house while the Army refused to We have had the boxes of arms found which dealt with Gandhi's philosophy of let anyone leave their house to phone at Cobh first thought to have come off satyagraha and swadishi, very moderate. of the six counties for a wee while!!! working together in amity fill them in, I could tell you horror story after or make new roads across the fields. for ambulance or doctor, was buried. the Q.E.II, but now there is an air of Truly, she said at the end, was it not horror story, but what is the use? The They call the cratering 'Taylors Folly'. Paisleyite women turned out to spit and mystery about the whole affair. time that the Unionists became Irish? abscess that is Ireland MUST burst some Meanwhile the toll of torture at the jeer at the funeral courtege. One almost The Dail reconvened early yesterday Those of Norman, Danish and Huguenot time soon or the whole limb will have hands of the brutalised British Redcaps believes in diabolic possession. Inci- to discuss the six-county situation, and descent were proud of it but considered to be amputated or the whole 32 counties and the RUC Special Branch rises. Mr. dentally when (after he was dead) an Mr. Lynch has threatened to go to the themselves Irish and did not look to will die of septicemia. Shannon was missing for nine days and Army ambulance took him to an Army UN himself if British troops again cross Normandy or Denmark or France and his whereabouts were only told to his hospital they took his brother too and the border as they continually do. To gave their loyalty to Ireland not the H. wife after the Opposition had made a kept him 24 hours and beat his up and great fuss. She then went to see him in tortured him. Crumlin Gaol. He was still disorientated, The President of Sinn Fein went by and Surgeon Lane who has seen him is invitation to speak at Queen's on the most sinister form of rape. Parents, willing to testify he has been tortured. EEC as did Michael Sweetman, TD, the and husbands in the role of finding a This surgeon served many years with the former being against it, the latter for it. THIS WORLD wife-pacifier while drinking with the boys, British Army in Colonial places, but has Presently a girl student noticed that find in this monstrous intruder an easy but treacherous way to peace. No doubt given back his medals, etc., as a token troops were surrounding Queen's and Appeal Heard positions—a recommendation based on of his disgust with Army tactics in the soldiers had let the air out of Mr. Mac- television may be watched with discern- 4 ID FOR THE Stoke Newington six personal experience) but applicants for ment and discrimination. By a very six counties. Giolla's tyres. When he went out a aid may be excused if they arrived at the Faulkner actually had the utter idiocy plainclothes man manhandled him and ■*■■ got a boost in the Marquis of Granby tiny minority in practice. No intelligent last Sunday (anarchists meet there every conclusion it was. lifelover would instal television in the to say on the BBC last Sunday there had tried to arrest him. This some 200 The sad conclusions of our investi- been no ill-treatment of internees, yet students prevented. They took him back week from 7.30 p.m.—location Cambridge sitting room or whatever room is used Circus) when it was decided to raise gations probably would be that the for social intercourse as the idiot box interested people have compiled dossiers inside and barricaded themselves in and bureaucracy is a terrible enemy of of sworn statements. The Compton rang Mr. Callaghan. He in his turn got funds there on a regular basis. The first would certainly greatly diminish or eli- collection returned six pounds fifty—a society—another monster which man has minate the latter. Inquiry is just whitewashing tripe. Does in touch with Mr. Maudling. Troops found foisted on him in the name of pro- Faulkner really expect any Catholic in- withdrew, but the students thought it good yield for a spontaneous whip-a- round. gress, law and order, efficiency and im- Some evidence ternee to have faith in a man paid £6,000 unwise for Tomas to leave unless they « partiality. So much for pious intentions. a year by S.tormont? Especially as Stor- had a written guarantee of safe conduct Bureaucracy v. Humanity The notorious Police Constable Pulley, to the border. A high-ranking officer mont insists the Inquiry must be held For seven hours on Wednesday another Schoolboy revolt giving evidence in the Mangrove case, in private and the internees who com- had given a verbal one. However about brother and myself—the law required Oakbank Grammar School in York- described this famous restaurant as 'a l0 next morning Tomas slipped out and plain may not call witnesses. Is Heath two sureties—languished in police sta- shire was recently thrown into turmoil haunt for criminals, prostitutes, ponces accompanied by a posse of students got quite blind and mad as well? Ireland tion, magistrate's court and Pentonville —gaining widespread newspaper pub- and the like. Anyone going there is safely across the border at Newry though is so sick that major surgery is necessary Prison in a vain attempt to secure the licity thereby—when the prefects asked likely to be corrupted if not corrupted he was tailed all the way. Paisley is if she is ever to recover. 'The Catholics release of Paul Pawlowski. While the to be relieved of their duties as one of already'. In a letter to The Times some furious, stating it is another give-in to in the six counties are the 'white niggers' indifference and smug self-satisfaction of their number had been punched by months ago Colin Maclnnes. the famous "the IRA (Mr. MacGiolla does not be- and their equivalent Protestants the 'poor clerks in the public service is notorious, fourth formers. No doubt conventional- author, remarked on the wholesome the actual experience of it leads one to thinking people were aghast at this dis- pleasure he derived from frequent visits the conclusion that, at least at work, play of insubordination and indiscipline. there, the open hospitality and atmos- t 'And this may just be heaven' (poems these vermin have entirely lost their Prefects are part of the authoritarian phere of goodwill. Having been there •and collage) by jeff cloves. 32 pp. humanity. Strangely, perhaps, the collar structure of modern schools and, in a number of times myself since then, I Litho prints, card covers. 20p in- and tic clerks of the court seemed to be effect, are serving an apprenticeship in can support the latter's testimony. The cluding postage from 5 Manor Road, more degraded and inhumane than either leadership. Tradition—carefully nurtured evidence of Pulley is obviously based on his antipathy to black people. No doubt St. Albans, Herts. the police or the prison warders. by the Establishment—dictates that this ontact Dave Godin please get in touch with Objectively, we should investigate the is how things should be. Anarchists men of his Powellite mind regard all 'Freedom' and 'Anarchy'. nature of the work and the conditions seek not merely to overthrow such tradi- black people as criminals, etc. Contact Column is Anyone interested in forming an Anar- "(not overlooking the security which tions but to indicate alternative methods for making contact! chist group in Gateshead, Co. Dur- supports the smugness) under which of organisation such as co-operation and A fine body of mei Use is free, but bureaucracy is maintained. Clerical participation in decision-making by all donations towards ham, please contact: B. Stokoe, 1 Violence of every description, corrup- typesetting costs Ely Street, Gateshead. work is almost invariably boring and those affected. The disturbances—often tion and gross privilege have for so long are welcome Eco-Action Group being formed in S.W. causes intense dissatisfaction to those violent and unpleasant—which arise been part and parcel of life in New York London. Contact R. Alexander, Flat engaged in it except for those who from unilateral and dictatorial decision- that it scarcely comes as a surprise to 7, 202 Worple Road. London, SW20 manage to become utter morons and are making will be seen by us as inevitable learn—as discovered by the Knapp 8PN. consequently insensitive to life itself. and while we may not always assent to Commission currently investigating the Nurses, Social Workers and Medical Stu- This dissatisfaction finds a perverted such acts we will always sympathise police—that every plainclothes cop there dents in London area wishing to relief in the superiority which somehow with those who seek justice and a more takes bribes. When I lived in Sydney, form discussion and action group the bureaucrat acquires in his attitude equitable society and try to counsel Australia, it was widely accepted that Help Fold and Despatch 'Freedom', write: Thomas Layden, 37 Grand to the public. As it happened I was them where this can be done to some this was so there also but the smug Thursdays from 2 p.m. Avenue, Muswell Hill, London, N.10. down in the Social Services department effect. bourgeois citizens connived as they con- Proposed Group: Celia & Laurens Otter, the next day where in one room fifty The Idiot Box cluded police corruption was limited to Agitprop Bookshop, 248 Bethnal Green 13 Albert Road, Wellington Telford, applications for aid were attended to by the criminal classes. Which is largely Road, London. E.2. 01-739 1704. Salop. one sour-faced bitch who then referred At the annual meeting of the American the case in New York also. The Knapp Radical Bookshop/Information Edu- Bangla Desh—Operation Omega. Con- each person—average waiting time to Academy of Paediatrics last week it was Commission is now coming to the con- cation Collective. 'Stepney Words tributions needed in cash, help or that stage was an hour and a quarter— disclosed that the young child, on aver- clusion that their police force will have No. 2', 30p. 'Bust Book', 25p. 'The kind. We need nurses, doctors, to another interviewer involving another age, spent 64% of his waking time to be rebuilt from scratch. In the mean- Woman's Movement'. 25p. 'Black mechanics, office workers, sponsors long wait in another queue. The govern- watching television, will have seen 18,000 time we are all being reminded by Skin White Mask*, 40p. Send SAE (individuals or groups), medicines, ment service is not exactly short-staffed people killed on the screen by the time he various politicians all over the world for literature list. vaccine guns, high-protein foods, in- (for any person of easy conscience I is fourteen, will have seen 350,000 com- what a fine body of men the police are. Wols: 'Aphorisms and Pictures' of a flatable boats, generators, outboard would recommend it for short hours, mercials by the end of his secondary As if the New York police were really profound natural anarchist. Copies motors, spare parts. Send details of relatively high income, excellent sick schooling, will have spent 10 years with all that different. 45p, post free (one-third discount on help you can give, or goods you can leave and precious little to do in most the box by the time he has died. A BILL DWYER. 5). ARC, 11 Byron Road, Gilling- offer, or cash to Operation Omega, ham, Kent. 3 Caledonian Road, London, N.l o ' phone London 837 3860 or 485 1103 Carlmobilc Summer 72. A group of repressive atmosphere it is desirable that violent tactic against the employers or or Manchester 881 1788. idiots going to Ireland. If there is VIOLENCE those who rebel or drop out should be the State. Non-violence does not mean Proposed Group—Exeter Area. John and anyone idiotic enough to want to eaten by vultures? I think religion just talking, it can be a form of com- Jill Driver, 21 Dukes Orchard, Brad- Continued from page 2 come and who knows about cart- has more to do with human fantasy pulsion that does not involve physical ninch, Exeter, EX5 4RA. horse and donkey hiring, contact people. If economics is the basis why than economics, though of course the violence. Of course a strike may become Julia Darling, 'Arundale', Burning- Anyone interested in forming a Cam- don't they have the same religion? clergy have never failed to profit from violent, but most strikes are not, and ton Road, Letchworth, Herts. bridge Anarchist Group contact John I am all for people, young or old, the appeal of these fantasies to the many, if not the majority, are successful. Weekend School. Independent Labour Jenkins, 75 York Street, Cambridge. long-haired or short, readers or pro- masses. The Ulster Catholics and Pro- Violence is the trend today, as non- Party at Keir Hardie Hall, Cumber- Croydon Group meets first Tuesday of ducers of Oz, or workers on the Clyde, testants are both poor, working-class violence was ten years ago. At the land Road, Plaistow, E.13, Novem- each month. 7.30 p.m.. at Jacquetta who are for sexual freedom and creative ready to organise themselves efficiently, time I was writing this letter I came ber 6 & 7. Saturday Morning (10.30 Benjamin's, Top Flat, 4 Warminster work. So long as they do not muck up so that they will have a chance of across an interesting article in Peace a.m.-12.45 p.m.)—Terry Liddle: 'Why Road. South Norwood, S.E.25 (near other people's freedom and creativity. Un- surviving in an increasingly harsh and News (8.10.71) by Jean van Lierde, 'The Socialism?'. Saturday Afternoon (2 Norwood Junction Station and 68 fortunately it often happens that people hostile environment. Pacifist's Duty to Violent Revolution- p.m.-5 p.m.) — David Alexander: and 12 buses). Tuesday, November who are accustomed to an authoritarian As far as violence is concerned all I aries'. The author says, T expressed my 'Socialism and the Labour Party'. 2: Bill Millis on 'Towards the In- structure around them behave wildly can say is that I cannot see how anarchists solidarity with the Algerians struggling Sunday Morning—Brian Dean: 'The surrectionary Intellectual — First when they have succeeded in breaking can expect it to bring about the sort against France, by collecting signatures Industrial Relations Act'. Sunday Phase". free from it, or when it has been of society that they want. Hatred, for the Manifesto of the 121, providing Afternoon—'The Social Service Cuts Wanted: second-hand pottery wheel and/or removed. It's probably inevitable and cruelty and destruction can surely only identification papers for men in hiding, and How to Fight Them'. Admission: kiln. Please contact: Terri, 36 Lati- cannot be helped. However I don't think bring about more of the same. These buying cars to aid the escape of Algerians 2 days—25p; One day—15p. mer Road, Headington. Oxford, or one should say, 'Oh well, they'll get over things are inseparable from violence and on the run from the French or Belgian Brian Shuttleworth. Please get in touch ring Oxford 62955. it.' And leave it at that. One should warfare. Bakunin, Malatesta . . . well police, and in similar ways. It was with Liverpool Friends. Politics of Psychology Conference, point out that even the smallest organi- they were men of the nineteenth century, well understood when I agreed to or- Proposed Group in Oldham. Contact November 26-27, London School of sation can only be run if those involved when wars in Europe were relatively ganise the clandestine network with my Bob Lees, 6 Coniston Avenue, Wer- Economics. Of interest to Menta! act responsibly and consider the interests brief and small-scale affairs. The twen- friend Francis Jeanson, that I was a neth, Oldham, Lanes. Nurses and 'Patients', School Kids of others as well as their own. Particu- tieth century is an odd period. Along conscientious objector, and that we were American Readers: The following talks and Teachers, Student Psychologists. larly in the present authoritarian and with the increase in social welfare and bound from the beginning by a moral have been organised by Libertarian Social Workers and everyone in the rising standard of living, and greater contract, namely that the traffic of arms Analysis: 'Education in a Free industry. Articles, ideas and help humanitarianism and permissiveness in or the paying off of scores between Society', Friday, November 5; 'The and SAE to 'Politics of Psychology'. time of peace, has gone an increasing the FLN and the MNA (Algerian New Anarchism', by Sam Dolgoff. c/o Three Mills (Psychology), Abbey remorselessness in time of war. The National Movement) would never be Friday, November 12. All held at Lane, London, E.15. STUART CHRISTIE Russian Revolution and Civil War was linked with our political resistance t« 7 p.m. at 1155 Boardway (south of Leaflets: The Tolpuddle Martyrs, Six a period of extermination and tyranny, the Algerian war.' 27th Street). Further information Men of Dorset. 15p a 100, plus "DILL DWYER has put a note in ending in the Stalinist state. Almost He adds sadly that Algeria is now Box 210, Village Station. New York, postage, from Freedom Press. Old ■ "* FRF.EDOM—unasked—to say would anything would be better than having under the rule of colonels, while the 10014. Leaflet but still relevant. anyone wanting to visit Stuart Christie that again. Modern people seem to go Congo, another country he helped non- Help! Stoke Newington 6 Fund. Com- National Secular Society Lectures. The in Brixton phone you for co-ordination. raving mad as soon as fighting starts, violently, is now a victim of neo- rades now on remand in Brixton and Clarence, Whitehall, London, S.W.I IF ANYONE PHONES PLEASE and pride themselves on their cruelty (as colonialism, and he is again forbidden Holloway need financial aid urgently (Trafalgar Square end). Friday, DON'T ASK THEM TO VISIT HIM. in Algeria, where torture was gleefully to go there. This tends to suggest that for meals, fruit, papers, books November 5, 8 p.m., Avro Man- We have already co-ordinated all practised by both sides). these violent struggles were less effective (which must be new) and cigarettes. hatten: Religious Treason and Plot, visits. If anyone else calls it will mess Most anarchists are kind people who than they were expected to be. Please send donations to the Stoke Past and Present. Friday, November up arrangements from people who may don't believe that they would ever do However this does show that the fact Newington 6 Fund, c/o Compendium 19, 8 p.m.. Richard Handyside: The have come from as far as Scotland or such things, but I think they might be that one believes in non-violence does Books, 240 Camden High Street, Little Red Schoolbook and Related Paris. carried away. not mean one has to stand aside and London, N.W.I, a.s.a.p. Issues. This was well meant by Bill Dwyer Persuasion or threats . . . well when leave people to struggle unhelped. tM »j FiMdoM Pros. Lirin, B.I but very embarrassing. workers strike they are using a non- A.W.U.

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