'MM ntefrtStra feey month the©fon firstSaturday every Freedom Pressat2s. Published Is by ANARCHY oe osento, rpr fo Pat- from report a consternation, some terms were extravagant. We read, with with read, We extravagant. were terms tions for independence with Britain Britain with independence for tions ment. It was claimed that Britain's Britain's that claimed was It Govern­ “his” by ment. initiated be not would negotia­ by that him announced for Government prepared the Throne”, the from a clear betrayal of the African people people African the of betrayal clear a aoiy ue n h ftr, ol be would you." future, by the in rule majority atr htvr urne fr such for guarantee whatever matter this country before majority rule, no no rule, majority for before “independence country that this for Home condition cabling a was rule majority that £eai to tends everyone independence and it led to Mr. Nkomo Nkomo Mr. to led it and independence no put have We country. the rule to provided made be should Rhodesia S. to are here to serious trouble. It is hard hard is It trouble. we serious close to how just here slip­ little. is, are how a situation just the shown relax pery now warily have the to Events independence was for tendency Britain with tinue swing away from an earlier statement statement earlier an definite a from was This away swing that,” on limit time ihu a ocuin en mrl in merely through being headache. a question of form conclusion the whole a the without think to con­ would negotiations when that that announce reported already have I and “that the majority shall be in a position position a in be shall majority the “that Mr. Field returned to this country to to country this to returned Field Mr. on TV that the granting of independence independence of granting the that TV on and future near the in happen to likely dent to take the talk of a unilateral unilateral a of talk the take to dent declaration of independence seriously seriously independence of declaration TpHIS is certainly a country of nervous nervous of country a certainly is TpHIS f aor s ncsay tp to- step necessary a as Labour supporters of potential the passing in want presspoliticians or the of none at all in the political field are that that are field political the in all at anything illustrate that affair the of o e rd f h Biih ay and Navy, British the of rid get to no cmag t so bow show to campaign a into episode the turned speakers election NERVOUS TENSION was.press Tory the hypocritical and distorted and press Labour the people their remarks withdraw these to forced been After had propaganda. electioneering in use for Commons, of House the the of membersincluding of members including ticians, poli­ and press Conservative by on ain. t a immediatelyseized was It Nations. WEEKLY-4d. THE ANARCHIST h Biih ay o h United the to Navy British the Wilson, Mr. by rejected strongly allegationwaswhich the toreaction ht e rpsd o gv away” “give to proposed he that Q N E of last week’slast of amusingevents E N Q hn h Gvro i hs “Speech his in Governor the Then Firstly Sir Alec Douglas-Home stated stated Douglas-Home Alec Sir Firstly t ok oe ie o or correspon­ your for lime some took It h ol pit ta cm out come that points only The epe N oe nw wa is what knows one No people. (F n h pltcl ol ws the was world political the in rom

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Keeping.| uL-miUEti-.. Jfr hc te government the prep resents.,which as hr. h Ntoa Lbu Reia- Labour National The mater­ building there. delivering ials for contract district, rs te ikt ie st p y the a by has company up railway set The lines picket strikers.” the (o cross refused 3,500 workers at where work complex, construction the of disruption big bre, nte big blown bridge another burned, bridge a ae end (i Cnvrl space Canaveral) (nie Kennedy Cape on. goes but enough”, "bad as rences f h ol wekcern wgn n the in wagon wreck-clearing only the destruction of the by were followed was this truin, and freight 91-wagon a of out and station | derailed, been have cars “perhaps even worse was the 48 hour hour 48 the was worse even “perhaps lse of h ln it | sra below, stream | into line the off wagons blasted 27 Miami, near Recently, up." smoothly. There have been, according according been, have lo There smoothly. “new strikers", as returned few described a is and employees what reduced by a worked keep to managed has pany against the line. All told, 82 freight freight 82 told, All line. the against u ti srie a nt u very run not has service this been but has This going. service freight com­ the strike, thp joined have unions es o a te a hs akd i up him backed need­ has but law matter, the say this to on less court to him national any of independent agreements o mltrs? . it t the at hint A. militarism? •on negotiations. The unions have taken taken have unions The make to negotiations. right the has he that insisted strike has been compared to the disputes disputes the to the compared been and has unions, the strike by baron” “feudal a n h I2’ ad 30’s.' I920’s and the in called been has Ball- Mr. recom­ Board emergencymendation. an following ula wr fr s r Wilson Mr. as for war, nuclear a a ae wr o 1.8 et which cents 10.28 to of refused award wage Company, a pay the of Chairman e are ot ihu, h rs of risk without, the out carried be other companies' had agreed to grant grant to agreed had companies' other one ot n-n wud s a use mosquito.grenadekillasto would no-one out, pointed rw hi lbu we M. . Ball, E. Mr. when labour with­ unions their The drew dispute. “non­ wage a eleven over to belong who and way h sre o mltr pcs now pacts military of series at the looks one when comes answer operative” unions, have been on strike strike on been have unions, Rail­ operative” Coast East Florida the with men mrc n RailmenAmerican n Africa, followingin the; old-fashion­ newly the“liberated”with countries aor bt t"s eqiially... it "is obvious but favour, states. It seems to us that war and thatwar us seems to It African states. several 'East in mutinies government the by signed being oiy hc 'oe f u rulers our of 'some which policy are ot o ute commercial further to out carried downarmy put to helping British in the army of actions gunboat ed ewe te ntd tts and States United! the War deadlock coldbetween the and invariablyends, are policies military system which makes |bvemment so |bvemment makessystem which economyfand the political for basis Russiangoverments is advantageous h itrss f hluig class thelruling of interests the profitable. a inlproviding them of both to people, but on what will serve whatbest on but people, will question., what a of on never is political among leaders it occurs e n h itrss fte ordinary offthe interests the in be a ah n tie by Marathon Strike Time "operating” the pf members Although l truh h dsue M. al has Ball Mr. dispute, the through All Time o fute mnh nw railway- now, months fourteen For What then, is Labour then,PartyisWhatLabour policy hn dvso*o opinion division* of a When ecie tee n ohr occur­ other and these describes magazine, “200 acts of sabotage sabotage of “200 acts magazine, do with the Navy the dowith 'Liberty for the few is not liberty. liberty. not is few the for 'Liberty iet fr i ad lvr fr you for slavery and nie for Liberty en saey o both.' for slavery means rts cptls ls o hm the capitalistwhomclassBritish for ol pee sm independent some prefer would the among interests are there that gunboats or paratroops.gunboats or action,whetherfieldsthe in trade,of who and strong, too far isalliance g, uba atos ee n of one were actions century gunboat a ago, half over Party Labour gis te usa Revolution Russian the against George Jolly London the of actions fought heroic possible. The if be prevented to and against had im­ capitalist that raw perialism of aspects the s o te igit col a been has school jingoist the of ism imperial­ an that now libel,opposition as anti-militarism of putations im­ regards leader its degraded that so become has socialismso-called anti-gunboatstrike. Nowadayswhen the load to refusing in dockers uba dpoay a bcm a become has diplomacy gunboat countries, their of workersordinary work the share states“liberated” rulers of new ex­ the which of in ploitation forms subtler by replaced an of class the in comes almost rgesv ad pt-ae policy up-to-date and progressive the oppressing of fruits the and ht rgt on pol ae sup- are people young bright that Labour Party into power in ordef ordef inachieved. it seeto power into Party Labour D-QS&cL^lQ^JiEhL-loT^.. the .ou.t .and in Bad tpe i ad tpe the stopped and in stepped Board tions iktn tee ad ok a resumed. was work and there, picketing ey ht t ae es n h papers the in news made such it Ken­ Cape that in at nedy work and construction long vented so last can strike how shows It companies. railway other the in accusations no are these although slto, o i ws o utl t pre­ it until not was it for isolation, of workers condemn from assistance, not any without can one case, the were and service freight the in cuts its with Kennedy. Cape at Gov­ the contract is it ernment case, this in whole and weakest, the taken, is and action settlement strike a of when likelihood nfl been set wasn't line picket this why wonders complexion.worse”. different and them a For on taken eyes, work­ construction the since but viously, this that Now notice the nationally. to public dispute the of this bring to dent H AT-LCIN CAMPAIGN ANTI-ELECTION THE a when organised are workers poorly off, cut been have strikers it These if them. strikers, sabotage" the of by “acts committed these were that reports is Company the where strike to has is point there now until Up’ before. one up Kennedy, Cape serving company their in has, dispute rail- whole the of the waymen, line pre­ picket the respected Department ers not did Labour strike their This worry anxious. become officialshave Government done, been has OE AE EURD FOR REQUIRED ARE AND MONEY ENTHUSIASM ENERGY, To the socialists who built up the socialistsup builtthe who To t per ta i to ti ls inci­ last this took it that appears It ni nw h Cmay a gt by got has Company the now Until ic te ... ala i te only the is railway F.E.C. the Since AULM JONES. 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■ t s etil “even certainly is it ------P.T. H LS INTERVIEW LASTTHE OAD INDUSTRIALTOWARDS UNIONISM from the stockpiles in Europe to to Europe in stockpiles the from foodof transport the overto turned r vn h hrls psie of pastime harmless the even or thehungry countries of Asia, fishing, passenger cruising, the better it will it passengerbetter cruising, the oe y n government. any by done e o u al bt ht il o be not will that but all, us for be The communists who have 45 divisions divisions 45 have who communists The of as as form North raids the into commando blockade, take naval carried could a This be to Vietnam. war the extent for an such to deteriorated has main­ tion spot the on experts who military can guerillas communist the against French against Vietnamese the Firstly that Washington must give permission permission give must Washington that situa­ military and political the that tain Ameri­ north. the from infiltrated, government have Saigon backed war. American civil by racked been has nam Pie South unhappy the ■CORyears 20 ese nearly Vietnam a last resort out and out invasion. invasion. out and out resort last a the recently more and imperialism in the field have extended their control control their extended have field the in h mi sfees n h wr tak to (thanks war the in sufferers main the the callous military technique of both both of technique military callous the fodt ls; hywud oe o much too lose would they lose; to afford at ht 050 urla wr kle in killed were guerillas 20,500 that fact h Nrh s oeot psychological a to foremost war is the North extend to the threat American sick are Communists), and Americans rsie Te ot Venms people, Vietnamese South The prestige. cannot just They simple. is struggle the h fgtn cn e setie fo the from ascertained be can fighting the an extent that the capital Saigon’s food food Saigon’s capital such the to that Vietnam extent South an of areas key of and China into reducing their aid to the the to aid their reducing Russia into China frightening and at aimed manoeuvre enough quickly it end cannot and war of iln o cvlas hud e indirectly be should civilians of killing pro­ thereby and guerillas than civilians cynical, reached Irish now the has during but I.R.A. troubles, the by success an­ planned and napalm use American chemicals, The of horrifying. are sides upis"ae“n ganger—'Fhc1 supplies " “in are e ue hr i smtig eid t all. it behind it something is if there sure proposal be his Gaulle of de out What get to South. hopes and North re-unification of advocating is ago, decade what would happen then is anyone's anyone's is then and happen guess. North China would the attack what and or blockade Russia may if But guerillas. The continue. to it intends America but modem world towards violence and the the and think violence towards to the world oronic in modem felt is repugnance increased It the that material. propa­ ganda ideal more with communists the killing viding inevitably village the napalm bomb with Americans the them com­ instance For depths. horrifying great with used technique a is It easily. atroci-' committing provoke into to Americans is the technique communist A known.well quite is villages of nihilation 1963 alone. i, rne xeld rm ita a Vietnam from expelled Vietnamese the France in pie, fingers their having ignore- the threat then the Americans Americans the then threat the ignore- responsible for the death of civilians. of death the for responsible dislodge to pro- Unable a around village. in American dig guerillas munist fairly done is which something ties, s ae u i nt e cer u w can we but clear yet not is up taken is h soe te rts Nv is Navy British the sooner The —; The American reason for continuing continuing for reason American The The military techniques used by both both by used techniques military The s el s omnss n Americans and communists as well As at sa Rpbi o Suh Viet­ South of Republic Asian East Tiaiigei.

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R.J. Work Passports and Payment by Results Ihe Futility of voting Liberal for all Russians A/fONDAY’S Daily Worker publishes usually seen by the police or other offi­ A RECENT correspondent to F reedom real. Against the 2,000 or whatever it meetings in working class districts than a short report from its Moscow cials. Under the new system, people declared that he would vote Labour was Egyptians killed at the time of they do at gatherings of business men. correspondent on Mr. Krushchev's with bad work records who get involved in the forthcoming General Election Suez due to the Tories remember the All part of the racket called politics. speech to leading Communist Party, with the authorities are likely to be even if he knew in advance that the Malayan peasants, Jews, Arabs and Instead of voting and deluding your­ local council and farm administration dealt with more severely than those with only difference that a Labour Govern­ others killed, all due in part to the self that it matters who wins the good records. workers which he made some nine days And who will fill in the work passports ment made would be one man less 1945 Labour Administration. Between election why not use it as an oppor­ earlier, the text of which had just been hanged. Surely, however, the issue is Labour and Tory there is no difference tunity for propaganda. It is the only of those whose job it is to fill workers released. Among thes things he said passports? Who, incidentally will fill not as simple as that. A Labour Gov­ of principle merely of degree of time that a slight chink appears in the were: ernment would never abolish hanging application and these differences tend to surrounding maSs apathy so it’s best in Mr. K’s? How will the government In building the new Communist soc­ prevent corruption of the “fillers-up”, while 75% of the electorate, egged on cancel each other out. It is impossible to make the ihiost of it. Every five iety, said Mr. Khrushcov^ “along with by the Press, supported it. They would to foretell in advance which of the two years this election circus is held where of private vendettas, of suspicion spread­ the moral factor material incentives are ing among workers? The fact that lose too many votes. A Labour Home main parties will be the lesser of the you can choose whether to have of exceptional significance. evils and there is every likelihood that Lenin proposed such a thing doesn’t Secretary might reprieve more con­ Tweedledee or ^ Tweedledum as your “We must ensure higher pay to those demned men than his Tory opposite they would be equally as bad. Both nominal master for the next five years. make it a good thing but only confirms who work more efficiently produce more what the anarchists have said all along number but there is no guarantee that parties are agreed on war, capitalism, (Nominal because all major decisions with less expenditure of labour and re­ he would. The top strata of both heirarchy, waste, “progress” and per­1 are made by permanent civil servants sources,” he said. “We must oppose about Lenin being the architect of the parties contain some nasty customers manent bamboozlement of the people. and top financiers who don’t stand for egalitarianism and fight for observance counter-revolution, the precursor of but also one or two inclined towards And short of Mosley, Jordan or the Parliament). Display the posters and of the principle of payment according Stalinism and of these latest measures humanity where capital punishment is S.P.G.B. coming to power things will distribute the leaflets that the anti-elec­ to work.” which not even a mild democratic soc­ concerned. bo much the same. tion campaign has produced. Barge in Back in 1952, he recalled, “the work ialist in this country would subscribe to. Even if the Tories hanged ten men But why all this comparing of Labour on the correspondence in your local rag. of most collective farmers was practically more than Labour that would still not and Tory in an article which aims at Spoil your paper if you like but that unpaid.” be a logical reason for voting Labour. pointing out the futility of voting seems a bit childish to me and only the Mr. Khrushchov supported recent pro­ Proposed British If a balance sheet comparing all the Liberal? Because if Labour and Tory vote counter will know what you have posals in the Press for introducing work suffering, unhappiness and death caused written. passports, which would show where a are as near as dammit identical how man was working and where he had Federation of by five years of Tory rule with five can the Liberals who stand between Better still try?to get your own affairs worked. Lenin had proposed such docu­ years of Labour rule were to be drawn them be different? I frankly admit that on to an anarchist footing. An anar­ ments as far back as in .19191 up we would find that the ten men A n a r c h is t s I haven’t read the Liberal Party election chist Society is one in which people take “It is the public’s right to know what hanged by the Tories were offset by ten manifesto and haven’t the slightest in­ responsibility fo| their own lives and it a man does and what money he is living INAUGURAL CONFERENCE at the smallholders or small shopkeepers tention of doing so. But I bet my will happen when enough people want on,” said Mr. Khrushchov. Amolfini Gallery, Triangle West, Bristol driven to despair and suicide by bottom dollar that it is just a re-hash it to happen and are prepared to make ■According to the Observe/s Moscow cor­ 8. 11th & 12th of April, 1964. Sug­ Labour’s pecksniff, bureaucratic legis­ of the better sounding ideas of the the effort. v ? .. Jeff Robinson . respondent gestions for Agenda and Enquiries to lation. A less spectacular death than other two parties. And I also bet that (Next weel%: “The Futility of Bristol Federation of Anarchists, the nine o’clock walk but none the -less At present every citizen has a “work Liberal speakers take different lines at Voting Labour”) book” kept by his employers; it is not 9 Cornwallis Crescent, Bristol 8.

mam BBHMRBS Reports of changes or proposals for and this gets together with . the L.O., and extend it. Within the industrial changes in the structure of the Trade union there are great opportunities for Unions often appear in the newspapers. to reach whatever settlement will suit the national interests; which in turn means creating a national unofficial movement. For years now these have been discus­ Joint shop stewards committees are sions, suggestions and plans for the Towards Industrial Unionism their interests." In this the State plays attempting this at the moment and have, amalgamation of unions relating to its part, bringing strong pressure to bear progress will be made along these lirfes. strength” when conflicts arose with em­ on these two organisations if settlements in some cases set up national links with specific industries. In 1962, at their They are the iron and steel industry, other factories within their industries. annual meeting, the Trades Union Con­ ployers. The present structure of the are not reached. The State also has railways, metal trades, a section,of the unions does not give this, althbugh shop wide powers to -intervene if strike action This is the type of organisation that gress voted in favour of a resolution to should be encouraged in every industry. review the present structure of the cotton textile industry, the Post Office stewards get over this weakness to a threatens the so-called “national inter­ trade union movement. and retail distribution. certain extent^ by forming their own ests”. If this could be achieved, the union Talks on amalgamation and “closer joint committees when workers belong In time, no doubt, all unions here will leaders would be redundant, for the This week the T.U.C.’s “inner Cabi­ to several unions This enables them to control would be in the hands of the net” the Finance and General Purposes working arrangements” are already be organised on an industrial basis. formulate a united policy with which to While I think this is a step in the right members. Committee, has been meeting to discuss taking place in the printing and building industries and a certain amount of agree- confront t-he|| employers. “However, direction, any attempt by the T.U.C.,_ this question of amalgamation of unions - ment—has been—reached. In—the -latter the.se committor are handicapped, for * CH ALLEKGE &F NEW in certain industries. Although the industry, eight of the associated unions they have to Keep a balance between the emment to restrict or legislate against UNIONISM”, .T.U.C. is in favour of amalgamation in national policies of all the unions in­ unofficial strikes, must be resisted by A National Union of Public Employees* principal, it suggests that as this is not comprising the “trowel section” with over 200,000 members, have agreed in volved. Inf cases, they give up the rank and file. The ordinary mem­ Pamphlet, price 6d. possible at the moment, associated unions principle to form one union. The the attempt anif come to an agreement ber must safeguard his own freedom in From: Civic House, Aberdeen Terrace, should have “closer working arrange­ “wood” unions have also had talks and on a policy their own. Sooner or the union and at the same time maintain Blackheath, S.E.3. ments ”, The T.U.C. has listed seven amalgamation is likely here too. By later this bring* them into conflict with industries in which it ''is hoped that their national Representatives and gains uniting the different sections of the them the title of “unofficial”, thus industry, Mr. Harry Weaver, the General reducing their japility to confront the Secretary of the National Building management and win gains for their Trades Operatives, hopes to weld these members.” THE LAST INTERVIEW units into one big union for the whole of the industry. Other unions are also Although industrial unions would considering proposals for re-organisation. unite workers ii| any particular industry, bo o ks ? and would le^d|to a general policy of v mm THE ANARCHISTS NEW PAMPHLET. action against the employers, they would 'TURNING up a foau opposite Chelsea only thought now, was how to get out we can su p p ly Last August the National Union of not necessarily IJecome “agents of social change”. By social I mean that the Football Stadium, I went past some of the place, away from these terrible ANY book ii print Public Employees issued a pamphlet rather decrepit-looking houses and people. I scrambled up and tried to Also out-of-print books sear eked for entitled* “The Challenge of New Union­ workers would | own and control the run, but ^ as caught again, receiving a means of production in their industry. eventually came upon the place I was —aid frequently found! This Incftnd ism”. In this they put forward a very savage bloJv on my right ear. paper-backs, children's books and text The N.U.P.E. pamphlet mentions a looking for: a rather battered sign strong case for industrial unionism, and nailed on a gate, which said “Freedom I was then . picked up bodily and books. (Please supply publisher’s a section entitled “What are we here “centralised body” but they do not If possible). state what powers it would have. Do Press”. yTMs is. the home of F reedom , thrown through the door of the shop for?” reads as follows:— the anarems't 'wekly. into the concrete yard outside. Before •j “Although unions arose as a spon­ they mean that the power that is now NEW BOOKS I werJ .** ulign the small door in the I could get up off my bruised knees, I taneous protest movement, concentrat­ divided between the many different was roughly seized and frogmarched up Cost of Loving Eustace Chesser 18/- union executives, would be concentrated gate kilr^iiad been left open and walked ing on bread-and-butter issues—such as down a yard to e* building at the end. the yard, towards the gate. wages, hours and working conditions— in one small body in the industrial REPRINTS AND CHEAP EDITIONS Pushing open the • Giio'i I went into the The older man ran up, and told them which were of immediate concern to organisation. This question remains to let go of me, but they paid no atten­ Three Plays Robert Bolt 12/6 unanswered in the pamphlet. den of London’s Anarchists. Report on Peace V. I. Lenin _ 3/6 workers, it was not long before it was I looked through

Mr. Wilson said in Washington (vide T he Bristol Branch of the National Dally Herald 4/3/64) “J believe that in Campaign for the abolition of Capital the remaining yfarj! °* this century our Punishment stales that it will make every [Britain’s] historic role as a naval power attempt to have the life of Christopher is going to find a new fulfilment both in Simcox who is due to hang on March helping newly established nations and 17th. The secretary, Mr. Gummer, slates in moving rapidly »nd effectively in ful­ that the NCACP in Birmingham, where filling an international police role. This Simcox is in prison, is doing 'nothing means naval force® These cannot be official' this, says Mr. Cummer is “not afforded if we arts spending our sub­ merely inadvisable but positively dan­ March 14 1964 Vol 25 No 8 stance on the pursuit of illusory nuclear gerous.” Christopher Simcox Is con­ status”. This, it being election year, demned to death for the second time. was interpreted in| some quarters as In 1948 he was sentenced for killing “giving our Navy tojUNO”, subsequently his secon wife, he was only reprieved Sir Alec apologized.! A radio announcer because the question of the death pen­ OUR FUNCTION in a newly-endependent colony was in alty was then under official consideration. trouble for playing! ‘Rule Britannia’ in Doctors have testified that he is | para­ 0)N E of the functions of an anar­ into accepting the Law as the error. Britain recognized the new Gov­ noid personality suffering from reactive chist weekly, apart from pre­ criterion by which they judge what ernment of Zanzibar which nationalized Prince said, “It’s not the end of the depression which impairs his responsi­ the British Club arid the Sailing Club world.” Princess Alexander gave birth bility. No improvement seems to have senting and discussing anarchist is right and honourable, the ten­ been effected by his imprisonment and ideas, must be that of commenting dency is for them to aspire to (both British-owne(®3mrnediately after to a boy. The baby ranks 13th in the the departure of M. "Duncan Sandys. . . Royal bread-line. The Standard quotes no police or official action was taken on issues of “topical interest" even acquire wealth (through pools,;, the adage “Saturday’s child works hard when complaints were made of his if they are ephemeral, or basically crystal gazing, Old Moore et alia), Mr. Richard Crcissman gave Mr. for its living”. . . . violent behaviour after his discharge. have no special relation to anar­ to have their own businesses, or to George Strauss, Minister of Supply in He attempted suicide after the crime for the Labour Goverittnent credit for the which he is now condemned to death. chism. For as well as being con­ employ the labour of others. The A Greek warship raced to the Island cerned with putting over anarchism hard facts are that if everybody responsibility of production of the The Daily Sketch commenting (falsely), of Timos to collect a ‘miracle-working’ that the Abolitionists were ignoring as an alternative way of life for the could climb to the top financial- or/ atomic bomb. The! decision, says Mr. ikon1—an image of the Virgin Mary. It Crossman, was takjh by the defence Simcox, “confirming that they are individual and a desirable and pos­ power-rung of the ladder (as the was to be put at the bedside of the sub-committee without discussion in full nothing more than a bunch of dedicated Tory and Lib-Lab politicos assure dying King Paul of Greece. It didn’t sible alternative form of social and Cabinet before or after it was taken. and insincere do-gooders who really work. . . . economic organisation for com­ you when they tout for your votes)The French carried out an underground don’t give a damn for the damned [i.e. munities, an anarchist propaganda there would be no point in having nuclear test explosion in the Sahara. condemned] and care less for the victims weekly,must also demonstrate and a ladder to climb, since we would The ’ Bishop of Bath and Wells in a of those who have damned themselves." The United States Navy Secretary claim­ letter to the annual meeting at Spaxton seek to convince its readers that the all be equals at the top. ed that 'even if altlAmerican bombers This is a postscript to nn understandably Parish Church, Somerset, said, “I want confused and pathetic letter from Sim- existing forms of organisation are The “ladder” is the symbol of and land-based missiles were immediately you to know . . that particular curses oppressive as well as undesirable for privilege Of the unequal society, put.out of action, the Navy would still cox’s third wife (who he attempted to put upon individual people are not en­ kill), declaring herself in favour of capi­ most of us. even if you assume that everybody be able to. inflict 25jmilIion deaths with visaged in the Prayer Book or any other its present submarine Polaris fleet. tal punishment for Simcox. Nine out of To build you must also demolish starts at the bottom. The Tories formulary of the Church of England. 23 men accused of economic crimes in the and other believers in the historical Damage to eric my \w-making capability Ordained ministers have no more auth­ —at least this is so when you are would be “of siichS major proportions Soviet Union were condemned to death. building in a politically built-up role of the ruling class are, in this ority than anyone else to indulge in A West .Berlin Court found that a former as to make the initiation of a nuclear this practice, which belongs to the Old area! And unlike the: Glores and writer’s opinion, no more despicable war i by an enemy irrational". . . SS warrant officer committed murder, but Cottons, who demolish to build, than the Labour politicians who, Testament and not to the New. Mr. acquitted him on the grounds that he today, talkof giving everybody An organization .. isjt being formed to Grubb [the Rector] has been advised was acting under orders. A Canadian irrespective of whether what they of this.” Mr. Grubb claims that the demolish is good or bad, anarchists equal opportunities to climb the bring CND back tqlthe policy of uni­ Royal Commission has begun an in­ lateralism from whi|h it is believed by meeting was unconstitutional. The altar quiry into charges that an innocent man are anarchists, are demolishes of ladder. To socialists, communists at Durham cathedral had to be re- and anarchists the disease they were some .to have straye®,. They are holding was hounded to the gallows to satisfy the old order, not because they have an open forum on Easter Sunday even­ haliowed because a 52-year-old man cut pressure from the United Slates and to bees in their bonnets, not because once united in fighting, even if they ing. Lauren's OlteM is amongst the his throat on it. He had bee unem­ protect the tourist industry. . . . they see Man through rosy, utopian, could not • always agree on the sponsors and R obe* Shaw, 8 Parsons ployed for seven years. A Roman spectacles but because their ex­ method, was privilege. The equality Road, jrchester, NCtthants will supply Catholic priest was fined £65 for driving A furniture dealer in Hertford sold his perience and observation of the that we anarchists are now alone in details, and leaflets. without reasonable consideration and collection of 3,500 flowered chamber world they live in, coupled with that defending is that of every individual failing to stop after an accident in pots for £800. The buyer is a dealer being able to be himself, of develop-' Prince William of Gloucester failed the which a 66-year-old man was fatally in the United States, where china of other thinking people throughout Civil Service examinlttion for the second injured. The priest was in a “sheer, chamber pots are being used as. ice- recorded history, leads them to the ing his potentialities to their full extent. time and hence will iiot be able to join blind panic” because he was in a hurry buckets and table decorations. conclusion that all authoritarian the Commonwealth relations office. The to be in by 11 p.m. . . J on Quixote . organisation is fundamentally bad, We maintain that the means and whether it be capitalist, socialist, the know-how exist to-day to pro­ communist, or nationalist’ vide everyone with the necessities Jjfgj that these, can bp. p roduced^ rebuilding a future for themselves and Not that these forms of authori­ and still allow ample leisure for their children. They do not make the tarianism do not work-—obviously each of us to live his own life. We sacrifices entailed in a social upheaval they do, and it could also be shown believe, therefore, in a world in Anarctfists Everywhere in order to replace one set of politicians that once the routine has been which every individual will expect by another, even if, in effect, this is established over a long period,of the necessities of life as a right; will DO N’T get us V.rong; we are not belonging, of participating fully in the what happens in most revolutions. Babu transformation of their society. Zanzibar years there is a remarkable degree contribute tb the common pool to anarcho-sectarians, jealously guard­ in the interview limits his “revolution­ ing the purity of the idea. The more is a small country. Its problems are ary” intentions when he declares that of social and even economic stabil­ the best of his ability as a self- manageable. We need land reform and ity; there is even the appearance of people calling themselves anarchists the there must be no violent divergence assumed duty to the community of better from the point of view of getting economic diversification—particularly in between our system and theirs [the East “concern” by governments for which he feels himself to be a part; agriculture. We shall grow cocoa and African Statesi], as we could not then the public accustomed to the sound of coffee as well as cloves. “justice” (obviously Terry Chand­ and will defend the freedom, the the word and of arousing the curiosity co-exist—and we need co-existence. Our With a population of only 300,000 its ler’s valuable game of deflating the uniqueness, of others ,iC; Sft because of some to find out more about anarch­ policy must therefore reflect the wishes problems are “manageable” from an of East Africa law, and Donald Rooum’s scientific ism. So when we saw in the Londoner's of a love for mankjj then as -the anarchist point of view, but one wonders and consoles himself with the reflection approach to “planted” brick-bats Diary in theEvening Standard last week only way of defending his own whether the “anarchist from Notting (hat “in governing our country we can­ would be lost say, in Nkrumah’s (Mar. 5) a “Portrait of an Anarchist” we freedom, uo *-• Hill Gate” is going to be the initiator not, at any rate, do worse than the hastened to read what it-was all about. Ghana, Franco’s Spain or Ver- of “the first anarchist society in Zanzi­ Sultan”. Here is the piece: woerd’s South Africa—both of them bar”. What a comforting thought for the would be in preventive detention Mr. Emile de Antonio who made the “anarchist of Notting Hill Gate” and W E , have a number of pieces film of the McCarthy hearings which In the interview he said: - without trial!). But with all the dotted about this issue of has been so successful in America, is in what a “happy” prospect for the people “But we are not planning to nation­ of Zanzibar! “stability”, the “justice”, the “rights” F reedom which illustrate what we London alise land because peasants don’t work the “never-had-it-so-good” there is have been saying here. We have a “D”, as he is called, looks like a at their best without a sense of owner­ not the stability (the feeling of “told you so” eoiui n which, we rumpled teddy bear.. He describes him­ ship. We need some financial help from self as a Left-wing anarchist. At 43, he outside, but there is something to be security) which allows people to suggest, if the yi!; of an- is following a revqrse pattern to most grow to their full stature without said for the Chinese theory of self-help. arcbN^ analysi£.tnd criticism of ex­ people. It is rather dangerous to rely too much Legalising the Right eying suspiciously the Jones’ to see isting society rather than implying “I had a house,jtwo cars, a library, on external aid. Quite soon the recipi­ what their next move will be; there that , an3rchiscommentators have dogs, guns, a hi-fi and all that,” he ex­ ents lose all initiative and the donors is not the economic security which plained when I njjet him. “It’s taken get fed up. Interdependence is much to Strike in “a nose" . / xposing the vagaries mq till middle-agelto get rid of them. better. makes it unnecessary for people to of politicos. We also defend our-, The guns had to go—I decided it was worry about how they will manage We agree with what Babu says about Yugoslavia selves from the “governmental” an­ wicked to shoot animals. The books nationalisation, about self-help and inter­ when they can no longer earn the were the hardest—I had two thousand, TT was reported last week-end that archists and warn our readers as Now I buy paperbacks and throw them dependence, but a Reuter report from money to pay for what they need toto the intentions of the politicians Zanzibar last Monday states that the “Yugoslavia has restored the workers’ away when I’ve read them.” right to strike.” The announcement is keep alive, or are too old to look Very interestingSand we would like “revolutionary government” had announ­ who are now busy forcing their , of interest, as is the fact that Yugoslavia after themselves; and when it comes to get into touch with Mr. de Antonio, ced that it would “nationalise all land”! attentions on them. And, finally, is the first of the “communist” countries to justice everybody knows that and most important of all the points if only to ask him why he is a “left- President Karume, addressing a crowd -J' .w for the rich and of 50,000 added that “no new farming to legalise stoppage of work. The legis­ we have made, the news from wing anarchist” and not just an anar­ lation comes after a series of stoppages the poor”—and how right chist. would be started without the approval Russia and Yugoslavia is, in our * t * of the government”. So much, there­ (especially in Slovenia, the most indus­ "instincts” are; and as to opinion, a text-book illustration that trialised area), which it is said, were “in And on Sunday theObserver published fore for Babu’s theories about the peas­ rights, well, the only rights to the authoritarian means inevitably lead ants’ need for “a sense of ownership” in protest against the arbitrariness of lead­ means of production, the natural a lively profile of the Foreign Minister ing functionaries”. to authoritarian ends. In saying of the new government in Zanzibar, the land they work. resources that you and this writer which, this writer for one, cannot He also said in the interview: “There Now what “puzzles” is is that we have have, in this country, in America Abdul Rahman Babu, with the title for years been told that Workers’ Con­ suggest that anarchists should write­ “The anarchist from Netting Hill Gate”. are two great advantages in seizing power or in any capitalist country of the by revolution” : trol actually operates in Yugoslavia, in off and ignore the potentialities of Apparently Babu's “most informative which case it is difficult to understand world are those which money can social upheavals because they have years” were 1951-57 when he lived in The first is that one is bound by no buy. And since most of us live, promises, one is obliged to no one. The the purpose, of the strike weapon and, not started with the seal of liber­ the Marble Arch and Notting Hill areas, second is that the public expects one to for that matter, from where the “arbit­ in money terms, from day to day,tarian purity. . . or underestimate and apart from sitting at the feet of take extreme measures. It is conditioned rary functionaries” get their power. the wealth of the nation is in the their own efforts. As anarchist pro­ A. J. Ayer, Nye jBevan and Fenner to expect the worst. This gives one very Might the answer be that there isn't hands of a limited section of the Brockway, he attended “lots of discus­ great latitude. workers’ control in Yugoslavia after all? pagandists, in our various capacities sion groups run by anarchists and Com­ These, in our opinion, are the words community who have cornered it we sow ideas; this is our function either by inheritance, by mani­ munists, by the SPCB and by all sorts of a cynical power-monger and not of as we see it. If they germinate it of other bearded Bohemian movements”. an anarchist. The "seizing of power” pulation of the money markets or is because both the soil and the And he added that, contrary to what he refbrs to is not revolution, which is by the direct exploitation of the climate are favourable. We can some people have said, he never joined made by the people, but a coup-d’etat. ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND labour of others—or by a combi­ the Communist Party. “If anything, I And therefore his first point is not worth Reading Adventure Playground re­ seek to choose the most favourable quire a male playleader for six weeks nation of all three. conditions, but beyond that we was closer to the ahaichisls than to the examining except as arguments of a Communists, I used to find some of power-happy politician. The second during the summer school holidays. Now, let us get this quite straight; depend on others to nurture and which, incidentally, flatly contradicts the The post is paid at £10 per week. in the eyes of the Law one can do their arguments very attractive, very feed these ideas with their own, until intellectually stimulating.” first, exposes him as the vain, budding- Would anyone capable and interested any, or all three, of these and be they are a part of their own lives. In the same interview Babu summar­ politician he is and not as a revolution­ please get in touch with: looked upon as a highly respectable And more than that we cannot do ises his ambitions as wanting “to create ary. When people make their revolu­ J udith Stbvbns . member of society. And because without thinking of ourselves as a people’s republic fit Zanzibar. tion they are prepared for lean times 8, Shepherds House Lam most people have been brainwashed custodians of other men’s lives. 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