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Indents of the Orld Unite Which Rood do that the authorities are ‘very sensitive about the place*. It could be suggested that Demon­ stration No. 1 (CND) is only of use; to sell literature and distribute leaflets. Having made our point we take? last year, even barracking seems to be a waste of time. Demonstration JgASTER will shortly be upon us So far it was planned to have three No. 2 (National Committee of 100) and the thoughts of anarchists speakers in the Square (unnamed -as yet), may involve civil disobedience and FEBRUARY IS 1967 Vol 28 No 5 but Mike Kustow and Adrian Mitchell unfortunately it seems too ambitious heavily turn to the sad ceremonials were still involved in US and would not which like some ancient folkrites be available to arrange an entertainment. a venture, clashing in dates as it have become linked with the fertility- It was discovered chat. the leaflets does, to draw the guaranteed support solstice-human sacrifice which take already printed did not show the exact it really needs to make it effective. place at this time. This year we are location of the march assembly. It will in But since it is a demonstration faced with three choices of venue or fact not start at the US Command HQ, directed against the State apparatus constitutional and unconstitutional but at -Northolt Underground Station. theoretically it is the one we should indents of the exercise. First (in historical order) The delicate question was raised as to support. Demonstration No. 3 will is the only genuine, the only original the behaviour of the anarchists last year. give an opportunity to challenge the CND march (or has something An optimistic lady from Hampstead sug­ monolithic structure that CND has gested that the anarchists might be molli­ changed?) from Ruislip1 (Easter fied if they had a representative in the become and recapture some of the Sunday) - Chiswick-Acton-Trafalgar lead group. It was pointed out that no old Aldermaston zest. Square plus Easter Saturday a mass one could “represent” the anarchists orld Unite moving * picket past American and furthermore any anarchist who joined Embassy, Foreign Office in White­ the “lead group” would ipso facto be hall, and South Vietnamese Embassy disowned. P ? USUAL to dismiss British students to look into- ways of making it most (eight miles). * Secondly (arranged I pointed out that the dissatisfaction lrom the category of revolutionaries effective. Motions to refer the motion by the National Committee of 100, of the anarchists last year came from §DVcn rebels.' Their regular manifests- to a larger UGM failed as rime was too convener Peter Cadogan), is a three- the fact that they were promised a DEMOAT of revolt against the establishment pressing and as it was felt that everyone day demonstration (Friday, Satur­ speaker but did not get one. Olive Gibbs jp to be confined to rag-days and had had file chance to attend. pointed out that the conference had never |BCs. However, recent events have The strike is not against the University, day, Sunday) at tiie Copenacre promised an anarchist speaker and *e necessary some revaluation of this but will take the form of non-attendance military complex. This is in the furthermore they got one and were still THE CARLTON Jfion. The situation at London at lectures andv tutorials. It is hoped area (about ten square miles of it) dissatisfied. In any case it was impossible jpol of Economics seems highly com- that all sports fixtures will be cancelled, around Corsham and the Bath Road. for all organizations represented on file /"^EORGE ORWELL’S Animal Farm which is perhaps highly appropriate and when, at yesterday’s forum with the Thirdly, the London Committee of march to have their own speaker. ^ closes with a dinner between the ; at institution. It could be argued candidates' for next year’s Presidency, it 100 is organizing a four-day march Slogans on posters for the march will pigs and the farmers in which both be­ protests against an unpopular was suggested by one candidate that the from Aldermaston to London. be decided nearer the date as the situation come identical. Art became reality last ;intment could be an infringement of permanent Union staff should be on strike in Vietnam is very fluid. Freedom Press was invited to send It was undecided as yet whether to put Sunday when Kosygin climaxed his tour §vil liberties. It has never been laid (e.g. barman, porter, snack bar staff, . a delegate to a meeting for support­ of Britain by lunch at the Carlton Club : that students have the right to cleaners), the audience showed their out a special letter backing the march with the Tory leaders. nine who shall teach them, they approval. Non-attendance is the negative ing organisations for the CND signed by Trade Unionists. It had already [Very little say in the self-government aspect of the strike. Its aim is simply to • Three-Day Easter Demonstration been decided to. send one out signed by The week before, one Nestor Makhno |thcir colleges and universities and free us for a day of very active propa­ and reports as follows: MPs. (of Highgate Cemetery) had issued an appeal on behalf of the Sons and now the Exchequer wants super- ganda in the area of Newcastle and the "The meeting was attended by about An advertisement was to appear in the ^ of university budgets. Potteries against the increase in fees national press bearing signatures of Daughters of the Russian Revolution for 30-40 people, whioh seemed sparse by a ceremony to mark this noteworthy bedevil the whole situation there (which at this moment strikes me as earlier OND standards according to the prominent people and calling attention to [been the usual struggles for political being in contravention of the Prices and circulated attendance sheet, describing the necessity of protesting against the war event. In response to this call about 50 in. the students* unions. A Incomes '7 * attender’sf organizations. CND groups- in Vietnam. This would.be paid for by anarchists gathered outside the Carlton ite faction has been expelled, and At Manchester University the Vice- seemed to be lacking, attendance, was individual Signatories paying £1 a head Club. Banners displayed included ‘All Fnew Radical Student Alliance is Chancellor has come out wholeheartedly from groups such as Peace in Vietnam and was being sponsored independently of Power to the People’, ‘End Capitalism East and West* (in Russian) and a sati­ suspicion of Communist trends, behind the idea of a student strike, and Committees, Middlesex Council for CND. Peaoe, London Co-opera:tive Society It was suggested that groups oould state rical true-blue Tory flag with a hammer lowcvcr the students have officially has told the students that if they do and sickle in one comer. “tied io go on a one day strike on anything, for heaven’s sake, do it Political Committee, YCND, Youth, for their point of view on the march by pbruaiy 22. Marshall Colman writes thoroughly and not half-heartedly. I Peace in Vietnam; Young Mothers’ booking space (at £5) foe an advertise­ The subject of the demonstration was i Keele: ' don’t know yet what Keele’s VC, Ur. Organization (?), Friends’ Peace Commit­ ment in Sanity. This may have been a late arriving and the time was spent The strike is planned to coincide with Taylor, thinks. Well probably know tee and two genuine delegates from.‘the slight joke at anarchist protests at not issuing leaflets to passers-by and the thcr similar strikes and is to draw soon. I believe it’s being considered Communist Party. having their own speaker.’ sporadic explosion of balloons marked otion to, and to campaign against, that the staff also make it clear that they The theme Of the-march be The London Committee of 100 is ‘file people’. Police objected to a banner are on'strike.* Vietnam and no especial emphasis on reading T he Working Class *Can Kiss be increase in fees for overseas students. organising a four-day march starting His Arse, He’s Got Joe Stalin’s Job At ■The Department of Education and So far so good, but meanwhile Libyan nuclear disarmament except insofar as from Aldermaston on Easter Friday. students have carried out ^hunger-strike the continuance of the Vietnam war made Last’. Science has . decided to increase these The route will take in Burghfield and In response to this the offending word Sees from £70 to £250. Articulate for several days in their Embassy in nuclear war more possible. There was no protest against the political situation in comment from the meeting on the theme, the RSG6 between Reading and was blacked out to leave a blank rather r feeling here is much against this, but one Slough. It will join the CND march more suggestive than the original word. f r y . that it’s probably only the minority, Libya. They were forcibly ejected from which was not surprising for it had been The first of the dignitaries to arrive who are concerned. A petition collected the Embassy and they are quite likely to a conference decision. on Monday in Trafalgar Square. have their scholarships withdrawn. Details were given (and worked out) of For all details comrades should con­ was Quin tin Hogg riding his bike which L a few hundred signatures. On February he chained to the railings amid jeers and 1 a delegation of Keele students lobbied In Spain, too, students have been the embassy picket which it was tact Sue Abrahams, secretary of the demonstrating and the voice of protest variously estimated would take between London Committee.
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