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MAY 27 1967 VoL 28 No, 16

THE VIETNAMESE WAR is tion of the 1946 Vietxninh purge Phatdiem rural area, Salisbury escalating rapidly. On April 25, of non-Communist elements, only a writes: ’One cause for the repjcated the US bombed railway yards two brief and imprecise mention of the attacks . . . might be that Seventh SUPPRESSION and a quarter miles from the centre Fleet planes flying to Ninhbinh and N. Vietnam land reform slaughters of Hanoi and a cement factory just and emphasises the North’s ’distrust Namdinh . . . (p>o$sibly) jettisoned one mile from the centre of Hai­ stemming from 1946 and 1954’, leftover bombs on the way back or phong. More recently they have without mentioning the Vietminh exhausted their rocket stocks . . . bombed the bases of Russian- provocations'and terror (as well as planes which had difficulty in re­ supplied Migs and, if they force the French ones) in 1946 and the turning to base might lighten their B Y REQUEST them to retreat to Chinese bases, impossibility of holding the Geneva- loads in the Phatdiem area. There the Guardian correspondent asks, planned unifying elections when the were anti-aircraft installations in will US bombing follow them? Hai­ North was oppressing massive re­ this region. . . . Yet when all this I T B E POLICE are continuing their Smith, whom we hope are still at liberty. phong harbour is being repeatedly sistance (as well as the South’s was taken into account, the fact I? preposterous charges against Terry The proceedings were of unrelieved attacked. As I write (May 19), the oppression of many opposition remained that an astonishing UTtttnrflrr and Melvyn Esrrin who were gloom. In a country which prides itself news of die US invasion of the groups). amount of high explosives was fall­ the dock at Marlborough Street on on its sense of humour, our comrades ay 18 when Mr. Edward Robey, the are being charged with the forging of buffer zone (in which N. Vietnamese The US began bombing the North ing on a simple rice-growing area’ pagsstrate. heard the case outlined ‘dollar’ notes that are dearly meant to troops were already) is being broad­ to bolster the morale of the South (p. 125). Of the bomb damage gainst them by the Prosecution in the be anti-war propaganda. cast. A land war throughout Viet­ Vietnamese Government, to weaken Salisbury then saw in Hanoi—the j^ollar leaflets ease. Terry was defending An indication as to why our comrades nam threatens and, according to U Hanoi’s will to fight, to avoid com­ smashed Pho Nguyen Thiep Street [jfnself and Melvyn was defended by are being prosecuted came when a Mr. Thant on May 11, ,T am afraid we mitting large US ground forces, and and Phuc Tan Street—he notices 'c. Benedict Bimberg. After a sub- James Griffith of the American Embassy are witnessing the initial stages of later reasons were to bomb Hanoi that they were very near the main is:on by Mr. Bimberg. the charge in Paris gave his evidence. The Clerk World War m .’ Long Bien Bridge (p. 64). Of the t Melvyn of conspiracy to forge of the Court asked for his occupation to the conference table and to inter­ Harrison Salisbury’s Behind the dict the movement of men and sup­ anti-personnel weapons, pmticularly biffs was dismissed but he was and prompted him: ‘Are you employed the lazy dog bomb, which the War committed for trial at the Centra] in the detection of counterfeit currency?’ Lines — Hanoi (Seeker and War­ plies to the Siouth. In all but the final Court on a charge of ‘possess- ‘No, sir,* replied the American unwisely, burg, 30/-), stems from a two-week first ease, as the facts of World War Crimes Tribunal made so much of, 1*00 pieces of paper bearing markings letting the cat out of the bag. “My job visit, December 23, 1966-January 7, II and Korean War bombing should he notes that: ’They were devised fear to those on genuine dollar noted. is the suppression of counterfeit cur- 1967, before these events took place, have indicated beforehand, the for use against anti-aircraft gunners, Ferry Chandler was committed for .but it is still very relevant. The in­ bombing has failed. US ground machine gun nests or other military ■p on charges of conspiring with In other words the request for prose­ forces have escalated enormously groups occupying expxxsed or semi- ales ’Radrffrffie and others unknown creasing US savagery and N. Viet­ cution must have come from Griffith nam rigidity stems from false stereo­ from 26,000 in March 1965 to exposed positions. . . . I supp>ose page tarried'States dollar notec The and the English authorities have blindly that, (they) were dropped by our VUistc granted bail to Melvyn amd complied. The danger is, that if they- types of their own and their oppo­ 440,000 now. ‘According to General nent’s intentions and' actions and Westmoreland, the movement of planes by on what they presumed i to Terry although Detective-sergeant are not to look complete asses in front to be (these) . . . they inevitably BioUc strongly objected. At the time of an independent jury, they might want Mr. Salisbury’s' book does some­ men and supplies has increased pP'i iiiing Terry is still in jail as he was to resort to some kind of ‘frame-up’. thing to correct these. For example, greatly and, in any case, most NLF took a toll among civilians’ (pp. 213- !. remanded in custody over the Greek But as the case stands at the moment the US claims, as McGeprge Bundy arms were taken from US and 214). Salisbury suggests that US 'lOSSy demorvc-ryrioirv even the notorious Mr. Robey seethed wrote, in January 1967, ’The bomb­ Saigon troops. Hanoi shows very reconnaissance methods and bomb- , . warrant has been k w h for the quite unconvinced. ing Of the North has been the most little sign of wanting to end the war: dropping were nowhere near so pre­ B£t of Charles EaA-tffF- and a Paul John Rety . -accurate and the most restrained in Pham Van Dong said to Salisbury, cise as the US imagined (or pre­ modem warfare.’ Harrison Salis- ’. . . we are preparing for a long tended) and also that The series of bury, in his New York Times des­ war. How many years would you gradations which governed the pat­ patches, wrote: "the conclusion is say? Ten, twenty—what do you tern of air operations in North Viet­ inescapable that, whatever may be think about twenty?’ (p. 196). The nam — was complex and confusing. the; cause, far more bombs are hit­ bombing has united the North Viet­ It seemed to me that it inevitably ting civilians than are accomplish­ namese against the US as nothing would give rise to honest pilot ing any military purpose;’. Because else; could. Indeed, the threat of errors. Again and again it seemed of this, the Norm Vietnamese be- bombing seems to have saved Ho to me that the commanders of the fiqve that the US are deliberately Chi Mmh from a large political air operations were placing on their aiming at (Civilian targets. Salis­ crisis. Ernst Kux wrote in Neue men burdens which were beyond bury’s account of the effects of US Zurcher Zeitung, September 23, the ability of the best technology bombing and his consideration of 1964: ’One of tbs main reasons for and the best trained men’ (p. 212). its intentions seems the most re­ the pressure for quick Communist Other questions he raises are: (a) If liable yet written. He is interesting successes in $. Vietnam was the roads and railways are the target, on the issue of religious freedom in growing economic insolvency and why should the bombing be pro­ the North and On the relations of confusion in home affairs in N. Viet­ grammed for where they pass Hanoi to the NLF and to Russia nam . . . food production was no­ through villages and towns where and China, Detailed accounts are where keeping pace with the growth more civilians will die and there given of his interviews with Pham in population. . . . In view of the will be stronger anti-aircraft posi­ Van Dong, the N. Vietnamese Pre­ chaotic supply position, emergency tions? (b) Are the US deliberately mier, and with NLF representatives measures were introduced, privately using Vietnam as a laboratory for in the North. The book's main owned land was expropriated from experiments? ‘Proof was difficult faults (apart from the unnecessary fanners . . . ration cards were . . . there were enough oddities so journalistic padding of the first 40 introduced. . . . In March Ho Chi that the question might be raised.’ This B the oral-war leaflet that the police mptiupfn is a forged ddUrrr hUk pages) are that it makes no men- Minh proclaimed a state of emer­ (c) Is the air war a dry run for a gency.’ (Quoted by Adam Roberts, war with China? New Society. January 12, 1967.) Finally, there was the question _ 1$ the deliberate bombing of civi­ of the dykes whose destruction lians a major pan of US policy, as would destroy the country, wiping ‘PEAsmrrs’ avoir i m a y fa h the Russell War Crimes Tribunal out millions of acres of rice land, and all N. Vietnamese think? After drowning millions of Vietnamese and making it impossible for the ; THE TIME lias issue of Paeux/u hoped to get a conviction for Common siastical law with which they charged reading Salisbury and the accounts . i$ ott the streets, wc iball know the Low Affray or lor breach of (be Public the Brighton Church protesters is a of the Tribunal investigators, it country to feed itself. Salisbury saw g is t a t the prosecution's case agaiwrf rjfcpj-’ bomb-craters in the Namdinh area' Older Act, of minor technical typical example. So was their triumphant seems to me to be still an open ,4 2 people -arrested in foe G reek p*rihy ry points (what is foe definition of a public production in 1963 of an old statute and believed evidence of bombing on April 28 . Comaiiupd proceedings place, etc.) which the Courts always which prohibits ‘unauthorised advertis­ question, but the important thing is that thousands are being killed in the Phatdiem area (p. 123). Was tu a being taken as w o g fi to press, cat regard as of much greater importance ing’ within five miles of Charing Cross; this accidental? The US had said May 22 and 24. tban issues of principle. However, the under this ridiculous Act several and maimed whatever the US’s in­ repeatedly that they were not offi­ As Was generally pred a ted , the charts* supposition that foe authorities would leuflaiecrs were prosecuted and fined for tention. Salisbury visited Namdinh, cially targened. Salisbury concludes . have been changed from the original the third largest city in the North tubtritirtp lesser charge* (a* at Marham), not submitting an 'advertisement1 (in. that, even given the good intentions nonsense- The police zo{3ti never have which would carry crippling fins* and their leaflet) to the Commissioner of and saw the savage damage it had binding* over but not create the political Police for approval before displaying it. suffered which the Mayor said of the US, 'The "humaneness” of risk of a Tplff trial ax foe Old bailey And probably the most familiar example amounted to destruction of 13% of the American air effort produced and a group a t political prisoners hero, of alb foe Act under which whenever they the city’s housing, with §9 killed the same desolated countryside, ha* not bent upheld. The new charges feel like it they bind us over to be of wounded, injured and mangled men, are, if anything, more serious, and cer­ good behaviour (and imprison us if we and 405 wounded from 51 attacks. Salisbury comments: . . there women and children . . . of the air tainly more significant, titan the old. refuse, even if we have broken no other war . . . during World War II.’ ANARCHY 76 By charging the group with Riot and law), dates from 1360. were no very remarkable targets in Salisbury judges that the North Viet­ with Forcible Entry under the A# of We are also accustomed to- their Namdinh. True, material going namese are united against the Ameri­ f JMT SALE NEXT WEEK ASKS 1381, foe police have taken the bull misuse of Acts which were passed for south passed through . . . there was cans and, undoubtedly the main contri­ firmly hv the horns and publicly admitted other purposes. Official Secrets, public a railroad, a small freightyard, an butory factor to this is the Americans* not only foe political nature if the Order (meant to deal with Fascists), area along the river bank where own bombing. One sign is the very How many original action id the Embassy hut also Race Relations, even Forgery; they east boat and barge cargo was . . . re- great number who have been armed. the political nature of foe prosecution. their net wide. But up fo now they shipped- . ■ ■ This was . . . perhaps As a Communist official said: 'Here In passing, one can comment that this is have shied away from the obvious you can see for yourself that the people a new departure. We are accustomed political laws. Sedition, Incitement to the fatal fallacy in our whole bomb­ Years to 1984? ing pilicy. When you totalled all support their government. If they didn’t, to foeir procedure of -defying deep info Disaffection, and so on have opt been they have foe weapons in their hands I a NARCHY is Published by the books for strange and ancient used within the last ten years despite the ’’military objectives” in N. Viet­ with which to change it’ An important ^FREEDOM PRESS a* 2 s, tows, when their more conventional constant provocation. nam, they didn't total much' (p. {.first Saturdayof every m o n th g fe armoury fails them: the obscure eccle­ Continued on page 7 : 104). Of the destruction in the Continued on page 7 FRANCE and a sort of God’s Mafia (seeTime A REPORT in the Brussels paper Le Magazine, 12.5.67) is managing to get Solr reveals some disturbing facts its hands on (with the blessing of the about French hospitals: there is at pre­ Through the Anarchist Press Pope) a vast amount of the riches of books? sent an estimated bed shortage of Spain. N o wonder many Spaniards call it ‘Octopus Dei’. 300,000, not counting the 200,000 (of the Q. Would you got to gaol rather than do 600,000 in use) that need to be replaced; Cadiz Not only does the organisation run military service? According to statistics, in Cadiz there the result is that patients sometimes find schools and the like (including the Uni­ A. No. But I’d be prepared to make them are 3,160 families occupying only one themselves on improvised beds in corri­ versity of Navarra, thus determining the Ws onn supply think I was homosexual, which is an­ room each, 4,475 occupying two rooms dors and that ambulances often have to other way out of the same problem. futures of the 5,220 students there) and carry accident cases from one hospital each, 6,135 relying on communal ser­ control publications such asDiario de any book in print Q. If your country was invaded, would vices with other families, and 5,201 to another in search of the necessary you lie in front of the enemy tanks Madrid, Actualidad Espaitola, Actuali- places. There are hospitals which have families whose homes have insufficient dad Econdmica, Ama and many others, like the non-violent resisters? ventilation, the grand total pf persons no anaesthetist or blood bank. Analyti­ but also more than fourteen banks and REMAINDERS A. Of course not. I would have been living in inferior dwellings coming to cal work is often in private hands, which gone long before the tanks got there. 37,550. finance companies, four film companies, A Hundred Years of Revolutioa can entail a wait of up to a week for an J o h n T h u r s t o n . VIETNAM ten publishing houses, four chemical (ed.) George Woodcock 5/- X-ray result. (Source: Defense de VHomme.) companies, and fifteen construction busi­ The Unmentionable Nechaev Things are little better on the per­ Commenting on the question of a The Combat Syndicaliste published by third woHd war over Vietnam, a writer nesses, etc. These are only tire known Michael Prowdin 15/- sonnel side: cases are cited where there our French and Spanish comrades In says, For a long time now, every time Iassets of God’s Octopus in Spain. was one night nurse for 500 patients; the The Police and the Public France, appears to be hard up. They see the name “Vietnam”, I involuntarily Translators; Rolph, Machines, Norman 12/6 lack of qualified staff leads to such describe their foreign subscriptions as read “Sarajevo”.* J o h n T h u r s t o n a n d B.B. anomalies as a hospital secretary work­‘calamitous* and they lose a great deal (Sources: Tierra y Libert ad. Combat NEW COPIES ‘OCTOPUS DEI* ing as a laboratory assistant, or a ward of money through people who don’t pay The Mexican paper Tierra y Liber tad Syndicaliste, Defense de VHomme.) M an, Proudhon and European waitress as a nurse. Hospital wages bear for issues sent on credit (postage alone publishes an article on the Roman Socialism J. Hampden Jackson 12/6 little relation to the cost of living, so comes to 2,683.8 francs per annum). Catholic Church, highlighting its con­ Anarchism George Woodcock 7/6 that new vacancies often go unfilled, Donations should be sent toLe Combat sistent contradictions. The Pope begs Don’t forget A Reprint of the Essay on Property especially in the Paris area where living Syndicaliste, 24 Rue Ste.-Mafthe, Paris for peace in Vietnam while his (and from Political Justice costs are high and where the most X, France. God’s what’s the difference?) ministers ‘S A V E G R E E C E N O W ’ William Godwin 6/- modem hospital was built in 1934. SPAIN are not reproached for former misdeeds, DEFENCE FUND Avthority, Delinquency and the To which M. Jeanneney, Minister of The ‘Agence France-Press’ reported to nor for ‘blessing’ the murder weapons All contributions to: State Alex Comfort 10/6 Social Services, replies that he has at Le Monde that eleven political prisoners and tranquillizing the consciences of the 13 Goodwin Street, London, N-4 The Art of Loving last succeeded in getting the hospital in the Carabanchel Prison have declared uniformed butchers of that same war. Erich Fromm (paperback) 4/6 grant raised from the figure established a hunger strike. They had sent a mes­ Neither are any of the tyrannical per­ GREEK DEMONSTRATION The Sane Society in 1954; and that public health is sixth sage to the prison directors, which was petrations of the Jesuits or previous S U N D A Y , M A Y 28,1967 Erich Fromm (paperback) 12/6 on the list of national priorities only followed by the imposition of sanctions. Popes put to rights; in fact, the Church AT 2.30 P.M. Fear of Freedom because people arc more interested in Sr. L6pez Enriquez has been put in a is the first to grab the monopoly and CARLTON GARDENS— Erich Fromm (paperback) 10/- phones and motorways. Not to mention, punishment cell, since the authorities the riches of the Earth where it can, BROOK STREET Reflections on Violence with the accompanying degree of con­ of course, atom bombs and MongenferaFs have charged him with inciting the (To be renamed) Georges Sorci 30/- Farce de Froppe. strike. The other ten remain in solitary. trol over the public. | Summerhill A. S* Neill 30/- From an interview with the pop singer They include an Italian, Sr. Ricardo Nor are these idle accusations. In Talking of Summcrhill A. S. Neill 25/- Absalon: Gualino. Spain, Opus Dei, a clerical organisation CORSHAM/COPENACRE Reluctant Rebels Howard Jones 32/6 THIS WEEKEND Germinal Emile Zola (paperback) 6/- Saturday to Monday — May 27/29J Pilatr’s Question Corsham is between Bath and Chippenf Alfred Reynolds (paperback) 12/6 ham. threw up. And I use the word Tory Qu’est Que la Propriete SATURDAY: Assemble at 2.30 p.mj deliberately, for the women that fill Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Pickwick Road, Corsham. Processing L6onor Fini’s frames are the hard-faced (paperback in French) 7/6 public meeting at Corsham Court, launfl AROUND THE GALLERIES bitches of any cosmopolitan society. This Magazine (About Schools) 7/- ing of a petition for a non-miiita Those that are dressed wear the clothes future for Corsham. (Bring a tent] PAMPHLET-PLAY T T O S is a week when two major figure of the boys’ club. Yet the dif­ of their rank and they move through you can.) their background with a trained con­ Fuck-Nam Tuli Kupferberg 3/6 galleries have given their walls over ference between the leather boys and the SUNDAY: Tour and study of t to two artists who have decided to ignore Red Guards has been synthesised by tempt even for themselves. Like charac­ military installations. Exhibition. Df Postage Extra the orthodox sex war for a display ofProcktor into an illustrated version ofters from an embittered Waugh novel, cussion Groups. camp not seen in the Town since David Selby’s Last Exit to Brooklyn, and I do they exist to exist. M O NDAY: Leafletting, literature sal Hockney’s display of Alexandrian etch­not mean this unkindly, for, if you re­ In her use of colour Ldonor Fini cap­ signing the petition. Final meet! ings at the Kasmin Gallery in July of*66. ject the social and political pressures tures the wraith world of Marie Lauren­ march to Copenacre, vigil. Their abrogation of all ideological con­that create the Western leather boys and cin yet her creatures move through the Various other activities currently uij Froodom Bookshop tent and their hedonistic final solution the Eastern Red Guard, then all you somnolent moon-taunted world of Paul discussion — civil disobedience —] Delvaux, and in place of Delvaux’s (Open 2 pjfflu-—530 pJL dally; in the matter of pictorial matter comes are left with are groups of tough Young- planned. buxom broads we have Beardsley figures 19 a a .—1 pan. Thursdays; as a cheerful relief after all those scream­ men waiting to roll an elderly customer. Corsham/Copenacre ActionGrou] slim-built enough to bring joy, though 10 a ■ .—5 pjn. Saturdays). ing manifestoes from the blood and paint His* painting of the Rolling Stones in Tony Allwright, 105 Ashley R a school who have tortured us and their tatty drag may, in the beginning, have not satisfaction, to the shade of Oscar. Bristol, 6. 17a MAXWELL ROAD canvases in their weekly declaration of been part of a Daily Mirror spread but They pause and they pose and examine faith. now Procktor must claim that particular each other like tired gourmands saturated FULHAM SW6 Tel: REN 37S6 And so, with a gay giggle and a quest­ vision subjectwise while the painting it­ by an excess of living. It is claimed, and ADVANCE NOTICE: ing eyebrow, we can do no more than self could be used to illustrate a record with truth, that Genet has praised her A SOCIAL EVENING join the Town as it pads to the Redfera sleeve in a bad month. The bearded work and his Lettre a Leonor Fini still with our Spanish comrades Gallery at 20 Cork Street, W.l, to enjoy, character posing in woman’s dress in awaits our inspection if we can play God films—theatre—songs—colour—jazz 1 though not to accept, the current exhi­ two of Procktor’s paintings is not only for an idle moment. dancing—food FREEDOM PRESS bition of paintings by Patrick Procktor. a slapdash essay in lazy painting but an Yet, all in all, these two exhibitions (entertainers and jazz band wanted) In the final judgement each individual exercise in self-expression that fails to by Procktor and Leonor Fini are worthy Tickets available from Mujeres Libres. PUBLICATI0MS painting must stand or fall on its own amuse. All these leather-garbed Young- of your time and applause for, though LFA and Freedom Press internal merit and, no matter how sin­ men lounging in these vast and silent at first viewing this may seem an ill- Price 6/-, Children 2/6 ■ELECTIONS FROM ‘FREEDOM* cere the painter or novel or brave his rooms will, I have no doubt, find a marriage of Mayfair and the King’s SATURDAY, JULY 1, Voi 3 1053: Colonialism on Trial message, the passage of the years, new place on some tough Chelsea wall and Road, Chelsea, they deserve to be seen 6 p.m.-l 1 p.m. Vol 4 1954: Living on a Volcano problems and new generations will shunt the sad little pencil drawings of sad and for their simple, naive honesty. CONWAY HALL, Vei 5 1955: The Immoral Moralists bis heart’s cry to the basements of a naked Youngmen sprawling in bed or For those that seek the orthodox, in RED LION SQUARE, W.C.1 V«! 6 1956: Oil and Troubled Waters provincial museum or gallery according bath will form an icon for those who subject if not in style, then the paintings Further details later Vul 7 1957: Year One—Sputnik Era to his ability or lack of ability as areject the Evergreen mammary types. by Sheila Oliner at the Woodstock Gallery at 16 Woodstock Street,W.l, Vai I 1951: Socialismin a Wheelchair painter. If these paintings or drawings give a Chorley Anarchists Vul f 1959: Print, PramAc Public There is a brash urchin audacity in small particle of happiness to that un­ are worth a walk for her work has Vul 10 1960 Thu Tragady of Africa these paintings of Patrick Procktor that fortunate minority cult able to afford shown a magnificent improvement within 24-hr VIETNAM FAST Vul II 1961: Thu People la 4bu Street embraces the Rolling Stones in full drag, them, then they will have justified their the last few years and her strongly deli­ Vul 12 1962; PUkiafton v. Beuchiag to Procktor’s version of the Red Guard creation but beyond that function I feel neated nudes strain within their frames 6 pm Friday June 2 Vul 13 1963: Forcas of Law and Order high-stepping the great leap forward in that they have failed. in a harmony of colour and a sureness opp. Chorley Bus Station Vul 14 1964 ; Bucttoo Years an uneven chorus line across the floor of L&onor Fini, at the Hanover Gallery of line that bids well for her future, ■ a * voluaw paper 7/6 doth 19/6. the cave temples of Mai-chi-shan, with at 32a St. George Street, W .l, is a tough but it is L6onor Fini, tough and un­ Thu paper adiuoa of theSdUeHmm as vessel, for her exhibition of paintings yielding as her own subject matter, who DAVE CUNLIFFE was Involved in a frescoes of Chairman Mao and a Wuhan serious motor accident on Saturday. available to reader* of FREEDOM steel worker to fill the wings with a portrays a coven of hard-faced dolls ascarries the palm. 619/6 pout (see blurred vision of David Hockney peer­ selfish and as anti-social as anything the Friends will no doubt like to write ing through a rosy mist as the father women’s branch of the Tory Party ever A r t h u r M o y s e . to Tina, VKfftNON R1CHARM Malateeta: His U fe and Idea# NEW HAM LIBERTARIANS. 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USA. who had been sent down by the Valencia ^pHIRTY YEARS AGO, under the warm May, skies of Barcelona, the April 29, Antonio Martin, the council The Assault Guard, the PSUC and the president of Puigicerda, well-known CNT Esquerra Catala erected a few isolated Government to stop the fightings history of the anarchist movementin Europe was decided for decades. barricades which were not attacked and On the Thursday night, when the Casa We are still suffering from its aftermath, both here and the many thousands militant, was shot by a joint Stalinist- Civtl Guard patrol. The repression left severely alone in response tothe had even gone to the extreme of pur comrades who pace the stone cages of Franco’s present ‘liberal’ against the defence committees in Murcia Casa ONT’s repeated appeals for calm physically dismantling some of the regime. We in England have taken to a large extent the CNT/FAf as and Madrid became known in the pages and unity in the face of this provocation, barricades themselves, the PSfJC once our heroes, the nearest point that the organised syndicates ledby the of Sol Id arad O hr era just before May Day. It even instructed the workers in the more repeated their intentions of an anarchists came to the social revolution We talk of the collectives andThe Government had banned all Telephonica to pass through all messages honourable truce, CamiLt Bernefi and the communes of the militia columns and the barricades even today with public demonstrations on May I with impartially, (How impartial can you get one of. h is comrades were/ arrestpd for the fond remembrance of a forgotten dream that was in fact a nightmare the consent of the CNT ministers. The with three hundred cops on your tail!) being *counter revolutionaries’ and of stupidity and betrayal—firing squads and the blood of our comrades, weekend went quietly, the police breathed Im'is Orr, the wife of the editor of rnachined-gunned to death at the side defending the revolution that had never taken place, dying in the gutters a sigh of relief and started to think that the English-language POUM paper, of the police barracks by a squad of they could smash the CNT and the reported. Tty the next morning (Tuesday, PSUC police, Camilio Bemeri was an of history, uselessly murdered once moreby the Stalinist and the bour­ anarchist who had been in Mussolini's geois Government. The act was committedby others but upon the leaders POUM once and for all. May 4) the armed workers dominated Ever since the July days of '36 the the greatest part of Barcelona. The jails and was the editor of the indepen­ of the CST/FA1 falls the most terrible responsibility which permitted CNT had occupied the Telephonica ■ entire port and with it Montjuich fortress dent anarchist paper, Guerra dt CCaste, those who crushed the workers of Barcelona to do what they pleased. which stood in the centre of Barcelona which commands the port and city with He had been a thorn in the side of the In the first weeks of the Spanish Civil War a decision had to be taken with its black and red flag commanding its cannon was held by the anarchists; all reformist anarchist ministers and con­ | by the leaders of the CNT whether or not to regard the Franco uprising the city. The Telephone Exchange was the suburbs of the city were in their stantly attacked the FAI and the CNT i as the opening of the social revolution or'an isolated act of a reactionary a prime example of # duality of power hands; and the government forces, with for their part in the Government and j minority backed by the aristocracy and the middle classes. They decided within « the Catalan Republic. The CNT the exception of a few isolated barricades, their responsibility in the piecemeal f that it was the latter. Their certainty was not shared by Company®, thecontrolled It, There was, it was true, a were completely outnumbered and were destruction of the great gains made since Government delegate and a UGT delegate concentrated in the centre of the city, ECatalan premier (Catalonia was recently an autonomous republic), a lawyer the July days by the bourgeois also on the administration committee; the bourgeois area, where they could Government. Iwho had often acted in the past for the CNT. He stated that he thought nonetheless the workers were CNT, It easily have been called in from all sides (that they should all join together for their mutual defence against fascism. meant that no action could be undertaken The lessons had come full circle. as were the rebels (Franco’s men) on Participation in agovernment means [He said also that if it was the CNT’s decision that the time was ripe for against the CNT as the lines of com­ July 19, 1936/ the impotence of a revolutionary move- Jibe social revolution then he would go. He stayed and the collaboration munication were in their hands. CNT locate in Catalonia also ensured On Monday at 3 p.m. three truckloads merit. The FAI leaders, who had always Iwth the Government began. The CNT controlled Catalonia with the that the government forces were disarmed preached the social revolution, had sold of Assault Guards arrived at the Tele­ Asccption of Saragossa and Huesca, these garrisons were under the particularly on the approach roads to it down the river for a mess of potage- ®j*ncoist troops. The CNT suggested the composition of the Generalidad; phonica under the command of the Barcelona. The locals of the CNT/FAI Five hundred dead and 1,500 wounded Catalan Commissioner of Public Order. took all the initiative, the Friends of was the cost. Obey the Government was j p w a s accepted by a grateful Com pan ys who must have sighed with The guards on the lower floors were Durrutti called for a revolutionary junta K ief when he saw the political composition of the Generalidad (Cabinet), the call. The workers were sick of surprised and disarmed and the advance and complete disarmament of the Assault the Government and so were the militias. ■ b e CNT proposed the representation of all the Catalan parties on thewas only stopped on the second floor by Guards. The CNT issued a statement ■ fc (including the right-wing Esquerra Catala). The bourgeois merely had Men died and starved while at the front a machine gun barring the way. Mean­ calling once more for unity and disowned the Assault Guards and the Stalinist sit back and watch their work being done for them. while the crowds of workers were gather­ the Friends of Durrutti, The joint CNT/ police carried on the repressions against ■Katlcra came to a head after much FAI statement was broadcast; gpgte and loss of revolutionary gains the peasants of Aragon and the workers The CNT and FAI, who have helped of Barcelona. Power, once wrested from tved in the July 1936 days. True decisively in the defeat of fascism in s t went three anarchists in the Madrid the hands of the bourgeois state and Barcelona and Catalonia alongside other their military and their police, must be wramern. But that hardly com pen- anti-fascist organisations, appeal today to for the loss of control of the firmly rooted where it belonged . . . in all of you to lay down your arms. the people. The FAI failed to learn that tives and factories or the miserable Think of our great goal, common to all teioos of the militia units who were and so bears the brunt of the responsi­ the workers in the rear and at the front. bility of the massacres in the May days led arms and support. Orwell points The government of the Generalid must idnt they (the POUM) had to hand and the imprisonments afterwards. Vet be cleaned out. These demoralising acts they still defend it to this day. Not alL a their rifles to each other when they will have to cease regardless of who is but Fedrica Montseny for instance has bued units in the trenches. Meanwhile performing them, including the ministers. never recanted on what she did. Garcia Assault Guards, who seemed only 'Workers of the CNT, Workers of the Oliver even had the temerity to found an Able of assaulting the workers, were • UGT, don’t be deceived by these rumours. Anarchist Party some years ago. To Hang the streets of Barcelona re- Above all unity. Put down your arms. enter the Cortes when it is liberalised. ipped and well dressed with the latest Only one slogan. Wc must work to beat Ran arms. Stalin always looked after fascism. Down with fascism/ The lesson to us is equally obvious. It j police better than his army. Needs The predictable results were that the determines our stance on the CND and CNT started to drift from the barricades our attitudes to the proves. But let us rbc CNT. in following a policy of despite appeals from the anarchist youth make it clear. Once we fail to realise apiete co-operation with the Central and the locate. The police of course that of all the liberties that we demand Mrnzment in Valencia and the did no such thing. Just after the appeal and will fight for, economic liberty is JsBnerBjidad in Catalonia, was nonet he- across the road from the Casa CNT, two the hardest to attain and the most in a position of complete power of the anarchist youths were stopped and essential to our intrinsic liberty, then Brithin Barcelona and the surrounding got out of the car at a PSUC barrier. we will walk down the same slippery path Jprea This was in fact the sort point Defenceless, they were shot down. The of collaboration and end up selling the flpf the Central Government. Determined BARCELONA STREET SCENE 1937 Casa did nothing. ‘We did not even whole of our freedom. k put an end to this period of dual ' yield to this provocation/ says Souchy. M. J. Walsh ■power, the Stalinists and the bourgeois leaders stepped in and persuaded the ing outside and took up the cry of The fighting carried on until the end “ ■part** had been secretly planning bow local unit to hand over its arms and treason. They sped to the Casa CNT and of the week but each time the barricades (Sources: Spain and the World Supple­ to the strength of the CNT/FAJ. control of the post. The Assault Guards the working class suburbs. At 5 p.m. the were manned they were asked to go ment, June 11, 1937, Revolution and As early as April 17, moves bad been stepped up their campaign against the barricades were being thrown up by the home and put down their arms. After Counter-revolution in Spain, Felix Mor­ made against the CNT-controlled CNT/FAf and succeeded in disarming locals of the CNT and the FAI. During the fighting on the Wcdnesday/Thursday, row, Spanish Civil, War, Hugh Thomas. frontier post at Puigrcrda by the Assault workers’ patrols in Barcelona, again after the night many of the Government police the workers were tearing up Sol Id ar ad Rudolph Rocker, V. Richards and G. Guards and the Civil Guards; the CNT intervention by the Casa CNT. On permitted themselves to be disarmed. Obrera and cursing Fedriac Montseny Brennan.)

meant they did not mean Unilateralism carry us over the chasm that lies between from such freedom; a particular instance FURTHER —makes it also not surprising that there us and freedom. of this is the tendency to believe drugs FURTHER nay has been a rebirth of traditional Utopian But we need make much plainer than liberate, and those who so do are so afraid subsequently of being busied by W'KITING in the Socialist Leader achieve more. anti-Militarism whether Pacifist or we have just what we are proposing and Spugub. Unready as it is to challenge why the short cuts will be seen to be the police that they give up anarchist • * recently, an elderly member of the It is not surprising that the effect of (he inability of the CP to put up more the power political structure represented cut de sacs. For only when we have activity in order not to draw attention to BPGB mad the party had In the last by the State except by means that the persuaded more people of this will we themselves. What role the police first year grow? Lunar than ever before. than token resistance to the Wilson Government (if for no other reason State as the agent of such powers has laid have even enough propagandists to make play in introducing the drugs remains a There has also beam in this country, down in the certainty that here it can it possible to tell everyone about mystery. tua Cuba, a phaionail growth of its ambitions within the TU bureaucracy preclude any open confrontation with win, they are doomed to failure but as anarchism. Then, with the passage of time some the aw e obnoxious vgrwtias of Trotsky­ they offer what appears an easy way wished to join a larger movement or a ism and other Maoorieated factions- social-democracy) has led to a flowering There is here a need to understand of Maoist groups whether openly they naturally have a superficial less militant one; and, furthermore, the effects of political propaganda on others, who were once hard-core anar­ Ym m mum admd that the upsurge Stalinist or allegedly Trotskyist. It is attraction. two distinct categories of people most of U h m r a ia n that we expected at chists but fatigued by long struggle, not beyond the bounds o fpossibility that Relatively new on the political scene, likely to be immediately influenced. the ta u of Cuba, t h e the aaa/dmt n Maoist movement counting its member­ gave up. We therefore have little revival £rs( became apparent, pat has one has the 'new look* New Liberate Those who (while having inadequate con­ reason to worry too much that others ship ia five figures might in time emerge; with their policies of 'workers’ control' ceptions of the nature of power in the have grown faster than us, as it in no W maianaJiaad to the o m aaanehists and because h$ aim is revolution in the had eipeeied We are a larger move* in a fashion that does nothing to change State) are nevertheless militant within the way prejudices our case. backward countries rather than here, it is the control of money, and assumes that limits of their present analysis (as Left L.O. s e a than we weep at the agd ai dm 5Cff ia the comfortable position of being able Labour constituency workers. Left (indeed m probably have anore active a measure of partial control in industry, to mouth red-hot revolutionary calls leaving the rest of control untouched, Liberate, Nuclear Disarmers, Colonial groups chaa we tboa bad iadmduakj while studiously avoiding any Freedom ists, Ox (am or such) and need hot wa has* aot as pet wairged as a and leaving finance as it is, can con­ 'adventurist* action here. stitute a meaningful reform. One also a fuller analysis to sustain their actions; movement emntting our active aad cotth and those who, intellectually, are recep­ aaitsad group mamberriups ia thowsaod* On issues such as pay, hours and has the remains of the New Left and or even in the high hundred* noodd w m whore militaat struggle* may the Revisionist Trot or ex-Trot influences tive to a large part of our case but have he wMgd against the homes, and yet be working with them, also advocating a subjective reasons for not wishing to bfi This being to«,^we aaad to be buriy form of ‘workers’ control' modelled very militant and so come to nationalize oortaio in our m m goads that we are kept kraedy within the structure of the present d a s system, they can afford to almost exactly on Mussolini’s Corporate their inaction with phrases of waiting following the right potions However ptay a very militant rote, without spoil­ State. for the masses to become conscious. preferable aa anmckm socsety to aM ing then kwiwHiii chances by telling others, aad however m m m ry in abahab We offer as against this a revolu­ Naturally those who are already mili­ those v td whom they work that In sue tionary perspective which we are aware tant need to be eclectic in their choice the State, if wa have ae heps ai all of need they must challenge the whole of libertarian ideas to supplement their achieving this we might a* wall pack up is not easy, which we are aware demands Male syttasa It is unlikely that they more from the mamas in order to make militancy and do not fully embrace our and go borne to o il uundhnt tadi- would ever wish to go further than this v»dualist* aad if there is a tactic sieved a revolution than the methods our ideas. On the other hand those who point, and that there is any danger of various rivals would demand (if it ever wish to avoid real revolutionary action that might with a little alteration lead thorn testing up a la sistd dictatorship, shelter behind the dogmaticism fof a to as approxijttrtian ef amrrliiam. while happened that they did set about trying thcaig&t a little hit of ibuggery cm the in fulfil their aims}, but which by the revolutionary vanguard or a party of our own achieves go ruwHi. then loo we way m y wall he expected and. like their conscious internationalists. In both would have to pack in our ova position same token gives the masses more; and wadersamra of the thirties, they m y only that much more can prevent rever­ cases their ranks are strengthened by So we flood to be certain that though it brand real revoiittionartes as objectively may be possible for a Marxist grouping sion to a dans society. We are often some who, at the end of the Committee fascist .. > of 100’t heyday, came to consider to capture pernor, H will not bring ceiled socialists in a hurry, this is not SIX SHILLINGS EACH WILL The collapse of CND—nnd the fact the cnee We are ana/chitts because un­ anarchism in the brat of the moment but socialism, aad we need to be certain who alternatively declare themselves free BRING THEM ‘FREEDOM* AND that though aa Utopian grouping tike that those who described tbsmulvn as fortunately there Is no short cut, our way •ANARCHY* FOR TWO MONTHS SPOB or oM guard Pacifists might Multi lateral mix who meag It, have aow —the tang way—is unluckily the only individuate and provide reasons why work to change society would detract WITH YOUR COMPLIMENTS. temporary results they cnaotd sbewa that whatever ehe they may have road which has a bridgs on the road to pROVO IS AGAIN working on an anxious Dutch public. The right-wing to be seen as a warning to interna­ d*i(y De Teiegraaf began it with stories of Provos and foreign beatniks tional fascism that its opponents living in indescribable tilth, moral and physical, aboard the barge may be driven to violent acts of H ixtum in. maliciously concluding that Provos were carriers of scabies. resistance. Suggested targets for the More recently Dr Haagse Post manufactured a sensational feature— future include American Express ‘Prows' New Image: Terror', from minimal information. Police found offices. Anti-American feeling is cans of nitrobenzene, a cleaning fluid with explosive properties, in the generally very strong among Provos. A Case fbi Provo Apollo Theatre and now the neighbourhood quakes and blusters. The violence, however, is symbolic The dirty Provos are dangerous, they’re making bombs and they’re living and tactical. It is not directed with the affair; these include the of such refugee literature, forcing an next door to us. (NATO bombs? They are our protection, they are clean, against persons and it is too sporadic Union Miniere and the Soci6t6 unmistakable backdrop into every they are made in special factories and taken to airfields far from where we to be a campaign of sabotage or of Gdrteral. photographer’s picture. The loca­ five.) Our children meet these dreadful Provos. sometimes join them. violence on principle. It is aimed tion of Provo presses is usually kept The first place Amsterdam cops call, in search of runaway girls, is the at the public via the mass media and a n t i -f a s c i s t f e e l i n g secret. Should one be seized, barge or cellar. Admit to a Dutch kid out of town that you are a Provo targets are chosen to ram home the On the Dutch Easter Peace March Provos in another town run off the and they gambol about, half awed, half rejoicing—one of Batman’s real political context of violence else­ the theme was Vietnam rather than next issues for their fellows. Open henchmen.' An exchange I had with at? Amsterdam cop went as follows: where. Rob Stolk explains the nuclear weapons. ‘Johnson Moor- a booklet like God Nederland and ‘Could you tell me the way to Haarlemerstraat. please?’ current Provo interest in terrorism denaar’, at first an isolated shout, O range and the furore Provo ’What are you doing?’ in this way: ‘It depends on the became a mass refrain in the heart cartooning has caused becomes 'Going to see friends.' action of Pop Art.’ Provo protest of Amsterdam, chanted to the Provo intelligible. The ridicule is merciless, 'How much money have you got?’ I explain I am going back to is largely expressed through out­ handclap (one - two/one-two-three). no holds are barred. Queen Juliana England shortly. rageous cartoons, in their magazines The mounted police had to lump it, suckles a black German eagle. Or "You are a professional Provo?’ or acted out in street play. If there were too many people to she sits by a red lamp, fingering 'No! ’ Mock incredulity. 'Could you tell me how to get to Haarlemer- these are suppressed, unless ‘there is arrest, for words a judge has her skirt as she watches for custo­ straat?’ a lot of fun and possibilities to have declared illegal. The presentation mers, her immense salary displayed 'If you go to the police station they might inform you.’ things happening’, the use of vio­ of the final demonstration showed on a window card. In another the As for the Provos themselves, they take reaction in their stride, knowing lence becomes more likely. Provos Provo’s imaginative influence. A Queen of Holland singe a variation from experience that smear campaigns tend to overreach themselves, and have made it their business to learn huge bell, tolled steadily by a man on Marlene Dietrich: ‘I am full of end by providing extensive free publicity. The barge in fact, as any visitor how to make their own bombs. How in black standing on a black trolley, money from head to foot’. Churchy can see. is a floating guesthouse, cleaned out daily and responsibly many English anarchists are was followed by three companies of attitudes to sex are also staple for, organized; so that people from all over Europe can find a place to kip similarly prepared? What of propa­ demonstrators, 30 or so in each, the lampoons. A very ordinary littlel white on the road. ganda by deed? first bearing white wooden crosses, bourgeois hangs nailed over the the next picture placards with the IMAGE sexual: parts of Christ crucified. A BLOWING AUTHORITY’S COOL caption ^SO.OOO dead in Vietnam’, fatuous monk boasts a church! 'Provo is an Image' is one of their Take the lid off and spill the and the last group, all in gold hel­ slogans. This may suggest Provo is beans. Offer the public the secrets mets, was headed by a banner: fied matron holds a snake/penis at j largely a fiction, owing everything of the military and of big business. ‘Gold is the price of blood’. arm ’s length. In England monarch}* to the police, press and civic Then watch authority panic, lash Holland is now guest-nation for and the established church are too! authorities. Nearly 20 films have out in embarrassment and further NATO, since headquarters were flat to invite further deflating. Bud been made about the Provos and expose its criminal duplicity. LYNX, moved from outside Paris to Lim­ how many English cartoonists have] they are currently making one of organ of the Hague Provos, re­ burg in the south of the Netherlands. the marvellous sense of the botfff their own from this material. They cently published the proceedings of This,vast complex is 20 kilometres and its satirical possibilities sho^f will admit that the weekend street the Bilderberg Conference, a top- from Maastricht where Provos in Provo cartoons? riots (equals suppressed happening) publish a surreal magazine, secret debate on Holland’s place in OFF-THE-POINT are now' increasingly creations of the NATO, chairmanned by Prince Breakfast in Bed. Maastricht police. Despite its influence, Provo Bernhard. How Provos obtained Provos cultivate a light-hearted joy­ p r TTv o c a t io n has no thought of being a political the complete text is their secret. ful mood in order to win sympathy The cartoonist applies the m aa party—plus organization, plus cap- The police seized the few copies in a very reactionary area. When possibilities of humour. The saff sulated ideology. It is effective pre­ that had not been sold, and by Provos presented the visiting Head appreciation of the sublimk cisely because it is formless, fluid their ill-considered seizure of of NATO, General von Keyserling, thrust underlies happenings. | and unpredictable: without hierar­ Rob Stolk joked up a rumour that LYNX’s press made national news with a record of his responsibility recertt idea from Amsterdam’s chies and decentralized, its comment the explosion was really the work of of the Conference. for Nazi mass-murders in Poland, he hibitionist. Robert Jasper GriJ’ and provocation appearing in up­ fascists trying- to discredit Provo. More to come. Amsterdam’s replied that he was not interested. veldt, is a relay race through T wards of 15 cartoon papers and Didn’t the CIA plant a man in the Provos have conjured up an ‘Econo­ Provos constantly needle their city. Like most of his actions free-form journals from all over Black Muslims to blow up the Statue mic Terroristic Council’. Results elders with memories of wartime aim is to ridicule the consumer^ Holland. ‘Image' really means of Liberty and then have their of a Europe-wide investigation that occupation. One cartoon shows the this case the blind aiding af amply this: watch out for a body of ‘exposure’ exposed? takes in London’s City, will be royal arms^evolving into a swastika, abetting of American Wo real and imaginative ideas. Provo is divided over violence. blown in P rovo 16, the next issue. another a furious policeman at the Empire. Runners would carry co Bernhard de Vries told me he hoped double belting into the same shape. colas, their faces stuck in a toot TERRORIShr The scandal concerns the Teixeira to see Amsterdam’s Provos breaking de Mattos Company, a private bank A leaflet I saw, below three royal paste smile, handing out chewi? Back to the news. In one week up into numerous small groups over that .suddenly announced bank­ heads asked “Which of these is gum to spectators and singit| Provos threw Molotov cocktails into this issue. Future violent actions ruptcy, but not before all the big the greater democrat?’, giving America’s praises: ‘Johnson is j the Spanish Embassy at The Hague would then be the work of small clients had swiftly withdrawn their clues:—Carlos, husband of tKe bloody good fellow’ or such Iikdl and escaped capture, immobilized a groups of three or four, giving more holdings. The man in the street younger princess: son of ex-King of This kind of protest, not quite to^ Dutch warship by pouring sand into cover to individuals involved than with his smaller deposit lost every­ Spain and would-be successor to the point but slightly to one side" engine parts, and blew up part of had been so with the Van Heutz thing. The president of the bank Franco; Claus, husband of the elder has been insufficiently explored a s l the statue of Van Heutz, a general bomb. The Provo cellar is watched was never questioned or arrested princess: ex-Nazi Youth, ex-eornet a variation on straight demonstra-l who subjugated Indonesians by and comings and goings sometimes and the lawyer who took up the in the Wehrmacht; Bernhard, hus­ tions. It requires less people, isl means of massacre. Dramatic' photographed. Holland has a maniac case of the small clients was bought band of Queen Juliana; sung at his more dramatic in its impact, and isl example in one place inspired action internal security servioe. A leaflet off. During the war Holland was a wedding, ‘Horst Wessel Lied’, the more fun to participate in. But the j elsewhere. There was no plan re­ currently circulating has been put part of the German state. Over official Nazi hymn. main advantage is that the authori- ’ lating these acts of resistance. The out by the ‘Revolutionary Terror­ the years the personnel of authority ties rarely recognise for what it is in maker and plaoer of the Van Heutz ism Circle’, which of course consists don’t change that much. P rovo 16 FEARLESS CARTOONISTS time to stop it. Playing with ideas bomb have both been picked up of no one in particular. ‘We place will reveal how the bank was Amsterdam cannot easily live like this, no Provo need ever and will be detained without trial our Terror against the Terror of the' formed, by Dutch-German col­ down its history of free presses. repeat himself. The idea is to be. until the police announce they have Security Service.’ It goes on to ask: laboration in the last days of the Countless political and religious continually surprising the general uncovered the whole plot. Over ‘Do legal protests have any sense?’, war, in a large part out of tracts were once published here public, waking people up to them­ Easter weekend scores of people, ending with seven incitements to money taken from the Jewish while their authors hid from repres­ selves and their environment, in a down in detainees’ address books, throw bombs. Those hurled through community, and how various big sion. The inside walls of the Provo way newsprint never can. Should were taken in for questioning. Provo the Spanish Embassy windows are corporations of today are connected theatre are to be covered with sheets the happener be jailed, like all good

all intellectual points of view, with sug­ gestions for. improvements’. Granted I I SnUSBOVRS SmUTHMSTS there’s no shortage of coarseness, all of it deliberate, but a real clarity of vision •TtHE OLD WAY of dismissing any even by the National Union of Students of the Situationist attitude to all rebel­ shows itself as well, as in the analysis £ self-assertive student body was to itself; in short, by all the people they lious manifestations: the mod-rocker of the part students are conditioned to treat it as a mere juvenile extension of describe with the blanket term ‘cretins’. style of revolt is seen as false because play within the capitalist framework: the bourgeoisie, having its fling before But the opposition doesn’t worry them; its proponents reject work while relying ‘Student status is merely provisional, pre­ returning to spend its life in the bosom on the contrary,‘they systematically pro­ on a capitalist system to supply the paring the student for the definitive r61e of its class; whether it let off its steam voke it. For to be a Situationist you things they want; Provo is considerably in which he makes a positive and in I left- or right-wing direction made must first of all ‘situate yourself, and better, but is ultimately dismssed as a appreciable contribution to the function­ little difference to the ultimate re­ doing this means breaking with all the 'merely reformist’ movement burdened ing of the buying-and-selling system. . . . absorption into conformity. This view terms of reference of the society with with an increasingly repressive hierarchy. Modern capitalism demands that students is certainly no longer valid; a degree which you find yourself at odds. be no more than dooile skilled workers, of democratisation in education, slight Institutionalized groups come in for The important thing about these the most devastating criticism of all, as cogs in the big money machine.’ Typical Malicious Approach though it may be, has increased the scathing young people is that they know Identification is felt with the student in this section on communism from the man, to join with him in a movement number of students in all countries and what they’re talking about, and that recent Situationist manifesto: ‘The revolt in the US; and with movements towards workers’ control and individual provided opportunities for a wider social very few groups find any favour with results of the Russian counter-revolution in the Eastern bloc where student oppo­ range than before. Now any revolu­ them. Their professors are described were, within Russia, the development of sition to authority is seen essentially as freedom. tionary movement worth its salt cannot as ‘nostalgic old men, embittered at a new form of exploitation, bureaucratic proletarian criticism of bureaucracy. This Raymond G uillore , fail to take students into account; all being forced by the economic system to state capitalism; and, outside Russia, the link with the working class is a prime in La Revolution prolclarienne the more so when a section of a student abandon their rOle as smug watchdogs proliferation of branches of the so-called situationist consideration, and the student abridged and translated by body sees a direct link between its own of the intellect for that of mere sheep­ “communist" international, branches movements in Britain and especially John Thurston. aims and actions and the general move­ dogs, guiding the white-collar brigade formed with the sole aim of defending Japan are highly respected on this score. ment towards improvement of the towards their offices and factories'. the Russian model and extending its Little faith, however, is placed in trade worker’s position. Fellow students are treated no less influence. Capitalism, in both its unionism in any country; student trade Subscription Rates Hot on the heels of the Provos we have kindly for their faith in political solu­ bureaucratic and bourgeois variations unions, say the Situationists, would be FREEDOM only (per year) the Situationists, although to treat them tions: ‘The student dresses himself in bloomed once more, this time over the no more than a caricature of a £1 10s. ($4.50) surface mail as similar would be a mistake which the rags of a leftist movement that was bodies of the Kronstadt sailors, the caricature. £2 16s. ($8.00) airmail the latter group would never forgive. obliterated 40 years ago by socialist peasants of the Ukraine, the workers of These general attitudes, especially the ANARCHY only (per year) The Situationists claim to move on an reformism and Stalin's counter­ Berlin, Turin, Shanghai and later solidarity with the working class and the £1 6s. ($3.50) surface mail international front, but their most revolution. . . . He proudly opposes Barcelona.’ rejection of institutions, demonstrate a £2 7s. ($7.00) airmail significant success so far has been the de Gaulle's archaic policies without It would be wrong, though, to get the real affinity between Situationists and COMBINED SUBSCRIPTION taking over of the Students’ Association realizing that he does so only in the idea that Situationists can't manage any­ Anarchists, an affinity strengthened by FREEDOM & ANARCHY (per year) of Strasbourg, a branch of the National name of past mistakes and that his thing more positive than insults and the overall Situationist aim: ‘the pro­ £2 10s. (S7.50) surface mail both Union of French Students. Since the youthful approach is thus even more general abuse. The manifesto just men­ letarian,’ they say, ‘is any man deprived £4 15s. ($12.50) airmail both takeover they have been opposed by the antiquated than that of the power- tioned sets out to examine ‘the difficulties of the power to control the course of FREEDOM (airmail) & serried ranks of the academic establish­ complex that manipulates him.' of the student life from the economic, his own life’; it is the task of the student, ANARCHY (seamail) ment, the professors in particular, and This rigorous criticism is characteristic political, psychological, sexual and above and of everybody, to identify with this £3 17s. ($10.50) (per year) then inkstamped in characteristic tradictory, that it defies labelling. one is always in the cellar. Thane dada fashion with ‘Extra Christmas New Provo magazines are starting appear to be no routines to consume Colour Supplement’ and a ring of all the time. In February The the energy of activists. Provoca­ gibberish. Provos are also ap­ Awakener from Arnhem, in March tion is the be all and end all. CND, parently responsible for the removal one from Dordrecht. Groups out­ compare cost and effect with Provo! side Holland have recently sprung Provocation of weapons from Dutch museums. PROVOCATION Someone was arrested on this year’s up in Copenhagen and in Frankfurt. Easter March for displaying a belt­ Provo does printing for revolu­ Provo’s aim is to provoke every­ magicians he will work his magic less necessary. Witness the Diggers ful of bullets. tionaries in Ethiopia, like Holland one who is not already a Provo, through the walls. Happeners seized in America. The Klaas Bank With a bit of imagination many burdened with a reactionary particularly the functionaries of the by Amsterdam’s police have makes a fool of the miser and official privileges can be made monarchy. The most articulate State. It is the most extroverted regularly drawn scores of Provos nonsense of capitalism. Most sub­ meaningless, at least temporarily. activists have travelled a great deal movement imaginable. The struggle to protest and perform outside the versive of all is its sacrifice of the Provo Amsterdam is going to issue around the Low Countries to lecture against authority, the struggle for prison. sacred cow of the bourgeois, private press cards with future copies on the on Provo to schools and societies, more freedoms, is more important The Provo apple, now appearing property. No mine. No Yours. principle that every reader of Provo sometimes earning a living from than any conception of class as a badge in England, is a further Everything Ours, everything gaining also a (potential) reporter/con- talks. The Socialist Youth and the struggle. The state excludes middle- example of applied magic. Drawn value as we add our names to it. tributor. And recently they forged Left of the Universities are both and working-class alike from control properly it is the perfect insignia for The klaas note must be passed 20,000 entry cards in order to over­ much influenced by Provo. Other of their lives. Provo has no illu­ an underground movement. The round, used by as many people as run an official motor vehicles exhibi­ Provos survive without being em­ sions about the possibility of revolu­ apple represents an outline map of possible, else it has little value. The tion. Each card was stamped ployed by selling their magazine in tion in advanced Western European Amsterdam’s main waterways, the idea grows that property is worth FIRM: PROVO. FACTORY FOR their hometown. industrial society. ‘We cannot con­ •Cye’ being the Spui, scene of the sharing. THROWING AWAY CARS. All Several Provos have written books vince the masses. We hardly want first happenings; it is also the apple In practice old ideas* of self- of which has some bearing on the about Provo, not to mention the to. How one can put one’s trust of creation, a cigarette (straight or interest and the business of law­ fate of the White Bicycle Plan. numerous essays by sociologists and in this apathetic, dependent, spirit­ joint) smoker, an invitation to sexual makers would hinder the clandestine Bernhard de Vries has made way other pundits. Roel van Duyh. a less horde of cockroaches, beetles pleasure, and a key. development of a Klaas Bank within on the Amsterdam Municipal and ladybirds is incomprehensible,* a money economy. The first cheque prime mover and philosopher of KLAAS Council for Luid Schimmelpennick, wrote van Duyn in the first issue of was bought for 15 guilders (30/-), the Provo who fathered the original Provo, is author of While Fear. Duco van Weerlee recently brought Provo. But Provo must not neglect Beside the apple is often written but that js purely incidental, for the White Bike Plan and still has high its own, the .unaffiliated youth it the word *Gnot\ There is an echo out a booklet, What the Provos want. meaning of Klaas emerges precisely hopes for a modified version. He has named the Provotariat, those of God, but the nearest translation Hans Tuynman’s Full Time Provo because of the obstacles to its reali­ estimates that at any moment there with nothing to lose, those who hesi­ is bringer of satisfaction. Gnot will are 3,000 bicyclists in the city centre. gives a picture of the day-to-day zation: there can be no true social lifestyle of the happening Provos. tate to swallow the lies of the come to announce the era of Klaas. revolution without a new under­ He will therefore ask the council to Klaas is an imagined future time What sort of people become organized system. Their unfocused standing between people. In Other lay on 4,000 public bicycles, in con­ rage needs educating, rebellion of when heaven or bliss prevails, when Provos? Apart from the obvious— words psychological change will junction with electric taxis (noise­ the teenager growing into rebellion ‘homo ludens’ inherits the earth. that activists are mainly young have to precede social change. The less) and white buses (fumeless). of the adult. For the riots that There is of course a double pun in people of middle-class background Klaas Bank could never be enforced Originally Provos painted their own terrify the authorities, to borrow Klaas — at the expense of Prince and include very few girls—one has by law. The lunatic Provos are the bicycles white and introduced the words from Heatwave, are in­ Claus and upon commercial Santa to ask Provos themselves who they most truly subversive. idea to the public themselves—direct separably a form of self-realization -Klaus. are, and on this they will give you action and a revolutionary snub to and an objective assault on con tern-' . The more humourless radical may different answers. One will deny private property. Presented through porary life. A society that has ^dismiss all this as a load of poetic that poet and Simatist Simon Vin- reformist channels the White Bicycle suppressed all adventure has made i rubbish. However, who is there kenoog has any connection with Plan may stand a better chance with the only adventure the suppression who has never experienced a Amsterdam’s elders. However its Provo, while another said ‘he’s a [moment’s bliss in their life and has of that society’. fate indicates a major weakness of real Provo for me’. Equally many [not imagined its continuation? The Provo does not need to get bigger Provo. They lack the material re­ of the Provos, who groove about [quaint mythology of the Provos in the sense of occupying more seats sources and organisation with which between the barge, cellar and Idoes have a rough and ready cor­ on municipal councils (which would to make a fait accompli of their theatre, show no interest in Provo’s respondence to reality. Some Provos municipal councillor. But someone make of it just another political biready live the part of ‘homo White Plans, most of which the party, trying with decreasing public would welcome once it were else will extol Luid' Schimmelpen­ ludens’. Within the theatre they nick for his value as a ‘Provo impetus to reform the establishment loon about, day and night, doodling seen how these would humanise the it increasingly becomes a part of); urban environment. Thus Provo ombudsman’, coming as he does lor painting depth-lettering over the rather it needs to provoke more and DIRECT ACTION OR ideas suffer a demoralising time lag from a traditionally liberal family, [walls (examples of decor in English: more effectively, until the day when before being considered by the whose part in republican struggles I WANT MORE AND LET’S GO REFORMISM? every Dutch schoolboy knows. to be in‘ authority over others is establishment. Can Provo congratu­ regarded with universal distaste and [AND GET IT) or else sit quietly in Provo issues a direct challenge late itself on Philips, the largest [the ‘LSD Research Room’, antid- to the official spectacle. When Easily overlooked is the fact that submission to authority meets with corporation in Holland, forcibly many of the contributions to Provo universal contempt Provo has been | paring th^era of total leisure. Rob Stolk appeared on the Dutch presenting its Amsterdam employees In this ambience, origination of equivalent of TWTWTW, the pro­ are from writers quite unconnected effective to date because it declines with a bicycle each on which to with the Provo scene. A front? to play by the rules of the liberal ideas like the Klaas Bank is less of gramme was at first scheduled to be come to work? The only hint taken a mystery. The Klaas Bank is a a live broadcast from a hall in the No, for there is no organisation be­ protest game. The attitude is closer in this case is that people need hind Provo. Its attraction is for to schoolboy truant’s: rules exist to projected means of exchange which centre of Amsterdam. Foreseeing more space to move in. would replace money, money that there would be little chance given individuals. Finance? Provo more be broken. Their anarchism is Proyos will have to shake up than pays for itself by selling 20,000 coupled with a shrewd appreciation standardises, alienates, and reduces to express Provo’s attitude to the established power far more all to its own value as lowest com- monarchy, Provos planned to take copies per issue. The press used to of how fascinating the cowed thoroughly before it will be worth bring out the first issue was a masses find their disobedience, , mon denominator. Instead of money the building over and convert the their while themselves doing the paper notes will circulate; their interview into a debate for the present from a generous Provo who fascinating even after castration by work of translating their ideas into asked for his inheritance in advance. the mass media. Provo does not value would vary according to the viewers and themselves. Word got action.' For at present the authori­ number of individual signatures on out, however, and Provo’s spokes­ The theatre they could use for free despair because it is a minority ties leave too little room for people but they prefer to pay to secure style, without established power. a note. Every transaction or gift man for the occasion had to be to initiate their own projects, then becomes a real expression of content with being pre-recorded. some rights. When in difficulties With our spoofs and our stunts we whether these be reformist or Provo can call on good lawyers. will nuisance you intolerably, is their the individual’s sense of value. Like ' I was puzzled by the inclusion revolutionary in intention. giving flowers to your girl friend the between the pages of Provo 13 of Provo is literally self-running and supporting faith. In this they are takes care of itself without any vindicated. gift of a klaas note is a gesture of an Armed Forces recruiting maga­ SPAN OF PROVO love. Widen the area of its disuse zine—until a Provo explained. A formal structure or offices. Every­ and money becomes progressively thousand copies were stolen and Provo is so various, even con­ body answers the telephone. Some­ G.G.

fined to the guilty. The bomb almost more sincerely still, I admit it infuriates they take the mickey out of the Russians. always finds the innocent. And anyhow me that the naval pigs thrown overboard I like the reasonableness of Communist NO ADVANCE 0111956! all Western governments have used the from the Potemkin should have swum life—despite its lesser freedom—to the tank as well as the bomb. aboard again and now lord it over the crawling nest of property shite-hawks built over and on to England. ment in Hungary had been concealed by A cause of this is the inflamed hysteri­ lower deck like officers anywhere in the H O U asked for comments on your cal drunken thinking of the West. From West But what am I now being told? Nor have I anything to fear. With the YI edition of F reedom , Spring 1967, the Daily Worker. As well as this Commies in Westminster and Whitehall, scepticism, I adopted the philosophy ‘I World War I the bomber was prophesied If I’m being told ‘Watch the Commies!’, which had eight pages. I now give mine. as a weapon of success in war. Hitler, well all right, I’ve got the message. But with the Opposition thrown into the Kindly excuse their length. They are, expect Communism. I don't fear it. I Thames with the Peers—allowed to swim look forward to it a little. But I won't Churchill and Bomber Harris writhed in am I being told ‘Don't join with the however, the first I have offered to your this hysteria, though Germans escaped Commies even to establish their type of ashore soiled, of course—with the Metro­ columns, and they may be the last. They work for it Nor will I allow that a politan Police renamed People’s Militia, single man's death is permissible to bring the war only when troops wrested their Communism, namely authoritarian Com­ are also the fruit of some years thought, land from them, not earlier when bigger munism!' ' then I won’t obey. I see with the mines and factories allegedly both on your work and politics generally. it nearer.’ bombs evoked better shelters. run by the workers, as now in the It disappointed me that your first What attracted me to Freedom that I am saying, in short, then, that Soviet Union or Czechoslovakia, why pholo should have been of Stalin’s year was an article explaining American restraint in not bombing South Korea, then at least the buses will be free and I toppled statue. One of Kennedy's coffin non-intervention in Hungary in answer when the Americans bombed North, or won’t run the risk of being fined again would have disappointed me less. Both to Nagy's plea. Briefly you claimed in bombing South Vietnam when the for not paying my fare‘on the tube. And were tyrants, but Stalin for me the less that despite the Voice of America's Americans bomb North, marks Commu­ you’ll be able to pitch yer tent on a bit so, called as he was ‘Uncle Joe' by those inspiration to revolt in Hungary, neither of England that some duke or cunt nist 'governments as more humane. 00 doesn’t own. about me in the war, naval ratings close Wall Street nor Whitehall welcomed it. course they are more politic too, since the to mutiny who knew instinctively that And for the first time I saw with you Prison? Purged? Don’t you believe bombing hysteria must have gained many it. I’m stopping at the bottom. Kropot­ no matter what he’d done to ambitious that Soviet and Western leaders were a enemies for the West, but if they are intelligent Russians, he’d helped the dull match in many ways. kin's trouble was that his name got more politic then I prefer them, since known. Schweik, the Good Soldier ones, and that we could do with a Joe the wisdom implicit in such real politic instead of Churchill and Mountbatten. Your article this year, 1967, however, Schweik. Hasek's Schweik is the anarchist makes no advance in the interpretation of is such as I would desire my governors proper. He stays at the bottom. The With the photo was the article on the 1956. It forgets that troops landed at to have, if I must have a governor. After all it has been safe to be a Russian boss always suspects he’s Iving, but can Hungarian rising of 1956. It happens Port Said as tanks ringed Budapest. It never be sure. , that I first read F reedom that year, forgets that the Western press charged the since 1945 and a Chinaman since 1948. Honesty’s only one policy. We’ve got when the truths about Stalin had been Soviet Union with bombing Budapest and But to have been a North American has confirmed at the 20th Congress of the not been safe at all. I might have died in to be dishonest now and again. And deporting people; charges forgotten Faith’s the big sin, as Percy Shelley Soviet CP. That Congress decided me later. About this I would like to point Korea, in Vietnam, or in whatever idiocy never to believe whJly the official state­ the bomb-happy hysterics at the Pentagon always sings to us. Cos when Eichman out, for the attention of the anti-Soviet looks back he’s got to find mddenly ments of Comm uni#governments, though writers in your columns, one respect in think up. I would continue to read Soviet Weekly, that the platoon's not forced up behind which, though most governments are Let me finish, however, with a question ’im. etc., always modifying my picture with black, the Soviet government is only grey. or two. Will some comrade explain to a scrutiny of the equally unbelievable In Czechoslovakia I fo’ind that Party I mean bombing. So far as I'm aware, me what I have to fear from Com­ people lamented that the be"t people anti-Soviet Western press. The need the Communist countries have to their munists? Shortly after 1956, when I'd for this scepticism, which I still practise, wouldn’t join the Party. Good. T also credit not a single Guernica, Rotterdam, met a few Anarchists and began to think heard that down in the *'outh near the was reinforced by the Hungarian up­ Coventry, Hamburg or Hiroshima. It myself one, I was told about Kronstadt. rising. with the disheartening lesson that, authoritarian Communism of the Russian Austrian border were yorne people like will be shrilly argued that tfie Soviets So I read about it and wept a little. or Czech sort as a step on the way to our layabouts. Good agp«n. The state is the best of worlds, Communist will still have killed with tanks, and to die by Then about the Civil War in Spain. And anarchism — in Czechoslovakia it’s fight Communist, and by the return from will wither away yet. tank-fire is no worse than by bomb. I wept again. Yes, I'm being ironical. marvellously difficult to find anybody Your fellow Sdrvoik. Hungary of Dr. Bone, whose imprison- But tank-fire is more accurate and con­ All right, I’ll admit it was sad. And who’ll take responsibility at present and Stuart M itchell . B O O K REVIEW less of an ‘Aboriginal problem’. David there are arrests, and Trap i* charged does he get the chance to speak for David is suddenly, and forcibly, faced with attempted murder. *A gesture was himself. The occasions when he gets with what his country has done, and is needed,* he had said. He had never this chance are among the tericat, matt still doing, to its original inhabitants. really expected the venture to succeed, pointed parts of the book: /T o know Trap is to be influenced by but he has left his mark: David David, "What you bastards don’t want is ADVANCE AUSTRALIA FAIR! him. . . . You go to him a reasonable out walking that evening after hearing anyone who’s not the sun-bronzed digger conservative sort, a defender of estab­ the news of Trap’s arrest, surprises and type. So most of us Abos are out . . . lished things, and you leave fermenting frightens himself by throwing a brick And do you really think there are many TRAP, a novel by Peter Mathers. Cassell was kindled by White’s Tree of Man in with ideas of — wait for it — anarchism, of these ideal diggers? My arse. TO (Australia); about 21/-. 1956 and which has grown continuously through £7,000 worth of plate glass nihilism, Buddhism, all isms and wild, window; the window belongs to his tell you this — there's not many of as since then, the Australian novel, the general revolt.* but we’re getting the guts of things. INCE ITS EARLIEST days Australian side of society, the side that has refused book that establishes itself and the ‘Trap, an employee, hates the employer And if we can’t get concessions from S writing has laboured under its own Trap and his race the most elementary country as it really is, has remained class. And also, as he puts it, the boss’s human recognition. 4I still have the you we’ll try battery and if that doesn’t unique set of difficulties: where exactly unwritten. mercenaries, the foreman and his kind.’ Trap taint with me,’ he says, ‘I must, work well go all cunning. . . .* was a writer to begin in a country with In so far as it is unambiguously con­ Trap has lived and worked at many must, must, must beware.* no literary tradition and virtually no Trap’s strength is undeniable; but it cerned with contemporary Australia, jobs in many different parts of Australia. The central concept of this big, comes to us almost always in diluted history of its own? The obvious in­ Trap is far more ambitious than anything He has ben insulted and goaded by fluence, of course, was from England and eclectic novel is a good one and via tbe form. This is because the diarist-narrator, Patrick White or anybody else has done: whites because his skin is dark, mis­ Aboriginal question we are offered a kind David David, never really establishes this influence, while it could not be far from perpetuating the old fake trusted by Aboriginals because it is not of comprehensive look at Australia that ignored, was accepted, for complex himself as a person in his own right myths, this first novel explicitly sets out dark enough. He has been beaten up by has not been attempted before. Why is It is the reader’s task to interpret the reasons, only grudgingly; for a time, in to shatter them, to reveal the totality of policemen and has done his share of it then that, taken overall, the book is narrator’s personality from the diary, the later 19th and on into the 20th a country where in some quarters the beating up. He has done time. He is rather disappointing? Stylistic con­ but the only real evidence takes the century, literature in Australia grew side highest praise is still ‘You’re a white too tough to be broken by the authori­ siderations certainly play a part here: form of too obviously ‘significant’ admis­ by side with nationalism, and the results, man’. At the general level what Peter ties, too smart to be exploited by the the writing is deliberately sprawling sions which David David lets slip from although on the whole unfortunate, Mathers is trying to do is to seize liberal do-gooders; he is the kind of overblown, picaresque, slang-ridden; and time to time: he reveals his desire to showed remarkable staying power: for Australia by the scruff of its self-satisfied Aborigine nobody wants because he re­ while this approach often suits the model himself on a businessman friend, decades the Australian reader was neck and shake it hard, forcing it to fuses to be told what he is or what he book’s* mood and intent, equally often a go-ahead type with fashionably arty forced to dredge for his identity in make itself known—and to know itself; should be; to him, the only acceptable it leaves an impression of self-indulgence pretensions; he laments of Adamov, a novels, stories and poems in which any more specifically he is dealing with what estimate of his personal worth comes on the author s part; there are so many wine-shop proprietor, that ‘his attitudes germ of an idea found itself submerged it has meant, and means now, to be an from himself. One by one he shatters words at times, so many calculated col­ are anything but those of normal, decent, in a welter of self-consciously nationalis­ Aboriginal, a black underdog, in this big, the illusions which are the pillars of the loquialisms, so many whimsical paren­ proud Australians. 1 am sure be is a tic .artifice. The continent’s flora, fauna welcoming, ‘tolerant’ land; and more ‘maturity’ David David is preoccupied theses, that the important part, ’the mean­ Communist. If not, then be is a nihilist/ and physical characteristics, admittedly specifically still he wants to examine the with establishing within himself; in their ing, tends to slip from view. This con­ His naivete is too contrived to ring true, unique, were described lovingly and effect that one Aboriginal has on one place he sows an undefined but pro­ scious overstatement is linked to a strong and so he is not as complete, as believ- J ad nauseam; all characters spoke in representative Australian. vein of irony which would be extremely able as he needs to be; with the result j vernacular cliches and were themselves gressive malaise in the face of which the I • | narrator’s faith in White Australia biting wefre it not that it is presumably that the book’s crucial point, Trap’s 1 cliches; Australianness at all costs was Jack Trap is 40 and running to fat. ultimate impact on white society, is J the watchword. He .is, the dust-jacket tells us, ‘an awe­ badly weakened, because Trap is con- I This pseudo/iterature came to its full inspiring mixture of Irish, English, fronted with little more than a paper J flower in the concept of the ‘bush mysti­ Aborigine and even Tierra del Fuegan’. figure. que’, the presentation of a supposedly But he looks Aboriginal. David David Thus Trap is far from being a total, typical, but in fact falsely mythologized, is 25, from Melbourne, and pure white success; but it is certainly not a book to Australian who lived in the rugged out­ under his suntan; he is a social worker ignore. No white Australian can read L back, often in great isolation, and who and has been commissioned by a rich it and be the same again, for it throws .3 possessed a set of virtues and laudable art dealer to make a study of Trap. The in his face the failure .of his materially F faults unequalled anywhere else in the book is his diary, a record of his con­ successful society to treat all its members world. This kind of phoney, gutless frontation with the strange Aboriginal with the fundamental respect to which] nostalgia dies hard and even today who, as the relationship progresses, they are entitled. Modem Australia| when four-fifths of the population live looms as an - ever-larger threat to the bears the inherited responsibility for the] lives of urban ease, the literary quarter­ fundamental tenets of the Australian brutalization and virtual destruction of a j lies still tend to convey the impression way of life as lived by David David. gentle and dignified people, one of the ] that Australians are a tough rural people, Through the diary entries we read of oldest races on earth; Trap gains iesp rough diamonds in constant, self-purify­ Trap, of his ancestors, of a couple of prime strength from the conviction withjT ing struggle with their environment. subsidiary characters and their ancestors; which this point is made, and from itn Happily the coin is two-sided: there' indirectly we read the history of direct relevance to the question of funda|| have always been some writers more Australia and of black-white relations in mental equality anywhere in the world, j concerned with expressing their own the course of that history. For the This book’s faults should not be| truths than with providing the expected whites, with all the advantages, victory rapidly recedes. But Trap is striking from David David that this irony comes; allowed to obscure its very real meritsj thing, and it is their work which, in the was quick; for the Aboriginals, decima­ much deeper: defying the rough-justice for he, in his abysmal ignorance, can Peter Mathers has a breadth of visiotl long run, has given Australian fiction its ted, driven from . their tribal territories, authorities and the simpering Aboriginal hardly understand the situation he is and attack hard to ' find anywhere else! justification. Of these Patrick White is forced to degrade themselves in order aid societies, he sets put to attack caught up in, much less assess it in any at all, even among established writers/ by far the best-known and is probably to live, life degenerated into a meaning­ Australia on a national front; with a ironic way; yet it is his diary that we and it will be interesting to see where! still the only Australian literary figure less series of events controlled by the group of Aboriginals he treks north to are reading, and this element of in' this quality is brought to bear next. Some! whose thought and technical command incomprehensible humours of their con­ establish a co-operative community, with consistency calls attention to itself in a self-control is needed if execution is to! entitle him to international standing. querors. To feel safe with the Aborigine the intention of demonstrating that these way that weakens the overall structure. match intention, but still, the writer’s eye! Yet his novels, although set in Australia, the white man has had to break his ‘inferior people’ have the capacity to Trap himself comes across well seems to be there, and Australia could] are less concerned with that country than spirit and keep it broken; the responsi­ make and implement an independent enough, but far less devastatingly to us soon find itself with a very disturbing with his own systematised working-out bility for this fells on all Australians, choice. Then, at the last minute, the than to the diarist-narrator; the trouble novelist on its hands. of certain mystico-religious problems. yet most of them are hardly aware of Great White Society is saved by its here is that we get most of our know­ And so, in spite of the recognition that the existence of the Aborigines, much bulldogs: the party is provoked en route, ledge of him at secondhand—only rarely John T hurston . !

ledge in sterile little dogmas for no better mind in chains, mapping out a course of Is sensible husbandry a creed or the prac­ in human development these had been reason than that they themselves swal­ reading which the pundits have already tical management of one’s own affairs? conducive to a happy anarchy, but in the lowed the whole lot unquestioningly. officially interpreted, lecture the student Did the man who shaped the first wheel Hearns or Aberdeen (disguised as Dun- More Letters They forget that such fare is not to every on the official interpretation and then test owe his inspiration to an ideology? Like caim in Grey Granite) in the early 20th taste—least of all, perhaps, is it appetis­ him to see how much he has remembered that man, the anarchist has discerned a century they were most certainly not. ing to the sensitive palate of the young. of what other people think? If that isn’t natural and very practical way to elimi­ Mitchell sought to escape from such Fundamentally, Mr. Phelan is really brainwashing I don’t know what is. Such nate the evils which abound in society simple and unsatisfactory classifications hunting up ammunition with which to a procedure would be laughable if the today. I do not believe that the en­ of human beings as either ‘good’ or NOTHING TO FEAN defend a moribund system of schooling. results weren't so tragic—men who will trenched power of the masters, who pro­ ‘bad’ and thus avoided the pit into which Not wishing to attempt the refutation of never in their lives again dare to make mote and live off these evils, can succeed his two predecessors, Barrie and Douglas- TN HIS CRITICISM of my article on Socrates (if he had, I’d have welcomed it: a decision unless they are first of all cer­ forever in keeping the masses blind to so Brown had fallen. The former’s idyllic ‘Education*, Tommy Phelan argues goodness knows, Socrates can be de­ tain that the power of the Law and the natural a remedy. Anarchism is practical sentimentality and the latter’s black that since each and every one of us is bunked), Mr. Phelan claims that the State is behind them. For the State takes action and I do not believe the mind of melancholy are both unsatisfactory ac­ society, we are all therefore responsible methods of Socrates were all right but no chances when it comes to creating the man will ever rest easy too far away counts of human behaviour and it was for what goes on in society. I wouldn’t that Socrates dealt only with adults. I faceless ones who will serve it. from what is practical. between these that Mitchell tried to steer. dispute that we are all part of society don’t see a great deal .of merit in the Mr. Phelan claims that the anarchists I said at the outset that education was His characters act according to the situa­ but it seems to me specious to claim from point, even if it were true. I believe the go wrong in thinking that people can be a tricky subject to deal with encompassed tions in which they find themselves. E.g. that that we are alt responsible for what child has just as much to bring to his educated into anarchism. Freedom, says as it is with so much bitter class feeling, in Sunset Song, Ewan is tom from his the State does. The fact is that fewer own education as the adult Children al­ Mr. Phelan, is a state of mind and not snobbery and simple-minded prejudice. I peasant existence and tantalised by the and fewer people have any responsibility ways ask more questions, and more diffi­ the end product of a conditioning process. think I have been proved right. For in First World War. His relationship with at all for what goes on in society. There cult questions, than adults. But I would I am not quite sure what Mr. Phelan the rather confused arguments of Tommy his wife Chris, before pure and admir­ is too much coercion to allow of much prefer Mr. Phelan to the speech of Alci- means by ‘a state of mind’. I like to Phelan all these are patently obvious. I able, now becomes corrupt and tortured. real responsibility. We inherit a society biades in the Symposium and ask him to think of freedom in more clear-cut terms: would say to Tommy Phelan: Please read Asked whether man was ‘good* or ‘bad’ which is already formed and which is remember that at the trial of Socrates the like having the maximum possible con­ my article again, a little more closely Mitchell would undoubtedly have an­ geared to resist change—geared to sup­ charge was that of corrupting the minds trol over one’s own life and affairs—the this time, and do make an effort to be a swered ‘neither’. press all action towards personal respon­ of the young. maximum possible control, that is, based bit more objective. You take me to task A second point is raised when A.W.U. sibility in any but a few of its members. Universities, claims Mr. Phelan, do not on no external or coercive influences, in for using my imagination. In my ex­ doubts whether Mitchell was really a It is easy to trot out the old glib cynicism victimise rebellious students but ignore relation to similarly free human being's. perience a little imagination often yields Marxist, and implies that his characters that people only.get the kind of govern­ them. I thi/ik the LSE students might If Mr. Phelan had-read my article a surer insights than an abundance of do not look forward for their salvation ment they deserve. Of course this is an question this. But if Mr. Phelan wants a little more closely he would have seen identification. Lay your schoolmaster’s but ‘go through life listening for echoes irrelevancy in our own day of mast brain­ purely academic instance which he can that the crucial point in my argument dogmatism aside for a moment. You have of the Golden Age*. Mitchell way a washing and was probably just as un- verify for himself, let him read Stephen was that I was against ‘educating’ people little to fear, if you only knew it. Marxist (and was expelled from the CP meaningful in the time of Plato and the Spender's autobiography World Within Into anything. If Mr. Phelan believes F arquhar M cL ay . in the 30’s for refusing to toe the party iron fist. Nobody ‘deserves* anything. World. There he’ll come across the amus­ that what passes for education today is line). His books—especially the trilogy Behind the idea of deserving lurks the ing story of Christopher Isherwood at rtothing other than a conditioning pro­ MITCHELL A Scots Quair—have a consistent Marxist bogey of the enlightened ‘giver*, and Oxford. In his final examinations Isher­ cess, then we are in agreement. But it structure and message, the wealth and what can be given can just as easily be wood answered all the questions in does seem as though he is innocent of OH MITCHELL subtlety of which can only be appreciated taken away. ’ When one’s freedom is at rhymed couplets—he was failed. I could any conception of education which would by reading the books themselves. His stake it is always wise to distrust the list not a few more personal instances of be different from what we have at pre­ Dear Comrades, peasant characters may look backwards giver. And this isn’t just another symp­ victimisation of students at various uni­ sent. In F reedom (25.3.67) there was printed but in Ewan, Chris’ son, we have a sym­ tom of the anarchist’s paranoia—Machia- versities but Mr. Phelan might then What Mr. Phelan is really saying is a review by A.W.U. of a book on Leslie pathetic and sensitive character who velli knew it to be true |ind the ruling accuse me of drawing on my imagination. that we think we can brainwash people Mitchell (or Lewis Grassic Gibbon). In looks uncompromisingly forward, beyond classes have seldom made the mistake of Of course if one never steps out of line, into anarchism. I can think of no more this, the writer spoke of Mitchell’s views the ruins of the peasant class from which neglecting the principle: when A is forced if one never asserts oneself, if one never futile idea. It would be like trying to on anthropology, and his representation he is sprung, to a future in the hands of to relinquish power to B, A must very questions the crap that is set down before teach a man to swim by drowning him. of the author’s views seems to me to be the working-class into which he has been quickly be put out of the way. one, one will certainly be ignored. But whilst it might be futile to try brain­ basically correct. But he goes on further driven. And the whole trilogy is really Mr. Phelan shows some distaste for Mr. Phelan cannot accept that the pre­ washing people into freedom, the State to speak of Mitchell’s social and political about the creation of this character. the ‘culturally deprived’ children who sent-day university is authoritarian in certainly knows how to condition people beliefs and claims that he ‘passionately Space forbids any more writing so I force him into authoritarian attitudes. As character. This I find strange. What out of it. And that, with respect, is believed in the natural goodness of man’. will end by thanking A.W.U. for bring­ a teacher he would prefer not to be an does the university do 90% of the time what I think Mr. Phelan and his like are I do not think that this need necessarily ing to the attention of anarchists a writer authoritarian. But all authoritarians say but preserve traditional values, regardless doing. And that is what I am against. follow from the author’s belief in a pri­ who is almost unique in having success­ the same thing. If only everybody stayed of the innate worth of these values7 And, furthermore, I do not agree with mitive Golden Age before the dawn of fully combined a socialist content and quiet and did as they were told, how And what is the function, I would like Mr. Phelan and others who say that agricultural civilisation. To me it seems method , into a great work of art, in hav­ nice it would be. I would point out that to know, of this medieval institution, anarchism must always be ‘a minority that Mitchell held the view that man is ing helped to point the way towards a there are also culturally deprived teachers now ‘that everyone has easy access to creed’. In the first place, in no strict the product of the specific economic, socialist culture. —and I fear this takes in the bulk of books, if it is not to impose outworn sense is it a creed. What have creeds and social and historical circumstance in Fraternally, them—men who dish out so-called know­ attitudes? Does it not hold the young binding ideologies to do with anarchism? which he finds himself. At an ftariv •*»— i t - —•— an independent, neutral South. Every MFT 9 f T M S V N U US escalation forces the NLF and the North more closely together and into an increasing dependence on other Com­ ‘A Non-Communist Vietcong munist countries. He doesn’t mention the purge of all non-communist elements —leaders of religious sects, mandarins, would Attract more Support’- ^ Timm intellectuals, Trotskyists, socialists and coys*) rhira, by the dntina&M cm m e BEHIND THE other nationalists—in 1946. But their A ccording to the Daily Mail, a naked following a private visit to Spain. The fate and the fate of anarchists and secretary of the Polish United Wo* ke n 5 Opinion Research Centre, that o a t m wm man, wearing a bowler hat, suddenly of tiiem know someone wbo las takeM Continued from pife 1 other revolutionaries in Russia, Spain appeared on the 18th green, before two Party told members they need not be drags in the fast year or so. 72% Qm unifying tactic is the permitting of some and elsewhere, and of coalition govern­ women golfers at Effingham, Surrey. anti-religkras. . . . those questioned thought that drugs religious freedom. Catholic churches and ments with Communist elements, does not Mrs. Alex Rundle, one of them, de­ seminars are allowed to operate and a hold out much hope for those non- manded, ‘Are you a member?* ‘No,’ said V ictor zorza of the Guardian reported were a serious problem in. B rian, Catholic priest alleged that many Catho­ Communists within the NLF or for the man. Mrs. Rundle thereupon hit a Peking Radio item that The Soviet of tiie over-65* thought it to be very lic churches had been bombed. Some other elements in a South coalition him over the head with a No. 8 iron and Revisionists have sent by air two turtles serious. People were asked to say m Buddhist sects were allowed and many government. Salisbury does say: *. . . I he fled into the bushes. . . . to the turtles’ race in Washington—an which age group they thought drug- pagodas exist, over 100 allegedly de­ had heard this kind of talk before from eloquent indication of how low they taJting was widespread. UnfaOmgfy 95% stroyed by bombing. It seems certain Communist groups which were not T he t it l e of Lord of the Manor of have stooped in p ro m o tin g “close co­ gam* u p with the wrong answer hat if that the majority of Buddhist sects in strong enough to take power. For Felsham and Drinkstone, Suffolk, is on operation*’ with the US imperialists.’ A was in tile teenage gxemsp. T he S ta n d a rd Vietnam are not allowed to practise in instance, in Eastern Europe at the end the market in America for 600 books of British referee at soccer matches in the explained tint Interviewers were in­ the North however. (See Adam Roberts’ of World War II, in countries like trading stamps valued at about £800. . . . USA has denied that be contrived fouls structed to make h dear, where any ‘The Buddhists, the W ar and the Viet- Poland, Czechoslovakia and Rumania, T he title of the Sunday Citizen is on in order to give time for commercial doubt re n a m e d , that the question re­ cong\ The World Today, May, 1966.) there had been coalition governments the market, says the Guardian, if any sponsors to insert ‘commercials' in the lated to drug-taking in the harmful or Salisbury remarks that the comments of in which, in some instances, the Com­ would-be purchasers are ‘thought suffi­ televised game. He admitted that he used dangerous and not its the medical religious leaders in Communist countries munists were minorities. There had been ciently respectable politically’. Lord injuries to allow sufficient time for in­ sense*. . , - need careful assessment, since, if they elections in which non-Communist Thomson dismissed as ‘a joke* his sertion of commerced ‘pings5. are to keep their faith' alive, they often parties had participated and parliaments allegedly favourable response to Mr. T w o teenage geres w ere n s W to with non-Communist majorities. But, hospital in High gate suffering from the have to make compromises with the Harold Wilson’s plea for him to do T h e prod u cer o f The Black and White ; Communist rulers. For the value of its after a few years, the Communists tired something about the C itizen. . . . M in strel Show was astonished that any­ effects of drags—barbiturates issued to | unifying effect, other Communist re­ of this and with the aid of the Red one could read racialism into the show. die mother of one o f th e girl* b y h er gimes—even Stalin’s—have relaxed their Army established . . . dictatorships. Commenting on the C itizen closure and The C am paign Against Racial D iscrim i­ doctor. J. H. Pfumb in The Spectator oppression of religions during times of This might readily occur later in South carrying on the Morning Star's cam paign n atio n has collected 200 signatures to a points out that hashish « as common in Istress and it is far from sure that Vietnam’ (p. 165). The Unified Buddhist for a Free Press, a Labour MP, Mr. petition asking for it to be taken off as Islam as drink is is the west. In many ; oppression will not be renewed after the Church in the South would put up a Albert Murray, complains that the a ‘hideous impersonation*. Mrs. Mary areas hashish ‘has been socialised as we l war. The complete suppression of the strong resistance to this kind of Morning Star, with a 58,000 circulation Whitehouse’s group (of Clean-up TV have socialised alcohol; indeed, aftnosS Buddhists and the slaughter of monks in attempted take-over and Bernard Fall gets no Government advertising at all. fame^ has made an award to Jack certainly, at a lower social c o s t in hum an |Tibet by the Chinese Communists, for points to other elements which would Mr. Murray goes on, T know of no W arner of Dixon of Dock Green forwastage. Addiction h less; the resold fexample, seems to point this way. do so, but the hope, it seems to me, is a reason why information on pensions, or promotion of a favourable image of the physically not so destructive.* N e w I Salisbury shows that the idea that very slender one. the Rent Act, should be withheld from police. A writ has been issued by Mrs. S o ciety says that *k a to o earfy yet to rHanoi could be Titoist in its foreign Salisbury valuably shows a variety of Left Wing readers.’ He goes on to advo­ Mary Whitehouse against the BBC and talk about the fall-scale legislation o f ’policy is quite false: it is tied both to delusions that Hanoi holds. Its thinking cate ‘one of the chief ways in which Mr. Johnny Speight (the author of T i l cannabis. We need properly conducted Russia and China by the firmest of is distorted by a presumed parallel of the Government could help newspapers D eath Do Us P a n ) for an alleged physiological and sociological research Knilitary alliances and is absolutely de­ the war against the French and the would be to set up a scheme of news­ libel. . . . into w hat k does. At the moment . . . pendent on them. North Vietnam present war and that the US economy, print levy and subsidy.’ The day before, the law prevents even this being carried k . . was running a remarkable deficit like the French, is being undermined, Sam Russell in the Morning Star was T h e Be a t l e s are to be Britain’s main out. A relaxation: in this direction could [in aid, probably in amounts equal to or whereas, in truth, the US economic base deploring CIA subsidies to E ncounter, contribution in a two-hour Hve television ynore than its internal state budget’. prepare the ground fo r a rational deci­ is far broader and can continue the war Prevves, Temo Presente, Forum, Hiwar, broadcast called O ur W orld which win sion on the wider issue.’ . . . >viet aid in 1965 was $550m. and con- indefinitely with only a small strain. P er M onat and Quadrant. . . . be seen simultaneously in 31 countries Tderably higher in 1966 and Salisbury Hanoi imagines that the US attitude to with an estimated audience of 500 mil­ A Le ip z ig court has reduced the d e a th •mments: ‘The possibility of actual re- Vietnam is simply an imperialist one, T he soviet poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko lion. The Beatles are writing a special sentence passed on Marinus van d e r yment of these vast sums seemed . . . whereas, in fact,, there is really very said he planned to write a poem about song for the programme but because of Ltrbfce fo r arson and high treason to iite beyond question. North Vietnam little in the country which is worth US what he saw at Fatima as Pope Paul language difficulties they will (says T h e arson, endangering human lives and id no means of generating the kind of attention and it certainly doesn’t need prayed for world peace. Asked whether T im es) stick to basic English such as attempted arson, his sentence was re­ «h flow which that would require’ (p. Vietnam as a foreign market. It greatly the poem might be a satire, the poet ‘Hello’, ‘Love5, ‘You’, ‘Me*, TJs’, T h a n ’, duced eo eight years* hard labour. V an p5). China is the North’s chief source overestimates the strength of opposition snapped (according to the Morning Star), ‘We’ and Together. The BBC have der Lnbbe, said by some to be an anar­ food and, without it, they would in the US to the war and places far too ‘Certainly not I have too much respect banned a Beaties’ song ‘A Day in the chist, was executed by the Nazis in d it difficult if not impossible to much hope of a serious Presidential for the feelings of the enormous multi­ life’ which, they claim, supports drug­ 1934 for allegedly setting fire to the rry on. China provides rolling stock, candidate promising to end the war as tude of humble people who gathered taking. It is about a man smoking ‘a Reichstag. The prosecution has lodged Jbycles, small arms, trucks and many the victorious Eisenhower did. there . . . it was a very impressive ex­ funny substance* and. having a dream. an appeal against the findings; and the jjf its light industries—textiles, rice mills, The possibility of a land war over the perience. It was the first time that I The readers of the London E ven in g case will n o w be referred to West igar refineries, cigarette factories were whole of Vietnam, perhaps spreading to have witnessed such a manifestation.’ He Standard (who, to parody Mr. EEot. Beilin’s High Court /stalled and equipped with Chinese aid other SE Asian countries, has increased, is giving a poetry recital in Lisbon ‘sway in the wind like a field of ripe Jon Q uixote . Jjnd machinery. Without spare parts and as has the danger of a war with China. 'finical assistance these would break Will Russia intervene, if the latter — RED & BLACK ACTIVITIES Bown. happens? And, even if peace comes to r Though related strongly to Hanoi in Vietnam, will equally fierce struggles if the war was further escalated, but [the obvious ways, the NLF has many take place in Cambodia, where, according from Australia ... didn't specify what was meant by either ^independent tendencies. Would a de to Mary McCarthy, O bserver, May 14, of these things. facto government of much of South the CIA are backing the Khmer-Serai TT^OR the first time in the 50 years of town of Wollongong for their annual The next day, two anarchists v is ite d Vietnam with its apparatus, its bureau­ against Prince Sihanouk or in Laos, * annual May Day parades in Sydney May Day procession. There, a quantity USN Etisefl (which mist be, by now, cracy, its habits of government, Salisbury which, Salisbury says, ‘represented an the red and black flags of the anarchists of literature. including Malatesta’s one of the most visited US bases in asks, quickly yield its powers to the equally dangerous problem. Laos had were seen. The principal theme was A narchy and Berkman’s A B C of Britain) and distributed 275 ‘Green North? The spokesmen of both think become a mere fiction—a land which worker control of industry. Indeed, for A narchism , was sold and contacts made Beret Blasts the War* pamphlets to of Vietnam as one country, but say that was in the hands of an uncertain number the two weeks prior to the march on in a city where anarchism had been American servicemen there. They were re-unification may take a long time. of guerrilla operations, some sponsored Sunday, May 7, posters advertising the previously unheard of. A representative noticeably more hostile than ever before, There were apparent differences about by the US, some by the Communists, anarchist participation with this theme from the local university college made perhaps indicating their increased seasi- military tactics between the two. The some of purely Laotian origin*. appeared all over the city. arrangements to have speakers from our trvrty to anti-war agitatiou. NLF programme seemed to differ greatly If peace ever comes to Vietnam, it will Despite the alleged unpenetrable group to visit them at a date yet to be On M ay Day. about 75 people attended from Hanoi, calling for democratic be men like Salisbury, scrupulously apathy of the workers, the Sydney fixed. Afterwards, the W orkers' Chib—a a Labour Party meeting in the city. freedom, neutrality and a ‘mixed honest opponents of the war, who will Anarchist Group, in its one year of fine licensed premises—made us cordially A local councillor a tta cked the incomes economy’. Salisbury seems to place far have contributed to it existence as presently constituted, has welcome. and Vietnam policies of th e Government, whereupon Hector Hughes, MP, an too much weight on the possibilities of G odfrey F eatherstone . found, both in its public meetings in the The lesson to be learned from these local Domain and at evening meetings in events is that anarchists m ist avail them­ octogenarian id io t, stood up, agreed with its city premises, that most workers are selves of all means of communication to everything everybody had said, said that greatly interested in the issue of workers’ which they can obtain access. To fail in tins year of 1927 ev eryb o d y was bigger control when this is broached to them. to do so is to survive—at best—as an than their parents, and praised the brass This was reflected in the substantial obscure and ineffective secL band. Next day, to everyone’s surprise, representation achieved in the march. Bell D wyer . the papers reposted Hector Hughes ‘Peasants’ Revolt’ in Mayfair Apart from several flags, banners and attacks US policy in Vietnam’. A resolu­ placards supporting the central theme tion was almost unanimously passed Continued from page 1 John Ball, the wayfaring priest, agi­ were carried and elicited strong support demanding British dissociation from But now they are at last admitting tator and prophet of the Peasant’s Revolt, from the crowds which lined the streets. .. to Aberdeen American action, hut both MPs refused the existence of such laws within their calls down the centuries to us in words In addition a Spanish contingent to show their support for this. In aE, armoury, and we should perhaps regard so simple and alluring that we can (FAI-CNT) featured recent repression in DOME MEMBERS of the local group probably a total waste of time apart from this as something in the nature of a almost thank the police for handing us Spain. The war in Vietnam was likewise k-* were present at a University Debate laughing at Hector and selling sec copies warning shot across the bows. The such a perfect symbol. Listen to him denounced. The Anarchist Group has at the end of April, which passed a of the 8-page F reedom - I.R.M. charge of Riot sounds very dubious, speaking, through the medium of consistently advised young men to defy resolution calling for British dissociation although I am no lawyer; according to Froissart’s C h ro n icle: ‘My good friends, the law on conscription and has strongly from the American war in Vietnam. Peace N ew s (19.5.67), Riot is defined as matters cannot go well in England until supported those who, in Einstein’s words, Apart from nauseating student frivolity, ‘a tumultuous disturbance of the peace’ all things shall be in common; when there have shown that ‘to expect protection the affair was notable mostly for the by three or more people, intending ‘to shall be neither vassals or lords; when from government is folly’ and have appearance of a Russian diplomat who WINNING! assist one another against any who the lords shall be no more masters than ‘unequivocally refused all war service*. emphasised Russo-Scottish friendship oppose them’, executed ‘in a violent and ourselves. How ill they behave to us! Inspired by the success of this event and the sanctity of international few. WEEK 2dt MAY 2k 1947: Income: Sales and Safe: £1339 turbulent manner to the terror of the for what reason do they hold us thus in the Group took a special bus on the Revolution RIP. He vaguely promised people*. It will be interesting to see how bondage? Are we not all descended following week to the neighbouring steel Russian help for the Vietnamese people Expenses: 20 weeks at £90t £1800 they find any ‘people’ who were ter­ from the same parents, Adam and Eve? DEFKTFr £401 rorised by the non-violent actionists of And what can they Show, or what reason LETTER that Friday night. Perhaps they will can they give, why they should be more people should recognise and be emo­ Turin: G.L 2f~l Oxford: Anon* 5 /- ; have to import some for the occasion. masters than ourselves?’ Hence the LIBERATION LEFT tionally prepared to meet. Each of us rig h to n : N-LL Far more interesting and significant revolutionary couplet of the time: ‘When Peterborough: F-W 2/6; ft has only so much courage; if it is Group* 4/-; than the Riot charge, however, is the Adam delved, and Eve span, Who was Dear Comrades, 3/-; Northoft: Anarchist dissipated needlessly in suddenly being Forcible Entry Act of 1381. This appears then the gentleman?’ Just a very brief note about N.W.’k Bradford: B.D. 5/-: Aberdeen: I.M. 10/-; forced to face up to truths we should to have been passed as part of the It was against ideas such as these that tirade last week. His emphasis seems Londoo: Anon £15; have anticipated in tranquillity, then there armoury with which Richard II cleaned the Forcible Entry Act was passed, and to be on not overestimating the move­ L.G.W.* 10/-; New York: N M £6/2/6; up after the Peasants’ Revolt! So against the actions to which the ideas ment whereas mine was intended to be is that much less left for genuine resist­ Leicester: P.G. II/-: Strain-aert T.N. 5/-; despite the housebreaking overtones of led. Against such actions it is still on not underestimating the opposition. ance where it is needed most. Glastonbury: D.P. 10/-: Loadorn, N .W 3 s •Forcible Entry’, this was an overtly used today. Little save the minor details It is almost but not quite the same thing. By the way. I totally disagree with D.R. 9,9; Ridgewood. Neiv Y ork: PS. political law introduced to deal with a of our lives has changed since 1381; one His attitude leads only to cynicism, low N.W.’s rosy assessment of the situation £1/8/-; F.G. 14/-: L.G. 14 A S . 14/-; revolutionary movement. The inevitable of the things which has changed is that morale and eventually to inaction due in the early days of the Committee of Melbourne: M5. 8 4; Pit tsbergfa: 0 5 assumption on reading the terms of the our horizons are no longer bounded by to lack of self-confidence. Mine can be 100 and suspect that he is falling into £1/9.-; Swindon; C.B. 3;’-: New Y ork: Act within the context of its history our village or our county or even this equally destructive in that it can lead the trap (of which I may also have been JS. 17 6; California: E.V. 1!8/9; M issouri; was that ‘none from henceforth make island’s shores. So we recognise the to paranoia and inaction due to fear. guilty myself) of generalising from his W.B. £1/8/-: London, E 1 3 : E S . 4 6; any entry into lands and tenements but greater slavery of the people of Greece Somewhere along the way is a synthesis: own particular experience. He might Redbridge: M.C. 4/-. in cases where entry is given by the and seek to help them because we are a realistic assessment of our potential have always been a revolutionary, but I TOTAL; £34 2 1# law’ meant that the common people were one with them. and current resources combined with am convinced that for most of the Previously Acknowledged: £451 8 2 to be punished for banding together and { think John Ball would recognise his awareness of what we arc up against and radical peace movement the current con­ taking over property. For once an heirs; whether we are worthy of the the dangers that wc face now and are scious awareness of the role is a new 1967 Total to Date: £485 11 • ancient Act is not only relevant, but we succession remains to be seen. likely to face in the future. It is the departure. should be proud that it is so. ‘114’. latter which I am so concerned that •114*. •Denotes regular contributors. Shots in file Arm m pRO FIT is the life-blood of the necessary return on investments, Kennedy Round on tariff cuts was capitalist system. Over the last then investors will not risk their an achievement for the international ten years, there has been a con­ money. Keynesian. It widens the areas of tinued squeeze on profit margins This in itself illustrates the fal- near Tree trade and so will increase for. as international competition has . lacy about an Incomes Policy the possibilities of world trade, in increased, so have profit margins restraining all incomes. If in a other words, it is another shot in been reduced. Of course, if com­ capitalist society profits are re­ the arm for the powerful industrial strained, then economic growth will ForWorkers’Control panies can no longer produce the nations. Although this might pro­ be dampened down and if you arc mote trade between these nations, to remain competitive, you cannot the tariff cuts in no way help the m a y 27 1967 Vol. 2* No. 16 afford to let this happen. less developed nations of Africa. Obviously many companies: and Asia and South America. The Contact Column their investors were scared stiff that, Common Market, America and This column exists for mutual aid. with a Labour Government, their Britain, all have their tariff pre­ Donations towards cost of typesetting profits would be taken away. Even ferences with the poor nations of will be welcome. Mr. Paul Chambers, head of ICI, these continents, but there is no talks as though Mr. Wilson is move by any of the rich countries Unfurnished Accommodation Wanted. PROTECT US Responsible gentleman, thirties, against the profit motive. He speaks to reduce them. The Kennedy exemplary tenant requires spacious of State monopoly but, when it Round was a rich man’s agreement self-contained flat/house, minimum comes to ICI, it is referred to as an to make themselves richer. three bedrooms, central London, economic viable unit. But all com­ While they might get richer, many quiet surroundings. Maximum seven panies have to be this, from the of the workers who actually pro­ guineas inclusive. No premium. small building firm round the duce this wealth are themselves Could decorate. Reciprocal refer­ FROM OUR FRIENDS comer to ICI, and it was just a feeling the effects of capitalist ences. Box 52, lack of this viability that produced rationalisation. This has not just Former Junkie. Wants job and accom­ a setback for British capitalism. HPHE GOVERNMENT have dropped modation in London. Box 54. meant a change of job. but unem­ of the demands that will bo made upon j Accommodation. Anarchist seeks accom­ The advent of a Labour Govern­ ployment. While this month’s tho Longbridge Group of car delivery them. agents well and truly in the mud. Some modation in Camden Town or ment might have reduced the con­ figures for unemployment in this Tho price for this great honour is; time ago a wage freeze order was slapped Islington. Box 50. fidence of some companies and country are down, the seasonal ad­ rationalisation of the industry to then Continental Hitch-Hiking. Is anyone else investors, but on the whole these justed trend, nevertheless, shows an on tho drivers’ claim, and since that date extent of a possiblo 30%, in this case it] wanting to hitch-hike around con­ surely were the rather old-fashioned increase. Unless this trend is halted, they have refused to bring their wagons is bodies for honour and glory. Tbea tinent July to September? If so, hack loaded from tho docks, in other TUC. to their credit, have given tbel sort or perhaps they really believed a new peak of unemployment will words a return journey empty. The proposal the thumbs down and describe® please contact Judith Walker, West- the Daily Express. Whichever party be reached in the winter of 19(57-<58. field College (University of London), drivers claim that returning full was the idea as a waste of time. The pla® is elected, it still has to administer Britain is not the only country part of their productivity arrangement London, N.W.3. was not subtle enough, the catch stooM a capitalist society. The problems facing this problem. It is beginning for the increase. The employers wrote out a, mile. Meeting: Free Hugo Blanco; Protest to tho Ministry claiming they were losing Whilst on the subject of the TUC, itp Against Peruvian Repression. Friday, are the same and, in fact, other to face international capitalism as money through the drivers’ actions, plus incomes policy committee rejected 33 May 26. Caxton Hall, London, economically developed countries a whole. In France, the trend is the fact that in their estimation the claims out of 43 at its last sitting. ‘Anya S.W.1. 8 p.m. Speakers: Bill Molloy, face similar ones. the same and, in recent strikes, de­ With capitalism becoming more mands have included security of drivers were taking industrial action thing they can do we can do better.’ n«q MP, Robin Blackburn, Faris Glubb. against the freeze, and therefore were what’s more they are proving it. Chairman: Roger Protz. British international, so are the problems employment and illustrate that liable to prosecution under the Prices and CHAMPION OF FREEDOM Committee for Solidarity with Vic­ and the remedies to cure them. The workers there are conscious of the Incomes Act. The Government, after The in its editorw tims of Repression in Peru. Daily Telegraph, Common Market is one of the cures, threat. In Germany, unemployment sitting on the problem for over three of 22.5.67, poses the question of uniT Leaflet Lewisham Group. Basic Anar­ in that by having a common system is also rising. In the industrial area weeks, informed the employers that, affiliation to tho Labour Party and end chist Leaflet now available. 2/6 per of tariffs, one market is created for of the Ruhr it has reached 6%, after consulting law officers, they had no its party piece with, ‘Which is to 100 (postage extra. 2/6 per 100). all members to compete in. It be­ showing the changes in industry, case against the drivers but if the preferred—the role of privileged pood! Orders to Lewisham Group address. employers paid they would he liable to or that of responsible citizens?’ Work Wanted. Fairly intelligent and comes, basically, a larger home with some, like coal, sinking and market and big companies, like 100,000 coal miners facing the sack. prosecution. The whole editorial sounds nice ahl responsible anarchist (18) needs con­ Obviously the Government had no democratic and talks about change genial job. Anywhere, anything ICI, will be on a better footing to The industry is privately owned compete. One only has to look at intention of sticking its neck out at this tho character of the movement. It thenl considered. Box 55. and mergers are likely in the near stage of the wago freeze, and decided to goes on to mention Robert Carr's speed® Needed. Literary (philosophical o r ' the welcome given by the big busi­ future. allow the car delivery employers to to Conservative trade unionists abouT practical) and financial contributions ness interests to the formal request From the above it may be seen carry the can. That, Mr. Wilson, is the damage that can come to trad® for ‘STONEBREAKER’S YARD’. to join the ‘Six’ to realise who had that common problems face workers not the way to win friends. unionism in Britain from the maintenance Journal of the Anarchist Movement the most to gain from this country’s in all these countries. It must be RATIONALISATION of the historic links between tho unions! in Northeastern Minnesota. Janies entry into the Common Market. admitted, however, that workers A plan is afoot for workers to help and the Labour Party. W. Cain, editor, Stonebreaker’s manage the nationalised steel industry. Surely the Conservatives do not® Yard, P.O. Box 26, Dufaith, Minne­ Certainly since the last application, have failed to see, at least on any British capitalism is in a better posi­ scale, for a long time now, the Tho idea is to havo only people working expect us to believe that all will be f sota, USA at different levels including managerial. well under Tory Government. The '• Accommodation Wanted—London. Two tion to compete and this improve­ necessity of facing these problems ment has come about since the They would be part-timers and would Labour Party has opened tho door for ■ secretaries. Peace-loving, thoughtful, together. Even the highly organised continue in their jobs. Shop stewards them to rush in. The Shadow Minister require bright flatlet; good cooking Labour Government came to power. shop stewards at Fords of Dagen­ would havo to relinquish their union of Labour paints the picture quite clear facilities essential. No petty restric­ CAPITALIST PLA1NNING ham failed, a few years ago, to duties during their three-year term of —‘Do as you arc told or else'. tions. Wanted end of May. With - One thing the Labour Party has establish any substantial links with office on tho Board, but only because Bill Christopher . easy access to town. Approx. £5 to- their counterparts at Fords in Ger­ £5 5s. p.w. Box 56. always been talking about is plan­ ning. Many / Labour supporters many. They even feared the effects 'Resistance': for Peace Action. Published that the new Halewood factory by West Midland Committee o f 100. thought this meant socialist plan­ BILBAO (SPAIN) 1/- plus postage. Subscription 6/- ning for the whole of the com­ might have on their own plant. for six issues. From Birmingham munity, but this is not so. The I know that problems facing the Peace Action Centre (formerly CND Labour Government is all for unofficial rank and file organisation office), Factory Road, Birmingham, planning for capitalism, for this and in industry in this country are THE ECHEVARRY STRIKE EM the continuing growth of the system tremendous. It is difficult enough Anyone interested in reconstituting a are synonymous. to link up with workers in other .vnpHE STRIKE at the Echevarry works strikers, saw 8,000 sympathisers attending. group of people. T he Diggers’, who Nowadays, because there are parts Of the Country. However, it iS fcold-rolline')(cold-rolling) has has now now entered entered its its Always prepared for the carriage of rais- could he called the first practising fifth month. Fivo hundred and sixty four justice, the authorities dispatched several English Anarchists, please contact huge companies and combines, it imperative that struggles of workers do not remain isolated and frag­ are maintaining the conflict most squadrons of the armed police against P-D, c/o Lewisham Anarchist Group is necessary for the State to inter­ courageously, seeing strike, then lock-out, the demonstrators, initiating quite a address. vene in their affairs, but there has mented. Every opportunity should then strike successively. Tho original disturbance and causing dozens of Accommodation Wasted. Camden Town not been much of an uproar about be taken to establish contact with cause of the strike was apparently a wounds and detentions numbering about or Kentish Town area. Young this. The whole point of State unofficial groupings both here and claim for certain economic advantages, 20. couple, expecting first baby, urgently intervention with an Incomes Policy abroad. The internationalism, which which was not only rejected by the On account of this disturbance, there need 2-roomed tot. C/o J. Thurston, has been to give higher profit mar­ was a part of working-class tradi­ company, but accompanied by the dis­ reigns great excitement and enthusiasm 103a Camden Road, London, N.W.l. gins. It has also allowed companies tion, must be revived and enlarged missal of 25 employees considered by the amongst the public and student circles of Accommodation Wanted—London. Ac­ the Basque capital. commodation wanted in London area greater accuracy of costing and so if workers are to put up a fight, let company to be the leaders of the strike. given them more scope in planning alone overcome, the present rationa­ Working towards its own ends, the The Latest on the Strike for Finnish student for three weeks, The La Vanguardia Espanol news­ end May—mid-June. Can afford £3 a ahead. lisation that is taking place within company then ceded some of tho ad­ vantages claimed, on condition that the paper reports that negotiations have been week. C/o Lewisham Group address. The State’s plans for mergers of capitalism. restarted between the representatives of Accommodation Wanted. Anarcho- 25 workers remained out of their employ. companies are welcomed and acted P.T. Rejecting this arrangement, the workers both sides. The workers demand the Syndicalist seeks flat in Hackney/ upon. They are, of course, an Islington area. Box 58, found themselves locked out by the reinstatement of all the sacked persons economic fact of life and necessary company, which also annulled tho pre­ without exception. La Vanguardia adds Spain! Travelling-companion (either sex) if, as in shipbuilding, the industries viously coded advantages. Then, the folk-singer under 21 preferred, for that the factory has practically come to are to survive. An article in the factory was reopened previous to the a h a lt travel in Spain. Aug./Sept. Box 57. STRIKE APPEAL readmission of some of the dismissed, but Aberdeen Anarchists. Require loan of, Financial Times, May 12, pointed The company is prepared to reinstate this out. ‘The lesson for the ship­ thorc followed another refusal by the the workers, but reserves the right to o r information on, Balthazar T WAS on Friday, April 21, that tho strikers, with consequent retaliatory Dromundo’s book EmilUmo Zapata building industry is clear; fewer make an exception of any whom they I members of tho Transport & General action by the company. consider to bo ‘a menace to the normal (Mexico City, 1934), Gratefully ships may be needed in future to Workers’ Union decided unanimously to Out of the whole thing, ono thing is appreciated. Contact Aberdeen running of the plant’. The representa­ carry the world’s seaborne trade— strike at the Coneygre Foundry Ltd. in apparent; the Echevarry strikers were tives of the workcTS have replied that Group. and so fewer shipyards, grouped to­ order to protest against sackings and backed by the solidarity of the Spanish Stuart Christie. Willing to work in this insistence by tho company is a gether or otherwise, may be neces­ the dictatorial behaviour of the manage­ workers. serious threat to the solidarity of the renewed campaign? Write Box 60. sary.’ So even the present pro­ ment. Recently (April 4), after a full four strikers. Spanish Libertarian Movement in E rik. posals for mergers may be over­ The strikers, who are Indian and months' strike, a demonstration in tho Translated from Lecture — Ken Hawkes (SWF) — in Pakistani, along with one English worker, streets of Bilbao, in support of the Le Combat Syndieaiiste English: ‘State Socialism or Workers’ taken. Because of the easier access to are fighting this just struggle in support by R.J-A. Control*. Sunday. May 28, 3.30 p