ORGAfl OF THE \C HIST BLACK CROSS VOL 5 NO 5 1978 20P

IRIS MILLS- RONAN BENNETT FIENDISH ANARCHIST , s CK HO OR rgan of the Anarchist Black Cross Published by Black Flag Group. STATE OF PLAY to 15th June 1978 GUY FAWKES POSTERS Subs. £4.00 per 12 issues (home). . ' - ->' .; ^ g. Printing & We are selling them at 30p including Canada/Australia/N.Z. (airmail) £7.25, production 159.00 post and packing, from Mushroom, I U.S.A.J14.50. Postage 73.40 232. 40 Heathcote Street, Nottingham. (They'll Black Flag, Over The Water, Sanday, Sales & subs to be selling at about 25p over the counter). Orkney KW17 2BL. 15th June 78 Cheques and P.O.S should be made out to Printed by Anarchy Collective. from last a/c 94. 91 "The Teapot Club" (Ithat's right). Proceeds from All the money we derive from them, NEW Adress: 37A Grosvenor Avenue armed robberies 0. 00 London N5. Donations * 90. 56 185.47 will be diverted to "worthy" projects. Teleohone(when re-connected) 01-359-4794. Loss on last issue 46.93 (Bulk orders are at other rates yet to be (as before). Deficit outstanding 1477.02 worked out.) All other adresses are fictious1. 1523. 95 The Problems We're Facing. •Donations: Durham A. McQ. £2.50; Black Flag's "splendidly erratic" rate of Cumberland A.H. £1.50; US Picnic SRAF appearance has stepped up somewhat ($60)£31.50; Picnic Sacramento Italian Anarchists, ($50)£26.56; Hoy R.McG.£2.00 this year. This is only the fourth issue London R.M. £1.50; Birmingham Anarchists to appear since the New Year, (don't £ 1 5; London Printworkers meeting £10, think we just missed out sending your total £90.56. j -i^' copy). For a paper that aspires to be Not too bad an effort but wake up monthly, or at least bi-monthly, this is the back of the class please! Most of our bad. income isn't in anyway at the time of it then neither are some of our bills. Wi The reason is need to push this deficit down not put out an economic point of view, we cut our saucer of milk for it each night. It's the cash own throat when we invite people to for the Flags sold that would help us out of contribute to help for prisoners - when trouble. we think they're doing so, we never cut GUY •rtHMMMFAWKEm S off sending the paper (in fact we seldom Prisoners/ Resistance/ Mutual Aid Fund The only person do stop sending until we're finally In hand £26.02. Donations: Cosham (Hants) S.B.£4; Guam S.S. £7.48; Durham A. McQ to enter Parliament convinced there's no one at the address £1.50; Hoy R.McG. £5; = £17.98, total £44. to receive it - which is a habit we ought Disbursed: £10 prisoners; £28 'Apoyo Mutuo with honest intentions to get out of). Result is we don't get (Mutual Aid). enough subscriptions to keep us going; Always does quite well - especially our two regulars - bearing in mind the number the fact is if we got paid for every copy of people sending direct to addresses given that goes out or otherwise 'sold' we them (we can still do this, though there are ANARCHO-QUIZ would be making the paper pay for fewer in Spanish prisons). Don't forget our itself. Mutual Aid project for Spain as previously 1. Why, for over a century, was the outlined. Spanish right-wing called 'The Persians'? As it is we use it to subsidise our (Our fund has now reached a total of £100 Black Cross work which (especially by and we will report in our next issue on the 2. What have Mozart, Bach, Schubert and way of postage) costs, if you'll pardon first steps taken to implement our project). - to a lesser extent — Beethoven in the expression, a bomb! common, indicating the degree of appre- The result of coming out erratically ciation in which their patrons presumably is that we're inhibited from writing fuck, aggro, MiiJwall, fuck, aggro, Millwall held them? about various struggles, especially fuck, aggro, Millwall, fuck, aggro, Millwall. 3. What innovation did William of industrial, as they get totally outdated Orange bring to England which proved by the time the paper appears. But so popular that its attempted curtailment we don't get enough feedback by way of later almost caused rebellion? information about such struggles and 4. What major blow for freedom was we look to our readers to remedy this. struck, in the reign of Queen Anne, by We have no paid staff or paid contributors the totally forgotten Mrs. Foxby of (fortunately; on an NUJ basis it would Maidstone, Kent? need a dozen full-time editorial people to 5. Which contemporary Scotsman has bring out the paper we assemble in our influenced anarchism the most - though spare time - to say nothing of the always puzzled by being called one? production side). 6. Which American, though despised by Black Flag isn't directly affected by many as a cowardly informer upon his the problems of the Review which has a friends, is linked affectionately by people separate existence. Most of the work who know him only from his work with of ihe Flag, bar the typesetting, is done his faithful tribute to the heroic revolu- in London — most of the work of the tionary struggle in Mexico? Review is done in Orkney. "Big deal, now he can say National Front' (answers on page 2 3. VII ir With the success of State communism in chance aJ tne *****/ m^wum***-**** organisations formed to fight for inde- Russia and social-democracy elsewhere - Statist ideas vanish. Even more typical pendence in and from those industries a success which benefitted only the parties was that brief night of roses when the nave become incorporated in the State. concerned and in no way extended to Portuguese dictatorship fell; and a few On the other hand, as Universal Parent, their achievements - anarchism got pushed old anarchists came our with banners the State hands out, liberally or otherwise out of the international working class carefully stored away in attics since the as it chooses, such huge patronage, dis-. movement. It battled on between the 1920s .. . and set off on a march to find penses "wlefare" (fiom university grants wars before its final suppression by them greeted and followed by hundreds to unemployment pay) that it is not Statism as an important factor in the class and even thousands. impossible to try to drop out of the rat struggle but always regarded as anachron- The odl battles between Marxism or race at the State's expense — or at least, istic. Marxist-Leninism on the one hand and to believe one has done so, and try to Anarchism on the other left Marxism ignore it as much as possible; or to live In Spain 1936 there was a brief inter- stronger than ever, sustained not only in as free lives as one can out of working lude — an Indian summer of libertarian the State communist countries with all hours. Such a form of liberalism - it is achievement in the form of workers' the violence of criminal Statism, but by widely felt - could survive even the control - before the forces of repression schools of philosophy churning out theses in socialist-capitalist state, even the totalitar- closed in. all countries of the world - if only to show ianism of today. By the time the Second World War that the alternative to capitalism or even Increasingly social attitudes are had ended, not only anarchism had been fascism was the domination of the anarchistic, or borrow heavily from classic pushed out of the organised working class Communist Party. At the same time the anarchist views; so much so that it has movement — so far as any question of forces against freedom are stronger than been possible for a quasi-anarchism to participation or control over their own ever. Criminal Statism dares to represent develop which says that it is enough to organisations was concerned, so had the anarchism as anti-social; to defend its decide how we spend our social time; that working class. The ternu^JEJpxocracy" use of nuclear terror by counter-allega- our private lives are what count, and so finally lost its meaning: one was expected tions about "criminal terrorism" - i ong as we have balanced and healthy to equate democracy with tolerance and if anyone could be as criminal < ttitudes towards sexual and personal be grateful that its government abstained terrorist as theyr relationships, towards children and from repression. Democracy began to imply The term "terrorist", like many other education, and a libertarian way of spend- a dictatorship that did not hit you on the words, has changed its meaning. Once it ing our leisure, it does not really matter head: if the State did not act like a meant anyone using individual terror as so much about changing the economic major criminal, if it moreoever allowed the only defence against mass terror by system or destroying the conception of its dictators to go through the farce of the rulers against the ruled and was an the State, and maybe (with a hint of sour being "chosen" electorally - and even to acceptable term. grapes) it would be a bit authoritarian to have their personnel altered at the whim anyone fighting a war by means not ,lo this anyway .... It may yet prove of the electorate - that was as much as, officially or legally recognised and (since that these views of quasi-anarchism which it was felt, we were entitled to expect to the criminal Statist it is inconceivable have become extremely popularised nowadyas. that anyone could sanely advocate since we wrote this book ten years ago, The Centre, which likes to pose as Statelessness) "anarchist" is used by the may prove to be the real silent majority, "moderate" can be quite as extreme as media to mean a sort of assassin for despite an exceptional anti-anarchist Left or Right in its own conceptions of anyone's cause but their own. Yet, campaign ... Perhaps it may prove as much how the State should be run, and police notwithstanding this anti-anarchist a myth as the illusion that there was or is repression in country after country today - campaign, anarchism is accepted more a revolutionary movement in the in Western Germany as in Britain — show than ever before. But with one major universities. how narrow the gap can be between variation. But this does not concern us. If police powers under a dictatorship and Most people, it would seem, have people are imbued with freedom they will those of a constitutional democracy. come to accept in the last ten years or opt for anarchism despite all the odds. Yet when it seemed ten years ago that so that the State is an evil, but to accept They will move towards libertarian personal anarchism had finally one to ground, and it as an inevitable evil. Even the gift attitudes and they will move beyond them academic specialists - who after all could wrappings of the State - nationalism, and come to dismantle the State. Freedom not be expected to know what place it patriotism (though sometimes acceptable begets freedom and that is why. for the was taking in resistance movements as currency) have lost much of their authoritarian, 'anarchy' and 'anarchist' everywhere - were writing it off as dead, potency - all of it in the super-Powers. are the dread words. new vistas opened up in Paris in 1968. It Once an objection to anarchism was that, appeared that Anarchism, even if it was as the totalitarian state had become so a lost cause in the politics of the twentieth powerful, and industry so complex, we century, was still the only cause worth would have to resign ourselves to the fighting for and incorporating every- fact of the State organising our working thing libertarian. What staggered the lives, and leave us as much freedom as (Prologue to the new edition of world in the Paris barricades was not the possible in our leisure. That was not an "Floodgates of Anarchy" now being thought that it could end in the downfall objection - it was a prophecy. The State prepared for a major reprint, the hard- of capitalism - not even the most involved has become the Universal Parent of our back and paperback editions having thought that. It was that given half a working lives, our industries and even the sold out.) The total rejection of national^1"- a parasite of the State - lias been a feature of the Black Cross. In this we differ sharply from the groupings that A.B. have imitated our structure (Maoists in particular). Black Flag has attempted to portray this struggle in terms of theory, practice, comment and interpretation. It gives an entirely different perspective to the revolutionary struggle because it views events and formulates the theory of It is now ten years since the Anarchist : is solidarity? It does not imply anarchism through the point of view of Black Cross was revived as a live It does not imply the condes- the international groups acting in anarchist international. cension implicit in such organisations as solidarity, and towards a movement for There had previously been an Anar- Amnesty who state they will support the solidarity and mutual aid. This has chist Red Cross operating in Tsarist innocent victims but allow the State necessitated a break with liberal groups Russia (which changed its name to the to define which are 'innocent.' It is a claiming to be anarchistic (and rarely Black Cross when the official 'Red Cross' recognition of a common struggle which succeeding even in being libertarian). became active in the revolutionary could not be better expressed than by the We simply represnet different movements period). It aimed at supporting old 'wobbly' put into the mouths of and they accepted that fact and took political prisoners and victims of the prisoners — 'Remember you're outside different names it would make our Terror. By doing so it enabled class war for us and we'r propaganda (and theirs) more compre- victims to continue to play a part in the hensible. struggle. It gradually extended its The intention of this solidarity is We said ten years ago tb^t if the operations internationally, first to include to build an international, not upon Anarchist Black Cross succeeded in getting Italy, then suffering under fascism, and 'paper' nor on paper conferences, but one prisoner liberated sooner than he or from Berlin built a class war victims' on active i*ality. This intention has to she would have been, that alone would league that operated throughout some extent succeeded. It is quite justify our existence; we have managed Europe. It only suffered defeat because impossible for us in the Black Flag to do more than that and have been reaction was so extensive throughout tendency or the Black Cross to define exceptionally lucky in that each Europe that it had to transfer its ourselves as a 'national body.' To the prisoner who has come out has added activities to America, which then suffered despair of those with bourgeois ideas of another shoulder to the wheel which in the economic depression. Even so, the neat and tidy classifications, we cannot some cases has been of prodigious old Black Cross/ARC maintained aid for be defined into a national category. Our strength; sad that so many have fallen to Russian, German, Italian and other international may be comparatively small State terrorism. prisoners right up to almost the present and our organisation deficient at times At the same time we had launched a time. (not coincidental: organisational ability tremendous project of anarch.'St After 1937 it was no longer possil is derived from numbers) but nobody education which had almost, after over to contact Russian prisoners: they had should make the mistake of assuming a century, been dying away just at the officially 'vanished.' our international is ineffective. time when interest in it was growing. The active aid on all fronts required Despite the abuse hurled at us by the Our work with the Black Cross was always for the Spanish libertarian fight meant media and certain authors, not to intended as a springboard from which that other organisations — such as SIA mention occasionally some claiming to groups could go on to further activity (International Anti-Fascist Solidarity) be within-the anarchist milieu, the Black and provided both a means of mutual were formed with similar aims. Cross has never condoned terrorism. On encouragement by those 'inside for us' In 1968 we realised the time had the contrary we have actively campaigned and others 'outside for them' and a way come to re-organise the' Anarchist Black against the terrorism of the State, but of cementing affinity groups by solidarity Cross on a new basis. There was an it is only natural that activist groups faced activity, who would in turn activate other essential need for support of the activist with State terrorism and political struggles. If the media were at times to groups in many countries, especially the gangsterism have had to use forceful be believed we have scored tremendous First of May Group and others. This action. There has been a sort of liberal successes: in truth they have been renaissance of anarchist activity (outlined pacifism especially in England bom out considerably modest. in the book 'The International Revolu- of the dialogue between the State and If in the next five years we can gather . tionary Solidarity Movement') meant pacifism which says that any violence is all those who understand and sympathise that a support arm was needed for the equally wrong — whether it is football with out views into one fighting force, active groups resisting the onward march hooliganism or dropping the atom bomb not necessarily one organisation but of the new reaction. (We had in fact or shooting the finger about to drop the with one aim, we may yet achieve in mind to call it 'Solidarity' but it atom bomb ... in totally rejecting this victory for our ideas. transpired that this title was used by conception we also reject the reactionary Anarchist Black Cross, and Black Flag another grouping - hence the decision notion passing off as pacifist 'anarchism' represent a tendency rather than an to use the old name The Anarchist Black whcih states that if one is not absolutely organisation: for this reason it is some- Cross which had the merit of immediately non-violent in the Gandhian sense one is times vague as to who are actually suggesting support, of a permitted nature, 'violent'. (We note in passing it is odd members and who are not. It is high for victims of the State — as the Red how this pacifist 'anarchism' can pass time that we were crystallised into a Cross did for victims of war caused by over in one bound to the total violence more specific organisation, and this must the State). Nevertheless our aims were implicit in national war or Marxist- be one of our immediate tasks for the expressed in the one word Solidarity. Leninism). future. The anarchist movement lias existed squad is clearly a political instrument. in this country for 150 years. It has never The Home Secretary and the Attorney been made illegal. It is not illegal. If it General whose fiat is required for any is made illegal the consequences are on prosecution, need to consider the matter the head of those who make it so. carefully. Maybe the libertarian Legislation to criminalise enemies of the movement can be ignored politically, as State cannot force people to love the it is not to be reckoned in electoral State .... still less the party that swings. But it is always a portent when imposes such law. But it is not necessarily an anti-movement grows in armed Behind the Terrorist Squad Farce. the party in power that is seeking to strength and power disproportionate to As crowbars crash in doors all over the impose such a law. It appears to be forces the movement it is opposing - it is a country, the "anti" terrorist squad they cannot control and which Home sign someone needs to build that announces a shock horror situation which Secretary Merlyn Rees has discovered strength against something else. The oddly enough coincided with a proposed regard him too with suspicion and anti-anarchist movement is powerful pruning of the "anti" terrorist squad distrust... just as in South Australia it and demagogic and the building up of from 200 to 30 in view of the virtual was discovered that a large number of an armed wing needs to be reckoned with. ceasing of terrorist activities in the main- citizens came under surveillance because Can a Labour Government be quite land of the British Isles. It is significant (reported Judge White) "they adopted sure that it has not to reckon with a that at the identical moment that Robin politics or opinions which were ... "Chile" litptfon? Cook MP raised the question of the the Left' of an arbitrary point ""*V.*?-v>, "political delusions of the political somebody in the Special Branch." police" and role of the Special Branch and In a speech at Goole, Mr. Merlyn November The Elventh its newriva l - the glamour boy "anti" Rees, the Home Secretary, poured scorn v - - **^\* May the First fizzled out this year in a terror squad the "anti" terror squad on the Tory proposals for mobile squads dreary way ... it was the first legally found it necessary to smash in doors of police to deal withmass pickets. "This granted May Day bank holiday - but it at 6.30 in the morning .... sometimes was a radical misconception of the poured with rain and made for a very dreary only to steal [beg pardon, borrow without proper role of the police," he said day. Had it been a fine day, the holiday giving a receipt] a photo album. The (Guardian, June 2nd). "In this country would have done the Government a world photos are then used to identify people I cannot emphasise too strongly that the of good - as it is, the press is counting it of a like political persuasion. Home Secretary is not a Minister of the against Callaghan as if he were responsible It is significant that this situation, Interior: he has no powers to give the for the weather. alleged to be necessary, coincides with police orders on an operational matter. Be sure however that if it is a fine no anarchist activism whatsoever. On What marks our society out from many day in future years it will be the end of the contrary, at the present time there others is that w« have the rule of law, the old May Day as we knew it. It will be a are not even any conceivable anarchist and the police are agents of the law, not targets for militant activity, such as there agents of the government." Bank Holiday when people rush off to the were at the time of the Vietnam War or It has been made clear by the countryside or pack the sports grounds, the Franco repression. Any attacks F*A*S*H squad that the police are not and can watch the military march-pasts must inevitably be put down to various agents of the government. But arejthey in the lands of State Communism on TV in rening. nationalist movements. However it agents of the law, or are they - or a part the ev^m| is this precise lack of any action which of the police — agents for something The English labour rallies were never is being attacked, for as the uniformed sinister? They should be "enforcing the up to much but May Day as the Festival police shrink in numbers to a point law impartially," says Mr. Rees. The of Labour is over. Let us continue to try where a public used to leaving its Home Secretary compared "innuendos to achieve something on that day but it is orderly protection in the hands of the about Marxism etc which are designed not and it never was Anarchist Day. Its police finds to its alarm that they can to cast doubts on the patriotism of mdoern observance began in the struggles no longer provide it, so the political Labour Party members" with the of the Chicago workers which culminated police grow and (as Robin Cook discovered) Zinoviev letter of 1924 or Churchill's in the murder of the anarchists the the Special Branch has been swollen out 'Gestapo' speech of 1945. (It should be Chicago Martyrs. But the day on which they were hanged, November 11th, was of recognition. pointed out Churchill was entirely fur; e:irs celebrated by the international But the "anti" terrorist squad that is correct in saying that "some sort of anarchist movement as its particular day. Gestapo" would cone in Britain with muscling in on Special Branch's nice November 11th was stolen from the the growth of State powers; only wrong little preserve — and acting less as the Anarchists by the patriots. It was Armistice in saying that it would be exclusively armed wing of the Conservative Party Day in 1918 and for years "our glorious the Labour Party that would use it). (SB), and more like that of an imminent dead'' were remembered on that day. But Mr. Rees, it was said, in regard to the fascist takeover. If we christen it mi. ivcw, 11 wa» aom, i.. .ts«"« ~ »•" they were ultimately forgotten. No young Tory proposals - as well as the problems, ^rsrm nnw VnnM nfhat a f,M mae maAa, flippantly in terms it has chsoen itself person now knows what a fuss was made over National Front marches - "is (to judge from press comments as given about November 11th — the Two Minutes known to be deeply concerned about Silence, the march past at the Cenotaph out at Scotland Yard) The Fiendish any development which would increase Anarchist Shock Horror Squad (see the etc. Time we took November 11 th back. the police being used as what he called^ Bennet-Mills-Ladd case) rather than the 'a political instrument Bomb Squad or the "anti" Terror May 1st celebrates (or ought to) the Squad, it is not because the results are international solidarity of the workers. flippant. The "Draconian laws" granted November 11th is now re-appropriated to under the Prevention of Terrorism Act celebrate the end of international tyranny. means they can be totally irresponsible — : IFLA&, It's a Saturday this year so get it off to a clowns throwing not custard pies but ^ of the good new start. high explosives, clowns with crowbars. ANARCHIST "BLACK CROCS NOVEMBER 11th ANARCHIST DAY AGAIN. stated over and over again and obviously Tuesday 6th June. Scotland Yau. PTA coming from the police (oddly enough Squad, local CID, and explosive 'snitter coinciding with the end of certain dogs raid a house in Honley, search house sentences given, one of whom was raided and question a man and a woman for only days after being released). three hours. Questions about their The arrested were said to be "charming" politics, local anarchists, friends who though they had "annoyed their in the area, demos attended, when and neighbours" by feeding the pigeons (we where they lived in the past, how they met are not making this up) but they had Ronan and Iris and the whereabouts of G. started a bomb factory in the flat - Rua were asked. Fingerprints were "I had no idea they were doing anything taken.. so fiendish," their actress landlady is Wednesday lih June. Police go round reported as saying. ("Bomb factory" to anarchists house at 8.30 a.m. He is can mean, of course, weedkiller in the at work, local CID arrive at his work garden shed and sugar in the pantry). place at 10 a.m. (no-one told them where "Security forces were put on alert for a he worked). They asked him to go to the possible bomb emergency (Standard) police station. He was told that if he though a word of truth slipped out in refused other ways would be found. On the Guardian - "Scotland Yard said the way to the station he was told that last night that there was no suggestion Ronan had murdered a policeman a few that the couple had any connections years ago and the fact that he had won with the IRA or any other terrorist the case in court was immaterial. He organisation." was questioned for three hours at Hudders- field police station about his personal Vi politics, what he knew about Iris and Later Dafydd Ronan, Phil Ruff, Albert Meltzer, released from prison, was also arrest Stuart Christie and Graham Rua. Finger- and they were all charged with " prints were taken. spiracy to cause explosions." Thursday 8th Ji s what explosions? Nothing visit a couple who formerly lived in the ~ _appened, nothing was about to house occupied by the couple above. ited in London on May 24th. They happen, and no targets were named or Similar questions are asked. They also had previously been detained under the suggested. Explained lisp. Bradbury in visit the people living next door to their Prevention of Terrorism Act in Hudders- court, "we nipped the bomb-making present address who have no personal or field, went before a tribunal, were plan in the bud," and anyway there were political connections with Ronan ani thoroughly examined as to their views armed robbery charges hovering around. Iris. And they questioned and finger- and activities, and totally cleared. They Su tar no evidence has been, or needs to printed a couple who live in Huddersfield were again detained under the PTA, but be, produced, as they have not yet been (no details known). as the procedure was the same, when a committed for trial and it i In the first raid photographs were friend telephoned them and was answered ofthe~Attorney "General shown that prove that a former mailing by an assumed human voice saying they on the showing may need some convincing. address for Black Flag was under had "gone away for the weekend" he However the "emergency" was reflected surveillance for some time. There was guessed what had happened (last time in exceptional security measures. also a list of descriptions of visitors to the voice invited him up — and he came Ronan and Dafydd appear in court in the address. It was also obvious that the and was detained). He telephoned handcuffs each week, Iris is in solitary local anarchist group was under surveil- around and we were able to notify a confinement throughout the week (in lance. The stress in the first two inter- solicitor. The detention was cancelled a men's prison, the one woman), all views was on the personal politics of the and they were charged instead. have up to the time of writing been people being interviewed. At the Next day headlines in the press denied visits, all are taken to court with interview of the second comrade his announced: a police escort that exceeds that given 'true British spirit' was appealed to and BOMB MATERIAL SEIZED IN HUNT to the I.R.A., the Kray and Messina he was told that certain key helpers of FOR ANARCHISTS. brothers and the Angry Brigade put the ABC were 'in the pay of Moscow.' together. Anyone knowing how ****" * The "hunted anarchists" had only a gentle and kind Iris is will be staggered to week before gathered in public demon- see the special attention given to her strations and meetings (over the May at Lambeth Court. 1st weekend) and our group had later Until some intelligible charges are To date 6 comrades have been arrested held a social, only a week before the made we are unable to satisfy curiosity and charged with "conspiracy to cause "hunt". Anarchists were (one paper as to "what's it all about". The raids explosions": Iris Mills, Ronan Bennett, said) about to "attack London!" What on comrades' houses everywhere have Dafydd Ladd, Stuart Carr, Trevor Dalton could be "an important anarchist cell" been only for things like address books and Vince Stevenson. on the "lines of the Angry Brigade" was and photo albums. When police chase announced by the Telegraph, and the armed robbers they look for guns, shock-horror stories were on. "A ] ammunition and above all loot. There was on today for members of an ana ; is the smell of something in the air. It 1678 1978 group thought to be planning a new would not be the first major repression, TERCENTARY of the TITUS GATES bomb wave in London" (News) "on some of them involving mass slaughter, PAPIST CONSPIF lines of the Angry Brigade", a theme to begin as broad farce. his song "God Bless America." Emotionally - and oh, so American — the composer expressed his delight in the award but the song was written only to show his gratitood for this wunnerful country etc where — and this was the highspot Americanism — you had the freedom to write such songs as "God Bless America." Offhand I can't think of any country however dictatorial its system, where you can't write sycophantic songs extolling the State's armed might and There were at one time extensive plans expressing the joys of that particular Consistently the Sunday Express runs a main to build a new British Library adjacent country in terms of the highest conceiv- feature article at least, plus several to the British Museum. This plan of the able adulation. commentaries and some biased "news" academic Establishment evoked howls stories, attacking the anarchist peril, with of protest from the commercial denunciations of anarchists and by such Establishment. It would destroy worthies as Angus Maude, Reginald Maudling, irrevocably the character of Bloomsbury, Enoch Powell, old uncle John Junor and they said. Well, "Bloomsbury," as it all.... But this was lacking on June 4 has passed into the folklore of the 20s (notwithstanding a current police scare (and barely survived into the 30s), has that normally would have served as grist long since been destroyed. As working- to the mill but was, perhaps, too fantastic class Bloomsbury faded the literary and to be credited). Instead there was an artistic rebels moved in; but they having editorial on "Flame of Freedom" concerning made the area "desirable" it was gradually WHERE IN THE WORLD the incident when Brezhnev was blacked taken over by the tycoons and built STANDARD CHARTERED? out on TV. into massive office blocks. It was good news that an old acquaint- "A few brave men had enabled the "But there was still something of ance Abdul Rahman Babu was released C/,ech people to express their true feelings." old Bloomsbury left," we heard. "Look from seven years of prison in Dar es Th£>MKej£_nQt "saboteurs" or even at Cameo Corner, look at..." (all the "terrorists11 on this occasion! - "Is it not rest have vanished but Cameo Corner, Salaam. No matter how much he may possible that by concentrating all our and that closed down the other week). have departed from the anti-imperialist attention on the physical evidence of It was a tribute to "craftsmanship and idealism of his exile in London (we N Russia's strength we sometimes forget the free enterprise," (but apparently ten don't know) Babu's detention was solely weakness at the very heart of their Empire?", years ago Hambros Bank bought it out an arbitrary act by President Nyerere - in the captive countries of the Soviet and even they could not afford the long since bogged down in international Empire, indeed in Russia itself, there must increase in rents now made). (imperialist) politics. be millions of oppressed people waiting, Just as the Labour Party MPs have Abdul Rahman Babu was Minister like those Czech technicians, for the chance their brand of hypocrisy in advocating of Development in Tanzania when he and the hour to strike. From the times of comprehensive schooling for others and -..as accused of "planning" the assassina- the Romans and the Persians and the sending their own children to expensive tion of Sheikh Abeid Karume, then Head Mongols all empires based on tyranny have or exclusive schools, the Conservatives of State. He was also accused of been destroyed from within. One day the have their special brand in regard to "conspiracy"; part of the tensions biggest Fifth Column in history will surely "private enterprise" and the myth of existing between Tanganyika and Zanzibar destroy the Russian monster too." the heroic struggling small shopkeeper ... in Tanzania reflecting a struggle for The "millions" are not represented by Cameo Corner was much used when they power and necessitating charges of this a handful of writers, a few religious sectar- were talking about a British Library sort. ians, some show business refugees and a altering the character of Bloomsbury Years ago Babu was saying that he gaggle of Nationalists. Moreover, the only and built office developments instead. hoped the new Zanzibar would be a way to destroy — that is the word - the But surely this hypocrisy comes to a "holiday resort for the revolutionary "monster" could only be what in other hilarious head with the Thatchers tea workers of the West;" it didn't become circumstances the Express would term shops. As a tribute to Conservative so for him. But who knows what the anarchism and terrorism. ideas of free enterprise, they are proposing future holds? Do the Russian Anarchists receive setting them up in the provinces - And speaking of African politicians, support from the West? Alas, no, (syas backed by wealthy business contributions I well remember the days when an old the Express apparently). What then do they to the Tory Party. But how long can real acquaintance of pre-war London (he receive? Rigid hunting down by an inter- unsubsidised old-lady-tea-shops survive? sometimes came to anarchist meetings) national police force which passes on About as long as bookshops, alas. was being reviled as a terrorist in terms information and hands over people to the To the originator of the Thatcher tea far worse than those applied to the Red Russian secret police. Interpol is rotten shops we award the Harold Wilson Prize Brigades, the Red Army Fraction or any with intrigue and mixed up with double- in Sincerity. of the current nationalist movements.... crossing, espionage and counter-espionage. as you can see from the above, he has But on this it is firm. The Russian dictator- The Berlin Wall received the ultimate accolade — not ship must be preserved at all costs. Even One of those lovely, slush television inter- just Head of State but featuring in an if it is against the "national interest." views ( on the occasion of his 90th birthday) advertisement of Standard Chartered Soldiers' lives are cheap, but Revolution showed a flashback of Irving Berlin being Bank persuading businessmen to is unpredictable. given a medal by President Eisenhower for invest. Motes in Eyes It is the 'highest impertinence and presump "The police are being hopelessly Apropos of our remarks about how tion in kings and ministers to pretend Arthur Latham M.P. Yeah? fixated the Marxist-Leninists are in to watch over the economy of private More than 150 skinheads raided Brick one period of history and how Lenin's people, and to restrain their expense by Lane on the night of June 11th. Bottles, reactions to various ephemeral factors sumptuary laws. They are themselves bricks, sticks and knives were being existing then and no longer are taken the greatest spendthrifts in the society; wielded, most of the youths had come like the immutable Holy Writ. let them look well after their own expense, from all over London and were intent on But (a reader takes me to task) and they may safely trust private people smashing up Bengalis. Shops, cars and libertarians aren't entirely exempted with theirs. If their own extravagance other property were wrecked as the boys from this "looking backwards" — she does not ruin the state, that of their shouted racialist slogans of the type cites a fellow worker of the IWW subjects never will. familiarised by the National Front proposing to "bring a rule up to date." Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations agitation near the scene of the crime, and In the old constitution "bootleggers" the urging of such action. The police were banned from membership - he The truth of the above is so ingrained in everyone's knowledge of modern econo- said there was no conspiracy. proposed as a modernisation "drug Police refuted claims that yesterday's pushers" be barred. This also is seeing mics that it is hardly necessary to rub home the application Governments try invasion was inspired by the National things in terms of the past: bootleggers Front. A spokesman said: "There is presented a problem, to American unions hard to convince people that economic problems are their fault for having too nothing to suggest that they were organised. of the period, not because of the beer It seemed to have been purely a rampage — (in which case, wny not ban brewery much or working too little — and to some extent have convinced them at a nasty case of vandalism with racial workers when beer was legal?) but undertones." (Sun, June 12th). because of their links with the criminal least that other people's wages ought to underworld, the gangs which moved, remain steady. Generally what sounds among other business interests, into more convincing is that economic controlling unions. problems — like inflation - are beyond Drug pushers, whatever one thinks human control, that they are something about taking the stuff, supply a commodity like a good harvest or prolonged drought, on which no doubt there are. different when the plain fact is that they are the result of Government over-spending in views, but they don't have the intention of controlling the unions. The very idea a capitalist economy. Governments in a Dear Black Flag, is laughable. They can't be equated with State communist society need not over- With reference to your review of bootleggers. spend so they do not have inflation. Authority— 1) Rising Free as a group This method of (as Longfellow said) They have instead other myths — "the has not published anything for a number rending the past "backwards like a Hebrew building of socialism means sacrifices" which substitute for "inflation" as an years. Various individuals in the book" and seeing the future in its group have participated in several . i_ox isn't exclusive to Marxist-Leninism excuse for taking too much from soci publications, i.e. Zero, Anarchy, ich has just institutionalised it). Authority, Womens Struggle Notes and •how-often do we hear people talking People News Service. iout the National Front and citing it 2) Rising Free is a non-sectarian with Mosley's Blackshirts - "why not left bookshop, not libertarian. tell them what Cable Street was all 3) Rising Free has never had any about?" type of thing .... paid bureaucrats, and although we're The truth is Cable Street has been working on it, we have yet to produce greatly distorted in the telling and We never thought much of the old a Minister for Justice. ' become one of the great political myths ... International Times — too much dour The remainder of your comments are but, even so, it was an entirely different flower power that's now gone sour — but either irrelevant or should be answered ball game from anything to do with the times change, and the new IT has trans- by Authority. activities of the Anti-Nazi League. At formed; it's into punk anarchism and Rising Free Col the 80,000 demonstration against we highly recommend it — to the aston- :.-; §i& H*|~ racialism in Victoria Park over the May ishment perhaps of some of our friends Rising Free, Weekend the old legend was trotted out who probably think we'd take another 182 Upper Street, (they're not called trots for nothing), view. "Surely Black Flag and IT are LondonN.l. given a dusting and emerging more vivid opposite ends of the spectrum?" - yes, Vhen we saw an editor of 'Authority' he than ever. "Tell us about how the but different ends of an anarchist spectrum identified them alias the Rising Free East End workers stopped Mosley," and well capable of coexisting. IT Collective - which seems to be in someone shouted at a cart containing concentrates on issues that we aren't into precisely the same situation vis a vis former C.P. members, veterans of the or don't take up - but that makes it 'Authority'as the CNT(which was in "battle." How the stories grow in the complementary, it doesn't make us hostile. telling too! You would think Mosley On the punk scene IT stands out as a 1937 a union with two million members was driven into the sea afterwards .... real libertarian paper. It's possible a lot 'participating'and 'unsectarian' to boot) only one march was "stopped" at Cable of our readers won't be theirs, and vice- was vis a vis Garcia Oliver. And was there Street (and that because Fenner Brockway versa, but IT is about the best thing not a 'non-sectarian' left socialist feminist with (in 1937) views little phoned the Home Secretary to warn him "" Dund the "underground press." of the "danger of violence" and got the It's sold in more or less the same different from many of 'various individuals participating' now in Rising Free, who police to send the Blackshirts back) .... uokshops that stock us, or direct from became Under-Secretory of State for and the role of the C.P. was as dubious 97a Talbot Road, London W.I 1. (20p + as ever it was. D&D) the Home Office (English for Minister ' : ' of Justice)? study and practice of Marxist-Leninism. But as the revolutionary movement turns entirely from the Moscow direction and has no visible restraints (for after all though deified, Mao is dead and his closest associates are themselves the victim of an even more formidable kidnap band than the Red Brigades), the imbalance in favour of Marxist-Leninism and against Anarchism - the one receiving the serious attention, the other receiving the denunciations and persecutions — will make itself manifest in such occasions as this time and again. The bourgeoisie are cutting the throat of the wrong cow and fattening up the wrong one too. 'Si !••;!••• -.ou. :>.?:?,ri :'; N>', TT;.':'.

The visit of King Juan Carlos of Spain, gang or group, legatee of the Franco and Fascist of the German resis- conquest of the Spanish working class, ncies ranging The most cynical deal between a State historical beneficiary of the liquidation from libertarian to authoritarian, ranging communist country and a capitalist of that class for the crime of social from sincere revolutionaries to govern- one was made by Yugoslavia when it expropriation in the form of workers' ment agents of differing brands: in this announced its readiness to discuss control, to the People's Republic of respect it resembles Spanish anti-fascism "terrorism" with the West German China as an honoured guest, must surely 1936-9. Those who ask if we support it Government. Truly these governments give cause for reflection even among the must assess it in these terms. Should have an expertise on terrorism against most dogmatic Marxist-Leninists. our criticisms, sometimes amounting to the people but what they wanted to The heirs of Mao naturally welcome a hostility that can only be expressed discuss was people having the temerity such a guest for his importance in the physically, mean that we should not be to try to tcrroise them. Western capitalist world and as a potential part of such a movement? The Communist Party - that well ally against Russian imperialism. In known non-terrorist organisation unctuous phrases they welcome him as Some of its actions are incom lounced "We are ready to carry out they did Nixon, as they did Edward hensible except when we consider the r international obligations, but others Heath, a man of "vision" who sees the background. Ideally, who would seek must be ready to do the same." In" proper place of "New" China. He on such an enforced Popular Front? But other words, they would hand over the other hands smiles shrewdly as he in any revolution, will we not be obliged Left-Wing elements fleeing from the envisages the utter rout of those who to fight alongside precis such German police if the German police ,, ,. . •.:>! Tii L^j> would, within his own territory, elevate authontanans,; would hand over Right-Wing elements Mao to Godhead and pretend to take whom we woul fleeing from the Yugoslav police. They over where the anarchist Resistance common but that which we had Brigitte Mohnhaupt, Rolf-Clemens "left off in the struggle against Franco, And in practice, who •'.agner, Sieglinde Hoffman and Peter by a stepping up of action against the admiration for some of Boock — suspected variously of ihe regime at the precise moment when it revolutionaries of Germany, and in slaying of the former Nazi industrialist has ceased its genocide and when such particular the heroic young women Sc'nleyer and the banker Jurgen Ponto. actions have become superfluous. rebels who have put the most callous, But they would keep them in prison as It is a sad reflection on the revolu- complacent and terroristic capitalist class live bait and only extradite them if tionary struggle today — that though in Europe in a state of abject fright? they got from West Germany some of Stalinism has died on its feet — the Who can believe they will continue the Croat fascists who were fighting the Resistance has passed out of the hands to look to Mao as the last generation of Yugoslavs (and who believes for one of libertarians and that Maoist forces revolutionaries looked to Stalin? — and moment that it would stop there and dominate. Where there is a superfluity looked in vain, and were betrayed. that they would not want Slav worker of Marxist-Leninism, Nationalism comes One would say that went too for the m_ m im \s as well?) hi by the backdoor, and the "people's Red Brigades of Italy, even though there Said the secretary of the Party, Stane struggle", unrelated to any specific is no discernible anarchistic tendency Dolance, " Ve do not accept that a person working class needs, takes precedence, within them at all. Nobody viewing the who commits crimes in Yugoslavia should merging into a leftist melange of "Third way they dealt with Aldo Moro - who be treated as a political opponent who is World" and package deal causes. Closely at the time of his death was no longer allowed to do such things and can even following on Nationalism come the Prime Ministei o! Italy with all the get political asylum in some countries, secret service of all nations, well able powers of criminal Statism, but a poor while others are treated as terrorists to penetrate nationalist movements and frightened little wretch abandoned by his for the same crimes." indeed, by virtue of their own ideology, friends who sacrificed him to their These "crimes" are not just what is to dominate them. One can never forget principles - would think that they could now called "terrorism" but the stuff of the triumph of the Israeli secret service, '">ertarian at all. One persecution everything that was once called that managed to take over the leadership another, in Italy as in elsewhere, resistance, now only, it seems, by us. of an entire Arab nationalist movement f educed the anarchist movement to Yugoslavia is demanding something that and fling it into battle against Jordan. obscurity and unimportance: while huge under the counter she has long had from What is referred to loosely by the pi grants go to build up the Interpol, as has Russia: police co-oepra- " .'*. tion against Resistance. This coincides with the F*A*S*H raids in Britain. Among those raided a former German national who was interrogated by the West German police, though now living in the U.K., and having the legal right to do so by marriage. What right have the West German police - carrying with them the most hated legacy in the world - to bust into a private house here, even legally? Well, there was a tame Scotland Yard officer accompanying them which "helped to give a semblance of legality" to the raid — as was said at the previous occasion when French police broke into British houses in international co-operation between Britain, France and Franco's Spain. Be sure that under the deal proposed by the Yugoslav Communist Party, the Yugoslav and then the Russian police will be one day breaking in over here. When they do, the Tories will be hardly able to reply to criticisms of the police "Why don't you do something about Orlov?" They will be picking up their Orlovs here.

•••«" i-ijj $t('fini:''a*r*'t~ *,-«?*•;"iy!-;..••*«»:*r;«?-v"("•' : '~4ff»r.--. .-- -,""m * W;i< HiW^WV^n^*/Ta:n»'ju*; 1'' ^tiH-TJi-'^ A/ : n o iai_jlL iL MfeilBM**^n* * t*^£,i n eur^^^~ o Heide Kenipe Bottcher is a 26 year old A lawyer friend later discovered that she of solidarity with Heide, and 3000 German woman living in Paris. On March was indeed at Claude Bernard hospital. people demonstrated outside the police 21st this year she felt too depressed to Jacques hurried over there to find that station a few days later, demanding to go into work, and spent the day in her she had been moved to the St. Anne know who tortured Heide and why. 100 flat, writing and drinking. In the after- hospital. He arrived there at 9.30, to people were arrested by the CRS, the noon she rang her friend Jacques Soncin, find Heide being treated for appalling French riot police. who realised that she was unwell and burns on her stomach, thighs, buttocks The mystery has still not been solved. came round. When he arrived, Heide and genitals - burns that could only have Somethi ig horrible certainly happened was crying behind the door, unable to been caused by some corrosive liquid. to Heide either while the police had her open it. He managed to enter via the Heide has no recollection of what while she was in hospital. It rer balcony. happened. Her first coherent memories i be seen whether the public outc Meanwhile the caretaker had heard are of talking with the driver of the will succeed in getting the true facts the sound of crying and called the police. ambulance which transfered her from known. At 5.10 six aggressive policemen arrived the Claude Bernard hospital to the St. There have been more large demc and asked what was going on. Jacques Anne hospital. The police, the caretaker strations in solidarity with Heide. A told them that Heide was drunk and and Jacques have all stated that Heide support group has been formed, and has needed a doctor. The police said they had no burn -marks on her when Jacques published a pamphlet detailing the back- would take her to the Claude Bernard carried her out of her flat and into the ground to the affair. It costs 5 francs hospital. Jacques was reluctant to police van. 'A duty doctor at the Claude and can be obtained from MLAC, 34 agree to this and asked to call an Bernard hospital has stated that he rue Vieille-du-Temple, Paris 4^. The ambulance, but the police assured him examined her on her arrival there and title: Heide torturee. Par qui? Pou that he could go with her to the hospital. discovered second and third degree (Cambridge Black iCross) They willingly helped Jacques to dress burns. He stated that the police van her. arrived at the hospital at 6.05. The At 5.30 the police van stopped off at normal time for the trip from the police the police station where Jacques was station to the hospital would be about forcibly ejected and kept under guard. ten minutes. A support group , Persons Unknown, Not until 7.15 was he able to speak to an Despite admitting that Heide was not has been formed and is fighting to:- inspector, who refused to tell him where burnt when they left her flat, the police 1 Free those arrested they had taken Heide, whom he described have denied causing her burns. The left- ' Abolish all conspiracy laws. as "a drunk German leftie." Finally wing newspaper Liberation de Abolish the prevention of terrorism Jacques was thrown out of the police an inquiry, but received only threal act (P.T.A.) station. and abusive denials from the police and to expose the activities of the 'Anti- Despite phone calls to all the hospitals authorities. Terrorist' Squad and all special security in the area he was unable to locate Heide. A group of women formed a collective forces. into a ruling class that have the power over the fruits of life, and a class without power or property, the struggle for the elimination of these conditions will continue. The International Revolutionary Solidarity Movement's action against the Spain Tours office in 1975 was a lead in the struggle, an action in solidarity We, three comrades in the "International The action at Spain Tours was carried with a people and their aim: a classless Revolutionary Solidarity Movement" out as a protest against the death sentences anarcho-communist society. arranged in Spetember 1975 a car bomb dealt out to 5 Spanish anti-fascists from We are not terrorists! But it is outside the Spanish travel bureau "Spain the ETA and FRAP organisations. It convenient for a society that is built on Tours" in Stockholm as a protest against was also directed against the garrotting terror to make us seem dangerous. The the planned execution of 11 ETA and of the libertarian fighter Salvador Puig fact is we are dangerous, but not for FRAP revolutionaries. Antich the preceding year. A communique your sister or brother, but for those who The bomb was a fake. We arranged a issued to the press explained the action. feel their positions threatened by our professional looking time bomb in a car, The action at Spain Tours travel bureau demonstrating that solidarity lives. Our but connected it in a series instead of was one of many protest demonstrations ideas are dangerous for those who, with parallel, by which procedure an explosion and condemnations which occurred all beak and claw, cling to power, and for was impossible. over the world. When the Franco dictator- those who try to prevent your under- Our aim was not to destroy property ship was about to garrotte 5 resistance standing that revolutionary solidarity but to put out a serious warning to the and liberation fighters who had dared to is beautiful, tender and ru man. We shall travel bureaux which continued to sell defy the terror of the dictatorship — in never cease fighting for a new and better holidays to the oppressors' Spain. On exactly the same way that Antich had society. the same morning as the non-detonation been executed the year before — it As we see it capitalism is international. we put out a statement in which we became too much. All over Europe anti- Against international capitalism we set made dear that all economic transactions fascists protested in different ways. Our international revolutionary solidarity! between Sweden and Spain should be action should be seen only as a small With that, and a social revolution we will, sabotaged in the future. This statement part of the international revolutionary once and for all, cast the fascist bubonic was published in a major evening paper. solidarity. Even some governments plague into the Mediterranean, or for that On 1st April 1977 we were arrested reacted and recalled their ambassadors tter, the Baltic. in a big sweep by the secret police to Spain. But what Olof Palme (then ng Live Anarchy!!! together with about 50 others (7 Prime Minister and leader of the social Long Live Solidarity between the enslaved foreigners were expelled because of a democratic party in Sweden) "forgot" in aii coumncs 01" the world! secret police statement that they were to mention when :ie expressed his The International Revolutionary in sympathy with terrorist ideas). Two distaste for these "bestial murders" was Solidarity Movement, Commando Sabate, of us were kept in total isolation for 7 that the Swedish welfare system is built 16th April 1978. months, Ha Laskar, aged 21 and Lenny up on the exploitation of aged 24, suspected of having prepared class in other sabotage, kidnappings, robberies, the Spanish. explosions, etc. etc. The third comrade, LM Ericsson, SKF, ASEA, Alfa Leva) Ted Bergstrom was in isolation for 66 are just some of the Swedish companies days and was then set free and is now with daughter companies in Spain. The LETTERS FROM OVER THE awaiting trial, having to register at a profits exploited from the Spanish WALL police station every day. He went under- workers play a big part in the reforms . . . what's happened raises a lot of very ground for some months but rejoined for Swedish workers. The most effective important problems for us to face. It Pia and Lenny at the trial in October and powerful action of solidarity would needs the kind of debate that can only, 1977. Judgment came in February have been a Swedish general strike, but that must, be taken up by the socialist 1978 and sentenced Ted to 1 ^ years, .Pia there was neither time nor basis for such press, as distinct from the speculative to 2V*. years and Lenny to 4 years an action. Therefore we decided to journalism that the bourgeois press goes imprisonment. The judge decided to sabotage Spanish tourism, and we are in for. It's vital that this "affair" reiterate the line of the prosecution and all agreed that we succeeded. The shouldn't be used by the reactionaries stated that we are three incompetent prospective traveller to Spain must have as a pretext for making things worse for terrorists who connected the bomb thought long and hard before deciding the political refugees already in the wrongly by mistake. We declared in court to support the bloodthirsty military country, or for tightening up the restric- that we oppose terrorism, but of course dictatorship there. tions on the entry of political refugees. the state prefers to fix the cards. As we have earlier pointed out, the Everything that points in that direction We demanded a trial on appeal, which conditions in Spain were, as in most must be resisted as strongly as possible ... took place in Stockholm on April 17th, other countries, unworthy and unbear- after nearly 5 months in solitary, three 1978. The prosecutor demanded not able to live in. But there is always of them with only the hum of the ventilator less than 2Vi years for Ted, 4 years for someone who profits by oppression. for company, it's hard to concentrate Pia and 6 years for Lenny. The Spanish fascist junta's daily terror in a big room with so many people This is the daily terrorism of the State - against the Spanish people is completely around. For the first few days of the we will never stop fighting it. The in accordance with the social system that trial I got blinding headaches from all the trial on appeal will is the basis for fascism — the capitalist the new sights and sounds pressing in in midsummer and we are society, a grim and demeaning society on me. out till then, but having to register at based on private ownership and profit 23 year-old man j police

II Monday 15 August. assault): Nass and the governor here at graphic fabrications and their I've been in solitary for 133 days now the prison denied that we suspected in the press. If there are no terrorists and want to say something about what's terrorists were the only ones to be to be found then some have to be been happening since April 1st. At about raided and searched. That's a barefaced manufactured. We'll see if they can get 7 that morning I was woken by one hell bloody lie! After our protests were of a racket at the front door. Wrapped. taken up by the media there were raids my a blanket round myself and wide awake on the other prisoners the day after managed by now went to open up. In rushed 3 the Tuesday that was. Only a few of to get hold of a copy of the paper the pigs from SAPO with guns at the ready. them were subjected to gynaecological story was printed in. Briefly, what I'm Asked to see a search warrant and for examinations. So to save face they put angry about is the way they've used the an answer got pushed about and told to other prisoners through this atrocious fact that I looked after a 2 year-old sit down. The pigs took a quick trample and humiliating treatment. child for a few days a week to help out through every room, looking for Germans a comrade who happens to also be a they said. Somewhat upset I let my relative. After my arrest I wrote to my friend Anna know that SAPO had The contrast between the charges brought mother asking her to send some toys, dropped in for a visit. (Anna has since against us in court and the reality which nappies and clothes to the child's mother, been deported and now hasn't a chance underlies them is a good illustration of plus hugs and kisses. The investigator of of getting into university in Greece or the way in which repressive tolerance course got interested in this yong rebel, of finding a job, having been branded as in Sweden hides its true face — a went to see the mother and so found out a terrorist). After a while they calmed prettified public relations front masking about my career as a child-minder. down a bit, we gave them a cup of economic insanity and the echo of the None of this has been mentioned at coffee and about 9 the pigs dragged me iron heel of reaction. The path from any point in the investigation. Yet off to headquarters. Where I was told the expansionist policies of the Roman according to Aftonbladet "one of the that I was to be questioned about Empire to those of European neo- young woman terrorists borrowed a friends. I refused to play along capitalism may be a long one, but it child from one of her relations to get hours later was accused of being runs in a straight line. Caesar "offered" some experience of childcare — in in sabotage. Got hold of a lawyer but bread and circuses, Bohman & Co., preparation for taking charge of Leijon's stuck to my refusal to say anything. Was offer ice-cream and terrorist hysteria. children during the kidnap" or something released at 7 in the evening. Remember, The "objective" opinion-moulders of along those lines. don't let yourselves get involved in their the bourgeois press take the opportunity to improve their sales figures since as we From the theatrical hallucinations attempts to intimidate you. They just of the bourgeois press to Brand's all know the newspaper industry is in a grabbed an accusation out of thin air to revolutionary solidarity. I and the make me nervous and get me to talk about period of crisis and violence is always good for business. A real spy story at comrades I am in touch with by letter my friends. Anyway I was arrested again genuinely appreciate your writing to on April 4th, still under suspicion of last, and in Sweden too! I should add here that amongst the other charges — that you won't allow yourselves to conspiracy to commit sabotage. At the intimidated by this hysterical repression ; of July they charged me against me there is one of conspiracy P to commit damage with danger to human by reactionaries who are attempting to ' to rob. By then I'd alre criminalise and blacken our anarchist been in prison/solitary for three months life, punishable by up to 8 years!, simply because the theory of how time-bombs ideas. We have nothing to hide, but we and when they asked how I was going to do have a lot to be proud of. When I say answer to this "new" charge - guilty or work was explained to me, by a West German on the wanted list. In the "we" I mean all the comrades struggling not guilty - I was so taken aback that I against corruption and elitism, not just just replied "I really don't know." That papers I am described as an explosives expert. If Kroscher had been French those mixed up in this kidnapping business, was/is an honest answer. in the first instance (nor in the second In spite of the near absence of things wouldn't have turned out like this. The paranoia of the German either). Brand is effectively the only visits and the SAPO surveillance, in spite paper to get in touch with us and it's of the fact that I'm not allowed to mix Federal Republic has shifted northwards, great to know that comrades on the with other prisoners — they always take the people who work for the security outside are not allowing themselves to me out for exercise on my own - my cell services are of course cast in the same be disheartened by state terror against is searched continually. Always in my Cold War mould and getting along the organised and unorganised left. What absence. They search my body too. But wonderfully together. Should it surprise would be dangerous in this situation would they'll never get their hands on my us that SAPO made contact with the be to take refuge in silence, to close one's thoughts. ° :;•.*';:! ::: a Israeli intelligence service to find out eyes and so connive at the miserable 18 August whether this gang of killers wanted to attempts of this bourgeois government On the evening of the 15th Nass said on dispose of a couple of unruly Palestinians to cover up the present crisis of capitalism the radio that he

12 -offs Reviewing two books on computer crime, maker with whom he was betting the computer by the firm itself. Equity Scientific American (a decidedly money/. Hattner had ripped off one Funding Corporation of America, based unrevolutionary journal) was moved to and a half million dollars. The customers, Ji Los .Vngeles, was supposed to be quote Brecht: "Which is the biggest whose deposits were insured by the U.S. selling insurance and handling invest- crime, to rob a bank or to found one?" government, lost nothing. The bank .nents f.>r some 97,000 clients, according The question now has a new meaning: lost enough in interest to teach them, to its ie. firds. These records, kept on Computers can be used for either purpose. perhaps, to pay their employees. Hattner compatf. tape, listed for each policy- Corporations are able to use computers was finally sentenced to 20 months in holder lu> .iame, credit rating, medical to set up tax-evasion schemes; civil prison. history and so forth. On this basis, servants, to manipulate statistics to their One customer of a Washington bank tquity seemed such a profitable concern own ends; police forces, to keep secret robbed the place of a quarter of a that it had no trouble borrowing enor- files on large numbers of innocen,_—.—t,. ^ ij'/^millioC n without going near its computerf . mous sunis from other companies and citizens. In general the computer has He depended on the bank's use of magnetic playing all the usual investment games. become a symbol of repressioiressioin — the coding — the stranginge olock-like numbers The only trouble was, 64,000 of those inhuman machine fronting for the on cheques and deposit slips. policy-holders were complete fictions, inhuman organisation - and this may ., in magnetic ink, can be invented by the board of directors. They explain overt attacks on computers in read by the computer. The man grabbed made themselves a fraudulent $185 several places. Computers have been a handful of the blank deposit slips from million, about the same as the proceeds shot in Melbourne and Johannesburg, the customers' desk in the lobby, took from ninety thousand bank robberies. stabbed in New York, blown-up in them to a (magnetic code) printer and Only in tiiis case the losers were not Wisconsin and California, and burned in has his own account number printed on banks but other companies — and 33,000 Rome. This overt sabotage may at times them. Then he returned them to the genuine policy-holders, who lost every- be easier to perform than to justify desk and waited. While other customers thing when Equity crashed. (especially at the University of Wisconsin, wrote out these deposit slips and handel At the other end of the scale is the where a student died in the blast). And them in as usual, the computer credited woman who cashed a tax-refund cheque whatever the motives, political or their deposits to his account. He then ai her local bank in California. Tit* personal, for such attacks, their effect in withdrew the money and disappeared. teller be:-me suspicious,remenbe-ing the long run has been negligible. A New York customer took even less that the woman was also cashing welfare The same cannot be said for crimes trouble to obtain a free gift from his cheques, so probably not paying excessive using computers. If the computer seems bank. When he took out a loan, the taxes. The Internal Revenue Service was a powerful weapon in the hands of an bank supplied him with a book of 12 informed, and could find no record of oppressive organisation, it is just as payment slips, one to be enclosed with the refund. After mere checking, they powerful when turned against them. each monthly payment. H? simply tore Virned that the woman had a neice What's more, no computer-owner can off the last slip and sent it in with a working for them as a data-terrrinal • mciitff-aJ'*/* 'SiCkv ^ •' ever be absolutely certain that his machine payment; back came a computer-printed operator. The neice had crea'H within will not be turned against him, subverted letter from the bank thanking him for the system a faJ-.e tax record, indicating to steal his money or spoil his plans. paying off his loan so promptly. Again, that her aunt was owed money. The cast The motive for such a computer crime the coding on the slip had mis-informed computer system went to work on it is usually profit, and the crime is usually the machine. and wrote the cheque; Then the neice embezzlement, fraud or theft. In 1970, Slipping false information into the instructed the IRS computer to delete "Stephen Hattner," chief teller at a machine need not be done for money. the fictitious tax record and just forget New York bank, decided he was over- New York uses a computerised voting it had ever written the cheque. One of worked and underpaid and began using system, involving one punched card for the investigators in this case wrote: the bank's computer to even the score. each registered voter. Not long ago, "the guilty operator was identified Though he understood little of the someone fed 100 take votes into the in ihe investigation. But the question operations of computers, he had access system, apparently trying to throw an remained as to whether this was the only to the keyboard terminal used to deposit election. According to the journalist such case of altering IRS records ... or withdraw money from customers' Jack Anderson, something of the kind I he IRS had no practical way of finding accounts. By pushing a few buttons, he has been going on in the U.S. House of out how many operators might have was able to inform the computer that Representatives, where each member been doing the same sort of thing. The the customer was withdrawing, say votes using a personal magnetic card. cost of auditing and investigating so 5550.000. Then he'd simply walk into He sticks the card into a Yes or No slot many people - so many relatives and the vault and put that amount into his of the House computer, which then records friends of terminal operators - was so his pocket. Whenever the customer wanted his name and vote. Apparently some monumental that the IRS people just his money, Hattner could cover the loss members (and even office boys) have gave up." by withdrawing money from other accounts been observed sticking more than one They also found that there was no again using the terminal. For three years card in the slot — in other words, casting way of fixing the system so that this he moved money around in this way, votes for absent members too busy to do couldn't happen in the future. There is tooling the bank, the customers and even their job. apparently nothing stopping any of these the auditors. When finally he was caught One of the biggest frauds in recent thousands of employees from ripping (the police happened to raid the book- history involved misuse of a firm's off the IRS system for as much as he or she likes. ' 13 Using a somewhat similar technique, less detectable and less punishable than printing our some slogan 100 times, to a programmer working for a computer many other forms of crime. Moreover declaring a company bankrupt, to service firm managed to penetrate the it raises Brechtian questions about the ermarket to be supplied security of a rival firm and steal a nature of crime, since a machine is it marmalade for the next valuable programme, in 1971. In tli indifferent to the politics or intentions six months. It can be instructed to hand case, one computer actually stole from of the person putting data into it, and over absolute control of itself to a data another computer, over the phone. indifferent to the data themselves. An terminal located almost anywhere in Radical politics seldom show up in of money is just a number; a the world, to ring up other computers on the annals of computer crime, and it's le is just a series of words. the telephone and give them instructions - hard to see why. It may be that radical A California company marketing fruit and to "forget" why it did any of this. groups are ignorant of the computer's stables found a way of exploiting Most computer crime naturally involves possibilities, or believe such crimes to be grant workers: The government some access to the computer, and this is impossibly difficult, or that they < sold them to shops wanting information where security systems come into pffect - rlie idea of playing what seems like a on prospective employees. He was or don't. Like the unpickable lock or capitalist's game. acquitted. the unbreakable code, the absolutely There is also the possibility that A California firm was taken to court secure computer system does not exist. radical groups are already committing for using computerised voting lists for One of the methods used in a "time- computer crimes and getting away with "commercial purposes;" in Sweden, sharing" system (a computer used by them. In fact, computer crimes receive people have been charged with lifting several people at different remote little publicity for a number of reasons. census data from government computers; terminals) is the password. The user is ( A well-executed crime may never be in Norway the charge was selling health supposed to begin his work by "signing discovered at all, or may remain invisible service data to private drug firms. In 1973 on" and giving a long sequence of numbers 'or years. Even when it is found, it may a computer operator broke into the West or letters that tells the computer (a) that 'v di ficult to identify a culprit. When German firm who formerly employed he is a legitimate user, and (b) which user he is Known, there r him, stole 22 reels of tape containing he is. The computer then opens to him Many companies fei marketing plans, and held them I that part of its memory bank which has own incompetence, corruption or ransom (£100,000). That tapena been assigned to him, and prevents his vulnerability, was successful, but others have failed access to all other parts. That's how it's the carnage or including one in London in 1977. supposed to work. But about two years judges, juries and lawyers have difficulty The third category of computer ago one British schoolboy, fooling about with 'echnica! evidence of this complexity, is plain sabotage, aside from overt with his school's terminal, managed to much of it turning out to be invalid. destruction of the machine. When the tape get the passwords of all the 100 other Finally, there is a reluctance on the part librarian at an insurance company was users, merely by persistent questioning, of most courts to hand out harsh sentences given her notice, she erased or mis-labelled Others have stolen passwords from the for cnmes which often amount tc many reels of tape. Clearing u users themselves, by setting a trap: a few electronic blips on a piece c ss cost the company ten million When the user signs on, his password or something equally trivial. dollars, but they declined to prosecute. is forwarded by a special instruction to One radical group is mentioi Another dissatisfied employee, this the trapper. In 1970 two American by name) in an article by Thomas time of the Girl Scouts of America, schoolboys worked that one. Whiteside. They approached a erased their computer tapes by simply The military have tried more sophisti- Harlowe". known computer cri running a bar magnet over the reels. A cated security systems, with no more tor advice on buggering up coi French programmer accomplished more success. In 1972 the U.S. Air Force tried "These people consider thei by a subtle piece of programming. testing their own security, by allowing he urban guerrillas, but they are intelligent Learning he was about to lose his job, he two outsiders, competent programmers enough to realise that violence will only instructed the computer to wait two years, but with no knowledge of the security bring repression," Harlowe said. "They and then to erase all company records. system, to try penetrating it. The leel that the best WRy to further their This last is an example of trap-setting, security system included encoded pass- cause is to screw up major computer by no means an uncommon practice in words (supposed useless even if stolen) systems, such as the big credit-card outfits the short history of programming. A and an "audit trail" or monitering system and the billing systems of major oil programme is a list of instructions for the which would record any attempts at companies." computer, telling it in simple logical penetration. Using only a telephone Whatever qualms radicals may have language what to do. What makes it terminal in the basement of one man's about computer crime, the other side has complex is that, first of all, many house, the two men penetrated the system none. The F.B.I, launched criminal instructions are needed tc accomplish in two hours and took control of it. attacks on radical individuals between even a fairly short task (in human terms); In 1973 the U.S. Navy tried a similar w • Vx' «S"-** • -*-*? SPW§*-W it""*" 5- 'JJ* ' ' ~ ' -r-»- 1968 and 1972, planting in the computer second, instructions can refer the computer test; the system was penetrated in 13 files of private credit-reporting companies to other instructions, which can in turn seconds. From then on the computer kept false reports. The reports showed these refer it to other instructions, and so on, vomiting out information (classified and individuals to be poor credit risks, making it heaping up complexity in ways which unclassified) at such a rate that the hard for them r^—-•»<•*— *~ —* •*—«- almost defy human comprehension. outsiders couldn't keep track of it. Once loans. H.P. or Thus in a list of several thousand (even they hud broken in, the system obliged credit. a million) instructions, it's easy enough them by decoding passwords and even Whatever the motive - profit, personal to slip in a few which comprise a trap, erasing all traces of their illegal entry from revenge or political advantage - computer causing the computer to do something its "audit trail." crimes will almost certainly increase in unforeseen (by others) at some future So far, these cases have a common •incidence in the future. The computer time. factor: in each, the computer has been virtually invites such crimes, making The computer can be instructed to fed with false information. What makes them easier to commit, more effective. do anything it is capable of doing, from this crime a nightmare for computer- owners such as the IRS is that a computer people. By the time he was caught, in Friends and Comrades, is not just a block of machinery sitting 1972 (aged 21), he ripped off a million Well finally back at the penitentiary in one spot, easily guarded. It is instead dollars. Sentenced to 60 re in Walla Walla, the jail in king an electronic network that can reach 40. unty was a beating, but we won a lot across a continent (as the IRS one does); Besides putting false information in the struggles there, watch Open Road a false "input" can come from anywhere. computers, people have taken genuine on that and the GJB bust. I met John Anything the computer can read - information out, usually to sell it. In Sherman there and we gave them the magnetic numbers, punched cards, tape, 1971 a Chicago policeman was indicted blues about the conditions and treatment. .nstructions delivered from a remote for stealing information from the F.B.I. Since February I have been in security terminal over a telephone line - is a National Crime Information Centre dead lock and isolation. They split us valid way into the machine. With computer for "private use." Another all up, put the boots to me and then intelligence and perseverance, almost cop went to trial in 1974 for allegedly claimed I swung on them! But isolation anyone can dig into the "mind" of selling police computer records to is rather comfortable now, smile. Seems almost any computer, whether he happen private detective agencies, who in turn I start shit everywhere I go, I just can't to work with the computer or not. had demanded that it cease paying them play sub-human or conform to fascist The best example of this is the case piecework and start paying a minimum bull-shit... of Jerry Schneider, a high school student wage. By changing their computerised Lost a lot of weight and am pale from in LosLgeles. He walked to school work schedules, the company managed to the lack of sunshine, but other than that past the supply storeroom of the Pacific continue paying piecework while making am well. Back into it here and working Telephone Company. Just for fun, he it look as though it were complying with slow, I will be sending articles, poems and started rumaging through the rubbish the law. Thus the company "saved" etc., as soon as time and postage allow me bins outside, taking home pieces of junk $78,000, that is, ripped off the workers to. I received the February Black Flag. and also telephone-company operation for that amount. At the same time, the Getting better. manuals. Though at first he couldn't company accountant, "Mr. Harlowe," About the Prepared articled I read read these, he kept collecting, and was using the same computer to rip off it and agreed with it on many points, gradually came to understand something the company for a million. And he in self-defence is merely one tactic of the about the way the company ordered turn discovered that "one of my employees whole and debating its rightness or equipment. Using a special push-button was stealing from me . . . He had been wrongness is really a waste of time, it phone they would ring a certain number padding expense accounts on our comes down to an individual matter. If you at the Western Electric company. This think it is right then prepare, if you think connected them directly 10 a computer. it is wrong then do your thing and give Further button-pushing placed the order: critical support to those who use violence what, how much, delivered when and or prepare themselves for It from the where. State. Violence is a reality and the only Jerry Schneider bought such a phone Bibliography way to deal with it is to confront it to and tried it. He-found it easy, for Thomas Whiteside, "Dead Souls in the the best of your ability. example, to persuade Western Electric Computer," in New Yorker, 22 and 29 Violence that is wrong say it's worng. to deliver a complete switchboard to August, 1977. violence that is "good" rally behind so some remote location of his choosing, at Donn B. Parker, Crime by Computer. that it doesn't occur again. There is a 2.a.m. He would then haul it away and Charles Scribner's Sons ($10.95). reason for it, whoever strikes out look for it. Bruce J. Walker & Ian F. Blr'~ that reason and work hard to make all the e rest is an American success Computer Security and Pr> changes necessary so that that violence story: Schneider soon owned a company, Structures. ^ --•••-- •• --*-ihinso' n & Ross, turns out to the good no matter who gets ran a warehouse and employed i hurt or killed. Emma Goldman points this out — there is a reason, get the reason to know the right or wrong of it, and then do something about it. We talk a lot and desert people to the State when they struggle the best way they know how and that is wrong. Violent people just don't pop out of the sky they are made Everyone has a place. Find yours and do your best wherever you are for the cause, trying always to be right, to be constructive and positive. This is all we can do as human beings. Don't desert people to the vengeance of the State. Get in touch with yourselves about violence and confront that self, know exactly why you feel as you do, is it political rightness or personal fear etc. then look out at the situation and go from there. Don't condemn, criticise construc- tively with unity in mind. I send lots of love to all. Be good to yourselves and be good to the people. Love and Rage, Carl Harp. unlike their German and Italian counter- parts, they are not implicitly libertarian, and often set themselves up in opposition to other far left groups. There have been several occasions recently when they have clashed with other left demonstrators,

~f~ ~^~ ' ' "Vff'''*\ *^ - •'"•-(• '-*•'' although the blame is difficult to • •K^B'?£rc2M>T ' ?,-*(•' Members of the Bordeaux libertarian apportion. group have been repeatedly harassed and in one unsavoury incident recently, attacked by local fascists, apparnetly a "commando" of 12 masked women, GREECE because of their part in organising a armed with iron bars, amde a midnight On 28 March the anarchists Philippas boycott of Agentinian produce. raid on a feminist bookshop in the rue Kirissis, Sophia Kiritsi and Nikos At the end of April, one member, des St. Peres, Paris. A second, identical Papadopoulis were arrested in Salonika Duchesne, had his flat set on fire by attack took place six nights later. and charged with possessing petrol, empty "visitors" who gained entry by means of Both of the attacks were claimed by bottles, and anarchist literature. They a skeleton key. The next day three the "bombeuses a chapeaux", a marxist are said to represent a danger to the group members were detained by police autonomous group, which attempted to who raided their homes at 6.30 a.m. maintenance of order. On 29 March justify its actions by saying that the Another group member was "visited" by five other anarchists, supposed terrorists, feminist movement is "bourgeois", and police while at work, and a fifth was were arrested during a student demon- divides men from women, hindering the stration. New laws against terrorism The struggle against the state. police claim to have received anonymous have been introduced in Greece. They The confused state of the autonomous phone calls linking anarchists with recent prescribe sentences of death or life groups reflects their origins in the failure imprisonment for "terrorism" and at bomb attacks against nuclear installations at Golfeich. of French maoism, and while some are least two years in prison for gravitating towards a gut-level anarchism, On the third day after the fire, one "sympathisers" (otherwise known as others have not abandoned their of the group members received a "moral instigators"). Terrorism means authoritarian attitudes, but seek to threatening letter, accompanied by a any subversive activity, which may be no compensate for their failure by attacking "lOto of Duchesne entering his flat. more than the possessio others on the left. iath-tnreats in the letter were linked PORTUGAL to a demonstration about Argentina, Jose Antonio Machado, an c and were signed A.A.A. (Argentine with a personal history of more than Anti-communist Alliance) — i.e. death 40 years of active involvement with squads operating within the Argentine the anarchist movement — much of it police. clandestine — has died. Duchesne was attacked the next day, when returning to his flat. His face was FRANCE slashed by a razor and burnt with May Day was celebrated in style by a cigarettes. Two men ran off, and passers- group calling itself "The group for by took him to hospital, with serious the extension of May 1 st to all following abdominal injuries. days." They bombed three employment Autonomous Revolutionary Groups. agencies in the centre of Paris. The Henri Perez was arrested after the bombs were precisely placed and nobody demonstration organised by autonomous was injured, but important files were damaged. groups in Paris following the Prison death of Jose Tronelle (see last Jose Trenelle has "committed suicide" and was sentenced to three years for in the La Sante prison in Paris. He was possession of a gun, which he used to arrested along with Ignacio Congosto, smash a shop window. After his sentence Jean Paul Nunez and Jose Cerrada. was upheld by the Court of Appeal, Official statements say he "cut his throat several "young unemployed youths" fire- with a knife." His death came only bombed a cafe belonging to the person hours before a trial which would have who denounced Perez to the police. sentenced him to a maximum of three Over 400 members of autonomoi months. Charged with possession of groups, many armed with iron bars a arms, Jose was closely linked with the molotov cocktails clashed with Paris Members of Parisian autonomous groups French Prisoners' Aid Committee, had police at the end of May, during a demonstrating against Argentinian contacts with Spain's COPEL and had demonstration against repressi repression and the Vorld Cup. Over issued a statement opposing arbitrary Argentina, and the world cup. 400 people armed with metal bars and discrimination between "political" and French autonomous groups.which > cocktails clashed with police at "common" criminals. developed recently, have shown a . (Liberation). willingness to resort to direct action but 16 Gabriele Rollnick, Ingrid Siepmann and saws and to bum suspects alive. Argentina Inge Vjett. As we go 10 j>ress we learn has a minimum of HOOO political that 'fill Meyer. Gabriele kolinick and prisoners, 13 concentration camps and three other women have been kidnapped between 8-10,000 "suspects" have died in Bulgaria by German police and at the hands of over enthusiastic extradited illegally to West Berlin. One interrogators. Suspects like the man who of the three has been tentatively identi- was the incarnation of Argentine soccer fied as Gudrun Stuermer, whose husband in the 40s, Waldimo 'Torito' Aguirre, was, Harry was recently sentenced for because he died in custody of a ruptured "supporting a criminal organisation." liver, broken ribs and a crushed thorax. Julianne Palmbeck, Ingrid Siepmann According.to Amnesty International and Gabriele Rollnick all escaped from upwards of 15,000 people have disappeared Moabit in July 1976, with Monika - people like the 130 workers on strike Berberich (35), a member of the Red at the Renault Factory in Cordoba; Army Fraction (RAF) who at the end another 50 were wounded when the army of April was sentenced to an additional occupied the plant. Bodies of prominent year and a half on charges arising out strikers turn up on the pavement, mutilated, like those outside the Lozadur been arrested recently, including Stefan ceramic plant in Buenos Aires province. Wiesniewski (25), who was arrested at There is no right to strike in Argentina, Oily Airport on May 13th, as he was and the right to live seems under threat, about to board a plane for Zagreb. He if we are to go by this statement from was immediately extradited to West Iberico Saint-Jean, the military governor Germany and charged with membership of Buenos Aires province: "We shall of an illegal organisation. Showing start by killing off the subversives, then 2nd June Movement commendable spirit Stefan, a courier for their collaborators, then the sympathisers, Mid-April saw the start of the trial of the RAF, attacked the interrogating then the indifferent and finally the faint six members of the 2nd June Movement, judge. Following Wiesniewski's arrest, hearts." accused of the kidnapping of the leader four RAF members were arrested in of Berlin's Christian Democrats, Peter Yugoslavia: Brigjtte Mohnhaupt (29), MEXICO Lorenz, and the murder of Judge Von Rolf Clemens Wagner (33), Peter Juergen All the southern border states are Drenkmann. On the first day of the trial Boock (26) and Sieglmde Hoffman (33). practically under martial law: Oaxaca, several of the court-appointed lawyers M All are being used as pawns by the Guerrero and Chiapas. Over a thousand asked to be released from defending the Yugoslav government, who want to people have "vanished" in Guerrero alone; accused, as they had been attacked by exchange them for Croatian political . others are held in military camps or have their "clients." Three of the accused, refugees living in West Germany. been gunned down by the White Brigade Rolf Reinders, Fritz Teufel and Ronald of paramilitary police or the right-wing Fritzsch, interrupted the proceedings, Falcons militia. 37 people were mown denouncing the nature of the tribunal down at a public meeting in Oaxaca a year and insulting the judge. Several people ago; since then the focus of repression in the public gallery applauded, and the has shifted to schools, colleges and judge order the expulsion of more than universities. On 14 December 1977 the 20 people from the court before refusing After 27 years in Cuba's prisons, 39 army occupied the Autonomous Univer- to release the lawyers from their mandate. year old Cesar Paez has died for lack of sity of Oaxaca; 65 students were wounded Within a few days the judge had medical attention. He had fought with unconfirmed reports of several killed. excluded the defendants from the Batista as a guerrilla in the Sierra de Professors Arturo, Cartes, Gutierrez courtroom, after they protested at the Escambray, but opposed the new totali- have been kidnapped and tortured. All presence of police inspectors. Further tarianism too. this because the PRI has been losing disruptions took place in the public As recorded in El Gastronomico, ground and folk in Oaxaca are getting gallery during which two policemen Victorino Hernando has committed a bit uppity and thinking for themselves. were injured. suicide, unable to face the after effects The PRI recently lost 80% of the At the end of May, the trial was of his term in San Severino castle municipalities. The military governor stopped again, when two women presented (Matanzas) where he lost most of his is the infamous Eliseo Jimenez Ruiz, the forged lawyers' certificates at the eyesight and was pushed to the brink head of the anti-guerrilla campaign Moabit prison entrance and bluffed their of madness. responsible for the death of Lucio way past three security checks. They There are an estimated 40,000 people Cabanas in Guerrero, the head of the both drew guns and escaped from the in the camps undergoing rehabilitation Party of the Poor. Landless peasants prison with Till Meyer, one of the or political re-education. Castro admits invading big estates are, needless to say, accused 2nd June members. Andreas to 3,000 of the latter category of guerrillas who are gunned down: 27 at Vogel, another member, was prevented prisoners. San Juan Lalana, 19 at Playa San Vicente, from escaping by a prison guard. The about 60 in the Sierra Mixteca (napalmed). prosecution immediately attempted to ARGENTINA About 500 so far. Meanwhile the under- implicate defence lawyers in the escape, Not 800 yeards from the World Cup ground 'People's Union' planted 20 but the allegations were so ludicrous venue - the River Plate Stadium - is the bombs in Oaxaca, costing the capitalists that they were laughed out of court. Naval Mechanical School, the base for over 200 million pesos. After the escape police named four the notorious Task Force 33, composed Uncowed the peasants continue to people who they claim took part in the of 314 officers and men, who have been back the dwindling guerrilla bands of escape. They were: Julianne Palmbeck, known to "interrogate" with electric the Peoples' Union, Party of the Poor,

17 People's ArmeJ Revolutionary Front, ships. There are 100,000 informers. A A CALL FOR A NATI the 23 September Communist League research centre to devise more scientific(!) STRATION. and National Revolutionary Civil Rights forms of torture/interrogation has been Association. In Mexico today, civil opened in Montevideo in the Boulevard There will be a national rights are revolutionary. The mood of Artigas y Palmar. Curiously enough, on September 15, 1978tosuppor the (largely Indian) peasants can be Uruguay incorporated the Universal 'Marion Brothers' and to demand the assessed from this quote from a peasant Declaration of Human Rights into her closing of the Control Unit Behaviour leader: "Either we change the raws in nation's laws in 1948. Modification Programme, at the United force or this country goes up in flames * over one third of these 7000 are women. States Penitentiary, Marion, Illinois. and takes us all with it." Among the Marion Brothers who arc Anarchist Prisoner in the Control Unit is Lorenzo Komboa NICARAGUA ment Death Camp. Ervin, a Black Anarchist and prison The Sandinist National liberation Front, Lorenzo Komboa Ervin, the Black organiser. Komboa has been confined continuing the campaign it began in the Anarchist and prison organiser has been to the Control Unit since April 3, 1978. 60s against Somoza's dictatorship, has placed into the notorious Control Unit Since that time prison officials have announced that it has successfully Behaviour Modification Program at tried to incite other prisoners to attack embarked on the final phase of its war Marion, Illinois Federal Penitentiary, him on several occasions; on one such of liberation. This follows an offensive after a protest by prisoners in the occasion they even gave a prisoner a "zip against the National Guard, which Isolation Unit and an earlier food boy- to kill him with, but the prisoner between 12 October and 2 November cott in mid-March. The Control Unit caused them over 115 losses, with the Marion is infamous for having caused mboa says that the Control Unit loss to the FSLN of only 15. The murder if ten (10) men in the last five :orture chamber and a death camp, on Somoza's orders of the liberal has been open, and the self- that 10 men have already died in the unu publisher P. Joaquin Chamorro has set tilation and mental imbalance of - 3 deaths in 1977 alone - and hundred: the middle class against the dictator. ds of others. The Control Unit of others have been driven insane or to Aided by the US Embassy the, conserva- viour Modification programme self-mutilation. tives are attempting to capture the used to punish prison organisers, jailhouse Komboa is askinj popular discontent and preserve their lawyers, political prisoners, Muslims and and comrades in the Anarchist Liber- privileges ii\tact. The workers held a other "trouble makers." It is apparent tarian, and prisoner support movements massive general protest strike, 80V that Komboa is being punished for his to attend the demonstration at the effective. In spite of popular sympathy Anarchist beliefs and his prison activism. Marion Federal Prison, and demand that with their spectacular actions the FSLN Komboa and three other Black the Control Unit be closed, that Komboa is somewhat dubious politically. mers were placed into the Control be immediately released from the Control avowed aim is Socialism: it has Unit on April 3, 1978 after a protest in and from prison, where he has been suggested a penl c the Isolation Unit when several prisoners railroaded for over 9 years. tuals and indus were brutally beaten by guards. On his transitional stage second day in the Control Unit, prison Carl Harp is due to appear in cour apparently imminent post-Somoza era. officials tried to set him up by letting hearings in preparation for a new trial in Already there are signs of separate two white prisoners out of their cells while August. He has been "in the hole" for political attitudes emerging inside the he was taking his recreation period, in 30 days and has been subjected to the FSLN (Sandinists) some sticking to apparent hopes that they would attack seemingly inevitable abuse and brutality military activity, some trying to involve him, and kill or seriously injure him. by the prison warders while in there. themselves in class struggle and others But the two prisoners refused to swallow But together with his comrades John described as rightwing adventurists. If the bait and do the prison officials' Sherman and Rita Brown, he has fought the US project is to be thwarted the bidding. As a result they were called a determined battle of resistance against second "Proletarian Tendency" will "Nigger-lovers" and threatened with the constant beatings and violations. have to fortify its position. beatings if they "kept running their The stand these three have taken in defence of human dignity and solidarity URUGUAY ivuinuu y , ^ .,_. j..._ has been carried on against the full Once a model democracy, the Switzerland torture chamber and a death camp, and power and viciousness of the American of Latin America , Uruguay, under that it is apparent that prison officials prison system and the psychopaths who military rule, has become the Prison of are trying to kill him or drive him to man it. The outcome has been a feeling America. Paranoid and semi-literate suicide. He is asking for his friends, of renewed solidarity and self-confidence "gorillas" arrest people for reading supporters, and comrades in the Anarchist for John and Rita and Carl, and they are dangerous literature like Stendhal's "The and prison support movements to write now recovering their health and strength. Red and the Black." Books on Cubism to the Warden to protest at this conspirac> These comrades welcome messag are mistaken for Cuban propaganda. As against his life and demand that he be from supporters and comrades, usual it is the workers who suffer, but removed from the Control greetings and encouragement to, > the blind blows of the regime are beginning immediately. Harp, John Sherman, Rita Brown, Box to strike even the military. With 7000* George C. Wilkinson, Warden, United 520, Walla Walla, Washington 99362, political prisoners out of a population States Penitentiary, Post Office Box USA. of only 2% million, 62 out of the 64 1000, M->""v Illinois 62959, USA. attending graduates of the Military Write t< -..nooa and express your College at a recent class reunion after For information and to help this comrade, solidarity, if.t him know that he is not write to: Audrey A. Myers, Director, 30 years, had someone belonging to alone and that his friends are fighting them in jail. A file is opened on every NatT Committee to Support the Marion for him against the Government Brothers, 4556A Oakland, St. Louis, citizen at the age of 5 containing details murderers. of medical history, relations and friend- Mo. 63110. (314)533-2234. Lorenzo Komboa uvn,, 18759-175, or Albert Meltzer, c/o Anarchist Black P.O. Box 1000, Marion, Illinois, 62959 Cross. 18' — future issues. Liberation published a letter from Oriach, which forms the ITALY basis of the charges against it. Prison Notes Oriach was sentenced to seven years, Pietro Valpreda (the Italian anarchist two with hard labour, last March, after who spent 3 years in prison facing being found guilty of possession of a accusations of involvement in the 1969 number of weapons that had been used Milan bombings that were later proved in political attacks (including murder, to be the work of neo-fascists) has been and attempted murder) claimed by imprisoned again, for "offending a NAPAP. Also sentenced with him were magistrate." A "crime" for which he Michel Lapeyre and Jean-Paul Gerard. has received a 9 month sentence. *'} v •••.)•»>'< ••- • ' ** '•?* Francesco Berardi (also known as 'Bifo') I an announcer for the radical Radio Alice was granted provisional liberty after spending 9 days in prison. :(< •'-• - He had re-entered Italy (clandestinely) during the aftermath of the "Moro The radical French paper Liberation is rivaling Black Flag in the extent of official Affair" and had been arrested, accused harassment against it. On April 27th, of "the instigation of violence and sub- for example, over 300 police and soldiers versive association" in connection with raided the Belfast office of Sinn Fein the serious riots that occured in Bologna (Republican party), arresting several in March 1977, following the murder of party members, and Alain Frillet (22) Lotta Continua member Francesco a trench lecturer at Belfast Polytechnic, Lorusso (shot in the back by a uniformed photographer and correspondent for policeman). Liberation. During the riots armed policemen He has been accused by British broke down the door to the Radio Alice* authorities of membership of the banned stuJiu, closing the station down in mid- Provisional IRA, possession of "documents Christian Hennion broadcast. All the staff were arrested, as that could be useful to terrorists, and they had been reporting police move- refusal to co-operate with the police. Pirates In Paris. . "Bifo" soup The documents are in fact photographs The history of "free" radio in political asylum in France but: taken in the course of his work, and only short — the period during the lead- refuse.-'-d- andni'r include pictures of the American M.60 in to the last general election saw a fn court Ins machine gun that featured prominently mushrooming of small pirate radios. complete and unconditional discharge, in British papers a month or two ago. Many were run by only a handful of but the notorious judge Catalanotti, Alain has been released on bail until people, but most had a commitment to would noi allow this, so Bifo still faces his trial. social justice, and as such threatened the the prospect of imprisonment. A second journalist for Liberation, government's monopoly of the airwaves. 35-year old Christian Hennion, was The state could not allow this sort The Canadian libertarian socialist paper, badly beaten by police, in Paris's 10th of thing to continue, but the prosecution TV Red Menace, carries a dramatic arrondissement, after refusing to show of a pirate radio station run by the Adscript of Radio Alice's last broadcast his identity papers at an illegal police Gaullists failed on a technicality. The in its current issue. check-point. Christian, a court reporter, failure of this prosecution could have was also accused of assaulting a police- opened the door and created a situation of man, a charge which was later dropped, similar to that in Italy where anybody "semi-libeibertr y when the authorities attempted to play can operate, so the government responded down the affair. Police have been quickly, catching Radio Rocket in the FINLAND seizing every opportunity to establish middle of a broadcast, on May 2nd. A New Frame-up. the practice of operating the check-points, Radio 93, which is noted for the spontan- 54 year old Kosti Lakus faces a new police even though they are clearly illegal. eity of its broadcasts, and uncensored frarne-up. He expected to be released Their first real opportunity came with phone-in programmes, and Radio on May 23rd, after finishing his sentence, the kidnapping of nuclear Baron Empain, Generation were both forced off the air but he remains in prison as the authorities and this has been continued under the by police who raided the studios in mid- claim that he manufactured amphetamines pretext of searching for Mesrine, an broadcast. while on parole for a short period during escaped member of the extreme right- The Radio Rocket trial is taking place the winter. wing OAS. as we go to press, but Radio 93 has been In a letter smuggled out of prison ad Liberation has also been on trial, found guilty. John Ducarroir was fined and sent to a Black Cross member, Kosti accused with Front Libertaire (paper of 5,000 F, and equipment confiscated, writes "It is true that I myself hired a the Organisation of Libertarian Commu- Yvonne Huriez and Gilbert Delarke were little farm in East Finland last May (i.e. nists) and Frederick Oriach, a sympathiser each fined 3.000F for allowing their 1977), but other people have been living of the Noyaux Armes Pour l'Autonomie bookshop to be used as studios. there over the winter. Police found a Populaire (NAPAP). All face charges of small lot of chemicals in the possession apologising for the crime of murder. French pirates are fighting back, and a of the people who lived on the farm." Front Libertaire published a lengthy national dav of action has been called. The chemicals apparnetly form the article last October, which outlined 15 Parisian pirates have also taken the basis of the evidence for the prosecution, NAPAP's position on armed struggle, initiative in the /"nation •' but as the police refuse to go into details, and was intended to initiate a debate in federation of non wommei,. it is difficult to know, It is, says Kosti. a

., regular trick of the police in Finland to pin charges on people already in TUNISIA USA prison, as it makes the crime figures look Following the General Strike and clashes Joan little better. with the army and police, the General In 1975 Joan little was tried on charges Letters of protest should be sent to Union of Tunisian Workers (UGT), which of killing a white prison officer while the court: Kiteen Kihlakunnoikens, has one third of the working population he was attempting to rape her, in North Kitee, Finland. has been dismantled. Fatalities are Carolina State Prison. The jury acquitted Kosti would be grateful for letters between 47 (official figures) and 227. her. of support, and for books and magazines This was Tunisia's first general strike and Since that trial Joan was convicted of (in German, French or English), which the bureaucratic UGT was overwhelmed breaking and entering and was sent to a should be sent to: Kosti Lakus, P.O. Box by the strength of the student and prison in Raleigh, North Carolina, but 40, 00551 Helsinki 55, Finland. popular protest movement. she escaped last October. In December IPfe- she was recaptured in New York and a Anti-nuclear occupation. legal battle to prevent her from being Over 280 demonstrators were arrested sent back to face almost certain death in following the occupation of the Barnwell North Carolina began. Now, however, the nuclear site, South Carolina. Most were Supreme Court has ruled that she must quickly released on bail, but 25 of those go back to serve out her sentence and arrested, mostly anarchists, went on a face new charges arising out of the hunger strike which lasted 5 days. (Two escape. of the 25 stuck it out for seven days). FRANCE-ITALY The Palmetto Alliance which was Illinois guard poisons 12 Stateville Eliane Giraud and Christian Sagnard, co-ordinating the anti-nuclear demo, prisoners. French people living in liege seem about withdrew support from the 25 in the Joliet, 111. May 20 - While a state to be extradited to France from their face of newspaper criticism of the commission is trying to decide whether prison in Trieste where they have been occupation. Most of the arrested demon- guards (but not prisoners) at Illinois' held since October 1976. They have strators jumped bail, which the court had Stateville prison suffer under terrible already been sentenced to be. guillotined deliberately set low - in the hope that and hazardous conditions — one of in France for attempted robbery. It people would forfeit their bail money, these same prison guards faces possible is not unlikely that their prominence rather than fight it our in the courtroom. suspension or firing for poisoning 12 in the events of May '68 and their work Although all 25 hunger strikers appeared prisoners by putting disinfectant in a for anarchist prisoners' aid committees in court, 15 people did not respond when container of orange .juice. influenced the final sentence. their names were called out, preferring *•*» ,y-...., *...,. to lose their bail money rather than risk For years prisoners at this rat-and-roach ,11-orgarused campaign of a jail sentence. infested dungeon have complained to n, the French authorities have 10 others decided to argue their cases both the courts and the press. (Telling backed down, and will not extradite with the judge, putting up a spirited the administration or the state is useless, Italian journalist Antonio Bellavita to defence, but each of them got 15 days since they run the dungeons.) Complaints face charges of "subversive association" in jail. A support group has been formed, have run the gamut from toilets backing and public incitement against the state as the prisoners want to continue with up sewage into cells to overcrowding in Italy. the anti-nuke fight. to incompetent medical personnel and Bellavita fled to France in 1974 after Barnwell Prisoners Support Committee, openly racist guards. Of course little was .inned police found files and tapes which 321 Whaley St., Columbia, South Carolina ever done. he was researching for a book on armed 29201, USA. Now a Chicago paper has published struggle in Europe. He was accused of (source -.Industrial Defence Bulletin) a brief article about how on March 31, being in collusion — ideologically and officer Daniel Stalker poisoned 12 journalistically — with the Red Brigades, A parcel of books to Emily Harris from prisoners with disinfectant. They were and faced a possible sentence of 15 years CP Bookservice was recently returned by all treated at Stateville's Detention for his activities as an editor and the California Institution for Women, Hospital for nausea, dizziness, vomiting director of Controinformazione. Frontera, California 91720 (where Emily and diarrhea and all recovered. Controinformazione specialises in is being held captive) on the grounds that Stalker's action is another of the information and analysis of the Italian the contents in the hooks and magazines many harassments that prisoners in social struggle. It has made bitter were not allowed. The magazine concerned Illinois must endure, as well as fatal enemies within the Italian government was the CPAR and the books were a heatings that have been dealt out by and on the far right, with its exposures of selection of all our titles published to the state's hired thugs. the activities of the fascist MSI, and the date*. This is blatant censorship which Fiat company police. Several bulletins on would never be allowed in a man's prison the Red Brigades and the German Red and is one small example of the extra Army Fraction have been published, frustration and indignities which women though often critical of their tactics. captives have to put up with from their EL SALVADOR Antonio has been living openly in In the face of peasant seizure of lands, ?aris, employed by the daily paper tormentors. We urge all comrades to the armed activities of underground Liberation. Last year two of his brothers write to Emily Harris at the above groups and massive demos in cities and were arrested and the police seized address and to inundate the prison a loud clamour against electoral frauds, material being prepared for Contro- authorities with letters protesting against the bourgeoisie has been pressuring the informazione. The brothers went on this political and sexist censorship. military to restore "order," - which hunger strike for 23 days, and thousands *Which were all received safely by the would mean a repear of 1932 when, on of workers demonstrated against their male comrades of the SLA (and others) the same pretext and with US aid, some arrest, before they were released. being held in Californian prisons. 30,000 El Salvadorans were massacred. arrested tor carrying a report on the COLOMBIA INTERNATIONAL NEWS escape by political prisoners from a The recent elections have created a wave Venezuelan jail. She is still being held of political violence in Bogota. At the on a charge of incitement to armed beginning of May, an Agricultural bank rebellion, in an effort to have her case was bombed, and a police station was heard by a military court. On 22 fire-bombed (provoking the arrest of 6 February 1978, a student strike broke people). Bogota is in what amounts to PARAGUAY out. The government sent in the tanks a state of seige by the police and army . Upwards of 400 Guarani peasants with to break it up after a week. An issue of who have been attempting to contain their families in Paraguay's concentration Ruptura at the end of 1977 gave a truer riots protesting at savage increases in the camps, one of them only 80kms outside picture of Venezuelan humanitarianism: price of urban transport. the capital. Perhaps because of this Virtual state of siege in Oriente. province/ A spectacular hi-jack made world-wide Stroessner was re-elected (by the usual Enrique Rodriguez killed/2 young people headlip.es. but the squatters of La Igiana 85%) for another 5 year term in February. killed during a protest at shortage of de Medeliin were much more interested A government statement claimed there water in their district/labour leaders when a lorry belonging to the National were 1,600 suspect peasants. Especially before a court martial/Doris Francia and Chocolate Company was held up on the pursued are those associated with the Irma Barreto court martialled/fascist day of the carnival. Three armed church-backed Agrarian Leagues. The attack on union premises in Arague members of the "M.I 9" urban guerrilla country's Jesuits are among Stroessner's state/public employees denied the right group stopped the lorry in the town most vocal opponents. a;*** to strike/widespread searches of homes, centre and gave awal all the chocolate! evictions of student strikes, huge lay-offs Before they disappeared the men draped BRAZIL in industry/hospitals crippled for lack the lorry with a red and black flag and Signs of a willingness among the labour of supplies. wrote "Socializamos" (socialised) on the movement to ignore and defy the - .v.x«. side. corporalist unions tolerated by the CHILE Anarchists in Colombia have started Ministry of Labour. There is a Workers Luis Winter Igualt, charged by the Human publishing a new journal entitled Opposition Movement, pressing for Rights Commission with being a torturer, Libertario. i! i • democratic structures, restoration of living recently appeared in the UN General conditions and the right to organise Assembly as his nation's speaker on The government has just passed decree itself. It puts up its own candidates Human Rights! Growing signs of defiant No. 70, absolving members of the armed union elections (like the Workers solidarity among Chilean workers when, ir forces of responsibility for murders mmissions in Spain) and aims at a November the workers of the El Teniente committed in the course of their duties. ew, horizontal union based on factoiiry mine forced Pinochet to give a 2000 peso It seems the C. police are, along with the committees and the grassroots. Some rise, 70 were dismissed on the grounds armed forces very active in the drug of the opposition groups are not of "persistent absenteeism". Their case traffic. The training ship of the Colombian altogether happy with its demands for has been taken up by the whole copper- navy, the "Gloria" was lately unable to ''trade union autonomy" and "separation mining workforce of the country, in make port in Canada, having a cargo of of State and unions," and an uncondi- defiance of a decree No. 198 of the marijuana aboard. For this reason the tional, across the board amnesty for regime. Labour minister- Ser US has found certain "problems" with political prisoners and exiles. planes for the Colombian air force. Now •.it anyone shooting a "terrorist or drug GUATEMALA class struggle." trafficker" will be absolved. The CP has The US State Department has joined strikers in St. accused the general, Luis Carlas Camacho Amne in describing Guatemala as town Santiago protested against Lsy%a of fomenting a fascist coup d'etat. one . ...e most violent places in the "disappearing" suspects. Atter claiming they were political world. Violence has caused more deaths prisoners and publicising the torture of than the earthquake in 1976. The army ECUADOR detainees, Omaura Montoya Henao and rules, governing through four "loyal" In October 1977, the AZTRA sugar Mauricio Trijillo have "vanished." parties who compete for power. The workers struck for higher pay after the Montoya was, in anycase, in poor health opposition is crushed by death squads sugar price had risen. On 16 October, when arrested. from the army, leaving the population the workers occupying , and their wives terrorised and with no interest in and children bringing them food, were politics, which is a luxury left to the attacked by an army detachment with BOLIVIA ruling class who make up the four automatic fire and teargas. Those killed, Trying the democrat card to stay in parties. Much of the violence since said the government, had panicked and power in elections scheduled for July 1968 has been orchestrated by General jumped into a canal, where they drowned. 1978, Banzer announced a partial Arana Osorio, who became president The 25 bodies vanished - buried in a amnesty in December 1977. The response in 1970. When the slightly "leftish" common grave, to avoid forensic examina- was not quite as expected. The under- Christian Democrat candidate beat his tion. Only one body was retained by the ground unions, especially the still-banned candidate in 1974, Arana replaced him workers: Luis Gerardo Terreguaznay, miners' union was not satisfied, as those with the present Kjell Lauguerud. riddled with bullets. 18 strikers are still held after the long strike in 1976 were ..•I,:.',..} »U>>-- •• in custody. The president of the students not covered. The miners launched a 24 VENEZUELA union at the Catholic University, J.C. hour strike on 21 December, demanding Venezuela likes to pose as a champion of Gomez, has vanished. Chilean and a total amnesty. On 29 December, 25 human rights. This is far from true. Argentinian refugees are subject to police wives and 13 children began a hunger Peasants are shot, leftwing publications harassment on the grounds that they strike in the archbishopric of La Paz. banned and strikes broken. On 10 are in collusion with certain 'subversive' They demanded (1) general amnesty for October 1977 Doris Francia, the editor Activities inside Ecuador itself. exiles and prisoners (2) freedom for the of the revolutionary paper Ruptura was unions (3) the withdrawal of the army from mining areas. By 5 January they material, regarded as dangerous to tne Javier Canadas Gascon (19), numbered 100, a week later 1500 and security of the West German state, and Palma Segura (18), Luis Munoz Garcia soon numbered over 2000. Supporters with people who form, propagandise, or (17), Maria Teresa Fabres Oliveras (17), held silent marches in solidarity. On support a group which has "criminal" ; Maria Pilar Alvarez Alvarez (17), Maria A' %*•' ' ^flf*' fV7 objectives. 18 January, Banzer gave in, but on Rosa Lopez Jimenez (20). AGIT is a printing collective that condition that sacked miners be approved Over 500 prisoners have been on by a government/employers commission provides a cheap and quick printing hunger strike in Spanish jails, in a care- before being taken on again. Involvement service to all kinds of community groups. fully co-ordinated campaign protesting in the campaign against the dictatorship Several unions, tenants groups, youth at the nature of prison reform. They has changed thinking about the status of clubs, women's groups, anti-nuclear and included 200 detainees in "El Dueso" women. In April 1976, Domitila immigrant groups all use AGIT. The prison, at Santander, and 200 in Madrid's Chungara was elected to the Directory people who work at AGIT are neither Carabanchel jail. Prisons in Saint of the Miners' Federation in Corocoro — the authors of the material they print, Sebastian, Basauri and Bilbao were also a far cry from the heckling miners of a nor do they look upon themselves as affected. Some prisoners in Carabanchel few years/months before who cried "get censors. swallowed metal objects, and cut their back home to your cooking and washing." AGIT also prints Info-BUG, the paper arms in protest, and several people from of the local "undogmatic" left. This the prisons at Ocana and Segovia were PERU has no 'line' and no fixed editorial staff, hospitalised after protests involving About 3000 workers lost their jobs and is used as a forum for discussion and self-mutilation. after taking part in a general strike last information. In the past press communi- Awaiting trial on charges of July. Now union leaders and workers ques from several urban guerrilla groups are 40 marxist-leninists from GRAPO, have begun a hunger strike to force their have been printed in Info-BUG (in this PORE, PCE-R and PCE-i, 20 Basque rehiring. They are in various churches in Info-BUG is no different from prominent nationalists and 20 libertarians. An Lima. Judge Wilfredo Gonzalez has German papers such as Der Spiegel, Velt, article in the leftist paper Saida earned ordered their expulsion and is tryi Bild, and Frankfurter Allgemeine, all its editors a term in Carabanchel for an bring :harges against them. having printed communiques from the article entitled "Long live the Republic. RAF and 2nd June Movement). Tli is was "insulting the king." HAITI Because there are no editors or The following CNT (Catalonia) Haitians are beginning to lose tri publishers for Info-BUG, the police uici.'bers arc in prison in Yeserias and arrested the printers. Only one was of a regime which has killed 30,000 o (jiabanchel Pilar Alvare/, Francisco the population, kept literacy at 80%; released on bail, and the others have Canadas, Maria Corona, Jose Cuevas, life expectancy at only 30. Over the last spent the past eight months in prison Teresa Farres, Miguel Gallego. Arturo three years, the opposition has become waiting trial, because the police refuse Palma, Jose Perez, Miguel Angel Rodriguez, to release them in case they go "under- : vocal. On 21 September 1977, Agustin Rueda (recently inurJcicd), public pressure forced Baby Do •Mh Fernando Simon is in Figueras jail. 104 political detainees, even the J, the Charged with being "libertarian were rearrested and/or killed inside address is: Komitee zur Freilassung der commandos" and belonging to the outside prison. In spite of the absei Agit-drucker, Mehringdamm 99, 1,000 autonomous anarchist groups are the of the right to strike Haitian workers Berlin 61. Agit-druck's address is: following: Maria Victoria Jimenez and have ceased work and been vocal in their Ahornstr. 26,1 Berlin 41. Viriginia Cativiela (in Yeserias). Antonio opposition to the government. On 7-8 The three accused printers still in Cativiela, Maximo Casa, Guillermo January 1978 in Montreal, 11 organisations prison are Jutta Werth, JVA Lehrterstr. Gonzalez, Jose Luis Guillardino, Jose of the Haitian opposition joined to form 61-62, 1 Berlin 21, and Henning Weyer Luis Martin and Ignacio Sebastian RFDM - the Allied Haitian Democratic & Gerd Foss, UHA Alt Moabit 12a, (Carabanchel); Vicente Dominguez, Forces. 1 Berlin 21. « Andres Mirnas, Maria Fernanda Fernandez SPAIN and Concha Martinez (in Barcelona), and WEST GERMANY In Spanish Jails More political trials. out of them Simon Blanco, one of the During the May Day demonstrations, 19 founder members of the anarchist Danny Cohn-Bendit has been fined 1,800 people, members of the CNT and a DM (about £600) for insulting the head inspired prisoners rights movement, libertarian school were arrested in COPEL, was among 45 men who escaped of Frankfurt's police force, by describing Valladolid. Seven have since been released from Barcelona's Modelo prison at him as a "gangster," during a demonstra- but 12 remain inside, charged i the beginning of June. tion protesting against the "suicide" of sm" and attacks on Ulrike Meinhof. 1 Simal and Bernard Pensoit, the EIRE . Hajo Karbach and Klaus Lodewick, both two French comrades arrested in Bobby Cullen has been moved from editors of Gottinger Nachrichten (paper Barcelona, after the bombing of "La Curragh Military Detention Barracks and of the students at Gottingen University) Scala" night club have been on is now resident in Mountjoy Prison, vere found guilty of "defamation of the strike since April 12th. The only Dublin. He can be written to there and >tate" and fined 1.800DM each for the against them is that they are friendly still welcomes letters from comrades as publication of the "Buback Obituary" with some Spanish anarchists. None of he now nears his release date — he should .. . iy Mescalero. the people arrested (some face the death be out next year - and they should be penalty, and all have been tortured and sent to Robert Cullen, 683, Mountjoy After 8 months, the Berlin trial of four beaten) have been informed of the Prison, North Circular Road, Dublin 7, members of the AGIT-druck printing accusations made against them, or been Eire. v.- llective has begun. It was in October allowed to confront their accusers. Others, 1 '"7 that the police arrested the four all members of the CNT, arrested anf under the infamous "rubber" laws, that facing charges include: Cienfuegos Press Anarchist Review No 3 control the printing, publishing and Jose Cueras Casado (26). Francisco distribution of seditious, or other printed • • • -„ *0PP> £2.00 + 30p p+p. Now available.' 22 Greek "Democracy" Adopts the "Anti- Answers to Anaicho-Quiz. Terrorist" Law. 1. After the restoration of the Bourbons In the last week of April 1978 the in 1814 - the result of liberal national Greek parliament adopted the famous struggle which, ousted by Napoleon, "anti-terrorsit" law. This law is a brought back the monarchy but more faithful imitation of the "anti-terrorist" reactionary than ever - a cabal of legislation passed by the German parlia- conservative members of the Cortes, ment a while back and which all aided by the monks of Atocha, drew up European states are adopting. an address humbly asking the king to The passing of a text like this, a law treat the Constitution as void and of this sort, could have frightened the beginning 'Sire, it was the custom of Greek populace and sowed real panic ancient Persians to allow five days of among the workers. To forestall this anarchy on the death of a king, in happening, those who govern us (or order that the experience of murder, deceive us) have taken appropriate steps. robbery and other excesses might render Something over a month ago they them more faithful to his successor.' 2. All lived in poverty, all were bankrupt, launched a systematic propaganda c Touch Of History - Dublin's first through all the media at their disposal and all (except Beethoven) finished up ;archist May Day parade was outside in a pauper's grave. (television, radio, newspapers etc), to Dublin Post Office — where the induce the workers to believe that, 3. William III (as he became over here) Republic was proclaimed in 1916 during introduced gin to Englishmen to encourage contrary to what goes on elsewhere the Rebelb'on. (Germany, Turkey, Italy, Spain, France trade with his native Holland and to make etc), where they must face grave problems the fortunes of his male 'favourites' on account of "terrorism," Greece was Keppel and Bentinck. When the people the only country to stand aloof as an had got accustomed to gin, George II "island of social and political peace" introduced a tax, which caused the Gin thanks to their governors: and that if Riots. this oasis of calm is to be preserved, they 4. Mrs. Foxby was indicted as a common had to pass an "anti-terrorist" laww.. scold and sentenced to the ducking stool in the Medway — a punishment destined To Rigma, the magazine for CreeIl! against (female) 'abuse of language and anarchists in Britain. No. 3 is now power of the tongue' and used to silence available from To Rigma, c/o Black & 'scolds' (female rebels) into submissive- Red, The Students Union, The University, ness. Defying public opinion, she Leeds LS2 9JT. refused the penalty and secured a legal victory which ended in the abolition STOP PRESS: of the punishment. CIENFUEGOS PRESS ANARCHIST REVIEW No. 4 5. A.S. Neill made a major impact upon Issue No. 4 is now at the printers and should be available to subscribers only by early anarchist ideas by his libertarian theories August. We hope copies for non subscribers and bookshops will be ready by early of education though he said, "I have September. We also hope to have out latest title A New World In Our Hearts: The Faces often been called an anarchist running of Spanish Anarchism out to the subscribers by early September as well. A new infor- an anarchist school. This puzzles me mation sheet is being sent out to all CP supporters this month to keep everyone up to because a school with self-government date with current and future plans. making its own laws does not fit into the definition of anarchism." Important Important Important! 6. Elia Kazan, who was thought by Owing to astronomical print costs we have had to cut the current issue of the Review many to have reneged upon his friends down from 284 to 184 pages and fix the new price at £2.90 (plus 60p p&p). Contents in the McCarthyite period of the Un- of this issue now include: Letters, Orkney Ramblings: Anarchist Gardening Hints; A American Trials, is, and will (charitably) Gay Manifesto; Expropriation; The Spirituality Ripoff; Santiago Carrillo, or History be better known for the film 'Viva Falsified; Starship Stormtroopers by Micheal Moorcock; Class War: The Writings of Zapata.' Camillo Berneri; Monetarism, the "New liberalism" and Anarchism; The Anarchists in Mexico (2): Praxedis Guerrero; Contributions to the History of Anarchism: Ruta and Anarchismo; Flavio Costantini: Artist of Anarchy; Pampas Life: The Tragic Week of 'uses furrwG •w\ W HERE SO MOBOPV CAfl 1919, Argentina; Two Workers Experiences in Russia, Gabriel Miasnikov and Mollie TAKf Wl/tg Fff&POM FROMWfJ Steimer; Origins of the Anarchist Movement in China (with a new introduction); Anarchism in Chinese Political Thought; Asian Anarchism in Western Languages; An interview with Pa Chin; A Stranger to Nothing: The Poetry of Philip Levine; The Stammheim Deaths; Nikola Tesla - A Name on a light Bulb; Inside the Belly of the American Dream, A Statement by Emily Harris; Pimpernel Howard & the Anarchists; The Donald Duck/Joseph Goebbels Prize for liberal Objectivity, 1978, to "Professor Raymond Carr"; over 80 major book and pamphlet reviews plus an index of all books reviewed, Vol. I Nos 1,2,3, plus the usual droll and sidesplitting anarchist humour. 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Now Available: COSMIC TRIGGER! Final Secret of the lUuminati, Robert A. Wilson, £4.00 (inc. p&p). INSIDE-OUT: an exciting irregular down the isolation that surrounds of "criminality." We should challenge column from one of Her Majesty's prisoners. Write to individual prisone: the whole concept of bourgeois "legality/ Prison camps. It does people inside good to get a criminality" and not worry about winning 1 » •' jdfc** Heap Bad Medicine. friendly word from outside ... even legitimacy in the eyes of our oppressors. We read in the last issue of Anarchy that the prisonr is not allowed to receive i Anyone who challenges the State is a a meeting to discuss the issue of prisons at least the incoming mail demonstra "terrorist" and a "criminal" at the same received poor support and felt that in part to the prison authorities that this time. The more abusive the terms which this may be due to a lack of information prisoner is not without people outsji our oppressors label us with, the stronger reaching people outisde about what is who care about what happens to him. we should feel.... It means they feel happening in these places. Those singled out for the worst shit are threatened and are afraid. To our mind, the greatest cause for the ones who have no one to protest. All prisoners have the same.enemy; immediate concern in long-term prisons When a prisoner is beaten-up, abused just as every worker, every member of is the use of tranquilising drugs - Valium, drugged, show your anger by hitting the dispossessed, has the same enemy. Librium, Paraldehyde, etc., — not as back . . . demonstrate, complain, or For those of us who came into prison treatment but as a means of control. of all attack the jail, attack the jailers - with a consciousness of the class struggle, Hit the Hitters! Pay the Governor or the battle does not stop. We should feel Screw a personal visit... It makes it our duty to help and encourage every sadist with a lecence think twice. prisoner to fight back, in solidarity with "Back of the rod, mightier than it, stands it clear that if a screw or prison governor every other.... to raise the question ur — obduracy; our obdurate courage. makes life tough for us we will make marks .... to help other cons begin to iy degrees we get at which is back of life tough for them. Prison is ruled look at their own situation critically, to everything that was mysterious and fear and force. Drugs are just the lat challenge their position. In fairness to ,uncanny to us, the mysteriously dreaded the easiest stick to beat us with. The our Irish comrades, they do show might of the rod (or truncheon), ti only defence is counter-force. Make the solidarity at every opportunity and they fathers (or screws) stern look, ew aware of the consequences of his have helped bring about a change of back of all we find our atarax ons to us, make him stop and think, attitude amongst the "ordinaries." But imperturbability, intrepidity, him stop. to demand "political status" is a back- counter-forces, our odds of streng ward step which can only undo the our invincibility. Before that wh H IN HERE F progress they have already made. Privately erly inspired in us fear and de TW many Proves will admit to feeling i longer retreat shyly, but take abandoned by their organisation. Why age." (Max Stirner) do only the "Generals" get the helicopter? fl^^fcsBhi«i a ' iinw' Why does the IRA allow fascist screws As Stirner go«s on to point out, lo 1'cat-v.p Proves uiiu escape retaliation? courage is mind; upon the mind depends Many English prisoners have piven help the will lo resist. But what resistance d support to the Irish "P.O.W.s" - a can be mustered by a mind numbed by act which no Irish prisoner here would drugs? The prison authorities know the deny. We are not making propaganda answer to that question. The rod is out. YOU'RE Dili IHEfif FOB US by helping each other, but express 'medicine' is in. fact of struggle. We don't ask that a There is cause for even greater concern Our Own Worst Enemy Provo, or Marxist-Leninist, or "criminal" at this jail because of the construction The prison system is a microcosm of embrace anarchism. And we don't have of a special unit linked by a tunnel to the 'big-prison' outside, and is geared to to agree with their theoretical positions. the prison hospital and completely isolate and destroy the individual: be he All we say is that we all have a duty and enclosed by a 15ft. wall which is due to political or not. Our aim as prisoners — an interest in mutual-aid, and solidarity. be opened shortly. The fear is that in inside or out — should be to break through We are all in the same hole; we can only this unit drugs will be used on men isolated the isolation. Our means - Solidarity climb out together. from the main prison population and and Resistance. Now the IRA prisoners "Political Status" only reinforces the thus deprived of the degree of protection are fighting for the right to have 'political barriers put up by the State to keep us this gives. status.' To them it seems a realistic divided. We need to work (inside or The protection we can afford one demand. "We are prisoners of war, not out) to gain respect and friendship from another from indiscriminate drugging criminals" they say. But this attitude is "ordinary" pople .... to break down administered for control purposes is self-defeating. We disagree with the the myth that resistance (in whatever limited. Prisoner solidarity is frowned demands of our Irish comrades fro form) is the privilege of a specialised upon and inevitably results in 'ghosting' "political status." When the leftist press fraction. Down with all barriers! "Them (transfer to another prison) as happened mention Control Units they talk as and us" should not mean "politicos" and recently to one man, located in the though they were exclusively to control "criminals", not "revolutionaries" and hospital, who objected when another "politicals" .... but in every case it is "people", but jailors and jailed, rulers was placed in a padded cell and drugged the "ordinary" cons who are the first to and ruled. The struggle doesn't end when against his wishes. be slung into them. It is the prisonr with you go inside, it grows more intense. In these circumstances it is vital that no outside organisation to support him — As under any dictatorship, "Rebel" is people OUTSIDE act to bring it home the majority of prisoners - who are most not a label that can be worn as a new to those who administer prisons, at at risk. All the "ordinary" (criminal) fashion. To resist singles the individual whatever level, that they will be held prisoners are "political prisoners," all out for repression. And in prison the responsible for their actions.Without the "political prisoners" are "criminal." repression is total. We can only win this outside aid these practices will The position adopted by the IRA in together - you, me, "political", continue, and worse, will be further prison only serves to isolate them further "criminal", inside or out. Come together, developed. by errecting false barriers between us. ind fight back! In concrete terms this means breaking It takes for granted the State's definition An 'Old Lagw' and 'Insider.' 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