<<

anarchistmmweehly

Vol 32 No 31

riOVERNMENTS are always very to extricate themselves, without be- prepared to admit. The campaign is quick to condemn and deplore ing accused of 'selling out' by their mainly centred around the refusal of ' violence when it is used against respective supporters. the Catholic community to pay rent them, but all the time they are wag- *2? and rates. If religious differences ing war on their own populations NEAR BREAKING POINT can be forgotten and a common in the name of 'Law and Order'. Such a situation shows \pry bond created between the mass of Such hypocrisy and double stan- clearly that nothing worthwhile can ordinary people, then this civil dis- dards are fully illustrated in the come from the compromised solu- obedience could spread to the statement issued after the conclusion tions that are the stock in trade of Protestant areas. Let us face it, the of the tripartite Government talks politicians. Their answers could Protestants also suffer from indig- on Northern Ireland. It reads: 'We lead to disillusionment and resent- nities, injustice, low wages, and poor are at one in condemning any form *SpV '■"■ t •■■■•.-•>a*-v.tv13fc:V-J~. ■ '. ¥r \£-\. ■':'<*.^^!.^/'Ui/^jKjp,-ki,f-^AJi^ fulness on the part of either of the . housing. We know that Catholics of violence as an instrument of il'*;(»»'>,i,^'lk"'f-l<*. -»fr''^ . Vt'/i'li'/-- 1 '' '*■ ■''■**4fflv- ■ ' V'^&f«Ufl*?tivr r two religious communities. The have suffered more because of the political pressure and it is our danger, obviously, is that this en- inability of the State and the capi- common purpose to seek to bring mity could break out into wide- talist methods of production to pro- violence and internment, and all spread open hostility between them. vide the wherewithal of life, but other emergency measures, to an The bombings and shootings by the Protestant workers are not much end without delay.' Provisional IRA has made matters better off. Their prejudices have In itself, the act of internment is worse and internment has played been used by a political, religious a violent measure, even discounting right into their hands. There are and economic minority to hold onto the cruel treatment by the army of plenty of signs that Protestant re- their power and privilege. the internees, and was an instrument sentment is near breaking point. As anarchists we assert the com- of political pressure upon the oppo- There has been fighting between mon bond which exists between all. nents of the Stormont Government. Protestants and Catholics on build- We want people to stop letting them- The crime of these opponents was ing sites and the former have ordered selves be divided by those who .want a political one, but governments the latter off the sites. to govern, to order, to imprison and and their systems of law always Segregation of the two com- intern others, whose opinions are define political acts as criminal in munities has been the deliberate thought to endanger their positions order to try and discredit any policy of the religious leaders of of power. Anarchists believe in opposition. both faiths. It has suited their pur- , but not in destruction Such double-think on the pan of 'OOPS SORRY' poses and has become so ingrained for its own sake as implied by Sir politicians is turning support away in the thinking of people that it Alec Douglas^Home, when he was from them and making people Catholic population have an almost Maud ling. However, these MPs are has now become not just a difference speaking at the United Nations on realise that they have to rely on total distrust of the Unionists, and insisting that all internees are re- of religion, but one of race also. A the question of Northern Ireland. their own efforts. John Graham do not put all that much faith in the leased before they will consider this. striking example of this is to be Tt is governments and nation states says in the Financial Times that Catholic members of Stormont.' The representatives of moderation found in the field of education that have caused more destruction, 'There can be few countries in Both Mr. Heath and Mr. Lynch and compromise have got themselves where schools are wholly Protestant war, death, famine, exploitation and Europe where politicians are held are hoping that the opposition MPs into a difficult political situation or Catholic. Being in the majority, inequality of the human race than in such low esteem. Most of the will take part in the talks with Mr. from which they are finding it hard the Protestants have used this differ- anyone else. It is the minority of ence and ruled on this premise. the ruling class, whether political, Equally, one would not put it be- economic or religious, that has yond the realms of possibility for a divided people and trodden them Catholic majority to react in exactly into the ground, using the. jackboot the same way if they were given the of the Communist or Fascist State chance. or the slip-on shoe of the 'democ- racies'. Standing on their own Feet FORGET RELIGION We only want to destroy the in- the GLC, the LTE and 'the authorities' While the authorities are capable stitutions of the State that function refuse to consider transport as a social i of handling the bombings and in this way. We dedicate ourselves service to be provided 'free'. The shootings of the Provisional, there to their destruction, knowing that chauvinism of local ratepayers is assumed is little they can do against the cam- only when they lie in ruins will the to be so general that 'free-' transport paign of civil disobedience. This people be free to build a society or on ours? would 'only benefit strangers 'and tactic has gained vast support and based on 'liberty, equality and foreigners'. If the real concern of the 1 is worrying the local authorities and fraternity'. TlflTH THAT BLANDNESS which feet which are being stood on. GLC is money there is a simple solution Stormont far more than they are P T to the problem of traffic and transport in "" characterizes official utterances, the Reflection will show that since the London Transport Executive has in- our large towns. majority of users of London Transport Colin Buchanan in his book Thi Mixed formed the Greater London Council that are London ratepayers, and indeed almost because of their 'financial needs, which Blessing writing of the' motor-car said, all of them are British taxpapers much 'Now, suddenly as it were, a startling are higher because of wage and cost of this 'fairy gold' is being taken from increases since fares went up in August new habit has developed. A single one pocket (ours) and put into another invention, in the course of a few years' last year', it will be necessary to impose (whose?). London Transport Executive fare increases on London Transport of development, has placed within the grasp pays tax on its fuel (central government); of every man and woman a means of ussinn Spies an average of 13%—on the Underground, driving licence fees (local governments); Where a great decimal diddle took place, rapid personal movement ten or twenty motor vehicle tax (including road fund); "' times faster than walking. Suddenly, at a r\UR WONDERFUL government has, the rest of us, in Britain, Russia and some increases could be as high as 100%. rates on garages and bus signs and This, we are further informed is necessary stroke, the familiar arrangement of build- *-' for reasons best known to itself, everywhere else as well. Generally,'our' shelters (local government); pay-as-you- ings, streets, and footways that have ^just revealed that many members of the; spies and magents are rather more cir- because the GLC says that London earn taxes from bus employees (central Transport must (wait for it!), stand on endured so long as to seem unchangeable, Soviet diplomatic corps, trade delegations cumspect, less crude, more 'gentlemanly' government); social security insurances are jerked out of date as people race and companies, and the like, are, in fact, i than their Russian counterparts; they are its own two feet and make an annual for employees (central government) and operating surplus of two million pounds! and jdttle in the streets in their new- secret agents and officials of the dreaded • also at a greater disadvantage. It is ' probably least but by no means last, found mobility. It is not a rilatter of Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti. easier to spy in Britain thaft in the Since this two million must come out 1 dividends to stockholders of 'nationalized' of the London travellers, it would seem building a few roads, it is a matter' Spies 1 And, instead of sending just two Soviet Union. companies and interest rates to loan of dealing with a new social situation. or three packing every couple of months * * * (and indeed it is often , literally , so in companies for purchase of vehicles and the rush hours) that it is the travellers' : New urban arrangements are needed if or so as has been the usual practice Spying is, of course, a dirty game. It rolling-stock (who ?). the killing and wounding, the noise and of both Tory and Labour administrations, is, however, inevitable within capitalist The complexity of these transactions stink and confusion, are to be avoided. have declared over one hundred Russians (including Soviet State capitalist) society. demands art army of clerks, accountants, Alternatively, the old arrangements inay persona non grata and told them to get All States attempt to steal the secrets auditors, cashiers, civil servants, lawyers, yet suffice if the new mobility is sur- out within a fortnight. of other States. Yet, at the same time, estate agents, valuation officers, bankers, rendered, or at least drastically re- The Soviet press, news agency TASS when their agents are caught with their etcetera, all with functions far removed strained. It is certain there has never and government (which is all the same' pants down, they, like the Russians 1 outfit), deny that their officials in Britain recently, pretend that they don't do it. YyE'WISH to apologise to" all comrades, from the simple necessity of getting been a choice so significant to the future Citizen X from A (where he lives) to of our towns'. were spying, accuse the British govern- Their denials are unlikely to fool anyone " contributors and readers alike, for ment of relapsing into the Cold War —even their own people. Anarchists are any mistakes in the text of last Week's B (where he works). This vast expanse The onward march of the parking of labour is only necessary because it meter has imposed a restricting tax on and make veiled threats of reprisals. opposed to spying on behalf of 'their' Issue of the paper and any omissions 1 is thought' necessary that he should the use of the car in' towns. True, it' NO' doubt, Moscow wilt discover an or anyone else's State. • If an anarchist from articles. In the words Of that old pay for it. appropriate number Of British agents in happened upon a State 'secret', he is cliche, they arose through circumstances has like most fiscal measures penalized Were transport to be free, and free "the less-well-off and it has even been the Soviet Union who will then be more than .likely to tell everyone he beyond our control. However, unlike of all these burdens, the necessity for this declared persona non grata there, and meets, assuming that the ,'secret' was most users of the phrase, we name those Claimed that the money collected from vast army of officials would disappear. meters does not even pay the cost of sent packing back to Britain. Our really worth knowing. Unlike the Com- circumstances as being holidays arid the Incidentally much of the payload carried wonderful government will . then deny munists, he Would not pass it on to difficulties that occurred in dismantling, collecting it and the provision of meter- by London Transport is part of this attendants. It is patently obvious that that its diplomats and official were ever the-Soviet Union to the exclusion of moving and re-setting up the ancient but vast army of parasites. As with much the money is not, as promised, going to spying, and will send a 'strongly-worded' anyone else. Furthermore, it is self-' still very capable press on' Which 'Free- of modern technology, the transport sys- Note to the Soviet government, i And evident that within an anarchist society dom' IS printed. the provision of off-street parking. tem exists' to solve problems which Having swallowed this very small carrot so the sordid game will go on. there would be no State secrets, simply EDS. would not occur were it not for the for a large dose of the stick would That's how the State—all States- because there would , be no State and existence of the system. not a further extension of the principle operates; and all in the interests of the no secrets. Spies would be 'unemployed'! Obsessed as it is with the cash nexus, Continued en page 2 ruling class, and to the detriment of P.E.N.

% Centra de Documenta;ao e Apoio a Pesquisa 10 11 unesp Cedap 22 23 24 25 26 27 2S 29 30 31 32 Duff could do nothing but denounce the Spies and accept the Whitehall fait accompli. It was in 1963 that the libertarian im- plications of protest and vide the Never Trust Anybody Over 100 Assistant Professor augured iil for our im- pure democracy. In a Committee of 100 OX) VARY the old Punch joke: has the evolution of the -yippie move- third said smugly, 'I got out at the time unnoticed. Except by the Cubans, who demonstration against Queen Frederika of Greece, Detective-Sergeant Challenor was ■*- anybody noticed how young the ment from the background of the San of the Moscow trials'. The old waiter shortly thereafter replaced their Am- rash enough to frame Donald Rooum, a demonstrators are getting? This thought Francisco scene of the IWW and the who was looking after them said, 'I bassador, probably for wearing pyjamas is prompted, not only by the publication beatniks, there was still a light-hearted couldn't help hearing what you said. during office hours on Saturday after- London anarchist (and cartoonist in by Peggy Duff of her memoirs (of which protest movement even before the Provos As far as I'm concerned it was Kron- noon. News and FREEDOM). The activities of we have not received a review copy) (c. 1965). stadt that browned me off.' 'Every • * • the Committee of 100 were enough to but also by the publication of Bamn: The London Anarchist Group regularly man,' as Koestler said, 'has his Kron- New Society (9.9.71) contains an article demonstrate quite clearly the fallibility, Outlaw Manifestos and Ephemera 1965-70 ran an anti-election campaign in the stadt.' by the Assistant Professor of Political corruption and brutality of many police- (Penguin Books) edited by Peter Stanshill fifties. One piece of ephemera distinctly The New Left, which was suspiciously Science at the State University of New men. The Challenor case blazoned the and David Zane Marowitz (75p) (of recollected is Donald Rooum's (and like the old, began at Suez and Hungary York on the 'Committee of 100: a new message across the headlines. which we did receive a review copy). others') leaflets, 'Vote for Joe Soap', so that conventional politics seemed to political model' in which, with the usual Almost unnoticed in the crowded year The eternal vanity and joy of the young 'Election Guyed' and the 'Crocodile' have been destroyed and it was the right professorial flair for the obvious, he of 1963 was what seemed to be ephem- is to believe that everything started with campaign with a Trafalgar Square gather- time for a movement like CND to discerns new political trends in the Com- eric, a non-event; when the Committee them. Messrs. Stanshill and Marowitz ing—this was probably the first political succeed. The first Aldermaston (1958) mittee of 100. Wishing not to soil his of 100 demonstrated at Newington Lodge, (each 28 years old) have wisely dated 'entertainment' in the Square. went the other way, from London to thesis with dirty words like '' a GLC hostel for homeless families, their collection 1965-70 but still one In 1955 there was not only the Joe Aldermaston and without Peggy Duff's or '', he purports to find a this was the seeding ground for the great gets the impression that this was where Soap campaign. There was also a furore organization. This march had the spon- correlation between civil disobedience movement of the sixties, the it was at. Peggy Duff at one time believed about Mrs. Margaret Knight's broadcasts taneity and lack of centralization which and the pattern of organisational growth. rebellious potential of which seemed to that it all started (and finished) with 'Morals Without Religion'. In 1956, after gradually ebbed away from CND. The He concludes, 'Some have argued that exhaust itself in the Piccadilly Street CND; she once gave Parts Match the the denunciation of Stalin, Khruschev in- passing of the initiative from CND to civil disobedience may not be an effective of 1969. The reformist poten- impression that 'Spies for Peace' was vaded Hungary; coincident with the the Committee of 100 was only to be tactic in bringing about social change, but tial blossomed out into Ron Bailey and her idea—maybe it was a mistrans- British attack on Suez. The meeting expected after Hugh Gaitskell's 'gross that it may contain as well the seeds of Jim Radford's doubtless socially-useful lation. arranged in Trafalgar Square was taken betrayal' in lobbying within the Labour a purer democratic form, with built-in accommodation with various London To look at Bamn, one would believe over by the Labour Party to protest Party to defeat the checks against oligarchy and stonewalling. councils; but neither in the rebellion nor that the cut-off point was 'when the about Suez—but they vetoed any reso- resolution. 'Betrayal' is only possible But an evolution from persuasive to the reform was a revolutionary philo- gloomy earnestness of the "protest" lution on industrial action. when there is a slavish relationship, where coercive disobedience does not necessarily sophy of squatting evolved, this only movement was displaced by a "tough" After Hungary, the Left seemed never each uses the other for their own augur well, for democracy, pure or happened in the minds of those who 'did frivolity and a creative lunacy', to quote quite the same. The story is told of purposes. Bernard Levin's stricture on impure.' the works'. their preface. three intellectuals in a Hampstead pub, Peggy Duff's criticism of Gaitskell is as The anarchical nature of the Com- The same lesson applies to all this Disregarding the strong currents of one of whom announced he had quit incredible as her naivete. mittee of 100 had been obvious from history of the ephemera which gave surrealism which has marched alongside the party after the invasion of Hungary. Meanwhile back in the bedroom, where the first. They by. so to speak, 'doing birth to the Bamn ephemera and of anarchism and protest since the inception The second said, 'I quit at the time of it all happens (as Wilhelm Reich said) the works' came to 'know the doctrine' the events that marched alongside the of surrealism; and putting to one side the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact', and the —when Richard Neville was just a gleam of anarchism. This tail wagged the CND, 'the upstage army of the baddies'. in his grandfather's eye—scientists had dog of CND to the perpetual despair My criticism of Bamn is of course that come up with the birth pill which was of Peggy. Duff, and when, in 1963, it's not another book, which is, of course, to create the possibility of a sexual the anarchically-oriented 'Spies for Peace' completely unfair. All I can say of revolution. FREEDOM was probably the burst into a Reading RSG and at the Peggy Duff's book, not having seen it, first non-technical paper to feature this end of the Aldermaston March the is that a book slammed by Bernard Levin, (1957). The great 'discoveries' of today's anarchists spread across Whitehall, Peggy can't be all bad. JACK ROBINSON. 'You should not cults—Reich, Mumford, Neill, Goodman, were all known to the anarchist move- ment long before the , the provos, the Kabouters, the Black Panthers or the free transport, but free travel will break Weathermen erected their Pantheons. Transport the deadlock, if not the traffic-jam. have joined the queue' The New Left, following the example Something is needed to break the of the Malatesta Club, founded the Continued from page 1 vicious spiral of price rise—wage rise RECENTLY Judge Alan King Williams Christie. With this excuse, the whole Partisan Coffee-House — 'where is that to the provision of toll-gates in all —price rise. It seems impossible that admonished a defendant who com- case has been remanded again until what party now?' The 1959 Aldermaiton towns be logical? Private cars would London's hordes of travellers will go on plain . 1 about the delay in hearing his could be the New Year. March reached Turnham Green to be have to pay highly for the privilege strike by walking to work or by not pay- case. The Judge said, 'There is so much This means that Jake Prescott and Ian preferred a Daily Worker with the head- of killing, wounding, polluting the air, ing their fares. One wishes they would, work that everybody has to take his Purdie will have been in custody for ten line 'Tibet: Dalai Lama Asks for Aid'. and the ears and contributing their bit but the only method of striking against place in the queue. You should not have and nine months respectively without In 1961 came the demonstration at to the tangle of traffic in towns. rises in fares seems to be the acquisition joined the queue.' The National Council having been found 'guilty'. Indeed, if Holy Loch which laid the foundations Although municipalities are being of some alternative means of transport for Civil Liberties comments in its Bull- they are found 'guilty' they will 'benefit' for the Committee of 100 activities. pushed to this solution they hesitate which starts up another vicious spiral of etin, 'It is not recorded whether the from this delay for some of it will be Terry Chandler emerged as the all- before desecrating this sacred cow of the falling takings and blocked streets— defendant apologised for being charged deducted from their sentence. If they purpose all-time demonstrator, a one-man private car and its esoteric connections increased fares and slower and less- with an offence which he sought to prove are innocent (should justice operate for revolution. One remembers the other with the export trade. If the private frequent transport. he did not commit.' once) they will get no benefit. In the young comrades, cne °f whom taught car is. so inviolate it would probably It is possible that London is an un- The scandalous delays in bringing words of Judge King, they 'should not us 'We shall overcome' and the principles be less of a shock to the collective psyche solved and insoluble problem. It may cases to trial and the usage by prose- have joined the queue'. of Japanese pole-handling to embarrass to institute free travel—and would prob- be that the solution is, as so many cution of denial of bail and detention It was once said of English law that the police. ably cost less than toll-gates! seem to be finding out to 'walk away 'on remand' has become obvious enough everyone is innocent till he is found 1962 was the year of the missile It may be that the private car is and leave it' but whilst it still exists to be noticed even by the Lord Chan- guilty. With nasty foreigners it is of crisis. When, in their own deathless such a status symbol—and an outlet something must be done about it. cellor, Hailsham nc Hogg. This reached course quite different. Incidentally Com- prose, the K's stood eyeball to eyeball for aggression—that many will still be So . . . No Fares Please! its apex with the remand (until probably rade Valpredo of Milan has not yet come —and somebody blinked. It has never reluctant to give up their cars even with JACK ROBINSON. January!) of Jake Prescott and Ian Purdie to trial—we expect nothing better of the yet been admitted who, so both leaders charged with offences of 'bomb out- Italians. And of course, everyone knows emerged as defenders of peace. All rages' on what seems to be the flimsiest how long the Americans take for trials the Cuban confrontation served to do of flimsy evidence (gained from inform- but, at least, you can get bail more easily. was, to quote a fashionable phrase, to the slightest that a person's skin colour ation laid by two fellow-prisoners, 'A' It is quite obvious that Commander X 'polarise the issue'. The pro-peace, pro- The World is a rough indicator of his intellect. and 'B'). This long series of remands is fully resolved to make a case of it— Russia, pro-Cuba lobby were confirmed Only those who do not understand the culminated with a readiness to go to even if he has to create an Angry in their prejudices, and when in 1963 statistical expression on average can sup- trial which was again postponed for a Brigade built up from Memory Lane a small group of London anarchists is Hound pose that Jensen means 'black indviduals month. Now, following a series of raids and Jake and Ian and Stuart will be kept invaded the Cuban Embassy (to protest are dimmer than white individuals'. And which rode roughshod over civil liberties, in jail just as long as he wants them to about civil liberties in Cuba) it remained Dear Comrades, nobody can find cause for pride, shame the intrepid Commander X has hauled be, whether they are found 'guilty' or Arthur Uloth's excellent piece on race or hostility in his results, except those in more 'suspects' including Stuart 'innocent'. THE EDITORS. and intelligence omits the important who think of themselves not as indi- point that Jensen's findings, besides being viduals, but merely as aspects of a group doubtful, are persistently misrepresented with similar attributes. by the various advocates, brown and Anarchism is the opinion that indi- Secretary: puce, of racial hostility and racial viduals should be sovereign. One of its Peter Le Mare, 5 Hannafore Road, segregation. axioms is that individuals are the only Rotton Park, Birmingham 16 Jensen finds, not only that blacks in a real people, and that averages, races, given geographical region are on average nations and so on are not people but less intelligent than whites in the same mere concepts. Should Jensen's findings region, but also that the most intelligent ANARCHIST PRESS FUND be proved correct (and though doubtful whites and the most intelligent blacks September 9-29 inc. they are by no means thoroughly dis- are equal in intelligence, as are the least FEDERATION Croydon: Libertarians 40p; Brixton: credited), they will not constitute an March Sales 16p; Kirkcaldy: U.T. 25p; argument against anarchism. of BRITAIN Glasgow: A.J. 17p; Saltburn: G.K. 62Jp; DONALD ROOUM. Wolverhampton: K.F. 50p; Rhondda: LETTERS Address all letters to AFBIB at above address. EAST ANGLIA. John Sullivan, Students Union, P.N. £3; Durham: B.S. 20p; London, N.l: The Contact Column in 'Freedom' is available U. of E.A., Wilberforce Road, Norwich, Norfolk. S.B. 50p; Manchester: B.T. lOp; Wolver- for urgent information. Please inform AFBIB NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. Jim Hewson, 43 Henry intelligent of either pigmentation. No Freie Arbeiter of new or changed addresses of groups and Road, West Bridgeford, Nottingham. hampton: J.L. 40p; J.K.W. lOp; R.H. & federations. New enquirers should write direct to CAMBRIDGESHIRE, c/o AFBIB Birmingham. J.H. 80p; New York, USA: J.S. £1.50; one can reasonably deduce from these the Regional addresses listed below or AFBIB SURREY. Lib. Grp., 81 Mytchett Road, Myt- findings, 'I am white, therefore I am office in Birmingham. chett, Camberley, Surrey. Co. Meath, Ireland: M.F. 85p; Wolver- YORKSHIRE. Trevor Bavage, Flat 3, 35 Rich- hampton: J.L. 40p; J.K.W. lOp; Bangor, more intelligent than a black', or 'I am Stimme mond Road, Leeds 6. black, therefore I am alleged to be less AFB REGIONAL FEDERATIONS SCOTTISH FED. Secretary: Mike Malet, 1 Lynn- N.I.: J.T. £5; Trondheim, Norway: AH. Dear Comrades, wood Place, Maryfield, Dundee. 90p; Leicester: P.M. £1; Chicago, USA: intelligent than a white'. Assuming for Please accept the following corrections WALES, c/o AFBIB Birmingham. AND/OR GROUPS N. IRELAND, c/o Freedom Press. Solidarity Bookshop £6; New York, USA: the sake of argument that Jensen's argu- concerning the notice 'Eighty Years Freie There are now anarchist groups in almost every STUDENT FEDERATION, c/o R. Atkins, Van- P.A. 42|p; Exmouth: A.B.H. 12p; Shoe- ments are correct, it does not follow in Arbeiter Stimme' in FREEDOM. The FAS part of Britain. To find your nearest group, write brugh College, Hesiington, York. tor- LIB. TEACH. ASSN. Peter Ford, 36 Devonshire buryness: G. 15p; Los Gatos, Gal., USA: was born in New York July 4, 1890. NX. ENGLAND. M. Renick, 122 Mowbray Road, N.W.7. Proceeds from Picnic £20; Leicester: The first Yiddish anarchist paper was Street. Heaton, Newcastle on Tyne. EXETER. Nigel Outten, Westeria House, Cul- MANCHESTER ANARCHIST/SYND. c/o D. lompton Hill, Bradninch, Exeter. J.R.S. 25p; Telford: L.O. 20p; N.S.W., the Warheit, born February 15, 1889, in Collingwood, 12 Brownedge Road, Holts Estate, OXFORD. Jeremy Brent, la Woodstock Road, Australia: J.C. £2.75; London, S.W.17: New York; it was also the first Yiddish Oldham. Oxford. Just off the Press! CROYDON LIBERTARIANS. 682 Mitcham Road, SHEFFIELD. Tikka, 4 Havelock Square, Shef- L.H. 5p; Wolverhampton: J.L. 40p; party paper. Croydon, Surrey, CRO 3AB. field 10. J.K.W. lOp; Glasgow: D. & M.Y. 40p; The moving spirit of the early Yiddish ESSEX & EAST HERTS. Peter Newell, "Aegean', MANCHESTER. Jenny Honeyford, 33 Clyde Anarchist Classics Series Spring Lane, Eight Ash Green, Colchester, Essex. Road, West Didsbury, Manchester 20. Anon. 40p; London, N.W.3: Anon. 50p. anarchist movement in the US was DORSET. Bob Fry, 30 Douglas Close, Upton, EIRE FEDERATION, c/o 20 College Lane, Total: £48.60 Johann Most. Poole, Dorset. Dublin, Eire. ABC OF ANARCHISM CORNWALL. Arthur Jacobs, 13 Ledrah Road, ABERYSTWYTH. Keith Fletcher, Rhyd Fach, Income (Voline Sales): £22.00 The FAS's most famous editors were: St. Austell, Cornwall, or Hazel McGee, Hillcrest Tal-y-bont, near Aberystwyth, Cards. Income Sales and Subs.: £305.44 —Alexander Berkman the legendary martyred labour poet, Farm, Hicks Mill, Bissoe, Truro, Cornwall. HERTS. Val Funnel, 10 Fry Road, Chells, 20p (2ip) David Edelshtat; the profound thinker, Stevenage, Herts. ABROAD £376.04 Dr. Morrison; and the most gifted Yid- DURHAM. Mike Mogie, 6 Nevilles Terrace, Durham City. BELGIUM. Groupe du journal Le Libertaire, 220 Reprint of Freedom Press dish publicist, who wielded great influ- NORTHANTS. Terry Phillips, 70 Blenheim Walk, rue Vivegnis, Liege. Expenditure (2 weeks): £300.00 ence in the Jewish , Corby, Northants. RADICAL LIBERTARIAN ALLIANCE. Box Edition with a new Intro- LEICESTERSHIRE. The Black Flag Bookshop, 2104. Grand Central Station, New York, 10017. Deficit bt.fwd.: £717.04 literary world, and the theatre, S. 1 Wilne Street, Leicester. AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ANARCHISTS. duction by Peter E. Newell, Yanovsky. SOMERSET.- Roy Emery, 3 Abbey Street, Bath. P.O. Box 9885, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55440, KENT. Brian Richardson (phone Knockholt 2716). USA. £1,017.04 Biographical Notes and London gave birth to Der Arbeter HANTS. Ken Bowbrick, 26 Hambledon House, Less Income: £376.04 Freind; its editor and moving spirit, Landport, Portsmouth, Hants. Historical Background BERKSHIRE, c/o New Union Building, White Rudolf Rocker. Knights Park, Reading, Berks. Please notify us if entries in SUSSEX. Nick Heath, Flat 3, 26 Clifton Road, DEFICIT: £641.00 J. M. FRAGER, Secretary, Brighton, Sussex. these columns need amending. Editorial Board.

% Centra de Documenta;ao e Apoio a Pesquisa 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 unesp Cedap 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 HEisHESiaHiglsESESSIaSlsialsH Towards a Moneyless Society bolts

% Centra de Documenta;ao e Apoio a Pesquisa 2 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 unesp Cedap 22 23 24 25 26 27 2S 29 30 31 32 an inch' boys and indicated they 'had the prison. guns and had the men' and were pre- 'Break the Act' week has been post- pared to use them against those in the poned a fortnight owing to organisation six counties who are not prepared to troubles, I have a few doubts as to return to the gutter as slaves of the whether it will ever come off as intended, This Week in Ireland Unionists. so I just cheerily go on breaking the Act The first prosecutions under the Prohi- in the papers and selling 'subversive bition of Forcible Entry Act are pending literature' and in my own quiet un- SO THE TRIPARTITE TALKS are Long Kesh. What is being hidden there? whom I do not know? in Dublin. I am angry as the wretched obtrusive ways! It is all jolly well for Faulkner to say Paisley has formed a new parliamen- over. Faulkner returns to the six people were used as pawns in a very I recently saw, in that city of graffiti, every man in there is an active IRA man, tary party of 'Loyalists', adding to the counties crowing like a young cockerel nasty little political game by Sinn Fein. Belfast, the saddest and most telling one but what about the lad in his early 999 parties that we now have in Ireland. who has beaten every other cock in the They put into a house, among two or I've ever seen, 'Is there a life before twenties who was taken when the troops The SDLP hold their first 'parliament' land, Lynch says 'Now they know I am three homeless, out-of-work families, a death?' found the brother for whom they had on October 5. Kevin Boland is bidding important', and Heath stays mum. young girl whose husband is with the Would God the politicians would think come was not at home? This youth has to oust Fianna Fail and form a new Dail Michael Farrel of the People's Democ- UN in Cyprus and who has two babies. on that one. spent his whole life in and out of mental with his Unity Party, and indeed it does racy says the talks were the non-event If she is imprisoned and separated from hospitals. He is not normal. Also what look as if more FF men are going to of the year. Perhaps they were, BUT so her babies it amounts to a crime not H. about the old man in the eightyish age defect to him. far internment stays, the SDLP refuse to only by our Government but by Sinn who is so blind and frail he has to be Paisley, His Hateness himself, is calling participate in anything until the last Fein who used her. I am certain that a led on exercise and taken to the lavatory? for the hanging of those whom he deems internee is released, Lynch recalls the room could have been found for her, not Does Faulkner REALLY expect people guilty of murder, and licking his reverent Dail a week early, and violence escalates. necessarily bang in the centre of the to believe these two men are dangerous lips at the idea. Thousands of Scots came So what? It does fill one's heart with city, IF her 'helpers' had been prepared ULSTER 'terrorists'? And if they are there to my over and attended a meeting of the fear when Stormont refuses to allow to do the hard work of hunting. Like- Continued from page 3 knowledge, how many more similar of Paisley, Craig, Beal 'law-and-order not Westminster MPs to inspect and visit wise, never bothering to do their home- five or six minutes they tried to make the work, they have in another place put in epileptic continue his exercises. Realis- q i squatting a woman who is mentally dis- ing that this couldn't be done, they State. If workers always tried to per- turbed and ill-treats her children. Well dragged him outside and tried to revive Letter suade and never threatened strike action there I hope the NSPCC will accomplish him by slapping his face and shouting at they would be kicked around and under- something, but I was left holding the him as if they still believed that he was paid more than they are. baby and have had to do endless work putting on an act to dodge the tortures. MORE ON BOMB; I am convinced that the pen is undoing the harm they do for their own This incident was supervised by a cap- nefarious political purposes. tain of the military police. An attempt internment in Northern Ireland in the mightier tfian the sword and the anar- Dear Comrades, chists I know are excellent members of a Meanwhile I am 'encouraging and ad- was made to force the victim's teeth The points of divergence between my same framework: Sex, work and liberty! fighting unit of this kind. However I vocating' a rent strike in a Corporation- apart with a knife and some of his teeth own position and that expressed by 3. On violence I would refer anyone hold with an adaptation of Bakunin that: owned court of Dickensian qualities were broken.' A.W.U. are numerous and fundamental. to the superb analysis by Malatesta in 'Invisible pilots in the centre of the where the rooms are tiny and without I could go on and fill two issues of 1. Civil wars or world revolution. In Malatesta: Life and Ideas by Vernon popular storm, we must direct it, not water and the overcrowding unbeliev- FREEDOM with such evidence. It should terms of Leopold Kohr's 'Breakdown of Richards. The whole section on violence with visible power, but with collective able. It is a sort of Government punish- not be necessary. If by now you are not Nations' I consider there are significant needs to be read but 'to renounce a "dictatorship" of all the allies. "A dic- ment camp. If you cannot pay the rents very, very angry you do not belong to revolutionary aspects of both the tragedies liberating violence, when it is the only tatorship" without badge, without title, of the very expensive far-away Bally- the Anarchist Movement—in fact you of Biafra and Bangla Desh. The decen- way to end the daily sufferings and the without official right, yet all the more mun high-rise ghetto, they transfer you don't belong to the human race. tralist must attribute to all manifestations savage carnage which afflict mankind, powerful because it will have none of plus your nine children to this stinking LARRY. of regiohalism the aspiration of local would be to connive at the class antag- the appearances of power'. My adapta- independence; within authoritarian frame- onisms we deplore and at the evils which tion puts quotation marks around the Works liberating forces exist, within arise from them'. Indeed I think the word 'dictatorship' as I cannot see how Accommodation offered to libertarian African nationalism, Black power, Welsh Editors also need to re-read Malatesta Bakunin could have been meaning any- woman with experience in a Women's nationalism, etc., etc. The world revo- after producing the piece on Northern thing but this with such provisos as Liberation Group, to help start one Ireland 'Throw Away the Guns'. lution seen as distinct from isolated here. Also like her help with a Whilst appreciating that A.W.U. and 'without title, without badge, without civil wars simply links similarities of potential pre-school play-group, and the Editors are true and sensitive people official right'. Indeed Bakunin para- various struggles to a common philo- be active in local Claimants Union. the horrors of Northern Ireland need to doxically sounds like Lao Tse here. sophical base. Anarchists have always ontact Unsupported mother with one child be put in perspective. I hold no brief 4. Originally A.W.U. complained noticed that when the people turn to about Hippies for 'being parasitic on would be best as she could then be for the Provisional IRA but they are a Contact Column is the struggle against imposed authority self-supporting without having to group under constant attack and their "straight" society', but now he writes: ^ for making contact! they take to anarchist tactics almost Use is free, but work. Two spare bedrooms avail- members are mostly on the run in situ- 'The people I find disheartening are I instinctively. donations towards able. We are at present two families ations where balanced judgement must those who just exploit those who are not Incidentally I adhere to the view that typesetting costs with one child each, living in two be difficult. The bomb at the telephone necessarily part of straight society.' I economic considerations are the causes are welcome connected terraced houses sharing exchange was inexcusable both morally Persuasion has worked wonders with § of war and to believe that 'religion' is automatic washer, fridge, drier, etc. and tactically but it is a cruel fact that Arthur! the cause is to see the Bible but not the We are looking for someone under death is an inevitable aspect of their 5. Army deserters were blamed for g pile of gold on which it rests. 30 whose politics are neither Leninist struggle. The IRA is, an authoritarian smoking pot which is harmless thus giv- 2. There have been instances of work- nor liberal. Write to: L. Paton, set-up which, uses terrorism to a far ing authority an excuse for stopping ing class/youth revolt conflict; With the . 102 Newcastle Street, Silverdale, nr. lesser extent than do the governments further deserters going to Sweden. The inculcation by the mass media this is Newcastle - u - Lyne, North Staffs. of the world—just compare how many question of compromise with authority Help Fold and Despatch 'Freedom', hardly surprising, coupled with all the Phone 0782-79-256, or contact me at innocents have died in Vietnam or how over nudity, drugs, etc., is always a Thursdays from 2 p.m. authoritarian aspects of working class Skegness Conference. many died in Dresden and Hiroshima to matter of tactics but I don't like seeing life. What is, more important to my mind Dave Godin please get in touch with get the situation into perspective. others criticised for a tactical decision are working class youths with long hair Brian Shuttleworth. Please get in touch 'Freedom' and 'Anarchy'. A.W.U. says, 'most people respond that puts freedom of action as a priority. and a natural .sexuality. There were with Liverpool Friends. Anyone interested in forming an Anar- better to argument and to persuasion Yours, many of us who saw the Oz trial, the A Meeting to discuss and plan a city- chist group in Gateshead, Co. Dur- than to threats'. People, yes, but not the J.W. occupation of the Clyde shipyards and wide Rent Strike. Basement Meeting ham, please contact: B. Stokoe, 1 sriana Room, , 5 Caledonian Ely Street, Gateshead. Road, N.l, on Thursday, October 21 Croydon Group meets first Wednesday of by the policeman's shoulder at 7.30. Ring side door bell. each month at 4 Warminster Road, but did you hear the gunfire Proposed Group in Oldham. Contact South Norwood (near Norwood across Dam Square Bob Lees, 6 Coaiston Avenue, Wer- Junction), top flat. Contact Pete ,were you there neth, Oldham, Lanes. Roberts, 682 Mitchani Road, Croy- REPORT FROM THE FRONT American Readers: The following talks don, CR0 3AB (684 5723)., so stoned you never noticed have been organised by Libertarian Dr. Martin Coles' film 'Growing Up' wilt

% Centra de Documenta;ao e Apoio a Pesquisa 10 11 unesp Cedap 22 23 24 25 26 27 2S 29 30 31 32