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■y V Volume 34 No* 34 *

v |H 25 Augist, 1973

On November 11th last the present Allende hag survived the elect­ raent; it is too soon to know vriter wrote in FREEDOM of the ion, an abortive military coup, whether he can be identified prospects of Allende's Marxist a naval mutiny and the assassina­ with Calvo SoletO whose murder programme in Chile being carried tion of his naval aide-de-camp. precipitated the Spanish Civil out democratically. It was He is weathering inflation, a War or with Kirov, who gave pointed out that Allende had only lorry-drivers' strike, a copper- Stalin the excuso ( i f any were made half a revolution and was miners' strike, workers' occupa­ needed) for his terror. thereby digging his own grave. tion of factories and a series of Events since then have confirmed The grievance of the lorry cabinet crises with military per­ owner-drivers (6,500 drivers this thesis, but Allende has suc­ sonnel flittin g in and out. ceeded in winning an election, with 5,000 vehicles, according staying in power by virtue of One can resist anything except to The Times) is that the State easing the m ilitary in and out of temptation (as Oscar Vilde said) monopoly, Mopare, which is only his cabinet. Nothing very revo­ and there is the temptation for 5°/o of the lorries in Chile, has a lutionary seems to have happened. a student of modern political monopoly of spare parts and new In fact, Allende, and whoever history to discern sinister paral­ vehicles imported into the seems to be his a lly at the mo­ le l events recurring. The current country. The lorry drivers (who ment, are united in suppressing history of Chile's so-called seem by no means to be large anything really revolutionary. 'Democratic Marxist revolution' firms but simply one-lorry own­ discloses sinister parallels with ers, that is to say small capit­ Allende won his election but the so-called Russian Bolshevik alists) want renewal of equip­ got in on a minority vote with Revolution. The lorry drivers' ment, a reasonable supply of the aid of an uneasy electoral strike has some affinity with the tyres, batteries and spare parts. alliance with the Christian Demo­ peasants' resistance to forcible They are also requesting a real­ crats. It has been claimed (by collectivization. The most sub­ istic tariff structure and social professors from the law faculty stantial left-wing mutiny (so far) security. of the Catholic University of occurred in the navy and 300 Such is the geography and r a il­ Santiago) that there were irregu­ sailors are reported under arrest way deficiency in Chile that this larities in the congressional (some it is alleged have been comparatively small strike seems election (which returned Allende tortured), providing a parallel to be paralysing Allende's sys­ to power) last March. The pro­ with Kronstadt. The assassina­ tem. I f one believes that the fessors claim that possibly tion of Captain Arturo Araya, worker is entitled to the use- 200,000 votes were duplicated in Allende's naval aide-de-camp was ownership of the tools of his the election but i t is not known accredited to the right-wing for whom they were cast. 'Fatherland and Liberty' move- Continued on Page 7 ... u p TICKS NEW GOVERNMENT plans for re­ they moved out essential machinery structuring the Lip watch-making and computer parts. These have factory at Besancon in France been hidden away along with sev­ have been rejected by the trade eral tons of documents and plans, unions following the police' with 60,000 watches which workers dawn raid and eviction of workers are continuing to sell at reduced from the factory. M. Jean prices. In fact they even man­ Charbonnel, the Minister for aged to sell them in the restaur­ Industrial Development has plans ant of the Ministry of Industrial to split Lip into four loosely- Development in Paris just six HAVE YOU NOTICED H0V YOUNG linked companies. These include hours after the police raid. THE DEMONSTRATORS ARE GETTING? the different divisions, such as The French authorities obviously watch-making, machine tools, thought that a massive show of C.G.T. and the. Socialist C.F.D.T. armaments and mechanical engin­ strength against the work-in was trade unions, with both the eering. Yet another company w ill the best means of ending what was Communist and Socialist parties, be set up to absorb any redundant fast becoming a very large thorn have been careful not to incite too much action and especially workers but so far no clearly in their flesh. From the first condemned any violence on the worked out plans have been put reaction to the raid there has part of trade unionists. But forward and negotiations are been considerable display of soli­ still in progress between the darity and support from other violent clashes have taken place outside Lip, although from re­ Government, the French Industrial sections of workers and the popu­ Development Institute and lation. This, unfortunately, ports it seems none of them in­ Ebauches, S.A., the Swiss com­ might only be for brief periods volved workers from the factory. pany which has the controlling and not long enough to force the Several thousands gathered out­ interest in Lip. government to change its plans. side the factory when they heard the news of the eviction. They However, despite all the solu­ One-hour sympathy strikes by r a il­ wayman and stoppages of Social came from Besancon and the sur­ tions being put forward those in rounding area and the police authority are worried because, Security services have taken before the workers were evicted, place, but the Communist-led Continued on Page 7 ... Morning Cloud as he spins a 3 N halibut or splices a marline- spike or whatever they do on Christmas present yachts. For what it means little com­ rade is that the transport wor­ kers have gained nothing and A HUNDRED TIMES or more in the throat and the other in our pocket, and there is but one London Transport has won a mag­ course of the year an industrial nificent recruiting press. No­ dispute will make the front page answer and that is to spit in thing did I say little comrade. of the national press if for no their face and to take as much other reason than the implied as we can force them to sur­ Nay, we have finally had Clause stupidity of the striking wor­ render. This is an hour of 17 removed from our throats and kers. A window would not open, 'full employment' when labour Clause 17 stated that if one in­ canteen pies were lukewarm or is finding its true values and dulged in a one-day strike then the charge hand swore at a wor­ the job of bank clerk and super­ one was only paid the actual ker and the national press market manager is no longer the hours worked in that week. In states that because of trivial ultimate reward for years of the long age past there were incidents such as I have dreamed study but merely another job to six-hour duties such as night up thousands of workers walk out be pasted up in a window, fcr in work, and for a one-day strike onto the stones. Yet those tri­ the frantic search for labour one was only paid six hours for vial incidents are always the that artificial working class each of the days worked in that culmination of a whole pattern hierarchy has gone for a burton week, and on a twelve-hour of managerial bullying. and one can now call the fore­ daily duty a one-day strike man 'mate' and walk our of one could cost a worker as much as As the pattern of our society 'secure' job into another 'se­ 20 hours' pay plus the loss of changes fresh generations move cure'f job for the slaves have the one day's strike money. into an industrial world of full learned to rattle their chains, But over the years the schedules employment and by the very nat­ but remember little comrade department have forced almost ure of things they can have they are still chains. all duties to and over the full little understanding of the day's working so Clause 17 is meaning and feeling of the wor­ The overpaid Executive of now a broken weapon in the king class between the wars London Transport have, by common, hands of the London Transport when with two million or more concensus, made a glorious fuck- Executive - so out of all the unemployed, men and women were up of London's public transport shouting and the flag waving of robbed of all human dignity by and the situation is so bad that a new deal for the London bus the employer and the State as they are frightened men. Whole workers, and note Women's Lib I the price for allowing the wor­ bus routes are without buses, say workers, we have gained king class, in all countries, ten-minute services have two- nothing. to survive on artifical poverty. hour gaps and frustrated travel­ To have to see a skilled man lers are daily walking into Over the long years one be­ forced to stand outside a garages to scream their abuse at comes a little tired of spelling foundry gate for a whole week the official staff. After years out the answers on how to run a before being employed, to see of official indifference bus public transport system and hov grown men in a crowded factory services are now being taken to retain staff. Much of the breaking down into unrestrain- off, on certain routes, by o ffi­ first is now acceptable trans­ able tears when given their c ia l order because of mob v io ­ port policy but rejected on * cards', to stand like cattle lence and the Executive are political grounds, but until outside Joe Lyons at four in frantic to find a solution to public ownership in the true the morning for the chance of a save their own skins. Their meaning of the act becomes a single day's work, to watch an latest dream plan, that won workable thing then the worker unemployed man dragged scream­ national press coverage, is problem will continue to foul ing out of a Labour Exchange by th eir Nine Point Plan and a ll up what should be and must be a the duty police, at the orders in all is so much bureaucratic social service, and the answers of a gutless clerk, for no anal wind, for in return for do not lie in 'winning' gifts other offence than to be ob­ the union's agreeing to 17- from the employers of their dis­ served smoking a 'dog end' year old bus conductors, 18- carded weapons such as Clause 17 while standing in the mile-long year old drivers, and women queue waiting simply to sign bus drivers Sir Richard Way Arthur Moyse the unemployed register, or to offers his dream pie of more see one's school friend taken money, pensions on a c iv il SUBSCRIBE to FREEDOM from the crowded class room be­ service clerk's level, staff cause his unemployed father had Status after five years &c. Surface Mail & Inland slashed his throat with a razor The TGWU have already told and to bear witness to that same Richard that they will not One year £3.00 $7.50 obscene ending of a human life accept women drivers, and Six months £1.50 $3.75 by other men and women of the Women's Lib take note, unless Three months 80p $2.00 working class as their final and women are accented for employ­ ultimate rejection of a society ment in any and every job with­ Airmail in London Transport. they can no longer tolerate is Europe & Mid,East 1 £4.00 to lay the foundation, within yr The Executive's escape clause The Americas 1 yr $12.50 the human heart, of a kingly lie s in 30 words tucked away in India, Africa &c. 1 £4.50 rage that will illuminate and yr Sir Richard's columns of verbi­ Australasia, reject whatever the State and age when he breathes that "To Japan &c. yr. £5.00 the employer offers without what extent, and when, any rata) asking. agreements can be implemented ( six months pro There are those and they are depends on two things - Govern­ copies £5.60 ($14.oo) per yr I many who w ill declaim that we ment legislation affecting (6 & 3 months pro rata) prices and incomes, and the cannot continue to judge society Bulk: 10 copies 40p post free by the past evils but they talk amount of money available in from a fu ll b e lly and a guaran­ the Executive's budget". And one can hear Edward Heath tee of a full wage packet each We welcome news, a rtic le s , week but those in authority laughing like a drain as these words are pointed out to him on letters. Latest date for merely change their pattern of receipt of MSS, Notices &c operation and they w ill surren­ is Monday in the week of der large >r small concession publication. Earlier receipt asking only fo r one hand on our PAGE 2 is helpful. It 's a pity, because when bands are turned to tasks Reviews f like producing The Grief Re­ port far more is achieved, AID & LIBERATION by Judith Hart even if fewer people notice. (Gollancz) £3.80 Ron Bailey and Joan Ruddock THE GRIEF REPORT bv Ron Bailey have got together a telling & Joan Ruddock (Shelter) 25p indictment of the way people Any book not in stock, but in NEILI,! NEILL! ORANGE PEEL! in Temporary Accommodation print can be promptly supplied. by A, S. Neill (Weidenfeld & are treated, it makes a change Please add postage as in brackets Nicolson) £3.75______from reading some observations and cash with order helps. of the Rev. Father Fuck D.D. JUDITH KART, former Minister of because it indicates the needs Overseas Development and le ft *The Great French Revolution wing supporter of the well pub­ of those who are in no posi­ Peter Kropotkin. Hardback. licised "25-company take over" tion to lie in bed all day £3.75 (21p) of the Lutour Party executive, and congratulate themselves Ppr. £2.00 (21p) has produced a useful contribu­ on being clever. *ln Russian and French Prisons tion to t^e debate on overseas Homelessness is about pov­ Peter Kropotkin £2. 00 (21 p) aid. She cells her book "a erty and grief, persecution *Harmonian Man - Selected socialist study of aid poli­ and terror. Authority is very "Writings of Charles Fourier tics" and. it covers a fair good at making people feel Ed. by Mark Poster amount cf territory concering ashamed and utterly incapable £1.30 (9p) the aid relationship between of feeling sympathy for people ^Design for Utopia - Selected the rich world and the Third in difficu lties who are "Writings of Charles Fourier World vhich adopts a fairly frightened, desperate and Ed. by Frank E. Manuel consistent line of support for without a roof over their o fficia l aid, deprecation of £1.40 (9p) heads. This report is a private investment incorrectly withering condemnation of *The Utopian Vision of Charles labelled "aid" and generally those who are responsible for Fourier - Selected Writings knowledgeable insistence on the lack of adequate and hum­ Ed. by Jonathan Beecher and the need for* overseas aid ane conditions in the provision Richard Bienvenu without strings. of temporary shelter. £1.75 (21p) *The Rejection of Politics However, there is nothing A. S. Neill of the wiaer Third World debate * * and Other Essays on guerrilla warfare, Fanon Neill is an extraordinary George Woodcock and the endeavours of Frelimo man. At ninety-one we have his £3.50 (15p) and the Tupamaros. This ex­ autobiography which is an en­ The Slavery of Our Times cludes an area of interest to gaging and readable addition Leo Tolstoi anarchists who advocate c r iti­ to his already voluminous lib - (Briant Colour Printers’ cal support for what Eysenck fary. I like Neill most when Work-in Edition) £0. 25 (3jp) calls "the Fanon myth" and he writes about Homer Lane and *The Philosophy of Egoism adopt liberation struggles as Wilhelm Reich, an honesty of approach to his best friends James L. Walker examples of "self-help" to be assisted. Another anarchist is his winning characteristic. £0.60 (3|-p) There is no glamourising just *Law - the Supporter of Crime alternative settles for the less controversial Oxfam/War good,, straight, fraternal Peter Kropotkin £0. 06 (2jp) truth. ^Manifesto on the Russian on Want development aid which is generally outside State On Reich he is unforgettable. Revolution■ ■ control. Mrs. Hart at her Issued by the Anarchist Com­ If Neill was a sucker, as H. G. most venturesome examines the Wells called him about Reich, munist Groups of the US and growing interest on the radi­ and if Reich was "dealing with Canada, the Federation of cal fringe, as exemplified in dynamite" as he imed to Russian Anarchist Groups of the Haslemere group, for aid Neill, then it seems to me US and Canada and the Ukrain­ that excludes assistance for that many good people to-day ian Anarchist Communist private enterprise and consi­ are influenced by "a sucker" Groups of the US and Canada ders the arguments of Theresa and a man who dealt incredibly in 1922 £0.15 (2^p) Hayter and others that aid is well "with dynamite". *Emma Goldman - A Tribute a new form of imperialism. She finds much space for For myself Henry Miller who Charles A. Madison wrote: "I know of no educator £0.30 (3ip) Tanzania, Cuba, Chile - but not Algeria - which is the in the Western World who can compare with A. S. N eill. It * Denotes title published in the sort of genuflexion the politician trying to be radi­ seems to me he stands alone... USA. Summerhill is a tiny ray of Please send foolscap (9"x4") cal makes. ( light in a world of darkness" SAE if you would like to receive It is what Judith Hart does says enough to justify the booklists. not study that is most signi­ growing influence of Neill and i f •/ ficant because it shows us Reich to-day. j ^ where she draws the line. None the less, Aid and Liberation is worth dijjping into; taken as a whole it menages to make PRESS FUND - the unbelievably dull discus­ ‘‘RADICAL" No. 1, a bi-monthly sion of aid more invigorating. leaflet issued by Radical Group Contributions in Tokyo, promoting anarchism by + * * Denations 9-15 August inc. means of books, pamphlets and SHELTER has produced enough meetings in Japan. Available (a COLCHESTER: P.N. 10p; EXMOtTH: publicity of late to satisfy donation as y’ou please) from A.B.H. 50p; KEARSLEI: L.C. 25p; all whose aim in life is to The IDEA Publishing House, CAPEL CURIG: H.D. 15p; WOLVER­ associate themselves with c/o Matsuki Building, HAMPTON: J.L. 50p; J.K.W. lOp. those in distress with a view Higashiookubo, Shinjuku-ku, to making this association Tokyo (or Freedom Press). TOTAL: £1.60 widely known. 1 * VE NEED MOPE THAN THIS EACH WEEK y PLEASE HELP. PAGE 3 r* * VI • • the Par East. He feared thut Nationalist China, with American support, might claim Hong Kong and that Poland vas cny way/sig/ lost to the Vest. IT IS NOV fifty-nine years from times thought so". The discus­ Churchill's memoirs simply the outbreak of tho first World sion goes on. suggest an invitation to the Var and thirty-four years since With an exactness of chrono­ Poles to visit Moscow but the the outbreak of the second World logical morality that is breath­ official record of the confer­ War. It has becomo obvious, taking the British Public Records ence notes that Churchill partly with the passing of time, Office releases batches of o ffi­ pointed out to Stalin that with the publication of memoirs and regard to Poland they each had the 'leaking* of secrets by the cial memoranda (with some halts and gaps) from time to time. a gamecock in his hand (the Bolsheviks that World War one According to the Dailv Telegraph London government ard tho pro- was a fraud, a cheat and a Russian Lublin government). racket; its real aims were dis­ (Aug. 1st) the latest files re-* leased include tlose of Sir Stalin said it was difficult to guised, its causes obscured, and do without cocks; they gave its results diverged from its Winston Churchill's wartime con­ ferences. the morning signal. It was ag­ promises and aims. No one thinks reed that the London Poles - such a standpoint revolutionary It is denied (of course) that should be flown to Moscow - or such findings pacifist or these files have been 'pruned' ostensibly for talks - but Ian 'bolshie', let alone anarchistic. but the files of a Moscow con­ Colvin of the Telegraph fails ference with Stalin (October The second World War is taking to mention they were arrested 1944) and the agenda of the and put on trial - for treason. its time to givo up its dirty Casablanca conference of 1943 secrets. More care has been (with Roosevelt) which decided * * # taken to cover up the traces. the policy of 'unconditional More nations were involved, and The prize exhibit of the files surrender' are missing. The is the memorandum reproduced technology added new facilities Public Records Office says "that to bury the bodies (literally and herewith where Churchill and the delay in bringing out the Stalin worked out their respect­ figuratively), many bodies dis­ missing file is due to the dis­ appeared and were, as it were, ive 'spheres of influence'. (The order in which the papers were tick is Stalin's.) atomized. In a popular Sunday found, and not because of lato supplement 'Observer' history of pruning". The Telegraph re­ the twentieth century, "The New ports: "Sensitive documents of The Telegraph concludes, British", Colin Cross puts for­ importance are usually withheld "Stalin appeared to agree, ward the oft-given reason for 50-100 years by order of the making a large tick on the pa­ the second World War that Germany Lord Chamberlain." per and when Churchill suggested was persecuting its Jewish c iti­ burning it to avoid an appear­ zens. This is repudiated by an These conferences were held ance of cynicism, Stalin re­ Observer reader who puts forward in order to decide, not how to plied, 'No, you keep it '." »,he reason that after the invas­ win the war, but how to win the ion of Poland "we/ were certain peace. Churchill, says the When the Greek people rose in we would be next on the list". Telegraph, arrived in Moscow in revolt Stalin stood by and did Cplin Cross rebutts this by October 1944, after failing at nothing. stating, "There is no evidence Dumbarton Oaks to get agreement Talking about cynicism, that we were 'next on the list' with President Rossevelt on the Churchill's code-word for the or that the Government of the future of the British Empire in collection of papers was 'Tolstoy'. T D to their subjects. Kingsley Martin said little about SEVEN RADICALS Paine's youth or old age. St John Ervine did not touch the Place manuscripts in the British Museum. Beatrice RADICALS, REFORMERS AND SOCIAL­ Hutchins said little about ISTS. Edited by Michael- Katacka. Owen's later career. Barbara Charles Knight, £3.80. Hammond said most that needed to be said about Lovett. G; D. H. Cole was too sympa­ The Fabian Biographical Series thetic to Keir Hardie and too consisted cf fifteen pamphlets antipathetic to Burns to ana­ publisned by the Fabian Society between 1912 and 1955. Radicals. lyse their roles in the labour Reformers and Socialists reprints movement. And Margaret Cole quite failed to show how truly seven of them, with an intro­ duction by Margaret Ccle, biblio­ awful the Webbs were. graphical appendixes, and an in­ dex. Another seven will be re­ Mrs Cole rightly points out printed in a further volume. The that several important figures subjects were all British fig­ were never covered — Robert ures who lived during the past Blatchford, Feargus O'Connor, two centuries. Those included H. G. Wells, George Lansbury, here are Thomas Paine, Francis Arthur Henderson, Ernest Place, Robert Owen, William Bevin, Tom Mann, Bernard Shaw, Lovett, Keir Hardie, John Burns, Ramsay MacDonald; and what and Beatrice and Sidney Webb; about John Wilkes, William those to come are Jeremy Godwin, Thomas Hardy, Ernest Bentham, William Cobbett, Jones, Bronterre O’Brien, Richard Carlile, John Stuart H. M. Hyndman, John Maclean, Mill, Charles Kingsley, John James Maxton, Aneurin Bevan? Ruskin, and William Mcrris. Con tin -ted on Page 5 All the essays are useful, though they are too 3hort to make much use of primary material or to go very deep in­ PAGE 4 cultural land must be covered by bungalows. This could have been written about Cornwall. * - The Importance of Ni SHORTAGE OF IDEAS Being Cornish in A Directory of Alternative Projects commit/nent to any one projec­ Cornwall is a vast array of ideas for spend­ ted idea. For example for the He then goes on to write that ing. or helping to spend some past three years I've been con­ voting should be compulsory £1,250 as a project put forward cerned with a community book­ like it is in Australia since by people like Germaine Greer, shop which has existed on a turn-outs are so poor in local Richard Neville, BIT Informa­ shoestring and been an informal elections and that this refusal tion Service and others. Perhaps meeting place plus advisory cen­ to vote for a pack of business­ the most important contribution tre for the many isolated, alien­ men and power seekers is dan­ is that by Peter Lumsden illus­ ated, poor peoples of many gerous since it might result in trating how he spent / gave away communities (like gypsies and violent action. But the alterna­ £15,000; because as he writes it freaks, uhemployed and home­ tives are not simply violence, is often a psychological problem less); in that time I've seen a but nonviolence and direct action rather than a financial one... often lot of ideas put forward for where and when possible and I am quite sure that soon we shall not. However we are now within communes and newspapers see a Cornish movement much pages of ideas flowing from off locally. But because of the closer to Plaid Cymru than Fo the top of people's heads - or long term action needed; the Halloo! If only they were as edu­ from out of their various exper­ daily grind of working harder cated about the nature of power; iences. The latter being a bet­ for such projects than say for and of the importance of libertar­ ter guide to possibly practical most normal jobs, the many ian ideas then we might see a projects rather than wished-for floated ideas have resulted in strong Cornish Movement with communities. It is my experi­ little change in the overall ence that there is no shortage of Cornish scene. a healthy anarchist disregard for ideas at all. Rather there is an Also here we have a special authority based on permanent of­ ficials and volunteer businessmen; unwillingness on the part of indi­ problem of an artificial commu­ with a concern for encouraging viduals to risk things and to ac­ nity made up of many elderly people to take direct action and tually implement just one of those folk; many rich and smug people; i nonviolent resistance. Though it ideas. For example - I felt at many self-sufficient creative must be said that the large prop­ the time of the Committee of 100 people who have little or no time erty owners and corporations de­ that it needed its own newspaper for community action, for squat­ serve to lose some of their prop­ (this was in 1961 when the sup­ ting, for opposition to Nancekuke erty which is kept empty when port was colossal) because for where CS gas and nerve gases there is an urgent need for homes all the real support given by are made, where the rich sum­ for the people living permanently papers like the Socialist Leader, mer season brings in the middle classes with their big fat arses! in Cornwall. If the Directory of Peace News, Freedom and oth­ Where each town is a village and Alternative Projects results in ers; they were not centrally where to be seen to be active a few new civil rights groups and concerned with the issues of politically is considered mad or claimants unions and community organization and projects cen­ tedious; and where Mebyon Ker- open houses it will have more tring on Direct Action at mili­ now is so engrossed in determin­ than done its job. But it leaves tary bases, on civil disobedi­ ing who are the Cornish that you and I looking for homes for ence and resistance to the those of us who are Cornish-by- our children and jobs for our institutions backing up these immigration are simply ignored souls as well as our bodies. bases. A newspaper of the - so illformed is their political The weekly grind goes on for Committee of 100 would have programme that they believe that most people left with no savings been centrally concerned with the only alternative to the ballot but a lot of debts. developing strategy and commit- t is the bullet. They have no his­ Dennis Gould ment, building a movement at a toric awareness of Direct Action; local community level, and in­ of civil disobedience; of non­ forming outsiders of the aims SEVEN RADICALS. ■ .cont'd from P 4 violent resistance; of non-coop­ and means of the Committee. eration. Professor Thomas of And what about a ll the foreign figures who are so important However nobody started one so the Institute for Cornish Studies it faded away as an idea until a and so lit t le known in this for example has written; bulletin cum news-sheet was country? This kind of brief ‘Last Saturday's Manchester biography is a good beginning produced far too little far too Guardian carried an article about late. For if you look throughout — but it must be cheap. The the Isle of Man, a Celtic area history you find a newspaper or Fabian pamphlets were cheap, much smaller than Cornwall but but this book is expensive magazine is often central to a in many ways very similar, and even by current standards — movement's growth. under almost identical threats. at more than 50p each the So, I am inclined to believe They have a Mec Vannin, Sons essays are pretty poor value, that if you have good ideas like of Man, just like our Mebyon so a cheap paperback edition some certainly are within this Kernow; but they have now ano­ would be welcome. « directory, it is up to the individ­ ther body called Fo Halloo, uals suggesting the ideas to put Under-the-Ground, which is them into practice... .with or attacking what it calls alien Rhodesian Commentary, a govern­ without the money. For it is profiteers and local government ment propaganda sheet, apolo­ probable that the money can be corruption, and is allegedly gized to its readers for saying a cushion for 'centres' and 'in­ moving into arson and sabotage. that "during the Pearce Commis­ formation services' which we The Come-Overs, or non-Manx sion exercise there were many have so many of already. When settlers, have pushed up land incidents of violence and intim­ what we want are small commu­ prices to the point where it is idation to African National Con­ nity ventures which rely on impossible for a young Manxman gress o fficia ls and members". people and their time and per­ and his wife to buy a home. To Vhat it meant to say was "by A.N.C. officials etc." Is there haps their money at a local level. house the settlers more of the a Freudian in the house? (Thirty- Grandiose projects often are island's beauty spots and agri- three A.N.C. o ffic ia ls have been only imaginative ideas put for­ detained in Rhodesia this month.) ward by people without much PAGE 5 Our friend thinks it unlikel. that the people of the area wij^ make a fight to keep their hom?s, solidarity having been prevented frura developing by tl IT'S THE SA1E THE WHOLE WORLD one-at-a-time tactics, and the OVER.. .only more so. massive show of brute force in this eviction being successful A VOLUNTARY organisation has HAMBURG is in the eye of the re­ in intimidation. Nor would any been set up by a Baptist campaigning publicity be expec­ minister so that young persons developers. There is a pleasant residential area in the centre ted from the local press, which who have le ft home can leave a is Springer owned. M „ message for their parents (by of the town, where there is al­ n.t, Robophone). Confidentiality is ready a recreational lake ond a 17.8.73 reportedly respected and safe­ swimming pool. The municipal guarded. The Guardian’ s Mary authorities plan to redevelop Stott writes, "The Hadeyns the area around, with hotels, FREEDOM PRESS /originators of the service/ shops and offices. Residents of had to plan carefully. Young­ the older bouses which are being 84b WHITECHAPEL HIGH STREET sters under 18 know very well demolished are unwilling to be LONDON Ei Phone 01-247 9249 that if they are found and re­ moved out to more expensive horn ported to the police they will homes in the suburbs. Just like (Aldgate East underground sta­ be returned home or brought be­ any other city redevelopment — tion, Vhilechapel Art Gallery fore a juvenile court as in need but what is somewhat special of ’ care and protection'. about this one is that these exit and turn right - Angel Voluntary agencies, like the houses are owned by the housing Alley next to Virrpy Bar.) Salvation Army which has a mag­ trust Neue Heimat - the largest THE STATE - Its Historic Role nificent record in tracing mis­ housing trust in Europe, owned sing persons, know that it is by the "Deutsche Gewerkschafts- P. Kropotkin 20p(50c) a legal obligation to report Bund, the German 'TUC'. A post 3ip(8c) the whereabouts of a missing friend visiting from Hamburg LESSONS OF THE SPANISH'REVOLU­ minor, and will not handle last week told us that the TION, new 8: rev. edn. 1972, by such cases." The telephone houses are being emptied and Vernon Richards. number of 'Alive and Veil' is demolished piecemeal; as ten­ cloth £1.50(14.00) a London ones 01-567 5339. ants are persuaded to leave, en­ paper £0.75($2,00) couraged by no repairs now being post 15p(40c) done, the house is either left SELECTIONS FROM ’FREEDOM’ Sayings of the month: "Govern empty and demolished or is let annual vcls. 1954-64. ment cannot be pure and just. for very short periods to immi­ Per vol. paper 37jp($1.00) It can only appear so, which grant workers or students. The cloth 50p ($1.25) requires on society's part a university's student body has c post 13^p(40c) willing suspension of dis­ co-operated in this scheme by FULL LIST OF PAMPHLETS & BACK belief." -Peregrine Vorsthorne making contracts with the trust ISSUES 'ANARCHY' ON REQUEST (Sunday Telegraph 12.8.73) and allocating houses to studaits Six weeks ago about 100 stu­ THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY Chisso Chemical Company of Mini- dents occupied one such build­ mata, Japan suspended production ing, in protest at this scheme. because a blockade by 5,000 During the time they were there the residents of remain­ PEOPLE ARE NEEDED to live-in fishermen has stopped supplies and help in a therapeutic com­ of raw materials. The blockade ing streets showed their appre­ ciation in friendliness and munity in London, part-time or was in support of demands for full-time. The helpers share the company to pay about £2.2 gifts of food, but not to the extent of committing themselves in the cooking, cleaning etc., millions in compensation for and are also needed to be there polluting fishing grounds with to the campaign. A week ago a plain van drew for contact and emotional sup­ chemical effluent which poisoned port. The atmosphere of the tuna-fish leading to deaths up at about 4 a.m., when the occupants were sleeping but.had community is a generally honest from 'Minimata' disease — and open one, and offers an op­ mercury poisoning. a guard. The driver of the van said he had brought food but portunity for warm human related­ came in the middle of the night ness to all involved. Squatters in Colchester, Essex so as not to be seen, and the Board and some amount of pay are occupying a terrace of door was opened. The back of can be provided if needed. houses owned by the police and the van flew open and ejected a Please come and help if you can, to be cleared to make room for a squad of special riot police, even if only for a short time - new police station in Butt Road. an armoured vehicle also packed your help is greatly needed. The The quatters have set up a free with police sped to the door shop and an advice centre on experience is very likely to be and the house was rushed by, of personal value to you also. housing, squatting etc. Twenty- our friend says, about 600 two squatters in Colchester at police, the vanguard of whom Please write to: the Turrets, Lexden Road are ran up the stairs firing a few Gordon Phillips, under notice to quit. rounds from machine guns. No c/o Moonfleet Bookshop, one was shot, but three stud­ 131 Clapham Park Road, The telephone at Freedom Press ents were hurt. About 70 were London SW4 7EN or phone 274 3464 (01-247 9249) has been out of arrested and four were still order for fourteen days (so far) detained at the time of writing. and the Telephone manager tells The Rev. Ronald McKenzie, minis­ us there is a waiting list for The demolition workers ar­ ter at Elim Pentecostal Church, repairs. rived next day. They were met Nottingham, has invented a robot with verbal abuse from resi­ preacher to help him with Sunday- dents, some of whom sat in the Slogans on Peking walls have School classes and church ser­ doors and window spaces of the vices. The minister said, "He been painted out by officials house, but were removed by reads the scriptures in a voice in readiness for new slogans police, under whose protection like a television Dalek. The which will probably emerge the demolition was carried out. adults like him just as much as from current congresses. the children." Sancho Panza PAGE 6 say, we are a union fighting for CHILE. ..cont i nued from Pace 1 our class and our interests. It is the politicians who have ruined trade, there is no reason why a this country and it's time they LETTERS lorry owner-driver should not disappeared for good and a ll." have the use of his lorry for his Unhappily this kind of talk is service to society and be en­ shared with the m ilitary who •ANGRY BRIGADE* ECHOES (I) titled to draw on stores for the maintenance thereof. Like many speak about acting "once the p o li­ ticians have run out of ideas". Dear Editors, developing nations, Chile has no motor or lorry manufacturing I felt sure some journalist On June 29, the day of the abor­ resources and the blockage of tive m ilitary coup, the workers on would be unable to resist com­ spare parts, etcetera, is part the appeal of President Allende ment on the 'coincidence' - which of import controls. occupied the factories. The gov­ it obviously was - between the The strike of the lorry driver ernment have since issued a Court Jack the Ripper TV and the Angry order to force trade unions to Brigade one - did it have to be in has been used by right-wing ele­ ments to beat the government - abandon the occupation. 'Freedom' ? ^ • M. Canipa says that the SN8 but it is well organized and As is usual in such circum­ Allende has been forced to change 'did not claim to be propagating stances, an association for Bri­ his Minister of Public Works and Anarchism' - not even Stuart tish Chilean Friendship has been Transport (a military man) and set up (61 V ictoria Mansions, Christie? - and denied 'being' his under-secretary, a civilian, South Lambeth Road, London, SW8). the Angry Brigade - but not their under pressure from the strikers. Their bulletin is, of course, full sympathy with it. He obviously The Communists, like the right- of the usual excuses for such re­ has not read the case at all but to gimes as that of Allende (which, say 'Freedom accepted their wing groups and Allende, are op­ posed to such movements of work­ at best, is honestly confused and word' is an outrageous lie. ers' control and factory occupa­ mistaken in its course). One such It didn't support them then and tions as have taken place. A plea is " i f the government re a lly unfortunately that's why no one lorry driver striker, seeing a wants to advance in its Chilean supports you NOW. As to 'ac­ Christian Democrat politician road to socialism it will have to cepting their word', you published visiting the strikers' camp said, extend the social control of letters denying even knowing them "There you have the politicians, workers and peasants over pro­ - even Purdie - bar Christie, as they always want to take advan­ duction and distribution". Is this if to cast suspicion on them, and tage of a strike for their own confusion of syntax or honesty of thought? few will forgive the articles by ends. We are neither politicized, N.W. or Fascists, as the government We are told in an Observer pro­ Yours sincerely, file of Allende that "By the mid-* Roger Cowsland twenties under the influence of Edinburgh SOCIAL ACTION PROJECTS (Drug some anarchist friends he was Dependents' Care Group) meeting launched on his political career". Thursday 30th August, 7.30 p.m. Some of his best friends may have (2) 6 Endsleigh Street, London WCl. been anarchists but he didn't Dear Editors, Speaker from Addicts' Rehabili­ marry their ideas and doesn't seem Hilary Creek is now in Halli- tation Employment Agency. likely to. t i o u- wick Hospital. The question of Jack Robinson her possible return to prison has not yet been raised so far as is the French State has over-reacted L I P ... continued from Page 1 known. No reliable reports of onrl + V, a t .t n + Vi o a o i o 1 i /Tool her present physical condition right to give every assistance tried to stop delegations from and protest against the police and her response to 'treatment' Paris, Lyons, Tours and Dijon ra id . are available. from getting to the town to Jim Greenfield is in a special join them. As in Paris in 1968, Lip workers have had the fo re ­ security jail. Communist Party stewards kept sight to ensure continuing pro­ Those such as Nicolas Walter the following demonstration under duction elsewhere or at least who conclude that people standing control and avoided going near prevent the new owners from re­ trial are likely to describe their the Lip factory. O fficia ls of starting production. Their the C.F.D.T. interposed between political beliefs in a way that struggle can carry on to safe­ police and young demonstrators could be detrimental to the out­ guard their jobs, but as Peace to beseech them to avoid incid­ come of their trial are naive. News rightly pointed out last ents. The demonstration dis­ J. W. week, action such as they took persed quietly and it was only London "must have a radicalising effect in the evening when a lorry broke on the people involved". People through a barrier near the fa c t­ were taking control of their own ory that the exchange of stones Nicolas Walter writes: lives, that is the example they and tear gas began, to continue J. W. says that 'those such as have given. That example has to all night. Three journalists be put into practice, not just Nicolas Walter who conclude that who were arrested later claimed to safeguard jobs within the sys­ people standing trial are likely to that they had been manhandled tem, but as a direct challenge describe their political beliefs in during the several hours they a way that could be detrimental to to those who at present control were kept in the police stationv our lives through their owner­ the outcome of their trial are In a ll about 50 people were ar­ naive'. They are indeed; but I ship of the work places and the rested and about 20 injured, in­ machinery of the State. By have never suggested any such cluding some police. applying ideas of workers' con­ thing. What is J. W. talking A Financial Times report blames trol, workers can start pro­ about? "young leftist agitators from duction and the organisation of Roger Cowsland says that 'few Paris" for provoking the violence. society for the benefit of all. will forgive the articles by N. W .' I t is always easy to blame people The forces of the State cannot Why? Because I dared to criti­ frcrj outside, but the raid illus­ defeat such a movement i f i t is cise the Angry Brigade and the trated the State's use of brute widespread enough and can in­ various Defence Groups - without, force to secure the property of spire the support to make i t let me emphasise, ever criticising the owners. Work-ins, like L ip 's , worthwhile defending and fight- any of those who were arrested or could be a start in the reorgani­ ing for. p>T> tried? What is Roger Cowsland sation process necessary for the talking about? social revolution. As such it PAGE 7 couldn't be tolerated. As usual, Nicolas Valter has let us see his reply (to The Lia: :gJi£.r) to Stuart's letter opposites Silt: Stuart Christie's reply The Listener 16 August 1973 (16 August) to my criticism (2 August) of Gordon Carr's Letters Listener article and television programme on the Angry Brigade The Angry Brigade concerns revolutionary syndica­ sir: I should like the opportunity of replying to your correspondent Nicolas Walter, whose lism, based on tho class strug­ letter of 2 August presumes to speak on behalf gle and the organisat_on of the of the Anarchist movement in much the same THURSDAYS 2 p. m. onwards. way as did Peter Kropotkin In his public sup­ proletariat, rather than true port of the First World War—without belong­ anarchism, based on opposition Help fold and despatch FREEDOM ing to any Anarchist movement or organisa­ tion, thereby causing irreparable harm to the to authority and the liberation at Freedom Press. Anarchist movement throughout the world. of the people. I do not wish Syndicalist Workers Federation Gordon Carr did not err factually in his to reply to insult.*, but I do analysis of the Angry Brigade when referring Pamphlets Voice of Syndicalism; wish to repeat my insistence to the International Federation of Libertarian and Makhno and Durruti, Revolu­ Youth (not the FIJL) and the International that there was a revival of an­ Anarchist Black Cross, Following the forma­ tion 1917-1936 reprinted from tion of the Defense d'Interieur in the early archism before the 1960s and spring of 1962 an international youth move­ that rhero is no evidence that Freedom. Both 5p each from ment was formed to co-ordinate actions ugainst Freedom Press plus postage. the Franco regime— in particular, actions out­ the Angry Brigade was anarchist side Spanish territory. The first of these was in tiny sense. Christie's pre­ Any Anarchists/Libertarians in the kidnapping of the Spanish Vice-Consul In Milan, Sr Isu Elias, at the end of September judiced remarks abcut the na­ the Aberystwyth area please 1962, in an attempt to prevent the execution ture of the anarchist revival contact Peter Good, 39 Portland of a member of the Spanish Libertarian Youth and evasive remarks about Movement in Barcelona. Subsequently, the Street, Aberystwyth. same organisation worked in close conjunction violence in general and the with the Iberian Liberation Council (CIL) Nudist Challenge, the radical/ until early 1968 in organising active resistance Angry Brigade in particular do to the Governments of General. Franco and not answer either point. protest liberation movement, Salazar. The Anarchist Black Cross became rejoices in the trusting defence­ known as the International ABC following the Factual errors: an internation­ Anarchist Congress in Carrara in August 1968, al libertarian youth movement lessness of nakedness. Tempor­ when Giuseppe Pinelli and other Italian com­ may have been formed in 1962, ary postal address: c/o 985 rades decided to organise the ABC in their own country, and subsequently in many others. but FIJL - the initials used by Peace News, 5 Caledonian Road, In effect, because of its multi-national basis Carr in connection with Alber- London Nl. within the activist movement, and its common 'ola's activities during the acceptance of the principles of solidarity and Help wanted for squatters at the class struggle, it has become the Anarchist 1950s - represents the older 61B Granville Park, SE13. International in spirit, if not in name. Federaci6n Iherica de Juv*n- The ‘ Anarchist’ revival which Nicolas Walter Phone 852-8879. refers to as taking place in the late Fifties tudes Libertarias (Iberian Fed­ was not an Anarchist revival as such. He has eration of Libertarian Youth). EVERY SATURDAY 2-4 p. m. confused a rise in political consciousness which Jater developed into a revolutionary conscious­ Carr referred not bo the Inter­ Picket outside Brixton Prison. ness in the mid-Sixties, having fumbled its national Anarchist Black Cross BELFAST TEN DEFENCE way through liberalism, pacifism and the non­ but to the International Black violent dlfoct action organisations which camt COMMITTEE (88 Rcslyn Road, to the foie during those years and passed Cross; again, this organisa­ Nl5. Tel. 800-9392) aiu^y unmounted— except by those to whom tion may have been re-formed and those organisations had become ends in them­ CORBY ANARCHISTS selves. They were, becayse of their very nature, re-named in 1968, but the paper incapable of presenting any revolutionary poli­ edited by Christie himself Discussion meeting first Friday tical alternative to either capitalism or state which Carr wrongly called Black in every month at 7 Cres swell capitalism and the growing threat these systems presented to the interests of soci­ Cross) has been described since Walk, 7. 30 p. m. ety, i.e. the producers, the organised working 1967 and is s till described to­ class. DRUG DEPENDENTS CARE It was implicit in the actions and propaganda day as the bulletin of the An­ GROUP urgently requires cash of these movements and organisations that archist Black Cross, and accor­ donations, trading stamps and they would have been quite prepared to ding to this paper the Italian accept the status quo of consensus capitalism, cigarette coupons, in order to providing that the state made no attempt to and German branches have the survive. Send to Douglas increase its armed strength to defend the class 3ame style. Terminological iii*- interests of its ruling class. Although highly Kepper, Walnut Cottage, Moor­ exactitude seems to he rather moral and commendable, this was in no way land, Bridgester, Somerset. part of a direct and continuing line with an prevalent in this area. earlier revolutionary Anarchist tradition. Violence and non-violence have nothing Personal positions: I do not LIVERPOOL ASA contact May whatsoever to do with Anarchism. These are accept that anarchist creden­ Stone, C. 32 Summer field, Tower merely tactics to be employed in given situa­ tials are established by be­ tions. What we, as Anarchists, are concerned Hill, Kirkby, nr. Liverpool. longing to any particular org­ with is building a revolutionary conscious­ LONDON ASA for details of ness through participation within the class anisation, and I do not attempt struggle on its many different levels and meetings phone 226-0817. Black manifestations. to lay down any particular line. The death of Francisco Sabattf in January I prefer to rely on the record & Red Outlook always available I960 marked a distinct turning-point within for 5p + 2jp post from 3 Grange the revolutionary Anarchist movement. Fol­ of belief and behaviour and to lowing his death, the Spanish activist move­ stand cn the essential meaning House, Highbury Grange, N5. ment became more involved in the struggle of anarchism. The analogy with against international capitalism and moved INTERNATIONAL LIBERTARIAN further away from the narrow limits of the Kropotkin is apter than Christie CENTRE - CENTRO IBERICG anti-Fascist struggle which had restricted it realises. On the basis of his in the years following the Second World War. 83A Haverstock F ill, This, in turn, influenced other sections of the courageous deeds when young and London, NV3. Phene 586 2038. international Anarchist movement, and may hiA clever books when older, Tube: Chalk Farm or Belsize or may not have manifested itself in Great Britain by the group known as the Angry and his me.mbership of both nat­ Pe.rk. Buses: 31 and 68. Brigade, but I do not presume to answer that ional and international organi­ Meets Saturdays/Sur.days 7.30 pm question. The only people who can answer it are those people who were involved in the sations for many years, Kropot­ ALL WELCOME activities of the Angry Brigade. kin gained a remarkable ascend­ RUDOLF ROCKER CENTENARY CELE­ However, what I find difficult to understand ancy over the anarchist move­ is Nicolas Walter's definition of what he calls BRATION. Sunday, 9 September * true Anarchism *. I can only say that we ment which he eventually used 3.0 p.m. at Toynbee Hall, Com­ (within the Anarchist movement) have no to advocate policies which had method of patenting the name, but we cer­ mercial Street, London, E.l. little to do with anarchism and tainly have nothing in common with those Tickets 50p (inc. refreshments) such as Nicolas Walter who presume to define to attack people who dared to to the world at large what is and what is not from Wn. J. Fishman, 42 Villow- disagree with him; fortunately Anarchism, without belonging (or even court Avenue, Kenton,-Harrow, answerable) to any Anarchist movement there were always enough self- Nicolas Walter should confine his criticism Middlesex, HA3 8ES and comments to subjects on which he has appointed spokesmen for the information rather than make feeble apologies movement to call him to account in an attempt to justify his own self-appointed and to preserve the principles poritinn as arbitrator and PRO for the Inter­ Published by Freedom Press, national Anarchist Movement and, m the pro- of anarchism. But this issue can London, E. 1. Printed by c< *. portraying us as more Christian than be settled only by argument, Christ! Vineyard Press, Colchester. STI.'ART CHRIST::. not by abuse. Psit * 18.8.73 Nicolas Valter