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amarketing‘ FREEDO S s 1. sobe s-I .- -.-4IIII WE WELCOME news, articles, reviews, letters. Freedom Collective, 84b Whitechapel High St Copy deadline for next issue (no. I8) is (Angel Alley). El (tel: 247-9249) Z.WEW MONDAY ll September Hackney Anrchists Con tact ow. on 249-7042 Kingston Anarchisis, I3 Den mark Road, King- Next DESPATCHING date is THURSDAY I4 ston upon Thames (tel: 549-2564) September. Come and hel from 5 m. (Help Lon don Workers‘ Group, Box W. I82 Upper St. N,|,-, (1-6|, 249-7042) LONDON AND SOUTH-EAST. The ABC FREEDOMassuch will also be welcomg the previous Thursday "n Love V. power’ 50,, 779' peace News (London trial starts on Tuesday, 5 September. To coin- for folding Review). -vw f‘ ofrice: 5 Caledonian Road cide with this the Campaign has organised ingobs - "" 4-I threm' tsSd 3Stb I-I dae West London Anarchists, 7 Pennard Road, Wl2 l e °I°' eve“ :I ep em er’ °l P’11 L - - B Brighton Poly Art Facu ty, 7.00 p.m. Meeting I- theer KENT chaired by member of Brighton Trades Council. \-I #3. WELL, THAT'S AGREED lHEN"" | madeomsnear R°""59°l'°i Pei" F°"dI 22 R°Y°l R°°d Monda 4 Se tember at Conway Hall Red --I - - ....___l\"___l°____ I I : i ‘I15 -ti ABERYSTWYTH. Mike Sheehan, 2 South St. Sevenwksi ‘I'm Endesblh 70 B"°db°Um° R°°d Lion Square, London,‘7 ' 30 P .m. Pre—triaI rall Y all Abe stw th MIDLANDS chaired by Pat Arrowsmith with film ‘Home
BRISIOL. Awaiti info. seflretaflfltr C/0 Andrew I'|v¢I i -ingham. Also: Thursday, 7 September Discussion of proposals cwh mesome C§BY. Terry Phillips, 7'CressweII Walk, \-I Ii LEICESTER. Contact: Lyn Hurst, 4| Briarfield for the British end of a world-wide uranium L -I-I as TELLTHEM We / Corb Northants. MII Drive, Leicester, tel: 0533-2I250 (days) or movements monitoring scheme. At the London -1 COVENTRY. John En-glahd, 48 Spencer Av, U-I 0533-4I4060 (nights). Greenpeace Group meeting; 8 pm. (Group's -I J‘ Eorlsdon, Covenhz hasm'edesUn 10-I Q-J wn normal planning meeting, 7 pm). Contact .-0 .-1 _ I s Ha‘-pedbyCif wnw o -7 DERBY (and environs) _Anarchists/Libertarians. London Greenpeace Group, 6 Endsleigh St, WCI GI .Pl All two of us welcome collaborators. Contact an N-I UST39 Any group that wishes to add or transfer contact Tel; 0|-387 5370 -4 - - . . oDsab I-I -¢a"" Andrew Huckerby, 49 Westleigh Av, Derby L. 0 address etc. here, please write to FREEDOM. SHEFFIELD Se t. 8-I0. HOUSING ACTION f\| DE3 3BY, tel: 368678 GD N ewl formed CONVENTION. Squatters, licensees, short- ESI ANGIIIAN Ligeriarians, Wrtyn Everel-T, NORTH—§STERN AN ARCHIST FEDERATION life housing groups, housing c'o-ops, builder 4.0 ll Gibson Gardens, Saffron Walden, Essex co-ops, empty property and housing action . Secretariat: Leeds Anarchists, Box IOI , ‘Wk \/I henvelopewi hepaasground- n-r Y §EI § Anarchist gciety, Univ. of Exeter, id m 30 Blenheim Tenace, Leeds 2. Publishes mthly groups etc., etc., coming together to exchange 5-I \bI1 is Devonshire House, Stocker Road, E-.xeter bulletin . Next conference will be held in information and skills, to set up a contact net- .-n HASIINGS. Sieve, IE %i'kwlck lerrace, Sheffield, 23 September. Groups in. Leeds, work and aim to produce policy proposals and a -I 6cardofes O I // . St Leonards-on-sea , Sussex D'saboed --I campaign to back them up. Bookings should be I- Sheffield, Huddersfield, Sunderland and New- he HIGH BEN IFIAM. Kl; ‘at Iiie Dragonfly "on castle made now. Cost to groups with paid workers -ii Market Day (Wednesday) 2se and individuals earning average or over wages, mils-I NORTH-WEST ANARCHIST FEDERATION -ea I»_. @ IIII HUDDERSFIELD anarchist group: meetings every E I5, to poorer groups and individuals £ 5 per q-I hopor c/o Grass Roots, I09 Oxford Rd, Manchester Ml two weeks For details hone 0484-38I56 (Pol - person. Fees include main meals and accomm- W3 s P Y I ssepara Works Groups in the Federation are: odation. A coach will go from London, mini- +4 technic students‘ union).______I- ‘I GD I buses and/or lifts from elsewhere. Enquiries and Bolton Anarchist Group, c/o Grass Roots (tel: II aCaf LEAMINGTON 8. Warwick, c/o 42 Bath .-4 4-» bookisngs to SELF HELP HOUSING RESOURCE b'nand 3875I6) aes St. Leamington ‘SE ..4 oge a.| Bumley Anarchist Group, 5 Hollin Hill, LIBRARY, Ladbroke House, Highbury Grove, _|.|lfl LEEDS. Box Leeds Ot er aper , 30 0-I-ad London N.5. (tel: OI-607 2789 , ext. 5027) Burnley, Lancs temp Blenheim Ten'ace, Leeds 2 _ hw‘on, 4.4 Lancaster Anarchist Group, 4I Main Rd, MANCHESTER. All luture ioint public meetings .-0 MKLVBQN 8. Worcester area. Jock Spence, auct amy between SWF and MAO have been cancelled I- Galgate, Lancaster +4 Birchwood Hall, Storrid e, Malvern, Worcs. us. because we have been thrown out of the venue. I WNCHESTER. See NW Federation Manchester Anarchist Group, c/o Grass Roots I L. NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE. Black Ike, s Manchester Anarchist Organisation, c/o Jill This included the August meeting on sexism or Jack, 2I Holmfirth St, Manchester Ml3 advertised in the last issue. 0upwomen 0ebackPet: czo II5'W:-iagate Road, Newcastle NEI 4AG 4-l Manchester Syndicalist Workers‘ Federation, I 1 .-4 NORWICH narc ist Group, c o Mus room, MANCHESTER. Manchester University Libert- .-4 c/o Grass Roots -no I0 Heathcote St (tel: 582506) or I5 Scotholme erosexua Iwnow arian Society, c/o I78 Waterloo Place, Mun- -A.» ,. _-I I Ii Av, Hgon Green (tel: 708302) Newsletter 8. quarterly meetings. Contacts in chester I3 9QQ are organising a libertarian -. su end uri vacation helied 4.» -an other areas. ' festival for the w/e I4-I5 October . If you have 4-o_a0es ' PORTSMOUTH - chan e of address endi .,-1"‘ any suggestions7 ideas please write to above oand .-a MANCHESTER SOLIDARITY group has also H U REDING University anarchists, c7lo Stugents Y apoog address .-1 -0 44 Union, Univ. of Reading, Whiteknights, recently reformed and now holds regular monthly -I-4 "" Readin Berks. meetings. Our members are involved in a num- I LIVERPOOL. BENEFIT FOR THE 6 in Brixton soca -O-J hsowey SHEFFIELD - information awaited ber of local groups and activities which takes Prison, Se tember I5 , Stanley House, Upper i SINCE knowledge is power, it follows quite logically ' fact at its weakest when there is an overt struggle hwon up much of our time but we intend to arrange Parliament Street, L8. Charges Disco, plus -.-1 -5-0 conv0 going on with an external enemy. (‘War is the health of 1-I SWANSEA. Don Williams, 24 Derlwyn, N that any group seeking to maintain power. over another some readings, singers and erha s theatre 4-4 some occasional ‘readers meetings‘ to discuss -.-0 Dunvant, Swansea ded will try to‘"withhold information. Not only will this the State‘). specific '$olidarity' politics. For further infor- CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE ARMS TEDE. cesu4-I We can conveniently call the internal struggle ‘the THAMES VALLEY Adele Dawson, Mnymeade, |-1"‘ applyiobviously to groups locked in struggle - like F1 mation write to: SOLIDARITY (Manchester), I._L41-no-I_ National meeting in Oxford, I5-I7 Se tember 6 Co ress Rd, Maidenhead (tel: 062 2974) -a -bl states in conflict - but to any relationship where there class struggle’ if we like - but we should be careful to c/o I09 Oxford Rd, Manchester I3. Early September arms exhibitions: 3-IO Fam- nwhaen .-n dissociate our analysis from that of those who base a WESION-super-Mare. Mlrtyn Redman, Flat pmar-kea._| is no eouality or freedom. Many wives don't know borough International '78. 5-7 Electronics in-I 5 23 Milton Rd Weston-su er-Mare, Som. SCOTTISH LIBERTARIAN FEDERATION -ed political theory upon the stages of the class struggle, I displays” at Mount Royal Hotel, London W.l. what their husbands earn! WILTSHIRE. Comrades in Swindon wigli to Secretary: Nina Woodcock, I7 Cheviot Cres., One of many corruptions of power is this withholding leading to the dictatorship of the proletariat through a start an anarchist group (as well as existing Programme details from CAAT, 5 Caledonian leadership siezing or being elected to power - for that . . Flintry, Dundee. -.-1 of information, which is what makes such phrases as Community Arts Group) . Get in touch with Road, London NI 9DX (tel: OI-278 I976). 8% leadership, having read its Marx itself, will know pre- Aberdeen: c/o A.P.P., I63 King Street --1 ‘Open Government‘ such a load of nonsense. No government‘ .— Mike, Groundswell Farm, Upper Stratton, I Glasgow: c/o Box G.P.P., I46 Holland Street, September I5-I7 Heysham anti-nuke demo. -1 can be open with its people since the purpose of govern- ciuely what to do to prevent itself withering away - it esakmdompnayNota-I-1possessionear Swindon, Wilts. IIII will withhold knowledge, the better to govern. _ s Glasgow G2 4NG Transport from London area to demo organised 4-0 ¢-I ment is to govern. The excuse for secrecy will perhaps i ‘bl This is what makes faintly rldiculouscomplaints FEDRATIONS by London Greenpeace Group. Contact 6 -»- be that ‘national security’ demands it, because of that Endsleigh St, London WCI (tel: OI-387 5370) other state beyond the frontier, which will take away against state secrecy from.any who think in terms of any LONDON - Published by Freedom Press, London El I as soon as possible. our freedoms if we don't voluntarily surrender them (I) kind of government bringing about"a' better world. Anarchist Communist Assn, c/o I82 Upper St, The only kind of open society possible is one where Printed by Magic lnk, Margate, Kent mega on Pkfii '7 but fundamentally the struggle that matters to any lslingion N..I. government is the struggle with its own people - the there are no organs of power, economic or political - -ow Anarchy Collective, 37a Grosvenor Av. --1 hormaleschauvenisins a society without government. An anarchist society. ennunchoice.aveng.."0-I permanent struggle that goes on all the time and is in \0-I Tel: 359-4794 before 7 pm. WRONG IDQTE on R€\HE.w 5£t'r\oNI- ll’I\:v~rr€.fll'5. "'\\S‘I"’~\=‘E.) -1-4 he Part 2 (see Review Section for Part 1). Oh, dear, it seems that your printer has put his feet into an enormous hole, which is in grave danger of swallowing him up! Trying to write ' about sexual politics is a veritable minefield, especially late at night when one should be printing your paper, or preferably sleeping. Men should tr to control and eliminate as far -a-I as is humanlypossihle their socially conditioned se1:ism.as anend in' itself. Theyehould not do this juat t0 tryot heepwomen as eexual pariners or' as rnemiiers of work or P0"litlcal ideao bagariding collectives. If women decide to become Lesbians or Separatists that is tifiir decision and in no way dependant on whether "the chauveniet male leopard tries to change his spots. The -J) FREEDOM 3 2 FREEDOM He told a reporter recently: "I_am -a little man accustomed to little things. " fil£$TED_/ Already Albino's life has started to change - his first act was to change his name to John Paul and plans are being HUNTLEY made for a and rty to which politi- RE cal and religiousM"celebrities willbe STREET LAST WEEKEND a little grey-haired invited. Traditionally this is known as Italian priest's lifelong dream finally a "coronation". _ Should we came true. No, he didn't scoop the His predecessor in the job, Paul. W215 Well, they did it.As we mentioned in pool in the State lottery - the prize was “ unable (due to other commitments) to offer him any advice on what exactly the last issue of Freedom events at Hun- far more impressive. A group of friends known as the being Pope - the official title - involves. do this work? tley Street have g tewards a But from the public's point of view it climax. Camden Council continued to neg- "cardinals" elected him to be God's otiate until Tuesday night (August 15) and representative on earth. seems mainly to hold marriages together i Alba. k B and encourage the birth of children. the evictors arrived at 6 a. m. on Wedne- - Albino Lucianihails from Venice, sday morning. And the people who behave the city of canals, gondoliers and This he does by standing on a balcony and speaking in Latin, which few people THE WINDSCALE inquiry showed It is the business of Anarchists to phere will become unbreathable with such calculating cynicism have the chemical plants, and is said by those develop a sense of responsibility for men and animals; all life‘ gall to advertise their miserable little who know him to "wear glasses" and understand. _ _ _ clearly the emptiness of the democratic ‘ Behind the scenes. in the masinlflcent processes and when the rules are used about society and what we do. The will cease in rivers and lakes; - bureaucracy as "Camden Cares" have his hair "cropped". dangers facing humanity are produced plants will wither from poisoning. " 1:1 -_<-11..--* Vatican, it is thought he talks to God. to impede the official decisions, as in The eviction itself was quite heavy. It * " ’ Y "—'——— ‘:'—~- ' by a society that is suicidal in its There has been little action on any is the first major one since the Criminal As far as we know, no-one has ever the case of Mr. Tymes' objections to seen God. _ _ _ roadway inquiries, the rules are squandering of resources. The dangers scale other than cosmetic activities to Tresspass Act, involving about160 people. Albino used to 8Il]OY cyclfllg am: 15 are not confined to the continual combat this. This isn't surprising, A Several hundred police were used, includ- alteredor the odds stacked against the — 4/V/V517"Y.’ described by friends as "friendly . objectors. increase in the background level of given the current attitudes of society ing members of the Special Patrol Group, Dear Companions, radiation imposed by peaceful (sic) and combined with the vast and powerful and they apparently felt the need to have The experts assure people that there This information needs to be pub- is no danger -- their precautions are warlike uses of nuclear energy. The vested interests producing pollutants. protective clothing and riot shields. Per- lished in Great Britain, if it has not al- replacement of fission by fusion will All resources, human and material, haps they expected hordes of armed ter- foolproof. But supposing a Tarragona ready been. 1.7 libertarians, who had pre- like disaster in Spain was to occur also have its dangers for sun like are treated as fair game for profit and rorists, no doubt drug crazediAnyway, they viously been amnestied, had their amnes- temperatures on earth are_ likely to power. Little can be done until there broke down the barricades with heavy involving radioactive material? As has ty withdrawn on the 26th July 1978. The /.4 been said before, when we are dealing have great biological consequences. is widespread social pressurefor it. moving equipment and threw everybody amnesty had been granted on the 27th. -I Apart from the resources wasted by The big question for the Aldermaston into the street. There were 1'?.arrests, with dangerous substances like pluton- October 1977, and the 17 had originally ium the technology has to be infallible Western society the weapons programme workers is: "Should we be doing this the police had a list of "organisers", all been arrested Jan/Feb 1977. consumes massive amounts of resources work at all? " And it is a question, on of whom ended up in custody. At the mom- and there is no such technology. These companions were arrested be- Moreover, any society operating and, as predicted by a group of scientists a more local level, that building ent the families have been found temporary cause of a meeting held in a bar to diss- and reported in the Guardian (15 Sept- workers on the huge Nat West block - accomodation ("Camden Cares") while the with such technologies must be able to cuss the restructuring of the FAI. No oth- understand them and control whether or ember 1968): the huge monument to financial disorder single people are coping as best as poss- er reason is given and I leave it to you "Within the next two decades life presiding over decaying East London - ible. - not they are used in the long and short to draw your own conclusions regarding term interests of humanity. Societies on our planet will be showing the should also be asking themselves. first signs of succumbing to ind- the extent of the vaunted democracy in ‘JUST BOC KS‘, the anarchist bookshop at such as now exist, which are wasteful, A LAN A LBON Spain. ustrial pollution. The atmos- 7 Wiinetavern Street, Belfast (tel: Bel . 25426) greedy and in the short term materially The names of the companiong have produced a number of badges, dealing and socially irresponsible, are quite A Juan Garcia Nieto, Antonio Marfil, Joaquir with factory occupation, prison abolition: unable to do this. The irrationality of campaign, In fact, the style is ages old, a l lN\7l'l‘il\'l‘ll‘.lN Gambin, Alfonso Garcia, Jose Antonio the RUC, women, broadcasting, nuclear power. power is observable in the complete leadership-to-leadership rather than a people- Caravaca, Roque Cano, Jose Lozano, Jose Our comrades need to sell them quickly to and growing disorder that exists today. to-people link up. Pieter told the FOE men Hernandez, Jose Miguel Maluquer and help finance their centre. They cost 25p each Aldermaston is part of our social URENCO is a Dutch/British/German uranium that the Stop UR ENCO campaign had already Carlos Egido. Jose Antonio Lopez, Javier + postage, or 20p for bulk orders. history. The movement round it left started — couldn't they see the evidence with Jariot, Luis Folch, Jose Cuevas and enrichment consortium and one particularly ob- (Unfortunately, as most of them are black and its seeds of grassroots direct action jectionable thing it's up to at the moment is their own eyes? TH I Carlos Jaen. Juan Manuel Clavero and and exposure of the cynicism of the Roger Moody, one of the initiators of the red they will not reproduce in FREEDOM: attempting to market enriched uranium to Brazil , Isabel Notivali have been declared outlaw But here is one sample) Labour political leadership. British Stop URENCO alliance, wrote a piece - with a warrent out, the others are at the Brazil is importing the various stages of the Today the Atomic Weapons Research uranium cycle so that it will soon have the cap- on the Capenhurst demonstration for Vole (a ggsloif, moment out of prison on bail. Establishment plant at’Aldermaston is magazine launched last year by Rich 4 FREEDOM FREEDOM 5 Write to: Ronan Bennett (B 19617), Stewart Carr (B 20185), Trevor Dawton (B 20620), Dafydd Ladd (B 19792), Iris Mills (DO Tlme of 1993), Vincent Stevenson (B 20621) HMF Brixton, Jebb Avenue, London SW 2. Tr|aI THE PERSECUTION and harassment of dissidents goes on, other defendants trapped in little cageslinside, persists in- as it will, in these benighted isles, according to a bizarre crashing into things (there was another accident last week). formula of chicanery. * Each time it takes a different route, once at least making a The first example over the past fortnight was the case of long detour round the outside of the Houses of Parliament, Before you read this the trial of be technically liable under the OSA. So the Phantom Gun in Brixton prison. According to the official and invariably tries to avoid letting the occupants see any Crispin Aubrey, John Berry and Duncan is anybody who buys a postcard of the account the existence of a gun was reported by an inmate early friends picketing outside the court. Our comrades are still Campbell will have begun at the '.l'ld Post Office Tower (a "resticted building"). 9-...... - if on Tuesday, whereas it has since come to our attention that taken the distance from the van to the court and back in hand- T2-ailey.It is difficult to know where to Crispin Aubrey and Duncan Campbell at le_a,st some guards already knew of the matter the previous cuffs _a_j_1_d_ held tightly by the arm. The court sessions have also start in describing the significance of seem to be guilty of being journalists. 1R:*1 ti. day and were kindly warning visitors not to return on the morr- been accompanied by continuing harassment of members of the this case. It is only equalled in impor- They were told that to collect files on ._.l owl. In fact no gun did ever materialise and the authorities were London support group. As reported earlier, when one of these, tance by the ‘Persons Unknown‘ case. To sensitive matters, even from open sour- _unworried enough to allow the resumption of social visits the Martin Walker, protested about the stopping and searching of sum it up, Crispin Aubrey and Duncan s ces made them liable to procedings. next day. The affair should not, however, be allowed to slip a companion, he was whipped away and charged with obstruct- Campbell are jounalists,working mainly The development of the case since 1 1 by without mention of three important consequences: ion. This incident was followed by the arrest of two more people for Time Out and New Scientist. They the committal procedings has also had on 24 August, one inside, the other outside the court. As we have specialised in reporting the kind of its moments of drama and farce. For l) Apart from the cancellation of all visits on the Tuesday and left court that day we realised that Janet Wheelan was no long- affairs that the State finds sensitive, for example, the arrest of Duncanis filing the strip-searching and day-long incarceration in their cells er with us, and suddenly saw her flash past in a police van on example military matters.In February cabinet (with its serious side. of course, of a large proportion of the inmates, the authorities cut down its way to Kennington Road police station. We were about to 1.9”’? they interviewed John Berry, who- loss of files effectively cripples a work- both on the amount and kind of food that could subsequently be follow in hot pursuit, and some bewilderment, when another is a former soldier. He had worked in ing journalist), the mass police swoop brought into the prison. No tinned goods were allowed except group member, Annette Bruecker, was approached by a Spec- Military Intelligence, in particular with on Lancaster University, because a stu- alcohol (1), nor were milk and yoghourt, and there were sudd- ial Patrol Group officer who already knew her name, but did 'SIGNINT' (Signals Intelligence). This is dent had written to Duncan, and, last but en inexpliquable bans on fresh cheese and cartons of orange not specify the charge under which she was being arrested. an organisation which gathers informat- not least, the now-infamous Hugh John- juice - at least as strange as the refusal to allow in to Ronan The station officer later stated that Janet had been mistaken tion on political and economic intelligence stone. (It wiil be interesting to see what the biography of Cromwell by Lady Antonia Frazer on an for Annette (I) and released with a ‘suitable apology. ' Annette throughout the world, mainly by monitor- they do for an expert witness during the earlier occasion! Things are now more or less back to was formally held for non-payment of a fine for ‘obstruction’ ing communicatios.From a libertarian trial.Will he be produced as Col. B, ‘This filing ‘normal. ' But:*- i at the Black Aid demonstration in March. But this was not the cabinet is viewpoint, this sort of thing is dubious, will they admit that everybody knows his 2) The reduction in rations considerally upset both the prison- whole story. The SPG men, seconded from Gypsy.Hill to Ken- name now or will they bring forward under to say the least. However, even better, arrest ” ers and their relatives and friends, and this deterioration of nington for the Lambeth hearings appear to have lost little it is actually illegal, according to an another piece of anomimity and repeat conditions led to a protest in the prison, as a result of which time in threatening both comrades under the PTA, and some international treaty or two. Of course, the whole farce P) ' A some of the inmates were punished and others transferred. It papers with names and addresses disappeared. that does't worry the British state (or Conviction of these three would be In Brixton Iris in particular continues to suffer from the countries.In fact they have a battery of also posed the danger of creating resentment against the polit- any others, no doubt) which carries on 9 major ‘victory for the state. Over the ical prisoners in Brixton. Fort- isolation in which she is being kept, as one of the two only regardless. Law and order is only for last few years there has been a"noticible legislation which can be wheeled out as g women in the gaol. With Khloud al Mugrabi she has association the masses.In fact they have a large tightening up. This is not an evil plot, it needed.And they are beginning to think 3) The press widely reported that in the prison at the time of for about two and a half hours daily but this is small comfort building in Cheltenham to organise these L is in the nature of the system.Anarchists that the time has come. Conviction of the phantom gun affair were various Arabs and a ‘gang of anar- indeed and in no way could be seen as compensation for the activities.‘We're not supposed to know have -recognised this all along. Now, even John Berry would effectively intimidate chists'. The Guardian report, for instance, mentioned them normal association allowed the other prisoners in Brixton. this sort of thing, so following the inter- liberals are beginning to see that their any government employee from discus- in one line only to dissociate them from the whole thing in an- A measure of the pettiness of the authorities is shown by the view the three quickly found themselves precious civil liberties are fragile indeed. sing his/her work. Conviction of Crispin ‘other, while still contriving to leave the association in readers‘ fact that as soon as association between the two women began faced with charges under the Official Foriegn observers are amazed by the Aubrey and Duncan Campbell would mean minds. This was not only as ridiculous as it would have been the television set was taken away. More importantly, the so- Secrets Acts. restrictions on information on Britain. that no journalist could carry out their to state that Joe Bloggs was in the prison at the time; it was called Board of Visitors, mere Home Office lackeys, have We have had cause to mention various Americans would never stand for what job.And three more people would find also potentially pre-judicial to the case, as Taff's lawyer lost turned down Rcnan's and Iris‘ request for a longer period of pieces of ‘catch all‘ legislation, that is is accepted here.And Britain still likes themselves in prison for daring to ~ no time in pointing out in court that Thursday when requesting association (longer, that is, than the 15 minutes per week pres- laws which are deliberately made as to think of itself as the ultimate in free resist the encroachment of the state.D a reprimand of the press fromjthe magistrate. (This, when ently allowed) on the grounds that they see eachother in court _- ,., _. _s= ,..,..»...... - 0 1..-4 .-..Q...-u ..m..u-+--w.a¢*-_@p~ vague as possible, so that they mean N flwlr-‘I1 ‘ll"~-§-I -I Q < -'»i --I- -5-l -1-Q -1 - I’-'_ §-n-y\- all --'--'- --—vnv -hr it came, was predictably feeble and heavily hedged around by and have solicitors’ visits together - neither of which, by any whatever the prosecution want them to. Metropolitan Police Commisioner David ifs and buts). Perhaps, incidentally, a similar reprimand stretch of imagination, provide the possibility for real comm- The conspiracy laws are a case in point McNee (yes, him again) has repeated his should be made of the Rt Hon Home Secretary who, when con- unication. The especially degrading way Iris is being treated (see Freedom Vol.39 no. 14).The Official POLICE NEWS bare faced demand for legitimisation of fronted the other day with picketing comrades from Manchester is also illustrated by the fact that she is more heavily guarded Secrets Acts are also particularly useful. The Director of Public Prosecutions standard practises.He appeared on TV and and other parts of the North West, (see last issue), angrily including during exercise periods (half an hour in the morning, The present Acts were produced in 1.91‘ , must be relieved. The House of Commons said that he did not know how many of his poked one of them in the chest and shouted, "I don't want to half in the afternoon) and is under surveillance both in the court- ostensibly for protection against German Committee of Privileges has formally ac- officers "bend" the rules, and asserted talk zriaout that because it's going through the due process of yard and in the prison building by two or three cameras, spies. There has been a bit of patching quitted him of contempt of the House for "If I knew I would be doing something about law - you ought to see what these people are doing in Northern It takes no further comment, surely, to realise that while up since then, but the basic position is his intervention when a number of MPs it"The Commisioner is of the opinion that Ireland" I I continuing to pursue the broader demands already set out by named Hugh Johnstone during a debate. that there are two sections, Section 1 his proposed changes would be making it I In court the chicanery or, if you like, the sheer bloody- the support groups, all possible means should be used to cam- mainly for coping with foreigners and Lord Shackleton has carried out a re- "better" for the suspect.I'll have to think mindedness is made manifest in several ways. There is the paign for the transfer of Iris to Holloway. view of the wor-kings of the Prevention of Section 2, mainly for us. This Section 2 about that one. Terror of London Town - the Brixton prison van - which, GAIA Terrorism Act. He is a little worried about is a masterpiece,.full of phrases like screeching past red traffic lights with our comrades and the its effects on civil liberties and does not "deemed to be prejudicial to the interests Even within the police there alter divis- of the State". The final arbitor is of cou:- think that such legislation should become ions. (No, its not meant to be a pun);To us rse the State itself. There have been a permanent feature.However, he recog- they might all seem the same, but there are nises its current value and only proposes quotation) which the Liddle Towers Action , with the disturbing questions involved in the various well meaning liberal promises sectional rivalries. One upset at the mom- I I Committee has re—published following the Towers case, and is reiterating its opinion that to tidy up this Act, notably by our present a bit of tidying up. Merlyn Rees, Home Sec- ent is over proposals to extend the powers retary, gives the report a "broad welcome" K|ll|ng recent agreement of the attomey general to a * there should be a full public inquiry. Though Government. However, their proposals of the Ministry of Defence police (apparen- l fresh inquest into his death. As readers may ' the use of such procedures as public inquiries a few weeks ago were not inspiring in but does't seem interested in even these tly known, with touching whimsicality, they mild cosmeti: measures. y remember, Liddle Towers died in February is also likely to cause a few raised eyebrows any meaningful sense (shouts of “we have their sense of humour, you know, as No _ I976 at a Durham hospital from injuries sustain- nowadays, no-one could disagree with the - told you so" from the sidelines). The "Modplod")The Police Federation is wor- ed after the police had beaten him up outside pamphlet's view that the truth must be estab- cynical and disaffected might form the ried by the idea that these individuals have 1 Murder I a night club, and again at the police station. lished and that "everybody shoiTl'd_ponder over opinion that the state is aware of the .Qrb.r¢'n’6e,/ theoretical authority in any Crown property Not the least horrifying aspect of the affair whether there is not something seriously wrong value to them of this type of law and has within 15 miles of a defence establishment. “NO mu" ls cm »l5l°"d emife °f "sell": W"°l° 1 was the verdict of ‘justifiable homicide‘ ret- with a system that requires such pressure before no real intention of relinqiishing any part PLEASE NOTE That covers just about everything, there's ihe P°ei J°h"' D°""°i "AW mcmls deqlh dim‘ I umed by the jury at the inquest in October it reluctantly permits the full facts to come of it. NEW RATES plenty of defence establishments. And now inishes me, because l am involved in mankind; Thu, yea,‘ out‘ || In the ABC case the basic objection One year £ 6.00 ($l2.00) its suggested that this should become "in and therefore never send to know for whom the The new inquest comes as G raw" of con5;d_ Copies of Killing No Murder can be obtained seems to be that John Berry was a gov- Six months E. 3.00 ( $3.00) the vicinity".It might seem like-a minor bell l'°ll5; ll l_°ll5 F0? iheei H erable public pressure. The Committee has from 42 Cherrybum Gardens, Fenham, New- ernment employee and he talked about F-rive issues £ l.25 ( $2.50) demarkation dispute to us,but.'. . 2- _Tlj'5 ¢lU°i°i'°" °°"¢lUd°5 lhe P°mPl"l°i supported the move for one while remaining castle—upon-Tyne, NE4, price 22p, post free, it. Remember that a DHSS clerk who five copies for £ l., A revealed how much tea was drunk would l<.l.l_ll'T9..NQ,Jl_)_(l_Erd°Y lqmiher 960d l7l'_l" _°e"lU|'Y , _sceptical of its likely effectiveness in dealing _ I MEL. tr 5 FREEDOM FREEDOM 7 — espousal of each and every half baked mystic idea was not just silly and simple minded but also objectively 1%. Their dependence on gurus, their reinforcement of traditional sex 27 July - 9 August I978 - SON roles, their crass consumerism (yes they were quite gross‘ consumers. Tell me the difference IN SHOP: Anon.,44p; AJC. 40p; P.H. E 2.00; 'J Dear comrades To use a cliche, nothing is sacred. (Bythe by, between a ‘straight’ buying a car and a ‘hippy‘ JMIC. E 0.50; B. I5; J. 30p; WOLVERHAMPT-" ON: J.L. E l.00; JKW. E 0.l0; LOS GATOS, .- the way Eric expressed this part of his letter was, Th |s may be a somewhat belated reply, but buying a stereo) are all in direct opposition to I feel that the letter of Wendy II1 your June I0 tho spirit of anarchism. g CALIF: Proceeds from Picnic held by Italian T~I:T‘§Ti‘- to me, anti-feminist. But excuse me, this is .._.,._ edition deserves some sort of comment. The The hippies certainly did introduce certain » comrades, per L.M. E 37.50; P.A. E l.00; 0 041/ /\, /#6‘ T1'3',-_.’\J "=2 more patronising cheap psychology). Moreover, the idea of separate groups at the conference "natural conservatism of age", as an explanat values that were decent. Yet, they were not EDINBURGH: D.B. E 2.00; PAISLEY: A.S.C. 1 ion for the end of the ‘hippies‘, may not be a the only people to do this at the time. The ’ E l.00; NEEDHAM: Nlass, USA: Libertarian .2 ' - \ came from both women and men. ' - --_ xi- . " A ' total explanation, but it does contain a lot point of the hippies is to go beyond them not ‘Group. E 25.64; IN SHOP: Anon. E I0.00; --=01/FF?‘ ---$1. _ '>.‘ I do not 'idolise‘ any group. When Eric supp-‘ - '.,‘-"-':.-'-. ‘ I BT55; truth than Wendy is willing to admit. This to worship them. WOLVERHAMPTON: J.L. E l.00; JKW. E 0.l0; ~ _...>-F-*' 2 , oses that I 'idolise‘ women and asks why don't 2’_r I.‘; In Solidarity, Dear Comrades / / I 'idolise‘ the working classes he is mistaken on ‘conservative' effect of ageing is merely a short- CHESTER: J.P.S. E l.68. . I 0 0 P. Murtagh. TOTAL E 84.8l I always read NW s articles with cons|derabIe' the former point and on the latter he is implying, ha d manner of describing the effects of a whole I63I Retallack St., N interest, pleasure and profit, while regretting it seems to me, that not only am I bourgeois, Bdlidle of ‘encounters with reality‘. It is a lot PREVIOUSLY AC KNOWLEDGED E 705 .54 Regina, Sask. that he dissipates his energies in journalism A but sexual politics too are bourgeois. This ass- harder to “be a good hippy“ once one is out of TOTAL TO DATE E 790.35 and - to put it bluntly - pedantry instead of ertion has been debated for weeks now by N.W. college, supporting two kids and trapped into a i producing his own books on anarchist history and Mark Hendy and their debate has shown series of debts. Also, after a few years on wel- and practice, which we need so badly and that no-one seems to have any clear understand- fare (the dole in England I believe) the sleazin— I0 - 23 August I978 ' which his verve, erudition and theoretical ing of when oppression is specifically ‘sexual , ess of a run down room begins to get to one. grasp equip him so manifestly to write. when it is specifically of a class nature or when EI'Ce| QTC; etc eon LONDON N.l: S.B. E 4.00; STOCKHOLM, It is rarely I notice a slip in pieces signed by it is both (or neither, etc). A clearer understand- As to Wendy's attempt to deny that Manson was SWEDEN: O.H. E l.00; WOLVERHAMPTON: Friends AFTER the first extraordinary outburst of press NW, let alone a significant error, so I feel it ing of these vital points will be arrived at by part and parcel of the ‘hippy‘ movement, I J.L. E l.00; JKW. E 0.l0; NEWCASTLE: FWK. It would seem to me that Eric in his letter publicity over the charges against ex- Larebil especially necessary to insist that his speculat- open and honest debate and not by, Eric please believe that her wishes have really become her E I.90; DUBLIN: P.D. E I.l9; WOLVERHAMP- (I9 August) in reply to my article has missed the leader the Ex. Hon Yemerj Eproht and his trusty‘ TON: J.L. E 3.00; JKW. E 0.30; SAN JOSE, ion in FREEDOM (8 July) that Myles Mordaunt note, hying to marginalise sexual politics as reality. It is a simple fact that the ‘counter- I point. I was not arguing for separate groups colleagues, a most scandalous injustice has was a pseudonym of Charles Duff's is groundless, bourgeois. To imply that sexual politics are culture‘ was not one movement but several. CALIF, USA: E.U. E 5.00; LONDON SWI6: only orwfor total separation. I was defending the been passed over in total silence. In case any particularly as this is a misapprehension common bourgeois is to deny that we, the working class- Some of these mo-9;-ments were not so nice and D.B.P. E 2.00; GENEVA, SWITZERLAND: freedom of people to choose to work with whom of our readers have missed the full significance amongst those - admittedly few in number - who es, think about our sexuality. loving as the one Wendy chooses to define as t_h§_ P.C. E 2.00; VANCOUVER, CANADA: P.B. know of The Benefits Moral and Secular of they want, be this in separate groups, mixed flower movement. A whole lot of things were of this affair, we offer no apologies for describ- E 3.00; NEW YORK, USA: W.T.S. E I2.00; groups or both. Assassincttibn, I I TT T I ® Liberation @ happening in the sixties, not all of them good. ing it again. g LONDON SWII: J.M. E 0.I0'. In the specific context of the conference Lancaster I<.w. (L.A.G.) As to Manson's role in this movement, I think It was, after all dammit, not so long ago that _ TOTAL E 36.59 The anarchist bookseller Charles Lahr pub- this was a defence of some women and men who the great isle of Langden looked upon blood lished work by D H Lawrence, Liam O‘Flaherty, that it should be obvious that there is a direct PREVIOUSLY AC KNOWLEDGED E 790.35 chose to work in separate groups. Despite the sports as a highly honourable and civilised T F Powys, H E Bates and other important liter- line of descent from the mystic guru of hippy fact that there was a mixed group scheduled sport for gentlemen, and was indeed renowned r _ TOTAL To DATE £ 799-94 ary figures in the inter-war years but remark- ocultism to the Statan/Christ figure of Manson. _ i (at the Lancaster conference - eds.) there was throughout the world for its prowess in this field. ably little of a political nature. Yet he was All the basic elements in Manson are already still some resentment against the separate groups Yet now, by some mysterious and shocking rev- indeed responsible for the appearance in I932 present in Timothy Leary. What does it matter which I thought was unjustified. I didn't ment- ersal of the natural order of things - still to be of the I53-page book (by no means a pamphlet) 75!!’ D5 what sort of bullshit they are spouting at a part- ion the mixed group in the article because icular moment’? Leary did an incredible number adequately explained but due at least in part to The Benefits Moral and Secular of Assassination, everyone agreed that there should be one and an infiltration of dangerous and ruthless murder- I’. whose authorship was attributed to, ‘merely, of about faces in his career, and his follower hence there was no hassle about it. It was the ers into the ranks of the police, judiciary and TYPEWRITER FUND ‘MM‘. The initials did stand for Myles Mordaunt, 515/ went right along with him. The important thing differences about the separate groups to which armed forces, not to mention the unions, such who although having much in common with is not the content of the snake oil; it is the fig- I0 - 23 Au9ust I978 I wanted to draw attention. ure of the snake oil salesman himself. sport is regarded as tantamount to MURDER and, Charles Duff - they were both Irish, widely HUDDERSFIELD: B.H. E l.40; NEWCASTLE: I am in agreement with Eric whenhe speaks The point is not whether the ‘hippies‘ are moreover, on the basis of pure speculation it is read, satirists and friends of Charles Lahr - was M.S. E l.00; ST. LOUIS, Ms, USA: L.T.S. against what he calls ‘pure separatism‘ as I Comrades good or bad. They were both. One of the even possible to imprison these gentlemen for undoubtedly a separate person. To make a last comment on John Bradbrook‘s E 5.00; NEWCASTLE: FWK. E I.90; WOLVER- find it necessarily elitist and vanguardist not to weak points of the hippies (and of their new Conspiracy to Take Part in Blood Sports and re- criticism of my use of the phrase ‘social-fascist HAMPTON: J.L. E l.00; COVENTRY: J.E. FA Ridley, well known to Freedom Press mention it serving to reproduceand concretise left brothers) was simple minded and dogmatic fuse them baill And as if this were not enough comrades and a member with the two men of Lahr‘s one of the divisions of the spectacle, that is, tendencies‘ in relation to Labour - left-wing all on its own, at the same time it transpires E 5.00. moral judgements that could be passed on at TOTAL E I5.30. Red Lion Street clientele , goes so far as to call artificial sex divisions. At the some time I find fascist tendencies if you like: I did not say we the drop of a hat. One of thethings that we that a gang of alleged persons of uncertain iden- Mordaunt an ‘Irish anarchist‘, commenting that _ lived under a fascist regime. I did, however, that one-sex groups in autonomously created should have leamed from the experience of the tity, not even listed in Who's Who and said to I am seeking info etc on anarchism in he had a wit ‘as mordant as his name.‘ Mordaunt in all seriousness suggest that there is a drift I situations - be they ad hoc groups at confer- §i;ti_eT.s is to be a bit more critical and open have been plotting to explode the very foundat- Britain during the l930s. Am especially actually had the reputation in the l930s of being to corporatism and to acceptance, however un- ences or continuing groups in a friendship net- minded. There was a lot lacking in the hippy ions of society with a strange concoction of interested in activity in the provinces. conscious it may remain, of the idea of an ‘eth- one of London's most dazzling conversational_- ~ work such as consciousness raising groups - to movement. Their 'love‘ was mostly empty weedkiller and sugar and the handling of airguns Please write: S.J. Ruffle, 45E East Slope, ists. My limited knowledge of him comes prin- ical state‘, and that this is the core of fascist be of help in the understanding of our ruinous rhetoric, without any firm commitment. Their I in a dishonest manner, are at this very same University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, cipally from the printer Herbert Jones, in the ideology as expounded by Gentile and friends. sexual/social conditioning. (So too are mixed moment , far from having to relinquish their pass- Sussex. early thirties secretary to the Libertarian groups, I hastily add). But these groups them- I did not go into this in the article in question, _.r_.._- ports, living la dolce vita in the snowy mountains Association. Mordaunt told him that his real, selves are not unproblematical. For example, but for the broad outlines would refer John Brad- of Witzserlandl Not only this but they have LETTERS full name was Myles Francis Mordaunt Plunkett; are not such groups part of Everyday Life and brook back to something I wrote in FREEDOM‘s been allowed to continue their former activities Ofir comrades in prison would love to and as Francis Plunkett he wrote some articles therefore also perpetuating false divisions? Review of l7.4.76 called ‘Anarchism versus quite openly - the first thing being to retum get letters. This contact is very important and just one other book: As the Fool, a novel In theory this might appear to be the case, but Corporatisrn‘. Also to two excellent articles to their gardens and their wggdkilligg and to in maintaining morale, so please write. published in I935. Mordaunt7PIunkett had been I have found in practice that such groups can under the general heading ‘Fasci-Bashing‘, one stock up their pantries with more sugar. While However, you should be aware that if you hurried out of Ireland by friends following the (not always by any means) use the .p..:.$|?|l- by Ray Cowper and Ten'y Phillips, the other by Eproht and the rest have been denied all chance do, your name will go on a list. Don't be Civil War of I922-23, then roamed France and division of the sexes and subvert it to revolut- Bob Potter, inthe issue of l7.9.77. (Among the Dear Editors of continuing to shoot dogs or even the occasion- too discouraged by this, it's probably on England and by the l930s had established him- ionary ends, e.g. discovering that sexuality is points made very clearly here is that “The major In “Every Man His Own Football" (August T al biped: a~list already. self in London. not static and that the terms ‘hetero’ and ‘homo‘ threat is IN POWER.“) , I9), BSB suggests that Max Stirner owes much This isindeed an ironic twist of fate; but upon What became of him I have no idea. I are merely prefixes which denote specific points On what the drift t0 fascism/carporatism to the Marquis de Sade. There is no evidence further reflection, is it really surprising under the Contact, SIZOQ Press would welcome further information concerning in the continuum of sexuality and that they are actually consists of, I hope (as I pointed out at that Stirner knew anything about do Sade, present anarchy? Looking as we do through a Manchester Anarchist Organization this Mystery Man - and, for that matter, rem- not two opposing sexualities. (When this is rel- the time) that there will be much more analysis although certain'writers - eg. Simone do Beau- glass darkly, nothing but nothing should strike 2la Homfirth Street, Longsight, and discussion of it in these pages, and that I iniscences of the Libertarian Association (with ated to prevailing socio-sexual norms it becomes voir in her Must We Burn Sade ‘- have suggested us as anything but different from usual. Manchester 13. Tel: 061 224 3028 which, however, there is no suggestion he was apparent what a challenging discovery it is). shall be able to contribute. .. On-the question affinities between the two. Nevertheless, we appeal to all good men and MAO do badges and silk screen posters. connected) - though Herbert Jones wams he It was within the specific context of the conf- why there isn't more stress on the "cooperation, Had Stirner known of do Sade it is likely he women who have some remembrance of the old l0p per badge, minimum order l badge, was ‘a great romancer mixing Fact and fiction erence that I found the comment ‘separatism is self help and free association that is already would have relished the |atter's iconoclasm. order. Do not for one minute of the day forget Payment within '7 days of delivery. inextricably and you took your choice.‘ next to fascism‘ to be defensive. Everyone was happening“, surely at least as much responsibility It is equally likely, however, that he would our gentle and eminently respectable friends No discount for quantlg. , DAVID oooow/-w aware that there was to be a mixed group so ,_ for the inadequate coverage there no doubt is, have regarded de Sade's prolix, repetitive and in that prison of Nobtrix which makes the Bastille i using what Eric calls ‘patronising cheap psycho- lies with people like John Bradbrook (who should ultimately boring descriptions of sexual cruelty ‘itself compare favourably with the Hilton Hoteli London Workers‘ Group meeting, logy‘, I considered the resentment against the report on it where they find it or are involved as yet one more example of possession by a Remember, it is our responsibility to restore the 4 Se tember 8 pm. on the ‘Impact of separate groups, of which the quoted comment with it), as with the small band of night-time ‘spook‘. After all do Sade was an im-moralist ancien regime and the retum to normality! TechnoEgy on the Working Class‘. ‘ was part, to be defensive. I still think it a just- editors in Whitechapel. So, for a start, let's (‘evil be thou my good‘), whereasStirner was Earl Russell Pub, Pancras Road, NW1 ifiable conclusion. hear more on the subject from himl an a_-moralist (‘beyond good and evil‘). Extract from Through the Looking Glass of (King's Cross station). August I978 (an extremist periodical for restor- No, I don ‘t think the female mind is sacred. GF Sincerely London W2 . S. E . Parker t‘.lI‘IoflI$I'$.'of the ancien regime). _ tr The latest Black Flag is available (2 0. 20p plus 10p post) and 8 Anarchist Review although Albert and Stuart would probably regard a recomm- 8 em Z!’ ‘=2 Roe-usT 'J.'b_"l8 endation from me as slightly less useful to them than a ‘slam- andov we _..._ 5902. .... nwho,'___,“ ming crit', I must say I always find it a lively, informative I-I '.es n Bll IIP NIIHS ill NOTES this week devotes itself mainly to a far from complete run-down on some of the many mags and journals stocked by read. Vol. 5 no. 5 includes an assessment of the Black Cross fil after l0 years of activity, information on ‘Persons Unknown‘, theysre 2AA.084 Freedom Bookshop and currently available - apart from hosewome i -‘J I1 Byinac‘onour on computer tip-offs and news from Sweden and all around the ii FREEDOM itself, of course. womenmeecan in-4 anarchist world. onorspec's The latest issue of Interrogations (no. 14) is available at --1 amtn ‘i CT9Kent ???e" i El. 00 (l5p post), including Nino Staffa on "Technobureaucracy ~01 1-ti dd . . ,, . . . . . O pal gggnfgyafigft-;r£llpcE.ngllsh) as well as articles ll'l Italian, OTHER BOOKS FROM FREEDOM BOOKSHOP "PU 4-Ind Red and Black '7 (spring 1977), the latest issue of that fine, Q-I * Robert W Kern: Red Years, Black Years: A Political Histor‘<1 if infrequent, Australian anarchist journal is available at <1! Q-I Q-1 DaneRoad,e,Marga of Spanish Anarchism. £7. 95p (66p) hewhereerosexuame -anoandege,atworkpaye £ 0. 40p (plus 10p post) - this mag is now being more widely 22 -4-I "suchesustofcraves distributed in the UK and an increase in sales might encourage * David Boadella: Wilhelm Reich: The Evaluation of his Work. an n-u socey and ii out Australian comrades to produce it more frequently. The he'rbyTheoppressonutmen.so -i- — __.} £2. 95p (54p) 4-I schooc, Europe, ill W current issue includes Paul Avrich on anarchism in Russia and nofa oence gu LT." * Richard Taylor: Freedom, Anarchy and the Law: An Intro- ‘O-I articles on Johann Most, Czechoslovakia 1968, Anarchism, ‘I I Regionalism and the Fourth World, Ayn Rand and much more. duction to Political Philosophy. £4. 25p (22p) an Qfll The Ecolo ‘st Quarterly, £1. 00 (plus 19p post) is a new * Regina Anarchist Federation: Anarchy: Doctrinal Basis. -III venture, an offshoot of The Ecologist (now New Ecolo ist) E 0.10p (7p) ‘Kid magazine. No. l is in stock and includes m e -I-I * Sam Dolgoff: The Relevance of Anarchism to Modern Socie Internal Limits to Growth and Edward Goldsmith on Unemploy- <2‘ -0-I .9 "" ment, amongst other things. E 0. 20p (l0p) f5 (Dave Cunliffe's excellent Global Tapestry has now reached * Sam Dolgoff (ed): The Anarchist Collectives: Workers’ Self- Id all no. 6 (E O. 25p plus 15p postage); much fine poetry and articles, Management in the Spanish Revolution 1936-1939. £2. 95p IX? illustrations and info, put together in Dave's initimable way. (3313). -' = if 7 W’ :1" . . 1? 0: W CW” , 5‘ FF‘ W *1 John Quail: The Slow Burning Fuse. Paladin, ‘£1. 95 home,towardsthemandusourwithinesaactons III downihighUAPS/thewimeprinter‘‘Ianstrike LesbSepal-at'smtoanismasurnlngawayandgpnouo dostpl-evenoh,existsuchoactsyes50wev 28/6/‘I8AlFreehertheandyenalconForano1|‘: I1 - s. "do filing5' THIS 3'6-page paperback. subtitled "The Lost History of the but they are more available only in foreign publications and -ill K fromQ-Iton |-I British Anarchists". should at once be bought and read by obscure libraries, and are therefore hardly relevant. are,onshlp — -u-I *3 everyone who buys and reads FREEDOM, and indeed by every- George Woodcock's Anarchism (1962, 1963, 1975) mentions .T ___ one in this coun.try who is interested in anarchism. It is, the Peasants‘ Revolt, the fiiggers, Swift, Paine, and Shelley, quite simply, the first acceptable account of our movement discusses Godwin at length, and devotes fourteen pages to it REVISTADESOClOLOGIA,ClEl§lClAY LITERATURA it 1 , heterosexua de npl during its first half-century, from its emergence around 1880 Britain in the chapter on "Various Traditions", concentrating car NI-1aer ' Afio XXVIII Toulouse, Enero a Junio cle 1978 N.‘ 224 1, -| "tiveandmenngsens -Q-0 incretarewomenre doubtribureon to its eclipse around 1930. John Quail, who is well known as on William Morris and Oscar Wilde, but also summarising willeywho tensesinQ-0caseuarapeon’ -rl a libertarian activist in Leeds and London, wrote it during the historical anarchist movement. James Jo1l's The Anarch- 1*.’ "r , I , ~ —— ~ 71 _ ---__ .. L , ‘ ' ' "y" ' W ' 7 7 -77- I " * '1Il "J ___n| In.-||| null -1 ists(1964), though written by_ an Englishman in' England, Cenit (E 0. 30p plus 12p post) is a S anish lan a e 'ournal - . - - A 1 “*0. the early 1970s, and it appears after a publishing delay of published in France by the CNT; it ispsubtitled g'il\/laggailine of !|§Q11:tl:,yE;eré1é1'91?-,:s(%1Z'n) Thmkers (on Bakunm’ Herzen and - “,1 several years, a century after the beginning of the process he completely ignores the movement in England, and mentions no Sociology, Science and Literature’ and is the theoretical jour- u ' ' p ' J-0 describes. It should soon appear in a cloth edition, so that it native libertarians between Shelley and Herbert Read apart Q-I 0-I can become permanently available in public and academic lib- from William Morris and Oscar Wilde. Irving Louis Horo- nal of the CNT; we have a number of issues in stock, the latest i__'—'—_— for--IsvsociacJusorywhatcanasequals.hepingsococrea-u-Ipreevengahavetoawaycarriedgotchocewould to hand, May/June 1978, includes articles on Spain 1938, Finally - BE PREPARED for the forthcoming General Erect raries; but we should be glad that it has first appeared in a witz's anthology The Anarchists (1964) includes extracts from ion_(sic) and get your "§on't Vote, it only Encourages Them" paperback edition, so that it is immediately available to ord- Godwin and Read; But Ee only passage relating to the historical workers] control in industry, collectives, both agrarian and -bl badges from Freedom Bookshop, £0. 20p each (plus 7p post- Q-I industrial. spun inary readers at a relatively low price. Alternative Sources of Energy* (E 00 plus 15p post) is an age) or E2. 00 per dozen (plus 12p postage); why not make it --u Von. ];_ American journal devoting itself to the propagation of just into the centre button of a red and black anarchist, anti- The historiography of the British anarchist movement has NU' Is’. ll -all "I.‘¢ri i until now been little more than a bad joke. Historians of the that - the latest one available (no. 32, June l9'78) has articles election, home-made rosette ideal for anti -election leaflettin0'9 and picketing! left tend to ignore anarchism, and historians of the British Plflrq-~ , and features, letters etc. , on every aspect of alternative ' ”"'"'' PF‘..\,\‘\-_ energy, solar, water, windpower, methane, as well as many ~ left are worse than most. In the many books on the rise of useful and practical tips. socialism in general or on the various organisations in Therulingsseenasarape. (Please note: Items marked * are published in the USA and deadandwereoffman'sateaegasandscarce- cannibalsmpi-acCourtThethet.acceptedwoman's particular, there are normally at most some passing refer- Open Road* (E 0. 40p plus 12p post) is becoming so well- E ‘Iii Canada. Please convert $ at El = $2. 00 and add postage as in -vs ences to anarchists in the Socialist League or the Fabian known over here that little need be said to encourage you to II:-I i invest in issue no. 7" (summer '78) except to say that it is up brackets). scutwho amuchmoreseriouss...... od centmey Society, -to Freedom or the Anarchist, to the Walsall bomb meaerewbl theaeged to the very high standard set in previous issues and includes JH -‘J plot or the Greenwich Park bomb explosion, to the Tottenham TY features on anarchist science fiction, anarchist prisoners, outrage or the siege of Sidney Street. Until quite recently, an excellent cent:re-fold poster (a regular feature, this) and the onlyiserious exception was Edward Thompson's biography much much more, a really fine journal of William Morris (first published in 1955 and republished in Open Road, Summer 1978 k ma. -e- 1*“ " ~ g 4-0 1977’), which includes a great deal of information about the 4_ #— Ql IQ anarchists during the late 1880s and early 1890s, but which is r bitterly predjudiced - having been written when Thompson was C ATS‘ if i 4-I no-I still in the Communist Party. More recent work has brought q-I several books which illuminate various aspects of British 4-I “"‘ -4 anarchism - Andrew R. Carlson's Anarchism in German CONTENTS . 1 .1. -~ +6 +1 - e—- 1 1&- i "" I (1972) describes the German-speaking movement in West 3 Bstlv he *6 * P n ‘ ' A i r * “C -0-I -no i‘ On the O ‘fin our'°"'ls. Q London; W. J. Fishman's East End Jewish Radicals (1975) A",I- Bf c|'Ifl'|'_ ’ - The maqezins dsvot0¢‘°‘°ta‘anaw Y i-#4; A A \Q describes the Yiddish-speaking movement in East London; ~iC.ho[ . -0-I o comm . W0 ""-I-as By LOU: tn,‘ Of Par. 0-0 Bob Holton's British S ndicalism (1926) describes the anarch- r "t\esh- t thehertimeYanickofapartmentnandogethershewere at The arm” "'°Rs:.. "' Papuanh‘Threetemthshowsyouareatessrsenewsashabhemgintionaareasremoteeaookwhn0accounrad A5 it the s8\° ° at glow y becomebuWortheydshouldsupposevegetarianspoorwere VOIQ T . ' th heDavwithchargedareonviconrapingwomanhadofdYanick, ist participation in the Syndicalist movement. But there has colored ch{:l?t?.vasn‘i bad het rd c ause R.“r::YE| ‘m I rick. t ""-as not yet been a proper book on the whole British anarchist in “W3 hdaf now theywet Br '1' xpropfiltor. ~ sad III Mlfl -Q Bin . '”°“@I en0\19 3 Dylan 3 Stihere -an on movement. hr: 5 . u\I1$ selgigg a h%°b up ul _,‘ |nt¢,,,‘t;' r mm om,» Even British books on anarchism have failed to give a satis- S1 An. .Ausiéaici;\2Y' - gewe,ro 0-1 O “I "Wes. °rr.'p°fldQnc E factory account of British anarchism. The English translation _. ___ Q. ._¥ ---___ ‘“‘-Qtirmnuis fi|.—~ ' 1° . '2 FiQ\'*‘ called ii‘? guY,,,g_ They of E. V. Zenker's Anarchism (1898) mentions William Godwin, Flats lent 2000 counter- and . ii Big Mac Aiia°“sh, Calif.‘ Auberon Herbert and Herbert Spencer, Johann Most's Frei- distributed ~ ,0 Dylanfi hesoand- wasism.ibaudge,The Tired oiiendiflg if“ Ocean Beac Solve IThiYouhesee,oldyou9'75hastheoverturnedrt beetheconverturnedcti did '1 ‘S ie '_ ‘eit tickois5 dnev °oncert, heit, the 1881 London Congress, and the London exiles, But back. Theydwon commurii vme donut recent _ngy_ u“'s time wve '_*~..-_ ___, __ 5,._A pi 0' forcann CouIllaebutov §Etes that there is no native movement in Britain. E.A. exD\3‘“‘ ' - to P9" i In receniiy.afl _ med howe“e{'were iorced i0 |-I n Beach is a rn - pushels The CQTHD 23/8/78. epa'ement 0 siovpzd ‘S§§‘§§$. "“‘f;‘ -G-Ii Vizetelly's The Anarchists (1911) mentions the Peasants‘ 'AN1'iR(}j{Y§T_ =6-----___ F‘ " 4.4 aten 0°83 i s$- mp K d°‘”“' 'iieQa\ ' . fl 1 ' 1 Anne wOi\’\-mg“ C...a.+e_iriFi $3“ \:).?fi'||nl'\ ni_\8Q_a‘ Fm‘-tori Revolt, Godwin, lVIost's Freiheit, the Walsall affair, the ..-_.__-,--n-0. __, ___, __ “aha.-ao9iais' Eifsand 7'1 -Q Few/N ls Commonweal, the Greenwich $1: affair, the Tottenham affair, i "'1:-0‘Q Just a brief note to all followers of these margin notes to let you know that your printer is still alive but has been experiencing increasing problems with his old machine on which 5hsdormon 5.e Houndsditch affair and the siege of Sidney Street. The ~= . €.c. 1 honandwas FREEDOM is printed. Nothing is constant these days. You would think that having got the product "right" manufacturers would leave well alone and just concentrate on "quality I“ SYorkate‘! control". No way, if its not the paper, its the ink or the fount or the blanket or maybe the operator! Trying to make sure that every copy of FREEDOM is well printed is the in D."Tesmphas many historical and bibliographical works of Max Nettlau give ultimate "quality control". Does it matter though? Should one even try when we seem to live in a world where old fashioned values such as "pride in one's job" are mocked by a behad4.-Isheabeen new generation of "angries" and an older generation of "couldn't care less'es" ? Don't rush your replies as you will only add to the back-log of mail held up by the Post Office Q4 more serious consideration to British activities and publications ‘Ind engineers and their "go-slow" . What a world we live in. The poor and by poor-I mean the people in the Third World get poorer whilst people in the West all try to increase their QJ take-home pay/dole/supltmentary benefit and yet instead of the quality of our lives improving it just gets worse and worse. And now even cyclists are getting in on the act - oh, anmeover sodmye Mary how could you! It seems that pedestrians are now fair game for lorries, cars, motor bikes and bicycles! Which reminds me of the time when a small child locally nearly I-I ‘ayesleerday-pl “Newnote: hproof h I Review Rgpiglp movement in this country is a chapter from Conrad's The who have connected themselves or have been gratuitously Liberty, which began in 1881. But it was some time before Day in 1890, the anarchists chose May 1 and attracted only a Secret A ent. Leonard I. Krimerman's and Lewis P8571». connected with the movement". He mentions Kropotkin as a the appearance of a specifically anarchist organisation or fraction of the numbers attracted by the other socialists on Fiftérns of Anarchy (1966) includes extracts from Godwin and member of the Freedom group rather than as the international periodical. the first Sunday in May. Read again, and a so from Bernard Shaw, Bertrand Russell, propagandist, a sm 'as a member of the Socialist "The Democratic Federation and the Socialist League" "The Walsall Anarchists" describes how in 1892 police George. Woodcock, Alex Comfort, Tony Gibsonand Colin Ward; League rather than as the international agitator. He writes as tells the well-known story of the formation of the Democratic agents provocateurs took the opportunity of this situation to but again the only passage relating to the historical movement an ordinary anarchist about ordinary anarchists, concentrating Federation in 1881, its transformation into the Social Demo- manufacture a plot in which six anarchists were tried for in this country is a chapter from Mackay's The Anarchists. on the "unsung demi-heroes" and "unreviled villains", rescuing cratic Federation in 1884, and the secession of the Socialist making bombs in Walsall, and four were imprisoned. It was Roderick Kedward's The Anarchists (1970) menhons only from obscurity the little -known people who made the movement League at the end of 1884 - but this time the‘story is told the time of the anarchist bombs in France and Spain, and Oscar Wilde. _ rather than repeating old stories about well-known people who from the point of view not of H. M. Hyndman, who dominated the case simultaneously ~ fed,a,nd fed from,public hysteria. It is not surprising that many people have relied on openly didn't have much to do with it. the SDF, or of William Morris, who dominated the SL, but Two anarchists were also tried for publishing extreme fictional depictions of British anarchism, in such well-known The result, he says "is a large ragged jigsaw with lots of of the libertarian activists from the Rose Street Club and the protests about the case, and one was imprisoned. This was ~' novels as Henry James's The Princess Casamassima (1885) pieces missing, most convincingly lifelike in its confusion", Labour Emancipation League, who transferred their efforts Nicoll, Morris's successor as editor of the Socialist League paper The Commonweal. As,Quail says, "Nicoll takes his or Joseph Conrad's The Secret A ent (1907), or in such though he adds that "selections have to be made, loose ends to the Socialist League and pushed it in an anarchist direc- little -known ones as John Henry &ackay's The Anarchists ignored or chopped off short to present some semblance of a tion. .- place among Ehose immoderate heroes and martyrs in the (1891) or "Isobel Meredith's" A Girl Amon the Knarchists rounded-out story". This story is told in fifteen short chapters, "The Anarchist and Freedom. . . and Dan Chatterton" cause of a free press; a modest place it is true, but a place as follows. describes the appearance during the mid-1880s of the first nevertheless." After coming out of prison in 1893, he - (1903). Few of the ostensibly factual descripfions have Eon devoted himself to campaigning for his comrades and against much closer to reality, and one has sometimes despaired of "Radicals, Exiles and Socialist Beginnings" describes two of periodicals which were produced in Britain, were written in the si nificant converging tendencies in the late 1870s and early English, were unequivocally anarchist, and were reasonably the spies so obsessively thathe did more harm than good; ever seeing an acceptable account of our movement- 8 _ _ yet his activities must provoke admiration, and his public- As a result of this unsatisfactory situation, our overwhelming 1880s - native radicals on the left of the Liberal Party, in viable - The Anarchist, produced by Henry Seymour from trade unions and workers‘ clubs, who preserved and revived 1885, and Freedom produced by a group around Charlotte ations also provide much information about this stage in the reaction to The Slow Burnin Fuse must be one of gratitude movement. A and appreciation. It is appropriate that Quail does not come the socialist and libertarian traditions which had been strong in Wilson and PeEr Kropotkin from 1886. At this point comes previous mass movements (such as Frank Kitz); and foreign the first of the series of episodes involving political violence "H. B. Samuels and the Commonweal" describes one of the to anarchism as a historian, but comes to history as an anar- two best-known anarchists who were involved with the police chist. He begins by pointing out that he is "an ‘unofficial’ refugees on the left of the socialist movement in emigre and police espionage which have so often crippled the anarch- circles and workers‘ clubs, who imported more extreme ist movementin this as in so many countries - and which is (the other, Auguste Coulon, who incited the Walsall affair, historian" who "was not supported by grants or by any is a much more mysterious figure). Samuels took over the academic institution". He is more than an "unofficial" attitudes and more militant methods from the harsher atmos- indeed the main thing the movement is known for by most phere of Continental Europe (such as Johann Most). The most non-anarchists. The Most affair had occurred before there Commonwealin Nicoll's absence and prevented his return, historian - he is an anti-official historian. He describes how and Qhail shows how he led the "terrorism of the word" which he became an anarchiht by arguing with Marxists at Leeds important activity centered on the Social Democratic Club in was a real movement, though it had already helped to fix the stereotyped image of anarchism in the public mind. In 1886, infected the Socialist League in 1893-1894 and which aroused University, and how he became interested in the history of Rose Street, West London, from 18'?8; and the most dramatic event was the prosecution and imprisonment of Most in 1881 .:however, Seymour first welcomed the HaYmarket bomb in a reaction among the anarchists around Freedom and also -i the British anarchist movement as an aspect of the history of Chicago and then entered a quarrel among the German exiles around Liberii; which was produced by Tochatfi from 1894. the British labour movement. He explicitly rejects any for welcoming the assassination of the Tsar in his German- language paper Die Freiheit (Freedom), which in 1880 became about one of their number called Reuss; he attacked the Social- "The reenwich Park Explosion" describes the most detailed discussion of anarchist ideas, and insists that he has ist League for expelling Reuss as a police spy, but Reuss was famous anarchist bomb in this country, which killed the man "written a book about the Anarchist movement", in which he has the first anarchist paper in Britain, and which in 1881.. appeared in a short-lived English version edited by Kitz. soon exposed beyond question, and The Anarchist lost its carrying it in 1894. He was Martial Bourdin, the brother -in- found "a sense of community. of emotional commitment" rather law of Samuels, and the case not only provided the plot of "The Labour Emancipation League" describes the further influence in the socialist movement. Freedom Eied to avoid than "a history of theoretical development". He describes taking sides in such quarrels, providing a forum for discussion The Secret A ent but also provoked the rejection of this type his own process of adopting anarchism from this perspective, development of such convergence, leading to the formation in 1880 and 1881 of new independent organisations such as the rather than a focus of agitation, and gradually gained influence of activity i'n %e movement. Samuels relapsed into the and it is from this perspective that he sees British anarchism in the socialist movement. There was at the same time what orthodox socialism of the ILP and the above all "as a movement in relation to the ebb and flow of Stratford Dialectical and Radical Club (on the initiative of "The Collapse of the Commonweal" described the final Ambrose Barker) and the Labour Emancipation League (on Quail calls the "one -man Anarchist response to the social popular revolt". situation" made by Dan Chatterton, a veteran of the class stages of the disintegration of the Socialist League in 1894. It is also appropriate that Quail feels no need to criticise the initiative of Joseph Lane), and a change of direction from Quail shows how the police and the press exploited the situat- private to public agitation. Interest in Most's Freiheit was struggle who produced an occasional do-it-yourself paper the previous attempts to tell the story of British anarchism - called Chatterton's Commune: the Atheist Communist Scorcher ion to arouse public opposition to anarchism - opposition he just ignores them, preferring to tell the story his own way. followed by interest in Benjamin Tucker's which sometimes took violent form, when demonstrations and American paper from 1884. Ks Chiail says, "he deserves E E rescued from He mentions Thompson's prejudiced treatment of anarchism oblivion". even funerals were attacked by hostile mobs. The militant in his biography of William Morris, and Walter Kendall's "-la, "Anarchism Develops in the Socialist League" tells the movement was thoroughly infiltrated by agents of various kinds, ?. and its activity became desperate in both senses. equally prejudiced omission of anarchism in his history of i. well-known story of how the Socialist League, which had been the revolutionary movement from 1900 to 1.920; but he doesn't |.u formed by a coalition of peopleunited by little more than their "The Movement in 1894" describes the simultaneous fall of even mention the various books on anarchism. opposition to Hyndman's leadership of the SDP, whose mech- organised anarchism and rise of parliamentary socialism in He says himself that he doesn't mention anistic and opportunistic line was eventually inherited by the the mid-1890s, when the British left turned decisively "the literati of the Oscar Wilde type i Communist Party, first resisted then succumbed to fission towards the constitutional politics of trade unions and into its constituent parts during the late 1880s. First the labour parties. The Commonweal was succeeded bv the parliamentarist right seceded in 1888, then the antl-parlia- Anarchist-,produced by Nicoll on his own, and the Torch mentarist but non-anarchist centre seceded in 1890, and produced by the Rossetti sisters, but anarchism was driven finally the Socialist League became anarchist. But again, to the periphery of the social movement. this time the story is told from the point of View not of the "The Movement in Decline" describes the first nadir of Marxists (Marx's daughter Eleanor was a leading member of British anarchism, from 1895 to 1902. A new paper, the the parliamentari st fraction) or of Morris (who was the lead- A_l_2L1Lm_, appeared but soon disappeared, and so did all the ing. member of the centre), but of the libertarian activists papers except Freedom which survived a crisis in 1895. on the left. These were led at first by Kitz and Lane, but From 1897 the Freedom Press stood alone, producing its they later included several people who played a long and monthly paper and pamphlets for the whole movement, though Nicoll” battled on with his paper until 1901. N1. important part in the anarchist movement - Tom Cantwell, George Cores, John Creaghe, Fred Henderson, Ted Leggatt, "Cooperative' Colonies" describes some of the libertarian SQCXALXS % ‘ Sam Mainwaring, Alfred Marsh, Charles Mowbray, David co-operatives and communities in the 1880s, especially t 1‘ !_,,..-1" FEE“ ' Clousden Hill near Newcastle upon Tyne and Whiteways near _!,_,!/’f.’!'M0flT“LY ’ Ow m Nicoll, H. B. Samuels, James Tochatti, John Turner, and so ed . -. on. i Stroud. - us 2:: "Anarchism and the Origins of the Syndicalist Revolt" NAL" 0? P‘ L/~- . I ,./J ,, . . ~\~;“;:~..-i. ‘I gs: ..-h I‘ What is really needed is a full history of the Socialist 1335 _ _ I'll l>"°t'e i.rs@"'°“ O e1°“w 1° describes the part played by the anarchists in the growing DU R !r._!___ *F’ and under “$35 .1V6 3'\>Zclmve B5 ‘:1; dom wu\5Q5g\‘ League from beginning to end, as it shifted over a period of * t - hr . - ii-es . ten years from radical socialism to anarchist communism, syndicalist movement during the 1890s a.nd 1900s. As well A S 0 SITQIPB aged is no n $2586 OQXX i 6 '1 fr Review Review A Might these words, incidentally, not also apply to the port- These are only quibbles and I would recommend the play. rayal of the relation between Mary and Ann, or does this fin- Although I question the depth of Gooch‘s historical analysis, ally come down to the fact that it is after all a play about wom- he amply justifies his intention to restore history to political _ ANN BONNEYandMARYREAD-— fl E en written by a man? For although there is much - rather theatre as a method of showing problems that are still rele- didactic - insistence on the solidarity which develops between vant. And although the script is too didactic, for my taste, at these two pirates in the face of a male chauvinism which ult- least, and the majority of songs not particularly inspiring, \,_.p?‘:gL___ imately destroyed their ‘alternative‘, ‘anti-colonial‘ commun- the rowdy and irreverent scenes in Pierre‘s cafe - the House of ity, we have to take it on faith rather than actually sense it. Lords - are most enjoyable, as are the general depiction of life spent at war with government colours and the court scene at the end. It is, perhaps, in his attack on the law that Gooch comes closest to the anarchic spirit of the Beggar's Era‘, Anarchic spirit and indeed to anarchism itself: A varied selection of quotations about the story of Ann and But it takes two to tell what's right and wrong Mary is contained in the programme; interestingly, it is only You can draw or cross the line. the quote from a pamphlet by a woman - Susan Baker - which And if morals make for sinners points to the improbability that in seducing'Mark'Ann did not It's laws that make for crime. already know s/he was Mary. Baker's point would have added ;;\ - ' -""1: -T ._...,._.__ a genuinely liberating dimension to the play which Gooch does . 1- ._._ __ _- _ . -.- _.... not, however, use - except perhaps the rather timidly ambig- GIU LIA STEVE GOOCH tells us that he got the idea for Women Pirates — uous ambiguity of their wrestling match. (At least Ann does when, at breakfast one morning, a tiny booklet on ‘famous 4; ~ -- --—--- Q ._--- _qi- -' ‘ - -"--i--— — —- ' —— 1' --. -.-_.._-_ _... not show the ‘great disappointment‘ which is described in .- --o-i._ ._ ._.._.. ______’____i,_,______n _------. outlaws‘ fell out of the shredded wheat packet. It was a brief - - -o----Zp@—o j._.._....__,_ ' "' -V . .-» ___-. l__ --___...._.._._..._ _ . Cptn Johnson's to ntemporary account, Robberies and Murders ___ _ -_ - -___ ._ . ._ ___- - . ___-_. . - ._ _._ account of the lives of Ann Bonney and Mary Read and, says .-. _.. - .._-._--____-___ __....?______. . -.. _..._.__ _- . . ____.___.._..- of the Most Notorious Pirates. as Mary's sex is revealed! l //l Gooch, their story was "so rich in the variety of levels at . '— -Io.‘ . f :-— —_ -_ ='_a::'-' _. _ _""_ ..-_-‘T’ ---'-"“ ___ .2-___—_ . which it exposed the superficiality of the legal system, partic- ;,_'-11.2:‘%i':%§€f_ej;£=_ ~—-_ 4 _ ularly towards women in an even more patriarchal society i -" ___ _,.._.,-"4, ._,___-.-t___,..-.-,._r.u-|-*-_?_-_-|.’.-¢..¢-4.1-.t-4.. _.,.-..-...-....-1. .|-..,.._ ..,_.--.,....|....,-q|r.i.-...~._-.-,,,,. 1-..- than today's, that it seemed a good vehicle for the play. “ ____.__.___.____i..___.._..._...,._..______As it developed other factors emerged - in particular the theme of British imperialism. For as he traced Ann and Mary ,- through their respective lives towards the point where they §-"-'___- .- A ‘J meet he found that everywhere they went "the European emp- it_.-o- 41“ FAfiS- -‘T: consistentlygood newjournal ire-builders of the age were clashing: Ireland, Flanders, \ Carolina, the Caribbean. The geographical span of their lives ‘WOMEN PIRATES ANN BONNEY AND MARY READ‘ has been Welcome to Guthority No 2! While the influence of No 1 can 2 his telling investigation of Conspicuous Consumption as pro- reproduced the economic links and political hot-spots of their appearing at the Aldwych Theatre, London; performed by the Royal still be seen -— particularly in the Yellow Pages non-pull-out jected into the 1980s, when this new strain of virulent TB will age. It was as if these two women were fleeing not only their Shakespeare Company. The script is published by Pluto Press, London, centre section — No 2 is definitely more solid and satisfying. reach our shores if the DHSS's own prognostications prove Not only are we straightened out still further on the myths of sex-role stereotypes and the law, but the developments of who have also published ‘Gooch‘s other plays, including 'Femole Trans- correct — and his convincing analysis, which showed without British imperialism itself. Furthermore, what brought them port‘ and a translation of Poems and Ballads by the East German our own history and geography, but, in this issue, on discog- fear of contradiction that the true basis -- and greatest = dissident, Wolf Biermann. raphy as well. So that's why you-know-what happened to chance for success - of anarchism lies in enforced nudity. together was a small ‘alternative society‘ of anti -colonial Keith Nathan! But is it really true that the PM is really AM? rebels - the pirate community in what are now the Bahamas. (‘Only when we rid ourselves of all personal property. . . ‘ etc) Sort of eighteenth century Yippies. " But which AM? The argument seems a little obscure here. Being an economy- (and ecology-) minded gourmet myself, loyed in so pious an Expedition, is a modern Colony sent to Particularly informative however was Reg Guttersnipe‘s _I was greatly appreciative of the technological crossover from I question Gooch‘s rather simplistic approach in the two second excursion into trenchant investigative journalism with ESN‘s scatological analysis of the anarcho-isolationist currant main areas he mentions here - that of the relation between convert and civilize an idolatrous and barbarous People. " (Gulliver's Travels). into cheap cooking with his recipe for fried mouse droppings , feminism and capitalism and the nature of the pirate commun- (‘Quite as good as ants-in-chocolate from Harrods‘ says ity. Gooch "has described his play as "a doubly complex crit- Swift's Pyrates ma"! not have been in the same league as ‘E picure‘). ique of emerging capitalism because of what the women's move Gooch‘s ‘sea-artists‘, fighting a desperate rearguard action We should indeed be grateful that the dynamic young ment has taught us about male dominance being a pre-requisite against the "British. Empire's spreadin' arse"; but Gooch comrades of Guthority have not forgotten the culinary needs of capitalism. “ (Time Out, 21-2'7 July). This is a statement himself is set upon showing how sexism exists in and weak- of the founders of the present-day movement. which, in fact, tells us nothing. For if male dominance bred ens alternative structures, then as today, and I wonder wheth- If I have any criticism to make, and I haven't really, it is capitalism, you can also say it bred feudalism and so on, and er it would not have been more effective to go the whole way to protest most vehemently against the thoughtless and hurtful even if you end by saying that Patriarchy is the Root of all and show in the pirates not "sort of eighteenth century Yippies" use of terms derogatory to 51 .per cent of the human race. Oppression, you have come no nearer to examining its origins but, on the contrary, a reflectionof the ruling class itself, Must we really still now at this moment in time have to put up and have really only replaced the uni-dimensional Marxist as Gay did with Peachum and his highwaymen in the Beggar's K‘ with once again the sexist drivel about ‘lay persons‘ which view of power with a uni-dimensional feminist one. Opera. marred No 1? No doubt the eagle-nosed editors of Zero will Gooch refers to the women's flight from their sexual ster- //f/ have something to say about that if it ever comes out again in t eotypes. Mary, in particular, seems only to have flown from readable form. O Q O sf’ Jmperialist pirates it under force of circumstance. Her husband is sliced up like And talking about form —- while it might have been better liver by some Dutch soldiers for having married an English- if the Guthority Collective had called on Cliff Harper to ‘do woman (Marlboro's English army had become somewhat un- the graphics‘ (sic) it is good?) see that the presentation and Gooch‘s attitude to the pirates is also questionable. It printing, and indeed the typography and layout are all quite up would certainly seem to clash head on with at least one eye- popular abroad) and she looks back on her years as house.- wife as the best of her life. Similarly, as she sees her chance X6 to the present-day standards of production demanded by yer witness (of whom I am reminded by NW's article on parliam- “QT2 actual proletarian literature and maintained by the movement's ent and horse in FREEDOM of July 22) of hooking a second husband slip away she remarks to Ann that settling down has been in her head for years. "Timber most cogent journals. * But at least this proves conclusively Jonathan Swift implicates pirates in the whole process of that this is one anarchist initiative owing absolutely nothing to British imperialism. walls, smoke out the chimney. By a river where I could do RC Y ZE ( the washin‘. Red hands. Apron . . . " Hardly the remark of the ubiquitous Dave Morris. "For instance,“ writes that very untypical Tory churchman, someone who is fleeing her sexual role or the law, or for k In conclusion I can state without hesitation that this {I __ §___ - brilliant and ikonoklastick journal has come like a breath of "a Crew of Pyrates are driven by a Storm they know not whith- that matter the development of British imperialism! But in >n_.~— i? fresh air into the anarchist movement just at the right histor- er; at length a Boy discovers Land from the Top-mast; they go the solo she sings immediately afterwards Mary seems to Q‘ \\_ _ 4, ‘lcal moment - clearing up once and for all the problem of who on Shore to rob and plunder; they see an harmless People, have realised it, and here, surely. we have the most import- %| ’ Till u uurruu1u,u\1uu\KQi.®\\F\l"i-1\:l‘;' will clean the sewers come the revolution. There is certainly are entertained with kindness, they give the Country a new ant message of the play: -' ___ ._,_ _,_\ name, they take formal Possession of it for the king, they set ua room for this — and you can guess which room. We are glad to publicise subscription details which pre- We turn away, look for a new world, Q,-_-. up a rotten Plank or a Stone for a Memorial they murder two ,1 u 1| .1. , 1 \u,u. \&1l'-L‘L‘l,,ITQ._él@'l7JLL£-_L‘LlL_Tl}li-Ul \ H ’ And turn our back upon the old. T Continued on pClgr*~ 3l . or three Dozen of the Natives, bring away a Couple more by .Z_‘_‘ -..._,l,. .__.-m'___-5 Force for a Sample, return home, and get their Pardon. But all the time it's there behind us, Here commences a new Dominion acquired with the first It pulls us back into the fold . . . *But errors still creep in - or was ESN truly referring to a .. 9 ~="* *:—'+z'..-1-1-rs - ‘pubic meeting‘ on p17? - Opportunity; the Natives driven out or destroyed, the Princes Instead of run away _ J‘"oi_ ‘" 4.-‘.:- RI-:r:‘E tortured to discover their Gold; a free Licence given to all ___ ~"'-‘ -- ~ -- — -_ 1 __v, ______; . . . ___- -.____-1-'-="_Y| life should‘ve stayed and done away 1 Owing to distribution difficulties this issue of GJl'l'|orii'y- is not being , ii . Acts of Inhumanity and Lust; the Earth reeking with the blood Kept the old enemy in view stocked by Freedom Bookshop. All enquiries direct please to of its Inhabitants; and this execrable Crew of Butchers emp- “T”? 7-5211"r-Q-7*’ y e-Fo ~ V4-y" -—~ Know where we're going‘s really new. '6utl1orii'y' c/o ATS who will forward all correspondence. it 14 p Review Review continued from page ll Quail deliberately refrains from telling the story of the second half-century of British anarchism, not because of as anyone else and that anarchism was correct in criticising lack of time or space, but because of a crucial change in the system rather than the personnel of the trade union move- circumstances. He says of the l930s: "The younger militants ment. One of the new recruits to the movement was Guy of that time, or at least some of them, are still active in the Aldred, who began his half-century of militant activity in 1906, movement, and the events of that time and the years since passed through orthodox anarchism was rapidly as he had then are still live issues and matters of polemic. " And he already passed through Christianity, secularism and socialism, adds: "It would be a brave historian who tried to argue too ?lNCE THE DEATH of Nlarx, 'Marxists' have regularly foretold tho completely. No longer were they aloof and secretive - instead published several pamphlets, and began the first of his series much with the living, particularly since that tone of voice of imminent collapse of capitalist society, Again and again tho numerous they talked enthusiastically about their beliefs and made positive of papers in 1910. history is one which implies that the events it describes are ' " ' tth t "the Anarch- P"0Phel‘$ of the self-styled proletarian elite tell of the "ever increasi ' ettorts to convert their audience, although the newspapers were 9|-ili "The Insurgent Virus" describes the part played by the past and done with. But he does point 01.1 a °"°' °'°°P°"i"9 '<='i=i=' of bourgeois =<><=i<-in/". staved off momentaril fig’ not invited in. anarchists in the industrial crisis of the early 1910s. Previous ists have since shown the same astonishing ability to suddenly by intensified arms drives and/or the outbreak of a new war. In too); At ll.30pm the same night Marian received another message. A studies of British syndicalism have tended to ignore the anar- come from nowhere when everybody had assumed that they often the only ‘difference’ between the conflicting Marxist ooh»; is th saucer was en route to her backyard to pick up the 'chosen' at chist contribution, and Quail shows - as Bob Holton did in his were finished", and he goes on to his "general thesis": "that_ differing theory offered as to how great is the crisis and how lo ea: mlilhlilllio It’:/ould be in a hurry and would.wait for no-one who was book '5‘ couple of years ago - that some of the most important the Anarchist movement grows in times of popular self-activity, o I :E:n:UllI1g class manage to prop up the system cracking apart Eenooth Ire kl: k),/Lard e|:e was a sudden flurry, on with their coats, and out into agitators in it were actually anarchists, especially Ted feeds it and feeds off it, and declines when that self activity c . _ w ere it was snowing and was bitterly cold . They gave Leggatt, E. J. B. Allen, and Guy Bowman. He also describes declines". l.n l95l , the year l ipined the Young Communist League, it was up the vigil at 3.30pm, the Tottenham outrage of 1909 and the Houndsditch robbery As he says, the paradox is that such periods of decline are Predlded by the theoreticians of the national executive that the total and Sidney Street siege of 1910-11, though it is now clear that caused because anarchists have no strong institutional _Th° i°ll°W""9 m°""l"9 M°l’i°" received yet another call, this time structure which could ensure permanent survival on its own, c°ll°p5° ‘Pi ihe (‘Id 5Y5l'°mr find the 'revolution', bringing in the new °5l<"'19 he!’ to call all her supporters together from all over the country. the foreign refugees who were responsible for these dramatic system , were definitely on the agenda of the next five-year period While waiting the arrival of their distant friends, Marian Keech episodes not only had little to do with British politics but were but if they had such a structure they would cease to be anarch- '5ocialism in Britain in the Next Decade‘ (and by '5ooio|;smi was ' instructed her immediate followers to step up their conversion aotivitios not even anarchists. He mentions the new militants, such as ist. Even so, he suggests that this situation could be changed :'fi°"i [lg P°¢Uli0YI'2/LStalinist form of state structure) was the theme of and to stop tuming away any enquirers from the front door. Note that George Barrett and John McAra, A. J. Cook and Will Lawther by conscious effort on the part of the anarchist movement. pre ongress meetings. Edfih unfulfilled prophecy.demanded an increase in proselyting (who became well-known trade union leaders), and Willie He complains that anarchist interventions in recent political ' Anyone‘: who has had any experience of Gerry Healy and his ilk, e aviour. Although obviously demoralized, me group members Gallagher (who became a well-known Communist MP). In developments, such as the squatters movement and local refusedbto iiuestion their basic beliefs. Perhaps the space men had 1912-1913Barrett produced a new Anarchist; in 1913 the community struggles, "are an advance upon sporadic one-off the gmup ' lhe s°°l°li5i l-°b°‘—"' l-°°9ue or the Workers‘ Revolutionary actions but they do not begin to develop a wider strategy and Il::‘:Y il: