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F Volu»E 34 N'o. 51 22 December, 1973 Ul Mi |L f 5p Volu»e 34 N'o. 51 22 December, 1973 Ul Mi |L BOTH Mr. Heath, the Prime Mini­ stake in the capitalist syst­ It is not the job of the pro­ ster, and Mr. Wilson, leader of em and to do-operate with the ducers of wealth to save frn» the Opposition, have appealed employers and government to disaster those who exploit to the British public for a perpetuate their own economic their labour for profit and po­ sense of national unity in ord­ and political slavery. The wer. Already t*he miners, rail­ er to face and overcome the en­ people who have produced the way men and electrical engineers ergy and economic crises. It wealth are once again called have shown where power really now becomes a patriotic duty of upon to save the system which lies. Their labour, like that everyone to assist the nation is "walking on the edge of a of all workers, has been taken to pull through the present precipice". But it is only a so much for granted. Many who difficulties. Arthur Moyse's minority who own and control don't actually produce them­ cartoon expressed this so well the industrial wealth of this selves or perform any useful last week with his caption country. It is only a minor­ work look upon those who do as "It's curious but the country ity who operate and control their servants. Like some only becomes ours when there's the repressive institutions of "god-ordained order" they ex­ a bloody war or we're on strike” the State. Thi3 minority is pect this class relationship to last forever. Mr. Heath has put the blame very conscious of its own int­ for the present crisis on those erests in upholding the present We as anarchists want a class­ workers who have taken indust­ system and will use if neces­ less society where the means of rial action against his govern­ sary every weapon at their production are controlled by ment's 'Phase Three'. There is disposal to ensure the contin­ those who work in those indust­ no doubt that these disputes uation of the rule of capital. ries. We want the present ex­ are and will bring production ploitation of man by man re­ to a near standstill and that placed by mutual aid and common the crisis has brought about humanity. To achieve such a near-panic on the Stock Exch­ stateless society we have to ange not seen since the 1930s. make a revolution to overthrow the present system. Revolution Nov as then it will be the is the only answer to the pres­ working class who will suffer. ent crisis which faces not cap­ Short time working, unemploy­ italism but the ordinary people ment and further inflation will of this country. For capital­ be our lot in the coming months. ism can survive. In fact eco­ It could be a repeat of the nomic power and wealth will be thirties. Now, as then, the "Let's face it, gentlemen. there'1,1 be no Father Christmas working class is supposed to this year." discover that they have a continued on Back Page NEKS IF ANY PROOF were needed that ted day they settled for the a member of two opposing Trots- parliamentary politics in this next best thing and went for his kyite factions and as founder, part of the world is a sport at supporters. Chairman and sole member cf the World Marxist-Leninist Party. which only the fittest can sur­ The intention, as one bearded vive then the recent punch-up pugilist later explained, was He too has been making a fresh between loyalist members*of the to drag the members across the analysis of the situation. Left Northern Ireland Assembly helped bar of the House so that they sectarianism, he thinks, is one to provide it. Fists flew as would technically be outside of the curses of Belfast (agreed) the boys that fear no noise (the the Assembly. "But when these and the need is for a broad- extreme loyalists) launched their fellows were thrown out they based libertarian socialist, attack and soon the Assembly didn't realise they had to stay Maoist, Trotskyist, Marxist- Chamber resounded to thud and out. It was like a children’s Leninist party— seriously. As groan as they sank winklepicker game where those who are sup­ I was turning all of this over and stout country boot into the posed to play dead won't do so." in my mind a bomb exploded a fev prostrate bodies of opponents The bovs have promised to do a streets away. What about the lying on the highly polished similar job on members of the troubles, I asked? He dismis­ floor. "Foul beasts," screamed S.D.L.P. later. sed the whole thing with a shrqg one member of the Alliance Party as the ambulances sped by. They from a safe distance. All od which goes to prove I know not what unless it be that were bound to end sooner or la­ Vhat was it all about? Well, in between the bombings and the ter, one way or the other, but the boys that fear no noise had shootings life here continues in the meantime the crying need decided that the arch-traitor much as usual and I was reminded was to build a broad based Mao­ Brian Faulkner should be taught of this the other day when I ist etc. etc. Well, I ask you. a lesson by being evicted from met the Revolutionary Socialist Little wonder that I never ven­ the Assembly and booted down in the centre of Belfast. I have ture to write serious and the steps at Stormont. Under­ known him in the past, first as learned analyses of the situa­ standably frustrated when Brian tion here, TT _ ,, a straight .communist, then as a Henry Bell failed to turn-up on the appoin- Maoist, then in rapid succession * • • • • • • SOFIA I.KVCOYICH-KOWOV one of a few. LETTER At the beginning of this cen­ tury, European travellers ar­ rived daily at American ports, among them many Russians. The BOOKSHOP GFKV Tu«.-Pri 2 - 6 pa i'iflsians came for varied rea­ (Thursdays to 8.30 p.«.) sons. The polit ifal oppression Saturday 10 ».*• - 4 p.B. CHILE in their country drove some: material wants others. Life was Any book not in stock but in poor for most of the peasants, print can be supplied. Please and when they learned that it add postage as in brackets. was possible to go to America Friends— and earn several hundred dol­ Housrans Vorld Bble The coup in Chile was a ter­ lars, they spouted forth like a page a week with (>4pf Int. D i r . rible lesson, not least for giant wave across the oceas. of Peace Orgs. £0.50 ( 4p) Anarchism. They especially vent from the Tolstoy : Thg__Pj western part of the country. Anarchism means no rulers. R. V. Sampson £ } . r>0 (!9pV It was mainly men who vent - the Yet the morninj of the coup Mnt, Difi young and able-bodied. Few wo­ found Chilean workers, in their Presses. £1.50 men vent. It was thought that plants, with a desperate need Elders, a collection, a woman’s place was in the kit­ for defense, organization, lea­ eldcr citizens compiled by chen and with the family. The dership, bold leadership. Searle £0.25 anxiwties of supporting a Sex-Pol : Sol. Eg«avs 1W4- Instead of organization and household, and its authority, Vilhelm Reich k Karl Teschi t % leadership, workers on that fell entirely upon the should­ £0.40 ( 8p) tragic September 11- were con­ ers of the men. Thus they left ♦Post-Sc arc i tv Anarchic. Murray fused, at best uncertain. Some to earn a living. Bookchin £1. >0 (13p) went home,’ some stayed in the Nevertheless, among the numer­ ♦Anarchism Old.and r'«*rald plants, "watchfully waiting". ous men setting out to America Runkle £1.60 (l2p) Bombarded by the military, the in search of "the golden fleece" The War After the John plants became death-traps. women were sometimes found. Maclean £0.20 (4p) THE LESSON? Organization and Among these few women, quite ♦The Kronstadt Uprising. Ida leadership WHEN THE SITUATION lost in the masculine stream, a Mett, m t rod. by Murray Bookchin CALLS FOR IT. Vanguard? Maybe. pretty girl turned up one day £0.60 (6p) Meaning we ought begin distin­ who had been raised in Minsk. ♦Autobiography - Mother lon^s guishing betweon "vanguard" and Few people knew her maiden name; £1.60 (lOp) "ruler". The latter would be everyone called her Sofia. ♦The Ego and His Own. Max vanguard institutionalized, for­ Stirner paper £1.50 (l9p) A stately and attractive blonde, mal i zed. Michael Bakunin l Scl,.. yxilm g a Sofia could have married a pros­ ed. by Arthur Lehning. 288pp Anarchism, in other words, perous man. That’s what the few paper £2.25 (lOp) cannot these coup days afford Russian girls who succeeded in ♦Villi am Godw i n. Elton E. Smith the luxury of doctrinaire-ism, getting to America did; they & Esther G. Smith £3.75 (13p ) mUst— if ever a new society is married for money. But money Vhat Rough Beast? Alex Comfort to be realized— be ready to BEND did not appeal to Sofia. She with an introduction by Colin WITH A SITUATION, to react posi­ was attracted not to money but Ward £0.15 (5p) tively to fascist danger. The to ideas which illuminated the other danger, of course, is that path to .a better future - a fut­ BARGAIN BASEMENT bending beyond a certain point ure in which there would be no Selected VTritings.
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