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cSf*.** ExecutioT.v .^ i V^W* W *»»«^ ^Q^ n Documen*/,! * * -. .A11 -'"»*; • • t •" 'L- " " " t The following document, issuedby the "Ulrike Meinhof Commando, Red Army Fraction", was sent to us following the execution of Siegfried Buback, the German Federal Prosecutor in charge of the Baader-Meinhof trials. This document has not been published else- where and mere possession of it in Germany is sufficient cause for arrest and imprisonment: v*t" •-*•«**' PP On 7th April 1977, the Ulrike Meinhof Through international protest this Commando executed Federal Prosecutor It was under Buback's direction that project was hindered. The liming of Buback. Siegfried (Hausner) - who led the Holgar her murder was calculated precisely : Buback was directly responsible for Meins Commando and who showed his occuring before the crucial legal initiative of the murder of Holgar Meins. Siegfried abilities, through the West German MEK- the defence proposals concerning the actions Hausner and Ulrike Meinhof. In his role Union, in the blowing up of the German of the RAF (Red Army Fraction) against as Chief Federal Prosecutor — the central Embassy in Stockholm - was murdered the US Headquarters in Frankfurt and Heidel- controlling and co-ordinating authority on 4/5/75. Hausner was exclusively at burg in 1972 carried out to demonstrate the between the Department of Justice and the the disposal of the Federal attorney and complicity of the BRD(Bundesrepublik- West German intelligence services, in close the BKA, and it was the perilous transit Jeutschland) with US aggression in Vietnam co-operation with the CIA and the NATO to Stuttgart-Stammheim prison which contrary to international law. Ulrike was Security Committee - he stage managed made his death inevitable. murdered before she could speak out at and directed the murders. Also under Buback's direction Ulrike the witness hearing in the Dusseldorf trial MolgarMeins was murdered, under (Meinhof) was executed by the State against the Holgar Meins Commando Buback's direction, on 9/11/74, through Police on 9/5/76. Her death was presented concerning the most extreme forms of systematic starvation and deliberate to the world as a suicide in order to demon- torture practised on her over the previous manipulation of transportation times strate the senselessness of the politics for eight months. Before her conviction - Viptwccn Wittli.-l! -,nt! Stammheim The which Ulrike had struggled. which critical international opinion, having Federal attorney planned, through the This murder was the climax in the Feder- seen the show trial in Stammheim with its murder ot a group ol pnsoners on collect al attorney's attempt to cretinise Ulrike cynical presentation of imperialist power, ive hunger strike, following the trial of through forced neurosurgical interference would have stopped in its tracks, something Andreas (Baader), to bring about their so that, demoralised, Stammheim law which the Federal government was apprehen- destruction by ordering the prison authorit- could be portrayed as justice triumphant sive about. ies to institute force feeding - to stem the while armed resistance could be denounced as Ulrike's story, clearly, is the same as that tide of awakening public sympathy - thus a sickness. of many fighters in the history of the • £ "• X: • .»• i. iv 1(1 • cont. p. 9 •'£: •%XjS&* ''*'&$ fgfi??^ BLACK FLAG Vol. !V. No. 15. 1977 archive: CAMPO ABIERTO EDICIONES, wide on'he struggle against torture, the Published by Black Flag Group & panted (Bolefm) Calk Concepcion Bahamunde No.10 Death Penalty, and prisons; it carries many by Anarchy Collective. Subs. £3.25p oer drid 28, Espana. interesting articles, lists of prisoners to 12 Issues (home), Canada, Australia, N.Z. The co.Tirades at Campo Abierto write to, and things one can do to help — (air mail) £6.50 (U.S. $ 13.00). blisliing a regular international journal it is FREE to all. (Donations/stamps are black Flag, Over the Water, Sanday, and press information service — all contrib- appreciated for printing, postage and Orkney. KW17 2BL, U.K. ********************************* utions .gratefully received.. support work.) HAPTOC needs human ********************************* beings knowing and supporting human Our sincere apologies to all our readers for Haptoc family International Needs Your gs. „ the extended delay between issues. 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ETC... this thrown the Flag out of gear, but it your assistance to help expose the state's will also mean a further delay in oat forth- Would all comrades and readers plerse keep behaviour in jails, prisons and concentrat- coming title "Land and Liberty" and the their eyes open for any old - and not so ion camps around the world, and at the third issue of the Cienfuegos Press Anarch- old • illustrated books and photographs same time work for the ending of the social ist Review due for publication in September. which could conceivably be of interest to conditions which give rise to cnme, violence, We are also going to face a massive bill for comrade Flavio Costantini in his work of prisons, police torces, armies and dicator- repairs to our I.B.M. machine - far more artistic documentation of the history of ships of all kinds. than the £500.00 originally estimated - e anarchist and labour movement. If Please write to us: so all contributions towards this fund will you come across something please send i? IC.AT (International Crusade Against be gratefully received. One comrade in to ijs here in Orknev and we'll forv/ard it on. brture), P.O. Box 22523, Fazantenhof, particular, Dave Morris, has come forw SYNDICALIST WORKERS FED- mermeet, Amsterdam, Holland. Deals . with a contribution of £100.00 and a 1 ERATION, c/o Grass Roots, I Newton cifically with cases of torture, behaviour St., Manchester, Ml 1HW of a further £100.00 to meet the bill wl dification. and the humans under sentence it comes in. Comrade Karl Cordell org; death ... this strupgie wing needs to be ZERO - A new anarchist monthly with ised a whip-round at a meeting of the F< built up so thit it can become an emergency news of the CNT, Noel & Marie Murray, eration of London Anarchist Groups on anarcho-feminisin, and much, much more. wing capable of acting very rapidly. April 30 and came up with £7.40. 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Carres news worid Grosvenor Avenue, London N5. means that all financial contributions towards supporting the confederal paper WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MAKES *su>P Press "C.N.T." -- and the organisation — car< now be made direct by MAIL TRANSFER A 1^ f**\ '• from your bank to the following bank account :PEDRO BARRIO GUAZO, A Premature Obituary c.c. 8472, Banco Hispaiioamericano, ^ Although Wernher Von Braun is still Oficina Urbma Lopei; de Hoyos 126, •Jive, though bed-ridden with a terminal Madrid 2, Espana. case of cancer, we feal that this is the Correspondence to the National Committee appropriate time to wish him a speedy of the C.N.T. should be directed to: death. Jose Elizalde, Apartado de Correos ) 50.105, *The inventor of the V-2 rocket for Madrid, Espana. Hitler during World War 11 and author of Exchange copies of all publications (2 copies, the book "I Shoot for the Stars" (and please) to the international Group concerned hit London?). Von Braun is directly re- with collating news from the anar.-hist move- sponsible for the death of thousands of ment around the world and building a CNT Britons during the final days of the War. After a falling out with Hitler (Von ANARC Braun wanted to tend a V-2 rocket over 1 . What has Mickey Mouse to do with London every two minutes, while Hit- socialism? ler, humanitarian that he was, thought 2. What connection has anarchist Peter that one every hour wai a fair ax- Kropotkin with Soviet Militaiy Intelligence'' change), Von Braun decided to leek em- 3. Why is the term "chauvinist" inappro- ployment with a more understanding priate, though trendily used, to describe a government (England wanted him hung) sexually arrogant male? and is now head of the U.S. rocket re- 4. What was the Impossibilist Party or search division. Still shooting for the fraction? stars. 5. Which different political tendencies Well Wernher, we can't say it was nice in the last century were represented by having you around, but we do have one the Young lurks, Young England, regret: that you will die at a plush hos- Young Germany, Young Ireland and pital in the hands of trained physicians Young Italy V ..instead of at the hinds of the workers 6. Why is "Anarchy in the U.K." (the Werner Von Braun 1912-toon you «o eagerly slaughtered) punk rock song) impossible Fifth Estate, Detroit * '^SL ' IN SPAIN SPAIN is now in the process of being trans- Total amnesty is a demand the Govern- selves cannot run the factories the way formed from a dictatorship to a 'democracy ment is finding difficult to resist — hence they once did and which was only taken But what is a democracy nowadays? It is a the unprecedented step of allowing some from them by armed force? dictatorship which does not hit you on the Basque prisoners out provided they 'eave The Spanish Government is at the moment head. 'Democratic' politicians boast of the country. Hence the solidarity with scared stiff. It is between the devil of the their tolerance' and allow you to pick and the Basque country - evinced by the Army and the right-wing terror gangs, armed choose amongst them, as opposed to boast- complete stoppage of work in Catalonia by the military and encouraged by the police ing of their 'strength' and choosing for you. (though opposed by the Communist Party (often members of the police) which are Only 41 years ago the Spanish workers which is at one with the demand for 'quiet determined to keep the working class down resisted dictatorship and in the process elections'). The demands for no compulsory at all costs, even if it means going back to seized and ran the whole of industry for trade union levy (to the fascist vertical the worst excesses of Francoism, and the themselves. They were crushed by polit- syndicates) and the right to choose the deep blue sea of a working class which is ical duplicity and armed force. They union, is a demand made by the libertarians. not content with the contemptuous offer resisted armed forces for years and A minimal demand in Spain, it is beyond of a coat of whitewash. were the victims of genocide. Now when what we have in Britain when socialists, But while politicians may be scared for two sets of politicians, one lot which communists, maoists and trotskyists alike their skins, the Army and the various used the duplicity and the other lot advocate one trade union centre, 'unitary', State military groupings (Guardia Civil, which vised the armed force, come forward monolithic and utterly unrepresentative. Guardia de Asalto) and armed police, and and offer 'democracy' they look at it In Spain it was imposed as part of the the terror gangs have got the guns and askance, without hiding their enthusiasm fascist conquest: in Britain it has been there will be no freedom without it hav- for change - which goes a lot farther than presented as part of the 'great struggle' of ing to be fought for bitterly. This time the politicians are prepared to offer. the British^orkers. What is shown here there will not be a civil war — it should They are demanding as a start tofal as the 'social contract', a product of be noted that if there were the socialists amnesty and free trade unionism. The social democracy and the 'labour move- and communists would be lining up with two demands are minimal when one ment', is in Spain clearly seen as the the class enemy — but guerrilla war is compares the compensation rightly though action of fascism in crushing the working inevitable. The creation of an anarcho- inadequately paid by the West German class. They had to win a war to do it! syndicalist labour movement, which is a State to thc^iwTsh victims of Hitler to However much the politicians may wish major demand of the workers and which nothing by the Spanish fascist State in to do so, it is very difficult i is growing rapidly, will not suffice despite •Spain to its victims (and the number of the yearnings of many of the older generat- Spanish workers killed by the Falange, }our Party managed to do tor 1 ion and those influenced by leftism for the Army, the prison authorities, lynched capitalist class in Britain - years of too peaceful tranfition now - a quiet life at or died as the result of prison since the much"knoaking on the head" has last... Civil War, exceeds that of the German strained credulity. Even in the Republic there were attacks Jews killed by Hitler). What else are The centre parties cannot gain credence; on workers' organisation by the Government they getting out of the 'return to democ- the Marxist-Leninist parties show them- which created the Guardia de Asalto specific- racy' which the Government needs to sell selves in their true light for 'Vanguard' ally for that purpose, and by the Popular the Common Market? The collectivised parties abound and all have the same Front Government too. What chance is industries have long since been back in programme — let the working class line there that workers' organisation will be capitalist hands; savings, homes and jobs up in reformist trade unions under their allowed to develop freely under this mod- in the anti-Franco zones were wiped out leadership ("they only have of themselves ified fascism that wavers between monarchy by a bank decree which made the Repub- a trade union consciousness?" - didn't and constitutionalism, that sees a democrat- lican money worthless; the unions - with Big Daddy say so?) while the 'intellectuals' ic solution in admitting the Communist daily newspapers paid for by the sweat form the vanguards which will lead them Party to the role of running a monolithic of the \vorkers, halls, cultural centres — to consciousness. Unfortunately for the union on the French line, in which the were liquidated and their assets stolen theory however, the mass organisations police can organise as murder gangs and (and the thieves still possess these assets); of the working class reject their reformist pose as right wing extremists? thousands went into exile, or into prison, programmes, don't want their party lead- Massive support from outside Spain is or were killed. Who manufactured the ership, and are on their way to the 'left' needed to help the struggle. It didn't get 'criminals' for whom amnesty is demanded of them. (Alas, too, for the poor foreign it last time and it has never got it. With (as'well as the political prisoners) but those journalists trying to understand a situation what result everyone knows to their cost. who turned the workers' children out into where the extremists are anti-Moscow and the street when they shot or imprisoned the 'moderates' support it) How can the the parents? 'Vanguard' explain that the workers them-
Members of the Brigada Politico Social arresting a demonstrator in Spain adequate time to prepare their defence. A total of 180 prisoners received punish- ments varying from 60-810 days lost remission for taking part in the protests at Hull. As things stand Jake, still having to serve an extra 18 months in prison, will The London Evening News carried a sentences. I omit Prescott, who looks as become the first "Angry Brigade" defendent feature on the "Swastika Revolution" if he will be the "first in and last out" of to co inside, hut the last to come out. Ho linking the Sex Pistols ("Anarchy in prison, because he was not even found guilty deserves the solidarity of ALL our readers. the I TO nn
SPOT-THE-SPOOK Maigret? Sherlock Holmes? PopevcV Who is this mystery-man (left, centm who frequents Kings Cross railway buffet (just a zoom-lenze away from the TIMK OUT offices) and is pictured here admidst the crowd in Red Lion Square? A fret copy of our ANARCHO QUIZ BOOK will go to the lucky reader who gives us the correct answer. INTERNATIONAL NEWS AUSTRALIA: release. Letters protesting about Bill's An Army surgeon, Lieut. Tanaka. conduct- Bill O'Meally Victim of the State. imprisonment can be sent to the Australian ed a post-mortem examination and found In 1952 Bill O'Meally, then aged 30, was Prime Minister, Fraser, at The Lodge, that Osugi and Noe had "received a lot of sentenced to death for the murder of a Canberra. Australia. violence as far as their ribs and tongue supp- policeman. He was convicted despite Letters of solidarity can be sent to Bill at orted bones were broken" and that they evidence that he could not have been Castlemaine Jail, Castlemaine 3450, Victoria, were "subjected to outward suppression of responsible for the murder, evidence which Australia. their necks." They were then thrown down was suppressed deliberately by the Austral- [source Haptoc Family International) a well. ian police and the state prosecutor, Henry BULGARIA — Repression continues. Lieut. Tanaka died in China during the Winneke, now Governor of Victoria. Following the report of the "house" arrest war but. more than fifty years after the In an attempt to prejudice the jury against being applied to anarchist militant Kristo event, his wife has made his post mortem Bill O'Meally, a previous, unrelated, convict- Kolov which appeared in the last issue of papers public. (They are published in the ion for assaulting a police officer (in self- Black Flag, we have just heard about the arrest Japanese Anarchist Paper Le Libertaire, defence) was dragged out. The inevitable of two more libertarians: Dimitar Nedoklanov, December '76). This has ended the fiction happened and Bill was found guilty. After in Alfatar, and Georgui Bojilov, in the region that they were "killed in the earthquake". the trial, while still under sentence of death, of Sillistra. It has cast a momentary shadow on "legal- Bill made a fresh effort to clear his name, The Bulgarian communists are attempting ism". Had she made her exposure some bringing up the evidence that had been sup- to completely destroy the Bulgarian anarch- years earlier she too would have disappeared. pressed during the trial. This suppression ist movement dozens of anarcho-commur.- r Is it conceivable British workers would be of evidence was 'investigated' by the very ists and anarcho-syndicalists of the BACF interested in what happened a long time ago, same members of the police force, including and Bulgarian CNT are in prisons and forced in a far off country, to fellow humans with local homicide detective Tremenon, who had labour camps. a way out ideology? They are not now, been responsible for it in the first ptlace! Prisons and psychiatric hospitals in Bulgaria :i"il thev would not drive been then. Had Bill was saved from the gallows by a change are run on lines similar to those in the USSR, the story come out at the time and been in the state government, instead his sentence and people can be imprisoned for up to 10 published in the British press — a double was commuted to life imprisonment, with years without trial. his papers being marked "without remission- I source: Industrial Defence Bulletin, Toronto | Englishman would liave told his wife hovering around the breakfast table with the coffee never to be released". For 14 out of the JAPAN past 25 years Bill has been confined in a pot "that's the way to treat these anarch- It is a long time since 1923. Far too long ists...clever people these Japs"... and smiled 'Pentridge' cage: 4 paces long and less than for anybody to worry about the atrocities 2 wide. It has a 4 metre-high wall around it, with satisfaction at his own small son, destin- by the Japanese State against the workers, ed eighteen years later to be a victim of the topped by wire mesh. No one could see in and the anarchists in particular. Not too or out. very same officer class who felt they were long, of course, for writers to remember invincible against the world after defeating Since 1955 he has attempted to escape that in two or three cases the anarchists hit from prison on about 10 separate occasions, the enemy at home. •k and singled out one or two particularly CANADA and after one escape attempt he was flogged ious oppressors. But that was "terror- so badly that it took him three months to Tc.e Anarchist Party of Canada (Groucho ism", and individual terrorism at that. The Marxist) has pushed this Oreo Cookie Cream recover. Several times he has been the reason for it is glossed over. victim of unofficial beatings. Pie into the face of Eldridge Cleaver because After the Kanto earthquake the gendarm- he is a turncoat fink and front man for what During 1976 he was allowed out of prison erie were in full command of the country, for one day, to visit some members of his is alleged to be a CIA-fronted religious group. and behaved as they liked, in particular While most of Eldridge's onetime comrades family, an event he wrote about for the against "enemies of the State". In the course in the Black Liberation Army have been Australian daily paper The Age. of it, Osugi and his wife Noe Ito, together murdered by the racist U.S. State or are Bill, however, is back in prison, and could with their little nephew Solichi Tachibana currently rotting in prisons, he is free to well stay there, literally for the rest of his (only six years old) were strangled by four travel with the likes of Waterbugger Charles life unless something is done to secure his gendarmes on 16 September, 1923. Colson, shooting his mouth off for pay about the glories of American "democracy". ££. GCULAC 9ULGASE The "I Found It" campaign is endorsed K°uj*«'O © fi Dim«d»i by such people as William F. Buckley who has admitted CIA affiliations in the past. fc° ®«a * Pirgovo "I FOUND IT" has access to a multi-million dollar budget for its international campaign. (What sort of profit are they finding?) We used an Oreo Cookie Cream Pie be- cause Oreo Cookies are black on the out- side and white on the inside, just like e" Sllijjrovo/^j_'— «5 " Eldridge Cleaver and his participation in J/— * ~ the White Man's pseudo religious "I Found It" shell game. If Eldridge was able to find it, imagine who must have lost it. So remember Eldridge, if you turn the HM^OVO other cheek — you're going to catch a pie that side too. Jesus isn't going to give us pie in the sky when we die, we're going to give Eldridge pie in the face now! [Press release: Anarchist Party of Canada, Bulgarian Prisons and Labour Camp; Groucho Marxist] INTERNATIONAL NEWS. . . ' WEST-GERMANY U.S.A. Know your enemy, no. 365, the terrorists..../%A<^> C^nJ The U.S. military is designing new and Buback Execution Document deadly uses for the laser beam. The air (cont. from front page) force has developed a laser device called the of the continuing struggle - for the from revenging themselves on the Eye Popper which is mounted in aeroplanes revolutionary movement she pei sonnies imprisoned fighters for the activities and aimed at the eyes of ground crews. The an ideological nvant-carde. whic'i Buback's of the guerrilla outside laser beam causes the human eyes to explode false allegation of suicide shows; her We will prevent the Federal attorney- causing instantaneous blindness. death used by the 1 cueul legislature ship iruin niaMiig use ot the louiih [ source: Yipster Times] as propaganda, "the failed judgement" collective prison hunger-strike with the The Right to Self-defence. of armed politics - was intended to minimum of human rights, in order to Inez Garcia, a thirty two year old farmworker morallv destroy the eroup. their murder Andreas (Baader), Gudrun of Puerto Rican-Cuban descent, with one sfniucles. and all *rnce of their activities (Fnsslin) and Jan (Raspe). such as the child, has been aranted rt re trinl nfter sprvinj: The Federal attorney's strategy - psychological war-directive since Ulrike's 15 months in the California Institute for whose office has carried out searches and death has openlv propogated. Women and has been released on bail. She pioceedings against the RAF since 1971 - had been charged with 2nd degree murder of The armetl resistance and the anti-imper- runs aloug the lines ot the NA1O Security ialist front is organising in \testern Europe. her rapist. Committee's policy on anti-subversion On March 19, 1974, Inez was raped by strategy, i.e. the incrimination of revo- The war in the cities leads in the internat- Luis Castillo (17) with the assistance of his lutionary resistance, which means ional struggle for freedom. friend, Miguel Jimenez (21) who held her tactical infiltrationary steps, the Ulrike Meinhof Commando down (Jimenex weighs 300 Ibs). Shortly demoralisation and isolation of the guerrilla Red Armv Fraction. after the rape the two men and a friend of and the elimination ol their leadership. theirs threatened to kill Inez if she didn't . Within the framework of the BRS's leave town, so she took her young son's imperialist counter-strategy against the .22 air rifle, walked into the street wTiere SWEDISH COLLABORATION WITH guerrilla. Justice is an instrument of war WEST GERMAN AUTHORITIES. she encountered Jimene7 and Castillo. — in the persecution of the illegally Jimenez threw a knife at Inez and she active guerrilla, and in the annihilation More than thirty people were arrested in Stock- shot him. Castillo ran away. In all less of the pnsoners-of-war. holm, Sweden, at the beginning of April in con- than 15 minutes had elapsed since the rape. Buback whom Schmidt has called nectiori with what the Swedish authorities Inez was arrested and charged with the "a vigorous fighter" for the State - has claimed to be a plot to kidnap Anna Greta first degree murder of Jimenez, the son of the same understanding of war as we do and 1,-eijon, a former Swedish Foreign Minister. local land owners. During the trial, how- Leijon was responsible for the deportation ever, the Judge restricted the defence to is a war with other expedients." of members of the "Holger Meins Commando" such an extent that the appellate court What revolutionary war is — and this including Siegfried Hausner - who died of insisted on a re trial. The re trial will cost is something that Buback will not touch his wounds as a result of being moved - in between &0 - $70,000, but Inez needs — is the continuation, the solidarity, the 1975 after the attack on the West German moral as well as financial support: love, which guerrilla activity is. Embassy in Stockholm. Write to : Viva Inez, 2486 Grove Street, We will prevent the murder of our Amongst those arrested were three Latin Berkeley, California 94704, USA. fighters in West German prisons, because American refugees, including Armando [ source: Second Wave] the Federal attorney has no way out Carrillo, a Mexican urban guerrilla freed from FRANCE (since the prisoners will not cease to a 40 yeai jail sentence in Mexico who arrived in Sweden in December 1975, a 23 year old More on the GARI Three: struggle), other than liquidating them. We will prevent the Federal attorney- Englishman working for the Swedish Refugee Judge Pia, the examining magistrate in ship and the state police organisation Council (similar to Amnesty International), the case of the three remaining GARI and two West Germans, Norbert Kroecher prisoners in France (Michel Camilleri, France cont. (26) and Manfred Adomeit, both of whom Mario Ines Torres, Jean Marc Rouillon), to the beginning of the investigations. At are alleged to belong to the 2nd June Move- died in March. .,..-.:»• the present pace of Fiench justice this ment. Our three comrades have been in means that out comrades must wait another Police in Stockholm say they found 30 prison since September/December 1974 three years behind prison bars before forged passports; a police uniform; a terr- without yet coming to trial. The Court they are put on trial, i.e. an effective jail orist "library1'; telephone monitoring equip- State of Security held their dossier from sentence of 6 years without being tried or ment, and IS'/ilbs of dynamite together with 20 September 1974 until, on 12 March sentenced! Nothing has been proved fuses in an apartment rented by Kroechner. 1976, deciding it was not competent to against them, and with the French police Both Kroechner and Adomeit have since handle the case and excusing themselves and judiciary taking three years of been deported to West Germany where, on by saying that the GARI prisoners were investigations to produce no evidence at April 5, Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback attempting to use the court as a tribune. all it is obvious that, if and when the trial announced they would be tried on charges Eight days after this, Judge Pia once begins, nothing will be. of belonging to "a criminal organisation" - more took charge of the case. But accord- The French State is holding Camilleri, far more serious than any charges they could ing to French law the three prisoners Tories and Rouillon as political hostages. have faced in Sweden. should have been released as soon as the It knows that any trial would result in The Mexican, Carrillo, about whom scare Court of State Security relinquished their release, so such a trial is postponed stories had been spread by the Swedish police responsibility for them. Even Le Monde indefinitely. We call upon all our readers after his arrival in the country. Although he (30.3.77) has to ask "how, professionally, to send letters of protest to the French was allowed to enter Sweden after being held do they excuse keeping them inside Government and their local diplomatic for a month he was never granted political during these eight days?" representatives calling for their immediate asylum and has now been deported with his So Pia took over the dossier and began release. Chilean wife. once more from scratch. That was a year * '' A- Buback, who had given a press conference ago; now he has died, so now yet another STOP PRESS: All three comrades have after the arrests (2/4/77) and talked about judge must be given the case and go back now been released on bail. "...a small but determined gang ot terrorists 1 Caudillo of the
TTie Woody dictatorship of Fidel Castro end fine feathered fellow travellers - who ensured The facts...are the following: Weeks his clique, whatever the mask it may wear or their mass support through the implementation before Batista fled Cuba, when the rebel the objectives it may claim to have, IS THE REAL COUNTERREVOLUTION. of social reform policies. The only difference forces advanced in Las Villas Province -Argentine Libertarian Federation, July 1961. between them and Castro is in the rhetoric without meeting serious resistance from department. The traditional caudillo was government troops, Fidel Castro, almost THE CUBAN REVOLUTION: A CRIT- propped up by Yankee Imperialism; Fidel, by immobilised in Oriente province, contact- ICAL PERSPECTIVE, Black Rose Books, the Soviets. ed Colonel Rizo Rubido, military com- Montreal, 1976, £4.00. Going back to the 1924 Ibauez dictatorship mander of the fortress at Santiago de THE PEOPLE ARE EATING BETTER, in Chile, we see that social welfare policies Cuba, and began negotiations with this iiave free health cute, subsidised or free were pursued; the Junta that grabbed power officer of the Batista army for the surr- housing, mass transit fares are only token- in Peru in 1968 instituted social reforms as ender of the city, the capital of Oriente claims like these unite the apologists of well (and he quotes Castro as saying that the Province... With the help of a Catholic state capitalist tyranny from China west- Peruvian agrarian reform was much more priest...Fidel Castro and General Cantillo wards to Russia, ports in between, then '"radical" than what was done in Cuba after reached full agreement and General Cant- souhtward to Cuba. Written with well the Revolution). illo surrendered Santiago de Cuba and fed righteous indignation, these decent The best example of a right wing caudillo the whole province...to Castro. These "liberal" people breath condecension to following social welfare policies - is that of events were related by Castro himself all that question the lack of freedom in Juan Peron in Argentina. Although the on television and reported in 1959 in the so called Communist States - "F original basis of Peron's power was the the magazine "Bohemia", which reprod- do in is a bourgeois luxury!" the; military, his real base of support lay in his uced actual nhotographs of the notes echoing Lenin, wallowing in their calorie own (and Evita's) popularity with the exchanged between Fidel Castro and counted guilt complexes. Then they go descamisados - the "shirtless ones." That General Cantillo. on to tell us about the increase in the ions and control of the labour movement. Fulgencio Batista then summoned of pig iron produced or sugar cane cut under In this regard, Dolgoff documents the General Cantillo to Havana and told the ever glorious current Five Year Plan, actual links between Peron and Castro - him of his decision to abdicate and blithely ignoring the prison camps, the the latter's proclamation of days of mourn- appoint him (General Cantillo) as Com- repression of all civil rights (in the name ing on the occasion of Peron's death; that mander in Chief of the army to maintain of the Revolution! (. revelling in the mind- Super-Revolitionary Che Guevara was in order and return the country to normalcy. less uniformity of appearance, ideas and informal contact with leading Peronists. General Cantillo accepted Batista's offer mass demonstrations. They like to tell The idea of Castro as caudillo is more than and immediately contacted Fidel Castro, us that the uniformity is proof of the just a matter of interpretation; it was an informing him that he was ready to not on-going democratic impulses of the Unity recognised by Castro himself. only surrender Oriente Province, but the Revolution, rather than the force-fed Castro's accession to power, too, is not whole country. A few hours later, Bat- results of Statist repression... far from the palace coup tradition as we ista...left Havana for Santo-Domingo... Of course, these are the very sanw have been led to believe. There is no doubt This happened at dawn, January 1st, 1959. people that raise their dainty hands in that lus 2(i July Movement fought hard and With the flight of Batista, all the armed horror at fixed union elections, pornography bravely against Batista but the 26th July forces surrendered without firing a single statutes and the displacement of left wing Movement was not the only anti-Batista shot. General Cantillo transferred com- mini-parties from election ballots. Filled force operating in Cuba — there were groups mand of his army to Colonel Ramon with guilt about having three square meals all over the country, all of whom wore down Barquin who had just been released, after ;i day they cast their sneering pearls before the Batista regime to the point of collapse — being sentenced to imprisonment for us swine, in the self-fulfilling prophetic hope groups both in the country and the city (the conspiring against the Batista government. that we will continue to be the same boors role of urban anti-Batista forces has been Upon assuming command...Colonel we always have been. You know the type: consistently downplayed — they did not Barquin told Fidel Castro that the army they get a free trip behind the iron/bamboo/ support Castro). Among the many fascin- and he personally was at his disposal and sugar cane curtain and tell us of the wonders ating documents included in this book under his orders and that,he (Barquin) of the regimented life in the workers' father- (many for the first time in English) is a would remain only as long as Castro lands. 'Tffl|^r|q«'#ip^the regimented series of articles ("Revolution and Counter- wants me to or until he was replaced. working stiff foots the bill without being Revolution") written by the veteran Cuban Fidel Castro immediately ordered his asked, courtesy of "his" State. anarchist, Abelardo Iglesias. One of those [ehel troops,to occupv all installations, Serve the People! (who are, after all, too articles, "History of a Fraud: the 'March on barracks and fortresses. In line with dumb to serve themselves); Cheap Bus Fares Havana,' " describes exactly how Castro these orders, Camillo Cienfuegos with on the road to Socialism, don't need a car, came to actual power. We can do no better a force of only 300 men, occupied Camp cause the trains now run on time, thanks to than quote Iglesias: Military City after 1 2,000 Batista troops, the Wisdom of the Selfless Conductor; the The romantic aura surrounding Castro's including aviation, artillery and tank units, only songs to be sung are tider. legendary exploits must be dispelled. The surrendered without firing a shot.. Fidel Castro as a variation of the "tradition- myth of his alleged "March on Havana" (Dolgoff, p. 9If.) al" Latin American lider maxima, a caudillo captured the imagination of his deluded Power, then, was HANDED to Castro. sprinkled with Stalinist rhetoric - this is one sympathisers, must once and for all be Castro — in common with traditional Latin of the most interesting aspects in Sam Dol- debunked. We who lived in Cuba, who American cuudillos — has made great strides goffs latest book, The Cuban Revolution: witnessed, and to a certain extent partic- in the area of social welfare policies — this A Critical Perspective. Dolgoff gives example ipated in the events, have too much cannot be denied. And through the Com- after example of Latin American dictators — respect for the truth to remain silent in munist Party, he controls the labour move- all of whom were looked down upon by our the face of such serious misconceptions. ment. The biggest deviation of Castro from the traditional caudilL) pattern is in his relat- To gain a power foothold, the Commun- without arrogance that the people of ions with the Communists. The traditional ists were ready to betray the popular rising. Cuba have the magnificent Constitution lideres maximos took power claiming that Twenty-one days after Machado fell, the their coups were the country's only altern- Batista dictatorship began. Under Batista, Batista lost to Grau Martin in the early ative to communism; and repression of com- only one "union" — "Labour Front" is 40s. In 1947, Grau turned against the munists followed. But this does not take the bettor word - was recognised: the CTCCommunists; a drive to purge communists into account the history of the Cuban (Cuban Confederation of Labour). In 1940. from the CTC was instituted. But the Communist Party (CPC) - a history of the PSP, then led by Francisco Calderio communists were not just mere victims of collaboration with brutal right-wing dictators. (alias Bias Roca) agreed to and did support government-organised red -baiting; a Founded by 10 people in 1925 during the Batista's candidates in the elections. The reflection of their loss in popularity was Machado dictatorship, the CPC (then known pay-off — and I am not using the word shown in their dismal performance in as the PSP - People's Socialist Party) began sarcastically was to turn over the leader- national elections. When Batista regained its career of treachery to the working class ship and control of the State-sanctioned power in 1952, the Party zigged and /agged as Machado's regime collapsed. It was during CTC to the Communists. Installed by the - at the same time! - a difficult feat, even the reign of Machado that the Cuban Anarcho- gangster regime as us head wa;> the for those most adroit of 7ip-7apgers. Officially, Syndicalist movement was dealt near death Communist I^azaro Pena. And as if that the Party opposed Batista - at the same time blows - it took Fidel to finish them off. In act of be'rayal were not enough, Com- leading Communists served in the government. August 1933 a general strike started the down munists were given positions in the presid- When Fidel Castro entered the stae»* fall of Machado - spearheaded by the ential cabinet — partners in crime! Sam with his ill-fated attack on the Moncada Anarcho-Syndicalist-influenced trolley Dolgoff notes: Barracks in 1953, his act was roundly workers union and the Communist- ... In exchange Ir these favours the condemned by the Communists: controlled bus workers union. In a desperate communists guaranteed Batista labour \Vj repudiate the putschist methods, last-minute attempt to preserve power, peace. In line with the Communist peculiar to bourgeois political factions, Machado negotiated with the Communists Party's "Popular Front against Fascism" of the action ... which was an adventuristic - if they would call off the general strike, policy, the alliance of the Communist attempt to take both military headquarters. he would recognise the Party and place its Party with the Batista was officially The heroism displayed by the participants bureaucrats at the head of some of the labour consumated when the Party joined the ... is false and sterile, as it is guided by unions. This agreement was made between . . . government. Tue Communist Party mistaken bourgeois conceptions, but the regime and the Central Committee of leaders Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Juan even more we repudiate the repression the Communist-controlled CNOC (National Marinello (who now hold high posts in dictated by the government... Confederation of Cuban Workers). The rest the Castro government) became Ministers The entire country knows who of the story is told in the "Manifesto to the Without Portfolio in Batista's Cabinet. organised, inspired and directed the Cuban Workers and People in General" To illustrate the intimate connections action... and knows that the Communists written by the Federation of Anarchist between the communists and Batista, had nothing todftnrith it. ffltoUneof- we quote from a letter of Batista to Bias the PSFand the mass movement has been The Roca, Secretary of the Communist Party: to combat the Batista tyranny and to to the workers to go back to work unmask the putschists and adventuristic June 13, 1944 because the employers granted their Dear Bias, activities of the bourgeois opposition as demands. But the workers (including being against the interests of the people ... With respect to y««Jr> letter which*our It was not until after Batista's generals even the Havana bus and transportation mutual friend,Dr.Carlos Rafael Rodrigues union, controlled by the communists) Minister Without Portlolio, passed to me. handed power to Castro that the Communists refused. They decided to obey only their I am happy to again express my firm started to openly support Castro - an own conscience and to continue resistance unshakeable confidence in the loyal extremely embarassing poition for a until the Machado regime is overthrown cooperation the People's Socialist "revolutionary" collaborator with a right- wing dictator. It was the influence of Soviet or forced to flee. Party ... its leaders and members have Machado and his communist allies eiven and continue to eive myself and bloc aid and Rdel Castro's opportunism retaliated. No labour union was that lead to the Castro-Communist fusion — rny government.. Believe me, as always, aalowed to meet. The Havana Federa- prior to that time, he had talked in terms Your very affectionate and cordial tion of Labour (FOH, founded by the of "neither capitalism nor communism." friend, anarcho-syndicalists), to which the On Dec. 2,1961, Castro delivered his largest number of non-political labour famous "1 am a Marxist-Leninist and will unions were affiliated, could not meet (Dolgoff, p.53). remain one until the last days of my life" because it did not have a signed The Communists collaborated with Batista speech. Zeitlin and Scheer, in their Cuba : authorisation from the government. in writing Cuba's ) 940 Constitution — a Tragedy In Our Hemisphere, maintain that Only the communists, thanks to their "democratic" constitution that coexisted he never made the statement. Whether he betrayal, were allowed to meet. Armed with Batista's dictatorship in the same way made the statement or not, I don't know; with revolvers while all others were that Stalin's "democratic" constitution that he did is supported by what Herbert torbidden to hold or carry arms and coexisted with Stlainism. Bias Roca wrote: Mat hews wrote about conversations in constitutional rights were suspended, Together, Batista and oursevles, with Cuba after the speech: the communists held meetings, rode the energetic mobilisation of the populai ... On my next trip to Cuba I complained in automobiles burning gasoline masses, achieved the convocation of the to him and everybody I met, not that supplied by the army because the filling free and dovereign Constituent Assembly the embrace of Marxism-Leninism was stations were closed by the strike ... the normalisation of the University, the now open, but that his ... speech was ... in conclusion we want the workers manesty for political prisoners; measures so badly constructed and confusing that and the people of Cuba to know that the that created a climate of guarantees and his enemies could pick sentences out of rent for the offices of the communist liberty in the country, that brought the it... to give the impression that Fidel party labour front the CNOC is paid legalisation of activity, together with was confessing he had been a Communist by the Machado regime, that the our Party, to all parties and revolutionary since his college days. He agreed with furniture was forcibly taken away sectors, thus initiating the process of me that, of course, he had not meant from the Havana Federation of Labo normal and peaceful development of all to imply this... My Cuban friends offices with the permission and active civic activities. commiserated with me over the way Fidel help of Machado's Secretary of War. Thanks to our collaboration with . had made his startling announcement, (Dolgoff, p. 48: President Batista, we can affirm today **/•. *«* < * not he undone.^ State. How does it pay the State to provide the New Socialist Man people motivated In the final analysis, of course, whether so many "free" services? Since the by higher ethical/moral imperatives. The he made that particular statement is of little communists have destroyed every attempt social welfare reforms are supposed to be importance: there can be no doubt today 'n' the people to develop social institutions, supplying the pre-conditions for true that he aligns himself wholly with the practices, etc.. under their own control and freedom. Freedom, however, cannot be Communists - not to mention that he is at their own initiative, it cannot be that the given: It must be taken. Dolgoff notes: the First Secretary of the CPC's Central State is simply being solicitous of its But all attempts to institute socialism Committee ... subejcts' (victims') well-being. Then why? hv decree. ;i« Rakunin foresaw over a Let us return to the theme of Communisi One, it goes towards assuring popular suppcv century ago, leads inevitably to the betrayal of the working class and collabora- for the regime; Two by providing all of thesi enslavement of the people by the tion with dictatorship. The CPC control of "free" services, wage costs are cut — hence authoritarian State. They (sic) attempt the CTC (Castro, incidentally, turned leader- more profit — to be ploughed back in the to build communism failed because the ship of the CTC over to one who had had economy, to be used for the financing of "new socialist man" can be formed only experience under Batista: the Communist coercion, and enable the Party leaders to within the context of a new and free Lazaro Pena) is similar to the activities of live in the style to which they have become society, based not upon compulsion, but Portuguese Communists - setting up one accustomed. "Free" social services as a upon voluntary cooperation. The attempt state-sanctioned union under Communist factor in reducing production costs (wages) failed because it was not implemented control. In Spain, there are tendencies was analysed particularly well in a document by thorough going libertarian changes within the same direction: witness the written in 1964 by the two Polish in the authoritarian structure of Cuban Communist participation in the closest Communist dissidents — who both received society. Communisation and forming thing Spain had to a state-sanctioned "union" jail terms for their efforts: "An Open Letter the "new socialist man" actually - the so-called "Workers' Commissions." to the Party" by Jacek Kuron and Karol camouflaged the militarisation of Cuba . . . And the recent announcements by Santiago Mod7elewski In regard to free medical (Dolgoff p. 154) Carillo that the Communists are willing to care, they noted: Authoritarian means result in Authoritarian recognise the monarchy! Franco's boy Juan The workers receive medical care free ends: and the "new socialfst man" has Carlos embracing the old Stalinist hack — and can buy medicines at a discount, become the voluntary slave. That or rather vice versa. Memories of Unlce but these are necessary in order to "thorough going libertarian changes" were Joe and Adolf! Communist betrayal is preserve his labour power; they are the not implemented was not due to lack of nothing new (only a caudillo welcoming ingredients of his subsistence minimum. trying, as this book demonstrates. The it is) — remember the KPD collaboration If free medical care were abolished and Cuban Anarcho-Syndicalists fought the with the Nazis? May 1974 - a million rents increased, the workers' wages would good fight. They tried to show and tried railroad workers in India go on strike — the have to be raised in proportion to the to implement these changes. The answer Communist Party of India (CPI) opposing increase in his necessary expenses. These by the Moulders of New Socialist Man was it. More than 60,000 workers were non-returnable benefits and services are Repression. The results we see today: imprisoned. When Indira Ghandi declared a necessary part of the workers' subsis- the Cuban economy in a shambles, life her State of Emergency in June 1975, only tence minimum, a wage supplement as and labour militarised, children militarised. two political parties supported her: the necessary to the workers as the wages This book must be read. I have only Congress Party (her own) and - you guessed themselves, and therefore a constituent touched upon one small aspect of the book -- it - the CPI. of production costs. there is so much more. It represents the , Let us return to our professional "liberal" Healthier wage slaves make for healthiei first full-length, comprehensive view of apologists who see free medical care, tree/ production norms: in a developing economy the Cuban Revolution from a revolutionary subsidised housing, cheap bus fares and such as Cuba's, the need for more educated perspective. It is an important book. | free education (but not education to think, wage-slaves is necessary - hence the educ- Shelby Shapiro. to develop, to create, to be free; education ational reforms. Social reform policies - no Footnotes: to do what the State requires) as trfe be-all matter how benelicial and/or well-meaning 1. Maurice Zeitlin & Robert Scheer, Cuba : and end-all of social existence. The Cuban — are not signs of Revolution. They can be Tragedv in our Hemisphere (NY: Grove economy (as with the other so-called and have been granted just as easily under Press, Inc. 1963), p. 114. "communist" states) is in reality State reactionaries — witness Bismarck's social 2. Ibid., llSff. Capitalism: wage slavery, managerial security programmes, fhey serve io 3. Ibid.,117f. hierarchy, extraction of profits from the increase profits, insure mass support, and 4. Ibid., 21 If. workers' labour power, leaders and led, thus perpetuate the system (whatever that 5. Herbert L. Mathews, A \torldin masters and slaves, "alienated" labour. As system may be). In other words - give it Revolution (NY: ('has. Scribner's Sons, in the other so-called Communist countries, to them, before they start taking it them- 1971), p. 319f. workers' self-management of the means of selves. 6. Jacek Kuron & Karol Modzelewski, An production does not exist; everything in the Theoretically, the end-product of Open Letter To The Party (London: hands of the State, for the State, by the Castroism-Communism is supposed to be International Socialism, n.d.)., p. 13. Wounded comrades Sonnenberg & Becker being evacuated after Shootout. alleged to have shot Buback) did they run* away from armed police without taking the guns with them. As it is, the weapons held in evidence against them were used to wound THEM! Sonnenberg may well die as a result of his wounds and Becker sits wounded in a prison cell: both shot down, unarmed, by the defenders of law and order. Who's conspiracy9
RED ARMY FRACTION TRIAL On 28th April, after a trial lasting two years, the three remaining RAF defen- dants — Andreas Baader. Gudrun Ensslin and Jan Carl Raspe were all sentenced to iife imprisonment. During the trial their defence was haiassed rind impeded conversations between the lawyers and their clients were bugged, some lawyers did not plead while others were appointed for them. The accused were prevented from attending most of the trial and prevented who can strike at any time..." was sharply car!- critically wounding Sonnenberg in the from expressing their political reminded of his words five days later when head and wounding ius companion in the motivations. a motorbike drew up alongside his limousine leg. The girl has since been identified as In protest against this state of as it waited at traffic lights in Karlsruhe and Vera Becker. affairs the RAF and other political the passenger drew out a submachine gun Sonnenberg was taken to hospital and Beckei prisoners in jails throughout West Germany and opened fire killing Buback, his driver and to the maximum security prison at Stanheim started a hunger strike on 30 March. On wounded the bodyguard. Responsibility for near Stuttgart. She had been jailed in 1972 30 April Gudrun Ensslin made the Buback's execution was later claimed by the for involvement in the bombing of a British following statement: "Ulrike Meinhof Commando" in a telephone boat club in West Berlin (claimed by the "In the past few days all efforts at call to the DPA news agency in Bonn (see RAF) and was one of five people released breaking the strike of more than 100 document on front page). in exchange for kidnapped CDU politician r force feeding failed. After I anaesthetists had Buback, who issued the 354 page document Peter Lorenz in 1975 who were flown to 1 of charges against Baader, Enslin, Meins, and South Yemen. Gunter Sonnenberg (22) ninister psychic Meinhof when the trial opened in 1975, is is said by West German police to be their drugs and narcotics, the director of the second "Baader-Meinhof" judge to die. "number one fugitive" on their "most Stammheim prison communicated to The West German Supreme Court President, wanted" list. He had previously been us '... binding delcarations of the Guenther von Drenckmann, was shot dead arrested for demonstiating against prison Justice Minister..' saying that'... on 10 November 1974 by 2nd June Movement conditions in a courtroom. in consideration of advice from medical in retaliation for the murder of Holger Meins experts, a re-grouping of political (killed by prison doctors after ending a hunger prisoners at Stammheim and in other strike). Land (regional states) of the Federal The following day, 8 April, the West German republic and enlarging of the places of police announced that they wanted to question detention will be effected immediately.' Gunter Sonnenberg, Christian Klar and Knut This decision came tti result of a Volkerts in connection with Buback's death. Federal cabinet meeting. This is why, These three were first named as being wanted the principal demands of the strikers by the police last year after the arrest of Sieg- having been met, they decided to end the fried Haag, a former defence lawyer for strike." Baader. In a long letter to Chancellor Helmut On 3 May Sonnenberg was spotted with a Schmidt and the Federal government, girl in a cafe in the German/Swiss frontier Guenter Sonnenberg, above, released on the eve of the hunger strike. town of Singen by an old lady who informed and Verena Becker. the prisoners attempt to explain the the local police. Two policemen approached context of the trial within the wider the couple demanding to see their identity framework of a combined US-West papers. They were told they were in the European counter-insurgency strategy. couple's car and were led outside by the pol- Their letter consists of a list of demands The West German authorities claim that which set forth in detail the lengths the this point Sonnenberg then produced a sub- West German state has been prepared to ;hine gun from his rucksack and shot the go in order to "contain" and "neutralise" policemen, hitting one in the chest and the anti-capitalist opposition. Summarised, other in the arm. Sonnenberg and the girl the points are in three main categories. then flagged down a passing car and drove First, the strategy and aims of the US off in the direction of Stuttgart. With three There is only the word of the police and Federal German governments police cars in pursuit they took a wrong turn- to say that the submachine gun (said by together with the EEC in planning policy ing and drove down a dead-end street. Real- ballistics experts to be the weapon used against anti-capitalist political movements: ising their mistake Sonnenberg and the girl to execute Buback), pistols, revolvers, the prisoners say that discussions resulting abandoned the or and tried to run off and forged identity papeis "found" in in policy commitments on counter- through a nearby park. Police opened fire the rucksacks of Sonnenberg and Becker insurgency made by the Federal govern- with machine-guns and revolvers - which they were in the couple's possession. Why, if ment involving US diplomats and poli- later claimed they found in Sonnenberg's they had shot two policemen (and are ticians, senior staff of the US Army, the general secretariat of NATO Action three, collective defence was forbidden covert war which runs counter to the rights Committee, the secret service of the and defence lawyers Croissant Groenwold of man. tactics which it is legitimate to Federal Republic, the Council of Ministers and Stroebele was excluded by the state resist, since they contravene the of the EEC and conferences of Ministers prosecutor under the emergency laws no. constitution." of the Interior of the EEC resulted in the 138 and 146 "... as the result of tactical - Peoples'fUews Service - declaration of the long-term aim of considerations" (Buback). "immunising" (Brandt) society against In addition in this the defence was anti-capitalist movements and permanently made more difficult by the appointing of ULRIKE institutionalising opposition to US lawyers chosen by the state, the bugging With - expertisfltf" 3p^e foreign policy in Western Europe. The of conversations between lawyers and they tried their best their clients and the bugging of homes, short-term object was the neutralisation That you, Ulrilce of those radical groups that had, since offices and telephones of the former. As the banning of legal opposition to the a reuslt of information gathered in this would death Vietnam war, taken up arms (viz. the way, witnesses were pressured, defence RAF). witnesses kept out of the trial and friends an honest rebel. Secondly, the vigorous implemenation and employees of the lawyers were And so one morning of this policy by the Federal government. approached by the Federal security lined up vfafljfji cell Counter-insurgency units of the US Army services who wanted them to act as spies. they slipped you a noose operate in West Germany, personnel from Furthermore, lawyers Croissant and Stroebele were arrested with the conscious their only hope the Federal republic's police and army thus finally their hangman werr trnined in these nicf!"
A SYMBOLIC RKPRKSENTAT- 1ON OF:
Marxist Politicians Changing the Party Line or Leninists Demonstrating the Prin- ciple of a Workers' State Of The Labour Party Defending the Pound or Members of the Anarchist Workers Association Expelling Each Other from the Platform. " or The Creation of a New Section of the Trotskyist Fourth Inter- national or A Fund-Raising Event for Black
ot... (Prizes for all good entries but, please, no references to Freedom Press editorial meetings or Philip Sansom demonstrating his wonder- ful oratorical abilities to young admirers.) "•• "ifftftt-.l. - .-*• mistaken. The strike was essentially about felt this was a good issue of Black Flag. the erosion of the 'differentials' of skilled Yours in solidarity, Letters persons. Toolroom committee spokes- Barry Woodling Dear Unmade*, persons continually emphasised this fact. 1) It is just not true that the strike (totally Far from raising the issue of workers' self {Misrepresented in tin1 national press) was This concerns the "In Memoriam" column management as your correspondent suggests, about differentials. It wan not even about celebrating the heroic act of Herschel Gryns- the workers were in effect demanding pay. The press always seeks to distort zpan in assassinating the Nazi vom Rath in improvements in the existing managerial every strike attempt and to portray it in 1938. It looks as if there was a typesetter's structure (greater efficiency, expertise, false colours, ro as io denigrate the workers mistake as to the year of his birth. Gryns- competence, etc.) to ensure that their precisely its it does with revolutionary zpan was born in 1921, not 1911 (ENCYC- status and privileges as 'aristocrats' of movements. However, even if tht strike LOPAEDIA JUDAICA, Vol. 7, p.954, labour would be safeguarded within a viable were about 'differentials' this is a slanted Jerusalem: Kcter Publishing House, 1971). and profitable company At no time to my word invented by journalists (anxious He was therefore only 17 years old when /oiowledge was any attempt made by the enough tc maintain their own special he shot votii Rath. It is not known when, workers to develop the dispute along lines status). People naturally want, at least, and if, he died The elaborate show trial that promoted self activity and self manage- to keep up with the rise in prices. 4i:ait>sr planned for Grynszpan never came off; ment The fundamental need in the Ley- what, in j jpitalist society, is the worth he seamed to have disappeared in 1942 land situation was to develop a unity of oj a job measured? One should measure (see Rita Thalmann & Emmanuel Feiner- working people across craft lines and up, not measure down (and anyway one mann, CRYSTA NIGHT 9-10 NOVEMBER irrespective of skills, on an anarcho-syndic- does ill. The "aristocrats"of labour 1938, London, Thames & Hudson, 1974). alist basis. Unfortunately, recognition of He was sighted - alive! - in Paris in 1957 this need was conspicuous by its absence. have their skills to sell, but the 'muscle' (sec Gerald Reitlinger, THE FINAL SOLUT The pernicious influence e~ differentials fas its miade to sell (and sometimes gets ION, New York, Thomas Yoselof, 1961 - fosters major divisions in the working class moicjiir
:•',.' •' ' ' ' ' •'-. •' ' -•• ' - Mr. James Carter, President, used to house "the most dangerous men Mr. President, the above are the "most White House in America." Listed below is a profile of dangerous black men in America." They 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue the "most dangerous men in America." have committed "terrible" rule violations Washington D.C. 20500. Ismail Muslim Ali (LaBeet) has been to earn this label from the Warden and in the control unti for 13 months. Reason? the Bureau of Prisons Eight other Blacks Mr. President, "Out of place." He was in an unassigned are charged with some type of assault. 5 Due to your recent stand on human area, talking to some of his friends. Me are on a variet of lesser charges. 2 Chicanos rights, I want to call your attention to is a Muslim. and 2 Blacks are charged with murder. 1 the wholesale violation of human rights Andrew D. Kelly has been in the control Chicano was charged with assault. Of the here at the United States Penitentiary, unit on indefinite status - 5 months so far. 16 Whites, most were charged with escape: Marion, Illinois. Reason? "Insolence to a white guard." 4 are charged with assault. No Whites were There is a prison within a prison here Randolph B. Peoples has been in the charged with ''insolence", putting letters in called the long-term control unit. It has control unit since October 1976. Reason? the wrong mailbox, being out of place, or become known throughout the world as "Refusing to obey an order." refusing to obey an order. the "notorious" H-Unit. Prisoners are Eddie Griffin, chairman of the Black There is a strong implication of political, sent here from all across the United States Cultural Society, has been in the control religious and racist motives by the Warden to undergo behavioral modification unit for six months. Reason? He and Bureau of Prisons behind these 12 men treatment. Any prisoners who refuse received a letter from the Free World who were labelled "dangerous." The Bureau to accept the dehumanising prison system, asking all prisoners to boycott 4th of July of Prisons, in a very racist statement, and who speak out through the courts of events. claimed that Blacks were more violence- the news media are likely candidates for George Blue, a chairman of the National prone than Whites. Yet there is documented the long term control unit. Prisoners Association, has been in the control proof that a large number of Whites were At the present time, there are 47 unit since May 21,1976. Reason? tried for murder and assault; none, prisoners confined here. 27 Blacks, 4 "Unauthorised use of mail." He put a however, were placed in the control unit. Chicanes, 16 Whites. The place is divided letter to the warden in the wrong mailbox. Instead, they were transferred to other into two units. One unit houses 11 Whites, Donovan B.X. Gilliam has been in prisons. 3 Blacks and 1 Chicano. This is called the control units since June, 1974. Reason? Mr. President, on March 18, 1977, working section. Here the men are "Verbally threatened an officer." He is days after you addressed the U.N. on allowed out of their cages four hours to a Muslim. human rights, the Bureau of Prisons banned rk and four hours for television and Milton Raines has been in the cc all Communist newspapers, as well as "The r benefits. Section two houses 24 unit since January, 1977. Reason? Progressive," one of the oldest magazines Blacks, 3 Chicanes and 5 Whites. They "Suspicion of having a knife and a ; in the U.S. Reason? "This publication remain in their cages for 2354 hours daily. history of insolence to staff." is being rejected by this institution The treatment programme in the * Spencer Chuutjhas been in control because it has a tendency to glorify unit consists of: physical beatings with" •mits since October, 1976. Reason? problem inmates, homosexuals and prison baseball bats, forced druggings, mental * unions which have been a problem to torture, restrictive diet. Prisoners are , _. abazz (Gereau) has been in inmates and staff in the security and good used as guinea pigs for untested control the control unit since May, 1974. Reason? orderly running of these institutions." methods and mind-depressing drugs. There "A fist fight." He is a Muslim. This is reminiscent of the Nazi book have been numerous suicides. Lawrence Bey has been in the control burning and cleansing of the libraries. The prisoners are given the barest unit since April, 1976. Reason? 900 , All these papers, as well as "The minimum of required calories to sustain prisoners staged a peaceful work stoppage. Progressive" had printed stories or editorials human life. Prisoners complain of food He was the only one put into the control about the control unit at one time or being laced with foreign matter, from unit. He is a Muslim. another. ground glass to human faeces and urine. Steve Wooden has been in the control In closing, 1 wish to say that I hope In a recent news report, the U.S. Bureau unit since October, 1976. Reason? you will show the same concern for our of Prisons admitted that prisoners were "Assaulting another prisoner." Since rights as you did for Vladimir Bukovsky on a restrictive diet, had been drugged, then, another prisoner has confessed to and Andrei Sakharov. Thank you. beaten, and that guards kept a container this deed. Wooden was found guilty George Blue 27559-138 of urine which they used to douse • because of his hostile attitude and his size! P.O. Box 1000 prisoners with. They maintain that this James Watson has been in the control U.S. Concentration Camp, place is necessary. unit sonce December, 1976. Reason? Marion, Illinois 62959. The Bureau of Prisons and Warden "Encouraging a boycott." He is a member James Riggsby contend that H-unit is of the Black Cultural Society.
Are you interested in European Languaxes, Air Photo-Interpretation or Counter Intelligence in your spare time? \Ve deal with these subjects, Military Intelligence? travel to Europe.. . and are paid for doing it, THE INTELLIGENCE AND SFCURITY GROUP .1 '. (Volunteers) is part of the Territorial & Arm; The advert on the left is not a joke. It appeared in the April/May issue of the Open University Volunteer Reserve. We an- looking for young magazine, Sesame, and was brought to the attention of Undercurrents, the radical alternative men between 18 and 30 who live or work in the technology magazine. Believing it to be some sort of hoax an Undercurrents reporter phoned following areas: the London number to be told that further details would be forwarded to the caller together LONDON - 01-435 9660 with an application form which was to be returned to the H.Q. of the T.A.V.R. Intelligence BIRMINGHAM - 021-444 2730 EDINBURGH - 031-5569983 and Security Group at 1 Fitzjohn's Avenue, Hampstead. Would any aspiring Kim Philbys' Why not telephone for further information, with- in the anarchist movement please keep us informed through the usual channels (i.e. the class- out any obligation? And perhaps arrange an ified ad section of Black l-'lag). Also, please remember that the Orkney Islands don't accept exploratory talk, still without obligation?