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Welsh pipeline The protest against the construction of a 150 mile long, high pressure gas pipe line is heating up in South Wales. The proposed liquefied natural gas Around the world (LNG) pipeline is being constructed to run from Milford Haven in South Wales USA: Most people mourn death, but after a deal was reached with the the far-nght French group led by Jean- j w h s, a (MVMmaec, txssag one w w ttt kSH to Gloucestershire; if complete, this will not in Florida when Castro dies... City government. Marie Le Pen, became dse first European ] Jaribim, (oU M r Aa. “its Jasiljcfc become the UK’s largest gas pipeline. officials in Miami are planning to hold Nearly sixty people have died in 'political party to open a headquarters | fciwwy of the CWBHGHElli h » Since construction began in March 2006 a party at a sports stadium following protests since the strike was called on within Second life. already been foqgooML- St is a t to there has been constant resistance. that event. A city planning committee 10th January to demand government “The first night I arrived ax the say enough*” In November; activists squatted one has been holding meetings to discuss reforms. President Lansana Conte agreed prorest ... it was ringed on all sties by j A group ca&ag wseM SnriwJ life Irik of the main sites and have been broadly its logistics. That’s not all in that part on Friday to cede some powers to a protesters with signs to wave and Unity iscrand press releases exphumiit supported by locals who do not want of the country: earlier last month a prime minister who would head the statements to distribute,” wrote James | that at had prhm il h rin a n fe a pipeline to destroy their community. female college student reported that government. On Saturday the unions An, whose websice. New World Notes, Irina National ari aadl le There are worries about the potential she was raped; she was then arrested said the president’s concessions were reports on events is Second Life. “manning a proam there jhe£ FS be* devastating impact on the environment by Tampa police, denied contraceptive sufficient for them to end the strike. “By the second fright 1 came ... the o r are cfecaedL as the route of the pipeline goes through (a second dose of the morning-after “The union association has decided to conflict had become more literal, for we will c ra n e they jseiwo p a ct a* some of the most beautiful Welsh medicine) and kept behind bars for suspend the strike this Saturday, 27th many residents had armed themselves. cociiifK and lie to A w r ■mdfe*1. countryside and has already damaged two days. January, and invites all Guineans to Multi-coloured explosions and A few days t;, dfe Irina NaasonO part of the Brecon Beacons National If you don’t like these events? You return to work,” said Ibrahima Fofana, constant gunfire shredded the air of building had vanrilm i alMnoshes; Park fragile ecosystem. Another huge protest. But there’s a good chance that leader of the USTG union. The deal Porcupine.” Some activists threw leaving only a few pw en concern is that - despite running at an your internet activity is being watched: reached on Saturday also provided for exploding pigs. shoeing Mr Le Fen—nhn memd* % unprecendentedly high pressure - the CNET reported last month at Freedom a lowering of fuel and rice prices, “This nationalist idea max From dm x^iK idrinlew rilrifelH pipeline goes over the only earthquake deadline time that FBI surveillance is Reuters reported. National is advocating is someihmg real-wodd French prerideasni Aranar faultline in UK and through areas much more extensive than previously that has spread allover Europe like a in .2002 — wnanon a Haler anHsatihL. considered unsafe even for mains gas admitted and involves a massive data ONLINE: Violent clashes have erupted supply. Although campaigers from the base collecting huge quantities of names, in an online world over the arrival of Swansea valley won a minor victory in e-mail addresses or keywords. Le Pen’s national front. November 2006 to not permit the use Or you get arrested. This happened The streets of Porcupine were of any explosives in pipeline construction, last November when fifteen human tranquil yesterday; a handful of locals the struggle continues. rights activists mounted a peaceful strolled through its shopping malls, Currently, protestors have set up a protest against the School of the the sun was shining, and a light breeze treehouse squat and are fighting on to Americas (renamed ‘the Western blew in from over the hills. There were stop the pipeline. Hemisphere Institute for Security Co few hints of the fact that, only days operation’) for its known training of before, the neighbourhood had been EU rules on bust pension schemes terrorists, torturers and assassins. In the scene of violent clashes between Thousands of people in the UK who the last week of January the resisters rightwing extremists and anti-Nazi lost their pensions when their employers were sentenced to between two and protesters - running battles involving went bust may have moved a step six-months. gunfire and bombs that might easily closer to securing compensation. The On the same day in Washington, nine have cost lives were it not for the fact European Court of Justice said that peace activists were arrested when they that Porcupine does not, in most under the European Union Insolvency gathered in a House of Representatives commonly accepted senses of the term, directive, the UK government pension office building. Their crime? Reading exist. protection regime is “inadequate”. the names of Americans and Iraqis A lesson you quickly learn upon But the ruling fell well short of saying killed in the war. Or take Diane Baker, entering the online virtual world of people should be compensated. one of 71 people arrested in September Second Life, however; is that non The case will now go back to the High last year during a peace protest in existence is less of an impediment than Court, which may rule that people who Washington DC. She has myoclonic might be supposed. have lost out should be compensated. epilepsy, a degenerative muscle condition. It hasn’t stopped the development of Paying compensation could cost hundreds Her ‘punishment*? Sweeping the streets a fully-featured alternative universe in of millions of pounds. of that city for eight hours in which Second Life’s 2.4 million “The Court appears to have given a temperatures below freezing. She’s 60. registered users build houses, set up steer that damages may not be payable, businesses, form clubs and societies, but this is now a matter for the High GUINEA: Guinean unions have called hold parties and have sex. And it did Court to decide” said a Department off a general strike that has crippled not prevent protest from spilling over for Work and Pensions spokesman the nation and led to deadly clashes, into aggression when the Front National,
Tough on crime... Radical measures for tackling crime - ranging from monitoring the behaviour of the mentally ill with radio chips to hormone injections for sex offenders - are to be considered by the government Prison news in a wide-ranging policy review ordered by Tony Blair. Scathing verdict on jails imprisonment rate in England and makes powerful and compel I mg | again, ahhough p a rs taf shesee use The Prime Minister said that Labour In her fifth annual report, the Chief Wales was 148 per 100,000. It viewing, and had a lag tinpacr when it : rmdf*r tnssrtscrioxL Check is vmc had to renew its sense of leadership and Inspector of Prisons, Anne Owers compares with 145 in Spain, 139 in was shown on French national pr — jw HftrmKlgygrt Jrx energy as voters were getting bored with delivered a scathing verdict on the Scotland, 128 in the Netherlands, 121 television. Much of whai the prisoners the party after 10 years in power. current state of British prisons. In the in Portugal, 105 in Austria, 104 in have to say has ramifications that go New prison pampniess He disclosed that he intended to stay report she depicts jails as stretched to Italy, 95 in Germany, 91 in Belgium, way beyond the borders of France, 1 TW lags?! pampf) er publisher by in power until at least June to oversee breaking-point by the number of 85 in France and 83 in Switzerland. applying throughout the whole of the 1 Leeds ABC is an pockei-hooL, a policy review aimed at ensuring that people being locked-up. More than The US has the world’s highest prison European penal gulag, and indeed Wztih A Smile And A IFumtkk Jo 3% a “new New Labour” agenda would 80,000 people are now imprisoned in population rate, 738 per 100,000, throughout the world. The film is now j Eye? Aw Intenueu WithA tuk &bsS jtT - take the Government into the next England and Wales, a higher followed by Russia with 611. being made available on DVD by- Fntsoner Barnsley- The pampnifr election after he had left No 10. proportion than in any west European Leeds ABC. Ir is in the original French, j can hi: ordered dirfiCLH irort Lesc- The controversial paper dealing with country. Ms Owers warns that prison Clandestine communique with English subtides added by the | ABC and costs £1 mtimimg postage law and order acknowledges that there staff are finding it hard to cope with In 2001, a number of prisoners at a French anti-prison group La Breche. j Leeds ABC, VO Box S3, Issedk. L5& will have to be ‘trade-offs’ between mentally ill and drug-addicted inmates high security prison in Arles, France Copies cost £4 including postage from 4 HTP. More hAMrniMTtfm £15310 liberty and security as technology and and raises the alarm over the numbers managed to gain access to some video Leeds ABC, PO Box 53, Leeds, LS7 j I aseds ABOfeiseupme: profiling are used to reduce crime. of women locked up for minor equipment. Having done so, they' 3HB. Please send well-disgu ised cash Hke Kate Sharpie* lUfesaEy hbz> iuwe The policy paper confirmed die govern offences such as shoplifting. The secretly recorded a film in which three or a blank postal order As with all J a new priscro-rebned paerremte: ixm :ir ment’s objective of creating a surveillance report also expresses concern over the of the prisoners read rheir collective Leeds ABC projects any profits rmade ] me form of Aiz&zrzz — Zmzu Sami society despite Mr Blair’s denials of a number of people who are handed statement. This video was then from sales of the DVD will be used for 3AeiaT5 Island: Mzxpmen&s- Off A ‘Big Brother’ state. It said new anti-crime indeterminate prison sentences, which smuggled out of the jail, and released the direct support of anarchist ? Ccm&aetiiiuus Objects^ am Amems measures include face and voice recog mean they can be held in custody to coincide with the twentieth prisoners. Ihinm g T h e iv rst W&rM USa? ibg fhiiir nition, a DNA database, identity cards, indefinitely. anniversary of the abolition of the G wmkbl TW* paanphifTT .-sqapTy C? microchip monitoring and satellite In anticipation of the publication French death penalty. Campaign Against Prison Slavery a td nd.mg postage, mod he sm i surveillance ... and confirmed that of the report, the International While the three prisoners are heavily After a prolonged absence from the I direerfi iram KSL, Hurrcfiiti. Britain has die most public CCTV Centre for Prison Studies at King’s disguised, and the filming techniques net, the Campaign Agarnsr Prison London. W ON 3XX systems in Europe. College London, disclosed that the I used are primitive, rhe film nonetheless Slavery website is now up and running flompttar % Man Sw nti Freedom 10th February 200/ 3 News I
Feminist health or patriarchal disease? I A report from the recent Feminist Health Gathering and discussion I of why it is necessary to engage in radical feminist politics today 1
his is both a report back from the in Woman’s Hour on Radio 4, etc.), Feminist Health Gathering, which but what about radical feminism in the Twas held in Leeds in January form of practical solutions? It still feels 2007, and a general discussion of why like feminism is not as central to it is necessary to engage in radical anarchist struggles as it should be. I don’t feminist politics today. want to unecessarily repeat arguments Let’s start with the local and concrete: that have been made time and time women working as prostitutes are being again about how women’s struggles murdered in Ipswich, the feminist are marginalised, but I’d like to draw library in London is being threatened attention to the dire situation of with closure due to lack of support women in the UK today. If radical and pro-life rhetoric continues to feminism is more than simply aiming dominate government discussions at ‘equality5 in an unequal society, it is regarding the reform of abortion law. about realising how such ‘equalities’, The UK government has recently been such as equal pay, can be used to debating how to make abortion harder; further the struggles for women’s and which aligns it with many other states, men’s liberation. For example, fighting to name but a few: in Poland the for access to sexual and reproductive government are trying to integrate health care in the UK may not seem pro-life positions into the constitution, radical or even relevant. Has this whereby the state would support ‘life’ battle not been won, so that we can after conception, which means fighting focus on struggling for other freedoms? to make abortion legal again will be No. Can we not simply find quick, even more of an up hill struggle; in DIY alternatives? No. (Would you be Ireland abortion is still illegal and in comfortable with using or suggesting a Uganda, as in other countries, women herbal abortion? Do you know anything -vpj'i •’" •‘-'rim ask the state to provide to abortion is related to how much easily accessed NHS abortions and rely money a woman has, meaning many on it to not suddenly take that option women die from ‘backstreet’ abortions. away, we’re falling into a trap of ;At the Feminist Health Gathering, reliance. However; it is important to there was no discussion about what realise issues that all too often fall prey “The Crimes against Women are Ancient as the Hills” (quotation from Mary Quintana, in The Raven no. 21) ^feminism’ is in the abstract and I’m to reformist demands are often the not interested in that indulgence. It is crucial issues to focus on to enable a What direct action can be taken on collectives, being mothers, working as and to generally support women clear that it is the fight against healthy struggle. For example, if struggles sexual health? A start would be a health carers in the NHS, mainstream suffering due to abortion law within patriarchy, which oppresses women for abortion ‘rights’ are ignored we’ll more open dialogue about sexuality mental health ‘care’, amongst other arbitrary state borders. The Feminsr and men in different ways, there’s no continue to regress to a pre-1967 and creating something that can things. Practical projects came out of Health Gathering was a start, bur if it time for academic faffing with second- situation of numerous fatal backstreet legitimately be called sex education. these discussions, such as continuing remains an isolated one-off, the wave or third-wave feminist theories. abortions. We could go to the demo on The Feminist Health Gathering was an radical mental health care projects, situation whereby individuals have to The need for the gathering seemed Saturday 3rd March in London about opportunity for this. Women shared such as the Icarus project, and an deal with their health issues alone will clear to me: women’s issues are abortion rights, which scares me to even their experiences of: different methods abortion solidarity network to support, continue. mentioned here and there (in the new consider because it seems disempowering, of abortion, sexual experiments, DIY in many ways, women coming to the See www.femirustnealth.org.uk for ways to Observer Woman monthly supplement, but what else can we do? - pornography, working in women-only UK from Ireland to have abortions get involved. John Taylor Caldwell Factory stormed ith the death of John Taylor Aldred’s United Socialist Movement Patrick) to Spain. But the group was orkers sacked by a Scottish Simdar has blamed the dosures on Caldwell aged 95, we have lost (USM). in desperate need of a printing press. electronics firm have stormed the pressure HOm loW-COSt enrwvnie^ falling the last significant link with an In 1938, John left his seafaring Amazingly, Aldred persuaded a ‘Roneo’ Wfactory in protest. Simdar has just orders and increased uncertainty wiririn anarchistW anti-parliamentary form of employment to work, full time but salesman to let them have a duplicator announced that it will be closing two the Scottish manufacturing serror socialism/communism which flourished unpaid, for Aldred’s movement. For on approval, which was immediately of its plants, in Irvine and Kilwinning On 29th January, workers arrived for in the first £e\y decades of the last almost three decades he devoted himself pressed into service to produce a broad in Ayrshire, causing 420 people to lose their day shifts to find the gates pad century, and was part of a tradition of to printing the movement’s paper The sheet, Regeneration, giving uncensored their jobs. This follows 200 job losses locked. They were then told they were libertarian socialism going back to the Word (plus a veritable mountain of news from Spain. in November. being made redundant and woe esnorwri days of William Morris and the Socialist pamphlets) and turned his hand to In the post-war period Aldred was a During a demonstration outside the off the premises. League —a socialism based on working- whatever needed doing. The USM took candidate in a number of General Kilwinning site, the factory doors were Two MSPs, Tommy Sheridan and class self-activity manifest in workers’ an important part in all the political Elections and by-elections - not in the opened and around thirty workers ran Rosemary Byme, both with the Solidarity councils and direct action rather than actions of its time, from support of the hope or expectation of being elected, inside while another thirty continued Party, said they were raking part in the in reliance on political parties, whether Spanish revolutionary cause in 1936-8, but purely as a propaganda exercise, a to protest outside of the gates. The demonstration. Miss Byme said: “In no social democratic or revolutionary. through the anti-war struggles of cost-effective way “to expose the farcical demonstrators, members of the trade other European country could a firm This kind of anarchism is assumed to 1939-45 (in which John himself was a and false nature of parliamentarism,’’ union Community said they were holding like Simdar get away with the callous have become extinct during the inter- conscientious objector), and on to the as John put it. In all of these, John acted a peaceful protest over their “disgraceful” treatment of the workforce. Since we War period, crushed between the anti-militarist and peace campaigns of as Aldred’s election agent, handling treatment by the company. have been in the factory, we have pincers of the Parliamentary Labour the ’50s and ’60s. key aspects of the campaigns from Willie Paterson, Scottish regional discovered that this company has plenty' Party and the Communist Party. But All this was achieved against a back organising the nocturnal squads of secretary of Community, said from of work and is likdy sacking the work in a few places, notably Glasgow, it ground of ever-present poverty, with bill-posters and street-chalkers to inside the plant: “During the process force prior to either transrerring the continued to flourish, thanks to barely enough money to eat, never mind booking meeting-halls to printing and of the Kilwinning protest, the factory work abroad or getting cheap labour individuals like John and his mentor; provide meeting rooms or publish its delivering 10,000 handbills and election gate was opened and the workforce in to complete k.” Guy Aldred. Aldred was the main propaganda. The most intense period addresses. took an instant decision to occupy the Parent company Simdar Group Ltd will organiser and theoretician of this of activity was undoubtedly 1936-38 Despite this frenzy of activity, in factory. Simdar appears to have no continue to employ around 300 workers movement. John’s first encounter with in support of the Spanish revolutionary Aldred’s lifetime John took a back shame about how it is treating the loyal, ar its headquarters in Dunfermline. The him at the Glasgow May Day demonstra cause. Meeting were held every night ground role. After Aldred’s death in highly-drilled workforce in Ayrshire, firm also has manufacturing plants in tion in 1934 left such a deep impression and funds had to be raised to send two October 19,63, however, he stepped many of whom have up to 18 years’ China, Mexico and the US, with a global on him that lattf in the year he loined eomradei (Ethel MacDonald and fenny Freedom XOtft FeCrf’oery 2007 4
Zalmay Khalilzad Jason N. Parkinson takes a look at the career of the new US ambassador to the UN
■ jphe world breached a sigh of relief This pipeline agreement was contro now hold some of the highest positions I in December 2006 when John versially signed within a week of Karzai in the Bush administration. Those I Bolton, the notoriously hard-line being appointed interim Afghan president members included Dick 'Cheney (vice United States ambassador to die United in 2002 by the US administration. president:), Donald Rumsfeld (ex Nations, handed in his resignation. Khalilzad began his political career defence secretary), Paul Wolfowitz But the calm was short-lived. The by joining the Council of Foreign (Rumsfeld’s deputy, now head of the ^alm before the storm possibly. On 4th Relations in 1984,: serving under Paul World Bank), the president’s brother January, President George W. Bush Wolfowitz. In 1985 he became a special Jeb Bush (Florida governor), Lewis nominated Zalmay Khalilzad, the US adviser to Ronald Reagan’s State Libby (Cheney’s ex-chief of staff) and ambassador to Iraq, to replace Bolton. Department and was a key link between Elliot Abrams, an El Salvador death For most Khalilzad brings no US military forces and the Mujaheddin squad sympathiser and major player in recollection. You probably could not during the Afghan-Soviet war. He Iran Contra (pardoned by Bush even put a face to the name, But his lobbied successfully for accelerated US Senior), who now is Bush’s Deputy political history and meddling dares military aid to die Mujaheddin, including National Security Adviser. back to the Reagan era. hand-held Stinger anti-aircraft missiles. The PNAC goal was to implement The 55-year-old Khalilzad is ihe He served as Assistant Deputy Defence the 1997 military doctrine, Rebuilding hiohr
ven amongst some of the most homophobic, nationalistic, exploitative analogous social bodies because of a(n climate change. . of the weapon, called the Active sensitive and thoughtful Americans, and violent religious fanatic groups in all too understandable); d^pair a t the In the last week tif January the Denial System (ADS), is apparently E there is an almost ’built-in' view North America) reveals more starkly political process and parties* Hquseof Repfc^ehmtiv^ Committee not death, but pain. The weapon that the country - geographically chan ever disturbing trends which governments and the capitalist on HoU^ti^vi^rs^ht. and -(government works by firing an invisible high- isolated, too large and disparate tor suggest chat - unless effectively infrastructure of which they can never Reform beard testimony from a energy beam from a dish mounted on comiorr and apparently invincible - resisted •- the United States is likely to be a part, insure lesson for anarchists. number of scientists whose work to try an army vehicle. The beams penetrate has special rights and privileges in the become a de jure apocalyptic and inform government policy on clothing and travel less than half a world. Push someone in government, theocracy in a few years, if it is not D e cre e climate change has been either millimetre into the skin, heating it to iaw | second major investigation more than money. Their supply to (or I into arms sales from BAE withholding from) weaker nations I looks likely to run afford the government covert I aground as South African influence in dictating policy. In the I government authorities event of the UK having an exclusive have blocked investigators deal with a weaker country, either by I looking into the sale of negotiation or because no other Hawk Jet trainers and Gripen fightersnation will supply weapons, the Ato the state. government is able to force a certain These developments come shortly degree of compliance with British after an international scandal saw interests by withholding supplies as investigations into deals in Saudi suits their interest. Arabia were called off by the UK A prime example of such practice government to ‘protect British jobs’ - occurred during the Spanish Civil War. effectively placing BAE above the law According to esteemed historian if the deal is big enough. Antony Beevor, the Soviet Union The UK is one of the world’s leading demanded that the Republican arms dealers and takes a central role government export its gold reserves to in the global arms trade. When the USSR to guarantee payment for questioned about the need for such arms supplies desperately needed major involvement in the arms trade, against General Franco. Not only did we’re usually told !it protects British they succeed in gaining the gold Jobs’jor^js-An essenriaJ-and -major — -reserves-aijdagree arms shipments, .. part of our economy and makes a lot they were in a position to dictate of money for us’. policy as no other nation, apart from Only one of these reasons, that of Mexico, was prepared to supply the jobs, bears any real scrutiny and Republic with arms. The Republican neither explains or even mentions the government had no choice but to agree real reasons for the UK being such a to the terms laid down by the USSR or major player in the arms trade. One is the arms shipments would have ceased that the pace of weapons development and the Civil War would have been is such that if our arms trade were lost. In the event it was lost anyway, dismantled, or even severely and the USSR gained nearly $800 disadvantaged, the arms companies of million in bullion as Spain had the other nations would have a major fourth largest gold reserves in the advantage that our own arms world at that time. Further evidence is companies wouldn’t be able to recover supplied by George Orwell who wrote from. in Homage To Catalonia that the “Prevent revolution or you get no don’t. It is at best speculative to say weapons. That means that we can, Another is that of global realpolitik. policy of the USSR towards the arms”. that arms workers could not be insofar as the US allows us, pursue Arms as a commodity are worth far Republican government seemed to be Conversely, arms supplies can be given work in other sectors, and the our own foreign and domestic policy used as a bribe for favours or a British arms industry is one of the without fear of suddenly being made payment for services rendered. A most heavily subsidised industries in defenceless by having weapons ALTERNATIVE EMPLOYMENT prime example of this is the Iran- the country via the Export Credit supplies cut off. We are spared the Billions of pounds wasted on the industry, and to harvest manganese on Contra scandal of the 1980s, in Guarantee Department (ECGD). As fear of having other countries dictate development of a new set of nuclear the sea bed. Some of these are a niche which the US government made secret far as profits go, the arms deals to us on grounds of security, but we submarines could be spent on much- market, but cars, telephones and arms deals with Iran, delivered via account for only 2% of visible UK still allow the US to effectively dictate needed other things. It doesn’t need computers were once novelties. Drilling Israel, in return for the release of exports, while arms subsidies foreign and domestic policy via the much imagination to think how such platforms for oil and gas are other American hostages held there. The account for around 30% of ALL so-called ‘special relationship’ money could be spent. But imagination alternatives, as are off-shore technologies deals were not only illegal, but also ECGD support. instead. is needed to create alternative employ to make power from wind, waves and showed that even the US government The ECGD acts as an underwriter So, we’ve established that the ment for the 3,000-plus workforce at tidal energy. Ironically, the wind turbines isn’t immune to having its hand for British arms deals, among various customary defences for our having the the Barrow-in-Furness shipyard where near Barrow, in Morecambe Bay were forced when an opponent has other industries, and it can be argued arms trade are at best disingenuous these death machines are built. made at the Belfast shipyard (talk about something it wants. The deal was that many British arms deals would be and at worst a blatant fraud. The arms Almost totally dependent on MoD wasted miles!). funded with drug money from the too risky to go ahead without its trade, like any other capitalist (Ministry of War Preparations) All these products could be sold inter Contra rebels of Nicaragua as well as assistance. The ECGD underwrites enterprise, is really about money and contracts, the yard is rather like an nationally. Barrow has time to recruit being illegal under US law. President arms sales, among various other power and not about security for the obsolete nationalised industry, only and train a research, development and Reagan claimed no knowledge of any industries, in case the buyer either British people. We are being lied to, owned by BAE Systems shareholders. sales team. Even BAE Systems cannot go such deals and on Robert McNamara defaults or is late in making and we are being forced to pay Alternatives include work like the two around trying to sell nuke subs! and Colonel Oliver North were payments, so that the banks and through the nose for the privilege. fully equipped hospital ships ‘Amazon All this only offers a reformist remedy. heavily punished for their role in the companies involved have their losses We can do some small things to Hope’ and ‘Amazon Hope T that were But according to Barrow borough scandal. covered. So, not only does the combat this trade. We can join or refitted in recent years at Barrow. councillor and chair of the pro-nuke So, arms deals offer a means for taxpayer have no choice in whether or assist groups such as CND, CAAT, They help to make friends with ‘Keep O ur Future Afloat’ campaign,Terry powerful nations to bribe or bully not to pay their taxes towards illegal Trident Ploughshares and others to people instead of frightening them with Waiting the only w orry is about jobs; not others, depending on which is wars such as Iraq, we also have to make life as hard as possible for those nuclear destruction - a problem that economic or moral concerns. But this needed arms deals with taxpayer’s subsidise the industry with our own who profit from war and see nothing has contributed to some Muslims feeling stance forgets what happened in the money so that, if a deal fails or a money. A fine racket indeed, as if the wrong in doing so. We can arrange so humiliated that they have turned to mid-80s at the planning of the first set debtor pays late or not at all, the arms trade generally wasn’t bad protests outside arms fairs, arms the authoritarianism of fundamentalism of Tridents. Instead of the secure job banks and companies involved in the enough already. factories and related businesses. E and worse. which had been promised, after a few deal will have their losses covered by There is also the issue of national Because not only are the profiteers There are other kinds of submarines years the work force was cut from the taxpayer. But do British arms security to consider. Having our own profiteering, they are probably apart from nuclear: they can be used for 17,000 to 3,500. deals really guarantee British jobs indigenous arms industry means that laughing at us as well. filming, research, tourism, the leisure Martin Gilbert and bring sizeable profits to the we are not wholly dependent upon And doing both using our money British economy? Answer: No, they other countries for a supply of and our unwilling consent. 6 Freedom 10th February 2007 Commentary resistance, and a popular counter- coercion if the offender is unwilling to bestseller for three consecutive months AS BO reply power to the institutions of the State cooperate with the rest of society. at John Smith’s historic bookshop in FREEDOM Ta for carrying the article about the and big business? Violent revolutions tend to leave a central Glasgow (now also, alas, government aiming to give Tenant It would be great if there were more power vacuum which is filled up by defunct). Most recently, about Volume 68 Number 03 Management Organisations the power in-depth articles in the anarchist press another group, which becomes the eighteen months before his death, to apply for anti-social behaviour about these kind of issues from around new ruling elite. In societies such as John had made an important orders (in 27th January 2007 issue). the country. Many local anarchist Britain and Western Europe, I feel contribution to a forthcoming Film Anarchism The interview with myself was as a groups, the backbone of our movement, change, to be effective, will have to be about ‘The Spanish Pimpernel’, Ethel Anarchists work towards a society of member; not a ‘prominent’ member as between them produce and distribute non-violent. This would be an MacDonald. mutual aid and voluntary co-operation. printed, of Haringey Solidarity Group, tens of thousands of their own news encroaching non-violent libertarian In addition, John was always We reject government, and all forms speaking for myself rather than for the letters regularly covering such matters. process. willing to speak at events in Glasgow, of exploitation and domination. whole group. The aim was to convey a It is the relationship between local D. Dane trying to bring alive the history of the Freedom Press is an independent complex picture of government plans: anarchist groups and local communities, movement for a new generation of anarchist publisher founded in 1886. • To use an important and 'populist* community groups and issues, which anarchists and direct actionists. This Besides this newspaper, which comes issue to try to ingratiate itself with is the key to creating the successful he did well into his nineties, for out every two weeks, we produce books communities angry about cuts in pre-conditions for the successful WSF and poor example speaking at Glasgow’s John on all aspects of anarchist theory and services, and also to increase state libertarian transformation of our ta * page 1 Maclean Centre three or four years practice - see our website for a full list. intervention within working class society. felt they were being priced out of the ago. In our building in East London we run communities; Dave process, and cheaper food vendors Bob Jones and Gina Bridgeland Britain’s biggest anarchist bookshop • To encourage increasingly assertive Haringey, North London were also subsequently allowed in. and host the Autonomy Club meeting grass-roots residents groups to adopt But the process overall has been John Taylor Caldwell, seaman and anarchist, room and the Freedom Hacklab open- a government-led rather than a radical heavily ridiculed, with one Kenyan bom 14th July 1911; died 12th January access IT space. agenda - to use tenants’ desire for Feedback paper remarking on the “tremendous 2007. Our aim is to explain anarchism more control over their housing to In response to your request for feedback, business opportunities”. more widely and to show that people encourage TMOs in order to try to firstly, thank you for your continued “Hotels in the city, for example, can work together and use direct fragment and undermine Council efforts in producing Freedom. I perish were fully booked, some for the first action to practically improve our lives Housing. the thought ifFreedom stopped time in a long time. Restaurants and The Land and build a better world. So while communities are seeking ways publication! other food vendors did roaring t a * page 7 Freedom's editors wish to present a of empowering themselves and dealing Secondly, some thoughts. The quality business. When the curtain fell on the topic. Ther is also a small piece on broad range of anarchist thought, and with real problems, the government is of Freedom has improved immeasurably conference, there were many business how BMXers have built their own as such the views expressed in the paper trying to manipulate the situation to since the change. It has been brought people, small and big, who were tracks. I could go on listing all the are those of the individual contributors its own advantage. This is particularly out of a time warp. laughing all the way to the bank.” interesting items I found in The Land, and not necessarily those of the so with Council Housing where there Encompassing as much as possible Around 1,500 workshops were held but judge for yourselves. editorial collective. are strong local campaigns throughout in what is going on in the anarchist at the five day event on a huge variety For me the strength of The Land is the country to defend public housing sense is the best way forward. A of topics, and youth participation was that it emphasises that the struggle for from the government’s ideological and balance of theory and practice and higher than at previous events thanks land is democratic, anti-imperialistic Angel Alley financial assault on it as part of their current trends. to a specific youth gathering which and anti-globalisation. It is for the Apologies for the late arrival of this obsession with privatisation. Some theoretical articles can be too ran alongside the main event. peaceful transformation, but reports issue. This is mainly down to the A further important point, unfortu long for the average reader and they widely on direct-action that mailout and the desperate need for nately not included in the final edit, is don’t bother reading any of it. Conse campaigners across the world are volunteers to help, so please get in that the government and media focus quently, the amount they read in using in their struggles to take back touch either at the shop or by email on small scale anti-social behaviour in Freedom is reduced. The recent interview SPEAK freedom our rights to land. It also stresses the to [email protected] and let’s order to deflect anger over the much style about the IWW was excellent - ta * page 1 principle of using land self-sustainable make the mailout a social event - more serious, Widespread, and it maintained your interest throughout Cogswell was found not guilty. The way. From journal’s manifesto is the your paper needs really needs you. systematic anti-social behaviour of and was full of vitality even though it Judge ruled that because the email list following statement: “Rome fell; the Many thanks to those of you who landlords, debt bailiffs, private was quite lengthy! was hosted in the United States, and Soviet Empire collapsed, the stars and have renewed your subscriptions for developers, billboard erectors, the Do advertise your publications/books the webmaster resided there, that stripes are fading in the west. Nothing 2007, many of whom have included traffic system, repressive policing, more in Freedom. It generates interest Cogswell could not have provided the is forever in history, except geography. generous donations. If you’re not sure workplace bullying by bosses, cuts in and hopefully sales. email list if he had wanted to. Capitalism is a confidence trick, a if your subscription to Freedom is up local facilities and services and other And do keep up the excellent work. The public gallery of the courtroom dazzling edifice built on paper for renewal or not, here’s how it institutional crimes against society ... GH was filled with supporters of the SPEAK promises. It may stand longer than works. Above your name on the not to mention wars and industrial Two, and support demonstrations some of us anticipate, but when it address label is the issue that your sub pollution. With regards to Freedom reporting on took place out front. Despite the far- crumbles, the land will remain”. runs out at (for example, this issue is In Haringey there is a growing events, I would like to make suggestion. reaching impact of these trials, and Ellen Kemp vol. 68 no. 3, which would appear as residents’ movement involving around My suggestion is that with each the amount of interest in them the 6803 above your name). If the 150 local residents associations which report, as far as possible, there should mainstream press has been mostly number above your name on the communicate and co-ordinate through be a comment by a local anarchist silent on issues surrounding animal address label says 6724, then this will a Federation, and 30 ‘Friends of Parks’ about how they see the way forward liberation, and the erosion of freedom be the last issue you will receive groups which network through their in each situation. to express dissent in the UK. FREEDOM unless you renew now. own ‘Friends Forum’. If this was done I think it would Faithless ANARCHIST BOOKSHOP And yet another appeal for help: Despite a widedspread acceptance help develop constructive ideas rather 8 4 b Whitechapel HighStreet anyone who’s interested in helping out of the status quo in many ways, they than just moans about capitalism or the editorial team would be welcomed are in fact making a real difference ‘come the revolution’ talk. ^Hjondon El 7QX with open arms before our very here insofar as they are spreading the This leads me into another area, the Caldw ell jax 020 7247 9249 | overstressed editors burn out. Get in principles of self-organisation, co dilemma of the anarchist in a pluralistic t a * page 3 touch at [email protected] if operation and mutual aid, speaking society. If one considers a person as forward to keep the movement going. OPENING HOURS you can assist. for themselves, raising a range of key being in a network of relationships in Virtually single-handedly he continued Monday to Saturday community issues, and defending and i modern society, it is obvious that to publish The W ord (later transmuted from 12 noon to 6pm demanding the resources and facilities there are large areas of coercion in to The Word Quarterly). But the USM Contact details their communities need. some of these relationships. fell into decline, and by 1968 John ff£he shop is staffed by volunteers n | Freedom Press, 84b Whitechapel High In fact the only Haringey TMO so For example accommodation is was forced to close its printing press the opening hours are subject to i Street, London El 7QX far is one being set up by the Residents attained by entering into a landlord/ and bookshop. change so It’s a good Idea to call Tel/fax: 020 7247 9249 Association on Broadwater Farm, one servant relationship. The alternative Still he refused to be silenced. He to check we're open. www.freedompress.org.uk of the strongest residents’ groups in could well be sleeping in the streets. In devoted the rest of his long life to pVbu can also use our mall order service Enquiries: [email protected] . uk Haringey and one who have succeeded the workplace, livelihood is attained “guarding the movement against or order books online via our website Copy/Letters: [email protected] in improving the environment, facilities by accepting the various rules of the oblivion”, depositing archival material www.freedompress.org.uk Subscriptions: [email protected] and management of the famous estate workplace. in libraries such as the Mitchell Library Bookshop: [email protected] over the last twenty years. There is a plurality in modern society and the libraries of Strathclyde and Freedom Press Distribution: Questions that anarchists should be with immense numbers of social groups Glasgow Caledonian Universities, and [email protected] . uk asking are: how can we help develop with great diversity among them. All editing a collection of Aldred’s works Quiz answers a movement of strong, independent, this defies reducing things to monolithic for World Microfilms. In addition, 1. Joseph Lane. grass roots residents’ groups in every principles. This makes me think that Luath Press published his biography 2. While addressing an open-air meeting Next issue street, block of flats and neighbourhood anarchism is probably a permanent of Guy Aldred, Come Dungeons Dark on Parliament Hill Fields, London. The next issue will be dated 24th in the country? How can we contribute transitional process with many different (1988) albeit in abbreviated form, and 3. A very small group called ANORG in February 2007 and the last day to get effectively to try to ensure that such economic/social forms. subsequently Northern Herald Books Norway made a resolution in 1983 copy to us for that issue will be Thursday groups avoid being co-opted into state Even if the state and capital were published his two important volumes which said they had to choose between 15th February. Send articles to us by structures, but instead increasingly abolished there probably would still of autobiography, Severely Dealt With NATO and the Warsaw Pact, and had email to [email protected] choose radical and libertarian ways of be forms of coercion in a society. In a (1993) and With Fate Conspire (1999). chosen NATO. They were denounced or by post addressed to The Editors, working, ideas and agendas? How can society there have to be ways of dealing The former, a vivid depiction of his for this by almost every anarchist who Freedom, 84b Whitechapel High such a movement stimulate a wide with certain forms of deviant behaviour. harsh upbringing in Belfast and heard of it. Street, London El 7QX. spread culture of empowerment and Justice itself involves some form of Glasgow, was well received and was a 4. 2006! Which bodes well for London. Freedom 10th February 2007 7 Tom Jennings is disappointed at Favela Rising’s focus on its founder’s personality rather than Brazilian Afro-Reggae’s grass-roots potential creened on cable/digital American new-wave - a winning channel More4 on 24th formula for independent festival hype January, the Oscar- and MTV-friendly urban-style nominated Favela Rising commodification, and a labour of love documents the development for US co-directors Jeff Zimbalist and of the Afro-Reggae cultural Matt Mochary. Yet, despite their movement in Vigario Geral, reservations, the narrative neglects one of 600-odd illegal shanty settlementswider grass-roots perspectives, centering S(favelas) perched precariously among on the messianic figure of Sa and his the hills behind Rio de Janeiro’s rhetoric of “respectable, hard-working” Copacabana beach which together favelistas: “Now all the favelas must house over 20 million inhabitants in start to move for the first time. We desperate poverty. They have must all begin to show that we are able. experienced forty years of barbaric That we can lift our own arms. That repression, with massacres repeatedly we can raise our heads” (disclaimers perpetrated by a brutally corrupt notwithstanding; e.g. “What we create 4 military police controlling and profiting and destroy doesn’t end with me [JJ] from the drugs trade while battling the or Anderson. It is passed through the shadow criminal dictatorships within. generations. All life is a karmic The 1993 Afro-Reggae newspaper and process. Our actions will be infinite”). videos chronicling police violence were Sure, the film-makers couldn’t sidestep followed by music workshops, their hosts’ agendas, being completely weaving a powerful syncretism of dependent for safe passage - but the African drumming, hip-hop, dance, resulting deficiencies highlight the martial arts, politics and spiritualism. limitations of documentary activism, Original member Jose Junior (JJ) and positively invite recuperation by explains: “Nothing could be left up to capitalism and its neoliberal state outside authorities ... It was the handmaidens. beginning of a new consciousness ... We are destroyed people infected by Riodemption songs idealism. Shiva is the Goddess of In ‘Slumsploitation’ (Mute magazine, destructi.OJn_and.transformation. We VoL2. No. 3. 2006 - also at www. are a Shiva effect”. metamute.com), Melanie Gilligan Initially resourced by begging, persuasively details the promotion of borrowing and stealing, long-term ‘favela chic’ in Brazil’s booming media funding from a US charitable foundation - with populist President Lula’s culture (1997) and an international record minister Gilberto Gil (himself an deal with Universal (2001) helped the internationally-renowned musician) group expand - all income being courting foreign investment for ploughed back (likewise any profits electoral legitimacy and to short- from Favela Rising itself). With thirteen circuit resistance. While colonising the programmes now in Vigario, the boot-strap entrepreneurialism of the phenomenon to its immediate optation into sundry elite discourses. In the present context this doubtless support of Rio city council is facilitating ghettoes, the governing Workers’ Party audience. Further, as the performances in the includes the magnificent Abahlali the spread into neighbouring favelas. policies also continue to starve them of After all, Brazil’s 1960s/70s military film demonstrate, this new genre itself baseMjondolo shack dwellers’ However; “movement has to come infrastructure and plan intensified dictatorships incarcerated thousands draws strongly on other popular movement in Durban, South Africa ’ - v from the community itself ... we’d be assaults on their security and of leftists, whose militancy heavily Brazilian musics (samba, capoeira, baile (see Richard Pithouse’s crucial applying our solution to their problems. autonomy in line with IMF/World inflected the rise of prison networks funk, etc.) which themselves have little ‘Thinking Resistance in the Shanty If we become McDonalds, putting one Bank ‘structural adjustment’. and drugs cartels originally as self- explicit political potential - the Towns’, also in Mute 2:3), or the everywhere, we’ve lost the essence” Translated onscreen, the hackneyed organised welfare and defence production of superstar egos being recent insurrections in Oaxaca, (founder Anderson Sa). Afro-Reggae’s Hollywood Manicheanism of evil institutions. Similarly, even if Afro- incidental. Mexico, reported in Freedom. So, integrity and inspiration in preaching drugs gangbangers versus heroic Reggae proclaims itself “directly against As in other times and places, the what will transpire in the favelas is (to unity among the favelas quickly led to charisma celebrates talent transcending the drug armies” (SA), the proliferation shifting tectonics of culture provide understate) uncertain. But not for immense local enthusiasm, with drug humble roots - erasing history, class, of gang member sympathisers suggests incomparable food for thought and nothing did philosopher Slavoj Zizek soldiers crossing over and their leaders economics, oppression and collectivity. far more complex intercourse. The action, knitting together and/or dividing suggest, in characteristically global showing respect and even tacit, if fitful, True, this may satisfy fashion longer-run resonance of its bottom-up, suffering populations according to terms (‘Knee-Deep’, London Review of protection in the war zone: “Why [do conscious better-off youth, reinforcing practical, expressive formations simply specific circumstances, and circum Books, 26:17, 2004), that “The new we] take these risks? Because ... our the desirous exoticisation which can’t be judged from above and scribing what can be achieved. Salutary forms of social awareness that emerge ideology won’t allow us to live passively, betrays their distanced complicity with outside - which should already be examples of radical struggle often turn from slum collectives will be the germ in comfort” (AS). the status quo. But whether crystal-clear from the contradictory out to hinge on the room to manoeuvre of the future”. This fascinating film expertly blends assimilating or critiquing its mediated persistence of US hip-hop despite its furnished by the imaginative renewal www.tomjennings.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk edgy digital video techniques, sharp representation, Favela Rising and magpie aesthetics, get-rich-quick artists, and creative singularity of cultural editing and pacing, and the saturated Gilligan both inadvertently downplay corporate debasement, choruses of patterns which are constitutionally Favela Rising (in Portuguese with subtitles) is colour and energy of the Latin the lived significance of the street-level detractors, and generally dishonest co opaque to conventional political analysis. also available on DVD, priced £19.99. PUBLICATIONS The Land new magazine The Land, which they have keep this tradition intact. The The first two issues contain a wealth economics of bio-fuels - that is they Subscriptions £10 per annum, (£7 unwaged) hope to publish three times a year. Land is not an anarchist publication, of articles covering a range of issues, take up more energy to manufacture from The Potato Store, Flaxdrayton Farm, Each issue is 56 pages and is packed but is a campaigning and political campaigns and history. To list some of than you get back - and how big agro South Petherton, Somerset, TA 13 5LR, Tel full of interesting material. The first journal calling fundamental changes in the coverage. The Land is Ours culture firms are getting in on the act 01460249204 issue used some drawings by Woody land ownership and usage, It shows squatted a farm in an attempt to try for tax breaks. The international Guthrie to illustrate the front cover. how the state and the landowning and stop the Liberal Democrats of coverage is also excellent with pieces While researching for a piece that I wrote Land is an anarchist issue and is of class act in concert on land issues. And Somerset County Council selling off on Nigeria, Venezuela, China, Mexico on the land issues in the UK for course part of the English anarchist perhaps more importantly it highlights publicly owned farmers, the campaigns and Brazil. The piece on China high Freedom back in February I obtained tradition dating back to the middle the fight for the control of land by by canal boat owners in Oxford to lights the cost to peasants of China’s much information from the campaigning ages; and more recently with Colin ordinary people across the world. It is stop the closure of the local boatyard economic boom. And of course with group The Land is Ours. Now this Ward’s books and essays on housing, also a great read and I would recommend by British Waterways. Brazil the landless movement is the campaigning group has launched a planning, squatters and allotments to everyone. There is an analytical piece on the page 6, column 6 ri'ifiT wr win tin nuiirt' rur iiiih hi vih 1 A sideways l o o k long run, ^ j don't liltdpflsdlis. Sot voted labour. Since when, ORbutthenumbdl* NVhatdid wetell you ‘It H jl recently sprat a few days staying Svflitfrosk In 1997,Tories were saying crimerdtes of peopiein prison Vrisem works. J with a friend, W© f layed some music “prison works" while bavefellen. hasgoneupandup. together; much like we.sse to twenty Labour were saying -ytarn ago when we shared a flat and “toughen crime and tough were in 1 band togethet. Bookworm - on (he causes of crime". While it was a good experience for me, it could have been better * if I'd has), the time to prepare what 1 was doing.; if f’d practiced more; if I I usually have n few pamphlets in the wasn’t always so tired. The truth is bag 1 take t© work, I could lie to you, that most of us have a spurt of and tell you that it's because — as a creativity and energy in our teenage tireless propagandist for anarchism - 1 years, extending into our twenties. whip them out at opportune moments Prison building/isn't So l'vereminded the Resaryepristxiffflr AndeftheSQ.eeo orifereniustbedozens. in order to. win new converts to the - The pressures of work and the daily keeping up with jud&esofthe dangerous and Andbefore yooask. griod then slowly squeeze that j| cause, More truthfully, its because I. increasing numbers. sentencing guidelines: persistentcriminais. aredangems and/or we restili not leans creativity out of uk find pamphlets are a useful way to i persistent euminak?? anybody out?/ I think perhaps 1 was luckier than restore my flagging will-to-.liye on the most - when I was IS there were way to work in the morning. in student grants and even mass The Kate Sharpley Library’sThe Ml HI HI unemployment had its upside. 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And when you had to sign on once a recommendation for this pamphlet Gordon sitting in the Big chain feet on at the ‘Pogo:;G^e;':7§- Clarence Road, Belgium, from 10am-8pm as well as month (which was the case in some than the words of the authors the table, Hackney London E5, phone 0208 533 books. etc., there will be a programme South London dole offices during the themselves. As they say; “starting a “Gordon,. Gordonjsomething 1214, open Wednesday tpS.unday; . of conferences, workshops, video •*80») you had time to do that mini union can be exciting, risky, hard wonderful has happened! ^ ; 12-,3,fl-.tOl 9pm, see pogoeafe.eo.uk showings and performances, for info tour or hitch to the other end of the work and a right good laugh. 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