F ^ s Issu e t **! believe in fhf v*ltn* of ffea pillion Books - p . 2 minority* T he worlJ will be B N o te s \ - p . 3 Mtvcd hy the few. —ANDRE GIDR, .G . S u m m e r School - p. 4 THE ANARCHIST WEEKLY

tJ9. No. 32 A u g u st 9th, 1958 IT jr w p tn w

The Middle East Muddle INTERNATIONAL The Power of Propaganda 'T'HE power of propaganda, in this show of power was presumably con­ NARCHIST CONGRESS age of propaganda, cannot be sidered necessary to ensure his con­ tinued popularity I j International Anarchist Con- exchange of papers and to discuss It was found that a harmonisation underestimated. It has been brought to a pitch which makes it possible, Democracy in Jordan is symbol­ fcress which was held in London his favourite ideas with comrades of tendencies, currents and groups, abroad, through the channel of the on a pluralistic and voluntary basis, without any particular effort, to ised by those two old fuvouries, " ■ the last week of July was the prove that dictatorship is democracy censorship and martial law. If* is ^gsuch Congress to be held. It CRIA Bulletin and other libertarian was perfectly possible without a now necessary for journalists who publications the world over. formal declaration of principles, or that might is not only right but V «d the Congresses of Amster- entirely beneficial to all concerned. are interested la reporting the truth 11907, Berlin 1922, Paris 1949, The practical part of the Congress without a programme, without a to fly to Cyprus in order that they place with the direct or was restricted to more simple and representative body and without any Thus in some indefinable way, the may cable their stories home. John S'participation of at least internal affairs. Firstly there was exclusion or imposition whatsoever. great mass of fair-minded, straight- Dickie of the Ntwn Chroniclt had , different branches or move- the report of each branch or move­ In fact the organisational work of thinking people of Great Britain this to say; ment connected with CRIA and the Congress culminated very have been persuaded that the regime "A t 9000 font over Aroroan on my way [ Congress worked through a represented in the Congress, and the smoothly in the designation of an of King Hussein of Jordan is quite nut of Jordan I am finally free from the "ed agenda of historical, theore- report of CRIA itself on its own International Anarchist Commission admirable and altogether fit for censors. * Ipractical and organisational activities and on behalf of those (CIA) with its secretariat in London democrats. It Is quite an achieve­ Jordan'* pitons are now crammed Eaiscussed in three languages: groups whose members could not be and its members in Western Europe ment when it is considered that not with political 'criminals'. Nightly raid* ft, French and German. present for reasons of isolation, dis­ to bo respectively appointed by the by security forces deplete more and more so long ago, when Glubb Pasha was families of their menflolk—even of gCongress itself was preceded tance or lack of resources. London Anarchist Group, the liber­ thrown out of Jordan by Hussein, frferal years of preparation. In children. Secondly, there was the practical tarian comrades of Hamburg and a very jaundiced eye was cast upon Only (he other day 10 boys were led he 1949 meeting in Paris had examination of the tasks presented Brussels, the Italian movement and that little kingdom. away to jail from u school near Zurga ... jto the hands of a Parisian to the international anarchist move­ the Spanish movement in exile. Jordan is a frightened country, whose rfttee, the C.R.I.A., the task of ment by the present situation and As for connections between the However all is now forgotten and Government is not certain of anyone's r ting proposals and documents by the necessity for building, else­ Secretariat and continents other glowing commentaries of the cour­ allegiance," jptfl countries without giving where than in Paris, an organism of than Europe, they are to be insured ageous and jaunty 23-year-old king And from Cyril Ray o r the power to reject any single relation, information and solidarity by the respective Continental Com­ are now the order of the day. The Observer: Jsal made by a federation, a among anarchists. The tasks were missions of America, Asia and “popular" little chap attended a ”... Western diplomats believe some [or an individual member of the object of a complete survey, Africa. A great amount of decen­ demonstration by the British Army 150 officers and seniof N.C.O.'s of (he Jsvement. then the means, then the working tralisation will result in Europe itself and R.A.F. last week (guarded by Jordan Arab Army to be in prison tur* jresu lt was a mass of ques- structures and lastly the method of from the initiatives of comrades in 60 sub-machine-gunners in Bren ptcted (our italics} of complicity in or pembracing (1) according to co-ordination between the functional every country taking part in the carriers and on motor-cycles along sympathy with the abortive plot of July ■al, local and general points of organs involved by an international collection and distribution of news, the route from palace to airfield, 17th. I the study of the social milieux secretariat which would be centred proposals, publications, funds and and watched from roof-tops by The total of political prisoners, mill* ■he lib^ertairan movement during in London. so on for international purposes. other reliable troops), because a tary and civilian is said to be higher Jfcrst half of the 20th century; to~day than ever because of the arrests that followed the attempted general A e great problems of the coming strike and demonstration of a week ago." S id half of the century in the I 'of the conflict between the Lesson of the Walton Prison Report In case it should be thought the Je and human society; and (3) Iraq uprising had a monopoly on Tiase of libertarianism versus violent death, or that the Jordan Vtarianism in our day. End the Censorship! Government was confining itself to fhis part of the agenda, of course, arrests only, the News Chronicle re­ 'T'HE report on allegations of ill- more than two years ago, was pub- Consequendy from the outset of the ported an event which followed plot and could not be, exhaus- * I * ___*______1.. . lichftrllished loot last week. Sir Qi f Godfrey Rus­ P l ie_ inquiry in December, 1956. the B it could not be and was not treatment of prisoners by prison numerous bomb explosions in officers at Walton Prison, Liverpool, sell Vick, Q.C.. who conducted the Home Secretary had to point out Amman: Jcluded by decisions of an auth- inquiry says in his report that he that the report could not be conclu­ Itative character. It merely pro- which was ordered by the Home “A chase from one explosion at a bank Office after Mrs. Braddock had found a prima facie case of assault, sive since “on counsel’s advice the official's home in Amman led to a Mos­ the opportunity for anybody accompanied by varying degrees of prison officers concerned withheld the movement to take part in the raised the matter in the Commons lem Brotherhood settlement, where three violence, being made on prisoners their answers to the allegations”. ‘culprits’ were dragged out and execu­ by prison officers. The allegations This did not prevent their counsel, ted." which emerged from the evidence of however, from cross-examining each Such is the regime which the FROM ALL PARTS the prisoners and ex-prisoners, he complainant or addressing the in-, British and Americans choose to states, could be grouped in this quiry. support—militarily and financially Messages of Solidarity way: The “general effect” of the evi­ for the fact of the matter is that the 1. Allegations of grave personal dence submitted to Sir Godrfey by West will support any rdgime which I jyjESSAGES of solidarity and “We think that all efforts should be violence, sometimes an isolated blow and the “Governor and his immediate it considers to be of use politically, sometimes a thorough “beating up” by subordinates and that of the mem­ Eg greeting reached the Congress directed towards having in the Congress economically or strategically. the most numerous participation possible, several officers; bers of the visiting committee, the I from movements and groups around chaplains and others who gave But Hussein is not yet out of the I the world. in order that in the present situation of 2. Physical violence less than this, crisis and social struggle they re-affirm amounting to rough handling and un­ evidence” was that “nothing was wood despite the reassuring presence Below we reproduce only a few of and express the decision of anarchjsts to necessary restraint or necessary restraint amiss at Walton”. And he com­ of British troops He must be those messages; act in a vigorous and decisive manner as with unnecessary force; ments : worried for the future, since he can­ the catalytic element of the libertarian not fail to have noticed that this MEXICO 3. What might be described as ill- “It does, however, mean that I am aspiration of mankind. conceived practical jokes by the officers; has been a bad decade for Middle 'T'H E comrades of the Anarchist Fed­ “We use this opportunity to convey placed in the rather embarrassing posi­ tion of having to say that the personal Eastern kings. Although Farouk of eration of Mexico (FAM) extended our brotherly salute to the comrades 4. Provocative conduct by the officers Egypt is still alive. Hussein must to the Congress the following greetings: charged with the organisation of the designed to tempt a prisoner into attack­ view I formed was that certain improper “The TAM expresses to the delegates ing an officer or committing some other incidents took place and upon this view have observed a change in the Congress and to extend them to all the climate of opinion against.those in meeting at the International Anarchist comrades assembled.” breach of the regulations; I am prepared to say that certain prison officers should formally be charged ...” his exalted position, and the treat­ Congress the desire that all their work 5. The consistent use of obscene lan­ will be crowned with success. We are JAPAN guage by the officers; ★ ment which may come their way. conscious that it is only by the efforts 'T'H E Japanese Anarchist Federation His murdered cousin the ex-king of of all men wanting a better future for 6. The tormenting of prisoners who 'T'HE objection of the Prison Offi­ gg (FAJ) in its message to Congress, Iraq will have served as a grim re­ mankind that mankind itself shall reach were already mentally unbalanced in cers’ Association to “proceedure” minder of the possibilities. peace and liberty, through the exertion insisted on four points: anti-atomic such a way that their illnesses were bomb campaign, anti-conscription resis­ was in the nature of the assurance The causes for his anxiety are of all their will, intelligence and courage aggravated and they eventually became which was given to prisoners, “which in favour of such a noble cause.” tance, support for the industrial struggle completely insane; and growing daily; both Britain and the and the adoption of Esperanto. TTiey amounted to a virtual invitation for Continued on p. 4 stand for an all-comprehensive corres­ 7. The denial of proper medical allegations to be made”. In other PERU treatment. pR O M the Anarchist Federation of Peru pondence between anarchists, anti-mili­ words that for once a prisoner could (FAP) the Congress received the tarists and pacifists from all countries Sir Godfrey comments: make his allegations to an outside warmest encouragement: and for mutual help in order to deprive “I found no evidence which will sup­ body without fear of punishment! “Nothing could have been more wel­ the states of the flesh of human youth. port the last two of these allegations and The result, complains the Associa­ It’s Urgent! come than your brotherly invitation, and I reject them, but it is otherwise with tion, was that ISRAEL PROGRESS OF A DEFICIT! we joyfully extend to you, through this the five other groups and in each I find when the terms of this assurance be­ ' J ’HE Kropotkin Circle of Haifa greeted WEEK 31 meeting, our most effusive salute and our that some complaints were justified and came generally known, prisoners and best wishes for a happy end to your the Congress in these words: action is clearly shown to be necessary.” ex-prisoners literally flocked to give Deficit on Freedom £620 “Unfortunately we cannot send any deliberations, initiatives and actions, evidence to the inquiry, some from as far delegate to represent us at the Congress. The 200 warder staff at Walton Contributions received £406 We hope that 1958 will be a year of Prison are up in arms over the re­ away as Dartmoor—and all at public unity between anarchists the whole world We wish you a big success; may our DEFICIT £214 anarchist ideals win over the proletarians port and are pressing for an imme­ expense. over in a common effort to make clear July 25 to July 31 the outlines of the huiqan revolution.” of all the countries. We wish that diate special delegate conference of What an admission this is of the Esperanto may also be considered and the Prison Officers’ Association to absolute power normally enjoyed by Pleasanton: per Osmar, part proceeds BRAZIL recognised as a means of international consider the findings, and motions warders to stifle any complaints Picnic, July 20 £20/6/0; London: W .F.* 2/-i 'T'HE Anarchist. Union of Sao Paulo understanding. London: J.S.# 3/*; Hitchin: H.E.H. 10/-; may be proposed calling for an against their management of the London: T.F.# 5/-; London: Anon. £24/5/0; (Brazil) expressed their views to “May the Congress send its hearty appeal to the High Court and for a prison and individual treatment of Congress in substantial letters, from greetings to all prisoners in Russia, Montreal: S.A. I/-; London: D«A.# 10/*. which we take the liberty to quote at petition to be presented to the prisoners! TOTAL ... 46 i 0 Spain and Portugal, and special regards Previously acknowledged ... 360 10 9 random: — may be sent to Zenzl Muehsam and Queen! The Association in a press In his report Sir Godfrey refers to statement declared that it welcomed “We are in favour of the meeting of Rudolf Rocker. “what might be considered indepen­ 1958 TOTAL TO DATE £406 12 9 all elements from the Anarchist Move­ All our comrades are with you and the inquiry in the first instance but dently of the results of this inquiry.” If ment, animated by constructive purpose, salute you with Long Live Anarchism, had always objected to the pro- a prisoner wished to make any complaint Gifts of Books: London: P.; London: C.F. —B' Hi y. ^ ^ l f »!.- BOOKS BY THE BILLION BOOK REVIEW rina Fair” there was a fast gag-line that sex with an adolescent leer; his women Picture of Cyprus TN spite of radio and television, or be- wear nothing under their dresses; they cause of them, people are reading assumed that everyone knew the name. But when, in “Marty”, a solemn young divest quicker than excited Doukhobors, more than ever. 5,000 million books are and throw themselves at the hero—who mentioned) and is easily sviBff published every year. Non-readers may man announced that he had read a book, from his practical recognition! and boy, was it good? and that it was catches them. He specialises in descrip­ _rei| (Faber & Faber, 16s) is gasp at that figure, but 5,000 million (and tions of men, and women, being beaten about as satisfactory as the turbulent benefits bestowed by British tutefl half of them are school-books) is only by Mickey Spillane; and boy, could that Durrell floats off on a spirituW1 guy write? yeah, that Mickey 'Spillane into unconsciousness. Mike Hammer, a state of the Cyprus about which it is 2 books per person; even with a correc­ far from perfect or gentle knight, takes written. carpet in the direction of A therw tion for the 700 million people who could sure write! Well, I decide# it was time I made some enquiries, .even and gives the beatings in his stride, as a jure up the vision all culturists^R can’t read, it works out at three and one hazard of his job. He fells an attacker) ' Torn by conflicting loyalties, and with to excuse a particular n a tio n a l third books per reader per year. JE^m y at the cost of displaying my ignorance, i most liberal sympathies,, Mr. Durrell favour. (And bof, was 1 ignorant!) and then—“I took a shorthalf-step and teens, when time went in low gear, I kicked that son Of a bitch so hard in made the best he could of his recent T he greater pity is that T . used to average that weekly. Ij didn’t have to seek long or far. My the face that his teeth came out ifi my three years in that island—a best that" is 19 For the past decade Unesco has neighbour-, whose taste is for westerns not good enough. With its bitter recurrence of been gathering facts about books, and and thrillers, knew about Mickey Spil- happenings so movingly recfljjgjf • There is no pity (‘The poetry France, G. America, especially as no ^SfillSne’^ap­ relied , on an impressionistic study of the not accepted the analysis o f fl Big Kill”?1 It takes strong faith to bp- Flaubert and V. Baum, E. Wallace and pears on the 195.5 list of translated much-troubled atmosphere of Cyprus in part of Industry andSocietj^^M Homer, Stendhal and P. Cheyney, F. M. authors. But this only means that in lieve that the effort1 is worthwhile. But the years 1953 to 1956, to convey a pic­ I ject the view that these supej^J Dostoievski and H. C. Anderson, the 1955 he did not have 100 translations of with’ 5,000 ^nfiliion- books coming from ture of Cypriots and British he hopes in fact controlled by th e id ^ J the world’s presses gvery .year,1 it is to Bible and V. i, Lenin! Ids works; the list of 10 most translated'! does justice to both, which' study is I rather than - by the sharehoI^^H be hoped that some of them will find authors of 1956 shows Spillane, M. in seeped with pity for an all-embracing I do not deny the tendency, for In this list of 111 writers, Pearl Buck something more edifying. fifth place, with 104 translations pub­ tragedy about, which Mr. Durrell is not I to be divorced from control b u ^ f holds the doable honour of most trans­ content only:to sigh as he folds his te n t. lated living author, and first woman, lished in that year alone! My last news Of) Mickey Spillane is Of deny that it has gone so far aj^T some interest in- ..this respect. It js re­ and steals not silently away from its I It is true, they point out, that t j j j with 304 translations. Agatha Christie This phenomenal rise in popularity is scene. is close behind with 264. The first living ported that he has been converted to. one I ands of small shareholders spread over the following countrfesS of the fundamentalist, religious sects. As male writer is Simenon, and there are 7 thus:— Denmark 1, Finland 2, Italy 1!,; For, this pity being tinged with a sen­ I effective control Of firms like f. ® other detective-story writers listed. So a ifesuitjie,has-renounced the writing of timental regard fOr Greek Enosis, I the same does not apply to Japan ; 5,~ Netherlands '2, Sweden 4, best-sellers. professors and tired business men can’t and Turkey 89. ir"1 theoretically, and with no like feeling for I shareholders. The latter are fev^P be the only readers of ‘whodunits’! Good neWjSjif -, Turkish sentiments (the still smaller min­ I ber and. collectively may own a I’m no thriller-addict myself—one in Is this a good thing? ' Spillane treats G. G ilfillan . ority of Armenian Cypriots is never 20% of the total shares; but th i^ P two years, if it’s by Raymond Chandler tion is; sufficient to give them jeff or Simenon, is enough for me—but there I I control. -Quoting the results o ^ r ^Florence's researches—cited so n S was one name I looked for in vain. a | year ago I wouldn't havej noticed thi ingly in Industry and Society—thdff omission, for when I .first saw it .then in elude that what we have at a gossip column the reference had no Industry and the Managerial Society not managerial control,-but olija meaning for me. Then in a film “Sab-| minority owners’ control. ' l- ~ HpHE Labour .Party’s new policy-state- tion : with the. -result that there was at tions on the model of the 1945-51 nat­ It seems to. me that this linqjofS ment on public ownership, Industry present (1932) hardly anything that could ionalisation measures,' to leave' them in- I 1 cism is valid up to a .point, F o ^ ^ _ and Societyr has been interpreted iby rightly be called complete private owner­ tact except fop- the State purchase of I own good reasons, the authd^^ FREEDOM BOOKSHOP I many radicals as a proposal to bolster ship. As undertakings grew in. size, the shares in these concerns. . ; Ihdustry and Society have, exaga r . I up the capitalist order. I believe this divorce between ownership and control the tendency towards managerial OPEN DAILY view to be mistaken and, as briefly as I increased. In the large-scale joint stock Seen' in this light, I believe an iriipor- I They write as if capitalist contro^^fe [Open 10 a.m-—630 p.mr, 5 p.m. Safa.’) can, I wish to advance a different—and companies, the shareholders were the tant iconclusion follows: The new policy I virtually eliminated in the large c c^ ^ B more radical—interpretation. / legal owners and legal powers were ves­ is np,t a radical departure .from the- B pre tions, whereas it is still an im p o ^ B New Books . . . ted in them but in practice they did not vious policy but a logical development force. of If one confines one’s a t t ^ ^ ^ H European Volunteer Workers in Central .to the whole argument of really control the undertakings. “For all it. Nationalisation by public corpora­ to these corporations alone, I think it Britain J. A. fannahill 18/- Industry and Society -is, the distinction practical purposes control passes out of tion and the extension of public owner­ possible to make out a fair case that The Tide Went Out C. E. Maine 12/6 between ownership and control. This the hands of the shareholders into those ship through the State purchase or are still a substantial way off from t(H S e con d-H an d . . . distinction is popularly associated with of the directors with comparatively small acquisition of shares in the great cor- • managerial revolution—that we are s tilll Burnham’s thesis of the managerial revo­ holdings of shares, or in many cases into porations like I.C .l and Unilevers are if you like, at the stage \pf m onopo^H The State and the Doctor lution but the distinction is older than Sidney & Beatrice Webb 10/6 the hands of salaried managers who are not radically different policies: they are capitalism. Nevertheless, ' I think this, |j War and Peace (Shabby) Burnham. It was first popularised by not even part owners.” ‘This develop­ merely the application of the same basic view is misleading. One must look i f l Leo Tolstoy i/6 I syndicalists and guild socialists in the ment was an inevitable consequence of principles to different circumstances. In the question from the point of view o H The Limits of Pure Democracy years before and during World War One the tendency towards industrial consoli­ the industries nationalised after 1945 the economy as a whole, taking in to ^ H (damaged) W. H. Mailock 3/- when they demanded Workers’ control— dation. As industrial units grew larger, there was a strong technical case for set­ account the public as well as the privajg^H My Sister and I irrespective of whether, as the guilds- control became more and more a job ting UP new organisations, mo,st of them sector, and also in the light of the v e r y ^ J Friedrich N ietzc he ? %/• I men suggested, the State owned industry for experts and at- the same time the with a legal monopoly in their respective The Labour Movement pronounced development of a specifically or, as the syndicalists (following the legal conception of ownership tended to industries. But there is not the same managerial ideology during the last 30 9 jL T, Hobhouse 4/- anarchists) suggested, nobody owned, it. Marxism and the Irrationalists change. The result was that ownership case with regard to other Industries— - years. meant, not so much the ownership of John Levis S/6 More important in the context of the especially when the great corporations Gulliver's Travel* Jonathan Swift »/- tangible property as the right to receive like I.C.I. are spread over several indus­ Looked at in this way, it seems to me ■ present discussion is the fact that this that it is the managers, rather than the ■ Knock on Any Ooor I distinction underlay the notable report an .income in the shape of profits and tries. Willard Motley J/- interest, When dividend limitation was capitalists, large or small, who repre- 1 A New View of Society by the T.U.C. on The dontrol of Indus­ sent the growing social force. The 9 try , 1932. It was this report which introduced, this process was carried a I believe that Industry and Society does ✓ Robert Owen JA I stage further. “When the process has mark an important stage' in the develop^ managers are already in effective con- § Ploughman's Folly marked the acceptance by the T.U.C. of been carried to its logical conclusion, ment of the managerial revolution in trol of 20% of the economy—the section E H. Faulkner 2/6 the public corporation form of nation­ under public ownership—and as a class Not LikeThis Jane W«lth 2/6 private ownership of capital will seem this country but it marks the second, not alization and the substitution of joint they are conscious of the fact that while Britain and the Beast consultation for joint control in the man­ almost meaningless (apart from the right the ljrst, stage. The first stage began in the early 'thirties with the policy of a modern industrial society such as our Keynes. Massingham &c. 1/6 agement of public industries. to an annual income), if those private I Thought of Daisy owners have no control over the under­ nationalisation by publie corporation, own can dispense with capitalists, it can­ Edmund Wilson )/6 When the public corporation form of taking in question and if the payments combined as it was with the rejection of not dispense with managers. As far as / Science, Liberty end Peace nationalisation was first mooted I q they receive by way of interest or divi­proposals for giving the workers any we c^n see, the future belongs to the , Aldous Huxley l/> Labour circles, there was some doubt at dend are fixed or, limited," Hence, It efi'eotlve control In industry. The second managers rather than to the capitalists. Thoughts of a Fool Evelyn Gladys 3/6 to whether it was a genuine form of was largely irrelevant whether former stage of the managerial revolution will Of course, there is overlapping between A Plea for Liberty the capitalists and the managers; they George Bernanos 2/6 socialisation rather than simply the shareholders were given stock in the be distinguished from the first, not Odd John Ojaf Stapledon !/• creation of a capitalist trust. Left wing new public corporation or were given primarily by the fact that private share­ are not two distinct groups with clear-cut The Lonely Ones William Steig 3/6 suspicion that the latter was the case Government slock. For the problem of holding will continue to exist alongside and incompatible interests. To say that Nana Emile Zola 3/. was increased by the financial proposals socialisation, the Important thing was not State shareholding in the great corpora­ the managers are establishing themselves Marshal Tito (1944) associated with the setting up of the the financial basis of the compensation tions; it will be distinguished by tfte fact as a new ruling class and superseding the Michael Padev 2/6 London Passenger Transport Board, but the fact that the former owners as that the directors and managers will have capitalist ruling class does not imply Periodicals • . . 1934. Under this scheme, shareholders tuc(i would have no part in control and greater independence. Under the pre­ that a wholly new set of men is taking Orgonomic Functionalism, July 2/6 of the old London transport combine were management. vious nationalisation policy there was over control in society. Rather it is to given stock in the new public corporation still some pretence that the publio cor­ say that the ruling class is shifting the We can supply ANY book required, by way of compensation, rather than All this, let me repeat, was written 26 porations were accountable to the .public basis of its social power. If the theory including text-Dooks., Please supply pub­ Government stock. Left-Wingers, there­ years ago and 10 years before Burnham through Parliament. In practice such Of the managerial revolution is correct lisher's name if possible, but if not, we control is mostly moonshine. In the the future, ruling class will be based’, can find it. Searcy and out-of-print fore, alleged that the L.P.T.B. would be first published hit book. Far from fol­ books searched for — and frequently privately owned. The T.U.C. In its ( lowing Burnham In his analysis of con­ new socialisation policy this pretence of not on ownership o f private capital but found1 report attempted to allay these suspicr temporary industrial structure, the T.U.C. public accountability has been largely on control of the great corporations,, ions. Jt insisted that the crux of social­ anticipated him. And dll that the dropped. Industry and Society does pro­ whether ostensibly privately or publicly J Postage free on (II Items isation lay in the transfer of control to Labour party has done io its new docu- pose that the Companies Acts should be owned. The, managerial rilling class will- Obtainable from the community, foot in the transfer of meat is to apply this sort qf analysis revised so that, e.g., companies Will be of course be recruited primarily from the 27* RED LION STREET, ownership. It argued that io the past, afresh, singling out as of special impor­ required to publish their accounts in qld ruling class—just as the capitalist^ according to traditional notions, control tance the 500 or so super-firms which greater detail. They may also be re­ cjass Was primarily recruited from the LONDON, W.C.I was automatically vested in the owners now dominate the private sector of the quired to adopt certain standards in previous ruling class. In the 19th cen­ of property. But control had been suc­ economy and proposing, instead Of labour relations practice, e.g. setting up tury when the industrial capitalists cessively limited' by government regula­ transforming theln ioto public corpora- joint consultation machinery where none K " Continued on p. 3 A NEW * FREEDOM * FEATURE We are very pleased to introduce below the first contribution of what we hope will be a regular feature in LAN D NOTES I reeiom F r e e d o m . Our contributor is well known in our movement for his con­ sistent advocacy of communal living TT is a significant feature ofi progressive agriculture in Britain is fairly sound healthy condition. gU 19, No. 32. August 9, 1958 and his attempts to put his ideas and left wing thought that the rele­ but no doubt in the event of a slump the There is of course the conflict of inter­ into practice (as well as appearing vance of agriculture, and its place in the industry would grass down large areas of ests of the small farmers that rely on the social arrangements of society are largely arable land and return to dog and stick labour power of their families and those briefly in the second (ITV) appear­ farming. who are concerned mainly in the man­ ance of anarchists on television inignored. The Marxist tendency that re­ End the gards industrialism and the industrial Like every other activity within capi­ agement of large farms with employed this country). workers as the avant guarde or spearhead talist society, where useful activity is labour and highly mechanised activities. [Censorships Alan Albon is a farmer with many of a revolution has also to some extent geared to the sterile task of making The labour force on the land tends to years experience behind him ofeffected the libertarian movement. In money, the fundamental needs and pur­ become smaller with the more mechanic- Continued from p. 1 work on smallholdings and largerspite of this there has always been a poses of the activity suffer as a result. ally-minded operative tending to replace 7st an officer, he had read to him a trend of' agrarian influence running In spite of the fact that total world those with some of the older skills and farms—usually in responsible capa­ agricultural production does not meet generally commanding a higher wage Jing which the prisoners called the cities. We feel sure that his ‘Land through the movement. 't Act’. Their evidence was unani­ In countries in similar circumstances the needs of the population, United than the minimum. Older workers on Notes' will be of interest to all our to India, where the standarcj of living is States farmers are paid not to farm, and arable farms particularly are gradually ls to the effect that it deterred them being pushed right out of the industry. Bv making genuine complaints.” readers and that they will deal with precariously balanced at about the sub­ the ships that could carry this excessive matters of special concern to those sistence level, it is inevitable that the production to where it is needed rust in Production tends tQ become more inten­ iHfef also states elsewhere in the in country districts or engaged need in to secure an effective and efficient the estuaries. In Britain there is a sive, as in the broiler industry when thou­ ■prt that most of the prisoners rural industries. agriculture is constantly evident. It is campaign to persuade the population to sands of chickens are turned out every ■e their evidence with fairness in India that, significantly, a most revo­ absorb the surplus milk quite regardless twelve weeks on an extremely small p i moderation, and he never found lutionary movement is gathering strength of whether the product is suitable to be margin of profit—a similar activity to ( s ig n of a spirit of revenge, much Kenya prisoners were theirs, and and support. The Vinoba Bhave move­ a significant part of adult diet. Grass mass industrial production. Whether " o f deliberate conspiracy to ment is revolutionary in its vattitude to production is, most suitable to British this type of activity produces a valuable K e false accusations. Indeed: which fell into the hands of our land ownership and its methods of agri­ conditions and the by-products of this article of foodstuff is another matter, but guardians, the other addressed to cultural organisation cut right across the crop are the most important sector in such operations require large capital out­ jB o st of them paid tribute, in many the then (it was in 1945) Labour lay only possible for larger units. m quite spontaneously to the overall socialist flavoured tendencies. the industry. Home Secretary, exposing serious In this country since the war, agricul­ Although the agricultural population Following the general pattern of capi­ and humanity of the majority talist development, the smaller farmer Eson officers. Even more noticeable irregularities by some warders in ture has become a more important part is relatively small it occupies a strategic of the general economy than at any time position vis-a-vis the relative position of finds himself in an increasingly onerous phe almost universal respect and Wormwood Scrubs, which were not position in which good husbandry is not ration for the governor and his im- dissimilar from those brought to Sir since the industrial revolution, except the the political parties. The main parties durations of the two world wars. Agri­ are evenly balanced and marginal con­ necessarily synonymous with success in ffate subordinates. In consequence Godfrey’s notice at the Walton the financial sense. The opportunity that ts . it is my view that although Prison inquiry in 1956. cultural production is 68% above the stituencies often contain a large agricul­ pre-war level and this increased produc­ tural element. The agricultural element mechanisation has presented to remove ■ilarities have occurred at Walton the need for excessive toil in agricultural Km , the governor, deputy governor, tion is largely absorbed by the increased however continues to regard the over­ tures of the political parties with sus­ operations is harnessed to the futility of |lant governors, and medical officers standard of living. It does not seem to I monetary system which could more ■bo knowledge of them. ! . . 'THERE are obvious ways of re­ be the Government’s intention to allow picion, and one of the main agricultural agriculture to become a derilict industry, journals concluded after studying the quickly destroy the very basis of fertility |t is not possible to say that any of ducing these irregularities* in upon which food production is based. know or ought to have known o£ prisons, and without for one as the agricultural community has be­ programmes of the three political parties on agriculture that there was very little Not many Anarchists I think are en­ irregularities. 1 think that the moment relenting our attacks on the come a valuable market for large indus­ gaged on work in connection with agri­ B officers would never have dared trial undertakings and the home market to choose between them. The editorial prison system as inhuman and the then went on to say that the industry culture. Therefore the writer hopes that ■■ treat a prisoner when there was breeding ground for criminals, we has become a basis for a considerable these notes, to be written when rain or (Okelihood of their superiors being export market for agricultural machinery would be very foolish to rely on the think anarchists should do all in and chemicals. As the more backward promises of the political parties and sunset stops work outside, will present their power to foster a much countries proceed with their agricultural should pin more faith in the efficiency of an aspect of life that is not often repre­ fcese testimonials may exoner- greater awareness of the fact that development this market is likely to their industry and its marketing organ­ sented in the paper. [the Governor from connivance public disinterest in what goes on expand for some time. The position of isation in maintaining the industry in a A lan A lbon . Jie abuses perpetrated by his inside our prisons encourages the ■dinates; it does not clear him abuses by prison officers which the ■bonsibility. How many prispn- Vick inquiry so clearly reveals. fever see the Governor alone, and To abolish these irregularities is sources rather than from private savings. Burrounded by a posse of Chief asking too much. To suggest as Industry & the Managerial Society Increasingly the privileged don’t them­ Ilers or Principal Officers? How does the Manchester Guardian that selves pay for their privileges—they get ly surprise visits does he pay to one of the principle troubles is that to# Continued from p. 2 the Post Office and nationalisation by their companies to pay for them in the form of expense accounts, cars, meals, Prison wing during “slopping- the “quality of prison staffs falls a emerged as the dominant class, the feudal public corporation. And I oppose it for r in the morning, or to the long way short of the ideal . . the same fundamental reason: it will do travel, holidays, pension schemes, provis­ landowners did not simply abdicate: they ion of houses, interest-free loans, etc. p-house, or to the refectory when [and is] largely the fault of Govern­ became industrial capitalists themselves. nothing to bring nearer the classless society and (if I may use such old- It is pointed out that “from existing Pis being doled-out? How often ments which have failed to provide Generally speaking, what happens in a Board Room policies it is not difficult the conditions in which better social revolution is not the literal over­ fashioned language) the emancipation of he visit a prisoner in his cell labour from the wage-system. to envisage a managerial caste taking on hear the “client’s” point of view recruits might came forward,” is to throw of the ruling class but the merging Perhaps the most significant aspect of the former role of the owners of wealth lirst hand? In fact he doesn’t, assume that any decent man or of the old with the new ruling class; or, and using its economic power to buttress woman would be a prison warder if you prefer, a change in the character Industry and Society is the bland assump­ ■mse he is as much a prisoner of of the ruling class. tion that managerial control presents no class privileges and institutions.” But, ■prison officers as the Queen is of (or wardress) by choice. Without My own conclusion, therefore, is that real dangers. Its authors are clearly having made this sensible point, they pro­ n rt circles.) respect for the Prison Officers’ Asso­ one can accept as broadly correct the convinced that managerial control is not pose the most trivial measures to prevent ciation we would say that no decent analysis of contemporary society con­ only inevitable but a good thing. They this happening: a code of conduct for person can be a prison warder! tained in Industry and Society, with the assert that the large corporations are “as the managers, drawn up by negotiations ■XCEPT for a reference to “one The proposal by Lord Pakenham qualification that the tendency towards a whole serving the nation well” and between the Trade Union bosses and the j r occasion [when] I personally that assistant governors should be managerial control in the super-firms has that therefore they have no intention of employers, and, if necessary, given the paw an officer address a group of appointed to prisons who would act been exaggerated. I reject, however, the subjecting them to “persistent and de­ force of law. The sheer puerility of this policy conclusions derived from the tailed intervention from above.” Else­ is almost unbelievable: it is on the same I prisoners in a tone of voice which I not as gaolers but as welfare work­ level as the notion that a law passed in Thought objectionable” Sir Godfrey ers who could provide an outlet for analysis. I oppose the policy of extend­ where in the document, they mention the ing public ownership through State possibility that the managers may 1800 might have prevented the rise of phases his report on the testimony prisoners’ complaints misses the the industrial bourgeoisie! It assumes whole point. So long as the prison acquisition of shares, just as I oppose emerge as a new ruling caste. They of prisoners and ex-prisoners, and the previous socialist policies of bureau­ point out that privileges in our society that State and Industry are two indepen­ the evidence of the Governor and governor and the visiting magistrates cratic nationalisation on the model of are increasingly financed from corporate dent entities, that the State is the repre­ his subordinates. The prison staff are both prosecution, defence, judge sentative of the whole community, instead “on counsel’s advice” said nothing and jury in matters affecting prison of being organised power which is sub­ then, but hotly deny everything now. discipline and complaints by prison­ ject to the pressure and manipulation of the dominant social forces in society at We do not believe in the infallibility ers so long will existing abuses con­ any given time. If we are emerging into of official enquiries (what could tinue unchecked. a managerial society, then the State | have been more suspect than the An assistant governor is yet JOHN HEWETSON s Ill-Health, Poverty and the State machine will largely reflect the interests inquiry into the Timothy Evans- another member of the prison ad­ FREEDOM PRESS cloth 2s. 6d., paper Is. of the managers and the idea of State Christie affair?). When we state ministration and rightly, will be control of the managers in the interests that the present inquiry is an accu­ viewed as such by the prisoners. In SELECTIONS FROM ERRICO MALATESTA : of ‘the community as a whole’ is so much rate summing-up of the situation in any case even if he shows any inde­ ‘ FREEDOM ’ Anarchy 6d. eye-wash. Vote—What Fori Id. Walton Prison, it is not because we pendence, his life will soon be made Vol. 1, 1951, Mankind is One I am not a social determinist. I be­ assume Sir Godfrey Russell Vick to impossible by the “gaolers” who, in Vol. 2, 1952, Postscript to Posterity HERBERT READ i lieve that a managerial revolution can be be impartial, the prisoners truthful the case of Walton Prison, would Vol. 3, 1953, Colonialism on Trial Art and the Evolution of Man 4s. prevented; but not so long as the present in their evidence or the prison outnumber him by 200 to 1! Vol. 4, 1954, Living on a Volcano Existentialism, Marxism and structure of industry is accepted as sacro­ officers guilty by their silence. That Vol. 5, 1955, The Immoral Moralists Anarchism 3s. 6d. To keep the gaolers within Vol. 6, 1956, Oil and Troubled sanct. It can be prevented, not by would rightly leave us open to the bounds, prisoners must have the Waters Poetry and Anarchism attempts to impose controls on the man­ charge of opportunism, since on the right to communicate with the out­ each volume paper 7s. 6d. cloth 5s., paper 2s. 6d. agers from iutside industry but by im­ The Philosophy of Anarchism posing controls inside industry. The only other occasions we have attacked the side world by letter or word of cloth 10s. 6d. boards 2s. 6d. partiality of Commissions of In­ mouth without the prying eyes and The paper edition of the Selections is The Education of Free Men Is. sure way of preventing the development quiry, and have complained that a available to readers of FREEDOM of a new ruling class is to destroy the ears of the prison censors. The at SI- a copy TONY GIBSON t basis of its social power; and that im­ prisoner who exercises his legal prisoner must have this minimum Youth for Freedom. paper 2s. E. A. GUTKIND i plies, at the present time, the wresting right not to submit himself to ex­ of private contact with people in Who will do the Dirty Workl 2d. of control within the corporations from amination in the witness box invar­ whom he has confidence and from The Expanding Environment 8s. 6d. K. J. KENAFICK i the managers. The only real alternative iably creates in the minds of his whom he can hope for help and not VO LINE i to managerial control in our society is Nlneieen-Seventeen (The Russian Michael Bakunin and Karl Marx judges the suspicion that he has punishment. Jt will of course be Revolution betrayed) cloth 12». 6d. paper 6s. workers' control and this cannot too fre- something to hide. objected that without censorship of (Kronstadt 1921, Ukraine 1918-21) F. A. RIDLEY t qently be emphasised. How workers* No, Sir Godfrey’s report is true letters prisoners could more easily The Unknown Revolution The Roman Catholic Church control might be achieved and the whole because we know it to be true from organise their escape with outside cloth 12i. 6d. and the Modern Age 2d. strategy of the struggle against the man­ our own first-hand knowledge as assistance. It is a pretty feeble V. RICHARDS i agers is another and very large question. Lessons of the Spanish ALEX COMFORT t But on the main objective there cannot unwilling guests in H.M. Prisons, argument since the experienced Delinquency 6d. who neither closed our eyes to what Revolution 6s. in my opinion be any disagreement prisoner who wants to avoid the RUDOLF ROCKEB i among radicals who are alive to what is was happening around us, nor feared censorship knows who are the war­ Nationalism and Culture cloth 21s. happening in the world about them. Far to complain to all concerned, from ders he can bribe to carry out (or MAR1E-LOUISE BERNERI i Muric-Louec Bcrneri Memorial from being outmoded, as our fashionable warders to chaplains, from Gover­ bring in) whatever he likes. Neither East nor West Committee publications t “new socialists” would have it, the slogan nor to Home Secretary! And if Sir Without censorship it may be­ paper 7i. 6d., cloth IQs. 6d. Marie-Louise BernerI, 1918-1949: ‘Workers’ Conuol of Industry’, is more Godfrey had the time and interest come less difficult to escape from PETER KROPOTKIN i A Tribute cloth 5s. lelevant' to-day than when it was first he could find somewhere in the files Journey Through Utopia voiced fifty years ago. prison, but it is a small price to pay The Stale: Its Historic Rdle Is. cloth 18s. (U.S.A. $3) at the Home Office two reports if it also means that those walls The Wage System 3d. G eo ffr ey O stergaa rd . written by two members of Fri-i-- Revolutionary Government 3d. 17, Red Lion Street, which have so far kept out public Organised Vengeance d o m ’s editorial board, one for our scrutiny as effectively as they have London, W .C .I, (This article was first published in "Keele friends outside which we were less Called Justice 2d. Left", an independent magazine of the held their human hostages within, University College of North Stafford­ successful in smuggling out than the are at last breached. shire.) After the International Congress LETTERS TO THE EDITORS The London Anarchists Summer School The ‘Isis* Trial Monday, 5th August. On Sunday night, Tony Gibson painted causes of war was not raised. Tony C o m r a d e s , ation of the moral significance ] ol npO-DAY marked the end of our a grave and convincing picture of the Gibson did question the possibility of Now that the “Isis” trial has been con­ by the State to which they were Annual Summer School which fol­ insanity of people in power. He con­ present-day economic gains if war broke cluded in a manner fit to pamper the albeit at some time voluntary, . lowed the International Anarchist Con­ fessed to bis own mistaken views (held out between the nation states, suggesting vanity of the Establishment it may be acts included the contract itself, gress, a new and rewarding experience by many people before the last war) that that nothing but total economic collapse safe to comment without fear of short­ they also had political, i.e. n o ij^ while the powerful cliques which ruled would accompany the kind of vfctr en­ term victimisation. motives is largely irrelevant in thi*| for most British Anarchists. The result of their moral re-evalil The organisers of this year's Summer the world might be greedy, ruthless and visaged in the future. As the judiciary invariably see fit to School were wise to decide on a single dishonest at least they were not insane On Sunday afternoon we held our sanctify the law with moral censure on was a decision that effectively theirl and therefore, international war was a usual weekly meeting at Hyde Park. tract with the State was no longecT theme—War & Peace—a method which these occasions let us take their cue and ing. allowed for a fairly extensive discussion thing of the past. Our mistake, he con­ Out of the ‘pleasure seeking' Bank Holi­ ignore the legal fictions. We are then throughout the week-end. tended was in atributing sanity to men day crowd we were glad to welcome left with a rather peculiar ethical dilem­ This moral dilemma is accept! It is not surprising that most of the holding power. He disagreed with Gio­ some new friends who, on hearing anar­ ma—at lest peculiar to all but Anarch­ common law, if 1 make a contract® discussion was on war rather than peace vanni Baldelli's view that one of the chist ideas for the first time, expressed ists and cynics. a person who subsequently ba|_ their approval. and, as often happens in a gathering of causes of war was ‘maleness’ finding Assuming that t h f contract between criminal or insane the contract Ism anarchists, a variety of opinions were expression in ‘daring’. War took place This writer usually gets special plea­ and indeed I may be liable to pjjl sure from the Summer School discus­ the State and the Individual can be expressed on the causes of war, alterna­ between states and not peoples, and the entered into freely, then it is a contract tion for not breaking it. But in thl tive methods to violence which could be men who fought in wars were distinguish­ sions because they are generally limited of treason the State is saying thl adopted by revolutionaries, and the rdle able for their submissiveness rather than to anarchists. Irrelevancies in the form not to disclose certain information about morally expedient acts. They may be moral judgment is infallible for ll of the anarchist living under war con­ their aggressiveness. of hobby horses which are so often not allowed to break the contrafl ditions. The presence of three comrades ridden at our open weekly, meetings are acts which are intrinsically moral or On Monday morning Philip Sansom which have a moral outcome. Now any appeal to higher moral principles who had direct experience of occupied and Alan Albon led the discussion on absent. R. responsibility to humanity, nor c m act can only be judged by available in­ war-time Europe added considerably to some of the points raised in the three judgment be correct if I brand theT our knowledge. lectures. *For the benefit of all those readers un­ formation; if I subsequently learn more as criminal or insane. The inn able to attend the Summer School, the about the circumstances in which it was Giovanni Baldelli* opened the series With possibly two exceptions through­ ethics of the State, in this matter of lectures by considering the classical three lectures will be published in done, the intentions of the doer, or its out the entire week-end the economic F r e ed o m —E d s . thus identical with those of anyT concepts of war which were generally outcome it may become more or less State of any political colour, incfld moral—by my own standards and by the accepted by the majority of people the those against whom our State luyis most important being: — instinct of professed standards of the doer, in this charge that none of their actiotf case the State. We must also note that pugnacity in man—war as a means of morally defensible. social evolution which destroyed the Reports from the International Congress we are not obliged to wait an infinite weak members of society, and war con­ time before making a moral judgment It is a pity that the defence jofl sidered as a necessary ‘social vitamin'. on an event in any system of morality Oxford Undergraduates took the 0 9 In the lives and habits of other animals Motion by the commonly accepted, hence the State can­ a plea of juvenile enthusiasm andj he found no trace of organised war on not ask us to postpone criticism if ponsibility, and that Goddard] the human scale, and accepted the picture Iserhorn (Germany) Group our judgment tells us that this would be allowed to get away with spia of prehistoric society given by Freud iti to suppress it for all time. moralizations from his elevated p cfl Totem & Taboo. He ascribed war to Jk NARCHISM goes in search of a ‘free body’ once they had chase.d off the land­ In the “Isis” episode we have the case Have we no longer the couraj maleness, affirming that the human male society’, a1 society for .everybody, owners in the revolution. This may of two individuals who in the light of Sacco and Vanzetti? found self fulfilment in ‘daring"—espec­ whether they come from the rich or poor certainly be true, and without a doubt subsequent information made a re-evalu- Yours, sections of our present society, and what­ was a triumph for our comrades in those ially daring to kill and being killed. London, July 20. R o b in G r rqA Jack Robinson was primarily interested ever their occupation. Yet anarchism countries. It is also a demonstration of in the non-violent methods of achieving, and the libertarian movement have adop­ the fact that people who lead a rural life ted very different ways and means of and defending, a social revolution. He need less exertion to attain a ‘free THE ESSENCE OF developed his thesis on the lines that—• attaining this object. society’ than those who live far from “the question of violence and non-vio­ Revolutionary syndicalists have at­ the land. This was certainly the case in ANARCHISM lence is outside the realm of morals in tempted it with the organisation of wage these peasant revolutions. After the the ordinary sense”. In this way he was and salary workers and employees into owners of the estates had fled, the living C o m r a d e s , able to make the distinction between syndicates which are supposed to be conditions of the workers were improved, I admire Arthur Uloth for his keen MEETINGS AN] personal violence and organised war, and kernels of the future ‘free society’. They they had liberty because the dominion regard of origins. I have neither his A NNOUN CEMEN on the very important subject of revolu­ hope to build the new society in the of the owners had gone, and they were education nor his learning; reason and tionary uprisings, he elaborated the view shell of the old. But they do not take economically better off because they imagination are my guides. Darwin gave held by Bart de Ligt—“the more violence into consideration that part of the pre­ could now use all the products of the us the origin of our species, but Man's LONDON ANARCHIST i the less revolution”. His conclusions, if sent society which does not consist of estates. structure has been more studied than his GROUP read by the upholders of democracy, wage or salary-earning employees, ignor­ However, the labourers on big estates mind, and it is psychology that raises might help to reduce some of the piety ing for instance farmers and other pro­ are only a small part of mahkind; their Man to his stature of a human being. Bvery Sunday at 7.30 at surrounding the idea of the justness of fessions. Revolutionary syndicalism limits revolutionary experiences were extraord­ Brute intelligence has only a very dim THE MALATESTA CLUB. the democracies: Violence is a weapon its work to a certain part of the popula­ inary and could not apply to cities, and awareness of self, and Man’s expanding 32 Percy Street, that can be used by both sides. It has tion, and consequently its development in particular to big cities', London, New consciousness of self inevitably bred the Tottenham Court Road. W.l. no reference to the justice of the cause; into a ‘free society’ is not possible, not York, Paris, Berlin. Grain does not selfishness that has played the very devil it is. purely an application of technical at least according to the anarchist con­ grow on the asphalt, and neither do fruits with him ever since. The only com­ LECTURE - DISCUSSIONS efficiency or physical preponderancy. ception of a free society. and vegetables, and the city dwellers do mandment worth anything at all is not It places the victory firmly and squarely Anarchism on the other hand, addresses not keep cattle to slaughter if necessary, in the Decalogue. It is THOU SHALT Questions, Discussion and Admission its propaganda to the whole population, nor are there forests in the cities which on the side of big battalions. NOT BE SELFISH. Its place is at the all free. but it is almost exclusively a propaganda could provide firewood to keep the room very apex of ethics, but only experience for anarchism and liberty. This is good warm and the pot boiling. These things can beget the knowledge that it does enough in a way, but concrete plans are counted as unimportant, but if people stand there. Primitive Man lacked ex­ Middle East about what we ought to do, and what in a revolutionary situation are denied perience, and when selfishness got tangled preparations we should take to attain our them ,they will certainly start a counter­ up with scarcity his damnation for mil­ aim, are hardly ever mentioned. We are revolution. lions of years became inevitable. ★ Malatesta Club ★ I generally satisfied with a .somewhat Why not organise for the necessities Huddle Elaboration upon scarcity is needless. Sw a r a j Ho u s e , nebulous propaganda and criticism of of the city dwellers in time? What will Every intelligent person knows how 32 P e r c y St r e e t , Continued from p. ) the conditions of the present society. the hungry populations do with their scarcity, even to-day, is exploited wher­ U.S. have already recognised the Such propaganda naturally does not hard-won liberty if they have to go ever it exists naturally and is artificially T o t t en h a m C o u r t R o a d , L o n d o n , WX new Iraq Republic, and the Ameri­ appeal to strangers who want to see hungry? created wherever abundance obstructs ACTIVITIES some concrete aims worth struggling for For us individual anarchists, human profiteering. can Marines are unlikely to remain Every Sunday at 7.30 p.m. in Beirut for very much longer. before they think of associating them­ beings are neither good nor bad. And We may be living now in the last London Anarchist Group Meetings There are two reasons for this: the selves with .our-movement. the whole history of humanity proves millenium of selfishness, and we may hot. U.S. having accepted the Iraq Many anarchists believe that after the that its fundamental character has re­ But one can joyfully recall the mon­ (see Announcements Column) abolition of authoritarian and exploitive mained constant throughout the ages. It strous mammals whose ponderosity liter­ Republic and its promises to uphold institutions like the state, the church, therefore seems a belief in miracles, to the United Nations Charter, has by ally shook the earth. These would look capitalism, militarism, the police, and so believe that after the attainment of in their day to be the destined domina- implication committed itself to forth, the people would turn spontan­ liberty, ‘comfort for all’ is around the tors of the world forever. Yet they have T ra d Ja z z “friendship” with that country— eously to anarchism, without the need next corner. all departed, leaving only their bones at the iialatesta this involves a two-way agreement for any preparation for a free society. In our propaganda in the future we for momuments and the whale their one of which Iraq’s share will be to up­ They think that propaganda for anar­ should point out the practical ways' and living memorial. The social monsters, Every Friday and Saturday from 7.30 hold the Bagdad Pact and maintain chism is enough, because the attainment means of a libertarian economic system. slavery, serfdom, feudalism, capitalism, We individual anarchists strive after an existing oil agreements, whilst the of anarchy would automatically be fol­ private enterprise, will also wither away. THE! MALATKSTA economic system adapted to the tempera­ lowed by that marvellous transformation These were; or are, the harbingers of U.S. in its turn will remove troops ment and independence of the individual. JA Z Z B A N D scene known as ‘comfort for everybody’. anarchism, whose essence is self-control, from the Lebanon. The other reason And then the comrades quote the Whatever they may be, we have to point must be the likelihood of summit the one essential and ultimate govern­ Members(l /6) and their guests (2/-) only. examples of Spain, Mexico, and the out the practical ways and means of ment. talks with Russia, during which the Ukraine, and describe how the agricul­ attaining anarchism, and these have to MALATESTA CLUB U.S. will not wish to be the target tural labourers from the big estates there be practical for everybody, if we are to Yours fraternally, 32 Percy Street of Eastern bloc accusations of im­ lived in liberty with ‘comfort for every­ draw strangers into our movement. Bakewell, July 23. D a v id M a cc o n n ell . Tottenham Court Road Wl perialism and covert aggression in Jazz Men welcome the Middle East. Since these accusations may almost equally be levelled at Britain it is to English Comrade on a Functional Movement Every Wednesday at 7.30 (prompt) be expected that British troops will not remain too long in Jordan. Of T-O N Y GIBSON first made it clear a good deal of activity of which he was He referred to the activities of the BONAR THOMPSON speaks course, Hussein’s army will be bol­ that he spoke as an individual and not aware. In general the nucleus of Malatesta Club, which now bore the stered up as well as possible in the not as the representative of any group. all activity in the country was the label outside of “Malatesta Jazz Club” He said that in his association with the intervening period, with arms and, Freedom Press although it was quite In order to cover the running expenses Anarchist movement of Britain since autonomous. Even those people who of this club it was hired on two evenings in all probability, a few selected 1938, there had been, in the later part had criticised F r e ed o m quite bitterly in a week to Jazz enthusiastists. They were British officers, but this will not alter of this period, a swing away from the the past did in fact depend upon it as mainly young people who had little FREEDOM the fact of his nationwide unpopu­ tendency to organize the movement in the unifying thread in the movement. social consciousness, but their use of the The Anarchist Weekly larity. It is said in the market-place a centralized manner. There had been Again he stressed that lie himself was place brought them into contact with Postal Subscription Rates > that “only two men in Jordan hate at one time, towards the end of the war not, and never had been, a member of anarchist ideas, and the consciousness 12 months 19/- (U.S.A. $3.00) Nasser; Hussein and Samir Pasha (1944) a real danger of an anarchist the Freedom Press group, but he paid that such a movement existed. 6 months 9/6 (U.S.A. $1.50) (as Premier Rifai is known), but bureaucracy growing up. The later ten­ tribute to the continuous work which 3 months 5/- (U.S.A. $0.75) In answer to a question from one of there are precious few who have any dency had been towards the existence of they had done for nearly 20 years. Special Subscription Rates tor copies 2 the delegates as to what he meant by 12 months 29/- IU .S A . $4.50) affection for the palace rdgime”. anarchist groups which were entirely He mentioned the effect of Marxism functional in character. He gave exam­ upon the Anarchist movement in Britain. the effect of Marxism upon anarchism, 6 months 14/6 (U .SA . $2.25) Most of the affection in Jordan is ples of the groups running the Malatesta Tony Gibson repeated that by “contami­ Cheques. P.O.’s and Monty Order, should Some anarchist theory was heavily con­ b . mad* out to FREEDOM PRESS, erouad reserved for President Nasser. Club, the Freedom Press group, the taminated with Marxism and this had nation” he meant that the fundamental a/c Payaa, and addrauad to tha publlshar* It may not be long before the London Anarchist Group, and other local had jts effect upon organizational as well Marxist concept of social dynamics Jordanese are also carried away by groups which existed for propaganda as theoretical matters. In general, those (leaving aside their perversion by Bol­ FREEDOM PRESS the tide of Arab Nationalism, which and discussion in their own way. comrades who inclined towards a pseudo- shevik parties) was in some ways funda­ 27 Red Lion Street they look upon as Arab Unity, and Tony Gibson stressed that he was not Marxist position in Britain had after mentally different from anarchist con­ London, W .C .I. England yet another puppet king will fall able to give a very informative account various “splits" drifted away from the cepts, but to some extent anarchism had - T i l .: Chancery 8364 been contaminated by Marxism. from grace. of the movement in Britain as there was anarchist movement. Printed by &preu Printers, London, E.I. Published tot Freedom Press, 27 fted L te Street, London. W.C.I.