MONTHLY PAPER OF THE DIRECT ACTION MOVEMENT/INTERNAT- IONAL WORKERS ASSOCIATION...THE VOICE OF ANARCHO- SYNDICALISM SEPTEMBER 198h NO 18 20p.

The miners strike has strike). A strike to y ANARCHO-SYNDICALISTS AND now dragged on six extend the Dock Labour THE MINERS STRIKE months. There's little Scheme to these ports As Anarcho-syndicalists sign of the miners giv- would strengthen the we are against the poli- faced with the anarcho- ing up (despite the dockers organisation(& tical preaching of vari- syndicalist CNT°s coll- medias much svaunted help them defend jobs ous parties telling the ectivisation of industry ‘drift back to work“), 7 and conditions on the miners what to think and As Syndicalists, we see but neither is there any docks), and would close what to do. We believe creative work as one of real sign of a victory the door on coal imports the direct experience of the main facts of life. in the near future. In from countries such as life and the power of It is by work (prefer- I short its stalemate, and the “socialist” paradise people to think out ably organised as if has been for months. of Poland and South their own ideas and play)that a man or wom- Africa. The strike must spread actions is more valuable an can impress themsel- The scabs still working We mustn't aquiesce in than blindly following ves on reality and are not going to come the kind of sectionalism some correct line or change the world. There out now. It's on the that has led the steel- other. But because we is nothing shamefull in escalation of the strike workers (whom McGregor refuse to shove our human labour, iéithose through solidarity act- has already beaten) to ideas down peoples who exploit'that labour turn their backs on fel- ion by workers in other throats or resort to (the Capitalist class) industries that the low workers and aid the useless criticism this who should be ashamed. chance of a victory for bosses. It's time the doesnit mean that we The whole of the British the miners and for our old slogan ‘an injury to have no convictions. Industrial Revolution class lies. * one is an injury to all’ Syndicalists (that is, was based on coal owned was remembered and acted those who think that the by the bosses mined by solidarty upon by the trade union workers organisations the workers. Britain movement. It's time to must not only safeguard has been described as a This doesn't simply " build the General Strike jobs and wages but also "Carboniferous Civiliz- mean lobbying the TUC Victory to_the Miners! prepare for the take ation". The work of Congress in September. Bury Thatcher and Mcgre- over and running of in- millions of coal miners It means more import- or! dustry by the workers has helped to build the antly taking the argue- themselves) rest of industry, not ments about why all see class struggle, not just men but also women workers should support We’ve earned compromise, as the bas- and children in the the miners into the sis for the labour mov- early days. The workplaces and working ement which should be class communities. Into these mines committed to the the oil refineries that idea of workers self- class struggle have been increasing management; ie socia- struggles of the miners production to feed the lism. This is something have therefore been cen- power stations, into the that can never be gained tral to the fight of the power stations, into the through political part- whole class war.Through- rail depots and amongst ies; in times of revolu- out the whole of this the dockers. A great H tion they act as dust- century the fight for a opportunity was missed Y‘ bins for the frightened decent wage, against the when the dockers strike middle class, seeking dole,against the econom- last month was allowed only to maintain their ic exploitation by the to remain a purely sec- own privilege. Examples mine owners has been tional affair» Not only of this are the Bolsh- kept up. As well as this was no attempt made to evic counter—revolution- there was the fight for link the dockersi and aries who smashed the dignity. to be treated miners’ struggles, but Russian working-class as a human being and not the strike was not movement in lQl7-2l,when like an animal. In dem- spread to the smaller faced with the takeover anding workers self-man- non-registered ports a thousand of industry by syndical- agement of industry we (which have been hand- ist factory committees; see oppression not just ling imported scab coal times over. or the Communist Party in esonomic terms but throughout the miners in Spain in 1937 when I continued over ._ \ at which the SWP was not- fight against not only also in the fact thats icable by its complete now but in the future. there are order givers absence. After about an and order takers. We hours marching we assemb- I4‘ W’ keep on hearing from led at a large open field USTR‘7‘M |.w.w. radio and television B.N.T. F’ ..-' Despite the seriousness $3 qt» Ix" 0 . s-L". =1.te@’ . LA§§L . that we live in a demo- ii:1@E§§eF.'s< ‘Ye:-r .3 of the situation the cracy but what mine, “€$|§§Y_ people were in good spir- As well as the CNT con- tribution it was also factory or office is run CNT SPEACH TO THE MINERS its and determined to mentioned that an amount on a democratic basis in continue the struggle; in of Deutsch Marks was re- Britain today? National- On Saturday July 21 the this fight they are going cieved from our FAU com- isation means control by Direct Action Movement to need all the support rades,there had also been. a private capitalist is participated along with they can get. On the replaced by state comrades from the CNT and platform along with the sent via comrade Mander e message of solidarity control. Who elected the FAU in a rally organ- NUM was a member of NUPE Ian McGregor? _ ised by the South Wales in South Wales, Dick from the IWW miners loc- The basis of the pre- NUM at a mining area in Gregory,who was the first al in Colarado to the sent strike is that the AMMANFORD a town in West speaker. The CNT comrade South Wales Miners. The plan for coal gave somex Wales., was next to speak, he FAU comrades who gave the degree of control in the Through the hard practi- spoke in Spanish, which donations and messages of industry to the Union; cal work being done by was translated by a com- solidarity have tapped this the bosses now feel Bob Mander, a DAM member rade from DAM. The words interviews with rank and strong enough to chall- living in the Swansea of solidarity were very file miners which they enge. As Syndicalists, valley area, on behalf of well recieved by the will take back to Germany we believe that the the South Wales Miners,an people, in fact after- with them. C attacks of the bosses official invitation to a wards while speaking to can be defeated in the CNT member to speak in mine workers and some of Help long run only by the solidarity with the mine the women's support total control of the workers was issued. The group the CNT comrades mines and the rest of reception given to all speach was reckoned to be The Kellingley Colliery the economy by the work comrades who went to the more fresh and meaninful Band need money to pro- —ers themselves. Ammamford rally was tre- in comparison to some of duce a record as played The miners, their mendeous and very heart- tripe which is being at the recent funeral of families and supporters ening. The rally took the spoken by some glib opp- picket Joe Green who wor- have everything against form of a march through ortunists in the Labour ked at the pit.Cheques, them. The Police, the Ammanford in which about Party who want to use the PO“s to Kellingley Coll- army, the law, the a thousand people, men, mine workers as a stepp- iery Band Record Account courts and judges, Big women, and children took ing stone to political to Joan Ellis M5 The Business and the capita- part. It was the first power. This is one thing Crescent Altofts, Norm- list controlled newspap- 'political' demonstration we must be prepared to anton WF6 2QE. ers TV and radio. All ' ' h ho them) - . Labour and other

. Union leaders look on. L ORGANIZE Anarcho-Syndicalists > values are for workers solidar- A l9 year old pregnant wife of a striking miner ity and mutual aid. A L shining example of this wgs told by a social

V is the Womens support I worker in Burnley to eat groups and local food potato peelings and baked collections. All this is beans for her diet. The not done out of guilt or SS have been instructed pity but out of basic lby the Government to put human feeling that when the screws on the miners someoneh face is being to get them back to work. smashed,then you step in The state not content and help. The role of with starving the miners many of these structures even attempt to starve should be continued after their unborn children. the strike to act as per- Potato peelings were all menent centres of workers the lower classes in Man- resistance.Anarcho-Syndt- chester could afford when calists support the con- Engels wrote his Condit- cept of Direct Action.In ions of the working class the Miners Strike this in England, but who can

has involved sabotage, ‘._ i . _ _,i 1 _ __ _ afford them now on £8.00 hitting the bosses where a week. This is not a it hurts, in the pocket. return to Victorian Va- Other Direct Actions have SCUM lues, it is a return to included sit-ins, block- POLICE BRUTALITY. investigating a case in barbarism. ades and self-defence On 27th july Mrs Brenda. ‘Derbyehire where peliee Info from Burnley DAM against police state Stout, in a wheelchair arrested the parents of STOP PRESS STOP PRESS STO violence. Above all,more due to arthritis was twe ehildreh aged M 25.8.84.Possibility of Solidarity is needed from attacked outside Breker months and 2 and left A national docks strike a grass roots level by stalfe colliery in Leigh them with he One te leek; over scabs moving coal. other W0TKeTS, Such as Greater Manchester by two after them. Dennis said 7' iwe_ the Print Workerg eff°rt$ of "our wonderfull police "Police are behaving like _ Ea to Counter the lies of "who told her to move on. animals, they seem to 'em ju$1'lC_€ the eePiteliet preseland One pressed his thumbs "have abandoned all human the help given by workers into her neck, the other' "values. Neighbours had

ahT°ed- P tried to turn her wheel— to be called to look 0 \fl Aherehe-5Yhdi°a1iSt5 are chair around kneeing her after the children and I 100% with the Miners in in the back. alerted the emergancy their fight against the Meanwhile, one of the few’ social sevices". >~n- dictatorship of the Labour MP's who are giv— Media accounts of Police hoeeee ehd the Peliee ing more than token sup— Bravery should be seen State' port to the strike, in the light of such SUPPORT THE MINERS Dennis Skinner has been incidents. SWITCH ON AT 6 pm. 2 Ill Illfl IT some s 0"We hope that the miners will be able to screw up the arrogant "Iron Lady‘ as soon as possible" Cardiff miners support eehld have damaged his --Bordeaux GNT. " Committee were recently image and cost him votes 0VYou can be sure of our full support"."Down kicked out ef their if he had dehe it during with Thatcher and her government!"-éfiarseille effiee in Transport Hduas the e1eetieh- George CNT. i George wright (SeC_ Of»T Wrights action is yet an- Q"The struggle of the miners is a struggle of & G wales) wee behind the ether example of union the whole working class,not only in Great meVe_ The evietien eeme leaders sevihs ;"I Britain,but also in Europe and the whole after George had failed Will support the miners? world." IWA Northern Sub-secretariat. to Win the eleetien te_ ahd deihs the Opposite- o"All the militants here want to express their ~beeeme General Secretary with suPP0rtePs like solidarity with the fight you are carrying on ef the TGWU, Is it just eeerse who needs enemies- to save the pits...since repression and ex- a CO_inCidenCe that he Luckily the support Com- ploitation are more and more-international, waited until after the mittee have found new solidarity must pass over borders."Choisy— election to kick the Sup. premises nearby. le-Boi CNT. 00ft committee out. It O"I'hope that the struggle taken up by the British miners will bear fruit--I wish them good heart and good luck".--Unemployed French comrade. 0"0ur union sends our solidarity from Anar- cho-syndicalist militants wishing full totheN.U.M. success in the struggle to the miners of IIIIIIIIIIIIII--_-I-IIIIIIIIIIIII Great Britain."——Arles ONT. The heroic struggle of the Polish workers to Q H I applaud your brave efforts.You have set form a free labour union finds support amongst a shining example to workers around the globe many British workers.Unfortunately Arthur Scargill ...There are only two nations on Earth--the keeps closer ranks with the Polish State's phoney nation of Workers,and the Nation of Bosses". communist party unions.However,his lack of solid- IWW member,USA. arity has not benefitted the British miners-- 0"In the spirit of solidarity and internat- witness the continued import of ,Polish coal. ionalism,I therefore gladly send this small This letter,stressing the etePnal need for amount for the continuing struggle.Workers international working-class solidarity was receiv- of all countries,unite1"--Railway worker, ed from "Bobotnik"(left-wing newspaper of the g Canada. lnter—Factory Strike 0ommittee,Oirculation 7,000) O"Tb all the English miners..-you are and the anarchist Emmanuel Goldstein Group. giving back confidence to the internat- OPEN LETTER TO ARTHUR SOARGILL ional workers‘ movement and showing what is meant by workers‘ solidarity and Dear Mr.Scargill, direct action-—thank you."--Vierzon CNT. For months we and thousands of our union colleagues have attentively observed your Above are just a selection of the mess- union's struggle for the right to work. ages of support and solidarity for the We know well that at the present time miners sent by workers around the world via your fight takes on more universal signif- the Direct Action Movement.More and more, icance.This is a matter oi fact for the ex workers are realising that just as capit- existence of the British Trade Union ' alism is international,so is the fight movement.We have already condemned,and we against it. maintain this condemnation with all firm- ness,tnc coal exports to Great Britain made by the Jaruzelski regime. If Thatcher is getting along so well lllllllll, HIENIIII IINIIINS $lll'I'l||lI NIIM with Jaruzelski it is a great time to make logical conclusions.That is why we Syndicalism has always bouquets of Dutch hope that in the name of workers‘ soli- prided itself on its lilies.They also talked darity you will reverse your unfriendly internationalism--an to miners about their. positions towards our movement. internationalism based union,the 0VB:its poli- We want to express through you our on concrete action,not, tical independence and solidarity and support for the striking like the Marxists, on revolutionary-practice. miners and all British workers. empty rhetoric. Since their return Signed, The 0VB{Federation home,the OVB have sent >f Industrial Organis- The executive Board, a further donation of Bobotnik ations),Holland's £5,000.to the NUM and syndicalist union fed- has organised a tour Robotnik Political eration,were contacted of Holland for miners. Group, by the Hull branch of Our thanks to the Emmanuel Goldstein the DAN early in the OVB--a fighting union. Group. strike asking for solidarity with the When DAM contacted Libertaire,the-0 radio miners. she GNTlhrtnch~ section station of the French In response we of the IWA) with news Anarchist Ftderation,to received a phone call of the miners‘ strike, about 100,000--“$0,000 Reco telling us an OVB zhey responded swiftly listeners. Hindles Strikers in Brad- delegation,with 20,000 with messages of soli- The GNT will also be ford (see nA13,& lh) who guilders--about £5,000 darity and cash,which organising a speaking have been out now for --would be coming to we have channelled to tour through France of over a year have made a Britain to meet the needy pitsithe money striking miners,w;th record. Its a double A NUM and the DAM. to be spent on food help from DAM,and a dele- Side with'part of the The Dutch syndic- etc).We have received gate from the ONT plans Union? c/d ‘year and a alists talked with money from all over to visit Britain to meet bit” on it. 0n the Catoh' Sam Thompson,the NUM France,adding up to nembers Of the NUM and 22 Label. Order from vice-president,and met some £e00,with more DAN. your record shop or mail miners on the picket coming in. We thank the 0NT/AIT order c/0 Stuart Firth line at Selby and in The Paris region of France and readers of 2l Throxenby Way. Clay- their social club at local branch have their paper "Combat ton Bradford. BDlh GEU. Barnsley.The 0VB £2.00 p&p one copy + organised a daily Syndicalis:~..)‘t_,e" forL their comrades also presen- hreadeaet ahehe4- the,‘ ~ _ continuing solidarity. £1.50 each additional ted the wives‘ support miners“ strike which 1S A SOURCE HULL DAM_ copy. Cheques P0“s to committee members with HindlesiPickets TBE Fund. transmitted by Radio 3 I

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C E \ v§\ From the 8th to llth Dec- The Congress delt with workers there is considerable \ ember 1983 seventy workers the general situation in immigration from the 'third from all over Italy part- Italy, with special refer- world‘ countries especially icipated in the first nat- ence to immigrants;with the from North Africa.These are ional reactivatory congress important sectors for inter- all workers destined for ex- 1\\ of the Italian revolutionary vention;union action and ploitation and are unprot- syndicalist union, the USI, collective contracts; ected by the main unions. the regional section of the Structures and organs of the The USI intends to organise International Workers Ass- union;printing and propag- these workers and defend ociation. anda;membership and princip- their interests, developint There were 37 union dele- les, the Congress ended with international class solid- gates plus observers and election of officials. arity with the workers of overseas representatives In Italy the restructuring every nation and with the from the AIT/IWA secretariat, of capital to regain control IWA against the policies of CNT-AIT Spain,CNT France, of the workers after the super-exploitation by multi- French Anarchist Federation gains of '68 continues.This nationals. and Radio Libertaire Paris. reconquest of power exists Agriculture was choosen as SPAIN an important sector of the Many messages of support were today through the introd- A delegation of British economy for USI intervention, received from various groups uction of new industrial and striking miners from the and papers in Italy,France, agricultural technology,com- with the growing co-operative Doncaster area have gone to Spain and Portugal. putors,robots,etc.This reduces and comune movement offering the mining regions of Spain The USI has demonstrated the need for workers and per- major possibilities for on a visit organised by the that it exists as an organ- mits an increase in profits organisation.However it is DAM and the Spanish anarcho- isation, certainly small, and investment in further generally a difficult sector syndicalist union, the CNT- but none the less an alter- new technology.In parallel to organise, given the AIT. native organisation for many small and medium sized shrinking number of wage The NUM members have add- workers in a struggle hege- producers are coming under t labourers because of increa- ressed a number of public monised by reformist unions the control of the multi- sed technology, and the meeting and have been inter- and bureaucratic parties. nationals, often based over- isolation of small holders view on radio and television, ,With its roots in the . seas with little interest in and tenant farmers from the they have also received a workers movement of the last the well being of the workers. more militant part of the fair amount of attention in century and following the Where human workers are still oppressed classes. the Spanish press.0ne hack original libertarian and necessary much of the pro- The action of USI in ind- journalist, who had he been federalist lines of the uction is shifted to "less ustry must be to pin point working in this country Ist International of 1864, developed" areas where labour the nature of the crisis, would no doubt be employed the USI was formed in Nov- is cheap and unorganised. together with the role that by the SUN, reported; that ember 1912 with an original Often this means the "Third the boses,political parties, the NUM delegation were the membership of l00,000.By World." reformist unions, and the Qsame miners who started the 1922 when it helped the The resulting phenomena of state play in restructuring strike in Britain and had IWA to oppose the Bolshevik unemployment,'black' work in of capitalism. come to Spain to start a controlled Comintern,its general strike.A local pit the home, part time employ- Due to the failures of the membership had grown to ment,the division of workers past and the introduction manager on reading this around 500,000 and was a into stable sectors, sectors of the new technology article, gave orders that firmly anti-militarist and being dismantled,the profess- traditional methods of the British miners should internationalist organisation ionalisation of certain sec- struggle have become in the not be allowed to visit his However it was supressed by tors, are all elements which great part, useless.The USI pit to address the workers. the Fascists after a 3 year The miners who are accom- make it impossible to now advocate forms of struggle struggle,holding its last panied by a DAN interpreter speak of a homogenous work- given up by the reformist pre-war congress in 1925 at ing class.Many people find unions in favour of discuss- shall finish their visit in Genoa. Barcelona before returning that they are impoverished. ion and collaboration.These After the war some milit- by the changes, others find actions include work to rule, to Britain. ants tried to reactivate the go-slows,unannounced(to the themselves in an intermediate union,but with little succ- position, neither bougeois management) assemblies with ess outside Liguria and level.The local unions coord- nor worker.It is to all these suspension of production Toscana.The Allied forces inated on a regional and then groups that we must address and various forms of civil had their own ideas of what a national level.Each sector ourselves.We are all victims disobedience.These 'unofficial' sort of unions they wished if large enough and well co- of the state system, equally methods should be accompanied to see arise in the post ordinated can have its own threatened by nuclear war, by grass-root structures,such war Italy, and theUSI was executive.The federation of pollution and an increasingly as works committees.USI seek local unions form the regional certainly not one of them. rich international ruling to revive such organisations federations of the USI. In 1968/69 their was an class.It is necessary to in opposition to the undemo- The USI is coordinated by increased interest in anarcho- involve all oppressed people cratic and collaborationist an executive committee with syndicalism, but the USI was in the struggle for a free structures of the existing members responsible for fin- not reactivated until 1977. society through the strategy unions.USI reject the pro- ancial affairs,international It is now a point of reference - of anarcho-syndicalism. fessionalisation of union relations,press/propaganda, not only for theory but for Accompanying the phenomenum officials, the heirarchy and and organisational affairs. real resistance and solidarity of the rapid transformation bureaucracy of the reformist There is a general secretary with the oppressed.The Ital- in the composition of the unions and their links with and a committee of delegates ian authorities recognise working class can be seen the political establishment from the various existing this and last April the union the re-entry of a large and their parties in parlia- sectors and local unions.The paper LOTTA DI CLASSE was number of emigrant workers in ment.It reaffirms the validity USI general congress must be raided by armed police who Italy.Their return has been of workers control over their held every two years, or in beat up the comrade in the provoked by the economic work and the products of their emergencies a extra-ordinary office and smashed up the stagnation in the Northern labour. congress can be called by office itself.During the European countries and intro- USI is organised from a the membership. duces further tension in the base of single workers,nuclei congress various delegates F.Richardson were harassed by police out- labour market.Together with and works sections, coordin- (USI,agriculture) side the hall in Ancona. the return of 'ex-guest‘ ated by sector and on a local POLAND TURKEY STATEMENT ONTF A regional secretary of the A picket was held outside OF THE During the last congress the Polish Embassy in London Turkish public services of the French revolutionary to protest against the con- trade union the TOB-DER, syndicalist union, the CNT tinuing supply of coal com- Nazif Kaleli who was arrest- it emerged that the CNT has ing from Poland during the ed in 1980 when martial law At a general publication for too long developed syn- Miners strike.The picket was imposed in Turkey is meeting of the DAM held in dicalist theory at the cost which was organised by the now reported to be gravely Manchester in August concern of pratice. was expressed that a growing South East Region of the ill in Diyarbakir Military 4 Today the CNT orientates DAM-IWA was well attended Prison.Kaleli who was very number of people believed towards a praxis in accord- and over a thousand leaflets heavily tortured by being that the newsbulletin ance with the methods of union were given out on the day given electric shock treat- SINEWS was a publication of struggle, refuting overly of the picket and during ment and beaten unconscious the DAM and that the DAM intransigent ideological the'London Day of Action‘ repeatedly was taken to the was connected with the so- positions. march in support of the Ankara Gulhane Military called SPANISH INFORMATION A few basic principles are Miners, the leaflets condemed Hospital in a coma.He has NETWORK. . sufficient to define revol- the Polish government for since been returned to It was aggreed therefore utionary syndicalism; the attempting to break the prison to complete his 15 to issue a statement to all soveriegn general assembly, Miners strike and exposed years-sentence.It is reported sections of the IWA and to delegates controlled by the the companies that were be- that he has sever back in- the libertarian press in membership,direct action, hind the importation of the juries and is now partly general to the effect that federalism. Polish coal. paralysed. neither SINEWS or the SIN To develope ideology at the The picket also served a were in anyway connected cost of practice means depri- dule purpose in bringing to with the DAM, and that we ving ourselves of numerous the attention of the public wished to assure our comrades effective forms of union the case of our comrade in the IWA that the DAM struggle. Jacky Challot who was arrest- fully supported the CNT-AIT, The revolutionary union ed by the Polishpolice while as agreed by the l7th Cong- must be able to use both the working for the Solidarnosc ress of the IWA.1n Madrid methods of struggle author- Support Network.Challot is and ratified by the 1984 ized by the system and those a 28 year old French syndic- outside the system, both alist who is now facing the legal and otherwise. prospect of a long prison The CNT is a union and not sentence for his involvement a specific organisation.As a with the workers underground. union it already accepts a Letters of protest about S‘ compromise with the existing the importation of Polish “ socio-economic system. coal during the Miners strike At its Paris Congress last and the arrest of Comrade May, the CNT pronounced

Challot should be sent to _'.= itself ready for the tactical the: Ambassador use of the factory and work- Polish Embassy place union section and of 47 Portland Place union delegates and represen- London W.l e . tatives in the work comittees Meanwhile in Glasgow we I F s s y because these can be submitted hear reports of an attack on to union control. the Polish Consulate.Apparen- The CNT has experianced a tly lumps of coal were thrown 121 BOOKSHOP growth period these last two through the windows of the 121 RAILTON ROAD to three years.It is multip- Consulate, at this stage we LONDON SE24 lying its sections; Post and are unable to say if it was d r ' Telecomunications in Paris, Polish or British COa1_But SPECIALISINGINBOOKS S O Transport in Arles, Seamen we are sure they got the ON ANARCHISM, FEMINISM AND SOCIALISM. and Fishermen in Sete, Health, message. Two Sudanese youths had Metal and Entertainments in The l2l Bookshop is the their hands chopped off be- Bordeaux.It is growing due base of the South London fore a crowd of 3,000 in to the left-wing unions para- DAM group and was until quite Kober Prison,Khartoum.The lized by their submission to Police raid 121 recently the address for the prisoners aged 21 and 22 the government. were charged with the crime But above all the CNT is On Tuesday August l4th,the anarchist forthnightly BLACK of theft for which the pen- reaping the fruits of patient anarchist bookshop in Brixton FLAG.The bookshop has been alty in Sudan is now amput- and long lasting union work. South London was raided by there for the past three ation. Two examples illustrate this armed police.Using sledge- years and has never had a The officials who carried well; in Bordeaux the act- hammers the police literally visit from the police quite out this outrage were given ivity of the comrades un- smashed down the front door, like this one, needless to four days training in a leased a flood, with the and for the next three hours say nothing was found.The surgical theatre at Khartoum outbreak of many strikes in they searched the entire local Labour Party leader in Hospital. e different sectors.The strugg- building using specially the borough, Ted Knight de- The mutilations are part les ended to our advantadge trained ‘sniffer dogs‘ which scr ibed the raid as ‘outrage- of Islamic Shari'a law.In rand a hospital porters were brought along by the ous‘ in an interview with the November last year a deleg- branch previously affiliated Bomb Squad. SOUTH LONDON PRESS, this has ation,led by a senior judge to the CGT joined the CNT. While this was going on a of course been treated by the and including a bone special- The CNT is growing in a group of local comrades local anarchists as another ist, visited that other workers milieu which is mounted a picket outside the example of Labour Party hypo- bastion of'liberty;Saudi either ignorant of, or badly building, informing passers crisy, as at the present Arabia to obtain advice on versed in libertarian ideas. “by as to what the police moment the Bookshop is under mutilation procedures and Ideological committment was were up to.One of the plain threat of eviction by the ‘medical skills‘ required preceded by union committment. clothes policemen who was same Labour controlled boro- in amputation. Now the majority of the CNT‘s sent to stand guard outside ugh council. Since Shari'a law came new members are assimilating the bookshop was wearing a While the raid was taking into force in Sudan at least libertarian ideas in the ‘Support the Miners‘ sticker, place at the Bookshop another six people have been sent- course of the day-to-day he also informed a comrade four houses occupied by people enced to mutilation of the struggles.We are obliged to who had taken photographs of who had helped in the Book- right hand. take note of this new circum- the raid and subsequent shop were also raided.Three Only Muslims were allowed stance for revolutionary events that he would ‘do him people were taken away for to attend the outrages and syndicalism.Its growth is over‘ if he did not stop questioning, and in one case no photographs were permitt- dependant on these conditions. taking pictures. ‘ an address book was taken. ed. ‘ Jean-Louis Bosce

I lthe State.The author-q those supporters at this USSR I CLASS Hospital ~ ities attacked swiftly demonstration was Red Ted --within 10 days of fightback ‘shite’ that well known STRUGGLE ASPTSS being formed socialist leader from those who had announced Lambeth Town Hall, who With the suppression has not been seen since. of the Anarcho-Syndical- its formation were On Saturday August llth behind bars.By March, at about 7.30 am a com- ist and other independ- ent workers‘ organis- 1978 it had virtually rade from the south Lon- DAM involved been destroyed. don DAM left the South ations by the Bolsheviks Over the next few days in the 1920s,the Soviet However in October London Womens hospital in 4978 a new group Clapham after spending 15 the number of people in trade unions became actual occupation began part of the State appar- appeared--the-Free days and nights helping Interprofessional out as far as possible in to dwindle to an almost atus.Their function was critical point. So over not to defend and ext- Association of Workers the occupation which had (SMOT).At its found- as of the llth of August the past two weeks the end the interests of the actual numbers of those working class,but to ation it had WOO been going on for AO,days members organised into Although the occupation in occupation ranged from act as one-way trans- a peak of 25 to a low of mission belts between eight groups.These is to all intents and pur groups were represen- —poses an all womens 6. The bulk of the occup- the Party and the struggle some men are ation was being concentr- masses,to ensure that ted on SMOT's council allowed to participate in ated on the shoulders of the workers remained which proclaimed:"In a non authoritarian role a few stalwarts, in fact docile producers of _ most of the disputes mainly on the picket line it was not unusual for wealth for the parasit- known to us,the which is maintained 2A some people to be picket- ic bureaucratic elite. official trade union hours a day on a 3 hour ing and doing other work As SMOT has stated:"In functionaries take a rota basis. for periods of between l2 our country...there is stand on the side of and l8 hours at a no organisation indep- the management... stretch. Those involved endent of the state I betraying the interests in the occupation can be authorities that of the workers and (sad to say), catergoris- could directly repre- appearing to be...appen- Run down ed into groups with diff- sent the workers". dages of the State erent levels of commit- For over half a The last patients moved apparatus."They con- ment:- century Soviet workers out just over two weeks tinued,"SMOT is not a 1) Those totally committ- were deprived of their political'organisation ago either to home or to own organisations by other hospitals in the ed to maintaining the and does not turn to occupation on a 2% hour the Bolshevik State. area, staff from the in- governments for supp- basis. However,in 1977 there ort.It counts on patients departments have came together a group been transferred to other 2) Those who put their support from workers name on the roster and of workers who had hospitals, while the out- both inside and out- stick to it. been victimised and patients department and side the country." 3) Those who come for fired from their jobs ante-natal clinic is Party Political reasons for protesting against being rapidly run down. poor working conditions Support for the hospit- ie:“I‘ve been sent from repression the local Labour Party to and management corrup- al to be reopened has tion.Their leading Once again the come from the local comm- join the picketline', this implies they would spokesperson was Vlad- State struck back.In unity, some ex staff. imir Klebanov,a March 1979 SMOT trade union groups, in not have done it them- selves on their own in- Ukranian miner who had council member L. fact the support has been been penalised for Volokhonsky was arrest- quite widespread on the itiative. U) Inevitably, there are complaining about 12- ed in Leningrad and on subjective level and for cranks and hangers on who hour shifts and lack , June 12th that year some of the support, ie know a good thing when of safety in the pits. iimprisoned for "diss- that from the Labour they see it and are quite Following a press eminating false infor- Party dominated organisa- prepared to use it for conference at which he mation about the USSR". tions, there will be in their own ends. again attacked bad There swiftly followed the future a very high It would be worse than conditions he was inter- the arrests of SMOT political price to pay. patronising not to have ned in a psikhushka (a council members Vlad- This is a similiar sit- included the last. As psychiatric prison imir Borisov and uation to what is happ- well as fighting to have hospital)where he rem- Albina Yakoreva who ening in the miners the hospital re-opened ains to this day. were eventually forced struggle at the moment, and maintain the occup- Early in 1978,this to emigrate to the and we as anarcho-synd- ation and pickets on a group became the West.In December 4980, icalists must put the 2H hour basis the other Association of Free miner Alexei Nikitin was overcomming of the pol- major issues are to make Trade Unions of Wor- arrested for speaking itical opportunism of the sure no equipment is re- kers in the USSR-- to Western journalists. left wing social democ- moved from the hospital ASPTSS.Some 2OO strong, He is currently being rats very high up on the and to widen support from membership was open to detained in the list of our priorities. the public in general. any worker whose rights Talgar Special Psych- For the people involved had been violated by Zatric Hospital near in the occupation this is Lie-in a baptism of fire and very much a learning sit- On July 26th (after more uation and for their cam- than 3 years of struggle paign to succeed they are and protest by workers going to need all the ac- and others), there were tual support they can get no in-patients left , so on a non opportunist there was an attept to basis. Despite the in- 8 dismantle some beds; this fluence of the Labour and CI-0 led to a plea for more Communist Parties there support, so a mass lie in are people who can see was declared and on that beyond these opportunists night five wards had been Perhaps messages of filled. That day the support from DAM groups summons against the occu- and the presence of DAM pation was dropped by the people on the picket lime district Health Authority would help to counter the which backed down. pernicious influence of On the 27th there was a the 57 varieties of demonstration in support Marxism. if the occupation outside August llth 198M. Source the hospital. Amongst South London DAM Alma-Ata on the Soviet- Independently of Chinese border,thouS- SMOT another free ands of miles from his trade union,Unity,was home at Donetsk in the formed in the Ukrainian Ukraine. town of Vinnitsa,while ADV/EFSTS In 1979,in_a test gcalls for free trade Recent DAM Publications Anti Dote. Free sheet on AIMS AND PRINCIPLES OF THE DIRECT of Soviet democracy unions have come from ACTION MOVEMENT ~ SMOT council member individuals,such as the Health and Safty from S. Manchester DAM, send SAE Iudmilla Agapova imprisoned worker Mykola ill The Direct Action Movement is a working attempted tn stand as Pohyba and dissident C/O 8-10 ct Ancoats St. class organisation. , Manchester A. a candidate in the groups such as the l2l Our aim is tm creation of a tree and elections to the Supreme Ukrainian Patriotic classless society. Soviet but was not allo- Revolutionary Unionism Movement.It is (3) We are fighting to abolish the state, wed to do so. impossible to say if in Italy. From Middles- capitalism and wage slavery in alltheir The repression cont- brough DAM. Anahsis of forms and replace them by self-managed this has affected the production for need not profit. inues unabated.In an recent wave of worker present situation by interview with SMOT discontent in the Italian section of our l4l In order to bring about the new social International. jOp order, the workers must take over the means council member Fiodor Ukraine.But in Kiev of production and distribution. We are the Finkel,Nbscow KGB boss Middlesbrough DAM c/o swom enemies of those who would take over alone in the space of on behalf of the workers. Iakovliev declared war six months there were Red & Black Bookshop, on SMOT.Recent victims six strikes.In Ivano- 120 Victoria Road, l5l We believe that the only way for the Middlesbrough,Teeside. working class to achieve this is for independent of the repression are Frankivsk there were organisation in the workplace and community and Alexander Skobov,Rost- mass demonstrations federation with others in the same industry and Strike Action. Basic locality, independent of, and opposed to all islav Evdokimov,Valery for independence and political .parties and trade union bureaucracies. Senderov,Nikolai Ukhanov bread.Militia men sent account of workers re- All such workers organisations must be controlled sistance. Joint public- by workers themselves and must unite rather than and Lev Volokhonsky. in to restore order divide the workers movement. Any and all delegates Skobov,a Leningrad refused to do so and ation of S.& E.London of such workers organisations must be subject to Anarchist and SMOT they and KGB troops DAM with Dark Star.From immediate recall by the workers. member has been interned fired shots over each publications committee, l6l Weare opposed to all States and State in a psikhushka.In a SLDAM l2l Railton Rd, institutions. The working class has no country. others‘ heads. The class struggle is worldwide and recognises statement on the eve of SMOT's greatest London SE2h. 20p +12%p no artifiialbc ound’anes. The armles' and police arrest he said,"SMOT is stamp. of all States do not exist to protect the workers success is the prod- of those States, they exist only as the repressive a free association of uction of its samizdat arm of the ruling class. mutual aid,an assoc- Information Bulletin. DAM peel off stickers. 8 designs on work place (7) We oppose racism, sexism, militarism and all iation of people who Many of its pages have attitudes and institutions that stand in the way because of their moral been devoted to Solid- struggles etc. Minimum of equality and the right of all people everywhere convictions cannot arnoSc.ISsue 19 printed order 10 sheets. 80p to control their own lives and the environment. remain silent".Volokh- Solidarnosc's message to +2lp post from SLDAM. l8l The Direct Action Movement is a federation of groups and individuals who believe in the onsky has been sentenced the workers of Eastern principles of.anarcho-syndicalism; a system where to five years in prison Europe and the USSR, the workers alone control industry and the communin §No Overtime without the dictates of politicians, bureaucrates, and four years internal ehile an earlier issue bosses and so-called experts. exile,and Evdokimov to carried the 21 demands four years.Senderov of the Gdansk Inter- “No Speedup’s I would like to know received the maximum Factory Strike Committee more about the DAM/IWA. sentence of seven years These were also printed N0 CutS_Piease send mpre inform- hard labour and five in the Estonian samiz- a ion. I enc ose a years in exile.In the dat press.Leaflets were stamped addressed envel- camps he continued to also distributed call- ope.

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January 3rd over a pay drivers. Scab lorries \ and productivity dispute. have been followed by andoned. It is good to The factory on Danzig St. pickets in cars to the SIB NESS see people building sol- Manchester H, which is docks and then blacked by idarity by bringing the guarded 2H hours a day the dockers. The bosses The factory has no can- struggles together and with dogs, has broken have even tried swapping teen and the toilets are showing mutual support. windows and is covered the cargo to different almost unuseable. There Since the strike began with graffiti. Somehow, lorries to lose the pick- is no air conditioning, the engineers who were unfortunately, the place ets, but to no avail.All workers are forced to given a better deal and is still running (at a the cargoes are still inhale carcinogenic fum- were being used as scabs loss). sitting in the docks, es. Many workers have have left because the The workers were getting some of them have been suffered from skin disea- boss tried to lower their £H8 for a N0hr week,as a there since January! ses and some of the women pay as a kind of auster- basic. After negotiations have contracted vaginal ity measure, many had the boss put the basic up infections. torn up their union cards to about £55 but also put SMITH AFRICA DAM members put some G but some are now helping up the amount of work local miners in contact the strikers. This shows they had to do to get any This is of internat- with the Phillips workers that the strike is winn- bonus. They would have ional importance; the and since then miners ing. been working more hours idle shipments contain have been showing their for the same pay! rubber soles for boots of solidarity. On the ljth The only aim of the the South African Army of July, when the scab strike now is to bank- and police. labour took part in the rupt the boss and close The factory is depend- day of action (?), bet- the factory; most of the ent upon supplies already ween 200 and 300 people Support is always wel- workers are now on the in the factory, since al- went to Phillips to show comed at the above social, which they've most nothing has got in. support, many of them address. This strike has only recently been able The conditions in the miners. About 80 miners largely been ignored by to claim, and are acting factory are worth mentio- took part in the morning the left and the media. as secondary pickets. ning since their victor- picket of July Zhth, But these workers need while most of the women ian standards are one planning an occupation of support as much as the who wouldn't be able to Treason why the resistance the factory, unfortunatly miners. claim are still on strike from the workers has been the police were tipped Source: L.D.A.G. pay- so strong. off, and the idea was ab-

The union bosses fal- enough. ling over each other to You'd better be on CAPI IS negotiate one union, no your guard unless you The SPTin€ Wages Found were preparing to enter strike agreements with want to have to turn up ended with nominal rises a Japanese company."In Japanese companies set- for work half an hour of between 3% (steel) & this way -one of the ting up in Britain (for early t0 d0 exercises, 5% (cars and electronics). managers explained -the example with Nissan,who have your life from the Inflation this year is new employees are ment- are building a car fac- cradle to the grave at 3%. In real terms ally and physically tory in the North East) managed by the company, rises during the last purified before God".l seem to be turning a and take your break in few years have been mo- And to allay any doubts blind eye to the quain- the same canteen as the dest: after a drop to the managers enter the ter practices of Japan- boss dressed in overalls 1.6% in 1980, they were water first." 1 ese capitalism. Either (God forbid!) 9 at 0.h% in 1981, 1.7% in that or they're all part .’ T 1982 and about 2% in of a Baptist conspiracy. 1983. After deductions DEEP For them all that matt- of taxes, real income WATER ers is that Nissan is has fallen by 2% in the "giving" jobs to a few ONE MAN”S WORD VIDEO. last nine years. Produc- "The object of our British workers.(Because tivity on the other hand purification ceremony is the labour“s cheap over One Mauls Word is a has increased, and was to wash away the refuse here.) programme about the use up 9% in 1983 (The Econ- of the past" - explains We urge British work- of the Supergrass system omist, 2%-Q). Mr. Hosaka -"and there's ers to be on their guard in N. Ireland as told by Notwithstanding this, a real need for it. Our against this type of those directly effected. from Japan we hear of employees must first of company loyalism which It places the use of the purification ceremonies all be purified of the is a particularly strong Supergrass as the latest held by various Japanese contagion of left wing feature of Japanese cap- strategy in a long line firms for their new unionism, of teaching if italism. Not only be- of repressive measures i1 employees. ‘The Guard- they've just left school cause Japanese companies the North. ian* of April 6th tells ;and from those coming are expanding in Europe Playback VHS; Running us that: "On a cold from university must be and seeking to introduce time - 50 mins; Price night recently, 200 removed the individual- these ideas of work or- £25.00 young people of both ist tendencies they ganisation, but also be- Contact: Lower Ormeau sexes walked up to the might have picked up". cause "progressive" Campaign for Justice chest into fnozen water (This one wants sending British capitalists can Video Group (LOCFJ),c/o dressed in white and where the water's deep- not praise the Japanese 7 Winetavern St,Belfast holding candles. They est). (and the German) example 1. Tel. 225h26. 1

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