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.Kf three-Tin* circuo of /.ater- i • thrown did wo rot all live in Congrc. n postponing the investiga After yonro of world domination tion during the visit of *ir. Brezh f!atc goes on. Ur. Dean hao given and world-wide unpopularity the glues Uou5 j — THE SEED BENEATH THE SNOW Sllono’n novnl . good l'qr.rnth the workshops! an examination of work ANARCHY IN ACTION* Colin Ward, r»noTv, and ip apt, 1 «>r anarch 1 oil and workers' controli a dlncon- (Allen A Unwin. Cr*8vo. 143r-F*< olthough now nomctvhat respected olon of tho breakdown of wolforo- BOOKSHOP open Tuen.-Fri, 2-6 p.»* sources, bibliog., lrdox. also Irrationally feared and wt hoopltalo, asylums, inetitullonnl- Thurn. to 0,30 p.B* Hardback £3-50. carcrbacX £1^.1?— have, internally no *cll ao exter iootion and tho Claioantn' Union, 3at, 10 a.a,-4 p.n. nally, moved Into a snowy climato- a chapter on 'how deviant dare you Starting as In urual with rc- got?' and a final chapter: "Anarchy Any book not in ntock tut In print con bo supplied. FIc o b o add poster viwcro by saying that *Colin lard There____ in__ n alight strain of and a Flauolblo Future". needs no introduction to readers anti-intellcctuuliomtill dormant in oo ih brncketo to remittance. of FREEDS, WAR CCIXENTARY. and anarchiom which will reject Colin I find little to quarrel with in the f i m t ocrlco of ANARCHY** one Ward's book outright bccauoo of thio book, I welcome Colin Ward's •Sea-Pal i Enoayo 1929-1934 goes on to introduce bin. He wan Its sustained drawing on quota apparent acceptance of 'permanent Wilhelm Hoiehoich £1,50 (lOp) one of the editors of FREEDOM tions from other writers. Colin anarchiom' (even if under tho snow) Sa&mEal t Essayo 1934-1937 from 1947 to I960, contributing Ward hao alwayo been an inveterate rathor than tho face-saving for Wilhelm Roich £0.40 (7p) suck fertile thought on queotieno ♦quoter', his memory and files are mulae of 'permanent protest'. of the free society - before impeccable, his critics (mveelf , (6p) Factually I can only quarrel What Clans-Concclouonoyfl? sociology became trendy. Under upon disgruntled occasions) call-* i with Colin Ward's acceptance of the auspices of Freedom Preon ho him a 'ociaoors-and-ps3te man1. Wilhelm Reich £0730 (4p) Rowen Engineering Co. as an ex Dialectical Materialism h Psycho- etarted Anarchy (originally des But oil thio great drawing upon ample of paternalistic workcro* tined to be called "AutonomyM: authorities (and I use the word in Analysis - k, R e i c h £0.75 I4p) control. But tho iooue was fought The Slavery of Our Times until C.W. wao talked out of it) the Bakuniniot Dense) io indioput- to the exhauotion of everybody in which be edited for ten yearn oble for he quotes strongly from previous loouoo of PREEBOM. Leo Tolotoy £0.25 (4p) from 1961-70, achieving to a groat non-anarchiot sources and io free (Briant Colour work-in edition) 4c jrce hie dcoire to moke anarch- of the incestuouo aelf-justifica In the realm of publishers' The Gentle Anarchists, a study ot inm not 'respectable', for that it tion which dioflguree much anarch- production I con find only one the Sarvcdaya Movement for Non must never be, but worthy of lot jouraalion. misprint (which I loot again) but violent Revolution in India - respect. In thie queot it might I really must regret ouch high Geoffrey Ootergaard A „ . occm to some that anarchism became The book dooc not diocuoo inter pricing although the valuo lo Melville Curroll £5.50 (25p) too trendy and in its watered-down national politico (Ireland or groat. The thinking is so admir Russian Rebels 1600-1800 libertarian presentation almost Vietnam), the class struggle, inj- ably compressed, but £3.50 for a Paul Avrich *-4.50 (21p) became respectable, only being dividualion, violence or non cloth edition of thie nice io ap •Patterns of Anarchy edited by oaved by such Aldermaeton purcuito violence (save for a reference proximately sight timeo that of Leonard I. Krimmercan .% . ao spreading across Whitehall and that "A distinction hao to be ttofcc about ten years ago. Whose incomo Leslie Porry £1.50 (15p) general Duff-baiting (vividly il between the violence of the op- | hno been multiplied by eight? Tho •The Doctrine of Anarchism of lustrated on the duotjackct of pre9ror and the resistance of tht? paperback edition is not much Michael A. Bakunin thio book, taken from Anarchy 28). oppressed"). In that rcopect it better at £1.75 cut tnere'o always Eugene Pysiur £1-10 (8p) will fail to appeal to those who the public library with free •1973 Peace Calendar - 50 years of Colin Ward was trained a3 an believo that ouch isouco are the I architect, later took up day- q c c o 33 - and Freedom Bookshop's Nonviolent Resistance (War Reo- important issues of the anarcoTrl need fer your cj o ton if you juot loters League, U.3.) £0.95 (5p) release teaching, now edito the movement. Bulletin of Environmental Educa can't resist haying! It'o a fine •Anarchiom and Other E3navs tion, hao boon editor of two Pen It docs, however, deal with tip book. Emma Goldman £1725 (15p ) guin educational works on "Vio more positive sides of onarchlcrl Jack Robinson Sydney Libertarian Broadsheets lence" and "Work", and ha3 contri q o set out In the quote from the £0.10 (2£p) buted to several anthologies on preface. It deals in fact with The Mask of Anarchy Percy Byosho Shelley £0.20 (2tP) anarchiom, Thi3 io his first the seed rather than with tho foot, in tho cit.ioc of Eaotorn snow. Uuch of it will be familiar full length book (he ir editing a Europe, and all over tho world, Anarchy In Action book Vandaliam to be published by to readers of Anarchy (first aer who club and shoot without ies) - or buyero oi seto! It Colin Ward cloth £3.50UOp) the Architectural Preoo in August reotroint. paper £1.75 " at £7.50). deals with anarchicn vio-a-vio tie State; the anarchist theory of A few yoar3 ago, in Eritain at The preface of Anarchy in Action spontaneous order (discussing th anyrato, The Dank ol Anarchy U.S. cJO*.om*-ro kindly note that ooto forth ito argument that "an risings in Czcchoelovokia and H u .- might have aoamed a quaint, histo tho starred itemo* are U.S. publi anarchist society, a society which gary); the question of leadorah r rical relic of a bygone age. Not cations and may possibly be core organises itself without authority, (touching on 'job aatiefactionl; now. The msesacrco perpetrated in cheaply obtained In the U.S. is alwayo in existence, like a the question of the applicabilit. Ireland by tho British army will rieaac send S.A.E. (?" x 4") for seed beneath the enow, buried of anarchism to complex oociotijU.*: doublle3s be repeated in Britain our nc.v booklist. under the weight of the state and an examination of federation an$ socn. Many of the odr.e kind of its bureaucracy, capitalism and decentralisation; consideration.- people ore still around. I con FREEDOM PRESS in Angei aii* its waste, privilege and ito in on planning: housing or.d the J think of several candidatco for justices, nationalism and its sui growth of squatting; the family; the role of Caotlereagh, while l4b WHITECHAPEL HIGH STREET cidal loyalties, religious differ schools and do-schooling; udvcn-\ Lord Elder, lo the typical, pompouo \ LONDON Et Phone 01*347 9*49 ences and their superstitious ture playground- and community and cruel British judge. The type V separatism". The metaphor in '-cm (Aldgatc Faot underground station,* hao not changed sinco the seven- x xWhitechapel Art Gallery exit and teerth century. turn right - alley next to Wimpy It ia ironic that the empire which Shelley advocated nor-violcnt Bar) FUTILE OCCUPATION Disraeli aought to modernise and reor rcoictar.ce, ae did many radicalc ganise had only about seventy years still of that time. Dcnnio Gould in his A B^C of Anarchism by Alcxondor to go when he died. (One can only spec preface to thio edition, thu ooc- Berkman, 25p*T66c7 po3t 3*p(10c) ond tc be brought out by Kropot ulate on what he would have thought of the About \narchlnm by Nicolas Walter kin's Lighthouse, poinis out that i2£o (post“'2fp) 40c post free DISRAELI, by Manuel Komroff, campaigns against the Southern Arabian The Black Dwarf, the original Bailey Bros, and Swinfcn Ltd. , £1.80 revolutionaries, against Anguilla and Black Dwarf, not the pale groy Full liot of books A pamphlets A Iceland.) Empire-building is one of the modern version, could say of tho back issues Anarchy on request IT HAS HAPPENED *o often that most futile occupations of man. The political cluba, "Those who con nationalist loaders are foreigners in outburst of energy which leads a small demn clubs cither do not ur.acr- country to dominate a large part of the star.d what th*y can accomplish, or the nation they lead that it almost they wish nothing to bo done . . ♦ SUBSCRIBE "to fRL'El seem s like a law of nature. Napoleon earth soon burns Itself out. Then the let us look at and emulate the was a Corsican, Hitler an Austrian, small country is exhausted, spiritually pationt resolution of the Quakoro. Surface Mall * Inland Stalin a Georgian and many of the lead* and sometimes physically, and falls prey They havo conquered without arms - ers of Ireland’s struggle against Eng to more powerful neighbours or just be without violence - without threats- One year £3.00 (#7.50) land have been either Englishmen or comes a backwater. They conquered by union." Six nontho £1.50 0*3.75) half English. So it seem s only right What is puzzling is that highly educa It is a thcuuand pities that Three montho 80p 0*2,00) that D israeli, English nationalist and ted people, who presumably know a bit.of Shelley's poem was not published im perialist, should In fact be a Jew of history, never seem to be able to apply in 1819. It did r.ol come out un A.lffnaU Italian and Spanish antecedents. their knowledge to their time and place. til 1832. By that time the poli Europe 4 Mid.East 1 year £4.00 Manuel Komroff's lively biography Greed and idealism, mixed together, tical climate hod become- much The Americas 1 year £12.50 is written with sympathy, even enthusi drive them forward to seize as much of milder. India, Africa Ac. 1 year £4.50 the world as they can. regardless of Australaoia, asm, for his subject. There is no ques Both covers of thio edition arc Japan Ac. 1 year £5.00 tion of historical detachment. Gladstone, ultimate consequences to the country • decorsted with drawings by Arthur (six nontho pro rata) Disraeli's great opponent, appears as they claim in all sincerity to be serving. Moyoe. 'Politics', we arc told, 'is the art of the a hysterical, pious humbug. For all I Arthur Wardo. 2 copies £5-60 per year possible', and politicians seem to be know he may well have been. Disraeli (6 or 3 montho pro rata) would probably be bewildered If he singularly helpless people, very much at could return today and find that 'im peri the mercy of events, which ultimately Bulk: 10 copies 40p alism' has become a dirty word. He means at the mercy of obscure social would probably be cynically'am used by forces which sweep through human the fact that some of the most vociferous communities. denouncers of imperialism today are John Brent supporters of either the American, the Russian or the Chinese em pires, all of which are fairly brutal and highly LAW AND ORDER RUN AMOK LESSONS OF THE SPANISH oppressive. If one has a criticism to make it is THE MASK OF ANARCHY, by Percy REVOLUTION by Vernon Richards Bysshe Shelley, Kropotkin's Light that Manuel Komroff tends to write This is not a reprint of the work with the same title published by about Tsarist Russia and Bismarck's house Publications, c/o 5 Caledo nian Read, London, N.l, 10p ntccnou r tr s s in 1953. It is a new and considerably expanded version Germany as if they were the Soviet which the author prepared Tor an Italian edition published in 1957. and Union and Hitler's Third Reich. Power recently published in Paris in • Spanish translation. THIS SUPERB, beautifully printed Additional chapters deal with such important topics as the Militarization politics in the days before aircraft and edition of aiellay'e famouo poem, of the Militias, the Cult of the Organisation and of Personalities, the Rank nuclear weapons was a more leisurely ia very timely. When Shelley U3ed and Files Responsibility. affair, and (for the well-to-do) life the word "anarchy" he did not mean As well as a Select Bibliography, the author haj contributed ■ 20-page was more civilised. The kidnappings, "the absence of government". Ho Bibliographical Postscript in which he discusses the most important works that haw appeared on the subject in the past twelve years. murderlngs, bombings, torturings with meant "the forces of law and order running amok". So the poem speaks 240 pages 84 x 5* doth edition £1.50 (p.p. Up) which we are so familiar today, were not paperboards £0.75 [pp- 15pj a part of high politics. They formed part directly to our condition today.I When the Manchester Yeomanry and' of the internal politics of the more back tho 15th Huosaro rodo into o peace Order your copy now from Freedom Press ward or unsettled parts of European ful crowd at St- Peter.'0 Pieldc, society. No doubt many expected that slashing at men, women and childf- with the spread of science, enlightenment ren, they became the forerunneroj and ail that, such things would cease to of the brutal modern police and happen. parachutists in Chicago, in Eol- % i WORKERS’ CONTROL Contentious Contention AtfARCHlSTS ARK 'thocr who Hrny all The socialised mind means that 'we tend external authority over the* Individual, to think more and more In terme of soci OR STATE CONTROL? wleather that of the preaent State, or ety ae a whole, less and lees In term s tlint of tome industrial collectivity that of tho unique human individual. Con the future may produce' (Benj. R. fronted with any economic or social THE Institute fcr Workers' Cor.- oaw that they would alienate too Tucker). And 1 would extend this denial problem, we tend to look for a solution trol have published a short pam much of their traditional support tel all 'internalized1 authority such as which will at best enable society to go phlet • covering 6012c of tn«» saJn The menour-s visualized in this 'conscience* or the 'sense of moral ob on functioning, smoothly and efficiently, statements from those attending pamphlet are those of Government ligation'. 'Thou shalt' and 'thou shalt according to some ideal plan' (Anarchy, their ninth national conference in ar.d State control. The structure necessary to secure workers’ con not* are as despotic as 'It la commanded'. M ay 1966). Nottingham. FR2EDC0I did have a The reault of this la that an anarchist correspondent there and hlo report trol has nothing to do with Gov t # # # ippearci In Vol. >4 no* 19- How ernment and the State, since If Anarchism Is the concern of individuals, is thought of not as someone who negates ever tot3 pamphlet la worth on power is invested with these in n£t:of an economic class. It is not a authority for himself or herself, but as mower to clarify what io meant by stitutions it could lead to a creed of social salvation, but the fight someone who wants to negate authority workers' control. For It seems Corporate State. for tho Individual against the authority for everyone and therefore haj to postu that like socialism and libertari The pamphlet mentions o state of the Collective. It it a way of indivi late a future atate of affairs in which this anism, workers * control io, ae an ment made by Tony Benn M.F. and duation - an Individualism, not a universal negation will be realised. Up idea, being discredited by “he so- recalled by Peter Price which oaid, to now almost all commentators on anar ceiled revolutionary parties like so c ia lism . "if you expect Sociallac through a chism - including aome indivlduallata - the Socialist Labour League, , Parliamentary system, you've got • • • Many of those who coll themselves 'anarhave accepted this view. International Socialists. and re another guess coming". But Tony formist groups like the Institute. jBenn really only ncane that wor- chists' are no more than anti-parliamen 3 do n o t. In hi* remarkable and important Throughout the pamphlet there ,kero have to bring prcceurc to tary communists whose goal of 'anarchy' are references to the fact that ' bear through the Labour Forty and would amount to o kind of democratic, novel Journey Not To End (Panther even the rank a.ni file of the their trade unionc and ether orga federalist utopia shorn of capitalist and 1966), Paul Herr writoa Labour Party members do not have nisations they may be members of, Stato privileges, but not of authority. 'A State is a State is a State. Even control over their party through to achieve "Socialism". Anarch Egalitarianism is not anarchism, nor Revolution, which promises to change thei- annual conference decisions. ists would reply that vro have to is the rule of the acephalous mob. All, changes only the personnel, not go beyond demando and pressures Anthony TTedgwood Benn, M.P. (re • • ♦ the System - the guards and the prison ferred to oo Tony Bonn in th*' p.m- and take what wc believe io ours. phlet) listed the issues on v. vich History is full of exampleo of If 'anarchism ' were acceptable as a ers exchange stations, as in a children's the Labour government went ar.aiiint "Socialist" governments holding synonym for 'individualism' there would game of musical chairs. conference decisions. He also back the true aspiratient; cf wor be no need to speak of 'anarchist Indi 'A man can only liberate himself by answered a question scout the 17 kers and peasants in their desire vidualism'. However, certain pro himself and for himself. There is no points hn had listed in ci; article for taking over and controlling fessed anarchists object to individualism other way - all else is madness or ir. the Runiav Times "v/hich the their work places. History also shows uo that legislation is not and emphasise the 'free society' rather collaboration.' Tory government hna taker., which tKan the 'free individual1. Indeed, some It is for this reason, among others, he fcclo could be used by a Sodal- needed but only the cer.ociouc ict Government for the oenefit of desire by people for control of goSO far as to proclaim the need to that I doubt very much if the 'social the working cli.cc." their own lives. Whenever the 'subordinate the individual to the social question' can ever be solved in an power of the State huo teen broken factor' (Gaston Leval). It is because anarchist manner. Social organiza These included the Rolls P.oyco wo find workers and peasants they are opposed to this linking of anartion and individual autonomy are per legislation to r.* 'localise by a 3eizing their work places ar.d the chism with collectivism that anarchist- petual antinomies. But the anarchist on^-clausc bill. The Industry Act land and working for the benefit individualists call themselves such. v/Jiich is used to give financial of the community. Russia, Mexico opposition to authority still stands and support "where it is likely to and Spuin chew vs how political For them self-sovereignty is their is the negative aspect of the individu oenefit the economy of the United parties, government and the State starting point - not the eventual product alist mode of being. Kingdom". Power over prices and take away the initiative from the of some future social millcnium. e e * power to demand information under people whe were striving for e o o For me, then, an anarchist is someone the Counter-Inflation Act about liberty. Can one call oneself an anarchist, yet who acknowledges no authority, not companies. "For example, when a monopoly existed, or where a mer Workers' control is real deci not believe in the practicability or pos even that of Anarchy. I accept that I ger proposal came in, Government sion making by there who vork with sibility of an anarchist society? cannot destroy archism, nor do I be would itself be acquainted with hand and lrain. It hso nothing to J ask the question because the defining lieve that it will evor be destroyed, all the facto and figures and fore do wit); government and the State, of an anarchist has become so bound up but 1 can still refuse to be its creature, I forecasts of the major firms pro but ie its oppoeltc in that it with what Francis Ellingham once called can be my own, belonging to neither State posing to merge". proclaims people*3 independence 'the socialised mind' that few appear to from these institutions of power nor Society. An anarchist is a permanent He even mentions an "unfair and oppression. The class nature be able to think of anarchism apart from outsider. To be cn marge is all that an practice" as defined for trade of-^oociety divides thou© who oro s ime concept of a social transformation. anarchist can expect. union activitico in the present rulers and iuled, controllers and S. E. Parker Industrial Relations Act which controlled. While government and could be used ir. a Companies Act the institutions of the State ex againnt "asset stripping or ist these struggles snd conflicts insider-dealing". will remain. Until these institu These and the other points are tions are aiolished real workers' naidly, by any stretch of the ima control will r.ct exist, only an gination, steps towards workers' imitation which the State will Vi hi let considerably more than £264m control. All these measures wore limit and watch over. BRITISH invested in the pact 5 ycaro it taken by government in order to ______P.T. has to be recognized as peanuts in S33iLt the present profit-motive relation to ito major competitors. system. The Labour Party when *workers' Control : |«ov lar can Volkcwagor. may bo expected to in they formed the government took the structure mict our demands? LEYLANO vest £l,300m over the same period similar measures and were only di Price- lt>p. Eertrand Russell and FIAT at leapt £750m - to oay verted from bringing in their own House, 45 Gamble St.. Forest nothing of the American giants Industrial Relatione Act when they Ro- ' . t, Nottingham NC7 4ET. General Motors or Ford, or fast - The Leginning of the End. growing Japanicc companies Nissan and Toyota, all of whom invest S3 LALT WEEK Counter Information Ser The Charrington Street squat was much in a year aa BLMC will over vice published their fifth report. the next five." juct opening up and I come here. I Fonued a year ace ard comprising Squatting entered the next empty house and a 6, or 7 young professionals free, 3o much for strikes being the depressing fooling overcame me - dait'erer.t fields, they claim no 'true cause' of the company'o- dif ACCORDING to government figures how low car a man ojnk, I thought, Croup backing either industrial or ficulties. which were headlined a few weeks as I went inside. The rooms wore political, anintulnlng that their dark, corrugated on the windows, C.I.S. then dculo with BLMC'g ago there arc 100,000 empty houses eujrort ccrnc-c from cheritablo multinational activitico, or lack in London. floor-toordo up, electric wires truoto ar.d private subscription. stripped down for scrap, the lend of them. Spain, because of ito According to my guess there aro No. 1 was a critical look at Rio "aseCLblc work force, ie receiving water pipe ripped out for scrap. Tinto Zinc; No. 5 concentrates on no more than 3,000 oquatters in Gas cut off. Toilets smashed and much attention as the company London, occupying no moro than 500 British Leylsnd and io entitled shifts considerable resources 3ink ripped out together with the "Britioh Leyland. The Beginning houses. window frames. there.” Conditions within U.K. of the End?" plants arc examined. In particu It means that 995»000 houses are But I was homeless and this waa In the House of Commons loot lar the attempt by management to still empty. Why? Why do people the only roof over my head I could more closely control labour coots prefer to search for rented rooms week conditions in the car indus find, so I took it. try were debatod. Thcoe reason by getting rid of the old piece when they could bo living rent- • able and articulate men went work system and substituting for free? I selected two roomc for my ■through tho motions of horrifying it Measured Day Work. Though that Squatting is like jumping over a self, got s length of 13 amp tiueh other. The isoucs raised dia have the effect of weakening cliff, and all of us think that if electric cable and ran a point to \|cre horrifying: power without ohop floor control, management un you jump horrible things will hap my 'flat'. Nov/ I could have responsibility, of the multi derestimated the drop in effort. pen to you. lights, olcctric heater, an elec national car manufacturers, men "From the workers' point of view tric kettle. I put the floor like droneo - cere adjuncts of the this means that since they are no I remember the fears I had whon boards back in again, gave it a mchines they oerve - working in longer paid by results they can I was going squatting. Firstly I good sweep out with the broom, Uuetructlve noise and filth. But mcko life in the factory a little thought my rcom will be insecure, brought in some furniture from since the issuoo were over-dreosed more bearable, by not working oo that everybody will be wandering other derelict houses, rearranged in the mannerisms and imagery of hard." A second line had to be in and cut - a thing I vmo not my things - bookshelves, nattrcoo, that ancient assembly no one was introduced. The report finishes accustomed to - then I thought any beautified the- flat a bit and left really horrified. with a look at nocial ar.d environ cay the bailiffs may come and the rest of the house in ite dere mental factors. throw my belongings out into the lict condition. In its report, or ar.ti-rcrcrt, otrect when I happen to be out, or $.1.3. contend that British Ley- If the concluoiono in this at that the police will come and I had to fetch water in n bucket lund, after thin year’s boom, face tractively produced 57-page report throw you out. Then I thought I from two houscD away, and uoe serious financial difficulties. can be accepted, and a BI2£C judge will looo all my private posses cither a public toilet or my That it will be liable and open to ment on oeeing it, "It renders any sions, like my books, my typo- neighbours’. foreign takeover and that redundan comment superfluous" tends to con writer, my bicycle. cies are inevitable. firm there io ooncthing of sub I put a lock on the door, and I stance here, then there will bo a But I had no choice. I was un folt happy find secure. I got to After outlining Britioh Leyland Dcrop. Government will not allow der eviction and I had to get out like my new flat, and I liked the Motor Company’s declining otatue the major British cor manufacturer of my rented^ accommodation. pioneering spirit of the other among the motor car cocponles of the motor car companies of the to oink or diouppoar abroad but, squatters who kept pouring in. rather, will refloat, another lame I went to Camden where I knew And I was living rent-free. torld, the report continues: "It Borne squatters and asked for a in thio harsh fact which acts the duck. Nor will the strong shop floor organisation at BLMC bo room. I was told there are 2,000 I shall continuo with the story background for the recently an empty houses in Camden and the next week. nounced investment planB to spend cooking their own goose. thing to do ie to find yourself Reverend Father Puck, D.D £400m over tho next 5 year8. 1.7.73 Bill Smith. one, do the repairing, move in and live there. T jL AXEL 3PRtNQEH'3 TERRORIST PREPS PROFESSOR EYSENCK'S * t* V . . EVERY YEAR thoro is a mooting of LETTERS anarchists, pacifists and froo noclnllnto In Appolocha (Mother lands) at Whitoun. It In a meet Dear All, ing to meet each other, to dio- cuoo different ldoan and to ox- Periodically in tho column* 6 t VIEWPOINT OS 0RGANI2A“10NS the National Trcae ono sees •; ohongo experiences. Apart from statements from Oswald Mosley to that ono lays in -tho sun or joint tho groupo walking In the forest Dear Editors, tho effect that he is not and THUR3DAYS 2 p.n. onwards. Holp never has been a racist. In d«orr nearby. Sonotlmoo a film is shown which is meant to fan diocuaoion. fold and deepatch FREEDOM at You seem to feel Notified In gone by, when I had to moke an . Proodoa Press devoting art entire of PKEEDOi! academic otudy of tho writings of Nothing elso happened t’nic yoor, to Peter Seville* p asinine article the late Adolph Hitler, I found but Axel Springer's newspaper Kot only doco this article advo frequent claims to the same pi^d am Bonntag dated Juno 10, SATURDAY 7th July. March on Dul cate retreating into quietiam and effect. Yet anyone who studies!* wanted more* wich College, anooablo 2 p.m. »icb;*-wa£.hy reformism but it dla- the totality of their writings Brockwell Park, noor H e m e Hill mieeee the cloco struggle in a fow rather than thooe protestations^ "Terrorists plan now strokes Station. Dulwich College NU53. ludicrouo lines. But abdvc all it might coco to a different view, Yesterday the polico arrested Alan: Reoognlzo NUSS'o right to lnplicc that ORA somehow forcibly and even Tony Gibson might con- » organioo within Dulwich College presafcanged people - Noville Hoiner Willi P., a probablo secret code that there io grounds for courier of a new international Close down Dulwich Collogo ao a doesn't eay how - into joining suspecting that the Final Solu Public School, and ail other thee and that the AFB wao deliber movement of terrorists, in Bcrtheim tion ououggeoto an element of * t i /Hiodersachoen. A passport forged sohools which are juot for tho ately "oatotaged". In my, opinion rich. the AFB w3s only fairly cohesive racism. in the name 'von Falkenotcin', in the first year or ao of it3 Similarly if ono otudieo the which eeerao to have been issued in EVERY SATURDAY 2 - 4 p.o. Picket formation; after thot it exlctcd totality of Prof. Eysenck's Maples, was found. He had papero outoldo Brixton Prison. BELPAST only on people*- Unless you regird works one might be tempted to in his luggago which indlcato liai- TEN DEFENCE COMMITTEE (moro in the chaotic annual '’conferences’1 withhold credence from that quote oono with the rest of tho Baader- formation from tho Comaittoe. that took place - wh-:ro oJl cr;d that Comrade Gibson flndo so coil-, Mcinhof gong and the anarchistic 88 RoDlyn Road, London, N.15) oundry who happened to call then- vincing. CPG. The polico chocked whether LIBERTARIAN EDUCATION NETWORK no the courier had come from h meet- . oelveo Anarchiato (who 1 wouldn’t Othoro have written to show longer has a poraanont central consider ao such) were free to ing of international terrorioto in addrooo, but otill exists. Contact that the whole concept of intel the Netherlands. During tho week peddle their middle cloos view- ligence io o nonsense, but it io via a Bomber, or ponoibly Liberta pointo - ao APB functionc. end, camouflaged as camporo, ter worth adding to this the tenden rorists from Arabia, Northern Ire rian Education -nagazlno, c/o 160 The following week in FRZEDCM tious nature of the choice of land and the Federal Republic of Molbourno Road, Lciceotor. you print a thir.ly-vcilcd attack "correct" answers for so many in Goraony discussed joint now violent Couplo ocok unfurnished flat, on ORA oaying that a certain org telligence teots. For instance doedo in Appoldorn." London area, fixtures A fittings anisation (At leaot be honcot ar.d one of Eyoenck'o has a question £509. Tel. SLOUGH 83985 say who you mean) ore aping tho listing five or cix words oil but Here, peaceful people nro accused structure of IS. Now if you were ono of which begin with the lct- of being bomb throwers. Tho 'ter Couple want to oell house and ouy «i rorists' from Northern Ireland, a bit lcno narrow-minded you would ter asking for the odd non omoll farm in Uttoxater/Ashbourae/ out; but it ip not t >* one that Arabia and North Africa, a Marxiet- Leek area. Want to discuss with 8co that ORA is not built on a Leninist cadro party (CPG) and tho democratic-centralist pattern but does not begin with ::r> "o" that it similar people for joint venture. odd, there io a oonc\.*mt tenuous Boador-Moinhof gong (RAP) aro far- J and F. J. Allen, 35 Fairfield io a thorough-going libertarian fotchod. The reason: overy sensi organisation. connection in terms of moaning of Avenuo, Bollington, Maccleoficli all but one. tive and sensible person can see (tel. Bollington 73562) You alac dismiss the pamphlet it. The ruling claoses try to oro- ’’The Tyranny of S*.ructureleaancaoH But while anyone with or. element ato al'-Tm • and anxiety amongst tho ANARTHD-FEMINISM : any women Int - very important reading for ail of independent thinking io awart population to cover up and juofity erested in forming group London that intelligence io not all that area please ring Jan at 229 0784 libertarians - in a very superfi their steps of oppression. (number wrongly given as 299 lost cial manner. important anyway, while the same people will realioe that facility At first it io a national wcok) Libertarian Struggle io a papor with intelligence tests anyway organisation of terroriuto, then, CORBY ANARCHISTS. Discussion meet democratically run and with a ro only proves a capability to do in if that does not work, one pro tating editorial board. Could you ings first Friday in every month telligence testo and there is no duces an international one. This at 7 Cro33wcll Walk, 7.30 p.r. say the same for PREEDGM - whe proved relationship between this method io well known. It io prac claim to be the voice of the and real intelligence; it io tised by the ruling class in East LIVERPOOL ASA contact May Stone, British Anarchist movement when nevertheless true - particularly and West, and not for the firot C.32 Summorfield, Tower Hill, they need help and at other ti^ea in the States - that streaming in tine. Hay v.ondcr - *. from pocple Kirkby, near Liverpool deny being such and say they nehool3 end jobs arc often depond- whu con.iivlor their chaotic cyst cm speak only for the FREEDOM group? LONDON ASA meetings— for details ant on results in IQ tests. j l o order one cannot expect *iny- 'phone 226-0817* Black d Red out 1 'ling cle*». Yours fraternally, Nc doubt the real evil io the look alwayo available, 5p ♦ 2 ip, Oxford. Hick Heath ridiculouo worth put on intelli The article ohowu once more thu 3 Grange House, Highbury Grange gence testo, and the existence of drift :o a fabcict-typo system in London, N.5. Editors anewer: It may have es the economic differencials that the ?odcrol Republic of Germany - caped Kick Heath's notice that we 3.E. LONDON MENTAL PATIENTS UNION make for otreaning and good or bed* ar.J probably not only ill ore. moots every Tuesday 8 p.m. at Tho 'democratically* gave as much career prospects. No doubt the IQ space (or more) to Peter Newell's Tc intcijict the oigr.u of the Albany Community Centre, Creek Rd. test cannot of itoolf be blamed timet correctly and io i’ir.d way3 Deptford. S. E. 8. exposition of ORA’a aims. for thir evil. But Eysenck ard elcjjip to prevent the d*vcloi- Who ouid anarchists were democrats assuredly is culpable in so far as Paul Goodman : J.G. Lcrgcsoncr of anyhow? he has contribu-ed very heavily to ment cf a r.ow barbarism io cur. We have never claimed to be the duty for “ho near fun.ro. Faculty of Education, University the myth of the IQ test, and is of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada is voice of the movement even when wo not known for deprecating, the THE .'TATE AND ITS SERVANT3 ARE rcoearching Goodman'o contribution have appealed for money. usage made of his tests. YHe TRUE ''ERRCHISTC! to reform in education during the Also, "The Tyranny of Structure- lesoneoo" was given a column- Yours faithfully, k . KcXurd/1973 1960'a und wishes to contact people now cnr°red in work on Goodman longth review in FREEDOM 23.6.73. Wellington Laurens Otter BAHTIN SQS7RE...continued from p.l :.w. To forestall Gibson's reply, MICHAEL TOBIN DEFENCE COMMITTEE think ■ cay uo o slip of tne I should perhaps mention that 265 Dale Street, Chatham, Kent pen and should have ocen *paper_|_7 whereas I have never been good in work for tho local community and a p-evious jail sontence for sel (Freedom Bookshop aloo stocks exams I have always found IQ t^sis pamphleta etc. by Michael Tobin ccoy. L.O. ling narcotics, was an obviouo -■ubllohod by Defence Committee) choice for a frame-up. Williams Can this correspondence now be received money from the police and STOKE NEWINGTON FIVE SOLIDARITY closed? — Edo. chargeo of theft were dropped for COMMITTEE is at 54 Harcombe Road, VICTORY OVER CHRYoLER'S his testimony. The Buffalo police London. N.16______h;.d told Williomo that they consi dered Sootre to be "the cauce" of Hew publications tlie rioto in 1967. Dear Friends, FRENCH TEST Sostro ia still In jail a year Norwich Anarchiot Group hove So sorry to be a ekelcton at the after Wil]iocc has admitted his brought out No, 4 of their 16 pp. Chryoler Victory Festival but aft WARRAWOKG. 24th June.— Tho ef forts versus the French Nuclear f .lee evidence. Sootro has re duplicated magazine (2p 2*p er the last toasts hove been drunk Testo, in Australia have resulted leased statements documenting from Eamonn McArdle, 63 Dereham and the glorious dawn acclaimed in the usually vocal communist thot he has been regularly beaten, Road, Norwich), BLACK RAT. with cosy Auld Lang Syncs would it parties taking a silent or even threatened and harassed while in be unseemly to suggest that a obstructive line on the tests. prison. CATUNSVILLE ROADRUNNER is about 100£ solid and permanent stay out Even APEX clubs, Returned Sold spiritual & political liberation, strike might huve proved more rel The r.ew evidence of Will lama's about nonviolence, resistance and iers Leagues and political par fnSr.e testimony hno been presented evant to our present needs and our ties - barring the Democratic making alternatives. Issue 45 (June) aspirations for the future? If in the Federal Court but a deci has articles on Coventry 6, Uni Labour Party ([the catholic action, sion to roleooe Soetre on bail and every bloody farting car factory pronucloar armament, proconcorship versal message, and lota more. 8p (I make no apology for this depar grant a new trial is not expected or sub £1.25 for twelve iasueo, party) - have made utterances in for two or three months. ture from the language of gentle disfavour of this nuclear madness. 65p for six, from 28 Brundretts manly militant deboto) closed down Road, Manchester 21. tightly and irrevocably here and The 3 0 -callcd 'peace movement' In the meantime Soetre remaino machine is also otrongely quiet in solitary confinement in Unit now, not only would we have gone 14 at Clinton Prioon. The Martin a long way to getting our priori even on the Cambodian bombing; it seems thot whatover stimulates Sostro Defense Committee say he ties right but our anarchist "has beer, segregated for 8 monthe cchcmo of humane values would these administration-prone organi zations it io not eignificantly existing under the moot cruel con PRESS FUND have received life-giving affir the cause of humanity. The gene ditions imaginable". The Defense mation. After all, if the "day Committee want lettcro of protest to day" struggle for "victory" on ral response from the 'left* is Contributions June 21-27 inclusive that they plead ignorance, the at the continual harassment to bo the shop floor continues along sent to Commissioner Peter Preiser, the lineo so often celebrated pace of university life is too Anon £3; LIVERPOOL: R.E. 30p: strenuous to allow for other is Stato Campust Albany, N.Y. 12226. CHARDON, Ohio: R.S.C. 77p; LONDON even in FREEDCW, why not feature Letters of aupport, and money, con jolly little articles on tho sues, or thot it is soft to pro S.E.26: J.B. £1.90; LONDON N.3: fess interest in these affairs. be sent tc Martin Sootre, P.0. Box K.C. £2; COLVERHAMPTON: J.L. 40p; stirring campaigns in Porton ar.d B, Dannemora, New York 12929. They Nancecuke, not to montion the en J.K.W. 10p; LONDON W.S.l: L.S. Meanwhile, it is gratifying also urge comrades to write to 20p; HARROW; T.D. £l. couraging oigns of a new milit that a military decision to inter Judge John T. Curtin, U.S. Court ancy at Dow Chemicals? vene versus the French navy has house, Buffalo, New York 14201, TOTAL: £9.67 been resisted. It io hoped that urging that he drop all charges proviouely acknowledged : 749-35 by universal awareness and con against Martin Sootro and order TOTAL TO DATE: £759*02 Yours in anarchy, demnation tho paranoid assumptions his release from prioon. (Pleaoo David Sedley of militarism will bo thwarted if poeoible keep carbon copies of and the brains and material de such letters - address of the voted to war may be turned to the Defense Committee will be given Published by Freedom Press, London. universal bottormerit of mankind. next week.) p T London, E. 1. Printed by Fraternally, Vineyard Preae, Colchester. Col Pollard