Nationalism and Freedom One of the most interesting phases of the great revolt is the agitation tion, begin to put up candidates for elec- of the Keltic populations, if not for a free land, at least for land less tions or even to form armies. (Anarchists are not necessarily pacifists, but an anar- MARCH 15 1969 Vol 30 No 8 heavily burdened for the maintenance of their Teutonic masters. Foreign competition has reduced the value of agricultural produce by something chist army is difficult to visualise, like half. But the non-producing classes, i.e. proprietors and clergy, although I believe something of the kind was tried in Spain.) Or become, as they and farmers in localities where these have been bitten by the idea of sometimes do, racist. To make a religion degrading themselves from workers into gentlemen—are struggling to out of the Welsh or Irish languages, or of wring the same unearned benefit from the toil of the labourers as before. having a black skin, is no more sense Amongst the Keltic peoples this attempt to extort the uttermost farthing than making a religion out of the tongue is aggravated by antagonism of race, by the tradition of conqueror of Shakespeare, or out of Norman or THE RAPE OF and conquered, by the imposition of an alien law. The tithe war in . Saxon blood. Anarchists have many Wales is a current example. These tithes are an arbitrary charge upon bitter experiences of the results of sup- the rent of the land, varying from 6d. to 10s. 4d. an acre. They are ' porting, temporarily of course, the less evil government against the more evil (or reckoned by the average price of corn, whereas Welsh land is mostly what they at the time imagined to be the pasture, and stock has been depreciated 30% during the last two years. less or more). A Welsh republic would Grievance number one. They are paid to support the Welsh clergy of the alien in all probability jail strikers and squat- THE COUHTRYSIDE Church of England, to which religious body only 300,000 out of a population ters, or those who demonstrated on their of 1,500,000 belong. Grievance number two. In view of the bad times the behalf, just as the English monarchy does. landlords have accepted a reduction of rent, but the majority of the Even the People's Democracy move- "pVERY SUNDAY AFTERNOON in lages and for the creation of new villages clergy have refused to follow suit. Grievance number three. The ment, which is closest to us in its atti- *-* spring and summer sees something and genuine new towns, for community farmers, 400 or 500 of them, have resolved to be sold up rather than tudes, participated in the recent election of a minor exodus of people travelling by planning rather than private speculation. pay, and on the 1th September at Ruthin fair they formed a North Wales in Ulster. All we can do is to point out car into the countryside in an attempt to The needs of an increasing population Anti-Tithe League. They have the people with them, miners and the dangers of this kind of proceeding, escape from the impersonal and ugly provide other threats to the landscape; while at the same time supporting all environment of the town and city. But primarily the need for water supply and farm labourers alike. Indignant crowds have attended the forced cattle forms of non-governmental, spontaneous every season the trip takes a little longer an improved road system. sales, and only been prevented beating and ducking the bailiffs and and libertarian popular action. as more cars compete for road space and The Government has recently approved auctioneer by bodies of 80 or 90 policemen. One obnoxious parson The original programme of Plaid suburbia expands farther into the country; the building of a 54-acre reservoir (part has to be guarded to church by a policeman on each side, and many Cymru, the Welsh independence party, and when one gets there one expects the of the land to be flooded is common land) others have been frightened into offering a reduction. The agitation, put out after the Second World War, was countryside to be countryside, and not a at Meldon, in the Dartmoor National partial and narrow as are its present objects, is a valuable practical near-anarchist. It advocated workers" semi-rural landscape dotted with garages, Park. An alternative site suggested by lesson to the Welsh people in the art of ridding themselves of land leeches. control of industry. The demand for a power stations, hoardings, hill-top rub- the planning assessor and the Dartmoor Welsh parliament was, as it were, tacked —From The Coming Revolution,, on at the end, as a sort of afterthought. bish dumps, pylons, junk-yard farms, dis- Preservation Association was only pre- FREEDOM, Vol. 1, No. 1, used army camps and badly-designed tended to be considered by the authori- Welsh nationalists were also often ardent houses. Deprived of beauty in one's ties. According to John Barr in New October, 1886. pacifists. But, as so often happens, the immediate environment at home and Society (28.11.68), the recommendations movement becomes more power-conscious work, one makes the weekend pilgrimage of public enquiry inspectors were over- qpHE COMING INVESTITURE There used to be, as late as 1945 as time goes on. The 'practical' men only to be confronted with an eyesore. ridden; there was an outright resistance of Prince Charles as Prince of (and they may still exist, I remem- take over. 'Idealistic' or ' Utopian' de- Where good landscapes still remain, by the Government to consider alterna- Wales has led to a revival of interest ber exploring them as a child), whole mands are put off to some indefinite they tend to be part of large estates, tive sites, and a notable reluctance in deserted and ruined villages up in future. in Welsh nationalism, and to the Perhaps this tendency is inherent in the whether owned by private individuals or official quarters to let all interested parties arrest of members of the Free Wales the Welsh hills. I was told that the state. Even so, private landlords are have their say. Considerations of capi- very nature of all organisations. At all Army, no doubt to discourage 'foreign competition' was the cause events it usually makes its appearance. often willing, when they need the money, talist economies ruled the day and the of these places being give up. Sheep to sell land for development which mars value.oj the .environment was not con- nationalist demonstrations. Because We have to be on our gui>rd against it the landscape. Most of the eighteenth- sidered. Barr concludes: 'There is a real it has happened so long ago it is farming had been the main occu- always. century parks, remnants of an age when risk that in time Dart., JO- will be trans- easy tQ forget that Wales is in fact pation of their inhabitants, but they ARTHUR W. ULOTH. landscape mattered, are generally in the formed into a-kind of sterile Lake Dis- a conquered country. Although could not compete with Australian ■aHBHonaaKSMBi last stages of decay with no new tree- trict, the lakes ringed by barbed wire, and English and Welsh have become so sheep farming, and had had to leave planting. Individual smallholders tend to the public restricted to peering over the much assimilated to each other, re- their hills and move elsewhere. be even less concerned, piling up junk barriers.' sentment still exists. The position One of the newer forms of ex- such as old cars and tractors in their In Westmorland is one of the loveliest of individual Welshmen is not ploitation is to take over an entire SQUATTERS' yards; while the successful modern deer parks in England. It is 600 years valley, evict the inhabitants and farmer-businessman in his factory farm old; has the only herd of Norwegian really comparable to that of, say, knows that farms don't sell on appearance black fallow deer in Britain, the finest the American Negroes or the Catho- drown it, in order to provide a HOTEL and, backed by a Government policy that avenue of oaks in Britain (250 years old); lics in Ulster. They do, either in Wales reservoir for some large English IVfEMBERS of the Arts Lab. in Drury consciously encourages larger agricul- it is one of the earliest examples of or in England (the latter country city. Since the English (not to *" Lane have been attempting to obtain tural units and 'rationalisation' of lay- British landscaping art predating Capa- they can enter freely without pass- mention other nationalities) do this ■ the use of an hotel which has stood outs within farm boundaries, merrily bility Brown by 50 years; and as well as to their own valleys also, one can ports or permits), have complete empty for two years. Various attempts sends his bulldozers through the hedges; all this it has the remains of the tenth- see this as either imperialism of social equality (for what it's worth) to get the premises on a monthly licence hedges that are being removed at a mini- century monastery of Hefresham which with Englishmen. No one is per- England against Wales, or of cities have failed; so ten days ago a working mum rate of 7,000 miles each year. Pro- was abandoned during Viking raids. Its secuted for being small and dark against the countryside. It is in fact party entered the building and began to vided this rate remains the same, the last name is Levens Park and it is threatened both. clear the debris of two years' neglect. hedge in England will be torn up by the by the advance of the M6 motorway. and speaking with a sing-song In view of the above, the investing of Then on Friday, March 7, the police roots in the winter of AD 2049, all of An alternative route would involve accent! Nevertheless a sort of the eldest son of the English royal house noticed and investigated and left. The which totally ignores the value of hedge- cutting through a smallholding, building colonialism does exist. The piece as Prince of Wales is a pretty piece of situation at this stage was that an imme- rows for the protection of wild life, soil the road next to houses and cutting the quoted above shows how the Welsh cheek. As anarchists we do not attach diate occupation was necessary. About conservation and the beauty of the land- grounds of a convent in half. This alter- farming community was exploited much importance to traditionalism. The 50 people entered the hundred-roomed scape. native route is estimated to cost £170,000 to the profit of the Church of whole institution of monarchy is to be building and began to clear it. During less, but the figure is disputed by the NO CONCERN FOR LANDSCAPE England. attacked, whether it really exercises the day the media man came and looked, Ministry of Transport. Objections can power or is merely a facade, a piece of the GLC sent its officials to ask if we Also, little or no concern is shown for only be considered by the authorities propaganda or a tourist bait. But the knew that we were trespassing. 'Yes, we the landscape in the development of ex- when the final plans are published and a real enemy is any institution that enables did.' 'Who is your leader?' 'Our who?' panding villages. Abandoned allotments compulsory purchase order has been cations having taken place between men and women to dominate each other, was the reply, 'we haven't one.' The spon- and decayed orchards are left in the made. Not the waste of effort, time and planners and bureaucrats, instead of and indeed the mere idea of such domi- taneity was beautiful. During Saturday centre of compact villages, while clutches money you might think, for the authori- planners and people. The need is for a nation is what we are really against. A the following notice was displayed on the of council houses are tacked onto the ties seem to consider the hearing of new structure—the village assembly or Welsh republic would be as bad as any end. Although they may be well-designed commune. The commune, in co-operation street door. objections as a mere formality. The Chief other government. individually, and in isolation from the Inspector of Monuments has said, 'We with planners, architects and representa- All the same it is a bit of cheek. No environment, different coloured bricks are prepared to schedule the whole park tives of building workers' associations, wonder it has aroused hostility. It is the HUMAN RIGHTS SQUATTERS and tiles and the planting of trees and as an ancient monument after the motor- could decide how the village should grow, kind of arrogant tactlessness which has 178 Drury Lane, hawthorn hedges should be considered way has gone through.' how its buildings, trees and the spaces made the English disliked in many parts London, W.C.2. instead of the usual concrete posts and between should be related; what materials LIP SERVICE of the world. It also goes counter to a This building has stood empty for chain-link fencing, so that they fit into should be used; what its detailed and tendency which was only in its infancy two years. It is owned by the GLC the existing village. The Government pays lip service to a general form should be. The area could in 1886, but which is now growing in but has now been taken over by But the results of private housing are programme of National Parks, green be planned as a whole by the representa- strength from year to year, the revolt of those who need somewhere to live. even worse, especially bungalows, which belts, etc., and a new countryside act re- tives of the workers' organisations, the the minorities. Jews, American Indians There arc still some unclaimed are alien to the village scene and waste iterates the importance of 'the enhance- village assemblies, and the towns that and Negroes, Scots, Irish and many others rooms—so it' you've nowhere to a lot of land. The kind of private hous- ment of natural beauty', yet it, and the have surplus population: ing that is being built is an attempt to speculators it allows to run wild, are the are all struggling for self-determination, live, come and take one—it's yours. solve the problems of the society we live main culprits engaging in the destruction The bureaucracy is incapable of plan- to have their own small states if possible. The smell is due to milk which has in, within that society, and the result is of the countryside. Where it is not bent ning our environment; we must do it It is a rebellion against the tendency been there for two years, but we the creation of greater problems. The on creating desolation itself, it seems ourselves. The immediate need is for towards centralisation that went on all are at present cleaning, disinfecting detached and semi-detached house express content, in the realm of planning, to put organised resistance to bureaucratic van- through the nineteenth century. If a quite and painting the building. the desire for isolation in an overcrowded a fence round a village, with little con- dalism based on direct action by village small event occurs in London it is world IF YOU AGREE WITH OUR society; the desire for one-upmanship in cern about how far and at what rate the communities. There have already been news. In a Welsh town it is not. Remote ACTION PLEASE SIGN BELOW a competitive society (the poor man's fence expands and what goes on inside it. isolated instances of housewives tying parts of Wales (and indeed of England) (17 signatures) version of the mansion); the desire for Without considering the multiple use themselves to trees that enhance the land- become backwaters. Local industries die the rural (the garden) in an urban society; of rural areas for caravan sites, power scape, preventing workers from cutting away. The young people move in to the all done on an individual basis in a stations, etc., there is so little that is them down, destroying decades of growth big cities. South-east England is becom- There are still some rooms to spare, society that is lacking in community. The really rural in our environment that it in a matter of minutes. This, however, ing an ant hill. As believers in decen- so, if you haven't anywhere to live just result is neither splendid isolation nor needs preserving. The state is supposed would only be a stop-gap. Village com- tralisation anarchists oppose this tend- go to 178 Drury Lane and claim one. community, neither town nor country, to be an efficient planner, but in this munities must make their own plans ency as best they can. We believe in It's yours provided that you clean it out. but something that has the disadvantages sphere it has shown itself incapable of (there must be some planners and archi- people taking over their own lives, run- Since the Occupation it has become clear of both and the advantages of neither— planning for the needs of the people, con- tects who care, and are willing to render ning their own places of work, their own that the squatters need desperately a hard suburbia. 'Ten million private dreams sidering both material needs and the their services voluntarily) to counter towns and villages, not being subjected to core of militants who are prepared to become a public nightmare.' Essentially value of the environment. those of the bureaucracy. Every day bull- directives from London (or from Cardiff). hold the place and fight if necessary. there is no difference between a town and And yet the gap between capacity in dozers in fields and pens in offices are To that extent we support all movements Also they need bedding, heating and a village (apart from size); they are both architecture and planning and the usual turning our countryside into a desolation. of local autonomy. various household goods. Help them to urban. The need is for the building of practice is enormous. The failure is a Time is short. The trouble really begins when these help themselves. urban (lerrace-typc) houses in-filling vil- result of false communications, communi- B.B. movements turn in a governmental direc- PETE POLISH.

% Centra de Documenta;ao e Apoio a Pesquisa 2 3 4 5 10 11 unesp Cedap 22 23 24 25 26 27 2S 29 30 31 32 TlfONICA FOOT'S GLOOM about in brute force and not in Sunday rimes- *■*•* If . . .' distribution (FREEDOM, liberalism, or whatever is the wallpaper 21.12.68) was unfounded. The Chains doctrine around the battlements. In found that even Lindsay Anderson can the end, when the tools of Force are be box-office, and so we six-bob plebs turned back on the Head and he dies books ? at Oxford have now seen the film. of them, we are conscious of the Droves of beblazered private school perfect poetic justice of this. 'Trust me,' pupils were converging on the cinema IF' ON TOUR he is shouting, with the same mouth We can supply each time I went near, and I have as Macmillan and Wilson, or as Mao, eagerly scanned the local rag since for or as General Westmoreland-B-J. At any book in print details of cataclysms in sedate fee-paying When the three of them, after a his girl in a caff for the first time the back of his facade of democratic character-chipping blocks. they snarl instead of kissing. consultation, communist society, equal SECONDHAND crude and unjustifiable caning from the The only upset likely, though, is to prefects ('whips'), pledge themselves in Where Monica Foot found Nostalgia opportunities, is the facts of the arms We have a large stock of secondhand those who have stroked the public-school their own blood, to action, Travers' in it all I am at a loss to know. dump and the Law. bioks. Try us for what you want. This ethos through its classy days and now slogan is just 'War to the Death', The ironic shots of the Cathedral-like When the people, or pupils, have learnt this, they only need the key to v. tk's selection. see in this picture not the bemedalled Knightly's is 'Resistance', Wallis' 'Free- school (ideal Prospectus stuff) at the police dog but the rogue Alsatian biting dom'. So the character of each is beginning of each section? The harsh the armoury or a club for the lock. Letters from an Outpost But their violence comes just as much Alex Comfort 5/- the whistle that trains it. carefully reflected, and freedom is speci- jealousies and cliqueyness (attractive?!) from the ethic they have lived under, Paris Commune of 1871 The three 'rebels' in the film are not fically equated with the sensual Wallis that govern the whips? Perhaps there Frank Jellinek 4/- really against the Pavlovian system that and his love affair with young Philips is nostalgia in the choice of Travers' and will not build a true society any more than the old Authority would. So The Coming Race Lord Lytton 5/- has reared them: quite the contrary, —direct affection on both sides, rather favourite tune — the innocence of a they demonstrate most plausibly exactly than the devious sexiness which the 'Sanctus' underlaid with the savage Anderson is more concerned to show Selected Papers on Philosophy us the prefects excitedly digging in William James 4/- what that system can do to normal whips slinkily betray. drum-beats that mark the 'Missa Luba' to do battle with the rebels, than to Adiini and Eve people when it really tries. For there are real qualities behind —but it is Anderson's nostalgia for the John MiddletonMurry 5/- Travers can 'take it': he has a stiffer public-school cliches. In the courage human beings lost in the cruelties of laud the revolutionaries. The Common- marketeer Head tries to stop it all, Man and the Sun Jacquetta Hawkes 5/- upper lip than those who beat him; and coolness of Travers, the good- the system. but by now the Major Buntings of his Love and Mr. Lewisham and the endless aggression and psychological humour and loyalty of Knightly, the 'If ..." is a film you can keep going Marriage H. G. Wells 4/- domineering practised by -all in the athleticism and Greek sensualness of back to, in your mind or in the cinema: side are in control, gleefully justified Thc White Stone Anatole France 4/- school on whoever is weaker is accepted Wallis are the bases of splendid people it bridges the unbridgeable gap between in their flog-'em-hang-'em views by the About Levy Arthur Calder-Marshall 3/6 by him as the law of the world—his —perverted, even ruined, by the public film and the tradition of English novels: disorder. In the end the system has triumphantly The Power and the Glory wall is covered with magazine photos school in which they have been doomed the careful building of each detail to Graham Greene 3/- of brutality and BAMM! ! lo grow. support the final moral; the use of brought the worst out of everyone. Prisoner of Grace Joyce Gary 4/- His milder mate, Knightly, knows that The finding of the arms and the sections and repeated themes; the irony All the beblazered may not see this, Prancing Nigger Ronald Firbank 3/- suffering is not just a matter of twisting erupting of the three on the roof (with (the veTy title refers to Kipling); the but they will recognise the pointed realism of the school scenes (helped Sentimcntal Education ■ an arm till it can't Toe stood: he men- the girl) to machine-gun massacre the love for persons in all their colourfiil- Gustave Flaubert 4/6 tions wars, starvation, and his mother's silly guests at Speech Day is not Ander- ness, the delight in 'characters'. It is by the totally real characterization), the weakness of the staff, the NCO-ness of They Always Come BacK cancer. But Knightly is loyal—another son's hymn to violent direct action. less philosophical than 'Young Torless', Cicely McCall 3/6 public school value. His loyalty leads the prefects, the injustice of the rules It is, in the film's context, an immensely where the prefect class is, horrifyingly, and punishments. To see all that taken The Little Lady of the Big House him to follow the dominant Travers: sad scene: the logical result of boarding more conscious of where it is going, Jack London (binding weak) 3/- at the same time he is aware that he up the young. This, Anderson is saying, and more perfectly cruel. Anderson to its harsh logical conclusion will Dragon's Teeth Upton Sinclair 5/- is resisting injustice in the system. give them something to think about, is why violence exists—because we take does not test the Nietschean proposition anyway. The Call of the Wild Jack London 3/- The third mate is Wallis, preoccupied the best of qualities in the best of our that power may ennoble (which Torless Mr. Love and Justice with his bad breath and his Games- And IF, now, someone makes a film youth and contort them at authoritarian finds to be a romantic myth). He shows about a libertarian school, they can Colin Maclnnes 4/- appeal for the fags (called here 'scum': 'schools' as misconceived as this. that a Power structure, even without pick up the story on the other side of Martin Eden a term whose gratuitous violence exactly Violence, indeed, touches everything clearly knowing it, even under a Sunday 'Zero de Conduite'.* Jack London (imperfect) 3/- typifies what the system breeds). in the film: even when Travers meets Times-liberal Head, will educate a faith A Truce to Obedience Charles Jacobs 6/- *Jean Vigo, 1933. JONN ROE. Freedom Bookshop WORKERS' MUTUAL AID Action for Homes in Belfast Against all political parties Policy outlined in first pamphlet Write or Come! T AST WEEK THE PD launched the all property vacant for more than 12 tion of totalitarian rule here. But again l/3d. (post free) from Editorial office open Friday, March 14, ■" first of their post-election attacks months be requisitioned; (3) That skilled they have miscalculated. PD will be hold- F. EMMETT, 6-X p.m. and Monday, March 17, 2-8 p.m. with a token occupation and squat in labour be directed towards homes not ing a march in Belfast against the repres- 35 Micheldever Road, Telephone: BIShopsgate 3015. Fanum House, a virtually untenanted offices; and (4) That the housing trust sive legislation and at Easter a massive prestige block of offices in the heart of debt to the central banks be cancelled. The demo/march from Belfast to Dublin to London, S.E.12. New temporary address: Belfast as a protest against the deplorable occupation was the main news item on demonstrate against the injustices of the 84a WHITECHAPEL HIGH STREET, housing conditions here. The government both TV channels and the lead story in north and the south, where the scandalous c/o Express Printers, claim to be building 12,000 houses per all the local newspapers. Criminal Justices Bill is about to come (entrance Angel Alley), annum, but at least 29,000 are needed This action has resulted in the govern- into effect and the reactionary Fianna SCOTTISH EDITION WHITECHAPEL, E.l. each year. There is a chronic shortage ment's unseemly haste in pushing through Fail apes the unionists in the north. (Underground: Aldgate East. Exit: of skilled building labour here and most the oppressive Public Order Amendment HELP IS NEEDED AND ALL COM- Whitechapel Art Gallery. 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Contact J. B Lomax. E.A.S. II, U.E.A., Norwich, NOR 88C. 16 Clarence Square, Cheltenham, Glos. Otter, 35 Natal Road. Thornton Heath (LTV Cowburn, 140 Watling Street Road, Fulwood, NEITHER EAST or WEST 6/- ( + 9d.) 7546). LIBERTARIAN STUDENTS FEDERATION. LONDON, S.W.17. Tooting. Wandsworth, Streat- Preston. Meetings: 'The Wellington Hotel", Contact address: Keith Nathan, 138 Pennymead, ham. Phone BRIAN 672 8494. Woodcock's EDGWARE PEACE ACTION GROUP. Contact Glovers Court, Preston. Wednesdays 8pm Harlow. Melvyn Estrin. 84 Edgwarebury Lane, Edgware, NEWCASTLE/WHITLEY BAY. Anyone willing THE WRITER & POLITICS 7/6 Middx. LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY ANARCHIST please contact Peter D. Ridley, 4 Rockliffe SURREY FEDERATION GROUP. Contact us at the bookstall in the Stu- HERTS. Contact Val and John Funnel), 10 Fry Gardens. Whitley Bay. Northumberland. Tel.: and G. Wright, 47 College Road, Epsom, Surrey. dents Union Foyer every Friday lunchtime. Road. Chells. Stevenage. Groups and individuals invited to associate Whitley Bay 25759. IPSWICH ANARCHISTS. Contact Neil Dean, 74 OXFORD ANARCHIST GROUP. Contact Francis READING. Libertarian and Anarchist group Annual Volumes of Selections from Cemetery Road, Ipswich, Suffolk. Casline, Pembroke College, or Steve Watts. would like to contact fellow anarchists in the dis- SUSSEX FEDERATION Trinity College. LEICESTER PROJECT. Peace/Libertarian Groups and individuals invited to associate: c/o trict and in the university. C/o 57 Kiln Ride, E FREEDOM 1952-1964 action and debate. Every Wednesday at 8 p m. MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY. Contact Mike WokinGham, Berkshire. Eddie Poole, 5 Tilsbury, Findon Road, White- Don or Bill Jamieson, c/o University Union. t'Aicb. year'i volume 7/6 (+\',-) at 1 The Crescent. King Street Teicester hawk, Brighton. ROCHDALE, BURY & OLDHAM areas. Those Oxford Road. Manchester, 13. interested in libertarian activity contact David NORTH SOMERSET ANARCHIST GROUP. BRIGHTON & HOVE ANARCHIST GROUP. SOUTHAMPTON UNIVERSITY Revolutionary oil list on application. Contact Roy Emery, 3 Abbey Street, Bath, or Purdy, c/o 35 Balmoral Drive, Darn HH1 Estate, Contact Nick Heath, Flat 3, 26 Clifton Road, Anarchist Federation. Contact Student Union Hey wood. Lanes.

Centra de Documentario e Apoio a Pesquisa 10 11 unesp^ Cedap 22 23 24 25 26 27 2S 29 30 31 32 arrange for someone to redecorate the many a tenant does that.' Maybe they do, flat. Finally, the Aberdeen University but Jimmy White bloody well won't. His Task Force, a voluntary group, offered advice on how to deal with a rotten win- FIFTH COLUMN to do the work. Two weekends they dow, which even I find difficult to open worked, and did up the bedroom. And or close, was to grease it with soap. Life in a Sieve at Xmas, their work was rewarded. The Perhaps what is referred to in polite wallpaper was stained with damp. Back circles as a po face, and in less gentle MORE FOR 71-YEAR-OLD Jimmy White, a point that Bob Hughes, prospective to the Sanitary. company as a bloody brass neck, will veteran of the 1st World War, life in Labour candidate for North Aberdeen, Worse than that, with the high winds, also get you a job as an Aberdeen Town ON PRIVACY 34 Kintore Place, Aberdeen, is tough. who had been asked to help, gracefully slates were falling off the roof like water Council bullshit merchant. He even had The roof above his semi-derelict two- bowed out of the case with an off-putting off a duck's back (or promises off a Sani- the gall to say he admired me when 1 rpHE NCCL'S CURRENT campaign roomed flat is leaking like a sieve. I came 'phone call. Perhaps Aberdeen's Sanitary tary Inspector's tongue). I went to see a told him this was the end of the road and -*- for 'privacy' discussed by Arthur across Jimmy during the delightful ex- Department was starting to assume a Mr. Mann. He couldn't help. Or to be he was going to get a dose of publicity. Uloth last week emphasises that people perience of living in the same building a most insanitary odour. more accurate, he didn't want to help. I kept my word. A phone call to the are deprived of their personal freedom. couple of years ago. For the past year I We also approached Donald Dewar, If the place was damp, that was the local press and up came a reporter, Cap Until I read the NCCL's pamphlet Pri- have been battling with the landlord, the Labour MP for South Aberdeen. To be Sanitary's pigeon. IF slates were falling, Fowles, the first man to show he really vacy under attack (1968), 3s. 6d., I was local Sanitary Department, the City fair, out of the whole bloody lot he was too bad, he'd already inspected the place. cared. Within days he had compiled a not aware that it was still illegal for Engineer's Department, two local coun- the only one who really tried. And Perfectly safe. I tried telling this to the beautiful hatchet job and the officials fell three or more homosexuals to engage cillors, and a local MP. The end result? finally, after his intervention, it was all bloody great Peterhead slate that was over to pull the finger out. Cummings in sexual activity together. The maxi- Practically back to square one again. over. Mind you, my threat, conveyed to sliding off the roof, but it wouldn't listen. arrived and witnessed a flood in the flat, mum number of consenting adults the It all began in February 1968, when 1 the Chief Sanitary Inspector, by Dewar, Cummings turned up and declared the the City Engineer sent out legal notices State is prepared to tolerate is two. noticed, during one of my visits to to the effect that unless something was place dry as a bone. When I pointed out to fix the roof. At last it really looks as The emphasis on persona] freedom Jimmy, that the flat was damp. I wrote done in a week, [ would arrange press the damp marks on the new wallpaper, if we'll get somewhere. From the pages of is more likely to appeal to liberals than to the landlord, asking for repairs within coverage and organise a sit-in at their he didn't want to know. Blindness will FREEDOM, may I offer my heartfelt anarchists: liberals accept authority at seven days. No reply. So off I went to office, might have had something to do no doubt be advertised as a necessary thanks, and those of Jimmy White to work but like to be free to indulge Mr. Cummings, the district Sanitary with it. future qualification for employment as a Cap Fowles. themselves after dinner. Anarchists de- Inspector for Aberdeen Town Council. Alas, never, never, never, trust bureau- Sanitary Inspector! I showed him the So here we are, March '69, and round mand not only personal freedom but 'Fear not,' said he, 'we will fix it.' There crats. Flushed with success, believing the bedroom window, where there is an one is about to start again. This time a libertarian revolution in society. will now be an interval for a loud horse flat to be at last wind and watertight, I eighth of an inch gap between the glass Jimmy White is going to live like a But though we cannot settle for laugh. called off the story I had lodged with the and the wood. 'Oh aye,' replied this person again. 'privacy' we also cannot avoid supporting Cummings went to the flat, sniffed editors of FREEDOM and set to to try and worthy. 'Put a bit of sticky tape over it, IAN S. SUTHERLAND. the NCCL campaign for it. First, as I about, remarked sweetly on the weather have said, we want personal freedom— and scuttled back to his nest. A fort- to write letters, have sex, read books— night passed, nothing was done, so I took for ourselves and for others. Secondly, in Rome, every two months. First edition the chance to speak to J. Lamont,- ex-left there is no clear, distinction between in about April, eight showprints being. winger, who recently managed the bril- 'personal' and 'social' freedom: the made at Clodio Laboratories. Distribu- liant Socialist victory of being Labour ulucn State uses the police to interfere with tion will include, Rome, Berlin, M > City Treasurer—in a Tory Council! He The Naked and the Dead people's private lives and to protect Paris, Amsterdam, New York, etc., in promised to speak to the sanitary people, fact anywhere there is a CO-OP (unfor- the social and economic system; fre- and Cummings arrived back at the flat WANT TO TELL you about two to experience orgasm. Most animals tunately not Pekin or Hollywood). . quently the invasion of privacy is an the same day. This time, he agreed, the books which you might enjoy can rise and stroll away immediately obviously political act. i These newsreels are designed as succes- place was damp and something would be reading, if you haven't already done after mating; where we are concerned, sors to the student, cinegiornale, the May Thirdly—and perhaps this is the most done. Ail together now for a second both partners lie gasping, absolutely so. Neither is brand new—The In- cinetracts, in co-operation with 'NEWS- important point—we are not the Socia- guffaw. shattered. heritors, by William Golding, was first REEL' of New York and CINEMA list Party of Great Britain. Neither The Council now applied 'pressure' to Why so much sex? To encourage published in MCMLV,* whatever that PARALLELE of Paris. we nor they get very far by lecturing the landlord. The imagination runs riot love, of course. But other apes get is; The Naked Ape, by Desmond Morris, Vive l'lnternationale, 'the people' on the virtues of our at the thought of what kind of pressure. dates from October 1967. The first is along without deep feelings for each abstract political theory. For a start CINEGIORNALE ROSSO E NERO After one long bitter year, 1 reckon the a novel, based upon a scientific hy- other. Why love? Well, it all sprang very few come to the leotures—ours COMITATO DI REDAZIONE. pressure must have gone like this: pothesis, so I suppose it could be from our decision to compete with or theirs. Anarchists are more suc- Inspector (kneeling, holding out a called science fiction. The second is the lions and tigers. Unlike Golding, cessful when they involve themselves bunch of flowers): 'Please, kind sir, repair 'a zoologist's study of the human Morris appears to think it was a good Horny Handed in a struggle for objectives that ordinary Jimmy White's roof?' animal'. Both are about evolution. idea. But enough. If you are interested people can understand and identify with Landlord: 'Begone, wretch.' The Inheritors is brilliant stuff. Mr. in a book about your own species, in a way that makes sense to them. Exit official, on knees, backwards. Golding shows us a group of humans which is both scientific and highly Worker There are two current examples: the However, at a meeting of the Health readable, this is it. in a strange and savage situation. As Dear Comrades, students and the squatters. Very few and Welfare Committee, the order was DAVE COULL. in his famous Lord of the Flies, he The editorial tailpiece to my last students want to be pushed around; given to force the landlord to repair suggests that the strangest thing of all article speculates as to what I would nobody wants to be homeless. Direct leaks, renew the sink and fix the windows. is human nature. He condemns sin, realize IF I underwent a certain edu- action by students and the homeless But nothing was said about the real and offers no hope of salvation. To cative process. You write, 'If Tony makes sense: it works. source of the trouble, missing slates on prove his thesis, he goes all the way Gibson ever went to work in a factory To return to 'privacy': we are inter- the roof. Guess what? The Sanitary LETTERS back to the Garden of Eden—inhabited, or on a building site he would soon ested in it because other people are. couldn't force the landlord to replace not by people like us, but by a tribe recognize this'. 'This' being the truth By opposing the State's invasion of slates (which was how damp got in in the of Neanderthal men. Like the apes, of the editorial view of the nature of privacy we bring ourselves and our first place). That was the job of the City they are by instinct gentle vegetarians, class struggle. Such a speculation is ideas to the people we are trying to Engineer, who doubles up as 'dangerous Red & Black sometimes insectivores; hunger has rather out of order since I used to earn reach. buildings officer'. His view was that the forced them to add scavenged meat my living with horny hands in four building wasn't dangerous. Of course as Film Makers A NARCHISTS are accused of being to their diet, but they have not yet or five manual jobs, including the any good bureaucrat worth his salt •^ trouble-makers. We are. But we taken the crucial step towards red- Dear Friends, building industry. knows, old men of 71 make a habit of are not likely to increase other people's blooded carnivory. Into this placid A newsreel service covering New Left These were my universities in the climbing onto roofs and throwing slates scene comes the most efficient of all militancy if we ourselves are not involved activity is now set up in Rome and Lon- years I contributed to War Commentary 50 feet to the ground, where they lie for killer species. directly in the situation. The cynical months, just so nasty meddling anarchists don. The London address is 68 Charl- and the early post-war FREEDOM. It is Golding's title is, I assume, sardonic wood Street, S.W.I. Tel.: 834 5525. because I have had ' this educative manipulator who plans strikes from can force landlords to repair them. outside the factory obviously exists in comment on a biblical text, 'The meek Any active group can send 16mm experience, as well as the education And the repairs that were done? Well, the minds of politicians and news- shall inherit the earth'. For most of negatives, and will receive in return a of the anarchist movement, not to everything wasn't finished till October, paper editors; he may exist in the the book we see our ancestors through copy of each edition of the newsreel. mention more formal university study, the landlord waiting to the last minute. Neanderthal eyes. 'He looked down Communist Party. But he can hardly These copies will be shown on a half-half that I know that much of what is The new sink was a mess, the wood badly at them, and saw that Tuami was not be an effective anarchist. basis, so that both the group costs and written about class struggle in FREEDOM cut, and the nails, we can only assume, only lying with the fat woman, but Here the three reasons I have given the newsreel expenses can be covered. is outmoded bunk. driven in by a three-year-old gone berserk eating her as well, for there was black for supporting the 'privacy' campaign Red and Black newsreels will be edited TONY GIBSON. with a steam hammer. Back to the Sani- blood running from the lobe of her join together. We want personal free- tary. Weeks later, some new wood was ear.' A Neanderthal child goes into M dom; so do many other people. A put on and the nails put in properly. And the cooking pot, the rest are bumped struggle to achieve it involves us and grand it was until the pipe underneath off more or less casually. A sour book them in a conflict with the police, the began to leak. Back to the Sanitary. this, but skilfully written. law and the state. If you want personal Finally, the pipe was fixed. It was at this By contrast, The Naked Ape is posi- freedom you have to overthrow the tively hilarious. Desmond Morris Heroic Gestures not Enough state: they will never give up the power points out lhat if you had one each of to intervene in our private lives. the 193 living species of ape, and MANY A GOOD AGNOSTIC trembled essential for the preservation of society', The 'privacy' campaign has received stood them in a row, Homo Sapiens ■"■*■ as he entered the sacred portals of and a smiling magistrate jovially agreed, a certain amount of publicity: The Times HOUSE would stand out no matter where you (he Banbridge orange hall to face the congratulated the 'defence' on a 'great for example ran a long story on the placed him—not because he is sapiens, regal majesty of the forces of law and speech' and sent Paul down. When are legal right of thousands of government but due to his shortage of hair. disorder. The 14 People's Democracy we going to learn that since you are never officials to enter your home without WARMING Why are we naked? Morris examines members emerged later that day £300 going to get justice from any Maw' court, permission. But when the NCCL gave several theories, but comes to the con- poorer and with one of their comrades never plead guilty. evidence to the Arrest and Search Sub- clusion that we are nude because it due to spend two months at the expense Mike Farrell then fought a good rear- Committee of the Home Office Advisory SOCIAL is sexier. He goes on to show that of her gracious majesty. The peaceful guard action on his seven summonses Committee on Drug Dependence there this is only one of the evolutionary and token occupation of the Newry post and forced the pigs to drop five of them. was little press interest. WORK IS NOW almost completed in steps which turned us into the sexiest office was obviously not to be tolerated As a result the 14 remaining defendants Possibly the NCCL was too rude our new building. Next week we animals on earth. Man developed the by the fascist regime under which we so had each three of the four charges about the police. They were described hope to give the date for our 'house biggest penis of all primates. His mate's securely rest. dropped. Farrell was fined £50 and the as pursuing drugs 'with an almost warming' social. We have been too busy big round breasts are less efficient than The morning started with the ugly little rest from £5 (girls) to £25 for their occu- fanatical zeal'. to send out reminders for pledges due. so the chimpanzee's for feeding, but mar- blood sacrifice of Paul Campbell, in pation back in January. He even got the On the planting of drugs and physical please help to reach the targets below. vellous for fondling and kissing. We which the court was aided by his lovable RM to admit that 'I must take into force or threats the NCCL said: 'The —J.R. grew ear lobes, something no other so-called lawyer to a quite terrifying de- account that Mr. Farrell seems to have volume of such complaints and the ape has, for the sole purpose of having gree who at the last moment persuaded tried to ameliorate the situation'. The outcome of certain cases has convinced MOVING FUND them bitten. We developed well- the inexperienced Campbell to plead prosecution also fell foul with the PD's us that severe abuse of police powers defined lips. And Woman, unique guilty to disorderly behaviour and intem- participatory structure, when they failed does occur.' Target is £500. amongst primate females, became able perate language in order to have an in- to prove that Farrell was a leader—'but On the right to search without a Donations to date: £441 14s. 3d. citement charge dropped—'if you don't you must have a leader'. Condescendingly warrant: 'There is clear evidence that * 1955—Eds. you'll get six months, son'. As a result it was explained to the authoritarian these provisions have been interpreted PREMISES FUND he got two months when the prosecutor gentlemen that PD regards everyone as by the police to mean that they have Target is £1,000 per year. arose to say that Paul had said, 'Kill the capable of running their own lives and the right to make random searches.' To take just one more quote: 'Rela- 1969 Pledges honoured and donations PRESS FUND black bastards and burn the town to the taking their own decisions—the court's JO date: £126 19s. Od. ground' while inciting the crowd at the attitude was the same as that of the tions beween police and the young were Canada: M. 15/6; Newcastle, N.S.W.: B.C. barricades—it is interesting that the gal- academic council at Queen's University never worse.' 18/-; Taunton: D.P. 19/9; Wolvcrhamp- lant RUC took this as a reference to their who found this 'quite incredible'. Whether you take drugs or not, you lon: B.L. £2; Wolverhampton: J.K.W.* good selves—however it is also com- Despite the minor successes of the do not want to be searched or have 2/-; J.L.* 3/-; Liverpool: J.L. 2/8; Rich- pletely untrue, as a host of witnesses afternoon the sentences have been damag- drugs planted on you; you do not mond: J.M. 5/- could have sworn had they been allowed ing enough to prove to the idealistic that want to be abused or beaten up in the TOTAL: £5 5 11 a chance to testify, for he merely called heroic gestures in NT are not enough, police' station. So we support the 'pri- Slipping! Previously Acknowledged: £173 6 II for a non-violent attempt to be made to they are misrepresented by the media vacy' campaign. But the NCCL is of walk through the barricades. His 'de- and very costly. We have lost the valu- its nature a political pressure group FINANCIAL STATEMENT 1969 Total lo Dale: £178 12 10 fence', leading on 'his behalf said he had able services of one of PD's most active which makes recommendations to the Estimated Expenses: Delicit B/F: £162 0 0 'let down the movement to which he members (subject to appeal) and the most government. It works openly by in- 10 weeks at £90: £900 belongs' and claimed that the PD 'don't hardworking comrades are now bound forming people of what is happening Income: Sales and Subs.: £738 TOTAL SURPLUS: £16 12 10 realise the dangers to themselves or to over and ready meat for the importunate but it is in no sense an organisation society which their brinkmanship leads men with notebooks who are itching to for direct action. If we want to be DEFICIT: £162 '"Denotes Regular Contributor. them into'. The final masterly stroke of trump up even more charges. praotical what do we do? Gift of Book—London: M.W.K. defence was to say 'the rule of law is REV. AUGUSTUS BURKE. WYNFORD HICKS.

Centra de Documenta;ao e Apoio a Pesquisa 10 11 unesp"^ Cedap 22 23 24 25 26 27 2S 29 30 31 32 What Next at Folds ? HTHE FORD STRIKE against the How can an agreement cooked up step in and veto the agreement. He is 'ball and chain' agreement is in secret between a handful of trade probably right, so what then? Cannon's union officials and a bunch of Ford solution is simple: shut up and accept the MARCH 15 1969 Vol 30 No 8 now in its third week and, as this is agreement, penalty clauses and all! As being written, 40,000 workers are businessmen be binding—legally or for Hugh Scanlon and Jack Jones, well, out and all Ford production is at a otherwise—on 45,000 workers most it is hard to imagine them waging a fight standstill. The company's attempt to of whom (according to Jack Jones to a finish against 'Barbara darling', get the agreement enforced by law of the T&G) 'have never even SEEN isn't it? has failed. The judges, after three the agreement let alone read it'? He That Ford workers, after years of days of expensive deliberations, have went on to say that the agreement suffering the 'leadership' of men like Bill MURDER RIDES THE BUSES solemnly declared that the agree- ties the hands of Ford workers be- Carron of the AEU, are now ready to ment is not 'legally binding'. Unless hind their backs'. Well, he should put their faith in new men like Scanlon rpHEY BURIED HIM to the lamenta- violence in this particular case for these they were to appear as complete know for, after all, he is the new and Jones is readily understandable. -*- tion of a single piper while his beer-stupid Irish had become an identi- idiots, no other decision was really chief of the biggest union in Fords. After all, they have left wing reputations fellow-workers lined the traffic-emptied fiable target through their predictable Yet Mr. Jones didn't recommend and did actually make the strike official. streets, and all the ancient jokes soured weekly brawls on and off the buses. open to their legal lordships. Yet the fact remains that it was not in the mouths of those who love or deny Driver 'Ted' Hill of the LTGW asked any action against the agreement these union leaders whose actions stood the existence of violence as a requisite Inspector Brunt, 'What was the position and only made the existing strike the Ford Motor Company sharply to for a weekly wage for the knifed corpse of a member of the staff who de- official AFTER the men themselves attention—it was the actions of those of the Glasgow bus conductor became fended himself or herself from an had taken action. ordinary Ford workers who downed tools that point of no return for the men and assault by a passenger or a group of Contact Column rather than be reduced to industrial slaves women who have to operate the late passengers?' and Chief Inspector Brunt, LIFTING THE LID This column exists for mutual aid. in return for a holiday bonus tossed to night weekend buses in physical fear of touched no doubt by the magic phrases Donations towards cost of typesetting This initiative of Ford workers is now them if they are at all times obedient the slobs and the fighting drunks. The of countless CND demonstrations, stated will be welcome. beginning to shatter the old way of life work machines. shrill-voiced middle-class slut, the ram- that 'Anyone was entitled to use the of the trade union leaders—literally in This strike can be won if (a) the wor- bling neurotic, the vicious psycopafh, the amount of force necessary to defend the case of Les Kealy of the T&G who kers themselves control it through their weekend alcoholic and the dreary teenage themselves but no more than was reason- was sacked from the Joint Negotiating own elected strike committees—which is yob have always regarded their bus ticket able, the use of any weapon in such FREEDOM PRESS Committee and later resigned as an offi- not necessarily the same thing as a shop as a legal permit to bait the isolated man circumstances would lead to difficulties.' NEED volunteers to make racks and cial of the union because of his support stewards' committee; (b) they explain the or woman bus conductor. The talk wandered on and on with promises of police protection for the bus other carpentry work in new premises. for the 'ball and chain' agreement. In situation clearly to the rest of the work- To smash shop windows and telephone crews from the fighting Irish but the fact, union leaders are now quarrelling ing class and solicit their aid; and (c) they boxes or to rip out lavatory seats is an NEED comrades to clear dump in black humour of it all lay in the fact like Kilkenny cats and in the process call on us all to stop work should Mrs. accepted illegal act and men and women Angel Alley (with remuneration)—bring that London Transport is the landlord of they are lifting the lid off that dustbin Castle intervene. have stood in the criminal dock for no pickaxes and shovels if possible. the Hibernian Club bash. But every bus known as the 'official trade union move- That way the Ford Motor Company greater offence than that of handing out Get in touch with Graham Moss c/o worker knows that these comic Irishmen ment'. can be beaten and the Government can a protest leaflet on the public highway, Freedom Press. are not the problem for every pub spews Mr. Cannon of the ETU (a guvner's be faced either with intervening and fac- but to punch or kick some unfortunate them out at chucking out time and any man if ever there was one) has accused ing a possible general strike or backing bus conductor on a crowded weekend bus down from its present attacks on working police wagon can and does wheel them Homeless Animals Shelter urgently needs the AEF and T&G leaders of erecting has always been accepted as a passing class living standards. off to the station in the mass. cash to carry on. 288 High Road, sham principles. He has said on tele- pleasantry for, as the governor always The problem is the moral one of forc- London, N.22 (889 1192). vision that both these unions have signed says, 'A little tact or understanding on LOOKING AHEAD ing men and women to carry on working Leicester Libertarian Education Group. agreements in shipbuilding and other in- our part and these things would not when they are in fear of physical violence 1 The Crescent, King Street, Leicester. dustries which contain penalty clauses And it may not even end there. The happen' and an eighteen-year-old Glas- and this very issue makes a dirty joke of Meetings every Wednesday 8 p.m. similar to the one in dispute at Fords. Government might actually resign. Cer- gow bus conductor was hacked to death Barbara Castle's 28-day cooling off period S. London Free School Campaign, Regular No doubt this is true, but all it means is tainly they are in difficulties and the and five men are now preparing to ex- for how can you discuss with a mouth activities, projects. Mike Rowley or that what they got away with on Clyde- detestation of them among working plain to the Law the connection between side they couldn't get away with at Hale- full of broken teeth? Roger Sadicv, 81 Ermine Road, people was never higher than it is right his savage killing and someone's lack of wood and Dagenham. Such an explana- S.E.13. 01-690 1572 (6-7 p.m. pre- now. But then what? A general election tact. At the time of writing one specific tion is too simple for Cannon who went garage manager informed a man and ferably.) and the return of another Tory Govern- I write these words with anger. For on to make the breath-taking suggestion woman bus crew who had asked for 'Liberty!' No. 3 out now. 16 pages include ment? That would merely be jumping too many years of my labouring life I that the present 'militant' stand of people police protection for their lone night bus 'Vietnam', 'Demos', 'Squatters' and out of the frying pan into the fire. Sooner have been a committed witness to these like Hugh Scanlon and Jack Jones is journey over the Hibernian route that he more. Much improved. lOd. post or later, the idea of controlling society acts. I know that among my fellow bus- motivated by their desire to 'take on the would try and get them police protection free from C. Beadle, c/o Oakwood ourselves, of ending profit-making for Government'! Alas, it's not true. workers there is a percentage of fools, Farm, Lund, Selby, Yorks. ever, of establishing a system of workers' but whatever the result he would report Quickly Jack Jones rebutted this clowns and social deviants, but we are Young anarchist writer (male) needs work. control of all industry, must be taken up them for disciplinary action if they re- charge. 'Talk of a fight against the what we are: a section of the labouring Anything, anywhere considered. seriously as the only real alternative. fused to take their bus out on that late Government in the Ford dispute,' he said, class held in contempt, indifference or Easter Rising '69. See you on the Ulster- To be sure, the vast majority of Ford night service. They refused and now we 'is absolute nonsense.' As for Mr. Scan- hatred by the mass of the travelling Dublin March. Ulysses. workers haven't even thought about these await the outcome of their action in this Ion's desire to fight the Government, that, public. Regarded as expendable by an Bit Information Service (24 hour). possibilities. They just want a decent non-striking garage for this is what too, is 'absolute nonsense'. At a meeting employer we cannot trust or respect, and 229 8219, 141 Westbourne Park Road, wage, good conditions of work, and the Barbara Castle's bill means, that the of Trade Union MPs last Monday, Mr. forced, for a take-home pay of £14 a W.ll. right to exercise their right to strike mindless and totalitarian discipline of Scanlon, the Chairman, introduced the week, to operate an inefficient, skeleton Anarchist Black Cross No. 3 now ready. should they think it necessary. But to the armed forces shall now be introduced guest of honour (!) Mrs. Barbara Castle, bus service, we are the literal whipping 6cl. plus postage. New address: 735 get these simple things they may well into industry. Minister of the Wage Freeze, with these boys for the frustrated traveller and the Fulham Road. S.W.6. have to go further—much, much further At the moment we stand firm and the historic words: 'Lovely to have you with absentees from the hospitals for the Let May Day be resistance day! Meeting —than even the most left wing trade buses are being run into the committed us, Barbara darling.' ('Daily Telegraph' dangerously insane for the bus, like the Tower Hill, 11.30 a.m., May 1. Then union leader is prepared to go. garages at nine on the weekend evenings. report.) public lavatory and the Hilton Hotel, march to Victoria Park (Bethnal That is how things look to anyone who Riverside as the pioneer garage has only But if a fight against the Government provides an open doorway for anyone Green) and join in the May Day knows that the class struggle can't for produced three scabs but two were over- by the trade union leaders is absolute who can pay the cost. Festival. Music, dancing, games, ever be contained within the confines of time kings whose action was predictable nonsense, and if these same leaders are in While Glasgow's busmen forged their plays, refreshments. capitalism. It all depends on whether the so one can ignore them. It was a major control of the fight for a decent agree- own protest strike, pressure from the Kirkdalc School wants to take small workers themselves can seize and keep effort for Riverside to force this strike ment with Fords, how are Ford workers the initiative. They probably won't be London rank and file began to make itself action and part of the credit must go to groups of children camping during felt and a succession of acts of violence going to win? able to do so at Fords. The combination 'Ted' Hill, the local union representative, term-time. A farm would be ideal, on men from the Riverside Garage at of official trade unionism and political for his swift action. Ten garages are now with wood and water nearby. Reason- BACK TO THE RANK AND FILE Hammersmith finally flared into open skulduggery will probably prove to be involved with 353 buses out of service able travelling distance from 186 revolt against the passive policy of Certainly, if Ford workers remain solid too big a burden. But sooner or later the but action has now been taken and it Kirkdale, S.E.26. Tel.: 778 0149. London Transport and the TGWU. and determined they can force the Ford dykes will burst ... if not at Fords then should and must be followed through by N.W. Federation Whitsun Camp, Llan- From that small London Garage: Haw- Motor Cempany to give higher wages and somewhere else. There are goods reasons the TGWU slumbering top brass. gollen. Anyone interested? Contact kins was beaten about the face with a drop the slavery clauses. But, says Les to feel optimistic. The demand, long overdue, for shorter Ron Marsden, 9 Boland Street, knuckleduster, Smith had to have thirteen Fallowfield, Manchester, 19. Cannon, in that case the Government will J.L. and not longer duties on weekends must stitches in his arm as a result of being finally be settled in the busworkers' International Summer Camp. £1 booking thrust through a bus window, and Foster fees to Ann Lindsay, 39 Upper Tulse favour and more buses must be on the was mob-handled at Fulham Broadway road for the genuine late travellers and Hill, London, S.W.2. Next committee within screaming distance of Freedom meeting 8 p.m., March 18, at 25 physical protection for the staff must be Bookshop's old stamping ground. This guaranteed. If this is not possible then North Villas, N.W.I. act was the final breaking point for the North London Free Schools Campaign, the London Transport Executive must be busworkers and at a packed meeting this prepared to work the late night punch-up contact T. Swash, 49 Popham Road, hitherto conservative garage stated that buses themselves, and I mean personally, London, N.l. they were refusing to work their buses for one can no longer dismiss this Anarchist May 2 Ball at Shoreditch Town Duniop Picket after ten o'clock on Fridays, Saturdays violence as a romantic fabrication of Hall. Groups include 'The Deviants', and Sundays until London Transport 'Blonde on Blonde' and 'Dr. K's A LTHOUGH THE PICKET outside called them. One brother, however, was some Byronic busworker suffering from managed to protect them from the indi- a touch of gothic horrors, not when he Blues Band'. Tickets now available. the Duniop factory at Rochdale all for unofficial action, if need be. vidual or the mob. £1 double, 12/6 single. Licensed bar is sitting in the West London casualty was supported only by a stout few, These interviews showed that Brian On the first day of March at ten in the (extension applied for). Please get ward with thirteen stitches in his arm. the contact between us, those coming Bamford is by no means isolated and evening every bus crew from Riverside your tickets early from Philip Carver, off the night shift and those starting that the men will put pressure on When these things happen Barbara Garage ran their buses back into the Castle's stupid bill, the boardroom-signed' c/o Freedom Press. the morning shift was good and worth- the union to fight his case. garage with the knowledge that the LT Help Increase 'Freedom's' Circulation. while. The article in last week's Before resuming work, the men made union agreement, and all those tracts on would claim and enforce its right to stop the moral blessings of non-violence, be- Are you willing to take 'Freedom' FREEDOM was well received and a number us a welcome 'brew-up' and shortly after any bonuses for the week and rigidly en- come material for the nearest bog. Action- and 'Anarchy' regularly to local of copies had already been sold the this the security man put in an appear- force the LT's right to pay the crews has been taken on the shop floor for we newsagents and collect returns and night before. ance. However, we were told later literally for time worked on the bus and cash? If so we'd like to hear from are the union and whether we win or The local press, The Rochdale Ob- that he only looked round and then no more for the whole week; this was no you. — CIRCULATION DEPART- lose the day's battle we must always, server, sent along a reporter and went off. After having some breakfast, empty gesture on the busworkers' part for MENT. fight for we shall conquer, we shall cameraman. The reporter was able to we went to the local offices of the they were paying for this protest out of Badges and Banners. Rectangular metal conquer. ARTHUR MOYSE. speak to some of the men in the GMWU to see how far Bamford's case their wages. black/red badges 2/6 each post free inspection department, from which had got in procedure. Stanley Brown, A meeting by the LT was hastily con- or bulk rate (10 or more) 1/- each— Brian Bamford was sacked. The men the local Branch Secretary and full-time vened on the neutral territory of Wands- resell at 2/- or 2/6. Also flags and still supported Bamford, but felt that organiser, told us that it was now going worth Bus Garage and 'Ted' Hill, the banners to order, from 7/6. McGee, WE CO TO PRESS ON MONDAY. it was up to the union, the General to national level and so we left. Riverside union representative, met the LATEST DATE FOR RECEIPT OF' 42 Pendarves Street, Beacon, Cam- and Municipal Workers' Union, to fight Our thanks are due to the Man- seven representatives of the LT and the borne, Cornwall. MSS., LETTERS, MEETING NOTICES- for their steward's case. They said chester Anarchists for their campaign LAW. The discussion floated around the IS THE MONDAY IN EACH WEEK If you wish to make contact let us know. they would come out if the union of support. P.T. Hibernian Club as the main source of OF PUBLICATION. Printed by Express Printers. London, B.l. Published by Freedom Press. London. 17..'

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