Against the offensive of Capffaf on tf*e one hand and against the politicians ofsi! •rliisnt degrees on the other, the revolutionary I U K A F o r An■« workers of the world must erect a true inter­ national association of the workers wherein each member will understand th the final emancipation of the workers will not be possible except when the workers them­ selves, as workers, in their economic organ­ isations, are prepared, not only to take possession of the land and factories, but also to administer them in common and in such a fashion that they will continue production. Declaration of the International Worlcing Mens COMMENTARY Association at their Congress in Berlin, in 922. 1 Vol. 6, No. 9. 24th FEBRUARY, 1945 Fort nightly. 2d. Big Three—W orkers Must Pay ft ~ ______- j T is asns good as certain that the most national national Organization”— Organization*’—shows shows that | Allied Allied Military Military auth authorities buy adop* “ I I I important imnnrtini topics tonics discussed discussed by by the the same same old old methods methods are are again again to to bebe ted ted much much the the same same methods o Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin at the tried out. But with this differences taming order in out J pi Crimea Conference did not figure in that the new “International Organi­ as the Germans did Fi the declaration. The Conference took zation” will he a joint body organized elsewhere. We may be quite rare place behind locked doors, and one by ruling groups for the purpose of that the main political problem for the may fairly guess that what was said destroying jointly any revolutionary Allies will be how to keep the German by the world’s most powerful politi­ attempts by the international working people down, and they will hare no cians was not the sort of thing they class. It will be the same “Thieves scruples ai all about using the ready would like to see broadcast. These Kitchen” as the old League, but with made machinery of oppression perfect­ 2, 000,000 conferences arc really to discuss pro­ added counter-revolutionary exper- ed by the Nazis- Did they scruple, in grammes of action. And the actions Greece, to use the Security pofkc KILLED embarked upon by the Allied powers GERMAN WORKERS MUST organized by the Nazis, when ft come ——in Italy, in Greece, in Poland, for PAY to quelling unarmed demonstrators on IN 1944 examples— actions which were clearly December 3rd? No, we may treat sH M uch the most interesting part of the talk about dLondon without notifying the authorities. lost two months remission of sentence as well it when we foresaw that he would justify the Everywhere workers are thinking un­ ::;:i Mr. G. F. Rutledge, for the defence, pointed as his right to receive or write letters for the British Government’s intervention in Greece and comfortably about post-war unemploy­ Philip Samson who has designed many out that Sansom had no previous convictions, the same period. It would appear that n provide it with a left veneer. The Greek covers for aad illustrated' Freedom Press and submitted that the court was not concerned letter he wrote which was passed by the prison government of Plastiras gave him absolute free­ ment. But the German workers are pamphlets and War Commentary articles was with his political views. censors was stopped by the Special Branch, dom to wax indignant at E.L.A.S. atrocities, and to make reparations in kind. They convicted on a minor charge and we reproduce Mr. Powell said he was entitled to consider who also read his correspondence. He was he was duly shocked. Somehow he doesn’t seem are going to be kept producing— at below the report that appeared in the St. whether any mitigating circumstances were to put on a charge, which the visiting magistrates to have made any attempt to see if there was very low wages, of course— in order Paoeras Chronicle, (Feb. 2nd). be found with regard to his behaviour as a upheld. any of that sort of thing being perpetuated by ■ “It is quite true that 1 am not concerned with citizen. On the contrary he had done his best ★ Churchill’s puppets. Yet Gerald Barry, the to repair the damage of war. That his political views, but I am coocerafed with his to avoid sharing the burden which had fallen on To these comrades who arc directly or in­ Editor of the News Chronicle saw some of these means, in effect, that they will be com­ record generally as a citizen,” said-Mr. Frank everyone else. directly serving terms of imprisonment things. In his report he describes prisoners in pelled to do work which will throw Powell, the QerkenwdJ magistrate^.: concerning Sansom was'sentenced to a month’s imprison­ because of their Anarchist ideas, we send our police stations sleeping eleven in a small cement; out of work their fellows in Allied Philip Richard Sanoom (28), an artist:-of Cam ment on the first charge, and fined £5 or a fraternal greetings and our assurance that the cell with only one blanket or cloak apiece—and countries. That is what reparations den Studios, Camden-street, N-W.l. month (consecutive) on the second. work for the new Society will go on in spite that supplied not by the authorities but by rela­ StBOTT whs before the, court on -charges of of threats and organized attempts to impede tives. He does not say what happens to those mean. obtaining an Army waterproof coat which he Reader: cannot fail to notice (a) that its forward march. prisoners whose relatives can’t provide these After the last war, the confiscation winter needs, or to those who have no relatives. of German shipping by the victorious In one Government gaol, Barry saw 350 prison­ ers sleeping 35 to 40 in stone floored cells, again Allies, completely disorganized the with no state-provided warmth, and with very shipbuilding industry in this country. STOP PRESS inadequate rations. Sir Walter didn’t get around The same principle will be applied “ to seeing these things. again, and with the same results. If He did however find a “prevalent atmosphere of tension, suspicion, recrimination, and the fear the British workers permit their own of reprisals.” But he mentions this not to draw ruling class masters to trample on the LONDON conclusions about the puppet government’s German working class, they will regime but merely as an excuse for not going simply be cutting their own throats. into the question of the trade unions. Citrine In international affairs, no less than seems to have lent his support unreservedly to AX the bogus trade unions appointed by the Plastiras inside a single country, “an injury to ARRESTED government. Yet on his own showing, _ the one is the concern of all,” for the class UR comrades Marie Louise Ber­ Executive Committee which welcomed the British interests of the workers are the same persons unknown vouring to seduce when, at 7.30 u. n. to-day, be told Vernon Trade Union Delegation, had been appointed all over the world. O ner i, John Hewelsou and V. from their duties in the Forces and Richards and Mrs. Richards that he was going from above by Plastiras and in no way represen­ Richards, were arrested at their homes to cause among ui affection likely to arrest them the )* made no reply, ted Greek trade unionists. So far was this from to lead to breache THE APPEAL TO JUSTICE at ~ -30 ».m- on Thursday, February of their dul) At 8 a.ra. he sc iv Dr. Hewetson at Willow- being the case, that most of them had been officials in the Labour Front Organization set 22nd and taken to West Hampstead CIRCULAR LETT! :r road, Hampstead, Hc made no reply when In the foregoing section, we appeal told he would be isted. up by the Fascist Metaxas administration after to workers to use their beads and con­ Poliee Station where they were Vernon and Marie Richard it had suppressed the Greek trade union move­ charged that on December 12, ,‘hnrgcd at Marylebom and charged with a number of offences 1944, ai Bel- replitfd« ”1 have nothing i to say.” ment affiliated to the International Federation sider their own interests before letting under Defence Regulation 39a. They «tzc«road, with intent to contra*rent* th. e De- In reply to Mr.. Gerald F. Rutledge, defend- of Trade Unions, They had acted also for the the German workers be trodden down. fence Regulations they had in th eir possession inf, Germans. By contract, the only Greek Trade were later taken to Marylebone Poliee or under their control a ctrculai Inspector W1hitehend said that liewetson But, in our opinion as Anarchists, r letter dated the casualty officer at Paddington Hospi- Union leaders whom the T.U.C. delegates had there is far more strength in the appeal Court where they were joined by com­ October 25, 1944, which wa 1 Of HItell a lot. known hefore the 1936 dictatorship were with rade Philip Sansom ( who. as reported nature that the dissemination of copic^among E.A.M. Citrine did not find it worth while to to justice and international comrade­ persons in his Majesty’s Services would con­ Inspector Whitehead asked that the probe the charges made by these fellow Trade ship. For twelve weary years the in this issue, is at present serving a stitute such a contravention. ease should be remanded until March 2 months Sentence at Brixton). He Unionists against the phoney union leaders of German workers have suffered under Hewetson was similarly charged with 9th and bail of £100 with sureties of Plasliras—that they were collaborators both with Hitler. Protests, demonstrations, re­ was charged under the same Defence having in his possession or under his control £100 was granted to the three first Meiaxes and the Germans. Indeed he must Regulation. documents dated October 2, 1944, at Willow- have known that this was the truth; but to say volts have been crushed by Panzer road, on December 12. named comrades. Comrade Sansom so was unsuited to the purposes of the delega­ Divisions, by Gestapo tortures, by con­ AD four comrades appeared before Sansom was charged with reference to a was taken back to Brixton to complete tion’s mission. centration camps. When their ene­ the magistrate -Mr. Ivan Snell. . The similar circular at his studios, dated December his two months* sentence. Finally, although Citrine was given every mies the Nazi ruling clique were weak, 30. It has been decided to form imme­ facility by the Government of Greece in present­ charges were read out and we reprint Richards and Hewetson were also charged ing its cast to the British public, he and his they were strengthened by loans from them from the £ retling jVeivs report with endeavouring to cause disaffection among diately a Defence Committee and fellow delegates could not find time to visit the the City of London or from Wall of the same day: persons in the Services on about November comrades will be shortly notified of its E.A.M. headquarters, Of course, we are not Street; or by the alliance with Stalin. i if ~ - all at them aUe ted titat be- I I , 1944. composition, and address. Helpers surprised that Sir Walter would engage in special The German workers have looked for 1913, and December. 1994, NO REPLY will be required and we are confident pleading. But we did not think that he would be quite such a crude and barefaced whitewasher help in vain not only from t^e govern­ n »a,ltrn tf and elsewhere, Detective-Inspect or Whitehead, of Scotland of the response from our comrades of British Imperialism in Greece. Certainly he ments of the democracies, and from together with other Yard, told the magistrate, Mr. Ivan Snell, that and sympathisers everywhere. has earned his title. (Continued in f. 2 cot. t) WAR COMMENTARY—FOB, ANARCHISM. 24th FEBRUARY, 194$

N the Clydeside there is considerable discontent amongst the engineering andshipyard he untf e y * t y t d f hr ufeff (fig £ & w orkers ^nd an agitation in support of a recent wagesdemand has been growingtn of peace to wAwwty it wkf p A y r pttttty hffmQ P arty h tm matedeA *h***+*r< # w a R w s t r e n g t h over a long period of time. The myth, fostered hy the press, that wgr-workers c o m m e n t a r y sdv ►ocenw nt • it k t* fdm A. were receiving fabulous wages fort h e i r labours has been wearing rather thin of late, and The tenth h (htrf *he (xffdhwir Pwgfe*a.»y, p ©guffeMM. mg ' ^ 1 < ]' JVWl Clydeside districts of Glasgow to hold an open-air protest meeting. vmwrfch>g wa* h e h * t S e m e T T k y J W v e * x j h r »s.-% aw« "*”1 p a w n * t h e T h e y h w r e f n m - h f q k d >ww * 4 These w orkers, tired of the ooDuston of Trade Union the work ■rm- O ftf ST9 930 * gg me misery of me shrpyvr^ ifO ra* t h e w ^M r * § a t t f e n t am ■ leader and employer, marched in defiance of IMon edicts, (he worke* *ei ■ n! a*? ofrid fife Trade UdM t to « m t H m g they wfft vnrm fee > + tp$9hB f w f w f and an antagonistic press campaign, in order to display complex, a grapple wvtffc she protriafts dwowgh m s mw? r pp which coofl ‘rerwtffo for*? ter&S to &&&&> / < * exwiKS tTJT?^K. their determination that some alleviation of their economic ttf me temper or the ^ M, WWwAi^ ^ ^ The other * * KK* 111R IF —WORKERS know that the Clydeside Engineering and Shipbuilding workers and h organised at the pram of production. It was from wWkh hy Pf«krf th^r of' t vy--/ fhrt<*** shop stewards committee were leading the demonstration. organised as a reroh against the official Trade Union*, who the worker* remam ny there * t t t S e fAM gaiwif' r h t t ___ MUST PAY! They marched even although they know that this com­ have been busy trying to smash k from the day* of its incep­ aa^ hM 'hw so-raffed lead*y< o f tX* *Tk^ ^ynUtlMB fW * }>- l) tion. For this reason (he workers wfB require to w*feh their vampire* who ppek twethe wtVfprtywaLZ nw n*.i ffeufe mittee. being Communist Party controlled, had diverted shop stewards and works cc*nmmee%, very dosely. Where pre­ L d tfeo worker ewumripare llMrt a t Hit l".S^.R.: they Iwvc afeo re* and sabotaged their wage struggles in the post. They viously the Trade Union leaders tried tm smash the Shop rap? that rs prevalent ks the woft.tyf (*or- ^ * * 5 »* Ricker a t *w*citiea! support Stewards movement by droogk leader*^ hut onfy fey tak? Og h’ ’V marched because of the absolute need to do something. tiosas that the workers wW ever nrviV*. Wp<|ll4i‘: rniK< frv« the oR citl trade union It is to be hoped that the demonstration marks the end using the method of infiltration. In this effort they are ably assisted by that bane of die working class movements,—the for a hetter world ft? free in w?1'9k **vtv«Rcft>r$ ift those co o n m es. Social- of an epoch on the Clydeside, a period of frustration and Communis? Party. The C.P. stewards have danced to the tone There' was one eotiww fuer atoont tfe-' ^ «raed at one time to drsringtmh aimless confusion caused by the refusal of many so-called of the Trade Union leaders, and where they have been nwfefc Whrfe the CoftimnnSft Party vere ryprr»iwto^ , workers ftftd th eir reaction ary militants to carry out the class struggle. to drive the workers down the treacherous path «f arbitration, some yards and factories^ fet on>?e*r rfifdffr ok-oh-ft eoxermaeftts. Rat even this lip scr* >kt to socialism has been denied to the German workers hy the T .l’.C in this country*. Led hy the delegation of Soviet trade unionists, they passed GLASGOW L E S S 0 \ the V aasitt artist resolutions about the u hotagSng a«fy arrempt &v fgntmeo it Jr *pp*wv* Afty tiermaa people hearing responsibility they have used guile to lead them. The latest demonstration For more than four years now the Clyde shipyard of Clydeside workers » a case in point. ftration was needed, Mr feud n ot to fee (to* M y Jtenc ^nr.-igj , far their ^»xrmncn('s crimes. The workers have been among the lowest paid in the country. The demonstration was convened fey the Clydeside Engin­ fo satis f y the meek SnctmeenteS worker* At mreetm 4v* plain Hath is that the German people The employing doss, by the careful manipulation of prices eering and Shipbuilding Shop Steward* Committee. A lthough grievances ow the Clyde are *0 yden trfof 9v»r » vpp^v* w ould have brought not few? Jfefi'AfeVw yft hare had to fycHt against one of the and income tax, have cancelled out any increases which some of the members of this committee are not party mewfcer*, most ruthless and dHdent tyrannies of the committee is controlled by the Comenoiwst Party, and fe T V Commurwft Party was teroed fey dy? the workers received in wages. The average wage, after affiliated to the so-called National Council of Shop Steward*, som eth in g- They' m ade aw rarongfe fin, t l times, and they have had Vansit- deductions, is £4 13s. 6d. This was, of course, aug­ another ‘red herring" organisation. In its hey-day of more pro­ xrntofi. They also mud? an arrenyp? «u feoow ^ ^ tartist inflt: added by smug allied mented by overtime, but now when overtime has been cut duction, and second fronts, when they preached the gospel of party reputation because 6# fhe fewthooming tkovu* reformists to the injuries and tortures off, there are many cases where the worker, particularly sacrifice, this corrorittce was tolerated and encouraged fey the T V maniptodatteft mf ftrafagem * an d fefeV ry fey ^ Trad* •od murders meted out to their mili­ Trade Union official and employer, but at times, became**the if be has a large family, was better off in his Means Test oner misery of the workers, shipyard workers parwcularty, they Union leaders, aa*d their Vtefings rd tV Commustow Psyry ^ tants k concentration camps. days. There are cases where the worker cannot use his have had to stage stunts and organise mock fights keep to up been (fee cause of V frustrated efforf* of (V wsd?f» ^ -nin^Tj the pretence protecting the workers interests, and to keep the (heir condkten*. It la therefore rm perartre (Kart w->e»er* clothing coupons, and even food coupons have to be dis­ o f should actively control rVir own factory organimri^ *pv workers quiet. „ - STARVATION counted because of the low wages received. Several of these stunts are well remembered on tae uryoe. econom ic n eed s, and t V iron teafec o f n eeew liy darrijm. t The Clydeside worker, Kke the workers else where in the (his f todf fee done h mo*r he rra V ed thmr -V djv-V ^ w r r This is what the Allies are planning In 1942, this Shop Stewards commitfee organised a great agita­ country, has been the victim of the prevailing demagogy. He tion in order to canalise the prevailing discontent of the workers. of trade aatonhu V forced 'V orjpmiwtion av - v for the German workers and thetr has been told to produce more, and tint be most sacrifice every- It took the form of a demand for relief from tntome-ixx. T h e stT 7 M of fV -m^oyers. TV aoar now only ow*r^e wives and children— many of them thing to the war effort. He has been preached at, prayed to, workers were demanding rndostrial action. The Con-W flat hs order ao> forther euaferve (V workers lectured about, until be does not know whether be h a human Party said production could not be held up, and their controlled T V shop organisation!* must fee eteansed of polfeH*,** bora since 19&&* even since the out­ being, or some obaoare species which is the subject of an abstract ***** break of war. Here is Lieut.-CoL shop stewards diverted and frittered the struggk away m rtf group* before (V wage strnggk? wfff Vcosn* a wraigfer ftp ; adeatiffc wrangle. The Trade Union leaders have told ten stereotyped C.P. method of agitation through au the official •loseph M. Ganhy. G vil Affairs Officer that all his miseries and wrongs will be cured and righted by between (V worker? and (he ?mpfesyh>g elavs A* tv wr*e channels". „_ _.. ^ struggle progresses chrrl^ srift emerge and fe wfff fee of General Patch's Seventh Army: negotiation. He has found that after years of talk all that has Another classic example of stupkwty occurred*** I happened is that the distress of the workers has become more rV svage struggle,. Is not enooy>, ft w^pi He ^ ”*f* h*lj- w M « ijTroilutic ia w a When under pressure of the workers to do* something, (hey worker must control rbe mean* of aroddetion for T w ? intensified. The Trade Umon leaders cannot “deliver the organised a deputation to wait on the Chancellor- of the Exchequer *■ the I m i I aftMMHMtv Wat we W n m goods” because the capitalist class has no more reforms to give. are some of (V lesson* dte T h ffft d^moowrator*, assd db-y mih Wttn.4 it the C (ra— m iWm . I f The Trade Union leaders have become an essential part of the to show him the tew wage packets of the workers, as if the fellow-worker* must team before ifeey caw ever V free h * » faw a* ftet taw k>«, k wJH Wr jw ( two n * W ty of the employing class, they are the instruments by Chancellor of the Exchequer, of all people, dfcf not know o f h«4. Na NtWK Wc brought into Gcr- wttch the employing class aim to sabotage every attempt of the under-paid conditions of the workers. AH tins was done p o u t t y . ■mr m i tWk food rw w > arc w Ww *ht the iNnht f*f«Wtwrevolution, but he is much less likely to Rise and Decline of the British sympathetic to the Revolution of 1905, but soon sophist scheme about the ‘capitalist character* of the Second World War, which has nothing to headed business proposition—for the bosses. In act it than one who has given Society no such Empire after left Russia and went to France, becoming effect, the guaranteeing of a certain income on hostages.*1 a refined esthete. In 1917 he returned to Rus- do with ‘our war/ For this novel, Ehrenburg children permits the lowering of wages generally. won the 1942 Stalin Fiction Award. After the That great reformer, Sir William Beveridge, collapse of France, Ehrenburg returned to writing to the Tim es (12/1/40) declared: “We Russia. cannot in this war afford luxuries of any kind, The day of June 22, 1941, was the hardest and it is a luxury to provide people with incomes blow in Ehrenburg’s life. He is sincere in say­ for non-existent children.” ing in the foreword to The Tempering of Rus­ Leaders get yon Nowhere! sia’ ‘on the first day of the war I forgot that I When a Family Endowment Act was passed nearly twenty years ago in New South Wales, had previously written novels and poems. I it cost £3,000,000 per annum. But to have A T the present time there is feverish activity class consciousness can turn strikes into domination of the wage system. When the became a journalist, only a journalist, whose among the Labour politicians to whip active methods which ean effect change and I.W.W. wrote glorious pages of working class place is on the firing line.* Only then did up the interest of the workers. But the progress. In recent years there has been a history in their magnificent fights for free Ehrenburg recognise that if Hitler was going only sign of working class activity is spas­ distinct tendency in this direction. In every speech and revolutionary propaganda, they to win this war it would mean the victory of modic strikes——always unofficial. For the case action has been initiated by the rank were forging a weapon for the revolution on naked brutality over all that mankind has cher­ LEND TO DEFEND- workers, despite their acceptance of govern­ and file, against the opposition of the officials. the political as well as the industrial plane. ished for centuries. ‘I belong,’ says Ehrenburg ment know instinctively that it is only by The latter, true to the nature of careerists They were showing a plan to the workers *to the generation that lived through the World the right to be free direct action on the job that they can resist oppose all action which they do not them­ which they must adopt if they aspire to be war and the Civil war and has lasted on to If you were a native of Bihar Province, India, the invasion of their rights by the boss class. selves initiate; but when they sec it is likely fr e e m en . this timelt has made me accustomed to the sight and did not buy national savings certificates of They do not need lectures to know that the to be successful, rush in to claim all the credit. It is in their own workers* organizations o f dead bodies, but fascist cruelties have ex­ your own free will, this is what might happen: Unions arc being used by the officials to When the British Government decided to that decisions must be taken, not in parlia­ ceeded all limits.’ First, you would hear the roll of drums holster up the capitalist system. Yet there fight their Russian Allies of to-day, the ments, municipal councils or trade union ‘The Tempering o f Russia’ is a collection of sending out a “ demand note” to everybody who arc many who think that the fault, and there­ workers set up “Councils of Action”, and offices. Not by delegated authority, but by articles which first appeared in English, Ameri­ paid a tax of one rupee, that they must buy 20 fore also the remedy, lies in the personality prepared for a General Strike against inter- direct workers* action. An example of what can and Soviet newspapers, dealing with the rupees worth of certificates. of the officials themselves. Many of our f vention in Russia. The Government was can be done in this way occurred some few events of the first year of the Soviet-German If you still refused, then you would be har­ fellow workers on the extreme “left” bend scared to death, and with an alacrity hitherto years ago in South Wales. In one village, war. Many of these articles, probably address­ assed in all sorts of ways—even beaten by Gov­ their efforts towards removing the corrupt unknown, the London Parks were turned into the school house was in a deplorable condi­ ed to English and American readers, have an ernment of Incfra agents until you “forked” out. bureaucracy, and dream of replacing them by armed camps. The workers answered by tion. The miners discussed it at their lodge undertone of reproach contained in the phrase And if you failed to pay 10 rupees on savings men who have proved their revolutionary organizing food supplies, and the Government, meeting, and gave the authorities notice that ‘we are fighting alone against the common certificates for each of your children, they would integrity. foreseeing defeat, called off the Russian if the school was not put into good condition, enemy/ This springs, of course, from the fact not be allowed to attend school. We would like to point out that there is adventure. The General Strike of 1928 was they would not only withdraw the children, that they were meant as propaganda for a This story, told by Mr. Abdul Ghani in the hardly a prominent trade union leader of more than a strike of action, it was one of but they would come out on strike as well. ‘second front.’ But to the Anglo-American Central Assembly, New Delhi, yesterday, to-day who did not rise to the top through the finest demonstrations of solidarity that the The local authorities soon took action— the reader they inevitably suggest the question: brought about the defeat of the Government of early militancy in strike leadership, or win labour world has ever known. It failed only bosses saw to that for trade was good just “Where was Ehrenburg (and Russia) when Paris India for the second time in three days. his spurs in the revolutionary cause. In their because the workers left all the initiative and then. Actions such as this have an educa­ was falling or when England was fighting The vote was on an adjournment motion to early and very immature way they thought action in the hands of the leaders. Everyone tional value that cannot be gained in a thou­ alone?” they could capture the organization and turn who participated in k remembers the chagrin discuss the unfair use of force to make the sand election campaigns, for they bring into Vera Alexandvora in N ew Leader (U.S.A.) people of Bihar buy certificates. k to the benefit of the working class. But and disappointment of the strikers at the action the old saying, “If you want a thing Daily Herald, 12/2/45. instead the organization captured them. capitulation of the leaders. done well, you must do it yourself.** This was no incident, but inevitable; and During the war, in countries occupied by the Nazis—in France, Greece, Denmark, Because. of the carefully inculcated teach­ k would happen just the same again if there ings of the political socialists, this spirit has wtre a dean sweep of officials. Are Jim Norway,—where trade union leaders have often collaborated with the occupying power, tended to die down. But disillusionment and A MOVING TRIBUTE Griffiths, WiH Lawther, or Jack Tanner any the behaviour of trade union officials daring WAGES WITH PINK less of a bureaucrat because they were once the rank and file workers have organized successful General Strikes, and forced con­ the war, is bringing it to the front again. No ane associated active Anarchists? They too set out to The coming downfall of capitalism will force with the coal trade GLASSES smash the “OM Gang” of yesterday—and cessions from the Nazis. There have been thrj have become the “Old Gang” of to-day. no corrupt leaders to betray the movement. th e' worker into using direct action, and it is | can look back' upon It m not simply by changing the officials But in the general strikes which occurred important to consider th e most effective | 1944 with any feeling Recently publish­ that change will be effected; but by changing before the war in most countries the workers methods beforehand. The Social General ! other than one of keen ed coat o f b ring the method of organisation. The method have experienced the same failures from Strike is the practical method, for it aims at disappointment. Not returns for Britain of strike action goes hack to the betrayals by their leaders. Only organiza­ complete workers* control. Nationalization o nly was no progress have produced tions based on the principles of the Spanish is certainly not the remedy, for State owner­ made, but its record more public discus­ earliest days. Perhaps the earliest recorded strike in written history was that of the Jews C .N .T . or the American I.W.W. in which ship only means a change of masters. We was one of steady re­ sion than any of th e members, and not the officials, have the Anarchists aim at a society of free men,, where trogression. At least their predecessors. in Egypt against the Egyptian task masters. But the strike weapon is comparatively un­ effective say in making decisions, can be effec­ there is no master, believing with William as many workers were Wage-rates at the tive in an active way. For them action is Morris that “No man is good enough to be M * J 7 ^ in the pits in 1944 as end of 1944 are developed; save in exceptional circumstances master of another.** strikes have been of a passive, non-active directed towards the complete economic in 1943, and a wage bill of unexampled propor­ said to be 45 or 46 nature. For only the growth of revolutionary emancipation of the working class from the MAT KAVANAGH. tions was met, but the output still declined. per cent, higher Among prime causes of the diminution re­ than when the war | corded are strikes, absenteeism, and, in cases, the began, whereas - adoption o f a policy of “ca canny.” during the same To suggest, as the latest statement of Mr. = _ — period the cost of THE DISTINCTION THE OLD STORY SQUARE PEGS Lawther implied, that there are to be no con­ ■ring has risen by only 33 per cent. It is strange why the German Army and ditions on the payment of the minimum wage is * kick overlooks severed important facts. The German prisoners are showing great concern Volkssturm fight on, encouraged only by radio When a “Bevin boy” who had refused to go in no way helpful. If the £5 minimum wage productivity of labour 10 is per cent, higher for the fate of their families in Eastern Ger­ pep talks and boxes o f Iron Crosses dropped down the mines and a young soldier who wanted is to be maintained it must be earned by produc­ than in 1939. The wage increases include those to work in a pit appeared at Clerkenwell, Lon­ tion. Honest men would not wish otherwise, many. . _ from the sky, while the Nazi leaders and Party don, on Saturday, the magistrate asked: “Can’t 10 agricultural and other workers whose prewar I saw a fresh batch arrive yesterday, ine members flee. and, as the bulk of the miners are honest, they rates were abnormally low. PAYE income tax officers were in fairly good shape, talking and Daily Mail, 12/2/45. you change them over?” will soon appreciate that having accepted a bar­ “ I am afraid not,” replied a Ministry of ** not am official item in 'the “cast of living” laughing, and all gave the Hitler salute. In Strange, indeed, but unfortunately nothing gain they must carry it out in the true spirit of aftd cancels out most increases. In short, the contrast, the men looked utterly fatigued. Labour official. “ It is not in my province.” new. its intent. Once that logic is realized the great Government-sponsored wage policy, of granting Daily Express, 12/2/45. Manchester Guardian, 5/2/45. crux of the trouble is overcome—and better increases after token resistance, amounts to pay­ production will follow. ing Peter a tittle more so that Paul may rob him The Chamber of Commerce Journal, Feb. 1945. more profitably Cavalcade, 10/2/45. We couldn’t resist reproducing this tribute to miners fromThe Chamber of Commerce PUBLISHERS KICK Jo u rn a l. We are sure that our miner readers will find this appeal to their better Book publishers, not usually men to look gift harts hi the mouth, have taken this course feelings irresistible and will see to it that over an extra allocation of paper for the printing WHILE FRENCH PEOPLE WAR PAYS A DIVIDEND THE LAW mineowners will not feel any keen disap­ of educational books and books of national im­ STARVE The £25,000,000 Dorothy Violet Kelly, aged 20, of Salisbury pointment in the future and will draw big­ portance. loan for Holland pro­ Road, Weymouth, said to the Weymouth Bench, ger and better profits. In the publishers’ view, conditions attached “The army with steam-heated messes and vided by a group of on which two women were sitting, yesterday: Id the extra supply savour of censorship and dic­ offices- endless food, free cinemas and theatres, New York commercial “It’s a pity you were not stuck in a home your­ tation of what sort of books they shall prim. cigarettes and whisky, is living its comfortable, banks under an agree- selves.” RUSSIAN LIBERATION— Evening Standard, 9/2/45. highly social life, whirling from office to mess ' mem signed here yes- Kelly, who was convicted of neglecting her A MYSTERY Why should the Government decide which and from mess to mess in high-powered cars. five-months-old baby, had been offered the choice f terday is likely to be The future of Europe is being decided in the books are of “national importance”? It is And in Anglo-American offices, a quiet, easy the first of a whole of a home or prison. The girl chose prison, routine of papers passing and repassing, of and was given a six months* sentence. liberated countries as well as in the councils scandalous that publishers should have been series of private Ame­ of the Big Three. Events in France, Belgium, conferences and lunches and cocktail parties rican loans to the Sunday Dispatch, 18/2/45. allowed a very small paper ration in war ★ and Greece take up almost as much space in the time and now the Government has the im­ (which we only go to for business contacts, of United Nations. Others world’s newspapers as the battles themselves— coarse), of British and Americans, male and proposed are: For neglecting and abandoning her year-old pudence of wanting to control a small in­ baby boy, Pamela Edna Heaton (21), single, and rightly so. But what is happening in the female, existing on the war in starving France 1. Norway. £6,250,000 to £12,500,000. countries liberated by Russia, in Rumania, Bul­ crease in the ration. We would rather not Of course the Allies are planning. Planning— 2. Czechoslovakia. £7,500,000 to £12,500,000 Gratwick Road, Worthing, was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment at Worthing yesterday. garia, Yugoslavia, Poland, and Hungary, no one trust the Ministry of Supply to decide if and planning. With plenty of mild jokes we 3. Dutch East Indies. £18,750,000 knows. Are they less important? Surely not. are planning the occupation of Germany and 4. —A loan at present being spoken o fmerely as But for stealing a pound note from a woman Freedom Press publications are of “national friend she received two months’ imprisonment. Is life there so tranquil that there is no news? destruction of Nazism. We plan all the equip­ large, but which is likely to exceed £25,000,000 It is hard to believe. The three former Regents importance” or not and get out extra allo­ ment, from trucks to typewriters; we plan every­ for two companies recently formed in London News Chronicle, 17/2/45. cation straight away! While one woman get six months for of Bulgaria were executed last week, which is an thing except the positive things we nave to do with Bank or England support, to make recon­ event of some passing interest even in the Bal­ to create a non-Nazi Germany. We plan to struction loans to small and medium sized British neglecting her child another charged with be tough, to scop everything, to prevent every­ companies in order to tide them over recon­ kans. The truth is that, owing to a misguided the same offence (or worse, since she has policy which can only damage their own inter­ COMMUNISTS thing, to regulate and cootrol everything—with version period. a staff of thousands of uninterested, uneducated, Evening Standard, 9/2/45. abandoned the child) gets one month. Will ests, the Russian military authorities have so far •‘ASTONISHED*1 relatively decent non-German speaking officers. either of them be better mothers when they excluded Allied correspondents (with a few rare exceptions) from the countries under their con­ Writing on the Partisan Movement in Everyone here knows the plans arc phoney, and HE MUST FIGHT FOR THIS come out? And what is one to think of a law that the toughness is synthetic. What does trol. This is a mistake which must be corrected An R-A.F. police car drew up outside 214, which values one pound note twice as much Italy the Manchester Guardian correspon­ tessgkmess mean unless as a means to a C Is ythorn-street, Calton, Glasgow, yesterday for the sake of Allied understanding. No coun­ dent says: purpose?” morning and took away Aircraftman Terence as a child? try can claim to be fully liberated if it does _ * also to find the Communist party The New Statetman and Nation, 10/2/45. Docherty and his 15-month-old son John. not give free access to the representatives of the . **" credit for what is a popular and Docherty, charged with being an absentee, GAOL FOR BEING LATE world’s press. movement, whose members are ao Manchester Guardian, 7/2/45. repubbao that they store in astonishment when WHY WAR ? was taken to the Central Police Station where Rather than pay a (hey bear that their leader in Rome, Signor Tog- he spent the night, and baby John to a Cor­ fine of £5 at Luton A Serviceman’s wife who gassed herself left poration welfare home where he will remain kaiti, n supporting ihe Crown Pnnce as Lieu­ a letter saying: “Why do they have to have to-day for being per­ WHY NOT MENTION IT tenant General of the Realm a ad has until his mother, who has just had a baby, is wars and upset people’s lives? We don’t want able to run the house again. sistently late for work, in getting cab-upnotices far ten Army classes k. People’s lives were hard enough before.” Harry Graham, of Bol­ IN 1940? pgffed ao the wills of the dries of Italy calling Docherty will be taken this morning to the After reading the letter at the inquest on the West of Scotland camp where hit unit is ton Road, Luton, chose A warning to men and women in the Forces men to fain the Royal Army on pain of police woman to-day, the Hull coroner, Doctor Nor­ stationed. to go to prison for one that they must not expect to find that better prosecution. man Jennings answered her query with these month. world to which we all look forward as soon Manchester Guardian, f/2/45. words: When arrested 10 days ago for being absent Docberty took his baby son to headquarters, He said he did not as they step out of the Forces, was voiced by MTou must blame the politicians The higher claiming that there was nobody to look after want time to pay. Brigadier-General E. R. Fitzpatrick, national they are, the worse they are. Mr. F. Dumpleton, chairman of the British Legion, at the Midland NOW WE KNOW “W a p will hare to be altered after thug. him because his wife was still indisposed. The R.A.F. duty officer sent him home to prosecuting, said Gra­ area annual conference at Nottingham to-day. MARSHAL JOSEPH STALIN: THE ST. They will have to get their orders from the ham had been persistently late since June 1942. After five or six years of war this would be find somebody to look after John, telling him He had been warned four times, and lived only PETER OF THE GREAT SOVIET UNION. electors. The electors arc never consulted. Co report the following day. Docherty, unable impossible, he said, and it would be the worst They are treated with contempt.” 10 minutes from his work. possible leadership to hold out hopes that can Headline in The City Observer, 9/2/4 5 to find tluLnecessary help, remained home. Graham told the magistrate he was Grade 4. Star, 14/2/45. Scottish Daily Express, 6/2/45. only lead to disappointment. Evening Standard, 14/2/44. Evening News, 10/2/45. WAR COMMENTARY—FOR ANARCHISM, FRUKUARY, 1945

R e v i e w t t Anarchist Commentary BLUE PRINT FOR IJTOP1 velt s henchman, and the Russian spokesmen that Churchill reiterated his stand taken smc< T.U. CONFERENCE NOTES BRIiAD anc) conirol J P Latej ' were Stalin’s mouthpieces. It was useful pro­ 1937: his support for a “neutral dictatorship” AND **2SES" • by Ethel M«nnln. mfinfU------of the ach In the days of Lenin and Trotsky, the Bolshe­ leading the Spanish people out of the turmoil “To appro) viks organised an international working-class paganda for the Government. Wallace Jones, t- . ( Macdonald and Co.. 1016 ). from Sierra Leone, after internment, exile and of revolution and civil war to that happy state Few writers have the courage at the present conference, in an endeavour to set up a revolu­ in which they will be docile slaves of an absentee .me to write and gc, published a work on S to admire the tactics through «h'ch lhf) tionary labour international. The Russian trade imprisonment, for the offence of criminal libel (blaming the chief official of the colony for the aristocracy and the City of London. theory which is other than reformist or down­ achieved—the tactics of violence " unions were represented, and they invited what right reactionary Fewer still manage to pro- few Communist unions existed abroad, and also death of a native who was flogged to collect as .11 anarchists deplore violence, « » tax) stated: “Last November I was an exile. JUST A REMINDER duce a book on that subject which has also the to accept the class struggle and its "W the international anarcho-syndicalist movements potentialities to make it appeal, by reason of lions. When the Spanish people rtpu of all countries, and the American I.W.W. At Then the officials seemed to think I was wanted outside. A week ago I was flown to London We happened to notice the Evening Standard its clear reasoning and fluency, to a large section the military coup of the Fascist u ~*ncI that date the news of Bolshevik power was little editorial (3/2/45) by the way, referring to “the of the reading public. Bread and Roses, sub­ known to the outside world: only such news in a Government plane—as a trade union dele­ it was an uistlncuve reaction, one which co gate!” ( Daily Herald, 12/2/45). The Indian Franco-Mussolini-Hitler war against the Spanish titled an Utopian Survey and Blue Print, is an not be controlled by a passive philosophy. An had reached the revolutionists elsewhere as the republicans”. In case it has forgotten, the extremely readable book; to the reader who has Bolsheviks permitted to be known, or the capi­ delegates contained one who had served 13 years diists then, as at all times, participated in brii in prison* another 7 years, another 5 years, as Standard supported “Franco-Mussolini-Hitler.” no set ideas of the nature of the change which is mg the realisation to the common people, if talist press published. Hence the revolutionary The Daily Express, gave us quite a shock on desirable in society. Ethel Mannin’s work will delegates arrived at the Conference. They soon political offenders. Even had they admitted they had the energy and creative abilities with 12th February. Its editorial began: introduce an interesting, and constructive series themselves, to undertake the full responsibiliti found the truth about conditions under the new German delegates few if any German unionists of suggestions, besides giving details and analyti­ could have achieved this record. “There is a need for sensible people to join of organising and controlling their own destinfe Czar, brought to their notice by Russian Anar­ together to get the Government out of busi­ cal criticisms of those visions of Utopia, held I hey therefore co-operated to the full, and i chists. They went to the Conference in a storm The delegates did not meet as free men at ness and keep it out.” by such people as Plato, Plutarch, Thomas County Hall, and it was a mockery of inter­ did the author herself at that time, assisted i of protest, but naturally voting was swamped We thought Beaverbrook had gone Anarchist, More, Bacon, Campanella, Winstanley, Hobbes, the revolutionary struggle of the common peopl by the huge block vote of the Russian unions, nationalism. It only claimed to represent those Harrington, William Morris, Bellamy, Unwin nations whose governments were associated. Even and were just getting ready to move into luxury Although advocating passive resistance, Eth< representing the majority of the working popu­ offices in Fleet Street, but an examination of and Wells. There are also comments on the Mannin can have no illusions about the imm< lation in Russia, since the Russian unions were within that narrow scope there was dissension at the rest of the column showed that by “busi­ ideologies expressed by various writers in con­ the behest of the powers above. The delegates diate prospects of its operation, for in speakin based on compulsorily ordained membership. ness” the leader-writer was merely referring to temporary works. To anarchists, to those who of the dream of Utopian civilisation she savs The Anarcho-Syndicalists left in a body and of substance reflected the opinions of their commerce. already have a clear idea of the necessary formu­ rulers; the delegates without substance repre­ “There could be such a world if humanlt held their next conference in Berlin in 1922, lation of future society, Bread and Roses will be wanted it enough. If this present dvilisatloi forming an independent workers international, sented nobody but themselves. Union bodies worthy of attention, mainly for the details of rapidly destroying itself through mechanici the I.W.M.A. Moscow, disappointed at not without vitality met union bodies without exist­ the organisation within the author’s Utopian force, the machine, accelerated beyond all cor capturing either the Anarcho-Syndicalists or the ence. All decisions can be seen in their true society, but also for its examination of the classic trol, finally collapsed amidst its smoking ruin I.W.W., had set up its Red Trade Union light in view of this. Deserters Wife writings about Utopia. it might be that those who survived, purged b< International. In those days it was strongly There must be a workers’ international con­ Ethel Marinin's blueprint for Utopia is that yond all imagining by their sufferings, woul opposed to the International Federation of Trade ference when it is possible, but it can only be Reprieved—But of an essentially anarchist society, and the chap­ be given the vision of a new world, a new wa Unions, and its puppet minority movements without the aid of Governments, for all will ters on social functions deal with most essential of life—new as the first dawn when God looke tried to disrupt the I.F.T.U. Likewise the combine to prevent its taking place. It can only aspects, but some criticisms of detail may be upon the world and saw that it was good I.F.T.U. "was opposed to unity with the Russian be one of genuine revolutionaries, straight from Baby Dies levelled. On the subject of. industrial and agri­ Nothing less will serve.” (p. 181). There is aisi unions, which it pointed out, would dominate the bench or from prison. It must exclude poli­ cultural workers, the author writes: “This form a certain vagueness concerning the role of rcli ticians. It can only be on the basis of the inter­ In the last issue of War Commentary wc any conference with a Communist Party block- reported that a woman who had failed to de­ I of organisation would mean that the men and gion in Utopian society. vote, and were not in any case free unions in national conference in Berlin in 1922, opposed nounce her husband1—a deserter from the women in every trade, industry and profession The chapters dealing with the abolition oi the normal sense of the term, but corporate in to the capitalist class of the world, not domi­ . . . would not merely be organised in their the State. nated by any block vote, in opposition to all army—to rthe police, was sent to prison for the monetary system, the setting up and func­ a month. Her baby was committed to ar [respective syndicates in the way in which work­ tioning of collectives, the individual basis o t To-day, however, the reformist trade unionists governments, and standing on the principle of ers are at present organised in their respective revolutionary syndicalism. institution. After ten days in prison Mor­ Utopian housing as opposed to the communal generally accept the fascist idea of State corpor­ rison reprieved her. When she came out of trade unions, but would own the fields, factories ations and under the influence of war feeling system of modern blocks of flats, also the social prison, the baby was ill, and it has since died.' and workshops in which they laboured—the status of women, who fulfil a full and natural have invited the Russian trade unions to the CHURCHILL AND FRANCO *‘I did not know my child had been taken miners would own the mines, the agrarian work­ London World Trade Union Conference, to­ role according to choice and ability, contain a ill,” said Mrs. Davies, "until I came out of ers the land, the factory workers the industry in wealth of detail and well reasoned argument. An gether with a highly mixed body of rival unions. By the “indiscretion of a newspaperman”, prison and told the authorities I was going to which they operated, and so on” (p. 44). This The American Federation of Labour, part of facts have been published in the newspapers sug­ accent on the importance of art in its applied fetch her. When I did sec her she didn’t I is given as an explanation of anarcho- form, and the comparatively useless function of the I.F.T.U., refused to .come because the Rus­ gesting that Mr. Churchill has been rather rude know me. I begged to hove her in prison syndicalism, which it is not. Anarchists will sians were there and more particularly because to General Franco, but needless to say the origi­ fine art, if, as in present society, it is merely with me, but was told she was too old.” agree that the separate and conscious ownership, art for art’s sake, forms the basis of another their rival bureaucrats of the C.I.O. were there. nal correspondence was not produced. The baby was nine months old. Mrs. even by the workers, of sections of industry, Rival unions turned up from India, rival unions From the story it appears that Mr. Churchill’s section. Perhaps the most important chapter is Davies thinks that if she had had it, it would land, etc., in undesirable and is creating the pre- j that dealing with education, which not only ex­ from Poland, rival unions from Palestine, and “kind words” to the Caudillo were taken, by him not have died. Thus not only does the lude to future confusion and complication. the Russians of course turned up in a block, as an overture to a political alliance. He did plains the problem from a constructive social woman have to suffer, the baby docs too, There are several interesting references to the angle, but also presents more personal sugges­ massed together. “If a delegate of any other not realise that a politician can admire a foreign though it has committed no crime. The Spanish Revolution, 1936, and it is to be agreed nationality, or a newspaper man, spoke to one ideology and still be at war with the country of tions to help the child assume its rightful and magistrate remarked that he "had no alter­ that: “had the experiment been allowed to de­ healthy place in society. Russian, others immediately gathered round full its origin, and-in the same way Churchill’s sup­ native” than to send Mrs. Davies to prison. velop Spain might have shown the whole West­ of suspicion,” wrote Hannen Swaffer (People, port of the dictatorial idea in Spain does not If the case had not received publicity, notably ern world a new and happier way of life. As The work is well documented, and the sources 12/2/45). mean 'he would abondon imperial aims for it— from the News Chronicle, it is very doubtful it was, it survived long enough for an exciting of reference, which include many Freedom Press The T.U.C. and the C.I.O. were the two he supports it only so long as it guarantees if she would have been reprieved. The very indication of ‘possible worlds’—a practical, publications are worthy of further study. organisations of substance there, but the Rus­ British imperial aims. fact of the manifest ne'ed to help our limping workable alternative to centralisation of govern- RON AVERY. sian block-vote obviously dominated. Sir Walter Franco wrote to Churchill and suggested he justice by overturning the sentence is a con­ Citrine, whose career has rested on using the should act as peace mediator between his two demnation of our legal system. That the block-vote especially against Communist would- dear friends, Hitler and Churchill; who seemed baby should be sent to an institution, and then be bureaucrats, had the tables turned on him. to him so close in ideology but so far apart by die, just about caps it all. While these unfree unions dominated the circumstance, and apparently suggested a deal Mrs. Davies' husband is already overseas. scene, and the upholders of corporate unions in at the expense of Stalin. However, Stalin and the State debated with them, “ex-enemy aliens” Churchill are close in ideology and circumstance British Intervention in Greece were barred, even including Italians, in whose these days, and the offer was indignantly re­ WAR N T A R Y trade union organisation so many American and fused. COM M E The Glasgow Workers’ Council have done a lessness of political manoeuvring rubbed home British T.U. leaders are supposed to be inter­ Franco was told he would not be a delegate is offered to members of the Services at - useful work by printing this little pamphlet, and special rates by the following quotation from Brnest Bevin in ested. They sat in the gallery instead and at the peace conference, but this is hardly a it deserves a wide arculation, especially at the 1926: “It will be a Godsend for this country listened to the recitation of the phrase “Workers rebuke in the name of democracy as has been present time. No doubt there will be fuller if Mr. Churchill is out of office for evermore . .. of the world, unite”. suggested—even de Gaulle does not get in at 1year, Is. post free accounts later of the whole story of the recent 6 months, 6d post fre. It is not safe to leave the destiny of millions of The World Trade Union Conference, com­ the conferences that decide what the peace con­ 'events in Greece, but this short account of people in the hands of a man with an unstable posed of Government stooges, could not be ex­ ference shall decide. It was not, however, re­ British intervention against revolutionary work­ mind.” Yet Bevin is the man who, at the pected to reach any decisions of magnitude. vealed by the newspaper man what Churchill’s Take advantage of thi offer to introduce ers in all parts of the globs, followed by an h readers, in the Se rvices Labour Party Conference underlined the fact Citrine and company are represented in the correspondence went on to say, and it is unlikely outline of the present intervention in Athens that the Labour Ministers in the cabinet had en­ British Government, Sidney Hillman is Roose­ he will reveal it himself. But it is a safe bet will be a valuable aid to propagandists for work­ dorsed and took full responsibility for Chur­ ers’ rights in the immediate struggle. chill's policy in Greece! There is a telling quotation from the National Many more things could be said about the Council of Labour Colleges’ publication Why history of British countr-revolutionary interven­ War? tion and terrorism, and about the crisis in “After 1918, Great Britain had a war in Greece. But this pamphlet is short and does Russia, India (1919/21), Egypt (1991-21), the not claim to be exhaustive. Within its nine Black-and-Tan War in Ireland (919-21)J^in pages it contains the main points, and draws the The Press & C.I.D. Check on Anarchists Iraq (1919-21), in China, 1927; Palestine, main conclusions. 1*929; India, 1930; Cyprus, 1931; Burma, J. H. Detailed reports of the results of the circulating alleged seditious literature near 1931-32, and numerous smaller actions.” For space reasons is was not possible to army camps and naval barraeks, have, I under­ reproduce the Press comments on the Freedom officers’ inquiries have been submitted to the At Amritsar, in India, British troops in 1919 (“Ours Not to Reason Why” can be obtained, Home Secretary and the Director of Public stand, discovered that some of its members fired into an unarmed crowd penned in an en­ (price 3d., by post 4d.) from the Glasgow Press in the last issue of War Commentary but arc of foreign origin. Detectives have visited we promised readers that we should do so in Prosecutions. closed garden, killing 379 and wounding 1,200 Workers’ Council, 116, Renfrew Street, Glasgow, the homes of some of the members of the more. Churchill himself admitted that “The C.2., or from Freedom Bookshop, 132 Chelten­ this issue. Readers who may have cuttings which The offices of Freedom Press, in Belsize group and have taken possession of large crowd was unarmed, except with bludgeons. It ham Road, Bristol). have not been reproduced in these columns are Road, Kilbum, are in a large private house. quantities of literature and files. When the was not attacking anybody or anything. It was asked to let us have them for our files. When I rang the front-door bell there to­ enquiries are complete a full report will be holding a seditious meeting, when fire was The first comments appeared in the Daily day it was promptly answered by a pleasant­ submitted to Mr. Morrison, Home Secretary opened on it to disperse it.” Express for February 1st, and the Daily Tele­ faced middle aged woman. On my asking and Sir Donald Somervell, the Attorney- Details are given of some of the counter­ ANARCHIST FEDERATION graph of the same date. The Daily Express whether I could see a copy of "War Com­ General.” revolutionary exploits of British Imperialism note was headed “YARD IS WATCHING” mentary— For Anarchism” she readily took mentioned above. Then the reader is reminded •GLASGOW GROUP and reads; me to a room on the first floor where a table of the congratulations which Churchill offered SUNDAY MEETINGS ac "Scotland Yard’s Special Branch is inquir­ was spread with a pile of copies of the paper, Mussolini for having shown the nations the way ing into the origin, membership and activities looking as though they had just come from FREEDOM PRESS to stamp out revolutionary movements, and in­ Brunswick Street, 3.30 and 7.0 p m. of a new extreme left wing organisation using the printers. deed, any movements of popular initiative. All Lectures every Monday In Hall at the title *Thc British Federation of Anarch­ TOLD TO QUIT PUBLICATIONS this provides the necessary historical background ists'. Inquiries have shown that there arc a which shows that the recent events,'in Greece 23 Wilson Street commencing 8 p.m. The room was in some disorder,, and the are not “a tragic error”, as the shocked liberal Questions and Discussions dozen leaders and about 150 members. A woman apologised, saying she was packing • POLICY report is being made to the Home Secretary.” TRADE UNIONISM OR SYNDICALISM? likes to believe, but the necessary steps of The Daily Telegraph report which appeared Tom Brown British Imperialistic policy. Greece is only one •PAISLEY GROUP landlord ha. told u. to go,” .he .aid. “He 24 pages 3d. (postage Id.) more milestone in the bloodstained track; Plas- only in the 4 a.m. edition was headed docs not like our business.” NEW LIFE TO THE LAND George Woodoook Sunday Meetings at “ANARCHY GROUP INVESTIGATION” 32 pages 0d. (postage Id). tiras only the successor of Denikin, Wrangel and and reads; To a question whether the office had been RAILWAYS AND SOCIETY George Woodoook Kolchak; of Noske 'and Mussolini; of Franco, Goal Square, 7 p.m. also in the used by the Anarchist organisation for meet­ 32 pages 3d. (postage Id.) Badoglio and Darlan. What unites all these Bakers Hall, Genze Place, 8 p.m. "A report dealing with the activities of a ings, she replied! "Some meetings have taken VOTE— WHAT FOR? E. M alatosta small group of about 300 self-styled anarch­ 16 pages 2d. (postage Id.) butchers is their “strong-man” policy towards ists, is I understand, being prepared for Mr. place here.” The woman declined to give the workers, their readiness to undertake any Morrison, Home Secretary, by Special Branch her name or say whether she was a secretary. THEORY bloodshed for the sake of maintaining the ruling detectives. The group is controlled from a class and the “rights” of property. AU of them VOLUNTARY WORKER A.B.O. OF ANARCHISM A. Borkmnn private house in West London. Its members “I am simply a voluntary worker,” she said. 100 pages is. (postage 2d.) have earned the support of the British ruling FREEDOM BOOKSHOP several of whom are believed to be in the ANARCHY OR CHAOS Goorge Woodoook class. Services, arc suspected of circulating pamph­ "All letters should be addressed to the secre­ 124 pages 2s. 6d. (postage 3d.) 132 Cheltenham Road, Bristol tary.” E. M alatosta There follows a concise account of the lets among the troops which Home Office ANARCHY Mctaxas dictatorship and the Greek Royal legal experts eonsidcr to be seditious.” In the two latest copies of War Commen­ 44 pages 3d. (postage Id.) tary there arc references to the police KROPOTKIN—SolooUons from Ills Writings House; of the machinations of Colonel Zervas Freedom Press publications advertised elsewhere As readers will see, the Anarchist membership Ghoson by Horbort Road and the Greek right wing forces, and their pup­ in this issue also in stock. The following books rose by 138 in the night! These two small searches and a complaint is made that Free­ 162 pages O loth 8s. Od. p a p er 2s. Od. (post 3d.) dom Press files and other materials seized THE WAGE 8Y8TEM P. Kropotkin pet, Papandreou. Then the opening of fire by arc still available: notes resulted in a visit during the day of an 10 pages 3d. (postage Id.) WHY NOT TRU8T THE TORIES? Ansurin Bevan 2/6 Evening News reporter, a Daily Mirror photo­ have not been returned. REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT' the “Athens Police (who) served both Metaxas THE 0IVILIZATION OF THE grapher and a Daily Herald reporter, we de­ In the issue of January 13 appears this P. Kropotkin and the German invaders” (Daily Express cor­ RENAISSANCE IN ITALY J. Burckhardt T/6 10 pages 3d. RHJ (postago ltl.) respondent) on the unarmed Greek demonstra­ EMPIRE IN AFRICA A. Campbell 2/6 clined the offer of appearing alongside the Daily statement! "Many subscribers will be without THE STATE— ITS HISTORIC ROLE BRITAIN’S COAL M. Heinsman •/• Mirror’s pin up .girls and made no statements their copies of War Commentary. Wc have aa P. Kropotkin tors, and Churchill’s subsequent instructions to THE LION AND THE UNICORN Gangs Orwell 2/« to the reporters, but that same evening a front no means of sending out renewal notices. (postago 2d.) the British Forces under General Scobie. THE PAPACY IN POLITICS J. McCabe 1/6 page report appeared in the Evening News, with THE PHILOSOPHY OF ANAR0HI8M THE NEW INDIAN ROPE TRICK Reg. Reynolds -IS UNENVIABLE POSITION 82 pages Horbort flood 8PARTAOUS F. A. Ridley 1/- double column headlines: "Files and Papers is. (pootaga 2d.) Applause for Churchill’s latest interventionist THE STORY OF TOOLS Child# 1/6 Carried Off In Sacks” “SCOTLAND YARD We arc also in the uenviublo position of exploit cumc from Franco and Salazar—two FALSEHOOD IN WARTIME Ponsonby 2/6 DRIVE TO CHECK ON ANARCHISTS”, not being able to send out accounts for money • GENERAL Fascist dictators. It also came (the pamphlet 8ELE0TED POEMS Stephen Spender 2/6 “Army and Navy Units Visited/’ owing to Freedom Press which now runs into T H I BRITISH QBNBRAL STRIKE Tam Brawn omits to mention it) from the reactionary Hcarst MODERN WLSH EPOETRY . ■/* several hundred pounds sterling, nor have we 10 pages gri (noBluiui Id.) SONS OF THE MISTRAL Roy Campbell */■ "The activities of a small Loft Wing Group THE WILHELM SHAVEN REVOLT loams press in America. The Labour Party’s passive ORIGINS OF CHRISTIANITY Thos. Whittaker 7/e details of payments made and to be made for support for his policy is emphasized, though SEX AND REPRESSION IN SAVAGE SOCIETY who arc alleged to have been circulating Anar­ 40 pages Od.(postage Id.) Malinowski 6/6 chist propaganda among members of the books received, thereby jeopardising our credit THE KRONSTADT REVOLT A. Olllga perhaps not strongly enough. And the shame- with suppliers.” 16pages 2d. (postage id.) ORIME AND OUSTOM IN SAVAGE SOCIETYMalinowski 6/6 Forces and war workers arc under investiga­ THE ISSUES IN THE PRESENT WAR tion b y Scotland Yard's special branch. It is also stated that "Our solicitors hove Marous Graham THE WAY AND ITS POWER _ *rthU^Walay 7/6 written two letters to the Commissioner of 32pages Od.(postage Id.) MAHATMA GANDHI ^ Romaln RoHand S/S At the beginning of this month Detective- THE MAR0H TO DEATH John Olday SOIENOE AND PROGRESS S‘ 3 - Inspector Whitehead and other officers visited Police, but have obtained no satisfaction.” 80 pages 42 Cartoons is. Od. (postage 3d.) A ll Correspondence should DEMOCRACY IN THE DOCK g * * * " ® ] ^ */• SELECTIONS FROM P0LITI0AL JUSTICE NOW, Volume 3 M W SIS the Orkneys and took statements from men in Reference is made to "par readers in the DEATH PAYS A DIVIDEND William Godwin vur nnatiiu eyinu A F. A. I'111** }){ the Navy. Visits were also paid to certain Services who have been subjected to the indig­ 82 pages 3d. (postago Id.) be addressed to:— THE* RUSSIAN ENIGMA OMIfB military barracks in the North of England, nity of being searched.” Their letters, it is KROPOTKIN—HI8 FEDERALIST IDEAS STALIN’S RUSSIA AND THE 681816 fmllrt 7/6 where the kits of soldiers were scorched for declared, "show a spirit which Is a source of 16 pages 2d. (postage Id.) FREEDOM PRESS, ...... • documents. inspiration und hope for the future”.” WORKERS IN STALIN’8 RUSSIA A raid was made more than a month ago M. L. Dornorl e/o Express Printers, MONEY MUST GO ...... The following morning February 2nd the 88 pages is. (postage 3d.) RIGHTS OF MAN _ mouOMT or on the offices in Bclsizc Road, N.W., of Free­ THE EDU0ATI0N OF FREE MEN 84a Whitechapel High Street, THE LANGUAGE A THOUGH Piaget 1 2 /| dom Press, which for some time past has been Daily Telegraph had more startling revelations Herbert Read THE OHILD Q N T OF t h e publishing a fortnightly newspaper entitled for its readers, but this time it was reserved for 32 pages la. (postage Id.) London, E.l, THE MORAL JUDO Plant 15/ . readers of its early edition and not of Its 4 a.m. HOMES on HOVELS—The Housing mSSSSmt a aa«»H.«o INTHE ' "War Commentary— for Anarchism.” Problsm and Its Solution Qeorgo Woodoook Our printers have kindly extended these postal edition. Headed "ALIENS SUSPECTED OF 82 pages Od. (postage Id.) FILES SEIZED SEDITION” It runs: facilities to us but wo must make it quite STARVATIONyo°U%“^'iD«N IN EUROPE G. M. ‘""“.fraud Bourn# Ki,}S The police seized files of the newspaper and clear to renders that this Is only an address 2le.se add tor postage on books as follow s-"nJ “Special Branch detectives who have been FREEDOM BOOKSHOP lor oorrespondenoo and that there will no no up to l/- add 2d. postage; 1/- to 3/. add 'Sr® filled sacks with documents end correspond­ investigating the activities of a group of Left 132 Cheltenham Rd. Bristol to_8A_add 5d.; 8/- to 15/- add Id.; o m )i> 3/. ence. A search was also made at the homes Wing extremists which os reported in the one from Freedom Proas on the premise# to of certain members of the organisation. Daily Tplegruph yesterday, arc suspected of deal with onllcre. ated by kxprmmm Printer*. H* WhlMobapol Bl*b dL. U n d #«.t Publlahed b j r r W o o s Proas, c/a