rpHE APPEAL in the Brighton church demonstration case was dismissed by the Queen’s Bench Division of the High Court on. Friday, July 7, and as a result Jim Radford and Nicolas Walter will Indecency begin their sentences of two months’ imprisonment on Monday, July 17. Readers of F reedom will re­ member that the Brighton church demonstration consisted of a series of interruptions of the special service for the Labour Party Annual Conference at the Dorset Gardens in Court Anarchist Weekly #Methodist Church in Brighton on October 2, 1966. Nine of the 30 or and Walsh versus Cavey’ was heard most of the cases he then quoted 40 demonstrators were arrested and in the Lord Chief Justice’s court by showed that in the past courts have JULY 1? 1967 Vol 28 No 21 charged with riotous behaviour Lord Parker, Lord Justice Diplock found virtually any'kind of interrup­ inside the church and with various and Mr. Justice Widgery, on the tion of a church service to be other offences outside in the street. morning of July 7. Dr. Ian Brown­ indecent behaviour. It was clear at They were remanded in custody for lie, a barrister who is also a Fellow the end of his speech, even if it a week, and when they were freed of Wadham College and has taken hadn’t been at the beginning, that after application to a Judge in other civil liberties cases, appeared there wasn’t a chance. Chambers one of them sensibly went for seven of the demonstrators; Nicolas Walter abandoned most SAFEGUARDING OIL home to America. The other eight Nicolas Walter appeared in person; of his speech, in view of the attitude were remanded on bail for three and Michael Worsley appeared for of the judges, and made a short more weeks to give the police a the Brighton police. speech on practical lines. He argued RITISH SOLDIERS have moved in extensive armed conflict. Whether this chance to cook up a conspiracy Within a few minutes, it was clear that a reasonable man would not B and re-occupied the Crater area in will happen depends on a number of charge. This failed, but at the last that the appeal was lost. Almost as consider that the demonstrators’ ■Aden. This was done during the night factors. Will it be possible to apply the United Nations General Assembly’s reso­ moment they brought a new charge, soon as Dr. Brownlie had begun behaviour had been indecent. As fond the first thing the people knew about that the demonstrators had been speaking he was interrupted by Lord an example, the Brighton police and tit was when they heard the Argyll pipers lutions urging the forming of a ‘central ►unding reveille. caretaker government’ to prepare for ‘concerned’ together in ‘riotous, Parker, and throughout his speech magistrates had not done so, since For Major-General Philip Tower, independence? Will the leaders of violent or indecent behaviour’ in he was frequently and frivolously the demonstrators had been arrested IOC British Land Forces, his officers FLOSY and NLF be approached? the church. This was shown to be interrupted by both Lord Parker and and remanded on a charge of riotous and men, it was a military success, Approaches have been made this week technically inadmissible, so they Lord Justice Diplock. The judges behaviour, and it was not until ley killed two Arabs without sustaining by Mr. Bayoomi, nominated this week changed it to just indecent were plainly prejudiced, in the strict four weeks later that a charge of ly casualties of their own. One officer to be the first Prime Minister of the behaviour’. sense of the word—that is, they had indecent behaviour was brought, reported as saying: ‘We had expected Federation, to what he called ‘all political pre-judged the case. and even then it was at first com­ Juch stiffer opposition’. The GOC, The trial before the Brighton leaders in the area’, but this does not magistrates took eight days between Dr. Brownlie nevertheless made a bined with one of riotous and then interviewed on TV seemed rather necessarily mean the leaders of FLOSY long speech on legal lines. He violent behaviour. It was agreed Isappointed that it had been so easy, and NLF. The Federal army and the October 31 and November 25, and 3 consoled himself by saying that if police will not necessarily ensure a in the end the charge of indecent argued that the charge against the that all he had done ih the church Korists showed themselves they would stable government, for many of its junior behaviour was the only one found demonstrators did not cover their was to say, ‘Oh you hypocrites, how killed. officers are sympathetic or nationalist proved; all the charges made at the offence, which would have been can you use the word of God to p f course the army wanted to re-take supporters. time of the demonstration were better covered by some other charge. justify your policies?’, and if the Grater before this, but were prevented Both Tory and Labour Governments dismissed. Four of the demonstrators The section of the Ecclesiastical law said that was indecent, then the (the civilian administration. However, are responsible for this potentially had been defended by Ben Bimberg, Courts Jurisdiction Act of 1860 used law was an ass. Iwith other colonial struggles, a explosive situation. They have tried to the London solicitor who does a lot against them referred not only to Mr. Worsley simply produced a gtary solution will not really settle offset the growing and prevailing dictionary, which gave many -hing. Now the armed police, whose of civil liberties work, and four of ‘riotous, violent or indecent nationalist aspirations of the Arab behaviour’ but also to those ‘who meanings of indecency,, some of . fginal mutiny and killing of 12 soldiers peoples. The imposed Federal govern­ them defended themselves. Two of forced British troops to withdraw, ment has given power to the reactionary those who defended themselves had shall molest, let, disturb, vex or which covered the demonstrators’ 1 now agreed to ‘run this place sheikhs. This can only help King Faisal been marked men from the very trouble, or by any other unlawful behaviour. Both Dr. Brownlie and K e r ’. of neighbouring Saudi Arabia. beginning of the case and were given means disquiet or misuse any Nicolas Walter replied that while a Bring the British withdrawal from the British oil interests in Saudi Arabia the maximum prison sentence of preacher . . . or any clergyman’ in dictionary gave every possible defini­ N r area, the two nationalist groups, have to be safeguarded and so it is two months; the other six demon­ a church or churchyard whether tion of a word, the High Court •SY and NLF, continued their bitter possible that the King partly calls the strators were given the maximum during a service or not; the inference should give a single one. After a !gle one against the other. The tune in the South Arabian Federation. fine of £5. (For previous reports was that all the other offences are brief consultation with his col­ Pyor of Aden, a FLOSY member, was No doubt the policy of placating him of the case, see F reedom for not indecent, and that indecent leagues, Lord Parker gave judge­ papped by the NLF and rival group- and propping up a friendly government ment dismissing the appeal. A long jcarried out executions, in respect of this country’s oil interests October 8 and 15, November 26, behaviour is to be distinguished from fee British Government is trying to will be abandoned when it is seen that it and December 10,1966.) a mere disturbance of a service. summary was published in The |ld a stable South Arabian administra- will not work. But by then, even more It was thought pointless to appeal There is indeed another statute Times Law Report on July 8; the witb a well-equipped armed force. blood will have been spilt in the struggle against conviction or sentence to altogether—the Places of Religious substance was that behaviour is Sis build-up of the Federal armed for power in Aden. the notoriously reactionary Brighton Worship. Act of 1812—which has a indecent because of its context, and Ncs and police could lead to an P.T. Sessions, which are presided over by section referring to those who in the context of a church service a Tory MP who hates kids and ‘wilfully and maliciously or con­ any form of interruption is indecent. blacks and likes hanging and flog­ temptuously disquiet or disturb any Jim Radford announced imme­ ging, so instead all eight demonstra­ meeting, assembly or congregation of diately after the hearing that there tors appealed against conviction to persons assembled for religious would be a series of demonstrations, o You Want To Be A Soldier?the High Court on a single point of worship’, and this would apply much marches and meetings in Brighton law—whether their behaviour was more directly to the behaviour of on Sunday, July 16. In the mean­ indecent. There is a very long the demonstrators; but the maxi­ time, anyone who wants to know delay in such appeals, so the mum penalty is only a £40 fine! (He more about the case can get a Brighton magistrates gave Jim didn’t mention the Toleration Act pamphlet called Indecency in Radford and Nicolas Walter bail of 1688, which has an almost Church (6d. plus postage) from until ten days after the hearing. identical section.) Freedom Press; and anyone who It was three months before the He then argued that indecency is wants to help Jim Radford’s and magistrates’ case was agreed by the something more than merely im­ Nicolas Walter’s wives and children two sides, and another four months proper or offensive, and that none can contribute to the Welfare Fund before the case was heard. In the of its meanings as used in other —both care of Jeanne Smythe, 68 end, ‘Abrahams, Anderson, Miles, statutes applied to the behaviour of Hewitt Road, London, N.8. Radford, Russell, Russell, Walter the demonstrators. Unfortunately From a Correspondent .

bound to be large. Scientific information and medical opinion about the effects of POT FOR CONSENTING ADULTS legal and illegal drugs are interesting but are still totally irrelevant to this This letter is reprinted from thewing political movement—were bound to basic question of using the criminal law ‘Guardian’: be imprisoned for a drugs offence, as has against private behaviour. Your leading article on the Chichester been happening to unknown people for I am not personally involved in this drugs trial (July 3) misses every point in a long time. question, because I do not use any drugs sight. The two issues—whether the sen­ The real question is simply whether which are banned by law. This is partly tences were excessive, and whether dan­ people should be punished for using because I don’t wish to be removed from ‘What did You Learn in School Today P gerous drugs should be illegal—are not certain drugs on themselves in private the world of reality (which lets out ‘better kept separate’, because they are houses, however dangerous the effects heroin, cocaine, morphine, and LSD), XXOLLAND PARK SCHOOL, the first While each wide-eyed youngster was not separate issues at all but two aspects may be. If so, then the whole crazy partly because I don’t wish to be put to real testing-ground for comprehen­ given free-range, a benevolent soldier- of the same issue, which is whether apparatus of civil servants, Customs offi­ sleep or kept awake (which lets out bar­ sive education, believes in turning out man was always on hand to explain the people should be sent to prison for cials, agents provocateurs, police squads, biturates and amphetamines), and partly pupils well attuned to their duties in the workings of each ‘toy’ and the extent of possessing, using, or allowing other search warrants, forensic analysis, magi- because I don’t smoke (which lets out society into which they will emerge. As its destructive capacity. people to use drugs which have been states, judges, juries, handcuffs, prison, cannabis, a drug which seems much part of the preparations for the ‘Holland And what is the response of the pupils labelled ‘dangerous’. sensational stories in the gutter press, superior to tobacco for those who do Park School Ffite’ this year an invitation themselves to this sort of conditioning in The Rolling Stones case, far from be­ and so on, becomes necessary to keep smoke). was sent to the British Army suggesting their education? The only rather doubt­ ing ‘almost totally irrelevant to our legal the system going. If you will the end, And yet I am personally-involved, be­ that they might like a stall or two at the ful sign of any rebellious activity was the and social attitudes to drug-taking’, is a you will the means. cause I have many friends who do take \ fete to try to win over more recruits for large ‘LONG LIVE MARKSIZM’ paint- direct result of these attitudes. Once the Large sentences will be thought too amphetamine pills or smoke cannabis, I the Army cadets. The response was en­ sprayed across a courtyard which in itself Dangerous Drugs Acts were passed, some severe, and small ones too lenient, but have often allowed them to do so in my thusiastic, the Army showing itself to be does not bear very good testimony of well-known people—probably in a jazz, if there is a criminal offence there must house, and I intend to go on doing so. only too anxious for a chance of ‘robbing the teaching ability available. folk or pop music group, or in a Left- be sentences, and some of them are It wouldn’t occur to me to try to stop the cradle’ to boost its future reserve them (any more than I would try to figures. stop male friends from being homo­ ANARCHY SELLERS WANTED sexuals or female friends from getting And so, while the Royal Signals Corps ‘ IF POT THIS SUNDAY (JULY 16) 2 p .m . SPEAKERS’ CORNER ON THE abortions), because it’s none of my set up a large and impressive display in 20 FOR ‘ANARCHY’. damned business what other people do CAUSED CANCER OCCASION OF A the North Yard, another group ensconced 60 to themselves. itself complete with camouflaged tent, LEGALISATION WHICH CONTAINS AN If the law says that my friends and I jeep and lorry, on the lawn near the pet’s THE GOVERNMENT OF (NO SMOKING PLEASE) are committing a crime which deserves ARTICLE BY ‘A PHYSICIAN’ comer. Here was set up a quaint table- POT RALLY ORGANISED BY up to ten years’ imprisonment, then the ON NARCOTIC ADDICTION top model of a battlefield of somewhat WOULD LEGALISE SOME DEVOTED ADMIRERS law is not so much an ass as a complete AND THE BRAIN COMMITTEE obscure location as well as some radio OF T H E LAW . bloody fool, and it’s about time people equipment But the star attraction was IT TOMORROW* REPORT. began to realise it If there is ‘no Up long narrow stall on which was spread Continued on page 2 array of weapons. or the South of England have ventilated British publisher owns the copyright gg their views of censorship through the has either not published it or allowed « copyright laws. to go out of print, include lohn Cage’s WHAT PRICE FREE ART ? They point out that they are not at­ Silence, William Burroughs’ The Soil books? tacking John Calder only, though it is Machine, the complete Artaud works Scene; .4 bookshop in London. J.C.: This is quite different. 1 certainly his hypocrisy over the Free Art Legal (although Calder has at last given wav Enter Mr. John Colder. intend to publish Artaud's (worksthinks: Fund Campaign which brought this mat­ on the City Lights Artaud Anthology John Colder: Tve brought in copies and of will therefore gain credit and esteemter to a head. They condemn all and admits he doesn’t have these rights) We can supply the leaflet for my Free Art Legal Fund as an avant-garde publisher, thepublishers first who prevent important titles Ferlinghetti’s Coney Island of the Mind’ Campaign. 1 hope you’ll co-operate to by make Artaud's work available from in being available in Britain, thus Borges’ Labyrinths and many more. displaying them prominently and persuad­England, and my fame will resound delaying the spread of new ideas and The nine owners/managers say: We any book in print ing customers to contribute to the fund.throughout the land). new styles of writing often for many believe that the public should be &ee We must fight censorship wherever weB.M.: But you haven’t published him SECONDHAND years. to purchase all books in any edition find it. The Last Exitcase is the most yet. You have been sitting on thesePenguin Books have apparently ob­ as soon as they are published. They We have & large stock of secondhand important, but there will be others. rights for three years now and there jected is to the import of City Lights Jour­ do not think this would be detrimental books. Try us for what yon want or Bookship Manager: Certainly. It’sno a sign that you will publish an Artaudnal No. 3 on the grounds that they to authors, for the author gets his better still visit us. This week's selection. great idea. We’re all in favour book of even in the near future. In hold this the copyright on MacBird which percentage whatever edition is sold. They freedom for the arts here. way you have effectively banned Artaud's Germany Reports appears in it This means that all the feel that all readers should come to the J.C. : Fine. Fine. But what is this I see? works from Britain. Now, Mr. Colder, other material in the Journal is denied support of their campaign, for it is (Federal Government) 6/- Copies of the American edition The of let me ask you this. If we go on selling A Socialist Anthology to a British reader, including plays by essentially a declaration in favour of j Theatre and its Double. You know the American editions and you take Julian us Beck, Alexandro lodorowsky and the freedom to read. (ed.) Norman Longmate 8/6 very well that 1 have the rights on to all Court in an effort to stifle freedom Ait and Industry Herbert Read 10/— Bob Burleson, poems by Allen Ginsberg, H ubert Selby Senior , j Artaud's writings. On no account shouldin the arts and to stop us selling Michael these McClure, Charles Olson and A Study in Infamy: OVRA you be selling this book. I've a goodbooks, may we draw upon Free your George Mikes 5/— Lawrence Ferlinghetti, a major section P.S. As from luly 10, Marion Boyjj, j mittd to take you to Court over this.Art Legal Campaign funds in order tofrom India on the Hungry Generation, of Calder and Boyars has admitted that j We are the Makers of Dreams B M .: You tried to stop us selling fight the this case of attempted censorship? William Blake (1959) 4/- and an article on Apollinaire’s Great C and B haven’t got the British rights on 1 Artaud Anthology, also. Yet you your­Are you really in favour of freedom Whitman in Happening by Roger Shattuck. lohn Cage’s Silence and that therefore! Property, Its Origin and Develop­ self haven't published any Artaud the yet. arts or only in favour of freedom for ment Ch. Letoiimeau 6/6 An even more annoying ban is on any British bookseller is at liberty to stflj This is a simple case of attempted John Colder? one of the issues of the magazine Locus it. Yet the representatives of Calder and] The Nazi New Order in Poland censorship. You are preventing theThe above is a slightly fictional account Ion Evans 3/6 Solus, because it contains one poem on Boyars have repeatedly asked for this/ public from becoming familiar with of the a type of incident that has been which lohn Calder owns the copyright, book to be taken off the shelves and sent! The Dance of life Havelock Ellis 51— works of an important author. Thisrepeated is in various London bookshops Herbert Spencer though he has not published it yet. back, threatening proceedings unless this; not freedom. You say you are in favourrecently. The managers and/or owners Examples of a book which is virtually were done. J. Arthur Thomson (damaged) 3/6 of Free Art. How does it apply here? of eight or nine bookshops in London States and Morals T. D. Weldon 5/6 banned from this country because a H.S.S.M Listen, little Man! Wilhelm Reich (paperback) 7/6 The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti A NARCHXSTS everywhere will be that Evil was Sex and that his way of instead they all told us what they though* Howard Fast 4/- protecting young people was to rip up The Revolt of Modem Youth bitterly .disappointed to leam that for of present-day society. Pamela, it turned years now all their criticisms, everything Anything Goesany ‘pornography’ that a ‘permissive out was a ‘social optimist’; she felt tha* Ben B. Lindsey and society’ let them get hold of. Wainwright Evans 5/- they have stood for, have been founded things weren’t too desperate and that th J Rise and Fall of the Ex-Socialist on a false premise. For at last it has This book created such a stir among There were occasional interjections amount of control society was subject fi* Government Christopher Hollis 5/- been revealed (to those of us that didn’t people who are stirred by books of this from a Mr. Malleson who directs research at the moment, properly and responsibly? The Man from the Volga suspect it already) that our society is- kind that even the BBC got to hear into student problems at London Univer­ used (as it always is) would probabKJ F.J.P.Veale 5/6 basically okay, that the wrongs and in­ about it, and decided to turn it into a sity, but all that could be gleaned from keep us from perdition. The Peekham Experiment justices that crop up from time to time one-shot panel game. With customary what he said was that he was probably Again Stafford-Clark might have diM Innes H. Pearse and will pass, and that everybody is getting good taste the programme was put on asthmatic and almost certainly half- agreed, but didn’t say so and contcntT Lucy H. Crocker 7/6 richer, happier and sweeter-natured. late (10.10 p.m.) so that those of us who asleep. Everybody chatted innocuously himself with a vague plea for ‘great Socialism and Ethics Mount Sinai, the traditional venue for should be in bed by then would not be about permissiveness, pornography, dirt, understanding’. The headmaster replay_ Howard Selsam 4/6 this kind of revelation, was already exposed to such raw terms as ‘murder’, sex—which, as we well know, all amount his record about the r61e of the educaj booked up, so instead the good news ‘sex’, ‘coimcil-flats’, etc. to the same thing. and this woke up Mr. Malleson, J The Soil and the Sea j _ (ed.) Trevor L Williams 4/6 was dispensed over the Home service on ‘Is too much allowed?’ demanded the It never occurred to anybody to chal­ gasped briefly in the direction of Fifty Mutinies, Rebellions and lune 25. There to do the dispensing fearless Radio Times. ‘Is violent crime lenge the authoritarianism of the title: microphone. C. H. Rolph agreed t*. . Revolutions 8/6 were Pamela Hansford Johnson, David an index to the Moral State of Society?’ Is too much allowed?’; to point out that all in all, society wasn’t really doing f Stafford-dark and others. In the chair demanded C. H. Rolph, the fearless ver­ pornography is not a thing, but a state badly as it was. Amid sighs of relief Postage Extra was C. H. Rolph, professional legallj tebra. ‘Come on, then, tell me!’ de­ of mind to which authoritarian societies round we got back to our inlerrur eagle and vertebra in the wobbling spine manded the fearless listener. Some are inevitably prone; to note that per­ reading of de Sade. of the satirical socialist weekly, the New chance. It seems that the society they missiveness is just the latest credo and John Thursto * Freedom Bookshop Statesman. were all so worried about is just so damn that as long as we continue to talk in Pamela Hansford Johnson is a well- obsessed with sex that our rescuers terms of ‘permitting’ none of us are really (Open 2 pan.—536 pan. daily; known novelist and is married to Lord couldn’t talk about anything else in the free. 16 a.m —1 past. Thursdays; Snow. These two facts are a fair pointer whole 40 minutes of the programme. Their total acceptance of the status quo, P o t fo r 16 ami.—5 p m Saturdays). to (a) the present state of the novel in David Stafford-Clark, the psychiatrist, while supposedly giving it a critical once­ England, and (b) the present state of who at one time had the reputation of over, was reminiscent of Dilys Powell Consenting Adults 17a MAXWELL ROAD Lord Snow. Pamela went to the Moors being the only person, apart from Bill writing about Strick’s Ulysses in the FULHAM SW6 Tel: REN 3736 Murder trial and was aghast to find that and Ben the Flowerpot Men, to have Sunday Times: ‘We should be grateful Continued from pagS Ian Bradley and Myra Hindley were de­ ever talked sense on British television, to the GLC for giving us the chance to straight progressive ticket for peoplesr votees of the works of de Sade, and that made an attempt at coming to grips with see it’. In other words, question nothing vote on the issue of drug-taking’, andT the Marquis’ sadistic lucubrations were the subject and its implications, but then and be grateful for what you get there is ‘no principle of liberal thoug® an too easily obtainable in England’s gave up and decided to swim with the sexy The ‘moral state of society’ for people to support a man’s right to damage ^ FREEDOM PRESS green and pleasant, etc. current; his main contribution from that with minds of this calibre is no more destroy himself, then it’s about tin^ The dark: Satanic mills of her mind point on was an anecdote along the lines than the sum of the population’s sexual liberals and progressives began to PURL!CATI0MS ground into action, finally producing the of ‘How I replied in a sensible and adult habits; social and economic equality, just what they do believe in. thought (if what follows is worthy of the fashion when my four-year-old daughter non-sexual personal relationships, the If the Chichester drugs trial makes itl SELECTIONS FROM ‘FREEDOM1 name) that perhaps our society is too asked for the loan 'of mummy’s dia- role of the individual—irrelevancies of clear exactly who is in favour of indi^J Vol 3 1953: Colonialism an Trial permissive; perhaps corrupting influences phragm’^ P this kind are to be passed over in silence. vidual freedom and who is not, then it) Vol 4 1954: living on a Volcano are not sufficiently supervised; perhaps •Sex having now ousted all other con­ All this smug shower could tell us was might have some use, but it will be a ' Vol 5 1955: The Immoral Moralist* people—Brady, Hindley and the rest of tenders, everybody jumped in with little how much sex we should be allowed to pity if the Guardian is on the wrong side. Vol 6 1956: Oil and Troubled Water* us—are not being protected from nasti- “stories which illustrated how wise and have. Stafford-Clark, the only member Yours faithfully, Vol 7 1957: Year One—Sputnik Bat ness as effectively as the common good mature (hey were in this respect, and of the panel with any proven intelligence, N ic olas W a lt e r . I Vol 8 195S: Socialism in a Wheelchair demands. how jm the long run, young people came may have been repelled by their con­ Vol 9 1959: Prist, Press & Public Never stopping for a moment to Con­ to recognize this and to be grateful that descending public-mindedness and their Vol 10 I960: The Tragedy of Africa sider the corrupting influence her own they lived in a world where the older pitiful attempts at an imitation of fashion­ Vol M 196i: The People in the Street rurgid fictional outpourings might have generation was so understanding. able fake liberalism; if so, it’s a pity he WE GO TO PRESS ON MONDAY. Vol 12 1962: Pilkington v. Beeching had on .countless young poisons with a A headmaster named Barnes said that couldn’t have left sex alone for a LATEST DATE FOR RECEIPT OF Vol 13 1963: Forces of Law and Order budding interest in good literature, she a great deal of Evil threatened the pupils moment to say so. MSS., LETTERS, MEETING NOTICES Vol 14 1964: Election Years at once dashed off a new volume entitled in his school and that he, ‘in the role of The party reached an awkward point IS THE MONDAY IN EACH WEEK Each volume: paper 7/6 doth 16/6. On Iniquity in which she made public the educator’, was duty-bound to protect at summing-up time because there was a OF PUBLICATION. The paper edition of the SdtedeM is her concern for our moral well-being. them from it. Predictably, it turned out total of exactly nothing to sum up. So available to readers of lyyiM lRiflT-J- ■ at S/6 post free. and Maureen Richardson. ANARCHIST GROUP. All correspondence to:— PLYMOUTH ANARCHIST FEDERATION. Con­ Julian Ross, 11 Wellfield Close, Bishopston, VERNON RICHARDS Anarchist Federation of Britaintact J. Hill, 79 Underlane, Plymstock, Plymouth, Swansea. Devon. Mala testa: His Life and Ideas (As there is no national secretariat for enquiries, speakers, etc., please contact local groups.} READING ANARCHIST GROUP. Contact doth 21/-; paper 16/6 Alan Ross. 116 Belmont Road, Reading, Berks. 1967 AFB CONFERENCE. Ocx. Vale Road, Timperlcy, Cheshire. ROCHESTER ANARCHIST GROUP. Contact PROPOSED GROUPS E. MALATESTA For details of London venue and proposals; for Eryl Davies, 22 St. Margaret’s Street, Rochester. ABERDEEN GROUP. Correspondence to NORTH EAST ESSEX. Would readers interested Anarchy Paper 1/- agr-ncta apply LO LFA. Michael Day, 86 Rosemount Place, Aberdeen. Fortnightly meetings. SLOUGH. Contact Sid Rawle, 4 Hillperton in proposed group write to P. Newell, “May- ALEX a NDER b e r k m a n LONDON FEDERATION OF ANARCHISTS. BEXLEY ANARCHIST GROUP. Correspondence bush” , Maypole Road, Tiptree, Essex. Temporary address jc/o Wooden Shoe, 42 New Road. Slough, Bucks. ABC of Anardy^gpaper 2/6 to Paul Wildish, 2 Cumbrian Avenue, Bamehurst. SOUTH EAST ESSEX ANARCHIST GROUP. ELTHAM. ‘Sons of Durrutti’ Group. Get in Compton Street, London, W.C.2. Rent. touch with T. Liddle, 83 Gregory Crescent, ALEX COMFORT Sunday evening meetings 8 p.m. l-»)rafr & Flag. We would love to hear from fellow-sympathisers BELFAST: Contact Tony Adams, 11 Wineuvern in area. AH enquiries to M. Powell. 7 Luigcroft, London, S. E. 9. ' Rose Street, off Garrick Street, London, W-C.2 Street, Smithficld Square) Belfast. BIRKENHEAD. Please get in touch with G. Delinquency 6d. (Leicester Square Lube), Basildon, Essex. BIRMINGHAM ANARCHIST GROUP. Secre­ SOUTH WEST MIDDLESEX ANARCHIST Woqdhouse, 59 Cambridge Road, Woodchurch, / a l l e l t z s a c h e r Literature seller at Speakers' Corner, Sunday tary: Geoff Charlton, 8 Lightwoods Hill, Bear­ Birkenhead. afternoons. wood, Smethwick. 41. Regular meetings at Group meets alternate Thursdays and Saturdays, Anarchism (Seven Exponents of the on Eel Pie Island. Contact P. J. Goody, 36 MUCH HADHAM. HERTb. Get in touch with JULY w Scbasiian Scragg Geoff and Caroline’s above address, top fiat. Leslie Riordan, High Street, Much Hadham, Anarchist Philosophy) cloth 21/. ’Ccorgc Orwell on Anarchism* Norman Avenuo, Hanworth, Middlesex. First Wednesday of month. TROWBRIDGE PEACE ACTION GROUP. Herts. ’ HARLOW ANARCHIST CROUP. Enquiries to RESISTANCE GROUP. C/o Birmingham Peace ROCHDALE. Please contact Richard Crawford. RUDOLF ROCKER Keith Nathan. 138 Pcnnymead, Harlow or John Contact P. Weston. Chivele. Butts Lane, Keevil, Action Centre (formerly CND office). Factory Trowbridge, Wiltshire. Meetings every Tuesday 4 Hargreaves Street, Sudden, Rochdale. Nationalism and Culture Barrick. 14 Centre Avenue, Eppiag. Road, Birmingham, 19. 7.30 p.m. Friends* Meeting House (opp. Bus July 22. LFA at Hariovi^ ^ Public meeting, BOLTON* Get in touch with Le$ Smith, 74 Station). doth 21/-- loflffting, telling, social. Write for information. Arnold Street, Bolton. Lancs. rHABTJS MARTIN July 19. Mprtifig Moot House. The Stow, HERTS. Contact either Stuart Mitchell at South NORTH-WEST FEDERATION ABROAD Towards a Free Society 2/6 Harlow, 7.30 p.m. Fob Barltrop on 'The View, Potters Heath Lane, Potters Heath. Decline of the Socialist Ideal'. Welwyn. H ens OR Jeff Cloves, 46 Hughcndon Regional Secretary: Alistair Rauray, 35a AUSTRALIA. Federation of Australian Ana JOHN HEWETSON LEWISHAM, Locations ot meetings temporarily Road, Marsbalswick, St. Albans, Herts. Next Devonshire Road, Chorley, chists, P.O. Box A 389. Sydney South Pubf Ill-Health. Poverty and the State altered because o f new baby. Further details of meeting 10 Fry Road. Chclls, Stevenage, NORTH WEST ANARCHIST FEDERATION. meetings every Sunday in the Domain "> on meetings from 61 b Granville Park, S.E.13 or .m. Friday, July 7. *An Anarchist Anthology*. BUXTON ANARCHIST GROUP. Secretary: and Mondays, 72 Oxford Street. Paddlngtot doth 2/6; paper 1 /- ring LEE 8879. U Cloves. F. A. Gresty, Punchbowl, Manchester Road, Sydney. 8 p.m. V'OLLNE SOUTHWARK ANARCHIST GROUP. Contact BRISTOL. Contact: Dave Thorne. 49 Colham Buxton. ‘ DANISH ANARCHIST FEDERATION. 5 Dave Burden. 45b Barry Road, East Dulwich, Brow, Bristol, 6. CHORLEY ANARCHIST GROUP. Secretary: Mindovej, Soborg-Copenhagen, Denmark Nineleen-Seventeen (The Russian S.E.22. Proposed to be held on first and DUNDEE CROUP. Contact Bob and Una Anne Marie Fearon, 16 Devonshire Road, VANCOUVER, B.C., CANADA. Anyone intern Revolution Betrayed) doth 12/6 third Thursday of each month. Turnbull, 39 Slratbeden Park, Sirathedcn Hospital, Chorley. ted m forming anarchist and/or direct actio NOKIHOLT ANARCHISTS. Contact: Jim by Cupar, Fife. LIVERPOOL ANARCHIST PROPAGANDA peace group contact Derek A. James, 184 The Unknown Revolution Huggon, 173 Kingsbill Avenue. Northoll, Middlo- GLASGOW ANARCHIST GROUP ONE. Cor­ GROUP. Gerry Bree, 16 Faulkner Square, Liver­ Grand Boulevard. North Vancouver B C (Kronstadt 1921, Ukraine 1918-21) respondence to Robert Lynn, 2b Saracen Head pool, 8. Meetings weekly, ‘Freedom’ Sales— Canada. Tel.: 987-2693. BAJUNG ANARCHIST GROUP. Get into Lane. (Glasgow£ £.1. Pier Head, Saturdays, Sundays, Evenings. U.S.A. VERMONT /NEW HAMPSHIRE. D« doth 12/6 touch with Ken King, 54 Norwood Road. HOLTS. GROUP. Contact Stuart Mitchel at Southall. MANCHESTER ANARCHIST GROUP. Secre­ s.r,ouP m“ ts weekly. Contact Ed Strauss i E. A. GUTKIND 46 Hughendon Road, Marshalswick. St. Albans, tary: Dave Poulson, 9 Boland Street, FaUowfield, RFD 2. Woodstock, Vermont 0S091, USA. OFF-CENTRE LONDON Herts. Manchester, 14. SWEDEN. Stockholm Anarchist Federatiot The Expanding Environment HULL ANARCHIST GROUP. J. Tempest, Comact Nadir. Box 19104, Stockholm 19, Swede* Illustrated) boards 8/6 8 p.m. 1st and 3rd Mondays of month. The CANADA: Winnipeg. Anybody interested i DISCUSSION MEETINGS Cabin. Blue Bell Inn, Queen Street, EAST LONDON FEDERATION 3rd Wednesday each month at lack Robinson Direct action/anarchy contact G. J. Nasir, 60 GEORGE BARRETT at address. WEST HAM ANARCHISTS. Contact Stephen and Mary Canipa's, 21 Rumbold Road, S.W.6 IPSWICH ANARCHISTS, Contact Neil Dean. 74 Matheson Avenue. Winnipeg, 17, Manitoba. The First Person (Selections) 2/6 (off Kinx i Road). 8 p.m. Higgs. 8 Wcstbury Road, Forest Gate, E.7. BELGIUM: UEGE. Provos, c/o Jacques Cbarliei Ipswich, Suffolk. LIBERTARIAN TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION. MjfTfllFT BAKUNIN 3rd Friday of each month at 8 p.m. at Donald K1LBURN. LONDON. Contact Andrew Dewar. 11 Avenue de la Laiterie. Sclessim-Liege. Belgium and Irene Rooura's. now at 13 Savernake Road, -Meetings—discussions—activities. Contact Peter EAST AFRICA. George Matthews would like t Met i inn. Freedom and the State 16 Kilburn House, Malvern Place, London, Ford, 82 North Road, Highgate, N.6. (Tel.: London. N.W.3. N-W.6. Meetings 8 p.m. every Tuesday. MOU 5702.) make contact. Secondary school teacher fror (nd.) K- J. Kenafidc (paper) 7/6 LEE, LONDON, $.£.12. Anarchist-Radical UK. PO Box 90. Kakamega. Kenva. REGIONAL federations Group. Contact ’Paul', c/o Lewisham Group USA: NORTH-EASTERN MINNESOTA. Coat* IfkBEUmKKNQa AND GROUPS (above). SOUTH WALES James W . Cain, 323 Fourth Street, Cloquet Neither East nor West (Selected ORPINGTON ANARCHIST GROUP. Knockholt, Minn. 55720. USA ■ ALTRINCHAM ANARCHIST YOUTH GROUP. Nr. Seyenoaks, Kent. Every six weeks at Green, ANARCHIST FEDERATION GROUP-CDREASON. Australian Anarchist, c/- Writings) (paper) 6/- Get is touch with Stephen Richards, 25 North ways, Knockholt. Phone: Knockholt 23*' Brian Melbourne University Union or A.R. Gile CARDIFF ANARCHIST GROUP, SWANSEA Peters, c/o same. Talking Points strike of the women workers in a Clerken- well factory for equal pay whose pickets ■ ■ i b h w m b h m m M WML0 sat across the gateway. News of the world The direct action movement against 1 Girls Toll of Midnight Visits by Hoadmistross’s Son1- the Bomb, however little it succeeded in To the world 's wars was added a make him happy, wc are not generally in World however, does not believe that AFTER CND the issue for which it fought (an issue parachutist invasion of the Congo, inex­ favour of this sort of thing.’ . . . even in our tolerant society the mass of which could not anyway be won short plicably sparked off by the mid-air abduc­ ordinary men and women want to give of social-revolution), succeeded to a fan­ P N D IS DEAD—of course wc know; tion of Moishe Tsombe to Algeria. A woman of 52 lost a claim in Rio de the go-ahead to the drug-taker and the yes, but with CND the whole radical tastic extent in bringing radical activity Fighting started in Nigeria, burst out in Janeiro for financial compensation from homosexual. . . . We shall continue to upsurge is gone—the anarchist revival is into the context of British politics. Hong-Kong, sporadically erupted on the a man who abandoned her after they speak out loud and clear, confident that over. One need not think of King Hill, LSE, Suez Canal, dragged on in Vietnam, had lived together for 30 years. ‘Love we are speaking for the mass of ordinary How often have you heard it said? the Gypsy campaign or any contemporary cooled down in Aden and was witnessed is paid for only by love.’ . . . decent men and women in Britain to­ How often have you yourself said it or more revolutionary use of DA, one need in Genocide (formerly Grosvenor) day.’ . . I thought it? only think of the revival of the Civil Square. . . M r. Michael English , MP for West After Suez /Hungary, those who were Liberties Council so that it now has fire Nottingham, withdrew (on the insistence Seven constables of the Birkenhead trying to publicize the vision of a change enough in its bellies to protest about the For the alternative , of making love, of Crufts?) his statement that George Police were remanded in custody at in the nature of the system were faced way soldiers are kept in the army, the it was a mixed week. An optimist in Brown, the Foreign Secretary, deserved Birkenhead Magistrates’ Court charged with an almost total dearth of activity on way gypsies are treated and many such Peace News (Box 811) wants uninhibited the first prize for spaniels at Cruft’s dog with garage breaking, receiving and the part of the conventional left. There other formerly ignored issues as well as friendships (within the law). The law show for his Common Market speech. . . . theft. . . . issues (such as the majority jury verdict making unillegal homosexual conduct was therefore no mass movement at the A n unemployed Hindu at Hampstead, law) which stem directly from a social- between consenting adults in private heart of which radicals might propagate A correspondent (female) in the Chelsea charged with being drunk and disorderly, democratic government. passed another of its stages after high- something more revolutionary. Post writes: ‘Many people must be said he deliberately got drunk in the With the growth of widespread activity level debates in the House of Commons CND therefore had to act to create alarmed and horrified at the spectacle hope of being deported. He said, ‘I on such issues it is possible for liber­ during which members (Labour and Con­ for itself a milieu in which its ideas would this week of hundreds of little pubescent didn’t come to this country to be a ser­ tarian radicals to put their propaganda in servatives) made allegations about each be considered and, more still, those who girls rushing madly like bitches on heat vant of the English.’ The chairman of advocated libertarian ends had to resort terms of published argument to a far other’s virility and sexual prowess. Sir to get a glimpse of the Monkees. To the the magistrates fining him £2 said he greater extent than formerly. It is obvious Gerald Nabarro told his constituents, to direct action to further CND's ends majority, of course, the incident is harm­ must ‘try something else. . . . This offence by means that conflicted with the nature that it demands far less sacrifice to pub­ ‘There is mounting evidence of depravity less, but there must certainly be a doesn’t merit deportation.’ . . . of CND. lish libertarianism, than to use small in the Labour Party. Labour city coun­ minority for whom this is the first step The first manifestation of the regrowth minority direct action to illustrate the cillors in Birmingham advocate legalized •on the ladder downwards to promiscuity, T he first two applications to the of radicalism was therefore an intensifi­ case. brothels. Red lamps to replace red flags. drug-taking, abortion, VD and a life of European Commission of Human Rights cation among ‘intellectual’ propagandists There would seem to be an inverse Labour Members of Parliament back misery.’ . . . A married man of 33 was by Roy and Alice Fletchers, who are of activity, rather than an intensification ratio between the proliferation of new loosening of homosexual laws. Labour fined £25 on two charges of indecently serving life sentences after being con­ of it in terms of mass resistance to libertarian and radical propagandist jour­ Members of Parliament peddle abortion. assaulting two girls who had gathered victed of the murder of a child in Bir­ authority. nals and the promotion of direct action A Labour Home Secretary failed dis­ in a crowd of 200-300 to see the Monkees mingham, England, in 1961, have been The effect of this is to encourage many as a propagandist rather than a resistance mally to prevent drug and dope traffick­ at their Kensington hotel. There were ruled inadmissable. Howard Cheney’s people to consider direct action for more technique. But, given the fact that it is ing which erects as idols pop singers, reports that several teenagers were challenge of income tax and surtax assess­ purely economic or piecemeal issues. used as a resistance weapon, DA makes junkies and the like. We urgently need stranded after midnight after waiting for ments, because he claimed that money One hears of mothers using DA to get possible the spread of libertarianism as a a Government of moralists. I am dis­ the Monkees. Two readers write and from the tax was being unlawfully spent roads shut off in which it is safe for their theory to a degree that was impossible gusted by the depraved trend in the thank that guardian of public morals— on nuclear weapons, was dismissed with children to play; one hears of villages eight years ago. Socialist Party, presided over by Mr. the News of the World for prizes of costs in the High Court. The Judge using DA to limit the traffic through The revival is therefore as yet by no Wilson, and it will cost him dear at the tickets to the Monkees concert at Wem­ claimed that the assessments were legally them; there was, some years back, a means finished. next General Election. The long hair of bley. . . • made under the relevant Finance Act Mr. Wilson’s intellectuals on the back Howard Cheney is a farmer and owner benches will strangle him.’ . . . The n of w publicizes the Dutch homo­ of a Birmingham manufacturing business sexual ‘wedding’; an article on the Babyi- and is a supporter of C ND and the In Holland , where there is no legislation Yar atrocities showing a picture of a Committee of 100. . . . Through the Anarchist Press against homosexuality, two Catholic naked woman without pubic hair (for the homosexuals celebrated their friendship sake of decency); information on a cam­ World food production per head of the paign to bring back the rope, sponsored population was lower in 1965 than in [BARCELONA CUBA and partnership, and the birthday of a by Duncan Sandys, MP; an attack on 1964 according to the United Nations From the bottom of a mine The warehouse of the Timber Corpora­ mother, with Mass in a Rotterdam church when they exchanged rings. The chair­ the Bill on Homosexuality entitled ‘The Yearbook. World population increased to the bottom of a jail tion in Habana was recently destroyed by man of the Dutch association for homo­ Charter for Corruption’ by Esmond between 1960-65 at an annual average of r I^ k OM OVIEDO, N. Spain, the agency fire. The authorities claim that the act sexuals said he was not happy about Wright, MP, with a picture showing Leo \.9% and world food produced only P- ‘Europa-Press’ reported to La Van- was intentional, according to the infor­ what newspapers described as ‘the wed­ Abse (the bill’s sponsor) in a fancy waist­ increased by 1%. guardia Espanol (day 28) that on the mation of Sr. Gustavo Alberto L6pez ding’. He said ‘the necessity for such a coat; and an article on holidays in Jon Q uixote . ■Sunday, the eleven miners from the Amador on his arrival at Miami. Several Turkey ‘Where Parties mean Orgies’. ■Llamas' mine, who stayed underground ceremony suggests that they are not sure boats and a group of houses adjacent to Their editorial headed ‘They are all talk­ [for six days, were taken to the prison in the warehouse were totally destroyed, of one another. Given the fact that any­ one has the right to do things which ing about us’ says, ‘The News of the [Oviedo, and that after being examined and more than 100 cars parked nearby Summar Project hn the hospital, were placed under the were severely damaged, including one [care of a court as ‘deemed responsbile for belonging to the Director of the Corpora­ in H a rlo w [various crimes’. It added that it was able tion. Agents of the State Security Depart­ ho be proven that conditions in the mines ment were soon on the scene, and arrested The Police Must Answer! HDHE HARLOW Anarchist Federation [of Asturias are normal (save in the the night-watchmen, those responsible for (‘Harlow may be the only town in the JLIoris mine, where only 83 miners re­ the warehouse, and others acting on the HIS IS NOT the first time that we had the displeasure of printing accounts country of in which the most active and ported for work. The 63 absent are premise that the fire was the work of a ‘police violence’. But this, brought to our office by a public-spirited probably citizen, the largest political youth group saboteur. Losses are estimated at more T undergoing sanctions imposed by the is perhaps the most vicious example of such brutality. is composed of Anarchists.’—Harlow than half a million dollars. company, namely the suspension of work At this demonstration (July 2) several of our comrades were arrested. We areGazette, 7.7.67) is holding a public meet­ 150,000 sacked in Red Cuba and wages until next Friday.). also printing a letter this week from one of our readers describing the falseing charges in the Town Centre on Saturday, MADRID A hundred and fifty thousand Cubans against Terry Liddle and the sentence extracted by the police from the magistratesJuly 22 at 2 p.m., leafletting, literature seeking permission to leave the country Jail for an opponent of the Referendum where the testimony of two citizen witnesses were dismissed in favour of selling, police bubble blowing and speakers. The Public Order Tribunal has seen have been sacked and many of them have evidence. The Harlow Group needs speakers and the case brought against the student been sent to work in the forced labour We have no illusions about the police. Usurping their social duties likerequests directing assistance for selling literature camps known as ‘Military Units for the Ramon Garcia Coralero for ‘non-peace- the traffic or escorting old ladies across the road their job involves them in anddehumanis­ welcome as many people as can get ful demonstration’ and ‘illegal propa­ Help of Production’, according to the ing violence. Thugs they are whether their ‘work’ is sanctioned by the Stateto Harlow.or not. information of Enrique Varas Diaz, a ganda’. He is accused of being the author T SAW THIS on Sunday, July 2 as we ______Since this is an attempt to talk to mechanical worker from the town of of some clandestine leaflets distributed were going down Brook Street on our people they don’t want ‘slogans and Marianao, arriving in exile on one of the before December 10 in Madrid, inviting way home after protesting at the Ameri­ /COPIES of the News of the World were rentacrowd uniforms to get in the way people to declare themselves against the Varadero-Miami ’planes. can Embassy in Grosvenor Square over of conversation’. Measures against the workers of Cuba - burnt in Hyde Park, near the Serpen­ Referendum. the war in Vietnam, a young fellow who tine, last Sunday as a protest against the HAF had very good advance publicity He has been condemned to 2 years A new resolution from the Ministry of was walking along the side of the road on this in the local papers. Labour regulating the salaries of the newspaper’s ‘shopping’ of the Rolling and 3 months' imprisonment and fined when two policemen told him to get on Their next project is on August 26/27 working population, is considered by the Stones to the police. 15,000 pesetas. the pavement. Before he had a chance to when they will have a stall in the Town workers as another attack on the working Later a great crowd of young people REPRESSION IN CATALONIA get on the pavement the policemen set Show (attended by 100,000 people last class, since they are obliged to work gathered round the bandstand where the Barcelona about him punching and kicking him to Metropolitan Police Band (mainly brass) year). On that occasion they will give Students on the general courses on harder and eam less. the ground. away FREE lemonade, balloons, leaflets The new move, called in the press a was giving a spirited rendering of Philosophy, Letters, and Foreign Lan­ Pleased with what they had done they and F reedom . ‘Collective Salary’, spoils the advantages ‘Lohengrin’. Their audience sitting in guages at the University of Barcelona, walked off and left him clutching his deck-chairs and on the grass was sound Lots of help needed next Saturday. hitherto gained by the workers in Cuba. were banned from attending class in stomach. A girl, about 16-17 years old, asleep only occasionally waking up So go and stir it up. There is a social February. The University authorities The ‘collective salary’ will mean that the ran across the road to help him, but as in the evening. R. Cuban worker will take home 74 dollars frightened by the crash of the cymbals. closed the doors to the students so that she got n ear' him six police thugs per month, more or less, according to his The appearance of the young people they should not meet again as, at midday, grabbed her and started kicking and quota. Previously, Cuban workers earned changed all that. They made the best of they had held an ‘unauthorized assembly’. punching her with the utmost brutality the music, augmented by their bells and Proceedings are being taken against a salary in proportion to the amount of work they did, which was always more leaving her lying in the gutter. The hand-clapping, and danced on the grass. two students, named Tarragb Navarro numbers of two of the thugs are K873 Police were called, who, to the horror and Alqueras, accused of illegal assembly than that which they will now get under and J780. of some of the spectators, started push­ on December 9. They have been accorded the scheme imposed by Castro and his Belter! bunch. Then, on realising that quite a few ing and shoving them about. When a provisional liberty. people who saw the incident were not foreigner objected saying: ‘They are not Two students, Jaime CarboneU Scvar- existing in the island today. demonstrators, the six thugs hastily left doing any harm’, he was told, ‘You are WEEK 27, JULY 8, 1967: roja and Juan Frigola, both of the Faculty Translated by Bob Bater . the scene. A Doctor Wilson helped the an alien. You stay out of this’. Expenses: 27 weeks at £90: £2430 of Philosophy and Letters, are accused of (From Le Combat Syndlcalista, Bolelin girl up and wanted to call an ambulance, The young people left but returned Income: Sales and Subs.: £1875 sticking posters on the University pre­ de Information Libertarla (Cuban Liber­ but the girl refused for personal reasons. later. This time they made no noise cincts. Tlie second has been detained. tarian Movement in Exile), L’Agltazione A group of people who crossed the whatsoever, just stood in the distance DEFICIT: £555 The Hispano-Olivetti Company has del S/td.) road to help the boy and girl were watching the scene. suspended seven workers, two of them also set about and were arrested. As for The police band put down their instru­ Hartficld: D.M. £2; Somerset: R.L. 5/-; women, from their work and their wages, charges made of assaulting the police, ments, and to a man, jumped off the Bath: J.C. 7/-; Wolverhampton: J.K.W.* while proceedings against them are being the only assault that took place that day bandstand and chased the young people 2/-; J.L.* 3/-; Maidstone: R.E. £1; prepared. The company is also holding Busy Day in Brighton away I Birmingham: M.B. 5/-; California: J.C. sanctions against 250 workers for three was on the part of the police. ‘Roads weeper’. (As told to J.R- by several people who17/6; St. Cloud, Minn.: M.A. £7/17/6; days for having attended a meeting. They [MURE DETAILS of demo on Sunday, have witnessed this remarkable Incident.)Bury St. Edmunds: C.P.* 6/-; Oxford: are threatened with sacking should it July 16: The public meeting on (Name and address supplied.) M.B. 10/-; Ipswich: W.D. 10/-; London, happen again. Vietnam outside the Brighton church at LETTER noon (when the congregation come out), W.2: W.G. £1; Cheltenham: L.K.W.* which is intended partly to challenge 10/-; Hurtficld: O.M. 8/2; Manchester: members of the congregation to discuss TERRY UDDLE IB SCRUBS R.C. 10/-; Stanmorc: M.C. 10/-; London­ with us why we did what we did and why derry: I B. 10/-; London, N.W.6: B.S. 10/-; Subscription Ratos they felt outraged by it, will be followed Dear Friends, generally to collate information about Bristol: N.P. £1/13/-; Sheffield: R.B. 10/-; by a march to Brighton Town Hall Following his Woolwich conviction (sec magistrates' views, reactionary or other­ London, E.5: G.H. 1/-; Oregon: R.H. 10/6; FREEDOM only (per year) (where the magistrates* court is). We shall F reedom , 24.6.67) Terry Liddle, founder wise. (Information welcome, c/o Lewis­ Chelsea, Mass.: J.M. 17/6; Oxford: S.M. £1 IBs. ($4.50) surface mail then have another meeting outside the member of Lewisham Anarchists, was ham Anarchists, see group addresses.) 2/6; London, N.7: A.W. £1/10/-; Worthing: M.B. 10/-; Chalfont St. Peter: £2 16s. ($(.00) airmail Town Hall—about the civil liberties again arrested in Genocide Square, July2. Terry can receive any number of letters W.C. £5; London, S.E.10: W.E. 4/-; ANARCHY only (per year) aspects. There may also be an indoor He was sentenced, on uncorroborated but can only write once a week: 10797, £1 6». ($3.50) surface mail meeting in the evening. Nic and Jim, police evidence, to one month in Worm­ T. S. Liddlc, H.M. Prison, Wormwood Hamilton: D.N. 10/-; London: W.L. £10. £2 7s. ($7.00) airmail the two sentenced to jail, will then go to wood Scrubs despite producing two wit­ Scrubs, Du Cane Road, W.12. TOTAL: £39 9 8 surrender themselves at midnight when nesses to say no assault of the police took It will be interesting to sec what I, as Previously Acknowledged: £614 4 1 COMBINED SUBSCRIPTION the bail runs ou t There will thus be place. the girl who started the sit-down, re­ FREEDOM & ANARCHY (per year) virtually a whole day of activities in The magistrate, Gradwcll, is due to ceives from our British justice on Tues­ 1967 Total to Date: £653 13 9 £2 10s. ($7.30) surface mail both Brighton on the 16th. retire sdon, and it was obviously overdue. day, when up on the same charge. £4 15s. ($12.30) airmail both Bernard Miles — It would be helpful to Anarchists H ilary Little. * Denotes Regular Contributor. rjELEGATES at Aberdeen for the majority of the railwaymen had the Railways 6 card and 1 now have the National Union of Railwayman's stuffing knocked out long ago. green light to press ahead with the Conference, voted against continuing While admitting that the railways expansion of the freight-liner service JULY IS IW Vot 2S No 21 the London freight terminal strike. need modernising and making effi­ which can do so much to offset the The vote, an overwhelming one of cient, this need not be at the expense contraction of jobs which has taken 66 to 11. was taken after a motion of the railwaymen, nor need the place.’ One cannot believe such a calling for a national strike was more profitable sides of the industry statement, for in the first place they defeated by 68 votes to 9. An be handed over to private enterprise. wanted to sack 35 men at Stratford, alternative plan of snowballing the Mr. Greene, the General Secretary so what will happen at the other strike to all freight services was of the NUR, said after the retum- term inals? gaining support, but no motion on to-work decision, ‘There are a lot Railwaymen are worried about A CO-OPERATIVE this came from the delegates. of people that we ought to have been the White Paper on British Trans­ The decision to call off the strike fighting for a long time ago. Lots port. to be published shortly, and was a great disappointment to the of people had had to move their the plans for a National Freight London strikers. They had not only homes and take other jobs. And it Authority. Will this mean further been defending their jobs, but also was that we were arguing this sackings and further encroachment making a principled stand against principle too late.’ But Mr. Greene, by private companies? The NUR OF FREE MEH private firms employing their own with his sosorrowful countenance, leadership will do nothing to prevent labour at the terminals. Although has always been against ‘fighting', that, for sure, but action like that [X>0 MANY GROUPS on the ‘left* committee of seven, who can be replaced j there are no redundancies, the 35 and this is why railwaymen are in of the 5,000 London railwaymen T talk about 'worker*’ control’, or more by a majority vote any tune Here, m- 1 such a bad position today. will. A stand was made too late, exactly, their interpretation of it. Various deed, is a practical application of the j who were sacked are now to work schemes have been propounded, most under contract to the private firms, Mrs. Barbara Castle, the Minister but the example shown in London syndicalist principle of recallable official* hopelessly Utopian, many downright A close solidarity exists between drivers, I of Transport, was ‘delighted* with should be taken up next time. the number of jobs for railwaymen cranky, very few commercially viable. although it would be gross over-praise to j P.T. have once again been reduced. Even the return to work. She said: ‘The The ‘Factory for Peace’ has proved at say that no personal friction exists. Even though the Railways Board have least a partial failure and can hardly be under democratic conditions people are 1 said that they will double their sheds regarded as a commercial success. How still only human. But a driver who s i at Stratford, this still means that the much really genuine ‘workers’ control’ sick will find his mates quick to asssi ] vast majority of the loading and exists in it can be judged from recent financially, as grateful letters on the! unloading will be done by the happenings there (particularly the case TODA notice-board can testify. T u k ij employees of forwarding agents. of Walter Morrison). are shared, one driver investigating ihgl position re SET, another taking it upon j This strike, the first NUR official STANSTED AND MILITARY It is pleasing therefore to be able to himself to write various letters, etc , and ' strike since the General Strike of report the existence, and the success, a truly commercial success, of a workers* all proceedings of TODA meetings airgi 1926, was a ‘stand made too late'. co-operative. The Aberdeen Taxi Owner- displayed in the muster room in ordgfl Over the years railwaymen have Drivers* Association or TODA, as it is that everyone knows exactly what to o fl been demoralised by the way their known. Started by a handful of drivers, place. REQUIREMENTS That this firm is a commercial succegH industry has been axed. The plans some of whom had been sacked by a for modernisation and efficiency city firm which had. at the time, a virtual is undoubted. Drivers in TODA ei have meant that many railwaymen YN THE STANSTED argument a great allowed to pass without much notice. A monopoly of taxi services in Aberdeen, very considerably more than their | great deal of argument has gone on about have had to move house and many deal is being said about noise, in­ this group has become a serious rival to vately employed fellow workers whiefl creased road traffic in the area, dislocation the distances and costs involved in getting gives an indication of the profits whicM others have been made redundant. the aforementioned near-monopoly con­ of regional planning, loss of agricultural people to the new airport wherever it is. cern. And TODA consists not of pie-eyed must be raked in by capitalist taxi opera! No stand has been made by the land, fall in house values, etc., but what Now five of the possible alternative sites Utopian leftists, but of ordinary working tors. But with TODA, the money g o f l NUR, for although one hoped for is pretty certainly the key consideration are in the Thames Estuary—all of them men. who have discovered, by themselves, to the workers. The group also operate) and expected a longer strike, the is being neglected. commended by approaches over water. that co-operation is the finest way to insurance schemes, giving members &i I have the White Paper of the Public Sir Milner Holland, QC, in his closing|__ carry out their work, socially useful work. opportunity to purchase their own home Enquiry in front of me. It was presented speech for the Ministry of Aviation, From the initial few, TODA has grown etc. to the Minister of Housing and Local ‘mentioned the suggestion that hovercraft to an efficient, and completely democratic, There are faults with TODA, at lea Government by the man appointed to do on the Thames could serve Cliffe or firm with 36 drivers. Each driver is self- from a socialist viewpoint No attempt! Contact Columnthe job, Mr. G. D. Blake. MA, FRICS, Sheppey. He did not think it could make employed, owns his own car and keeps is made to push this type of organisation, I FAI, and he opens with his conclusions. a significant contribution to handling a his takings for himself, paying into the even to other taxi-drivers, indeed mem-1 This column exists for mutual aid. His first conclusion is that the local major airport’s traffic’ (p. 31). central organisation each week a set sum bership has been closed at 36, This size’ Donations towards cost of typesetting objections ‘are formidable and justified’ —decided upon by all members—plus the limitation does have a good effect never- : will be welcome. How thick can a QC get? The present theless, since it makes communication (p. 3.) Then on page 5 he offers the hovercraft service from Southampton to hire of his radio equipment The facilities of the central office are easier and group democracy more viable. Holiday for Children. Weekend holiday critical evidence that so few people to the Isle of Wight provided a 60 mph shared equally between all members, by But it is a pity that the propagandist out- } date seem to want to know about service in a 38-sea ter craft. The new offered for children in Kent. the simple method of giving each driver look has not been thought of. These Deprived or hard-up, gardenless ‘Foulness, Dengie Flats and G unfleet J craft now in production will cany' 98 Sands are queered by the Shoeburyness j the orders in turn. A quite simple system people prove that ordinary people, with­ children welcome. Small contribu­ passengers (i.e. many more than the firing range as is to some extent Sheppey. of job allocation ensures no favouritism out bosses, without repressive authority, tion 8a Montacute Gardens, Tun­ buses now serving Heathrow from Crom­ Evidence was given by Major General and, on an open circuit radio, very little can run things, and run things better bridge Wells. well Road) and will be faster than 60 Egerton that removal of the range could gerrymandering could go on anyway. The than the bosses, politicians and civil Flats and Houses Cleaned. Simple re­ mph. Travel over water costs nothing in not be expected. 1 have, of course, to use of radio in this way is a step, a small servants. Believe me, / know, for 1 work decoration and gardening jobs terms of the permanent way and we have accept that evidence although the main but encouraging step, towards the sophis­ every weekend with TODA as a con­ wanted. A W. Uloth, 75 Templars two railway stations, Charing Cross and thing about Shoeburyness is that it is ticated communications envisaged by troller, and coming from the authori­ Avenue, London, N .W .ll. Waterloo, ideally situated as London there. It is difficult to think of a less Alan Parker in his recent articles on the tarian environment, a typical capitalist Come Home All is Forgiven. Wanted terminals by the river. Hovercraft leave suitable location for an artillery firing communications problems in democratic set-up, into a free co-operative of free news of whereabouts of Lewisham no wake, are highly manoeuvrable and,| range than the Thames estuary. The industry. men is like coming from hell into heaven Anarchist banner arrested in Geno­ being amphibious, could proceed straight range constitutes a barrier to aircraft The Association is administered by a Ia n S inclair S utherland . cide Square. News to Lewisham from the London terminal to the door of Group. movement about 20 miles long, 7 miles wide and 60,000 feet high. It is likely the aircraft. What on earth are we wait­ Accommodation—London. Any kind of that the height will be reduced to 35,000 ing for? Could it be that hovercraft pro­ accommodation wanted from Aug./ feet which will not, however, help the duction is so thoroughly earmarked for SepL/Oct. for anarchist-inclined position’ (my italics—P.C.). Vietnam (as in fact it is) that Sir Milner warding agents, and 32% by rail staff. student (male). N o petty restrictions. Major General Davis Boswell Egerton prefers not to know? MORE ON LIFT (However the agreement has always been Apply Paul Kiddey, 1 West Hill is the Director General of Artillery and Mr. Blake’s final opinion, the one that 20% forwarding agents, and 80% by rail Way, Totteridge, London, N.20. the Government has pleased to ignore, Dear Comrades, Wanted. Financial help to establish his evidence about the Shoeburyness fir­ staff.) ing range reads as follows: is as follows: The NEC of the NUR has already The BRB knew and expected a strike, anarchist press (or printing facilities) ‘In my opinion, a review of the whole been slated for betraying their members. but thought that it would fizzle out How­ in Far East. Box 62. ‘It is not possible to move the range elsewhere’ (p. 20). problem should be undertaken by a But once again the full facts have not ever, not only to the surprise of the Wanted-Unfurnished-London. Room(s). The important thing here is that the committee equally interested in traffic in been put in the view of the public ot BRB, but also to the surprise of the Willing to renovate and redecorate. Army’s opinion is not considered as an the air, traffic on the ground, regional even the members concerned. So I am N U R , it spread and it spread fast The John and Anne Beaumont, 91 opinion and looked at critically—it is auto­ planning and national planning. The re­ about to support the NUR in their deci­ Bishops Road, S.W.6. REN 8165. BRB then realised that they could not matically accepted as a veto. As Mr. Blake view should cover military as well as civil sion. Dialectics of Liberation. July 15-28. stab the ra il men in the back and then puts it, ‘I have, of course, to accept that aviation’, p. 8 (my italics—P.C.). Prior to the opening of LIFT the Roundhouse, Chalk Farm. Laing, expect to get away with it So at a evidence’. He goes on to have a very Peter C adogan . handling was to be done by 68% for- Bateson. Carmichael, Marcuse, meeting between the BRB and the NUR good and effective dig at the Army never­ Goodman, Ginsberg, etc. 10/- per on June 29, these were the proposals put theless! lecture, 7/6 students. Further details: forward by the BRB: The Government’s decision over Stan- The Roundhouse. 1. The work which has been given to sted is a fantastic example of authori­ Sommer School. Committee of 100. the forwarding agents at this Terminal tarianism run riot. The only people who Aylesmore Farm, Shipston-on-Stour, GENERAL COUNCIL LOBBIED will still be done by them. want the new airport at Stansted are the Warwicks. July 29-August 9. Details 2. When the area of this Terminal is Army and the AWRE (who are also from John and April Majoram, 47 extended from 30,000 sq. f t to 60,000 deeply committed to Foulness and Shoe­ T^HIS WEEK, the ‘lay’ General Council St. Alban’s Road, Leicester. the council members at the ASW head-|__ sq. ft, the new handling sheds will be buryness) and various groups with vested **■ of the Amalgamated Society of Wood­ Broadmoor patient soon to be released quarters at Clapham Common. On some supervised by forwarding agents on the interests involved. workers has met to decide on the appeals needs job. Replies to A.R. Reading sites all the carpenters stopped at dinner­ condition that the handling of the con­ Wilson has now whipped the Stansted against the disciplinary action by the Group. time and others sent delegates to the tainers will be done by railmen. decision through the House of Commons Executive Council on the elected London Former Jnnkie. Wants job and accom­ lobby. Sites taking part were Laings and 3. When the lease is expired of the and Peter Masefield has told us that the officials and stewards. modation in London. Box 54. Turriffs on the Barbican, Pinewood and now existing sheds, and the forwarding first new buildings, costing some £100,000, Those appealing are Jack Rusca, sacked Accommodation. Anarchist seeks accom­ Shepperton studios, Wimpeys site at agent concerned wishes to re-lease, it will will go up this autumn. from office of London District Secretary; modation in Camden Town or Brunei University (where all work only b e done so on the grounds that the Predictably, conventional protest has Charlie Thompson, John Smith and Taft Islington. Box 50. stopped) and carpenters from GLC and handling of his containers will be done failed again. Feeling is no less strong for Evans, suspended from the London man­ local authorities’ jobs. Musicians. Required for a South-East by rail staff. all that If this latest piece of military- agement committee and Lou Lewis and London Anarchist Social on Septem­ So far, no decision has come from the This does not only concern LIFT at political exhibitionism is to be defeated Rolph Langdon. expelled stewards from ber 23. Enquiries and quotes to General Council, but judging from re­ Stratford, but also at the nine other Ter­ only direct action will do it and this the Myton dispute in the Barbican. The ports, it will be close. There is no doubt Lewisham Anarchists address. minals shortly to open. It was this which means organised non-violent physical Executive took this action because these Blues. Piano player wishes to join/form that the majority of the London member­ was put in front of the Annual General opposition to the actual building process men supported the lads on the Myton ship is against the action of the Executive R & B group. Please phone Eddie, Meeting at Aberdeen. Which was why itself. The answer to a bulldozer is and Sunley (Westminster) disputes. and so, if the machinery fails now, other the strike had been called off. 722 9188. farmers’ tractors, lots of them. On the first day of the General Council means will have to be tried. Yours fraternally, W you wish to make contact let ns know, There is one other matter that has been meeting, nearly 200 carpenters lobbied P.T. H anworth, M iddx. pj q by fcgpr— F iin n , L—doe , B .l. 17a