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HYDE PARK Organthe of HydePark Movement,London, federatedto theUnited SocialistMovement, Glasgow,Edited and Published by Guy A. Aldred. All unsigned contributions are from the pen of the Editor. should be addressed to Guy Aldred at his private London address : Communications, suggestions and donations 122 Addison Gardens, London, W.l4. Vol. 1. No. 1. SEPTEMBER, 1938.

AND WHY HYDE PARK 5' " Monthly : ONE PENNY. And why HYDE PARK? HYDE PARK PLATFORMS1. Do not be content to hear us. Write, help, discuss Such is the question that will ash to your mind, on seeing this sheet. The purpose of this editorial is what can be done to build. Let us form a living fellowship of comrades, a real grouping of Brethren to answer your involuntary query. lof theFree Spirit. Hyde Park, as a public forum, was established by l And so, HYDEPARK ! " the will of the people, directly expressed, in oppos- ition to wish of the State. Our forefathers had the l courage and the public affection to will free speech. The freedom they established is curbed and restricted. Sufficient remains for us to use, so that the un- WILLIE GALLAGHER,M.P.Before,and After restricted right of free assembly in Hyde Park, with , John McGoverns merciless exposures of Willie the right to circulate the printed word as well as to Gallacher in the columns of the Glasgow Forward, proclaim the spoken word, may be secured. The and Wil1ies evasive conditional replies, have urried regulations of the Otlice of Works are contrary to the Act of Parliament and to the Common Law of the Communist Party supporters in Hyde Park. The circulation, also, of The Word, for May, 1938- England. These regulations should be swept aside reproducing Gallachers exposure of Neil MacLean and can be swept aside if the people but will the 1and his comments on the Oath of Allegiancehas extinction of such thinly-disguised prohibition of been resented. Our view is that Gallacher is in the public right. Our aim is to prepare the way for this same situation as any other Labour Parliamentarian great battle of democracy. We would oppose the and should be attacked accordingly. Denouncing power of the public forum of Hyde Park to the Neil MacLean in January, 1921, Willie Gallacher careerist assembly of Parliamentarians at West- ai/erred that it must ever be the work of revolu- minster. In its current degeneracy, Hyde Park is a centre tionaries, that is, genuine Socialists, to expose, most mercilessly, those who would mislead or betray the for alleged religious speaking; actually for the parade workers. Gallacher is now in the position of those of much theological hypocrisy. An insolent con- sequence of pious cant is human fear to pay tribute who would mislead or betray. Two months after his attack on Neil MacLean, to what is not only good and worthy, but is genius and worth, in the Bible. Honest, thoughtful men are ,Gallacher was imprisoned. Thereupon, the Pro- visional Executiveof the C.P.G.B., atits meetingon afraid to expound the Old Testament prophets or applaud the parables of Jesus, lest they Sunday, March 13th, 1921, decided, in the event of a bye-election at Leicester, to run Willie Gallacher as be charged with superstition and accused of the Communist Party candidate. Arthur MacManus belief in impossible miracles and other crea- International Socialism explained the situation in The Communist for tions of the witch's cauldron of fear. The original message of Jesus, the unemployed son of This was establised by Albert Jarvis. known to all Hyde March 19th, beneath full-page headings : Our Con- Parkers as Bert." Comrade Jarvis is seen on the piet- vict Candidate. This was the main heading. It was man, who had not where to rest his head: his mag- form. This picture was taken on Coronation day, when sensational rather than correct. Gallacher was a nicent, direct speech: his simplicity of narrative and he decided to have a. Socialist Meeting of protest against aptness of illustration are slimmed over by the convicted, hard-labour prisoner, not a convict. The unctuous platitudes of the multifarious theological the park. Comrade Jarvis was the first to introduce the second heading read: Willie Gallacher as Pros- splendourred flag into midst Hyde poverty. Park. HisOne offearless the oldest Anti-Parliarment- frequenters of professors who use the Park for their blasphemous pective Communist Member for Leicester. arian and Anti-.\lilitarist speeches bring him into conflict In the body of the article, MacManus stated that tirades. The original teaching of the son of man is with all the reformist: elements bot his humorous rallies the Government had issued a challenge and Gal- denied and destroyed by their mediocre conventions. are viewed by his audiences as a feature of Hyde Park life. Their confusion and mystery serve the ends of l2chers candidature is our acceptance of that capitalist society. HYDE PARK" would oppose the challenge. ,pulpit, the pulpit of power and mediocrity, of oppres- MacManus quoted Hansard. Commander activity of these agents of death with the power of a sion and force, the cynical pulpit of the Pope, the Kenworthy had declared that Malone was prosecuted genuine pulpit.Let Christiansforsake mysteryand l/xnglican Church, Capitalist Trinitarian Noncon.for- for his opinions. Shortt, Home Secretary, denied miracle and orthodoxy of convention. Let Christians mity, the pulpit that condones slaughter and blesses this allegation and declared: There is not a single realise that there can be no Fatherhood of God exploitation. This pulpit deies Jesus, the better to hon. member who can produce the shorthand notes without the Brotherhood of Man: and no Brother- cloak the outrage of his humanity. of a single trial in any court which can substantiate hood of Man without the repudiation of war. To As with theology, so with politics. We have any such charge." be a Christian, a man or woman must oppose war political parties and groups, all falling short of the Mr. Neil MacLean: I am accepting the challenge and must refuse to serve the moloch of militarism real message of working-class struggle. Labour Party thrown out by the Home Secretary, and I am going in any capacity. defenders, a medley of muddle and confusion, to quote the case of a Paisley mechanic, William HYDE PARK " aims .to establish for the Christians, preaching a spurious Socialism, developing an actual Gallacher. a genuine Christian pulpit: the Word of the rst Jingoism, paving the way to capitalist war. Com- Mr. Shortt: For inciting to murder. Christians. It would revive the memory of the great munist Partyites, indulging the A.R.P. ramp for all Mr. MacLean: Of course, we all incite to murder Christian heretics and thinkers: the _Brethren of the air is worth, and forgetting past declarations on the Free Spirit. HYDE PARK " would make the teaching war issue of the Third Internationaleven a declara- when we make any appeal to an audience to dis- place the present Government! Gallacher was not of Jesus, deprived of all traditions of superstition, a tion signed jointly by Trotsky. Zinoviev and Stalin ! ! inciting to murder. It is idle for the Home Secretary power unto the emancipation of the common people. What thought this combination of names inspires, as to say he was not prosecuted for his opinions. It would rescue the gure and character of the man, to the degradation of Communism! Jesus, from the clutches of the Church and so drive . And then we have a kind of Plymouth Brethren MacManus proceeded to describe the Paisley home the greatness of his moral message. It is our mechanic: lparliamentarism. Excellent, critical propaganda. Our readers know who Willie Gallacher is. They belief that the genuine gure of Jesus, the Son of .Most useful propaganda work. But what conclu- know him as a National Organiser of the Shop Stewards Man. will play an intpottuttt role in the struggle sions? Parliament controls this and that! And, at and Workers Committee Movemcntrand they know him towards the workers conquest of bread and freedom the end of the day, we must emancipate ourselves as one of themselves. a clean. hard. true ghter. and culture; the conquest of bread and roses, too. through one party and one hundred-per-cent. senior This was nonsense. All Parliamentary careerists We would make war on the awful daily mockery ,pure Socialist parliamentarism! How hopelessly start as Gallacher started. They are returned to witnessed duringspring and summer in Hyde Park, Parliament. in the first instance, because the workers of rostrums devoted to the propagation of shoddy. limpossiblel know them. Always, to the workers, the careerists Christian theology. These rostrurns are offset by begin, as one of themselves." And they are always others. hardly less offensive. expounding a shoddy, And sowe raisethe bannerof HYDE PAR1: ! lclean. hard fighters." Briand was a hard, true capitalist \iCCl!l;tI'i\m. Real Atheism. the vital iWe 1:.roclr.imthe Hyde Park Movement. To Hyde ighter." John Burns wasone of themselves; an Atheism of the common people, is but a natural de- Park streams London. streams the world. From Hyde uriemp!o_\'ed engineer:a lvrd. true ghter. He velopment of early, proletarian. Christianity. The Ftzrl; can be organised, can be established, the pulpit was the original man with the red flag. The and niovemcnt or London. To this end we p-' your Socialists came to quote: John Burns verdict on l - u ,fi-:-Ip. lylakc contg:-ct. Although we return to Glas- himself: Judas Iscariot! MacDonald was at mystic Thcismof Jesus,the Carpenterof other days. _..fOWto do our work in Scotland, make our visits to starvcling teacher: Thomas was an engine-driver; and the prolr-:tari..".n Atheisrn of Richard Carlilc. London regul:«.rl;v possible: enable us to reach out Henderson, afoundry-labourer; andJ. R. Clynes, a the Tinker, have a common, practical purpose, the pill over London and the neighbouring counties: help mill-hand. Even Willie Adamson. whom Gallacher well-being of humanity. They havea poeticalandus builda livingmovement thoughtof andcultt.-reldefeated, wasreturned toParliament onthe rst practical one-ness.There areonly twopulpits inthe it can bedone. Not dead partiesnor deadchurches.:occ:tsion becausehe was a miner and becausethe world: the peoples pulpit, mounted by Jesus, Bruno, but a living HYDE PARK "' buildcan a movement of miners thought and said all the things about him that ,Carlile, Bakunin, Malatesta, and others; and Caesar'sstruggle towards life, liberty and reality in London. lMacManus saidabout Gallacher. 2 K How do these menfeel whenthey attainplace ifof OswaldMosleySEPTEMBER, M.P., as 1938.Tuesday, on Decemberg not power? In From Cotton Mill to Downing21st, 1926. :..._ . Street the title sums up ParliamentarismJ. R. ca Clynes describeswhat happenedwhen KingGeorge .quick-ring machineMosleygun was described of theLabour inthe Party. Pressas ANARMHST PRETENIERS V. sent for MacDonald to form the rst Labour the richyoung Socialistaristocrat," the and noisy_ The apathyof the people a is favourite theme of Capitalist Government:As we stood waitingfor and Gallachercame downfrom Londonto holda ?themention sectarianparlour leaders. Anarchists Ecclesiastics,Secularists, His Majesty,among theluxurious goldand crimsonS On the Saturday before the election magnicence, Icould not help marvellingat the , MacManus. Socialists alleged, andCommunists self-styled,not to Mosley. DespiteMosleys repudiationof them, Gal-jthat thecommon manan , meet on a common plat- strange turnof fortuneswheel whichhad broughtlacherpecial welcomed meetinginComrade the constituency Mosley into supportin the rankslsta of=form:the utterunworthine MacDonald,Thomas, Henderson,Clynes, etc.,to ss of the people. ,It seems of the Communists, anddescribed therich aristocratlca d woman have reached a this pinnaclebeside theman whoseforbears hadbeen as a sincere proletarian.He addedthat Mosleyffege whenhe andshe believein no one andin no kings for so long. was a very good type,strong andhonest. use. Whichis verysad indeed.And sothe pro- It never occurred toClynes thatthe gold and ssional cause-serverretaliates bycompleting the silver magnicence contrasted with slumconditions the LabourParty, Gallicherstated thatit wasfthelcirclepeople andrefusing tobelieve thein people.-We con- might be wrong. becauseDeclaring of that snobberythere that wasthattoo I advisedmuchsnobbery Comrade inifessto asympathy human with apathy.Certainly, Clynes adds: The little quiet man whom we Mosley toact for a yearas alabourer onthe Clyde- are to blame fortheir apathy.They are addressed asYour Majesty,swiftly put us at our side. case. apathetic becausethey refuseto thinkand preferred gto behoodwinked. Nowpatriotism andparliamen- Gallacher wasnot to be the same asClynes. ley, theleaders ofthe LabourParty weresitting! gtarism havetaken theirtoll of human sufferingand MacManus depictedwhat would happen, if Gal- down playing ludo with the Capitalists. lacher were returned to Parliament: Gallacher concludedthat, unlike Comrade Mos-'miseryand thepeople, betrayedso often,have lost And if Gallacher wins, what then? Be sure that heart evenin themselvesand thedirect pursuitof Capitalism doesnot keep up Parliament for sentimentalWest Fife and capturedthe seatfrom Willie Adam-!.heir owncause. Eventswill remedythis cynical reasons. The hard-faced menmeet therefor other than son,In theNovember, miners1935, leader, who William diedGallacher not long after- stoodforfzioubting the and people will onceagain become historical reasons.They meetbecause itis absolutelywards. Thegures were:Gallacher, 13,462;Adam- faame withfaith andpurpose: forthe lasttime, and necessary, for Capital's preservation,that the pretence:on, 12,869;Milpe (Conservative),9,667. of a real ghtgoing onin Parliamentshould bekept up. J; tothe nalgoal. In the interval,we wouldtake stock Communist M.P.swill call this bluff. Communist M.P.s of the sincerities thepeople miss:that is,the in- will insiston raisingthe importantissues. Theywill insistWorker, November14th, 1935,was purereformism. sincerities imposedupon them. on awkwardquestions. Sothey will force everyoneto re- SummarisedGallachers itwas: programme, Defeatasthe published National in Government the Daily cognise thatParliament evadesevery issuethat mattersto and return a Labour Government. When weare toldthat so-and-sois a Christian, the workersthatit dare not andcannot dealwith anything some oneelse aSocialist, someother bodya Com- vital. CommunistM.P.s willstrip theParliamentary veilarmament. , munist,and soon, whatdo wedo? Weenquire into from Capitalism. They will show the naked force that Against Re- lie: underneath. all. Collective peace. Work and wages for their conduct,into theiractual behaviourand prac- Has,Gallacher donethis since 1935 ? What awk- End tax on Coops. Gallacher to lead the tice, andinvariably factsdrive us to censure. We ward questionshas this Paisley mechanic" asked? UnitedFront. ask: Are they ? The gapcan belled in The yearafter Gallacherwas tostand for LeicesterC The Daily Worker for November 16th,1935, as youwish: Christians,Socialists, Communists,etc! he wassupporting the Communist PartyElection gave hugeheadings toGallachers victory,and de- There isan extremesection ofSocialists whoought Manifesto, whichconcluded that,although therewas lared, in heavy type: $0 besuperior toall littleness,all careerism.These treachery onthe partof the leaders, the Labour This splendid victory was received with scenes of are knownas Anarchists.When Fascismreared its tremendous enthusiasmin Fife, which, a couple of hours Party is against the Capitalists! Radek ridiculed later, wasspreading amongworkers throughoutthe coun-head inCatalonia, amagnicent standwas madefor this electionaddress atthe FourthCongress ofthe try andespecially Rhondda,in wherethe valleyslast nightFreedom bythe Anarchistworkers andpeasants in Moscow International and declared, in his shrewd were ringing with cheers for this magnicent event. and aroundBarcelona, inthe Julydays of1936. The way, that the C.P. was like the kind-heartedBiblical What magnicentevent? Perhapsthe peopleof Anarchists shouldbe genuine. On enquiry,we dis- Ruth WhitherNaomi goes,thither goesRuth also.Rhondda Valleyand those of Fife will tell us what cover that,as withChristians, withso Freethinkers, As Radek sat down, Zinoviev rose,waved a tele- they havegained up-to-datefrom the return of Gal- Socialists, Communists,Anarchists, propagandahas gram and declared that Walter Newbold had won ':acher.know We whatGallacher hasgained. He degenerated intoa ramp. We are entitled toask: Motherwell for Moscow! has gainedwhat everyother Labourfakir gainswhen Are they genuine ?Are they, the professed This victory enthused Gallacher. He haunted he is returned to Parliament. But what have the Anarchists, thereputed Anarchists,genuine? The the lobbiesof the House ofCommons, dinedon the miners of Wales and Scotland gained? answer is in the negative. terrace withNewbold, dreamedof a mass C.P.being In the same issueof the Daily Worker," W. On March 26th, 1938,Comrade I.Rudash died organised underthe guidanceof the Comintern ;Wainwright, theDaily Worker special corres-at theOld AgeHome, WashingtonCity, U.S.A.,at the and wroteParliamentary notesfor the Worker. He pondent, wrotefrom Dunfermline,under Fridaysage of76. He had residedthere formany years retained this Parliamentary mood until the nine date: Gallacher has won! There is tremendous excitementand wasa link with John Most. He worked with months subsidypostponed themining crisisin the here atDunfermline. . Celebration socialsare beingMost inthe GermanAnarchist Movementin America autumn of 1925. He transferred hisattention to the held all over theconstituency forthis evening.School- and wasone of Mosts closestfriends. industrial eld,and wrotein the terms ofstruggle children havebeen goingabout sayingthat Gallacheris Rudash wasborn at Vilna, onDecember 15th, and direct action, meaning industrial reformism going to abolish the strap in the schools. 1862. Hewent tothe U.S.A.in 1885. He wasone to parallel his other advocacy ofpolitical reformism. From whomdid the children obtainthis strapof thepioneers ofthe JewishAnarchist Movementin In the Worker for August 15th,1925, Gal-story? Has the strap been abolished in the Fife America. Chiey,he wrotein theLondon Arbeiter lacher urgedworking-class preparationfor thecoming schools? Freund ( WorkersFriend )and inthe NewYork crisis. Hewanted everyavailable manbrought into.Gallacher describes his return as a Blow at FreieArbeiter Stimme ( Free WorkersVoice ). the unions,and everyunion broughtunder thedirec Reaction,mentaryStyle: asentiment whichthe Daily Worker When MarcusGraham established Man Rudash tion ofthe GeneralCouncil. The1926 debacleproved displayed in big type. He stated, inthe properParlia- contributed reminiscencesof his former activitiesand Gallachers adviceto be unsound. Actually,the of the personalities ofthe movement. General Council was parliamentarianand never be- I regard mysplendid voteand victoryin West Fife as a condemnationof the policy of the National Govern- Writing thenotice ofComrade Rudashsdeath, lieved in direct action. ment and a striking blow to the forcesof reaction which Marcus Grahamsays, in Man : ,During this semi-direct actionperiod, GallacherC are preparingfor war and newattacks uponthe workers. Severalyears ago,Comrade Rudashsent to Man a placed greatfaith in Wheatley, Maxtonand Kirk- More general balderdash. Then Gallacher con- detailed accountof an unpleasant occurrenceat ameeting wood andwanted themto break from thepolitically luded his statement ona specificnote: where hewas chairmanand JohnMost thespeaker. Due to somepersonal reasons,Emma Goldmanjumped onthe palsied leaders of the I.L.P. He asked Comrade The big factor responsible for my election is the platform andattempted hit to Most. His versionwas totally Wheatley, especially,to break his political associa-hatred of the Fife miners for the policy of the National Government, andtheir determinationto go forward for different fromthe onegiven byE. G.in herautobiography. tions withthe middle-classleaders theof I.L.P.,who united Nationalaction foran increaseof 2/- per day." Nevertheless,refrained I frompublishing thisreminiscence were not interested inthe workersstruggle and becauseth'eattempt very ofusing forceasan argument Gallacher isin Parliamentand hasvoted himself between Anarchistsis, in itself, unanarchistic;and whether only see in the workers whatthe Liberalssee inan increasein salaryof from £400 to£600 peryear. she attemptedto hit Most witha realhorse-whip ascon- thema mass of voters, who are useful for the He couldnot havevoted himselfthis £200per year tended byher, or with a play-toy whip,as claimedby furtherance theirof ownpet schemesfor savingthe Comrade Rudash,makes nodifference the in nalanalysis increase, andwould nothave receivedeven £400per of the discreditable act." middle-class fromthe hungryclutch of the nan- y ciers. ear, butfor theminers grievance.What hashap- Rudash claimsthat thesole motivethat inspired I penedto theminers 2/-per day,which playedsuch aEmma Goldmanwas personalimportance, thedesire Gallacher furtherdenounced theParliamentarians apart in securing his return? in the Worker,for May,29th, 1926,in boldtype, for distinction,and careerism.The passageof the Gallacher describedhis return as astriking blowyears hasnot improved.the mannerof the lady or as The Gas-Bags,Unlimited, andexplained: gainst war. Was it? The Parliamentarians areand havebeen utterlylost inspired nobleractivity. these times.Nobody hasbeen payingany attentionto them When Defence was debated in the House of Since wewere invitedto join the Anarchistmove- at all,and theyfeel someof them very annoyedthat rude,, a Commons inJuly, 1936,the I.L.P.moved anamend- ment in1906, whenwe quarrelledwith theparlia- rough industrial dispute shouldhave overshadowedtheir. ment 3 againstsupplementary estimatesfor the armed mentarism ofthe S.D.F.,our propagandaactivity has gassy utterances." forces. Campbell Stephen and George Buchanan The GeneralStrike endedin disaster,and Gallacher been blockedconsistently bythose whostyled them- cted astellers. Sixty-fourLabour mentrooped intoselves Anarchists.So longas shewas inAmerica, stampededto back Parliamentary reformism. Before,the Lobbyalong withthem. W. Gallacher, theCom- the endof 1926,he wasdefending aprogramme ofmunist Memberfor WestFife, refusedto join theEmma Goldmanplayed nopart inthis absurdboy- constitutionaldemands ;pooling ofmotor carsat rebels! The Daily Worker defended hisconduct cott. Butsince herbogus marriageand assumptionof election times;increased facilitiesfor votingin rural British citizenship,she hasjoined theboycott with by sayingthat, withthe massof theLabour members,enthusiasm. Thehatred sheonce feltfor JohnMost areas; fullpolitical rights for soldiers,sailors andair- he justignored thechildishand ignorantanticsof men; universaladult franchise;proportional represen-the I.L.P. This isthe styleJohn Burnsemployed has beentransferred toourselves. Doubtless,did we tation; asingle franchisefor all purposes; abolitionof when hejoined theLiberal Cabinetin opposition to predecease ourworthy comrade,she wouldattend our the Labourand SocialDemocratic Parties. funeral andwant tospeak besidethe opengrave :5 Referring or at the cremation,as sheattended Mostsfuneral. to the strong,sane statesman,Mr. William Gal- Socialismthe House of! What Lords; infantile-sicknessabolition ofthe monarchy;ofthe Left !and lache She has that way with her. r, M.P., Campbell Stephendeclared rightly,We hadbeen absentfrom Londonseveral years a NowDemocratic cametheRepublic Smethwick !What election, aprogramme andthe returnWhat! that the policyof theC.P. hasput Gallacherin the position ofbeing afraidto vote differently fromand hadplayed ourpart in building up the Anti- Attlee, the Parliamentary leader. Parliamentary movementin Glasgow and Scotland generally. Finally, following most unsuccessful .' A,-pg. SEPTEMBER, 1938. 3 elforts on the part of Emma Goldman to crash into and the I.L.P. boost Rocker and Emma Goldman. of landsthe United States.The two young romantic Glasgow withoutany realpropaganda purpose,we An astonished proletarian world has been informed people reckonedwithout theirhost. The bigotry ofthe were invited to London by a group of Anarchists.that Feuner Brockway and Ethel Mannin are the Puritanic watch-dogsof morality, which then,as now, It must be confessedthat, aftermost elaborateplans makes Americathe mostprovincial countryin the world, leaders ofthe revolutionaryvanguard andthat Aldous would not permit Rudolf and Milly to contaminate the and arrangements,on ourarrival, theLondon GroupHuxley hopesto give his life for the proletariat. All pure soil of Uncle Sam. Theyhad to oat back whence melted awaylike snowon a dyke beneaththe rays-are savedor about to be saved exceptthe APCF, the they came. of a summer sun. But the propaganda ourished.USM, and the associatesof Guy Aldred. The im- and the propaganda value of our London visit has It is not necessaryto agreewith Uncle Sam onthis iprisonments of Aldred for sedition and anti-militarist question of morals, to realise thesuppression of increased. A two-weeks visit will result in a nine- resistance towar are ignored discreetlyby these weeks campaign,reluctantly concludedbecause we truth in this statement. lcowardly humbugs. On May29th, 1898,the NewYork Sunpublished must return to Glasgow. Contacts have been made% Some timeafter Emma Goldmans eulogy,Rocker .and an early future campaign workedout. an account of this barring of entry to Rocker and Intense. identied himself with the C.P. slanderers of Van Milly Witcop, under the heading: WontMarry, winter propaganda in London will result. der Lubbe. Marcus Graham rebuked his attitude: This visit had to be ignored by the professional Barred Out.It calledthe treatmentof these persons: Rockers denunciation of Van der Lubbe was the Our Immigrant Inquisition." Its report readas Anarchists, anxiousfor recognitionby theCNT-FAI, ,price of immunity from the US. Department of Jus- and nancially established in consequence of the follows: tice attention,and of permission toengage inquite- Rudolf Rocker, aGerman bookbinder,33 yearsold, Spanish struggle.Came thesecond anniversaryof futile parlour radicalism in the States. Van der of stolid demeanor, andMilly Witcop,a dressmaker,26 the SpanishRevolution. In Spainand theWorld, Lubbes memorywas of no consequence. years old, arrived -hereon Thursday on the steamship, Emma Goldmanannounced aCNT-FAI Spanish Rudolf Rockerwas bornin Mayence,on theRhine, Chester. Theywere supposedto be man andwife, but the anniversary demonstrationin Hyde Park, and the inquisitors atthe BargeOice foundout thatthey werenot, ion March 25th. 1873. He cameof working-classand toldthem thatthey couldnot landunless theymarried. existence of a bogus Anarchist CommunistFedera- parents who died when he was young and he was The youngwoman declaredthat theydid notwant tomarry. tion in Glasgow. The last-mentioned organisationplaced in a Catholic Orphan Asylum. Emma Gold- They wereagnostics anddid not believe inmarriage ofthe does notexist andis merelyan attemptto destroythe conventional kind.The youngwoman said: Why should remnants of the old Anti-Parliamentary Communist[man pathetically described how he ran away from we be detained and sent back? We might have landed if lthe orphanagetwice and how he was draggedback we had decided to get married. We chose not to lie. We Federation, whichourished activelyand success-by his Catholic fosterfathers. She explains, de-I do not believe inmarriage. Asto formsof government,we fully for so many years. It was Emma Goldmansscribing him as a precocious juvenile idealist: believe in all of" them. We lived togethertwo years in duty not only to avoid splittingthe A.P.C.F.,but to.] hislove of freedom andhis rebelliousgenius grew London and nobody interfered with us or asked us dis- unite that organisation and the United Socialist agreeable questions.We attendto our own affars,and do with it. They deepenedwith the development andnot interferewith thoseof anybodyelse. Peopleshould be movement, in one great Anti-Parliamentary move-=maturity ofhis life. I supposethat thisexplains his permitted to live as they like if they do no harm. It suits ment. The unity of the movement is of no con- later attitudetowards Vander Lubbe.It shouldbe me and my friend to live as we do. It is a matter between sequence as contrasted against the vanity andéadded thathe hasbeen moresuccessful running!in us entirely. We have sympathies, tastes and ideas in careerism of Emma Goldman. Her anniversary de- 5 common. If we should marry and he should lose his love away fromunpleasant circumstancesin his maturity for me, then I could legally compel him to live with me monstration was advertised in Reynolds news- ,than he seems to have been in his childhood. or supportme. If I shouldpceaseto love him, thenhe might paper, withC.P. gustoand imitation,as a massgAt the age of thirteen hewas apprenticedto book- force me to live wth him whether or not I wanted to do so. meeting. Alas! the massmeeting wasso poorly I think that is wrong. Many young mengo to the altar attended asto be an almostcondential gathering.binding. He began to read Social-Democratic litera- and swearto love for ever young womenthat they could ture and is said to have been a Socialist writer and not really love. We will not lie. We might have said we The speakersoutnumbered theaudience allthe time speaker within a year. He remained at the book- were Protestants or Catholics, and, after marrying, been and HydePark wasunconscious theof occasion,or of binders until1888 andthen begana trampthrough allowed to come in. We prefer to go back to London and the purposeof this positively uniqueappearance. live together there, where they have let us alone. Western Europe. In 1891 he became an Anarchist The young woman and her lover will be sent back on Observing them,my memory became maliciouslyand shortly after that met Domela Niewenfhuis. The the Chester to-day." busy, and opened doorsthese pseudo-Anarchistsbe- following year he left Germany, becausehe was This statementmade by Milly Witcop was a lie lieved theyhad lockedsuccessfully againstall in- threatened witharrest. Heproceeded Paris,to which trusive curiosity of amused reminiscence. from beginning to end. The parties did not choose was then looked upon as a great centre of Anarchist to marry because they could not marry. They made Prior to addressing thegreat meetingthat rallied activity. round the International Socialist platform, from no stand whatever for the principle of Free Love. Emma Goldmanstates that,in Paris, Rocker madeYet E. C. Walker,the well-knowpfreethinking and which we spoke, westood twoor three feet awayIa discoverythat hada lastingeffect uponhis life, from this ridiculous CNT-FAI platform: this banner Anarchist writer,published alengthy articlein Moses namely, the Russian revolutionarytype of woman. Harman's Lucifer,paper, for June 18th, 1898, without anaudience. wasIt funnyto beoutlawed by Sheinsists thathe realisedits importanceand adds: "these pretenderswho, byunity, couldhave organisedI As he so oftenrelates: To nd, after the Germanunder the title An Immigration Bureau Outrage, .a magnicent demonstration. And, after all, who type of woman I had left behnd, womenwho can think, praising Rudolf Rocker and Milly Witcop for their raised the Spanish Questionin Glasgow, if not the who can take part in the discussion ofgreat problemsof steadfastness toprinciple. __ United Socialist Movement? life, and who can so completely dedicate themselvesto the Rocker returnedto Englandand establisheda cause of humanitythat was a never-to-be-forgottenYiddish Anarchist propaganda, rst in Leeds, and The man,on theplatform, nowwell-dressed, Savilleevent. These women becamemy inspiration,the burning Row cut, had been very down-and-outon the last ideal in life. later in London. Nothing untoward happenedto occasion we spoke to him. He had known us in Prior to this accountof Rockersalleged discoveryhim until the outbreak of the world war, when Hammersmith awayback in 1910, hadlived two or of the Russian womanas opposed to the German he was interned for no other reason than that he was three doorsaway, and had beenactive in the Ham- woman, Emma Goldman has no reference to Rockers born in Germany. At Alexandra Palace he was mersmith SocialistSociety, theWest LondonSocialist association with women. It must be remembered that treated with every respect and consideration and Council, and the old Raper Hall with us. ComradesRocker claimsto havebeen anAnarchist atthe ageearned aconsiderable amountof fame for his literary looking upthe Herald ofRevolt andthe Spur iof eighteen and that means thatat that age he sub- lectures. Sincehe sharedinternment witha large would seea record of his activity. That was beforescribed to the Anarchist ideas of Free Love. It is number of high-placed Germans it will be realised he knew Emma Goldman. More recently,on a obvious that as an Anarchist he ought not to have that he was not persecuted for his opinions. On previous visitto London,it wasnecessary combatto married legally. But he did, and the referenceto the June 28th,1916, MillyWitcop, whonow calledherself his pessimismat our joint meetings.Then hehad lRussian womanas opposedto the German merelyMilly Witcop-Rocker, despite her 1898 Free Love visited Glasgowon our invitation, andcomrades therelmeans, what is the fact, that Rocker desertedhis protestations, wassuddenly arrestedwhile cooking will recallhow wechaired for.himat everymeeting. legal Germanwife and her child in order to go away her dinner and was taken to Vine Street Police During thisvisit hisentire phraseologywas Marxian.'withRussian a womannamed Milly Witcop. It is Station, withoutbeing permitted,to saygood-bye to Now he is the perfect Anarchist,notwithstanding absurd, becausea man develops aliking for a Russianher eight-year-oldson or to her stepson, Rockersson his servicewith,thevBritish. Armyduring theWar: iwoman _whereasformerly hisaffection hadbeen fora by his German wife, who in later yearscame to live well-groomed, disdainfulof Guy Aldred and all his lGerman 'one,to indict all German.womenas re- with them. She wastransferred toHolloway Gaol works; and the author of a letter to Emma Goldmanactionary andto applaudall Russianwomen asrevo- and subsequentlyinterned inAylesbury Prisonon the agreeing with _Rudolf Rocker, the time-server to llutionary. Theaffair mayhave beenone ofromance ground thatshe wasGerman byher marriageto American capitalist democracy, thatAnarchism willfor Rocker,but it was alsoone ofsordid struggleRudolf Rocker and must be interned in the interests collapse unlessAldred is driven out of the move-,for his wife, and for some time, for their child. At of public safety ! ment. a later date, Rockeragain maderomance outof this When Rocker was released from internment in Speaking alsowas theSouthend Anarchist,whose affair and urged, in connection with it, that he was March, l9l8, he was deported to Germany, but letters we published in the May Word. He re- persecuted ona point of principle. If every man who actually wentto Holland. He residedthere inperfect called thenthe 1906visit to Liverpool andwas afraidceased to love his wife and left her could claim to be safety andcomfort till the Germanrevolution. Milly to speakin London, when onlya few feet away.an Anarchist the States of the world would be Witcop wasallowed tojoin him. They tookup their Supporting theplatform weretwo Glasgowmembers jmenaced withthe prospectof animmediate Anarchistresidents in the working-classsuburb of Neukolln. of the A.P.C.F., nowresident inLondon, whowere j, revolution. In February, 1919, theAnarchists of the world made most anxiousto recalltheir associationon our pre-- Rocker was inParis atthe timethat theAnarchists, a great deal of fuss about the fact that Rocker had vious London visits. Another there was the fair Ravachol, Valliant,Henry and Caserio engagedin become the target of the new Social-Democratic Emma, whohad writtenfrom NewYork in previousl propagandaby deed. He methere EliseeReclus, dictatorship. Noskes henchmen, who had struck years, sayingthat we were theone personin Britain Kropotkin, Malatesta, Grave, Faure and Louise down thebravest andnest spiritsof the German she wantedto meet. Most anxiouslyhas sheavoided Michel. After Caserio had struck down Presidentrevolution, especiallythe immortal Karl Leibnecht the meeting.What a ramp! Still, the movementmust Carnot, Rockerwas expelledfrom France.He pro-and Rosa Luxembourg, arrested'Rockerwithout a go on ! Still the movementis right ! ceeded toLondon, andin 1895opened upGerman charge andkept himin prisonfor the terrible period fOnly, itmust becleansed.of humbugand hypocrisy,Anarchist and Yiddish Anarchist propaganda inthe of threeweeks! Thismeasures theextent ofRockers Falsehood andintrigue mustend. East End. In Londonhis wifeand theirson beganmenace to the German counter-revolution and sums In May, 1923, theLondon Freedom publishedto molesthim and in order to escapefrom her atten- up hislifes sufferingsin the-cause ofthe proletarian an articlefrom the pen of Emma Goldman,paying tions he decided to go to the United States of revolution. From that time on until the Nazis des- a tribute to Rudolf Rocker. This article was dated America. EmmaGoldman tellsthe storydifferently. troyed theright of public meetingand suppressedall from Berlin,March, 1923.The limelightcreated byThis is her account: Socialist activity,Rocker distinguishedhimself by the Spanish Anarchists gaveRocker and Goldman Being of a sunny disposition, he found it hard to lecturing inBerlin andall overGermany onabstract their opportunity. The CNT now boostthe I.L.P., acclimatise himselfto the London fogs; and in l898 heAnarchist principles,on Syndicalism, on theDrama, and his companion, MillyWitcop, embarkedfor the freestand on Great Works of Fiction. When the triumph of the Nazis became certain Rocker did not concern himself with his rank-and-le Anarchist supportersbut immediatelypassed overto SEPTEMBER, 1938. London and from there proceeded toAmerica. This 5 peating the farce of his English and German per- Outside the Park gates we bought Spain and the is typicalof the man. He enjoys hisrevolutionary formances, lecturingin Yiddish, German andEnglish! reputation in comfort and without danger. The World. This Anarchist sheetcontains a biography If those lectures were of any moment does one believe of Tom Keell, written by Nettlau. Why cannot the triumph of Hitler and the collapseof the revolution- that he would have the free run of America under ary movementin Germanywas asmuch a censure of biographer of Bakunin write truthfully? He attacks an administrationthat dreadseven there-appearance Carr, for failing in this respect. Nettlau praisesKeell Rockers armchair cushion Anarchism and his entire of Emma Goldman; and the visit of Willie Gallacher? activity since1918, asit was of the bogus revolution- for resisting the war and praises C. W. Owen for Let those who love liberty face the facts and assisting Keellagainst theCommunists. Whydoes not ary activity of the Communist Party. answer these questions for themselves. We met Rocker rst of all in 1906. We were |Nettlau saythat Owen went pro-warin America invited by some Anarchist comrades to attend the when Berkman and Emma Goldman were im- Workers Friend Club in Jubilee Street in the East prisoned. Why so much lying and concealment in OUTSIDE THE GATES End of London. Rocker was the leader of the move- the name of Anarchism? Owen went pro-war and ment. He made a great play of his belief in direct Because noone hasmaintained theright to circu- ought to have been expelled from the Anarchist action, but in practice, simply supportedthe Jewishlate literatureat meetingsinside thePark, which is a movement. So should Kropotkin. The latter not Trade Union reformist activity. As a self-taughtlegitimate attendantright of public meeting,we wereonly went pro-war, but returned to Russia after the compelled the other Sunday to purchase the New revolution, and spoke with Pleckanov, the arch- Yiddish writer and editor, he created a Yiddish \ literature but founded no revolutionary movement.Leader outside thePark gates. The issuewas dated,enemy of Anarchism, in defence of the war, The authoritiessensed hewas nomenace. During the Friday, July 29th, 1938. Lt reproduced the front Imperialism, and Russia Provisional Government of whole time he was in London, down to the outbreak page oflHumanité, theFrench CommunistParty Kerensky. Twice, in times of crisis, Kropotkin be- of the war, a period of nineteen years,Rocker, the organ, for Mercredi, 20 Juillet, I936. The front trayed every Socialist and proletarian principle, and alien Anarchist, was never molested by the British! page carried the hammer, sickle, pictures of the Emma Goldman and Co. insist on eulogising him as Government. King andQueen, theKing in Admirals uniform,as the Grand Old Man of proletarian revolution. When the Sidney Streetbusiness tookplace and decorative effects;and apicture ofthe welcomingof Such lyingwould be comedy didit not spell tragedy. Kropotkin should be dismissed for ever. two men were besieged in a house in that East End :the King and Queen,with eulogisticexplanatory thoroughfare anddefended themselvesfor several; letterpress. We congratulate the New Leader on hours against the combined attacks of the Police,reproducing the page, for otherwise no one would We were glad to see a comrade selling Man, the the Fire Brigade, and a Brigade of Guards, with have believedthat an alleged Communistjournal great San Francisco paper issued by Marcus Graham. Winston Churchill,then HomeSecretary, directingcould adopt itself to such royal toadyism, in the Every Hyde-Parkershould assistin putting a stop to the charge against them, Rocker and the Freedom interests of capitalist diplomacyand imperialism.the persecution of this paper and in bringing about 1Beneath the reproduction, the New Leader recalled an end of the deportation proceedings, under which Anarchists denied all knowledge of these men. It is l obvious thattheir method of getting a living had noI the following excellent story: our comrade, Marcus Graham, has suffered repeated There is a four-year-old story that a French Com- relation to their Anarchism. It is no less true that 1 imprisonments since 1919. Marcus Graham needs the munist, arrivingat Victoria Station, London,went to the material supportof all comrades sothat his present these two men had supported the Workers Friend bookstall andasked fora copy of the Labour daily news- propaganda, and that, whatever their deeds under paper. He was handed a copy of the Daily Herald. sentence of imprisonment may be appealed through Capitalism, theywere by conviction Anarchists,and He looked at the front page and saw large photo-the Circuit Court. Correspondenceand funds may graphs ofthe BritishRoyal Family. He handedthe paper e sent through us, or direct to: Marcus Graham, did most liberally support the Anarchist movement, back. of which Rocker was the leader. They had dined I wanted the Labour paper, he said to the bookstall P.O. Box 971, Los Angeles, Cal., U.S.A. with him in his own houseat No. 3, DunstanHouses, assistant. Stepney Green. But Rockers idea was then, as; That is the Labour Party paper, saidthe assistant,. WHY JESUS WEPT The French Communist could believe neither his ears nor always, to play safe. his eyes. Many comrades have expressed the wish that we The truth of this statement isemphasised byhis And now! should reprint our 40-paged pamphlet, Socialism and own activity in the United States,and by the con- the Pope,"and adda chapteron the Spanish struggle. ditions imposed on Emma Goldman, when she re- Outside the Park gates also The Socialist We agree. But we sell all our literature at a heavy turned to New York in February, 1934, afterfteen Standard for August was onsale. The August issuegloss andreprinting isdifficult, withouta gesture of years exile. The One Big Union bulletin for reproduced thefull text of an article published in!special support.Who will help us issue asecond, February 15th,1934, publisheda short paragraph, lHumanité for July 19th, commented on the visit revised, enlargededition, of 10,000 copies. A 60- declaring on the authority of Roger N. Baldwin, of of the King and Queen. All comrades shouldpur- paged, well-printedpamphlet for twopence? the American Civil Liberties Union, that: Emma chase the S.P.G.B. organ and read the article for Again, the wish hasbeen conveyedto us that our Goldman must avoid politics in U.S. He stated themselves. Wereproduce theopening paragraph: pamphlet on Jesus should be reprinted. The rst that the authorities had informed her that she must King George VI. and Queen Elizabeth, who accedededition, issued in 1912, was entitled The Rebel and to the Throne following an attempt to gain personal power not engagein political controversy. Shewas granted by Edward VIlI.an attempt thwarted by British His Disciples. The second, revised, edition was a visa, on the ground that she wanted to come to democracywill to-day be the guests of Paris. published as Communism and Religion: As to visit friends and relatives, and to lecture on literature This statement is, of course, a lie. Edward VIII. Jesus. This means 10,000copies of this pamphlet and the drama. Marcus Graham, in Man, pub- made no attempt to gain personal power and the have been circulated. Our aim is to issue a third lished a criticism of her lectures and a censure of her British democracy,whatever thatphrase maymean, edition, under the title: As to Jesus. The sub- attitude towards Roosevelts New Deal. were or was never consulted. Edwards abdication title will be: The Rebel or His Disciples .7 We The Daily Express (Glasgow edition), for was brought about by a palace plot, assistedby a would like all who express interest in our lectures February 10th,1934, publisheda picture of Emmadoddering Archbishop, a Tory statesman, a snob_to make this publication a great success. Goldman, with letterpress, describingher arrival in Labour Leader, and a collection of well-rewarded To the same category belong our pamphlet: New York. It added: But she could not voice her politicians of all groups. Had democracybeen con- Historical and TraditionalChristianity." A re-issue- opinion. sulted, Edward might have remained King. Had of this work, published in 1906, is overdue. Contrast against this account of Emma Goldmans Edward been King and had he visited Paris as did his / Apart from re-issues,we have two important his- diiculties the following reportfrom Freedom, successor, the purpose would have been the same torical works in hand. The story of these MSS London, for March, 1934, depicting Rockersrim- the promotion of an Anglo-French capitalist war shall be told later. Both MSS were completedthree munity from restriction ofany kind: alliance. What right have Communists to supporttyears ago. RUDOLPH ROCKER IN THE STATES. such rubbish, such anti-working class activity. Buti The rst is Bakunina completebiography of Our Comrades, Rockerand his wife, are now in the the great Russian thinkerand man of action, which U.S.A., where Rocker has been delivering lectures. We are then Stalinismis a ramp, like the A.R.P.,it wants to delighted tolearn thathe is having goodmeetings. Onein control democratically ! we propose to issue as a 6d. booklet. The matter in Denver, Colorado,on December21st, being a splendid this pamphlet would make a 10s. 6d. book. success fromevery point of view. We sawsomeone selling Forward. This journal The secondis entitled: Why Jesus Wept! " This Rockers wife is, of course, theMilly Witcop is to be congratulatedon its spleridid exposuresof is a series of essays inhistory and biography, telling of 1898, who would not marry on principle the Communist Party and John McGoverns un- the story of the great hereticsand pioneers of the precisely becauseRockers actualwife was alive, and answerable attacks on Willie Gallacher should be Christian Church, introduced by a study as to why he had deserted her. read by all. Victor Gollancz announces that it is Jesus wept over Jerusalem. LAdunata, of New York, for January 20th, an unscrupulous lie to say that the Left Book These two books are being producedby a great l934, carried announcements of Rockers lectures in Club is under the control of the CommunistParty." London printing and publishing rm. The printing Yiddish, German and English, to be delivered in Los He refers all and sundry to three writs issued byhis cost will be £120. We ask support to issue almost Angeles, California.The Los Angeles groupsheld rm, and also to the fact that he belongs to two immediately thesereally greatstudies. summingup a Van der Lubbe memorial meeting at the Libertarian Labour Parties,and shall shortly be a member of a our philosophy of approach to life. Order now. If Centre thereon January 15th. In announcing theirthird. Victor Gollancz threatensand proves too every comradeorders thesebooks, andsends money memorial meeting, the Los Angeles comrades stated: much. Why should ahonest Socialistwant to belongwith order, they will appear within a month. In Germany, while twelvemillion Socialistsobediently If the publication, and republication of these works stood to have fetters rivetted on their ankles, and seven to threeLabour Parties?Ought notone to be enough. million Communists submissively held out their hands to Is plural membership Socialism? Why should a:interest you, write to our London address: Guy be ha.tlcnfI"cd, honest manwant to answer politicalcriticism byAldred, 122, Addison Gardens, London, W.14. resort to action for libel? Can we not draw our own I MARINUS DERVAN LUBBE deductions, asto the one-sided politicalnature of the: Guy Aldred came to London from Glasgow on an individual acting alone, set re to and burned the literature issued; therallies organisedby theLeft BookJune 18th. He hasaddressed goodmeetings atHyde Reichstag building. become the headquarters of Hitler Club; the speakers, etc.?No sane observer doubts the ,Park, Wood Green, Brixton, Bayswater. Hammer- gangsterism. If Germany had had a hundred thousand like ismith, ClaphamCommon. andHighbury Corner. him in courage and initiative, she could not have been intimate connectionbetween theCommunist Party enslaved. and the Left Book Club and the libel writ business is Groups wishingto arrangevisits toplaces inor near And if Rocker had been one of that hundred but theprivilege ofwealth addedto thepromptings of London should do so at once. thousand, or his boasted German audiences had been fear. He who would silence criticism fears criticism. ,» HeldOverParis Notes,tl<~sr:ril>in,r_z visit ro_\'z1l to Paris, Let Victor Gollancz note this comment and the fact by Etheli\'lacDonal(l a Gl1l5;10\\' and letter by J. Caldwell. members of that one hundred thousand, then Rocker these have been printed as a small leaflet for free distri- would not have been enjoying exile in America re- that it is not anonymous. Fairly deduced conclusions, bution and can be obtained on request. are not libellous and C.P. apologetics are not acci- dental. Printedand Publishedby Guy;\ltlrt~d ntIizikunin Hull.78 NcthanSt" Glasgow.