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'We of the people have known this longer than you, have, and for my part I know it ten years age when nobody came dashing down from Washington to tell Dias that to let the I peasants live on grass would breed violence; or that sheotinghwqp down those who asked for a few pence more a week would breed violence; or that feeding the lice on prisoners from one decade to another would surely breed violence. _ L " New when you see the workers with winchesters in their hands youecw" hasten to explain to us uneducated men that this will only breed more violence, and you say and I knew that history proves you right. Only I would like to know whore we should be if we threw away our guns and stood out there hat in hand bowing before the landlords and officers like we did before the revolution. My friends can answer for themselves - you.know as well as I do where I should be — three feet under after dancing six feet over. " And you also know that men who are hero have only to stop fighting and they will go to feed worms in the grave or lice in the jails or at the best go back to slavery, and this thought sometimes makes men more fierce than is their nature. But they are not barbarians, as you think. Oh, I know, when you come here with cameras, you salute me as if I were the President and address me out of my degree as General, but when you are in New York, in your offices, with -your drinks and yeurrwomen, then you write to tell the world I am the most savage barbarian of them all. Isn‘t that so? But I am not so stupid as you think, and know just as well as if I had studied history that fighting provokes more ; fighting, and blood, blood. e " You tell me (President) Wilson deplores violence but I am not such a fool as to ask you if in that case (General) Pershing has gone to work in the fields. I understand the futility of violence better than this Wilson, for I was flogged and saw my brothers starve and be shot down when he lived in a big house with servants and was . told he was a Christian. If I had not known this as a boy I might’ have been so great a criminal as to join the state army and by new be one of Carranza's generals, whom hobody tells violence is unvirtuous» b _ " Enough, we know violence breeds violence, what I would like toknew is how peace may breed peace? For my part Ithink when there are no masters and no slaves, when there are governments issuing orders indeed and churches decrees, but nobody obeying them, when all who wish land and liberty may have it, and these who want to oppress have no arms, then and then only, peace will breed peace. " " - IEmiliano Z A P A T A ‘ J‘ Q~"~ ‘I 1+ * " I- to a Gestapo in Britain? A ‘ A. C judge recently thinks we are net. _ ' 1 ” by A Gestapo "carries out politicalf TEE BULLETIN QF THE decisions", he says. How manyi, A decisions of the government would be ANARCHIST BLAQK, QRQ§3 carried out if it were not for the . pigs to enforce them? 'Without 1 the police government might as well Amiguel Garcia Garcia‘ I turn itself into a debating society - of a slightly less intellectual kind Stuart Christie. than normal. 1 _ A Albert Meltzer. p S I i S w“' A S » L S iv, In Scotland Yard there is a ”“’) A * A-»~" Fraud Squad, a Vice Squad, a Murder _ D Squad a department outside the Address lor all correspondence: Yard)’fOr Military Intelligence; S, 10 Gilbert Place, London, 'U.C.l. Politicalthere is aSquad.BurglaryOnlySquadwhenanditE comes Giro Account No, 51 172 OOO9 ofto hypocrisythe latter,insiststhe nationalwe changevice e the name. It is called Special Branch. contr1'butions to ABC may be sent by ‘whet iS)5P@@i&1? That it 15 post or paid direct to Giro at Post PO1iti@al- Off1°G° NOTE OUR CURRENT ADDRESS It serves the government of the (Postal Only)” day. But in its private,political capacity. Rightly, ministers, or ““““““““““““““““““““'““““”'“" at any rate the Prime Minister (for QQpi@$ 6a, V91, 1, Nb, 8, his colleagues may become victims), should be surcharged with the expense June 1970 of their private police force.) For ““”““““”“II“““““““““““““"'“““““'”' Harold Wilson, for instance, delibere A It 3. atol increased Special Branch by Law and Ordbr 60 mgmbers when he knew his personal popularity was waning and when he As we go to press, Britain deemed "extremist" activity was _ damaging to his electoral prospectsa is seized by a general erection... and one of its orgasms has been Yet the taxpayer paid, including the issue of ‘law and order’. The "extremists"." K A Right'Wing is normally concerned, M _ _ _ with saying it is opposed to State , _ This 1% th? typg of question 'i intervention... but every time it Mlnlsters flnd lt hard to anSWer.- gets a Scare it Seems that it lndeed, do not answer: §Under Grim. DOESafterbelieveginalla TheStategovernmentinterventionneed Law‘Jtm Callaghan’as we have thedubbed“eweit,'Ca11aghan'Smeans that not interfere in this and that.... police Offioerg may Obaect to but the police should set out their batl on the €T°und5 that they_ ' truncheons and start hitting fir dlsdpfrove of a person S po11tlos' quick] By this they mean thafi No previous Home Secretary conceded they recognise the evils of tniS' Cillafitanifilnts lt ls O'K'Eut government but want them only to ifiiegigigi O;°ar;l:ifOigfGfiZa$§§1 0 apply against the working class nOt_Want to say SO‘ I (plus the students, nowadays). b . A Many Tories will object to In the 19i5 Blootiong Mr“ Russian Communism. Ask them if they Churchill foresaw the need of "ac . R . f I Gestaymfl pf the Labour Party Wan: will exclude ussla rem. nterpol.... " ‘ q y‘q and if so, where do they draw..the line — and was just as essential tp thfii gfifiigjsted to hear even a coherent Tories. Indeed, in this election, Mr. Hogg is battling like mad for The election of Heath or Wilson a bigger' andI "cbetter» Gos ~ t.ape, on will make no difference whatsoever behalf of the Tory Party. to the question of freedom. All the yyfire We justified in referring election prov1des,however,1s ten. minutes to.ask a question about 1t. , 1:’ Page 2 THE BOMBING OF THE IBERIA AIRLINES . ,_ The story behind it For some time the FIRST OF MAY GROUP have been carrying out strong and sharp attacks upon the Franco regime. These activities have greatly disturbed the Spanish police, which turned to Interpol for assistance. The French Government already had a working agreement — by which Franco was to control French Rightists operating from Madrid and French Democracy would repress Spanish Lefists operating from Paris. C The Spanish Press sought a "personal devil" on whom to blame all the "crimes" of the anarchist resistance, and elected Octavio Alberola. Every twinge that Franco gets is blamed upon Octavio. The police of no country have as yet learned that anarchists have no leaders, that their groups are independent, and that they do not have the need for conspiratorial conferences. Consequently, everybody is watching Alberola. The kidnapping of Garrigues One of the libertarian groups in Spain on _ (we are not so sure it was the lst of (May Group, but the Spanish Press claim it was) decided as a protest to kidnap Emilio Garrigues y Diaz—Cafiabete, ambassador to UNESCO. It was his brother Mgr. M. Garrigues, who (as ambassador to the Vatican) 'was previously kidnapped as a hostage for the lives of various comrades, and later released when they were spared. C)In accordance with usual (perhaps quixotic) practice, the group concerned had made a previous statement that they (would carry out such a kidnapping. They may have thought the police would protect the other Garrigues. Be that as it may, the police were waiting and arrested four comrades who made the attempt in Paris. i In March, then, as Garrigues was going to his apartments, four "persons of Iberian appearance" (according to the Press) were waiting with a pistol, chloroform etc. but were placed in custody. They stated "We wished to put pressure on the FTEHKD government to release our comrades". These men had come from Spain (it was said in one report they had Uparachuted" into France, which is absurd).i P I * UThe police therefore knew that there would certainly be a renewed attempt to put pressure on the Franco government.
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