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AS WE GO to press it is possible policy? the offer of the T.U.C. not to that Mr. Heath vill play his mention the miners* "special trump card to solve all our en The miners are tough, they case" as a reason for vcge In ergy and economic problems at a have not forgotten the betrayal creases was never mentioned to by the Trade Unions in 1926 when stroke. He vill go to the courv- t^e liners. try, submit the resignation of they were left to fight on alone. his government to the queen or, Or the mirage of rationalization Meanwhile, all the cld stuff . in short, admit his policy has ,and the wholesale closing down about reds under the bed - or in failed and that, backed up by of pits and the switch to oil- the bed - is being dusted off confidence of some of the elect fuels which marked the Labour from other elections and Mr. orate he could try all over ag government's term of office. Heath’s sole comfort (if he needs ain — with almost the same The propaganda for the next one) is a Daily Mail opinion poDL policies! election has been well-placed On his own right flank Enoch beforehand - as usual. Whose Powell is going round saying ”1 It is quite unlikely that the finger is on the controls? Are told you so" as the deflationary miners - or the Arab sheikhs - the unions to have the power cuts in the Social Services bite will be impressed with this bid over the electorate or is the home. for popularity. It is unlikely democratically elected govern to dig an ounce more of coal or As an election it promises to ment? Every delay by a union so squeeze out a pint more oil for be a little livelier than the that the democratic process may our money but it is the kind of last one but it will not, what be seen to operate is taken as grand empty gesture that passes ever the result, bring one more ’evasion’. Swift dictatorial for political wisdom. ton of coal out of the ground. decisions by the government are This can only be done by the min On the other side of the house taken as ’firmness' — no mat ers, and can only be done by rec Mr. Wilson too waits for his ter bow muddled! The waspish ognizing the miners' social worth hour to come round again. His rejection by Mr. Barber (perso which, in this imperfect world return to office will perform nally) of the Trade Unions' and society, can only unfortun no miracle save for a little slightly sham and shop-worn ately be done by cash payments more honeymoon overtures to a olive branch was immediately re which are an unsatisfactory sub more tractable Trade Union move pudiated by Mr. Heath who took a stitute for recognition of the ment - however the unions have more urbane step in taking seri danger, disease and artificially not forgotten Barbara Castle's ously the doubts of the Confeder created degradation of the miner. "In Place of Strife" and what ation of British Industry. Jack Robinson. will Wilson do for an incomes Ultimately it was disclosed that, Nation for having shown serenity in the face of this attack. "No thing wculd have been more justi TANCE J § fied than some moments of dis- J -i I f P orientation and vaccilation. OUB COMRADE.Salvador Puig has urgently needed funds to continue the struggle for freedom. some gestures of inquietude, been sentenced to death. If’ nervousness or pain caused General Franco gives the go- ALL SERENE IN SPAIN? this criminal act. Such react ahead for this judicial murder The blasting of Carrero Blanco, ion would have been extremely Salvador Puig will die before a dangerous." firing squad. the trial and sentences of "the Carabancel Ten", accused of being It is clear now that the fas He is an active member of the members of the illegal "Comisi- cist regime did fear serious resistance against fascism in ones Obreras", the heavy jail and troubles caused by the violent Spain and as such he poses a death sentences imposed on mem death of Carrero Blanco. Again, real threat to the dictatorship, bers of M.I.L. (Movimiento Iberi- in the same editorial..La Van- which has ruled since 1939. The co Libertario) are, aftiong others, guardia Espanola went out of fascists will be crying out for indications that the fascist re its way to state: "...the brutal revenge following the assassina gime is far from being ideologi disappearance of this essential tion of Admiral Luis Carrero cally accepted by the Spanish piece of our political system Blanco. people. To days after the death did not produce the institution In order to save Salvador of Carrero Blanco, La Vanguardia al and political commotion that Puig’s life it is necessary for Espanola - the staunch fascist we had feared." - T an international campaign of paper - felt obliged to print an Hr Aa $ » " v b • * # m f W a Cf T i -* f• r f 7 ^ J$ ^v The Spanish fascists know protest and action to deter the editorial, "Serenity", in which it better than anybody else that Franco regime from taking his acknowledges that 'it cannot be opposition to their regime is life. denied that the assassination of the Admiral Carrero Blanco is a serious and stronger than ever. Salvador Puig was captured grave political attack that falls This editorial, full of praise following a shoot-out with armed over the country which is facing for those who rallied around police during a bank robber last future circumstances which do Franco lets it clearly trans year. No doubt as usual the re not appear easy.' Paying tribute pire that the regime expected gime will claim that he was mere to the loyalty of the Spanish in troubles from the anti-fascist ly a "bandit". Needless to say, stitutions (the fascist ones of forces. (Why these foreces the bank robbery was not for per— course) the same editorial con- ^sonal gain but in order to raise continued on P. 2 gratulates the leaders of the Rouge; Revolution; Lutte Ouvritre; u. « coni'd from ORA; Youth Alliance for Social ism; La Liga Communiste Revolu- With the exception of the tionnaire; ETA VI, and the Anti- Daily Tcl^grmh. which published Fascist and Patriotic Revolution the most comprehensive news about ary Front. the death sentence on Salvador SHIN This demonstration extended its Puig Antich, the British pres« solidarity to the "Carabanchel has chosen to ignoie the fascist were not set in motion is ano- repression in Barcelona. there matter that we hope time 10", members of the Communist will tell.) As far as the and illegal "Comisiones Obreras" Of the Sunday press, only the Spanish anarchists are con who recently received heavy jail Observer (13.1.73) neoneged to cerned, the struggle against sentences in Madrid. write an article "Spam faces fascism never stopped and to TOULOUSE - on 10 Jan. about 30 anarchist reprisals”, in which day they are still resisting it left-wing militants occupied the Stuart Christie."the Scots anar in a revolutionary manner, put pro-fascist Spanish Cultural chist released from a Spanish ting aside reformist and elect Centre. The French police did -jail in 1967 after serving 3 oral "struggles” which charac intervene, checking the identity years of a 20 year senten_c? foj* terise the authoritarian Left in of the occupants. The same eve nn attempt on Franco's life. Spain and Portugal. ning a group of about 10 people said he imagined that Pi ig's c y - ****** broke the front windows of the rade? would try something ve^y ft To those anarchists who have Bank of Spain and an incendiary soon some doubts about "removing" by- bomb was thrown into the offices, According to this paper "Mr. force tyrants and despots we icause a fire to start. Christie, who is Secretary of just say the death of Carrero • TURIN - a bomb exploded (10 Jan) the Anarchist Black Cross, which Blanco has plunged the Spanish seeks to help noliticel prison regime into its most acute and in front of the Spanish Consul ate and Chamber of Commerce, ers. said that he considered serious crisis since the end of kidnapping to be the most like lx World War II. The opposition to causing extensive damage without anyone being hurt. retaliation. 'The sort of the regime is coming from all added Stuart Christie. anti-fascist quarters and by now tejto-L BARCELONA - three small bombs ex 'that went off in Zurich and Franco's jails are bursting at ploded on Friday (ll Jan). One Turin, which are really gestures the seams, full of political damaged the war memorial to the not intended toinjure arvbodv. prisoners. Franquists who died during the don't exert so much leverage on It is up to us to prolong this civil war. Franco e,s a kidnapping i it crisis which is putting the fas ZURICH - the Spanish Consulate cists against the wall by sup was the object of a bomb attack Claude. porting the anarchist comrades LONDON - comrades demonstrated who are organising themselves in on Saturday (12 Jan) outside the order to eventually smash fascism in the Iberian peninsula. The Iberian Airways offices in Regent international reaction to the Street. Leaflets explaining our death sentence passed on our com protest and the nature of the rade Salvador Pnig Antich is al fascist state were given out. PRESS FUND These were well received and al ready causing some apprehension THANK YOU, COMRADES, FOR A in the Cortes in Madrid. The though our protest was not so explosive as others, the office GOOD START TO A NEW YEAR. chances ai;e that our comrade Please help us to a bigger vas forced to close early. will not be executed due to pres FREEDOM by sending in all sures put on Franco by internat SUPPORT renewals as soon as you can. ional public opinion abroad and resistance at home. An intensi The Confederation of Free Trade fication of the Spanish repres Unions (C.I.S.L.) and Amnesy In Contributions 1 - 9 January sion could lead to serious poli ternational in Paris sent tele tical agitation in Spain. Accor grams to Franco demanding the s a l : RNO: G.M. 80p; WOLVERHAMP- ding to a Spanish comrade who is pardon of Salvador Puig Antich. TON: J.K.W. 30p; J.l.: £1.20; in close contact with Barcelona, The French trade unions, CGT, J.H. & R.H. £2; WEMBLEY« P..G. the execution of Salvador Puig CFDT, the FEN, the Communist 16p; Anon 9p; ST. CLOUD, Minn.: Antich would unleash all over Party, the Socialist Party, the M.G.A. £22; ISLEWORTH: L.K.W. Spain retaliative and punitive PSU and the League of Human £1.25; CHELTENHAM: L.G.W. 75p; action against fascism. Rights also sent a telegram to STOCKHOLM: O.H. 55p; GOTHEN Franco requesting that "the life BURG: V.K. £2.57; LEEDS: G.H.L. It -is up to us anarchists to of Salvador Puig Antich should 17p; GLASGOW: J. H. B. 65p; make ^sure that our Spanish com be spared." NOTTINGHAM: A.B. 15; FIFE: rades don't run short of any The International Federation C.H.K. £2.60; STOCKPORT: D.W. material and ideological support. of Human Rights telegraphed UNO £6.75; ILFORD: A.G. £1.10; They need now as much money as general secretary Kurt Waldheim HITCHIN: L.A. £1.75; WOLVER you can spare. The best way to asking him to "intervene with HAMPTON: J.L. 40p; J.K.W. lOp; show your solidarity with our the Spanish Government in order MAIDSTONE: M.P. 75p; LONDON Spanish comrades is to donate to to obtain the pardon of Salvador E.4: S. & A. G 50p; CARDIFF: 'he Spanish Resistance Fund c/o Puig Antich". L.E. 75p; BIRMINGHAM: T.H. f.P. & P.T., "Freedom", 84B Whitechapel High St. London E.l. The C.M.T. (Christian Internat £1.75; SEVENOAKS: B.R, 50p; ional Confederation of Workers) ABERYSTWYTH: R.C.M.C. £1.75? also sent a telegram to the gen HOVE: B.P. 75p ; ST. ALBANS: THE CONFIRMATION or connutation of eral secretary of UNO asking him R.A.P. 25p; LONDON SW2: M.S.D. Salvador Puig Antich's death sen to "intervene and request Franco £1.75; LONDON WCl: A.J. 25p; tence by the War Council in Bar to save the life of Salvador Puig OXFORD: J.H. 50p; LONDON E7: celona could take, according to Antich". v * J.R. £1.75; LONDON NW2: D.S. Le Monde (12.1.73) several weeks* £5; ILFORD: A.G. 75p; LONDON NW6: B.S. £3.70; SUTTON: B.R. His defence lawyer has lodged an Professor Federico Alessand- £3; CHELTENHAM: J.L. 37p; NEW appeal against the death sentence. rini, a Vatican spokesman, YORK: P.A. £11.50; NEW MALDEN: stated "I believe that action INTERNATIONAL PROTEST G.B. £1; LEEDS: S.R.D, 60p; will be taken in favour of the LONDON E17: B.J.M. 75p; LONDON LAST THURSDAY (10 Jan) about two young Catalan anarchist, N7: J.H.J. £3.55; WARE: A.F.S. Salvador Puig Antich. thousand people demonstrated in £5; LONDON SW18: J.A.M. £1.25; Paris in protest against the death sentence. Among the org TOTAL: £94.96 anisations taking part were: PAGE ■ But wherever tne military is used our liberties are at stake. We have seen it happen in Northern Ireland. Perhaps those six counties don't count for many people but imprisonment without trial THE USEFUL SPECTRE and torture are used as a method of interrogation. One ex-officer interviewed on television last week THE REASON given by the government for the joint thought the army should have been given a freer police and army action at London Airport was that hand to root out "terrorists". information had been received that Arab "terrorists" For some the present social and economic situa might fire SAM 7 missiles on Israeli airliners. tion in this country calls for much firmer govern Just how great was this possibility is difficult ment. These people only favour "democracy” when to asses. It is true that people had earlier been their social and economic position is not threat arrested for bringing in arms but this so-called ened. When this seems imminent they quickly turn threat has given the authorities a chance to mount to an authoritarian answer which could mean a a joint operation without much opposition from the military takeover or at least the military defen general public. The impression has been created ding "democracy" with guns. that this mobilisation has been against a foreign attack and we have been treated to the spectacle which has become part of the daily pattern of life in Belfast. continued on P. 7
I The Soviet weekly Literary Gaz ette attacked the BBC Russian FREEDOM PRESS Service for publicising George l4b WHITECHAPEL HIGH STREET In Brief Orwell's views on 'The Freedom LONDON Ei Phone 01-2479^49 cf the Press'. It also at Pat Ari owsmith, who was to have tacked Animal Farm as "a mali appeared before the (very apt) Aldgate East underground cious caricature of the revolu Warminster Magistrates' Court Whitechapel Art Galj
CHILE Here everything is going well. REDRUTH DAYS by Dennis Gould. During Xmas we have had our sec Whisper k Shout 2 . c/o Books A Dear comrades, ond all-Norwegian congress this Things, 6 Penryn St. Redruth, year, and have been discussing It is distressing to see S. E. Cornwall. (25p, post 3p) or fro« plans for a "Norwegian Federa Parker, of all people, iterating Freedom Bookshop______the sloppy argument (FREEDOM tion of Libertarian Socialists". We have made a programme 'Where 5.1.74) that because all govern A new book by an English anar We Stand1, with class analysis ments are enemies of individual chist poet. Imaginately des ity, the differences between the and libertarian history. The group in Trondheim is very act igned. Poems for Patchen, Goldman, them are insignificant. Parker Apollinaire, Shelley, BTake and himself, with commendable energy, ive and now publishes a monthly all we human animal outlaw beasts, pronounces, writes and publishes paper which is the most revolu "...better to write one poem dowi all kinds of statements against tionary paper in Norway today. the road than sit inside any in government and against the pre Here in Oslo there is also a stitution". That includes the vailing anti-individual morality. paper, more theoretical and cul open concentration camps of capi It must surely be significant to tural, which is sold over the talism. him that some governments, such whole country. It comes every as the present regime in Chile, second month, is called The Julian Beck articulated his suppress all dissent with the People's Paper and sells 3 to non-violent anarchist revolution utmost vigour, while others, 4 thousand copies. The one in ary poetry in the New York six such as the Allende regime, make Trondheim is called The Town ties and Dennis Gould now sings only slight difficulties for the Paper and goes to 1000 copies. the same songs with different opposition. We have also got an A4 printing words and rhythms. From general The object of anarchism is to machine again, and will soon roots of oppression - "Thee Mid- increase the range of individual start to make pamphlets. dle-Clarse/hath a great fat opportunity. It is ridiculous arse!" to its obscene flower- to say that, short of absolute The bookshop is now looking ings:- individual sovereignty, whether better with a new floor and new "Of course, there is individuals have more or less "clothing". Being in Oslo sales no housing problem power is unimportant. are goed. The record is £15 in So, naturally, to squash their Fraternally, one afternoon. Oslo District hasty direct action Federation of Libertarian Soci Donald Rooum we called a meeting alists are also working away. but, foolishly, they occupied a The group in the eastern part of building without authority Oslo has many people in a study- we passed resolutions circle on anarchism and liberta yet, obviously, they belong to rian socialism; especially eco a political party APELO nomics studies. we congratualted each other: Fraternally, church and party/they, anarch ists & agitators, did their job PORTUGUESE ANARCHIST MOVEMENT Michael Hudtwalcker successfully meanwhile, in every Hoff. Terr. 1 district, cottages stand empty." SINCE 1934, date od which it went OSLO 2, Norway. into exile in order to avoid tot Starkly simple, with direct al destruction by the fascists in emotion and beauty "beyond jews power, the Portuguese Anarchist per which would link all the of anarchy's utopia". Movement has slowly withered awsy Portuguese comrades living in the Right on brother Dennis! and today only a few members of "four corners of the world" and this movement exist, some living those trying to struggle in Por "obey no laws love in Europe, some in Canada, U.S.A, tugal. government is nothing free Central and South America, and 1 say the word love presume some in Australia. Others We appeal to anyone or any move into me are still living in Portugal, group interested in helping us move in with me." to revive the Portuguese Anarch completely isolated by the fear Dave Cunliffe. of individual repression. It is ist Movement to put us in cont regrettable that such a movement, act with Portuguese anarchists which up to 1930 was in the fore wherever they live. This appeal SUBSCRIBE to FREEDOM front of the revolutionary strug is specially addressed to Span 1 ish, Brasilian, and other Central gle in Portugal, was allowed to 1974 RATES "die*. Since 1969 some libertar or South American comrades who ian groups have tried to emerge could have had the occasion in Inland, & Surface Mail Abroad the past to be in contact with in the cities o? Lisbon and One year $ 8.10 I members of the old Portuguese £3.25 Oporto but because of their iso Six months £1.62i $4.05 Anarchist Movement. I lation, completely cut off from Three months 85p $ 2.10 the revolutionary past of the Please send us also any infor Movement and without material mation relevant to this subject. Airmail support from outside, these We beg anyone reading this appeal f Europe 1 year £4.00 groupings had to disband and to translate it in his own lang l N.Africa & M.E. 1 year £4.25 once again their members isolated uage and ensure that it will re The Americas 1 yearil3.00 themselves as in 1934. ceive the maximum publicity in India, Africa &c. 1 year £4.75 the international anarchist press. In order to support the acti Australasia, Please forward any information to vity of young libertarians who Japan &c 1 year £5.25 CLAUDE PIQUEMAL, c/o 0 CLARAO in Portugal are tempted to do (six months pro rata) (publica^ao de textos anarquistas) something in the field of revo 84B Whitechapel High Street, 2 copies £5.85 ($14.00) per yr. lutionary thinking and action, a Angel Alley, London, E.l. England. few comrades who actually live BULK: 10 copies 40p abroad would like to revive the PLEASE RENEW SOON if your sub Portuguese Anarchist Movement in scription has expired. Exile, and publish a monthly pa- PAGE 6 USEFi LSPECTRE contd. from P.3
Chapman Pincher of the Daily Express thinks that the airport alert might be less to do with a terrorist threat than with a full dress rehearsal for action against other groups. The Home AT THE LAST meeting of the Tower the demoralisation of this Office decided to use the Arab Hill 'Unfair Rents' Action Group, could leave the way open to the terrorist, alert to test a much it was agreed by a substantial council to do what they liked. greater security plan against majority to call of the rent terrorism and subversion by Given these ugly but true Arabs, Irishmen, the Angry Bri— strike that we have been on for * a a facts the action group decided gade or from any other quarter. the last 15 months. This deci to call the rent strike off sion was not taken lightly and a while we still had the strength It was also reported in The lot of discussion and debate went to bargain with the council; if Times over a year ago that the into the two meetings that we had we had continued many of the Army was worried about "law and prior to calling the rent strike tenants would have gone to the order" in this country. "Ve off. council to make offers to pay are worrying about society a The reasons that we called it up, leaving the remainder iso .hell of a lot more than we used off should be apparent to the lated. The council have agreed, to. The whole period of the majority of the tenants who have in order to end the rent strike, miners' strike made us realise had the guts to have been on rent to accept repayment of the rent that the present size of the pol strike for 15 months. But just arrears at a maximum of £1 per ice force is too smal1...Things to put the record straight for week; in certain cases the have now got to the stage where any tenants who have not attend council will be prepared to ac there are not enough resources ed the action group meetings cept lesser amounts but the ten to deal with the increasing num since the jailing of the rent ants will have to go up to the bers who are not prepared to re strikers; the main reasons are: council and discuss this with spect the law. . ." (1) When we went round to the them. The council have also factories, building sites etc. agreed to stop all legal pro The sight of 6000 demonstrat ve got absolutely no support ceedings against rent strikers. ors at Saltley Coke depot in whatsoever from the trade union Birmingham during the miners' NO MATTER VHAT IS SAID ABOUT THE strike in 1972 has brought it sector. (Ve do recognise and ap TENANTS OF T0VER HILL VE CAN H01D preciate the solidarity of our home to the authorities that OUR HEADS UP BECAUSE OF THE MAG they have to be prepared for any brothers and sisters at Anglia NIFICENT FIGHT THAT WE HAVE PUT repeat of Saltley. At a seminar Paper Products, the only factory UP AGAINST THIS FOUL ACT. to strike in support of the on Police-Army relations, the Assistant Chief Constable for Tower Hill tenants.) Tower Hill "Unfair Rents" (2) Ve did at one time hope for Action Group. Bath claimed that if all police leave was cancelled they could sore support after the Xmas holi Our correspondent adds: days but because of the short— outnumber pickets. However if they couldn't do this it would time working in industry it be Some of us wanted to keep the came obvious that many workers rent strike going (even though be an "insurrection" and the army would be called in to as were now going on the defensive, we couldn't get industrial sup sist the police. to protect guaranteed weeks, &c. port) .Because of the 3-day week and the tenants issue would be people won't be able to pay their Is it not possible that the pushed into the background. rent. Ve saw this as an oppor present energy crisis could lead Without mass industrial support tunity to get more people to go to further industrial unrest; there is no way whatsoever of on rent strike, but some of the that the three-day working week getting any of our jailed bro tenants (I should have said the could change into a bid to occu thers out of jail, unless they majority) put too much faith in py places of work, with the army (purged their contempt' and made the trade unions and when union moving in to defend property. It arrangements to pay up. This way support never came they thought is because of the increasing the court and the council could it was now a useless fight. class conflict that is occurring have picked us off one by one, in recent years that Police-Army also the council upon seeing the co-operation is taking place. lack of support could have re •The imprisonment of three pick- versed the decision of no evict 'ets at the Shrewsbury trial ions and undertaken to try to shows that the authorities are evict tenants remaining on rent prepared to use their fullest strike. This could be a real powers under the law to crush possibility if tenants were militancy among trade unionists. jailed and had to purge their The Army-Police co-operation contempt one after the other; is an indication that these joint operations might be used “against trade unionists. In fact the same police officer - BELFAST NINE DEFENCE COMMITTEE Deputy Assistant Commissioner 88 Roslyn Road, London N.15 Gerrard - who was in control of STOKE NEWINGTON FIVE SOLIDARITY the Heathrow show of strength is also head of the anti-picket COMMITTEE is at 54 Harcombe R d . intelligence co-ordination. London, N. 15. "ALL MY LIFE BROTHERS I'VE ADVOCATED THAT THE MILITANT GIOVANNI MARINI DEFENCE COMMIT If in the present energy cri V0RKING CLASS SHOULD, THROUGH sis industrial action spreads to TEE: Paolo Breschi, C.P. 4263, THE UNIONS, USE THE STRIKE other workers and they start to 20100 MILAN, Italy. .WEAPON TO OVERTHROW THE take over their places of work THE RELEASE MARTIN SOSTRE COM CAPITALIST SYSTEM BUT ONLY the authorities will not hesit MITTEE (U.K. group) 82A Haver- IN THEORY BROTHERS, ONLY IN ate to use the army to restore stock Hill, London NV3 (tel. 586 THE0RI." "order". The Heathrow rehearsal 2038), Trying to raise £5,000 could be a softening-up process lighting Fund to assist appeals to prepare, the public Tor an k combat his ill-treatment in armed intervention during such wiser. Donations above address industrial conflicts. p m PAGE 7 fjcation. This was noceefiary, UKRAINE. llnteM- atul Ferressign because both nuthers were attack Andron Murtin. The Corrmiiioo ing the fundamental Soviet thesis to Defend Ivan Dz^ule A Vysches- that, apart from a few excesses lav Choincvil, 83 Gregory Cres by Stalin, the piesent goverr- New trrangeuenfs Pit.LIBERT A c e n t Lgndcn^, S TE,9.. ment and party leadership is the CENTRE/CENTBO IBERICO will ideological heir of Lenin. in future only gnJvjnjjy* (7 READERS of FREEDOM may recall an Programme tc be announced. A11 article on the back page of the welcome. 83A Haver*toek Hill, issue for 10 November last year, Dzyube, who has TB, has been NV3 (tel. 586 2038) entrant# where the Committee to Defend released following a recantation Steele’s Road, second dcoi. Dzyube and Chornovil was men in print after KG? pressure. # tioned, and something said cf the CJiornovil has served almost a In support of Political Prison** two persons involved. Here in year of 7 in prison, to be fol ANARCHIST CABARET, Feb. 2 k l this pamphlet is a wealth of in lowed by 5 in exile; they are CABARFT Or THE MINORITIES "G*/ formation about Dzyube and Chono- our ccrciades, and deserve all Chansons” Fet. 9 k 23. All p*rff vil in particular, but also about the support we can give them. at 83A Hnverstock Hill start 8 ^ some other issues of importance The first task is to publicize sharp. Doors open 7.30 p.m. in the contemporary Soviet Union, their condition and that of LONDON SCH$ OF NONVIOLENCE at with particular reference to the others like them, languishing in Crypt of St. Martin in the Field Ukraine. the prisons and labour camps of Trafalgar Sw. Mon. 21 Jan GRFECg One such issue is the documen the Soviet Union. I would urge Wed. 23 Jan. ALTERNATIVF ECONO- * tation of dissent by working peo all readers to get hold of the MICS * TRADE. 6.30-9 p.m. --- ple as well as intellectuals, pamphlet and distribute it as drawn from the underground publi widely as possible. Lobbying MENTAL PATIENTS UNION meets Sat* cations A Chronicle of Current and protesting on their behalf 2 p.m. at The Rotin Farquarror. Events and Ukrainian Herald, both should be organized. If only a Hse., 37 Mayola Rd. Clapton £.5 suppressed by the KGB in 1972. small part of this gets back to (tel.986 5251). Open to all One such instance happened in the Soviet Union via broadcasts mental patients A ex-patients. 1969, when workers at the Kiev and the like, we will have given Mtg. followed hy coffee A work Hydro-Electric Station marched an enormous psychological bocst group. ”MFU News” no. 3 avail, in the streets in protest against to our comrades. It would also soon, price lOp + post. abominable working and living be a good start to the campaign New York: LIBERTARIAN BOCK CLUB conditions. Their leading spokes for their release. w M. Malet 1974 Lectures: Alternate Thurs- man went on a delegation about deys 7.30 p.m. at Workmen's Cir this to Moscow, and has not been cle Center, 369 8th Ave (SV cor seen since. Other incidents have ner cf 29 St.) Admission free. occurred in Dniprodzerzhinsk - Feb. 28: Sam Dolgoff ’’The Span twice Kiev, and Dnipropetrovsk. /^Dzyube and Chornovil.../are/ ish Collectives”; Mar. 14: The incidents at the Hydro-Elec Marxist-Leninists...they are our Nunzio Pernicone "Errico Mala- tric Station are well documented comrades, and deserve all the testa : The Formative Years ". in an appendix to the pamphlet. support we can give them.” CANDLES made community resi After a brief flowering in the We certainly do support and hope our readers will and do take dents. All shapes, sizes, col 1920s, Stalin crushed the Ukrain ours, scents. Catalogue 5p from ian cultural revolution. Under part in campaigns to assist Sov iet dissidents imprisoned, tor Walnut Cottage, Moorland, Kruschov, there was a minor revi Bridgwater, Somerset. val of this flowering, but with tured and robbed of human rights the coming of the Brezhnev regime by the Bolshevik regime, whether ART TEACHER recently arrived has come a tightening up by the as nationalists, liberals, intel from Australia (actively in lectuals or any other unpopular KGB against all forms of dissent, volved in free schools mevemt) minority. But the editors of New arrivals from the Ukraine URGENTLY needs place to live. FREEDOM are not under the illu have swelled the numbers of Ukrai- Also wants become involved in sion that Marxist-Leninists are nian inmates of the Mordovian community A/or free schools comrades of anarchists; given a labour camps east of Moscow; any movemts. Dick Hele3r 01-402-8531 Marxist-Leninist regime in any thing up to about half of the region of the globe we will be M o t h e r with child (3), present prisoners there are Ukrainians, living situation intolerable, dissidents destined for the many of them nationalists. What concentration camp. — Eds^ seeks accom. with friendly peo is significant about recent ar ple in North or East London. Al rivals and arrests in the Ukraine so baby-sitting 2 nights a week is the central point of this so that I can continue attend pamphlet. college. Write Rose, 81 Wood- berry Grove, London., N.4. Dzyube and Chorncvil spotlight Some London Anarchists meet so this new significance: they are cially Sundays 7.30 at Finch’s ANARCHIST WOMEN’S GROUP meets not nationalists, but Marxist- The One Tun, Goodge St. W.l. Mondays. Phone 883 2457 Leninists. They examine the pre (Don’t ask at bar.) CORBY ANARCHISTS, Discussion sent Soviet regime, in Dzyube’s mtg. first Friday every month case primarily on the issue of SPANISH RESISTANCE FUND c/o T.P. & P.T. at FREEDOM (84B at 7 Cresswell Walk, 7.30 p.m. Russification, while Chornovil t * * * 4 \ • • y Whitechapel High St. London El) documents the violations of civ LIVERPOOL ASA contact May Stone il rights. They are posing the C.32 Summerfield, Tower Hill, Secretary N.W. Syndicalist Wor Kirkby, near Liverpool. questions: hew has Soviet soci kers’ Federation for details of ety changed since Lenin’s death, membership contact J. Moorhouse LONDON ASA phone 226 0817 for inf and how does official theory 559 Didsbury Rd., Heaton Mersey INDUSTRIAL NETWORK - W. Allin, match up with practice? Their Stockport, Cheshire. c/o 9 Wood Road, Manchester 16 answers were skilful and devas tating; an official reply - for IRISH LIBERTARIAN SOCIALIST FED ’ Published by Freedom Press, distribution abroad only - was write New Earth, 112 Thomas St. London, E. 1. Printed by Dublin 8 printed in answer to Dzyube’s Vineyard Press, Colchester. book Internationalism or Russi-
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