is Issue ‘More and more people are biting Writers - p. 2 coming to suspect that the citizen’s real enemy nowadays ermaston-Post is the man he sets in power over joTtcra of th e P ress I p. 3 h im .’’ package Deal — EDWARD HYAMS over Cyprus - p.4 THE ANARCHIST WEEKLY

2 1 , N o. 18 April 30th, 1960 Threepence Lord Chief Justice Joins the Birchers PLE concerned with penal re- in winding up the conference, em­ biro often assume that “enlight- phasised that people who had to % t” exists at the upper level of deal with offenders after the courts nfenal machine, but is thwarted had sentenced them were convinced the unresponsiveness to new that Lord Parker was wrong. “Birch­ ,'of the people doing the dirty ing” he said, “was an easy way out [ at the bottom. When Lord which obscured or blinkered society ird was Lord Chief Justice, his to the root causes of crime.” •fc utterances frequently belied Interviewed by the press, Sir fpoint of view, and his successor Leslie Plummer commented that fParker is evidently very little Lord Parker’s views were “mon­ Tart. strous”, and he continued, “It seems to me that Lord Parker has dressing the annual conference not studied statistics, which show f National Association of Pro- clearly that birching and flogging ii Officers on April 23, he said generally have not been a deterrent. The hoped that the Advisory I can only assume that he is actuated \il on the treatment of Offend- by a desire for revenge on law­ %ould recommend the reintro- breakers and evildoers.” ■fcn of birching and caning for Tiers under 21. told a woman questioner that Aiews about young offenders ^thoroughly sentimental”,’ at DAVID PRATT jJFrank Dawtry, Secretary of IN DEFENCE OF bodahon, rose to say that the ;Chief Justice should not leave A Reply to our Critics and to the Conspiracy of Silence of the Left peering without knowing that It just didn’t happen! association did not share his J)U RIN G the Aldermaston week­ shocked after all? Perhaps we will with the method. Yet this in fact is end a number of shocked readers manage to provoke them to speak- what has happened, and when we The only honourable exception to Of 1,200 members polled for this catalogue of moral and political (views on corporal punishment, of F reedom assured us that we up this week I wrote our piece we knew this would should certainly be hearing from be the spineless, cowardly reaction cowardice is the Comment in The Jbad replied, and of those 89.7 ★ Observer (17/4/60) which we reprint Jznt. were opposed to the re- them on the subject of our article of the left, and purposely, in the “Too Bad he Missed” ! To date we pO R months the press has been full headline and in the text, did our best in full: luction of corporal punishment of news of South Africa, and the to shock and provoke those of our Jr form. He told of instances in have received one letter which is Personal sympathy for Dr. Verwoerd, Left and the Liberals have been readers who might have wished us who is recovering from an attempt on jjperience in Manchester in the printed in the correspondence col­ umns in this issue. That people who waxing indignant about the brutal to soft-peddle the whole business. his life, should be expressed and felt. en-thirties where boys who had He carries huge responsibilities and has feel strongly about something cannot treatment meted out to those Afri­ ★ leaned were charging ‘sixpence cans who have dared to join together no doubt done only what he believes to ip' for others to come and see even take the trouble to voice their "W7E quoted in our original piece protest is disappointing. But might in protest against the policy of apart­ be right. But this should not prevent Stripes. heid and racial discrimination. from the Daily Press, which us from feeling some sympathy for Mr. it perhaps be that our critics have was unanimous in deploring the act. David Pratt, his would-be assassin, who D the following day Lord Fever- had second thoughts about our of­ Pacifists, New Leftists, Communists presumably also did what he believed to and Socialists in this country have We did not quote from the Daily president of the association. fending article, and are not so Worker because, apart from briefly be right. been boycotting S. African oranges Political assassination is undoubtedly and some of them for a few days reporting the facts, the organ of the a crime in civilised communities. How­ after the Sharpeville massacre made C.P. has not said one word editorial­ ever, only pacifists have reproached a mild nuisance of themselves (so ly ! Of the weeklies the New States­ those who made attempts on the lives of 21 Jailed far as the British authorities are con­ man dismisses the matter in four Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and Franco, cerned, that is) on the pavement out­ lines: because these rulers had practised such After Foulness Demonstration side S. Africa House in London. The gun attack on Dr. Verwoerd has extravagant injustice and violence them­ They deplored Britain’s abstention had the immediate effect of reuniting selves. 'J ’WENTY-ONE people were sent and when the first vehicle arrived, at the United Nations’ debate on S. almost all leading white opinion behind Dr. Verwoerd has placed his fellow f to prison for a week on Monday, they were instructed to move. Fail­ the traditional South African segregation countrymen in a situation where millions Africa and many demanded that policy. of them have no constitutional means following their refusal to pay fines ing to do so they were lifted bodily Verwoerd should be banned from whatsoever of expressing their political for obstructing the police earlier in into police vehicles and were later the Commonwealth Ministers’ meet­ The Spectator draws the same disagreements with his Government. He the day at the culmination of the charged at a special court at South- ing in London next month. conclusion but is at least frank is driving them towards the use of demonstration at the Ministry of end. enough to admit that violence. Every effort should be made Supply atomic weapons research Then something happened which to stop him. But if he does not treat The first reaction . . . must be surprise There was prolonged cheering paralysed their brains and left them his governed more fairly, we should not establishment at Foulness Island in that it did not happen a long time ago. Essex. from the public gallery when they speechless. David Pratt, a wealthy view them and him without regard to refused to pay the fines imposed by No dictatorship can behave in the brutal who has been hurting whom. To treat farmer who keeps cattle and breeds and bloody way that his {Verwoerd's] The original proposal to invade the court. Three of the defendants victims and oppressors as morally the trout for the luxury market o f . has been doing without eventually lead­ same is moral nonsense. the island by boat had to be aban­ made statements to the courts on Johannesburg, shot Dr. Verwoerd at ing someone to the conclusion that the doned because of difficulties over the behalf of their colleagues. One of close range with the obvious inten­ simplest way to topple the tyrant is to tides and organisation, and the less them said “We are led to believe tion of killing him. That a white shoot him dead. spectacular method of obstructing that we live in a democratic country, S. African, a wealthy man, whose 'JTHLAT the New Statesman should the road on to the island early on but this is not the case when the wealth and status might well Tribune relegates its short com­ dismiss the “gun attack” in Monday morning was adopted. British public has never been con­ depend on the successful con­ ment to the back page and though four lines does not surprise sulted with regard to matters of such it makes clear in a round about way us. That journal has been The demonstration began on clusion of Dr. Verwoerd’s vital importance to each one of us. apartheid policies, should have been that it has no sympathy for Ver­ politically dead for decades and Saturday with a meeting on the sea­ We are virtually disenfranchised on woerd, makes no attempt to under­ it would be asking too much to front by Southend pier, from which prepared to risk his life or at least the supreme issue of our time when stand or to explain the significance expect a spark of imagination and 200 people marched the six miles to his liberty; to exchange his material we cannot vote at elections against comforts (which by all accounts of David Pratt’s gesture which it political unorthodoxy to shake the the police barrier to Foulness Island, dismisses with sobriety of the columns of this self- from which the public are perma­ the policy of preparing for the were considerable) for confinement Assassination is an ineffective politi­ appointed organ of the Establish­ nently excluded. A ‘vigil’ at the destruction of the human race”, in a prison cell, in order to make his Marches are not enough, she con­ protest against Verwoerd and his cal weapon. Tribune does not hold the ment. But the silence of Peace barrier through the week-end, and viewthat it is possible to shoot apartheid on Monday the 21 demonstrators tinued, however many thousands policies seems to us so unusual, so News is cowardly and dishonest We lake part .and (here must be a more praiseworthy, that no one professing out of South Africa by shooting Ver­ are sorry to have to say this since marched in a body to the barrier and woerd. we esteem that journal’s editor per­ demanded admittance. When it was determined protest. "If we cannot to radical ideas could possibly lu­ be heard to dissent, we must be seen nar? the action oven if he disagreed Not one of these journals ever sonally, but what other conclusions refused they lay down in the road can we draw when it not only de­ to prevent traffic entering or leaving to dissent.” mentions David Pratt by name. Of the minority weeklies we see, the votes considerable space to the strug­ the island, watched by a force of 50 A further demonstration at Foul­ gle in Africa, but also advocates Essex and War Department police. ness is expected next Monday. Socialist Leader organ of the I.L.P. Illiteracy Halved has a paragraph which simply says direct action, civil disobedience and This was the first of (he current 'T'HE Unlong National? per la Lotta that the attentat will “tend to “personal witness”—all non-violent campaign of civil disobedience rt coniro Analfabetum, k non-politi­ strengthen temporarily the National —as essential if we are to achieve Maria Bakunin demonstrations at military instal­ cal voluntary association formed twelve Party government by making Ver­ the goal of a world at peace and in lations to be organised outside the years ago to attempt to end illiteracy in woerd into a kind of martyr—what­ which all men are free and equal. TN its issue lor 22/4/60 the Timet Italy announced at its annual meeting in “But David Pratt’s action was Educational Suppletment reported (he auspices of the Direct Action Com­ ever the motive for the shooting, at mittee Against Nuclear War. The Rome last month that in 1951 there were the time of writing not revealed”. violent and we advocate only non­ death of Professor Maria Bakunin, for­ 5,046,000 illiterates in Italy, while today violent action” we shall be told. That merly director of the Institute of Applied organisers are largely Southend there are 2,044,000. The union, which But even this cautious line was bet­ Chemistry at the University of Naples. Quakers, with the support of the ie largely responsible for this achieve- tered by Peace News organ of the is true, and we would therefore un­ She was the last surviving daughter of local branch of the Campaign for now has over 50 adult education centres Peace Pledge Union by the simple derstand if Peace News published a Bakunin's widow. Nuclear Disarmament. in the poorest parts of southern Italy. expedient of ignoring it altogether. ear* C m iU u W ob p. 3 FREE H i BOOK REVIEWS to Russian afTaira is summed up by the in a different environment considE way in which Rakosi's plan to lake ad­ att.tudes taken up in lhe West to | vantage of the Poznan Rising of June 1956, by arresting hundreds of the offend­ ke.?Ztaj T nRussia to kick the sad story of the events leading book is in fact both more and Jess than novel The Answer in 1952: “The writer him out of office once more and then munism go to Koestler;H if about! up to the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. this. The authors were themselves is trying to defend his right to write what flew on to see Tito. you wad, read about intellectuals in Hungajl Since Tamils Acz6l and Tibor Mdray are Stalinists at the beginning, resisters in the he wants to write.” In the autumn of In fact, of course, Rdkosi was quite to Ignotus; if you want to'read professional writers who Jived in Hun­ middle, and exiles at the end of the last 1953, we are told, several writers who right—it was dangerous to allow the prisons in Hungary go to Edith b| gary unU'l they escaped to Western decade. They are therefore so deeply had for years been churning out social­ writers such freedom of thought and if you want to read about Hungary® Europe in November 1956, one might involved in the process they describe ist realist nonsense in accordance with expression as they enjoyed in Hungary go to Mikes. One must respect hope that their account would be well- that it is out of the question for them to Rcvai's version of the Zhdanovshchina during 1956; this was shown by the and Mfiray for trying to make written, interesting and revealing. In maintain an objective attitude towards it. actually went out and saw the appalling events that followed the rehabilitation for what they did and said and' fact it is a long-winded and expensive A valid alternative to this—indeed a very conditions in the Hungarian countryside of Rajk on October 6th and led on to before they saw the truth about M fl piece of gossip-column journalism de­ interesting and absorbing one—would for themselves. Accurate portrayal of the outbreak of the Revolution on Rdkosi and J6zset R£Vai and mF signed for the American market. The have been to forego objectivity' alto­ these conditions was condemned by the October 23rd. But it is a mistake to Farkas and Brno Gera and Gdbor p | authors were once dutiful Stalinists (a gether and to try instead to provide a conservative Stalinists (still including imagine that the writers led the liberal­ (all Jews—why?); but this book d o e j footnote on p.45 lists the distinctions they personal document, a real case history Merely) but was allowed by Nagy. A ising movement—they symbolised it. really help to explain why they andL were accorded by the Communist regime, written from the inside. year later Jdnos Kfiddr and other “Tito- After all the “Thaw” began with the colleagues took so long to see the til and they admit that they contributed to This the authors have not done. What ists” were released and at last—as their death of the great dictator, Stalin, not It is this, rather than the failure of* a Stalin memorial volume in 1953—as is designed to be an account of resistance stories became known—the writers began with any action of any writer. It is Revolution, that is the real HungjT did Tibor D6ry and Gyula Hfiy, now to Mdtyds Rakosi's party line reads un­ to realise “that they, too, had been ac­ natural for the authors to give particular tragedy, and it is still obscure, n recently released from K&ddr’s prisons), comfortably like an apologia for the complices, and that they, too, had been emphasis to intellectual and cultural life lack a profound study of that «tri but they have rapidly learnt the ways of writers who dutifully followed every responsible”. (in fact the book would have been a lot phenomenon, the Communist writeij the West. Typical chapter-openings are: twist and turn of that labyrinthine line More and more intellectuals joined the more satisfactory if they had stuck to Communist country. “Gyorgy Lukacs always had a cigar in until the fall of Ldszld Rajk in 1949. It “right deviationists”, and when Rdkosi this), but it is—as they admit—rather We also lack a complete history o! his mouth” and “Jdzsef Revai always was of course magnificent of them to managed to replace Nagy again in April too much to suggest that “the struggles Hungarian Revolution (though Mf presided at the head of the table” (where 1955, they refused to toe the line. No of the Communist writers’’ were “the soul sketch is good for its length). IfJ stand out against the Stalinist Establish­ and body of the revolt”. else could he preside?), and this sort ment after Rajk was hanged as a Titoist doubt he would have forced them to do we could hear from Rdkosi (now j of journalistic triviality runs throughout so as they had done before, if this had I think that what is wrong with this ed to be manager of a paper factfl agent—but why after the death of Rajk book (apart from the fact that it is badly the book. of ail people? It was he who ruled not been the time when the Russians Russia) or from Kddar (patriot! The publishers (or printers) have done were making up their quarrel with Tito; Written) is a facet of the heresy that there traitor, who still bears the scars hM the AVO throughout the “salami? period. is something special about writers. This their bit by declining to use accents in For a Communist to turn against Rdkosi no doubt he would have taken much ceived from the AVO he once ruled* ill is not just a Communist heresy: one Hungarian words. This is not a frivo­ because he got rid of Rajk is rather as stronger action than he did against the the meantime we can only bow our h» lous complaint—in Hungarian the pro- Memorandum that was issued by 59 in­ may also remember that far more fuss in shame when we remember tha* if a Nazi had turned against Hitler be­ was made in the West about one Hun­ nounciation of vowels is determined by cause he got rid of Roehm. tellectuals in November 1955, if the were floundering around in thej accents, so that to omit them is to make Twentieth Congress of the Russian Party garian writer (Tibor Ddry) who was im­ morass when the brave, unhappy! the words absurd. No doubt English- Perhaps the Party and fellow-travel­ had not been held only two months later. prisoned in 1957 or about one Russian humorous Hungarians were fightings r" V speaking people are superior because' ling intellectuals had no time to bother The complete subservience of Hungarian writer (Boris Pasternak) who was silen­ freedom. Let us hope that one day| they don’t use accents, but it is unneces­ about the injustices meted out to political ced in 1958 than about thousands of will have it despite everything. sarily discourteous to remove them from opponents of the Communists—people other victims of Communist tyranny; and N j the names of people who do. I wonder like B6Ia Kovdcs (who spent eight years how the authors like It. I also wonder in Siberia when the Smallholders were THE TOKOLOSH if they were responsible for replacing the crushed), Anna K6thly (who went to phrase “salami tactics” (which is highly prison in Hungary for five years when THE TOKOLOSH by R onald LETTERS TO THE EDITORS expressive) by “raeatgrinder tactics” the Social Democrats went the same Segal (Sheed and Ward 6s.) (which is meaningless) when describing way), Pdl Ignotus (seven years) or Cardi­ TF you are tired of the long, depressing Progressive Education Today the way the Communists destroyed the nal Mindszenty (that brave misguided factual reports on the grimness of Smallholders and Social Democrats be­ man who had been arrested forty years things in South Africa, or if you really npH E letter from I.L. commenting on Reichianism is now pretty well deadj tween 1946 and 1948. I doubt it. In earlier by the 1919 Communist rbgime want to understand how very close to . my series of articles on Progressive the Orgone Boxes are now collj general this book is so badly construc­ when he was still plain Joseph Pehm, revolution South Africa stands, I can Education Today raises some valid dust in attics or used as tool cupbo ted and written that I suspect it has been and spent seven years in prison before think of no better reading than this book points. I am taken to task on the use As I.L. points out, others wereJ through the heavyhands of some incom­ the 1956 Revolution)—but why did they provides. It is a short, humorous and of the word “horse-sense”. I must cerned for freedom in educationT petent translators and editors. take no notice of what happened to the moving book. admit that as this term is colloquial it before Reich started writing about1 To get to its subject, the sub-title is great poet Atilla Jdzsef (who was houn­ Ronald Segal, the editor of the well has no very precise meaning, but now, regulation”. Most of the benefits SB “A Case History of Intellectual Resist- ded out of the Party even before the known periodical Africa South, at pre­ looking in various dictionaries, I find that progressive schools are, I m aintaug War) or to Imre Nagy and Gyorgy sent fleeing from fascist emergency I am not alone in regarding it as mean­ rived from the use of horse-sense^ •THE REVOLT OF THE MIND, by Lukdcs in 1949? No doubt Rajk was powers, has found an intriguing and ing “rough, practical commonsense”. I not from esoteric theories. The psw lam as Aczel & Tibor Me ray (Thames innocenl of Titoism, but hundreds of his thought-provoking way in which to illus­ have used the term to indicate the rough analytic school in general has c o n & Hudson. 35s.). victims had been innocent of everything. trate a near insurrection in a township opposite of “intellectualism”. Thus if ted to the development of progreJ No, he deserves precious little sympathy of South Africa. He has invented an I try to encourage the growth of my cab­ education by virtue of its considerate from us. African spirit—the Tokolosh—an imag­ bages by hacking down the weeds of everyday facts about children, 'em Anyway, intellectual resistance after inary little imp who produces printed around them I am using horse-sense; if than by its more esoteric theories.'^ FREEDOM BOOKSHOP 1949 was scarcely noticeable (except in cards informing Africans they need however I resort to swinging a pendulum In conclusion I.L. refers to me as! the cases of people like Nagy, Lukdcs carry no passes, and who incites strike over over them seven times at the full ting on some very rosy spectacffl O P E N DAILY or Ddry, who could get away with it) action by giving every employed African moon, I am using an iritellectualist ap­ Indeed! I feared my spectacles wT (Opoii 10 jum.—6.30 p.m., S p.m. Sets;) until the death of Stalin in March 1953. a pink slip stating that his employer no proach which must derive from some altogether of too dark a shade of giR And then, as the honesty of the authors longer requires his services. It is won­ more subtle theory of plant growth. However, in spite of some points of dT New Books . . . compels them to admit several times, the derful fun—though the Africans’ plight agreement which I have with him,T Love Without Fwr I.L. quotes some examples of parental various ' ups and downs of intellectual is never forgotten. mismanagement of children and refers welcome his letter as a contribution him Eustace Chesser 20/- liberty that followed' were determined I found it a pleasant change to read The World Co-operative to these as examples of horse-sense. 1 someone who has obviously begn^pM Margaret Digby 12/61 not by the attitude of the writers but by I paper-back which included some first- must flatly disagree with him and sug­ pared to do something about progressive! Nationalization H. Fagan 2/6 I the high politics of the Communist rate drawings. David Marais has com­ gest that he has got ahold of the wrong education.. G. . The Communist Party of the world; the large amount of space devoted mented well with his pencil on several end of the stick. Nothing but some Soviet Union L Schapiro 63/- to foreign events and rivalry for power occasions. The Tokolosh kicking a damned silly intellectual theory would Guenther Podola Rupert Fumeaux. 18/6 shows how relatively insignificant the policeman’s hat to the winds is a delight. lead a parent constantly to force food TAX REFUSAL From the Other Shore Hungarian wrters really were. As an African says in the book: on a sated child, except two bowel move­ Alexander Herzen 16/- YVT'HAT is the next move after Alder- 1 It was the Berlin Rising of June 1953 ‘Some people see the Tokolosh and some ments a day, etc. This is the antithesis YY maston? It would be tragic if R e p rin ts . • • that led to the replacement of Rdkosi people do not. Who js to say the Toko­ of horse-sense. No ordinary, practical Earth is Room Enough the Campaign were now to stand still by Imre Nagy (a “Bukharinist”, or losh is not there?” Not me, for the experience of children will lead parents Isaac Asimov 2/6 and take no positive action for months. peasant-lover, something like Malenkov) Tokolosh is an anarchist imp that thrives to make unrealistic demands on them; Barnard Carr James T. Farrell I 3/6 A rally 100,000 strong against the j at Russian orders, and brought the on rebellion and knows no laws; as the where such unrealistic demands are The Fall of a Titan bomb is a major success. What a victory Ivan Gouzenko 5A ‘Thaw’’ to Hungary. Only then did an Tokolosh says at the end: “I am already made they derive from parents triyng to it would be if those 100,000 followed Beyond Defeat appreciable number of writers take the inside you. You will always hear my follow some theoretical ideal rather than H. Werner Richter 2/6 line that had been laid down by Tibor voice, il you listen for it.” R.J.W. using their loaf. their action through to its logical con­ Second-Hand « # * clusion. A Short History of Freethought I wonder whether I.L. thinks that such If we. are prepared to march against (Vpl. I only) John M. Robertson I0A instances as he quotes are in fact usual the H-bomb how can we go on helping Crises in the History of the among ordinary parents (i.e. parents who to pay for its manufacture and for Papacy Joseph McCabe ISA CINEMA are not psychiatric cases). | wonder the farce of civil defence? We Alexanderpletz Alfred Ddbfin 8A whether such impressions are gained should refuse to pay income tax towards Summer Time Ends Red Teds beat up Expectant Blackleg from his own experience and whether defence and rates towards civil defence. John Hargrave 4/6 such experience is wide and representa­ Tax refusals have a long and honour­ Hotel in Right (Spain) tive. I mention this because it is pos­ Nancy Johnstone 4/- ■npHE Angry Silence" starring (and for ‘us all to be so equal that we're able history dating from the 17th cen­ Studies of a Biographer (2 yob.) ^ made by) Richard Attenborough is nothing’ which could have come from the sible to be greatly misled by studying tury when John Hampden refused to pay Leslie Stephen (set) 6/- a representation of the headline noted late Sir Ernest Benn. He proves how psychiatric case histories. He mentions “Ship money" to the despotic Stuart Two Women Alberto Morevie %/• above. It was made by Attenborough’s more equal than the others he is by “specific things that most parents do that monarchy. “No taxation without repre­ Socialism and Character (If 12) own group, Beaver Films, andserialized filling a pool coup, looking at a telly are most harmful" and cites a lifetime of sentation" was the slogan of the Ameri­ Vida D. Scudoer 3/6 in the Daily Express. It has all the which breaks down occasionally (a con­ clinical experience (Reich's?) in support can colonists and of the people in the Church Discipline (1903) qualities of a good story in a bad news­ cession to Tom O'Brien), and he is pre­ of this. But a clinician!, although he is women's franchise movement. It might Joseph McGebe •A in a position to hear a lot about the Charles Kingsley: Letters end paper, sensationalism, tear-jerking, sim­ sumably a Roman Catholic, otherwise equally well be ours in the Campaign Memories of his LHe 1 /6 plification, a piling on of horrors and an how can one explain the Italian wife and practices of neurotics and psychotics, has for Nuclear Disarmament today. Fvfl Score D, H, Lawrence */- ibtcunng of the real issue. the lack of birth control? This film may no special competence to generalize There will be a meeting to plan a cam­ Return to Goll Peter Abrahams 1/6 The story it too weJl-piled-up. It start* not get an Oscar but will get a nihil about the frequency of such practices in paign of revenue refusals on Saturday, Hypatia Bredleugh Bonner with an intellectual, who looks, il you obstai. the general population. Reich's theories May 7, at the Student Movement House, A. & C. B. Bonner I/- cart imagine such a thing, like Colin The wife is Pier Angeli who is highly go far’ beyond others of the psycho­ Gower Street, London, W.C.I. In the Gods Divide A. D. MoweM-Smith I/- Wilson without his roll-neck pullover, personable and the kind of provincial analytic school in the respect of setting morning rates refusals and suing The Bitter Orange Tree up the practices of psychiatric cases as Permit istreti 1/- getting off a train coming into a pro­ housewife lo be an 'outsider' at the start. borough councils will be discussed; in J vincial station. T^hlspersonage isreceiv­ For One thing they cut spaghetti. aunt sallies typical of the whole popu­ the afternoon, income tax refusals. Pamphlets . • . lation—other than the elect. In this Facts on Foil Out Modtcsl A m. ing orders from Above. The source is The Teddy Buys who are the physical Pamela Frankau and Doris Lessing for tho Prevention of War 3d. not disclosed but you-know-who. villains of (he piece would, if they had respect Reich was grossly misleading to as well as a number of other well-known I This baste premise, that workers would made such a compromise as lo work in the naive and ignorant, and brought him­ people have promised to come to the Wo con fupply ANY book required not strike without Communist influence, skilled engineering, have compromised self into contempt with those who had afternoon meeting. We hope that all ‘ includinq toxt-boolt. Ploaio supply pub- less respect for sheer dogmatic state­ is absurd. The point is that it is an un- in other delkils. Speaking of work, what those interested in taking action along Wihor'i nomo If postlblo. but if not. wo ments in the place of reasoning. con find I t Scorco ond out-of-print official strike (this is a concession Ip the exactly is it that the factory does? There these lines will attend the meeting— I books loarchod for — ond froquontly Unions since it is well-known that black­ were dark hints of defence contracts; a The fact that Reich appears to have including those on PAYE for whom cer- I foundl legs do not get molested on official cement-mixer was seen assembled in the been insane for the last years of his life, tain lines of action may be possible. strikes). Why the worker docs not join yard; a cog-wheel landed on Richard and that his later writings were quite Postage fret on all Items APRIL CARTER, in the strike is only hinted at. He has Attenborough's toe but we never saw the worthless, does not detract from the re­ Obtainable tram Secretary. no illusions about the jub, his wife is finished product. Perhaps it was Sara­ levance of his writings of the 1930’s PAT ARROWSMUH, 27, RED LION STREET, ‘expecting’. Bui that he is in it for the cens? . taken against the whole background money is never stressed. Just some re­ No it will not do. It has not even of the psychoanalytic school. As far as Field Secretary. LONDON, W.C.I (Direct Action Committee). marks about the necetaily for individuals Ihe excuse of I'm All Right Jack of being (he section of the libertarian movement London, N.4. to stand out and the regrettable tendency funny, except unintentionally . J.R. which was once concerned . with it Ctitipnig on p. 4 hind tho gun was white; for had it to tho fact that among the whites of incident in the hard struggle for sur­ kill me, and hoping that he will give been black the repression that would South Africa and outside, there are vival. But it has meaning when it me time to utter a little Christian have followed would have made many who do not assess a person's sparks off a campaign of civil dis­ homily which will plague him for the Teeiomit w K < K V Y Sharpeville a mere picnic. We do worth by the pigment of his skin. obedience (e.g. mass burning of rest erf bis life? not share this timorous approach This surely is the most important passes), general strikes, world opin­ In South Africa, the pacifist must -1> No. 18 April 30. 1960 (how many Sharpcvilles will the aspect of David Pratt’s gesture. By ion and yes, we submit, and pacifists recognise that the multi-racial solu­ Press and the Left and the pacifists it he has shown the black S. Africans must recognise it, such rare, mean­ tion will take a long time and that witness before they allow tho worm that there are whites whose sense of ingful. phenomena as a David Pratt. in the meantime the government will In Defence of to turn?) but we welcome the fact justice transcends considerations of But whereas Peace News has pub­ not hesitate to order its security that Verwoerd’s would-be assassin race or class. Equally, we suggest, licised Sharpeville. it has failed to forces to open fire on gatherings of David Pratt was white. And for quite different that for those anti-racial white South recognise the relation between it and citizens who threaten its authority reasons! Africans who have despaired of ever David Pratt, or that Sharpeville (even non-violently). Without sug­ Now Peace News, we are sure, convincing their black brothers of gesting the use of violence to further [denunciation of David Pratt’s at- needed a David Pratt to save the dig­ shares our view that the only satisfac­ their sincerity, David Pratt's gesture nity of mankind. our objectives—we agree that vio­ Mempt on Dr. Venvoerd. But why tory solution to the South African has been invaluable. lence breeds violence—what is the suppression? Not surely because problem is one which recognises the Finally, it has given the ruling argument for denying the indivi­ K- was an example of the violence W H AT is the pacifists non-violent equal rights of all, irrespective of clique in S. Africa a feeling of in­ resistance? Is it a tactic, or a dual’s right to defend himself, if Ebf->man. The Sharpeville massacre racial difference. For Africans to security. Verwoerd has often boas­ respect for human life as being needs be by having recourse to fcwPlnSnyother examples of colonial talk of driving the whites into the ted: “l never allow myself the lux­ sacroscanct? If we have understood force? To answer this question is Bk>Ieq£e are frequently reported and sea is as barbarous as the Verwoerds ury of ever doubling whether I them, it is the latter. In which case, to answer the last sentence of the Kanmented in Peace News. We who seek to force the Africans into might be wrong.” We may be if someone threatens to take my life Observer’s Comment! “To treat vic­ Epspe&t they have no answer which “native reserves”. The intransigence wrong, but we strongly believe that am I entitled to defend it even at tims and oppressors as morally the Hptey themselves believe, to a gesture of the white ruling class fosters a if Verwoerd does once again take the expense of taking the life of my same is moral nonsense”. This is ^E ch as that of David Piatt. Let us similar intransigence among the has place as, to quote Colin Legum aggressor? Why if life sacrosanct the pacifists dilemma, and when Analyse his gesture before we pro- black Africans which is understand­ of the Observer, “the most powerful should I consider m y life less sacro­ David Pratt reminded them of it with Beed further. . able but which our deep sympathies Nationalist figure in the country”, sanct than that of my aggressor? his generous gesture, instead of for their cause must not prevent us he will, as a result of David Pratt’s And even assuming that I consider recognising it, and saluting him, they WFL know vSry little about David from expressing as harmful. For it gesture, allow himself the “luxury” our lives equally sacrosanct how do behaved as if neither existed. | | Platt apart from the fact that not only encourages a racialism of doubt. I resolve the problem that my aggres­ We refuse to let the self-named fee was wealthy, that he lived, in which we seek to abolish, but makes The massacre of Sharpeville in it­ sor does not share my view and is ‘‘direct actionists” pass by David ^E>le. that he was a fanner and a those concerned in the struggle blind self is meaningless, just one. more intent on killing me? By letting him Pratt! fee tors owner. He has also been Htscribed as an "eccentric”; we have read that he was an epileptic, the Evening Standard for April ALDERMASTON—Post Mortem in the Press there is a photograph of him with nPH E weekly press has been holding its been entrusted to seek in recreating April number of The 20th Century, on years. ^■ liberal candidate, during the last Labour's lost youth movement. That the British Left, Mr. K. R. Minogue “If we are not over-preoccupied with "*■ inquest, on the significance of the General Elections, there still seems a fair ^ K e ra l election .taken outside 10 phenomenal number of people who join­ means conflict and weakness in every (writing before this- year’s march) said: K w n in g Street. He was canvassing amount of political activity that could ed the march from Alderniaston. Com­ constituency. In every part of these “Or take the anti-Bomb campaign and be usefully done.- By-elections are the K r the Liberal candidate for West- parisons have been made to show that islands the politically conscious and the marches to Alderniaston. These most obvious occasions. Party loyalties ^Bnster, Mr. Bute Hewes, so pre- it was the longest procession ever seen eager young people who should be look­ were, in a sense, inspired pranks, perhaps are not as strong then, so that more effec­ H k a b ly his politics were Liberal. in this country, and that the crowds in ing forward to a Labour government an indispensible tune in the symphony tive 'no votes for the.bomb* campaigns Hewes interviewed after the and around Trafalgar Square were the giving a practical interpretation to their of British national life and a useful could be organised against candidates largest ever seen there, and so on. It idealistic slogans are leaderless and rud­ dramatisation of distaste for a situation who supported the nuclear deterrent ^Kgjuat said which nobody likes and nobody pretends theory." think it is wrong to write Mr. Pratt has been pointed out that no other cause, derless. One of the few things they are to like. But these gestures could not and no political party could gather such sure about is that' the leader of the Something To Say as a madman. Ho was not the sort possibly have changed the situation. No Well, we wish that these campaigners [ cha£ to go around shouting "down a large numher of people. None of us, Labour Party treats them with contempt.” harm is done so long as this is realised. Peace News points out, had seen any­ He sees them as "leaderless and rudder­ But inevitably the Aldermaston affairs had become anarchists (even unconsious Verwoerd". He would go and do ones) because it seems to us that in ^Etfaiog about it. He helped us a great thing like it before. “We were familiar less”, because he thinks in terms ' of became part of the phantasy world of moral gestures; they became a vehicle of changing public attitudes political action with door-to-door canvassing. He enough with the dispirited May Day pro­ leadership, with presumably, his paper as the rudder of the Labour movement. righteousness, allowing their older sup­ in the parliamentary sense is the most i n»tk very much, but he struck me cessions of portly trade unionists droning Socialist hymns, too familiar by half Bernard Kops, the playwright, however, porters the moral arrogance of feeling futile form of activity in which to dis­ being perfectly sane. in an ecstatic article in Tribune, declares that, in the midst of a sea of apathy, sipate the energy that has been accumu­ with the strutting myriads of the totali­ they were ‘doing something about the JW e know nothing further either tarian storm troops. None Of us, until that lated by the nuclear disarmament cam­ C hit Mr. Pratt or his motives in Bomb.’ (Significantly enough, the film paign. Bernard Kops in his Tribune three years ago, had ever envisaged such "People with all shades of conflicting of the march saw politics as the whole­ Tempting the life of Dr. Verwoerd a combination of spontaneity and- order, opinions, from all walks of life are united some hopes of youth pitted against the article noted how at Aldermaston there fam e on the one band after the seriousness and gaiety, discipline and in a common purpose, at last There is ingrained wickedness of politicians—all were "Trotskyists, Anarchists, Commun­ tuning Standard there has been informality.” Michael Foot writes in something to latch on to. The swirling politicians!)" ists, the PPU and the SPGB all selling mass of jubilant, tired kids have made their particular tracts.” I wonder if it Eiplete silence about him in the Tribune, that “on the road from Alder- it—the days of apathy are over. They This mistrust of all politicians which maston the youth movement which the he singles out for an exclamation mark, struck him, as it struck us, that none ptish Press and on the other, the have a direction. No longer are they of them except the pacifists and the anar­ Kith African government, which Labour Party has talked about for so living for kicks, they are kicking for is for us the most hopeful aspect of these long and so pitiably failed to achieve, demonstrations, and we wish we could chists had anything to say to their K d the powers to put him on trial fellow-marchers ? ■ chosen instead to use its Emer- was being created before our eyes”, and believe it was more general. It seems in the New Statesman, Kingsley Martin 'Voting With Their Feet evident however that, with all the politi­ And it is because we have something Kfracy Powers to keep him in prison, makes the same point to attack the The Observer summed it up with a cal groups and parties making their to say, because we are not serving up pncommunicado. without charging Labour Party leadership: "What matters headline, Voting With Their Feet, and current bids for the allegiance of politi- the same old rehash of dissident social­ prim or putting him on trial. Die even more is that the marchers included noted in an editorial comment that the cally-uncommitted youth, a lot of the ism, or using the presence of a handful ■pr'Inat such a course has been just those young people for whose sup­ march . united people who want quite aspirations which have gone into the of back-bench M.P.s on the march, to aken is, to our minds, clear evidence I port poor Mr. Morgan Phillips has now different things. In an article in the campaign for nuclear disarmament, are drum up support for the Labour Party, that it suits the government’s inter­ going to be syphoned off into political that we venture to ask those anarchists activity. who made new contacts and new friend­ est not to put him on trial in open ships on the road from Aldermaston, to court. Die reasons we can think of In its issue of 15/4/60, Peace News follow up these people and gain new | for this course of action are (a) that discussing the different fields of protest readers for this paper. Freedom 's i he has been so ill-treated that he is May Day 196® activity had this to say about political double number which set out to intro­ |pK * in a fit condition to be seen by action: duce chance readers to anarchist ideas 'T ’HIS Sunday in Hyde Park (if it to the capitalist West, and the "Now that a Conservative Government was more widely read than any issue Kjfae eyes of the world Press, (b) that is so well established for another five if he were put on trial he would de- doesn’t rain) the “boys and girls emerging urban workers in Africa since the time of the Freedom Press trial years, many campaigners seem to have in 1945. Because we are convinced that lead his action along the lines of the of the left” will fall in behind an (held in slavery by a mere handful given up any kind of political action Observer Comment and so win awful lot of banners to mark with of White men), have had no real as a lost cause. anarchism makes more sense today than international support. At home there "This is not because they have become it ever did before, we don’t want to wait world opinion to his side whatever empty gestures the coming of for another Aldermaston march to reach is just as little comm unity of inter­ anarchists (even unconscious ones) but ibc^eaSSBl courts might decide to another May Day. because they subscribe to the theory of more people, we want to reach them do with him as an individual, (e) that It so happens that May 1st falls est between the various sections of politics happening only once every, five now. be is bong bean-washed it La Russe on a Sunday this year, but had it workers. and will in doe .course be put on been on a working day men and While conditions in some coun­ trial and confess that he was insti­ women all over Britain would tries may have improved since the gated by the British South Africans, obediently clock into the factories, days of Tom Mann, there is no basic or by the bus tQctf men more inter* j without thought for the historical change in human relationships. E. A. GUTK1ND: meaning of May 1st, originally con­ The Expanding Environment 8s. 6d_ esied in (be stock markets than in The fear of not having enough FREEDOM PRESS the purity of (be (white) stock. ceived as a day on which workers RUDOLF ROCKER: money to meet the demands of 20th Nationalism and Culture cloth 21s. On the other hand were he insane, ajj over the world would down tools century life, the fear of war more or had the govemcoent any evidence in |a expression of international soli­ SELECTIONS FROM JOHN HEWETSON; bloody than ever before still haunts lU-Health, Poverty and the State to show that he was a mpuySlr of darity, the majority of people. ’ FREEDOM ’ some subversive group he would, in The coalition of Trade Unions cloth 2s. 64, paper Is. Conditions will not be changed Vol. l, 1951, Mankind Is One ERRICO MALATESTA: our opinion, now be standing trial and State has robbed May 1st of any Vol. 2, 1952, Postscript to Posterity for the attempted :ici*gyni‘,Kvn of meaning by arranging for May Day and fears allayed by staging marches Vol. 3, 1953, Colonialism on Trial Anarchy 9d-S Verwoerd, since i( would be in the Celebrations” to be held on the first once a year or making hypocritical Vol. 4, 1954, Living on a Volcano MAR1E-LOUISE BERNER!: government’s interest to do so. We Sunday in May so as not to hinder speeches about the brotherhood of Vol. S, 1955, The Immoral Moralists Neither East nor West man. Waters paper 7s. 6d., cloth 10s. 64 think that everything points to the production and dopriye employers Vol. 6, 1956, Oil and Troubled David Prati (menus as one'of those at profits through having a one-day The strength is there among the Vol. 7. 1957, Year One—Sputnik Era TONY GIBSON: workers which could force a change, Vol. 8, 195$, Socialism in a Youth for Freedom _ __paper 2s. unexpected ftesfiares from a member stoppage. i-t - 2d. of the privileged class (and in this When men like Tom Mann were but they will not be encouraged to Wheelchair Who will do the Dirty Work t case, race) who does not reject (he campaigning tor the Eight-Hour use this strength for good by their each volume paper 7s. 6d. F. A. RIDLEY: material, .^comforts which it allows politic#! or union leaders whose cioloth ■ a 10s. m 6d. The Roman Catholic Church Day, workers were slaving from and the Modem Age 2d, ji him but who at the same time has twelve to sixteen hours a day for guiding principle is expediency first. The paper edition of the Selections is a conscience which prevents him ji is necessary to re-educate, to available to readers ofFREEDOM ★ poor wages, ft was out of these at 5/- a copy Marie-Louise Bemeri Memorial g from rationalising has privileged conditions that the concept of an in­ make meaningful appeals to the Commit(cc publications : fejstalus. spirit of solidarity dormant in each VOLINE: ternational solidarity day grew. Nineteen-Seventeen (The Russian Marie-Louise Bemeri, 1918-1949: Unlike the Socialist header which Since then working conditions man, and to stress the significance Revolution Betrayed) cloth 12s. 6d. A Tribute cloth 5s. I will not commit itself until it has have improved. The Labour Puny of the power he holds in factory and The Unknown Revolution Journey Through Utopia i evidence in black and white of the has emerged and had its fruitless workshop which could be used for (Kronstadt 1921, Ukraine 1918-21) cloth 18s. (U.S.A. S3) f motives behind the outturn, we ac- time in office; two wars have widen­ the good of alL cloth 12s. 6d. ■cept David Pratt's action as courag- ed (he gap between the international Unless some purpose is rc-intro- V. RICHARDS: 27, Red Lion S treet, f-oous, generous, and important to the working class; the self-styled “Land duced into May Day. it would be Lessons of the Spanish London, W.C.l. future of & Africa/' The Press of Socialism” has produced a tyran­ better if it were allowed to die. Revolution 6s. sighed with relief that the hand be­ ny and a hierarchy of privilege equal R. LETTERS TO THE E D I T O R S from p. 2 A Package Deal over Cyprus} ‘A Crumbling Monument to the TJESPITE every appearance of dead­ British, looked askance at these organised I no figures returned «,er. __ , -a lock as I write, we may expect a gatherings of “leaders” who individually Bad Old Days9! package deal over Cyprus shortly. gether to the liking * III owed a first allegiance to a religion and House. While British Comrades , with blood streaming down his face, his Unfortunately, whatever the shape of a patriotism irreconcilable with those of ierred to continue negotiations with thJ wife at his side. We can express pity their alien confreres. The editors of F reedom can be com­ the base agreement by the powers-that- devil they know, other aspects ot th3 mended on producing a remarkably good and understanding for the man who did be, the jigsaw pieces being fitted together But a benign governor had closed the poll were less assuring. issue, calculated to draw new blood into the shooting, he is probably suffering are bound to form the depressingly fami­ detention camps and arranged amnesty for it now, and at the same time abhor Archbishop Makarios 144,SOI \ the anarchist movement, for the Alder- liar picture of government, which for the convicted and a return of Cypriot John Clerides, Q.C. 71,753 j the barbarity of political assassination. maston March. The article on the Ver- throughout history has so signally failed exiles. The shooting had ended. Per­ Ballot Papers spoiled 1,702 1 wocrd shooting was therefore nothing When we attack the pious attitudes mankind. suaded by such facts and an articulate, Electors who did not Vote 20,923 of press and politicians in this country Jess than a tragedy. Amid a positive The future of Cypriots in Cyprus was politically minded, sometimes financially we have ample justification. The ruling wealth of basic anarchist thought it stood being patterned on cut and dried lines interested, minority in both Cypriot Total Greek Cypriot class obviously does not like to see one alone, a crumbling monument to the of eagerly acclaimed independence, typi­ camps, suspicions were swallowed, if not electorate 238,879 bad old days, a perfect example of what of its members dealt with in the man­ cally stopping short of extension to the thoroughly stomached. ner which it has itself perfected. James anarchism is not Before the new reader individual, the moment the London Ag­ Thus a previously unenfranchised The casting of one in three Green Cameron in the News Chronicle was had had time to discard the conventional reement was signed in February, 1959. peasantry which had shown no spirit of Cypriot votes against the ratification of-j near the mark when he contrasted the picture of a bearded bomb-thrower in With astonishing ease and speed there political independence hitherto, with their any treaty negotiated by ArchbishoJ reaction to the Sharpville massacre with dark glasses the vision was restored with was set up in the island a Transitional town cousins endorsed an inviolable Makarios was feared as indicating thafi cartoon clarity. the eulogies which would have appeared Committee, appointed (not elected) from constitution they had no hand in making, concession to Britain of base areas fror^ if Verwoerd had died from his wounds. For those selling the paper it was a the government official, religious leader by flocking obediently to (if they were which a fatherly hand could still rea^ Perhaps the author would like to Qpnstant embarrassment, all the more so and lawyer class to pave the way for Moslems) be enrolled on the Turkish out might again be resisted by force. if they happened to be selling Peace carry his ideas to their logical conclu­ the Transfer of Authority to the new Cypriot electoral register, or (if they sion by assassinating Macmillan? After And while by Western standards ad News also. I do not like to be apolo­ republic. were Christians, either of Greek Ortho­ almost 90% poll was eminently satisfacJ getic about what I am selling but I was all, he managed to give the South Afri­ dox, etc., Armenian, Maronite, or Latin cans the most telling form of encour­ The proprieties of procedure were tory, and more than the 1,702 ballot constantly forced to be so. publicly observed. Headed by His Ex­ Church persuasion) to be enrolled as papers spoiled had been expected, it i Although I consider pacifism and agement, cash. I quote from the Natal Greek Cypriot electors. Mercury, April 9th: “The strategically cellency, Governor Sir Hugh Foot, His pondered whether second thoughts abol anarchism not only to be compatible but Beatitude, Archbishop Makarios, and Both sexes are entitled to vote. Voters the benefits of an electoral systc also to be dependent upon each other astute move of the British Exchequer in making a handsome taxation gift to Doctor Fadil Kutchuk, the committee must be aged 21 years, or more; resi­ (despite the novelty of enfranchisemec I am well aware that not all comrades duly seated itself, behind the customary dent in Cyprus for six months imme­ in Cyprus) had caused 20,923 (nearly 9>%u T are committed to non-violence. How the South African wine industry”. Ver­ woerd is merely a figurehead, the econo­ big, stiff cards of identity, around a con­ diately before the qualifying date; a of the electors to stay away from tlx they reconcile individual freedom with ventionally U-shaped table. While press British subject born in Cyprus, or whose poll. assassination 1 do not know but surely mic blow of an efficient boycott is more effective than his removal. and television cameras recorded the his­ father was; or themselves have lived in I regret to say that I believe thef this is difference of opinion to be fought toric scene, each member addressed him­ Cyprus for at least seven of the previous out in the comparatively sheltered atmos­ Fraternally, second fear had no more foundation tha? self to a diplomatically arranged agenda fifteen years: and must not have been the conviction of these 20,923 default^ phere of the usual four page edition. London, April 20. T.S. before affirming that (once the real busi­ in prison or in a mental institution during that the election result was a foregofij Socialists and especially Trotskyists ness of the committee started, in private) the six months before an election. conclusion.The fear that the 71,753 applaud and subscribe to the “too bad di he would never reveal any matter learned In November, 1959, the Turkish senters might ultimately substitute dir2 he missed' attitude but the anarchist's job as a member of this august body. Cypriot electoral register totalled action for battle by ballot naively undC is not to encourage left-wing fascists, CONSTRUCTIVE estimated the characteristic optimism rather to try and educate by offering A draft constitution for the new repub­ 49,467. The Greek Cypriot total of 235,290 officially included 1,696 Armen­ political parties that sooner or la^ better methods to attain a balanced and lic was entrusted to a Joint Constitutional LIBERTARIANISM ians and 1,386 Maronites. In Nicosia victory at the polls will be theirs. enlightened society. Commission. Not suprisingly this con­ itself in 1958 I had noted that, by pre­ Compassion for the wrong-doer as /~ \N E of the most thought-provoking sisted of the Transitional Committee en Majestically awaiting the package cise denomination, there were twelve well as for those who have suffered ^ articles to appear recently in bloc and, in view of the declaration by to authorise its use stands the recent*3 branches of the Christian Church, includ­ completed Chamber of the House oppression is a desirable although ad­ F reedom was without doubt that by Dr. Kutchuk that “it is impossible for the j ing the Jehovah’s Witnesses. Allowing mittedly difficult ideal. In the real class Gaston Leval A( Constructive Libertarian two (sic) communities living in Cyprus to Representatives in Cyprus. It is design^ for some official inaccuracy, doubtless mi struggle it is not people we are fighting M ovement 26/3/60). adopt a policy contrary to that followed to seat 52 M.P.s. There are 36 but the wrong ideas. It is a mistake to By calling for an extension of the by their respective motherlands”, it also there was also some conscientious objec­ seats for official guests and a gallery Y tion to being lumped with the Greek seat 98 members of the public—a smaT assume that by eliminating individuals writings of Kropotkin, related to modern included delegates of the Greek and Tur­ but sure shadow of a Mother of Pari? we can improve a situation however economic and social conditions, Leval kish governments, as well as those of* the Cypriot majority. difficult, for violence will inevitably appears to be asking for something which predominantly Greek Cypriot and Tur­ Once this facade of freedom had been merits, which Cypriots do not yet realiL breed more violence and we shall end is, if we judge by what they say, a deep- kish Cypriot communities, whose “dele­ erected on such carefully payed ground, is a Mother-In-Law only—jealous art restrictive, lacking the true niaternfc, up by being as culpable as those felt need of many anarchists. But just gates”, fittingly enough, were all barris­ it was rather inconsiderate of the Tur­ spirit of “have ’em, love ’em, and lea # whom we are seeking to defeat Ver- what is it that this French writer seeks? ters-at-law. kish Cypriots merely to return unopposed woerd's policy of apartheid is despic­ I myself am not sure, but he appears to In the lovely, troubled island, enthu­ their Dr. Kutchuk as vice-president elect ’em alone.” Sam W alsh J able and must be fought by all the non­ be falling into the trap which was so siastic and joyful (but significantly sepa­ of the coming republic. Much more to violent means within our power but we obvious to Michael Bakunin; he appears rate) crowds had welcomed back Kut- the satisfaction of the bureaucracy the should be able to spare pity for a man to want a set of rules, formulae, doc­ chuck and Makarios. But a puzzled Greek Cypriots, totalling 238,879 on Sun­ trines, to be enunciated by “libertarian” population, so lately being urged that day, the 13th Dec., 1959, had the choice economists and sociologists. So that we honour and legitimate ambition could of two candidates for the honour of may attract those who do not show us be satisfied only by a fight to the death being the first president elect of the MEETINGS AND their favour because of our lack of with its respective rival Cypriots and the Republic of Cyprus. Please help us planning for the future. ANNOUNCEMENTS It should be obvious that any attempt to lay down such a plan for posterity is LONDON ANARCHIST to find those dangerously near to authoritarianism. GROUP and MALATESTA The theme of Gaston Leval's article Co-op Party Against the Bomb seems to me to be subtly anti-anarchist. DEBATING SOCIETY - j New Readers cordant, to say the least. Again Bakunin clearly showed that the JT has taken three years for the IMPORTANT main weakness of Social Democrats and Co-operative Party to be per­ It remains for the ranks of the for FREEDOM reformers was their belief that “the wis­ suaded against the H-Bomb (by the Labour Party to push their leaders MEETINGS are now held at dom of the few should control The Aldermaston marchers?) into an anti-bomb position. (A CAMBRIDGE CIRCUS stupidity of the many”. This is the old, old prop of central government and static A t their annual conference in 1957 reverse somersault for Aneurin “The Marquis of Granby” Public House, London, W.C.2. dognia, and if one honestly believes it, a resolution calling for the party to Bevan, in fact). This should not be And look at one cannot be called an anarchist. adopt unilateral nuclear disarma­ too difficult with the election behind (comer Charing Cross Road and Life comes before science, said Baku­ ment as its policy was defeated, them and with at least four more Shaftesbury Avenue) nin. The natural organisation, the though relatively narrowly, on a years of Tory rule ahead, and no at 7.30 p.m. this too! natural society needs no rules formulated card vote by 3,770,000 votes against likelihood of Nye becoming Foreign ALL WELCOME PROGRESS OF A DEFICIT! by the academic intelligences of the 3,733,000. This year the conference Secretary in that time—if at all. j MAY 8.—Brains Trust world. In the last century it might have passed overwhelmingly by a show of For one thing Labour must find MAY 15.—Philip Holgate WEEK 17 been possible to think otherwise, but to­ hands and without a count, a reso­ something on which to mount some Subject to be announced. Deficit on Freedom £340 day when all religions and ideologies are lution which called for ‘the complete called in question, it is absolutely im­ policy which differs from the Tories, MAY 22.—Francis Sokolovon unilateral renunciation of nuclear Contribution* received £278 possible to believe that there is any and now that nuclear disarmament BREAD, ANARCHISM AND weapons and their manufacture and DEFICIT £62 system which will provide “the answer”. can muster such battalions it might PICCADILLY CIRCUS testing by the United Kingdom’. April 15 to April 21 So why search for one? even gain votes rather than lose MAY 29.—Jack Robinson on After the social revolution each part This in itself is not of course very them. Further, it is even possible STRIKES, BOYCOTTS AND Surrey: F.B.* 5A: Hong Kong: M.$. 5/-*. of society, each group, will organise important, but the Co-operative DIRECT ACTION Glasgow: A J. £1/0/0; Now Romney; R S A itself according to its own particular and that the Tories might be advised, by Party is one of the three wings t>f 5/-; S. Milwaukee: C,C. !4/»; Glasgow; local needs. Where the needs of several their own military leaders, to aban­ S.M, 2/6; Aldermostoe: Sympathisers I0A; groups are similar they will organise that strange flying animal, the don nuclear weapons (and shelter London: Sympathisers 2/-; London: RJ.W. themselves on a federal, syndicalistic, or Labour Movement, and now it is the under the American umbrella—or JAZZ GROUP MEETING 10/ Dublin: D.P. 2/6: Glasgow: A.McL. 7/9; Stockholm: O.H. 5/-; Wetlord: Anon* some other basis. first to embrace a policy of nuclear should we say mushroom cloud?) Friday, May 6th, 7 p.m. at tl: London: Anon, 3/10: Hertfield: O.M. 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