TheStrength to stay I tj A why a man should go out to work whilst whilst work to out go should man a why A tj WBmm Anarchist Weekly © i 3 ta te oie oc aot hc a which about force police the than | a great brou-ha-ha was being made. Any- Any- made. being was brou-ha-ha a great ANARCHY 60 60 ANARCHY rvt ad ulc nuty r, n these in are, industry public and Private o l te cn o xad ua needs, human expand to they can up since they especially all keeping do needs behind human way with days, affluent meagre the related Test) Means the of f oe te dse ot o ua needs. human to out dished days they the doles in (even state welfare minded rft motive. profit I last week, that it was more hazardous hazardous more was it that week, I last rather than to some concept of marginal marginal of concept some to needs than to rather income relate industries) owned tlt o waee i i ta sre the serves that is it whatever or utility publicly even (or industry private that insist that to is world this of Excesses’ public assistance be cut down rather than than rather down cut be assistance public f 'met a miner, or has a scrap of imagina of scrap a has or miner, a 'met by working. The response of the ‘Daily ‘Daily the of than response working The not by working. by more earn can he public morality (and purses) finds out out finds purses) of (and Every guardians our morality of home. public one at again and stay now they why the reason among rise will sickness continues 11 filtered down to file depths where Lord Lord where depths file to down filtered11 that some poor wight has discovered discovered has wight poor some that the of part only is this But miners.’ h peet eainhp ewe them between relationship present the r h wgs o lw ad s og as long as and low, too wages the or by working. As the ‘FI" astutely astutely ‘FI" the As high too are benefits the ‘Either observes, working. by by staying at home, certifiably sick, than than sick, certifiably home, at staying by fj/he has the strength to stay in bed.’ This This bed.’ in stay to strength the has fj/he opeey uoae te better. the automated completely circumstances, a miner can earn more more earn can miner a certain circumstances, in that, fact surprising the covered that the sooner all pits are closed or or closed are pits all sooner the that betes i s, n sol b fully be should and so, is absenteeism to risk life and health as a miner and and miner a as health and this life asked be risk why should to man no that understand determined fully can tion, I profound wisdom has apparently never never apparently has wisdom profound I one who has been anywhere near a pit, pit, a near anywhere been has who one [*;■ -—it was pointed out in the the in out -—it pointed was ‘mining is still a hazardous occupation’ occupation’ hazardous a still is ‘mining eei ad ivlnay absenteeism’. ‘involuntary and benefit rate, the coincidence of rises in welfare welfare in rises of coincidence sickness the the rate, week-end, long the wastage, craftsmen as necessary owing to labour labour to owing necessary as craftsmen frrpH E LATE LAMENTED Bonar Bonar LAMENTED LATE E frrpH the necessity of employing twice as many many as twice employing of necessity the City in deploring the labour turnover, turnover, labour the deploring in City nis the envies ease. The terrible accident Tate of those those of Tate accident terrible The ease. ra hvc n n cietpoe City. accident-prone an in havoc wreak utis n wnigu, n the and winding-up, Exchange, the of floor the on and hammering ruptcies the collateral, their without short caught ing dividends out of an industry, industry, an preference and of debentures out shovelling dividends ing mnu oeha cekns f bank of creakings overhead ominous great chunks of bullion from the vaults, vaults, the humping from belt, bullion of conveyor chunks a great to on shares By some foul mischance, the Fabian- Fabian- the mischance, foul some By hew day backbreaking a spent has who of miners to go down the pits. Anyone Anyone pits. the down go to miners of n tentoa cnm y absenteeism. by economy national the ing ikd bete ieswo r sabotag are who miners absentee wicked reproof from Lord Robens for those those for Robens Lord from reproof te. u te esg i mat s a as meant is message an the to But holder one from other. paper of pieces transferring is occupation principle whose lost not is which message Work?’—a to call for a leader-heading *Why Bother Bother *Why leader-heading a for call n hs wo ae uies n h city, the in business have who those on enhl, od oes a dis has Robens Lord Meanwhile, mire. iaca Times Financial h mry naiay ep wee the where deeps insanitary murky the Robens, the Chairman of the Coal Coal the penetrated of it has less still Chairman dwells, Board the Robens, The ‘F T graciously concedes that that concedes graciously T ‘F The i Bed hi Lord Robens has his supporters in the the in supporters his has Robens Lord The The The The hmsn ne ad dnt see don’t 7 said once Thompson iaca Times Financial ‘FT’ miners their.relative Jives of of Jives their.relative miners AUR 2 16 Vl 7 o 3 No 27 Vol 1966 22 JANUARY deplores the unwillingness unwillingness the deplores wallows in its captialistic captialistic its in wallows carries a clarion clarion a carries al Worker Daily ~ m
hs o te alas Te wr good were They railways. the on those was war especially The patriotic, very was everyone on, men. for older up and women by called were men they the as of job Many the world. left the came. war in the finest the Then were Britain in iiay evc ad hi pae a taken was place their and service military railways The today. unknown totally oe y e wo ok oe rd in degree pride a some to efficient were took and work job, who their regular men a could, by you done if get to job a alas ant od hi own. their hold the cannot increases, railways traffic as worse gressively GO JOB GOOD A ogd on y as ht il e pro being get traffic will that road jams by with going. down that, station bogged it the is keeps Why North the and Scotland from down coming fish the only od dpt i sol rnig down, running slowly is depot, goods ut ae poi ad ht h men the that job. and the sabotaging profit are a make must and the officials who say that the industry industry the that say who officials the on—by and stay who men the on heaped is the public, who suffer inconvenience, inconvenience, suffer who Abuse public, do. the to satisfying more are and drifting away into jobs that pay better better pay that jobs into away drifting miles), the men are fed up and are are and up fed are men the miles), nine as long as take to known been have weeks to travel a couple of hundred hundred of couple a travel to weeks n ay ae, s o ogr osbe as possible longer no is cases, many in than it is to send it by rail as parcels parcels as rail by it foot send on to parcel is a it take than to quicker some (it’s inefficient is times service The halt. u wt te nuty unn dw this, down running industry the with but hr js int h wr t g round. go to work the isn’t just there overtime, working by up money their Of course the men have been making making been hours. have normal men the his working course Of by can he child, get more money on the dole than than dole the on money more get child, ala cn i h hs oe hn one than more has he if can, railway ditd ht mn okn o the on working man a that admitted rp H E RAILWAYS in this country are are country this in RAILWAYS E H rp RECOLLECTIONS OF PECKHAM tr ti poes Wee hr i the' is there Where process. this start f NARCOTICADDICTION iae te lsig o automation. of blessings the cipates danger, and indignity dirt, to. of place maximum very the are mines tjie Snrejv e (n ul a o cus) eey anti merely course) of pay full (on bed altogether? labour human with away h mn h hs h srnt t sa in stay to strength the has who man the AROIM OS O PAY NOT DOES PATRIOTISM liae neto o uoaini t do to is automation of the intention when ultimate absenteeism deplore be should but why at the other end of the country country the of end other the at why but redundant ne pn tm te alas were railways the time a upon Once lsd n mnr ae en made being are miners and closed iw f h fc ta i cran sections certain in that fact the of view f h Ca Bads ra pt ae being are pits areas Board’s Coal the of as vts ih t fe’ Epcal in Especially ‘FT’ the feet’. as its with labour-power, ‘votes says avail, no to Kings Cross, once a huge thriving thriving huge a once Cross, Kings these have been tried with mining but but mining with tried been have ll' A these be I production. for must with, bonuses wages offered higher desperation, final n ptits ms b pugd o, in I or, plugged, be must patriotism and tions must be tried, appeals to loyalty! loyalty! is to appeals job tried, be exhorta-tt the mining, must in as tions three, where all or paid, poorly- but or dangerous, onerous, especially gap the filled industries, labour many in have, vice supply cannot supply, short in is labour iain d-tyusl dvcs self-ser devices, do-it-yourself where nization, society a in especially alone, ufcet netv. nraig mecha Increasing incentive. sufficient wages the when compensations) other has h riwy ae lwy rnig o a to grinding slowly are railways The oe a on, n usn, n h mines, There the in nursing, jobs.’ in point, factory a comes unpleasant more or in the police force (although this job job this (although force police the in or and dirtier the do or transport, public on h mns cer abg, drive garbage, go clear to mines, men the persuade down to difficult increas becoming ingly is it Europe over ‘All on h mn? s h ‘T comments, ‘FT’ the .As mine? the down r ahr wns truh advertising. through wants, rather, or YHAHOHANARCHISM & o ta w ca-sr sol rejoice should coal-users we that For u cn e a pol eog t go to enough people pay we can But rcial fnse. t a been has It finished. practically J ack
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ANARCHY is Published by by Published is ANARCHY n h frt audy feey mom every of Saturday first at the on Press Freedom they that things the them get sNe to d?n’‘ y°u means if well the men job a expect do cannot to You con their worse). and had ditions were wages and their railways, for them blame can the who (and less even about cared nothing knew it now by as staying use little of was It os. hy ee elcd y e who men by get replaced were only They could things worse. that office. obvious post was the to going them of many hi bs t b kn! poverty. kind! be to boss their reward true the reaped they this for and average the brought have would this as E BGN O LEAVE TO BEGAN MEN ht oe t al okr wo at for wait who workers all to workers comes selfish on that more went never other They like strike call. the heeded others, the with counted longer no were down to a much lower level) they they level) lower much a to down below far were railwaymen the of wages ainl vrg (o a blw ht they that below the far (so average although national party and unity, This for railways. appealed the nationalised class) were in power and they had had they and power working the in of The were party (a class) war. the Party before did Labour go they as not far would as wages railwayman’s a So had not changed much (as regards regards industries. other in (as had con they were railways much but the cerned, as changed far as wages) not had rm h wr te fud ht things that found they wars the from tre stuff. sterner others be greedy and lazy, they were of of were they lazy, and greedy be others onr dw i is or f ed Let need. of hour its in down country alas are o, hy i nt e the let not the did they but on, strike, carried mightrailways mgiht miners but dockers the The work, strike, railways. their the for on not more wanted they o s ptitc te wre hre and harder worked they patriotic, so not ee ihig t h front. the at fighting were en wce btaa for os who have boys our would of betrayal that wicked a strike, been on went never okr, h kn ta osslk. They like.bosses that kind the workers, evidence up a"ventilator. They were were They a"ventilator. up evidence then ‘interrogated’ for a couple of of couple a for hours. ‘interrogated’ then n incriminating dur got thfcy ing had which Portlethen, he had time to stidf the keys to to keys the stidf me to tells time Mitchell had Iain he and rooms more. h od alamn ea t leave, to began railwaymen old The efficiency reigned; supreme once once supreme reigned; efficiency bum County Police HQ. There There HQ. Police County Bucks- to people driven bum the being of SAW part before good stuff a the hide to managed later, minutes hy ee en oig ak 10 back coming seen saying were they names, their took only suspicious characters, and they they and four night, of characters, dead the suspicious stolen in they and tools There maps, of because, sacks eventually with State, stupid. were must they’re the Christ, over they triumph that four there’d been an incident back on on When back off. drove they incident then road, an the been there’d the convinced followed, what and sur were they fot order, alarm, an of off set out put then were ment road. Two police^ cars drew up up drew cars back police^ a Two by Aberdeen road. for heading have must telephones the of one and es, ee rcial empty. practically were keys), rounded after about half-an-hour half-an-hour about after rounded stallations were found but the filing filing the but found were stallations cabinets (to which- they had the the had they which- (to cabinets o h rdo at ee cut. were mast- radio the to of lock but the and broke, through, sawn drill was the because so the entry at about 10.20, the cables cables the Before 10.20, about off. at sawn entry the behind door grille the cast-iron a of bolt the finally and hasty been had raids previous (Comrades supporters SAW four * * When the men came home victorious victorious home came men the When and also render the bloody place place bloody the render useless. also and The HQ. Defence Civil Portlethen t bnln bracai incom bureaucratic petence. bungling its they wanted to do a thorough search search thorough a do to wanted they to back way their and made Mitchell others) Iain two Smith, Elizabeth it has finally finally has it IfV E R SINCE ARDNADAM pier, pier, ARDNADAM SINCE R E IfV carrying out deeds of of deeds out carrying the name of Scots A8a>nst War, and and A8a>nst War, Scots of name the hardest to nail sow® the saboteurs saboteurs the sow® nail to hardest te wresi ohr nutis were industries other in workers Other ms hwvr ae n thing one make however must I The accused were sent to different different to were sent accused The h rdo n Tlpoe equip Telephone and radio The nie aiu go mp o in of maps good various Inside The entry was very difficult, more more difficult, very was entry The On January 7 at about 9 o’clock o’clock 9 about at 7 January On h Sae a be tyn its trying been has State the succeeded succeeded defiance defiance in spite of of spite in in laspt n hre a lat hy are they least (at charge in always’put n h railway). the on are directors company and because possibly ex-generals nationalisation, of department, part government any under ala wres p o h ntoa level the national of the to wages .the up workers keep railway not did unions like away thrown be would money hs ho hs curd i ta the that is occurred, has chaos this ‘certain’ a be Inefficiency seemsto water. service ages. a as for run were railways endure the to if Also had have they tions attitude this up take men job, mean the the to could would attitude and new It totally a having taxation. paid be increased to have by would they for cheaper s o es t fn fr hns ae gone have things far. for too find to easy not is o atr l te iiue n bd condi bad and ridicule the all after now any fares the make not would it service SERVICE A s on t gt os, n te solution the and worse, get railways to the power going on situation is blackmailing The real more. any no have be they suddenly they miracle a by if even ae iiat t ol b to ae as late too be would it and militant useless,came than worse The were' too! Unions cheaper and car, by anywhere the delays, the stand couldn’t they less, heights. It was now quicker to go almost go to quicker now was It heights. Manu and and less it. railways money the using for were possible their facturers did, as take little they as if could give now cared they striking use people but no few of sure very was made It men as the this. was: He of failure. a as y l ad udy i bcm, in sport. became, national it a sundry, almost and fact, all by ways more as bitterness of one was remained fares were rocketing to unthought-of unthought-of to rocketing were fares up girded scrubbers) (the him were who men under a the make make and to pay, years railways don’t two giventhe closing was that He like lines ideas profit. the brilliant all for down year a pounds of thousands many paid was who n mr aue a hre a te rail the at hurled was abuse that more those and of attitude The find to jobs. went better railwaymen muddle, pre-war the a of more of and more worse, more and worse got and and more became sen The reports. remanded background were for then guilty, pleaded hi lis n soe ht e ol be would he that swore and loins their places to do with homes and and homes with do to places want from life, can you? As the job job the As you? can life, from want and Saturday on Court Sheriff health! en ae ad lo etr ad an and letters also and taken Scottish been the for etc., leaflets, posed ec i o Jnay 9 t 03 a.m. 10.30 at 19 January on is tence ment’. What the hell have these these have hell the Depart What Health ment’. and Home Scottish Easter YCND demonstration had had demonstration pro that YCND found Easter they back perty value of £750, belonging - to the the - the to belonging to £750, property of of value damage cious tet y osbekn’ n ‘mali and housebreaking’ by evidence. ‘theft circumstantial only were SAW agents were there at the time, time, the at there were agents SAW and' maps plus the fact that the the that fact the tools plus of they maps sackful the and' the But of that humour suggestion the easier. go appreciate didn’t would it ing n 7 gv te res rud here’. around orders the give 7 and ihyu as ‘ aen el . .’ . clean . deals come no make ’ll ‘I I also you’ ‘Listen, with and now’ fore?’ ‘No.’ ‘You’re in big trouble trouble big be in ‘You’re trouble ‘No.’ in fore?’ been much.-—‘Ever ovre t Anarchism. to converted there violence, no was There clear. The detectives were quite good good quite nearly was country. them of were police one the and of mannies detectives New part time this long The to a get take threats. to see, you no methods were that they watched ‘Z-Cars’ too too ‘Z-Cars’ watched they that f h riwy wr rn t a public a Its run were railways the If But .the main reason (as I see it) that that it) see I (as reason main .theBut hncm teeao Dco Beeching Doctor of era the came Then They appeared in Stonehaven Stonehaven in appeared They When the accused-got their pro- pro- their accused-got the When with charged were they Finally hy se te t cnes say confess, to them asked They h ipeso te gv was gave they impression The Anarchists Anarchists n Trial an Aberdeen l ad sundry. and all to be the order of the day, and the poor poor the and day, the of order the be to railwaymen will continue to ‘take it’ from from it’‘take to of continue will railwaymen something continue will Until chaos achieved is sort too. this service a they as things the this, do they as receive ed n ie rm tes n ht society, that in others from life in need at aim of ultimately must control They workers’ must aim They industry. their other. as each have by stand must public as a service, and they should should they and service, a as the for it public run to industry the over taking they bother, is there when and, with up tries link control must get they must union, men their the a of in Firstly achieved be day. cannot this course jobs. Of their paid know don’t who highly boys for not jobs industry, the in them, democracy ran who men the direct the of under control be would wage railways The the where society a in culous h uin i te te tasot indus transport other the in unions the real is This fact. in workers railway all. of good the and worked good own men their for and abolished ridi was besystem would loss the and for profit profit, of a ideas make not did industry as society, that in goods the their to get access would railways the on work public which in society a for aiming in alas Fr hy r s epnie to expensive so are they For railways. that today system railway a had have and public transport system under a a under system system? transport capitalist public and ol al te pol. hy would They people. other free all have would would They who kind. men in The wages free. be will transport a o taeln tdy Wa price What man’s today. rich now? the travelling nationalisation almost of it’s no way that has on now go never and public sympathy, The any use. had some their might still wewas used some had had If they when workers article. power this railway from shown pay, the not be does can Patriotism as pickle. this in ie o h onuin n h railways the on oonfusion the to tive H AACIT ALTERNATIVE ANARCHIST THE each. £120 fined adults Two PRESS STOP not be under-privileged because their their because under-privileged be not h wr, s h rao wy e r all are we why reason the during is depreciate war), the to allowed was stock (coupled with the fact that the railway railway the that fact the with (coupled as ‘This,’ agenda. YCND Aberdeen Appeal being lodged. being Appeal Juveniles—one £50,One and £50,One Juveniles—one and so lost all the best men. This This men. best the all lost so and necessary. Funds im free nothing a was ‘is There said, police country’. the of one n d i fr them. for it of do for groups and places other these that hope bury we and ever, out go portant taken, so good luck and and luck good so taken, portant and donations should be sent to: to: sent Aberdeen. be should donations and Anarchists will follow this example example this follow will Anarchists Aberdeen have put it out of action time. action of long out a it put for have Aberdeen the that Portlethen as such places one 2 years probation. 2one years many worried sleepless nights to to nights sleepless them. worried many written, I was reading the piece in in piece the reading was I written, Street, Mount 20 Browne, Forbes offence, first their is it as fine heavy a sent out, and these people from from people be these will and atrocities out, from such is sent for It orders war. nuclear a in role F reedom e te d. h aacit believes anarchist The do. they Yes u d te nrhss ae n alterna an have anarchists the do But dtra o n so page on is ent m com Editorial Just before this article was was article this before Just with off get to expect accused The Until the day when the people people the when day the Until
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Our New York Correspondent writes:
nPHURSDAY EVENING,, December -*• 23, 1 set out for Herald Square to join a demonstration against the govern ment's plans to bomb Hanoi, Haiphong, Remember Me to Herald Sauare and dams and dykes rn North Vietnam. books? hideous truth, this is far from the most En route 1 discovered a rather embarrass read Military Aid Vietnam of other anarchists including the Rockers, ing object in my coat pocket—a Swiss Liberation Front- another, Soviet Nuclear effective public relations approach. In and was still quite friendly with Rudolfs Wo can supply Army knife. This is hardly standard Shield Must Cover China and North our own group an anarchist friend of so n Fermin. However even this coinci equipment for pacifists, but it really Vietnam; but the be P^118 ultra was, long standing hastily lettered a sign on dence is dwarfed by the chance meeting wasn't intended for peace anyway. It Russia—Give the H Bomb to Hanoi and the back of a YAWF placard. Complete in Boston between Bakunin, newly any bask in print was for Christmas J The daiy before I Peking, with the satn® text on the back with drawing of an anarchist flag it escaped from Siberia, and the former had taken some wine to a Christmas in Russian 11 Any y°u wan* to look read: Dissolve the State/Sink the Ship/ officer who had commanded the guard party and had brought the knife along at it, this was a stupid fucking sign, and Down With All Governments/End the detachment which had escorted him to NEW BOOKS because it contains a corkscrew. Frankly it wasn’t helping pyhody. I saw one Bomb. Thus equipped, our contingent prison. I was much less concerned about ethical pacifist 1) know vainly trying to get tried to offset the larger group’s chant Back in Herald Square a century later, The New Face of Soviet Totalitarianism paradoxes than with the prospect ofa through to the idiot flaunting it that it of, *2 ... 4 ... 6 ... 8 ... we our beautifully manic little protest was A. B. Ulam 15/- concealed weapons charge if we all got was the worst thins wc 8°ing for want a workers’ state’, with the more now being contaminated by a reactionary busted. At least Donald Rooura had us, but the dumb stud wouldn’t budge. logical, ‘2 . . . 4 . . . 6 . . . 8 . . . interloper with a sign plugging both the REPRINTS AND CHEAP EDITIONS more brains than to bring his own brick. His position was that he wanted all the we don’t want any state’. Pope and the UN. Obviously with such The White Devil John Webster 9/6 The demonstration itself quickly passing patriots to reflect on how they’d At this juncture an elderly lady a lousy choice as that, the only thing to The Hamlet William Faulkner 25/- degenerated into a rather enjoyable chaos. feel if the bomb was on the other foot, approached our demonstration and asked do is go limp. As a friend and I con The Mansion William Faulkner 21/- It had originally been called by a so to speak. Unfortunately it’s all too where all the young anarchists were cluded, it’s hardly possible to maintain Tbe Town William Faulkner 21/- number of individuals rather than organi obvious what would happen if North keeping themselves these days. She doctrinal purity in these troubled times zations, but every sign I saw had an Vietnam ever got its hands on the bomb, explained that she used to work with unless one’s activities are limited to and in view of how the US has been Emma Goldman years ago. I answered masturbating in non-violent solitude. SECONDHAND organization name under the slogan— either Sparticist or Youth Against War treating them of late, the vapour par the way any anarchist with red and black After the demonstration, accompanied Memoirs of a British Agent,R. H. Bruce and Fascism. These are two groups of ticles that used to he me couldn’t very blood in his veins would: I threw my by my friend with the ‘Dissolve the Lockhart 4/-; The Story of My Heart, Trotskyist/Maoist hue which have been well blame them. arms around her and kissed her. There State’ sign, I strolled into a bar at random Richard Jefferies 3/-; Land Reclamation, protesting about Vietnam long before I finally decided that this was too ensued a brief discussion of the merits and made the final discovery of the P. J. O. Trist 4/-; The English Middle any of the peace organizations. Despite much of a compromise to stomach, so I of Prince P, her personal favourite. evening—the only suitable climax to Classes, Roy Lewis and Angus Maude their seniority in this field, however, I dissociated myself from the group and ‘FIELDS, FACTORIES, AND WORK Swiss Army knives, new anarchist federa 10/6; Friendship’s Odyssey, Franfoise won’t carry any of their official signs merely loitered around at one end of SHOPS was my bible,’ she informed me. tions, and old Emma Goldman comrades Delisle 15/-; New Road No. 4, Silone, (even if I agree with its text) because I the demonstration area. The next thing She was given a few addresses and left. —to wit, Whitbreads! After nearly 10 Potts 3/6; New Road 1945, Comfort, don’t agree with their principles. There I knew, a big banner appeared out of Incidentally I would probably have years in New York this is only the Read, etc. 4/6; Portrait of a Genius fore I confined my efforts to walking in the blue, like a Godwin ex maebina, collapsed in ecstasy over this encounter second place I’ve found that serves But . . . (D.H.L.), Richard Aldington 5/-; circular, but empty-handed, solidarity. announcing that the US should get out but for the fact that it put me in mind British pale ale, and the other charges The Russian Enigma, Anton Ciliga 5/-; of Vietnam, immediately and uncondi of an even wilder coincidence: About $1 per bottle. Travelling Loaded, Ron Berry 3/6; At first glance none of the signs a year ago I hailed a taxi at 3 a.m. out In keeping with all else, what I had seemed objectionable: Stop the War tionally, by request of the New York Heavenly Discourse, Charles Erskine Federation of Anarchists, who promptly side my apartment and requested to be been enjoying most that evening ulti Scott Wood 7/6; Commonsense and Against Vietnam; Bring the GI’s Home driven to the Main Post Office and back. mately .turned out to be a mistake. Inter Now; Peace on Earth/Don’t Bomb began distributing their own leaflets Morality, Ethel Mannin 4/-; The Great (reprinted in last issue). I had never I was trying to get some anarchist mittently, and particularly after each of French Revolution, (in Russian 1914) Hanoi; Vietnam for the Vietnam Revo material off to London as rapidly as of my discoveries, I had chuckled and pri lution /No Negotiations; and Vietnam— before heard of this group, and knew Peter Kropotkin 6/-; The Devil at the only one of its people, but it was love possible. In conversation it came out vately reflected: ‘The best part of this Long Bridge, Riccardo Bacchelli 6/6; The Watts/It’s the Same Struggle. Neverthe that the cab driver had been born in the whole scene is that it’s Lilian Wolfe’s 90th less I would have felt more at home had at first sight. Red One, Jack London 3/6; The Law Subsequently about 25 pacifists and/or London home of Peter KropotkinI And birthday. What a tremendous com breaker (1933), E. Roy Calvert 4/-; Rebels I seen a straight-forward pacifist position there was more—as if more was needed memoration.’ Two weeks later this wist represented there. anarchists set up their own picket line and Reformers, Arthur and Dorothea on a tangent to the main body. The —he had known Alexander Berkman ful recollection turned to ashes when I Ponsonby 3/-; Superstition and Society, A few minutes later when some other latter, by this time, were marching in jquite well. Indeed he had received the found out that her birthday had been the Roger Money-Kyrle4/6; The Old Wives’ signs were pointed otit to me I decided rhythm to : ‘Hey. Hey, LBJ. How many last letter Berkman wrote before com day before. Well, that’s the way it Tale, Arnold Bennett 4/-; The First that I didn’t belong there at all. One kids did we kill today?’ Albeit the mitting suicide. He also knew a number goes . . . you can’t win them all. Workers’ Government, G. R. Mitchison 5/-; Guilty Men 1957, Michael Foot and mmsmmmammmmmymmpmmPKm Mervyn Jones 4/-; Smouldering Freedom, Isabel de Palencia 3/6; On Education, TT IS A cherished belief of we, the can still claim a small victory for the Bertrand Russell 3/6. -*■ lumpenproletariat, that the censorship work of Hans Beilmer are still denied of the arts is a class weapon used by a public showing. This magnificent those in authority to emphasise and ROUND THE GALLERIES draftsman who illustrated the de-luxe enforce the gap between Them and Us. edition of De Sade and who gave fresh Freedom Bookshop erotic interpretations of the human body I, and I am of that lumpenproletariat, (Open 2 pjm. dully; far as this particular exhibition was con accepted German artist is refused a must still wait for a public free to accept have always been vocal in spreading and cerned. Robert 'Melville, who has his public showing, for the. vandals who or reject his work; meanwhile the Law I t a ■ i—1 p u . Thursday*; denouncing this pestilent aspect of the I t U L —5 pm . Saturdays). ear to the vaults of the art world, coyly attempted to tear down the flowering and the fear of the Law is still the ulti class war. But we believed that bridge- _jwxote thatthere, yew-talk, of the- catalogue Golden Convolvulus have succe&d&i , JSL mate criterion, fo/ what we. shall, see . oz 17a MAXWELL ROAD Mhear3s~tradbeen won in thls^comic ~’WaT‘" not being ready, yet he knows and I London where they failed in Blackburn, say, read or write and, be you millionaire and the days when the oafish police FULHAM SW6 Tel: REN 373f know that no exhibition is ever cancelled and an artist who was persecuted by the or pauper, the Law, like the amoral lice, could raid a Bond Street gallery and because there is no catalogue for it Hitler regime as an associate of the is completely indifferent as to who he walk off with the paintings of D. H. takes but an hour to type out a list of degenerate art groups still is denied a Lawrence could never happen again in feeds off and contaminates. the works on view and to prove the public audience. It was in 1934 that A r t h u r M o yse. our lifetime, for we believed that only truth of this one has but to walk to the Bellmer made the international scene the seaside comic postcards could be Waddington Gallery where the slight when he submitted a number of photo FREEDOM PRESS marred by the sweaty fingers of the Law. and charming playfully erotic line graphs of his life-size dolls to the The 19th century wits and the 20th drawings of Robert Hilton are on public surrealist magazine Minotaure. These PUBLICATIONS century drolls could be publicly sold display without benefit of catalogue. trivial lewd toys with their disjointed p r e s s FUND providing they were in hardback and I spent a few acrimonious minutes on limbs, Lolita breasts and virginal ribbons •ELECTIONS FROM ‘FREEDOM’ beyond the reach of the pockets of the the steps of the Fraser endeavouring to and lace caught the eye and the fancy Vol 2 1952: Postscript to Posterity mass of the people and only the paper WEEK 2, JANUARY 15, 1966: Vol 3 1953: Colonialism jn Trial view the Bellmer | drawings that it was of the fashionable ooterie swilling around Expenses: 2 weeks at £80: £160 back and the poetry magazine need fear whispered hung in| purdah in the gallery the current art craze, for Bellmer pro Vol 4 1954: Living ona Volcano the persecution of the Law, so, we Income: Sales and Subs.: £125 basement and, failing that, to get a vided them with life-size fetishes to Vol 5 1935: The immoral Moralists believed. Vol 6 1956: Oil and Troubled Waters v statement from thp man in charge, but haul around to the amusement of the DEFICIT £35 Vol 7 1957: Year One—Sputnik Era Dreams, little comrades, dreams, for the door of the gallery remained closed populace and the scandal of the Phili Vol 8 1958: Socialism in a Wheelchair in their subservience and fear of the with the statement that the exhibition stines. It was gay, cheerful and simple London, W.6: M.B. 3/10; Slough: E.C. Vol 9 1959: Print. Press Ml Public Law the cultural haut monde are as that never was was now over and a flat minded, a comedy if the world took 9/-; London, W.9: P.D. 18/-; London, v^ol 10 1960: The Tragedy of Africa fearful of their safety as we who are statement that the catalogues had not them seriously, a tragedy if they took S.E.17: D.S.* 4/-; Coventry: L.H. 18/-; VoJ 11 1961: The People in the Sired their slum tenants and their factory yet come from the printers. Yet this Vol 12 1962: Pilkington v. B eechin g themselves seriously. In 1936 Bellmer New York: W.S. 9/9; Ilford: C.S. 8/-; Vol 13 1963: Forces of Law and Order fodder. Some years ago the Institute of was to be an exhibition of the-drawings left Germany for Paris never to return Hong Kong: M.S. 9/4; Southport: W.A. Contemporary Art, that fearless rear of Bellmer who, to quote the fawn-like and in 1941 he buried his German pass £1 5s.; Bury: M.B. 4/-; Cheltenham: Each volume: paper 7/6 cloth Jfl/6 guard of our native culture, decided to Robert Melville once again, is the most The paper edition of the Selections >a port in a sewer and threw in his lot with L.G.W.* 10/-; New York: A.W. 7/-; exhibit the works of the German painter dedicated eroticist of our time and, the French maquis. London, E.6: B.S. 10/6; Siracusa: T.O. available to readers of FREEDOM Hans Beilmer bat that exhibition 5/6 post free. though three large tinted photographs of If Bellmer is to be remembered, let it 4/-; Walsall: N.J. 2/-; California: M.R. mysteriously came to naught. Bellmer’s dolls stood against the gallery not be for those infantile dolls that adult £1 8s.; New South Wales: B.C. 10/-; VERNON RICHARDS The Robert Fraser Gallery at 69 Duke wall during the run of this alleged exhibi men played with in those hysterical London, E.11: 8/-; Wolverhampton: Malaluata: Hit Life and Ideas Street, W.l, feeling that now the climate tion, they merely served as a background thirties, but let us remember the German J.K.W.* 5/-; J.L.* 5/-; Dundee: A.R. cloth 21/-; paper 10/6. of cultural freedom was favourable for to a number of casual works by other citizen who chose to take up his stand £5 16s. ff. MALATESTA the dedicated monied minorities, decided artists that appeared to have been not on the beaches of California, but TOTAL £15 14 5 Anarchy Paper 1/- to show Bellmer’s work. And then it hastily assembled to fill floor space while alongside his French friends in the bitter Previously Acknowledged: £18 13 11 happened. The printers refused to print Bellmer’8 drawings died the death in the fields of France when, for good or ill, PROUDHON the catalogues or the posters and the gallery basement. he put to the test the ancient question 1966 Total £34 8 4 What is Property? cloth 42/- gallery, holding a dry finger up to the A printer refuses to print a catalogue of my country or my friend. And yet ALEXANDER BERKMAN wet wind, quietly curled up and died as and the work of an established and the clownish thugs of the Third Reich '"Denotes Regular Contributor. ABC of Anarchism paper 2/6 HERBRRT READ PoetryA Anarchism paper 2/6 COVENTRY ANARCHIST GROUP. Correspon STOKE LIBERTARIANS. Correspondence Secre dence Secretary: Brie Harrison, 9 Hermitage tary: Bob Blakeman, 52 Weldon Avenue, Weston ALEX COMFORT Road, Wykcn, Coventry. Coyney, Stoke-on-Trent. Delinquency 6d. Anarchist Federation of Britain DUNDEE GROUP contacts: (1) Bob and Una SURREY ANARCHISTS are invited to meetings Turnbull, 44 Peddle Street, Dundee. Meetings at on the first Thursday of every month at Chris Co-ordinating Secretary: Fraak Hirsh field, 4 Albert St., London, N.W.l. 44 Peddle Street, Dundee, overy Saturday at Torrance's (63 North Street, Carshalton, Surrey— PAUL ELTZBACHER 3 p.m. (2) Sheila Whittaker, 64 Polepark Road, 4lh Friday of each month at 8 p.m. at David please ring three times). Meetings 7.30 p.m. Anarchism (Seven Exponents of the Dundee. WEST HAM ANARCHISTS. Contact Mr. Karl Anarchist Philosophy) cloth 21/- Hell's. 19 Aberdeen Road, Highbury, N.3. GLASGOW ANARCHIST GROUP ONE. Cor Tayror, 98 Clova Road, Forest Gate, London, London Anarchist Group 1&2 LEWISHAM. Meeting ut 6113 Oranville Park, respondence to Robert Lynn, 2b Saracen Hoad Lewisham. Thursday, February 3. 7.30 p.m. E..7. Meetings on alternate Wednesdays. (Next RUDOLF ROCKER ‘Lamb and Flag', Rose Sired, oft Garrick Street. Lane. Glasgow, CM. meeting February 2.) Jack Robinson on ‘Anar Subject: ‘What Scope tor Anarchism in SB MANCHESTER ANARCHIST GROUP. Contact: chism and Peace'. Nationalism and Culture London, W.C.2, (Leicester Square tube) London?’ Mike Mitchell, 3 Bakewell Road, Droylesden. 7.43 p.m. Ail welcome. WANDSWORTH LIBERTARIANS. Correspond Meetings alternate Tuesdays, 8 p.m. at the Lord rl.-th 21/- ence to Tony Cudman, 116 Tilehurst Road, Sundays. Nelson, Chapel Street, Manchester. PROPOSED GROUPS t H kRLES MARTIN F.urlsfleld, London, S.W.19. ILFORD LIBERTARIANS. Regular meetings GOLDERS GREEN AND HENDON. Anyone JAN. 23 'Freedom’ and direct action contact 212 Vicarage Road, interested get in touch with David McLelland, t owards a Free Society 2/6 Readers, Writers and Sellers inerting REGIONAL FEDERATIONS Leyton, I .10. 54 Litchfield Way, London, N .W .ll. JAN. 30 ‘Jafsie’ MERSEYSIDE FEDERATION. Enquiries: HARLOW. Proposed Group. Get in touch with -tf*AN HEWETSON In Defence of ‘Mucky’ Stories AND GROUPS Barbara Rcnshow, 4 Clarence Road, Devonshire Keith Nathan, 12 Shawbridge. Harlow, Essex. Ill-Health, Poverty and the State ABERDEEN GROUP. Meets at the Adclphi Park, Birkenhead, Cheshire. LEICESTER TOWN ft GOWN. Get into touch FEB. 7 Discussion 2.30 n.ni. every Sunday- Correspondence to NORTH-WEST ESSEX. Meetings on the first with P. Gibbon, c/o Students’ Union, Leicester cloth 2/6 paper I /- ‘Shall We March with Peggy?* I. R. Mitchell, 137 Fauldf Gate, Aberdeen. Saturday of each month at 7.30 p.m. at Robert University. V bLIN E Public Meetings every Sunday ilvdc Park, 3 p.m. ARLKSEY GROUP (N. Herts., S. Beds.). Meet Barltrop’s, The Old Vicarage, Radwinter, near NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. Anyone interested get Nineteen-Seven teen (The Russian Correspondence to David Rough ton, 10 Gilbert ings on first Friday of month. Correspondence Saffron Walden. January meeting on the 8th. in touch with Bob Yorke, 69 Grumbold Avenue, Place, W.C.l. to Peter and Maureen Fore1, 102 Stotfold Road, ORPINGTON ANARCHIST GROUP. Knockholl, Raunds, Wellingborough, Northants. Revolution Betrayed) cloth 12/6 Arlesey. Beds. Nr. Sevcnouks, Kent. Every six weeks at Green- NORTHOLT ANARCHISTS. Projected forma The Unknown Revolution BEXLEY ANARCHIST GROUP. Correspondence ways, Knockholt. Phono: Knockholt 2316. Brian tion of group contact Jim Huggon, 173 Kingshill OFF-CENTRE LSNSSN to Paul Wildish, 2 Cumbrian Avenue, Hurnehurst, and Maurcon Richardson. \ Next meeting: Avenue. Northolt, Middlesex or Miss Jean (Kronstadt 1921. Ukraine 1918-21) Kent. January 23, 5 p.m. McLean, 6 Epsom Close, Northolt Park, doth 12/6 DISCUSSION MEETINGS BIRMINGHAM ANARCHIST GROUP. Con OXFORD ANARCHIST GROUP. Contact H. G. Middlesex. venor: Peter Neville. Correspondence Secretary: Mcllor, Merlon College, Oxford. SCARBOROUGH. Any anarchist-minded persons E. A. GUTK3ND 3rd Wednesday of each month at Jack Robinson Martin Bragg, 25 Fit/ Roy Avcuue, Marbornc, READING ANARCHIST GROUP. Meets second please contact John B. Feetenby, 29 Cambridge and Mary Canipa's, 21 Kuinbold Road, S.W.6 Birmingham, 15 1504). Sales: Gordon Tuesday of month at Friends' Meeting House, Street, Scarborough. Yorks. The Expanding Environment (off King's Road), 8 p.m. Causer, 27 Upper Oiing*1®- Tamworth, Staffs, Church Street (off London Street), 8 p.m. Cor (Illustrated) boards 8/6 La at Thursday in month at George Hayes’, 174 (Tomworlh 4562). Refl,)|ar Meetings. respondence: Phillip Lord, 160 Castle Hill, McLeod Road, S.E.2. BRISTOL FEDERATION. Enquiries to lan Reading. MRMI JOB BARRETT 3rd Friday of each month at 8 p m at Donald Vine, 3 Freeland P liil Hotwells, Bristol, 8. SOUTHALL ANARCHIST GROUP. Get in NEW ZEALAND. Auckland Anarchist Group. and Irene Rooum’s, 148a Fellows Road, Swiss CARDIFF ANARCHIST GROUP. Contact Mike touch with Roger Sanded, 58 Burns Avenue, Public Meetings every Sunday in Myers Park at P in t Perms (Selections) 2/6 Cottage, N.W.3. Crowley, 36 Whitaker R00*1' Tremorfi» Cardiff. Southall, Middlesex. 2 p.m. 0UT H WORLi ANARCHISTS ON TRIAL ‘Revolution Rets Down to its Nuts & Bolts’
WO ANARCHIST COMRADES, Ian arrested in his single-handed attempt to The daily worker , a ^ 1 tizzy about -Daily Worker (on Cuba) T R. Mitchell, Elizabeth Smith along influence the course of events in Spain) its forthcoming chaflSe of name, has a with two others aged 16 and 15 whose this journal asked for *No More Martyrs’, remarkable four-part scnal for children Telegraph described the writers as way’s The Old Man and the Sea,has names we do not know, were arrested as single acts of heroism tend to frighten written, it is alleged, by nine-year-old ‘renegades’. It said they were guilty of quit Cuba as a refugee. In Key West on January 7, and charged with breaking die timid. Bamaby Boatman p| London. N.W.l, ‘double-dealing, shamelessness, moral he has reported to have said, Tin glad into the Civil Defence Centre at School- On this occasion it is our opinion that called ‘Boy in Vietna® • In it a ‘boy, degradation, filthy things’ and were ‘not I left Cuba . . . that place is a living hill, Portlethen, Scotland. our comrades acted rightly and the of Bamaby’s age, IWng m Vietnam simple moral perverts, but active helpers hell . . . not even the fishes can live Their trial took place on Wednesday, government is wrong. On previous occa today’ recounts his adventures when the of those who would like to turn the there any morel* . . . January 19, when we had already gone sions young people of their ilk have Americans come, his father gets shot at cold war into a hot one’. On their ‘dis to press, and all we can print at the broken into Civil Defence properties to when rushing down to help villagers respectful views of Lenin’, Izvestia says Sanity deplored that the Vietnam march moment is the verdict (See Stop Press try to find out more facts about civil beating off American* Says the boy ‘Into what bottomless bog of filth must on November 27 lacked numbers. ‘Sup on front page.) defence so that they could tell the public.‘I was so enraged that the next American a so-called writer sink to blacken with port from the adult members of the We agree, however, with our corre There are many shelters, small and soldier I saw, I flung a knife at him. his hooligan pen the name which is Labour Party and other organisations spondent from Aberdeen that this is an large, throughout the country but they It struck him in the chest and he fell holy for us.’ . . . was not so strong as it might have been, important matter. The fact that these are not for the protection of the civilian to the ground in peinJ Master Boatman and this allowed irresponsible groups to people broke into a shelter is probably population. does not say whether the American was T he telegraph reports that Communists play too large a part at some points in unimportant. What is important is their Will Civil Defence tell us about fire dead or hot but later he recalls how he are helping Richard Gott at Hull but the march.’ Peace News' John Ball reason for doing so. It also ought to storm? People have been thrown out of once shot down a plane with his gun the Worker has so far failed to give points out the irresponsibility of this be discussed, not by just the small CD for asking similar questions. These and later his sister claims to have shot Richard Gott any publicity. Michael remark and further adds that the omission anarchist movement but by the whole four comrades were brave enough to down a plane with a rifle and captured Foot inTribune, continuing his ‘Strategy of the name of the Committee of 100 country, what the government’s plans try to find out the horrifying truth the American pilot who says ‘he was for the Left’, speaks of the Labour as one of the sponsors is a further for a nuclear war are. about the State’s plans in the event of ashamed of himself and he would never Party’s distinctive asset ‘a massive sense instance of Sanity's bias. Furthermore, Such matters that seem to be onjy nuclear war. This is, of course, naive— listen to people who told him to fight of solidarity’. ‘No one,’ Foot writes, although the omission of the anarchist the prerogative of Civil Defence to know there can be few people in this country without seeing for himself what it was ‘who underrates that bond will get a groups supporting the march is only to as ‘the sites in every major city selected now .who do not know what nuclear all about and deciding for himself hearing in the Labour Party, and why be expeoted, the choice of photographs for a mass grave’, and the instructions attack would mean—but it is exactly this whether it was the right thing to do or should he?’ Michael Foot concludes in Sanity has succeeded in eliminating given to every Civil Defence officer on spirit of youth, this belief in life and not.’ Bamaby’s hero thinks how his article with ‘Every Socialist has the practically all' evidence of anarchist ‘how to erect everything from a road the desire for survival that may yet save wonderful it would be if all the Ameri right to criticize the design and per banners which were in attendance. It block to a concentration camp’; also us from die holocaust of nuclear war. can soldiers thought the same way as formance of the Labour automobile—so also seems probable that a banner saying why certain manuals issued within Civil Let this paper put itself alongside our our prisoner.’ Thursday’s Daily Worker long as he also helps to put some petrol ‘Make Love Not Vfor’—a commendable Defence are stamped 'Not to be shown Aberdeen comrades, if they are prose states that Izvestia described Andrei in the tank’—Not a word about the sentiment—was eliminated from the to lower ranks’—are these and many cuted let us be prosecuted, but we do Sinyavsky (Abram Tertz) and Yuli direction of the journey! . . . print of the steps of St. Paul’s. In any other secrets to be kept from the public? not want a single Civil Defence establish Daniel (Nikolai Arzhdk) as ‘renegades case a full shot of the steps of St. Paul’s For these young people to have taken ment in this country to hold secrets from serving the wildest and most unbridled A ccording to a usually unreliable source which would have clearly shown all the upon themselves the task of prising these the population. foes of Communism’. It said their works (Cuban Labor: ‘informative bulletin’ of banners present was, although highly secrets out of the files of the authorities The Editors . were ‘shots in the back of a people American sponsored F.o.r.d.c.), 92-year- photogenic, avoided: . . . is, in our opinion, an act of humanity Help with legal fees and fines should- fighting for world peace and happiness. old Anselmo Hernandez, said to be the and compassion for their fellow human be sent to Forbes Browne, 20 Mount Such acts cannot be regarded otherwise Cuban fisherman who inspired Heming J on Quixote . beings. In an editorial on a different Street Aberdeen. than as hostile to oui] country’. Further LETTERS occasion (when Stuart Christie was Editors, F reedom . extracts from Izvestia in the Daily To expose the System ! Dear Editors, there be any internal response to an to forget / never, / though the memory / Jack Robinson has quoted my case external impulse?’ The only way to be tattered / and the mind / be shredded’. very fairly and at length so I shall take answer that was to try it and see. Peace Eye Poet The epigraph tells us that you wrote the up only his particular points. RADICAL ALLIANCE tried and saw— poem in Montville s ite Jail, Uncasville (1) I have broken with party politics, successfully. All creative activity starts (o shades of!), Conjiiecticut—during a Ed Sanders: Poem From Jail. 27 pp. so has the Committee of 100 and, on from a bunch. logies on ‘Banana’, ‘Marilyn’ and ‘God’, stretch occasioned bv your attempt to (5) The National Committee of 100 City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1963. with work from Charles Olson, Robert their showing in Hull so far, so has board a Polaris submarine. . . . And in RADICAL ALLIANCE. The proof is has no official policy in Hull partly 3s. from Mandarin Books Ltd_ 22 Not- Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, LeRoi Jones, it, you speak out against ‘the cowardly / tmg Hill Gate, London, W.l S. Peace Gary Snyder—why go on? It begins to in the Labour Party’s fury, Left, Right because we have no organised group in & those in charge /J of money, / the and Centre, with Richard Gott. Hull—yet. The matter is left to indi Eye: Poems- 54 pp. Frontier Press, sound like a total listing of the important economists / & the profiteers, / & the Buffalo, N.Y., 1965. 12s. 6d. from Ferry makers, of contemporary- American (2) The contest in Hull is not just viduals and in the Committee of 100 a hidden / men in the » miiltary, / & all symbolic because there is nothing sym secretary remains an individual, albeit a Press, 177 Green Lane, London, S.E.9. literachoor. . . . So, when you yourself those who / profit by Death’. Still, I QOME TIME in 1963, Ed Sanders, turned up to see what was going on, bolic about the war in Vietnam and that responsible one. find that the messages comes through (6) In the last General Election both 25-year-old Kansas-born poet in at i5 'o’clock in the morning, on the is what the independent candidature is strongest in the musidof that return, to about. People are given a real option the National Committee and Freedom New York, ‘peace-stomper & builder of second., day of the year, they arrested the ‘light / cascading’fa the first shadows you, to charge you with the possession in the sense (admitted by Jack Robinson) were committed to electoral activity of Goof City’, man and lover of Miriam, of infancy. True, the medium is the that the result could be a Labour defeat a kind. And in a subsequent by-election father of 2 children, wrote me to ask of obscene publications. Now you’re message’: but when fee medium comes out on' 5)500 bail, and today, as I am with serious implications for Wilson* were we not. alt delighted when an if I could provide . an undercover too .close t