ween the government which does tk' * . ^1e People who accept it In this Issue: ®re is a certain shameful solidarity.' VICTOR HUGO. Controversy on ‘the People in the S tre e ts’-p2

M A Y 4 1963 Vol 24 No 14 THE ANARCHIST WEEKLY-4d.

'J ’HE recent execution of the Spanish communist Julian Gri- mau in the teeth of world dis­ approval, and the tightening up of press censorship after a period of SPAIN-are WE prepared? relative “freedom”—at least so far as the foreign press was concerned, “old-timers” look for their support. France? (de Gaulle s brusque call­ Spanish “old-timers” ?). It is how­ actual presence at the various bases has given rise to speculations of a Of course they can count on the ing-off of- trade talks with Spain ever much more likely that the leased to them by Franco, could be change in the regime at top level. Army- leaders and the powerful following the execution of Grimau Spanish reactionaries are looking to of value to the reactionaries in the Last Sunday’s Observer prominently Sections of the Church, landowners does not promise Well, though on the United States for support if and event of American intervention in featured a report “by a Special Cor­ and industrialists, but is there any the other hand de Gaulle has shown when the explosion takes place in any struggle that might result from respondent” the gist of which is that reason to believe that in 1963 they willingness to mak? life difficult for Spain. As it is the regimes has a political coup-d’etat. Franco is now so seriously ill that can hold down the Spanish people the Spanish refugees in France in been kept going by large injections Once one starts speculating there he has lost his grip on affairs as any more successfully than in 1936, return for a tightening up on OAS of dollaf-aid, and the army “mod­ is no end to the possibilities and well as his Cabinet. It appears that without outside support? Last time activities in Spain. ; What intrigues ernised” (at least by Spanish stand­ probabilities. After all one has not the Council of Ministers debated the it was the Italian and German dic­ are currently taking place between ards) and communications improv­ mentioned Russia’s reactions, which fate of the Communist Grimau for tators. Who will it be this time? OAS, French militarists and the ed, again by the Americans, whose will have an important bearing on 14 hours, during which time Franco the United States’ and so on. What did not utter a single word, and it should be exercising the thought and was only by a majority of one vote activities of all those who still be­ that Grimau’s fate was sealed. All lieve in the Spanish peoples’ ability the military (including the Vice- to free themselves from their local President, Munoz Grandes who tyrants is to prepare a world opinion voted out “of solidarity” with his which if and when the clash comes, fellow military, though arguing will be strong and militant enough throughout in favour of clemency) AMD AFTER ALL WEVF to prevent Spain from becoming a and two civilians, voted for the ap­ .DONE FOR. HIM— TO BE pawn in the game of power politics, plication of the death penalty'. The d e c l a r e d r e d u n d a n t / another Cuba or Congo. The Observers' correspondent points out 1 ground should be prepared now. If that “If General Franco is not we wait until something happens capable of backing up his vice- then once again all the best will ’n president in a short term question the world, the fine sentiments and such as this, it is thought unlikely the bandages and : condensed milk that his authority will be sufficient will stir the best feelings in human­ to ensure an automatic succession”, ity, but it will' be too late. The If the Observer's facts are correet tragedy of the Left is that it takes it would appear that the ageing up causes when it is already too late -General ...... ,_____ ... . , .. .ia-inSy ence, or help them. • .— in recent weeks has been pushed more and more into the hands of a clique of old-timers, headed by Sr. Carrero Blanco, Spanish Embassy who want to maintain the status quo regardless of consequences. Demonstration The question that springs to Tha London Federation of Anarchists mind is to ask where will these supported by a number of Spanish com­ rades, held a demonstration outside the- Spanish Embassy last Saturday. About wrong for the people who are subjected the committee as the whole affair does 80 people turned up to show their to the pretensions of authority to protest to the state and its machinery of solidarity with out Spanish comrades “justice”. against them, in any but the most polite who are suffering long years of im­ of demonstrations. An unofficial inquiry of this type HOLD OUR OWN ENQUIRY! would have no legal status, no power prisonment in Franco’s gaols without An alternative way of tackling the anything like a fair trial. 'T ’HE Manchester and Salford Trades would not be effective in discovering matter, would be that the people who to compel witnesses to attend, and no power to jail those who refused to The police were there in force sup­ ■* Council recently passed a resolution the facts and carrying out remedies, not are concerned about the use of provo­ ported by the “hurry-up” wagon and calling for an official inquiry into police because there were no incidents that cative violence by the police, and as the answer it, or who expressed their con­ prevented the first arrivals of comrades deserve wide publication and exposure, Guardian points out, these are not con­ tempt of it. Nevertheless, these facts from occupying the island in the road behaviour on March 26th, when repre­ could be made into points of strength, sentatives of unemployed workers but because an official inquiry, by its fined to the immediate recipients of it, directly in front of the embassy. We not weakness, if it was conducted openly, throughout the country held a demon­ very nature, is inhibited from achieving should hold their own public inquiry. argued for some time with the police in the spirit of an attempt to determine stration outside parliament. this object. Not only are its members A similar suggestion was made in the over using the island, but they seemed the truth, and to let participants in the In commenting, unfavourably, on the invariably drawn from circles in editorial columns of I Freedom at the to think that we would be a little too suggestion, the Guardian (20/4/631 sympathy with the state;- but its exist­ time of the government inquiry into the demonstration from all sides put their near the embassy for its continued safety. quotes the last inquiry, in connection ence starts from the premise that it is execution of Timothy Evans, which simi­ points of view without distortion or in­ We were slowly forced off the island terruption. It could represent an appli­ with police violence at the Committee right for police to try to control demon­ larly concluded that no miscarriage of onto the pavement round the garden of 100 demonstration in Trafalgar strations with, no doubt, the minimum justice had occurred, a conclusion that cation of the idea that the liberation enclosure. As more comrades arrived we Square in September, 1961. Despite the of necessary violence, and that it is in retrospect reflects as little credit to Continued on page 4 started to walk up and down with our fact that the police used considerable banners and posters. violence at that time, both in the Square Throughout the demonstration, the and after arresting individuals, the re­ police stood in a line in the road at port presented to the Home Secretary, six yard intervals flanking us. A further Mr. Butler, completely whitewashed With many firms there seems to be no line equally spaced out stood on the edge them. At the time, it was not known limit to the amount of overtime they of the kerb guarding their precious that anyone actually believed the report want to be worked on the sites. island, in-' the road. Reinforcements except the police officials who investi­ THE 40-H0UR WEEK We have been told this week that were ready round the corner in case of gated the affair, the Royal Commission productivity in the Building Industry need, a need that did not arise. The who investigated them, and the Home The National Incomes Commission trade but also to oilier industries. The must rise by 55% over the next ten demonstration was held almost in silence Secretary. have, as expected, condemned the Scot­ employers have given way but the Gov­ years but, and here is the rub, only a which was broken only by occasional However, it seems as if the Guardian's tish Building Industry’s agreement for ernment seems determined to prevent the 2% rise in the labour force is expected. cat-calls from passers by. leader writer was also taken in, since a 40-hour week which is to commence spread and the Commission is merely I know that with increased mechanisa­ he uses the former incident, without any next November and the Scottish plumb­ a highly paid mouthpiece for them that tion and new methods of construction obvious logic, to oppose holding an ers 40-hour week agreement which is will be used to attack any attempt to jobs wilt be completed more quickly and inquiry into the present one. in operation at the moment. pay increases and shorter hours. so bring increased production. With ELECTION NOTICE In fact, an official inquiry, as deman­ The 40-hour week is described in the Tiie N.1.C, have said that if a 40-hour these plans in mind and with an increas­ ded by the Manchester Trades Council report at being "contrary to the national week is introduced throughout the Build­ ing labour force, a shorter working week RAILWAYMEN! interest", and meant that there will be ing Industry, it will put up the cost of is essential not only in the building in­ DON'T STRIKE! an increase in overtime worked but not construction work b)Si50 million. Ac­ dustry, but all round, for the changes You might prejudice the chances a reduction in hours with the result that cording to them production must increase in methods of construction are occurring of Labour winning the next election! there will be an overall rise in pay. If before there are an*| pay rites or re­ now and will be continual. Full em­ these agreements are not cancelled then duction in hours. ployment can only be maintained by a SHOPWORKERS! there should be an understanding that TBit is the old story. If you work cut in hours. At the moment the labour DON'T VOTE FOR UNILATERAL thero will be no further increases for harder then you caflBheV# an increase, force is kept down by the payment of NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT! ANARCHY 27 three years. The reason N.I.C. have but this increase will be only a part of overtime, a state of affairs with which You might prejudice the chances given for this is that the Scottish agree­ the bigger profits that the employer will the unions comply. of Labour winning the next election! NOW ON SALE, IS ON ment and the recent cost of living rise gain from this rite id production, a rise The Commission tells us that the 40- will increase earnings by 9%. which is achieved by (pen having worked WORKERS EVERYWHERE! In condemning the 40-hour week the harder. Employers tin easily afford pay hour week is contrary to the national BE PREPARED interest (i.e. the Government and the YOUTH increases and shorter hours without this to lose your jobs, be bombed, N.I.C, have carried out the Government's employers), but the interest of workers bidding. The agreements in Scotland have rise in production At the moment and be shat on from a great height A N A R C H Y is Published by in all industriea IS a shorter working week Freedom Press at i / 6 caught them on the hop and they are now their whole aim is to complete a job but— trying their utmost to prevent the 40-hour in the shortest possible time and with and the aim of the rank and file union on the lest Saturday o f every month. members should be to achieve it now. VOTE LABOUR! week from spreading to other parts of this end in mind they are willing to pay the country, not only in the building above the union rales and overtime. P.T. 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BOOKS stration, yet it remains true that many many that demon­ true militant remains it our yet of stration, favour in was exactly is this body—for main the from CND. of ship saying that the majority of the March March not the am of I majority fact. the in that saying happened has what leader­ the by anymore around pushed through collectively marched we as day, the Aldermaston March had split away away split had March Aldermaston the being not was March section a that Aldermaston was the of London, of streets the oe r wvrn it a committed a into wavering are more some of the actions by this final march march criticism. final some this by require that actions might admitted the be of must some it remember, can M mittee of 100 on Easter Saturday and and Saturday Easter Monday. on 100 Easter of mittee h aacit oeet hn ntig I anything than movement anarchist the worthwhile Monday demonstration, demonstration, Monday worthwhile hss n sm spotr o te Com­ the of supporters some demonstra­ and chists militant the by further step wedded not is which CND the of tion which has brought more publicity to to publicity more brought has which tions by the London Federation of Anar­ of Federation London the by tions I Party. Labour the authors to anonymous whose phlet, off. written been have probably aue hs epd o rett ta sec­ that orientate to helped has salute, would March Aldermaston the pamphlet that energised everyone. Without this this Without everyone. energised that direct actionists within the whole of of whole the within actionists direct omte o 100. of Committee document that was identified with the the with identified was that document a gimmick with a responsible and brave brave and than responsible a more for with “Spies rather gimmick was a it produced fact who actual Peace” In more.” floundering, and hoping for an inspired inspired an for hoping and floundering, D. H. Lawrence & M. L. Skinner 5/- 5/- Skinner L. M. & Lawrence H. D. once headlines the “is catch editors, to the gimmick wrote 100”, of mittee statement a contained Aldermaston ■*" which approached prophecy. “The Com­ “The on prophecy. (13/4/63) approached which editorial ’S M O ED E pR l u t a at ned ht h ha of head the that indeed apt was It e h on emd nEse Mon­ Easter on made we point the Yet e a supply can fe In reflecting on this very useful and and useful very this on reflecting In hs retto ws are a carried was orientation This n hr te Sis o Pae pam­ Peace” for “Spies the short In This pamphlet was a boost to the the to boost a was pamphlet This — 5 5 .. Saturdays). p.m. C. Northcote Parkinson 3/6 3/6 Parkinson Northcote C. Vladimir Nabakov Nabakov Vladimir Kingsley Martin 3/6 3/6 Martin Kingsley ahne Ws 4/- West Nathaniel ioa Wle 1 /6 Walter Nicolas Milovan Djilas 3/6 3/6 Djilas Milovan Gerard Brenan 6/- 6/- Brenan Gerard F. R. Leavis 7/6 7/6 Leavis R. F. E. Varga 7/6 7/6 Varga E.

tttoa ad nlnd o h Labour the to inclined and stitutional su o debate. of issue f h GD oeet Oe s con­ is One movement. GND the of Aldermaston march is the dual image image dual the is march Aldermaston etae n h Bm, lhuh t can It con­ although merely Bomb, the not on must centrate We movement. mittee of 100 into a full-scale libertarian libertarian full-scale a into 100 of mittee should we feel, 1 Especially, anarchism. occurred. have not hardly not continue to be the main main the be to continue not hardly Com­ the of of scope the widen discussion to with' continue up and follow argument to hesitate continual not need should actions ugly two the or of One intimidation little police. a and incidents ting back are healthy ones. Self-defence Self-defence justified. ones. sometimes is healthy are back ting attractive to ‘ the anarchist. Violence Violence anarchist. the ‘ to attractive in demonstration our of presented ture f oe o-iln ahrns s un­ is adherents non-violent some of doe9 not just spring out of human human hit­ of of out reactions natural spring the and just beings not doe9 self-control rigid the but media, mass the will we some It of eyes the action. in violent that in true, are is there obsessive as action The praise­ what? entirely not is so credo non-violence But, tion. e iceie de o h dsotd pic­ distorted the to due discredited be worthy. n oiiy n apathy. and docility in e i ws o a o-iln demonstra­ non-violent a not police. was the it by Yet usually occasionedy slight, tive action by some 1,000 determined determined lacking 1,000 police, the to up some standing by people, action tive virility of our demonstration, it was an an effec­ was deed—of it by demonstration, example—propaganda our of virility eouinr mvmn, e go pub­ good get movement, revolutionary Committee of 100 will be, to some some to be, will 100 of Committee iiy rm h ogn o mass-media. of organs the from licity extent, salutary. This is due to the the to due is This salutary. extent, good publicity, but one does not, in a a in not, does one but publicity, good ation. movement. Of course, it was not wholly wholly not was it course, Of movement. been one of publicity for the anarchist anarchist the for publicity of one been oe, u hmnt ad u determin­ our our and ourselves, humanity asserted We our power, while. a for cordon, we “held” the streets of London London of streets the “held” we cordon, cin dsbdet drc ad effective. and direct disobedient, action, iiat demonstration? militant We broke police cordon after police police after cordon police broke We oaebotri ws revolutionary a ‘ was was march this examined; morale-booster—it be should pacifists will criticise us for the violence violence the for us criticise will pacifists ht ok lc. ht a te s o a of use the was What place. took some that were, we foolhardy how out point armchair anarchists and especially, 1 am am 1 especially, and anarchists armchair o h avc o te N leader? CND the of advice the to stration by the anarchist demon­ anarchist a the was by collectivity—it stration its in was our own initiative in this way contrary contrary way this taking in in justified initiative we own Were our stupid? Or tionists. sr, h “emnn poetr Will protesters “permanent the fsire, day demonstration? Was it sensible? sensible? it Was demonstration? day nrhs mvmn o or atr Mon­ Easter our of movement anarchist oiin ld t sm etn, y revolu­ by extent, some to led, position, What has now emerged from this this from emerged now has What Even so there were some unfortunate unfortunate some were there so Even o, aig ae n mat we impact, an made having Now, There are dangers in non-violent non-violent in dangers are There The violence that took place was very very was place took that violence The Thirdly, the effect on GND and the the and GND on effect the Thirdly, Secondly, the effect on the public has has public the on effect the Secondly, Firstly the effect on the marchers marchers the on effect the Firstly I feel the significance of our march march our of significance the feel I CONTROVERSY ON ‘THE PEOPLE IN®#* STREETS IN®#* PEOPLE ‘THE ON CONTROVERSY What was the real significance for the the for significance real the was What movement. The The or twrs sayingStewards h demonstration.the .... demonstiition.” R.S.G.6. and dinner,” a t make to had aig "o straight "Go saying: the by greeted R.S.G.6. the for ovd o some (or solved onn, e sawkhe we morning, ne the under a ra te R.S.G.6 the read had half withinWhen, reported reported acig along marching, omte o 1Q okn group. 10Q working of Committee we were willinglto willinglto were we money;terms of ehd of method it thought ob non-alignedbomb already in the pflpess of forming a local local a forming of pflpess the in already and ‘Romford the of members active all article article Hornchurch YGS1D Group’, and. are are and. Group’, YGS1D Hornchurch March. I should add here that ‘we’ are are ‘we’ that here add should I March. 26, 26, a regular readerlof readerlof regular a sane, if not the S ly future for mankind. for only future the ly S was the not if Anarchy sane, that conclusion F D ra action. trial nelnd hs fact. this underlined action in the -Greets of London has has London of -Greets the in action ie o ak n .i pesr fr indus­ for pressure .lie and rank to sive elements, it also lies in- the fact that that fact the in- lies also it elements, h CD irrh rmis unrespon­ remains hierarchy CND actionist the direct from not originated The action March direct fruition. forlour. to cSme; justification actually may only lies in the fact that the Aldermaston Aldermaston the that fact the in lies only peace towards steps direct our archy, action and’ ideas. Unlike the myopic myopic hier­ the CND of is the Unlike notfcbns, it world of ideas. bureaucratic that the and’ and on action cult t e r armej’^ w Having* an real not 1 a is at on is ee o drcin ta it that at direction, of has sefee its movement found last anarttst the Britain,- iw ne nt lim hnig people. thinking alfi-m not need views question fundamentals their unorthodox unorthodox their fundamentals question himself a membejjof a religion founded founded being religion a cranks, membejjof as us a himself man­ to refer should uncharitable that ner, irflhis strange is Collins It Canon revolution. to inclined by an undoubted bank! yet if one is to to is one if yet bank! undoubted an by and unconstitutional Is other the Party, reedom (б) (а) t seemed to It On arriving af af arriving On ear aig lost Having read weWhen e et on went We When I, and Several others read the the read others Several and I, When We then went on the Aldermaston Aldermaston the on went then We About six months ago I came to the the to came I ago months six About H VOET ANARCHISTS VIOLENT THE For For sheep—our of rawement CND The Perhaps we cat say that now, in in now, that say cat we Perhaps the reception varied, to say the least.- least.- the say to varied, reception the N TE ETE POLICE GENTLE THE AND un off Turn the Obey R.S.G.6. n ih the withon of form the F the past past the by by riend . inkling ..Qrhss banner. L.F.AQarchists’ Charles Radcliffe in in Radcliffe Charles an expensive and inefficient inefficient and expensive an canvassing and protest (in (in protest and canvassing a a , hlod n spot the support and thilroad demonstration, demonstration, choice, our own banner, banner, own our s t ht oet we moment, that at ms n§ie months I have been been have I months n§ie h mrh atog we although march, the ,ftne and sweat), because because sweat), and ,ftne jlither self-appointed self-appointed jlither ainl xctv, in Executive, Rational Kfurn off here for the the for here off Kfurn Rif nf demonstration we were were we demonstration Saturday on papers e h kr o Pgy Duff, Peggy of fkure qiarch. JEREM WESTALL.Y ! Peggy Duff, and carry carry and Duff, Peggy the turning-off turning-off the nhu o mr, we more, or an-hour demonstration. with some friends, friends, some with what was to come. come. to was what us did) to support support to did) us both both first confused, mis- mis- confused, first on, only 1 mile mile 1 only on, upr ay anti­ any support either: ouet e re­ we document A narchy which A narchy I point

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; states, must be prepared to actively actively to prepared be must states, ; - “closing indident” of the march, is that that is march, the of indident” “closing - • the state, and they must be prepared prepared be must they and state, the • | These people proved their point only only resisted and point up stood their they as long proved as for | people These | ij 1 dons—showing their contempt for the the for contempt their 1 dons—showing I the rate that the police want them to. to. at them want occur police Arrests the that rate arrested? the I were tors I t ue violence.' use tto •And so it is nonsense to declare that that declare to nonsense is it so •And f hm fr nrhs. Admittedly anarchism. for (four them) banners anarchist of behind marched rmral smahtc n a that). at one sympathetic remarkably a strations on the march when people people when march the already demon­ on have fantastic two strations the predictions in my materialised of some ol ojc t exclusion! to object would cynical level, lose a platform (and often often (and platform a lose level, cynical group at ground, meeting a was CND was in the last paragraph, and I am am I and least at that paragraph, suggest to last enough immodest the in was d nt bet o raiain u 1 but organisation to object not do I C sives we shall, to put it at the most most the at it put subver­ to against shall, closed we are sives ranks genu­ the for de­ If ground will breeding surely, beliefs a one, and varied no plore) very which of thing the (a people that for was level, point My policy. ‘liberal’ dismally. against the authority of governments and and governments of demonstrate authority who the those against successful, be to ine dissent and therefore worthwhile. worthwhile. therefore and dissent ine inadequate hopelessly take already may its deploring CND me the dimin­ from stop backwards not steps considerably does any This was CND ished. the for At CND. the of potential revolutionary London, oppose at all levels the instruments of of instruments the levels all at oppose thing I wanted was revolution!) and and support my revolution!) anarchist was an became wanted I when I CND thing supported actively most I time the and right of the state to dispose of our our of dispose to state the of right and it police whether the dogs”, of or event the “truncheons in using sit-down A I was not an avowed anarchist (the last last (the anarchist avowed an not was I lives as it wishes, would have' failed failed have' would wishes, it as lives power and the against led, demonstrators, the have demonstration the of thus would arrests the not, to or ‘effective’ was (leisure. own its at them of dispose it— and accept maintain and passively that down sit police didn’t the they and state arrest. They went through police cor- cor- police through went They arrest. the right of the state to arrest them them arrest to state the of right the vroe s ikd p n cre off. carted and up before time picked police is of down, matter everyone sat a only having is it because wanted”, they they possessed the road for as long as as long as for road that the conclusively possessed they proved movement alist titany conscious ’ people" conscious titany “about a thousand of all kinds of poli- poli- of kinds all of thousand a “about down in which one thousand demonstra- demonstra- sit- a thousand one mean which you in do down sit-down “effective” eit ad fetv stdw, By sit-down,” effective and mediate r os tee ol hv be a im­ an been have truncheons would used there had dogs, police or the “if that Easter’s Aldermaston march. You claim claim You march. Aldermaston Easter’s from the “closing incident” o f this this f o incident” “closing the from D onhrh Essex. Hornchurch, 74 74 omrades epe f h Ntoa Executive. National the of people omte i te pi cms o that. to comes split the if Committee area. group and will do our best to get certain certain get to best our do will and group quite clear that we will stand behind the the behind stand will we that clear quite any similar groups or persons in the the in persons or groups similar any rm ncin W ws t mk it make to wish We inaction. from or or publish our address in either either in address our publish onhrh Area. Hornchurch inaction. The real point of my my of point real The Discussion Group in the Romford and and Romford the in Group Discussion article. friends and I have been goaded out of of out my goaded of been some have I powers, and prophetic friends his on will start any day now! day any start will The lesson to be learnt from the the from learnt be to lesson The I have never cherished illusions in the the in illusions cherished never have I mind returned to Charles Radcliffe's Radcliffe's Charles to returned mind hope we were an acute embarrassment embarrassment acute an were we hope o h rt wo s te place. the 1 use who and the rats the off to lid preparations, the war took we government’s parliament, in Committee. ie, e rue pbi oiin we match opinion, mud-slinging publi­ public first-rate a and up aroused effective stirred we point, the cised, to more demonstraiton that was twenty times times twenty was that demonstraiton was forced on us, the Campaign or the the or Campaign the us, on forced was ear I disagree with the lesson you draw draw you lesson the with disagree I In the meantime we are forming our our forming are we meantime the In The Easter Weekend has goaded us us goaded has Weekend Easter The We would be pleased if you could could you if pleased be would We We have decided to form an Anarchist Anarchist an form to decided have We The Loyalty oaths and accusations Charles accusations congratulate to and wishing Besides oaths Loyalty The o pohtc t was! it prophetic How It was however, at this time that my my that time this at however, was It pe Rihm Road, Rainham Upper e hs te omte ad a a had and Committee the chose We ecoe h later. the chose We We were given the choice, indeed it it indeed choice, the given were We F S reedom ae e held. yet have April 21. 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London, to give some slight care lest the popular popular the lest need care medium slight some propaganda give to main our and re ad ilne eoe u tu face. dis­ true of our lovers become violence unseating and as order us we of that image is lesson second a think I to”. possess the road for as long as we wanted wanted we as long as for road the possess says says f ubr o te ... t lesson, Its C.N.D. the of show mere numbers the was of than weapons nuclear ful in relation to the abolition of of abolition the to relation meaning­ more in any been ful have to appear to do, might have panicked and taken taken and march. main panicked the have against might action do, to the independent demonstration intended intended demonstration independent the F.L.A. figured prominently would not not would prominently figured F.L.A. that the police, who did not not a did of who one police, the any that or F.L.A. the by ized march. There was at least a chance chance a least this at of was bodies There constituent march. of organ­ number and march­ called been have demonstration not a would in ing They tion. at remained this CN.D. policy, against and revolt leadership growing the' and that moment C.N.D.’s march in that that in march C.N.D.’s moment that campaign, the the of of facts growth and historical the formation despite And, most of the people there were there there demonstra­ were C.N.D. there the was people it the because of most march. C.N.D. the after post­ been until this, discuss poned to held meeting” which one the premeditated from was separate it merely and demonstration; ate march and had, by the “feeling of the the of the “feeling the throughout by for had, and agitated march been had round the episode by by episode the round ‘aig vr h ra” a nt separ­ a not was road” the over ‘‘taking ae dtra atce n I hn some questioned. think be I and should article aspects editorial page ae rm h pes Nihr os it spun does victory famous Neither a of press. aura which the merit-the “Violence!" not from of might came and outcries vicious might the very route, merit so alternative seem an ambu­ not find an or than hours less anything make and n hogot h march. going the leadership the throughout for and on R.S.G.-6 struggle of there the unrest excitement of this the been exacerbate had to year This lance or a fire engine wait a couple of of couple a wait streets engine the fire a of or lance possession stretch sole limited a take for to attempting of took, haps nearer the surface in the younger. younger. the in per­ surface and the committed nearer deeply haps more of the feelings in in results and meaningless is ae en xetd ad h fr it form the and expected, been have frustration; feelings doubtless stronger stronger doubtless feelings frustration; per­ and traffic accommodate to enough as o lo te oie o el secure, feel to police the allow to haps rk rud odn n otnet small contingents in dreary hours London few a around trek following Park Hyde Aidermaston march in in march Aidermaston D London, n tann ourselves. training and get down to the business of educating educating of business the to down get moment. grown out of mere rebellion. Let us- us- Let rebellion. mere of out grown o ter usiue te oie fr the for police) the substitutes their (or o e te etr f h pwr ta be that powers the of better the get to human beings, than an aggressive attempt attempt aggressive between an be­ reciprocity than of beings, of level human terms higher in a haviour, attained have who social and economic in changes involves wih nbe te aces o show to marchers RSG. the the up enabled —which eain, hc i t sy ht t will women it and that man by say out to carried is be only which relations, only kind worth having. This no doubt doubt no This having. worth kind only gation and timely release of information information investi­ of patient release of timely and result gation the was action The breakaway actiop in which the the which in actiop breakaway The page of the the of page mat Ti rsosbe n effective, and great a responsible made This have Peace impact. for Spies the Establishment, because it mentions the the mentions headline. a it in because anarchists Establishment, You are so much reacting to authority authority to achievement? reacting of much kind so revel are some you be You do Why to this thing. real the for ht o ms poorp te middle the photograph must you that imagine and police the substitute a with by scuffling in thrilled so are you that C ae o ps te rfcs n ae mas­ are and prefects the who past got schoolchildren have over-excited of tale a turbating in public. I am astonished astonished am I public. in turbating political, may be interested in anarchism. anarchism. in interested be may political, insensitive the hammer to wish not do It is dishonest to pretend that this this that pretend to dishonest is It London, Britain's ‘party of peace and socialism', socialism', and peace of ‘party Britain's ear those whose ideas in fact are anti- anti- are fact in ideas whose those who idiocy, parliamentary with afflicted oe hw f iafcin ih, then, might, disaffection of show Some Are we ready for them? for join ready we Are or Party Labour the of this—the corpse encourage further might ‘human’ beings, those who are not not are who those beings, up—and ‘human’ tighten does CND If failure. that many! This ties up, 1 think, with with think, 1 up, ties This many! that the sensational events on the march march the on events sensational the ners were there by accident but not all all not but the accident by there were ners maston a human success and a political political a and success human a maston oe f hs pol bhn te ban­ the behind people these of some f ore h cliain f the of culmination the course Of A proper revolutionary has long long has revolutionary proper A omrade nnvoet eouin il e the be will revolution non-violent A On the other hand the revelations of of revelations the hand other the On Your article article Your F C F reedom April April reedom omrades April 21. 21. April April 22. 22. April E ditor , , 3 M 23. Times, dtra wih al Alder­ calls which editorial , was that “we could could “we that was epe n h Streets the in People , that symbol of the the of symbol that C F harles reedom oy Weaver. Tony ary a, G know pciC jn “picnicC R anipa ’ s adcuffb

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. Wearing a gown °j'['rQrded si,k with treated as such.” The Welsh Committee broderie Anglaise and rop pearls, Miss of 100 published a pamphlet about the Brenda Pearce, of 5® Bramber Road, S.R.G. for Wales. Edinburgh Com­ Fulham, was the p l P / bride of Mr. mittee of 100 marched to Corstophine Michael Benson, of Lhiswick, at West Hill which they claimed was the R.S.G. Kensington Congrcgatfnal Church. The for the area. A local 11-year-old boy bride, carrying roses; and freesia, was told the reporter he’d known what it given away by hef ^ brother, Mr. B. was since the beginning of the year. May 4 1963 Vol 24 No 14 Pearce. The bridesmaid was Miss Marina Mr. George Williamson, secretary of the Swain, wearing a dress of pink, slipper Scottish Committee of 100 said, “We satin and a pink rosd head-dress. She a want to get rid of this bloody, State, carried a white prayer book and mixed this warfare State. We are not against freesia. Best man |was Mr. Bryan the British people, or the Russian people, ILLUSIONS Weston. Guests wet* entertained at a or the American people. It is people reception at the bride s home before against Governments.” Dr. Geoffrey rV JR correspondence columns this aggressive attempt to get the better of the couple left for their honeymoon in Taylor, prospective Liberal candidate for week reflect the very consider­ the powers that be (or their substitutes Sussex. . . . Yeovil, wrote to the Prime Minister re­ able interest aroused by the un­ the police) for the moment. T hb Prime Minister ,'feid that the peace minding him that over a year ago the A proper revolutionary has long official demonstrations which en­ spy leak was not vital but “the object at ten shilling per copy. A shortened press reported the official opening of grown out of mere rebellion. Let us of the Special Branch will be to try, version of the pamphlet was distributed what was said to be a headquarters of livened the Aldmeraston march this get down to the business of educating ‘Easter, but it is quite clear that our by their inquiries, to, pin the responsi­ in Doncaster public-houses. Two police regional government near Yeovil. The and training ourselves. bility where it lies'’ Mr. Fenner BBC was also represented at the cere­ comrades are not unanimous either officers warned Peace News of their pos­ “Educating and training our­ Brockway, Labour M P. for Eton and sible liability under the Official Secrets mony. Every alderman and councillor in their appraisal of the anarchist Slough, said the Spies for Peace pamph­ Act if they printed extracts from the and many businessmen in Tunbridge participation or in the way it was selves” for what? If we understand Tony ^Weaver correctly it consists let “was an unnecessary step . . . I R.S.G. pamphlet. The home of Jon Wells received a copy of the R.S.G. treated in the last issue of F reedom . in not being beastly to the police regard this document1 not as nuclear Tinker, former secretary of the Com­ pamphlet. Police said they were making What we published on our front disarmament but as nuclear encourage­ mittee of 100 was visited by police inquiries. Two more editions of the who, as the pacifist saying goes, are R.S.G. pamphlet were sent out. One page were first-hand accounts of only “doing their job”; in bringing ment because it provides targets for any officers; they copied from a writing pad what happened at R.S.G.-6 and nuclear power in time?pf war.” A tech­ a list of names. Mr. Tinker did not went to officers in charge of all London about a better understanding be­ nical reconnaisance officer jn Essex Civil tell the officers but they were people police stations and chairmen of hospital during the last stages of the March tween worker and boss—failing boards. A pamphlet called “Beyond in Central London, written by com­ Defence Force said that he had recei­ who had sent wedding presents and to which, presumably, the workers will ved at least a dozen documents marked whom ‘thank-you’ letters must be sent. Counting Arses” was published by eight rades whose objectivity we have no have to wait until the bosses “have; ‘restricted’ with information on -S.G.R.’s, 500 duplicated sheets of an abbreviated members of the Committee of 100 last reason to doubt and whose word we attained a higher level of behaviour “at least 5,0.00 olhers-must have received version of the S.G.R. pamphlet were February which suggested that the Com­ would trust in preference to that of in terms of reciprocity” and in the them.” A man posing as a newspaper put on seats at the National Union of mittee “should publicise the most secret the professional newsmen, the timid event that they show no inclination reporter visited an R.$.G. in Cambridge Students Easter Conference. The Presi­ preparations of the Warfare State”. The legalists or the police. Of course for thjs “higher level of behaviour” a year ago. The Cambridge Committee dent of the N.U.S. urged students to homes of all eight of the signatories their accounts of the “incidents” can of 100 held a demonstration outside the hand over the leaflet, and two plain­ were searched last week. It was claimed what then? Does the fault lie with by marchers that R.S.G.-10 was at the be said to lack a sense of pro­ us? Must we, like Boxer, declare building and stuck up posters showing clothes detectives spent three hours a picture of the Cambridge R.S.G. One searching the building and questioning village of Goosnarth, Lancashire. . . . portion, and we must plead “guilty” that we must “get down to the to connivance in splashing these of these posters is sjul 'up. The office a Student Mr. Martin Loney of Brad­ business of educating and training D r . Ernst Mavr , director of the items all over the front page. For of the Committee of 100 in London was ford admitted duplicating the document ourselves” still more? broken into on April! 13th. The police at 4 a.m. for circulation to the confer­ Museum of Comparative Zoology at this we make no apology. Would ence. The Shadow Foreign Secretary Harvard University said that the intelli­ ★ were not informed since it was thought that all events could be described the raiders were from M.I.5 or Special of the Labour. Party, Mr. Patrick Gor­ gence of man may have reached its peak by those who actually participaterin 'T ’HE. only kind of revolution worth ! Branch. Undergraduates at Cambridge, don Walker, said that the publishers of many years ago and he now may be them! There would be much less heading in a downward direction. having, is, in our opinion/ the according to the Daily* Herald have been the S.R.G. pamphlet should be severely cynicism in the Press and there selling R.S.G. pamphlets in coffee-bars punished. “They are spies and must be Jon Quixote . would still be plenty of time to one which results in the weakening analyse, to have second thoughts, to of governmental power and a cor­ put events in their proper perspec­ responding increase in responsibility, got into bad company, they should pull and direct control of their affairs, by tive, and to draw the lessons. When themselves together and try to make an the people. If such a revolution honest living and cease from agitating Tony Weaver, one of our critical can be “non-violent” so much the the population and also break loose correspondents, describes the report better, for it will indicate that the from their hangers-on. He would re­ as “a tale of over-excited school- revolutionaries are strong and the mand them for a Probation Officer’s children who have got past the pre­ Court Scenes at report. forces of reaction are weak, divided, fects and are masturbating in rotten. But supposing that the revo-. ANGUS OGILVIE^unemployed of no bellicousely patriotic, and in many cases, At the same court Joe Dope and his public” and goes on to ask “why do fixed abode) andjUlexandra Ogilvie sentimentally inebriated. The evidence wife Alice Dope were charged with lutionary forces and those of re-.1 wilful obstruction of the pavement in you revel in scuffling with the police action- are both strong : the former of Kensington, stated, so be of indepen­ of several newspaper proprietors would and imagine this to be some kind of dent means, were'cTitlI|ed~w1th obstruc-' bo called- on this point.- Some- of -The Piccadilly for twelve hours. P.Ci Collins trained in “the business of educa­ said the defendants were lying on the achievement?” he shows only too tion” by Tony Weaver, and the tion at Bow Street ttpay. The police crowd had been heard to sing a blas­ said that further charges would be pre­ phemous song implying that it was one pavement. When asked if they were clearly, in our opinion, that however latter in the business of capitalism sincere he may be in his desire for ferred. It was a gr^ve case, nearly of the Almighty’s tasks to look after objecting to nuclear weapons,. they told by (Tooth and) Clore buttressed by ninety London streets! were obstructed. the defendant’s relatives. him not to use an offensive expression, a social revolution he remains ob­ they were only waiting for the wedding- the weight of the Law, the police, Additional charges werefunder considera­ Defendants had collected around them livious to the massive entrenched, procession. He thereupon cautioned the Army, the Civil Service, the tion, of causing a crowd to collect, Hin­ a group of aliens and others whose built-in, forces with which the privi­ aspiring politicians, and capitalists, dering the police in ;the execution of them but when he returned to duty leged minority in our society have methods of living were at least, doubt­ the specialists: scientists, intellec­ their duty, having no| visible means of ful. Many, in defiance of the Public twelve hours later they were still there; surrounded themselves to resist,' to support, and being aScharge upon the Order Act, wore quasi-military uniforms frying eggs upon a primus which he pro­ tuals, economists, publicits, brain-, duced as exhibit A. They 'were reman­ disarm (morally speaking) and dis­ public purse. and several offensive weapons upon their washers et alia—what scrap of ded for a psychiatric report. credit all serious attempts to change The accused were involved in some person. The collective ostentatious dis­ evidence is there to show that com­ Jack Spratt . society radically. rade Weaver’s dogmatic—to our religious rite which had been the occa­ play of jewellery upon this occasion (about which enquiries were being made) Tony Weaver’s letter, the more minds, naive—faith in the power of sion of the grave obstijjgtion in London we study it the more does it appear streets which had lasted for several was cause for the assemblage of other education per se is justified in fact? hours. They were members of a family crooks and the excitement of feelings of as the epitome of middle-class ROYAL SENSE OF HUMOUR pacifism. Apart from the obvious The so-called “violent” revolution­ who were habitually fn the Courts on envy in the less fortunate sections of ary anarchists have always recognis- ; such occasions. The female defendant the populace. Viewers noticed how solemn the middle-class analogy in which the was a member of an anti-democratic Evidence was given that London traffic Queen looked at the wedding. But in people are “schoolchildren” and ed that violence is a dangerous, un­ predictable weapon. It must be so and pro-royalist movement and the man was tied up for several hours, radio the crush to see the honeymooners off at the police “prefects”, not to mention was the member of what was known as and television programmes were inter- St. James’ Palace, there was one moment “masturbation”, the public school in any situation where “reciprocity ! the “Mayfair set”. He was a gambler ferred with and an enormous amount when the Queen threw back her head “vice”—one cannot overlook the between human beings”—.which im­ on the Stock Exchange but he had no of newsprint was rendered useless. Seve­ and ROARED. She had trodden on scathing reference to “the aggressive plies social and economic equality— prospect of future work. ral people were subjected to the rigours King Olafs foot. attempt to get the better o f’ the is replaced by one in which “might The mob, said a police inspector, of the English climate for long periods Daily Herald 25/4/63. police or fail to compare it with is right”. If “reciprocity” were in which had collected on this occasion of time and commercial life had been And we learn from a reliable source “the responsible and effective” re­ fact the existing state of affairs, we was not hostile to the accused but the disrupted. that the Queen said afterwards that she velations of the Spies for Peace would be the first to condemn the accused seem to have had an unfortunate The Magistrate (Mr. Bumblebee, J.P.) hadn’t had such a good laugh since said that he .thought the defendants had which was “the result of patient in­ solution of differences by resort to effect on them, making them maudlin, she kicked King Frederick in the crutch. vestigation and timely release of force. But this reciprocity does not information”. As if the revelations exist today, and to assume that it m arch (our italics) numbers of the CND. of the Spies for Peace was not a can be achieved without “provok­ background to preach equality and I scuffle with another section of the ing” violence on the part of those to live as privilege! members of in which case she must advocate But are there any anarchists to security forces—except that it was whose privileges depend on the society. a tightening-up of membership of her knowledge who imagined, as carried out with kid gloves, at maintenance of the status quo, is to ★ 1 CND which would exclude the an­ they spread across the road, that in cocktail-party-level rather than in display a faith in the power of pure g O T H Tony Weaver and Mary archists and other undisciplined riff­ so doing they were hitting the H- Reason which, if valid, would have raff, and install Canon Collins as the the streets where the scuffles with Canipa who are more or less bomb in a vulnerable spot? Of long ago removed the antagonisms Pope of the Campaign and Peggy course not. On the other hand is the police generally take place. We ashamed of the behaviour of their do not deny the publicity value of which are the root of the class Duff as his Papal Legate. Or she there any serious revolutionary who struggle. One can solve human i comrades at the Aldqrmaston march, and others of like mind must enjoy shares the Tony Weaver illusion that the RSG revelations—we acclaimed fall over backwards in “trying to be them in our last editorial—but, un­ problems by reason only in a I the freedom from party line which the revolution we want will be made society, a community, a family, | fair” to everyone butjtheir comrades. perforce characterises the CND, and like Tony Weaver and his friends, Mary Canipa suggests that this was by the police and all the other we also acclaim confrontation be­ governed by reason. Reason is the \ put up with Canon Collins as the representatives of the institutions we art of persuasion; persuasion, whichj “C.N.D.’s march iff that most of permanent figurehead as well as the tween, even a section of, the people the people there were there because want to break down? For this ii) is neither blackmail nor a con-1 company of unpredictable anar­ fact is the argument of the adverj and the police, when it occurs, for it was the CND demonstration”. the latter no less than the former fidence trick, can only operate in the* chists, and Committee of 100 direct cates of non-violence as a principle! common interest when the argument What specious pleading is this! actionists, predictable Quakers, tends to undermine the authority, CND, as we pointeqjout two issues of “a higher level of behaviour” andj is not vitiated by personal consider­ CPers, Trotskyites, Leninists, Kings­ “get down to the business of educat­ the mystique of superiority sur­ ago (F reedom , April 13) “advo­ ations of material gain or loss. If > ley Martinists, Footists, not to men­ ing and training ourselves” school] rounding the Establishment. cates the most popular and uncon- reason, education, were the criteria tion the je-m’en-foutistes—who pro-, They are expecting the enemies of Tony Weaver dogmatically pro­ troversial of all causes” and it is claims: “a non-violent revolution for the establishment of a har­ bably represent the majority group anarchism to make the revolution; monious society then it is in the no! surprising that il should uttract in CND, so far as political commit­ they want the policemen to stop be­ will be the only kind worth having” at one extreme the anarchists and at and condescendingly adds: “This no seats of learning and among the ment is concerned. having like policemen; soldiers to leisured classes that one should seek the other Bow group Conservatives. lay down their arms; businessmen to doubt involves changes in economic We also agree with comrade the advocates of social justice and Mary Canipa is ^Sht when she stop making profits, and politicians, and social relations’, from which he suggests that Canipa when she declares concludes that revolution. Apart from the ex­ they (the marchers!!'would not have The breakaway action in which the to stop desiring power over their it will only be carried out by men ceptions (and how many of them been marching in a demonstration called FLA figured prominently would not fellow beings! This, it-seems to the, and women who have attained a higher in the event turn out to be armchair- and organised by tlje Federation of appear to have been any more meaning­ writer, is the fundamental weakness! level of behaviour, in terms of recipro­ fairweather- revolutionaries?) the London Anarchists "r ai,y one of aful- in relation to the abolition of nuclear of non-violence as a revolutionary] city between human beings, than an socially privileged classes use their number of constituertf bodies of weapons this than was the mere show of principle. 4 1* K t t L) U M munism, but it does not follow that were to take th|> » the caT ' those who wish to stay outside are Existence demands the opposition of Afeetf for an enemy P this non-violent W H w " T necessarily lacking in the same qualities two principles, one, the principle of dis­ that which takes I f e ?* som® ,o£ °Vr of good-fellowship that he has. By all order, of individualism, or anarchy, is D ear Comrades , sit-downs, did not 8®ve the/ n’ Th® only means criticise individualism as much as the other, the principle of order, of col­ Colin Maelnnes in his article on the ones who escape! werf those w^° you like. The criticism might be more lectivism, of authority. As related to kibbutzim barely mentions what seems heroically fled abroad or went into to the point, however, if it rested on more Mankind, these are symbolised by the to be an important cause of the anarchic hiding, or who iffflf 8u®rl*la- than mere assertion. concepts of Freedom and of God. Be­ way of life prevailing in them: the I am not trying | make a c1ase. for A final point. I think that those who tween them the eternal struggle goes on; presence of an immediate enemy, the violence. What 1 trying t0 do ,ls t0 are suspicious of “organisation", in the without either there would be nothing Arabs, against whom considerable point out that boffl case £or V10 ence general sense of the term, have good to argue over. emotional feeling can be maintained in­ and the case for non:v'°^?nce ^ave ^ rri' reason for being so. What Michels has Sometimes we shall be on one side, definitely. fying weaknesses-. which their advo­ called the “iron law of oligarchy”, has sometimes cm the other. No set of prin­ In other communities where anarchic cates seem cheerfully unaware, operated even in professedly anarchist ciples can be propounded for choosing attitudes are to the fore, an enemy, i If a govem m ei thought that its sur- organizations, as was shown in the either. This is the error of dogmatism whether abstract or concrete, human viva! depended o C massacre of fifty, Iberian Anarchist Federation during the from which I trust Mr. Uloth may be or inanimate, is usually close to hand. 1100,000 or six million people, whatever Spanish Civil War and the French fed­ preserved to continue to instruct us. The Spanish anarchists had Franco's 'their convictions, it would do so. This eration in the early, ’fifties. It is the Yours sincerely, armies; Castro's guerillas, the Batista goes for almost fufl government in the good fortune of the anarchist movement Cambridge, April 21. J.P.H. government; the Nuer tribe, the neigh­ world. Do I needed Bive examples from that its adherents have generally proven bouring Dinka; soldiers in trenches, their that whatever their reason for going, recent history? It isn't necessary to “unorganisible” and various grandiose commanders and the war itself; coal­ what they heard was a two hour moral threaten the stale with violent over-- schemes of general organisation have miners, the coal; modern British anar­ lecture. When JJruce uses fuck he is (throw. The. millions sent to the Russian been wrecked by their conscious or un­ chists. British capitalism and its mani­ using it to make a moral point and all : camps were for the most part not plan­ conscious individualism. The only group- WATCH FOR ANNOUNCEMENT festations; anti-nuclear demonstrators, Arthur Moyse’s remarks about obscenity ning the violent Overthrow of the Bol­ I ing—apart from purely temporary, ad the police. These are only a few ex­ as a pleasure in itself are beside the j shevik regime. They constituted a threat OF MEETINGS IN . hoc protest or emergency movements— amples and obviously the degree to point. If Arthur had ever heard Bruce i all the same, andihat was enough. I that seems capable of keeping an anar­ CENTRAL LONDON which the hostility is justified varies in work he would realise this, but he hasn't YourS;'fraternally, chist character is that based on personal each case; but it seems to me that some and on this issue he must be placed with London. Arthur W. U loth. easily-identifiable enemy has to be the Conservative M.P. who tried to ban affinities and small enough to allow each present, to stimulate people into co­ both Miller and Bruce without having member a direct voice in all decisions. NEW MEETINGS operating in an anarchic manner. I heard or read either. London, April 17. S. E. Parker . Informal Meetings: Soho should be very grateful if someone The real trouble with Arthur Moyse Individualism and .. Finch’s “One Tun", could explode this theory, because other­ is that he has led a protected life and 60 Goodge Street, W.l. D ear Editors , 9 Saturdays from 6 p.m. wise anarchy will not be so attractive has obviously been shielded from the I see that yoiff editorial writer has .. the error of as it should be. type of American paperback 1 was talk­ once again charged that individualists Bristol Federation of Anarchists Cambridge. T. Oxton . ing about when I instanced “Mental do not believe inl'organisation” even in dogm atism Meeting Ward Nympho’’. Such books bear as the sense of agreement betwen two in­ MAY 8. 7.30 p.m. 38 Canynge Square, Clifton, Bristol 8. much relation to the ballad of Eskimo dividuals (Free®)#, 12/4/63). He D ear Editor , Come out of the Nell as nationalisation does to workers’ brings no .evidence forward to support I have just read, with dismay, Arthur control. In one of these productions, this charge, other than the gratuitous Uloth’s letter about Individualism. For Lavatory , A r t h u r ! for instance, the anti-hero, tremendously assertion that individualists are “smug me, Individualism signifies that spirit OFF-CENTRE strong in the best Anglo-Saxon Super­ introverts”. CouljJ he now give some of opposition, inherent in all matter, D ear Sir. DISCUSSION MEETINGS man tradition had the habit (described to every attempt to manipulate it, to Much as 1 normally enjoy Arthur proof for his claim? change its shape, or its personality. It Moyse's plangent prose style I was a in detail), of breaking a woman’s limbs Meanwhile, I can only repeat what I 1st Wednesday of each month at 8 p.m. at Colin Ward’s, 33 Ellerby Street, little startled to find it being used against one by one, and, when she recovered wrote in a letter published in Freedom signifies the principle of revolt against, and of escape from, the pursuer; in Fulham, S.W.6. myself and quite astonished that he consciousness, raping her. This sort of just over a year ago: the essence,, the determination to con­ could have misinterpreted my article to thing has nothing to do with the healthy 1 “May I statejonce and for all, that 3rd Tuesday at Brian and Doris Leslie’s, the-extent he has. obscenity of Eskimo Nell! Nor am I \ . . . individualists are not opposed to tinue to exist. 242 Amesbury Avenue, S.W.2 (Streatham “Political” anarchism of the kind I never intended to suggest that the moralising about people who have the association. What we do claim is the Hill, Nr. Station). audience at the Establishment “attended need to read such books. Nevertheless right for individuals to produce and which endorses concepts like Progress, Third Wednesday of the month, at 8 p.m. out of a desire for spiritual regenera­ such books are a sysptom of the sick­ live alone, if Jhey so wish, equally Science, and the good of Humanity at Albert Portch’s, 11 Courcy Road (off needs of course organisation if it is de­ tion,” and I agree that most of them, ness of our society .without even the with the right ao free association.” Wood Green High Road), N.8. termined to achieve ‘’practical results . who had not heard his records, went virtue of being well-written, and it is Nothing I haw read, or heard of, First Thursday of each month, Tom Provided it does not outrage completely along because he was known as a comic this sickness that Lenny Briuce is attack­ regarding individualist anarchism in the Barnes’, Albion Cottage, Fortis Green, who used four letter words. The whole ing. As he says, “In a sane society last year had made me want to change the personality of the individual it may N.2. (3rd door past Tudor Hotel). irony of the situation lay in that fact one would say ‘Unfuck you mister’!” these words in the slightest. I appre­ be tolerated and even be acceptable. Last Thursday of each month at 8 p.m. Perhaps Arthur Moyse had better ciate the editorifi, writer’s benevolent But let it go too far and it must in­ at George Hayes’, 174 Mcleod Road, come up out of that lavatory and find desire to incorporate us all into his ideal evitably be overthrown whatever slogan Abbey Wood, S.E.2. out what is happening to the world. of a gregarious and indiscriminate com­ it bears bn its banners. 3rd Friday of each month at 8 pan. at London, April 29. J. M. Pilgrim . Donald & Irene Rooum’s, 148a Fellows Road. Swiss Cottage, N.W.3. FREEDOM Please note that the meetings at FeheHi fCom rade 1 Grim auP Road; N.W.3 are now on the thiiu Friday, not the third Wednesday as PRESS D ear Comrades , HOLtf OUR OWN ENQUIRY! hitherto. A writer to Freedom invites readers Netting Hill Anarchist Group (Dis­ PUBLICATIONS to send protests to the Spanish Embassy Continued from page I approval from the authorities | or the cussion Group) press which serves them, although it SELECTIONS FROM ‘FREEDOM’ on behalf of “Comrade" Grimau. As of society requires the substitution of Last Friday of the month, at Brian and far as I know, this Julian Grimau was free, voluntary,',fion-coercive institutions, might for instance introduce the writer Margaret H art’s, 57 Ladbroke Road, Vol 2 1952: Postscript to Posterity a Stalinist police official in Spain when set up to achieve definite purposes and of the Guardian’s headline article of (near Notting Hill Station), W.U. VcJ 3 1953: Colonialism on Trial his party were working against the liber­ dissolvingonce they have been achieved, 16/4/63, who saw that the temper of Vol 4 1954: Living on a Volcano the march was inflamed by the ..appear­ Vol 5 1955: The Immoral Moralists tarian forces to establish their own in place of the oppressive authoritarian Vol 6 1956: Oil and Troubled Waters dictatorship. I know nothing of his institutions of ©day's society, that mas­ ance of . the mounted police, and that Vol 7 1957: Year One—Sputnik Era subsequent record or the real reasons querade as being for the protection of the latter physically attacked demon­ Vol 8 1958: Socialism in a Wheelchair why the present regime wish to murder people, but “protect ’ them with prisons strators, to the writer of the above- Why not subscribe Vol 9 1959: Print, Press & Public him as they have murdered so many and police violence as soon as they mentioned leader, who doesn’t believe Vol 10 1960: The Tragedy of Africa others. However, I think that it is demand a role Letter than that of H- that such things happen. Despite the Vol II 1961: The People in the Street pertinent to point out that had he and bomb fodder. difficulties it might face, it could provide to F R E E D O M ■ Each volume: paper7/6 cloth 10/6 a useful exercise and lesson-both to the The paper edition of the Selections is his fellow Stalinists heen successful, The writer is Binder no illusions that there would now be in Spain a regime everything would be plain sailing for people who took part, and to liberal and ANARCHY available to readers of FREEDOM thinking people throughout the country, at 5/6post free. equal in barbarity and repression of such an unofficiiu committee of inquiry, elementary liberties to that of Franco’s. as it would presumably meet with little in the relationships between power and BAKUNIN London, April 20. T ony Gibson . truth, between the press and the dis­ Marxism, Freedom and the State 5/- semination of facts. PAUL ELTZRACHER If it had to publish its findings in Freedom Anarchism (Seven Exponents of the WillanyGovernment? the form of a duplicated pamphlet, the Anarchist Philosophy) doth 21/- RSG affair has shown that even this The Anarchist Weekly despised form of publication can be CHARI.ES MARTIN D ear Comrades , Albert Coddington’s attitude to non­ very effective, if the subject matter is FREEDOM is published 40 times Towards a Free Society 2/6 a year, on every Saturday except violence differs from mine fundament­ of sufficient interest. RUDOLF ROCKER It is important that the consequences the last in each month. Nationalism and Culture ally. To me it is a method to be used, SLIPPING! ANARCHY (1/9 or 25 cents post free), doth 21/- to him it is a way of life. While 1 of events such as the clash between the a 32-page journal of anarchist ideas, don’t accept the popular myth that man F IN A N C IA L STATEMENT AT police and the march on Easter Monday is published 12 times a year on the IOHN HEWETSON is by nature a warrior, 1 do believe that APRIL 27th 1963 should be exploited to the full by the 1st of each month. Sexual Freedom for the Young 6d. it is natural for him to defend himself Weeks 16 & 17 libertarian movement, in bringing home IU-Healih, Poverty and the State the fact that the solution of social prob­ doth 2/6 paper 1 /- when threatened or attacked, and one EXPENSES: 17 walks at £70 £1,190 Postal Subscription Rates to FREEDOM baa no right to expect people to suppress INCOME: lems can be best achieved by free, and ANARCHY VOUNE E £ 12 menthl12 / - (U.S. S Canada14 .00) this very fundamental impulse, except Sales & Sub. 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GUTKIND Albert Coddiogion asks, “Will any Hartford: M .S.A .1 i, Rutherford: H , a genuine problem. 2 month* (10 Issues) S/- ($0.75) The Expanding Environment government massacre 100,000 non-violent A.S.* 7/«j Brighton| M. 8 D.* 2/6: Wslvar- The ultimate object of anarchism is (illustrated) boards 8/6______Hampton: J4,.* 2/6; Wolverhampton: social revolution, which will undoubted­ anarchists in a group? What can they ■ j.W.P. 2/6; Billion Air Mail Subscription Rates to even do to fifty 7” J.K.W.* 3/.; lilifon ly be resisted by the state with all the PETER KROPOTKIN W.F. 2/6; London: L. Ip/'i London: J.S FREEDOM only RevolutionaryGovernment 3d. a The answer to the first question is ,H. €/t/8/-s Mer force at its command, but before that I year (40 Issee*) 40/- ($4.00) 7/8; North wood: can be attained, its day to day activities Organised Vengeance Called Justice 2d.] simply “Yes". The answer to the second borough: F.W. Oxford: Anon.* 6/> i is “Put them in jail indefinitely.’’ Bleichley: R.$. 2/6 must involve exposing the uselessness Hounslow: L* 2 /(f of state institutions for any other pur­ Cheques, P.O.* end Money Orders should be Marie-Loaise Berner! Memorial The Nazi government massacred six Wo...rh.mp-toa: made out to FREEDOM PRESS crossed e/c Payee, Committee publications: million Jews, who were fur the most J.K.W.* 2/.; L oid^l pose than protecting those in authority, and addressed to the publishers: Marie-l.ouise Beraeri, 1918-1949: part non-violent, except for a handful M. I 0.* 2/6; W.M. 5/6: London and demonstrating the effectiveness of n-Taa): £1: E Ruth A tribute who fought in the Warsaw Ghetto, and Anon. 5/-: Stockto I-0?''**!1 / V /. cu„ . v. those springing from the free organisa­ FREEDOM PRESS tion of the people. doth 5/- in a few other risings. arlord: A.S.* 7 /.7 t» ndon: A S’ 3/ ’ “ Y 17a MAXWELL ROAD Journey Through Utopia The victims were often heroic. I have F-8-* >0/-. | io (OJL It is in this spirit that the suggestion cloth 16/- paper 7/6 is made, that the Manchester Trades LONDON, S.W.6. ENGLAND reed accounts of them singing their Neither East Nor Weat Pr.vIou.ly 308 I 4 Council, instead of merely calling for Tal: RENO W N 3736. national tongs, comforting their children, paper 7/6 an inquiry into police conduct, should carrying themselves with great dignity 2 9 1963 TO T ALIT Y DATE initiate one. P.H. as they were herded into the wagons that PebllsM d by freedom Press, 17a, Maawefl le a d , L ssies, S.W.4-