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* ON JANUARY 14th, before the great , working class. Many of them ion. Shades of Sydney Street! blow-up about the ’Communist con­ are miners' sons - son of the In the General Strike of 1926, spiracy in the Unions’ the Morning working class. As far as I am troops were called in to protect Star had a streaiirer front-page concerned, if tfye Government em­ blacklegs driving convoys of headline: 'Saboteurs are in Cab­ ploy troops, if necessary I will lorries. The simple function inet. SAVE COUNTRY FROM TORY appeal for them to assist and of troops doing the work them­ WRECKERS'. Inside, in an account .aid the miners. You cannot dig selves is very rare; in 1945 of the same party executive state­ coal with bayonets. My attitude (under a Labour government) ment was the same sentiment. is straightforward. This nation troops worked in the docks un­ 'Communists defend national int­ requires coal. To get coal you loading ships. erest, says John Gollan’ . One need men. And to get men you can understand the necessity far must pay. The day of the cheap It is obvious that the funct­ a patriotic image created for miner is over." Fair enough. ions of guarding property, of the general public but why, in But Mr. McGahey besides back­ maintaining order and protect­ the party organ, should such na­ tracking later on some of this ing blacklegs are the functions tionalist sentiments take pride speech, failed to emphasise of the troops with the ultimate of place, or indeed, seem to be other uses of troops in times deterrent of shooting to scare the policy of the executive? The of\ industrial or civil strife. and to kill. It is, of course, simple answer is: this nation­ necessary to read the Riot Act alism is the policy of the Com­ Full well can working-class first. munist Party. It is as evident historians recall Peterloo (1819) So it was no wonder that in in this as it is in the wildly when soldiers rode into a peace­ 1912 in a climate of industrial anti-Gernan and anti-American ful crowd of Manchester Reform­ unrest, Tom Mann (then a Syndi­ lines pursued by the Party after ers and killed ten, injuring a calist, later a Communist), Fred the war and subsequently. hundred or so. Previously the military had been employed to Crossley, a railwayman, Guy Bow­ Mick McGahey, Communist vice- harass the Luddites. As late man, B.E. and C.E. Buck (the president of the National Union .as 1912 soldiers shot two men printers) were sentenced to var­ of Mineworkers made a speech on during a railway strike at ious terms of imprisonment, up January 27 in which he said, re­ Uannelly; on that occasion the to nine months, for circulating ferring to a probable coal strike, •military were called in to 'keep a leaflet 'DON'T. SHOOT'. An "It may be that they will call extract is: order' by Winston Churchill; 4 in the troops to move the coal, previously and later he called continued on P. 3 Col. 2 but troops are not all anti- in the militarv for this funct- REVOLUTIONARY PATH THE EXECUTIVE of the National porters . Union of Mineworkers now has the authority from the members to The miners' executive say that embark on a national strike. there has to be more money on Rank and .file members have clear­ the table before they are ’will­ ly shown where they stand on the ing to negotiate. Now Mr. Heath, government' s attempt to put following the Pay Board's new re­ wages and collective bargaining port on Relativities, has offered* into a political straitjacket. to set up "straight away" a new All those "tories" and those who review board to examine the min­ say they support the country's ers' pay claim. This board would Family Income Supplement (FIS) is a benefit of up to "democratic traditions" called have the status of a Royal Com­ It is payable to families where— £5 a week. for a ballot qt the beginning of mission, but it would still op­ 4 the total family income is below a certain lc\d and the dispute, have now got their erate within the confines of the # there is at least one child in the family answer. In fact these same government's wages policies. Mr. SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN people were quick to grab at any Heath has in fact got himself tin-pot report of irregularities into a corner. His cabinet is ! especially strikers'children ! in the voting. These people just divided with his Secretary for Employment, Mr. Whitelaw, favour­ wanted the miners to accept. stand but privately their mem­ ing a settlement that would av­ bers like Lord Stokes are obvi­ The government and the miners' oid a strike. However, while ously worried about the effect a executive have fought out on the most Tory backbenchers and party strike would have on their profits. mass media, joined since Christ­ workers favour the government's mas by the T.U.C., a propaganda standing up to the miners there Vhat big business would really war in which each has tried to is a growing feeling among big like to see is co-operation be­ seize the initiative. Each is business that the strike must be tween the TUC, themselves and trying to work out a settlement avoided. The Confederation of the government. The proposed which cannot be called a "sell British Industry has, it is true, ..continued on back page Col. 1 out" by their respective sup­ said that it supports Mr.Heath's

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Sweden, etc. Pat Arrowsmith is presently on the run after refu­ sing to appear in Court at War­ WHIFF SEDITION ? minster to answer a charge of "incitement to disaffection" THE HYSTERICAL reaction from Con­ to break a strike. Of course, he (and other lesser charges) fol­ servative and Labour politicians wouldn't want to overthrow the lowing the distribution of the to the tentative suggestion by Government other than through leaflets last year. Many more Mick McGahey, Communist vice- the ballot-box. Of course! people are needed to continue president of the National of Some Conservative MPs conclud­ this work and to undertake new Mineworkers, that he might "ap­ ed from McGahey's original state­ initiatives. peal to troops to aid the min­ ment that he was contemplating It is clear that the Govern­ ers" if soldiers are sent in to the breath-taking crime of sedi­ ment is preparing for a violent break the miners1 strike under­ tion which sends a shiver of de­ confrontation with the miners lines the importance of the Army light down the spine of every and pther militant groups of in maintaining the status quo. red-blboded revolutionary, but workers. Chief Constables have It also demonstrates the fear the legal experts soon put them been sent a copy of a speech which is inspired in politicians right and decided that what he made by Sir Peter Rawlinson, the at the suggestion that soldiers was contemplating might consti­ Attorney General, last September might be encouraged to stop tute an offence under the Incite­ when he indicated that the Gov­ playing a repressive role. ment to Disaffection Act 1934* ernment expected more "vigorous" Sedition is now generally taken Harold Wilson and the Labour enforcement of laws against "il­ to mean advocating the violent Party leaders who have been try­ legal" picketing. Police dos­ overthrow of the Government but ing to walk the tight-rope of siers have been compiled on mil­ the law is so wide that it could political opportunism with their itants previously involved in and would be used to suppress half-hearted "support" for the the organisation of "flying any kind of opposition to the . miners made it clear that they pickets" and the police are rea­ Government if it felt sufficiently would not allow any state of af­ dy to arrest them on the slight­ threatened. Indeed, the existing fairs which would take power out est pretext. A special control laws of incitement and conspir­ of the hands of the politicians room has been set up at Scotland acy could be used for the wide­ and give people control of their Yard to control the police anti­ spread arrest and detention of own lives. They repudiated Me picket squads which will be all militant opponents of the Gahey's statement which they be­ moved from area to area to con­

lieved "foreshadows an appeal to Government. What the liberal (as trol the "flying pickets". The the forces of the Crown, and opposed to revolutionary) oppon­ Daily Telegraph on 29 January earlier statements seeking to ent of fascism always fails to revealed that local police for­ invoke the strike weapon as a realise is that fascism can est­ ces already have supplies of CS means of changing an elected ablish itself merely by the more gas, riot shields and batons. Government other than through a ruthless use of the existing re­ Recruiting campaigns for special democratic General Election." pressive legislation and legal constables and the TAVR (Terri­ 1 Clearly, McGahey had overstepped apparatus of "democracy". torial Army) have been stepped the mark in view of the Communist Less spectacularly them Mick up. The TAVR would be very use­ Party's policy of trying to ope­ McGahey but on a practical bas­ ful for strike-breaking because rate as a "respectable" left- is, the British Withdrawal from of the large number of transport wing of the Labour Party. He is­ N. Ireland Campaign has been vehicles at its disposal spread sued a hasty statement, spread quietly leafleting soldiers for all over the country. Obviously, all over the front page of the the last 8 months, providing an anti-recruitment campaign 1 Morning Star, explaining that he them with information about pol­ aimed at the TAVR is an urgent had been misunderstood or misrep­ itical asylum for deserters in necessity. e

• 4 ^ k * ^ # resented. Of course, he wouldn't .continued ask soldiers to disobey orders PAGE 2 FREEDOM PRESS BEST FRIENDS are Communists but...continued from P. 1 84b WHITECHAPEL HIGH STREET ’’You are Working men's sons. fractional payments, demarcations, LONDON Ei Phone 01-247 9249 When we go on Strike to Better differentials and inter-union Our lot which is the lot also quarrels have given members the Aldgate East underground station of Your Father, Mothers, Broth­ soft option of delegating rule Whitechapel Art Gallery exit and ers and Sisters, You are called to those more interested - from turn right - Angel Alley next to upon by your Officers tb Murder whatever motive. Wimpy Bar. Us. Don^t do it... Don't you I u : y .... * * ' * * Meanwhile, at higher levels Lessons of the Spanish Revolution know that when you are out of the struggle for power continues. 7. Richards ^cloth £1.50 $4.00 the colours, and become a 'Civy' It would be possible to discover, paper £0.75 $2.00 again, that You, like Us, may be trere anyone interested, an equal • post 15p on strike, and You, like Us, be case for Catholic Action domina­ A B C of Anarchism. Alexander liable to be Murdered by other tion and penetration of the Berkman 25p post 4p soldiers. unions. Nevertheless cases of US 75c post free. ballot-rigging and concealed About Anarchism. What Anarchists "Boys, don’t do it.'Thou dhalt not kill' says the Book. Don't fellow-travelling continue to Believe, How Anarchists Differ... forget that! It does not say smear the history of trade uni­ Nicolas Walter 12jp post 4p 'Unless you have a Uniform on'. ons as they will in any organiz- Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism 0 ation whose ends are supposed to Rudolf Rocker 20p post 4p N o ! Murder is Murder. .Think justify any means. US 65c post free things .out and refuse any longer Thp State : Its Historic Role to Murder your Kindred. Help Us * « * P. Kropotkin 20p post 4p to win back Britain for the However, the Communists did US 65c post free British and the World for the not invent the miners' grievan­ Workers'. ces or hardships and the miners List of other titles including must know, like many unionists, annual vols. Selections from These sentiments, although not that the Communists are not al­ "Freedom" 1954-64, back issues entirely impeccable with their lies entirely to be trusted. The ANARCHY 1961-70 &c. on request religious, chauvinist - and int­ ernationalist - mixture, were pattern is repeated in many uni­ felt by the judge to be an in­ ons as in the N.U.M. of a moder­ laEHSEflotsEEEEEEEEtaEEEEIala citement or inducement to dis­ ate President and a Communist- obedience. 'It was quite legi­ Vice-President, which operates M w o o k s timate to express the view that some check and balance. soldiers should not be employed The miners in particular, are in an industrial dispute,' said a closed community by reason of the judge. But this was another their physical surrounds and are matter. used to being betrayed. In 1921 * * * BOOKSHOP OPEN Tues.-Fri. 2-6 p.m. they were deserted in the 'Triple The speech of Mr. McGahey, Alliance' by the railwayraen and (Thursday to 8.00,p.m.) muted as it was, has been used Saturday 10 a.m. - 4 pm the transport workers; in 1926 as ammunition to attack the pre­ the General Strike, ostensibly Any book not in wtock but in sence of communists in trade launched to’ protect their inter­ print can be supplied, Please unions. It is an undoubted fact ests, frightened the T.U.C* with add postage as in brackets. that communists play a very big its success after nine days and part in the trade union movement left the miners to battle on Women's Rights : A Practical in this country but, for the in­ alone in a lock-out. Guide, Anna Coote and Tess Gill dividual party member it is not £0.60 (9p) done for the motives imputed to And the Communisxs? During ♦Arsenal 2 : Surrealist Subver­ him by those who hate to see a 1942-45 the Communists main­ sion, ed. Franklin Rosemont vigorous working-class movement. tained their support for the £0.95--(9p) Many individual communists are war (and the Second Front) and ♦Anarchism. Jo Labadie 15p (4p) devoted, self-sacrificing, hard­ union claims were swept to one ♦Slaves to Duty. John Badcocfc jr working in the cause of improv­ side. Betteshanger oolliers £0.45 (4p) ing the lot of their fellow- were prosecuted like the Trots­ ♦The F&lse Principle of our j workers through and in the trade kyists who organized the Tyne­ Education. Max Sfirner 35p(4p) union movement and much material side apprentices, and the Com­ ♦The Philosophy- of Egoism. * progress has been made through munists said not a word of cri­ James L. Walker £0.60 (9p) their efforts. ticism. Indeed they denounced Trotskyists and anarchists who ♦State Socialism & Anarchism. At the same time, it can be Benjamin R. Tucker £0.50 (4p). understood from the Party's point opposed the war, or who opposed wartime attacks upon working- ♦No Treason: A Letter to Thomas of view that this is a tactic in F. Bayard, Lysander Spooner a larger strategy. Indeed, just class liberties. £0.50 (4p) looking at Lenin's Left-Wing Com­ .The mineris know full well ♦Neither Victims Nor Execution­ munism: an Infantile Disorder one that the Eastern Communist blpc ers . Albert Camus £0«.50 C4p) realizes that even in the 1920s will scab and the Polish state Rearuth Days : whisper & Shout Lenin was struggling against Par­ has just verified (as an excuse) No. .2 - poems by Dennis Gould ties in the West that believed its coal-supplying contract with £0.25 (3p) that Trade Unions like Parlia­ £he Central Electricity Board. The Fine Tubes Strike. Tony ments were reactionary and had In the same way striking dockers Beck £0.45 (6p) to be persuaded into participa­ in 1945 were asked by the C.P. Housmuns World Peace Diary 1974 ting in orthodox trade union to unload Russian ships. work. Willie Gallacher and dble. page a week, 64pp Int-Dir. The reds may be under the Sylvia Pankhurst came in for par­ of Peace Organisats. £0.50 (4p) •uiners' bed but their chances of ticular reproof for vestiges of y ——— "■■■ —— — , - ■ - ■ ■ ■ ■ - getting in are remote. In fact syndico-anarchist tendencies. ♦denotes title published in USA some humourist political pundits The democratic procedure adopt­ think that the C.P. has been BARGAIN BASEMENT ed by the trade unions made it roused to political extremism easy for resolute hard-working by the rivalry of International Message of a Wise Kabouter, Roel volunteers to take over many of van Duyn on Peter Kropotkin (pub. Socialists and the Workers' Rev­ the functions in the unions. The olutionary Party. Surely the 0 75p) £0.15 (5p) boring union meetings and the a- 0 0 0 miners can't be ^as badly off as pathy of members to the purely that! SEND SAE (9n x 4") for full list political aspects of union work

and the ceaseless quibbles about ^ — 1 f. *• ,•* ( of titles carried 4 * ^ 1 9 V . " I j/ .» 0 PAGE 3 Jack Robinson As with all amateur, and I use the word, EACH OF US has, or believe we have, a sounding kindlily, painters his colours are too brash board of our soc-ie^y. The political meeting, and one has only to compare the camouflage the canteen, the public bar or the factory battle jackets of the soldiers within the ex­ bus. There within that interlocking kaleido­ hibition with their dull greens to accept the scope of the visual and the bocal we formulate our opinions and from that our actions. My obvious faults of so many painters obsessed sounding board is the neurotic and egotistical with the bright colours in their box thereby world of the visual arts for in the leg-work giving the lie to nature, to art and to truth. in search of the ultimate in truth or beauty With Wilde I say there is no morality in art onehas to travel through the complete social and I reject these paintings as indifferent and economic strata that the Town has to offer. works while approving of Miers1 handling of a From Wellington Barracks to the Everyman Cin­ wet road in "Fusiliers in New Lodge" or the ema, from the Physics Building of Queen Mary rare and delicate painting of distant hills College in the Mile End Road to the latest in the top half of "Operation Ashburton", for avant garde gallery among the abandoned ware­ in the day to day living or in one of the many houses of Covent Garden. Major Christopher final confrontations that is the penance of Miers of the Royal Greenjackets has an exhi­ the working class, our enemy will not be Major bition of paintings that he painted from Miers’ indifferent but enthusiastic journey sketches he made while serving in Northern into art but well-dressed middle aged James Ireland. One went, in the fashion of the Bonds waiting to see which way we wander in mode, to inspect them and on entering the our halting search for moral absolutes in the gates of Wellington Barracks one found that matter of human dignity. one had to halt before a table before the * * * * guard room. A pretty Military Policewoman And I pioneer the town for the Town and his was seated at the table and behind her three frau into the bleak brick jungles of the Mile Military Policemen and two or three fashion­ End Road and into the ugly Queen Mary College. ably dressed, middle aged, James Bond types. Those awful corridors recalling the hell of I was asked to lay all the papers I was, as childhood.* Peering into small rooms at earn­ always, carrying onto the table and I spread est young men gazing at an instructor and a out my copy of the Evening Standard, FREEDOM, blackboard full of alien symbols, the room Socialist Worker. Lucian Freud catalogue, with two young men watching dials while a blue Muhammed Ali handout for the fight and the liquid bubbles, spelt out all the horrors of NCCL publication Civil Liberty onto the beize higher learning and there at the end of the cloth covering the table and each and every corridor was Oliver Gollancz's "Variations on one of them was examined individually by the the S-iuare". Gentle paintings that owe more Military Policewoman while I, the three Mili­ tary Policemen and the middle aged James Bonds to Vordemberge-Gildewart% than Mondrian, they watched the whole process with genuine inter­ are what their title states, a minor exercise est. All the papers were then handed back to well executed. me and I was told, politely by the pretty And it ^s there on the rattlee to Phil young Military Policewoman, that I could now Greenwood's landscape prints in the foyer of continue into the barracks to view the paint­ the Everyman Cinema. That and the Classics of ings in an adjacent hut, and turning up the the German Cinema. Greenwood's joyful exter­ collar of my dirty mac that small bit higher, iors as opposed to Teutonic interiors: Caligari, pulling down my trilby that bit lower over the Dietrich, Josef Von and Lang and all them right eye and picking up my papers I walked on shadows man. With Allen Barker's mind-resting conscious of the gaze of six or seven pairs of strips of colours dividing his golden mean now military eyes map reading my back. on display in the Leicester Art Gallery it is Within the hut hung the painting of. Major back to the heartland and Kasmin's new Garage Miers and standing at the table were three gallery at 52 Earlam St., Covent Garden. It Royal Greenjacket other ranks in regulation was the Judy Clark* exhibition that told the battle dress and a fresh set of middle aged Town that Kasmin was back in business. For only James Bond types. But one has viewed exhibi­ he could mount an art exhibition of pieces of tions under more adverse circumstances so with lint stained with blood and pus and a neatly my sheet of paper and my ball point pen I pro­ framed wall piece of used menstruation cloths ceeded to do my duty by the Muse of Truth and but Kasmin did it for he is back in business Beauty only to have a James Bond type walking with a new stable of young colts and old broken behind me from painting “to painting even when backed stallions all eager to toss paint onto I criss-crossed the almost empty hut. But in canvas for a price. Meanwhile one wonders what the name of the absolute I did my duty, formed Judy will do with her exhibits after her clos­ my opinion of the work and walked out of Wel­ ing date. lington Barracks, passed Buckingham Palace and to the ratrace of Victoria. The camera always lies No morality in art But in the end the final accolade is to ex­ hibit in Bond Street and the ultimate honour Christopher Miers' paintings are good visual is an exhibition in one of the State’s galler­ reportage of a situation that he has been phy­ ies. The late Lerfis Carroll, of Alice in Won­ sically and emotionally involved in and their derland, has made it at the National Portrait value is historical and not aesthetic for a~t Gallery with an exhibition of photgraphs of their best they are good Sunday Paintings and various worthy worthies that he studied with out of context would be of slight merit. He qt Christ Church (for the lumpen it is the_ lacks a sense of depth for his foregrounds are college)• They appear to be good solid career too heavy and there is no middle distance, men who have crawled to the top of the educa­ while his solid objects are coloured outlines tional racket of their time but as ever the filled in with paint. In a closed area such camera tells us nothing. Carroll or Cecil as soldiers in a bus depot this can work but Beaton of our own wrist-waving age, the face not in exteriors and especially not in a scene before us is no more than a mindless mask be such as Belfast where the grey working class it fool or wit, mystic or realist, for the terraced houses merge into the rain-misted camera always lies. Drape me in the robes of hills enclosing the town. high office, sit ine in the alley of your % badly painteA figure screams out in mindless choice and the camera will record only that and uncontrollable horror. In the far dist­ 1 * for it cannot analyse. ance are two approaching figures garbed in The Tate Gallery has managed to carry the conventional middle class black and beyond Coffee Table Art Book one step further by them the earth and sky is torn into a whirl­ mounting "Landscape in Britain c .1750-1850”. pool of crude and unrelated colours. It is a It was the period when the townbound artist great emotional painting of a felt emotion and was discovering the countryside and the new then one continues up and into the gallery and wealthy middle class were taking a roman­ where Lucian Freud is having his major exhi­ tic interest in the birds and the bees. For bition . all that however one feels that those who When one views Freud's work one realises dreamed up the exhibition were hard put for that he is the finer artist of the two for in material for the 17th Century Rosa, Rembrandt, the context of these two exhibitions Munch be­ Claude and Rubens fill wall space. But as a comes too theatrical. Freud's work has always Readers Digest introduction to Instant Art the been part of my gallery of the mind for s exhibition is enjoyable. art gives a beauty and an understanding to the dispossessed of this world. He appears to me Honouring the defeated to speak for the middle class who never made it within their own society. And their gentle Everyone should, nay has, a gallery of the faces are forever lost in a hopeless melan­ mind and one or more remembered paintings choly for entering the broken doors of N.W.l form part of one’s emotional living. Of my* and Paddington are we the barbarians with our generation it could be Picasso’s "Guernica”, dirty macs, our union cards and our cycle a primitive by Kit Wood or a seascape by an clips. Freud’s 1950's painting of women gives unknown hand but always there were the German them a raddled beauty that few other painters painters and the works of Edvard Munch, now could achieve and in his handling of paint the on massive display at the Hayward. Munch died face appears to be of colour stained marble. in 1944 and despite Kenneth Clark he was not There is John Minton who committed suicide "the greatest painter in northern Europe” but for he was of that holy battalion who can a tormented artist who, in a few canvases, never survive. The Mellys, the Connollys, mirrored the misery of his own middle class the Briens will flow with the tide of aging closed society and his own neurotic anguish. fashion with their small gifts still intact Out of his own wealth of work the one painting but Freud's people do not possess the coin and that I feel will survive will be "The Scream", Freud does them great honour. Arthur Moyse. painted in 1893 when a single isolated and

but t o #the courageous struggle that the Spanish anarchists have SPANISH RESISTANCE waged since 1936 against the PRESS FUND harsh and inhuman reality of FILM As announced in FREEDOM Franco's fascism. last week, we are org­ Contributions 24 - SHOW anising a filmshow on LET'S DEDICATE THIS DAI TO SALVADOR PUIG ANTICH (militant HAMBURG: P.B. £1.45; BIRMINGHAM: behalf of our Spanish Resistance member of M.I.L. sentenced to G.N.O. £1.75; BLACKBURN: D.C. 25p Fund. death by the Tribunal del Orden TODMORDEN: G.B. £1.50; NEW YORK: On Sunday, 17 Feburary at 7 p,m Publico) and other comrades, R.J.P. £1; DUBLIN: New Earth 15p; and in cooperation with the CENT­ victims of international fascism LONDON WCl: L.S. £1; LONDON W.ll RO IBERICO, our weekly paper will in Spain. J.E.’ £1;- WOLVERHAMPTON: J.L. 55p; sponsor the projection of the J.K.W. lOp; LONDON Nl: S.B. 75p; film "Dawn Over Spain”, which was The International Libertarian Cerrtre/Centro Iberico will open LONDON NW4: N.W. 75p; LOS GATOS, made in 1936 by the Cinema+o- its doers at 6.30 p.m. and the Cal.: A.G. £1; MADISON, Wis.: raphic Collective of the C.N.T. film-show will start at 7 p.m. P.P. 15p; SHEFFIELD: P.L. 75p; .Confederacion Nacional del Tra- TAUNTON: D.P. £2; SHEFFIELD: l sharp. The address is: 83A bajo, the anarchist syndicate) Haverstock Hill, London NW3 R.A.D. £1.75 TOTAL: £16.05 Our comrade Miguel Garcia, from (tube Chalk Farm or Belsize Pk) Prev. acknowledged : £285.45 the Centro Iberico, will intro­ buses 31 & 68) side entrance in TOTAL TO DATE: £301.50 duce this film. (Miguel Garcia Steele's Road (second door). has written a book , Franco's Prisoner, on sale at Freedom Meanwhile keep sending in dona­ IN BRIEF Bookshop £ tions to the Spanish Resistance Fund (c/o T.P. & P.T. at Freedom, A man condemned to death in After the show, we shall col­ 84B Whitechapel High Street, 1955 has served 16 years in a lect donations (anything from London, E.l.) death-row cell; he is now 'eli­ Spence tc £ million) and the pr, Claude. gible for parole and the proceeds will be divided between Supreme Court has ruled that our SPANISH RESISTANCE FUND and capital punishment was uncons­ the BLACK CROSS'S POLITICAL PRI­ titutional. The Jamaican Chief SONERS' FUND. So, donate gener­ Justice has ordered that a boy ously. SUBSCRIBE to FREEDOM claiming to be seventeen should 1974 RATES Refreshments and snacks will be be X-rayed in an attempt to served at modest prices. We think Inland. & Surface Mail Abroad verify his age, since he has this film-show will be an excel­ Ohe year £3.25 $8.10 been, found guilty of murder and Six months £1.62$ $4.05 no one under the age of 18 can lent occasion to socialise, to Three months 85p $2.10 Meet new faces and old friends, be sentenced to death in and moje particularly, to show Jamaica. An authority at the oor_solidarity with the Spanish Europe 1 year £4.00 Institutekof Child Health in N.Africa & M.E. 1 year £4.25 London says that such a test comrades i-h struggle against The Americas 1 year$l3.00 fascism and with those who have India, Africa ftc. 1 year £4.75 was virtually useless. lost their liberty in this fight. Australasia, *** t Japan &c 1 year £5.25 Please Come along. Bring your (six months pro rata) A survey carried cut during the 2 copies £5.85 ($14.00) per yr. postal strike showed that few your friends with you. EVERYBODY IS WELCOME. Let’s ded­ BULK: 10 copies 40p regarded social security pay­ ments as a decisive factor in icate this Sunday, not to an in- PLEASE RENEW SOON if your sub­ % scription has expired. their willingness to strike. le god or any other dogma, • _ « » change. Before such action can be taken, however, the workers' movement must be ready to take over, have the knowledge and know-how to be able to run in­ dustry, etc., immediately. 0 • but only when workers in this ACCORDING TO Gerard Kemp, the From the articles we have country take power into their Daily Telegraph’s Conservative read in Anarchv. Freedom. Lib­ own hands, to freely shape, as Specialist in British Revolu­ ertarian Struggle, etc., Mark they wish, without outside tionary Affairs, "the Communist and I think that the revolution­ interference, be it Capitalist Party is leading the extremists ary movements are talking more or Marxist, their own lives and in their attempt to penetrate positively with far more sense their o..n destinies. the Trade Unions. manipulate in­ than a few*years back. The dustrial power and overthrow the Mr, Kemp knows it as well as Flower Power period swept us democratic..." It appears, ac­ we do (but the authoritarian all along for a while. cording to the same exper.t, that Left just won’t listen): for at this stage of the working his capitalist paymasters to It has been an education wor­ class struggle revolutionary function according to the Parli­ king in a German factory. The "game11, the classification table amentary book, their bourgeois unions are so pathetically of the "extremist" contenders democracy NEEDS a ruling party weak. Managers intimidate wor­ reads as follows: and an opposing party (Tories kers, especially foreigners, Labour) as a fish needs water to treating them like slaves. My 1 - Communist Party (pro-Moscow) manager discourages talking, 2 - Revolutionary Workers Party survive, and more so the inouches a merde (the extremists) in ord­ joking and going to the toilet. (Trots) I've had several clashes with 3.- International Socialists er to apply, from time to time, small doses of "democracy of him. After six months at Tele- (Tr