Double Cross Johnson Can Hold out Against This Type of Pressure Is Anybody’S Guess, His Policy Will Be Coloured by the Forthcoming Elections in the States

Double Cross Johnson can hold out against this type of pressure is anybody’s guess, his policy will be coloured by the forthcoming elections in the States. Mr. Jacob Javits, Republican Senator from New York, has put forward a programme for elections in South Vietnam which accepts (PONFUSION REIGNS jn South choices—get to hell out of the place, the fact that communists and ■ Vietnam whilst wee vultures take sole charge, find another pup neutralists could be elected. Isn’t circle over the body °3tHis war torn MAY 28 1966 Vol 27 No 17 pet, or continue to back Ky. None this where we came in? Wasn’t country. I of these choices is easy, the drop this one of the original proposals Ky, the S. Vietnam premier, and ping of Ky Would probably be the of the Geneva Agreement? his Catholic supporters on the one most expedient. Taking sole charge A very interesting report appeared hand, the Americans and the Bud or backing Ky would have them in P.N, 20.5.66 by Bill Wingell on dhists on the other, all attempting fighting the very people they have the May Day demonstrations in to gain or regain the reins of power. come to protect. Saigon, which demanded an end to OPPOSE FRENCH The Americans are doing their Withdrawing support from Ky the war in Vietnam. The Vietnam utmost not to 'getinvolved in the means a lot of backstage work, a Labour Federation sponsored the civil war within the civil war, but potential leader must have certain march and their President, Le Van it is only their presence which keeps qualifications, support of the Catho Thot, read a letter in English ad Ky in office. lics and Buddhists and a declared dressed to American workers noting It was only a mattelof weeks ago intention to continue the fight that the weapons which were NUCLEAR when the Buddhists ii|Hu6 and Da against the Viet Cong. If such a destroying Vietnam . are made TESTS! Nang forced Ky to accept the idea of leader could meet the demands of by your hands, our own friends* elections. Obviouslyhad other the Buddhists in terms of a type of hands’. Thot and other leaders have rpHE FRENCH GOVERNMENT has explosion contains mainly Strontium 90 plans in mind when he acceded to civilian government then the war been arrested. officially announced its impending winch has a half life of 28, years, it the demands,■ and | last Saturday, could go on. After all it is an The important point is that indus series of nuclear Weapon tests in the comes down in rainfall and is absorbed 14.5.66, he exposed his hand. By ideal training ground for troops and trial workers and peasants have be Pacific, The Times of May 18 contains by plants and animals and eventually flying troops into Da Nang he hoped the experimenting of new weapons. come vocal in their opposition to the following statement: human beings; it causes leukaemia, bone to crush the rebelliojionce and for The nut-cases in the American the war. It is also reported that a FRANCE WARNS SHIPPING OF cancer and cancer of the blood; Caesium all, thus avoiding the holding of Government are prepared to dive number of unions were preparing to NUCLEAR TESTS 37, half life 30 years which causes elections. According " to reports, in head first. Senator John Stennis, strike if the Ky regime returned no France has formally given notice to various types of cancer and mutations in shipping and aircraft of her intention the germ plasm of the reproductive even the American ||had no prior head of the Senate Preparedness answer to their demands. of carrying out nuclear tests on Mururoa, organs which have deleterious effects knowledge of this double-cross. De Committee, stated ‘it may be neces Industrial workers in America an island 750 miles southeast of Tahiti. mainly for future generations; Carbon liberate stabbing in the back is per sary to take other steps to sharpen could stop the war in Vietnam No date is given for the tests, generally 14 produced in large quantities in so; missible during war provided you the war to save American lives. It tomorrow, Le Van Thot made the expected in the next month or two, but a called clean bombs has a half life 5,600 don’t get caught foriall to see. On will also require an end to the point, ‘Whether the war ended soon specific warning is to be given a few years—the most important effect is geneti- this occasion it is jthe Americans political and policy restrictions thator late would depend to a great ex days before they are due to be carried cal, and will appear in future generations. who have been exposed, their pup have prevented us from waging wartent on your (the American workers) out, for the moment France has simply (The Times of May 18 also contained pet leader agreeingJto elections in with maximum military effectiveness support and struggle’. Appealing to defined the danger area. This consists a short report to the effect that radio active dust from China has reached the front of the world and at the same (my italics). We must strike both politicians won’t help — ‘direct essentially of a circle around Mururoa the source of Viet Cong and North and an arc stretching out to the east from atmosphere of Rome, trebling its radio time attempting a dduble-cross. action’ will. the island. The circle is given as having active content-—this is from the Chinese The Americans now have four Vietnamese supplies.’ How long Bill Christopher. a radius of 120 sea miles for ships and bomb test about eight days previously.) 200 sea miles for aircraft but the arc is Statements by scientists on the forth the same for both shipping and aircraft coming tests are either lacking or have TIATANY YEARS AGO*the Communist announced that, ‘Any Catholic not sup with an angle of 52 degrees and a radius not been reported, but in the five or six A-■ Party cornered thKnarket on the porting the aims of the revolutionists is of 400 sea miles. years prior to the Test Ban Treaty of AnnuaUUnion SquarJvfay Day Rally. living in a state of mortal sin*. This is THE DANGER FROM FALL-OUT JFora ^ y |u l^ ., this ,3ear there were ■ the sort of thing which iconoclasts might The French Government has tried to In January “1958 there was a petition dangerous intTmatioBf^oF co-existence: find-iconoclastic-- Although fully cogni signed by 9,000 leading scientists from it appeared that af full spectrum of the M u y J t a y zant of the CP chicanery before the quell opposition by assurances that the scientists in control of the tests will more than 40 countries, including 36 left might be permitted to participate. rally, and -not at all happy about it, time them to synchronise with weather Nobel Prizewinners and 35 Fellows of the However the preliminary arrangements Cornell did an excellent job. On the conditions that will ensure that fall-out (British) Royal Society, supporting the rapidly degenerated into the usual other hand another of the honest will fail in uninhabited parts of the demand for an international agreement machinations and the Communist'mono speakers, Staughton Lynd, didn’t know Pacific. Australian and New Zealand to stop nuclear tests. In August 1958 poly was preserved. The rally was anything at all of the preliminary the UN Scientific Committee’s report scheduled for Saturday, April 30, and in Union manoeuvring. Later when he was in journalists were shown a computer in Mururoa which can forecast wind compiled by official representatives of 15 its announced leitmotif was International formed he commented that he wished direction. countries stated: Solidarity for Peace and Freedom. In he had known of it beforehand. His ‘The committee concludes that all steps that the New York Workshop in Non speech acknowledged that the Hay market designed to minimise radiation will act violence agrees wholeheartedly with these Martyrs were anarchists, whereas the to the benefit of human health. Such concepts, it was felt! that this might well official demonstration leaflet described PICKETING steps include the avoidance of unneces be an appropriate occasion for a Poetry them as ‘the leaders of the general strike*. sary exposure resulting from medical, Square Reading at the Soviet Mission to the Shades of Orwell. 9.30 am— 12.30 pm industrial and other procedure on the one United Nations to protest the imprison Meanwhile several of' us were giving hand and the cessation of the contamina ment of Andrei Sinyavski and Yuli Daniel. National Renaissance Party—another out leaflets inviting people to attend the JUNE 18 tion of the environment on the other.* Hence WIN planned to convene after triple misnomer. These worthies were Poetry Protest at the Soviet Mission. Ours FRENCH TOURIST OFFICE In September, 1958, the third interna the rally, walk some 50 blocks from marching in full uniform: gray shirts, was far and away the most unpopular tional Pugwash scientific conference at Union Square to the Mission, and tell black armbands cum lightning bolt, Sam leaflet in the Square as the crumpled tended by scientists of outstanding them where it’s at. Browne belts, black breeches, and jack- copies scattered all over the area could But such assurances carry little weight achievement including 20 from the USA, My own May Day Rally began rather boots. Lest someone misinterpret their attest. I picked up one copy from the with scientists and people who remember 10 from the USSR and seven from inauspiciously with a cab driver who position they were chanting, ‘Back to ground and gave it back to the func similar assurances by the American Britain issued the following statement had never heard of Union Square. A the Ghetto! Back to the Ghetto!*, and tionary who had just discarded it. ‘Sir, Government before the H-bomb test \ . . scientists from many countries have Cuban refugee, he had spent a number carrying signs which averred, ‘Demo you dropped this’, I offered cheerfully. which preceded the incident of the ‘Lucky been able to arrive at a unanimous of years in the US Army. Well in cracy Breeds Communism*; ‘Equality Is He scowled silently. ‘But littering is Dragon* when a number of Japanese agreement. Their conclusion confirms advance of the Bay of Pigs he had been Communism’; and ‘Do Away With: against the law,’ I continued brightly. fishermen supposed to be well clear of that the bomb tests produce a definite subjected to ‘six months special training Zionism, Communism, Democracy, ‘Certainly you don’t favour civil dis the danger area were smothered in hazard and that they will claim a to fight Castro’, but missed out on the Crime*. [Note the order.] The main obedience.’ He stormed away fuming, clouds of radioactive dust. Computers significant number of victims in present fiasco because regular army units weren’t phalanx of rightists had closed ranks ‘This is just what we need.* Another have been improved in the last decade, and following generations.* used. behind such subtleties as, ‘Smash Com devotee of peace and freedom was all but the most perfect computer cannot In 1962 the United Nations Scientific At Union Square the atmosphere munism*; ‘Victory Over the Red Beast*; but frothing at the mouth as he in predict without accurate data, and accu Committee issued a report on the effects seemed rather festive. In the interests ‘Bomb Hanoi*; ‘Stop Red Fascism*; formed us that, ‘All those poets should rate data on meteorology is not yet of radiation which contained the of peace Paul Robeson’s voice was ‘Heave Ho—Drop It*; and that star of a be shot. They should be shot* possible to obtain. following: booming, ‘Glory, Glory, Hallelujah’, thousand counter-demonstrations, ‘Better Two of us decided that the reception In any case, the fall-out immediately ‘As there are no effective measures to over the PA system, with a martial music Dead Than Red*. One gentleman, evi might not be appreciably worse across following the explosion is only of theprevent the occurrence of harmful effects accompaniment straight out of John dently representing a faction of Procter the street so we approached the main heavier particles, others take weeks to of global radioactive contamination from Philip Sousa. People were scurrying and Gamble deviationists, had a big group of ultra-rightists. I hailed one come down and will be dispersed all over nuclear explosion, the achievement of hither and yon purveying leaflets, publi sign reading, ‘Take A Bath*. heavy-set fellow who has counter- the world, quite apart from the radio final cessation of nuclear tests would cations, flowers, and badges (Lynd not The May Day Rally got under way picketed me so much I felt we were old active material carried in the sea which benefit present and future generations of Lyndon was a great favourite). One officially with the singing of ‘America friends. He didn’t hear me but another will be taken long distances by currents mankind.* twelve-year-old functionary was handing the Beautiful*. Apparently it wasn’t a man came over so we gave him some and will poison fish vast distances from THE DANGER TO PEACE out curds containing *a cordial invitation put-on because they repeated it. Mean leaflets and explained that we would be the site of the explosion. Besides endangering the lives and to visit and browse* at the Jefferson while across the street ‘small groups of protesting at the Soviet Mission after The ‘global* fall-out from a nuclear health of living organisms all over the Book Shop. ‘Ten per cent discount on rightist extremists’ booed like crazy. In wards. At first he was suspicious, but world in present and in future genera all purchases $2 and over with this card situations like this, one is entitled to a as the text got through to him, he began tions and especially of the Pacific only!’ A blind man in his late twenties certain amount of perplexity. The first announcing, ‘This is valid! This is valid/ islanders who are peculiarly helpless was giving out a somewhat un-nonviolent speaker began, whereupon some tear gas and gave them out to his comrades. against the French authorities in this leaflet headed, ‘LB Hitler & Co. (puppets was either thrown or planted among the Then he turned back to us with a drama spectators. Was the NRP trying to tell tic, ‘We’ll be there.’ By this time my situation, a resumption of nuclear testing of free world capitalism) vs. AH the old heavy-set friend had noticed us and by any power, including China, will make People of Vietnam.* On all sides could us something? ANARCHY 63 further testing by other countries more be heard the intriguing non sequitur, For the most part the speakers seemed had gloweringly accepted some leaflets which he too was passing around. likely and, if nothing is done to dis ‘Peace, Jobs, and Freedom—Read The to be a procession of Communist Party hacks, which is probably better than Never one to rest on his laurels my (DELAYED BY CENSORSHIP) courage this trend, it will give encourage Worker.* A young lady from the Pro companion had already launched into a ment and excuse to various other gressive Labor Movement, a misnomer being a Democratic or Republican Party hack, but a hack is a hack is a hack even pitch for anarchism. (During the course IS ABOUT countries to develop their own nuclear in triplicate, was being accosted by a of that afternoon I saw him try to con weapons thus bringing war by accident newsman thrusting | microphone into if he pins a little red ribbon on his lapel on April 30 for May Day. I was grate vert three Nazis, one Zionist, two cops, or otherwise even closer than it is today. her face. ‘Tell me who you are and and possibly six or seven Stalinists. It’s VOLUNTARY In a few years* time technological and what you represent T She got off to a ful to one gentleman for speaking in Spanish, a language with which I am one thing to be optimistic, but this is scientific advance will have made the decisive start, ‘Well* I don’t want to ridiculous!!!) Thereupon another production of nuclear weapons so cheap give my name. . • I totally unfamiliar; also the Bread and Puppet Theatre offered a diversion. rightist began screaming apoplectically SERVITUDE and easy that almost any country, or Across 16th Street was a phenomenon for the police to get us out of there. powerful and wealthy group within a One of the genuine speakers, Tom which the New York Times later de Cornell, offered a curious item: Camillo As we were being moved away we were ANARCHY is Published by country, will be able to arm itself with scribed as ‘small groups of rightist followed by a Jewish rightist who was these weapons of mass destruction. Torres, a priest who had joined the Freedom Press at 2s. extremists*. The smaller contingent, guerrilla forces in Columbia, once Continued on peg# 1 on the first Saturday of every month A.V. about ten in number, comprised the m H E RECOVERY from depression assumption that the majority wooftd • became apparent in 1936. Unem come to it by exploring the limiteof ployment dropped to 11 million, and the error, by finding that nothing else would following year to under 1* million. work. That part was certainly true. Terrible as these figures are, they repre MY NINETEEN-THIRTIES - 3 There was no chicanery, no sort of sented a return to somewhere near fraud or humbug which did not have books? normality. Moreover, because of in its appeal to the ‘drowned and jettisoned creasing trade activity and a boom in were mixed. Without doubt, there was and raze cities in its sweep, spread germs, men’ (Alex Comfort's phrase). building, the earnings of employed widespread svmpathy for the Spanish or realize any of a dozen horrors. What was learned is possibly another We can supply workers rose. government, ^he insurrection was (so There was no enthusiasm or by-jingo- matter. A partial reason for the decline Unemployment focused now on the the feeling ^ an attack on the regime if-we-do in these anticipations. One hot of the socialist movement was this belief ‘distressed areas'—South Wales, the min the people had wanted; and Franco’s night in the summer of 1939, perhaps that the working class would learn from any book in print ing and shipbuilding north, Scotland. allies were themselves figures of dictator a month before the war began, I went experience: it was not envisaged that In these parts, there was no cyclic ship and oppression. to an East London cinema to see All the ruling class might learn even more. recovery: the out-of-work figures re But the pjtcp was queered for proper Quiet on the Western Front. When the The fine shades of feeling about political NEW BOOKS mained at more than half, in some places perception 0f what was happening in scene came where the soldiers sit talking matters, the debates over ends and means, three-quarters of the population. There Spain by the Communists' seeing it as about war and one says to put all the were submerged altogether by the Bomb The Birmingham Trades Council were other regions where there was their own crusade. On one hand it rulers in a field and let them fight it out, in 1945. The common view of 1936 that 1866-1966 J. Corbett 30/- work, but at pay incompatible with emerged overtones of boy-scout the cinema was filled with cheering and to attack a democratically elected govern Simone Weil; a Sketch for a Portrait subsistence. Farm workers, for instance, adventure—the blockade-running, the applause. Nor was there a great change ment was wrong has been set aside Richard Rees 30/- lived on 30 shillings a week or less. splendid young Leftist men going and of mood when the war started. Most now: power is all that matters. REPRINTS AND CHEAP EDITIONS But for the workers in large towns, the dying, the palpable makings of For people’s feeling was of having been led However, tough affirmations produce •Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck 25/- industrial operatives and tradesmen and Whom the Bell Tolls and its film-script into it by governments which were either tough denials. The theory of capitalism's Sweet Thursday John Steinbeck 21/- clerks, stability had returned. If it was On the other, a bargaining counter be cynical or incompetent. The passion collapse was favoured in the 1930's pre Our Lady of the Flowers Jean Genet 7/6 only the stability of bread-and-marge tween military powers from outside and purposefulness had to be whipped-up cisely because, for all the political Auschwitz in England and quiet desperation, it was enough. Spain. And between the two, it was not by the Churchill government. ferment, there was no prospect of the Mavis M. Hill and I. N. Williams 3/6 And what D. H. Lawrence called ‘the perceived that the only thing which The 1930's resumed, briefly, in 1945. system being ended by any other means. Diary V. Nijinsky 5/- new money pleasures' began seeping mattered had been the first casualty. The landslide election of the Labour The processionists, the revolutionary (meretriciously, second-handedly: but The fear of war dominated the last government was their climax, the expres poets and progressives were about as they weren't using value-judgements) to dangerous to authority as a pantomime SECONDHAND years of the i930's. Its most specific sion of a conviction that the old gangs, the working class. The radio; new form was the fear of bombs and poison old tricks and bad times were to be run lion to its audience. The resistance to Essays and Poems, Thomas Davis 6 /6 ; diversions like speedways and ice-hockey; gas: newspapers had shown pictures of out of every town. And then they ended it today is harder altogether. I don't Back into Power: a Report on the New cheap furniture and 50-shilling suits, the effects of bombing in Spain, the not with a bang, because that happened think the war-resister of this generation Germany (1955), Alistair Home 6 /-; with hire-purchase becoming respectable; Italians had used mustard gas in in 1945 too, but with the whimpers of is going to stand before a tribunal argu Selected Works of Oscar Wilde, (ed.) even family motor-cars. Abyssinia. In 1938 everyone was fitted austerity, asperity and disappointment. ing philosophy and ethics. He will Richard Aldington 10/-; Tomorrow is It was against this background that and issued with a gas mask. A recur Looking back at it all, what does one instead, as he is already doing, raise his Already Here, Robert Jungk 5/-; Once a the great eruptions of the late ’thirties rent rumour, sometimes written up in think? One of the ’thirties most per fingers in the face of power: instead of Grand Duke, Grand Duke Alexander of took place—Spain, Munich, and the nebulous terms in the Sunday papers, sistent ideas was that of ‘the solution', waiting, as they used to say, for the Russia 7/6; Grey Eminence, Aldous Hux declaration of war. Moods had altered was of a ‘death ray’. In its various a cataclysmic political stroke which revolutionary situation, say it is here ley 5/—; The Political Madhouse in now, resentments died as they do. versions it was a kind of miles-Iong would abolish all the problems and let already. America and Nearer Home, Bernard Feelings towards the Spanish Civil War searchlight that could destroy populations the sunshine in. Along with it went the R.B. Shaw (unhinged) 2/6; The Trial of Jozsef Grosz and His Accomplices, Budapest LETTERS 1951 (patched-up) 5/-; The October rkA V ID SYLVESTER, Pope of the for this is the world of the innocent eye. Revolution, Josef Stalin (besmirched and London art scene, publicly declared This is not Dubuffet's vision of erotic We’re Only Human-1 tattered) 2/6; Ten Days that Shook the his horror and sense of emotional be lavatory graffito formed from the dank World, John Reed (slightly soiled and wilderment when, in. 1947, he was first and fetid walls of misery yet both exhi Dear Editor, Round the Leaving politics aside for the moment stained) 4/-; A Plan for Democratic shown the paintings of the French artist bitions are the works of sophisticated Britain, G. D. H. Cole (washed out) Jean Dubuffet He wrote that Dubuffet’s adults knowledgeable of the culture of I demand an absolute and unqualified 3/—; National Life and Character, paintings must surely be the work of their age and both people, in their retraction of the vicious and lying per Charles H. Pearson 4/-; How Did the a. mad amateur or a cynical^ try-on fashion, are catering to the needs of a sonal attack on me in F reedom (l4.5.66), Satellites Happen? A Student of Affairs directed at the art snobs and he described Galleries literate middle class minority. What I both from you and from Robert Barl- 4/-; Know Thy Body, “Medicus” 3/-; these canvases as the work of a man find disturbing about the work of these trop. I was not present at the meeting This England, F. J. Gould 3/-; The asking two hundred guineas for flinging glorious medieval essay in abstract art. two artists is that their very meaningless in Conway Hall on Easter Sunday. Changing Village, F. G. Thomas 3/—; a . chamber-pot in the public’s face. Jean Dubuffet is now officially described ness is accepted without question. Such As an ex-member of the Socialist Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes 2/6; Lectures Fighting words from the Church Mili as ‘THE GREATEST LIVING FRENCH is the status of these two people within Party of Great Britain Robert Barltrop and Essays, Thomas H. Huxley 3/—; The tant (courtesy of the Sunday Times) but PAINTER so all we can now offer is their society that no psychiatrist would knows full well what is our procedure Testament of Joad, C. E. M. Joad 3/-. now Sylvester has capitulated and is a sad wave of the hand as, with a glass dare to read anything into these paintings with regard to debates. If he is pre bending the knee with the rest of the of sherry in one hand and a cheque book beyond what the catalogue deems to tell pared to debate, on behalf of the Anar faithful. in the other, Dubuffet takes his place in them. chist Federation, with a delegated speaker I have no quarrel with this, for this week's pantheon alongside the Yet when any similar type of work, of the Socialist Party, then I am pre Freedom Bookshop Sylvester as a critic is a sincere and Rolling Stones tnd Muhammad Ali. by a child or by a prisoner oLthe State, pared to pass his challenge on to our (Open 2 p.m.—5.30 pjn. daily; honest journeyman, but I must object For those is ' placed before the psychiatrist,' "a Propaganda Committee. 10 a.m.—1 pan. Thursdays; when Sylvester describes his reactions to abstract and reality there is the work of meaningless farago of high-flown non Highgate, N.6 A. BuiCK. 10 a.m.—5 pan. Saturdays). Dubuffet’s work as the standard reaction. Keith Grant at the New Art Centre at sense is fashioned around it. I have in We regret the mistaken identity.—Eds. It was in these columns that Dubuffet’s 41 Sloane Street, j-S.W.l. Awarded an mind the works of Donald Hume who is, 17a MAXWELL ROAD work was praised when it was shown Icelandic Government Scholarship in at the moment, serving out a life sentence in the London galleries and it was praised 1962, Grant has recorded the volcanic in Regensdorf Prison for the murder of We’re Only Human -2 FULHAM SW6 Tel: REN 3736 for the very reason that most of the eruption that boiled into the island of a taxi driver. Hume, who has been The Editors, critics of the day condemned it, in that Surtsey in the Icelandic seas. His colours responsible for two murders and various Allow me to make a few remarks on it was work of brilliant craftsmanship have the harsh primitive strength of the assaults, is an intelligent man. He is the Bari trap's letter [Freedom (14.5.66)] con that rejected the bright Mediterranean, English painter fidward Burra yet these author of at least one book but it is as cerning the Easter Sunday meeting at FREEDOM PRESS American west coast play of bright fragmented rock forms, in their fashion, a painter that he forms part of the Conway Hall. colours, and it was condemned, in these have the apocatastasistic grandeur of trinity of Dubuffet, Cowles and Hume, 1. The person who, at ‘three minutes PUBLICATIONS columns, because it offered the bon ton William Blake, hymning not God but for his paintings have the same naive to ten', injected some socialist ideas a sterilised and private window onto the nature. Painted upon canvases seg innocence, the same obsession for bright into the meeting was not Adam SELECTIONS FROM ‘FREEDOM' public sewer. mented like unto a Cinerama screen or colours and the same inability to merge Buick, who was not, as far as I Vol 2 1952: Postscript to Posterity The lesson is there, and these literary with the black ringed veins of the his parts into the whole. Yet these are know, at the meeting. Vol 3 1953: Colonialism on Trial critics of the visual arts will not learn bomber’s camera’s eye superimposed but the faults of the untrained painter 2. As I was sitting next to the speaker, Vol 4 1954; Living on a Volcano it, and that is that in the final analysis upon the canvas, these paintings are a as Dubuffet so clearly demonstrates in I know why he did not speak until Vol 5 1955: The Immoral Moralists only the work of the supreme craftsman declaration of one man’s love for the his pastiches of lavatory graffiti. Hume’s near the end of the meeting. The Vol 6 1956: Oil and Troubled Water* can survive and all else is but the untrampled untravelled area that he has painting The End of the Mermaid would, Vol 7 1957: Year One—Sputnik Era reasons were twofold: Firstly, a ephemeral distraction of a pleasing pass sought to call his own. if painted by a man of Dali's standing, little less than half an hour was left Vol 8 1958: Socialism in a Wheelchair While Grant’s work, despite its talent, Vol 9 1959: Print, Press & Public ing moment. Dubuffet’s talent as a have been accepted as a work in the at the end of the meeting for both Vol 10 1960: The Tragedy of Africa painter lies in his ability to create surface must of necessity have a minority appeal, master's more playful genre, while questions and discussion, Scarcely Vol 11 1961: The People in the Street textures and his failure as an artist lies the works of Fleur Cowles at the Hume’s Pharisees Mocking Crucifixion sufficient, to say the least! Vol 12 1962: Pilkington v. Beeching in his inability to utilise his limited Grosvenor Gallery at 28 Davies Street, could find its place among the clutter of Secondly, although he was one Vol 13 1963: Forces of Law and Order talent. Judge him alongside the work of W.l, has the universal appeal of a Disney any Catholic church as a work of sincere of the first to signify that he wished Each volume: paper 7/6 cloth 10/6 16th century men such as Sassoferrato colour film. They have the sweet inno but primitive mysticism. But Hume is to speak, he.was ignored until near The paper edition of the Selections it and examine the delineation of the cence of childhood for this is the bright a convicted murderer and these very the end of the meeting. available to readers of FREEDOM Madonna’s shawl or de Bray’s handling and cluttered world of the children’s paintings are now the playthings of the 3. The Socialist Party of Great Britain yt 5/6 post free. of the collar in his Portrait of a Lady comic and the petrol advertisement. It psychiatrists of the Swiss State Prisons has no ‘prominent’ members, as Resting. Patcher’s golden scored back is a world without depth, as sentimental who will, working from hindsight, see VERNON RICHARDS Barltrop should well know; all ground for his Virgin and Child, or as a week old kitten and as brash and in these bright colours and crude figures members are on an equal footing. Malatesta: His Life and Ideas Crivelli’s Demidoff Altarpiece, wherein as gay as a whore’s lipstick. Cuddly the metaphysical worms of madness. cloth 21/-; paper 10/6 . These are the main inaccuracies in the embossed background and fore tigers and deathless scarlet flowers, blue But if these paintings are the eye of Bari trap's letter. There were more. £. MALATESTA ground, walls and robes turn each indi birds and paper flat balloons live out madness, then barricade Bond Street, Be accurate Barltrop! Anarchy Paper 1/- vidual figure into a creature of secondary their static lives within the fixed length for I have1 heard Lear weeping. Yours for Socialism, importance yet unites them all in this and breadth of Fleur Cowles’s canvases Arthur Moyse . Aberystwyth Barry Wilkins . PROUDHON What is Property? cloth 42/- LEWISHAM, LONDON, S.E.13. 61b Granville ALEXANDER BERKMAN Park. Next meeting, Thursday, May 26. WEST LONDON FEDERATION \BC of Anarchism paper 2/6 Anarchist Federation of Britain NORTH-WEST ESSEX. Meetings on the first Saturday of each month at 7.30 p.m. at Robert NORTHOLT ANARCHISTS. Contact: Jim c/o Freedom Press, 17a Maxwell Road, London, S.W.6 . Barltrop’s, The Old Vicarage, Rad win ter, near Huggon, 173 Kingshill Avenue, Northolt, Middle HERBERT READ Saffron Walden. sex. Meetings first and third Wednesday of the Poetry & Anarchism paper 2/6 ______month at Jeannie’s, 6 Epsom Close, Northolt ORPINGTON ANARCHIST GROUP. Knockholt, Park, Middlesex, at 7.30 p.m. ALEX COMFORT London Anarchist Group 1&2 BEXLEY ANARCHIST GROUP. Correspondence Nr. Sevenoaks, Kent. Every six weeks at Green- SOUTHALL ANARCHIST GROUP. Get in to Paul W-iidish, 2 Cumbrian Avenue, Barne hurst, ways, Knockholt. Phone: Knockholt 2316. Brian touch with Roger Sandell, 58 Burns Avenue, Delinquency 6 d. ‘Lamb and Flag’, Rose Street, off Garrick Street, Kent. and Maureen Richardson. Southall. Middlesex. London, W.C.2. (Leicester Square tube) BIRMINGHAM ANARCHIST GROUP. Corres OXFORD ANARCHIST GROUP. Contact H. G. PAUL ELTZBACHER 7.45 p.m. All welcome- pondence: Martin Bragg, 5 The Drive, Hunton Mellor, Merton College. Oxford. Sundays. Hill, Erdington! Birmingham, 23. Sales and PLYMOUTH ANARCHIST FEDERATION. Con PROPOSED GROUPS Inarchism (Seven Exponents of the tact J. Hill, 79 Underlane, Plymstock, Plymouth, MAY 29 Peter Cadogan Committee of 100: Gordon Causer, 27 Upper BROMLEY. KENT. Get in touch with S. Anarchist Philosophy) cloth 21/- Gungate, Tamworth, Staffs. Peace Action Centres Devon. Fewtrell, 54 Crockham Way. New Eltham, S.E.9. Getting rid of the Marxist Hangover Project: Paul Janies, 50 Windermere Road. READING ANARCHIST GROUP. Contact RUDOLF ROCKER JUNE 5 Ken Weller Alan Ross, 116 Belmont Road, Reading, Berks. UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK. Society being Industrial Organization and Freedom Handsworth, Birmingham, 21. University of formed-—to be fully active by October Term. Nationalism and Culture Aston Group: Dave Massey, 5 Gladstone Road, Anarchists coming here next year contact Public Meetings every Sunday Hyde Park, 3 p.ra. Erdington, Birmingham, 23. Desmond Hall, University of Warwick, Gibbett 'h 21 I- BRISTOL FEDERATION. Enquiries to Ian NORTH-WEST FEDERATION Hill Road, Coventry. , OFF-CENTRE LONDON Vine, 3 Freeland Place, Hotwells, Bristol, 8. Please contact Bill and Kate Beveridge, 50 Cam CHARLES MARTIN CARDIFF ANARCHIST GROUP. Contact Mike NORTH WEST ANARCHIST FEDERATION. den Hill (3 rings), London, S.E.19. Towards a Free Society 2/6 DISCUSSION MEETINGS Ciowley, 36 Whitaker Road, Tremorfa, Cardiff. Regional Secretary: J. Bromley, 44 Doncaster MARLOW AND BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. Get in 3rd Wednesday of each month at Jack Robinson COVENTRY ANARCHIST GROUP. Contact Avenue, Manchester, 20. Buxton: Chris Berris- touch with Stella A. Fauser, 33a Spittal Street, Richard Vaughan, 19 Sandhurst Grove, Radford, ford, 10 Byron Street, Buxton. Chorley: Alistair Marlow, Bucks. JOHN HEWETSON and Mary Canipa’s, 21 Rumbold Road, S.W .6 Coventry. Coventry 28146. Ill-Health, Poverty and the State (off King's Road), 8 p.m. Rattray, 33a Devonshire Road, Chorley. Man ALTRINCHAM YOUTH GROUP. Contact: 3rd Friday of each month at 8 p.ra. at Donald DUNDEE GROUP, Contact Bob and Una chester: Mike Mitchell, 3 Bakewell Road, Stephen Richards, 25 North Vale Road. Timper- clod) 2/6 paper 1/- and Irene Rooum’s, I48a Fellows Road, Swiss Turnbull, c/o Doctors* Residence. StTacathro Droylesden, Manchester. Meetings every Tues ley, Altrincham. Cheshire. Hospital, by Brechin, Angus. K ’-L day 8 p.m. Lord Nelson, Chapel Street, Salford. SOUTH WARWICKSHIRE. Get in touch with Cottage. N.W.3. ^ _ VOLIN E WANDSWORTH LIBERTARIANS. Correspond GLASGOW ANARCHIST GROUP ONE. Cor Merseyside: Barbara Renshaw, 4 Clarence Road, Eric Harrison, 2 Cottage Aylesmore Farm, Nineteen-Seventeen (The Russian respondence to Robert Lynn, 2b Saracen Head Devonshire Park, Birkenhead. Rochdale: Ian Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire. ence to Christine Hutton, 15 Broughton Street, Lane, Glasgow, C .l Heywood, 16 Mansfield Road, Bamford, Roch Revolution Betrayed) cloth 12/6 London, S.W.8. GLASGOW ANARCHIST GROUP TWO. Meets dale. Stoke-on-Trent: Bob Blakeman, 52 Weldon ABROAD The Unknown Revolution 11 Baliol Street everv two weeks. Contact Joe Avenue, Weston Coyney, Stoke-on-Trent. (Kronstadt 1921. Ukraine 1918-21) REGIONAL FEDERATIONS Embleton. 7 NEW ZEALAND. Auckland Anarchist Group. HARLOW ANARCHIST GROUP. Enquiries to Public Meetings every Sunday in Myers Park at doth 12/6 AND GROUPS Keith Nathan, 12 Shawbridge, Harlow or John K. A. GUTKIND ABERDEEN GROUP. Meets at the Adelphi Barrick, 14 Centre Avenue. Epping. EAST LONDON FEDERATION USA.’ ALBANY. NEW YORK. Contact E. 2.30 p.m. every Sunday. Correspondence to ILFORD LIBERTARIANS. Regular meetings Strauss, 230 Washington Avenue. Albany. Discus The Expanding Environment M. Dey, 29 Springbil! Crescent, Aberdeen. and direct action contact 212 Vicarage Road, WALTHAM FOREST ANARCHISTS. Contact sion group meets about twice a month. fillivrtrated) hoards ft*6 ARLESEY GROUP (N. Herts., S. Beds ). Meet Leyton. E.1Q. Lionel Donnelly, 322a Hoe Street, Walthamstow, AUSTRALIA. Sydney Anarchist Group. Public ings on first Friday of month. Correspondence LEICESTER ANARCHISTS. Correspondence. E.17. Meetings every Thursday at above address. meetings every Sunday in the Domain at 2 p.m. GEORGE BARRETT to Peter and Maureen Ford, 102 Stotfold Road, Peter Gibbon, 22 Fosse Road Central, West End, WEST HAM ANARCHISTS. Contact Stephen Group meetings every Monday at 8 p.m. in the The First Person (Selections) 2/6 Arlesey, Beds. Leicester. Higgs, 8 Westbury Road, Forest Gate, E.7. Cellar, 72 Oxford SL, Sydney. to use only the West base as OUT OF THIS W 0MJ there was little to do th«^ .... Various entertainmcDts exhibitions News from Elsewhere were presented to the P our com ‘Society “D ro p s” Trevor Roper" rades meanwhile their specially prepared leaflel^ j There was The agony of Henry Cooper ended with S u n d a y Telegraph "VTET ANOTHER ANARCHIST group ago. If they thought we were all non no hostility—servicemen afCfePted leaflets, the intervention of the referee in the has come to our attention, a new violent pacifists, however, they must bought badges and treateopur comrades sixth round. The agony of Vietnam and another soldier in bed together. He one based on Ipswich. They have just have got a rude awakening!!’ to drinks and cigarettes! Sr still goes on. . . . fired over a dozen bullets with a service published a duplicated pamphlet (is this ELECTION FINES The leaflet pointed 0 ..lhat bases like rifle. A gunman walked into the head their first effort?) entitled ‘Official Secrets* A reader recently asked what hap Ruislip would be prioriWIargets in a According to Newsweek (18.4.66), some quarters of the Socialist Workers* Party (price 6 d.). This contains a reprint of pened to comrades arrested for anti Nuclear War. Many servicemen anarchist students in South Vietnam who in Detroit, lined up party leaders and the ‘Spies for Peace* pamphlet and text of election activities. They were all fined seemed to be willing, ‘f e d anxious, rioted at the beginning of April are fired, killing one of them, after shouting a pirate radio broadcast, plus two pages heavily. Del Foley received a £20 fine to abandon their conscription and return hostile to the state in any form and have ‘You’re all Communists!’ . . . of new material, including quotes from phis £10 costs. Barry Easter was fined home, but it seems they P||£er two years taken as their permanent slogan ‘Down ‘secret documents in their possession*. £10 plus £5 5s. Od. costs. Karl Taylor in the Air Force to five yea® n jail—‘who with the government*. . . . A member of the Greater Britain Move One item is the following: was fined the same. Other comrades are can blame them—unless ^ |p re willing to ment accused of possessing offensive ‘If any person, or animal, or thing, is appearing in court this week. All in all offer every possible aSS1^&feE to them T he Bristol university Anarchists* weapons told a policeman that he was in any area contrary to such an order, drastic fines for the most consistent voice in their efforts to return jto civilian life, Society were amongst those who pro acting as an agent for the Special Branch the authority making the order may, of dissent during the elections (Daily we certainly cannot’ saw our Northolt tested about the installation of the Duke in the Committee of 100. A correction while the order is in force, have any or Mirror). Any spare cash? comrades. of Beaufort as Chancellor of Bristol has been made in the 1966 edition of all those persons, animals or things, TROGS Our comrades felt that the friendliness University. One of the student leaders Who's Who under ‘Recreations* for Sir destroyed or made useless.* By order of Dave Poulson writes: ‘Unfortunately that was allowed was inlorder to avoid said, ‘We are against the Duke firstly Saville Gamer (head of Her Majesty’s the Minister of Home Security* whoever we seem to have been too late to help undue publicity. because he is a (hike. We think he’s just Diplomatic Service). The entry read he may be. Does Stan Orme, MP know? the Matlock Trogs. The Buxton group They report that Buddy Nuclear an ignorant huntsman. He never went ‘all anti-war activities*. It now reads WHILST IN JAPAN went over to investigate the situation, but Casualty Case’ signs cowed the base; to a university: he was educated in the ‘outdoor activities*. Near the US base In a summary of a recent Japanese they appear to have already left the instructions explaining ‘^stoning signals’ Guards.’ I . . of Bien Hoa in Vietnam, a car-washing anarchist publication, the Black Flag I district. Or been thrown out. No place and the location of fall'0# shelters were business which is doing well carries under notice a postcard from comrade Taigi for the recluse in the State system, it displayed in all departments. A question has been tabled in the House its ‘Car Washing. Excellent Service’ a Yamaya from his sick bed: ‘It has been would seem*. NOT WANTED about three out of eleven airmen who mis-spelt addition *War welcome*. . . . Government policy of Imperial Japan THE HOMELESS AND THE John Gollan, secretary Itf the Commu fainted on parade for the State Visit of that all anarchists shall be killed. By HAUNTED HOUSE nist Party, who was refined a visa to the Federal President of Austria. The It was disclosed in the New York decision of Supreme Court on December C.R. writes: Fifty people marched last the United States said indjjgoantly: ‘There Labour MP said, 'If we are going to have Herald Tribune (Paris edition) by Foreign 10, 1965, it was proved that this brutal Sunday to the home of the Minister of must be some misunderspnding. I am ceremonies of this kind—and there may Aid Director David E. Bell that there and drastic measure is still in force. We Health (Mr. Kenneth Robinson) to pro not an anarchist. I beli®e in organised be doubts as to whether we should— were many opportunities in South Viet must resolutely fight against this!’ test his failure to intervene with Kent government* they should be done well. Our standards nam for US aid commodities to be AUSTRALIAN ACTIVITY County Council on behalf of the home J.R. should not drop to those of the Common diverted to the Communists. Cement Bill Dwyer reports: less lodged in the barbaric King Hill Market countries.’ On the day of the placed on the open market was, for The Sydney Anarchist Group is now hostel. visit the temperature was 20° Centigrade example, purchased for the Viet Cong formed, or rather re-formed. There Curiously, Mr. Robinson was ‘not in* (68 °F). At the annual inspection of the to line their tunnels. On the other hand have, of course, been a fair number of and thus avoided having to match his 336 /7 Hammersmith Squadron Air Train (same paper, same day), the Navy pur anarchists here for some years. However, fine words against his inaction and ex In the Money! ing Corps (70 °F) the boys were three and chased electronic equipment from two only a few have been active in any real plain why, for all his oft-declared sym a half hours on parade. Four out of the Hong Kong firms controlled by Com sense. Part of the problem has been pathy, he is not. prepared to do a damn The recent Anarch* Ball raised fifty-three cadets were overcome by heat munist China and some of it was sent that many anarchists from Europe have thing for the homeless. (The Labour £85 2s. 9d. (after all e\ Daises have been FI.-Lt Dennis Salmon told the West to US forces fighting in Vietnam. . . I found the environment here so different Party’s much publicised preoccupation paid). The BBC oweBus a further London Observer, ‘The few who did from home that anarchism as they knew with social justice no longer looks funny £5 5s. for broadcasting fet'. faint, lay to attention. It showed their On Monday , May 16, a Mr. Kingsley it has lost its relevance. Of course the only to libertarians and other misfits; it’s This money is now had by Freedom good training.’ . . . Amis had a letter in the Daily Mirror informed anarchist would observe that it rapidly becoming the cliche-joke of the Press in reserve for our Kan to enlarge giving support to the Americans in Viet was their sense of perspective that was entire nation.) Freedom . Further news soon. An American soldier , recently returned nam. On the same day a Mr. Kingsley lacking. The tenants and their friends found John Rety . from Vietnam, shot and killed his wife Amis (formerly an angry young man) I believe the time is particularly apt themselves addressing their protests to an had an article in the Morning Star now for a new and successful group. indifferent crowd of policemen, each (formerly the Daily Worker). A reader Some of the animosities that once split decked out with regulation patent leather helped their cause. One would also like writing to protest at this was misquoted the movement here have disappeared soul, and fronted by the most offensive to know how some phoney constitutional as saying that the two contributions while the remainder have been subdued and evil-looking plainclothes dick I ever FIGHTIHGBACK settlement, cooked up by the rulers of appeared on May 6 . The resolution to (by time if nothing else). The issue of saw, a few interested neighbours—one, nPHE WAY in which!the news of the Britain and Rhodesia, can help the restore the name of theDaily Worker in Conscription for the Vietnam War has complete with corgi, furiously reading A killing of two wStte people in African people. case of circulation decline was defeated provided us with a popular approach to our literature—and the flapping top- Rhodesia has been repBed and com- In the past many an observer of the at a meeting of the People’s Press Society. the public. Interestingly, the Sydney storey windows of Mr. Robinson’s mented upon is certain Instructive. scene in Rhodesia has suggested that the The Morning Star quoted the number Domain meetings have served as a rally desirable residence. This motley bunch fi Mrs. Viljoen apathy, the decency and non-violence of of surplus cars in the hands of US were given the history, the legal possi- We are told that Mr. ing and introductory point Last Sunday were innocent of any rime and that, the African people has only helped the dealers as ten million, the number was I met an anarchist who had just arrived bilities- open to a Minister predisposed they have been mufl g-fcy terrorists. white racists. Hie acquiescence of the later corrected to one million six hundred from the Argentine and another who had towards social justice and the plight of We might have been toTd. of course, that Africans has lent weight to Ian Smith’s thousand. . . . returned from a tour of Asia where he the homeless and some idea of what it claims that the Africans of Rhodesia is like to live in King Hill. the white couple were guilty of being had helped form groups in a number of involved in the unjust and violent occu are contented. D ue , it is said , to die fall in US car countries. Mr. and Mrs Mallabone, of King Hill,. pation of Rhodesia, that they have only Now Africans fight back against the sales prices have been falling on the THE OFFER STILL STANDS Ken Gillan and Mrs. Luby, of St. Pan- suffered the reaction of a people humi bullying, mean, inconsiderate, ignoble New York Stock Exchange. The sales A note from the Reading Anarchist eras Tenants’ Association, a Tenants’ liated and exploited because they are and over-rich settlers. We hear no praise decline, it is said, is due to the exposure Group to the AFB: Association member from Birmingham black. at the courage this requires, no words of lack of safety in some US cars. It May we clarify the situation as regards whose name I missed and Jim Radford We could have been told that this is of encouragement, no comments that it has not been pointed out that the threat our offer to publish an anarchist equi each addressed the meeting and a St. practically the first time Africans in serves the settlers right of the draft is a curb on car-buying. valent to the C of 100’s ‘Discussion Pancras ward Labour Party chairman Rhodesia have hit back at the treatment Africans are supposed to bear According to the New York Herald Papers’? We offered to duplicate and apologised both for Mr. Robinson and they have had to bear from the oligarchic patiently with the deliberations of those Tribune Mr. McNamara, US Defence send out to all group addresses listed the Labour Party,. He promised to do white supremacists. The liberal press who have no interest in justice or decency. more in future and presumably he will Secretary, is backed by President Johnson in Freedom anything anybody without informs us that such killings will not Liberal opinion is aghast at the death in what Mr. McNamara calls a ‘concept* access to a duplicator wanted circularised. help the picket, planned for two hours help the Africans’ cause, that the diplo of white settlers, but the only way to of universal two years’ service in military No one has taken up the offer, but it (7 to 9) each night from now on—details matic exchanges between the British and the liberation of Zimbabwe is in the can be had from Mrs. E. Luby, 17 or peaceful projects. Mr. C. H. Rolph still stands. Rhodesian governments will be upset. hands of men with courage enough to (alias C. R. Hewitt, otherwise known as ANTI-SMITH DEMONSTRATION Kennistoun House, Leighton Road, One would like to know how the inaction fight back. London, NW5—along with as many an ex-policeman), writing in the New Anarchists in Aberdeen took part in a of the African people in Rhodesia has J.W. Statesman (formerly a progressive jour demonstration called by the University others as possible. For myself I hope the ghost that nal) in support of a fingerprint register, Anti-Apartheid Society against the Smith states that, ‘When we had compulsory opened and shut windows and curtains on regime. military service it exempted pacifists*. The vigil and most of the march was the top storey of an unoccupied house —and who but a Labour minister secure (Perhaps the CBCO Continuing Com uneventful, but an important new de MAY DAY IH UHI0H SQUARE mittee could enlighten him on the number behind the police force would leave a velopment was the appearance of a dozen Continuod from page 1 port, and the latter group consisted of of objectors in British jails.) . . . Righ Wing extremists who rammed into house unoccupied for a homeless peoples* demonstration—will add to the hell Mr. condemning the Russian persecution of exactly two policemen and the Lexington the demonstrators with their cars hitting the Jews. How he fits in with the NRP School for the Deaf. (Some day—just The national memorial committee several people. Forbes Browne writes: Robinson has so fully earned. The pres which has raised £5,000 towards a statue sure must be maintained until Robinson and their ‘Communism is Jewish’ once—I’d like to see the odds run in ‘For once the police were on our side to Augustus John, gypsy lover, artist and and the bureaucrats of KCC—together theories is an interesting speculation. our favour.) and one of the drivers was charged , with By the end of the, rally the inter self-proclaimed anarchist, is still looking reckless driving. the double-sided coin of authoritarian One of the readings was Jackson Mac- mittent showers had become a steady Low’s simultaneity based on the words, for a site for the statue. Attempts at The appearance of the extreme Right delinquency—are forced to act: for the Fordingbridge have been dogged by bad people. rain. After a good deal of confusion ‘Tear Down All Jails Now*. (Jails, Tear in public is quite a novelty in Aberdeen, most of the WIN group decided to go luck and opposition. The chairman of and is no doubt a result of the encourage FRIENDLY VISIT All Down Now; Now Tear Down All up to the Soviet Mission by either public Jails; All Jails, Now Down Tear; etc.) the site committee said, T don’t thinlr ment they received after rescinding the Northolt Anarchists had sent us a or private transport. The remaining five Fordingbridge deserves it* Augustus John University Union’s boycott on South report of their visit to 3rd USAF Base, When five people read these permutations diehard s set out by Shanks’ mare only in random order, with varied inflections, compared Fordingbridge with classical African goods and making decisions on South Ruislip. They found however to succumb to temptation at the 23rd Athens (for size) in Anarchy 10. . . . political and philosophical matters out that the open day was at the West and unavoidably increasing intensity, Street subway entrance’. On arrival up the effect can be electrifying—especially side the Union’s powers, by careful Ruislip base. Either they have been town we found that we had been President kenyatta told his supporters packing of the Union AGM a fortnight misled on purpose or else they decided if in the middle of it some fire engines assigned an area on 67th Street some go by with sirens screaming. However, to accept bribes from opposition parties distance away from the Mission. Ideally a squad car pulled up during that par in the coming elections but to vote for we should have held the protest right in ticular rendition, and the facial expres his Kenya African National Union in the middle of the street in front of the sions on the cops seemed to convey the any case. ‘This mosey is foreign money Mission because the 19th Police Precinct answer, *We Shall Not Be Moved’. and not theirs,’ he said. ‘It is being used MAKE SURE OF YOUR ANARCHIST JOURNALS BY SUBSCRIBING ! is almost directly across from it. That The last poet, Robert Newman, to confuse you. But accept it and vote way we could have killfed two birds with announced that he had in his hand ‘two for us.* Jon Quixote . Freedom w e e k l y A narchy m o n t h l y one stone, as Gandhi fused to say. papers, one concerning an American Our demonstration began by having a Chinese spy, and the other concerning •— — m m m i m m LETTER Price 4d. Every Saturday except the first Price 2s. (2s. 3d. or 30c. by post) delegation attempt to deliver a protest the President. Each of the papers has in each month. (40 iisnec per year.) Appears first Saturday of each mouth. about Daniel and Sinyavski directly into overtones and information unknown to BY POST: BY POST: the Soviet Mission. The comrade official the Russians. I will give these papers Banished, Jailed 1 year (40 issues) 226. 6 d. (U.S. $3) 1 year (12 issues) 26s. (UJS. $3.50) waved, Nyet, Nyet, at tfiem from behind to the Russian government in exchange 4 months (20 issues) 11s. 6 d. ($1.50) BY AIR MAIL: 1 year 47s. ($7) the locked glass doors. ^ When the dele for the release of the Soviet artists and and Ign ored 3 months (10 issues) 6 s. (75c.) gation returned to thetmain group, the writers.* Because of the rain he read SPECIAL RATE FOR 2 COPIES: JOINT SUB. FREEDOM/ANARCHY: poetry readings began. Incidentally the only the first of these, a piece entided, Dear Comrades. 1 year (40 issues) 30s. (U-S. $4.50) 1 year 42s. ($6). 6 months 22s. ($3) main group ranged in number anywhere Mr. Heart , Mulatto American. ‘Mr. What a fool is your letter-writer who 6 months (20 issues) 15s. ($2.25) 3 months 11s.66. ($1.50) up to a peak of 40—it varied inversely Heart here is a Chinese spy, hard-boned said poetry is just masturbation to die BY AIR MAIL: 2 COPIES OF EACH: with the rain. None of the literati from to his intendonally good head. . . . He revolution! What the arch-fascist Plato 1 year (40 issues) 45s. (UJ5. $7) 1 year 63s.(19), 6mouths 31s. fid. ($4.50) the ultra-right arrived at all. Nor did tells some of his mind to bis wife, and said is still as true today as ever, ‘When FREEDOM by AIR MAIL, ANARCHY by SURFACE: 1 year 65s. ($9.50) any of the Union Square functionaries he tells himself what he does. . . . He’s the modes of music change the walls of join the protest—maybe they don’t like married to the daughter of a Nobel- the city tumble*. poetry. Prize WASP physicist. They live in Hence he banished poets from his Art Berger was the first poet, and he Washington with their daughter and their ideal republic—for good reason. The Cheques, P.O.’s and Money Ordersshould started things off by explaining the pur son.’ After this reading our protest was Russian leaders jail them. We ignore be made out to FREEDOM PRESS, Freedom Press pose of the demonstration both to our officially terminated, whereupon a them, debauch them. Your writer is crossed A/c Payee and addressedto the 17a MAXWELL ROAD, own assemblage and toj^everyone else in pathetic sounding ‘International* was in a great tradition. publishers: LONDON, S.W.6 Phone: RENown 3736range of the loudspeakers Unfortunately sung asi an afterthought. The following Yours in prosody and anarchy. the former group wasNready en rap day was May Day. Robert H awarth .

1 .1. IT* I M M , L—4—, S.W4. Seamen’s Strike must Snead TF THERE was a prize offered for or you will continue to work under behind the Prices and Incomes medieval conditions. One can see Policy, ‘Harold what good boys are For Workers’Control the biggest ‘red herring' it should the support being literally squeezed we’. . be shared by Gunter, Wilson and the MAY 28 1966 Yo! 27 No 17 national press. These people have from the national press as they are Wilson the patriot really ‘laid it the audacity to offer the seamen,as forced to concede that the seamen on’ when he dealt with the econo part of the agreement to end the have a case for the amendment of mics bit, loSS of markets, overseas strike, an inquiry into the Merchant the 1894 Act. customers annoyed, etc., etc.—and Shipping Act 1894.of Wilson in his TV broadcast ran then the workers’ Prime Minister Such an inquiry should have true to form, he patronisingly patted laid the' blame, Guess where?—at EMPLOYERS 4 UNIONS nothing to do with the strike settle the seamen on the head with a 20 lb. the feet of the workers. He was ment negotiations at all. An in sledge hammer. He then went on elected by the middle-class to take quiry and amendment to the 1894 to make the position crystal clear, this kind of attitude and therefore Act is the seamen’s right as a human it’s the Seamen versus the State with no one. was surprised when he being and individual, not something the shipping employers hiding cosily threatened the seamen with the MUST ‘PULL TOGETHER’ to be held up as a carrot in the form Royal Navy. ‘Strong Government! ’ miK MAURICE LAING, President of It is the desire of both the Government of subtle blackmail. The Government’s whole case is SJ the Confederation of British Industry, and the CBI to strengthen the economy, What Wilson and the press are based on the Prices and Incomes recently warned employers and the trade but there are numerous ways of achieving in fact saying is ‘end the strike now’, Policy as Wilson emphasised, and unions that they could expect increasing this. Many economists and employers that to grant the seamen .the increase Government interference in their affairs, hold differing and sometimes conflicting i i T Y ? would exceed the norm. Point taken, which would continue unless they put views on this. Employers are by no it would exceed the norm, BUT! their own houses in order. He said his means united, for profits, their ultimate npHE PRINTING INDUSTRY is ex- According to George Brown, the answer to this would be a Swedish-style goal, pits them one against the other. Contact Column periencing a period of drastic change. organisation that was strong and However, the development of monopoly New techniques are being introduced Prices and Incomes Policy was not centralised and would enforce agreements capitalism does serve to lessen these con Stickers. POLICE BRUTALITY IS which in finality will break through the a wage freeze and when the very and generally discipline both the em flicts and unites the few but large groups FACT. JUSTICE IS FICTION. craft-noncraft barrier. idea that .it was, was mooted by ployers and trade unions members. of employers who have control of in ANARCHY IS FREEDOM. 25/- A classic example was the dispute over people who knew differently, George,, What Laing wants is a streamlined dustry. In order to complete the picture, per 1,000. Contact Box 31. the manning of the. Southwark web offset tore his hair out. employers-unions organisation made up Laing wants the leadership of the big Centenary Lectures NSS. Friday, May 27: of fewer blit larger bodies. Mergers and ^ trade unions to join them, for these, Freethought and Philosophy—H. J. printing plant owned by the International When George presented his policy Publishing Corporation (Mirror Group); he claimedSt was not a wage freeze amalgamations are wanted in the case of following amalgamations, will become Blackham. June 10: Freethought and both employers and trade unions for at unions catering for whole industries. Science—Dr. E. H. Hutten. 7.30 p.m. The National Graphical Association but a guide} the higher paid workers (craft union) made claim to a certain should not expect to exceed the SH moment they are numerous and un Strengthening the economy does not Conway Hall. Red Lion Square. number of their members manning the wieldy, proving a hindrance to a smooth just mean making a profit, but making W.C.l. machine. The Society of Graphical and norm without increased productivity. efficiently run economy. But isn’t this industry more efficient, increasing pro Folk Song Concert.’ Melly, Ian Camp Allied Trades (craft and semi-skilled) On Page 9^Clause 15 sub section 4 streamlining just what the Government ductivity and keeping down costs, so bell Group,1 3' City 4, Alex Camp also made claim to a certain number of of the Prices and Incomes Policy, it wants? Laing knows this, but he would that ‘our’ goods are more competitive bell at St. Pancras Town Hall. 7 p.m. their members manning the machine and states ‘where there is widespread prefer the employers and trade unions to with those of other countries. If this and 9.15 p.m. Friday June 3 in aid the 1PC claimed, as a result, that the recognition that the pay of a certain achieve this themselves. can be achieved, then employers in this of London Committee of 100. 5/- machine would be over manned. group of workers has fallen seriously He said: ‘I am not necessarily sug country will get a bigger share of world to 10/6. gesting that at one step we should go markets. This will lead to increased Accommodation available for girl. West Prolonged negotiations took place withvout of line with .the1 level of remunera no final agreement being reached, so tion for similar work and needs in into the Swedish system of central organi profits and expansion which in turn wiU London Community. Rent £2 10s. IPC closed the plant and 350 were laid sation of both employers and trade give rise to still higher profits. Box 32. the national interest,to be improved’. off. After discussions^ the NGA and Thereforp^the claim is in unions which have power (my italics) Laing himself had something to say on Room and Work. Woman reader (mid- SOGAT agreed for the next thrfee tnonths- over their members. I am "suggesting that the question of profits, for he felt that Fortiesj will need room and work to ‘ operate a 'fully integrated staff as "HneT witft Government policy. Tne unless we gradually arrive at such a industry should inform the employees when leaves psychiatric hospital. an interim measure. only people who fail to see that situation, the power will be taken by a and the rest of the community of the Offers of either or both to Box 30. It was made clear that the action was seamen’s pay has fallen ‘seriously third party and that’s the Government. essential need for profit. ‘We need to Accommodation Wanted. Wanted, large solely for the purpose of opening the out of link* are the shipping em ‘That would be to the .detriment of us make profit, where earned competitively, flat, W.2, W.1I for Notting Hill Gate factory and it was without prejudice to ployers. They vare doing precisely all. . . . There are too few signs that a highly respected, very clean word in anarchists. Any information regard the findings of the court of inquiry set what the opponents of the Prices and we are really determined to pull together our vocabulary and not a word we shun.’ ing a reasonably priced flat will be up by the Minister of Labour. The Incomes Policy said employers to beat our problems’ (my italics). It is doubtful if Laing feels guilty about gratefully received. Please contact court is to enquire into the introduction would do, ‘hide behind the skirts of TONGUE IN CHEEK making a profit out of the labour of M. Fitton, Flat 35, 37 Clanricarde of new techniques with particular refer Obviously this speech must be taken his employees. I am sure a psychologist Gardens, W.2 (Nr. Notting Hill Gate Government policy,’ the situation is ence to the manning difficulties at South ready made for them. partly ‘with tongue in cheek’. Laing and could explain this, but whether he feels underground* station) evenings. wark and similar problems at the the employers are not against Govern guilty or not,; he will continue to exploit Comrades wanted to take part in anti-war Co-operative Pres£, Manchester. The Government know the score, ment interference. They have always his workers. In fact what he is advocat pageant. May 28. Details from: The important point to come out ofthey know the ‘policy’ is in fact a sought it when strikes threaten their ing is an intensification of* this. He Myrtle Solomon, EUS 5501. this affair so far is the ‘fully integrated wage freeze, and the seamen have profits, when they want the power of stressed the need to use manpower more Accommodation Vacant.Half flat vacant. staff’. For too long have printing unions been singled out to prove it, not that the trade unions curbed or when efficiently, which in plain terms means Phone Bucknell GUN 4576. been niggling at each other with detri the Government wouldn’t have pre financial policies are not to their liking, harder work with workers operating Aberdeen Vietnam Week. June 5-11. ment to themselves; here is a chance for ferred a different type of industry to even to the extent of taking over an more than one machine, performing dif Piokets, leafleting, teach-in, meet at least two of them to improve relations. do battle with. industry when it is not making a profit. ferent jobs, more mobility and more ings, vigil, etc. ; Details, support to But having said all this, what about In fact some employers and ‘enlightened’ shift work. To get this, the employers Bob Comrie, 288 Hardgate, Aber the printing employers? Their attitude The strike is five days old today economists argue that some industries, on need the trade unions to sell the idea deen, Scotland. to new techniques is let the printworkers (21.5.66) and there is no sign of a which others rely, should come under to their members and if the Laings and All-Hail! Glasgow Fed. of Anarchists pay for the cost by more and more break despite the fact that 400 ship the control of the State, which is in a the Carrons won’t do it, the Wilsons, - Group 2 recently formed need cash rationalization of labour. If they can owners went to St. Martins-in-the- position to make a tremendous capital Browns and Gunters will. for a ioud-hailet which is urgently play one union against another,, they will, Fields to get advice from Ramsay outlay in order to provide an efficient IN FOR A TOUGH TIME required for a forthcoming Faslane but not openly. A slight promotion here A.B. The Archbishop of Canterbury, service. This is the case with the rail To the workers who are going to be demo. Donations please to Joe for one particular union, another there ways, where private employers require a affected, it does not really matter who Embleton, 11 Baliol Street, Glasgow. for another union, to keep the pot sim Dr. Ramsay took as his text that fast, cheap and efficient means of trans does the selling, the important thing is Hospitality wanted. Sixteen-year-old com mering, but working all the while at ‘no one lives or dies, entirely for porting their goods. how to prevent it. The agreements made rade (male) from Paris would like to cutting cost at the expense of the print- himself alone’. A special prayer was This could also be applied to the by union leaders now are bad enough, stay with family during summer workers. This is the real danger facing offered for a settlement of the strike docks, with the long-term view of a link but if the employer-trade unions line-up vacation. Write Box 29. printworkers. Don’t let’s be too busy and end to the spirit of strike and up with the railways in the transporting is consolidated, as seems probable, then lob/Girl/Country. 16-year-old comrade bickering amongst ourselves to notice it. bitterness and the primacy of the of goods and assisting the country’s ex workers are indeed in for a tough time. (working-girl, not student) with Bill Christopher . well-being and prosperity of the port drive. It needed Government ‘inter In order to achieve this, the employers problem parent (widow) seeks per ference’ to get the Devlin Report and and the trade union leadership will have manent job in country. Preferably realm. There is no doubt on whose surely Laing is not against the reduction to get the agreement and co-operation near some Peace/Political Activity side this high ranking sky pilot is of the number of port employers? No, of the rank and file and no doubt evenings and i weekends. Anything on, it’s certainly not the seamen. he and employers will accept and wel Government ‘interference’ will help in considered. Contact through Peter PRESS FUND Where have we heard it before, ‘God come any Government ‘interference’ that this. It is essential that workers* con Neville, 12 South Grove, Erdington, is on our side’? assists them and as the Government is ditions are not worsened by this drive to Birmingham, 23, urgently. WEEK 20, MAY 21, 1966: Up to now all the rules ofofficial out to help and strengthen monopoly strengthen the economy, which has Accommodation Offered. To responsible Expenses: 20 weeks at £80: £1600 capitalism, Laing as the head of the nothing to do with their interests. The person in return for taking child Income: Sales and Subs.: £1236 strike action have been strictly ob employers’ organisation, should really idea that employees form a partnership to school $ome days and a (very) served, even the well-known mili have nothing to fear. with the employers and that their little housework. Write 15 Pennine DEFICIT £364 tants haye played the ‘game’, but interests are one and the same is com Mansions, Pennine Drive, Golders next week will present a different pletely untrue. It is only propagated in Green, N.W.ll or phone MEA 1872. Cheltenham; J.L. 2/-; Berkeley; O.B. picture, when the docks become order to get the co-operation of the Accommodation. Young couple seeking £3/10/-; Wolverhampton: J.K.W.* 2/-; cluttered with ships. The official can be seen on the distant horizon workers and could lead to the sacrifice accommodation in West or NW J.L.* 3/*; Northolt: Anarchist Group trade union leadership is really as a ghost come back to haunt some of conditions which have been won in London with view to communal flat, 3/4; British Columbia: W.P. 13/-; Bangor: shaky on this one, either they de of the older members. the past. This country’s economy can only be Not too expensive. Grateful for M.T. 2/5; Birmingham: G.O. 12/1; New clare that the movement of ships Bill C hristopher . any type of reply. Box 27. York: M.H. £1/1/-; Aberdeen: Anarchist Editors’ Note: Since the article strengthened at the expense of another’s Accommodation. Flat or rooms required Group 10/-; Vermount; E.L. £1/3/-; Chel by the Navy is provocative and call and the workers in that country are in London area (preferably un tenham: L.G.W.* 10/-; Hartfield: O.M. upon the dockers for support, or the was written a state of emergency then called upon to increase productivity furnished) by teacher and wife. For £3/4/-; Hailsham: L.$. 5/-; Ashton Under dockers themselves will take action. has been declared by the Wilson and to work harder. This drive will be one-year period from September. Lyne: J.P. 2/6; Richmond: A.M’C. 18/6; Either way the strike must spread, Government. This enables the intensified when Britain goes into the P. and M. Ford, 102 Stotfold Road, Manchester: P.H. 8/-; Montreal; W.F. so the next few days should see Government to requisition vehicles Common Market. While the employers Arlesey, Beds. > * 16/-; Rensselaer: G.T. £2/11/-; San Fran feelers going out through the TUC and will permit the Royal Navy to compete with one another on a national Accommodation . 'Vacant. One bunk cisco: C.S. 14/-; Todmorden: G.B. senior committee on Monday and move ships in harbour. It is to be and international basis, the interests of empty—happy, tolerant girl wanted £1/18/-; London, N.W.ll: R.M. £2/18/-; the General Council on Wednesday. seen whether dockers will act in the workers are best served by unity and in s/c flat, in lowest Lambeth, details Brookleyn: A.A. £1/8/-; Ohio: E.M. solidarity with the seamen to prevent co-operation. This will lead to the Bill Hogarth, NUS General Secre creation of a society in which the wealth REL 5224. £1/8/-; San Francisco: E.D. £1/8/-. tary, is a member of the TUC these attempts to break the strike. Accommodation wanted. Accommodation TOTAL: £26 10 10 Donations for the Strike Fund produced will benefit all people instead of needed by com pie (small income) Previously Acknowledged: £395 12 0 General Council, so it’s reasonable a minority. Until this is done, all workers with boy of 2i> and baby. London. to suppose that he will be under can be sent to the Disputes Fund, will be called upon to make sacrifices Preferred unfurnished. Reliable and 1966 Total to Date: £422 2 10 considerable pressure from some National Union of Seamen, Mariin order to keep the capitalist system considerate. Box 23. members of the Council to reach time House, Old Town, Clapham, going. f vou wiidi to make contactm let katw. ^Denotes Regular Contributors. an early settlement, no doubt 1926 London, S.WA. P.T,