Unity is the goal towards which humanity is inevitably attracted. But it becomes harm ful, destroys the intelligence, the dignity and prosperity of individuals and peoples, once it is achieved without liberty, but through violence, under the in fluence of the church, politically or even economically. BAKUNIN.
VOLUME 1, NUMBER 12. MAY 19th, 1937. PRICE 2d.—U.S.A. 5 CENTS. BARCELONA, MAY 1937 During the last few days the tails a strict obedience to law general, has not been accom matter which has been chiefly in and order, and the continued plished because governmental our minds has been the “ unpris worship of the State. socialism is more interested in ing ” in Catalonia. The actual But that there have been an alliance with the republican combatants and the motive still serious disturbances in Bar bourgeoisie.” appear vague. We consulted celona and elsewhere in Cata This question of Unity to fight the leading newspapers—having lonia, there can be no doubt. fascist menace has been a means failed to make contact with Bar That the Anarchists were of speculation on the part of the celona—and the reports differ actively concerned there can be Communist Party and the other so widely that it is as yet impos even less doubt. But that the organisations forming the so- sible to form even an impression causes were that the Anarchists called “ democrats ” bloc, at the of the situation at the beginning want to “ dictate ” in Catalonia, expense of our comrades. of the rising or of the present as some sections of the Press Our comrades, in the name of position. tried to suggest, or that the Unity, have given way on more The unreliability of the news troops were called out because points than one. In their efforts is clearly shown by the Daily Anarchists in the Telephone Ex to fight not only Spanish reac Express report (May 5th), change at Barcelona were cen tion but International Fascism which after stating that the An soring official messages from some have joined the Govern archists forced the Government Valencia and Madrid, as others ment in spite of bitter criticism to release prisoners and had suggest, are mere suppositions from certain quarters. For mon occupied the telephone exchange, by cheap journalists who rely on ths they refrained, as did the quotes from the Mundo .Obrero gossip and rumours which freely Spanish Anarchist Press, from “ the anarchist newspaper ” circulate in Perpignan, or on criticism of those parties which which published a “ special edi news which is brought by people right from the beginning were, tion exhorting the workers to with fertile imaginations. Whilst by their actions, working against disregard the orders of the the most conservative estimates, the Social Revolution; that is, Government and to refuse to during the first few days seemed against the WILL OF THE give up their arms, which they to be about 200 dead, the MAJORITY, which was to defeat would need to defend the An Manchester Guardian (May 8th) not only Fascism, but the archist State. Mundo Obrero is quotes from an “ eye-witness ” economic system which had not an Anarchist newspaper, but who estimates that the dead existed since the birth of the a Communist newspaper. As a must number more than 2,000! new Republic and which had result it is unlikely that the We might here even mention brought about the Fascist revolt. Communist Press, even in Spain, that some sections of the Capi From July 19th, a new Society would “ exhort the workers to talist Press reported last Novem was being created in Catalonia. disregard the orders of the ber that during Durruti’s A Society created by the WILL Government,” seeing that during funeral grave disturbances, of the people and not at the the last nine months the Party shooting and the like, took place point of the revolver. The has changed il* tactics from in the procession through the tributes paid to the organising those of “ dictatorship of the streets of Barcelona. The only capacity of the Anarchists to Poster, issued by the C.N.T. organization ofMujeres Libres Workers ” to one of “ Capitalist people to ignore this occurrence wards the new Society, by men (Free-Women) democracy ” which naturally en were the people of Barcelona! of all different political views, We must therefore treat with are innumerable. From the reserve all reports appearing in opinions expressed by Sir Peter the Capitalist Press, which only Chalmers Mitchell to those of CAMILLO BERNERI seeks such opportunities to ex Professor Rosselli (Spain & the aggerate and distort the truth World No. 2.) and Prof. Olt- so as to bring fear and terror to mares of Geneva University the hearts of its bourgeois (Spain & the World No. 1) and AN APPRECIATION readers, of the dangers of the others who have witnessed the anti-Capital forces in Spain and immense work of Social recon We had just completed the article were already to be read in our press. shall during the coming months, dedi the rest of the world. The Daily struction carried out by our on the “ rising ” in Barcelona, and As a University student, and later as cate space to translations of his works. Herald, in particular, has been comrades, show that the sug during a moment’s respite, our Professor in Philosophy in Italian In remembering Camillo Berneri revelling in this sensational gestions that force has been used thoughts went to our brave Comrades University, he was opposed to all we remember and condole with his news as much as the Evening in the new Society are false in Catalonia, who from July 19th, coercion of mind and body. After brave family, his aged mother, his Standard, whose editor used the hoods have been waging a struggle, unheard continued persecutions at the hands companion and two daughters, who occasion to speak of the Anar * * * * * of in its intensity through the history of the Fascists, he was finally obliged during these years of torment have chists in the following conven Though the C.N.T.—F.A.I. of the workers’ fight against reaction, to emigrate to France, from whence borne their lot with courage,rand have tional terms: “ the detestation were the strongest organisation and who now, in the streets of Bar he continued his fight against Fascism been a source ,j)f inspiration to our of the Anarchists for all autho in Catalonia, there was no at celona are fighting to the last man in by direct action and propaganda. beloved Comrade in the darkest rity save that of their own tempt made by them to infringe an effort to counter attack the Of the newspapers with which he moments of his exile. revolvers. . . .” This kind of on the liberty of other anti- “ democratic ” Government forces collaborated, we can but mention a The Anarchist movement, with the propaganda can only do harm, Fascist organisations and par which are making desperate attempts few: l’Adunata dei Refrattari of death of Camillo Berneri loses one of more so when it comes from a ties. The Communist news to exploit the Social Revolution and America, Studii Sociali of Monte its most devoted apostles. We can so-called “ workers’ paper.” papers were not seized or not replace him, but we can learn the sacrifice of the workers, to video, numerous Spanish and French As it is, the “ Socialist ” allowed to be published sporadi publications, and since the end of last from his experience and knowledge. “ Daily Herald,” indulging these cally as is the Anarchist Press strengthen their bourgeois, militar V.R. istic reformist ambitions. All this, as year he has been editing Guerra di last few weeks in the pomp and in Madrid and Valencia. in Russia, at the expense of the Anar Classe in Barcelona, a newspaper * * * ceremony of Coronation celebra (Nosotros, organ of the F.A.I. chists. We were abruptly brought to whose frankness in exposing the The above appreciation of our tions, and the rich Eastern in Valencia, has had to suspend face grim reality when a telegram counter-revolutionary action of the Comrade was already in print when visitors it draws to their shores, publication by order of the reached us announcing the death of Communists in Spain, and whose sin we received the following news over attempts to dull any revolution Government, for reasons which our comrade Camillo Berneri. cerity in pointing out the mistakes of the C.N.T. Radio in Barcelona: "The ary spirit the British workers will be dealt with later.) our Comrades in Spain (for our Com night of the 5th or 6th May a group might possess. Failing that, Meetings organised by the To us, who have had the pleasure of police, in plain clothes,, wearing a of enjoying the intimacy of our dear rades are not infallible), have earned the speculation on the Barcelona minority parties took place with it the respect and appreciation not P.S.U.S. (Communist) armlet, forced out disturbance and without Comrade’s company and conversation, incidents would have been much only of the Comrades abroad, but also their way into the room where more intense and harmful. attempts being made to prevent it is difficult to believe it possible that BERNERI, Comrade Barbieri and his them from being held. This we shall no longer make contact with that of the Spanish comrades. Now, at the age of 40, when his companion were resting. A careful tolerance, and respect for the him; and even now, there is that life was most intense, when his life search was made, all Berneri's papers liberty of others, were more lingering hope, which tells us that it To those who have read long ideal was being realized, death and documents confiscated and the SPAIN AND THE WORLD than visible. Professor Olt- all may be a mistake, or that he has has claimed him at its victim. But two Comrades taken to the police mares stated in public that “It been wounded only. regularly, the rising in Barcelona our Comrade is not dead. His work, headquarters, accused by the will not come as a great sur is with the feeling of joy, coupled Our English comrades may not be his abnegation, must live in our minds P.S.U.C. of being counter-revolution prise. We have on numerous with sustained admiration, that familiar with Camillo Berneri’s name, and must be a source of inspiration aries! The comrades, who later learnt occasions pointed out the subtle a social-democrat comes to view or with his work. In remembering to us to continue’ in our struggle for of their arrest, were faithfully prom and sometimes even obvious the Catalan institutions. The him in the columns of Spain ami the what is just and noble. Camillo Ber- ised by the authorities that our Com propaganda carried out in an anti-capitalist regime is being World, which has from the beginning eri’s sacrifice, Durruti’s and Ascaso’s rades would have been released. But effort to exclude our comrades organised in Catalonia without received his help and advice, we re sacrifices, the sacrifice of the hundreds the very next morning, the Red Cross in Spain. We have shown the having recourse to any dictator member a comrade who, through of thousands of Workers fighting in announced that the bodies of our definitely counter-revolutionary ship.” years of exile, deportations from five Spain, must be the signal for the two comrades had been found near bearing of the Government in * * * * * countries, imprisonment in Belgium awakening of a new spirit amongst the Generality. Spain, and its intolerance to We cannot here deal with the and France, remained the true and the workers of the world. It is that It is to be noted that our two wards our comrades. We pub intrigues, provocations and lies sincere Anarchist; the Anarchist in his spirit alone which can bring a victory comrades had been killed by revolver lished the text of a manifesto circulated about our comrades way of living; Anarchist in his under of the workers over International shots fired from behind. issued by the Local Federation during these last six months. standing of the “ masses,” and Anar reaction and Capitalistic interest. The funeral of Berneri and Barbieri of Libertarian Youths of Bar The Libertarian Youth Mani chist during these last nine momen It is our earnest desire that Camillo took place on Tuesday the I Ith May. celona (Sp. & Wld. No. 10) festo (Spain & the World No. tous months in Spain. Berneri’s valuable works should be To avoid trouble, the C.N.T. did from which the following signi 10) enumerates several. To the It is an impossible task in the collected, by competent people, so not think it necessary to announce the ficant words are extracted: “The lies we might add the remarks limited space at our disposal, to record that the movement may fully benefit day and hour of the funeral. Despite Revolutionary Working Class made to us by a member of the here all his work for the Anarchist from the experience, the depth of this, several thousand friends of Ber Alliance sought long before the Spanish Delegation which at Movement. At the early age of eight thought and insight which were those neri were present at his last resting fascist revolt and so eagerly tended the recent Trade Unions een, articles and reviews from his pen of our Comrade. For our part, we place. desired by the workers in (continued overleaf) 2 SPAIN AND THE WORLD, A Canadian Socialist’s Attitude Of The London SPAIN and the— Press WORLD Views Anti-Fascist Fortnightly On Conditions In Catalonia TO THE C.N.T.-F.A.I. TEMPORARY OFFICES *. 207, GOSWELL ROAD, To find falsifications in the Tory Press of the position and activities Catalonia is the great industrialised on their trades. of the C.N.T.-F.A.I. is by no means surprising, l o them the anti-Fascist LONDON, E.C.l, area of Spain and if the Catalan On the outskirts of Puigcerda is the struggle is anathema enough. But the National Confederation of Labour ENGLAND. people had failed to have stamped out largest collectivized dairy products and the Anarchist Federation of Iberia are worse than the red cloth to the Fascism in the way that they did at factory, producing cheese and con bull Tories and their mouth-piece, the Press, have been known to adjust ADVERTISEMENT RATES ON the start of the rebellion the whole densed milk. A large number of themselves to republics, or so called democratic governments. But the Villas which surround Puigcerda in APPLICATION. story might now be different. Not possibility of a society that will have none of a deadly state machine is only has Catalonia collectivized her the mountains, and which were the too far removed from the cramped and warped Tory mind. And as all PRICE 2d.; FOR U.S.A., 5 CENTS. factories and her manufacturing but summer homes of wealthy people fear is motivated by ignorance, tha Tory papers and their scribes must she has increased her production to who came there from the cities, have needs be terrified by the C.N.T.-F.A.I. whose supreme effort is directed meet the exigencies of the war. The been turned into sanatoria and into towards the creation of a non-governmental social life. —Barcelona, 1937. factories are now running continu homes and schools for refugee child [continued from page 1) Unfortunately one finds the same inhibitions in the so called Left ously with three eight hour shifts. ren. The people of Puigcerda have papers They, too, fear the C.N.T.-F.A.I. and their dominant influence Congress on Spain. When asked Through her geographical position not been content just to organize a what part the Anarchists had on the Catalan people. They try desperately to silence the achievement Catalonia is today the only land route better living for themselves but they of the Spanish Revolution and its socialized work. From time to time the played in the crushing of Fas left to the republic to communicate have taken one of the largest and best cism in Catalonia, he answered equipped hotels and turned it into a Left papers grudgingly say something about the C.N.T.-F.A.I. Mostly it with France. While Fascist Spain is is garbled and misleading. Believing this to be the case rather than inten- us “ None at all,” and added closely linked with Africa and the home for refugees. The peasant far that not only were they a nuis Central European dictatorships, Cata mers throughout the adjoining coun tional lying I have written to these newspapers to correct their statements. ance but were doing active fas lonia is the link between republican tryside have prepared a scheme for But as they studiously refused to publish my protests I have come to the cist propaganda, involuntarily Spain and France and the western the collectivizing of agriculture and conclusion that the Left Press is as dishonest as the Right and that the perhaps, by shooting all peas European democracies. this is being carried out. While I C.N.T.-F.A.I. is as much, a thorn in their flesh as they are in the Franco ants who refused to fall in with From this summary it must be was there they were busy putting fer confreres. This attitude on the part of the British Leftists is proof their plans of Collectivisation! apparent that Catalonia is the back tilizer on the land, repairing bridges, positive that the C.N.T.-F.A.I. represent the only champions of the Revo These same lies are being circu bone of Republican Spain in the war the roads and the irrigation canals. lution in Spain and that they are the only organizations who have done lated everywhere by those who against Fascism. Yet certain English On the Aragon front is the village with the farce of Capitalist Democracies. The C.N.T.-F.A.I. is in action seek to minimise the great work newspapers and certain political of Gelsa, liberated from the Fascist on two fronts, the anti-Fascist war and the defence of the Revolution. of our Spanish Comrades, and groups have tried to give the impres occupation only a few months ago. That is why they are hated by all sides and loved by the masses whose ideal are, unfortunately, too often sion that Catalonia’s adherence to the Here a new kind of life has been or is COMMUNISMO LIBERTARIO, Libertarian Communism. believed. Valencia Government and to the ganized. Not only are the people To give but two examples of the boycott against the C.N.T.-F.A.I., ***** Spanish Republic were doubtful, that turning out war supplies on a gener both in the Right as well as the Left Press, I submit two letters sent to The Anarchist Press, outside Catalonia was not putting forth the ous scale but they have also put into Catalonia, is being censored, effort that she might in the fight operation a system of libertarian and publication suspended be against Fascism. Perhaps the reason communism and they are making it The Editor, diately after the 19th July, 1936. To be cause they expose certain “ The New Statesman and Nation." able to continue such an experiment as for this is that her great syndicalist work. Before they were one of the 10, Great Turnstile. W.C.l. the collectivisation of the industries and “ leaders ” who are betraying trade union, the C.N.T., is anarchist poorest .of villages. They didn’t Sir. the land, in the face of danger and death, the workers’ cause. This annoys in principle and some people are con know what it was to see a movie and In the midst of the dreadful silence of is proof positive that they are the only the professional politicians; it genitally incapable of ever realizing they seldom had meat more than once the British Press in regard to the place true revolutionists who still believe in annoys them that the Anar that there is a vast difference between or twice a week. In Gelsa, now, and importance of the C.N.T.-F.A.I., it Liberty intensely, to fight and die for it chists should expose (with is heartening to come across a few excep if need be. For the rest, the Anarchists what the word anarchist means in money has no value and no one works tions. Few indeed, since it is only The will survive the charge of being “ either facts) the traitor Col. Ascensio England (generally a demented person for an employer. Everything is col New Statesman and Nation and the Man- visionaries, half-wits or gunmen.” who lost Malaga to the Italian who throws bombs) and what it lectivized. Everyone gives his labour chester Guardian who are liberal enough Yours sincerely, hordes (Spain and the World No. stands for in practice in Catalonia. and receives in return all that he to do justice to the C.N.T.—F.A.I. I EMMA GOLDMAN. 11), because he happened to be It was the anarchists who made desires. The artisans have nominated was therefore interested to read the Caballero’s Minister of War. article of Mr. Cyril Connolly in your * * * * * short work of the Fascist rebellion in a delegate and it is his responsibility issue of February 20th. I met him in The Editor, The professional politicians Catalonia. It is the Anarchists who to see that everything is kept in repair. Barcelona and without seeming boastful I “The Daily Telegraph,” were equally annoyed that a are mainly in control of all the indus Coal and wood are distributed to each wish to say that I gave him the first 135, Fleet Street, E.C.4. campaign was started in Bar try, of education, of transport and of family in accordance with its needs. interview for the C.N.T.—F.A.I., which Sir, he used for his first article in your pub In your issue of Friday, January 19th, celona, and through the Anar the distribution of the food supplies Meat is distributed equitably—20 chist Press, for the dismissal of lication. I found an article by Your Own Cor to the people. These are no light kilos to each person. The same My comrades in Barcelona at that time respondent in Perpignan, regarding riots Prieto, Minister for Air and the tasks and require a high order of applies to potatoes and other veget had had so many unpleasant experiences of the Peasantry against the Government Navy, because of the inactivity constructive ability. In Barcelona with newspaper men they hesitated to be at Valencia. The writer states that he ables. For extra things, which every had learned “ from reliable informants of the loyal fleet. Whilst Franco you ride in tram, motor ’bus, or taxi, family requires, the Committee dis lieve that Mr. Connolly would make an exception. His first article proved that he that had just come over from Barcelona was bombarding the coast, services which have been collectivized tributes tickets, to every adult three that a serious rising against the Valencia transporting troops from Mo was fair and sympathetic. As a result he and are being run by the anarchists. tickets, children from six and a half has since received every courtesy and all Government had broken out among the rocco, seizing, sinking or plun They have a hand in more activities to twelve receive one ticket and under the data from the C.N.T.—'F.A.I., for his farmers in the surrounding country.” To dering the Merchant ships further work. On the whole, Mr. Con write about the world-stirring events in in Catalonia than any other political that age half a ticket. The people Spain from the vantage point of a French of Spain, Russia, Denmark, group. When I left Barcelona they of this village are now engaged on the nolly has been objective and just. But I Sweden, Norway . . . loyal war was sorry to see in his last article that he border town is superficial enough. But were holding an exhibition of works construction of a communal laundry considered it important enough to repeat to base one’s knowledge on mere hear ships were lying at anchor at the of art which members of their organ and after that they are planning to malicious gossip and whisperings picked say seems to me to be the height of in Naval base of Carcagente. Now, up from people on the streets. These justice, even to those whose Cause one izations had salvaged during the re erect a filtration plant to purify their deprecates. however, because of the “ An bellion. In a new school which they drinking water. As soon as the war dreadful human habits are unreliable archist extremists rising,” three enough in time of peace. In a situation It happens that I have been in the very were organizing some English visitors is over they hope to build a better like the present in Spain it seems a pity parts near Valencia your Correspondent large warships, including the were astounded to find in the library road to the next village, to build an to give them credence. refers to ; that I have travelled the length largest, the Jaime I, have been a number of religious books which abbatoire and new homes on modern A case in point is the opinion given Mr. and breadth of Catalonia, Aragon and the sent to Barcelona with troops! Levante. I have visited dozens of vil had been left by the monks who had plans. A sewage system will be con Connolly by an “ English Communist.” lages, and, being out of Spain but But the Basque coast which previously run a school there. “Yes,” structed and all the streets paved. Is it possible that Mr. Connolly does not is being continually bombarded, know of the “ love ” every Communist recently, I can emphatically state that they said, “ we are going to keep those All of these developments are tak feels for all Anarchists? Else it would be there is no truth in the report of the in and reinforcements brought by books in our library because they are ing place in the state of Catalonia formation your Correspondent transmitted ships, is left unprotected save difficult to understand how he could second-hand. Far from any “ uprising ” good books.” In the country they where the Anarchists are mainly in repeat the charge made by his informant I found singular goodwill and sympathy for two or three small armed have undertaken the organization of control and where the workers are that it was an Anarchist who killed trawlers. The Basque people Buenaventure Durruti. Actually on the part of those peasants who are many communities. welded together in the great anarchist nothing but hatred can conceive of such working the land collectively; theyare were threatened with starvation In the town of Puigcerda, high up trade union of Spain, with a million an utterly mad accusation. heart and soul with the Revolutionary by a “ blockade,” and it is not in* the Pyrenees on the border of and a half members, the C.N.T. Not forces now engaged in an heroic battle the Spanish Fleet which calls the against Fascism. France, they have successfuly collec only did the Anarchists of Catalonia in the C.N.T.—F.A.I. was so trusted, No doubt there is a shortage of food, bluff, but no other person than tivized all the distribution of goods. successfully quell the Fascist rebel loved and admired as Durruti. It Is but that is entirely due to the so-called Potato Jones and other mer There are only two privately owned lion at its very outset but they have therefore fantastic to assume that any of Democratic ” Governments, who by chant seamen in unprotected his comrades would have taken his life. their stand of Neutrality have deliber stores and these have not been inter developed, while in power, a high The reason given Mr. Connolly by the merchant ships! A ridiculous fered with because they belong to order of constructive ability. ately worked into the hands of Franco situation indeed. English Communist for his utterly absurd and his worthy supporters, Hitler and * * * * * foreigners. In a large building all H. METCALFE. accusation was that the Anarchists were Mussolini. They have thereby sabotaged the barbers are working together, all “ jealous of his friendship with the Rus the rights of the Spanish people to defend Where does all this lead us ? are receiving the same wages, while in (The author, a Canadian Socia'ist, sians. and that “ his views were very un their lives and their liberty. Had they Our Spanish comrades have spent more than three months inpopular." Permit me to say that there is not been interfered with, they would have another adjoining room all the ladies’ not a word of truth in this. Actually been able to continue the normal supplies made compromises (too many in hairdressers are working. The tailors Spain, and was able to judge for himDurruti never entertained “ friendship self the conditions prevailing. The of foodstuffs. our opinion) in the name of true are working together in another place. with the Russians.” He was absolutely But with tens of thousands of Fascist unity. They have strained every There are three co-operative grocery' article which reached us too late forand irrevocably opposed to Dictatorship. victims to care for now, it is not surpris nerve to reach an understanding publication in the last issue, was writOf course he stressed to the need of unity ing that there should be some shortage. and meat stores, two cafes, one to with the Spanish Communists as the only between the two large workers’ bacco store, a fruit store and a num- ten a few weeks before the "uprising” means of conquering Fascism; but he However, at no time was this sufficient to of May in. Catalonia.— Eds.) impel the farmers to rise in revolt against organisations, C.N.T. and U.G.T. ber of shops where the artisans carry was only too well aware of the idealogical differences between Communists and An the Anti-Fascist forces, with whom they Of that there can be no doubt. are so absolutely in accord. No impar Tierra y Libertad (organ of the archists, and the difference between their tactics, to ever become enamoured with tial observer who has visited Anti-Fascist F.A.I. in Barcelona) of the 17th the Soviet regime. A man of such convic Spain will deny that whether the average April covers the front page with tions and of such abiding faith in the farmer agrees with the variousIdealogies scenes from working life; in the strength of the ideal of Liberty could not represented in the United front or not, centre are two hands, clasped in possibly entertain “ friendship ” for a he loathes Fascism as much as the most regime which rests on the very opposite Left Revolutionaries. It is this loathing a handshake. They represent conception. of the Spanish people in every station of the C.N.T. and U.G.T. united in I am not a Marxian aud not in accord life for Franco and his hirelings that pre struggle. with the POUM. But, in justice to this cludes any rising or revolt solong as a Our comrades have been blind party whose men are fighting heroically single Fascist will continue to disgrace the at every front, I cannot but point out that fair name of Spain. to the political manoeuvres, in it is scandalous on the part of the Com- May I inform you that itis this opposi creased since Russian interven mumsts to charge them with Fascism. tion and hatred of Fascism which explains tion, destined to crush them *hat is just the trouble with the Com the failure of France to crush the Liber eventually. They have accepted munists. In their Jesuitical belief that tarian struggle? Franco has all the arms the end justifies the means ” they will he wants and now also a great many too long. . . . Some have an stoop to every method, no matter how men, so generously supplied him by the swered during these last few reprehensible, in their dealings with their two ultra-humanitarian rulers, Hitler momentous days in Barcelona. opponents. However, that is an old and and Mussolini. They have answered not as painful story which those who flirt with I he other side has, in addition to large uncontrollable, ignorant ele Lommunism have yet to learn numbers and considerable arms, also a I congratulate Mr. Connolly on his sublime ideal and courage. These have ments, but as conscious indivi understanding and appreciation of the been known to move mountains and they duals who see the true Socia1 role the Anarchists have played in the will help to remove Fascism from Spain. Revolution being swallowed uj M hether you agree or disagree with by professional politicians anc “fo T T V"■••Connolly’s / r ' e Slr ish|* ability ;° rkL‘rS- to observe U sPeaks the the Anti-Fascist Cause, it would be well actual facts in Catulonia. I only wish for your readers to obtain your informa professional soldiers. more people who go to Spain would show tion from a Correspondent stationed in They know that politicians Spain, rather than from onecomfortably •fa':.neSS- For no one with a and safely watching the heroic Spanish and soldiers spells reaction. Mu. B °v JUr 'Ce Can P°ssib>y fad to see Reaction spells FASCISM! the extraordinary constructive work the social panorama from afar. • N .t. f.A .I. has begun, almost ir Sincerely, SP. & the WLD. An Anarchist column leaving for the Front. EMMA GOLDMAN. SPAIN AND THE WORLD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 19th, 1937. 3 COLLECTIVE FARMING MUSSOLINI Anarchism from the Root
Liberty is dead. Trains run on “We Are Working For The Future” time. RENEWED EFFORT IN THE ’ 8o’s Torture, assassination and murder Says A Farmer ushered in the new regime. Trains run on time. IV. Joseph Lane And William Morris BUILDING THE NEW SPAIN The people are intimidated, ter rorised. Trains run on time. The International Working Men’smanaged with normal intelligence, it The independent youth of Italy, is a vital necessity to be properly in Association which revived Socialism This is an account of the work must dig wells, pump up the water, who dared fight the tyrant, languish formed on what happens internation being carried out on the collective and run it over the land.” in jail. The highest exponents of in many countries, produced no such results in England. There it was ally in the same sphere and so it is farm at Benicasim, given by one of “ Will all the costs be paid by the Italian culture have been killed or done, universally, in all ages. A new the collective farmers to the corres proceeds of the first harvest? ” he was have fled. Residence is prescribed; meant to be a dignified, decorative institution, giving lustre to a number discovery, a new invention in the most pondent of a Valencia newspaper. asked. “ Perhaps not. But soon it there are secret police; there are remote country becomes a living Benicasim lies on the coast, on the will be paid. We are working for the of aspiring, advanced trade unionists special agents of Fascists to spy on and politicians, who washed their reality to equivalent circles every main road between Barcelona and future. It is enough for us if we Fascists. Domestic passports are re hands of socialism and were not in where, at once, or they would Valencia. All those who work on the help to make the agricultural economy quired; emigration is an offence; fair terested in the high sounding revolu from that moment lag behind farm belong to the Federation Es- of Spain sound.” trial a mockery. The tyrant is in the and become disqualified. It is of no pafiola de Trabajadores de la Tierra “ The rest of the farm is mainly tionary talk on the Continent. They saddle! left it to Marx to deal with that and use to say that wireless talk, television, —the Spanish Federation of Workers under cultivation already. Just now Trains run on time. radio, the Press, etc., have now Marx con amore applied himself to of the Soil. we have vines, oranges, beans—and “ Mussolini has organised Italy,” bridged over every distance: they “ We have about 1,000 acres,” said there are also orchards and pine the task of browbeating and weeding say his defenders. I have already out the revolutionary socialists, those have just been monopolized, one after the farmer. “ Part of this, of course, groves. We are going to plant more said that. “ Trains run on time ” is the other, by State and Money inter was originally the property of peas vines in place of the beans, because who had done the real work of bring- a symbol. Children of eight are ing together and hurrying up the dila ests and divide the nations more than ants now co-operating on the farm. we have taken over the distillery that trained for the army. How much fur ever. Whether we look at all the It should be understood that only the Carmelite Friars used to have. tory and halfhearted elements whom ther could organisation go? legend calls the founders of' the In present misinformation on Spain or those who wished, of their own ac They went away, and after the dis They call the system progress; it’s at the example discussed here of such cord. to join in the collective have tillery had been closed for two ternational. a retrogression. They call it new; Marx was proposed to sit on the gross lack of information and misin done so. No compulsion has been months we took it over. We make all it’s as old as history. They call it formation within the International, put on anyone to join, and the prop sorts of liqueurs—just now for Spain, Council when all that work had been Fascism; it’s plain old-fashioned done and so his connection with the we must say that: the more it changes, erty of those who have not done so but later, perhaps, for export as well. tyranny. New lamps for old, new the more it is the same thing, and we has been respected absolutely—even “ We are cutting some pine trees new body originated. As we know words for old ideas, a totalitarian by his own hand (a letter) and find must claim at all times that labour although their views are not particu down just now, because we have to state for the divine right of kings! diplomacy must be abolished. larly Left. Only abandoned prop fulfil the contract made before with confirmed by minutes and other docu The industrialist says, “ my ments, he undertook the mission of The London Bootmaker, James erties have been taken over by the the timber merchants of Castellon. workers are happy.” The general collective. The largest property we As for the rest of the pines, we are keeping away all that he called sec Harrigan says, “ my soldiers are happy.” The tarian socialism from the organiza acquired was of almost 500 acres. It following the instructions given us warder says, “my convicts are happy.” That poor English International, was completely uncultivated and over by the Forestry Commission of the tion. His work practically meant that nevertheless, produced just one little Mussolini says, “my people are he felt authorized by himself to com run with weeds. Its former owner Province, which are to weed out the happy.” They, only they—the ruled anarchist who through his long life had used it only for shooting.” It bad quality timber. The pines grow bat every form of socialism which was spread one original idea of his, but —are never free to say whether they not of his own coinage or subservient should be understood that in Spain in the more arid region, and there we are happy or not. was pooh-poohed universally; yet that where much of the land is poor, and also graze 200 sheep. We also have to his purposes—a nice attitude for very idea is put into practice nowadays Mussolini owes an unexpressed the trusted member and one of the many people have not enough food, 16 pigs, and a herd of 16 cattle, as debt of gratitude to Hitler, the more in gigantic proportions. I refer to it is a crime to leave fertile land un well as 200 hens. We know we must administrative functionaries of an or the small London bootmaker, James recent agent of barbarism, who ex ganization which was to promote the cultivated. “ We are going to grow increase our livestock, but it is very Harragan, who seems to have been cites us by his more recent acts of brotherhood of the workers and to rice on two thirds of this property,” difficult. We pay out 7,000 pesetas terrorism. We forget the infamy of the only worker then who took a lik the farmer continued. “ It is diffi a week in wages, because we workers respect their social creeds. Marx had ing to Proudhon and Bakunin, just the predecessor in the crime of the to be careful on the Continent and cult, for in Benicasim we have not must live till the harvest comes in. successor. We forget the black shirt because he heard them so constantly enough labour—many of our men There are 463 men and women work could not prevent the building up and maligned by the leaders. His mind for the brown. Both regimes— unfolding of Libertarian Socialism, have gone to the front. We are going ing on the farm. We have one trac had been nourished by revolutionary Nazism and Fascism—have the same then called Collectivist Anarchism in to spend 21,000 pesetas getting this tor, two water-pumping engines, and traditions going back to the milieu of 11 pairs of mules. Most equipment, purpose. several countries, from Belgium to land into shape. The weeds must be All people must wear one shirt. Thistlewood. In short, he wished the like pipes for the water, we make our Italy and to Spain, but all that was cleared away. And then it is close Otherwise they are traitors, destined workers to do something themselves selves. It is hard work—but we have disregarded by the English members to the sea—the soil just now is too for concentration camps, island and not be mere entries in the books salt for rice-growing. The salt must to grow food for the men at the front. of the General Council who either prisons, torture, exile or death. of their union officials and election be removed by running water. So we And we are building the new Spain.” were scarcely informed of it—I refer agents. He propagated incessantly There are those who call this an to the few old socialists, men of small the stay-in strike, not to come out on awakening, a new system, a new initiative evidently,—who, as it were strike, but to stay in and lock the ideal. They draw their conclusion on principle, as labour leaders con employers out. Anarchists and some of Anarchists in its midst and the first from signs of order, from chauvinis sidered socialism a nuisance or at least direct actionists liked the idea, but THE FIRST OF MAY time that huge numbers of people tic challenges, from the outward no real issue for the present time. did not insist much on it, whilst to came to know about the C.N.T.- trappings of tyranny itself. There is IN LO NDO N Socialism’s Deepest Depression socialists, trade unionists, Fabians, F.A.I., its banners, its aims and its no voice of dissent; a kept press etc., Harragan’s persistence always gallant fight for them. echoes its master’s voice. The more Thus three years mark the deepest The First of May demonstration in depression of socialism in England caused silly merriment or supine dis EMMA GOLDMAN. perfect the oppression the more per London on Saturday, May 1st, was fect the indications of success. and its utter separation from the then gust. In 1920 the metalworkers, first a magnificent showing. But I ven Who is this man, this colossus who, flourishing socialist life in many in Naples, then on a large scale in the ture to suggest that very few of the having destroyed every vestige of countries- The English workers were North of Italy occupied the factories massed workers had any idea of the EMMA GOLDMAN liberty in Italy, has made himself the not even allowed to form sections and and inaugurated the stay-in strike. origin of the First of May as Labour’s state? He must be a superman of a Federation of their own, as Marx During 1936 and the present year Holiday. Its origin is supposed to APPEALS indomitable will, of uncanny insight, only had an eye for nominally affili there are large waves of such strikes date back to the Socialist Congress of brave spirit, of incorruptible in ated trade unions and these would all over France and the United States. In other countries striking in Paris in 1889. Actually, the idea To American Comrades tegrity, and above all, of fixed, un only affiliate themselves under the tacit was conceived and carried out by the alterable and consistent purpose! understanding that they would not be miners now often refuse to leave the mine. If there had been proper inter Chicago Anarchists murdered by the The story of his life explodes this compromised by any socialist to support Spain and the communication, this idea, proposed State of Illinois on the 11th of Nov., myth. Vacillating, changeable, even agitation made by British sections. above fifty years ago, would not have 1887. It was in connection with the World. timid, he has been a puppet of for Only when the trade unions left, tired lain barren most of that half century. eight hour workday movement that tune. His power is an accident of of the small countenance which the our martyred comrades proclaimed real representatives of the Interna It were but right to call this the stay- 7th May, 1937. fate. Opportunism, hatred and the First of May as Labour’s day of tional, the general congresses, gave to in strike and to discard the ugly Dear Comrades and Friends, brutality are his sole contributions. term “ sit-down strike.” rest. The re-action that followed their Pacifist who became an interven their narrow selfishness and scared death postponed the celebration of the Since I cannot reach you with my voice away by the Paris Commune,—only In the seventies, French (Com I hope I can do so by my pen. I am tionist through a bribe from France; mune), Russian, German, Italian and First of May until 1890. It was writing you on behalf of SPAIN AND Socialist discredited and expelled by then some English socialist life began, then that the Anarchists in New York THE WORLD, the best paper we have but it was of really lacking capacity other refugees in London, together the party; extremist despised by his with the few surviving early English and other cities held their first dem in English entirely dedicated to the fellows, he finally and fortuitously and tradition and soon lost in per onstration and public meeting in the heroic struggle of our Spanish comrades. sonal quarrels or restricted to primi socialists, acquainted young English Their struggle is the more worthy of our became a Fascist because of his workers with revolutionary concep historic Union Square. Together support because the C.N.T.—F.A.I. has tive stages of propaganda. As a mat hatred of his former comrades. The tions of socialism. The best effect, with other comrades I spoke from a not only Fascism to fight. They are sur industrialists and reactionaries found ter of fact, Continental libertarian Van, much to the chagrin of the rounded by other enemies no less danger developments remained unknown. An however, was produced on those who ous than Franco. The Socialists of Cabal him useful as an instrument against Social Democrats who also had their extract from a writing of Bakunin read up the lost and forgotten litera lero’s kind and the Communists, while the radicals and then, having made ture of English socialism, democracy platform. They prevailed upon the pretending a united front, have sabotaged of him a symbol, found him neces (1868) printed in a co-operative paper appears to have been the only casual and free thought. Beyond Thomas driver to hitch his horse to the Van the Spanish Revolution beyond belief. sary as an instrument of repression And outside of Spain they are carrying item from which some of his ideas Paine, Mill and Spencer, they read and get us out of the Square. I con against all workers and dissenters. on a vicious campaign against the C.N.T. could be gathered, whilst he himself, Burke’s Vindication of Natural tinued to speak as I was driven along The heroic march on Rome was at —F.A.I. Among other miserable villifi- apart from a courteous discussion Society (1756; a reprint of 1858 is the streets until I had finished. I cations they have spread the rumour that the invitation of the King to whom with Cowell Stepney during the Bale annotated by an anarchist), Godwin, : thought of this historic incident as Catalonia and especially Barcelona have Mussolini grandiloquently presented Congress, 1869, had no contact with Owen, Thompson, d’Holbach, etc. I was addressing a large crowd that done and are doing nothing for the de himself with apologies for his black fence of Madrid. A more criminal libel English members. Everything, then, They rediscovered the dreams of came to our van to hear our comrades shirt and a reference to “ a battle has never been committed against any was before the public as Marx or his “Pantisocracy" and Shelley’s joyous talk. movement. which luckily was not sanguinary.” henchmen, from Eccarius to Maltman anarchism, whilst American individ In this country there is a complete We in America are not unfamiliar This time the opposition to the conspiracy of silence in the so-called Left Barrie choose to present it. Thus it ualist literature, copious in those presence of Anarchists in the demon Press, and the meanest attacks against with racketeers who prey on fear and happened that when, since 1872, a years, reached them, comprising also stration came from the Communists, the Anti-Fascist War and the Revolution for a price pretend to protect us from number of English socialists separ translations of Proudhon, the period in the Right publications. Actually the greater evils than themselves. The though they did not make their pro ated themselves from Marx and took icals Radical Review, the Boston only medium we have is SPAIN AND bourgeois fear of Communism was test too loudly known. To have done THE WORLD. It is the only voice for up relations with the Continental Anarchist and Liberty and—the most that would have of necessity exposed the gallant fight our comrades are making, used by both Mussolini and Hitler. Anarchist sections, even joining the memorable pamphlet—Bakunin’s God When a racket controls a state you their great “ love ” of the C.N.T.- and the only channel through which we regenerated International (Congress of and the State (1883), Tucker’s trans can reach, if only a few thousand F.A.I. and their bitter dislike of the have Fascism; when A1 Capone gets 1873, at Geneva), this belated solidar lation of those parts of the manuscript workers, with the truth about the Revolu to the top you have Mussolini. wonderful constructive work our tion in Spain, as well as the marvellous ity was but nominal. They remained which had been published as Dieu et brave Spanish comrades are making. constructive work our comrades are con Fascism is dangerous because of authoritarians and their last phases l’Etat in 1882. But aside of that, Anyhow the Anarchists marched with tinuing in the very face of danger and the subtle approach. Those who hold can be gathered from the history of they read up the historical, constitu the rest, proudly carrying the lusty death. To lose SPAIN AND THE power in states, presumably demo The International Iutbour Uniontional and economic life of their WORLD would be a great calamity. We cratic, use the selected individual to banner of the C.N.T.-F.A.I., the flag must not permit that. It is for this (London) of 1877-78. country and saw through the old and of our newly organised Anarchist reason that I appeal to you with all the fasten the chains. The change is Such facts confirm the regrettable constantly renewed acts and artifices Syndicalist Union and a number of intensity of my being to come to the hailed as revolution. fact that among workers and socialists of the governing and exploiting rescue and support of SPAIN AND THE ARTHUR GARFIELD HAYS. slogans telling the workers what we Internationalism, however loudly pro classes. This made them proof against WORLD. New York, stand for. These were gladly re You can do the following: subscribe fessed, usually remains a fiction, the wiles of politicians never loath to ceived and applauded by the tens of yourself, take two dozen copies of every May, 1935. exactly as between nations, and for cater for the votes of workers and cap (The above article is the unpub-- thousands all along the route of issue and send them to your friends. similar reasons. In both cases such able of resisting the various other fal Organise some affair for SPAIN AND lished Foreword to Armando Borghi’s march. Especially did the masses relations are confided to specialists lacious schemers who in those years, THE WORLD. Collect donations on book “ M U SSO LINI, RED AND welcome the large photographs of subscription lists. Do get busy, dear or professionals -elected persons, about 1880, tried to net the workers’ BLACK," pushed by IV is harts, price Durruti and Ascasio carried by our comrades. Do help SPAIN AND I HE. officials, diplomatists who finish (or support. They had no means of WORLD without delay. 5/-. This book may be obtained begin) by doing what they like, make their own and were not numerous, comrades. Salud, through “ Spain and the World,” It was the first time in many years EMMA GOLDMAN. a muddle of it and quarrel and the but they rallied in small local groups price 5/6 post paid.) that London learned of the presence people pay. In science, technique and or sections, met with foreign com- development and every other domain (continued on page4 , column 1) 4 ______SPAIN AND THE WORLD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 19th, —Anarchism From The Root. brakes of 600 h.p. with manometrical A FEW LINES CULTURAL LIFE IN CATALONIA balances of 500 atmospheres, with (continued from page 3) microscopes and microphotographic rades in an International Club (Rose rooms, etc. Between Ourselves Street) procured a private press, Scientific And Literary Study printed themselves numerous leaflets, " The Electrical section is equally carried on a brisk outdoor propaganda well endowed with ultra modern and Uninterrupted powerful equipment. Its function is Our comrades' struggle in Spain in public thoroughfares and were a becomes each day more intense. thorn in the side of the political to experiment, check, and apply all created and installed in the pre the improvements connected with Each day the lies and misrepresenta hucksters • and tricksters who ap In spite of the War, cultural life in cincts of the Industrial University of tions concrning our comrades' work in proached the workers only to humbug electrical equipment for producing Catalonia has not suffered any inter Barcelona. It comprises a whole and distributing current, dynamos, Spain increase. We have shown to them. ruption. The courses of study have series of laboratories— and its studies what extent in another part of our Joseph Lane lamps, cables, insulators, motors, opened normally in all the primary are of the greatest public interest. transformers, accumulators, etc. publication. Of these inconspicuous men who and secondary schools, as well as in The apparatus is the last word in The need for publications such as The Building Material section did the real work of founding once the University and the centres of perfection— and these ultra modern ’’ SPAIN AND THE WORLD," is im. studies all natural and manufactured more revolutionary libertarian social Technical Instruction. Moreover, laboratories are able to measure up perative. W e can achieve little good materials. It checks their quality for ism in England I mention here only laboratory work has not been inter to all the experiments which the tech in comparison to the venom dis strength and durability. It works to Joseph Lane, from Oxfordshire, a rupted. nical progress of an industry in full gorged by the filthy yellow press of keep on improving the method of man of some experience in town and Scientific Reports and Expeditions, development can possibly demand. the world, but that little good is manufacture, and the resistance of country, of careful reading and dras Literary Conferences and Exhibitions In order to put its services more easily worth the trouble it involves. We the products to weather conditions. tic common sense, devoted and disin of Art are frequent. Many Depart within the reach of all kinds of indus give all our time, when not earning Stone, Lime, Cements, Bricks, Tiles, terested beyond measure. His ideas ments work with an extraordinary in try, the General Laboratory for Scien our daily bread, to the publication of Asphalts, Earthenware, are naturally are preserved in An Antistatist Com tensity— such as that of the Fine Arts tific Experiment and Research of the SPAIN AND THE WORLD. We put munist Manifesto (London, 1887, in the salving of works of artistic or Economic Department of Catalonia the objects of its investigations. It also studies the equipment for the all our energies and conviction that 24 pp.), a statement which he drew up historic value, which the Fascist up has been sub-divided into five prin our Spanish comrades are fighting for manufacture of these products, the to explain his and his friends’ posi rising had endangered. More than cipal sections; Mechanics, Electricity a just cause into all our articles. We tion in the Socialist League. They improvement of the plant and the which, the Department of Learning is and Applied Physics, Building have received encouragement from declared themselves atheists, anti very active in creating new institu Materials, Chemistry, Textiles. perfecting of the numerous kinds of statist and free communists or inter furnaces required by this vast indus many comrades; other comrades tions inspired by the educational prin The Journal of Barcelona gives the write to us from time to time express national revolutionary socialists. Lane ciples orthe Modern School. following details on this important try. advocated the most thoroughgoing ing opinions, commenting on our Among the scientific publications institution:— " The Chemistry section analyses publication and helping us on in our social anarchism, co-operative com of the Department of Culture of the " The laboratories occupy an area mineral ores, fuels, oils, petrols, munities of associated workers, some work. W e appreciate these letters. Generalidad we should refer to a of 4,000 sq uare metres. lubricators, chemical products of all We want even more of this form of thing quite akin to the comunismo Treatise by Edouard Fontsere and " The value of the apparatus equals kinds and pharmaceutical products, libertario in Free Spain. These con collaboration it is ncessary for the Maria Capinan on the Influence of two million pesetas. lime, cements, slag, varnish, the sub success of a publication of this kind. ceptions like those of Sam Matntoar- Altitude on Changes in Living Beings. " The measuring instruments are stances used in the preparation of Our work cannot be continued, ing and others had no other origin On the other hand, Louis Rodes, the most precise in existence. cloth, stearine, waters with mineral however, if we do not receive also and affiliation than those described, Director of the Ebra Observatory, has " The appliances are ideally suited content and drinking waters. financial support. As stated pre their sound dispositions, readings, published in the Barcelona Press, the for all the experiments." " The Textile section studies the viously, we have refrained from asking common sense and experience. These result of his observations on solar " The Mechanics' section is respon men took part in the Democratic, later quality of the raw material, cotton, our Spanish Comrades for support. activity— and it should be noted that sible for the study of the properties silk, wool, hemp, etc. It establishes called Social Democratic Federation, Louis Rodes, who used to belong to a of steel, iron, metals of all kinds and Is not their struggle, their sacrifice, the legal weights; it watches the of which a more advanced section Jesuit Order expelled under the Mon worthy of being recorded, without alloys. It examines the strength of degree of humidity of these materials; founded the Socialist League (Decem archy and dissolved in 1931 by the cables, cordage, chains, rails, spindles, asking them to meet the expenses it checks all the substances used in ber 27th, 1884). They stood up once Alcala Zamora Government, is now pipes, propellers, etc. It verifies that incurred in so doing? We know that the preparation, the dyes, the sizing, more for complete socialism in God able to continue his researches in fhey are perfect. It possesses appa our Comrades both here in England the starching. • It examines the per win’s true sense— a socialism guar conjunction with his usual colleagues; ratus of a force of 3,000 to 500,000 and in English-speaking countries meability of different tissues— and anteeing all the fruits of freedom as neither before nor since the Fascist kilograms for stretching, compressing think so. imposes standards. It acts in the well as the fruits of solidarity. insurrection has anyone troubled him. and bending. It is furnished with tor We are therefore sending to all same way as regards the quality of These ideas accorded in no small We should add that the Ebra O b groups and individuals to whom the sion machines with a force of 150 to the raw fibres and the yarn. In a • degree at that time with those of servatory has been subsidised by the 5,000 kilos, and with apparatus for newspaper is regularly forwarded, word, it is concerned with all the William Morris (1834-%) and his Generalidad since the outbreak of checking the resistance of springs and subscription lists which we hope they operations that take place from the friends, notably Philip Webb and the rebellion. spindles up to 30,000 kilos; with will circulate amongst comrades in shearing of the wool to the com Charles Faulkner* who closely' co A general laboratory for scientific Charpy pendulums of 75 kilogram- their groups and amongst sym pletion of a suit." operated with Lane in the League experiment and research has been metres; with hydraulic and electric pathisers. Please return the lists and and, as earlier, the attempts of H. M. To the official Institutions, one must the money to us as soon as possible. Hyndman to boss the S.D.F. had add the great development of The deficit is still in the neighbour been fought by them, so now the at workers' cultural circles and schools hood of £90. tempts of the Marxists to get hold of for propagandists; the source for The next issue, the 13th, will con the League were frustrated by them technical reviews of the different tain a complete balance sheet of and came to nought in 1888. I am syndicates. income and expenditure up to and far from claiming William Morris for including the 13th issue. It is our anarchism, but I claim that his ideals policy to conduct the financial side of as described so often in the years up our paper in a business-like way. It is to 1890, when News from Nowhere Pamphlets On Anarchism our duty to show the comrades was published, are as similar to the exactly how their hard-earned money ideals of anarchists as one egg may K ropotkin—Anarchist Communism, has been disposed of. Meanwhile, be to another egg. What wras missing 3d. Comrades, see that our publication in him, was that confidence in free „ Wage System, Id. may hold its head up, financially, dur dom under any circumstances which „ Place of Anarchism in ing these momentous days in working- is characteristic of the true anarchist. Socialistic Evolution, class history. In those years many anarchists, es 2d. THE EDITORS. pecially in France, partly from dog „ Revolutionary Govern ***** matic rigour, partly from a more per ment, 2d. SOLIDARITY FUND sonal standpoint or disposition, went M alatesta —Anarchy, 3d. to such lengths of affirming the ar Second List „ Talk Between Two Brought forward £ 18 13s. 9d. Bar- bitrary, haphazard character of anar Workers, 3d. chist activities, if it pleased somebody net: T. Bard, 7/-; London: W „ 4d.; Owen, W m. C.-—Anarchism v. New London, Conn.: " I Liberi,‘ to act in such a way, that this amor- Socialism, 3d. phism (the term was used) hurt the Group, part proceeds of social held Barrett—Objections to Anarchism, 20th March, £2 0s. 5d.; London: practical commonsense of Morris and 2d. his acute feeling for proportion, con Freed from the fetters of the Church, educational centres are G.A.L., 2/-; London, W.: V.R., £1 5s.; being created everywhere in Workers Spain „ The Anarchist Revolution, London: P., £2; Illinois, Wilsonville: secutive order, completeness, etc., Id. proper to all harmonious work, and N. Chiarotti, " part proceeds social G oldman , E.—Anarchism, 2d. Morris abhorred all work that was not held for radical press," (10$), £2 Os well-made. He could not have had W akeman —Anarchism and Demo I0d.; San Francisco: Comrades, 8/- that experience which those who wit 20 ORPHANS cracy, Id. Youngstown, Ohio: (collected by A nessed the anarchists at work in H avel , H.—What’s Anarchism? 3d. de Toffel), A. Vasconi, 2$, T. Schia Spain on and after July 19th had to Have Been Adopted On four Behalf R ocker, R.—The Truth About Spain, voni 1$, A. de Toffol, 2$, S. Antonini their great delight, when they saw that 3d. 1$, B. Chousa 0.50$, Jose Maneiro all exaggeration, one-sidedness, men With the encouraging response children! Let 80 children then be our Postage £d. each pamphlet. O. 50$, A. Hermida, 0.50$, F. Malig tal untidiness, arbitraryness fell from goal within the next few weeks! no, 0.50$, F. Berezo, 0.50$, Stalo (?) received to date from Comrades and * * * * * FREEDOM PRESS, people like dross the moment they had friends in England and in America, 1$, sold copies 1$, total 10.50$= before them either the serious struggle we have decided to adopt another ORPHANS’ FUND WHITEWAY COLONY, £2 2s.; S. Africa, Johannesburg: S. or the task of new and free work. ten orphans, making the total number Second List (to May 8th, 1937) STROUD, GLOS. L. Sapire, 15/6; Bristol: J. Richfield, Our confidence in freedom was justi in our care to date twenty. Brought forward £35 9s. lid . I -; Scotland, Greenock: S. Marietta, fied, whilst Morris in 1890 turned his This entails further responsibilities Tunis: N.V., 18/8. Jr.. 3/-. TO TA L: £29 18s. lOd. back far too quickly on casual short on the part of our readers, and we London: Irish Sympathiser, 7/6. comings, not to his own, nor to any Detroit, Mich.: International feel confident that they will not avoid under the provisional law which < body’s good. this added responsibility. With the Libertarian Committee against VOLUNTARY fiscates the landed property of rel These remarks leave his work up to ever-increasing number of orphans Fascism in Spain (50$) COLLECTIVIZATION 1890 as dear to us as before and we from the Basque country being added £10 4s. Id. The village to-day is run recognise before all that he intro to the victims of Madrid, Irun, London, E.C.l: A. Kaye, 2/-. H. N. Brailsford, who cannot be its Trade Union organization duced into socialism the rightful Malaga and other parts of the London, W.: W., lOd. accused of having an Anarchist bias, this instance the revolution claims of beauty, those of proportion, country dominated by the Fascist London, S.W.5: Sidonie Goosens, writes in Reynold’s News (May 9th): C.N.T, Its President, an eh soundness and harmony above all, not sadists, we must needs double our £1 2s. 6d. The peasants are everywhere being ly nian who impressed me those of fastidious aesthetical caprice. efforts. Manchester: Winifred Hollings, shepherded into Co-operative organ much by his dignity as by It is easy to indulge in incoherent Is it asking too much to expect £12 8/-. izations. No coercive pressure is intelligence, had forbidden dreams, it is more important to con a week from over 4,000 readers? U.S.A., Smithfield: L. Fagnano, used, but if they join a producers’ killing of opponents in the tribute to the production of an attrac Have those comrades to whom we 4/1. Co-operative society they can obtain lage, though he had himself tive milieu, a proper basis for further appealed for th sixpences and shil U.S.A., San Francisco: Com many advantages from the Govern dured long years of impris developments. Morris strove to im lings a week ignored our appeal? Is rades (11$), £2 4s. Od. ment—an advance on their crops, a ment for his opinions under press such claims, the right to beauty, it too great an effort to renounce one London, W.l: C.R., 5/-. credit for the purchase of chemical old order. on the stunned victims of the present small luxury, or have to put six penny London, VV.l: l’Animale, 1/-. manure, and, of course, the disinter system, just as Tolstoi called upon stamps in an envelope and post them TOTAL: £51 7s. 7d. ested marketing of their produce. them to rouse and foster the ethical to us? Correction: In the last issue This is not the region of the great values within themselves,—whilst the Comrades, please remember that the contribution of the Trustees aristocratic estates, which are the rule SIGNIFICANT State, the capitalist and all authorit for every twenty sixpences we of the Horton S.O.S. should in the south and south-west. There arian parties just wish them to remain receive we can keep a child for one have been £13 13s. 0d., and not are some, however, and I saw two I he Sunday Times (May 9t publishes the following, from its Gi as they are, resigned to obedience and week. £13 13s. lOd. as printed. The big farms that belonged to rebel to discipline. The teachings of Mor Now, how many will respond this total, however, remains unal grandees who had fled. raltar correspondent. It is reported here that a force ris and Tolstoi left their mark on time? We want those sixpences as tered. One dignified old manor house had many in England and will again be much as we want the pound notes. been turned into a refuge for the 8,000 men sent by the Valenc among the starting points of socialist Send them now and do not put it off Published by Thus. H. Keel, Whiteway Government to aid the Catali Colony, nr. Stroud, Gloucester, on women and children of Madrid, and regeneration, if it is ever to come in to a later date. this is the usual fate of such places; Government was checkedafter figh England. May 19th, 1937, and printed by West If 2,000 comrades sent us 6d. every Midlands Newspapers, Ltd., Faring- the other was a rest-home for airmen. ing with Anarchists near Fortosa. March 25th, 1937. week we should be able to adopt 80 don. Berks. Some soldiers, it is state* x.x.x. I he two estates had been socialised deserted to the Anarchists.