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The Living Daylights 1(10) 18 December 1973

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lY j's T f li I®THE ARMY OF THE R A R E * Richard Beckett beats up the week’s news

Control yourself!

HIS ISSUE, as suggested by our cover and by the the ubiquitous T Harry Gumboot (p. 3), gravitates around “ anarchy, outlaws, life and other things” . Anarchy is not something that died when Franco’s fascists marched into Bar­ celona in 1939. A lengthy discussion between Noam Chomsky, Colin Ward and Pat Flanagan (p.11-15) suggests that the Idea is alive and well and is emerging through the areas like workers control, free schools and tenants unions etc. The last weeks have seen the Master Builders Association using all tricks pos­ sible to nail down the NSW branch of the Builders Laborers Federation — that gad­ fly of the developers. BLF secretary Joe Owens is on the run, dodging summonses to appear before the industrial court. Grant Evans and Syd Shelton caught up with him and are happy to report Owens is still in fine fettle and thumbing his nose at the developers (p .5). The oil thirsty industrial nations are crossing their fingers and praying that; this week’s Geneva talks over the Middle IXCXJE East situation go sm oothly and reach an amiable situation very quickly. Jeremy TREET RIOTERS TAKE for the circus o f the year. As a matter label childrens nightwear for its ability : Salt discusses the chances (p.6). SNOTE: The American Medical o f interest the health bill was defeated, to withstand flames will com e into : And there are actions of individuals: gggj: Association has ruled that terminal thus ensuring that the suffering poor force from the beginning o f next year. : Jim Hutchins tells why he bulldozed gggg patients should be allowed to die on will never get a decent set o f false From then parents will have to resort; dow n his new house (p.4 ); an anarcho gggg the “ death with dignity” slide rule o f knees. Our bright eyed and bushy to the old boiling bath trick to get rid j feminist and her friends give a male tailed political correspondents also o f their odious offspring. chauvinist his just desserts (p. 5); Syd jigi; life; Mr Denzil Bradley, the director o f Balhorne, an ex egg farmer fed up with the jigg: the Rhodesia Information Service in breathlessly reported that prime minis­ reactionary attitude of the people behind jigg Sydney, has abandoned his powerful ter Whitlam drank from two different rural industry, turned newspaper editor jigg post to return to South Africa; and the glasses o f water during his windup nd some even worse jji; and tried to fight them — a formidable jjjg new government of Papua New Guinea speech. That’s capitalism for you. A NEWS: The South Australian jig task he says (p.4). And then there is gig has banned the sale o f alcohol for a National Parks and Wildlife Service is jjg a requiem for prison escapee Noel Harrison gggg five day period over the christmas-new busily training a dog squad to sniff out (centre pages). jijijj year holidays. What price the barri­ The com et. Last week they said it was O MUCH FOR PARTY LOY­ illegal bird smugglers at Adelaide air- eg; a fizzer. Just to prove them wrong ng cades now? SALTY : Mr Les Bury, the former port. jj: Kohoutek, with the assistance of the sun, Liberal treasurer, after faithfully repre­ added another tw o million miles to its senting the interests o f big business tail. Ian McCausland has devised a game TREET RIOTERS TAKE and his own party for 17 years, has hree cheers for the gig for all to play, a lift out souvenir o f this FURTHER NOTE: The United S been suitably thanked by being dump­ GOOD OLD BOYS: The New gig year’s “ long haired star” . As well as Ian’s jig States government has taken strong T ed by the loyal rank and file from the South Wales branch o f the RSL has jig- prayer to the com et you will have the jig objection to the fact that Australia's preselection ballot for the federal seat predicted that it will become a far igg; privilege of viewing the original graphic jji overseas trade minister, Dr Jim Cairns, of Wentworth. Fittingly enough Mr stronger pressure group next year. The gig masterpieces of Peter Dickie, Martin :•$; has supported the North Vietnamese Bury once represented Australia at the state president o f the league, Mr C. J. gig Sharp, Neal McLean and Ian McCausland. jig government and for saying that Amer- While we are not averse to recycling International Court o f Justice in the Hines, said the growth in strength jigi; jig ica is deliberately sponsoring a fascist graphics, The living daylights was over­ Hague over the recent French nuclear would come from a decision to raise a jigi; takeover in Vietnam as a whole. Dr whelmed with contributions this issue tests in the Pacific. levy for the maximum distribution of gig: gig Cairns has broken some code o f inter- and we tried to incorporate as many ideas the RSL magazine Reveille. Just how gig national decency by stating the obvi- as we could. Some of the graphics on this is going to increase the strength o f gig pages 11 to 15 were sent by the Western :•$; ous. the lunatic organisation is somewhat gg; Australian Anarchist Federation, PO box ERE’S THE GOOD NEWS: The o f a mystery, but at least the NSW jigg 61, Inglewood 6052, for which much Associated Chamber of Manufac­ H m ob believes it will do some good and jigg thanks. We also thank those people who i AISE HIGH THE BARRI- tures of Australia and the Bank of called into the office with kind words and while they’re worrying about such jigg lCADES: Canberra’s new aborig- New South Wales have gleefully point­ good works. great and weighty matters they are in igg jjjj inal parliament, appointed by ed out in a specially conducted survey As our publication day coincides with far less o f a position to bother or- gig that Australia faces a general business that of Christmas and new year we have jig;: God’s own federal Labor government, dinary decent people. gig taken the opportunity to scatter happily igig is upset with its wages. The black slump and a general ruin next year. into the countryside, to return with our jigg members claim they are worth at least One o f the principal reasons for this eleventh issue on january 8, with an jjji $400 a week. Turkish immigrants, business slump, the survey claimed, account of “what we did on our holi­ who are paid considerably less than a was the fact that too many people had H, LET THE BASTARDS STAY igg days” . We invite contributors to submit gig white man, are believed to be objecting jobs. By this reasoning an artificially OTHERE: Twentysix federal MPs igig their own stories of what they did, or of gig: to this unjust slur on their characters. created depression, with thousands out have signed a statement calling for the igig what people we know, love or hate did. o f work, will please the Australian release or immediate trial o f 36,000 iggg Public figures let their hair down on Indonesian political prisoners, being gijig holidays too, and we encourage readers to business world no end, not to mention held without trial for being pink in- gggg spy and report on them over the festive aise the barricades the printing industry, which will have stead o f their natural yellow color, gigi season. EVEN HIGHER: Liberal opposi­ its hands full churning out thousands R The same 26 have not signed any gig; tion leader Bill Snedden lived up to o f dole tickets. Have a yippy yuletide — EDS. petitions about the release o f quite a jigg his usual reputation as a Federal Fire­ few Australians now being held with- jigg ball by signing a massive pile o f Christ­ PS: To the Woodstock Anarchist Feder­ out trial until next year because o f the jigg mas cards as prime minister Gough ation, thanks for the tightly packed en­ OW THE BAD NEWS: Laws festivity known as the annual law gggg Whitlam gave the windingup speech velope of goodies. We intend running Ncompelling manufacturers to recess. gggg those reve lations on brain surgery in the :*x*x*x*:*x,x*:-x,x,x*x,x,x,x,x*x*x*:*x*x*x“x,x.x.x-:*l-:' state o f Tasmania in our next issue. •h*HvXvXv:vXvXvx*XvXv*x*:*x*x*h*x,x,:*x*x,x*Hv

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r{JH Russian revolution, the state is infinitesimal, compared to the ,is for Truth, the ultimate aim of all violence perpetrated by the state against is for Getty, who has just been decisively defeated the Austrians and worthwhile human curiosity. urged the unpaid railway workers of anarchists. Most free thinkers have been returned, one ear less. Because he t Aleksandrovsk to take control of the incarcerated; thousands of adherents kill­ rasli£Hg airy and hung around with hippies, is for Ugly, which is not unrelated ed. The unfortunate Bakunin was jailed the Italian police spent five months not lines. Men flocked to the banner of this Uto category above. It has been said by the Germans, and after his teeth looking for him. G is also for grass, o f cheerful libertarian, who swashbuckled of Socrates that his one outstanding dropped out from scurvy, handed to the which there aint much around these days. his way through military escapades — characteristic was ugliness. This was con­ Austrians, who sentenced him to death G is for grower, the cry of the cynics and inventing many o f the m ethods o f guer- sidered an impertinence in a Greece ruled and confined him in a cell with leg irons, the realists. T hose w ho w ould have us rilla warfare — and the p oten cy o f his by the beauty of young men. To com­ hand irons and a waist iron attached to plod safely through the world in the steps anarchist ideas terrified Lenin, Trotsky pensate he began to dethrone sensuality, the walL From there he was sent to the of our ancestors. and other centralist strong men. by elevating reason (the buffoon who got The secret police, already flourishing himself taken seriously, is how Nietzsche Russians, who sent him to Siberia. is for happiness, the pursuit of in the Soviet state by 1919, began arrest­ put it). A cruel view of the truth of No wonder he was later to propound which was written into the US that destruction in a creative act. Last ing and killing the Mahknovists. Known wisdom, which is not without its psycho­ hconstitution as an afterthought, therebyas Bakto, “ dear father” by his men, century, anarchy was a flourishing possi­ logical insight. altering the direction of western human M ahkno was forced to flee from his bility, which swept like a bushfire endeavor. H is also for Hugh Hefner, the homeland — this man who always detest­ is for venereal disease, which is through the “ latin” nations of Europe, embodiment of the pleasure principle and ed cities — and die as a miserable factory always popular at this time of the doused only by the bullying and the provider of Hope for executives every­ worker in Paris. M ahknovists represented year.V The government provides free clin­ betrayals o f British and German socialists. where; the king of the mammary, the that moment of absolute freedom in the ics; services are never advertised, no With persisting social oppression, great white slave trader of flesh. H is also Russian revolution . . . doubt due to some archaic law, which the people are beginning to discover their for Heath, the opposite in all respects, is for Nimbin, which is really a Daylights must soon get around to break­ own indignation, and the relevance of except as a conjurer of fantasy. noble experim ent in com m unity ing. In dingy premises, the bored, brisk anarchism is fresher than ever. In Mel­ • bourne last week, the man who knocked nnew worldism, despite the faint aura ofdoctors usually do the best they can, and is for Illness, which is everywhere absurdity. Escapism? Somebody has to even distribute roneoed “ fact sheets” on flat his own home, with his own infuriat­ increasing throughout Australia, take positive steps in restructuring society non specific euthrytis which verge on the ing bulldozer, struck a chord with us alL due to the efficacy of modern advertising I and the price of all anarchy is eternal charming. The medical profession is re­ What he did with his house, anarchists (and the conservatism of modern medi­ would like to do with the concept of confusion. Deposit has been paid on 1000 luctantly developing immunities for the cine). Housewives are strapped into the disease, and recent findings have been authority. kidney machines, while Bex, Vincents acres of land at Turntable Falls, 700 of which is still virgin forest. Already there encouraging. and others continue to shout their lies is for Britain and the blitz. It is from the sanctums of respectable media. are 202 fully paid shareholders, w ho are moving on to the land next week and is for women, who continue to difficult not to shudder at the The frenzy for profit makes truth telling bforthcoming plight of the out-of-workers others are w elcom e at $ 2 0 0 per share. assert themselves. It has becom e impossible. Push analgesics down the W Contact the co-op at Nimbin, PO 2484. impossible for men to write about women — many of them already mortgaged to throats of bored and harassed house­ the hilt (most likely on central heating these days without sounding either wives, become rich and respected. Push is for the Opposition, which after patronising, backward or scared. David units) who are, as ever, pawns of inter­ leaves of marijuana to a friend in need, go its first taste of playing second national power clashes. On another level, O McNicol, the most thoroughly unpleas­ to jail. fiddle in the house, has emerged as ant, insidious and inarticulate journal­ the three day work curfew can be cele­ puerile, pusillanimous and pugnacious. is for judiciary, the obnoxious ist in the history of the world, recently brated. It is a trauma — with inevitable The worst thing that could happen to breed of reactionary breadheads, boasted the womens movement was out future shock for Australia — which will Australia in the New Year is the Liberals Jiwhose job is to place legality before of the news and had collapsed. To anyone prom pt all proponents o f growth and I emerging as victors after a double dissolu­ morality and their careers before the who moves outside the aloof establish­ captains of industry to ask themselves tion vote. It will then be time to give up community. Law reform lags behind Brit­ ment mainstream the contrary is the case. that belated question: What the fuck are in despair on behalf of one’s fellow we doing? ain and America, with judges still obsess­ I say right on to the New Woman, but for Aussies, or to take to revenge. With British telly shutting off at 10.30 ed with retribution and solicitors slow to Christ’s sake, if you’ve got leg hairs like and motorists brawling in the streets, it is bring themselves into the heart of the is for production without posses­ the bristles of a lavatory brush, then dont hard to believe that a few years ago communities. One solution to the stagna­ Dsion. It is also for pricks, which are be afraid to eradicate them. It’s not everyone wished they were walking along tion and pomposity of this profession is going down all over the western world, ascounter revolutionary; it’s humane. Kings road, Chelsea, listening to the nationalisation — a legal health service. women become increasingly predatory, Beatles, admiring each other’s beautiful Over 90 percent of criminal cases are and we may not see them rise again in our is also for Whitlam, for whom this \ lifetime. thighs . . . acid flowing in the streets, channelled through magistrates, many of W moment I confess strong affection, Nova, Mary Quant, N orth Sea gas . . . whom are mad, with the average court considering his almost maniacal desire to IS also for Purple, Alvin Purple, time of two minutes and few people, but dish out awkward hom e truths. The glass the ballyhooed film by Australian is for Crisis, which is now a daily with the odd bigwig on a drunken driving of water in the governor general’s face . . . PTim Burstall, which defies all standards of occurrence . . . perhaps it’s Christ­ charge being represented by a solicitor. the time he told the reptilian cathedral C awfulness. The cast is fine and the film mas or Kohoutek or merely coincidence. PS: In the mysterious case of the building bishop he stank of evil . . . and well made. But what is it about? A series With oil and Watergate wildly mixing to pre-signed search warrants reported here now the contempt of Vorster and Smith of unfunny cartoons from the pages of a obliterate our preconceptions, no one, last week, the magistrate astoundingly (the latter of whom was defended by the faded wankers gazette, of a guy women least of all economists, can talk sensibly refused to com m it the drug chiefs to trial. Sydney morning herald, in its efforts to go crazy over which, apart from its sexist about the future . .. At least the rich will The police were not even required to sink Whitlam, as a “ scourge of tyrants” ). wallowing isnt the slightest bit interesting. lose more than you. offer an explanation for the signed blank Perhaps he is committing political suicide, What distinguishes hack from talent, is warrants. [ but despite his personal frigidities, he way the desire to be original and/or say some­ is for Development without domin­ outclasses the other Canberra crackpots. is for K ohoutek, described as either thing. Pox on Purple Alvin. ation. It is also for Desire, which is And as for his arrogance: If one is a fizzer or the end of the world, dwhat anarchism is basically about. Most is for the Queen, who produces the mediocre, then modesty is nothing more kdepending on your sources. The Children than honesty. For Whitlam, it would be people have little idea what to desire, of God are issuing hysterical pamphlets, world’s best TV spectaculars and being engulfed by false needs. The criti­ q provides the worst kind of second handhypocrisy . . . urging adherents to clear out of the cism of capitalism is not only that it is central target area: “ . . . in this shocking satire. Q is also for Queensland and its run by fat men who have lobster for is, of course, for Xmas, which I am revelation . . . you in the US have only horrific premier. If Whitlam thinks Vorst- lunch and bark orders at secretaries, but not going to attack on the tediously until january to get out before some kind er and Smith are worse than nazis, what X because it creates a society of useless unoriginal grounds of its being a mercan­ of disaster, destruction or judgment of must he think of Bjelke-Petersen? Q is preoccupation with making unnecessary tile orgy. It’s as good a time as any to God which is to fall because of America’s also for Qantas, currently assaulting the objects. What is work? asked Bertrand reunite with people you care about and wickedness ...” senses with the most nauseous advertising Russell, who replied: campaigns since the Tarax soft drink. to cast the mind beyond the mundane “ Work is of two kinds: first, altering the is for Love, Laughter and Liber­ While sympathising with the intention of exigencies of the daily hustle. It is a time position of matter at or near the earth’s to be generous in hospitality and imagina­ surface relatively to other such matter; sec-, Iation, which are inseparable. banishing travel boredom, the substitu­ ond, telling other people to do so. The first tion of heavy handed, pseudo cool, smart tion; to eat big, drink hearty and get high kind is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is is for Charles Manson, Karl Marx arsedness is enough to make one want to . . . happy xmas to all our readers; and pleasant and highly paid. The second kind is and Nestor Mahkno. During his trial do it by foot, which is cheaper and more come back and continue the trip with us capable of indefinite extension: there are not all here, on january 8. Why not resolve to only those who give orders, but those who mCharlie was denounced guilty by Nixoninteresting anyhow. Rumors already give advice as to what orders should be given. and ever since there has seemed a kind of abound that there will be no more high send copy and improve us? Usually two opposite kinds of advice are given empathy between the two. Both men octane air fuel in Australia after february, simultaneously by two organised bodies of is for Yggdrasil, the gigantic ash men; this is called politics. The skill required represent the greatest challenge to an­ so maybe the blue denim flight to Lon­ for this kind of work is not knowledge of the archist optimism. Karl Marx, authoritar­ don will never get off the ground. V tree of Nordic mythology, whose subjects as to which advice is given, but Drancnes reach to the sky and cover the ian and conventional, was hated by the is for rock ’ n roll and the R ip o ff it knowledge of the art of persuasive speaking earth. This tree exists only in Nordic and writing, ie. of advertising.” anarchist figures of the day, who them­ has become. With few exceptions, mythology, but the word can now live on The maligned layabout contributes selves rivalled him in reputation and everyone sounds like everyone else and r in your vocabulary. more to the community than the busi­ influence. When Marx wrote to Proudhon the idea of sitting in a large uncomfort­ nessman who proclaims his own virtue, on may 5, 1846, suggesting a “ sustained able hall, to hear substandard renditions is for Ronald Ziegler, Nixon’s while robbing the earth to con the con­ correspondence” among leading socialists, of studio sound and squeaky ego trips, wretched press secretary, through sumer and inflating his own status. the latter replied as follow s: seems pointless. Rock concerts died with Z thick and thicker, and Viva Zapata, the “ I applaud with all my heart your thought Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and the Doors of bringing to light all opinions; let us give the man who played Marlon Brando; and Z, is for Ellsberg, the key figure in (OK, with the exception of the Stones, world the example of a learned and farsighted most of all, is for Zodiac, the imaginary bringing the Vietnam war home to tolerance, but let us not, because we are at the but never again will I suffer them at belt of the heavens, which mankind has Americans, the man who released the head of a movement, make ourselves the Randwick racetrack). Whenever I am in­ e leaders of a new intolerance; let us not pose as already turned into a junkyard, and to Pentagon Papers and showed what a troduced to a rock promoter, I reach for the apostles of a new religion, even if it be the which too many eyes are turned in either powerful weapon was the photostat. In religion of logic, the religion of reason. Let us my gun . . . pathetic pessimism or unfounded op­ his own words he proved that one person gather together and encourage all protests, let us brand all exclusiveness, all m ysticism ; let us is for Solar Energy, which is not timism, because of the forthcoming fancy can make a difference, even without never regard a question as exhausted, and light show, instead of looking first and bloodshed. “ What I did could be seen” ,he S mentioned in a recent Time maga­ when we have used our last argument, let us zine rundown of future energy possibil­ foremost into their own heads, hearts and says, “ in very Gandhian terms — an act of begin again, if necessary, with eloquence and their will to break through . . . without pure abstract truth telling.” irony. On that condition, I will gadly enter ities, but it is just waiting out there to be into your association. Otherwise — n o!” harnessed by Australians. The CSIRO has help from any supreme delusion. Q&A- ARY and I have driven DON QUIXOTE TILTS getting money for its members, Mthrough the night from Mel­ not self-respect. The AJA should bourne. We’re way down south in tell Packer, Murdoch, Fairfax and Australia’s deepest hicksland, Jones what to put in their rags to where the precious “ Prom” and make them into newspapers, but Corner Inlet national park region AT THE BUSH unfortunately most Australian is likely to be dug up soon for journalists are now such hacks and petrol. prostitutes that they believe the Nearby, by the sea, is the lies they put in for the boss. biggest brown coalfield in the BUREAUCRATS I felt that if democracy and world. The Hamer government social justice could be got going in wants to produce petrol from just one small Australian com ­ brown coal to keep our polluted munity, there would be hope for society busy polluting, because Australia. A community news­ Bolte put nearly everybody off paper was the first essential, a public transport to keep General newspaper actually owned by the Motors and Big Business in general people - not privately. But no­ happy. body was sufficiently interested, In the deserted office o f the least o f all the scared shire coun­ Cippsland star, the goldfish are cil, under the thumbs o f a power­ gasping for breath. Hamer’s qual- ful secretary and engineer. The ity-of-life bureaucracy has cut o ff citizens of Yarram were well pro­ their oxygen. grammed by the media to lead the The weekly, then fortnightly, lives o f animated vegetables — to then monthly (sample back copies breed lots o f babies for Bolte and available, ten for a dollar), then the coming quality o f life state maybe sometime newspaper must that would never happen under never be again. The cops, the SYD BALHORNE has just seen his remarkable com­ Hamer or anybody else without a bureaucracy, the government, the big rethink. munity newspaper, the Yarram Star, closed down by Victorian Egg Board, the Com­ When the prime minister, the monwealth Development Bank, “the cops, the bureaucracy, the government, the Vic­ premier of Victoria, the leader of the Rural Finance Corporation, torian Egg Board . . . and other sundry city and bush the opposition, the federal at­ Dun and Bradstreet and other bastards”. Here is his cry o f pain. torney-general, the minister for sundry city and bush bastards like the media, etc, etc, refuse to lift a Esanda and KMM have seen to finger to save Australia’s first that. proven democratic community Water from a defrosted refrige­ bankruptcy. By torchlight, we gathered what we could in the newspaper from the Forces o f rator lay on the floor in a pool of Darkness, surely the time for dark, emptied the fish tank to the blood, sweat and tears which bloodless anarchy has come. had gone into the lost cause o f take it to Melbourne to save the Australian journalists could kill producing Australia’s first free fish. Mary had asked for a cup o f corruption with ballpoints and and independent peoples paper. coffee before sharing the driving because they will lose their liveli­ typewriters. Jesus would have wept. Mary - back to Melbourne, but the milk hoods, is Australia ripe for from WEEKENDER When a pack o f American pro­ a true daughter o f God - and I was as stinking as the quality o f anarchy, for a December Revolu­ fessional pimps and liars can sell wept too. We groped around in life o f most Australians. tion, for a march on that Bastille It is no easy job trying to an honest Australian citizen’s soul the gloom in disbelief. How was it Anyhow who wanted milk, o f Bull about the quality o f life at establish a live, fearless, provoca­ and destroy his name for money, possible that this was Hamer’ s and when the SEC had turned the the top o f Bourke street? tive, democratic, independent when a leading firm of food pol­ Whidam’s Australia, not Hider’s power off the stove, too? More to What is the difference between community newspaper in Austra­ luters can kick a man into the Germany. Could Goebbels have the point, who wanted the Gipps­ Goebbels’ propaganda for pro­ lia. Even the Whitlam government gutter for a lousy little debt, close done worse to a newspaper which land star? The sooner the Star grammed Germans and the shrinks from the idea. The Forces a community newspaper, destroy a dared to shine light in dark places, set, the sooner Rupert and a premasticated garbage churned o f Darkness — represented by the pure food industry, and kick him to tell the truth about social thousand others could breathe a out by the private press for Aus­ bureaucrats, banks, press barons out o f a shire council - is it time injustice, about bureaucratic and sigh o f relief. tralians - the journalistic junk and others — are too powerful for for anarchy in Australia? political stupidity, about the The Yarram townsfolk could which has made Australia one the weak governments Australians When a corrupt bunch o f gang­ ecological disasters pending in relax again into indifference and great farm o f animated vegetables have suffered since white settle­ sters like the Victorian Egg Board Gippsland in the name o f godless apathy. Does not Yarram boast a to be harvested and sacrificed by ment. They control the Whitlam gudess materialism? telly set in each home, the TAB, a multi national corporations, rapa­ government just as they did the can wipe out poultry farming in Victoria, forbid the production Mr justice Sweeney, in the Fed­ Tatts agency and an assured sup­ cious banks and the rest to the Menzies government. and sale o f pure eggs in Victoria eral Court o f Bankruptcy in Mel­ ply o f all goodies, in a typical filthy dollar. Yet where there’s a will there’s and force Victorians to eat only bourne the day before, on a pif­ Marlboro and Carlton United Surely it is time for anarchy - a way. The Yarram and Gippsland polluted food - is it not time for fling petition by a firm of food country setting where beer brew­ to destroy oppression - when stars have proved that with only a anarchy? polluters out to get him just as the ed from the “ purest sparkling Australians are forbidden by few thousand of many millions of Victorian Egg Board had done, water” makes he men of gudess bureaucrats like egg boards and dollars the dog-eat-dog press But so well has the mass media had declared the editor-publisher Australians, where babies are bred bankers to produce and to eat barons and Gordon Barton have done its work that it would be a o f the Gippsland star a bankrupt. with gay abandon to keep the pure food , to lead the lives o f thrown away on new papers stuf­ practical impossibility to find 14 Great was the rejoicing among schools of Gippsland busy educat­ simple farmers, to raise animals by fed with the same old garbage, men among 14 million Australians the Forces o f Darkness. The ABC ing zombies? natural means and not through Australians could enjoy good jour­ with the guts and dedication and in Sale, duped by the Star’s When the Victoria police can bureaucratic monstrosities which nalism, as called for in the latest design for a better society to start enemies, broadcast the glad close down a newspaper because it gobble up basic human freedoms issue o f the New journalist. a revolution in this gudess Marl­ tidings many times on radio and criticises boy bashings, when and vomit polluted, unnatural The AJA must be one o f the boro and Carlton and United television — just as they had printers are too frightened to foods into the willing super­ weakest unions on the face o f the country. broadcast the news of police libel print the truth about anything markets of corrupt Big Business. earth. It is concerned only with writs against the editor and several printers some months ago when the writing was on the wall for the Star. Not a word was broadcast I just had to break something that the Star had not let up in its MIKEY FOOTE sion problems. In Jim's words it campaign against boy bashing in was “ stuffed” in fact. Massey Fer­ Gippsland, not a word about the HEN Jim Hutchins picked guson hadnt noticed these things Victorian Egg Board destroying W up the secondhand bull­ either. They sent mechanics out Australia’s only pure egg farm dozer from Massey Ferguson two to the site, to run tests on the (mine), confiscating the income of months ago it shined like a new dozer. Jim cooled his heels mean­ an old jou m o and sending him out penny. while. They took it in for repairs, o f the food pollution industry The people at Massey Ferguson leaving Jim without a machine back into the public newspaper started it up for him; he drove it and an income. Unemployed for polluting industry. around the yard and it seemed three weeks he thought about the Next day I was kicked out o f allright. So he signed the sales hire purchase payment coming up. Alberton shire council to which I agreement - $25,000 in $500 The repair job didnt fix it. A had won a seat in a hard fought instalments. No sweat, thought troublesome bearing hadnt been election two years ago to work - Jim, the earning power o f the replaced. “ They bodgied it up.” unlike Hamer and Co - unpaid to machine had been calculated at Again and again he returned to get democracy and social justice $2500 a month. No sweat. MF. “ I hung around the place like going in one small Australian com­ The bulldozer wouldnt start on a bad smell.” And the monthly munity. x the first job. Trouble in the fuel payment came up again. His wife Not one reporter from the ^ lines or something. He “ bled” it, a became distraught and left him. mass media was in the bankruptcy o practice he later perfected. That He asked his wife to return to court to cover an historic case co done, the bucket stopped lifting, him. She refused. He climbed into about a travesty o f social and z He called the company; take your the cursed machine and bulldozed personal justice but a transcript is ° machine back. They said, “ NO” , most o f the house down, before it available, containing some color­ jjj Jim said the original problem conked out, the house he was ful language about the bastards ** was minor - a worn fuel bowl, paying off. who put the editor in the court. a When Massey Ferguson recondit- “ I just had to break some­ Mary and I had driven nearly ^ ioned the dozer the fault wasnt thing,” he told me, sitting in the 150 miles to Yarram to obtain o noticed. But it lacked minimal ruins.... ^___^ records for the official receiver in This is the house that Jim wrecked power and there were transmis­ Page 4 — T H E L IV IN G D A Y L IG H T S , december 18-24, 1973 Steady there Mr Bartholomew By JOHN HALPIN telephone tip o ff they were red. The magistrate granted a stay of Digger present. Whispers around the legal of 14 days so that an appeal could be lodged, meanwhile Barth­ AST tuesday in the Mel­ profession (barristers chambers) olomew could continue to drive bourne magistrates court were that Bartholomew’s counsel, L until it was heard. Alan Austin Bartholomew was John Walker, was having a bad On Wednesday state opposition convicted o f a charge o f having day as he was attempting to seek leader, Clyde Holding, asked exceeded .05 blood alcohol whilst an adjournment but could not attorney-general, Vernon Wilcox driving. locate a sympathetic magistrate. whether it was a new concept that J. L. McArdle SM fined him However, he was not to be senior government officials re­ $30 and disqualified him from outdone by curious ears — he ceived preferential treatment at driving for six months. Barth­ made his submissions in writing. court. The next day Wilcox told olomew did not appear and Constable H.A. Jackson gave parliament that he had inquired entered a plea of not guilty evidence that he spoke to Barth­ into the case and it was normal. through his counsel, John I. olomew at 10.30pm on march 20. However, it’s not normal that Walker. No mention was made in He testified that he saw the car the breathalyser reading was not court of the defendant’s occupat­ veering from left to right in given in court as it is part o f the ion — chief government psychiat­ Lonsdale street, turn left through record of conviction. The reading rist, at Pentridge prison. a red light and stop in the middle was .145 — a reading commen­ The case was hushed up and of the intersection of Elizabeth surate with 16 seven ounce beers was heard late in the afternoon, a street. Jackson went on to say the in one hour, 18 in two hours, or time when the press have usually driver was unsteady on his feet, 21 in three hours. gone home. However, as the his breath smelt strongly of dailies had received an anonymous alcohol and his speech was slur­ □ A ban a day keeps developers away GRANT EVANS

HE Master Builders Associa­ T tion are once again playing their favorite game: “ Let’s get the NSW builders laborers.” They have not been too good at this game so far even though they dreamed it up. Last round they tried to cripple the BLs through a lockout. However, a court ruled that the “ green bans” were non industrial disputes which could only be settled by negotiation between the develop­ ers, residents, conservationists and unions. The lockout was broken. Undaunted and ever flexible (read opportunist), the MBA is now charging that the Builders Laborers Federation has exceeded the charter under which it’s regis­ tered with the industrial court by going outside industrial matters. Last monday week they applied to the court for the deregistration Rape, rape, he said o f the BLF. From Siren, a US feminist newspaper. This time, however, BLF o f­ ficials are refusing to front to AST january, I was acquit­ if it was going to turn into a court. For failing to do this they ted o f charges o f battery. brawl. L face the threat o f a jail sentence The charge was battery because in Chester went to the police and or heavy fine. Illinois, rape is defined legally as swore warrants against us. I had a In Sydney, the NSW secretary “ the penetration of a woman by a name warrant and turned myself o f the BLF, Joe Owens, has been man over 14 years o f age” . in. The other two women Chester on the run for the past one and a I had attempted to rape Wil­ did not know; eventually one of half weeks. The court has sum­ liam Chester, a 34 year old man, them was caught. Chester said monsed him to produce the union with two other women last year. that if we would apologise, he records, “ but I’m not giving them Chester had written an article in would drop the charges. As the anything” , he says. the Illinois university newspaper, trial dragged on for months (with We caught up with Owens ILLINI. In this article, Chester continuances) the other woman “hiding” in a pub in the outer said - supposedly in a parody - apologised. suburb o f Epping. He was pour­ that he thought women enjoyed Finally, we came before a ing down a few beers at the being raped. Any woman knows judge. It was a bench trial. Be­ Channel 7 Christmas breakup. that to say rape is something to be cause I had an extremely com­ “ Being on the run gets pretty enjoyed is perpetuating the male petent woman lawyer, I was hectic,” he said. “Much more of mythology about rape. acquitted on a directed verdict. this and I might just have to The other two women and The judge agreed with my lawyer accept the summons.” myself reacted in an anarcho- that the complaint sworn out Owens said that the MBA had feminist way; we attempted to against me was insufficient and tried to make their submission to comply with Chester’ s wish to be garbled. Legally, battery is defin­ the court a little more respectable raped. ed as “ touching in an insulting or this time by adding a number o f William Chester came to us o f provoking manner or causing industrial “ irregularities” to their his own free will. We had written bodily harm” . submission. These include such notes and told him we were going My charges stated that I had Joe Owens unperturbed things as organisers telling the to rape him. He reacted like an “ leapt upon and beat William boss to fuck off when they come over-enraged adolescent who Chester". Chester and his lawyer, DOCTOR DUNCAN on to a job. “ But the core o f the thought he was going to get some outraged at having been beaten by INVOLUTION BOOKSHOP attack” , says Owens, “ is still the crumpet. When the roles were a woman, tried to have me retried FEMINIST & GAY LIBERATION RESOURCES ‘ green ban'. The developers have reversed and we lowered him to and rearrested. Again we went to A COOPERATIVE NON-PROFIT BOOKSERVICE still got hundreds of thousands o f Non-sexist & quality homosexual literature. the floor, trying to remove his court, the m otion o f a retrial was dollars tied up and they want to SEND FOR FREE CATALOGUE NOW! pants, he became hysterical, defeated. Now Chester has told KEEP INFORMED! SUBSCRIBE TO OUR kill the bans.” screaming and crying, trying to the press that my lawyer gave the MONTHLY BOOKNEWS— $1.50 per year Owens expects the rest o f the fight us.off. We held him still (we judge a bribe. The judge is trying P.O. Box 111 EASTWOOD S.A. 5063 union movement to swing in be­ stopped trying to rape him be­ to get Chester on contempt o f hind the BLs this time. The very cause it would be too traumatic) court. nature o f the MBA submission has and tried to explain to him that The press took this whole inci­ MCCCA PRODUCTIONS PRCSCNT implications well beyond the BLF rape was not enjoyable, that it dent as a cutesy, human interest and the building industry. was a hostile act against women story and gave it a lot o f coverage. If the MBA wins its submission and forced upon them. It is unfortunate that so many the registration of all unions We did not attempt to beat the actual rapes receive no coverage at ^ V.------^ f l ^ which have opposed green bans — shit out o f him. We held him to all, and that when a man is threat­ or which act on political or social a country rock spectacufor prevent him from hurting us. We ened, the media leaps upon it. issues — will also be in jeopardy. let him go when several o f his appearing from D£C 20 to JM friends appeared and it looked as □ □ THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, december 18-24, 1973 — Page 5 What’s all Meanwhile, back in the Middle East this about JEREMY SALT “One does not have to be a RIDAY the peace talks be­ zionist (or a jew ) to know that. anarchy gin in Geneva. Blow the But this must not take away the F freedom, or the land, o f any arab. COLIN TALBOT trumpets and sound the horns. The Israelis w on’t be talking to the Two wrongs do not make a right.” ITZROY, this steamy inner- Syrians because they havent re­ David Martin’s letter was one Fsuburb of Melbourne, is an leased names o f prisoners and the o f the most enlightened to appear adequate place to find student Palestinians won’t be going, al­ in the Australian press since the and poststudent anarchists. This is though they are ready to take flurry produced by the October being written from Fitzroy which over any piece of land allotted to war and the oil crisis, but if the is not to say much at all. them by the grace o f Israel, Egypt Palestinian arabs must realise why But a second ago an old man and the twin pinnacles of capital­ the Israelis will fight to the last walked up the footpath outside. ist and communist oppression. for this slice o f territory so the He wore a widebrim straight Stripped o f all the resolutions, Israelis must acknowledge that the brown felt hat. It was hot yet he documents, maps, definitions, Palestinians have their own legiti­ wore a cold. An old one. He had a declarations and counter allega­ mate claims to it. white stick which he tapped along tions o f who massacred whom How this situation will be rec­ the ground as he walked. When he when, the dispute remains a tug o f onciled is anyone’s guess. At the came to the crossroads he walked war over the same exotic piece o f moment there’s every chance that straight across, counting his steps land which further line drawing is the Geneva talks won’t even get and waving his stick in the air. He unlikely to solve. 1948, o f Haifa where the jewish legs blown o ff by Phantom shrap­ off the ground, or that they’ll wore dark green glasses and did While ready to turn the west mayor did his best to persuade nel - the same sort o f anger the break up in disorder shortly after not look up. The cars went bank of the Jordan into a new Palestinians to stay and the Arab kibbutznik feels at seeing one o f if they do. The best that can be around him. Palestinian state if it is offered Higher Committee responded with his children maimed by a Kat­ hoped for is that Israel, in return This may not have anything to them (and a glance at the map a statement that it had asked yusha rocket) that the majority of for a treaty acknowledging its do with anarchy. shows what an unrealistic linking them to guard their honor and people on both sides seem to be existence signed by all arab states And swaggies had their own o f territory this is), the Palestinian remove themselves to neighboring frozen in their stereotypes. attending the conference and sense o f justice. They had been Liberation Organisation says it countries, but of broadcast mes­ My personal feeling is that the guaranteed by the two interna­ known to prop a broken piece of won’t accept this as the final sages urging the Palestinians to Palestinians have been robbed tional ogres, will agree to with­ bottle on a stick. When the sun at word. So, either way, the chances flee there is no trace. blind, but I believe that they must draw from all territory occupied two o’clock shone upon it they of what the spokesmen, pundits The Palestinians fled for a mul­ take into account the motives of in 1967 and to Jerusalem being would be miles away. Usually and politicians sententiously like titude o f reasons, not least o f the Zionists in seeking a haven in placed under some sort o f shared they put the glass on the edge o f a to call a “ durable and just peace” which was Israeli killing o f civil­ Palestine - just as the present day control. wheatfield. And persons with no are remote. ians and psywar tactics to Israelis must recognise that phys­ If it emerges, a Palestinian state money and in need o f cigarettes Some pretty stupid things have "encourage” them to leave, but ically, mentally and culturally on the west bank of the Jordan, know the best place to find cig­ been said and written about the the overpowering reason yvhich they have stripped the Palestinians imperfect though it might be, arette butts is in the foyer o f a Middle East in Australia over the comes through from the most of all they possess. would at least set the stage for cinema. Some cigarettes may have past few weeks, starting with Bob reliable sources is that they went In a letter to the editor of the future political development been puffed at a few times, leav­ Hawke’s bland assertion in the because they were terrified of Melbourne Age last week David which — who knows? — might ing a good length to be smoked. National times that the refugee what might happen to them. Martin wrote: “ I am a jew. Mem­ result one day in a unitary state. Some noted anarchists have problem was “ not o f Israel’s crea­ They were never allowed back bers of my family were among the Jerusalem remains perhaps the written books. Some o f these tion”, when even a superficial and it takes a pretty ruthless sort six million killed by the nazis. greatest problem, but the Israelis books are in libraries. In Rome, reading o f history would have o f logic to justify that. Everything else aside, even tradi­ would be crazy to allow the paper for books came from a bark shown him that the claim that the Such is the emotional heat tion and religion, it is the depth o f chance of a peace treaty to found­ known as liber. This leads to Palestinians were egged on to generated by the Middle East (and their misfortunes which makes er on their emotional bond with libraries, one way or another. In leave by their own leaders is large­ I must confess to feeling more jews cling to a national territory the city. It isnt worth one more gothic countries the bark of the ly a myth. than a little anger at seeing small which they can defend with their Israeli or Palestinian life. beech was used for paper. This There was the exception in Palestinian children with arms and own hands. was called boc from which came □ the work book. In Greece, ancient books were made from a type of papyrus called byblos from which Bible came. It’s all very interest­ Filmmakers get it on cooperatively ing . . . wanted to rent the films for their If everyone woke up one morn­ ALBIE THOMS regardless o f the class o f the film, which could, if applied broadly, own screenings, so a co-op distri­ its means o f production, its sub­ ing - something not uncommon INCE THIS issue o f TLD is reshape the Australian film in­ bution service was established. ject matter, or anything else) - and decided what a fine day it devoted to anarchism, I dustry. So far most filmmakers in S This gradually expanded in the could speak out, as decisions were would be - it would have to be a thought I’d write about a form of the co-ops are young and regard wake of further cooperative ex­ made by common consensus. fine day - to go to the beach. non-coercive economic organisa­ themselves as non commercial. In hibition o f films in most states, This system was legalised in the And if everyone who could walk tion that I have been involved in fact, some regard themselves as and for the first time in Australia late 60s when the co-op (entering walked to a beach, or those too for the past eight years — the anti commercial, and to some since the heyday o f Australian a reformist period) applied to the far away, to a river, or to lie under filmmakers cooperative. When I extent achieve this by avoiding filmmaking in the 20s, Australian NSW government for registration. a tree, regardless o f what was helped start the Sydney Film­ exploitation of audiences and by filmmakers were making, distri­ Because of historical traditions expected to be done, then several makers Cooperative in 1966 it showing a healthy disregard for buting and exhibiting their own (emanating from the transported things would happen. was a unique local experiment. money. But most, like other films (however they were mini political dissenters o f Britain), the One: the beaches would be Now there are filmmakers co-ops workers in a money economy, movies, cheapies and weirdos). state o f NSW has extremely severely crowded, that is, the city in all Australian states (except expect to be paid for their work. The appearance o f Australian democratic cooperative laws. beaches. There would probably be WA) and at a recent public meet­ The largest barrier to the de­ filmmakers showing Australian Membership of a cooperative is a lot o f drownings. The rivers ing in Sydney the film and TV velopment of filmmakers co-ops films to Australian audiences has effected by purchase of shares would be full o f people. The parks board of the Australian Council has been their lack o f capital. some political significance. A (which can cost as low as two would be crowded. The streets for the Arts stated that it saw However, this has forced them to direct dialogue was established be­ dollars), and each member has would be empty. A lot o f people in these co-ops as the means o f rely on ingenuity and the personal tween filmmakers and their audi­ equal rights regardless o f the num­ hospitals and institutions would distributing films produced thru resources o f members. Recently ence by way o f their films. No ber o f shares held. Shares can be die. By the end o f the day there its subsidy systems. the Sydney co-op was able to middleman was raking o ff the sold back to the co-op at any time would be a lot of hungry people. In the 60s, as now, the means extract a handout from the film profits, nor was he dictating what and ownership of the co-op The TV wouldnt be on, the trams of production, distribution and subsidy wing of the federal gov­ could be made or shown. This led resides very firmly in members wouldnt be working. A lot of exhibition of films in Australia ernment, resulting in a doubling to direct conflict with the state, who are required by law to elect a people would have had a good were largely controlled by foreign o f business in a year. It’s now which among other ways, control­ board o f directors to supervise time. multinational corporations. They possible in film (just as in farming led film thru censorship. Members administration of the co-op. The Two: the only order would be determined what could be shown or any other economic situation) of the Sydney Filmmakers Co-op relaxing and eating and sleeping. and seen in our cinemas, and as a Sydney Filmmakers Co-op gets to advance a cooperative system maintained that audiences should Three: it’s getting too com­ consequence largely determined round hierarchical structuring by as an economically viable one. see films without this interference making all directors meetings open plicated but sounds interesting. what was made, as few people * * * and could censor for themselves Four: I’m not really interest­ (with good reason) were prepared to all members and giving direc­ by walking out o f screenings. tors no extra voting rights at these HE MODEL of the Sydney ed . . . to finance movies unless they had Filmmakers Co-op has been . . . In writing this bullshit. Is it They often did. Conflicts with the meetings (which often results in T a guarantee that they would be taken up by filmmakers in other anarchistic, when asked to write official censors abounded, but interesting theatre). shown. Some people, myself in­ states. Similar co-ops are emerging something connected with anar­ defiance o f their rulings led to When the federal government cluded, thought small and “ seized in other areas o f activity. Their chism, not to? What pretentious little retribution. began assisting film production the means o f production” (16 mm potential for reshaping the eco­ bullshit. It’s too fucking hot to be While the co-op had at its thru the Experimental Film and cameras), self-financing little nomic life of the Australian com­ centre a group of dedicated work­ TV Fund in 1970 the Sydney working. movies that begged to be shown. munity has hardly been consider­ ers who - largely without pay - Co-op insisted that filmmakers Anarchy seems to be as good a We decided to show our movies ed. The advocates o f worker con­ kept the ball rolling, at its broad own their own products, and in subject as any to talk about when ourselves. Despite corrupt cinema trol havent yet seen them as a base it was an unstructured collec­ most cases (because of the closed it’s cold and there’s a log fire licensing laws, a few public means o f achieving this end. But tive which depended for its exist­ market condition o f Australian burning. Like Utopia and every­ cinemas could be hired, so Sydney as Australians become more inter­ ence on uncoercive cooperation. film created by foreign ownership body loving each other, and every­ independent filmmakers banded ested in participatory democracy, together in february 1966 and Filmmakers didnt have to join the of most of the means of distribu­ one going to the beach and stuff. co-ops will assume a more signifi­ co-op and could withdraw their tion and exhibition) the film­ Anarchy of man is bullshit. Anar­ showed their films. This screening cant economic and political role. was organised collectively and films (which they continued to maker would not have to repay chy of nature is what’s going to Somewhere along the way Aus­ own) at any time. Open meetings the government the cost of pro­ happen, and when it does, words cooperatively, with income shar­ tralia might have its own cultural ed, and was a popular success. were held to determine policy and duction. won’t be much help. revolution. Thus the Sydney Filmmakers at these any member of the co-op So an economic model has □ Cooperative was formed. People (which admitted any filmmaker been established by film workers □ Page 6 - T H E L IV IN G D A Y L IG H T S , december 18-24, 1973 CHRIS HECTOR certain things, or to obey certain Australia’s laws which they have never ccord in g to the history consented to; by main force, we books there are no anar­ do not believe in that. But we do A not say that there should be no chists in Australia’s past - some­ social cohesion. We believe that where buried in Gollan’s Radical there should. Only we are op­ and working class politics there’s mild mannered posed to any social system which half a line: that’s it. In the libraries there’s one, if does not give every man and woman equal access to nature’ s you’re lucky, two entries under bounties and to the means o f the head “ Anarchy” . But if you search, pulling out each name and ship scuttlers existence.” “ But suppose” , said the Eve­ cross referencing as you go, you’ll ning news representative, “ that find them. Alive and well in the your scheme were in existence 1880s and 1890s, in Sydney and here today. Would not the men Melbourne gouging out their creed with the greatest energy and the on blocks o f wood, tiny, almost most brains quickly gather to unreadable pamphlets, hand set themselves such stores o f these on 3V2 by 3 inch pages, yellowed | and tattered, in short-lived news­ bounties o f nature that there would be very little left for the papers, one, two, sometimes ten a n a r c h y: remainder to get at?” issues, footnotes explaining that b kt “ That is as it is at present. 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m U J O THE m a d PUZZLE-KINO A short story by PETER CARY

PERSIA, some time in removed to enable him to concen­ As the weeks drew on and as the 15th century, there was trate on this new puzzle. the rugs were dissected and the But this too passed (although a monarch, some would say chief­ The rug was now a mound o f paintings cut, it became clear that some say that the ghosts o f the tain, o f a minor province who small pieces in the centre o f the the supply was coming to an end. ladies continued to scream) and developed a passion for jigsaw courtyard and, unmindful o f the It is said that the ladies o f the the king considered the buildings puzzles. heat, he busied himself with it, court at this time smuggled many of the palace and, one by one, This, for a king not at war, surprised to discover many frag­ riches from the palace in the hope ordered their complete demoli­ blessed with all good things o f ments he could not identify. He o f saving them from the king’s tion. Being to o large and too life, surrounded by beautiful found one piece he recognised, a enthusiasm. But, whatever the heavy for one man to reconstruct women and handsome men, with corner o f the large central motif, reason, the supply dwindled until he merely walked among the fine musicians, the most exquisite but beside this everything was the king became anxious and of­ debris in the way another man cuisine, pottery from China, a strange and unknown to him. He fered a reward to any person who might have walked through a field blue eyed idiot from England and was delighted. With each piece, might suggest new materials for of wild flowers picking up a frag­ stuttering priest from Rome with each roughly cut fragment he his puzzle which had become ment from the great dome, a piece who spoke no Persian but who emitted small cries o f surprise and known as The King’s Game. o f the lattice from the east win­ dow, a tile glazed blue on white drank a great deal, this, for such a pleasure. The court, intrigued by The court artist, the man who porcelain. He spent his days king was not surprising. For as the the game, sat around to watch but had painted the crucifixion scene among the ruins o f the palace and English love toy soldiers and the were curtly dismissed. Only the for the priest, now offered his his nights in private calculations re-enactment o f forgotten battles, noble and the king remained. services to the monarch but they while the court remained in fear, the Persians have a love o f pat­ Through the hot afternoon were declined, for it would seem living in the few remaining build­ terns, intricacies and involved which would normally have been that the king now had very defin­ ings or in tents among the rubble. dreams. spent in bad sleep and lethargic ite ideas about his game. However, Eventually, with the exception It was the priest who introduc­ lovemaking the king worked on when the mistress o f one o f the o f the treasury which was located ed the jigsaw puzzle in a peculiar his puzzle, slowly assembling the younger nobles suggested that in vast underground vaults and and unintentional manner. Wish­ rug, at times discovering a whole pottery would be every bit as protected by great brass doors, ing to instruct the king in the area had been incorrectly recon­ good as rugs, the king seized upon the palace was completely de­ matter of the trinity, he had the structed, exclaiming, laughing and the idea happily and rewarded the molished. All that remained were court artist depict a man nailed cursing while the noble, who now lady with an extravagant amount > the walls, inside which were erect­ upon a cross. This in itself was a regretted having mentioned the o f gold from the treasury. long process, involving many mis­ ed the tents, purchased at exorbi­ matter, sat on his heels and echo­ So it was that the entire royal understandings and incoherent tant cost from nomad warriors. ed the king’s cries. collection o f priceless Persian and arguments, but the work was It was then that the king called Night came, and the king had Chinese pottery was cracked, a finally executed to the priest’s the court together, some 500 the great courtyard lit with flares specially forged silver hammer satisfactioa souls, at the place which had once while the members o f the court being used for the purpose. This, Then, in the court’s presence, been known as the courtyard. watched silently from the upper above all, delighted the king for he produced a small knife, one he They noticed that the king ap­ galleries, timid lest they be seen, the fragments produced by a always carried with him, hidden in peared older, his hair grey, but and worried among themselves sharp blow o f the hammer had a the depths o f his cassock, and possessed o f some strange calm that the king had caught some randomness and unexpectedness carved the picture In one version o f this story, the madness from the priest. In an that could never be rivalled by into three pieces. He appeared more com m on one, he is reported effort to return the king to health, hand cut rugs or paintings. agitated, crossing himself as as saying: “ You thought me rich, a number of nobles met together he made the cuts. Then, using But it was not until the pottery but I was poor. You think me and decided that the priest should the two or three Persian words and porcelain were exhausted that impoverished, but I am rich. be executed, hoping this act he knew, he attempted to The King’s Game entered its most There was a blue Ming vase which would exorcise the madness from explain the way in which these macabre stage. For many years you may remember, it stood in a the king. The priest was taken pieces could be put together the king had professed a complete niche o f the wall in the hall o f one from his room to a place outside puzzlement at the nature o f and taken apart, that although hundred pillars, by the western the palace walls where he was women and, although he loved entrance. I thought that I knew separate pieces they con­ beheaded, but this, if it had any most dearly the ladies who kept that vase, that I knew every stituted three parts o f a whole. effect, only seemed to increase him company, had no more than a subtlety o f its glaze. But when the Unfortunately the finer points the excitement and vexation of superficial knowledge o f their time came for it to be cracked o f this argument were lost on the the monarch. thoughts, motivations and desires. open, when I had felt its dust on court who, having always regarded Tiredness eventually overcame So it was that the court phy­ my fingers, when I had touched it, the foreign priest as peculiar, the concern of the court and they sician, an arabian, became active pieced its fragments together, I unanimously decided that he was departed to their chambers, leav­ and decided, in what appeared to knew then that I had known completely demented. The king, ing only the king and the weary nothing.” who had a fear of madness, was be a most arbitrary manner, that noble to sit out the long vigil. many o f the most attractive ladies No one records if the king was overcome with disgust and direct­ of the court were suffering from a surprised when his speech was ed that the priest be removed. The next morning the court­ previously unknown disease, a enthusiastically received by the Afterwards, while the court yard was empty o f life, but the disease with subtle and painless court. A great cheering broke out dined in the great vine-covered rug, now completely assembled, symptoms which lead to a painful from the people and a group of courtyard of the palace, and while lay in its centre, the only remind­ death. his old comrades, bqld warriors musicians played and girls sang er that the whole affair had not with whom he had sacked cities, softly, a certain noble whose been a dream. The king was re­ During this period the king was fired towns, destroyed homes and name has been lost began to talk ported asleep in his chamber and often seen in the company of the beheaded enemies, came to con­ of something he had once seen in the noble, also asleep, could not physician. It is said there was gratulate him They J- J his travels, he was uncertain be woken, so deep was his sleep. blood on his garments which he him enthusiastically and, where, but the antics of the for­ In the weeks that followed, life made little attempt to conceal. It without having eigner had reminded him o f it. in the court became uneasy and is also related that many o f the had the time to reveal their The noble explained that there tense. There was talk o f plots court’s ladies disappeared com­ true rage, stabbed him was a game or puzzle where a against the king, o f wars on the pletely and that screams had been to death with long painting was taken and skilfully borders of the kingdom, of infi­ heard in the night. delities, intrigues and poisoning. The king, cut into many parts, the aim of Among the court there was the game being to assemble them And through this the king car­ whose name has been talk o f strange dreams, o f a snake forgotten, were known in one piece. To illustrate his ried on unconcerned and untouch­ that devoured a city, a sword that as The Mad Puzzle point he called for a sharp knife, ed, an explorer trembling in a plunged from the sky, o f wars, King. A new and with the king’s permission strange land, a poor man over­ pestilence, and, above all, there palace was built proceeded to cut up the finely come with sudden wealth. He were dreams o f regicide which where the old woven rug on which they ate. The ordered that tapestries, rugs, were discussed more and more king, who had eaten from that rug drawings and paintings be brought openly as the weeks and months palace had stood. for 30 years and who had thought to him in the courtyard, had them wore on. And the king walked the The fragments himself familiar with its every dissected in exquisite and difficult arched corridors with a heavy o f the old buildings intricacy, became excited and call- ways, and spent his days and brow, the arabian physician at his were used in the that the musicians and food be nights reassembling them. side. reconstruction.

From The fat man in history, a collec­ tion of short stories to be published next year by Queensland University Press.

THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, I r f L MARTIN MULLION /

KAFTER the great storm had aristocratic family enjoying pleas­ And many more rebated, a body was washed ant rural estates. It was not until he destructions T r * ) ashore on the Italian coast near was sent to Eton that he encounter­ played fo-J Spezia. A pyre of driftwood was ed the bestial spirit of the age in this ghastly KcAa built and the body lifted on to it. which was to keep him in a state of masquerade, - When the flames leapt up into the simmering indignation for the re­ I / i dark blue of the sky the few mainder of his short life. He A ll disguised, \ o ' mourners were driven back by the loathed Eton and all the stupidity even to the eyes. Ss- intense heat. When the body was and brutality it stood for with its Like Bishops, lawyers, peers, almost consumed and the flames beatings and bullyings. Fortunately or spies had died down a man limped he had a furious temper, which swiftly forward into the still glow­ became legendary in his schooldays, Last came Anarchy: he rode ing embers and snatched the still and this maintained both his sanity On a white horse, splashed with <2 intact heart from the ashy remains and his spirit. blood; o f the rib cage. He went on to University he was pale even to the lips, ^ iV It was a typically romantic College Oxford and was sent down Like Death in the Apocalypse. gesture, flamboyant yet truthful, in a noisome scandal for publishing __ and all of a piece with the man who at his own expense a treatise On the ^^m ade it, who was lord Byron. The necessity of atheism. A t the same And he wore a kingly crown; heart, perhaps the most savagely time he married 16 year old Harriet And in his grasp a sceptre shone; — . angry in Europe, belonged to Percy Westbrooke who, after separating On his brow this mark / saw — Sgrp. Bysshe Shelley, poet, anarchist, from him, committed suicide by 7 am GOD, AND KING, AND u libertarian, and unremitting individ- drowning herself in the Serpentine. LAW!' u a lis t Later he met and married Mary In many ways Shelley was the Godwin, the daughter of William With a pace stately and fast 0 outward and visible embodiment Godwin, philosopher and anarchist, Over English land he passed, of the reaction of certain English from whom he got many of his Trampling to a mire of blood »V people to the industrial revolution. anarchist ideas. He left England and The adoring multitude. The smoke from the furnaces of the spent much of the remainder of his new technology carried within itself life wandering around Europe prod­ A n d a m ighty troop around. a desperate spiritual pollution that ucing the large volume of poetry With their trampling shook the i\\ prefigured the age of the admass which was to give him literary ground, I jj'A and 1984. It was a malaise that bit immortality. Waving each a bloody sword, f j l j l deeply into the hearts and minds of Even when abroad his sensitive For the service o f their Lord. \ all the most sensitive and aware social conscience seldom slept. In spirits of the age and resulted in an 1819 workers gathered peacefully And with glorious triumph, they & jZ r \ outpouring of savage stabbing anger at Peterloo fields near Manchester Rode through England proud that clothed itself in new poetic to picnic and hear speeches. On the and gay. y forms of the highest quality. orders of lord Castlereagh, the Drunk as with intoxication Shelley was n o t the firs t to sense prime minister, the cavalry were Of the wine of desolation. the despoilation of men and lands brought out and attacked the =3*\5~'Yand age old organic ways of life. peaceful gathering with drawn O'er fields and towns, from sea V/Blake had written: sabres. The horsemen withdrew to sea. / wander thro' each chartered leaving the dead and the wounded Passed the Pageant, s w ift and street on the field. free. Near where the charter'd As a consequence Shelley wrote Tearing up and trampling down; I Thames does flow, his poem The masque of anarchy: Till they came to London town. \ And mark in every face /meet . . .1 met murder on the way — \ Marks o f weakness, marks o f He had a mask like Castlereagh A n d each dweller, panic- \ \ woe. stricken, Very smooth he looked, yet Felt his heart with terror sicken, In every cry o f every Man, grim ; Hearing the tempestuous cry In every Infant cry of fear. Seven bloodhounds followed Of the triumph of Anarchy .. . In every voice, in every ban. him : Through Shelley, Godwin's The mind-forg'd manacles / hear. anarchism first became a theme of Deep in the heart of England's A ll were fat; and well they might world literature, and through God­ green and pleasant land horrors Be in admirable plight. win, Shelley became the world's were being perpetrated that had to For one by one, and two by greatest anarchist poet; though the wait for a parallel until the nazi two, personal relationship between the times. Children from the age of He tossed them human hearts to two men often verged on the three were employed in the mines chew farcical. Shelley eloped with God­ and mills for up to 16 hours a day. Which from his wide cloak he win's daughter, and Godwin was Women crawled to tubs of coal, drew. forever borrowing money from naked through the low tunnels of Shelley. the coal workings, harnessed like Next came fraud, and he had on, The second industrial revolution, animals. Hunger and want drove Like Eldon, an ermined gown. now taking place on a global scale, men and women to prodigious feats His big tears, fo r he wept well, is producing its own horrors and of exertion for which they paid Turned to mill-stones as they ravages. A new anarchism is in the with their lives. The average expect­ fell. making. It has yet to produce its ation of life of a worker was 21 world-shaking poets. Perhaps al­ years, and in the clubs and salons of And the little children who ready the angry heart of a new London men agitated for the Round his feet played to and young poet of anarchism has beguri abolition of slavery in America fro, to beat The heart that Byron, w h ile less tha n a 100 m iles to the Thinking every tear a gem. snatched from the pyre north there existed a slavery far Had their brains knocked out by on the Italian beach was V K j■ worse than that on the American them. only 30 years old. plantations. Anarchists can do Clothed with the Bible, as with Shelley was born far from the a lot in 30 years. ANtW v : moil and toil of the lig h t a V f L r steam into an And the shadows of the night, Like Sidmouth, next, Hypocrisy On a crocodile rode by.

Page 10 —THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, december 18-24, 1973 NO MANS ENOUGH TO BE ANOTHER MANS MASTER Last October the ABC broadcasted on LATELINE a three way link-up between Noam Chomsky, professor in linguistics at Boston MIT, anarcho passivist and author of several books on the Vietnam war; Colin Ward, former editor of the British magazine ANARCHY ; Pat Flanagan, a marxist and tutor in philosophy at Sydney University; and Malcolm Long, LATELINE compere. What came out of the radio was a heavily cut and mangled version of what was actually said. The following is a transcript of the whole discussion.

of the population for autonomous con­ LONG: Professor Chomsky, you’ve writ­ authority. William Morris, the English There’s a lot of debate where the point trol o f their lives. ten that the ideas o f libertarian socialism socialist, used to say no man’s good of divide in the history of socialism came. LONG: Well if anarchy is an alternative have been submerged in the industrial enough to be another man’s master. The sort o f people that the Marxists call societies o f the past half century and that to these sort o f structures, what is it Anyone who painfully climbs the ladder derogatively the utopian socialists are in really? How can we look at anarchy and the dominant ideologies have been those o f political power will find that some­ fact the forerunners of the anarchist wing see a difference between it and the sort of o f state socialism or m onopoly capital­ thing happens to him in the process. The o f the socialist movement. There are also, state structures which exist in the United ism. Now is anarchy or libertarian social­ first thing that happens to him is that his o f course, individualist anarchists who States and the Soviet Union. ism in fact the third alternative? Is it the perspective changes. He looks at society develop a sort of egoist social theory, other way o f looking at the world from CHOMSKY: Well, I think that the funda­ not as a member of it but as a master of Stirner and so on. They have presumably the two dominant ideologies which exist mental concept o f the anarchist alterna­ it. as much claim as we have to be called at the moment? tive is that society can become self-organ­ FLANAGAN: It’s quite clear, just follow ­ anarchists but one would see them as an CHOMSKY: Yes, I think that the historic ised without the intrusions of authoritar­ ing on from what Colin Ward has said extended form of 18th century liberalism and the current importance o f anarchist ian, autocratic elements, through the that if one looks at the history o f class I think. thinking is that it really offers the only com m on interest o f individuals in form­ society - the fact that for so many LONG: Professor Chomsky, how much serious and substantive alternative to the ing, joining together under conditions of thousands o f years a minority class of organisation is allowed in anarchist theo­ dominant social ideologies and the corres­ solidarity and cooperation and mutual aid people have used the state to maintain ry and is it related to social situations, is ponding developments towards central­ for production and for interchange and their interests at the expense o f the it related to production as in Marxist ised state authority that one sees through­ for satisfaction and enhancement of their interests o f the large majority o f the thinking? What is the fundamental base out the past and present industrial world. intellectual and material needs. And these population - it’s not surprising that one from which you begin to create what you LONG: Colin Ward, this obviously means possibilities I think certainly exist. should immediately be sceptical and sus­ call “ free association o f people” ? that North American democracy and the They’ve generally been destroyed and picious when anyone starts to argue that CHOMSKY: Well, continuing from Colin style o f government in Russia have some­ often repressed in interesting and import­ people can’t regulate their own conditions Ward’s distinction between socialist and thing in com m on which is the state? ant ways throughout modern history but o f work and their lives generally, that in egoist wings o f anarchism, lets concern WARD: Yes, I think this is true. But they continued to emerge once again fact they need Big Brother whether it’s in ourselves with the socialist wing - that is because o f their naturalness and their more than the state, the state mode o f the form o f a benevolent state appartus with people like Bakunin and Kropotkin thinking. For instance, if you happen to appropriateness to fundamental human o f Big Brothers on more specific levels o f and the anarcho-syndicalists who were be stuck in a lift with Brezhnev and needs and because they also provide the work - whether it’s on the shop floor or very self-consciously socialists. Within the Nixon, you'd find they had a lot more in basis for social change - for evolution the university or running a newspaper. socialist wing o f anarchism it is assumed, common with each other than they had into a richer and more civilised society, in LONG: Yes, what you ’re saying there if fact it is insisted, that there should be which the principle of authority in con­ with you. They’re apparachiks, arent sounds very much like socialism. Are in complex and diverse forms o f organ­ they? They’re part o f the state apparatus, trol and domination will be replaced by fact anarchists socialists? isation. they’re authoritarian in their approach to the principle of voluntary free associ­ WARD: Well, this is a very difficult one. Bakunin, as, more or less the origin­ ation, federation and so on. life and by the time the lift was released It seems to me that anarchism derives ator of anarcho-syndicalism — which I LONG: Yes, Colin Ward, most people I you ’d be really out in the cold while really from tw o great channels o f Eu­ think is the wing o f anarchism which is think would say that authority is part o f they’d be old buddies. In fact the two ropean thought, one liberalism — anar­ the most natural approach to the prob­ life and that societies have always needed systems have more in comm on than they chism can be seen as the ultimate form of lems o f industrial society - does want to authority and how can anarchists say that have with their own underprivileged citi­ liberalism - and the other, socialism. develop the structure of the future so­ zens. authority is irrelevant? From my point of view, I think anar­ ciety - the society of free association of WARD: Well, authority is certainly part LONG: Pat Flanagan, this obviously chism is one wing of the whole socialist producers - on the basis o f the im­ of life but there are a lot of different means that for an anarchist the com­ movement and the tragedy o f the last mediate organisation of workers in every ways in which you could explain this. monality between America and Russia, in hundred years of the socialist movement branch of production in the present You could say someone is IN authority terms o f them both having an authoritar­ is that it’s opted for the authoritarian society. That is on the basis o f the which means quite plainly he’s at the top ian state structure, is greater than their state-oriented kind. A hundred years ago syndicates acting now not merely as of a pyramid of power, or of course that ideological differences. Would you accept socialism was considerably less differen­ agencies for the improvement o f wages somebody IS an authority - Chomsky’s that? tiated. Even in Britain the Fabians o f 80 within the capitalist system or defence o f an authority on linguistics - or you can FLANAGAN: Yes, as both Ward and or 90 years ago still saw an anarchist and workers from the more grotesque forms say that someone HAS authority - that Chomsky have already pointed out, the a collectivist wing of socialism and won­ of oppression but as organisations that the person has generated other people’s crucial common feature o f both systems dered what to opt for. Well, they opted attempt to create within the working confidence in his wisdom or something of and the corresponding ideologies is the for the state. They opted class the understanding and that sort. crucial role o f the state on two levels l, for the conquest o f state ability and organisational skills Now the authority you’ve got to the coercive level o f the power just as the Marxists, JkA and the organisations worry about is the state o f being monopolisation o f force and the| did in their dispute with V themselves for the IN authority. This is a problem ideological level, to maintain Bakunin and his adherents direct conduct of for the people underneath and majority conformity. The in the First International in production. it is also, o f course, a common feature of both the 1870s. systems is the function of problem for the holder of the state in the interests of a minority against the interests of the large oam majority

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THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, december 18-24, 1973-Page 11 Similarly one form o f organisation at one in agreeing on. regimes they’ve got. Undoubtedly there is Arendt and others who’ve commented on that is posed by virtually every socialist- The necessity for grappling with the a resurgence o f interest in what was once the revolutionary process - that virtually anarchist thinker is organisation on the immediate problems, the chaos that al­ written o ff as something dead. without exception at a point of revolu­ basis o f point o f production, that is a most inevitably ensues on the morrow of CHOMSKY: It seems to me that there’s tionary overthrow one sees the spontane­ com m on interest in production. Now a revolution - these problems are im­ more than a resurgence here. What one ous emergence of ideas such as those of another basis o f organisation which again mense. And keep in mind that one o f the finds is a kind of spontaneous rediscovery council communism and federalism and runs through anarchist tradition is com- crucial things that any movement for o f the same leading themes often without free association and soviets and industrial munalism or federalism that is the idea of radical social change is going to be faced awareness that they had been developed democracy and so on. Classic anarchist territorial organisation with the leading with - this is something that Chomsky’s and explained in the past. It’s somehow ideas which have taken various forms and idea being that small groups will again pointed out in his works - is the inevit­ which naturally come alive not so much through the device of contract and volun­ able attempts at capitalist counter-rev­ because the agents are aware o f the tary association federate themselves in olution. So that while any kind of dicta­ historical process as because of the larger organisations. torship over the mass of people is out of naturalness o f these forms o f voluntary One can think of a variety of other the question, nevertheless I think certain association for dealing with the human forms o f social organisation into which people in the anarchist tradition, his­ problems even in the post-revolutionary people might enter for the purpose o f torically and currently, have a much too period. realising their particular goals whether simplistic view about the nature o f the WARD: And they continually occur these goals be material, that is organisa­ process os significant social change. when anybody finds themselves in the tion of production, whether they happen LONG: Now in terms of social change I’d position o f having to do something for to do with development in an intellectual like to look at what some people have themselves. The descriptions o f say Hun­ area with experiment into new social called the resurgence in anti-authoritarian forms and so on. thinking which has happened over the last One o f the major reasons why anarch­ few years. Given that perhaps the basic ist socialists have been so opposed to idea o f anarchism is anti-authoritarianism, state power (apart from those mentioned is it in fact true, that because o f modem already) is that it tends to create a kind bureaucracies people are beginning — as of Procrustean bed a sort of a priori form against the quote I gave you at the start within which a social organisation must o f the program — to see an alternative to function, while at the same time it takes American style democracy or Russian away the initiative and the possibility of bureaucratic rule? experimentation and creativity from prac­ WARD: Yes, I think this is true. When characteristic of revolutionary upsurges tice by placing the authority in the hands people started becoming interested in the to express the fundamental libertarian o f a class o f authoritarian agents. history o f anarchism it was a sure sign urge and understanding. Now I think if you compare the they thought it was over. Usually people LONG: Yes, it’s interesting that this marxists with the libertarian wing o f the think that the last ditch for the anarchists should happen given the fact that, as you socialist movement, it’s true that marxist- was when Franco’s troops moved into mentioned earlier professor Chomsky, the leninists, even Lenin himself in his more Barcelona in 1939; and from a lot of state is such a normal part o f everyone’s libertarian moments, would have accept­ other points o f view it was over a lot life throughout the world, that thinking ed something like the anarchist picture as earlier and yet everywhere in almost all about not having the state is way outside the long term goal o f socialist revolution. the countries of the world not excluding the normal strands o f thought o f most LONG: This is a society without author­ Russia there were people keeping alive people. I’m sure in most universities, ity. some kind o f anarchist tradition o f social scientists, say rarely talk about CHOMSKY: Yes, but they insisted that thought, reading forbidden authors, pub­ theories o f non-state living. gary in 1956 or Czechoslovakia in 1968 this be achieved through the prior means lishing minority journals; and suddenly in CHOMSKY: I think this is quite true as or the fall o f Battista in Cuba all give rise of the establishment of a dictatorship of the past few years it’s perfectly true the you say o f intellectuals who are very to the journalists’ descriptions o f the kind the proletariat which in fact meant the big world outside has become interested much wedded to state authority and in of spontaneous emergence of social dictatorship o f a vanguard party, precise­ in this and o f course one might say this is fact one might almost say that their organisations o f a free and egalitarian ly that red bureaucracy that Bakunin because of popular disillusionment on natural obedience is to the state and that kind that, just as Chomsky says, form warned would lead to the most terrible o f both sides o f the Iron Curtain with the they see their social role as manipulators absolutely into a pattern. authoritarian structures; and that is the o f state power to a certain extent, But this is coming back to the ques­ point I think at which authoritarian and but it’s also true - and this has tion that was raised about organisation. libertarian brands o f socialisms most I The anarchist position, it seems to me, is sharply diverged. 1 that there is enormous variety o f forms o f The Bakuninists felt that the facts o f I social organisation which always exist the future will be created by the practice [regardless o f the state - an enormous o f the revolutionaries themselves. That is, interlocking network which from a sub­ if there is a dictatorial society with an servient position in ordinary society authoritarian caste, a new class o f techni­ would in fact become the dominant cians and managers and so on, then this I forms of organisation if we actually had will in fact create the form o f the future Ian anarchist society. But Pat Flanagan’s society. The marxists, or Lenin at least, 1 interpolation about the nature of a rev- | olutionary crisis and a transitional period believed by some means which he never presented any convincing description of, o f course all this assumes that anarch- in my opinion, the state would wither lism is going to be brought about by a revolution. Whenever people want to away. I think that our experience tends to support the anarchist judgment on this knock down anarchist ideas as being wildly impractical because you ’d never matter. | get that degree of social cohesion and so FLANAGAN: I'd like to follow up what on - this is true o f any other social form; Noam Chomsky’s been saying here. It this is true o f capitalism, if anyone want­ seems to me that in essential respects the ed to establish it by way o f a revolution, classical anarchist and libertarian critiques or it’s certainly true of marxism. o f certain authoritarian strands in marxist Every society it seems to me contains thought — for example in most of Lenin’s I within it both libertarian and author­ writings apart from, say The state and itarian trends and at certain times the revolution — are essentially correct. libertarian becomes dominant and at Nevertheless I think there’s more to the others the authoritarian becomes dom­ problem o f social change than some inant This is really the point about anarchists would like to think. As Lenin stressed in The state and anarchism and revolution. revolution: if one is really serious about social change, then the smashing, the literal destruction o f the existing state apparatus with all its coercive institutions on the one hand and its means for maintaining ideological hegemony and conformism is an absolutely crucial ] requirement. Now it just w on’t do in the real world - when you’ve got a whole history of domination and subordination I on the part o f people and given the nature of the means of domination and ideologi­ cal suppression - it w on’t do to have a kind o f instant coffee, magic wand formula about the process o f transition towards socialism. Just consider for example the situation that the Chinese communists found them­ selves in when they finally seized power in 1949. The horrific backward material conditions that existed there, the poverty and the appalling conditions o f the peo­ ple were just staggering. So that while the destruction o f the existing state apparatus is quite crucial, it doesnt mean we can then immediately attempt to institute the kind o f long term anarchist program that socialists and anarchist marxists are

Page 12 — THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, december 18-24, 1973 FLANAGAN: I’d just like briefly to tarian socialists pointed out at once that state in this century — what w e’ve got ject areas, than people who from a very comment on what Colin said then. The if the state is merely replaced by a new here is the state taking on a kind o f in­ early age have been submitted to thinking last thing I’d wish to do is set up some form o f authoritarian rule with a socialist dependent, autonomous existence of its in educational categories decided for kind o f artificial antithesis between piece­ technical intelligentsia in control o f the own; but I think on the contrary that them. If there’s truth in this it’s an meal reform or more or less gradual full apparatus o f state power then we will what a close study o f the nature o f the indication o f how very far we are from reforms versus some kind o f romantic have a new form o f slavery perhaps even state on both sides o f the Iron Curtain knowing what the capacities of people conception of revolution. On the con­ worse, Bakunin argued with some justice, shows is that the state more than ever is are, because we are so shaped by author­ trary. It seems to me that what we are than the one that preceded it. the means o f bridging the essentially itarian institutions. irresoluble contradictions generated by concerned about here is a matter o f really LONG: Surely anarchy requires some FLANAGAN: Yes. the private economy. It’s more than ever crucial importance, namely the question view o f how people will relate to each the agent o f o f bringing about the conditions to give CHOMSKY: Now I think that the basic other and how people must develop the corporate controllers of people concrete control over their condi­ revolutionary anarchist idea has been themselves. tions o f work and existence generally. that (y ou ’re quite right in pointing out the means of production. the problem of grappling with the im­ Far from becoming FLANAGAN: Yes, I think that anarchy or libertarian socialism, taken to be a Now we began earlier by looking at mediate tasks o f organisation and recon­ a kind of autonomous the function of the state and it’s quite theory o f a range o f forms o f social struction and development in the post entity the state’s clear that while one could as an anarchist organisation on the one hand and a revolutionary period and even defense role in perpetuating the or a libertarian oppose the state as an end theory or a set o f ideas, a program for from counter-revolution). But that it is interests o f the ruling class' social change on the other, must ultimate­ in itself, for most libertarian socialists far from obvious that the way to grapple is more pronounced than ever. ly be based on some sort of conception of opposition to the state has been in with these problems is through the devel­ human nature. Now while Colin Ward’s recognition precisely of the crucial role opment o f a new authoritarian state LONG: Well looking at anarchy it seems certainly correct in saying that there’s not that it plays in maintaining domination structure . .. over a majority in the interests o f a very clear to me that anarchists must have one single tradition o f thought on this minority. So opposition to the state — FLANAGAN: Oh certainly. a theory that non authoritarian ways of subject, certainly what’s common to a living are possible and preferable for number o f traditions o f thought in the the need to get rid o f this institution with CHOMSKY: . . . under the control of a its two functions on the ideological and people. Is it true that anarchism has a libertarian stream, including the marxist vanguard party. It’s a complicated matter, the coercive level — has been seen as a specific concept o f human nature? tradition, is the emphasis on the human but I think if one looks at the revolutions crucial necessary condition. WARD: I dont think so, I think that capacity and need for creative control of of the 20th century there is some reason plenty of anarchists have had theories of ones environment, for creative control of to believe that at least the economic Now we live in an age o f unprecedent­ human nature. The usual criticism is, o f ones environment. ed means of physical and ideological problems and the social problems of the course, that the anarchists imagine that post revolutionary period were very well Now this seems to me a fairly common, a domination and if one’s seriously talking humans are just a little below the angels handled, in fact handled with remarkable fairly basic feature that one can empha­ about not merely the achieving but the and that a free, self-regulating society, originality and success by spontaneous sise; and the consequence o f this is that maintaining of control over people’s con­ while it would be workable with extra­ popular organisation which failed because one tends to look - in analysing the ditions o f existence then it does seem to ordinarily virtuous people, with the or­ they lacked the military force to combat phenomena of domination and violence me that one has to stare straight in the dinary common mortal wouldnt work. the combined powers that were arrayed and aggression — not to some kind face and see clearly the fact that the Now I think this is a total misconception. against them. I have in mind particularly o f death or destructive instinct in peo­ state, as Lenin put it, must be smashed. I mentioned this point that it is precisely what I believe is the most dramatic ple which is invariant throughout his­ because we are so fallible and corruptible example o f that, the Spanish anarchist tory, not to some notion of original CHOMSKY: It’s precisely over the issue that we should never be entrusted with revolution of 1936 which appears to have sin, but to the structures under which o f the dismantling o f state apparatus that power and we should never be willing to been rather successful, in fact remarkably people live. One wants to now start the libertarian and authoritarian socialists surrender our own power to other people. successful in the social and economic looking at the social conditions under There is a notion it seems to me which differed in their tactics and spheres but was V v o f course unable which people live and here the marxist is useful even if it is metaphysical that VVN\. . for various emphasise on how man’s own creatures, by that I dont mean to everybody has a certain amount of pow­ Reasons which the artificial institutions that he con­ minimise the er, a certain amount of autonomy and it’s one might structs, can become monsters which turn difference. I think precisely because we’re conditioned to go into, to back and dominate him, I think is very it’s a surrender our own power to other people, combat the valuable. We need, when we are trying to fundamental to parents, to God, to the state, to all the combined analyse the question of violence and dom­ one. That various authority figures, that we contin­ communist/ ination and so on, to be asking what hap­ the 1 ually diminish our own autonomy. facist/ pens if one varies the social conditions One o f the things, for instance, that under which people behave. liberal you sometimes notice is the extraor­ assault dinary independence of the people you LONG: Professor Chomsky, I think against it. occasionally meet who for some accident you’ve mentioned at times it’s almost an FLANAGAN: of parentage or because they were always empirical thing and that anarchy and Some people on the move, never went to school. Now anarchist ideas very much depend on a have thought they never learnt to think in terms o f particular view o f human nature being that - looking subjects, academic disciplines, and their correct, namely that humans are almost at the emergence thought always seems to me to be much defined by the fact that they should be o f the freer and much more free flowing be­ personally free. Now doesnt this put the tween different disciplines, different sub­ anarchist position in a very contingent

THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, december 18-24, 1973 —Page 13 light on studies in psychology and sociol­ Now I dont frankly expect we’ll learn you’ll get is a whole lot of phony halfway the existing state structures on the one ogy and so on. In fact, if it is shown that much from sociology or psychology measures towards workers control — par­ hand, versus more significant revolution­ people need some sort o f external direc­ about these matters, not for any intrinsic ticipation, consultation - it’s like Tolstoy ary changes on the other hand. We must tion the whole structure we've been reason, but rather because sociology and said about the rich man who’d do any­ recognise the difficulty of bringing about talking about . . . or lack o f structure . .. psychology like most academic dis­ thing for the poor man except get o ff his the conditions whereby people can for falls down. ciplines, or all that have social con­ back And so we’re talking, in fact, not the first time on a large scale assume CHOMSKY: Yes, and I would agree with sequences, are too narrowly constrained about any examples - apart from little meaningful control over their conditions you that anarchist social theory does by the prevailing ideology. self-governing workshops and things — of work and existence. depend on contingent, empirical assump­ LONG: Yes, you mentioned there the things that are completely marginal to the Keeping this in mind, we’ve got to tions with regard to human nature, as­ social sciences. I’m just wondering wheth­ econom y as a whole — but we’re talking realise that what’s crucial here is, as I sumptions which could be false — which er your study in terms o f linguistics has in about the resurrection o f the demand and mentioned earlier, the conquest o f state is only to say that anarchist social theory fact any real relationship which goes to also the resurrection o f the interesting power with all the ensuing set o f prob­ is not empty, that it is a significant this question o f the nature o f political notion (which again not the anarchists lems that this involves. On the other proposal concerning what human beings ideas, in this case anarchy and innate but the people who were known as the hand, as we’ve already seen, the nature o f are like and how their basic needs can be human structures? Guild Socialists were pushing years ago) the state in our century is so unprece­ realised and so on; and being significant CHOMSKY: Well I’d like to be cautious — the idea o f encroaching control, that dented in terms o f its means o f ideologi­ o f course it could be false. The same is about that. I think there is a suggestive gradually you reduce managerial prerog­ cal and physical domination that it’s not true of any other theory of social organ­ connection. There is nothing like a chain atives in industry by saying well, thus far surprising that we get more reformist isation or social structure that’s not auto- of inference that leads from one to the this is our affair — this is not for demands for self-management on smaller logical. It too depends on more or less other and I think one has to be very very management to decide - and we have had scales in all areas o f life. explicit an conscious assumptions about cautious and careful in making sure that in this country various struggles which Now it’s silly for people serious about human nature. no one gets the idea that something exists relate to management’s right to manage this problem to set up this kind o f Now in the case o f libertarian social­ which does not. However, there is a kind everything. But these are, I must empha­ artificial antithesis between reform and ism I think we can identify a number of o f a similarity o f concept, one might say, sise, within the total capitalist orbit. revolution, but I think it’s also important such assumptions that have historically That is I think the investigations of But on the other hand, o f course, if that people on the left, libertarians who been developed. Some of them, as Pat language — not only the modem ones but you were a gradualist about encroaching are serious about social change, appreciate control in industry then you would say, mentioned, are common to Marx, at least also the classical ones which are now clearly, just how, as Colin mentioned - the early Marx, and to the various marxist beginning to be rediscovered — did reveal well, it all works up to the final workers slogans like “ workers control” and so on, takeover. As you know in the past few traditions as well. For example, common­ that an essential property o f human and the counterculture can become sim­ years we’ve had a number o f work-ins in ly enunciated is the idea that there is a intelligence was in its spontaneous and ply pieces o f ideology that function to kind o f sense o f justice that is an innate creative character within the framework this country - the stay-in, work-on strike perpetuate what Marcuse would call a done for propagandist reasons but some­ human faculty. It’s also claimed, and this o f a system o f rule. kind o f repressive tolerance. times successful in their own right and is something that goes right back to the And both the classical and the modern In our country here the Labor govern­ this is something which has never happen­ Enlightenment, in fact ultimately to the studies emphasise that far from being ment is making all kinds of noises about rationalist tradition, that free creative inconsistent with one another, the notion ed before in the history o f British trade worker participation in industry. N ow unionism, certainly. action and in particular free creative work of creativity, creative activity, really pre­ this kind o f tokenism which is often LONG: Pat Flanagan, how do you see is a fundamental human property. Marx supposes some kind of system of rule and subsumed under the heading of workers goes as far as to call it the human essence. one can find very comparable ideas in­ things like the | counterculture, new control has nothing to do with the real education ’t movements, workers It is the need for free creative work under cidentally within the anarchist socialist thing: genuine self-management which is, control, resident conditions of voluntary control and vol­ tradition. For example Bakunin has very action groups literally speaking, the gaining and the intriguing remarks about how freedom and so on? untary association. maintaining by workers o f control over requires that we recognise the laws of our FLANAGAN: There is, furthermore, a belief that their conditions of work, whether it’s in own nature which create the conditions I’d like to freedom in any meaningful sense, in the this ABC studio, running a newspaper, for our freedom and he contrasts freedom come back to sense that involves bringing out in a whether it’s on the shop floor, in a not to the existence of the framework of the very creative way the latent potentialities of university or whatever. These things are natural law but rather he contrasts it to difficult set o f each individual human being in all their quite different and it seems to me that external coercion and autocratic intru­ questions about diversity and uniqueness: that this can be the whole ideology of workers control as sion. the relationship developed only under conditions of sol­ distinct from self-management and more Now these I think are suggestive ideas. between idarity. As Humboldt, not an anarchist generally notions about the countercul­ reforms under 4 but a libertarian social thinker, put it: LONG: What would you say the main ture and so on, can simply function social fetters must be replaced by social elements are at the moment. Y ou ’ve essentially to perpetuate the prevailing bonds; and only if this is done will mentioned workers control and a few distribution of power individuals be able to become artists in others but what would you think are the They suggest that what’s essential to their social and productive life rather movements? human beings, that the natural product o f than automata, rather than as cogs in a WARD: When we talk about workers human intelligence is a system of prin­ wheel and, control what we’re saying, in fact, is that ciples which underlies the free creative so on. the demand for workers control after use o f language as an expression o f being o ff the agenda for a very long time, human thought. Correspondingly one ^is creeping back on to it - that people might hope to argue and perhaps to looking for the problem o f the malaise demonstrate that free creative work, one of contemporary industry think that might almost say artistic work, that is, workers control might meaningful labor under conditions of free conceivably be the association, is another reflection of in­ answer. The result, o f trinsic human capacities and needs, How­ L course, is that what ever, these, like most notions within the social sciences or within social theory should be regarded as suggestions, often perhaps almost metaphoric suggestions rather than as principles which can now be subjected to scientific analysis and experiment. LONG: Colin Ward, looking at outcrops o f ideas o f antiauthoritarian structures. In your book Anarchy in action you ’ve

Page 1 4 - T H E L IV IN G D A Y L IG H T S , december 18-24, 1973 telling you what to do except, of course, force is ultimately based on popular FLANAGAN: I’d just like to make one listed a whole lot of trends in our society the people in the humblest ranks o f the consent to some extent, in fact to a non final point about workers control and today which tend to show the capacity of hospital. trivial extent, and I think that given the self-management. While we should cer­ people to act and create in a sort of Now in terms o f the radical counter­ m onopoly o f means o f coercion one has tainly welcome all reformist tendencies nonauthoritarian manner. You mention culture, amongst people in the medical to anticipate that any real effective dis­ towards things like resident action groups things like workers control, free schools, world, suddenly the notion crops up that solution o f state power will involve a and certain libertarian features o f the new sorts of education, the countercul­ the fellow who sweeps up the limbs at the prior stage in which subversion in this counterculture, we should also point out ture and so on. Now are those things bottom o f the operating table, or pushes sense - that is the comprehension, the that what’s important here is the insist­ really examples o f anarchist thinking or the bedpans around, is also someone who understanding of alternative forms of ence that the mass o f people, the mass o f are they something different. Lots of has something to say about the running social organisation, o f the possibilities of workers engaged in key points o f produc­ people would claim those things as ex­ of that hospital. Now in no kind of freedom - these alternatives will be well tion, strive to achieve control over their amples o f their political theories. revolutionary dreams about the reorganis­ understood. conditions o f work, strive to achieve WARD: Well, I think there’ s only one ation o f medical services would that It’s for this reason that I think that genuine self-management. political theory that fits them. But at the particular point have cropped up any­ For so called new left theorists like even the minor moves towards workers same time I would emphasise as Noam where except within the past five years, Marcuse to romanticise certain elements participation and some o f the things in did, that people constantly rediscover say since 1968. in the new left and to write o ff the the counterculture which challenge vari­ anarchism. You know, continually you working class in the more or less tradi­ ous types of authority are quite import­ t h e u p p e r c r u s t meet people because you know this is just tional sense is a serious error, and the ant. Obviously they fall far short of their particular frame o f reference. tHem sit down demand for self-management with respect anything which might succeed in achiev­ LONG: Yes, professor Chomsky, surely to key areas o f production must remain ing the level o f comprehension, subver­ these movements though are in the right the essential focus for any movement for sion, if you like, that is necessary to lead direction? mass social change. to a revolutionary change in society but CHOMSKY: Yes, I think they are and I LONG: Well, as Colin Ward said, perhaps they are moves towards it I believe. take them very seriously. I think Pat is anarchists dont live for a final day when WARD: If you leave out, say, the produc­ entirely correct in pointing out, as he did everything’s going to happen at once, but tive industry and take those big changes before, two things; first that the state has finally, Noam Chomsky, what sort o f that have occurred in the way people a monopoly of the means of coercion and society in broad outline would you see think about, let’s say the organisation of that the extent o f that monopoly, that is coming out o f a fruition o f all these a hospital. They’re a really 19th century the imbalance between state power and impulses towards nonauthoritarian struc­ thing with not just one pyramid but a popular forces is probably increasing, that tures? whole lot o f pyramids, an administrative is the state is increasingly capable of pyramid, and a medical pyramid and a CHOMSKY: Well, I think that anarchism exercising coercion and force. That’s nursing staff who runs the place. If you ’re is a very appropriate concept for an point number one, and point number twc the architect o f the thing you find you’ve advanced industrial society. I think that is that destruction o f state power has to got a hundred clients and they’re all we have the technical means to overcome be an essential component in any real the stupefying specialisation of labor, we revolutionary process. have the technical means to overcome Now given these two facts, generally H u i w ill (,,■ Ih fir S n enth C hnslm ai Hehind the R a n artificial distinctions between intellectual true, I think, the tactician of revolution­ and manual labor; we are at a position ary change, o f which I’m not one, would f r e e p o l it ic a l where the dirty work of society can be immediately be led to two conclusions, I reduced to a minimum and can be equally think, to note two possibilities under PRISONERS shared; where all individuals can have which destruction o f state power might access to intellectual culture and can, in take place. fact, contribute to creating it; and I think One is random catastrophe, let’s say In whatever argument might have been given war or something o f that sort. Well, we in the past for retaining autocratic institu­ can put that aside since it’s unpredictable tions - On the grounds that they are by its very nature and we can’t do much necessary for survival or overcoming ma­ about it. Two, the only plausible way terial deficit or whatever - have largely would be a very far reaching kind of disappeared. subversion. I think we’re now in a stage where it is By that I mean a very profound possible to seriously undertake the pro­ creation, at a very profound level, o f an gram o f real workers control: that is real understanding within all sectors o f the free association by producers beginning at population that an alternative to the the point o f production and at the point coercive autocratic institutions under where they live, and taking over directly which they live is very feasible; and, in BY CHRISTMAS the organisation and structure and func­ fact, that subversion has to be so far w«- Will TrII Mow tioning of th e.. institutions, productive, reaching that it undermines the t social, or whatever, in Lstate’s use o f force. Now, GENERAL DEFENSE COMMITTEE which they choose after all the state's^ to participate. use of m □

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T H E L IV IN G D A Y L IG H T S , december 18-24, 1 9 7 3 — Page 15 16-T H E LIVING DAYLIGHTS, december 18-24, 1973 THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, december 18-24, 1973-Page 17 ‘Dont mourn, s e i z e m e f a c t o r y ! organise’ N NOVEMBER 19, 1915, s e i z e m u u e e ! Ofive prison guards pumped four dum-dum bullets into Joe looks at the real industrial anarchy Hill in the Utah State Penitentiary JOHN LOH — thus cementing in legend the N JULY this year, assembly man who gave the International with complicated and imaginative ive in action within the plants line workers at Ford’s JOHN CHRISTMASS Workers o f the World its singing I tactics such as ‘checkerboard these groups have within them­ Broadmeadows plant “ rioted” . voice. strikes' or marches inside the fac­ selves seen a broadening o f con­ Similar actions have occurred in tories. sciousness. They are now involved Y GREATAUNT Violetta Hill, a Swede and itinerant was, I venture to say, the worker, was executed for the the huge car plants o f Detroit, The importance of the workers in “ proletarian communes” of fac­ M Milan, France and Britain. In each self-activity was shown recently in tory workers and in discussions on last true anarchist in my family. • murder of a Salt Lake City grocer There has been enormous mis­ and his son. He was executed case massive, often violent, con ­ the Builders Laborers struggles in womens liberation, areas ignored frontations have taken place be­ Sydney. The BLs have developed or tokenised in traditional left or understanding through history of despite pleas from President the nature o f anarchism In Woodrow Wilson, the Swedish tween workers, management and a large amount o f autonomy on union organisations. essence, old Buddha found some­ ambassador and tens o f thousands the union leaderships. the job. They can organise them This type of activity is part of T o me the interesting thing is selves to take action without call­ the struggle for liberation distinct­ thing o f it some 2500 years ago of workers throughout the world when, after having wandered up that he be given a new, and fair, that where the cruelty and stupid­ ing in an “ expert” from the union ly different from the ‘party-line’ ity of capitalist production meth­ offices. concept o f that struggle. For in and down his eightfold paths in a trial. happily bemused way for what Hill was convicted despite ods are at their worst, the initiat­ During the recent lockout over making the fight part o f the daily ive for often extraordinary actions must have seemed an intolerable conflicting and contradictory the green bans I went to an activity within production (rather has come from the blokes on the occupied job. The coppers had than as an adjunct to it — is the time, he finally sank gratefully to evidence and even though no one rest beneath his tree, realising at at the scene o f the crime could line themselves. just ordered all the tradesmen monthly union meeting) the en­ At the Ford plant in Australia (plumbers, carpenters etc) o ff the tire capitalist reality is subverted. last the eternal verity - NOTH­ identify him. INGNESS. The only substantial evidence the workers attacked the union job so that they would be sure o f Capitalism is not perceived like leaders with a bitter fury for only pinching BLs. When the gravity any longer. Thus aspects But this is a highly individual the state had was that two hours and abstract concept. It may be after the shooting o f the grocer, dragging them back through the tradesmen tried to get back to of bourgeois order outside of pro­ gates. At the Fiat plant in Milan collect their tools they found they duction begin to be challenged. all very well for the old Guatama Hill went to a doctor’s office with to sit on his bum and do and a bullet wound in his lung. Hill during the Italian “ Hot Autumn” couldnt. Tempers were flared and The fact that there is a con­ of 1969 the workers marched out a bit o f pushing and shoving devel­ stant resistance to the order o f realise NOTHING; but what the maintained that he received the country needs is a practical wound in a quarrel with another of the plant, uprooted a tree in oped yet the tradesmen couldnt things in factories is shown by the the factory grounds and used it to organise a meeting to decide on a effectiveness o f work to regula­ workaday ten cent method of man. They were fighting, he said, achieving it. After only brief demolish the managements of­ move. They lacked the experience tion actions. As soon as workers over a woman. But he never reflection, any thoughtful person fices, that done they marched and confidence in their ability to begin to do exactly as they’re identified the man or woman will I am sure, agree that the around the corner and set the tree self organise that the BLs had told, things fuck up no end. What claiming it was none o f the court’s greatest barrier in the way is that to work demolishing the union gained. the concept of workers autonomy business. o f the establishment — the state— offices. The way in which this same job does is make this resistance con­ In a letter from state prison to and the great anarchists o f whom Out of the Ford events grew autonomy has led many BLs to an scious, explicit and to a specific the Salt lake telegram, Hill set out my greataunt Violetta was one, two demands from the rank and understanding of society beyond end. the reason why he and many are unanimous in their opinion file, neither of which received any just job militancy is o f great im­ When workers take control of others believed the state pursued that no good could really com e o f acknowledgement by the unions. portance. The deep support and their own struggles they begin to the case with such unbending the world till it is disposed of. One was for the establishment of understanding o f the green bans see that they do have the ability vigor. "Owing to the prominence The establishment o f course — an autonomous factory commit­ amongst the rank and file, the fact to organise things themselves. o f Mr Morrison (the grocer), there church equally with state - tee representing all workers (in that Sydney BLs have women They then want more (ie, the two had to be a “goat” and the surprised and hurt that anyone fact a claim against the union), workers and women elected o f­ Ford demands). This confidence undersigned being, as they could regard them as foul suc- the other that this factory com ­ ficials is a result o f the self-activ­ and ability can create a desire for thought, a friendless tramp, a cubus on the soul o f man have — mittee have control o f the speed ity o f the rank and file. In terms the self-management o f the whole Swede, and worst o f all, an IWW, in the very best Christian and o f the assembly line, a demand of consciousness, the breakdown of society. It has. From the Paris had no right to live anyway, and liberal spirit - persecuted, beat, which struck at the heart o f the o f passivity has had a snowballing Commune o f 1871 through to the was therefore selected to be “ the imprisoned, tortured, starved and bosses position. effect. Hungarian workers councils of goat” . hanged them. Even worse than Taken together these two de­ Again we see a pattern. The 1956, with dozens of examples “ Goat” or murderer, Joe Hill’s this, they spread spiteful and lying mands meant that the workers Italian ‘workers autonomy’ move­ between, massive workers strug­ songs more than anything else to stories suggesting that the anarch­ wanted their own organisation to ment began as an informal loosely gles have expressed a similar con­ fuel the growth of the V/obbly ists are irresponsible and maniacal control the plant. In the Austral­ structured network of active tent - power and a similar form — movement in America. Striking characters whose one ambition is ian context these were extremely workers groups inside the plants. the workers councils. workers sang Casey Jones — to spread indiscriminate death and advanced demands, coming from a It is almost a name given to a mass Today in Australia the tiniest Union Scab on the picket lines. havoc through the community. so-called ‘backward’ sector of the desire. Its structure is much like o f seeds for this struggle are form ­ The Preacher and the Slave (You The wild eye, the sinister cloak, working class. Yet this is the case the womens liberation movement. ing. Alienation from the unions is will eat/Bye and bye/In the the smoking bom b and the slobb­ everywhere when the workers As the “ workers autonomy” increasing as is new forms o f glorious land above the sky/Work ery mouth is the image promulgat­ seize the initiative themselves and movement has developed it has militancy. (The two are not unre­ and pray/Live on hay/You’ll get ed. create their own methods o f strug­ begun to co-ordinate and organise lated. In West Germany the pie in the sky when you die) An unpardonable exaggeration! gle. They want more than a few itself in a non-hierarchial way to unions have become completely became the workers themesong in All anarchists, it is true, assume in extra quid, they want the factory become the real oppositional incorporated in participation the depression. common that man is socialist by itself. force to capitalist normality in the schemes, this has led to an in­ Joe Hill was an articulate nature and that the state is a The means have also changed. factories. Apart from being effect­ crease in sabotage and wild cat working stiff who had the ability coercive machine which destroys In Italy since 1969, when the strikes). Rank and file groups to translate the dignity, pride and his essential virtues; but some o f workers broke away from a pas­ exist within many unions with humor o f the working class into them - poor, deluded, idealistic sive acceptance o f union directives explicit intent to gain greater aut- verse. idiots — dont really believe in on the biannual two weeks o f momy. Dozens of "little Fords” Like most Wobblies, little is blowing anyone up. And those class war and formed autonomous occurred in the past few known o f Joe Hill before he was who believe in such direct action rank and file groups, plant com­ years. And with these things will arrested. He was born Joel Hagg- only believe in blowing them up - mittees etc, the struggle has be­ com e the many o f those things we lund in Gavle, Sweden, the son o f not mankind as a whole. come part of the daily activity of have seen in Italy o f which the a railroad conductor. In 1902 he Godwin and Proudhon held many workers. This has resulted Ford events were migrated to America and changed that the state would somehow his name to Joseph Hillstrom but in a continuous series o f battles within the factories, often waged wither away - apparently under his fellow workers shortened this the inexorable pressure o f the to Joe Hill. good sense o f manking - whereas In America he dug copper, such sturdy citizens and Bakunin stocked wheat, laid pipe and and Kropotkin thought that rely­ worked on the docks. He joined ing on the longrange good sense of the IWW in San Pedro, California mankind was perhaps a touch in 1910 and began publishing overly optimistic and that a songs printed on colored cards certain amount o f violence was and sold to help strike funds. the only thing that would really On the day he died, Joe Hill persuade it to wither away. wrote his own epitaph in a letter My greataunt Violetta was of to the founding father o f the the school o f Kropotkin and Industrial Workers o f the World, throughout her life she loudly and Big Bill Haywood. Hill wrote: passionately advocated political “ Goodbye Bill: I die like a true violence as a way to achieving the rebel. Dont waste any time golden age in which mankind mourning - organise! It is a would be truly free. Her eyes were hundred miles from here to ever fixed on this bright star of Wyoming. Could you arrange to the New Age that was to rise in have my body hauled to the state the east; but at the same time she line to be buried? I don’t want to ■■ could be pragmatic and turn aside be found dead in Utah. for a moment from this great goal Joe Hill” to deal with the passing problems □ o f the day. Her simple solution to Page 18 - THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, december 18 - 24, 1973 O’ROURKE’S LIVING SONGBOOK NE OF the most intense, if o f any English-speaking country. who made and sang this song. It Ounrationalised, o f the The wild colonial hoy combines was raised on their backs after all, said my larrikinism and idealism in a world’s anarchic traditions has and was a new country back then; given rise to this, probably the flavorsome Australian blend that now it is truly a colony. Tune and most powerfully angry and affect­ owes much to his Irish antece­ great aunt ing song in the Australian tradi­ dents. It is a pity that this country text (with slight variations) from tion, and one o f the greatest songs has so betrayed the kind o f people A.L. Lloyd. Violetta The Wild Colonial Boy

the immediate problems o f the crowd themselves — in the weeks, Depression, I remember, was a or sometimes months, that Violet­ T/s of o. wild c-ol- om-id boy, Jock Cbo-hn h'S nam e. sort o f wholesale vandalism. There ta was away. was no work. Simple. Smash all She died during one o f these the windows in all the stores. Tear terms when she was guest o f the up all the railway lines. Blow up state. I never could find out what sfc/v- Vic- h>r- the bridges . . . there’d be work her last words were in her prison He born in Hie o f ic in Ca-stk-mame. for one and all putting them back cell; but I remember vividly what together again. her final declaration to the world Violetta and her followers was when they arrested her that began their campaign by smashing last time. windows in Boans big department The wallopers had grabbed her ife uas b i5 fa - on-/y son , h'S mohherls pride and j& j store. But her followers were even and were escorting her to the fewer in number and even more paddywagon — a process which trepid when it came to the crunch attracted a fairly large and ap­ preciative crowd since though than the lot that sat down with Pnd SO dear-ly par-enhs love. Hue WildVild Co- Ion -itf Boij. Christ at that last makeshift Violetta was essentially a woman supper. They smashed only six big o f peace she never believed in 'Tis o f a wild colonial boy, Jack He bade the judge good morning “Surrender now John Doolan, you plateglass windows in Boans be­ going quietly. Just as they got her Doolan was his name and he told him to beware see we’re three to one fore the wallopers swooped on to the steps, she wrenched herself He was born in the state o f He'd never rob a poor man or one Surrender in the Queen’s name, for them. To the best o f my know­ free a second and shouted in that Victoria, in a town called Castlemaine who acted square you're a plundering son!” But a judge who would rob a Jack drew a pistol from his belt ledge not one yard o f railway superb, shrill, fiery, apostolic He was his father's only son, his mother's pride and joy m other o f her only pride and jo y and he waved the little toy, track was torn up, nor was any voice o f hers: “ I tell you com ­ And so dearly did his parents love Well he was a worse outlaw than “ I'll fight, but never surrender,” bridge demolished. A pity, be­ rades there will be no peace on the Wild Colonial Boy. the Wild Colonial Boy. said the Wild Colonial Boy. cause the few windows they did earth and no justice until THE He was scarce 16 years o f age when LAST KING is strangled with the So come on all my hearties, we’ll He fired a shot at Kelly and he smash demonstrably did provide a he left his native home small area o f employment that bowels of THE LAST POPE and range the mountain side brought him to the ground All through the bush o f Victoria a Together we will plunder, together And in return from Davis he bushranger to roam, was not previously open. It was we will ride received his mortal wound He robbed the wealthy squatters, established beyond doubt that They grabbed her again at this We'll scour along the valleys and All shattered through the jaws he their stock he did destroy point and hurled her in; but she we’ll gallop o'er the plains lay, his pistol an em pty toy. their principle was sound and if A terror to the rich man was the And we'll scorn to live in slavery, And that was how they captured only they had had an opportunity broke free once more and raised Wild Colonial Boy. bound down with iron chains him, the Wild Colonial Boy. to carry it to a logical conclusion her triumphant voice to complete the great Depression might not her glorious message “ . . . AND In '61 this daring youth com­ HE’S SHOVED UP THE ARSE menced his wild career One day as Jack was riding the So come on all m y hearties, we'll really have happened. His courage being undaunted, no mountainside along range the mountain side, OF THE LAST PRIME MINIS­ But the ranks o f anarchy were danger did he fear A-listening to the Kookaburras, Together we will plunder, together thin in the west. Authority had a TER!” He stuck up the Beechworth their pleasant laughing song we will ride. habit o f throwing them into Vive Violetta! She knew what mailcoach, and he robbed judge Mac- Three mounted troopers rode We'll scour along the valleys, and anarchy was really all about. Evoy along, Kelly, Davis and Fitzroy, we '11 gallop o 'er plains Fremantle boob on the slightest Who trembling cold gave up his With a warrant for the capture o f But w e’ll scorn to live in slavery, pretext and I think most o f them gold to the Wild Colonial Boy. the Wild Colonial Boy. bound down with iron chains. just got tired o f this over the years □ — which, if you have any acquaintance at all with the Fremantle house of correction, is quite understandable. Click went the cell doors ini 891 Greataunt Violetta was never daunted, however, and even at the GLEN HALFBACON 15 bob per 100 and insisted on end there were two faithful employing any shearer irrespective followers who stayed by her ONDITIONS for shearers in o f his union membership. banner. One was a small nervous Cthe 1880s were lousy. They In 1891 over 400 shearers looking man who had blown his were paid a quid per 100 shorn formed a camp at Barcaldine left hand off while attempting to sheep, and their quarters, provid­ (Queensland) and decided to “ use make a bomb in his woodshed ed by wealthy landowners, were force if necessary” to keep the with the intention o f assassinating barely livable. Australia’s best scabs from the sheds. Other camps the duke o f York during his visit loved bush writer, Henry Lawson, were set up throughout western to Perth sometime in the 20s. The described them this way: Queensland. To counter this act­ other was a large and innocently “ Built o f weatherboards and ion the pastoralists set up employ­ brutal faced young man with mild roofed with galvanised iron. ment agencies in the southern and beaming eyes. Little ventilation; no verandah; states and readily found men to The small man who wore his no attempt to create, artificial­ work on their terms. The strikers wooden left hand in a shiny black ly, a breath o f air through the rebelled: they cut fences, placed glove, never said anything. The building. Unpainted, sordid - trees across railway lines, burnt young man never said anything hideous. Greasy, stinking sheds to the ground, stretched apart from exhorting passersby sheepskins hanging everywhere cables across rivers to halt paddle- (without any apparent relevance) with blood-blotched sides out. boats, severed railway bridge sup­ to “Listen to comrade Violetta! On each side o f the hut runs a ports — anything to keep the Listen to what she says!” and rough framework, like the scabs away. occasionally taken a hat around - partitions in a stable; each The Queensland government into which no one ever put compartment battened off to sniffed civil war. Mounted troops anything. about the size o f a manger, and and policemen were rushed to It was a touching and brave containing four bunks, one troublespots to protect property sight to see them on the Esplan­ above the other, on each side. and the recruited southerner ade - that great forum of the Scarcely breathing space any­ scabs. Unionists and militia clash­ people — on a Sunday afternoon. where between them. Unspeak­ Strikebreakers with strong military escort are warned o ff by striking shearers at Barcaldine in Queensland ed and union men were arrested Violetta on her soapbox passion­ able aroma of 40 or 50 men and tried for conspiracy. The ted Shearer’s Union was formed, ately calling for the overthrow o f who have little inclination and cook were paid by the men, by judge made the establishment’s headed by a former gold mining the state. The big young man and less opportunity to wash their collecting four or five shillings position clear - the leaders were unionist, William Guthrie Spence. the little old man flanking her one skins. And clinging to all, and from each shearer weekly. sentenced to three years jail, a Within three years the eastern on either side. Violetta used to get over all, the smell o f the dried, This was the setting o f Austral­ verdict that appalled thinking men to talk two or even three Sundays stale yolk of wool - the stink ia’s first major national strike, states membership had shot to across the nation. running before the wallopers grab­ o f rams!” later involving miners and trans­ 22,500 and union militancy began When they jail a man for bed her again and hauled her o ff The shearers had to write port workers as well as the in earnest in Australia. striking, to clink - usually for advocating ahead seeking work. If they were shearers themselves. Wool prices “ Unionism has in it that feeling It's a rich man's country yet. the immediate assassination o f lucky enough to find work they were fluctuating wildly and many o f mateship which the Australian royalty or the murder o f the had to forward a pound deposit to station owners slashed the shear­ bushman understands already,” The confidence o f the strikers current premier o f the state. They reserve their “ stand” - this was er’s wage to 17/6 a hundred and Spence commented. However, melted, their five month old never bothered to arrest the little forfeited to the boss if the shearer lower. The shearer’s reaction was keeping scabs out o f the sheds revolt against exploitation and old man or the big young man and failed to front at the appointed immediate. They were tired o f wasnt easy. Over 3000 minor dictation had failed. Left hungry these two would turn up every time. They had to provide their humping bluey from outback shed strikes involving single sheds were and leaderless they returned to Sunday and just stand there own blades and food . . . purchas­ to outback shed only to live again called in the first couple o f years. work on the bosses’ terms . . . forlornly by the empty soapbox — ed at high cost under force from under the depressing conditions The station owners sought to back to Lawson’s “unspeakable never attempting to address the the station store. Wages for the they had just left. The Amalgama­ lower the wage rate to less than aroma”. j | THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, december 18-24, 1973-Page 19 Being a representation of a * Kids contributions can be sent conversation between Laura, to either the Sydney or Mel­ bourne monitor. If you live else Anne and Sue who have where, choose either one and enclose a stamped self address­ finished school, Danny and ed envelope. MELBOURNE: Rob King, “ Lodge Ralph”, David John who want schools Road, Lilydale. SYDNEY: finished, and Paul who is John Geake, 17 Bridge street, Balmain 2041. sceptical. Start anywhere and go wherever you like.

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ANARCHISTIC EDUCATION NO ASSESSMENT BUCKETOR SEARCHLIGHT Learning is destroyed by imposition DESCHOOLING IS LEARNING The responsibility for learning of arbitrary standards on what is Traditional learning theory says WITHOUT SCHOOLS rests solely on the learner. There learnt. Admission to specialist/ people learn like a bucket fills are no predeterminal values on tertiary education can be via with water or a bank account fills what should or should not be extreme tests for those who want to with money — which you cash in by Schools are so repressive and in­ COMMUNITY CENTRES efficient that little learning takes learnt. Or at what age any do them whenever they feel ready gaining employment from a good particular thing should be learnt. to do them. There is no rationale exam pass. This is crap. Observe pre place within them. Schools fail in Can be located in existing school Or to what depth a topic should to make all kids at school follow exam tension from swatting and achieving their own conservative buildings — something w ill have to be investigated. Or what combina­ a syllabus for university matricu­ cramming — there is no bucket. aims. More people could learn be done with schools when we've de­ tions of subjects can be made. Kids lation which involves only 10 per "N ew " theory says we perceive more about more different things schooled — to use existing school £ have full rights for responsible cent of school leavers. Employment like a searchlight — non linear if schools ceased to exist. facilities — rooms for meetings, decisionmaking. by aptitude test. IBM do not value m ultidirectional perceiving — any labs, libraries, gyms, gardens, HSC or uni degrees. Employers connections are possible if not video etc. Centre for local design aptitude tests suitable for disqualified before one starts. community to use LEARNING WEB. particular positions. Employers Play centre for kids. Important OPEN WORK PLACES THE. accept job training as part of socialisation is meeting and employment function. playing with other kids. Also Industry must accept an educa­ child minding role for parents UPON THE tional function as well as its when at work. production function. Industries be­ Study cooperatives — when people pISCPVEfcf came open for learners to observe/ want to learn in a group situation — A QUESTION OF SURVIVAL participate as a primary learning can be organised. process. Workers will have teach­ Family education — parents learn MUST SH IFT The most fundamental question: How ing roles. Trade unions and teach their kids — particularly can man survive? is not asked or cooperation-involvement in for minority groups who may not t o t W et want an extensive education in the even recognised in existing schools. ) education. majority group society. DI5COVEP.lNCr Teaching a lifestyle which doesnt Resource centre — for craft and work is a social crime and must V trade tools, media equipment, films, be stopped immediately. The multi­ tapes, etc. tude of ideas arising from de­ No DISCRIlA/A/ATloK schooled anarchistic learning will EDUCATION FOR LEISURE ots tx*sis ofccY+rfi'ca provide many alternative answers to or 3 c W > « iiv v | (• the survival question, and thus If industry becomes increasingly LEARNING WEBS increase man's chances of surviving. mechanical — computer controlled 20 hour working week increased Match teachers with learners. Because the large army of autho­ NO COMPULSION leisure time: paid time for Computer index of potential ritarian child molestors w ill be learning: lifelong education — teachers and their specialities. Learning is destroyed by compul­ given the s^ck — no teachers, no industry provide educational leave — Learner uses on the line console at sion. The Education Act must be teacher training. Students have workers sabatical — time for parents community centre to locate nearest repealed. No one should be responsibility of learning, not to participate in learning process suitable teacher. compelled to learn anything at teachers. with their kids. any time. No manipulative role for Coordinators in the community Government Education Departments. centres have non authoritarian $ FINANCE $ Kids given educational tokens for coordinating/organising role. Less than existing direct education­ equal opportunity of learning. Specialists who register on index al fu n d in g no: new p la n t — Workers given paid educational may take communications courses, recycle: existing schools fo r less leave to use tokens unused when depening on learner feedback. salaried people educational respon­ you nger. --- sibility and part financing to be shared by community/industry.

Page 20 — THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, december 18-24, 1973 DO IT YOURSELF KUNC FU16 STRAIGHT PUNCH Inner Gate Punch (1) When facing an opponent, execute the inside gate punch from the square stance. (2) As your opponent begins his punch from the waist, begin your punch from the middle of your chest. (3) Make sure your arm goes to the & FINGER JAB inside of your opponent’s arm. (4) Strike your opponent in the face while blocking his punch with your striking arm. (5) As you withdraw your right wing chun kung-fu, these Wing chun attacking weap­ arm, begin a left inside gate punch. (6) Execute the left inside gate punch as ons are simple and direct— weapons are used most fre­ you’did the right. (7) Deflect your opponent’s blow with your striking arm. A mainly straight punch and ver­ quently: straight punch, finger finger jab can be used in the same way. tical fist. A jab or punch can jab, finger sweep, vertical be of two types: inside gate or palm, sideward palm, down­ outside gate. ward palm, straight kick, and In the traditional classical side downward kick.

The top view of the inside gate punch clearly shows how your opponent’s punch is deflected. The attacking hand is also the blocking hand.

(A) To execute the inside gate punch (noy ntoon chuie), assume the basic (A) Begin the outside gate punch by first assuming the basic square stance. square stance. (B) Start the punch from the middle of your chest, and (C) (B) Start your punch from the side of your chest, and (C) intersect the extend your arm so that your hand intersects the centerline. centerline with your fist. THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, december 18-24, 1973 — Page 21 DO IT YOURSELF KUNC 1U17

Outer Gate Punch (1) When facing an opponent, execute the outside gate punch from the square stance. (2) As your opponent starts his punch from the waist, start your punch from the side of your chest. (3) I n-this case your arm goes outside of your opponent’s arm. (4) Strike your opponent in the face while forcing his punch inward and away from your face. (5) Withdraw your right arm and start a left outside gate.punch. (6) The inside of your left elbow begins to deflect your opponent’s punch at this point. (7) Strike your opponent’s face A. A strip of paper that’s black at nose level. on one side and white on the other can be used to explain the concept of lin sil die dar. The white stands for a block, and the black stands fo r an attack.

C. By twisting the paper, black runs into white and white runs into black. Block and attack become one, representing a structurally fast style.

CHI SAU (sticking hands)

It is impossible to learn chi sao from a book, but it is even worse to try to leam this form by self-experimentation. Self­ practice will only develop a jerky, up and down, left to right wrestling contest which can be easily penetrated by a sharp wing chun practitioner. The “ springing out” of constant, forward energy can only be acquired from practice with an experienced teacher—it can never be captured on film or paper. Chi sao demonstrations have been filmed and run in slow motion by instructors from other styles who have wanted to leam the secret. Alas! All they could copy were the arm movements. Chi sao is not a method of fighting. It is a method of developing sensitivity in the arms so you can feel your opponent’s The top view of the outer gate intentions and moves. Chi sao teaches correct elbow position, the punch block shows how you deflect right type of energy, feeling for an opponent’s emptiness, and your opponent’s punch inward. defending with minimum motion by keeping within the nucleus of the four comers. Movement in chi sao is like a flowing stream—never still. It avoids the “ clinging stage” (the mind stopping to abide) and the attaching of one’s self to a particular SIMULTANEOUS object rather than flowing from one object to another. If you set yourself against an opponent, your mind will be carried away by ATTACK AND DEFENCE him. Don’t think of victory or of yourself. My emphasis has been on the constant flow of energy. Such Any practice in which you block and then hit is structurally energy should not be misinterpreted as being a secret, mysterious, slow. A physically fast man will never attain full realization of his or internal power. The primary approach to chi sao practice is to aim in a structurally slow style. The object of wing chun, a hone technical skill to a razor’s edge for instinctive hand structurally fast style, is to develop physical speed. It teaches the placement so basic in the wing chun style. The better and more use of offense as defense. If you sense that your opponent is going constant your flow (which is only developed by sticking hands to throw a hook to your face, beat him to the punch with a finger with a competent teacher), the more you can take advantage of ja b . the opponent’s most minute openings.

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In essence, the sticking hands practice is like the Oriental game of paper, scissors, rock. Scissors can cut paper, a rock can crush scissors, and paper can envelop rock. Similarly, when your opponent uses a palm-up block, you should execute an elbow-in block. When your opponent strikes from the elbow-in block, change to an elbow-up block. The one who can’t change effortlessly will be defeated. SCISSORS (1) In doan chi sao the two opponents face each other in sil lim tao’s basic PAPER bent-knee-pigeon-toed-half-squat position. (You should not move from this stance during sticking hand practice.) To begin, the person on the left extends his arm in a palm-up block. The person to the right puts his right arm on top of his opponent’s left arm in a bent-arm, elbow-in block (fook sao).

(2) Left uses the palm-up block to open up his opponent’s centerline so he can strike with a vertical palm (yun jeong). The person on the right feels his opponent’s vertical palm and goes into an elbow-in block by dropping his elbow downward and inward to deflect the vertical palm.

PAPER ROCK

(3) From the elbow-in block, the man on the right tries a vertical fist toward his opponent’s face. The man on the left “ feels” the vertical fist attempt and goes from a vertical palm to an elbow-up block, which deflects the straight punch.

(4) The hands return to the original positions, with the person on the left THE END extending his arm in a palm-up block and- the person on the right pqtting his right arm on top of his opponent's. The arms are touching throughout the THIS supplement is extracted from the book Wing Chun Kung Fu by J. Yimm Lee, exercise. (In practice, repeat this procedure several times.) Ohara Publications, Los Angeles, California. The book is available in some city bookshops.

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GUILD OF UNDERGRADUATES THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA The Guild of Undergraduates comprises all undergraduate students at the University of Western Australia and is controlled by a system of student elected councils. The Guild provides welfare, sporting, recreational and cultural amenities in addition to running catering and other commercial activities. The Guild also provides means for students to develop and express policies on a wide range of social and political issues. Applications are invited for the following positions: RESOURCE OFFICER RESPONSIBILITIES: The Resource Officer shall be responsible for initiating and administering programmes and activities in areas relating to social political and educational issues. Information retrieval and dissemination would be a prime responsibility of the Resource Officer in these areas as laid down by Guild decision making bodies. Educational issues will receive a special emphasis in the duties of the Resource Officer and he will be responsible in particular to the Education Council of the Guild. QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE: No specific qualifications are required but applicants should have experience of tertiary educational institutions and preferably with student organisations. Applicants should be able to show they have a potential for carrying out their responsibilities. SALARY AND CONDITIONS: Initial salary would be by negotiation within the range $4,500-$5,500 and thereafter tied to an equivalent public service salary scale. C ontributo ry superannuation is available after an initial qualifying period. The successful applicant would be appointed for a term of three years subject to a probationary term of 6 months. CULTURAL AFFAIRS OFFICER RESPONSIBILITIES: The Cultural Affairs Officer shall be responsible for initiating and administering cultural projects and advising the Societies Council of the Guild and Guild Council on cultural matters. He will be responsible directly to the Societies Council of the Guild. QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE: No specific qualifications are required but applicants should have experience of tertiary educational institutions and preferably with student organisations. Applicants should be able to show they have a potential for carrying out their responsibilities. SALARY AND CONDITIONS: Initial salary would be by negotiation within the range $4,500-$5,500 and thereafter tied to an equivalent public service salary scale. C ontributo ry superannuation is available after an initial qualifying period. The successful applicant would be appointed for a term of three years subject to a probationary term of 6 months. APPLICATIONS should be made to:— The President, The Guild of Undergraduates, University of Western Australia, NEDLANDS 6009 WESTERN AUSTRALIA. by 15th January giving full details of qualifications and experience, and the names o f tw o referees.

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It has been called the Vietnam of the 30’s A red flag to Spanish bulls: To wear this and it is still going on. Then it w as magnificent scarf in Spain today is to risk seven years jail. The scarves a battle that symbolised the are made in France and smuggled over the internationalist spirt of j d border. FA1 stands for Federacion Anarquista Iberica, an anarchist the Left in it’s most fiery, federation founded in Spain in 1 927 noble and permissive form. A and still going strong. CNT is the anarcho syndicalist trade union m ove­ The cause is still there but ment that Franco has been trying to the spirit needs M*/ suppress for 40 years. rekindling

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HE totalitarianism o f gen­ 20.AK7VIEMS3E 193tf T eral Franco’s government 20, JULIO 1936 and libertarians — demands re­ was built on the bodies o f newed efforts to provide all pos­ thousands o f murdered Spanish allowed clubbed in sible relief for them and their fam- working men and women. leave the face, and lies. The situation is particularly Franco survives because o f his dungeon only forced to kneel hard on families, as in Franco’s sheer ruthlessness towards the one hour a day. Spain women are barred virtually Spanish people; they are suppress­ so that his cap­ The next wcxst from any work with which to sup­ ed with all available weapons tors could beat his treated of all political port their children. physical and psychological. Stat­ arms, ribs, legs and back prisoners are those lock­ utory law is used only when Ricardo Jose Olmos Mata, The struggle goes on; recently ed in the prison o f Ocana’ convenient. Franco’s major meth­ 17, a student, was picked the Spanish working class organ­ ods o f social control are the thugs 40 miles from Madrid on the up with Pedro. He was also ised a new libertarian workers o f the Spanish state, the army, the road to Andalusia. In the summe tortured and interrogated. During group called the F p i (Spanish police and the church. it is insufferably hot and in the one interrogation he was made to sit Workers Federation) to help Without being in any way winter unbearably cold. Until recently th his hands and feet tied to a chair; build the confidence and auton­ it did not even have running water. complete, the following informa­ r he was then beaten on his neck, omy needed for an oppressed tion gives an idea o f the brutal Prisoners have testified about the cruelty shoulders, arms, feet and testicles. Every time people to get up and strike the repression o f young libertarian and lack o f humanity o f the warders in icardo collapsed to the ground he was picked death blow to a ruling class which workers and students now taking Ocana. up by his hair, doused with water to revive has suppressed them with violence place. Puerto de Santa Maria, in As mentioned before it is mainly him, and then tortured again. since 1939. But difficult times o f the province o f Cadiz, situated by the young libertarian workers and Probably the most well known intensive fighting are approaching the sea, is an old penal establish­ students who are suffering at the libertarian prisoner held in for the growing number of anti hands o f Franco’s police state. fascists in Spain. More than ever, ment whose grim history is Franco’s prisons is Julian bewailed in the folksong: “ Mejor For example, Pedro Gonzalez Millan Hernandez who was international solidarity is neces­ Rubio, 16, a metal work­ sary. You can help by writing and cuisera estar muerte che enterrao found guilty of rebuilding pa toa la vie" (I would rather be er who was detained in expressing your outrage to the the CNT (National the Valecas district by following addresses. dead than buried there all my Confederation o f Trade the BPS (Brigado life). Unions). For this, he The Spanish Ambassador, 19 Any prisoner who enters its Political-Social). From received 18 years jail. Beagle Road, Red Hill, Canberra. the first moments of gates is considered a dead man. It The CNT was a labor Excellency: Snr. Polo De his detention, Pedro has always had the worst govern­ organisation which, Franco, Palacio del Pardo, El was tortured and ors, the worst warders. Its walls for a short time, Pardo, Madrid, Spain. are stained by the blood o f those beaten over his entire dominated the social You can also send money who, if not killed there, were left body with truncheons. orders for food parcels to Spanish revolution in Spain to r o t At present the known He was interrogated prisoners and their families. For political prisoners in this sad place by the state security between 1936-39. addresses in Spain contact are seven libertarians. They are police five times - three The plight o f the Acracia, C/o PO Box 45, North locked in the dampest part o f the. hours at a stretch. During "forgotten” prisoners in Richmond, Victoria, j j prison, one in each cell; they are these interrogations he was Spain - the anarchists

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BULLOCKIES: Polaris erville Arms, Carlton. THE AZTECS, ABEL JOHN RUPERT AND THE ROCK HENCHMEN: Whitehorse Inn. MIKE O’ROURKE, Marga­ LODGE: Sundowner Ho­ FAT ALROY, MAC­ H otel. MIKE O’ROURKE: Frank ret Road knight, Cobblers: tel, Geelong. KENZIE THEORY: St Traynors. Dan O’ConnelL RED HOUSE ROLL BIG PUSH: Croxton Park. V in cen t Church Hall, JOHN CROWLE: Frank RED HOUSE ROLL BAND, FAHM: Interna­ Strathmore. ROCK JAZZ BAND: Sundowner, Gee­ Traynors. tional Hotel. MACKENZIE THEORY: MISSISSIPPI, Station long. SKYLIGHTS: Prospect PIRANA: Station Hotel. Teazer. HoteL JAZZ PIRANA: South Side 6, Hill, Kew. MIGHTY KONG: Prahran ATLAS: Matthew Flinders. JERRY AND THE RE- afternoon. FOLK FRANK TRAYNOR: T ow n Hall. F A N T A S Y : C roxton Park. BOPPERS: Studley Park, “A HEAD TURN” : Cap­ PETER PARKHILL: Beaumaris HoteL PIRANA: Teazer PIRANA: Icelands. see wed. tain Matchbox, Isaac Frank Traynors, 100 Lt JERRY AND THE RE- BOPPERS: Studley Park FRANK TRAYNOR: Ex­ FOLK Aaron, Myriad, Skyhooks, FOLK Lonsdale St, City. WALTZING MATILDA — HoteL, Johnson St, Colling- change Hotel, Cheltenham. JOHN CROWLE, MIKE Steve: O rm on d Hall. DANNY SPOONER and w ood. DAVE RANKIN: Alma MYRIAD: Teazer. a national pantomime with JAZZ O’ROURKE: Frank Tray­ GORDON MACINTYRE: tomato sauce: Pram Fac­ HOT CITY BUMP BAND: Hotel, Chapel St, St Kilda. nors. ATLAS, AYERS ROCK: Frank Traynors. RADIO Canapus, B ox HilL tory, tue9-sun, 8.30, mat­ Prospect Hill, Kew. TV PHIL DAY, PETER inee fri, sat, 2pm, 325 MARXIST ECONOMIST: PARKHILL: Union Hotel, SID RUMPO: Station Ho­ JAZZ FILM Ernest Mandel talks on MONTY PYTHON’S tel, afternoon. Drummond St, Carlton. N. Carlton. BRIAN BROWN QUAR- $2.50, $1.50 (stu). UH CHIEH AND A YOU: Lateline, AR, 10.15. FLYING CIRCUS: ABV 2, AYERS ROCK: Teazer. TET: Commune. FALL AND REDEMP­ and other, surrealist films, 10.15. JAZZ BUSTER BROWN, TION: performed by the NFTA, Carlton or Dental. DAVE RANKIN: Railway AYERS ROCK: Chelsea MEETINGS RADIO senior students of the Club Hotel, Pt Melbourne. City Hall. RADIO MESSIAH: AR, 8pm. UNDERSTANDING: Mr Actor’s Theatre School, Itoffidag RED ONIONS JAZZ Ed Whittle, Theosophical FOLK fri-sun, 8.30, 196 Church TWILIGHT OF THE POETRY BAND: Prospect Hill, Kew. JOHN and JUANITA, Soc, 7pm, 188 Collins St, St, Richmond, $2.00, GODS: Bayreuth Fest, 73, BRUNSWICK POETRY ROCK KERRY and BRENDA City. $1.00 (stu). A R , 7.30. W O R K SH O P: 7.30, in­ FILMS MYRIAD: RMIT, after- P O R T N O Y ’ S C O M ­ McDONALD: Commune. SHOWBIZ — 73: review, TV noon. formal atmosphere, Saxon PLAINT: Late, Trak, DUTCH TILDERS, DAN­ Tait Theatre, fri-sun, 8.15, MACKENZIE THEORY: Hall, Saxon St, behind FEEL THE WARM: ABC 11.45, $2. NY SPOONER, PETER 107 Leicester St, Carlton. 2, 10.45, jazz program Station Hotel. T ow n Hall. PARKHILL, JULIE $2.50, $1.50 (stu). TV with Cleo Laine and John PIRANA: Matthew Flin­ EXPERIMENTAL WONG: Frank Traynors. THE BALD PRIMADON- Dankworth. ders HoteL ALLMAN BROS, BLOOD NA: Ionesco’s anti-play of MELBOURNE NEW HOUSE OF FRANK­ UPP: Whitehorse Hotel. SWEAT AND TEARS: JAZZ 1950, Claremont Theatre, MUSIC ENSEMBLE: Com­ ROCK ENSTEIN: HSV 7, 10.30. HOT CITY BUMP BAND: HSV 7, 10.30 THE PLANT: Polaris Inn. thurs-sun, 8.30, 14 Clare­ mune, 580 Victoria St, N. DAVE RANKIN: Lemon SKYHOOKS: Teazer GATHERING: Croxton mont Street, South Yarra. M elbourne. Tree, afternoon. AYERS ROCK: Matthew Park. $2.50, $1.50 students. RED HOUSE ROLL SKYLIGHTS: arvo, YAR- Flinders Hotel. RA YARRA JAZZ BAND: WHEN EIGHT BELLS BAND: TANK: Waltzing JAZZ TOLL (NRC) and THE Matilda HoteL eve, Prospect Hill. NEW HARLEM JAZZ GREAT WHITE HOPE ROCK BIG PUSH: Sundowner FILM (NRC): Carlton Cinema, Hotel, Geelong. ROCK BAND: Prospect Hill. CLOUD NINE: Whitehorse thure-sun, 7.45, Faraday MUSHROOM TOUR: BARBARELLA: Late, HoteL ROCK MIGHTY KONG, SID EXPERIMENTAL St, 90c. Ayers Rock, Ray Brown, Athenaeum, 10.30. UPP: C roxton Park. BIG PUSH: Whitehorse RUMPO: Matthew Flinders N.I.A.G.G.R.A.: La Mama. SHAMUS: till wed, then Matt Taylor, Dingoes, Mad­ BILLY THORPE AND Hotel. H otel. BEN HUR: till Christmas der Lake, Festival Hall. THE AZTECS: Southside 6. JOHN RUPERT AND THE SID RUMPO: Station Ho­ POETRY day, Footscray Grand, HENCHMEN: Croxton tel, afternoon. FOLK FOLK PO O R TO M ’ S PO ETRY Paisley St, Footscray,, Park. PIRANA, TANK: Brighton BAND: Commune. $1.40. BUSHWHACKERS AND PETER PARKHILL: Tank- BILLY THORPE AND T ow n Hall.

SYDNEY MONITOR: Stephen Wall 698.2652, P. Q. Box 23, Surry Hills. FESTIVE LA DE DAS: Chequers. Fiddlers Vine, open till 12 MR GEORGE: Oceanic t f e f t d a s FRANCIS BUTLERS pm. HoteL MELBOURNE 69ERS: Brighton Hotel. ARIEL HUSH, FRANCIS ABERNACK: Brighton ROCK FESTIVALS $2.50, students $1.50. NITRO: Oceanic HoteL HoteL BAND OF LIGHT: Cheq­ T H E BALD PR IM A- BUTLER’S 69ERS: Rock­ POP FESTIVAL: At FLAKE: Revesby YMCA. uers. DONNA: Ionesco’s anti­ dale T ow n Hall. Cowes, Isle of Wight Hotel, JAZZ MR GEORGE: Oceanic TEPOIS: Manly Vale Ho­ ARIEL: Manly Vale HoteL play of 1950, Claremont tel. between dec 26 and jan 13, THEATRE PORT JACKSON JAZZ: HoteL 69’ERS: Brighton HoteL Theatre, thursday-sunday, FRANCIS BUTLERS with Upp, Pendulum, Matt THE THREEPENNY Stage Door Tavern, 7.00 ABERNACK: Brighton MR GEORGE: Oceanic 8.30, Claremont Street, 69ERS, OTHER ENDS, Taylor, Tank, Sid Rumpo, OPERA: Opera House. pm. HoteL HoteL South Yarra, $2.50, stu­ THE ALL AUSTRALIAN PUMA: Rockdale Police Red House Roll Band, MAINSTREAM JAZZ HUSH: Ukrainian Hall, Lid- dents $1.50. M A R K II D O -IT-YO U R­ B oys Club. JAZZ Cloud 9, Mississippi. Ade­ BAND: Bellevue Hotel, com be. SELF PANTOMIME KIT: DON DE SILVAS: Old quate accommodation ex­ KIDS Paddington. pected. All week. 264 Pitt St., THEATRE Push. JIGSAW FACTORY: In­ Sydney, free. THE SECOND SHEP­ JAZZ CONVENTION FILMS J A Z Z , F O L K (28TH): At the Show- cludes candle making, wax HERD PLAY: A 15th cen­ modelling and finger paint­ ROCK FILLMORE: Manly Silver PORT JACKSON JAZZ: THEATRE grouds, Queanbeyan, from tury bawdy and sacred ing monday, tuesday and LA DE DAS: Chequers. Screen. Stage Door Tavern. WHAT IF YOU DIED TO­ Boxing Day to New Year. play — a mind blower, 8.00 Wednesday from 4.30 (ex­ CRYSTAL VOYAGER: ENGLISH FOLK, PIANO: MORROW: Opera House. Concerts, films. Booze-ups, FILM pm. Old Church, $1.00, cept Christmas week). Ring Opera House, 7.00, 9.00. Bellevue HoteL 1 picnics for jazz enthusiasts. NFT SURREALISM details 31.6270. Ms Stevens 42.4968. PIANO SINGA-LONG: FOLK FESTIVAL: At SEASON: Nosferatu, King WHAT IF YOU DIED TO­ FILM DRAMA WORKSHOP: At CLASSICAL Lord Dudley HoteL MORROW: Opera House. N ariel Creek. Colonial Kong. Aust. Govt. Centre H A N D E L ’S M ESSIAH : JULIETTE OF THE SPIR­ dancing with Com Kripple Diamond Valley Learning Theatrette. 7.30. THE SOUND OF PEO­ ITS: Opera House. Centre, january 14-18, Sydney Town Hall, 8.00 THEATRE PLE: Pact Co-op, 264 Pitt and others, near the New FILLMORE, SANTANA, pm. Year. For details, check phone 435.9060. GRATEFUL DEAD: Man­ WHAT IF YOU DIED TO­ St, Poetry Workshop. TV IN THE PARK: January TALES FROM NOONA- MORROW: Opera House. local folk clubs. ly Silver Screen, 18-22, MEENA: Opera House. 14-25, acting, drama, hand­ 7.30 pm. WICK IN WICKEDNESS: CHRISSIE CAROLS: Brits SLEEPING BEAUTY: FILMS from Cambridge get it on NEW YEAR'S EVE crafts, films, games, swim­ PERFORMANCE: Manly 264 Pitt St, (Pact Co-op). ming, excursions at tw o Opera House. CRYSTAL VOYAGER with “ Come all Ye Faith­ A B A L L : A t O rm ond Hall, Silver Screen, 18-22, ail parks — Prince’s Park, Mal­ FILMS Opera House. ful” and other standards. Big Push, Upp, Issi Dye, vern Road; Toorak Park, EVENTS Forget it. Pippa Perez.Meal provided, THE SEVEN SAMURAI: NFT CLASSIC SERIES: Orrong Road, 9.30-4.00. 8 pm-2 am, $8 B.Y.O. Uncut Kurosawa Film, 203 GAY TEACHERS DIS­ Trans Europe Express; SUNDOWNER HOTEL, min. Opera House, 7.30 CUSSION GROUP: 376 Strangers on a Train. AMP KULTCHA THEATRE pm . Cleveland St., Surry Hills, Theatre, 7.30 pm. < Geelong: With Cloud 9, 8 pm. San daj} CHRISTMAS CAROL Issi D i, $5, supper provided. DONT LOOK NOW: Vil­ CRYSTAL VOYAGER: F O R K ID S lage Twin, all week, Don­ POETRY READING: Old Opera House, 7.00 pm, CONCERT: Opera House. B R IGHTON TOWN RUMPELSTILSKIN: Chil- Church, 8.00 pm. 9 .0 0 pm. SLEEPING BEAUTY: HALL: With Red House ald Sutherland, Julie ROCK drens musical from january •Christie. Opera House. Roll Band, The Gathering, 3, Alexander Theatre, T V , R A D IO SHER^ERT, BAND OF NIGHTS OF BOC­ T V , R A D IO Abel Lodge, 8-1, $2. Monash University, 10 am, LIGHT, RICHARD CLAP- LAND OF MY DREAMS: MARY HOPKIN DOES WHITEHORSE HOTEL: 2 pm, for information, CACCIO: Academy Twin. TON: Capital Theatre, A British imperialist stands CHILDRENS FANTAS­ With Ockers Rockers, phone 544.0811/3992 (AH T V , R A D IO firm, while his world IES: Channel 2, 6.25 pm. 2.00 pm, 8.00 pm, Santa Pippa Perez, Issi D i, 8-1. 541.3992). POST CODE 4891: Ka- crashes about him, radio, “ BOOM” : Movie, Richard and free presents. Cimrtina* SOUTH MELBOURNE PUSS IN BOOTS: Actors Burton, Liz Taylor, Noel BUFFALO, HUSH, FOOTBALL GROUND: rumba. Gulf of Carpenteria 11.00 am. Pudding, bare streets, aunt­ Theatre, 196 Church Street, being raped by Prawn In­ INSIDE ALVIN PURPLE: Coward, Channel 10, 9.00 MIGHTY KONG, ARIEL, With Madder Lake, Matt Richmond, every day ex­ pm. BRIAN CADD: Warwick ies, swimm ing, chicken Taylor, Red House Roll dustry. Channel 2, 8.35. A look at Tim Burstall’s breasts, nothing to do, too cept Sundays, 10.30 and VOYAGE OF THE “ NEW feature length film, Chan INGMAR BERGMAN Farm, noon to 6pm. B an d, C olou red Balls, 2 pm . FESTIVAL: Wild Straw­ much booze, kids every­ Aztecs. E N D E A V O U R ” : — Lon- nel 7, 9.00. Bum and tits i| FILMS where, uncles too. Mothers PARK SCENE: For kids don to Sydney, 1965 via lucky. 9.27 pm. berries, Channel 10, 11.10. with a PUPPET THEA­ NFT THIRTIES MUSIC­ of course, fathers after the OTHER MUSIC Cooks Route. Channel 10, WONDER BAR: Movie, A1 TRE, Flagstaff Gardens, ALS: SHALL WE DANCE, club. Bon-bons hard sauce. 7.30. Jolson, 11.00, Channel 9. NEWS 12.10 and 1.10 pm, jan­ BROADWAY MELODY Champagne, poverty THE BIG KNIFE: Movie IN CONCERT: Bee Gees Teazer, Matthew Flinders, uary 8 and 9. and others, Channel 7, OF 1938: Opera House, church, sermons, waiting Ormond Hall (sats); Chelsea with Rod Steiger. Channel Rtafffeg for boxing day. GEORGE s/4 and DRAGON 7.15pm . 10, 8.30. 1 0.0 0 pm. City Hall gigs keep going 1: Poor Tom’s Poetry SURFING MOVIE: Manly ROCK KIDS and bands are playing at Band, Puppet Theatre, CLASSICAL Silver Screen, 5.30. T V , R A D IO Warrnambool and Torquay films, and others, Fitzroy TALES FROM NOONA- LOCO WEED: Fiddlers TALES FROM NOONA- PERFORMANCE: Manly Surf Life Saving Chibs. Gardens, january 12, 1 pm MEENA: Marionette The­ Vine. MEENA: Opera House. Silver Screen. BETTING LIST FOR Most folk chibs are closing atre, Opera House, 11.00 LA DE DAS: Chequers. T H E S L E E P I N G SYD N E Y — H O B A R T with the exception ol ACTIVITIES BEAUTY: Opera House. am, 2.00 pm. EVENTS YACHT RACE: Channel 2, Frank Traynor’s. YOUTH COUNCIL: (131 T H E S L E E P I N G FILMS MEETINGS THE LIGHTS FILM 7 .15 pm. Jazz carries on at the Pros­ Queen Street, City, tele­ BEAUTY: Opera House, TEACH Y O U R S E L F pect except for Christmas CRYSTAL VOYAGER: GAY LIB CONTACT WORKSHOP: l.'OOpm, Old phone, 67.6391) is certain­ 8 .00 pm. Church, See friday. Info,: WOODWORK SERIES Day and Boxing Day. ly the most comprehensive Opera House, 7.00-9.00. NIGHT: 33a Glebe Point THIS WEEK: Chicken EVENTS Road. 76.9601. Watch out for an expensive in Melbourne, generally TV MUSICIANS UNION bones and Christmas pud­ supper on N ew Year’s Eve. run in conjunction with WEST HEAD SCHOOL OLD CHURCH LIBRARY ding can be useful! Find *THE SPINNERS WITH BAND: Band Association The Commune cruises on local councils. There are MEETING: Re City School AND TEA HOUSE: Old out how to make a fashion­ SANDY SHAW: Folk on Church, cnr. Stanley and of NSW, Victoria Park, unheeding of ancient reli­ two programs, one for proposal Omnibus, 7.30 able bookstand with Christ­ gious rites. pm. Channel 2, 7.30 pm. Palmer Streets, Darling- Hyde Park, 3.00 pm-4.00 kids, and one for teenagers. pm. Brass bands of the mas left-overs. Channel 2, “ SPIRITUAL ROCK” with LADY GOD1VA RIDES hurst, 31.6270, tues-fri. FOR KIDS: Holiday play AGAIN: Diana Dors. Chan­ roaring 70s. 1 1.5 5 pm. THEATRES Guru Maharaj Ji commer­ FREE FILMS: 113 Victor­ QUEEN’S CHRISTMAS centres (5-14 years). Seven­ nel 10, 10.40 pm. IN THE HOLS ty centres operate between cials (Omyguru! more of ia Street, Kings Cross, info MESSAGE: ABC gives it a WALTZING MATILDA - january 7-25 from 9.15 to the same): Lower Padding­ 3 57 .27 0 2 . CONTEMPORARY “ G” rating. 7.30 pm and CONTEMPORARY a national pantomime with 3.15, monday-friday. No ton Town Hall, 8 pm. BOB HUDSON, JOHN 1 0.2 0 pm. TRADITIONAL AND tomato sauce: Pram Fac­ need to register, and it’sj POTTERY EXHIBITION: BURKE, CHRIS ELTER- THE KING AND I: Chan­ BLUE GRASS FOLK: Red tory, tu esday-su nday, free. Kirk Gallery, all week, 12 MAN plus THE SECOND nel 9, 9.00 pm. Lion Hotel (upstairs). S a t w d a g matinees friday and Satur­ FOR TEENAGERS: Cen- 4 noon-9.00 pm. SHEPHERDS PLAY: Kirk PORT JACKSON JAZZ: day, 2 pm, 325 Drummond tres at Box Hill, Nuna- Gallery by The Bus Com­ Stage Door Tavern. EVENTS Street, Carlton, $2.50, wading, Broaumeadows. ROCK pany. students $1.50. CHRISTMAS PARTY: Ringwood, South Mel­ SEAL: Fiddlers Vine. SHOWBIZ ’73: A revue, bourne and Sunshine have* MUSIC Gay Liberation Centre, 33a Tait Theatre, friday-sun- LA DE DAS, HOME: Curl Glebe Point Road, Glebe. Continued on Page 31 CLASSICAL MUSIC: Re­ day, until december 22, Curl Youth Club. cording Room, Opera Info. 660.4687. ROCK ARIEL, BRIAN CADD, then resumes january 24 House, 11.00-4.00 pm AND NEWS PASSED INTO: Fiddlers Vine. ROSS RYAN: Opera with same revue. 107 ROCK AROUND THAT A House. Leicester Street, Carlton, C X JUNIOR & GOLD TOPS: THEATRE COMET WAS COMING. THE SECOND SHEP­ HERD’S PLAY: See satur day.

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arth garden r-AXESS STEPHEN WALL australias own natural E buggered if I could dig up FREEDOM is an English anarchist Bany worthwhile info sources weekly. It’s strong on problems lifestyle journal on anarchy for this week. Most of and seems to be still working out the mags listed here are critical, how to phrase the solutions. Eight uninteresting and tame with a pages of lean fat each week for small “ t” . Still, maybe this re­ three pounds surface and five riding primary ob active. Any flects the state o f anarchist act­ pounds airmail. Mail to 84b state. Melbourne, INC box 7327. ivity in Australia at the moment. Whitechapel High street, London Pacifist, anarchist, vegetarian, Or it may be my attitude. E l, UK. ecological. Stones (P.A.V.E. stones — send stamped addressed Still, here’s what I found . . . envelope for free international magazines and booklist (no pro­ THE match is an American fit), Box 25, PO, Warrawong, 2 50 2 . PACIFIST anarchist vegetarian monthly devoted to anarchy. The ecological stones (PAVE Stones! October 73 issue is a 12 page A MOVEMENT for the TODAY PEOPLE. Break away from yes­ Get it? Like it? Cute eh.) Booklist tabloid packed full of anarcho- terday, ask for obligation free number two is now available, goodies. Why, shit, it rubbishes Information Brochure sent in number three, early next year. almost everything - the counter plain envelope. Members from Cairns to Perth. Ph. (02) 25.1532 Send stamped self-addressed en­ culture, youth, age, Tricky Dick, (B/hrs), or write SWINGERS IN­ velope to P. Stones, Box 25, the establishment, the press, and TERNATIONAL (reg. 1971), Box 4984, GPO, Sydney, NSW 2001. Warrawong, 2502. Be the first on lots more. Boy, they really have it State if COUPLE, FEMALE, or your block — show it to your to-gether — anarchy is where it’s MALE. DISCRETION GUARAN­ TEED. friends at school. at, simple as that. Leave your problems behind you, buy a sub Sydney. Encounter group week­ today. Why put up with second end on third weekend in January. Experience joy. Discover yourself THE Federation o f Australian best, when for three US bucks and others. Call Gordon Meggs on ‘MUDBRICKS AGAIN! ‘SOLAR HOT WATER Anarchists had as much trouble you can have a brain transplant. 665.9280 or write PO box 229, deciding on their articles o f assoc­ Send to Box 3488, Tucson, Coogee, 2034. ‘THE GOOD COMPANY ‘A FUNGUS FEAST iation as the Australian Procrast­ Arizona, 85722, USA. Berwick Community School. Let inators League did in calling their your child grow in freedom. Give ‘ANGORA GOATS ‘SURVIVAL SKILLS him the opportunity to develop first meeting. Nevertheless the ‘VEGETABLE DYES ‘MAKE A BAG & BELT real human relationships and learn FAA puts out an irregular bulletin at his ow n rate. Age range 5 to 13 KING MOB, for those of you who proceeding through secondary. ‘SCHOOL GARDENS ‘FLIGHT FROM THE CITY on the state o f the art in Oz. In have read this far, is yet another Interested, contact secretary on ‘ THE LAND: MAPS, TITLES, AUCTIONS, CO-OPS addition they publish a booklist magazine on anarchy and concept­ (059) 44.3273 or write PO box with which you can increase your 237, Berwick, 3806. ual kite flying from WA. I have To: Living Daylights, GPO Box 5312 BB, Melbourne, 3001 knowledge and with which they never laid eyes on a copy but if Yarra Bank, Melbourne’s speak­ can increase their cash flow. Hot ers com er, every Sunday 2 pm-6 Please send m e ------copies o f the latest issue o f E A R T H I’m to fill this column this week pm. Harangues, talks, arguments, G A R D E N . Payment enclosed totalling $ ------stuff for budding and veteran with info on anarchy I have to use discussions on politics, religion, anarchists. FAA, Box 294, PO, all the sources I can find. Send off sex, drugs, occult, psychology, N A M E ...... philosophy. Collingwood, 3066. now to West Australian Anarchist Federation, PO Box 61, Ingle­ ADDRESS ...... wood. Send stamps. Dwellings I COULDNT dig up anything pub­ lished by Brizzie anarchists while “ researching” this column; I am WELL, that’ s it for now. Only not sure there is such a species. four shopping days till Christmas, ...... POSTCODE...... With premier Joh’s jodhpurs Aral- and seasons greetings. Keep send­ dited to the Queensland saddle, ing those info nuggets to APP, PO BACK ISSUES: conversations on anarchy must be Box 8, Surry Hills, 2010. Write to 'Earth Garden', PO Box 111, Balmain, 2041 as popular as hamburgers at a Hare Krishna free feed. If there is any­ thing to be found on anarchy in Brisbane, it should be at the Red Anarchist and Black Bookshop, 22 Elizabeth Subscribe to arcade, Elizabeth street, Brisbane. bookshelf THE BEST introduction to the theory and practise o f anarchy are The Living Daylights MERE anarchy, a poetry mag, is George W o o d co ck ’s Anarchism available free of charge from 21 and James Joll’s The anarchists. If Brighten up and energise your letterbox! Wakerfield street, Kent Town, SA. you’re lazy but still wish to get I’m sure a donation oi stamp into prime source material, lots of Hobart. Young quietish male Gladden up your postie’s mailbag! camp teacher-type needs more Picture this: It’s raining outside; the shop lies beyond would help. original quotes can be found in noisome camp — maybe — stu­ the bridge which has been swept away in the Patterns of anarchy edited by dents to share house nearish uni. Leonard Krimerman and Lewis INC box 7350. raging flood; the water’s rising around the dwelling and you’re reaching for the roof. All is bad THE Sydney Anarchist Group Percy and The anarchists edited Sydney. Person needed to share and boring . , . until you see your puts out a mag titled Red and by Irving Horowitz. Also good is mixed terrace. Own room. friendly postie rowing to YOU The ABC of anarchist communism $12.50. Bond. 23 Richards ave, black, spasmodically. I havent with YOUR copy of The Living Daylights. by A. Berkman. Surry Hills. seen a copy as yet and after this Just the thing, you think, If, after ploughing through the Melbourne. Double room and to look at till the water subsides week’s column is printed I’m un­ above, you still wish to read about single room available large Haw­ (if it ever does). likely to receive a freebie in the things instead of doing them, go thorn house to share with male and female. Ring 82.5233 after 6 Tear o ff the coupon below. post from them. That I guess is to the library and look for the p m . Fill in the details and send it in. my loss. If you would like a copy following: Paul Avich’s The Rus­ It’s fairly safe. it costs 50 cents. Sent to PO, Box sian anarchists, Kronstadt 1921 Sydney. Our super mixed harbor A425, Sydney South, 2000. Try and The anarchists in the Russian side mansion needs more happy SURFACE MAIL: Within Aus­ alive people to help pay rent. addressing your envelope to “ Mid­ revolution. The best books on the Mostly Nimbinite vegetarians. tralia $A15.60; Mew Zealand Spanish experience are Gerald night Writers in the Sky” . $12. 4 Drummoyne ave, Drum- SA19.24; any overseas address $A21.84 Brennan’s The Spanish labyrinth m o y n e . AIR MAIL: and Hobsbawn’s Primitive rebels. Australia SA20.28; * * * Canberra. Girl, 20s, mature, ap­ For stuff on the heroes from TPNG SA20.28; New Zealand PEACE news doesnt really look preciates clean, tidy, comfortable, the past we recommend The anar­ $A23.92; South Pacific, Malaysia well-appointed house. Owned by like an anarchist newspaper to me. chist prince, a biography o f Peter bachelor needing someone share $A41.60; other Asian countries Other anarchist newspapers tell Kropotkin by the tireless George costs. Own room. $16 pw, in­ SA46.80; Canada, United State's. cludes electricity, rates etc. Share me it is - who am I to judge W oodcock; What is property by $A57.20: Europe, food costs/housework. 100 yds otherwise. (Yeah, you might well Pierre Prodhon, translated by Ben­ bus stop. 5Va miles CCAE. Inspect South America SA62.40 jamin Tucker; The complete sunday and monday night, 123 Pro ra ta rates for six months ask.) Published each week, it con­ Starke street. Holt. centrates on politics, alternatives, works o f Shelley; The political movement activities, and what’s philosophy of Bakunin by G. P. Adelaide. Two people welcome. M axim off; Rebel in paradise, a Own large furnished bedsit, share on in London mind throbwise. To: Incsubs, The Living Daylights, biography o f Emma Goldman; cons. $10 pw, incL gas, elec. Sort of olde worlde, 1967 - Phone 44.7900. Box 5312 BB, GPO and Errico Malatesta, his life and Melbourne, .5001. Please probably worth a trial sub at one ideas. Sydney. Female group or small commence my subscription pound 56 new pence airmail for An excellent collection of anar­ family to practically take over as follows: lovely home with extensive har­ three months. Peace News, 5 Cale­ chist illustrations can be found in bor views, garden. $30. Available ( ) Six months $7.80 enclosed donian road, London Nl, UK. Roderick Edward’s The anar­ large fum . house inner city. Avail­ ( ) One year $15.60 enclosed chists, the men who shocked an able for group living ^lso. 8 2 .3 7 1 7 . era. THE Sydney Libertarians are the Anyway, this is just a brief Melbourne. People to share reno­ rundown on some books on the vated terrace house in excellent remnants o f the old Sydney Push condition. Own room. Reasonable who publish a monthly broad­ glorious political ideology; an ex­ cellent bibliography, if a bit out rent. Call 7 Mary st, St Kilda, sheet on libertarian, and a n ytim e. USE BLOCK LETTERS PLEASE - x o f date, lies at the rear o f W ood­ anarcho-syndicalist theory and NAME ...... co ck ’s Anarchism. A persuasive news. The latest issue, november, contem porary work is Murray Deployment is an almost perfect alternative to Border com plex area, teenage guy ADDRESS B ookchin’s Post scarcity anar­ or older for figure modelling the before-bed barbiturate. Blow chism, published by Ramparts work. Only good body, looks etc. POSTCODE- • $2.00 on a sub to Box 2986, Press and available at some city Discretion assured. $2 refunded. GPO, Sydney, 2001. bookshops. THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, december 18-24, 1973 — Page 29 LETTERS & Wishy washy Now meat is such a physical it’s not good for you". thing. I mean, it’s hard to feel To answer his meagre argu­ passive with a lump o f chop in ments: vegetarians your mouth. And, of course, “ Meat is big business." Vege­ IN ANSWER to Herbie Vaugh's that’s what it’s all about, stillness tables are big business, too. thing in TLD 8. Biped herbivores and passivity. "Meat in excess is unhealthy.” prowl the planet, chopsticks and We all know aggression is a bad Anything eaten in excess is un­ carrot in hand, masticating less thing. I mean, it causes activity; it healthy. antiseptic hippies. They are hungry motivates. And God knows (I’m PETER ANDREWS, and constipated. sure) that what we need today is Oyster Bay, NSW They can only occasionally be to withdraw from that harsh, bad, seen, as they are rare in number, all too real world out there. gliding one foot above the ground The gentle answers to the ques­ Leunig with a "healthier than thou" ex­ tion "W hy not eat meat?” usually pression lying graciously across hover unspoken for a few seconds bombs out their etherealised, feminised and and then flow out uncertainly, passive faces. perhaps with the suggestion that IT MAY SEEM LIKE ANARCHY BUT When asked why they do not “ I dont like killing” . And we IT’S ONLY IRRESPONSIBILITY. eat meat, and they are asked continue to talk, while devouring LOVE LEUNIG rarely (as their eating habits and freshly killed vegetables and slap­ associated behavior alienate them ping at occasional mosquitoes. from the general brutish run of Vegetarianism is a fad. The only Fear and businessmen, students, workers, reason for doing it is that people the middle class, etc, etc.), their have a need to identify with a loathing answers, quietly and sincerely put, group. Supposedly against the val­ especially outspoken about the plight are astonishingly weak. I am al­ ues of today’s society, the vege­ IN A recent issue o f TLD, you men­ of the jew s. . . ” What does tioned — as have other newspapers — ways disoriented by the wishy- tarians, passive and non-aggressive, YEVTUSHENKO: “ Well, there are a washy replies, and any realistic that Yevgeny Yevtushenko refused to lot o f things, but nobody, no friends o f are an alternative and therefore answer ALL political questions. it mean chase to find a solid basis for their must be correct? mine, are anti-Semites. I, for instance, I I deny that, in part. I filmed a long hate all kinds o f chauvinism. I hate THESE facetious, petulant, potty, eating habits usually ends in a Vegetarians are vegetarians be­ and exclusive interview with him at the witty? snippets have appeared on your total quagmire o f their personally anti-semitism. If we have it — some­ cause they feel meat to be bad photographic exhibition on October times your press exaggerates — I will lie back page every week: felt mysticism. and only that. And they feel that 31. In the segment I edited for telecast­ if I will say tliis question doesnt exist Vol 1, No 1. A tree died for this Their mysticism is always dif­ it’s bad because of their own lack ing, he talked about the jewish ques­ like a question. But dont forget about newspaper. ferent from, and usually contrary o f aggressive success in the all-too- tion freely, but taking it further, he the past, because the anti-semitism is a No 2. One bright reader is worth to that o f other vegetarians, yet real world out there. gave a clear indication o f his fear in legacy o f our past, so it’s impossible to one-thousand boneheads. answering such questions. No 3. Australian born, Australian the manifestation o f this ethereal- Meat is such a fleshy, physical abolish it absolutely so soon. But we Here is a transcript o f a relevant bred/Long in the leg, Short in the isation very nearly always shows thing. To quote Herbie Vaugh, will try to. Now, if you compare our part o f that interview: present with our past, it’s completely head. itself in a rejection o f meat. “ like most pleasures o f the flesh, SINCLAIR: “ In ‘ Babi Yar’ you are uncomparable.” No 4. Fixed like a plant to his Dear Daylights, SINCLAIR: “ We dont necessarity hear peculiar spot/To draw nutrition, prop­ about it if you do, but we never seem agate and rot. to hear about whether you’re involved No 5. Freedom o f the press is in any o f the fights to protect the jews guaranteed only to those who own for instance, or people like Solzhenit­ one. syn and Sakharov?” No 6. It’s better to be wanted for YEVTUSHENKO: "Why must I in­ murder than not to be wanted at all. form you about my actions?” No 7. Music is the brandy of the SINCLAIR: “ Do you in fact have damned. anything to do with it?” No 8. The secret o f being miserable YEVTUSHENKO: “ Well, I have no is to have leisure to bother about more necessity to give you proof that I whether you are happy or n ot am an honest man.” No 9. The beginning of all origin­ SINCLAIR: “ Yes — but you talk all ality is idleness. through your poetry . . . it’s humanity, Could these be an exposition of humanity. Do you do any more than your dogma, subject headings for the write about it?” news in that week’s newspaper. I just YEVTUSHENKO: “ Yes - er - yes. dont know, please explain. I’m getting But I prefer not to give you informa­ tremors being so smug with myself tion, because in the eyes o f some seeing all my friends reading this paper people it would be . . . (looks furtively and not noticing. But due to my to his right, then back to me) . . . it paranoia, I’ll have to stick my bum in might look like a report . . . might before anyone else does. form a report about myself.” Simple fear, as was obvious. But he PETER SMITH and SUE, did talk freely about his ideas on God Berala, NSW. and other subjects. RAY SINCLAIR, Ten Eyewitness News, Sydney, NSW The graffiti man I AM the one who writes on walls and my m ob are not boasters perhaps you all have guessed my name if not, it’ s William Posters.

I never will run out o f things to write about, that’s sure there’s lots of things that I’m against and nothing that I’m for.

I rush around and scribble words like “ You can all get rooted” ignoring all the idle threats Bill Posters prosecuted.

For they have never caught me yet in fact it makes me smile to think that they could ever get Bill Posters up on trial. And as for getting rid of me well, I will always fight on as long as I’ve a paint brush left and there are walls to write on.

R US CENTER, This correspondence is now closed - EDS Bayswater, Vic. Page 3 0 -T H E LIVING DAYLIGHTS, december 18-24, 1973 Vive la difference IS Albie Thoms (TLD 9) really serious? I agree with him in that avant garde, experimental (or whatever else you want to call it) music is a very import­ ant extension o f conventional ideals of music, but it seems, unfortunately, to have extended to a point where any fool can make a noise and call it music. THINGS To feed a piano, ■ r scrape a violin bow on a wooden floor cannot, in my the Olympic and commonwealth humble opinion, be seriously classed as The original BUT I D O -1 HAVE TO. IT IS PART OF games!!), it will be bound to music.* suspend the Surf Life Saving There is, undoubtedly, great merit anarchists Association o f Australia, and the in the avant garde, but somewhere BEING AN AMBASSADOR. CHAMPAGNE individual team members, should there must be a line drawn between PETER GARDNER 15 THE ONLY THINS THAT MAKES A music, and noise. they compete in South Africa. IKE their ancestors had BORINS AMBASSADORIAL PARTY The New Zealand Amateur done for 15,000 years, the PETER RILEY, L Swimming Association has already Box Hill, Vic. original anarchists spent their days JUST ABOUT BEARABLE. declared its intention to suspend quietly wandering the bush o f the NZ Surf Life Saving Associa­ Acid test Australia. Many aspects o f the tion and the individual team WHAT IS going on? In TLD 7 the aboriginal way o f life were anarch­ IT ALSO HELPS TO MAKE THE LIFE OF members, should they go ahead kindly doctor Leary says he never istic and other aspects have def­ with their decision to com pete in advocated acid, yet in Farrago, june inite appeal to anarchists today. AN AMBASSADOR BEARABLE THESE South Africa. The ASAA has yet 22, (in an interview extracted from To begin with, the organisation to announce what it intends to London Oz, apparently) he states quite DAYS-WHEN IS SAFE o f aboriginal tribes was highly N O B O & i do. clearly that he did and still does decentralised. The basic unit being advocate the use o f acid, in fact, that FROM THE REVOLUTIONARIES WHO This life saving competition is an extended family of 10-20 everyone can profit from it. an example of the kinds of Without pointing a finger at anyone, members living in a certain area. WOULD CHANSE THE WORLD WITH pressure that will increasingly be this is rather sloppy reporting. Your The tribe (a collection of all the A BULLET OR A BOMB INSTEAD brought to bear on Australia. We paper is bad enough as a turgid forum basic family groups sharing the can either compete with white for people to rave and rave, without common bond of language) was A BALLOT South Africa, or the rest of the throwing in an element of confusion/ only united for intertribal warfare world; but we can’t do both. distrust/disbelief. So too is Farrago, or for special ceremonies or rit­ Whitlam would do well to and the average reader is left confused. uals. remember that, shortly after his Who is responsible and who can I Aboriginals had no concept of election, a poll of “non-white” believe? leadership. Respect was given to CAKE South Africans overwhelmingly and council taken from the aged. If Leary wishes to contradict him­ voted him their “man-of-the- The practice o f making kings in self that's his prerogative. Eds. year” . Would they vote the same tribes by early settlers was subject way today? to ridicule by the natives unless Smartarse the ‘king’ happened to be a re­ MUST ADD my voice to Alan McGreg­ spected tribe member. Calling or’s (TLD 7) on the subject o f “ Smart­ Another anarchistic aspect o f arse writing” . aboriginal society was their bikies Take the article Stranger in the light system o f mutual exchange. Game FILM Australia are producing two by Michael O'Rourke: Mr O’Rourke films for the Department o f Transport caught by one hunter was shared could have told us simply and sincerely on bikies and motor bikes. They want what he thought the Divine Light amongst all members o f the group to deal with all aspects of bikes (scoot­ including unsuccessful hunters. Mission was all about aboriginal society was completely is committed; apartheid sport is ers to 750cc) and public attitudes to Over a long period the practices o f Was there really any need for infan­ destroyed by the gods of wealth, just as repugnant whether it is them. tile, nauseating passages like the fol­ sharing ensured the well being of What they require is public to send ambition and government and the played in Johannesburg or Syd­ lowing? all members o f the group and info and stories etc, to them. They are demons o f the gun, the grog and ney, Sharpeville or the polar caps. “ Did I, dear reader, spring from my required equal effort by all making one half hour film and an hour the pox. To participate in an evil, and to chair and with a hoarse scream o f members. film. The half hour is training film on claim that our degree of culpabil­ rage punch Nigel right in the face? Tied in with this primitive To advocate a return to primit­ how to ride bikes. Hour film is TV Did I tear his skin o ff in ragged ive society would be irrational. ity varies according to where that socialism were many interesting special. strips? Did I lean forward and with However there is much that we, evil is committed, is no more than Send ideas etc, to: features. Two admirable char­ low intensity utter the following the children of the conquerors, an exercise in expediency and Motorbikes, acteristics were the lack o f malediction, Fuck, suck, tongue in could learn from the culture and semantics. Film Australia, cunt? Did I violently tear o ff his ambition and the lack of competi­ organisation o f these people. At the moment Australia is PO Box 46, nether garments and thrust a photo­ tion. More important, the group Lindfield, Especially their own unique brand planning participation in the graph o f Guru Maharaj Ji up his and its members would only work NSW, 2070. World Surf Life Saving Champion­ arse? (I see that your understanding long enough to provide for its o f anarchy. ships to be held in South Africa in partakes o f many o f the qualities o f simple requirements, leaving many Hack sex january 1974. This involves com­ a brilliant white light.) No, I did hours for rest and play. The state none o f these things.” peting with racially selected South Furthermore, the aboriginals goodbye What a waste o f newsprint! It seems African teams. WHEN I first heard that a new weekly obvious to me that Mr O ’Rourke badly had no sense o f property as we of play The championships are o f par­ paper was to be produced by the same needs “ the Knowledge” — or some­ understand it. They possessed few PETER McGREGOR ticular interest because o f the crew of cutthroats that disembowel thing. items of personal property. In NE OF THE first actions special problems they pose for Nation review I was full o f hope. The INTERESTED terms of territory, however, def­ the Whitlam Labor govern­ Australian swimmers and life glorious ads for the new rag inspired (in the Knowledge), inite boundaries marked by nat­ O ment took upon gaining office in savers. FINA (the international me, if that is the word. CAIRNS, Qld ural features were recognised by december 1972, was to ban swimming body) has suspended And what does it turn out to be? all tribes. However, they did not Nothing but a phoney imitation of racially selected South African South Africa (because of the Timestream consider themselves owners o f the Ribald and some o f the other master­ racial nature o f South African land but rather part o f it, living sports teams from COMING TO pieces that grace newsagents stands swimming - segregated beaches, poetry close to nature and the need to Australia. throughout Australia. The same (sim­ etc.) ruling that none o f its THE Timestream poetry readings on practise conservation ensured the This ban was widely and justly ilar) hack pieces on sex, sex, and member bodies is to have ANY Wednesday nights from 8 pm at the evolution o f a type o f pantheism. applauded, but to make it effec­ strangely sex again. Do the beautiful contact with South Africa. people do anything other than root or Old Church at the corner of Palmer An idea compatible with certain tive, it was obviously necessary to and Stanley Streets in Darlinghurst, are stand around in public places feeling strains o f anarchism. complement it with action-pre­ If the Amateur Swimming into their second successful month of venting Australian teams from Association o f Australia (ASAA) each other up, and comparing cocks, Tribal warfare as it existed cunts (forgive me mother), or what­ giving Australian poets a chance to be GOING OVERSEAS to compete wishes to continue its membership heard. There has been a high standard before the white man was by pres­ ever? in racist sport. of FINA (which includes our of poetry read and the audience has ent day standards amusing. The ERNEST B. GOODBODY, The essential evil is apartheid been very appreciative. The readings, conflict usually ceased with both eligibility to participate in inter­ (alias Tisdell), which were started by Richard Coady, sides withdrawing after the first itself, rather than where that evil national swimming events, such as South Perth, WA Gary Oliver, Norman Thompson and' casualty was inflicted. No prison­ Rae Jones, have been held in one of ers were taken, no torture applied, FESTIVE MELBOURNE CONT. Sydney’s oldest churches — which now nor did any tribe have territorial serves as a creative centre directed by From Page 27 ambitions. John Jeffries. Poets wishing to read are asked to com e early at 7.30 to enable Finally an admirable but not wide range of activities. and judo. Ring Vicky Mol- courses in arts and crafts. purely anarchistic trait o f the Monday-friday, 9.30-3.30, loy, 544.0811 for details. Phone 81.1512 between 10 the evening’s program to be arranged. january 7-25. Two dollars LATROBE UNIVERSITY am and 2 pm. RICHARD COADY, aboriginal was their love and care charge for materials. has these courses: Film MELBOURNE SCHOOL Director o f TIMESTREAM for their children. Children were OTHERS: Camping Holi­ appreciation, sexual be­ OF ARTS AND CRAFTS days at Millgrove, Mt Eve­ havior, silk screen, batik, is fo r all ages. P h on e MEDIA CENTRE, given complete freedom till the lyn, Anglesea. tie-dye printing, dressmak­ 5 3 .8 3 1 5 . 32 Coventry Road, age o f seven years. After that they W aterskiing w eek en d s at ing, drama, typing, jazz CLAYTON ARTS COUN­ Strathfield, 2135 were carefully instructed in all the Yarrawonga, F a m i l y ballet, crafts and fencing, CIL (evenings) has copper Camps at Yarrawonga. cricket clinic. For details, enamelling, jewellery, pot­ skills and traditions. This educat­ Contact the Youth Council phone Sally 478.3122 ext. tery. Ring 544.0668. ional period culminated in initi­ for more details. 2 1 6 7 . LEARNING EXCHANGE: PRESTON TECH has these A Drop In Centre on mon- ation and adulthood. By necessity SUMMER SCHOOLS courses: Drawing, painting, days, Wednesdays and Sun­ they practised infanticide. This photography, printmaking, days in january. It is ex­ MONASH UNIVERSITY sculpture. Call Prue Lee, pected to start up various limiting o f family size plus the has these courses: Migrants 467.3211 ext. 275. activities, such as a video companionship and other relation­ and the community, DIAMOND VALLEY workshop, photography, ships o f the extended family gave women and sex roles, un­ LEARNING CENTRE has arts and crafts, all depend­ derdevelopment, computer a video workshop for two ing on the interest generat­ children all the attention they programming, French, chil­ weeks at end of january, ed. People of all ages wel­ required. drens theatre, elementary information 4 3 5 .9 0 6 0 c o m e . S e e ja n u a r y ’s modern dance, classical (1 2 -6 p m ). “ LEARNING EX­ Within 30 years o f occupation guitar, poetry writing, film, CREATIVE SCHOOL CHANGE o r rin g : by the white man, the heart o f music, photography, aikido HOLIDAY CLUB has 60 2 1 1 .5 4 1 3 . THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, december 18-24, 1973 — Page 31