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OUT OF AFRICA WE HAVE NOT SPOKEN YET QUR ENTERTAINING and in- of African independence groups. colonial masters the conviction that Fortunately illiteracy and the ab- history of their previous ruling class teresting contemporary Black With the ending of the 1939-1945 the Africans were not fit for self- sence of the mass media saved for in their long progress to socialist Flag had a quiz which asked 'Which war and the granting of indepen- government. This in itself would, to a time the African from its worst statehood, and peace and the current Head of State was a frequent dence, if not freedom, to many the mind of a thinking man, convey excesses of exploitation but unfor- brotherhood of man, etc. Mean- visitor and speaker at anarchist African peoples, African interest in the thought that perhaps the teach- tunately technological growth, one while, by the dialectical process, meetings in London?' The answer anarchism declined, in the effort to ings of these old masters were such cannot call it progress, is introduc- minor wars, minority repression and was 'Jomo Kenyatta'—who once achieve competent self-government as to make them unfit. Indeed the ing all the demagogy of democracy. military juntas must and would go also wrote in War Commentary, our and—in some cases—naked power indoctrination of habits of obedi- We were told once by anthropol- .on. predecessor. for political adventurers. ence, the deplorable teachings of a ogists of tribes who existed without Perhaps it is too simple to believe During and shortly after the war It was pointed out some years ago slave mentality by missionaries, the rulers; but the African is increas- that the Africans, preserving their the anarchist movement attracted by Arthur Uloth in these columns installation of white ideals of com- ingly faced by rulers without tribes, tribal, village and agricultural quite a number of black comrades, that Africa's historical development merce, politics and militarism, have of nation states without village society, could' have in their develop- exiles from British colonial oppres- and political history resembled that all made for the present chaos. societies. ment side-stepped the growing pains sion. The Malatesta Club was in of Britain's Middle Ages with feudal Additionally the deliberate breaking- It could be, and was, argued that by opting for a decentralized, bal- fact sub-tenant-host of the African barons and warring lords competing down of long-standing tested ideas it was necessary for the African to anced, libertarian society. . . . Forum, a multi-people's association for domination. We have seen on village life, agriculture and tribal make the transition from colonial bloody struggles such as the Congo systems, all made it easy for a de- slavery, to nation-statehood, through and Nigeria and bloody tyrants and caying ruling-class but hard for a any of the 57 varieties of socialism; However at the moment the Man benevolent despots such as Nkru- growing, newly independent and and thence to the ideas of a liber- on Horseback, puritanical and re- mah, Banda. Verwoerd, Kaunda, ambitious-to-be-free people. When tarian, or even anarchist society. formist as ever, has seized power in Strydom, Smith, Haile Selassie, rise, one in the fifties met African stu- The route taken was generally Ghana. The unlucky Kofi Busia Gunpoint fall and persist. Betrayals, double- dents they were generally either through technological development has been accused of corruption but crossings, clamps-down on civil studying to be lawyers, or to be and production; elevating every such corruption is an institution in liberties and mass executions are not accountants; and the armies and African nation—by its own boot- newly-constituted states. At a com- unknown in the newly-emergent armed service elite were trained (as straps—to a leading industrial and parative period in English history countries. part of arms deals) at Sandhurst or military power. Of course this en- it was only censorable corruption Arrest of other British military academies. If one takes the British time-scale tailed the usual hardships and the to take bribes from both sides in a there is no need for despair about The rising African ruling-class were usual errors, but the only thing that dispute or not to do the favours one the repetition of deplorable errors, permeated with the once-envied could be said was that they were had been paid for. about the crudity and cruelty of the standards of their former masters their own errors and not those of Our former fiery associate, Jomo Census Rebel leaders of the New Africa. The and were in class fetishes and cus- their colonial masters. Kenyatta, has almost achieved the struggles for power that go on in toms 'more British than the British'. Some have argued from a deter- rank of Elder Statesman. On the T>HE CENSUS SAGA still drags on. Africa are a reflection of the de- Whether democracy is a suitable minist Marxist viewpoint that it was other hand the eminently respectable ■*■ Ian DaHison, 31, of Bromley, re- ,.„i^.„. ,n< Qf c:onorn:c ant» political export is an iterf f,or questioning. necessary to recapitulate the sorry fused 10 complete his form as a matter Continued on oage 2 of principle. Equally he refused to pay forces which are slowly taking shape. the £30 fine imposed. His solicitor de- There is much talk of neo- scribed him as 'unrepentant'. He was colonialism, which in some cases is sentenced to 60 days. There is to be no an excuse by rulers for failure. It appeal. is quite true that domination of the His wife said, 'We were rather sur- prised at the sentence, but my husband majority of African states is no knew what he was letting himself in for. longer by direct rule but by indirect He wanted to show up the census for economic exploitation carried out in THE MINERS MUST WIN! what it is. and he has succeeded. I am some instances even by the device backing him all the way.' of repayable 'aid'. Neo-colonialism AT THIS EARLY STAGE, the effects have any great effect for some time. out In Northern Ireland the first man to has its counterpart in neo-com- **• of the coalminers' strike are hard Large stocks of coal have already ..been refuse to pay his fine has been jailed. munism which adopts the same 'aid' to estimate. The response from the rank delivered and power stations, factories ALTERNATIVE FUELS? Fined £8, his sentence could be up to tactics, and the penetration of and file miner has been overwhelming and coal merchants have prepared them- Pundits are always warning the miners two months. He is Cathal O'Boyle from Eastern technicians goes hand in for they know that this is one battle selves, in advance, for this official strike. that a prolonged strike could mean that Castlewellan, a 30-year-old teacher. hand with the works of Mao. Many that has to be won. There is the realis- The Government knows this and will customers will change to alternative His arrest was dramatic. Six soldiers ation that for too long they have therefore sit back, waiting and watching. fuels. However the supplies of these with flak jackets and Sten guns dragged states have pursued the complex accepted low wage increases for fear that Although many power stations are well are unreliable if any great switch had him out of his house, although there has game of playing both ends against the Board would close down more pits. stocked up, there are others with in- to be made from coal. The Middle East never been any trouble in the village of the middle and succeeded in getting However this has happened anyway and sufficient storage space. Miners are countries, through the Organisation of Castlewellan. But he happened to be aid from both sides in the cold wan the miners have had the worst of both planning to picket power stations, like Petroleum Exporting Countries, are de- chairman of the Newcastle Association but the penalty for failure is high. worlds. The Coal Board and the Govern- Fulham. Tilbury, Battersea and Barking manding higher revenues. Fuel from the for Legal Justice. The disappearance of Biafra, the ment pay out low wages to a shrinking in order to prevent the movement of North Sea still has to reach the high None of the priests who have refused assassination of Lumumba, the labour force which, at the same time, coal from them to others with low stocks, expectations forecast for it. And so to pay their fines have been jailed yet. downfall of Nkrumah and his suc- has pushed up its productivity. Having which could be exhausted within a few Britain still relies very heavily on coal. Our Northern Ireland correspondent has cessor Kofi Busia. are all tombstones done that, they find that the Coal Board's days. However, if any power station This strike stems directly from the not yet been approached despite his on the way. new chief, Mr. Ezra, still threatens runs out of coal, the power supply for Government's policy to hold down any public declarations in print that he had closures if the strike goes on. its area could be made up by other wage increases. The Tories are prepared burnt over 100 forms. Events in Africa have served to stations via the National Grid. To do for a long struggle. They know that the M.H. implant in the minds of the former As was expected, the response of the TUC to a dispute, which affects the this the Central Electricity Generating trade unions are frightened of any real whole trade union movement, was Board must have the co-operation of the showdown and that as the strike pro- lamentable. It never even crossed the power workers. Such switching could gresses, the leaders will fear a situation minds of these august leaders to organise avoid and delay the effects of the coal- similar to 1926. They will increasingly a nation wide levy on other trade miners' strike. worry about the effects of the Industrial unionists to assist the coalminers. Even Relations Act and, with these things in A GOOD START Mr. Gormley, President of the National REFUSED SAFETY WORK mind, they will seek a way out in the form of a compromise. Union of Mineworkers and not renowned The coalminers themselves soon showed for his militancy, said, 'I would have The background of low wages, closures J AST SUNDAY (16th) about 200 Continua and other Italian groups spoke. that they were determined to win. In L thought that this was one time when the and unemployment is essentially common - ' people made up a demonstration Nearly 2,000 leaflets were distributed, many areas miners refused to carry out TUC could have shown itself to be to all workers at the present time. Deals marching from Speakers' Corner to the pamphlets sold, and the whole afi'air was normal safety work. Only 46 mines out united.' concerning the guaranteeing of a given Italian Embassy. It was organised by generally a success. of a total of 289 had union members level of employment for miners should the N. and E. London group of the OR A However, despite this lack of support working on safety procedures. The NUM The drawback, so far, is that the work be ignored, for with support and soli- to demand the release of Valpreda and at the top. some unions and their rank has repeatedly instructed its members to has been confined to the ORA. It is darity from other workers, the miners other comrades, held as a result of the and file members have shown their soli- carry out this work, but they have re- hoped to widen the campaign so as to can win. If they do not get this support fascist bombings of December 12, 1969. darity. Members of the Associated fused to do so. Mr. Gormley, following make it more effective. Anyone interested and thereby lose the strike, then each It was a very good turnout for the Society of Locomotive Engineers and the line of the Coal Board, has said. 'I is asked to get in touch (address in the and every worker will suffer the conse- first anarchist demonstration for some Firemen have refused to move coal want to impress on our members that Contact Column). The trial has been set quences. time. Comrades came from Leeds, York, for February 23 and international demon- from pit-heads. The Transport Workers' there is little sense in being involved in Birmingham. Faversham, Lancaster, strations are planned. Meanwhile please Federation has given support and their a conflict if there is no work to go DEFY THE LAW Corby. Leicester and Brighton. There affiliated unions should ban all movement back to.' get in touch—perhaps comrades in large It might be necessary, in the ensuing were contingents from Camden Move- of coal from the Continent to Britain. provincial towns could organise pickets In an industry where so many have weeks, for trade unionists to defy the ment for People's Power, Agitprop, Lotta Dockers at Cardiff. Middlesbrough, New- at the local Consulates? lost their jobs, such talk has little effect. law. We should not shirk our responsi- Continua. and Milan Anarchists. port and Shoreham have refused to Finally, with an increasing number of The rank and file,' as usual, were not bilities if such action is needed. The The March went via Oxford Street, past unload coal imported from America, anarchist/libertarian prisoners in the just following instructions from leaders, roots of the trade unions were put down the ALITALIA offices into Regent Street, USA/Spain/Italy/France/UK/etc. perhaps Australia and the Continent. At Portis- but Mr. Gormley admitted that they were head, near Bristol, however, dockers did outside the law and if these organisations turning past the ENIT-Tourist Office it's time the Black Cross was revived to being more militant 'than we want them are going to be used to bring about a unload coal for the local power station. into Berkeley Square and up to the provide a liaison body within which the to be'. Such a statement is illuminating just and equitable society, then we, the Union official. Tom Davis, said it was Embassy. A letter was handed in de- ORA, and other groups in the move- because it shows how union leaders want members, will have to defy the law and part 'of a regular monthly consignment manding the release of Valpreda and ment could unite to provide regular sup- to contain any action. The Coal Board take on the State. Make no mistake, if promising to continue the Campaign until port and aid without (as in danger of to the power station from Belfast, which are also very concerned about the damage we regard as normal cargo'. the miners look like winning, the Tories it was successful. The demonstration happening with London ORA) having that could be caused to expensive equip- will use the law and then every trade then marched back to Hyde Park where no time for the local activity we need to Although support from transport ment and machinery actually in the pit unionist will have to join the struggle a meeting was held. Comrades of Lotta grow and develop. KEITH NATHAN. workers is welcome, it is not going to if maintenance is not regularly carried against the Government. P.T.

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Bernard Levin will still be welcomed, for they speak to us and not through us. The world of creative communi- cation no longer belongs as the exclusive preserve of the middle class, not with Five Hundred and Thirty Pounds Horovitz ringing doorbells, and Quentin Bell in his book Bloomsbury has put his POEMS BY THOMAS GRAY, illus- to his wife Ann as a birthday present, applaud, as no more than a question Epic Of Britannia, In Twelve Books his flies in amber. trated by W. Blake (Trianon Press of and for a hundred and seventy years of economics, as cheaper methods of With a Resurrection and a Life'. As Too gutless to rule, too intelligent to Paris, 3 vols., Limited edition, £530.00). they were hoarded in private collections reproduction ousted copper plate en- high camp married to a popular folk serve, the Frys, the Bells, the Forsters, the Woolfs, the Stracheys, the Sackville THE WOLVERHAMPTON WAN- as a well advertised secret. graving and Blake's particular art form. art the book is brilliantly successful, After a magnificent advertising cam- All this can be true, for many a fine and Michael has not only built his own Wests, the Stephens and the Grants DERER by Michael Horovitz (Latimer, ruled the literary coterie of London London, £1.50). paign Trianon Press of Paris are hawking poet and author eats out his/her heart band wagon but selected the passengers. a limited edition of 400 copies of the in bitter public isolation for lack of a His long, epic, stuttering poem uses between the wars, and each succeeding LOVE POEMS by Michael Horovitz original book at £530 a time. Roger means of communication with a sym- the town of Wolverhampton and its book peels a fresh skin off the onion (Latimer, London). Fry dismissed Blake's style as no more pathetic audience. William Blake local football team as the book's reason existence of these people, to finally COUNTRY DECADENCE by Bill Butler than a reduction of Michelangelo's paint- peopled his small canvases with the for being, but he has illustrated it almost reveal the rotting core that was their (Unicorn Bookshop, Brighton, 20p). ing to mere line without volume, and a heroic mythical creations of Old Testa- page by page with visual work from the heart. Their creative works become that meandering of nerveless curves taken ment mythology, and in an age that avant garde of the day. Name a popular much smaller with each thumbing and A MONTH OF SATURDAYS by their sad tortured faces turn them into Dorothy Parker (Macmillan, £2.10). from the work of Celtic craftsmen, and thumbed Tom Paine's Common Sense pop artist and they have illustrated a Fry could be right in relation to this as its bible, and accepted rationalism page of Michael's epic poem, and with their own judges, in that they condemn BLOOMSBURY by Quentin Bell tired hack work that the Tate are as the new fashionable religion, Blake their faces superimposed upon the bodies themselves and their age, for they lived (Weidenfeld, London, £1.05). exhibiting, for they are no more than was accepted and rejected as an amusing of the local football team Horovitz and festered within a corrupt society THE BLUESHIRTS by Maurice Man- pathetic pastiches of Blake's own genius. naive painter barking at the wisdom of Michael has created a handbook of the that they despised, as in their turn they ning (Gill & Macmillan, £3.00). When William Blake painted his New- the salon and the coffee house wits. fashionable arts that, like Gray's book are now despised. ton, God judging Adam, The Ancient Blake's paintings are now part of man's of poems, will be handled by collectors It too was the dark times of the rpo QUOTE COLIN CROSS, out of of Days, God creating Adam and illustrated history, great and mighty for a price well beyond its current £1.50, middle-class strong-arm politics, when -*- context, 'with the possible exception Nebuchadnezzar, he took his rightful worRs of man's eternal genius in com- if for no other, and what better reason every country spewed forth its fascist of Shakespeare and Bunyan, Blake was place among the world's master painters. petition with the latest pop art poster. can there be for climbing into history, army to keep the working classes under the first major British creative personality It was fitting that Blake, who had For Michael Horovitz there must al- than that one has acted as guide and their well-shod heel. Every country, to spring from the lower social classes', rejected the erotic realism of Greek ways-be a kind word, for he has fought illustrator for the 1960s? even Holy Ireland. But as with all so on behalf of Bill and John welcome culture for the mighty visions of the the good fight on behalf of his small And what should one say of Bill things Irish, yea even death, the whole to the club, William. The exhibition Renaissance painters, should have chosen, talent on everv battlefield that could field Butler's Country Decadence than that matter ended as a farce, for this is of Blake's illustrations to the poems of for the sheer pleasure of the task, an enemy. The high-pitched voice, the it is as he describes it, 'tender ballads the saving grace of Ireland, that in Thomas Gray will do little to add to to illustrate Thomas Gray's poems, for waving hands and the cluttered and oft of young lust'. A beautiful cover and the end all things must be laughed at. Blake's artistic reputation but by pro- Gray also rejected the arid Augustan unrelated lines of poetry mark Michael sad, gentle and angry poems in the Maurice Manning's book on The Blue- claiming that the man can fail it will elegance of the hour in relation to as a man of our time. One could love manner of 'now I lay me down to sleep shirts will shock many people who make Blake a man instead of a myth. poetry, for he attempted to shake off the man if only for his magazine New I syphilis lesions rot my feet / I pray were never aware that Ireland produced These original water colours are on the old poetic conventions of the day Departures, that must surely count the gods who jeer and mock I to take its own comic fascist party Spawned exhibition for the first time and it is like a dead skin. among the great literary non-events of my soul but spare my cock'. And it out of Ireland's middle-class shopkeeper fitting that the Tate Gallery should be • The poetry of Gray is now relegated the decade. is in that final analysis all a question party, Cumann na nGaedheal, and the accorded the honour of showing them. to that of our minor English poets But none should laugh at Michael, but of the bubble reputation, and all the Centre Party it merged into, Fine Gael, The world dealt hardly with Blake, while the paintings that Blake created with him, for he has a minor talent long years reading at fourth hand of it drew most of its active militants from for he was of that minority brotherhood to illustrate them, are sad tired cliches and a feeling for the craft of poetry the wit of Dorothy Parker, only to the Army Comrades Association. of revolutionaries whose vision sees be- of his mighty hand. Bronowski in his that many a forgotten rhymster, who find in her collection of reviews that With Eoin O'Duffy, one time Com- yond the revolution of the day and the William Blake and the Age of Revo- died the death at Better Books, still they were so limited. missioner of Police with a flair for mode. These Blake water colours on lution chose to read into Blake's alle- envies. His Love Poems, like the poetry As one reads the barbed prose of rounding up 'the boys', it built up an exhibition within the Tate, as all Chelsea gories a disguised voice speaking on of Frances Horovitz and Tina Morris, this dead New Yorker, a nagging feeling organisation of some twenty thousand now know, were commissioned by Flax- behalf of the French revolution, and are in the end no more than a collage fills the mind that one still reads it uniformed muscle men. With the Irish man as an addition to the book of poems Blake's failure to succeed in his own of impressionistic images that exist in somewhere or some place only to realize Republican Army and their mild social- of Gray that Flaxman intended to give age, while lesser men won popular two or three line isolation and fail that her ghost guides the pen of Bernard ism as its chosen enemy, Cumann na to add up to a unified whole, and Levin. The same juvenile humour, line nGeal to bring in the Irish middle class no matter how beautiful a few single after limited line of manufactured rage, as money brokers, and the reactionary lines may be they fail to exist as a the same limited area of the arts and at social programme of Pius XI, as out- poem in its own right. the final paragraph the voice of the lined in the Quadragesimo Anno, to With The Wolverhampton Wanderer minor Jewish intellectual holding an provide the spiritual crap for the faithful, Michael has struck gold, for this is audience by insulting absent friends and O'Duffy's comic army became a sillier one of the most important literary books enemies who ventured into the domain joke even than their British off-shore of their generation not as a work of of the printed word. comrades. History long pulled the chain art but as a literary and social document. But when the intellectual flower of On 0"Dufty's shamrock circus, but—God Horovitz has used the Wolverhampton the Statesman and the Spectator have forgive us!—the senseless killings in the A Girl from football team as a peg and a theme, and, learnedly parsed and pissed on our world, name of Holy Mother Ireland still go believe me little comrade, I quote 'An the voices of Dorothy Parker and on. ARTHUR MOYSE.

what they are doing to Janice. Although Of course she does not want to kill to be a place rather like the progressive it is pleasant to see these two monsters her daughter, she wants complete mastery and libertarian ward into which Janice getting some of it back, her intervention over her, body and soul. The only first goes, before the psychiatrist running A Good Home does not help Janice much, who merely escape route for the victim is into the it is sacked. Needless to say this mental screams at everyone, and withdraws state of being completely cut off from hospital is threatened with closure, and FAMILY LIFE, Academy One. and his wife was never very beautiful. further into herself. the outside world. a campaign is being organised to save it. This is something one has to live with, At no time can one feel much sym- As I was leaving the cinema I was Anyone interested in helping in this rpHERE IS A FOOLISH old saying, is more or less his attitude.) pathy with the parents, but of course given a leaflet by a young girl. A group struggle should get in touch with the ■■- 'Sticks and stones may break my Janice believes that her mother wants they are themselves victims of their own of them stood just outside the doors. Paddington Clinic and Day Hospital, bones, but words can never hurt me.' In to kill her, and she is not far wrong. parents and of a repressive society. One They were members of a committee of 217/221 Harrow Road, London, W.2, fact words can wound and kill. Family First her baby is aborted, and then she is never allowed to forget the ubiquitous- the staff and patients of the Paddington telephone: 286 4800, extension 27. Life is the story of a young girl in a herself is brought by her parents to a ness of authoritarian society. All the Clinic and Day Hospital, which seems JOHN BRENT. prosperous working-class home, who for mental hospital. To begin with she is houses are the same. The little police many years has been almost an ideal under the care of a progressive psy- car flits about in the background. child. Her mother's pride, she was chiatrist, whose methods are libertarian, I suppose that there are people whose obsessionally neat and very 'moral', her and he almost gets to the point of treat- insanity is due to some kind of physical aptitude for freedom rather than mother's own word. She never gave her ing the parents as patients, much to their deterioration, but in this case it is quite AFRICA just the desire. parents any trouble. indignation, but with perfect justice. clear that the young girl has nothing the The farce in Rhodesia has Then she meets a group of young Unfortunately he is replaced by a psy- matter with her to begin with. And prob- Continued from page I prompted outbreaks of violence. people, and becomes pregnant by one chiatrist who believes in electroshock. ably her case is very common, for the Dr. Banda has been a disappoint- Such a charade as the Commission of them. This seems to be the beginning For a time she seems to be cured, but great thing that one is punished for by ment all round except in South now touring has become obvious as of her downfall, but the film jumps about she goes to work in a dreadful factory, our society is not wickedness but weak- Africa where he was rapturously an insult to the dignity of any and in time, and as the characters mumble, where human beings are merely adjuncts ness. There are even those who would received. Kenneth Kaunda, the other all Rhodesian Africans. Naked brute much as English people do in real life, to machines. Eventually she returns to see a Darwinian justification for this. It hope of the progressives, has double- but usually not on the screen, I found it the hospital, then attempts escape. She is is certainly true that sadistic people look force is something which individual hard to follow the dialogue, and so I taken back (illegally) by the doctors, and around them for victims, often their vic- crossed his old associates who broke Africans have apparently accepted may have missed some of the essential finally, presumably after more electro- tims are their own children, as in this away from him to form an opposi- as their lot but this utter hypocrisy points. Many apologies. shock, we see her as completely dumb, story. They sense defencelessness and tion political party. In all this the is something which has impelled the Anyway, Janice, the heroine, goes into and without any will of her own, being move in for the kill. The mother plays African people have been used and silent to speak. The people of Africa a kind of daydream and sits on and on, exhibited to a body of bored medical with words in order to trap her daughter. exploited almost as skilfully and will be heard from yet. on the platform of the Underground. students. For instance, the father, in a brief, kindly professionally as they were by their Finally a station attendant drags her The lecturer who exhibits her is the mood, tells Janice that she has nothing British masters. away, and passes her on to the police, psychiatrist who believes in electro- to be ashamed of. Being mentally ill is In the sections of Africa where The only new thing out of Africa and they bring her to her home in one shock. He says, 'This girl comes from a like being physically ill. Janice imme- even nominal independence is lack- is a report in the Guardian for Janu- of their 'panda' cars. Thus the wheel is good home, where there has never been diately assures him that she is not ing—Angola, South Africa and ary 8 from Dar-es-Salaam, Zanzibar, set in motion. Her parents create a any trouble. Yet here she is. She does ashamed. 'That's the trouble with you,' scene, the scandal of being brought home not talk. Obeys every order auto- says her mother, quick as a flash, 'you Rhodesia—the Africans seem to be reporting that the government is to by the police and all that . . . and then matically, and so on. . . .' Implying it have no shame.' more resolute in their struggle for close all prisons and release the tell her that she must get rid of the is all a great mystery. The students This kind of verbal trickery goes on freedom. Let us hope they do not prisoners held in Zanzibar, and its baby. doodle on their notebooks. the whole time. Another technique used bequeath it to the politicians. sister island of Pemba. 'The Minister Although she flares up from time to This is the whole mystique of madness. is the old one of discussing someone in The Ovambos in South-West of State,' reports the Guardian, 'said time, Janice is weak, as her older sister, It is a mysterious infliction, probably due their presence as if they were not there. Africa (formerly German territory "The existence of gaols encourages who has broken away from the family to physical causes about which we know Clearly the mother is not really trying mandated to Britain and illegit- criminals to continue their activities. some time before, says, and she is never nothing at present. It comes out of the to bring her daughter back to 'normality', imately seized — what isn't? — by This can be avoided by employing able to sustain resistance to her parents blue. All we can do is stand and gape any more than Jack the Ripper was for long. She is not trained for any- in awe at the wonderful ways of the trying to make his victims 'normal'. She South Africa) have staged a gigantic them".' To the cynical minds, of thing, and cannot cope with repetitive Almighty. This film shows us that in may have begun with this motivation, strike against contract labour (SA's whom the Guardian reporter is one, factory work for any length of time, so fact there was nothing the matter with but it is clear that very soon she is main source) and have brought the this may sound like the institution she cannot leave home. She is dependent the girl, except that she seems to have simply relishing the joy of torturing a whole area of Namibia around of forced labour but the remarkable on her parents economically. had a 'weak ego'. She was far too ready helpless person. Her own daughter, who Windhoek to a standstill. They are fact is that one of the leading mem- Her father is simply stupid and a to give in to people, her hideous mother is young, and of whom perhaps she is obviously a people determined not bers of the Zanzibar Government brute. On one occasion he even starts to begin with. Occasionally she asserts jealous on account of her youth and to have such working conditions (whether he still is in it, we know beating her. Her mother, it emerges, is herself, but always at the wrong time, good looks. The only time she seems imposed upon them and they have not) was a former member of the frigid, and is a skilful sadist. (There is and in the wrong way, I mean in ways to get really upset is when her daughter deserted the work-compounds for Malatesta Club and a frequent visi- a moment of grim humour when the that merely make matters worse for her. escapes from the hospital, and perhaps mother says of course she is not against Her sister, who is married, comes with from her control. (Janice sometimes their own tribal country. True they tor to anarchist meetings. Perhaps sex. Sex is beautiful in its right place, her children to visit the family, and is speaks of being 'controlled' by her have the backing of UNO—for as the Guardian headlines: Zanzibar etc. . . . But it is clear from the inter- horrified at the state that Janice is in. mother, and indeed her mother tells her what that's worth—and the prox- has Achieved Utopia. But we doubt view that the father has with Janice's There is a flaming row, in which the that she knows what her daughter wants imity of insurgent Angola, but never- it. first psychiatrist, that sex between him sister tells her parents the truth about better than the girl does herself.) theless such initiative speaks of an JACK ROBINSON.

Centra de Documenta;ao e Apoio a Pesquisa 10 11 unesp^ Cedap 22 23 24 25 26 27 2S 29 30 31 32 as you did, and this is why Freedom [aEfaEESSEaSsSEaSisIsIsEEOEilsra Press group and Anarchy group, and Black Flag group and many other an- archist groups propagate anarchist ideas with a view to enlarging the circle of bolts BETWEEN OURSELVES anarchists and anarchist militants among us. We are therefore inviting those AS EACH YEAR passes the publi- a year to the Press Fund, so that a paid personnel has been making over comrades who approve of the work FREEDOM and Freedom Press are doing ■^ cation of a minority radical paper target of £1,500 in the 1970s is modest the generations—for over 80 years. To ESIalalalataESUBSialsSEESiaiaE such as FREEDOM become financially in- by comparison! And as to having a those comrades who no longer 'need', to financially support our work even if creasingly difficult, and certainly impos- paid-up subscription list of 1,500 readers, or who are no longer 'stimulated' by the contents of our literature is not of special importance to their own de- sible if the editorial group, contributors it is only in the last two or three years FREEDOM and about to cancel their Any book not in stock, but in and dispatchers had to be paid even a that our list has fallen below that subscriptions may we suggest that before velopment, and even to make a point print can be promptly supplied. doing so they ask themselves whether of passing on their unread copies of nominal sum for their services. Yet number. We should mention that of Book Tokens accepted. in 1972 the editors are adding to the course during that period the bundle they are perhaps applying to FREEDOM FREEDOM to friends who might welcome demands on their time by their decision orders from the various groups that a personal value-for-money, judgment being introduced to our work just as Please add postage & cash with to publish FREEDOM every week (instead sprang up everywhere increased rapidly of its worth as they might to a can of they themselves were years back. With order helps. peas or even to a commercially-produced this kind of support we are confident of 40 times a year which has been the but unfortunately a number of groups The Pursuit of the Millennium case during the ten years that Afiarchy didn't think it was necessary to pay for so-called underground journal. Ob- that we will be able to continue pub- viously as a convinced anarchist you do lishing in spite of the ever-growing Norman Cohn £0.75 (7|p) was being published by Freedom Press). the copies they received and we had Rational Anarchy Their welcome decision must surely be to write off about £1,000 in bad debts. not need FREEDOM to provide you with difficulties we have described. weekly 'kicks' without which you would To remind readers as to how the Richard & Ernestine Perk is £1.75 (5ip) matched by a corresponding increase in For us bundle orders and casual sales Civil Liberty—The NCCL change your views, but you must see 'financial struggle' is progressing we will paid circulation, new subscriptions and (at meetings, through newsagents) are Guide Anna Coote support for the Press Fund. most welcome but from the point of that your views will only be shared and publish a regular account of how the propagated if more and more people money is coming in. & Lawrence Grant £0.50 (4ip) Some readers have been understand- view of keeping a journal such as The Greening of America ably a little mystified by the way FREEDOM alive (and after all whatever become aware of them and accept them as reasonable and human ideas, just Charles Reich £0.40 (4ip) FREEDOM finances operate. What hap- else may be said by our critics Freedom FREEDOM PRESS GROUP. Revolt Into Style pens to the Deficit at the end of the year? Press has succeeded in issuing at least George Melly £0.40 (4ip) Is it accumulating over the years and one periodical regularly for the past thirty years, and two for ten years, so Anarchism Paul Eltzbacher £3.50 (10p) will it end in the eventual collapse What is Class-consciousness. of Freedom Press? The short answer we do speak with some experience) we (3) Direct Pressure on Westminster. is 'No!'. Certainly not in 1972 or we have always depended on a 'live' list Long Kesh Keep up a constant barrage of com- Wilhelm Reich £0.30 (2-}p) Design for Utopia—Selected would not envisage increasing the perio- of at least 1,000 postal subscribers. Dear Comrades, plaints, telegrams, letters «nd phone calls Writings of Charles Fourier dicity of FREEDOM from 40 to 52 issues Because of escalating charges, over which We, the Internees of Long Kesh Con- directed at Mr. Maudling. This will we have no control, our ability to centration Camp, ask you to take posi- make him and the Westminster Govern- Ed. Manuel £1.50 (71p) a year. As to what has been happening Selected Writings of to the Deficit on FREEDOM when contri- continue publishing our journal, without tive steps to end the present repression. ment realise how unjust their policy is. butions to the Press Fund have not resorting to sensational, to sex and Already you may be a member of one (4) Organise public protests against Proudhon Ed. Edwards £1.00 (7ip) covered it, is that other FP initiatives other circulation gimmicks, is now de- of the many groups fighting internment internment with speakers from as many ' Memoirs of a Revolutionary such as Anarchy, and FP publications pendent on a solid core of at least but we feel that there is a need to forge different organisations as possible. Victor Serge £0.60 (lOp) as well as Freedom Bookshop (especially 1,500 subscribers among whom will be a direct link with the Internees and (5) Demand that internment be ended- Playpower Richard Neville £0.50 (5ip) the mail orders) have made it possible included those of you who are the thousands of people all over the world now. The Revolution in Everyday for us to keep our heads above water regular contributors to the Press Fund who wrote to us. On that account we (6) Please remember that our freedom Life Raoul Vareigen £0.30 (2ip) financially speaking. By which we mean which must reach £1,500 this year if we are setting up a loose form of organis- ultimately depends on people who are that we started 1972 owing creditors are to continue with the publication of ation to be known as:— prepared to fight back on our behalf. about £2,000 but our stock of FP and a printed weekly journal. If we begin this fight now, internment * * * 'The Associates of Long Kesh can be ended once and for all, in a other literature will in due course realise Concentration Camp'. possibly more than that. For this reason Occasionally we receive a cancellation matter of weeks. Remember, too, that we are not proposing to burden those of subscription from a comrade of If you are prepared to help us would there are rnany internees and detainees of you who have generously supported many years' standing who points out you write back to the following address- in Crumlin Road Prison and the 'Maid- IMreedom over the years our unspectacular but that he or she had not 'changed' poli- CCDC, 39 Falls Road, Belfast, and to me stone' who will soon be joining us in unremitting efforts to further anarchism tically but that he doesn't read his at Long Kesh. We will send you com- Long Kesh. by the written word with this accu- copy of FREEDOM for one reason or munications telling of the progress of the JACKIE CRAWFORD, LK/230. mulated deficit. another—the more brutal reason given events undertaken by the Association Associates of Long Kesh Instead we are asking you to concen- is that we are not saying anything and, of course, letting you know of the Concentration Camp, trate on covering the costs of production 'new' so far as he is concerned—so 'men behind the wire'. We hope that Hut 16, Compound 2, JgrSss of FREEDOM in 1972 by sales, subscrip- it is a wasted copy which could be this will be an active association with Long Kesh Concentration Camp, tions and contributions to the Press Fund. put to better use. Agreed, and obviously one aim only—End Internment NOW. Lisburn publish We have made a very careful estimate since FREEDOM is not published to enter- of what it is costing to produce FREEDOM tain but to propagate anarchist ideas, Anger is not enough FREEDOM meekly weekly at current prices of paper and we are saying the same things year in and distribute Dear Comrades, services and the figure we have arrived year out as interestingly and convincingly ANARCHY monthly at is £115, of which postage charges as we can in the context of our times. In his article, 'Anger Is Not Enough', alone account for no less than £40 But this is the function of an anarchist LETTERS Jack Robinson makes a couple of minor 84b Whitechapel High Street {assuming that we have at least 1,500 journal and the financial support we errors which should be corrected. He London El 01-247 9249 postal subscribers). So in 1972 the cost need and ask for is because we think writes: '. . . the last recorded anarchist Entrance Angel Alley, of producing FREEDOM will amount to that anarchism in depth cannot be sold Pressure by the Stormont Government assassination was in the nineteen-twenties Whitechapel Art Gallery exit, £6,000 in the full year. If we had in a sexy wrapper, or as the vinegar in a on Westminster helped to introduce of Petlura, a White Russian pogromist.' Aldgate East Underground Stn. 2,000 postal subscribers at £3 each we tasteless daily mash of fish and chips, and Internment on August 9, 1971. Pressure Simon Petlura, who was murdered in SPECIMEN COPIES ON would not be writing this appeal. We we therefore resist the arguments of can and will end it! The following ideas Paris (shot seven times) on May 25, 1926, REQUEST will be happy if we succeed in building the market-economy, the Heathian doc- are an outline of how you can help: was not a White Russian. He was a up our list to 1,500 fully paid postal trine of standing on one's two-commer- (1) Get together a small group of Ukrainian 'bourgeois nationalist', accord- subscriptions this year, and this means cial-feet, and rely on those of you who people locally who are absolutely con- ing to both Makhno and Voline. He was covering a deficit of £1,500 with Press believe that we must go on making vinced that internment is wrong. Explain an opponent of Czarism, former Presi- Fund contributions. Neither of these anarchist propaganda irrespective of the to them about this letter. dent of the Kiev - based Ukrainian Bookshop targets is over-optimistic. In the 1950s 'market' to support the efforts that Free- (2) Discuss and act on the following National Republic and Supreme Com- •our readers regularly contributed £1,000 dom Press through its everchanging un- ideas—Contact your local MP and other mander of the so-called Ukrainian Open Afternoons public representatives as a delegation Armed Forces between 1917 and 1921. Tuesday to Friday. demanding his public support; ask your He was, indeed, anti-Jewish, and his 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. trades council, professional association, forces were, on occasions, involved in Open Evenings trades union branches, etc., to publicly anti-Jewish pogroms. oppose internment; write to your local His murderer, Schwarzbart (alias Wlas- Thursday close at 8.30 p.m. and national press explaining your pur- berger), was not an anarchist. He was Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m THE GREAT pose and asking others to join you. of Jewish origin and an 'external' agent of the OGPU. After his arrest by the French police, however, the Communists used his Jewish origin (they may have also spread the story that he was an SUBSCRIPTION ULSTER DEBATE anarchist) to give the impression that Petlura was the victim of a Jewish RATES, 1972 CO THE MUCH-HERALDED Tribunal Devlin. Her opening speech put the PRESS FUND 'revenge' killing because of Petlura's in- FREEDOM *^ on Ulster was allowed to take place judges in the dock as members of the volvement in pogroms in the Ukraine. as scheduled (BBC-1, lanuary 5), demon- He was, of course no friend of the Inland, and Surface Mail abroad British establishment, and pointed out Contributions for one year £3.00 ($7.50) strating to the credulous that the media that they would inevitably fail to find a Ukrainian anarchists—as Makhno and £1.50 ($3.75) will remain frank and fearless in the face real solution. Their reaction showed how January 6-12 inc. his comrades well knew! six months three months £0.80 ($2.00) of political pressure. In fact, if the right she was, and how manifestly stupid London, N.W.9: A.S.D. 50p; Wellington, PETER E. NEWELL. pressure had been strong enough, the the learned of society become when con- Airmail NZ: 50p; Thesuge, Netherlands: A.A.T.D. Europe & BBC would have given way; in fact, the fronted with radical ideas. But her 1 year £4.00 82p; Wolverhampton: J.L. 40p; J.K.W. Middle East 6 months £2.00 programme presented no threat to any criticisms were weakened by her agree- lOp; Newcastle: M.B. 38p; Anon. lOp; Permanent Protest government. What the pre-broadcast fuss ment to participate in the programme. The Americas 1 year $12.50 Anon. 50p; Enfield: P.H. £1; Cleveland: Dear Comrades, 6 months $6.25 actually demonstrated was the ability of The tables remained unturned, especially I.M. 75p; Dcrry: I.B. 55p; Northants.: Well, there are Christians and Chris- India, Africa, &e. 1 year £4.50 the media to engender 'controversy' and when she responded to the judges' request T.P. £1; Leeds: W.A.C. £1; New York: tians. S. E. Parker says, 'Those who foment pseudo-drama to enhance their for practical proposals with a traditional 6 months £2.25 N.M. £1; E.H.P. 95p; London, E.12: E.M. believe in the saving grace of a social Australasia & own assumed significance. list of 'transitional demands'—national- 1 year £5.00 £1; P.B.C. £4.50; D.C.R. £5; S. & R. revolution that will bring heaven on Far East 6 months £2.50 The broadcast as a whole accorded isation, minimum wage, etc. Thus she Garrett 50p; Woodstock, USA: R.M. £1; earth are the true continuators of the perfectly with such assumptions, and with aligned herself with the other politicians, Reading: B.J.M. 20p; Birmingham: G. & Christian tradition, not those whose per- ANARCHY the wider values of the ruling class in and incidentally in the mainstream of E.O. £2; Leicester: C.C. 50p; Aberdeen: spective is shaped by the prospect of per- Inland, and Surface Mail abroad society at large. No libertarian can have International Socialism. Her 'solution', I.S. £1; Lothian: R.P. 30p; Oxford: manent resistance to authority.' (8.1.72.) 12 issues £2.25 ($6.00) been impressed by the parade of poli- like those she criticised, did not go be- B.E.H. 50p; Brighton: P.P. 50p; Stock- In the Middle Ages and afterwards 6 issues £1.13 ($3.00) ticians and the line-up of judges, ful- yond reformism. By putting it forward holm: T.F. 35p; Glasgow: L.V.K.B. £1. this may well have been true. Millenarian Airmail filling their roles with mutual respect and she ensured that the valid points she Total: £27.90 sects proliferated. And we still have the USA & Canada 12 issues $11.00 solemnity, saying just what would be made would have been lost on anyone Sales (Voline): £6.00 Jehovah's Witnesses today. But most 6 issues $6.00 expected of them. Each interviewee pre- not already in agreement with her. modern Christians in my experience have Australasia & 12 issues £4.50 sented a more or less vague and facile It is not the role of a revolutionary £33.90 given up any belief in mass salvation. Far East 6 issues £2.25 'solution' to the 'problem' of N. Ireland, to advise the ruling class on how best to Indeed they have little belief in any and the learned panel thought up suit- solve its problems. In their own terms, sort of salvation. The Devil is more ably probing questions, revealing the its representatives may devise some poli- (1) INCOME FROM POSTAL SUB- real to them than God, though of course average Protestant and Roman Catholic, meanderings of their academic minds. tical palliatives of which the details can SCRIPTIONS AND SALES they do not think of him as a horned whatever their differences in doctrine One seized hopefully on the notion of concern us little. In our terms, they and (Target for 1972 £4,500) personage. It would be truer to say that and ritual. dual nationality, until someone informed their debates are quite irrelevant to a to them Evil is more real than Good. I would not describe myself as an him that people born in N. Ireland are real solution. Our solution will not be Amount received to January 15 £745 They believe that human beings are optimist, but I do not see why, because already citizens both of the UK and the worked out by self-important pundits. innately predisposed to anti-social be- people act in an authoritarian way now, Irish Republic. Much emphasis was also It will evolve from the activity and con- (2) PRESS FUND CONTRIBUTIONS haviour, and can only be kept in order they must always do so forever. Nor do placed on the conditions under which sciousness of the people concerned, as (Target for 1972 £1,500) by those humans who have reached posi- I see why we should not try to persuade everyone they interviewed would consent they free themselves from the domination Contributions received January 6-12 tions of command in the social hierarchy, them to change their behaviour (if not to talk to everyone else—with what of judges and politicians of all shades— and have thereby 'proved' that they are their 'nature', whatever that may be) illuminating and practical results we may orange, green, blue or red. Admittedly —£33.90 slightly less anti-social. from exploiting and murdering each infer from their performances. this is a long-term prospect in N. Ireland, Previously acknowledged £153.09 There is no hope for the future, for other to either co-operating or simply The only challenge to the tribunal's as optimistic revolutionary enthusiasts 'you can't change human nature'. This leaving each other alone. terms of reference came from Bernadette will have to realise. L.A.W. TOTAL TO DATE £187.00 is the attitude, in my experience, of the JOHN BRENT.

% Centra de Documenta;ao e Apoio a Pesquisa 2 3 4 5 10 11 unesp Cedap 22 23 24 25 26 27 2S 29 30 31 32 fortunately Jack Flash's own discussion —based on the assumption that the Angry Brigade's activities have value as propaganda by deed and direct action, the suggestion that their specific feature The Angry Brigade Committal is not violence but illegality and that their main function is to raise the OINCE OUR LAST REPORT on the is his papers, which show 'that he has Brigade have been trying to get across prison letters from Chris Bott, and also question of the politics of crime—is as case (January 8), the committal hear- anarchist connections and that he has will actually come across when the case two interesting articles on the whole naive as you can get. The only way ing against the remaining eight de- friends abroad in Spain, Belgium and comes to an end. case. to get better discussion of the case fendants has been going on at Lambeth Italy' and that he knows 'well-known Meanwhile news and comment have In the first, Seamus O'Kane of the is to get on with it. Magistrates Court every weekday. The anarchists and other foreigners (!) and continued to appear in the underground IRA complained that 'the behaviour of N.W. daily proceedings have not been reported people of all types from coal-miners and sectarian press. Private Eye printed the left over the Prescott-Purdie trial because all eight agreed that reporting upwards', etc. on January 14 an item in 'Footnotes' has been disgraceful' and attacked the restrictions should not be lifted, following There is a huge mass of documentation called 'Fuzz about Notting', describing 'papers of the different "Marxist" ten- the use made by the press of the pro- being put in evidence, and a huge mass the cases of Pauline Conroy and Chris dencies' for their poor coverage. He ceedings in the Prescott-Purdie case. of policemen and lawyers all burrowing Allen and the general harassment of went on to make two specific attacks However, the defence committee based around in it. Tn all this any political all the defendants in the case. 7 Days on such papers. The first was on Red on the Compendium Bookshop have pro- message that might have emerged is printed on January 12-18 an interview Mole for printing on February 16-28, ontact duced the first issue of a Conspiracy being lost from view; while the de- by Judith Ferguson with Pauline Conroy, 1971, a denunciation of 'the man known Contact Column is Notes bulletin and organised a press fendants are being constantly harassed describing the way she was searched, as Duncan' and 'the man who went to lor making contact! conference for sympathetic papers on by both police and prison authorities, detained, and eventually charged on Manchester before January 12' as 'pigs'; Use is free, but January 17. with very serious obstacles being put November 23. She insists on the neces- he commented that the former was donations towards Most of the contents of the bulletin in the way of their legal defence and sity of being completely unco-operative Duncan Brown (an anarchist now in typesetting costs are welcome will be familiar enough to anyone who what is left of their personal lives. with the police, because they will make prison) and the latter was Ian Purdie, has been following the case in the This is especially true of the two women use of any information they can get and that Red Mole has never either underground or sectarian press, though still held in custody, who are being even if it seems irrelevant; defended or withdrawn this charge. it is very convenient to have it all put treated abominably, even by the tra- They questioned me for about two The second attack was on the French together in one place. But a great ditional standards of our prison and hours. I tried to answer everything paper Politique Hebdo for printing on deal of additional information about the court system. The lawyers have com- with No comment, I'm not talking, January 29, 1971, a story by 'Guy Help Fold and Despatch 'Freedom', present state of the case was given and plained about what is going on, in some I'm? not saying anything about my McCoy' (Marcel Bonnans) that the Carr Thursdays from 2 p.m. discussed at the press conference. instances quite strongly, but nothing has relationships. They wanted to know bombing had been done by two men As in the Prescott-Purdie case, the been done and probably nothing will everything about my friendships, my (easily identifiable as Ian Purdie and committal hearing is mainly taken up be done until the committal is over. political views, was I an anarchist. Stuart Christie) and 'Digger' Walsh, and Speak Out. This four-page paper is de- by a very long-drawn-out rehearsal of One small consolation is that the .But it is very, very difficult to sustain that the latter was the head of the signed to make people throughout expert evidence about the 25 explosions women have been able to do some useful yourself hour after hour after hour Angry Brigade and an agent provocateur the UK aware of the civil liberty the eight defendants are alleged to have work in Holloway Prison, spreading in- on your own, to keep on saying, working for military intelligence; Poli- issues in Northern Ireland. Copies 2p been involved in between January 1968 formation about gay liberation and the No, No, No, but it really pays off. . . . tique Hebdo did print Digger Walsh's each from NCCL, 152 Camden High and August 1971. This evidence is being claimants' movement. The atmosphere It's useful to know your rights but own refutation of this allegation, but Street. London. N.W.I. 01-485 9497. given by police forensic scientists and there is yet again reported as being don't expect to get them. Tt's a war. the original story must have had its Croydon Group meets first Tuesday every military explosives specialists, and it is very bad, and a current trend is the Time Out printed on January 14-21 effects on subsequent events. month at Jacquetta Benjamin's, Top being pushed through by the magistrate very widespread use of drugs—not by a similar interview with Chris Allen According to O'Kane, the source of Flat. 4 Warminster Road, S. Nor- as fast as possible. One of the main the inmates to escape the horrors of describing the way he was arrested and both these items was Gerry Lawless of wood, S.E.25. Phone Pete Roberts problems of the defence, as before, is reality but by the authorities to dope charged on November 17, and making the International Marxist Group and 01-684 5723 or write or phone Ber- the lawyers. All eight have legal aid, the inmates into submission. very much the same point: the Irish Solidarity Campaign, and he nard R. Miles, 38 Farm Fields, and a dozen solicitors and barristers Tn these circumstances, it is very They ferret around and scrape every comments that if Prescott and Purdie Sanderstead, S. Croydon, Surrey are involved at present; as usual they difficult for any kind of political activity fucking barrel for every tit-bit of had been Communists or Trotskyists there (01-657 4860) or contact Jerry Peck, are proving more of a hindrance than a to be maintained by the growing number information about when so-and-so as- would have been a tremendous defence 45 Sylvan Road, Upper Norwood. help, but it is such a serious case that of people involved in the case, and the sociated with so-and-so. Quite ob- campaign, but because they were 'just Tuesday, February 1—Speaker: Derek none of the defendants can afford to present very serious need is for help viously they are amassing a pile of anarchists' they were 'fair game for McMillan (Labour Party Young defend themselves. of all kinds. Nevertheless the first information, and when they put their very many, from right-wing cops to Socialists). Two of the women—Angela Weir and issue of Conspiracy Notes gives the own version across in court, what can left-wing gossips'. These and similar 'Anarchy': Are you a university student? Kate McLean—have been granted bail text of the best Communique issued you say? You can say, OK, what stories have been circulating widely Get your professor to recommend during the committal, on sureties of by the Angry Brigade, including the you've done is to totally distort my life around the left for a year now, and for the university library a SET OF £20,000 and with very strict conditions. following point: 'We are against any over two years and build up a par- at last they are beginning to appear BOUND VOLUMES 'ANARCHY' Stuart Christie was once more refused external structure—whether it's called ticular series of relationships in a in print; it will be interesting and in- Vols. 1-10 (Nos. 1-118) 1961-1970. bail on January 17, despite the offer Carr, Jackson, TS, CP, or SLL is irre- totally distorted way. You can try structive to see what happens, if anything. Price £40.00 per set (p. & p. £1.00). of sureties amounting to more than levant—they're all one and the same. to be as honest as possible, but in the The second article, by Jack Flash of Commune, Hamsgate, welcomes visits £30,000 and despite the fact that still They are all alike in their desire to end it is only the image which matters the Ian and Jake Defence Group, also from potential members (especially there is no direct evidence linking hirrj style us and keep us passive ballot-box —only a question of which side puts attacked the coverage of the case by with children). Crafts and education with the Angry Brigade; the kind of cannon fodder.' It remains to be seen across the most impressive theatre. the left. 'There has been little worth- bias. Write to P. Ford. 22 Royal thing the prosecution is interested in whether anything of what the Angry In the Prescott-Purdie trial, Prescott's while discussion of the politics of the Road, Ramsgate, Kent. image failed and Purdie's worked. Time case in the press (or anywhere else). . . . AFBIB. There will be no issue of AFBIB Out also printed in the same issue an All the discussion in the press has been this month (January). interview with Purdie about the problems incredibly naive, especially that in papers Liverpool Anarchist discussions normally of lawyers in the trial and the necessity like Red Mole and FREEDOM' (though the held first Sunday in month. Write to of solidarity with people who get in- only example of our coverage actually re- 39 Lilley Road, Liverpool, 7, for volved in such trials. ferred to is the editors' 'Open Letter to venue, or ring 263 4890. John Cowan. Ink 25 (January 7) printed some more the Guardian' of December 18). Un- 'Bella' and other prose pieces by Geoff Charlton. 15p (including post) from This Week in Ireland the author, Flat 3, 45 Heathfield Road, Birmingham, B19 1HE. OTORMONT MINISTERS carrying he arrived at the 'Maidstone' that the LETTER organisation. It does not help in the Can any comrades help us out with copies *^ arms. An RUC reservist shot in doctor refused to take him aboard and clarification of differences to misrepresent of the following issues of the First cold blood by masked men as he sat he is now in hospital in Belfast. The International one's opponents' position. Series 'Anarchy' for binding sets: working. A gun battle in Derry in which SDLP are demanding a proper inquiry On the question of Kronstadt I would Nos. 2 (Workers' Control); 5 (Spain); children of five were caught in the cross- into this latest brutality. Socialism like to draw the attention of your readers 28 (Future of Anarchism); 32 (Crime); fire and rescued screaming with terror The Irish Medical Association has to Peter Sedgwick's critical introduction and 37 (Why I won't vote). We will by two TV cameramen, and the accounts called an Extraordinary Meeting re the Dear Comrades, to Serge's 'Year One of the Russian pay 25p each if in good condition. given of what triggered off the battle by inclusion of Dr. R. Gibson as a member Will you allow me a brief comment Revolution' which appears in 'Inter- Contact Freedom Press the civilians and by the soldiers so of the Compton Commission. The IMA on your two pieces on the International national Socialism 50'. It seems to me N. and E. London ORA meets regularly diverse that one wonders if they are and the BMA are closely affiliated. Socialists in your issue of January 1? a balanced and realistic assessment. (weekly). Please contact via 68 describing the same incident, but, as Bernadette Devlin, speaking of how It is clear that there are fundamental DUNCAN HALLAS, Editor, Chingford Road, Walthamstow, E.17. Eddie McAteer says, 'No one can believe 1,000 soldiers sacked the 3.500-peopIe- political disagreements between us. They International Socialism. Revolutionary Workers Forum meets at the British Army any more.' village of Coalisland — they found are essentially the same as those between 170a Deptford High Street, S.E.8, Incidentally your writer had an article nothing, which to anyone but the British Marx and Bakunin and can hardly be 7.30 p.m. every Monday. in one of the Irish dailies in which she Army would indicate that there was clarified in a short letter. Anarchist and Nihilist Group is being referred to the low calibre of the very nothing to find; but to them it meant However, it is less than candid to ANARCHY formed in Derby and anyone in- young troops in Derry. This led to her only how cleverly the villagers had describe IS as a reformist organisation. terested should contact: Gavin P. receiving a ridiculous letter from General hidden their arsenal so they shot a boy It is an organisation with which anar- Lawrence, 63 Uttoxeter New Road, Tuzo about how alert his 'men' all were who was carrying a toy gun, an excellent chists are bound to differ since it stands Bound Volumes Derby, DE3 3NP. and not believing all she read in the recruiting device for the IRA. for a revolutionary party, a workers' Centre International de Recherches sur papers!! Naturally she believes what she Hillery goes to Brussels and comes state transitional to communism and so l'Anarchisme. CIRA membership wrote herself! back with ruin for the workers in our on. In short it is a Marxist organisation 1-10 covers use of lending library in Ronald Bunting Junior has been in- sugar factories. The EEC won't buy the and one that stands, broadly, in the Lausanne and biannual bulletin terned. This gives Faulkner a chance to amount he asked, so he trots back and Leninist tradition. It is a revolutionary See Contact column (annual subscription £1). First CIRA say 'You see we do intern Protestants'. tells the Cabinet they must accept the publication in English: Michael Ronald happens to be a member of lower rate. Lynch remains in a 'what Bakunin's 'The Paris Commune and NICRA. crisis?' frame of mind and speech over the Idea of the State' (15p post free, Stormont admits it cannot make Crum- the ever-rising unemployment and prices. £1 for 10 copies). British representa- lin Road or Long Kesh 'escape proof— Speculators start to tear down the W ^| ^^^^^B Secretary: tive: Nicolas Walter, 134 Northum- A young man just walked out of the historic, beautiful and sound house of L JEj Peter Le Mare. 5 Hannafore Koad, berland Road, North Harrow, latter while ostensibly going to the privy Lord Edward Fitzgerald at Blackrock Kotton Park, Birmingham 16 Middlesex. HA2 7RG (telephone: —and took a bus to Belfast. He has not and the Dunlaoghairc Housing Action 01-866 9777). been recaptured. Group put in squatters, while the whole f* 1 L^ Help! Stoke Newington 6 Fund. Com- A group of wives and children visiting country protests at the vandalism and rades now on remand in Brixton and Long Kesh phoned to say they would be destruction of that which should be M- i 1 ^ANARCHIST Holloway need financial aid urgently late as their bus had broken down. When preserved. for meals, fruit, papers, books they arrived—in spite of assurances on Ivan Cooper and three others have a -H A 1 FEDERATION (which must be new) and cigarettes. the phone—they were not allowed to see case hearing in the High Court as they M y A of BRITAIN Please send donations to the Stoke their menfolk. They were then kept were arrested by soldiers for refusing to Newington 6 Fund, c/o Compendium waiting so long for the mini-bus that move and sitting in the street, and fined. Books, 240 Camden High Street, takes them out of the camp to the main Only the police can order to move and AFBIB—To all Groups. AFB REGIONAL CROUPS London, N.W.I, a.s.a.p. road they decided to walk the mile. arrest under these circumstances. Next issue of AFBIB will be run off There are now anarchist groups in almost every 'And this may just be heaven' (poems Immediately they were kept back by Women have had their sickness allow- part of the country. To find your nearest group and collage) by jeff cloves. 32 pp. in Birmingham. Send material to Secre- write to: police and terrified by alsatians growling ances and children's allowances stopped Litho prints, card covers. 20p in- at them and straining at the leashes. in the six counties 'for taking part in tary, Peter Le Mare. Also needs offers N.E. England: Mick Renwick, 34 Durham Road, :luding postage from 5 Manor Road, Two revolvers were found inside a the rent strike'. Several say they are Gateshead, Co. Durham. St. Albans, Herts. of help from Groups to bring out further Essex & E. Herts.: P. Newell, 'Aegean', Sprinf cell in Crumlin Road. merely guests in the houses of their Lane, Eight Ash Green. Colchester (QM. FL.; Proposed Group: Celia & Laurens Otter, The two-hour discussion 'It's Your parents and do not rent or own a house. issues. Surrey: G. Wright, 47 College Road, Epsom. 13 Albert Road. Wellinaton Telford, Yorkshire: Martin Watkins. Flat D, 90 Clarendon Line' on Radio 4 with Roy Bradford, It is all so hopeless. Westminster must* The Contact Column in "Freedom' is Road. Leeds. LSI 9L. Meet first and third Tuesday of the Martin Smythe, John Hume and Berna- give in and make a start by releasing all Manchester: Mat Cunningham, 9 Briar Hill also available for urgent information. month, at other times phoie Welling- dette Devlin brought out nothing so Avenue, Little Hulton, Worsely, Lanes. internees, or bringing them to proper Scotland: Secretary, Mike Malet, 1 Lynnewood ton 54728. clearly as the complete intransigence of trial, and by talking with the IRA leaders. Groups should send latest addresses Place, Maryfield, Dundee. Proposed Group—Exeter Area. John and everyone and the utter hopelessness of Wales: c/o P. L. Mare (address above). No one can win ever, not out and out. to Birmingham. New inquirers should N. Ireland: c/o Freedom Press. Jill Driver, 21 Dukes Orchard, Brad- the situation. H. The American Federation of Anarchists: P.O. ninch, Exeter. EX5 4RA. write direct to them or to the AFB Box 9885, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55440. USA. Sean Anthony Hughes of Dungannon Anyone interested in forming a Cam- information office in Birmingham S. Ireland: 20 College Lane. Dublin. 2 was arrested under the Special Powers "Like hell they must! They've opened a University anil Student Croups: c/o P L. Mar'. bridge Anarchist Group contact John Act and was so beaten and injured when new camp.—Eds. Published by Freedom Press, London, E.l Printed by Express Printers. London, E.l Jenkins, 75 York Street, Cambridge.

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