keep the youth African and Rhodesian economies going in the same way that the British and American economies limp along.

The prison of apartheid has failed to keep its prisoners. The blacks are quite capable of making their own gov­ ernments - and their own mistakes, as the history of Africa in the last thirty years shows. The African ruling clas­ ses can be as authoritarian and capitalis­ tic as any white man. The wild revolu­ A DIFFERENT PRISON tionary Kenyattas, the humanitarian Christian Kaundas and the good grave Doctor Bandas can be just as ruthless (for other reasons) has to make con­ IN 1960 Harold Macmillan spoke of a elder statesmen as any produced by cessions to the new African powers* •wind of change* in Africa. Since those Europe or America. days we have been subjected to what seem to be mere belches or farts from ♦ * * In breaking open the prisons o f South the decaying body of imperialism or IN the Sunday Times (Nov. 17,1974) A fric a , Mozambique and Rhodesia, the the spasms of the new infant states. David Holden reports on youth Africa Africans should beware that they do not (before Rhodesia*s volte face). He blunder into the greater gilded prison of Now, with what seems to be a rapid writes of the growth of illegal strikes a capitalist-consumer-welfare-democ­ change, a wind of what some feel to and of unrecognised black unionism. racy with all the trimmings. be cyclonic force is sweeping through An African Trade Union (all white) Africa, youth Africa is reported to Congress official told Holden: 'Event­ Jack Robinson. be moderating her outlook on apart­ ually the blacks are going to run this heid; Rhodesia Is negotiating (what country and we need a black trade uni­ HOUyING for is not quite clear) with the impri­ on movement to make a peaceful trans­ soned African national leaders and a ition possible. You con*t have any ord­ hasty truce has been patched up with er without JLt. " On the other side of the guerillas which are operating on the coin the general secretary of the GETTING the Angola border. A ll this would biggest black union (the National Cloth­ seem to spring from the change of ing Workers) said to Holdert "We don*t regime in Portugal occasioned by her want to get rid of the white man. He WORSE failure in African colonial wars. means money to us. What we want is a fair share and a right to live decent THE NEW YEAH is a time for predict­ A ll this, and a shift of power in the lives in our own country." Other peo­ ions but usually most of them are way United Nations general assembly has ple, blade and white, told Holden, nA off beam. But no one needs a crystal menaced the youth African seat in that lot of people think the blacks would ball this year to see that things are go­ body. These events, cataclysmic as kick out the whites and set up a social­ ing to get worse before they get better. they seem, are not as apocalyptic in ist dictatorship if they ever got power. their intent or origin as an optimistic ... I doubt it. Most of the blacks I This is especially true about the hous­ progressive would suppose. Behind know are natural capitalists. As long ing situation. If things weren’t bad en­ much of the creaking of the machinery as they have a chance to make money ough the present financial crisis will getting into reverse lies a general and live the way I do, they won*t mind certainly mean that more people will be thirsting for oil. The United Nations If X*m around too." homeless in the coming year. faction making the running (The Third These attitudes are probably nearer World) includes the Arab States who Even today the Greater London Coun­ and more typical of the African and his have just discovered their African cil estimates that there are a million trade unions than the revolutionary brothers. Incidentally, Nigeria can homeless. Families are finding it in­ hopes of anti-colonialists. The trade be classed among the oil-rich states creasingly difficult to pay the high unions are seen to fulfil a conservative and oil has no colour bar. rents landlords are demanding. Coun­ function (in the literal sense) in the cils find themselves paying enormous same way that they have done so in the Somewhere in the background to all sums of money to hotels for bed and United ytates and are hoping (against this is the agonising withdrawal of the breakfast accommodation for those the wishes of the rank and file) to do in United ytates from its role as a world made homeless; this can cost as much this country. Apartheid is not only busybody. This aided the Portuguese as £5,000 a year for a family of four. immoral and evil; it is also highly im­ somerB&ult and left a power vacuum A recent yhelter report said that about practical in a technological society. in Mozambique which both youth A fr i­ 2,000 homeless families were known Economically it is obvious that raising ca and Rhodesia long to fill. Rhodesia the purchasing power of the blacks will Continued on back page is the weaker party and youth Africa

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"COME OUT. YOU COWARDLY LITTL e bOD AND T a Ke OVe R."

Ml money.

For this reason, whoever desires liberty, should understand these vital facts, viz: I) That every than who puts money into the hands of a "gov­ ernment** (so called), puts into its hands a sword which w ill be used ag­ they should be hundreds of thous­ TH jc, PROCEEDINGS of those robbers ainst himself, to extort more money ands; and thus strike te r r o r into and murderers, who call themselves from him, and also to keep him in all others similarly disposed, see "the government1 ', are directly the subjection to its arbitrary will, that the work of murder is thorough­ opposite of those of the single high­ 2) That those who w ill take his money, wayman. ly done; that we may have no further trouble of this kind hereafter. When without W s consent, in the firs t place, w ill use it for his further robbery and In the first place, they do not, like these traitors shall have thus been taught our strength and our determi­ enslavement, if he presume to resist him, make themselves individually their demands in the future. 3) That nation, they will .be good loyal c it i­ known; or, consequently, take upon it is a p erfect absurdity to suppose themselves personally the responsi­ zens for many years and pay their taxes without a why or a wherefore. that any body of men would ever take bility of their acts. On the contrary, a man's money without his consent, they secretly (by secret ballot) desig­ * * V for any such object as they profess to nate some one of their number to take it for, viz. , that of protecting commit the robbery in their behalf, IT la under such compulsion as this him; for why should they wish to pro­ while they keep.themselves practic­ that taxes, so called, are paid. And tect him, if he does not wish them to ally concealed. They sky to the how much proof the payment of taxes do so? To suppose that they would do person thus designated: affords, that the people consent to support "the government", it needs so, is just as absurd as it would be to suppose that they would take his money Go to A—- B----, and say to him no further argument. A ll political without his consent, fo r the purpose that "the government" has need of power, as it is called, rests practi­ of buying food or clothing for him, money to meet the expenses of pro­ cally upon this matter of money. when he did not want it. 4) If a man tecting him and his property. If he Any number of scoundrels, having wants "protection", he is competent to presumes to say that he has never money enough to start with, can make his own bargains for-it; and no** contracted with us to protect him, establish themselves as a "govern­ body has any occasion to rob him, in and that he wants' none o f our prot­ ment"; because with money, they oj*der to "rotect" him against his wilL ection, say to him that that is our can hire soldiers, and with soldiers 5) That the only security men can have business, and not his; that we extort more money; and also compel for their political liberty, consists in choose to protect him, whether hp general obedience to their will. It desires us to do so or not; and 2iat Is with government; a s Caesar said it their keeping their money in their own we demand pay, too, for protecting was in war, that money and soldiers pockets, until they have assurances him. If he dares to inquire who mutually supported each other; that perfectly satisfactory to themselves, the individuals are, who have thus with money he could hire soldiers, that It w ill be used as they wish it to taken upon themselves the title of and with soldiers extort money. no be used, for their benefit, and not ,?the governm ent", and who assume these villains, who call themselves for their injury. 6) That no govern­ to protect him and demand payment governments, well understand that ment, so called, can reasonably be of him, without his having ever their power rests primarily upon trusted for a moment, or reason­ made any contract with them, say money. With money they can hire ably be supposed to have honest to him that that, too, is our busi­ s o ld ie rs , and with sold iers extort purposes in view, any longer than ness, and not hie; that we do not money. And, when their authority is it depends wholly upon voluntary choose to make ourselves individu­ denied, the first use they always make support. ally known to him; that we have of money, is to hire soldiers to kill LY s AND e R 5P©CNe R (1808-1888) secretly (by secret ballot) appoint­ or subdue all who refuse them more ed you our agent to give him notice of our demands; and, if he comp­ because he was a life-long lies with them, to give him, in our LETTER: communist, may say "What's it matter, what's the difference!" name, a receipt that w ill protect On June 29 you printed L a r r y 1 s Ignoring polemics and personal him against any similar demand review of the late Jason Gurney's loyalty to a dead comrade and room­ for the present year. If he refuses Crusade in Spain (Faber). No mate of long ago, L would reply to comply, seize and sell enough mention was made of the (to me, "Truth is important!" of his property to pay not only our anyway) calumny that " 'Dave demands, but all your own expenses 5>pringhall. . . was later impri­ B a rry Duncan. and trouble beside. If he resists soned in England for spying on the seizure of his prope rty, call behalf of the Nazis", (p. 6 1 ). upon the bystanders to help you "springy" (as he was known to (doubtless some of them w ill prove many) was wounded when a com­ NEWS FROM AUSTRALIA to be members of our band). If, in missar with the International defending his property, he should Brigade and died some years ago POLICE IN New South Wales have recently kill any of our band who are assist­ whilst working in Red China. Indicated their role In the 'democratic cap­ ing you, capture him at all hazards; During the Hitler war he wa3 italist1 society by: a) bulldozing 2 acres of charge him (in one of our courts) gabled at the Old B ailey fo r at- • maryhuana Into the ground— after 6 months with murder; convict him, and hang tempting to get military secrets of preinvestigation. (What sort of benefit Is him. If he should call upon his to pass to the UssR though the this to 'society'?); b) attacked and Impris­ neighbours, or any others who, like judge only said 1’another Power" oned sixty nude bathers in Watsons Bay (Syd­ him, may be disposed to resist our since we were then allies. The ney) In an effort to suppress perverts; c)aid- demands, and they should come in penalty would have been the ed multi-national grocer stores in the sup­ large numbers to his assistance, rope had it been otherwise. pression of ant I-apartheid protests in the cry out that they are all rebels and food-chain markets. The demonstrators were traitors; that "our country1’ is in The dead cannot bring libel attempting to highlight the amount of South danger; call upon the commander actions so the publishers have African tinned and frozen food marketed on of our hired murderers; tell him to merely acknowledged my com­ the pretext of 'economy imports' primarily quell the rebellion and “ save the plaint to them. I hope readers for the slave labor rotes that are paid for country", cost what it may. Tell who have or see the book will the black people who pack and process him to kill all who resist though co rre c t it. borne anarchists, the goods. ing for yean— that government regulatory commissions and the groups they regulate are the best of friends. REPORT FROM U.S.ft. This is evidenced In many ways. First, little, • • I If ony, legislation is passed without the pri­ WELL COMRADES, the offyear elections claiming your Innocence to the public and or approval of the group being reguloted. Furthermore, many of the memben of these ore now over— we get them every 4 years chastizing your opponent for doing the same when there isn't a Presidential election— thing. commissions are former members of the com­ and unsurprisingly there ore quite a few Both parties must operate in this setting, and panies that are supposedly being controlled. new democrats going to Congress, in ad­ it is here that the ultimate foolishness of a On top of this, most of the memben look up­ dition to a few of the old incumbents who strong democratic vote comes through. As on their positions as stepping stones to lucra­ managed to hang on to their old positions. long as this system prevails, switching par­ tive prestigious positions with the companies Many of our noted commentators ore quick ties w ill do nothing; os both parties have they are controlling. to note the increase in the democratic vote their special interests to satisfy and the gen­ So there you have it comrades (and especially os a reaction to Watergate, etc. One would eral populace doesn't rank very high on the fellow Americans), a brief look at the men like to believe this is simply erroneous an­ list of priorities. The only difference here who are there to protect your interests regard­ alysis, but unfortunately, many of the peo­ is that of late the democrats haven't been ing companies with near monopoly powers in ple I talk to did indeed vote Democratic as caught doing anything dastardly. But you their respective fields. Don't you feel more a reaction to Watergate. don't have to catch the thief in the coop to confident now, knowing who is looking after As sad as it is to report, few people seem to know someone has been stealing your ch ick­ your interests in Washington? hove seen clear to the basic reality of the ens l W. C. Humphreys, Jr. situation. What we are faced with is a dual Thus it is the height of folly to believe that p o litica l system of sorts (to borrow from M i­ simply that by changing parties anything Greetings and congratulations from a com­ chael Parenti). more effective will be done. In a system rade living in Sweden. So far our decision On one hand we have the elections, reas­ where only a few large scale enterprises and to BOYCOTT Ford's 'punishment' proposal suring speeches, conventions, etc., that individuals possess the money, time and in­ • has been a great success. The exiles living i are conducted fairly openly and designed fluence to command the obedience of the in Sweden will hold a celebration in Stock­ to reassure and placate the populace. On legislators, one cannot expect change until holm January 31, 1975, in order to commem­ the other hand are the fund-raising'activi­ they themselves are affected, and then only orate the amnesty deadline. Continue the ties, contract awards, tax write-offs, etc., in a manner they approve of. struggle for Universal Unconditional Amnesty that are all done more covertly. As it is . and for Amerika's complete disengagement currently managed, the only way to get e- The Wall Street Journal hos become the first from Indochina. Thanx FREEDOM for the lected is to make all these deals and prom­ 'establishment' organ to acknowledge what breathing room. ises to various interests, e tc ., w hile pro- those of us on the fringes have been proclaim­ George Wuerth It Canid Happen To Van

This insolent phrase, insulting and false, can still be read on Because of the war the trial didn't come to court until 1949, but Fascist fly-posters. It's insulting because it derides democracy and in the meantime we had been liberated by comrade partisans from the institutions which came out of the partisan uprising. It's false the prison at Massa, which was under heavy surveillance, and ad­ because, in reality, even when they're indicted for very serious ministered by the Germans because they kept their hostages there. offences (massacres*, assassinations) the fascists always find some • kind-hearted magistrate who lets them off with a fews days inside "After eight months the special court for the defence of the Fas­ (witness the release of the presumed bombers of the Florence-Bol- cist state sent the papers in our case back to the normal Court of ogrva train). On the other hand, Pino Pinelli, without even being Assize, because the crimes were mixed, political and common-law. charged, "flew" out of a window in Milan Police Headquarters, In fact, during our time on the run, in order to survive when we Pietro Valpreda wasted three years of his life in prison, Marini has were being hounded by the cops, the fascists, and eventually the . been sentenced to 12 years for not getting himself killed by fascists, Germans, we'd been forced to expropriate some Fascist fat cats of and an even worse end befell Giovanni Spampinato here in Ragusa. a little of what they'd robbed from the people. In fact, it's always our comrades who pay the heaviest penalties, "The Court of Assize in La Spezia sentenced all three of us to 30 even under democratic regimes. We've just learned about the mind- years imprisonment. After we'd been liberated from the prison in bending case of the anti-fascist, partisan fighter, Massa we joined up with the comrades who'd freed us: it was June 1944, and we fought in the Partisan Resistance with them right .up PEDRINI BELGRADO to the Liberation. On 26th May 1945 we were re-arrested, and I've # who‘s spent 32 years in fail for crimes connected with the Anti-Fas­ been in prison since then to now, which makes 3Hyears imprison­ cist Resistance and the Partisan struggle. The seriousness of the ment, if you include the preventive detention of two years and five months before we were freed. matter can be understood by reading the words of Pedrini himself " In 1953 an amnesty for partisans was proclaimed, which would in one of his letters: have reduced my sentence from 30 to 20 years, but however much "Dear comrades,,. .here's as much as I can tell you, in a brief I struggled to obtain it, it proved impossible to get the reduction summary, about the actions for which I'm still in prison. In February through, because of the hostility of the judges. 1942 two comrades from Carrara and I disarmed two "specials" of "One of my comrades escaped and has been abroad for twenty the fascist m ilitia. This happened in a public bar in Carrara. We years, the other was released, but he was a broken man. disarmed them of regulation-issue daggers, by pointing pistols a r them. "There's no more to add; fraternal greetings to you a ll, Pedrini Belgrado." "It all happened because they were molesting, in this bar, the landlord's two, very young, sisters. But the real reason, as you'll • % • understand readily, was our "love" for the "specials", About 14 months ago our-cortirode submitted a request for pgH "As a consequence of this, an arrest-warrant was put out for us, ole, but "comrade" Zagari, socialist Minister of Justice, hasn't so we had to take shelter in M ilan. In that town we wrote and dup­ even deigned to reply. licated some leaflets against the war and against Mussolini, which We appeal to all democrats and anti-fascists to remember that it we distributed by throwing them out of trains at stations. is precisely their duty to intervene to ensure that Pedrini is releas­ "We were on the run for a long time, then one day we ran into ed and does not have to undergo any more years in detention. five cops in La Spezia, and there was a fight. During the shooting, ANARCHIST GROUP OF RAGUSA. which lasted several hours because we finally barricaded ourselves 12/10/74. in a lodging house, one of them died and we were all woundqd. . In an article which appeared m Volonta for September-October *974, Giovanni Baldelli, while criticising Marxist ideas, waxes eloquent about the role of reform­ CONTROVERSY ism in the successes achieved by the workers in Anglo-saxon count­ are two of the greatest b3teg- have many points in common with ries. Giovanni Baldelli's criti­ noires of Marxism, not because those made by the anarchists, and, cism of Marxist ideas is in fact their results, always partial, of at the same time, some of the nothing new in anarchist circles, course, but real and anything but criticisms made by the anarchists but there is no need, in criticising ephemeral, are not to the advan­ these ideas, to fall into the oppos­ of the Bolshevik dictatorships may have many points in common with tage of the working class, but ite error of praising bourgeois precisely because they are; be­ reformism. In doing this, our the defenders of the so-called Western democracies. The anar­ cause they give certain satisfac­ comrade acts in an anti-anarchist tions to the worker, make his manner. Reformism just as much chists, who take care to distingu­ conditions more tolerable, and as Marxism has been rejected by ish themselves from both sides, act as an antidote to the exasper­ anarchists because they have their cannot and must not fall into the ation and desperation on which own way to follow, which is neith­ error of appearing partial to depends the revolution necessary er reformist nor Marxist. In either of the two apparently op­ tc the Marxists to prove the cor­ general, the anarchist way is that posed systems. For these reas­ of the social revolution for the ons it seems to me out of place rectness of their theory. destruction of power whether it for Giovanni Baldelli to praise Ls in the hands of the reformists British reformisms. It's up to "In England, which is the country or of the Marxists. him to do it or not but he doesn’t where the working class seems have the right to call himself an to have behaved as if set on giv­ Let it be said clearly and with­ anarchist. This is what he ing the lie to Marxism, a labour out equivocation that some of the writes: party,which has formed a govern­ criticisms made by the Marxists ment several times, has frequent­ of the Western democracies mav "Reformism and trade-unionism ly had to act under direct pres­ sure from the working class movement and to consolidate its acquisitions with beneficial and effective legislative measures. The English example has been GHOSTS andMONSTERS followed elsewhere, even, for Having seen the Tight, Cardew has no intell- tactical reasons, by some "STOCKHAUSEN SERVES IMPERIALISM", by ctual qualms about associating anarchism with Marxist parties. Cornelius Cardew. Latimer New Directions/1974 'bourgeois idealism", "reformism" and "corrupt 126 pp. £3.00 "With every one of its acquisitions, ideology", or about spouting such twaddle as, the working class gets bolder and "The political activities springing from anarch­ strikes, the traditional means of ism are reformism and terrorism... " and, "An­ applying pressure, become more This book is a collection of essays (not all by archism is an ideology that springs from the de­ frequent, lose their tragic quality, Cardew) and programme-notes, written in the caying bourgeoisie." His naive acceptance of and almost become a game. In period 1972 to early 1974, with a linking com­ the ideological purity of Maoism leads him in Kngland, with its long and well- mentary and twenty pages of notes by Cordew. the last pages of his book to join in the anti- established tradition against the It contains his two articles on Cage and Stock-, Confucius campaign by repudiating a piece of use of violence to resolve social hausen, published in the Listener in 1972, in music he spent three years (1968-71) writing, conflicts, the notion of the class which be rejected those two gurus of contemp­ which was based on a translation by Ezra Pound struggle is coming to rely more orary classical music (he has worked with both (MONSTER) of a text by Confucius (MONSTER) and more, in Its vocabulary, on of them), and espoused Marxism-Leninism. Cardew has spent most of his life in the world metaphors derived from sporting The book is, in effect, a confession of error, of Western classical music which, as he says, contests, rather than history or and a profession of new faith, more concerned "has no currency In the working class." The theory. Typically sporting, is to with the analysis of Cordew's own activities book is solely concerned with Western classical shake hands after the contest. In than with the music of others ( although there is music, and its purpose is, as far as one can as­ a struggle conceived in these some of this, anybody expecting a long critique certain, to break the hold of composers such as terms, capitalists and workers of Stockhausen will be disappointed). Cage and Stockhausen over the young intellig­ are not enemies but only adversa­ entsia (well, over some of them!), but he will ries. Amongst the most intelli­ The new guru, who is the fount of Cardew's have to offer more than the Maoist pieties of gent and civilised on both sides, criticisms and self-criticisms, is Mao Tse Tung, the class struggle. Nowhere does he discuss there is a sense of social respon­ more specifically his "Talks at the Yenan Forum contemporary Chinese music; he does not even sibility. It is recognised that on Literature and Art" (1942). Cardew considers mention jazz, one of the strongest musics of our both classes must fight for their that . .The Talks were an effective weapon in time and one with definite proletarian roots. own interests, but only up to a the Cultural Revolution not because of any mag­ certain point because both classes The point at issue is whether there is a simple ical properties but because of their firm prolet­ are, and recognise that they are, relationship between the formal structure of a arian line and their sharp dialectical material­ both necessary for the smooth piece of music and the political Ideology of its ist analysis", but the text he really seems to running of the economic machine creator^). Cardew seems to think there is, and use is taken from the commentary to a recent and the stability of the social the failure of the Scratch Orchestra (well doc­ edition of the Talks which says that ",. .The order." (p. 353). Talks are a magic mirror for detecting the ghosts umented in the first chapter of the book by Rod Eley) of which he was a founding and leading and monsters in our theatres." Cordew extends It would be very interesting to the metaphor: . .to develop criticism of bour­ member, to achieve a decisive political action carry out a study of the function geois culture: we too need to attack the 'ghosts has led him to denounce what he terms the of the English ruling class, which, and monsters' in our cultural environment. We "bourgeois idealist" and "anarchist" trends In in its history, succeeded in mak­ should tie the label GHOST to the tails of those the Orchestra. ing the working class think that artistic and Intellectual trends that promote the The hidden message of the book seems to be: their interests were identical ideology of anarchism and reformism, and brand "Look out bourgeois I You'd better jump on the with those of the subalterns of the word MONSTER In the faces of those artist­ bandwaggon of the triumphant ideology before capitalism and that mutual co­ ic and Intellectual trends that promote the Ideo­ It's too late." operation was for the good of the logy of fascism." natLon and all its members with- D.L.M. out differentiation or break-down by class. With the result that the English proletariat has re­ THE REAL FEARS mained apathetic to modern ideas mado impotont or stamped out. of social emancipation* "Though there as unspeakable tragedy in the world today, This varies from children What is obvious in Giovanni th ere seems to be an in s u f f i­ seen to be cheeky, insolent or Balde 111*8 words is praise for cient sense of horror. Per­ unruly... tears, sadness, hap­ British eunuch reformism. haps neurosis is why we can piness, anger, joy, fear, love, permit such atrocities to go Since a certain confusion reigns affection, all expressions of on, each of us being in such a in our movement, praise for re­ real feelings,..to people ask­ mad scramble away from our per­ ing to determine their own life , formist systems can do nothing sonal horror. That is why neu­ but produce misunderstandings u n w illin g to be bent out o f rotic parents cannot see the humanity by factor;, machinery, with regard to the eastern and horror of what they are doing army repression or stereotyped Western blocs which are at bot­ to their children, why they can­ roles, sexuality openly ex­ tom getting closer to each other not comprehend that they are pressed and the numerous 'd irty' than we are to them or their slowly k illin g a human being. aspects of the body. All natu­ satellites. We must fight the They never see that being. The ral, but since naturalness is misconceptions of right and societal result of this mass a threat to constructed 'real­ left, of J£ast and West, if we denial mechanism is similar to ity* then 'reality' must be wish to preserve our own unmis­ what happens within individuals safeguarded. takable character. — behaviour out of keeping with reality. Secondly, accumulated wealth We must reaffirm our concept of (A rth u r Janov* The Prim al The elites would see the world social revolution in the face of our Scream .) dissolve in an atomic holocaust adversaries and enemies. It is rather than relinquish it. When not an insurrectionary episode de­ talking in terms of thousands signed to break down some of the ANARCHI seems such a sen sib le of millions of pounds it seems material obstacles in our authorit- thing, in truth the ultimate strange that some at least dont arian, swindling, mercantilist 'ideology1 of self-interest. liquidise their capital if sec­ It takes care of self-interest society, based on legalised viol­ urity was the prime motivation. (everyone's interest) by remov­ ence. It is not merely an act of £lOmillion goes a long way even ing all authority forces. So self-defence. The social revolu­ today and would la s t meny gene­ why do people s till obey in si­ rations. Here again their Psy­ tion must destroy the whole edifice tuations detrimental to them­ chology prevails over simple of parasitism , oppression and ex­ selves, against self-interest? self-centred things, such as ploitation. In other words, we happiness in comfort or even must destroy the state, whatever Psychologically, for author­ the boat, tovnhouse, country kind it is. Of course, the form of ity substitute parent. The mi­ v illa and twenty servants rou­ the struggle will change according lieu of drives, to do well, to tine. The immense wealth, the to the country. Where fascism succeed in the eyes of one's greed and probably the haemor­ and bolshevism are well established 'peers' is a symbolic need re­ rhoids all derive from that the struggles to break down autho­ sulting and deriving from a child denied of love, made to ritarianism w ill be more bloody. hone of being loved. To perf­ perform and split into his It would be very nice if we could orm as one did as a c h ild , by r e a l - s e l f and h is su rface fa c ia avoid all these struggles, if one being a good boy or & nice girl, symbolic-self. He keeps the morning we could all wake up being clean, quiet or 'sensible' agojg of it buriod in his mind, brothers and begin to live a new — DOING AS YOU WERE TOLD, was his tension being his safeguard against his feeling it, he over­ era of social peace. Unfortunately the only way to receive the pat eats - i.e. negative crying, the w orld is the w orld, and the on the head, the treasured wink or the verbal priase. .whatever taking in rather than screaming histories of peoples are full of was needed to shore up the illu ­ out, he ulcerates his guts with struggles, wars and revolutions, sion of being loved. Because over secreting acid glands, and and we poor m ortals cannot avoid . not loved and valued for what he strains having a shit because them. We live under a social sys­ you were, you performed and he is fighting his own tension, tem which divides man from man conformed so th a t you were in order to expel. the better to exploit everyone. If 'loved1 for what your parents If we lived in a society of they do not wish, directly or indir­ wanted you to be. loving, real people it would be ectly, to be mere tools, anarch­ The w e ll adju sted 's o c ia l Anarchy. Real love is letting ists must be constantly vigilant in individual' is the neurotically the other person be himself or the struggles for social transfor­ split soul whose life is an herself. Self interest would mation to avoid becoming victims acting-out in the hope of being prevail, the organism would be of authoritarian ambushes. We lo v e d . satisfied and the progress of must constantly refine ourselves scie n ce , in du stry and the govn- But why does parent A or poli­ in the study of social problems, less-evening-strap would be an tician B, colonel C, teacher D access to the means o f e x is t ­ not as mere intellectual exercises, require people to do what he but so as to enter the field of bat­ ence rather than the purpose of tells them? A mixture of two i t . tle well-prepared. In revolution­ th in g s : 1) The statu s quo o f ary contingenies anarchist minor­ social landmarks, hierarchies On the oth er hand Anarchy ities must be well prepared to and ord er is the jigsa w in to would result in real people, play a positive and realistic role, which the neurotic feels secure. free them from the bonds of so that they can be at the forefront His pain of splitness is sup­ authority, that ever present of social transfromation in a more pressed by feeling to belong and demanding parent, and eventu­ or less distant future. his reality is carefully const­ ally they would (with the help M. Corsentino ructed to continue his paper­ qnd prodding and pushing and transl. by D. L . M. like realness. (He in turn was suggestion by real people) face the agony buried years ago that f 7^rTTv-ryf r TrvrT* constructed to fu lfil his anc­ estors’ spectacle^ Any change they weren't loved for what The Russians took a bold step to­ that threatens his security and they were, they would give up wards freedom (so it is said) by ex­ that might bring him nearer to the t r a i l c a lle d hope and be tending the issue o f internal pass­ his true self (buried under themselves. ports to the peasantry. Not only years of 'life ') that might Tears are souvenirs so face that, but the passport is now more make him aware of the pain elaborate, containing details of ali­ your real future, within is quickly altered, PRIMAL ANARCH! mony involvement. what he should bo and what many are trying to make him forget. Let's "Bo realists, seek the impos­ sible". backing the impossible we MAN and his FREEDOM can be sure of an eternal task to up­ lift us; our task is to rise up in the

• • name of all the disinherited and to for "schizophrenics11 and its • -through the eyes of a fight against a society which is Spanish comrade priests will! send us to hell as blind, In this way we shall find our • * • "sinners11. And while we find freedom. Our struggle for freedom ♦ • Throughout the ages, the ourselves corralled and enslaved, must aim not only to break the chains preoccupations of philosophers they will not cease to be slaves to of the dispossessed, but also of tho have been more with the study of their dogmas. bourgeois. Every chain must be "Mian11 as an ideal.entity than with broken and reduced to splinters. man as a being of flesh and bone, Dogmas cancel life, they enclose The struggle for freedom was a feeling, suffering .an^ struggling man within four wails, in this way struggle of our antecedents, and it for a more human existence. The making each and every one of us be­ * is our struggle, for we live in the man of flesh and bone was reduced ings without w ill. In the face of the • present, and whether it will be the to a mere beast of burden, to the static dogma exists life, a continuous \ struggle of the men of tomorrow condition of nothing more than a fluency, movement, contrasts. In depends on the fervour and sincerity machine that could be bought and this way, against all that is static we we put into it today. sold. In the buying of a man his. find in ourselves something which labour-power was consigned and continually defies it: the flowing We must not cease to breathe through this labour a series of river of rebellion. Revellion against pure air. If we want to live, let's products was bought and crudely the apparent, the false, which is in throw out from inside us all that is seized by the 1 lords1. In former ec^ence nothingness, we find the dead and conformingl We must times, one bought the man and in Revolution which proclaims life and make sure that this pure air we this way one acquired his work- the emergence of the vital values. breathe is not monopolised and capacity, his labour; nowadays The revolutionary, who is a rebel, seized by some men, but that it one buys his labour-power, and rises up against what is on behalf of should be exhaled for a ll those who through it the man himself. Both what should be . Only in the strug­ have the desire to live. We all de- reduce the man to a mere object, gle against the static, against all s ire to live, but some fail .to cap­ two slaveries which though differ* that potentiality which because it was ture the very transcendence of the ent reduce man to the same con­ so possible, has remained in the words "to live". Real living exists, dition. We have passed from the realm of the possible; the worker the living of permanent struggle, bestiality of the ancients to the himself takes consciousness of his the life of the man for whom the refinement of the moderns. The condition as a man, and, as a man, victory over himself is an end and moderns, who call themselves takes consciousness of himself and a means to reach a more complete "civilised", 11 democratic11, conception of man and of nature in ’'Christian1', do not seem to be very worried by the irrational general; there exists another way organisation of society; yet it is .* of living, that of the bourgeois, the this society which holds millions PRESS FUND life of hypocrites and passive people, for those who reduce living in the most complete physical and 0 spiritual misery, the same soci­ Contributions to the maintenance of a material ety which maintains a group of position, without a scruple for 9 • individuals who live on privilege. morality or for those around them Contributions 13 - 28 December While there exists the exploita­ who beg for crumbs and are dealt - 1974. tion .of man by man, there w ill - blows. be no lack of privileged men who Sutton Coldfield: b. R. 25p; Leeds: Finally, we must fight for the invoke civilisation, democracy G.H. L. 3ip; Wooler: C. H. 33p; freedom of all; firstly, given in­ and a series of decayed values Harrow: N.W. £1; Cardiff: L. e . dividual consciousness we can to maintain their position. £1; Tunbridge Wells: B. L. £2; liberate ourselves from a series London bW 4: W .G.H. 25p; London of obstacles which hinder our But man is not an object no 3W2: M.D. £3.40; IN MEMORY normal development; secondly, more than a piece of meat with • OP JObuPH sPIVAK, New York: and given a progress towards a which to speculate; man is £4,i6; Bristol: F. e . £1; Man­ collective consciousness based on something more; he is a being chester: J, b. £ l; London E l: A, P. mutual solidarity aiid respect, the who cannot dispense with love £i; Wembley: R.G. £1; Penarth: • liberation of all. and freedom. Man has been T , B. £6; London Nw 2 : D. b. £5; robbed, or rather, an attempt bW12: b.R. M. £1; Walsall* G.C. transl. by rob has been made to rob man of £'Jr; Malvern: J. H. 5Op; GATHER­ what he truly owns: his individu­ ING OP COMRADE* IN bAN FRAN­ ality, that w!J.ch makes him who JJC • J Y* -.v \% V •*> O *.* o CISCO per L. M. , Los Gatos: he is and not simply a number in £43.00; Oxford: A.J.A. £l; New I&RAe XJs Chief bephardic Rabbi • the statistics. To create domes­ London, N, C .: J. b. £i.3S; Lon­ ruled that orthodox Jews can brush tic animals, puppets, being un­ don N. : J. H, J. £7{ London their teeth on the babbath but only able to think for themselves: this with a special toothbrush (presum­ is the end of a system which day NW4: N.W , £2; Cambridge: C.M . £6; London Ell: L .T .R . ably electric). This ruling over­ by day is dying. Dogmas strike turns former doctrine that cleaning us from every quarter: this is 50p; Hove: H. C. £ i; In bookshop: P.W. 82p; J. £1; D.C. 70p; teeth was work and not allowed on 'good1 and that is rbadr - we are the babbath. told by the false preachers of Anon lOp. * morality: here is the saint we T O T A L £ 93.67 Previously acknowledged 1065. 36 must emulate and there is the V O W O T V T v V T V 'O V »" V V* r V O *»' o sinner we must burn for hie im­ TOTAL TO DAT e £1159.03 It was reported that the Russians purity. Woe on us should we at­ had carried out aA underground tempt to seek for ourselves the nuclear test; this was followed a good and the evil; they send us few ctays later by an earthquake in THANK YOU, FR I e NDb } their armies, their doctors and Northern Pakistan which reportedly their priests, so that the ar;ny, killed 5,000 people. its doctors will lock us in asylums Keep It up this year FREEDOM PRESS «4b WHITECHAPEL HIGH STREET LONDON Ei Phone 01-247 9249 CRISIS Aldgate East underground station, White­ TRc, U. o. consumee*17 million of our oil goes for hoatlng and chapel Art Gallery exit and turn right, barrels of oil each day; it produces lighting: 24. 8% goes to transport Angel A lle y next to Wimpy Bar, only ii million barrels a day. since (only a small portion of this for early 1973,no new refineries have private vehicles); 37. 3% of our BOOKSHOP open Tues.-Fri. 2-6 pm been built, and existing ones are oil goes to industry to keep the (Thursdays until 8 p.m .) operating at only 9i% capacity. In profit system going. In November Saturdays 10 am — 4 pm October'1973 the Federal Power 1973 the government estimated that Commission reported to Congress the oil shortage would push unem­ SOME OF OUR PUBLICATIONS: that major oil companies were ”cap­ ployment up from 4, 5% to 6% or ping1' wells that they could be pump­ more. The bosses are so rich that A B C of Anarchism , Alexander Berkman ing oil from. The oil companies are they don't have to w orry about the 25p (post 5p) USA 75$ post free withholding oil, deqrite increased price of gas or losing their jobs. About Anarchism, what anarchist believe, demand and actual shortage. Our As always, the profits are made at how onarchists differ.. .Nicolas Walter society runs on oil. Virtually every­ the expense of those who actually I5p (post 3p) thing is manufactured from oil or do the work. uses oil in its manufacturing proc­ USA 40$ post free. Anarchy, Errico Malatesta 25p (post 5p) ess, Big oil producers created the Using the workers' economic USA 75$ post free shortage to increase profits. ______p ow er,.. ______Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism, Rudolf Rocker 20p (post 5p) Oil profits soar We can't rely on either govern­ USA 65$ post free ment or the free enterprise system The State, Its Historic Role, Peter A ll corporate profits for the third to help us out of this situation. The Kropotkin 20p (post 5p) quarter of 1973 were up 32,6%. Gulf only weapon we wage workers have USA 65$ post free O il announced a 153% gain in fourth is our combined economic strength. Neither East Nor West. Marie-Louise quarter earnings. Occidental Petro­ Working people need to come tog- Bemeri, sel. writings 1939-48 leum reported a 4i7% profit increase e ther on a well organized and mas­ 30p (post 1 Ip) in the first nine months of 1 973, sive front to back each other up. USA $1.00 p.f. Ji;xxon announced the largest annual Our unions would be the logical way Lessons of the Spanish Revolution 1936-39 profit ever earned by any industrial to go. Unfortunately, most unions Vernon Richards cloth £ 1.50(23f£$ 4^00 corporation: 2. 4. billion dollars prop up private enterprise. The paper £ 0.75(23pJ$ 2.00 after taxes. The nine largest Ua oil Industrial Workers of the world companies (ttxxon, Mobil, Texaco, Is one union that looks beyond the Complete list of publications, including Gulf, Chevron, shell, American, present system of production. We Annual vols. "Selections from Freedom" Conoco and Arco) made 5,172 m il­ are organized to fight the bosses (1954-64) and available issues Anarchy lion dollars profits after taxes in right now, not just for more and (publ. 1961-70) on request. the first nine months of 1973. cheaper gas, but for the whole works. We could continue to O il executives buy fight these skirmishes forever, the government eventually, we are going to have FREEDOM BOOKSHOP to put an end to the fighting by tak­ Ashland Oil Co. chairman, Orin ing the means of production (dril­ Atkins, and Gulf's Vice-President ling rigs, refineries, manufactur­ for Governmental Affairs, Claude ing plants) into our own hands and ♦Robert Dickens: Thoreau, the complete Wild, testified before the Watergate produce for use instead of for pro­ individualist £ 3.00((15p) Committee that they illegally contriy fit. We already run the factories Colin Wilson: Wilhelm Reich 20p ( 4p) buted a total of $200,000 to the Nix­ without the aid of the do-nothing Jose Peirats: What is the C N T ? on campaign. The donations were owners and managers. Why do we £ 0.10 given to assure the companies a continue to give them bo much for Michael Bakunin: A criticism of State ,rforum to present our point of view1’ so little work? If we didn't have Socialism £0.10 ( 4p) to the executive Branch. Consider­ to support them and their profit Leonardo Bettini: Bibliografia dell1 An­ ing that Gulf averaged more than system we could end unemployment, arch ismo V o l. 1 Pt. 1: Italian Language $86,000 profits for each and every poverty and the tremendous waste Anarchist Periodicals 1872-1971 hour in 1973, it was not a very bad of natural resources. Join the £ 4.00 (23p) investment. Wild admitted: 1'Re­ IWW and help us build a world in Interrogations : An International Review publicans cost you twice as much as which resources are respected and of Anarchist Research (in French, Italian, Democrats because they ask for so are people. Spanish and English) No,I Dec, 1974 twice as much.” The politicians, £,0,95 (lOp) who are only the servants of the --Report from Tacoma IWW. MAN I an anthology of anarchist ideas, corporate bosses, have neither the essays and poetry, edited by Marcus ability nor the desire to do anything Graham £ 3.25 (23p) about the oil shortage. They w ill never interfere with the bosses' D ialect icq I Adventures into the Unknown U.o. Government sources said that /Spontaneous Combustion (Situationist) profits until sufficient economic the Central Intelligence Agency il­ £ 0.24 ( 5p) power forces them to act. Instead, legally kept files on 10,000 members William Morris & Walter Crane : An the government granted the clpoorn of America's anti-war movefnent Earthly Paradise Calendar £ 0.667’lOp) oil companies $872 million for re­ and other dissenting groups. Housmans WorKtJ Peace Diary 1975 search this year. Double Page a Week £ 0.55 ( 5p) We are waiting in gas lines for the privilege of paying two-thirds MORr; than a quarter of a million more for gas (petrol) to drive to When ordering please add postage as in men on both sides have been killed, work, and hundreds of thousands brackets. Any book not in stock but in wounded or reported missing in the have lost their jobs because of the print can be supplied. two years since the Vietnam 'cease contrived oil crisis. Only 4. 5% fire', according to salgon. continued from Pago 1 HOUSING He LP fold and despatch FREEDOM PORTSMOUTH group: write Rob to be living in hotels paid for by the on Thursdays from 2 p, m. at Atkinson, 29 Havelock Road, thee borcwgh councils. This is but another Freedom Press, followed by get- sou a, Portsmouth, Hants. example of public squalor contrasting together with refreshments. with private wealth. This country has some London anarchists meet soc­ long been a landlords’ paradise, but Pamphlet wanted: Authors Take ially on Sundays 7. 30 p. m. at Duke now the smaller landlords are scream- sides on the Spanish Civil War. of York pub, 47 Rathbone atreet, tog their heads off over governmental Cash paid. Please contat London W .L (Tottenham Ct, Rd.) legislation aimed at giving tenants Freedom Press Box QOi. some protection. It is obvious that INTERNATIONAL Libertarian Cen­ tenants need such* protection, but Public meeting: Ireland - a Revolu­ tre/ Centro Iberico. Sats. & Suns like all laws, lthese can be avoided tionary Anarchist Perspective, arr. from 7. 30 pm. Disco, refreshm’t or they are double edged. Many by N. London group of the Anarch­ &c. 83A Haverstock Hill, London tenants seeking redress over high ist Workers Assn, (formerly ORA) NW3 (entrance Steele's Rd, 2nd rents have found themselves either Tues. Jan. 28, 8 pm , K arl Rus­ door) Tube Chalk Fm/Belsize Pk. evicted or paying more. sell pub, Pancras Rd. N. L (tube King’s Cross). HARDY Pe r e n n i a l Wait Whitman ’Property is theft! The fact that Anarchist Calendar 1975. 13p incL ownership of houses gives individu­ Publications post from Kropotkin’s Lighthouse als power and a means of exploiting ^’Anarchism Lancastrium", for Pubis, c/o Freedom Bookshop, a basic human need is a crime ag­ anarchists in the North West, send ainst humanity. To make profit a stamp to: A L , 16 Kings mill A ve. from another’s labour is bad enough, Whalley, Lancs. “ Marked for L ife" - the well-known but to exploit the necessity of shelter libertarian critique of college and seems to this writer far worse. Libertarian Communist Review No. university exams; featured in 1, theoretical jnL of ORA, still Times Higher Ed., Daily Teleg­ Following the First World War, available 15p + post from 13 Colt- raph (!), Children's Rights, etc. the slogan '’homes fit for heroes” man at. Hull. Also 25p from MFL 36a Fairfield Gdns. soon took on a hollow ring. Like Libertarian struggle, paper of ORA London N. 8. all governmental promises, it (Nov-Dee) lOp + postage. wasn't worth.the paper it was print­ ed on. But something had to be Prisoners done. The widespread building of PA U L PAW LOW sKI 219089, H.M, council flats in the twenties and Prison, Heathfield Rd. London thirties at least broke the grip that bW18 3Ha, Thanks to comrades the private landlord had exerted for CONTACT who have sent letters/postcards. so long. However, things only Keep it up for next 7 months. change, under a capitalist system, Alternate Sundays Hyde Park Anar­ to remain the sarnie. Now these chist Forum, speakers Corner 1 pm DUBLIN ANARCHISTS Bob Cullen councils exert such a bureaucratic Speakers, listeners, hecklers (7 yrs), Des Keane (5 yrs) and hold that they are incapable of ad­ welcome. Columba Longmore (4 yrs). Ad­ ministering their housing stock for dress for letters & papers: Mil­ the needs of people. Many have CORBY Anarchists, For activities itary Detention Centre, Curragh empty properties with an increas­ write 7 Cresswell Walk, Corby, Camp, Co. Kildare, Eire. ing housing list. Development Northants. plans take so long that places can THREE held re kidnapping of Span­ stand empty for years when with COVENTRY, Peter Corne, c/o ish banker. Postcards to Octavio less than is spent on bed-and-break- Union of Students, Warwick Univer­ Alberola sunilach, Prison de Fre fast accommodation these same sity, Coventry, CV4 7AL. Fresnes, 1 Av. de la Division houses could be made fit for habita­ Leclerc, 94261 FRe s Ne s , France tion. borne councils, like Tower MANCHESTER SWF weekly mtgs, and to Ariane Gransac-sadori and Hamlets (e . London), prefer to enquire secretary, c/o Grass Jane Helen Weir at Prison de destroy horre s when they become Roots, 178 Oxford Rd. Manches­ Femmes, 9 Av. des Peupliers, vacant for redevelopment. This ter 13. 97100 ST. Ge Ne VIe Ve De s BOIS same council has 2,500 young fami­ France, lies on Its housing waiting list. self-help groupings like the squat­ ters and tenants associations can STOKE Ne w in g t o n f iv e Welf­ While housing lists are getting not only help today but can be the are Committee, 54 Harcombe Rd, longer, housing programmes are organisations of the future to ad­ London N. 5. Needs donations to being cut back. There are now minister and organise for the hous­ provide study books for these long­ fewer new homes being built than ing needs of people, squatters and term prisoners. there were in 1970. Councils are tenants associations have formed just not building enough, but at the co-operatives to do repairs on their GIOVANNI Ma RINI Defence Com­ same time they are not prepared estates, pointing out that they can, mittee. Paolo Braschi, C. P.4263, to use their existing housing for on a self-help basis, do the job 2100 MILANO, Italy. people’s needs. cheaper and without the long delays that most tenants now have to con­ B. W, N. I. C. Defence Group, Box Everyone should have a decent tend with. 69, c/o 197 Kings X Rd London home. It is a basic need, but WC1 (phone Oi-837 9795 after­ while the ownership of property These grass roots organisations noons only). To help the defence forms one of the cornerstones of are what the authorities fear most. of 14 charged under Incitement Disaffection Act. our society, there will always be They undermine both the mystique some who will suffer the injustice of the powers that be and the bureau­ We welcome news, articles, let­ of bad housing. While such needs cratic grip that the borough councils cculd easily be solved in a society ters. We go to press on Mondays now hold. As such, we as anarchists * * * * w ***¥¥ ***** ***** »¥ where, all property would be held should play our part to make them in common ownership, the need to successful and explain their full Published by Freedom Press strengthen and extend the revolutionary potential. squatting movement is all-im port­ London, e . 1. Printed by Vineyard Press, Colchester. ant to help those in need, such P. T.