Freedom The Men Anarchist Weekly # of Monaichy TN 1649 the execution 0f Charles I British people, and who still per­ perialism, for example in Wales and heralded the end of a centuries sonify the class system. the Commonwealth (witness Biafra). MAY 17 1969 Vol 30 No 15 old system of absolute monarchical Why must the people bear this 4. The loyalty of British people power; an era invoking the brutal burden? In the present situation to the monarchy is used to persuade oppression and ruthless exploitation monarchical power is symbolic them to fight in British imperialist of the people by 8 highly privileged only, it has no authority in its own wars (Malaya. Borneo, etc.). family, who, considering themselves right. Monarchical decisions are a The monarchy is retained at great to be vastly superior to other beings, repetition of government policy— expense to the British people in a indulged in lives of decadence and whatever senseless measures the situation where there are many un­ AM NESTY ruling bureaucrats decide upon, employed, vast housing shortages, monarchy will repeat it like a parrot. falling standards of living, inade­ Clearly the existence of this national quate hospitals and a grossly de­ parasite, together with its symbolic generate education system, etc., etc. power, is helpful to these ruling Huge amounts of money are factions, due to the use they can squandered in supporting this para- ME A R S E ! make of many people’s misguided rite whose only real function is loyalty to this family. involved in the trickery of the 1. It provides an essential stable HE announcement of the■ am nesty’ this will document the ambush and name people. T for allBim nil i il in ‘political dis­ names. Full of photographs it will give element in this society (continually It is 300 years since the axe fell turbances’ since October 5 has been the identities of over sixty B Specials, changing because of its capitalist on Charles* head; monarchy sur­ greeted with an incredible farrago of off-duty policemen and prominent citi­ nature). vived. Let the axe fall again—LET slobber by all concerned, from new par­ zenry, including a local JP who all took 2. Loyalty to ‘Queen and Coun­ MONARCHY DIE! liamentary secretary to the ministry ofpart in the infamous ambush. Full de­ try’ is often quoted in the call for NO CLASS SYSTEM injustice jovial John Taylor to green torytails of how, where and by whom the increased productivity, i.e. increased McAteer (the racketeer). The CRA’s ambush was planned will embarrass the profits for the employers. NO MONARCHY inane statement went to the effect that it authorities who have quietly been ‘con­ 3. Monarchy is a tool of im­ NO CAPITALISM seems very good but there must be a ducting inquiries’ into the ‘incident’. perialism—the loyalty of many catch. The reasons for it are in point of NO BUREAUCRACY Any attempt to ban the book will foreign peoples to the monarchy is fact quite obvious. result in sales rocketing and even more FREEDOM AND ANARCHY!!!!! publicity and various people have made used in the covering up or healing Firstly it must be seen in the context of differences caused by British im­ A berystwyth A narchists . of the Derry trials which were to comeit quite clear that if the government up next week. These had all been ad­ doesn’t institute prosecutions they will journed from October 5 and the accused take private ones. In the light of yet included Hume, Cooper, McAteer, more evidence of B Special partiality luxury at the expense of their im­ McCann and most of the Derry CR people. and criminality toady Taylor’s admissionpoverished subjects, and whose ‘La Pasionara’ Devlin was due to appear that at present more than 4,000 of these policies were based entirely on self- soon too as well as two other oppositionarmed Paisleyites have been called up to interest and the suppression of University MPs. ‘maintain law and order’ can hardly liberty. Legally the cases would have been very reassure anyone concerned with civil and difficult to prosecute and most would human rights. The falling of j the axe onto have had to have been acquitted, to the To end with a footnote for the religiousCharles’ head was indeed a great wrath of the Paisleyites who are incensedamongst us, alas too few in these days ofblow in the cause of freedom. How­ as a Slum Landlord that their Fiihrer andhis corporal have_brou-haha and hurly-burly. The muchever, in spite of this we now have a publicisetl^tcrur o f. the Bug^idc oed ilic situation wfiere r,,, puffix—rras STUDENTS AT Liverpool University' been incarcerated—they of course were Fountain ghettos by the swinging ecume­ ’pours in Tftflfe /reeiy.1 7r"fR5TRc With a also offered the first six month adjourn­ fallen into the haids of compara­ ^ voted last week to support local habitable top floor is a rarity. Entire ment but refused it for publicity reasons. nical bishops of Derry, teague and prod, tively few bureaucrits whose policies tenants in picketing the official opening families have to live and sleep in the Acquittal or light penalties for Octo­ was conducted not on foot but in a are no less basedjon self-interest, of a new Senate House. Their protest basement. chauffeur driven Rolls-Royce, the poor ber 5 would have sent them on the ram­ and whose methods, although now was against the University as a slum For over 8 years in Melville Place, page, but conviction or stiff penalties man’s car. Dr. Tyndall has subsequently landlord. had a heart attack and Dr. Farren, ex- highly disguised aid devious, in­ the University failed to keep the houses would have been even more disastrous volve the oppression and exploita­ The University Administration may in a fit state of repair, to combat the for the new ‘liberal’ regime of Chichester- blueshirt, has had to cancel all his own up to 130 houses inside the campus. dangers of damp to children, to alleviate appointments for the time being because tion in no less ruthless a manner The property is bought up as a prelude Shark, for the people of Derry, eagerly than that of the Bid system. And squalid overcrowding, or to fight the awaiting a chance to repay their count­ of overwork. Further manifestations of to new University developments. problem of rat-infestation. The houses the almighty at work have been the to emphasise the matter further we less scores with the police and the cor­ Recently tenants in two streets owned were declared unfit for human habitation rupt unionist careerists of the city would thunderbolt (erroneously described in the still have remnants* of this archaic by the Corporation. press as a ‘meteorite’), and the release of by ‘ the University have attacked its have gone on the streets to demonstrate institution who insist on parading failure to keep the property in a fit state In at least one instance the University a ‘plague’ which escaped from Crumlin about flaunting their wealth and bought a house for £75. Since then the their solidarity with CR. Road jail. God is not to be mocked, for human habitation. Thus by calling an ‘amnesty’, dropping privilege, who still indulge in luxury tenant has paid a total of £624 in comrades. In Vine Street, just bought by the the charges against the CR people and and decadence at the expense of the University, the roofs gape and water thirty shillings a week rent. freeing Paisley and Bunting, they hope R everend A ugustus Berkes . Pressure on the University and the to appease their extremists and at the Corporation intensified last autumn with same time appear to be making a ‘mag­ the formation of a Tenants’ Association nanimous gesture’ to the opposition. in the area. In its few months of Thus cowardice can be presented as a existence the Tenants’ Association has courageous virtue. been successful in fighting cases of repair Secondly, by doing so they can makeCONFUSION AT THE LSE or rehousing against the University and the ‘moral equation’ of peaceful CR capitalism crumbling. We have this the Corporation. marchers who take part in an unjustly SE STUDENTS are at present it is even an ‘official strike —it is hardly terrible fixation however, od working The picket of the University’s new banned march and are viciously attacked LI fighting a losing battle. What is this going to have the foundations oftactics and terminology be it completely Senate House is a protest by the tenants by uniformed thugs—armed B Specials battle, who is fighting and, more irrelevant to our situation. It is hardly about the conditions in which they are arrested in Armagh while trying to pre­ importantly, what has gone wrong? The LSE: Revolutionary logic going to gain the respect, far less the forced to live, many of them with the vent a legal CR march and the Burntollet socialist society here believe it is a T AST week's protest, the dismusai of two members of tha support of the working class. Let us University as landlord. Senate House teaching staff of £cbool of Economics show once again.drop these foolish pretences. ambushers. This has consistently been revolutionary struggle involving con­ as Michael Bdoff mucih greater sympathy is cost £600,000 and the opening ceremony aroused by any atte guilty of * revolu* For a couple of months now we have—featuring Princess Alexandra—£500. government policy. tinuous confrontation with the schooltionary ’ conduct The tradition of The day before Bumtollet ‘Captain’ authorities, breaking down the fabric of absolute academic l£hen universities had six out of eight union council The demonstration by tenants and were true commi1 members also being members of the students will question and condemn the Long met Bunting and Paisley and had the school and thereby (somehow) unit­ But the vio lpling a ‘congenial chat* (sic). The same day lecture; and socialist society. (Mostly IS and moredistorted spending priorities of both the ing students and workers against the LSE) and or less in order of hierarchy.) Just like University and society as a whole. It our new PM Chichester-Shark had talked common enemy of capitalism. Fair teachers cfl academic Wilson and his jolly band in power, will embarrass the University on a to Bunting during the march at Beragh enough, but where are the bases for these treated as it is still important more bureaucracy leading to less prestige occasion. and the next day when Bunting and his glorious expectations? strictly according bully boys were smashing up the set up its promised review efficiency and of course no signs of G erry Cordon . The majority of students at LSE are is needed is a wsd-thougl revolutionary socialism anywhere. Fight (For the Tenants’ Association, Univer­ marchers they were benignly watched by from the authorities Chichester-Sliark’s brother Robin, the liberal, they are not revolutionarycause. It needs nr. Marxist bids at union elections—do not sity Soc-Soc, Anarchist and Labour Westminster MP, along with Anderson, students at all. How, therefore, can a calling for the sir-1 be duped into apathy or even tacit Groups.) Derry Unionist MP. Next day the revolutionary struggle be waged through support. So much for our little lot ‘liberal’ O’Neill, the white hope of the majority decisions at union meetings? resigning on election, disbanding union intellectual pigmies and middle class, Either the meeting has been packed out and setting up the general assembly. spent three paragraphs denouncing the with soc-soc members and the ‘majority’ Predictably they are still there. We were injured marchers and one the attackers. is meaningless and fail to back up sub­ not conned and we have now been Freedom Now with his henchman and aristo­ sequent action, or the resolution is at proved right though the lesson has yet to cratic relative at the helm he has been best a liberal act of conscience. Only sink in all round. , . . availing himself of the mass media and when people are involved in direct action Where is all this ‘confrontation’ Scottish boring Canadian viewers by telling them to change their lot (be it a decent house actually leading? If it was genuine, that the worst troublemakers are the PD or honest course of study), bypassing mass-based or even honestly based, I who ‘are composed of anarchists and LSE authorities, the state or the boss, suggest students would learn a great Anarchist Issue trotskyites and have had a bad influence when people take power and responsi­ deal from the involvement, draw wider First issue out May 31 on poor wee Bernadette’. His latest ora­ bility in their own hands, will an honest conclusions and relate these to the out­ cular pronouncement being that it is revolutionary struggle develop. The side world. As it is, the students are Sellers wanted obvious that the civil rights movement Marxists in fact blame the Anarchist manipulated cannon fodder, aware only contact: Ian S. Sutherland, has been the work of revolutionary stu­ minority for any direct action{Observer, of some sterile issues at this particular 8 Esslemont Avenue, dents and is connected with all the un­ 4.5.69)! They deal in empty majority institution and led blindly into making grateful and revolting students around paper resolutions that don’t and can’t the right nojses at the right times. The Aberdeen. the world. involve the mass of students in anything general idea seems to be to push the ★ ★ ★ Furthermore the ‘amnesty’ can be seen except mere aquiescence to a nice Director into closing the school. Well, as an attempt to forestall action over ‘naughty, naughty Wally Adams’ sort of there will not be the massive support Subscribers wanting to Burntollet when the book of the same resolution. and left backlash then, mates, it’ll be a receive Scottish Anarchist name appears in five weeks’ time. (Copies Last week we were on strike. The couple of token strikes round the Edition should inform can be ordered from Freedom Press.) analogy is of course ridiculous. So what provincial universities if we are lucky. For as the government knows full well if we ‘withdraw our labour’, so what if B.M. Freedom Press u r a l Be r k s h ir e seems to be the R part of Britain that the State has set aside for its dirty work. It houses Alder- maston AWRE, Burghfield RO»F, RSG6 b o o ks? (Warren Row), USAF Greenham Com­ Road Research. . . or RSG? mon, USAF Welford, Mr. Stanley who exports arms to Nigeria, Dow Coming (that I wrote of a few weeks ago), Elliot 4 ft. wide by 3 fg deep solid concrete plant would handle an air volume of the Friday before the October Vietnam we oan supply Automation Space & Weapons Factory, troughs. I have ®een. two two to three times the volume it is in fact Demonstration last year, when even stout handling. Triduct have been involved any book in printand just over our county borders the different builders tbat *s’ anc* 1S not’ state hearts faltered, the Director of Road Fighting Vehicle Research and Develop­ standard procedure 011 8overnment con" recently in contracts at Aldermaston Research sent around a memo to con­ SECONDHAND ment Establishment and good old Porton tracts. Perhaps ari architect reader can AWRE and USAF Upper Heyford. tractors requesting the names of em­ We have a large stock of secondhand Down. throw some light 0j$bis? It is not known The main building group contains a ployees who proposed to work over the books. Try us for what you want. This It is not surprising therefore that peace whether these aref°nn.ectec* to - t^° radioactive store but the size of this and weekend. Workers attempting to enter week’s selection. activists view any large government wells inside the establishment’s bound­ its contents are unknown and it may be whose names were not on the security establishment with suspicion, especially aries. .ff used only for the inspection of test cores. department’s list would be turned away. Battle for the Mind William Sargant 12/6 when it is secluded. Employees of TiSWct Ltd., the Slough- The building contractors would work Economic History of England A local journalist attempted to do a One large establishment that has drawn based air-conditio0*n£ sub-contractor, without question from the security depart­ Milton Briggs and Percy Jordan 15/- legitimate article on the activities of the attention is the Road Research Labora­ have told me that the air-conditioning ment over the weekends. However, on RRL but was ‘discouraged’ maybe be­ The Age of Reform 1815-70 tory in Crowthorne, near Bracknell New Llewellyn Woodward 20/- cause it is better that the RRL was not Town. The following facts and theories there at all; as it is on seventh series Nineteenth Century Britain about this place have come from people Anthony Wood 12/6 Ordnance Survey maps the laboratory is who have worked in the RRL as em­ shown as ‘woodland’. Evolution or Extinction ployees of sub-contractors or who live Guilfoyle Williams 7/6 near the establishment. There is, as ever, a precedent. Two H ie History of Mathematics in The most interesting sight, once past buildings (and a wind tunnel) house the Europe J. W. N. Sullivan 3/- An Anarchist Fairy Tale US road research laboratory in the the security checkpoint and inside the News from Nowhere William Morris 5/- grounds, is the strange structure on the grounds of the multi-million dollar Cen­ My Right to Work (1906) roof of the new, multi-storey office block. A LOVER FOR LUCIA by Charles good values from depredation by what tral Intelligence Agency headquarters in R. B. Suthers (paperback— This is not visible from the road and Humana (Tandenjf PaPerback s /“3 P°st he (mistakenly) identifies with the Langley, Virginia. Presumably because loose covers) 3/- closer inspection shows it to be a full 8d.). meretricious; the mayor, seeking to of this all the approach roads to the TTie Citizen Mrs. H. A. L. Fisher 3/- blown, green glazed control tower com­ remain a big political fish by keeping American intelligence nerve-centre are Easy Outline of Economics plete with radio antenna. A local lady HEN I BECAME acquainted with the pond small; the doctor, whose calling signposted ‘‘Bureau of Public Roads. Noah Ablett (paperback— complained that, at times of intense W anarchism at ;the beginning of the doesn’t quite let him range himself with Road Research Laboratory*. loose covers) 3/- activity, helicopters are coming and go­ ’fifties, which w as before the mass a good conscience on the side of privilege A Preface to Morals ing day and night. They land on the demonstration filled 'the scene and before and prejudice against justice and mercy. Larry Law . Walter Lippman 3/- large central test area which, with the our society acquired its ‘permissive’ And, above all, in the police chief— Urban Government Benjamin Baker 10/- off-shooting trackways, could take a fair appellation, fre e jo v e was a major perhaps the real hero- of the story—who I Will Still be Moved sized aircraft. interest in the anai&bist movement. This is the tool to do their dirty work, a (Reports from S. Africa) victim of his vanity and taste for power, Local conjecture ranges from, a re­ novel was reviewed in F reedom when it (ed.) Marion Friedmann (paper) 6/6 but conscious of the hollowness of his .sentimental work of this author the placement for, the now exposed and was first published in 1954. Now it has Socialism and the Individual appeared in paperback. authority and the insipidity of his own X-certificate scene usually seems incon­ John Lewis 3/6 therefore useless, RSG6 (Warren Row) gruous. It reminds me of a film in which to just plain suspicion of the groups of Set in poor, peasant, priest-ridden life and marriage. Socialism and Socialism Sicily, it is about an unbeautiful woman Perhaps I have been wrong to cat­ Bob Hope entered a saloon in the J. Ramsay MacDonald 3/- foreigners who arrive' for courses on Klondyke full of great bearded brutes Road Research. seemingly predestined to a companion­ egorise this story as a fairy tale. While The Labour Party Today less life of duty to an aged blind parent this is a lyrical work and not a powerful of gold prospectors and asked at the bar Mary Agnes Hamilton 3/- The test track used for experiments and a lone struggle to wrest a living drama, there is an element of the in­ for a lemonade. Desperately reacting Aims and Means John Boynton 5/- goes off deep into ah enclosed pine forest from the stony soilj to whom love and evitable progression of tragedy of which to the menacing, silent incredulity of the which has no visible buildings but wor­ assembled toughs, he twisted his face POSTAGE EXTRA liberation come at the age of thirty-five. the Greeks made their dramas in the kers have seen a large domestic fuel I have called it a fairy tale because, death of Lucia’s father which sets the into a grimace intended to look like Froodom Bookshoptanker go deep into the woods only to while the ugly duckling does not turn subsequent events in motion, and the ugly brutality and added: ‘In a dirty return the way it came and leave the into a swan, there is a mysterious air final deliverance is brought about by the glass’. establishment completely. The test track about the appcamce on the scene of ‘Deus ex machina’. , Most people will be aware of the is used for some spectacular crashes the ‘fairy prince*, whom the author The motive of the story is the courage astronomical numbers of paperbacks using radio controlled cars. The cars are impishly names Fausto. with which the lovers assert the simple, churned out every month, and some will controlled from Land Rovers fitted with Reality convincingly takes over in the natural dignity of their relationship and have noticed recent references to moves HERE WE ARE! large telescopic pneumatic aerials. Mili­ drawing of thd tin y timeless Sicilian undergo the persecution meted out to to cut down on the number of titles tary observers will recognise these Editorial office open Friday, May 16, town and its peojpe; ignorant peasants, the non-conformer. (If you’re sceptical circulated; principally by W. H. Smith vehicles as those used by the British the hardness and rigidity of whose lives about how two people emerge from the who have set up a single selection centre 6-8 p.m. and Monday, May 19, 2-8 p.m. Army for remote control missile have bound theirf responses into resent­ chrysalis of that. restrictive environment for a restricted list which will be Note new telephone number: launching. ful hostility towards anything or anyone with fully-fledged libertarian attitudes— circulated to the very large proportion BIShopsgate 9249 As for the construction of the build­ from ‘outside’, into a hatred bom of well, how is it that you are an anarchist of the market for which they are sole New address: ings themselves they are almost all new envy for lives torched by magic. All in this society?) The persecution reaches distributors. Naturally the James Bonds and with up to three storeys of basement. astutely channelled into the course set the extreme pitches of the imprisonment 84B WHITECHAPEL HIGH STREET, and Barbara Cartlands will be included. Th e Jabove ~grmiTyd-+ymldtng3--ttre officcs-“try tlie- lirt'C Jeilte^^pholderu of the man and the rapeof the woman. Jt is good that ono work of good crafts- (entrance Angel Alley), and laboratory/workshops and there can quo. It is here itflat the author’s insight This is the second of Charles Humana’s manship by a competent advocate of a WHITECHAPEL, E.l. be no doubt that it is a road research draws the most! incisive strokes: the novels I have read containing a rape liberatory morality has slipped through (Underground: Aldgate East. Exit: laboratory. What people are asking, how­ priest, dedicating himself remorselessly scene, and while in this one it fits the net. Whitechapel Art Gallery. 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Dumfries Place. Peter Le Mare, 22 Hallewell Road, Edgbaston, Secretary: Phil, 9 Boland Street, Manchester, 14. College, or John Fullerton, Jesus College. ABROAD Birmingham, 16. Libertarian discussion groups BLACKPOOL. Contact Christine Seddon, 111 SUSSEX UNIVERSITY ANARCHIST GROUP. held 8 p.m. on each Tuesday at ‘The Crown’, Harcourt Road, Blackpool. John Byford, 26 Bedford Square, Brighton, Sussex. AUSTRALIA. Federation of Australian Anar­ FUBLIOA TI0HS include Corporation Street (Opp. Law Courts). Birming­ BOLTON. Contact John Hayes, 51 Rydal Road, Meetings every second Thursday jointly with chists, P.O. Box A 389, Sydney South, NSW 2000. ham City. S.a.e. to Secretary for details. Bolton. Brighton Group; bookstall every Monday outside Phone No. 69-8095. Open discussion and litera­ BOURNEMOUTH AREA- Local anarchists can CHORLEY. Contact Kevin Lynch, 6 Garfield J.c TR., 12-2.30 p.m. ture sale in the Domam—Sunday. 2 p.m. Call at Workman's be contacted through Nigel Holt. Rossmore, 59 Eveleigh Street, Redfem, NSW z015 for per­ Harvey Road, Canford, Wimborhe, Dorset. (Wim- Terrace, Chorley. YORK UNIVERSITY. Contact Nigel Wilson, ABC of ANARCHISM 2/6 ( + 5d.) LANCASTER AND MORECAMBE. Contact Lea Derwent College, University of York, Heslington, sonal discourse, tea and overnight accommodabop. bomc 2991.) BELGIUM. Groupe du journal Le Libertaire, 220 Rocker's BROMLEY BLACK FLAG. John and Maggie, Smith, 30 Dunkeld Street, Lancaster. Meetings York. Monday at 8 p.m., Phil Woodhead’s, 30 Dunkeld EAST ANGLIA UNIVERSITY. Contact Dave rue Vivegnis, Liige. NATIONALISM AND 2 The Mount, Susan Wood, Chislehurst, Kent. USA. James W. Gaia, secretary, the Anarchist Meetings as above Fridays, 8 p.m. ‘Freedom’ Street, Lancaster ’Regular literature sales. Lomax, E.A.S. II, U.E.A., Norwich, NOR 88C. CULTURE 21/- (+4/6) MANCHESTER ANARCHIST GROUP. ‘The LIBERTARIAN STUDENTS FEDERATION. Committee of Correspondence, 323 Fourth Street, sales. Secretary’. Felix Phillips, 6 Draycott Street, Contact address: Keith Nathan, 138 Pennymead, Cloquet, Minnesota 55720, USA. Richard/ CORNWALL ANARCHISTS. Contact Arthur TORONTO LIBERTARIAN - ANARCHIST Jacobs, 13 Ledrab Road, St. Austell, Cornwall. Manchester, 10. Harlow. MALATESTA: His Life and Ideas. Regular weakly meetings. Contact Secretary for LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY ANARCHIST GROUP. 217 Toryork Drive, Weston. Ontario. Meetings on the second Friday of each month at Canada. Weekly meetings. Read the ’Liber­ 42 Pendarves Street, Beacon, Camborne. 7.30 p.m. venue. GROUP. Contact us at the bookstall in the Stu­ Cloth bound 21/- (+1/3); MERSEYSIDE ANARCHISTS. Contact Jenny dents Union Foyer every Friday lunchtime. tarian’. Third issue now out and it was well worth Visiting comrades very welcome. waiting for! ptpw 16/6 (+!/-) CROYDON LIBERTARIANS. Meetings every Rathbone, 20 Sefipn Park Road, Liverpool, 8. OXFORD ANARCHIST GROUP. Contact Francis Berner fs 2nd Friday at each month. Laurens end GsHa Meetings every Tuesday, at 8 p.m., at Pete Duke’s, Casline, Pembroke College, or Steve Watts, Otter, 35 Natal Road, Thornton Heath (LTV Flat 6, 70 Huskisson Street, Liverpool, 8. Trinity College. PROPOSED GROUPS KETTHBR EAST or WEST 6/- (+9d.) 7546). PRESTON ANARCHIST GROUP. Contact J. B. MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY. Contact Mike NORTH DEVON. All those interested in forming Bfl Bet on application. Cowburn, 140 Watling Street Road, Fulwood, Don or Bill Jamieson, c/o University Union. a local group please contact Hugh Bensley, 'Boat- EDGWARE PEACE ACTIQN GROUP. Contact Preston. Meetings: T h e Wellington Hotel’, Oxford Road. Manchester, 13. hydo*, Northam, Bide ford, Devon. W oodcock s Melvyn Betrin, 84 Edgwarebury Lane. Edgware, Otovers Court, Preston. Wednesdays, 8 p.m. SOUTHAMPTON UNIVERSITY Revolutionary MONTREAL, QUEBEC. Anyone interested in THE WRITER A POLITICS 7/6 Middx. STOCKPORT. Dave Crowther, 1 Castle Street, Anarchist Federation. Contact Student Union forming a Montreal area Anarchist group please HERTS. Contact Val and John FunnaU, 10 Fry Edgeley, Stockport. Bookstall lunchtimes on Tuesday and Friday. contact Ron Sigler. Tel. 489-6432. 4ITYHE LISTENER’ (8.5.69) publishes Mr. Sparrow seems to be under the JL an article based on a talk given by impression that anarchists do not believe FIFTH COLUMN John Sparrow in the Third Programme. in running hospitals, or in people study­ This talk is called 'Civilisation', but con­ ing anything that requires effort and con­ sists of a sustained attack on the youth­ centration, and self-discipline even. Yet Anarchy & Chaos the anarchist movement has usually been ' TheWarning ful protest movement. The part which interests us as anarchists is the last half. most successful among independent craftsmen, artists and self-employed / disagree The speaker discusses the ‘soft’ form of The anarchists, notably Peter Kropot­it seems that he is fuddled one. Not protest, an example of which is Father necessarily all the militants who people, who often work far longer hours CAN’T AGREE with the ’warning’ kin, were influenced by them, but believed and for less money than those who have Huddleston oddly enough, and then that they did not go far enough. Anar­today call themselves /anarchists’ know 1 issued by Arthur Uloth and John passes on to what he calls the ‘hard’. what the word means, land not all thoseregular nine to five jobs. Rety on this page last week. I think chists,. one hardly needs to point out in In the last century anarchism was ‘The soft opt out of the system . . . thethe columns ofF r e e d o m , believe in the who do are necessarily articulate. I my­ that their premise is false, theirargument hard, if they had their way, would de­ self, who have beenlm the anarchist strong among the watchmakers of themuddled—and their conclusion absurd. ability of mankind to get along tolerably lura mountains, in Switzerland. Fisher­ stroy the system entirely. TTiey are thewell without coercive institutions, on a movement since 1948. and have read all Let’s look at the premise first: the activists . . . but whether Marxists, Trot- the books, and wriden articles, and de­ men and peasants in countries like Spain, anarchist movement ‘has not become basis of co-operation between equals. Italy or Mexico, have often been anar­ skyites, Nihilists, Anarchists, they don’tSome may admire Che Guevara, most I livered lectures on anarchism, cannot political, that is involved with other subscribe to any agreed political doctrine, always cope with seme (obviously ’hos­chists. They are the very people whopolitical groupings . . . in our opposition think regard him as a romantic character, are at the very basis of the tree of civili­ except revolution, Che Guevara is their without much relevance to their own tile) interviewer, who approaches me on to the Bomb and the Vietnam War, etc., god, and Herbert Marcuse is his pro­ some march or demonshation, notebooksation which Mr. Sparrow wants to pre­we as anarchists took a moral and un­ day-to-day problems. Some anarchists serve. Without them there would be no phet. . . .’ Then follow a string of names, believe that the rulers of society will in hand, and fires questions at me. compromising position with which Cohn-Bcndit, Tariq Ali and Adelstein Recently I was cornered on a Biafra tree at all. political groupings could not co-operate never relinquish their power without a It is understandable that moderately of the LSE. fight, others believe that non-violent demonstration by one of these eager- . . . in direct action issues, like the beaver characters, who^ wanted to know prosperous middle-class gentlemen, for Squatters’ Movement, other groupings In short, a complete pot-pourri. Tomethods can succeed. Others concern whom the world is, if not very safe, at begin with, one can’t really write about themselves not at all with social revolu­ why I was demonstrating, and was not were afraid of the total implication of satisfied with my answer that I was least safer than it is for some Negro in our actions.’ Marxists and Trotskyists, since Trotskyists tion, or possible future societies, but in­ Harlem or Notting Hill, should look with are Marxists, one of the innumerable stead concern themselves with trying to against war and genocide. In my experience this is just not achieve as much freedom as possible here Before I realised what I was doing I anxiety on the rebellion of students or Marxist sects. It is like talking about other groups. true. The Oxford Committee of 100 Christians and Methodists. Then we and now. Most anarchists in practice had woffled my way into a long and in­ started off in 1961 as a coalition of the seem to oscillate from one point of viewvolved lecture on my theory of the origin On the very next page ofThe Listener come to the Nihilists. Now, the Nihilists Alistair Cooke denounces the armed New Left, International Socialism, com­ were young intellectuals of Tsarist to another, according to circumstances. of warfare among human groups, and munists, those who believed in non­ Cbhn-Bendit is,. I believe, an anarchist. had got back to Neolithic civilisations Negro students of Cornell University, Russia, who flourished about a hundred and compares them to Nazis in effect. violent direct action—and those who just years ago. They believed that one shouldTariq Ali is not, but belongs I think to and human sacrifice, and war as a reli­ wanted to ban the bomb and were willing one of the schools of Marxist thoughtgious rite among the Aztecs, when my It is understandable that they should for­ subject all social institutions to criticism, get that to many people in the modemto try something new. There were one nothing should be left unattacked. Hence which flourish today. About the otherassailant developed a glazed look and or two anarchists but even they tended names Mr. Sparrow mentions I do not hastily withdrew, nojLdoubt thinking, world the conditions are intolerable, and the name ‘Nihilist’. that they should mock and abuse all to fit into one of the other categories: They did not however wish to destroyknow much, except that they are not‘Another crank! He will soon take us they were on their way out of the New anarchists, but perhaps they may some­back to the Lost Atlantis, flying saucers, rebels. Nothing is to be expected from society. They believed that what was their brand of ‘liberalism’. Left or were committed to non-violent worthy would survive the most searching times approach anarchism at some points.and astral bodies or something of the direct action first and foremost. criticisms. In fact they were Puritans, Mr. Sparrow talks about ‘muddle’, but sort’. A r t h u r W. U l o t h , As the Oxford Committee developed and their solution for the government of it declined numerically; the CP dropped Russia was liberal, parliamentary demo­ out, the New Left drifted away, those cracy. One of their sayings was ‘A pair who just wanted to ban the bomb got of good boots is worth more than all bored. At the same time more and your fine talk about Shakespeare’. (Not, more people in the Committee started to please note, ‘worth more than Shake­ call themselves anarchists: the Com­ speare’.) They believed in literacy, in Freedom of Speech | f mittee spawned the Oxford Anarchist Group. But revolutionary socialists— setting up schools for the peasants, etc. Dear Comrades, them saying what they wish anywhere, Many of them, or those influenced by menace anyone, and in that case inter- mainly IS—remained active members While hot agreeing with Philip jectory-heckling is fair, but not deliberate and also we know that reportage of after the other marxists had left. Jn the their ideas ‘went to the people’, in order Holgate, I think Digger’s reply to him incidents will always favour them. But to educate them. Their ideas were there­ attempts to suppress. end they too dropped out the Committee should not go unanswered. (Philip has, This does not of course apply onlythere is a question of principle here, we fore reformist, part of the nineteenth- was left smaller than the Anarchist I think, forgotten that an university with the Right. Some years back theare not Bolshevists, and we do there­ Group: by this time the Committee was century movement for self and social should be a community of scholars and anarchists and Committee of 100 rightly fore believe that the bourgeois politician improvement end they too dropped out and the Com­ the lecturer learns from the student as adopted the slogan ‘Orme shall not speak must always have the right to continue mittee was left smaller than the Anarchist well as 'Vice versa.) for an Aldermaston' March’ on the advocating capitalist society; though we anarchists. ‘ It seems basic that there is a difference grounds that the Campaign had decided are determined to prevent them exploit­ I wonder if Arthur and John consider of kind rather than merely of degree that a Labour MP should speak and be ing anyone which means we are deter­ the Independent Labour Party and between heckling designed to break the reported in the press on behalf of mined to prevent them translating their Solidarity to be part of the anarchist MOVING FUND flow of a speaker’s' remarks and to marchers and we wished to demonstrate desires into actions. movement. If not the co-operation demonstrate that not everyone agrees that the marchers, themselves did not Three weeks ending May 10, 1969 L.O. between these two groups and the SWF Target is £500. with the speaker, and heckling that is want a parliamentarian to do this. It and LFA to produce theSpies for Peace Donations to date: £451 13s. lid . designed to prevent the speaker speaking would have been an entirely different pamphlet must have been ‘political at all- matter if Orme had wished to speak at action’. PREMISES FUND The Olympia meeting Digger instances a Conference of Unilateralists, or if the I wonder if Arthur and John consider .w as. so .rigged th a t in fact the hecklers CND had not rigged., the Trafalgar Three weeks ending May 10, 1969 knew perfectly well that they had no Square platform Co that only the Socialist Current to be part of the Target is £1,000 per year. ' hope of preventing the meeting (as theyparliamentarian wing of the campaign DEMONSTRATION anarchist movement—the group is 1969 Pledges honoured and donations prevented Mosley from speaking in was represented. 9 usually described as Trotskyist. What­ to date: £191 8s. 7d. Cable Street) but they were able to We are left theflwith at least three to expose ever label you give it Socialist Current show up Mosley for what he was byfactors which have! to be taken into was involved, with a number of other courageous self-sacrifice. consideration: radical groups including anarchists, in This of course does not mean that all That there is a aialitative rather than BAD HOUSING trying to establish an independent outright attempts to prevent speeches quantitative differ&ce between inter­ unilateralist movement a few years ago. are to be put in one condemned corner jections designed Bridicule a speech, in Notting Hill Gate Once again—‘political action’. ! The last eight years or so are full IN THE RED and all interjections in the other. Cable and a deliberate aSempt 1° drown out Saturday, MAY 17, 2.30 p.m. Street, Ridley Road, Ladbroke Grove or otherwise prevfflt the speech being of examples of ‘political action’. Some­ FINANCIAL STATEMENT and Smethwick Town Hall, were made. Street meeting in one with a better memory—and a more 2 weeks ending May 3, 1969 occasions when fascist speakers were That where the apech is itself an act profound understanding of the com­ Estimated Expenses: part of open attempts to intimidate a of aggression and fttimidation, then it Colville Gardens, W.11 plexities of revolutionary politics—than 18 weeks at £90: £1,620 minority and that both solidarity andis reasonable and jludable to react to myself (stand up Laurens Otter) could Income: Sales and Subs.: £1,273 refusal to be intimidated necessitated this aggression and intimidation by followed by undoubtedly write at very great length that the right to apeak had to be denied. attempting to prevent the speech (though ‘CONDUCTED TOUR’ on various campaigns and movements DEFICIT: £347 on pure grounds oSxpcdiency, this may involving anarchists and other groups. But are we saying that at no time and I will give just one more example. Not in no place should a fascist be allowed not in fact be the wisest course). of area Montreal: R.S. £1/2/-; Wolverhampton: only is it contemporary: it directly con­ to speak? If we are, if we are denying That where the Speech is ostensibly with Revealing Exposures flicts with the second point made by J.K.W.* 2/-; J.L.* 3/-; K.C.F. 2/-; Lon­ utterly and absolutely the right of all made on behalf o®eople who do not don, N.W.3: G.A. 11/8; Pembury: R.W. Arthur and John. The South London racists to express themselves at any agree with the majority of it, then it is Squatters Group consists of IS and CP 5/-; Peterborough: F.W. 5/-; London, time—then we must logically take the natural that that najority will take the S.W.17: T. 12/10; York: S.M. 2/6; Wol­ members, anarchists, two members of argument further to say that we shall only means they -ffian to disassociate the Labour Party and one or two not verhampton: J.K.W.* 2/-; J.L.* 3/-; J.F. decide who can, and who cannot speak ■& C.F. 2/-; Southall: D.S. 3/-; Woodstock, themselves from itjSfltd make that dis- committed to any group. Those who are Vt.: E.S. £6; Bideford: H.B. 7/6; Somer­ and this entails an abandonment of association feltdesjjte the fact that the INTERNATIONAL not anarchists may disagree about the set: D. 5/-. anarchism. speaker has the Jtpvantages of loud­ implications of squatting but so far TOTAL: £10 7 Not only is there the very materialspeakers, and bettefwelations with press­ practice has been more important than 11 point that if we start by sanctioning SUMMER CAMP Previously Acknowledged: £264 15 3 men. theory. limitations on free speech, then we can But having statedlfhese, we must also Arthur and John start from a false 1969 Total to Date: £275 3 2 be very sure that soon after limitations state that as anarchies we believe in the SOCIAL premise—that British anarchists have not Deficit B/F: £347 0 0 will be placed on our rights of free absolute freedom of>H people to express in the recent past been involved in speech and our words will be quoted by their ideas. Agreed, (bourgeois politicians Evening Sat. May 24 ‘political action’. Even with this premise TOTAL DEFICIT: £71 16 10 those who have far more power thanhave more access tljan we to the mass they have difficulty in showing that it us to give or withhold such freedom. media, and so as pf now we do not at Freedom Press is dangerous to co-operate with other “Denotes Regular Contributor. But also it is inconceivable that one look as if we are ever likely to prevent groups against the Government’s anti­ could have freedom for all working class working class measures. I agree that FINANCIAL STATEMENT groups to express themselves, without the ‘machine of politics’ is full of lies Week ending May 10, 1969 extending that freedom to all groups. and deceit, that the moderate opposition Estimated Expenses: If you attempt to say we shall permit at the TUC will be prepared to com­ 19 weeks at £90: £1,710 Maoists to speak but not fascists (quite promise;—but the remarks which follow Income: Sales and Subs.: £1,359 apart from the fact that there are plenty leave me confused. How does this show of racists among Stalinists), you then the ‘treachery and stupidity of the novice DEFICIT: £351 have to say we will set up a yardstick rogues of IS’? How does it prove that which will govern who shall or who ‘the opponents of the Bill, with the Peterborough: F.W. 1/4; Todmorden: shall not be allowed to speak. If you exception of the anarchists, are in this G.B. 12/10; Wolverhampton: J.K.W.* 2/-; do this youmust abandon anarchism; political game for power and in order I.L.* 3/-; K.F. & C.F. 2/-; Bangor, NX: only a state could enforce such a yard­ to recruit members’? XT. £1; California: M.G. £14/17/-; Ox­ stick. The argument of Arthur and John ford: Anon* 5/-; Liverpool: P.S. 6/-; Anarchism insists on freedom for all, seems to amount to: some ‘political’ Pembury: R.W. 5/-; Canterbury: G.A. it denies the right of any to exploit people are treacherous; IS are political; 1/8; London, N.W.3: C.H. 5/-; London: others, and it is one of our difficulties therefore IS are treacherous. JB.C 4/-. to allow the freedom of someone who is On to the absurd conclusion: faced TOTAL: £18 4 10 not an anarchist to argue for a different with a danger let us have a ‘free /Previously Acknowledged: £275 3 2 system of society without allowing him assembly’ to work out our policy. First to create an exploitative system. But if the existence of the danger is yet to be 1969 Total to Date: £293 8 0 we do not allow non-anarchists to argue established. Secondly anarchist as­ Deficit B/F: £351 0 0 against anarchism we are not true to our semblies are notoriously unsuccessful in anarchism. deciding policy. I was not at the last AFB conference but I gather that it was TOTAL DEFICIT: £57 12 0 We have to decide when freedom for a fascist to speak is itself an aggressive agreed not to join demonstrations “Denotes Regular Contributor. act against already oppressed peoples, organised by the VSC—and not to carry Gift of Books—London, E.13: R.P.; and then use what action we can to deny banners on them either. Comment is Liverpool: M.C.; Taunton: D.P. it, and when that freedom does not superfluous. Wynford H icks . TN THE LAST few weeks, the for if a Labour Government can relations. Once aaaiiL Pe0P*e mistakenly Labour Government has really deprive children of free milk at think that Govern»ents wil1 actW .a been taking a hammering. The school, then they certainly wouldprincipled way. The Labour Party might MAY 17 1969 Vol 30 No 15 not have included in *** elect' on man'“ latest issue to give rise to a storm not have any qualms about the pre­ festo the proposal contained in its White of protest has been the decision tosent increases. What is surprising, Paper ‘In Place of Strife’, but a number increase the charge for spectacles however, is the inept timing. With of prominent MPs 6ave warnings of and dentures. talks of ousting Wilson and the State intervention if the trade unions did While deploring this increase, it local elections a few days away, it not reform themselves- However, during does not really come as a surprise, did seem to be an act of a Govern­ the 1964 election, Anarchists posed this ment committing suicide. question and asked whether a Labour WORKERS The Minister who made the Government would, legislate against un­ announcement was Mr. Crossman, official strikes. While our friends on the who resigned from the Government Socialist left thought this was ridiculous and canvassed for a Labour Government, Contact Columnin 1951, with Aneurin Bevan and we mounted an aflti-election campaign. Harold Wilson when the originalBut being proved right is little consola­ Thit column exists for mutual aid. imposition of charges for prescrip­ Donations towards cost of typesetting tion, for one has ohly to look at the highUNDER APARTHEID will bo wolcome. tions was made. principles and promises of politicians at The increased charges will only election and then Examine their record bring in £1,700,000 this year, and in office to see how far short they fall. AT A TIME WHEN ‘In Place of work. ‘Alarm’, Swansea Anarchists weekly £3im. in a full year. A small THE RIGHT TO STRIKE Strife’ is being forced through The whites are in a slightly better broadsheet obtainable from Group amount indeed, but one that will The dilemma facing the Government Parliament it is very interesting to see position but they too are vulnerable. address. 2/6 for next 5 issues inc. bring them more in line with costs is that not only must it prevent a massive how trade union rights have already A warning of what was to come was postage. Also new duplicator bought and, after all, this is what it is all rebellion in the ranks of the Labour been successfully attacked by the made when the Nationalist Party said in for £60 and not yet paid for—all Party, but the economic situation must Government in South Africa. opposition that the unions under them donations very gratefully received about. This was a Cabinet-approved would not be concerned with wages and Treasury decision, for the Treasury ease a great deal more if they are,to have The facts are contained in the latest and necessary. a chance of winning the next election. booklet published by the International conditions but ‘the spiritual welfare of Ken: Gravy—now flat LI—Bill. are enforcing a limit on all Govern­ ‘In Place of Strife/, is an attack on our Defence and Aid Fund (2, Amen Court, the workers’. Aberdeen Anarchists want to meet a ment expenditure. These permanent freedom to withdraw our labour when London, E.C.4) called ‘South Africa: The white unions must have a ballot printer (offset litho or letterpress) to civil servants are the people who we have a grievance with the employer. Workers Under Apartheid’. before striking and they are forbidden to handle future leaflets. Please con­ make the decisions, the bureaucrats It is also aimed attcapturing the floating The black workers are not allowed to strike within one year of a wage increase, tact Ian S. Sutherland, 8 Esslemont who never come up for election, voter and continues the process of re­ carry out any collective bargaining at all. if they work for a local authority or for M Avenue, Aberdeen, giving details of basing their decisions on the econo­orientating the image of the Labour Yet when they take on a job they arean essential public service. For striking prices. mic standing of the country. Party as; the traditional party of thebound by a legal contract. During under these conditions they can be fined Biafra meeting to plan demonstration in The left-wing of the Labour Partyworking class. negotiations between employers and the £100 and imprisoned for one year. October—Friday, May 23, 7.30 p.m., The opposition ,to the Government’swhite trade unions the interests of the In addition both blacks and whites Conway Hall, Red JLion Square, say it was another move to impressplans on industrialjrelations is mounting. African workers are supposed to be are threatened by the Sabotage Act and WjC.1. our foreign creditors, but this does The Government itself is looking to the watched by either one or two whiteSuppression of Communism Act. Both Have you any (do you know whereaboutsseem rather ridiculous. Certainly TUC to get it offtthe hook, while theGovernment officials. have fairly wide definitions of sabotage of) unpublished material such as our creditors do require and look TUC has placed /proposals before the All strikes by blacks are absolutely and communism. letters, diaries, notebooks relating to for such evidence, but these in­ Government whereby it will do their illegal. This also applies to work-to- Sabotage includes causing considerable anarchist movement(s) or individuals creases are imposed in isolation and dirty work for them. There Should be norules and stoppages over unsafe con­ financial loss to an employer or the State of 19th and early 20th centuries? at isuch a time seem to give the im­ interference in the right to strike, whether ditions (762 were killed and 30,677 (almost inevitable in a large scale strike), A student preparing a thesis on anar­ pression that the Government is from the Governnant or the TUC, whoinjured in the mines alone in 1966). For encouraging a social or economic change chist thought would be grateful for wants, to extend. Power in order to be any strike, however justified, black or crippling an industry. For this the your help. Please write to Sam losing its grip. able to intervene hi' unofficial strikes. If workers can be fined £500 and lm- mmummtsenteflrce is nve years’ 'prison Wolf, 55 Harvey Court, West Road, It is naive of people to believe unions concede th|, it could mean that prisoned for three years. and the maximum is death. Cambridge. that Governments are humanitarian militants would be expelled from their Apart from this there is no protection The President can use these acts to Surrey Free Schools Campaign. K. W. and act on principles, as does the unions by the THC. The TUC would against victimisation. This was illus­ declare any trade union an unlawful Bennett, 63 Hook Road, Epsom, Guardian. They say the timing was then become a disciplinary body for thetrated when 194 African busmen went body and so eligible for these punish­ Surrey. a secondary issue and ‘What is more employers, expeUjpg and blacklisting on strike. All were fined. Then FOUR ments. A white union has a right of Manchester Squatters. Meetings every alarming is the way the Government militants. This is.yhat could happen if YEARS LATER ten were picked out appeal against his declaration but Wed., 8 p.m.-Manchester University in their present mood are. abandon­ the working class j^ils to organise itself and jailed for 4) years for ‘furthering African unions do not. Union, Oxford Road, Manchester. independently andjjjrelies on the leader­ the aims of communism’. In addition The Riotous Assembly Act can be ing more and more of their tradi­ ship of the trade,union executives and Wanted, to buy or borrow, a large tent (up tional principles.’ They do not list any Africans who join a union are often used to ban strike meetings and several to 15 people) for the International Labour Party politicians. evicted and find it difficult to get work other laws are interpreted to impede Summer Camp. Offers to J.N., 25 these ‘traditional principles’, but I These are critical times for the Labour as there are far more workers than organisation of workers. An example of North Villas, N.W.l. would say that these are the policiesmovement and only solidarity in indus­ this was when pamphlets issued by the Read the Northern (Ireland) Informer, that are put forward at elections trial action will defeat attempts to shackle Non-European Railway Workers Union 1/- from Janet' Wilcox, 103 Balham and which are usually forgotten the working class'of this country. were seized. They complained that Park Road, Wandsworth Common, when in power and the realities of P.T. Anarchists white railwaymen had got a rise but the London, S.W.12. governing come home. non-whites had not. This was judged to be ‘promoting hostility between Natives Lock-up shop to let. £6 a week. Stoke PLEDGE LATER OMITTED Newington. Ring Barbara TER 4473. in Oslo and Europeans’. School students in North London are First and foremost, a Government The Government has another strong forming a Schools Anarchist Fed. must govern and the economic circum­ Squatting A NEWLY STARTED anarchist group hold on both blacks and whites through and Libertarian Group, any Com­ stances dictate how many and which in Norway has a building in the their ability to reserve jobs for whites. rades wishing to help or who could policies or principles are forsaken. If centre of Oslo, which they share withThis was originally demanded by the give advice please write to John the Guardian had looked at the election in Norway other radical groups. Our correspondent, white workers who wanted protection Mann, 133 Haden Court, Seven manifestos of the Labour Party, it would from the cheap African labour. (Africans UR NORWE.GIAN correspondent, Erik Disch, mentions that the group com­ Sisters Road, London, N.4. have seen, in actual fact, how realistic prises ‘a few hundred workers and stu­ on average get one-fifth the wages of O Erik Disch, writes: ‘Last night a Freedom Press Manager needs room they were. Having gained power in 1964, dents’. This makes the new Oslo group whites doing the same jobs. In the mines (living accommodation) near Aldgate with a manifesto that pledged to restore group from “Et sted a vare” (means a far bigger than any British group and it can be as little as one-seventeenth.) East. Box No. 35. a free Health Service as soon as possible, “place to live”—a name used by Oslo indicates a bright future for anarchism So far the Government has reserved Peace News. Six weeks trial offer for 5/-. this pledge was forgotten and omitted apartments as a demonstration against in Norway. Their premises are visited far more jobs for whites -than there are 5 Caledonian Road, N.l. from the 1966 manifesto. apartments as a demonstrations against by hundreds of people every day, and actual whites to fill them. This is so they Hyde Park Sunday meetings. 3 p.m. The emotion aroused by these increases the city council which has let a part ofthey request support from the British can issue special permits and exemptions has also been in evidence with regard to the town which is to be reconstructed Speakers and literature sellers re­ movement in the form of oldF r e e d o m s , to blacks to do work normally reserved quired. the Government’s plans on industrial to a bank. anarchist pamphlets, posters, etc., which for whites. These can be withdrawn at Support ‘Freedom’ sales. Start now or ‘The bank is going to build a big they can supply to callers. Comrades any time and the blacks put out of a with Scottish edition, May 31. Con­ shopping centre, lijxury hotels and luxury who would like to support this grand job. Once they are unemployed they tact Ian J. Sutherland, 8 Esslemont apartments, parking lots, bank buildings, effort should send relevant material to can no longer live in that area and so' Avenue, Aberdeen. etc., while 50-60,000 people are on lists Erik Disch, Konglefaret 59, Oslo 7, Nor­ the Government uses this power to direct Alan Barlow—Comrades wishing to visit POSTERS waiting for a place to live, while there way. Come on, comrades, do some inter­labour where it suits it (by withdrawing in Brixton please contact Defence are 3,000 homeless people in Oslo, while national mutual aid! exemptions from one area and issuing Committee, c/o Freedom Press for children have to play in streets. Ian S. S u t h e r l a n d . permits for another). Needless to say roster. Freedom ‘Oslo needs more apartments and the convenience of the black workers or | Glasgow Anarchists meet socially at the social institutions, not a big concrete their family ties are not considered. Station Bar, London Road, every in Fascist Ulster “piggy bank” for 400,000,000 kroner I kuke, Porton, Schermuly, etc.), Anti- There is, however, no reason why the Tuesday evening. Folk-singing. The police will probably try to throwVivisection (a group that will publicise Government should not reverse this S. London Free School Campaign. Regular 2s.6d. each the occupants out today.’ and possibly promote action at Allingtonpolicy if the white workers started activities, projects. Mike Rowley or Farm, Porton) and Porton Action (thegetting too militant (by reserving less Roger Sadiev, 81 Ermine Road, group that will plan regular activity at jobs for whites and allowing the S.E.13. 01-690 1572 (6-7 p.m. pre­ and around Porton). employers to use the far cheaper black ferably.) CBW GROUP The pamphlet, originally published as labour and put the whites out of work). International Summer Camp. £1 booking BROADSHEETS ‘Silent Death’, revised and republished As the blacks are not allowed to «*c.,fees to Ann Lindsay, 39 Upper Tulse later as ‘Conspiracy of Silence’, has again organise themselves effectively this Hill, London, S.W.2. FORMED been revised and may be re-published as policy would lead to a work force even North London Free Schools Cumpnign, The Anarchist ‘Conspiracy of Death’. less organised than it is at present (only contact T. Swash, 49 Popham Road, A CHEMICAL and Biological Warfare It is hoped to publish leaflets and 13 per cent are properly organised in London, N.l. Revolution Action Group has been formed in posters, concerning this subject, but at unions). Help Incgcgse ‘Freedom’s’ Circulation. London. Apart from the main group the moment the group has no funds. 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