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Anarchist Voices a Journal of Evolutionary Anarchism Incorporating Total Liberty Magazine Vol Anarchist Voices A Journal of Evolutionary Anarchism Incorporating Total Liberty magazine Vol. 1 - 6 Volume 7 Number 2 Spring / Summer 2010 £1 Colin Ward 1924 – 2010 made their contribution to the ideas expressed by CONTENTS our ‘movement’ and all deserve to be The Maggie, the Aurora, and the Wee Boy remembered. It is part of the role of journals such Cover Illustration of Colin Ward by Clifford Harper as Anarchist Voices to keep alive the human and Editorial by Jonathan Simcock ......................Page 2 positive ideals of anarchism they stood for. t’s a pity the Russian revolution seemed like literature and film abound with inspiring examples The Maggie, the Aurora and the Wee Boy a success at the time. Britain had a lively of anarchy in action. Sadly, Colin’s favourite film, One thing is certain, as the State and multi- by Chris Draper ..............................................Page 3 political culture until revolutionaries were “Carry On Kropotkin”, starring Sid James as the national corporate version of Capitalism takes mesmerised by the Bolshevik’s “winning Anarchist Prince, was, in 1963, seized and Obituary Colin Ward by Jonathan Simcock ....Page 4 humanity and the planet ever closer to societal Localism, a threat to Capitalism? Iformula” and militants destroyed on the and environmental disaster, only in the ideas by Larry Gambone..........................................Page 5 sacrificed independ- orders of the Lord found in movements such as anarchism, and in ence and creativity for Chamberlain but my Saying the grace and transforming the food parallel movements (The Green movement et al) membership of own choice, a glorious by Keith Hebden.............................................Page 6 will be found a means to live without destroying Lenin’s fan club, “The 1954 filmic evocation Lancaster Architecture by Steve Booth ..........Page 7 the planet or humanity. The hopeful point to Communist Party of of nautical anarchy, Briey Basin 1916 by Archie Odgers................Page 9 remember, as was said by Colin Ward is that “An Great Britain”. Soon The Maggie, survives Anarchy as a living process by Dick Martin ....Page 10 anarchist society, a society which organises itself few activists could to inspire and delight Moonshine and taxes by Michael Coughlin ....Page 11 without authority, is always in existence, like a conceive of revolution anyone with a taste for The Statist Origins of Monotheism seed beneath the snow, buried under the weight as anything other freedom. by Uri Gordon .................................................Page 12 of the state and its bureaucracy, capitalism and than a Bolshevik-type Not Drowning but War is Peace by Joe Peacott .........................Page 13 its waste, privilege and its injustices, nationalism insurrection. Waving The Bank Bailout by Peter Waite...................Page 14 and its suicidal loyalties, religious differences and Anarchists should The Maggie tells the Letters ............................................................Page 15 their superstitious separatism.” know better but it’s story of an old Clyde Recommended Journals & Subscriptions.......Page 16 Jonathan Simcock not so long since a “Puffer” and her crew’s The opinions expressed in articles featured in Anarchist Voices magazine are those of the individual authors and do not London Anarchist determined efforts to necessarily represent those of the editor. The editor welcomes Forum plotted the deployment of the anarchist keep her afloat despite state bureaucrats and the submission of articles for publication in Anarchist Voices but fleet at the outbreak of Britain’s imminent commercial forces insisting their ship is finished cannot guarantee that they will be published. Articles can be An Anarchist Credo submitted typed on paper, on disc, or via email to revolution! and their way of life redundant. For a century [email protected]. Contact 07767 260514 for mail Hats off to Gustave (and Colin) Clyde Puffers were the workhorses of the inshore address. Anarchism is not terrorism or violence and anarchists The State can’t be smashed by violent shipping trade. Once essential in supplying do not support, aid or sympathise with terrorists or so- revolution, for as Gustave Landauer observed, remote coastal settlements, in the 1930’s and called liberation movements. “The State is a condition, a certain relationship 1940’s their work was increasingly undertaken by EDITORIAL Anarchism does not mean irresponsibility, parasitism, among human beings, a mode of behaviour road transport. Puffer crews lived and worked criminality, nihilism or immoralism, but entails the between them; we destroy it by contracting other together for years on end, serving isolated highest level of ethics and personal responsibility. ECENT events and the deaths of a relationships.” It’s easier and more macho to treat communities, forging bonds, friendships and number of good friends and comrades Anarchism does not mean hostility toward the State as an external structure to be smashed networks that meant so much more than mere have caused me to look back and organisation. Anarchists only desire that all but Landauer’s analysis is more accurate and commercial transactions. organisations be voluntary and that a peaceful social points anarchists in an entirely different, Wily Captain Mactaggart, his irascible engineer, pause, not only over the years TL / AV order will exist only when this is so. Rhas been appearing, but also over my own time introspective direction. It suggests we might silent mate and devoted yet determined “Wee since coming into contact with the anarchist Anarchists are resolute anti-statists and do not defend spend less time attacking “The State” and put Boy” aren’t going to let the apparently movement. From my first contact with the idea in either “limited states” or “welfare states”. more effort into cultivating and promoting insuperable forces of modernism defeat them. 1975 when I came across works by George Anarchists are opposed to all coercion. creative, supportive, sustainable libertarian Together they scheme and plan to get money for Woodcock, to the influence of works such as Poverty, bigotry, sexism and environmental relationships. The Wobblies thought of it as, essential repairs. When a fortunate Colin Ward’s Anarchy in Action, Murray degradation cannot be successfully overcome through “forming the structure of the New Society within misunderstanding lands a lucrative contract in Bookchin’s Post Scarcity Anarchism and the State. Anarchists are therefore opposed to the shell of the old”. Colin Ward devoted his life their lap, the crew still cunningly contrive to Benjamin Tucker’s Liberty, I was always struck taxation, censorship, so-called affirmative action and to advocating and illustrating this approach, interrupt the trip to celebrate and support an by the humanity of the authors I read and the government regulation. identifying libertarian forms of organisation islander’s hundredth birthday party. Just as it individuals I came across. This was especially Anarchists do not need scapegoats. Poverty and amongst squatters, on allotments, in education appears The Maggie is invincible she’s cast up true of the people associated with, writing for, environmental destruction are not ultimately caused and in town planning. For Colin and Gustave onto the rocks and threatens to break her back, producing and distributing the journal Freedom in by transnationals, IMF, the USA, the “developed anarchy needn’t await insurrection, it already but a surprising act of solidarity saves the day. the period 1978-1981 when I knew many of them world”, imperialism, technology or any other devil operates in small pockets within our otherwise A Navy Lark personally. I was then living in London, and a figure, but are rooted in the power to coerce. Only the rotten society. Directed by Alexander Mackendrick, The abolition of coercion will overcome these problems. weekly volunteer for the folding and mailing Anarchy Ahoy! Maggie, is a lesser-known “Ealing Comedy”, but sessions at Freedom Bookshop. Inevitably and Anarchism does not posit any particular economic From Women’s Institutes to Local History in my opinion by far the best. Shot on location on sadly the majority of these people are no longer system but only desires that the economy be non- Societies and Folk Clubs, all across Britain the Clyde, Islay and the Crinan Canal, the film coercive and composed of voluntary organisations. with us. People such as Jack Robinson, Vernon people are co-operating in ways that, although combines a documentary-like quality with a brisk Richards, Philip Sansom, Alan Albon, Veronica, Anarchists are not utopians or sectarians, but are not in themselves revolutionary, do exemplify narrative and warm, spiky, humorous dialogue. Paul Lloyd, Peter Neville are gone, and now, in sympathetic to any effort to decrease statism and alternative, libertarian forms of organisation. Whenever the story seems about to descend into the period since the new year, John Rety and coercion and the replacement of authoritarian Once we realise there’s more to revolution than sentimentalism another scam surfaces and we’re relations. with voluntary ones. Colin Ward have both died. All these individuals storming the Winter Palace we discover that instantly reassured that the crew are all too 2 2 3 made their contribution to the ideas expressed by CONTENTS our ‘movement’ and all deserve to be The Maggie, the Aurora, and the Wee Boy remembered. It is part of the role of journals
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