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he media fanfare pronouncing that the new ‘sovereign’ government will do ‘sovereignty’ was transferred back what it is told. Take Iraq’s oil revenues. to the Iraqis at the end of June While these nominally pass to the new Tshowed how it bows down to power. government, in reality it inherits all That they could, in the main, report with outstanding contractual obligations a straight face that the Americans giving made by the occupying powers. This limited powers to a group of US-appointed includes all those passed shortly before Iraqi politicians shows a willingness to the official transfer. Bremer also passed genuflect that knows few bounds. a whole series of edicts at the last O f course, reality crept in sometimes. minute to ensure US control. The transfer being brought forward He also acted to ensure the outcome two days early and concluded in a tiny, of any future elections, outlawing from highly secret ceremony says far more the ballot any groups with unapproved about the situation in Iraq than the US militias. He also appointed an electoral intended. Undoubtedly it was a wise commission which can ban any party move but one whose symbolic message from the elections. Finally, he hand- is clear. There were no public festivals picked and gave five-year terms to the celebrating the ‘transfer’, suggesting national security adviser, national that most Iraqis see it for what it is. intelligence chief and the inspector- After all, the ‘sovereignty* transferred generals who will look over all 26 is less than you would expect. There is governm ent ministries. the continuing direct (and indefinite) But it is not only ‘sovereignty’ which military occupation. Over 160,000 is being redefined. Bush likes to blame foreign troops, none of which are under ‘terrorists’ for the attacks on US forces the new government’s control, are, in Iraq. Strangely, both the CIA and the thanks to a late edict of Paul Bremen State Department do not agree. In their completely immune from Iraqi law and yearly tally of the number of terrorist courts. But as these troops are the only attacks worldwide, both excluded all thing saving the appointed government attacks on US forces in Iraq. Why? from a quick exit, it is unsurprising that Because they do not meet their definition the US has no fears that it will be asked of terrorism as they are directed against to leave. combatants. Iraq - a free country at last. Totally sovereign. Not occupied. Oh no And the appointed Iraq government Perhaps this is understandable. If is restricted in other ways. The US has these attacks were included, Bush to overlooking numerous terrorist that such attacks had increased. If they on US troops amounts to ‘terrorism* installed officials at the highest levels of would not be able to suggest America’s attacks last year when it reported that -had to add Bush’s ‘terrorist’ attacks in has been rejected to make the statistics the state bureaucracy. It has introduced imperialist wars had reduced terrorism. terrorism had been reduced. With the Iraq, the figures would go through the look better. roof. So, Bush’s claims that any attack The nature of sovereignty, see page 4 numerous policies that will ensure that As it was, the US already had to admit missing incidents, they had to conclude ARMY GROUNDED UK INEQUALI1Y RISING he trade unions of South Korea’s two out struggle’ against South Korean airlines, Korean Air and Asiana military intervention and will block the nequality is at the highest level for The typical chief executive of a FTSE forces. We must support all workers in T Airlines, declared last week that they movement of ail soldiers, armaments forty years. Inequality rose by 40% 100 company now earns eighty times struggle, refusing to let the media will refuse to transport any materials and other equipment if the airlines sign Ibetween 1979 and 2001, with almost more, on average, than one of his demonise those unions (like the RMT related to military intervention in Iraq. contracts with the Army agreeing to aid half caused by cuts the Tories made to workers. The bottom fifth of workers or FBU) which actually at least slightly Members of the Association of Airline the Occupation. benefits and top rates of tax in the pay a higher proportion of their income responsive to their members and stand Unions (AAU), which was founded by The AAU have also threatened a 1980s. The pay gap between men and in tax than the top fifth. up for their interests. We must seek to workers in both national Air carriers complete shutdown of all air traffic to women stands at 40% . Is there a solution? It is no coincidence encourage the spirit of revolt in all workers, unionised or not, to fight for and employees of the Incheon Inter show their opposition to the war - which The poor are getting poorer, with the that the last 25 years has seen a rapid national and Kimpo Airports decided given the nature of Korean trade unionism number of households in poverty rising decline in union membership and their own interests. That means creating along with the militant Korean Confedera is not one to be taken lightly! from 21% in 1991, to 24% ten years militancy along with the fastest increase a rank and file movement in the unions tion of Trade Unions to oppose the Asiana Airlines and Korean Air bosses later. The north-south divide is getting in inequality of any country in the which can fight not only their actual bosses but also trade union bureaucrats despatch of Korean troops to Iraq. The claim that they have not even begun wider although Hackney and Tower developed world. The growing gulf who place their cosy relationships to workers claim they will launch an ‘all- negotiating with the military, and that Hamlets, both in London, are the poorest between rich and poor is the conse the workers’ threats are premature. areas in the UK (poverty increased in quence of a weakening of organised New Labour or the employers above Hackney by 9% in those ten years). labour. The balance of power in the work their members’ interests. » Fire Brigades Union member Brian Glasgow has the highest poverty rate place has shifted and, consequently, See FBU breaks from New Labour, page 3 Joyce visited Iraq in 2003, where war outside London, a massive 41% . workers cannot hold onto, never mind and sanctions left firefighters in It is so bad that even the Tory shadow bolster, their share in the wealth they appalling conditions. He saw that they work and pensions secretary admitted create but do not own. With a weakened had to fight fires wearing just sandals that “we in the Conservative party have labour movement, management can and moth-eaten boilersuits. So he came to recognise that our country faces a ignore their workers, giving spurious back to the UK where FBU branches serious problem of poverty.” reasons for failing to increase wages or donated uniforms and materials and Within companies, executives enjoyed closing pension schemes while finding last month returned to Iraq to show the 23%-plus rises in their annual salary. money for themselves, no matter how grateful firemen how to use their new Their workers, without whom no wealth badly a company is doing. high-tech equipment (see picture). could be produced, got less than 4%. We need to tip the balance of class 2 Freedom 10th July 2004 Home andaway FREEDOM Volume 65 Number 14 News from the inside Freedom for prisoners Mass prison break-out causing tens of thousands of pounds of risk facility to alleviate overcrowding. Anarchism As many of you may know, Freedom Prisoners in the Nelspruit prison in damage. Staff have reacted by turning a blind Anarchists work towards a society of provides free subscriptions to anyone in South Africa rioted and eight hundred Mr Kelly’s initial actions however eye to in-house dealers effectively mutual aid and voluntary co-operation. prison. If you have friends or family in escaped after being left without food were caught on film and he was jailed pacifying other prisoners with an illegal We reject all government and economic prison, or regularly write to a prisoner, for more than 24 hours during a strike (again) for four months. chemical cosh. repression. if they are interested we will be happy by warders. A rebellion in Barberton A watchdog report found that staff at Freedom Press is an independent to send them a free sample issue or sub. penitentiary had to be put down by a Failing prisons The Mount prison in Hertfordshire anarchist publisher. Besides this If you are a prisoner yourself we can well-armed police and army task force, HMP Dumfries: Since Dumfries Prison have been tolerating widespread drug newspaper, which comes out every two provide subs to any of your fellow which also had to fight striking warders changed from a Young Offenders’ use by inmates as a way of preventing weeks, we produce books on all aspects inmates if they so desire. Please also who refused to permit them to enter the Institute to a full adult prison last year dissent. of anarchist theory and practice. feel free to write to us with any news jail. conditions have gone from bad to worse, In our building in Whitechapel we run about your imprisonment, developments Nelspruit detainees broke out of their a preliminary inspection has found. Britain’s biggest anarchist bookshop and in your case, requests for penpals or cells and scaled prison walls, as police Inmate on inmate violence has risen host a social centre and meeting space, anything else! hastily assembled a riot squad of 150 and prisoner numbers keep increasing, the Autonomy Club. We’re currently cops, backed up by paramilitary police while the number on the methadone developing open-access IT provision for and the specialist ‘Reaction Unit’ flown programme has skyrocketed 600%. activists to use. in from another jail. Weekend meal times are irregular and Our aim is to explain anarchism more ■ H I.9 They attempted to block escapees into inspector Dr Andrew McLellan noted widely and to show that human freedom a field outside the walls, using police lines, that prisoners with addiction problems can only thrive when the institutions of tear gas and other crowd control tech were now being neglected as the Drug Rob Los Ricos moved state and capital have been abolished. niques. Police claimed that they managed Strategy department has been downsized. US Anarchist prisoner Rob Thaxton, Freedom’s editors wish to present a to stop most of them from getting away, The prison had not even introduced a otherwise known as Rob Los Ricos, has broad range of anarchist thought, and nr'JIN and that the following day all the prisoners basic drug awareness programme. been transferred. After five years at the as such the views expressed in the had been re-captured. Several were A full inspection is to be undertaken Oregon State Penitentiary he was paper are those of the individual reported as injured, but the actual in December this year, although what moved in the middle of the night to the contributors and not necessarily those number is suspected to be far higher. effect it will have is doubtful, since following address: MCCF, Robert of the editorial collective. recommendations from previous ones Thaxton 12112716, 4005 Aumsville r iti Toothache riot have been roundly ignored, as emphasis Hwy, Salem, OR 97301, USA. Summer break Over a hundred prisoners in Lewes is not on the welfare of prisoners, or Rob, a long time anarchist organiser, ii III rioted in solidarity with another inmate improvement of society but on social publisher and writer, is one of the few Even your faithful Freedom editors go after he was denied painkillers last control and profits. from around the world who faced on holiday sometimes. We’re off to the October, the local Crown Court was serious charges for the global day of casinos of Monaco to spend your It ■II told last week. Steven Kelly, 31, had HMP The Mount: Overcrowding in the action on 18th June 1999. When it subscription payments, and the next just had 21 teeth removed, and was in UK’s dirtiest jail, according to the kicked off in Eugene, Oregon Rob issue will be out on 7th August. .j agonising pain when he was denied Independent Monitoring Board (1MB), threw a rock at a cop who was 11 i ill decent painkillers by prison staff. is increasing as the prison is now 55 charging at him in an effort to escape. He and a friend began smashing over its maximum capacity of 705 He was arrested and sentenced to 88 Questionnaire H i II windows in protest, showering two inmates. months in all for Assault and Riot. He Many thanks to everyone for the over guards in glass, and defended themselves There is inadequate provision of care was clearly been used as scapegoat - whelming response to our questionnaire. in when another tried to restrain them. As for mentally ill prisoners and other the one that didn’t get away. He The winner of the forthcoming Tony 120 other prisoners started to gather inmates are being neglected as times out appreciates ’zines (send individually Allen book is Tim B. from Bristol, around this third guard he fled the of cell have been reduced and lunch from a recognised distributor/publisher). whose prize will be despatched as soon IM scene, leaving the inmates in control. hours cut. Donations to and info from: AAA, PO as it arrives back from the printers. 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IN BRIEF One step forward... A gay couple has the same legal rights FBU severs link with Labour as a married couple due to the Human Rights Act. The Law Lords rejected an appeal by a landlord who claimed a gay man could not inherit the tenancy rights Thetrade unions start to break with New Labour, but of his deceased partner. While this is a step forward, another section of the population are still subject that's not enough, argues lain McKay to inequality: those who live together and refuse to marry. While Lady Hale said she had no difficulty in applying he Labour leadership lost the £300,000 a year funding if the govern the term “as husband and wife” to support of another union recently ment does not promise to keep the persons of the same sex living together T when the Fire Brigades Union Royal Mail under public ownership. in a stable relationship, the state does (FBU) severed its 85 year link with the The CWU’s position is naive, given not offer that perspective on hetero party. Intense anger at the government’s Blair’s willingness to violate principles sexual couples who reject marriage as treatment of them during the recent and promises. Which makes the an institution. nine-month dispute resulted in delegates Labour’s chairman comment that he The government has introduced the at the union’s conference in Southport was “sorry that the voice of Britain’s Civil Partnership Bill to allow gay and backing disaffiliation by five to one in a firefighters will no longer be heard at lesbian couples to sign an official show of hands and 35,105 to 14,611 Labour’s annual conference and document at a registry office. Yet the on a card vote. Delegates also voted for national policy forum, which will shape assumption that you have to let the strike action unless the pay row hanging Labour’s next manifesto” ironic. After state (or church) approve your love and over from the end of the last dispute is all, this (like every other) government living arrangement persists. That you settled by the end of July. has ignored any manifesto promises it must register with the state before you The conference rejected calls from the wanted. Being able to ‘shape’ a have next-of-kin rights is a disgrace. So union’s executive to remain inside Labour document which will be ignored is while we should celebrate the fact that in order to turn it back to its roots. As hardly a great lose. gays can marry, we should remember one firefighter from the Berkshire brigade This is all good news. It shows that that basic rights should not be tied to put it: “Our members are sick and tired organised labour is waking up to the marriage and that inequality remains. of giving their hard-earned cash to the fact that the leaders of their so-called Labour party. I don’t believe we have party are, in fact, been pursuing an Community action an ounce of influence when it comes to agenda against their interests. It is a Residents of Haringey and Walthamstow politics.” step forward towards genuinely have been fighting back against the Faced with the facts, the assistant independent working class trade installation of potentially hazardous general secretary conceded that strikers unionism, one which relies on its own mobile phone masts in their streets. were called ‘“ crim inals’, ‘w reckers’, strength and militancy to get results. Members of Haringey Solidarity Group ‘fascists’ and even worse” but argued it However, the danger lies in those who have followed the West Midlands was only a matter of time “before Tony wish to repeat the mistakes of the past Firefighters picket at Fallings Park, Wolverhampton Anarchists in leafleting the stores of Blair walks into the sunset.” He argued and tie the unions to a new party which legal loan-sharks Brighthouse, arguing that “the government is different from will ‘represent’ the interests of labour - should not forget that while the FBU is using their own funds for fighting for working-class solidarity against the party” yet the party is not taking the wet dream of numerous Trotskyist the first to voluntarily leave the party, political issues. debt-collectors and bailiffs. Blair to task for his actions. Anarchists sects. Yet while such a position may the RM T was expelled four months ago Yet turning our money over to union The latest issue of their newsletter the are not surprised. A hierarchical benefit a minuscule political grouping for refusing to stop local branches bureaucrats rather than politicians is Indypendent also reports on residents’ organisation operating in a centralised by infusing it with workers’ hard affiliating to other parties. Ironically, not much of a step forward. The labour campaigns and direct actions against Post state will always empower the leaders earned wages, it does not get to the the RM T helped form the Labour Party movement itself needs to be transformed Office closures and the destruction of at the top, not the membership at the heart of the problem. This is the more than a century ago. This suggests so that the workers actually run it. This parks and roads. The Haringey Federation base. That is why we argue that the division of economics and politics that while many union militants see the implies a decentralised, federal structure of Residents Associations - now incor labour movement should not have links which results in the unions being need to break with Blairism, some have based on workplace assemblies to porate over 100 RAs - has been at the with political parties and instead fight represented by politicians rather than not themselves broken with the ideas decide how our dues are spent and how forefront of these campaigns. its own battles by its own weapons of fighting for political issues on the and practice which spawned Blair to our organisations fight. The first steps HSG is looking to set up a claimants’ direct action and solidarity. . economic and social terrain. In other begin with. in creating such a movement would be group. If you or anyone you know are The union’s decision is a blow to a words, a syndicalist approach to Union independence is the only way a rank and file movement within the interested, contact them via their website Labour leadership that has seen its party political struggles rather than a social forward. That means independence existing unions. Anarchists are in an at www.haringey.org.uk membership plummet and, therefore, democratic one. from all political parties and an ideal position to start such a movement. increasingly depends on union support Union independence is the way awareness that real change comes from We have an analysis of what is wrong To the rampARTs! for resources. And the FBU is not alone. forward, not a new ‘workers’ party’ action outside parliament. It means with the unions and how to fix them. A new social centre has opened up in The Communication Workers Union dedicated to using all the tactics which being aware of the problems of But do we have the will and East London. Based in Rampart Street, (CWU) has warned it will suspend its worked so badly the last time. We parliamentarianism. It means unions organisation to do it? it is one of a number of such centres around London which, like Freedom, ' aim to provide a space for political and cultural events, meetings, discussions, film screenings, etc., etc. The rampART project contains a Fighting Sainsbury’s GM food scandal popular free-shop, meeting rooms, IT space and more. See the Listings on hristmas-cancelling supermarket an end to GM dairy in Britain and a can't be monitored over their use of stint running the company into the page 2 for contact details and address. group Sainsbury’s were in trouble fairer deal for local farmers, who are GM crops, their treatment of the ground. C again last week, as protesters barred from using GM by UK legislation. animals or employment rights. Davis sold Homebase, which was Council strike threat closed much of their distribution Police arrested twenty demonstrators, According to Greenpeace, this also then sold on at vast profit a few Threats of industrial action by council network. Over a hundred people from eight from the demonstration at means Sainsbury’s aren’t definitely GM months later, reorganised distribution workers had already caused bosses to across Britain struck five major Walthamstowe. Polly, from Colchester free in any basic product except poultry so poorly the company has now re- up a three-year pay offer from 7% to distribution centres in the early hours Peace Campaign said: “We cost and eggs. implemented its old system, and ordered 8.9% , but discontented staff are still of Thursday morning, shutting down Sainsbury’s a lot of money and the Sainsbury’s, who won the Organic a pricey relocation of the company holding out for a better deal. Unison, 70% of their total capacity, strategic timing meant quite a small Supermarket of the year award for headquarters to swish new offices. He the GMB and T& G are balloting The troubled corporate giant was group of people could have a big 2004, issued a statement. They said then cut the 100 staff Christmas bonus members and strike action could follow targeted over its continued use of impact. The places where tripods were that “the food standards agency has while taking a £2.4 million bonus for in the coming months. Anarchists should overseas dairy farmers who don’t used were the most successful, as they categorically stated there is no evidence himself (Freedom, 29th May), and was be pushing for solidarity between members adhere to Britain’s anti-GM feed policy. made people harder to arrest,” that milk from animals fed on GM finally ousted by investors worried of different unions, encouraging people A co-ordinated effort saw activists descend UK farmers are currently paid less for crops contains any GM materials.” about his poor sales figures. not to cross picket lines, and arguing on Essex, Liverpool, Birmingham, their milk than it costs them to produce Freedom notes that this is because no In a neat twist to the tale, he is still in for more effective action than one-day Bristol and Sheffield. Using steel arm it. In recent years this has led to a tests have as yet been carried out. line for a £500,000 golden parachute, walkouts. guards to prevent police from removing wholesale collapse of the industry - in which should take the sting out of his Prolonged ‘action short of strike’ them from the scene, some demonstrators East Anglia, 90% of cattle farms have In other Salnsbury's news... dismissal. such as working-to-rule and slow placed ‘tripods’ in front of main gates closed since the 1980s. Bonus-magnet Sir Peter Davis has been If only every incompetent staff member downs can get better results while to stop trucks from going through, and This accompanied an increased use of fired from his job as Chairman of could be so lucky ... re* A rrfhpr rates. The erouDS demanded international farmine conglomerates, who Sainsburv’s following his disastrous Rob Rav Iraq handover special
One law for them . . . Continuing our Iraqi handover special, Paul Maguire examines the legal process in the new ‘free’ Iraq
hat a week its been for Lassa Oppenheim opined as far back as the 'defenders of 1920 that the equality of states was freedom’. Sovereignty “the indispensable foundation” of has been restored in international society. When the US Iraq. The US Supreme invaded Afghanistan and then Iraq it Court has decreed that put forward its right to ‘self-defence’ as the Guantanamo Bay a justification for intervention. Yet the detainees are entitled to legalUS representawas not under attack, as Article 51 tion. Saddam Hussein was produced in of the UN Charter specifies as necessary courtW in Iraq to be tried for crimes of for armed self defence. Afghanistan and genocide. The war against terror had Iraq, it was argued, had supported and delivered democracy to the Iraqi people harboured Al-Qaeda. Yet when the and bourgeois law had prevailed over Nicaraguan government attempted to the wilJ of Bush. All was right with the pursue the US government over its world. support for the right-wing paramilitary Except that even a tentative scratch Contras, the World Court held that the at the surface reveals another picture US was not responsible for breaches of beneath. Iraqi sovereignty has come to international humanitarian law mean the imposition of an unelected committed by the Contras since it had civilian administration on the people of not directed and controlled the individual Iraq (see front page). The extent of operations which gave rise to these such ‘sovereignty’ is borne out by the breaches. “Organising or encouraging opening o the f trial o f Saddam. The the organisation of irregular forces or location of the court was kept secret. armed bands ... does not constitute an The judge insisted his own name be armed attack sufficient to give rise to a kept secret. There was no defence counsel. right to exercise self-defence.” Under the The Iraqi legal system - buggered The videotaped proceedings were terms of the Military Assistance Agree censored by the US military. Saddam ment concluded between the International lies a social terrain of real inequality gifts of the state. So also the detainees intended to protect us useless, so long was chained throughout, and most of Security Assistance Force and the interim and rights instituted or violated at the held at HM P Belmarsh in the UK, as they remain the gifts of the state. his comments were censored to the government in Afghanistan, the UK behest of the state. The detainees at indefinitely and without trial. The Blair The only guarantees of sovereignty and media. (Wonder why? See below.) To military forces operating in Afghanistan Guantanamo Bay were deemed ‘illegal government’s vaunted introduction of equality can be through the destruction any impartial observer, justice in the are immune from prosecution for grave combatants’ by the US and hence the Human Rights Act - the recognition of the state and the system of fundamental new ‘independent’ Iraq looked about as breaches of the Geneva Convention. denied the protections of the laws of of the European Convention on Human inequality of which it is the armed impartial as the justice overseen by ‘Sovereignty’ appears to be honoured war. The intervention of the Supreme Rights within UK law — counts for little guarantor. Those who argue that the Saddam. only in the breach. It is in the gift of Court remedies the situation, but the given the ease with which the government means to equality and justice lie through ‘Sovereignty’ is a slippery concept. some ‘Great Power’ nations to grant fact that a legal environment could be was able to derogate from its Conven the state have to explain how ‘sovereignty’ International law treats ‘sovereignty’ as ‘sovereignty’ to others. created wherein the US could contend tion duties in violating the rights of the can be anything other than a game in a fundamental. Sovereignty and equality The same is true for the concept of that the law of human rights had no Belmarsh detainees. the courts of international law, if it is are governing principles in bourgeois ‘human rights’. Behind the rhetoric of applicability goes to suggest that such The lesson of all this? ‘Sovereignty* something that can be granted or denied law at every level. The legal theorist formal equality, and immutability of rights rights are in any event no more than and ‘equality’ are meaningless, the ‘rights’ by those with the biggest guns. Workers against warIraq: the facts sofar Snippets of organised workers’ feeling and disgust at police violence state revenue sources will be sold to big opposition to the war on Iraq, roundly amongst the dockers saw most of the A few things which won’t be mentioned helping him win against Iran. ignored by the mainstream media. Port shut down for the day. in the mass media over the coming • Marsh Arab suppression: 30-60 corporations and run for shareholders, weeks. thousand dead, US/UK imposed a no not the Iraqi people. Spain: The anarchosyndicalist-led call Italy: A one-day general strike one 2nd fly zone following intense So little money has been spent on for a general strike was belatedly taken April, 2003 was organised entirely by Murder international pressure, massacre reconstruction so far that electricity and up by the mainstream union* who the rank-and-file ’base’ unions and Combining all Saddam’s atrocities continued on the ground. water production levels are still far called a one-day stoppage on April 10th anarchosyndicalist USI. Despite the fact together still doesn’t add up to the • Crushing of Shia rising in 1991: below what Saddam managed under which s | his year marked the 80th supported the radical actions of the from below’ is an anarchist principle.” I anniversary of'die death of masses, policies in the past associated This meant, in practice, that power was with anarchism. They soon won more held by a few party leaders, not the and more votes in the soviet and factory masses. committee elections as the anarchist This can be seen from the slogan “All mottoes proved more popular than power to the Soviets:” For anarchists it orthodox Marxism. meant exactly that - the working class ■ Lenin. Given that Leninism The anarchists were also influential running society direcdy, using councils Tis still the dominant theory at this time. They argued for workers of mandated, recallable delegates. For H in what passes for a and peasants to expropriate the owning the Bolsheviks, that slogan was simply ■ revolutionary movement in class, abolish all forms of government the means to create a Bolshevik govern Britain, it is useful to discuss and re-organise society from the bottom ment over and above the soviets. The the only reason why this authoritarian up using their own class organisations - difference is important, for if power is still taken seriously. This is the Russian the soviets, the factory committees, co really did belong to the soviets, it could, Revolution, held to be the first successful operatives and so on. They were not belong to theiBolshevik party. If socialist revolution. The fact that it particularly active in the factory power belonged to the Party, it could quickly produced a party dictatorship committee movement for workers’ self not belong to .the soviets. presiding over a state capitalist economy management of production. They co In practice the Bolsheviks proved the seems irrelevant in Leninist quarters. operated with the Bolsheviks during the anarchists right, quickly showing that For anarchists, the Russian Revolution October Revolution which overthrew for them “soviet power” equalled party is seen as a classic example of a social the provisional government. But things power. If, to stay in powers the revolution in which the self-activity of changed once Lenin’s party seized power. Bolsheviks had ■ he recent RMT strike was a there has been ‘direct harm’ to them impact is non-reversible, I say that it is first defeated the French tradesmen, triumph for rank and file The future from GM. the only sensible position to hold. influenced by Proudhon, who in the union members, but leaders Rather than fill in the questionnaire, In Argentina, the GM soya crop has Particularly given the weakness of the mid-sixties had argued that only bona such as Bob Crowe should permit me to put my thoughts on the achieved monoculture status, as reported evidence of its safety. fide working men (sic) who worked be ashamed. Rhetoric was future of freedom (ha ha) via e-mail. in a recent New Scientist mag, and Let us have it out in the open, is with their hands should be able to be strong, barracking six figure When it comes to features, more, more, superweeds are resulting along with Donald really asking us to join his congress delegates - or even branch and Network Rail payouts to more of everything. And use the web to unexpected fungal growth and lowering worship of GM crops regardless of the section members, many argued. senior execs and promising a powerful create chat rooms for discussions on of yields. Further ‘harm’ in my view. evidence? Or their social and ecological How different history might have turned defence of ‘hard won working conditions’. specific issues, to publish articles, show GM has also invaded the world of consequences? On the evidence so far, out if workers, productive tradespeople Yet actions have been systematically films and whatever else you can think pets with ‘glowing fish’ in the US, and the answer must be ‘Yes’. . and Proudhon-style (fairtrade, open- undermined by union bosses messing of. I realise print media as we are is also used in the cotton industry As always, I will look forward to books) shopkeepers had been able to about with half-hearted negotiations, accustomed to it is dead. Make it a especially in South Africa. The latter, Donald ignoring my points and repeating keep control of their own organisational and ‘joint’ actions stifled by pull-outs. monthly affair and don’t be-afraid of along with other non-edible GM crops, exactly the same comments on tests spaces instead of being swamped by A Network Rail strike originally raising the price to £2.50. That’s still a are being touted as a solution to the which were flawed and whose results ideology-drunk upper-class men who had planned in support of the Tube workers good price. production of materials for clothes, are, ultimately, meaningless as the never made a loom, grown potatoes or has been called off, as the unions settled What is the purpose of freedom? Tricky plastics, paper and much else. Yet, most testing conditions will be ignored if this changed a nappy in their lives! with infrastructure group Metronet for question. It was once believed that the of these could be achieved by substituting crop is ever grown commercially. This leads me back to religion because less than proposed in strike ballots. Aslef, working class were not living up to the the various types of hemp, which has lain McKay for centuries now many of the peoples the train drivers union urged its members billing Marx promised - they appeared always been more versatile and better of the global South have been trying to to break ranks for last Tuesday’s strike. to have no idea that they were the for the environment. tell Western fundamentalists - scientistic The RM T have failed to live up to their agent of liberation — because of false GM crops have and are being shown Mikhail’s hand positivists, Materialist Marxists and threats at least as often, but unlike consciousness. All the left (used in the to be both harmful and unnecessary It was good to read Paul-Fran^ois Anarchists, patriarchal Catholic dogmatists Metronet, London Underground have widest sense) had to do was reveal to and so anarchists should be quite happy Tremlett’s critique (12th June) of and ‘born-again’ Protestants alike - to refused to climb down even a little the working class the true nature of about supporting a ban. Bakunin’s nineteenth century materialist get off their backs and listen! For them since the dispute began. their relations with society as a whole. Pirate Ray fundamentalism, which as he and their religion is central to their culture In January there was a walkout, in Magazines, newspapers and such like Alfred Todd (26th June) would surely and way of life and thus their power to March an action was called off, and were the tools for lifting the mist from I have to admit to be amazed by Donald agree is often held as an arrogant front resist the ongoing imperialist enclosure finally, in July, the promised large scale foggy minds. O f course, it has all been Rooum’s seemingly inexhaustible ability or comfort-blanket against the uncertainty of their land and world. strike. In all it has taken RM T’s top to no avail. These tools of consciousness not only to ignore key parts of my and openness of life. Of course Bakunin's ‘God and the brass eight months to organise, having raising (or thought reform) don’t work. argument but also to move the goal However before focusing on the pluses State’ makes some valid points about baiJoted and agreed on action at the What works is activity - praxis. Labour. posts in our debate on GM crops. I’m and minuses of religion let me seize a the way in which a particular literalist end of last year; only to see it put off And that’s the trouble. Where is the starting to think Donald has a spook in chance to loosen the informal hegemony and externalistic notion of God-Above again, and again, and again. Bob space to create an anarchist housing his head about GM and no amount of of Bakuninism in contemporary Western can be seen to reflect and in turn Crowe in particular has been implicated coop, or an anarchist school, or an reasoned discussion or evidence will anarchism with reference to another strengthen popular fatalism, clerical in this lacklustre effort, and is widely anarchist factory? The temporary dislodge him from his position. matter, which is extensively documented domination and polities organised believed to have negotiated calling off a autonomous zones I’ve participated in He seems intent on rewriting history, by Eugene Pyziur in The Doctrine of through force and fraud from the proposed election day strike at the last are a lot of fun. But so what? They’re stating that he made no claim that the Anarchism of Michael Bakunin. If I Centre. But even within the history of moment with Blue Ken. temporary. test of the GM maize proved its safety. hadn’t donated it to Edinburgh libraries Western Christianity there have also As reported in Freedom, under Crowe’s My politics? Black and red (and green). His first letter (3rd April) saw him state fifteen years back I would be able to been recurrent resistance movements leadership a ‘sacked while sober’ strike But with the feeling that traditional class- that the test proved “there was no quote passage after passage from which have stressed the importance of involving RM T members was called off based politics is dead. There are a whole reason ... not to issue a licence’’ for it. Bakunin’s unpublished fantasies and immanence, mutual solidarity, the for an industrial tribunal, which they host of new forms of identification Later he stated that “urging the state to letters to his closest collaborators which priesthood o f all believers, etc. — see for lost, and a strike over rail safety with (religious, ethnic) which could be ban something not known to be harmful reveal the nihilistic and authoritarian example the work of ‘Creation 86% inter-union support was cancelled. articulated towards a counter-hegemony is incompatible with anarchism” (1st ‘shadow’ side of “anarchism’s virile spirituality’ advocate, Matthew Fox, Throughout, members have shown their but they’re off our radar because they May). Now, apparently, Donald says he champion” (Guy Aldred). and the Theology of Liberation of willingness to fight, only to be told to don’t fit the class model. If you’re means something else by his comments. Parallel with his public doctrine of Rosemary Reuther and many others hold on while negotiations continued. interested, check out the writings of the Quite amazingly, he reiterates the spontaneous mass self-activity and who are creatively re-interpreting On the day, strikers managed to close Argentine political scientist, Ernesto validity of the flawed test. Ignoring the organisation from the bottom up, Bakunin Christianity to meet the needs of up to 80% of underground stations, the Laclau. He’s not an anarchist, but he’s fact that the test results were invalid as tried to recruit into a hierarchical secret women and the oppressed masses in biggest number in a decade, showing very smart and knows a thing or two. it used a soon to be banned pesticide, society which would play on ‘evil ‘base groups’ throughout South the potential when ‘leaders’ finally deign Good luck with the changes, and I hope he repeats the claim that they “left the passions’ and push every conflict America, Africa and many other parts to agree to a strike. The fractured and you get a decent response to your government with no reason not to grant situation to the max with the insane of the world. weak semi-actions up until now have questions. My subscription cheque is in a license.” He also (yet again!) hope of being able to secretly lead the Les Ismore given employers plenty of opportunity the post so please don’t stall in sending conveniently ignores the fact that even masses in the desired direction. Of to just shrug and ignore the situation, me the next issue. if the tests were valid, they would be course, here too we must situate or threaten individual troublemakers. Paul-Frangois Tremlett meaningless as the biotech company Bakunin in the context of his times: London Underground has said its deal will only sell its product if the test Baboef’s ‘Conspiracy of Equals’ in Well respected is as good as any in the Rail industry conditions are not enforced. revolutionary France, freemasonry and I’ll turn a blind eye to the personal today, that a pay increase would mean Even more GM Apparently, according to Donald, I Blanquism as a major strands in abuse ( I’ve never heard of him, he’s higher fares and they can’t possibly So far I’ve kept out of the GM debate, am not defending “an anarchist Western European radicalism and never heard of me - big deal) but I keep the final pension scheme open for but I’d like to make a few observations attitude” by being concerned about Russia’s home-grown equivalents, wonder at the reason for David Quick’s valid scientific analysis and testing. new staff. after reading the last few exchanges. leading through to the Bolshevik misrepresentation of my position re Compare this view to the final and Donald Rooum still takes the line that Ironically, in his Wildcat comic of that capture of Marxism and the double- RESPECT (Letters, 26th June) I did not most pressing reason for the strike, which Anarchists should not be trying to ban issue, Donald has ‘Free-Range Egg- entry book-keeping of ‘freely federating endorse their electoral strategy - 1 has gone ahead in spite of a soft-headed GM unless they are proven to cause Head’ stating “anarchists choose Soviet Socialist Republics’ on the one simply suggested that given the forces approach from union leaders - rumours harm. between theories on the basis of hand, and the pitiless Moscow-directed involved included a number of Muslim of 800 job losses within the industry as Well, recent independent research evidence, not wishful thinking.” I quite centralism of the real organs of power, youth politicised by the second Gulf pan of London Undergrounds ‘improved would seem to indicate just that. A agree. Yet this does not seem to be the Party and the secret police. War,it deserved a more sophisticated working conditions’. study by a Dr Pusztai, a very respected Donald’s position, as he continually As a soggy-liberal anarchist possibilist critique than the tongue-poking in 29th The media have blamed the unionists, nutritional scientist, has shown that rats asks us to accept as valid the results of I would like to suggest that it isn’t good . May front page. In the election results, though the need for action is not their fed on a GM diet developed problems - flawed tests which will not be repeated enough for us to suppress this side of it was only the inner-city Muslim turn fault, but the companies*. The pension as opposed to a group that didn’t. This in practice as the conditions which Bakunin’s work and just concentrate on out that saved RESPECT from hole and the mishandling of safety and study was peer-reviewed by the Biological produced them would be ignored. So the positive bits. Perhaps the same complete disaster. My point was that psyche which indulges such fantasies as costs is their fault, and they’re trying to and Biological Sciences Research Council. much for “the basis of evidence”! what was ‘progressive’ about RESPECT secretly guiding World Revolution is heap that shame on their employees. Whilst there appears to be a dearth To justify his position, Donald compares was its attempt to engage politicised construing life equally awry in his Freedom is totally behind the massed of ‘research’ into the direct affect on GM crops to “a machine, rockpile.” Muslims in non-faith based politics. public utterances about never compro rank of the RMT as they drag their own health of GM food, over half o f those Yet neither machines nor rockpiles That this was done via a cynical SWP mising with intermediate forms such as union bosses away from the vague wish- that have been done, have been under cross pollinate with other plants. They front didn’t absolve us of the need to constituent assemblies and aiming ‘to fulness o f negotiation with such people. taken in collaboration with the bio tech do not contaminate surrounding provide a more substantial critique than industry and so it is perhaps unsurprising organisms or evolve. But contamination create a people’s force capable of ‘yah boo-elections suck, and Galloway’s that no ill-effects have been found. is one of the many issues related to GM crushing the military and civil force of a wanker’. Quiz answers Several independent srudies though have Donald is silent about. He has never the State* (quoted without any visible I get tired of the holier-than-thou eyebrow raising by Iain Mackay in his 1. An anti-draft movement in the US in 1917. found evidence of harm. answered my question why his support purism of the likes of Quick, who think initial feature of 29th May). 2. That which governs not at all. Further, as regards indirect ‘harm’, for GM is not authoritarian, given its any discussion of tactics and strategy by It is true that Bakunin could claim 3. An enormous anti-draft riot, which saw surely the fact that GM material can rendency to spread and contaminate other anarchists is a betrayal of principle. For that his bohemian secret society was blacks lynched, draft offices and police and has been found to transfer between plants and, therefore, to eliminate my the record, I don’t believe in parlia really defensive and trying to prevent stations burned and 1,200 dead. Not crops (including organic) over fairly freedom not have a GM environment? mentary politics or in voting for any the posher German lot (organised by often remembered, unless you’ve seen wide areas also not reason enough to Donald says that “we can’t be sure” electoral party. I do, though, think it is Marx with finance from Engels) gaining ‘Gangs of New York’. ‘ban’ it? Farmers who have been sued by is “of no practical value.” Sorry, but possible, as for instance in the Euro control of the First International. Yet 4. The Zulus. In 1879 they ambushed a British the likes of Monsanto for unknowingly when we are talking of turning our Referendum, for anarchists to vote and none of these ‘great men’ would have unit that included the Prince-Imperial, son infringing their ‘property rights’ because planet’s ecology into a big laboratory fight for a vote against something of Louis Napoleon. of contamination, may well feel that for an unproven technology whose been able to dominate if Marx hadn’t ta* page 8 REVIEW Despite their reputation, Edward Hopper's bleak depictions of everyday alienation are far from apolitical, finds Richard Griffin n 1949 one of Edward Hopper’s Hopper tried to capture the “sad clients returned a painting he had desolation of our suburban landscape.” bought the previous day from the In the Surrealist Manifesto (1924) artist. Asked by Hopper what Breton wrote that the aim of art should was wrong with ‘Conference at be “to deepen the foundations of the Night’ the client told him that his real, to bring about an ever clearer and wife had thought that the picture at the same time ever more passionate “too communist”. This was an odd consciousness of the world perceived by comment to make. Hopper was not a the senses.” This is what I think Icommunist; in fact he wasn’t even Hopper’s paintings do. They shine a particularly interested in politics. As the light at modem city living and expose programme to the Tate’s exhibition the lack of connectivity between people notes “there is no political message, no that exists. Most of the pictures have hint of class conflict” in Hopper’s just a single person in them. In those pictures, even ‘Pennsylvania Coal Town’ with more there is little or no contact which explicitly depicts an industrial between the people. In ‘Office at Night’ worker. What the artist, who was bom a man sits at a desk and a woman in a small town north of New York did stands by a filing cabinet. They look do was paint everyday lives in offices, very apart, almost as if they are apartment rooms, hotels, diners, motels, avoiding each other. In ‘Hotel by a brownstones, theatres. Referring to his Railroad’ this time a woman sits in a most famous picture, ‘Nighthawks’, chair while a man looks out of the Hopper said “I was painting the loneliness window. You can almost feel the of a large city.” awkward silence between the two, both Isolation and alienation, prevailing asking ‘why am I here?’ features of modem life, are recurring When not painting city life Hopper themes in many of the pictures in the was painting houses in the countryside. Tate’s exhibition of Hopper’s work. But like his people these houses are also Lonely figures pervade the scenes. In isolated. They seem to have been dropped ‘Sunday’ a man sits on a pavement into the landscape. totally alone. In ‘Automat’ a woman In one of his last works painted four sics at a table again alone nursing a cup years before his death ‘Sun in an Empty of coffee. These are scenes bled dry of Room’ a room is devoid of furniture, o r humanity and social warmth, stripped people, light comes through an open down to the basics. Figures in many of window. This painting seems to sum the paintings look outwards through Hopper up - the room is solitary, silent windows, through doors, across and empty. landscapes - you cannot help thinking that they are looking for a better life, a The Edward Hopper exhibition is at Tate life with meaning. 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We have to intervene in the examining some of the contradictions world as it is, and bast our propaganda which muddy the waters. l l | L f n ______on what happens in that world. I don’t Prohibition did and docs nothing to actually disagree with what Quick says help the problems caused by drug and To be governed is to be watched, inspected, directed, controlled, about RESPECT - my letter said the alcohol addiction according to alltl)c taxed, censored, assessed, conscripted, commanded, by pooplc same thing - that it was an attempt to available research I have looked at, with neither right nor knowledge nor virtue. - P J Promihtm divert the most active elements within showing that things have not moved on the coalition down a parliamentary road. that much since Malatesta’s analysis. As The so