In the long run the freedom of a nation is measured by the freedom In this Issue: of its lowest class; every upward OUT OF THIS WORLD step of that class to the possibility of possessing higher things raises the BEYOND 1984 standard of the nation in the scale BHAVE ON DEMOCRACY of civilization; every time that class is beaten back into the mire, the CORRESPONDENCE whole moral tone of the nation suffers.' J A M E S CONNOLLY

JULY 13 1963 Vol 24 No 22 THE ANARCHIST WEEKLY-4d.

'J ’HE interest shown by the Press sions are that “if the tendency to in the anti-nuclear movement The Press revives the wilder and wilder extremiism con­ as a whole is of quite a different tinues, which seems highly likely” nature now than it was, say six the “influential figures” in the CND years ago. Then the Press was pre­ may decide that “the time has come pared to publicise the marches and to quit”. To our minds Canon demonstrations from the “human Collins, like Mr, Macmillan, is im­ angle”—sore feet, wet bottoms, long­ Anarchist Bogey mune to hints, unpopularity and haired, bearded youths, barefooted, shoving. He loves his job and the unwashed girls, and so on—and is marching from Trafalgar Square to interviews with thjL Press is to in­ anarchists are the biggest danger • for headlines that go with it (and he Buckingham Palace led by Lord Russell vite them to put their questions in those of us who Want C.N.D. to be a gets more of them from the CND tended to write-off any political con­ on the day the King and Queen arrive, protest of. decency." tent the movement might have had. writing and to supply them with platform than from the pulpit). And believes that there is a danger of On the other hand, in the section At most they were a nuisance that Violence from unruly elements. written answers. .This attempt to like Mr. Macmillan he will not quit a “democracy” had to tolerate in its avoid misunderstandings and mis­ of the “Focus” feature dealing With so long as he feels he has a mission Special Branch men have prepared a the Committee of 100—a mixture midst. All that has now changed. report on hooligans who' gatecrashed the statements invariably drives the to fulfil, and a possible clue to what The Press now takes a more hostile Aldermaston C.N.D. march at Easter.' news-hounds away; 'never to return of interview and “atmosphere”—the that is may be found in the final line, and cannot overlook the pos­ The Anarchist movement in Britain is with their written questions The following paragraph is inserted: paragraphs of this “Focus” investi­ sible consequences of the “politi­ non-violent but it is . known that there Sunday Times (complete with photo­ Although the Communist Party has gation on the Mixed-up World of is a rtiinority of dissenters. At present grapher) was among them. But this made sporadic attempts to take over both cisation” of the movement. And of the Committee and C.N.D., the Com­ Canon Collins and the other “influ­ course they are quite right in sens­ a controversy on the use of force is did not prevent them from including ential figures” in CND; being carried out in the correspondence munist element is thought to be tiny. ing a growing maturity in spite of the anarchists in their “Focus” But there is a wide measure of agree­ Nuclear disarmers of all shades of a possible falling off in the number columns of the anarchist journal feature on the “Mixed-Up World of F reedom . ment with the views of the Federation opinion agree on one thing—frustration, of “activists”, and feeling just a CND” last Sunday,,. And who bet- of London Anarchists who crowned the and hence hasty and extreme action little alarmed at what might be the Note the “anarchist extremists act­ .ter to quote (or rais-quote?) than last Aldermaston demonstration by often results from increasing attempts political prospects if the present ing independently of any organisa­ the king-pins of official CND-ism. deliberately breaking up the march itself. by authority to restrict their, protests. trend continues. One can expect tion” “who will stop at nothing” Thus Canon Collin's is quoted as Notice again how the “views” (un­ Canon Collins, speaking with great that the tactic of the Press will “will become violent”. They quote saying that defined) of the Federation of Lon­ passion, should have the last word. therefore be to seek to work up Michael Harwood of the Committee As an anarchist fringe has recently don .Anarchists are linked to their “I think the authorities are mad, quite fears of insecurity in the “respect­ of 100 as saying that he believed been very prominent in the movement alleged “deliberate breaking up” of made to bottle up this kind of frustration able” middle classes, and to divide there was a “danger of violence the task [of keeping ‘the right kind of the Aldermaston march. and you can quote me on that. It will from unruly elements” and disclose balance in CND] is all the more difficult. Of course this is the necessary only get worse. There’s always a risk the movement loosely joined around that in the face of provocation people the nuclear disarmament movement that Special Branch men have pre­ “Inevitably this means; that we sacrifice background material from which pared u report on “hooligans who:a good deal of support for what you to draw blood-curdling conclusions will despair* of democracy.” by scare stories and suggestions that might call the more normal public., certain “undesirable” elements are gate-crashed the Aldermaston and to drive a wedge into this move­ To the extent that Canon Collins march”. This was immediately fol­ And Professor Richie Calder, vice- and his friends are in fact the voices infiltrating the movement and driv­ chairman of CN1> who said that he ment of the people which still resists ing out the moderate elements. And lowed by a reference to the non­ the political parties’ kiss of death. of- moderation and “protests of de­ violent nature of the anarchist move­ did not approve! of widening the cency” one would expect that the in this campaign the anarchist bogey movements,,, ternifjof reference, he-. (Even the Communists, surely the ment,in Britain whieliJiaasys&Jiaz. m w ill loom large. Already. -yondnheT(^q^a^SHft#ailded!: >> ’ ■ experienced infiltrators --tactic -of- the -Prats- - U , cf .reaction amples of this new line have a ^minority of diSSbntefS” . K&aders political racket, have got nowhere. would aim at strengthening their of the Sunday Telegraph will put “Anarchist Jle/nents have always been peared in the columns of the Sun­ latent—now they,; are coming out. Why,' the poor dears have been hand. The Sunday Times piece day Telegraph and the Sunday two and tow together and conclude You’ve got to remember this generation blamed for all the trouble in Scot­ though not as slighting as the Press Times. The former which special­ that the “unruly elements” and the has strontium in its bones and sputniks land “caused by a lunatic fringe of has tended to be hitherto does not, ised in uncovering Trotskyte con­ “hooligans” are in fact this “minor­ in its eyes; older people can’t under­ anarchists”. We have Professor in this writer’s opinion, do this more spiracies and the like, published a ity of dissenters”. stand.” Calder’s word for this and for the than half heartedly. But perhaps ■ The Sunday Telegraph piece nat­ Calder is also convinced that most of fact that the biggest danger to the the Press is just slow in changing its news item which we reprint in full: the trouble in Scotland has been caused The Special Branch fears that anar­ urally aroused interest in the Press by a lunatic fringe of anarchists, and not CND as a “protest of decency” line, and that it’s only a question of chist extremists acting independently of world and specifically in the relaT the Communists who have sometimes comes not from the CP but from the time before they canonise Collins in any organisation will become violent tionship of the anarchists to, the got the blame. “People do anything . . . terrible anarchists!). Fleet Street and witch-hunt the during the official visit of King Paul Committee of 100. Our policy on under the C.N.D. label but here the And the Sunday Times’ conclu- “wild extremists”. and Queen Frederika of the Hellenes on July 9-IZ INDUSTRIAL NOTES They know that these extremists will stop at nothing to embarrass the Royal visitors. Demonstrations are being arranged by Earl Russell’s “Save Greece Now" committee. Support is being given also by the STRIKES & PROTESTS BY FRENCH WORKERS Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, the Committee of 100, the League for Demo­ YVTORKERS in France are once again of the low wages and of the under­ test against the schedules of hours injured in the head and was carried off cracy in Greece and minority groups demonstrating and taking indus­ development in the area. He gives his worked during the peak periods of bleeding while Security Guards forced from Greek and Cypriot students’ organ­ trial action against the policies of de support but at the same time seems to travel. the tractors and marchers off the road isations. They are all non-violent. Gaulle’s government. The Paris Metro favour “frank and permanent talks” so While these disputes have been going into the ditches. After this eighteen But Mr. Michael Harwood, secretary was disrupted last week by a surprise as to avoid any strike action in the on, farmers in the South of France have farmers were arrested. Elsewhere mayors of the London Committee of 100. which strike of guards. This led to the reduc­ future. At the same time he expresses taken direct action against the farm have declared a 48 hours administrative tion of services, with some lines being the hope, that after a settlement of the policy of the government. They have strike. brought completely to a standstill. The dispute, there should be no victimisa­ followed the method of the Breton The French government has partially action was totally unexpected and early tion “at the expense of the trade union farmers last year, and have marched agreed to the demands of the farmers morning passengers were hostile towards militants”. and driven their tractors to the local and have banned further imports of NOW ON S A L E : railwaymen whom they thought were The incident that brought about the market towns. There they have shown apricots and tomatoes. Bans on other leaving their trains. Windows in car­ lock-out occurred during a demonstra­ their disgust by protesting over the lack produce are promised if the government riages were broken due to the very tion in support of the Paris rates of pay. of markets for their surplus produce. thinks these are necessary. Farmers packed compartments. A trainee worker brpke a window and They have blocked the roads with tons have been searching markets for im­ Travel in Paris was further aggravated the company, acting as if he was their of surplus potatoes, tomatoes and other ported produce, and tomatoes and plums ANARCHY 29, by the state visit of the King of own property as is usual with trainees crops for which there is no market. from Algeria have been thrown onto the and apprentices, ordered him back to Morocco, which caused widespread traffic France has been importing tomatoes, roads. an enlarged issue containing an jams making the motorists even more his factory and then gave him the sack. These imports of fruit and vegetables 18,000-word account of the apricots and other fruits and vegetables, irate. When his fellow workers heard about while home farmers have themselves from Algeria are part of the Evian this, they organised another demonstra­ "Spies for Peace" story written The surprise strike was followed the been producing bumper crops. Last agreement. (This also includes wine, by all sections of the libertarian next day by a 4-hour stoppage which tion to demand his re-inslatcment. In year 53,000 tons of apricots were and with a> 60% increase harvest in reply the company decided on a lock­ left, and discussing the REAL had widespread support among railway grown and this year the crop is estimated France this year, vine growers are also official secret, the reception given employees. These actions produced re­ out. to be 130,000 tons. Tomatoes have in­ making protests to the government). In More recent news of the dispute Is to the RSG revelations and the sults for directly after this second strike creased from 262,00 tons to 410,000 tons, this agreement, France undertook to buy the Paris Transport Board agreed to the that Sud-Aviation have now re-opened peach crops are up from 310,000 tons to the surplus agricultural produce and implications for the future of the their factories and have stated that new scales of wages which they had held 400,000 tons. With these increases in with their oil interests in Algeria, the activities of the "spies", out against for some time. there are to be no sackings. They the crops, the prices have fallen. French government is reluctant to break The issue also contains a review There have also been disputes in other have also said that there will be no this agreement as they fear Algerian of the film "The Damned" (about industries. At the State-owned Sud- loss of pay during the time of the lock­ The farming community have shown intervention in the Sahara oilfields. out. Even though equal rates of pay their utter contempt for the authorities a secret underground government Aviation, makers of the Caravelle, fac­ While farmers produce abundant crops have still to be won, the workers’ solid­ for causing this chaos and waste. In establishment) and the reactions tories near Toulouse, 7,000 workers have people in other countries starve. Agree­ arity has forced the employers to back their protests they have clashed with of public schoolboys to the recent been iocked out by the bosses. For ments in power politics are put before the police. Four men were seriously article on anarchism and the public eleven weeks now workers have been down and has gained further strength in the satisfaction of human needs. taking strike action for short periods the struggle for these just demands. hurt with many others sustaining minor schools. This week, while these disputes have to back their demands for the same rates There has also been a one-day protest injuries when Security Guards tried to Order extra copies of Anarchy 29, of pay as those in the Paris region. The break ,up a demonstration of 5,000 been going on, the government of de strike at the Peugeot factory at Sochau*. Gaulle has been speedily preparing legis­ employers have offered a 4% boost but This was organised when a court decis­ farmers at Avignon. The Security ANARCHY is Published by say they will not pay the Paris rate. Guards charged the demonstrators with lation to restrict the right of the worker ion backed the sacking of several work­ to strike. When this legislation is Freedom Press at 1/6 During the lock-out the factories were ers who were dismissed for their part the butt ends of rifles, while the farmers on the last Saturday of every month. occupied by the gendarmerie. Support threw their unsaleable produce. passed, it will affect the nationalised In | demonstration las) November. The industries and public services. In these, for the strikers has been given by the reservations staff of Air France in Paris At Meyrargues in the Bouches du Archbishop of Toulouse. Ho has spoken also stopped work for 24 hours in pro­ Rhdne department, a local mayor was Continued on peg* 4 2 F i l l u €

r m in w pm n o tic n uHcouragro •cowmeeMg cbance and expansion test it M to f ilia l change. Some rulers, as n Medieval Europe and imperai China, even tried In control economic activity for religious and moral ends. It eras the collapse of feudalism before an emergent capitalism chat began the pre­ Beyond 1984 sent period in which the controlling relatively slow economic r*p»n*io class sees everything in an economic the past produced political change light. sheer turmoil and complexity of n The new wealth that capitalism created mic life today produce* political at w as small at first and was used almost among moat people, unless the occas entirely by the capitalists themselves. twitch between Tweedledum Later the lower middle class and sections Tw eed ledee at elections* can be rags of the workers were brought into the as change In the bread and or capitalist orbit hut it was not until comparatively recently (particularly since atmosphere of modern society » the last war) that the capitalists realised political and social ideas are b ignored and physical, intellectual, * that only by bringing more and more igrsog people into the production-consumption ual and social values deteriorate race which is capitalism can the pace be Anyone who looks forward to a maintained and increased. For if capi­ when capitalist society becomes istu talism is to thrive it must continually with wealth and thinks that one $ • 4 create and use wealth at an accelerating day well all relax and enjoy the rate. The resulting mad scramble which ducts of the automated plant is s jp tf characterises an advanced capitalist This is one thing which is certainly society has had a side effect pleasing to in the capitalist programme for H a the controlling class. For whereas the mean that individual membes of :b t ACCORDING

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pit it at* j or: My God is o Capital ist God Shave on Democracy i nd wtfftg m oct in ih 4 tmjwsrai* £ * g m t w p o k (HafcMMMAAM n a mrw rg§ gfKi A UTHORITARIANS believe that soc- and methods of analysis. ieties are exquisitely fragile and The chief aim of tbit book it lo re­ must be guarded, at all costs, against place the Government of Professional disruption and confusion. Libertarians Politicians, by a Government cil the lUStkc MM hold that human societies are constantly people. One is reminded of Bertrand changing, and that the material and Russell's opinion that "no government 'itoth o f spiritual factors determining change, by a democracy, either in its political must be rediscovered in each generation, acts or in the opinions which it foster*, ial lo i h© 4 il' societies are not to fossilise and die. ever did or could rise above medio­ for they People wonder if central administration crity.” "The initiation,” he continues, ,| In the hi| and authority can ever be dispensed “of all wise or noble things, come* from with. The question is not immediately individuals. The honour and glory of relevant. Neither good government nor the average man is that, he is capable th o u g h i ijH gieiiiki the rule of majority, but more and more of following that initiative;; that he oan freedom from administration, with respond internally to wise and noble l he MKkrr emphasis on decentralisation of power, sayings and be led to them with his eyes 'OHXf AUOlMJ is the underlying theme of Vinoba *s open.” Speeches (1951-1960), now collected in Though the aim of Sarvodaya is Ihe cu volume form*. The reader is bound to freedom from Governments, explains o f kin savour the author's incomparable style Vinoba, he does not moan absence of place like government but an administration which eg- it « governs least. Consider for a moment : and says is just Urn—Alai the behaviour of the relation of an ordinary taxpayer to oc • * citizens towards tae another needs be The Alik gospel to very interesting— a Government Officer. The taxpayers K i in * rtripMV U& UJM6 ot thought cgi oe iw o oy are collectively the officers employers; \to for Hmt sake a# k k | •■Mile' city and fellowship. The demcius of and yet the average official assumes great BOOKS? legalism to be found In dealings today, Sermon on the Mount. The sermon e authority, to an extent where the indi­ Bfi could he steadily reduced till they dis­ the crystahsation of Christian absolutist vidual taxpayer is made to feel a humble appear. This is precisely what is meant morality, a morality which one would We can supply subject is to tremble and whose duty? I by more and more freedom from gov­ be forgiven for thinking was in opposi­ ANY book in print. obey. The same is more or less true in ernment, and this freedom from external tion lo the ideas o f Beaver brook. But Also out-of-print books searched for public services. Even if you have to restraint or compulsive administration Beaverbrook shows us how ludicrous —and frequently found! This includes make enquiries at a Railway Station or is in essence, the natural state of human that idea would be. Faced with "Lay An paper-backs, children's books and text a Post Office, the clerk behind the win­ affairs. not up for yourselves, treasures upon books. (Please supply publisher's name dow is in a position of momentary if possible). j The present notion that service could Earth” he replies with devastating sim­ power; he can decide, when to notice ok using ihM couicq (neology as a justifi- be effectively rendered only through plicity: "The attitude of Jesus towards that you desire attention. He can, if cation for wealth. To heap scorn on power is quickly dispelled, for as Dada property or money has been much de­ NEW BOOKS he happens to be in a bad mood, cause the church at one point and call on its Ays: “A man whose honest intention is bated. Some would represent Him as you considerable annoyance by giving aid to win a debating point is bloody Tidy 14 Assassination B. Abro 16/- do win and keep power for the Promo­ a kind of primitive Communist con­ short replies in rough tones, leaving you faiuoua, aa Beaverbrook must know. Going Away Clancy Sigal 30/- tion of Public Welfare and social good demning all personal wealth. The The Essence of Trade Unionism as ignorant as before. Likewise, a petty Ai an anarchist 1 am prepared to go |ls always on the look-out for circum­ Churches have never adopted this view. Victor Feather 10/6 police-constable can, on the slightest so far with Christians, providing they stances that will be conducive to the The most reasonable view would appear Socialism in Britain A. L. Morton 5/- pretext, bullyyou and cause you a good owe their allegiance solely to Christ and f success of his own bid for power. He to be that Jesus was simply indifferent deal of inconvenience. Ironically enough j constantly has to strike not only to to money except in so far as it affected God. But when they start confusing the SECOND-HAND these men are called “public servants". capture but to retain power as the most for good or evil the welfare and hap­ central issue to justify their own idio­ The Cult of Incompetence Emil Faquet The ordinary Voter, far from finding syncrasies and their own unthinking pur­ potent instrument of Social Service." piness of the individual soul” and again 3/-; History of Socialism (1909) Thomas himself the source of all power, is con­ suit of financial gain at the expense of The root idea of a democratic organ­ “He only objected to wealth in so far Kirkup 5/-; A Plan for Democratic tent to be bossed over by every official, as it is a corrupting influence too". “It others 1 have no time for them at all. Britain (1938) G. D. H. Cole 3/6; The ization is that representation of the he may be required to deal with. So is easier for a camel to go through a Beaverbrook is one of the body of men Government of our Country F. H. Spen­ people should be as simple, practical long as democratic control is remote and who have defined noble causes probably cer 2/6; Jennie Gerhardt Theodore and direct as possible. But the politi­ needle's eye than for a rich man to rare, so long as public administration sernJ-consciouflJy, to justify their own Dreiser (Binding weak) 4/-; Lag's Lexi­ cian, is in the Very nature of things enter the Kingdom of God" is set against is centralised, this sense of individual sordid excesses. con Paul Tempest 3/6; Private Angelo obliged to give priority to his own the parable of the talents and Beaver- impotence, before the powers that be, Today we can see the Church (of Eric Linklater 3/-; The Road to Buenos success and that of his party; repre­ brook claims that “to explain this . - . Ayres Albert Londres 3/6; Out of the is difficult to avoid. Vinoba’s remedy whatever type) justifying its own blat­ sentation of his people becomes second­ by saying it refers to the exercise of People (1941) J. B. Priestley 3/-; Free­ is to do away with authority delegated antly anti-Christian attitudes to war, ary. This is a serious flaw in the pre­ individual talents is beside the point, dom Road Howard Fast 3/-; Spacetime from the centre to the circumference. for such talents must in the world as communism, birth control, slavery, Inn Lionel Britton 3/6; Recollections of sent democratic system of struggle for Removal of the sting of power (prero­ God made it, be largely devoted to racialism, etc. by the most devious logic. the Assize Court Andn£ Gide 6/-; Miss power. Every candidate strives with all gative) from administrative positions The church is simply an adjunct of the Ludington’s Sister Edward Bellamy 3/6; his might to get his party into the saddle. growing food or m a k in g things and buy­ seems to be one of the methods of ing or selling them” (My God is a State, not a forerunner of the Kingdom Womanhood and Marriage Richard Har­ The question may well be asked whether removing corruption. Capitalist God and his Kingdom a Com­ ot God on Earth. However much ley 3/-; A Socialist and War James Con­ the passion for power is, any less a bar True freedom connotes self-discipline mercial Kingdom). Beaverbrook professes to follow the nolly 3/6; Doctor Heidenhoff’s Process to human fellowship, than the craving Edward Bellamy 3/6; Eric Gill: Work­ which is the only true discipline. It-is Beaverbrook goes on to inform us that word of Christ and not the words of for possessions? If economic competi­ man Donald Attwater 3/-; Economic this self-rule which constitutes the life- the Church or the State, he fails be­ tion is against man's best interest, sub­ Jesus does not condemn private pro­ Problems of Socialism in the USSR principle of real democratic conduct. perty (though he appears to this writer cause he deceives himself. It is impos­ mits Vinoba, the competition for power, (paper) J. Stalin (1952) 3/-; Social Government after all, is a matter of to have eschewed it personally, except sible for a man in his position to do Struggles in Antiquity Max Beer 17/6; even within a democratic framework is priorities—of compromise, not dogma. when it comes to mean more to the anything else. After all the extravagant The Common People 1746-1938 G. D. H. also injurious to Public Welfare. If It is quite, obvious that democratic possessor than his soul. (Would Beaver- self-justification is over I can only con­ Cole and Raymond Postgate 9/-; Portrait the concentration of wealth in the hands power can only operate within a frame­ brook throw up the Express empire and clude that Christ was right. Because in Grey Norman Howarth Hignett 4/-; of a few is inimical to social prosperity, work of consent. But although this is become a Christian hermit, if he became Beaverbrook is a rich man he has inter­ A Light in the Sky John Comley 5/-; the concentration of political power in Flame of Freedom Owen Rattenbury the first essential, it is by no means the convinced that his money was coming ests in Government and the State which, the hands of a few is even more detri­ (The Story of the Tolpuddle Martyrs) between God and his soul, in all pro­ even if it could be supposed that they last. Something more than consent is mental to the freedom of the common 8/6; England Today: A Survey of her required if democracy is to be more bability to be mocked at as a scruffy did not prevent his being a Christian, man. That is why decentralisation of Economic Situation F. Cyril James than negatively successful—there must beatnik by his own newspapers? Pro­ effectively prevent him from looking (1932) 3/-; Travels in the North Karel Power and a wide sharing of responsible be a common belief in the value and bably not, for such as he retain a talent objectively and humbly at the words Capek 3/-; The World of Cant (1892) authority are put forward as one out­ for self deception). of Christ in a spirit of genuine enquiry. 4 fty Argentine Diary (1945) Ray importance of what is being done and come of the acceptance of democratic Beaverbrook also informs us that Jospehs 3/-. the commonsense that all have, in some values. As is the case with most books of this measure, the opportunity of contribut­ Class War is out of the question because sort they are interesting largely because By and large it is believed that war ing to it. it would cause suffering but there is no they afford a glimpse into the mind of is made by governments and not by the Not majority but unanimity or near parallel condemnation of national war. a man. I cannot say that I feel greatly people of a country- If this be true, it Freedom Bookshop unanimity is the key-note of Vinoba's Presumably this is because in the first edified by my glimpse into the mind of is imperative that citizens tackle their (Open 2 p.m.—5.30 p j l daily; political philosophy. It is of course instance Beaverbrook would have his his lordship but I have been greatly national problems °ne after another, 10 u x —1 p.m. Thursdays; questionable if unanimity is possible on throat cut, if only metaphorically, and instructed. Even now, however. I feel independently, by their own strength. 10 x n .—5 p.m. Saturdays). every decision. The stress however is in the second instance he would stand that the best thing about the book is “If we fail to do this, warns Vinoba, on the assurance of freedom to the weak to gain a lot of money. Besides I rather when it is laid flat on its back and it 17a MAXWELL ROAD and allow all authority to remain in think Christ condemned both or neither, looks like a glossy and expensive box of FULHAM SW6 Tel: REN 3736 Government hands, it will be difficult to since he certainly has not been quoted 100 cigarettes—it seems an ironically * Democratic Values (selected speeches maintain Peace in the World.” of Acharya Vinoba Bhave). Published as being in favour of one sort of war fitting comment. by: Sarva Seva Sangh, Varanasi, pp.237. N o sh ir B elpodiw ala . and against another. C h a r l e s Radclcffe . 3

Included in the top-tot spy stories in bubonic plague, etc. They could not say this period of Bond-age must be the “There is no known antidote to this, so story of Constable Raymond Hermitage we shall do nothing". The exposure of of Wimbledon, Surrey ,who was off duty “R.S.G.’s” he thought “exposed us to (as if a P.C. is ever off duty!) in that the terrible sufferings of total breakdown haunt of vice, a jazfcefcb; his brother of normal communications and means told him something i(an official secret of Government should a nuclear attack no doubt) which made him speak to occur which was in no way the respon­ two girls and a youthffl He masqueraded sibility of the Government of this July 13 1963 Vol 24 No 22 as one interested in i the nuclear dis­ country”. General Shoup said to the armament movementlwho would like House Appropriations Committee, "Now, to help them in a project which (to quote about the casualty business. I have his own words) sounded “something very said for the last two years that when serious”. The youths (17) said, "For the nuclear exchange of the magnitude what we are going to do we will get that is possible occurs—and there will five years if we are caught”. The P.C. be even greater capacity later—that we AN ANARCHIST DECLARATION was undaunted andlwas resolved to will have not millions but 700 to 800 assist in this heinous project, be it arson, million dead. Although I did not give sabotage or indeed, assassination. He him the figures, that is exactly the figures told the magistrate, “I tried to gain their 8-13 SU in 1962, and may rise to a peak Khrushchev used in the past month. I OF AIMS & PRINCIPLES ? confidence by making them believe I value of 50 SU in 1963”. A toothpaste have no communication with him nor was interested in their cause. I was which removes radioactive strontium he with me, but that is exactly the same Continued trying to find out what they were going from the system by way of the saliva figure”. . . The United States Atomic PART 2 yond doubt and Press calumny; to do, as I believed it could have been was put on sale in Finland. . . . Energy Commission said there had been Since the function of this journal which would strengthen our public something more serious”. In the line evidence of events in Russia “which may is to communicate anarchist ideas impact as propagandists without of duty the police-constable pressed on, Meetings in the US of the House be nuclear tests of very low yield”. and to publicise, support and enco­ regardless of the moral and physical Appropriations Committee to discuss the Chinese and Soviet representatives met diluting our independence and per­ 1964 Defence Dept, budget, revealed that to discuss ideological differences. . . . urage all activity which furthers the peril involved. He did not shrink from sonality as individuals; and last, the loathsome implication that he was according to General Shoup a 100-mega­ revolutionary objectives of anarch­ but not least the formulation of a supporter of the .Committee of 100. ton bomb, could not be stopped for “It ism, or is an incentive to people to The Council for the Care of Churches such a “programme” would oblige To ensure that thei plan (whatever it will burn the place up” without coming reports that since the last war (i.e. 1945) study the anarchist arguments, even all those of us who profess to be was) could be carried out, he and his down. Mr. Mahon: “A coupe of 100- one church in twelve has bad a fire and adverse publicity is no cause for something more than armchair- brother drove them all to that hotbed megaton bombs detonated in a high incendiarism is one of the chief causes. alarm or necessarily lost on thinking anarchists to state clearly where we of sedition, Raynes Park. There they burst where they could not be very well 200 members of the South-east region people who are “frustrated” by the stand now, and to what extent we started to carry out their desperate intercepted, might immobilize the New Christian Campaign for Nuclear Dis­ political game and are groping for can sink any tactical differences and project and the constable arrested them England area, New York and New armament were refused admission to a practical alternative. But anar­ just in the nick of lime. At Wimbledon England”. Secretary Vance of the Army Guildford Cathedral for silent prayer. concert our efforts as propagandists. gave evidence that chemical and biologi­ chist propaganda and activity will Magistrates’ Court the two girls were Mrs. Madalyn Murray, who was active To judge by the correspondence given conditional discharge and the cal materials did concern his Depart­ be efficacious in spite of the lies, in securing the Supreme Court ruling on columns of Freedom , discussion be­ charge against the youth was dismissed ment. ‘T o that end, sir, we are pro­ school prayers said she would be “more half-truths and Press campaigns tween anarchists seems to revolve —for pasting an R.S.G.’ poster on a curing additional munitions during the than happy to tour atheistic Russia”. against our ideas, so long as we around three principle topics: indi­ waff without consent! Constable Hermi- coming years which would increase A Rotary Club offered her a one-way present arguments which are in­ vidualism and communism; non­ tage, your country salutes you! .... rather substantially our capability to ticket but she said she would prefer a formed, irrefutable and practical as violence and violence; small-scale deliver chemical and bacteriological return ticket. . . . well as human and principled, and or mass production. On govern­ Alongside R aymond Hermitage the materials on target. In addition, we narratives of Harold) Philby, Alger Hiss, are increasing the funds for chemical are determined to give them thement, sex, authority and a whole Coloured people are not now to be widest publicity. To elaborate and Captain Ivanov, Burgess and Maclean, and biological research and develop­ host of other topics we seem to have ment so as to press forward in new barred from working on Walsall buses. communicate our ideas; these are Dr. Giuseppe Martefi which have filled The Procurator-Fiscal for Edinburgh no differences or shades of interpre­ our papers in the laA weeks seem small types of weapons which might be able denied that a man’s arms were broken the tasks which should engage all tation. Without underestimating the beer. A routine case was the defection to be used in such a situation.” Mr. our activity, our' intelligence, our importance of tactics we would sug­ Sikes: “Does intelligence tell us what when his fingerprints were taken. He of a Corporal in thfc Intelligence Corps complained of pain after his arrest. He understanding of the social environ­ gest that the differences between who was engaged In monitoring East the Russians are really doing in this ment and the political climate of anarchists are only tactical ones, German and Russian radio communica­ field?” Secretary Vance: “Our intelli­ was x-rayed and a breakage was found. He was returned to custody and a police the day. that what unites us, what we have tions he said he had left his post “to gence indicates that they are devoting work for a better land more peaceful considerable attention to it” . . . Mr. officer “in accordance with routine pro­ In this writer’s opinion the demon­ in common are basic principles of cedure sought to obtain the man’s finger strations organised by the Com­ “decency”, which not only inspire life”. . . . Sikes: “How far are we going in the way of warning system and in providing impressions”. Subsequent examination mittee of 100 are examples of pro­ our objectives but perforce must determined that there was no recent According to thelNew York Times, a gas mask and similar defensive paganda which differ from the control, limit, our means, our tactics. State Senator D. Clinton Dominick with­ measures?” Gen. Wheeler, intervening fracture. “It may be that the pain com­ Aldermaston marches and the day Only by accepting this for oneself drew a bill to makeichool air raid drills “They are in the hands of the troops, plained of in the left elbow is due to to day activities of the CND only as well as for those anarchists with compulsory becausdp’It would not be but we need better types”. Mr. Sikes: mild soft tissue injury. Such injury may relate to the circumstances surrounding in so far as they imply—assuming whom we have_.dtffe££BC££^flfl-la£lic. ■fflSi’Sfi*’ f o r j the-jjlialatlire ..to-cenuiiC-. “1 aifSiimi» thp. civilia^ n ^ ylatjyn the participants are unconscious of' “caTquestions can”discussion be posi­ three shelter drjflsfa year in all of our was almost completely unprotected in the man’s arrest in connectidn‘~with the the realities—that the existing legal tive and result in agreement or at schools when most of them have no these fields”. Secretary Vance: “That present charges, and in that situation it least a clear understanding of the shelters. It would serve no purpose, is right”. . . . is not proper to say more about it at processes are the barrier and not the this time". . . . means, to the achievement of radical real differences that exist. Much of and might even be harmful to have changes in society. The former is re­ the debate on violence/non-violence children go to shelters that were not A Mr. Poston from Devizes sprang there”. On June 1 1st, the American in the Guardian to the defence of Porton M rs. Eliza Akers , of Peter End, Nor­ volutionary, the latter reformist, has been sterile simply because Federal Radiation (Council Report said in a fine confused letter protesting that many of the advocates of non­ folk directed in her will that her pet whatever Bertrand Russell may have “Measurements of (strontium-90 in food Porton was working in defence against parrot should be killed and buried with said! And that this has been under­ violence have been so dogmatic that supplies and the tptal diet in the U.S. germ warfare and it was only horrid her. She left £2,127, most of it to Our stood by the activists of the Com­ they have refused even to examine shows that the levels rose from a value official secrecy which obscured the fact Dumb Friends’ League. mittee of 100 came out in the Sun­ the arguments in favour of “vio­ of 4-8 strontium units (SU) in 1961 to that they were working on antidotes to Jon Quixote . day Times features which quoted lence”, and have indulged in the Michael Harwood as saying: “You fanciful such as our comrade Ernie start with nuclear disarmament, but Crosswell does this week in our the confidence to work within the scale then you find you’re involved in all correspondence columns.* It is a AROUND THE GALLERIES that suits their temperament the English social injustice, everything that’s pity, and while one is tempted to have always believed that there was wrong”. Excellent! follow Charles Radcliffe’s and Chris TT is to be regretted that the exhibition painters who can lose a garish red some inherent virtue in sheer size with the result that most of our minor What the anarchists link up with Rose’s suggestion that the subject of 29 paintings by the late Nicolas within a mosaic of broken pastel colours painters, and we have so many of them, the Committee of 100 is, engaged the be dropped and we all get together de Stael does not include any work so that the eye is never distracted by Sunday Timetf feature writer much to do propaganda, we resist this painted before 1944 or that at least one one particular passage within the paint­ have obeyed the dealers and the local more than wanting to understand of his portraits Nof his companion critics and attempted to rupture their solution not only because it is un­ ing. Yet de Stael never renounced the little talents over such huge areas of Jeannine GuilIoux$jhould not have been cliches of the visual world and each what they and what we stand for, , realistic, but also because the ques­ sterile hardboard. We love the English and from that drawing conclusion. tion is not an academic one. How­ honoured by beings shown in this exhi­ painting is but an abstract variation of abstract painters for their sweet person­ ever distant may be theanarchist bition organized by 'Gimpel Fils of 50 the world of the common man and his alities, their shy little middle class By this approach he would at South Molton Street, W.I., for it was wife. Beneath his brush sky, field, the least have understood the anarchist revolution, the fact is that through­ smiles and the diffident way they stand Jeannine who shared the poverty and empty sun-washed villages, - the blue and answer Our boorish questions but ■ role in the social struggle. We con­ out the world revolutionary situa­ the heartache of this troubled man until Mediterranean or the tumbling mass of ceive of an anarchist organisation tions exist now and will arise next we wish so much that they would not her death in 1946. Nicolas de Stael died arclight-lit footballers became trans­ reflect all this in their paintings. l not as a political party but as the year and the year after for which by his own hand in 1955 and this hand­ muted into crystals of colours to reflect I most effective means to co-ordinate people will have to seek solutions. ful of exquisite paintings are his gifts the earthly scene. But de Stael included the multifarious activities of anar­ If we anarchists fold our arms and to the gods for his few brief years of in his alchemy the ability to create a T^rOBODY loves Kasmin but he has chist propagandists. This writer is say that we are only interested in life. feeling for space within the narrow con­ ■ been too long involved in the art not alone among anarchists in be­ the anarchist revolution, non-vio­ Why he should have killed himself fines of his canvases and in a simple racket to worry overmuch about that lieving that organisation is possible, lence, the abolition of government still remains a mjstery and provides still-life such as “Lagnes, nature morte” and now he sits in his newly sponsored small talk for the dealer’s salons and in he achieves this merely by a few brush as well as necessary, without the and of money, and that every other art gallery at 118 New Bond Street, W.l., one single day I was given three differ­ strokes of a darker tone so that the gleaning the rotting harvest of Lawrence / consequent growth of a bureaucracy revolution has nothing to do with ent versons by three different dealers whole falls back into a third dimension; Alloway’s unlamented 1960 “Situations” or a loss of individuality, so long us, then indeed we accept the role that ranged from police persecution, while in a collage “Composition fond exhibition. Kasmin was fortunate enough is it is not imposed but springs from of saints and permanent protesters. sexual scandal to that good old standby bleu” composed of a few strips of col­ to have the court painter David Hockney ( a basic need. For the first time We must seek to influence the of the art establishment that de Slael oured paper he hangs the whole in space late of the Tottenham Court Road since the end of World War II world as it is now in an anarchist had exhausted his potentialities as an by the addition of two inches or less of School in his stable and in the current anarchist propaganda could possibly direction, and this we can only do artist. Gimpel Fils in their catalogue darker paper. exhibition at Kasmin’s gallery he is benefit considerably by a co-ordina­ by living among the people and not of the artist’s work give three lines to showing the work of Bernard Cohen who tion, of our activities and an attempt in some sterilised social laboratory de Stael’s birth in ; St. Petersburg on was almost the only painter to outlive where ideas are pure, individuals January 5th, 1914, and add the addi­ TT is unfortunate that William Scott the “Situations” exhibition by virtue of at elaborating a statement of Aims tional information that he was the son his own talent. Cohen’s current work and Principles. Daily, at Freedom perfect, and conditions idea. should be exhibiting his recent paint­ of a Baltic aristocratic family, distin­ ings at the Hanover Gallery at 32a St. is as pleasing and as decorative as a Press we receive enquiries from guished for their military tradition and *We recommend to our comrade the George Street, W.l. at the same time roll of patterned cloth from Liberty’s people interested in a general state­ series of articles by Gene Sharp in that one of de Stael’s ancestors was as the de Stael exhibition was showing, department store and an odd critic or ment of what we anarchists stand Peace News with which we are not in Baron Eric de Stael, the husband of for though executed on a larger scale two has demanded to know what Cohen for and how we propose to achieve agreement, but which are in this writer’s Madame de Stael, but they dismiss the there is a pathetic lost look about them. is trying to communicate to them. But our ends. As a silent observer (and opinion a serious attempt to examine a painter’s death on the 16th of March, They contain all that is bad in English it is the same type of idiot question target on occasion) ofthe violence/ human, social situation and the possible 1955, with just three words “Death in abstract painting, the lack of confidence that one might address to the pattern solutions. We also commend Michael Antibes”. It was in 1942 that de Stael in the communication, the faulty use of on the wallpaper and the chances are non-violence, productivity/mass abandoned conventional painting for that these critics in the wee small hours production debates in the correspon­ Randle’s first article on Algeria for its thin washes of colour over large areas objectivity. It seems that at last even abstract painting and: in ten short years so that the hardboard peers back at us probably even perform this Barrie rite; dence columns of Freedom these the non-violent movement is taking a he produced some of the loveliest works like a dirty-minded old woman behind but Cohen’s world is charming and in­ past months, this writer still believes look at the world situation as it is. of that genus. tatty curtains, the spidery schoolmistressy consequential and one simply accepts or that the anarchists have the wit to What a pity if this were to coincide His faultless command of colour com­ lines connecting one amorphic blob to rejects it according to one’s taste or produce a “programme” which with the anarchists putting on the position is so evident in these paintings another sad little smudge. Whereas the mood. Meanwhile Kasmin broods. would make our intentions clear be­ blinkers! on show, for he is one 'of the few continental painters have invariably had Arthur Moyse . wo are part of Therefore Check your Facts ! obedience to an external authority is Three Heads ? CENTRAL LONDON irrelevant in one sense. On the other CHANGE OF MEETING PLACE Comrades , hand, if we deliberately ignore external D ear Editors , 405, Strand, W.C.2. (Over Railway Lost A brief reply to Chris Rose: — reality, we soon land in trouble. But Come on Arthur, you’re evading the Property Office and “En Passant” Coffee I don't wish to further the violence issue. I never did refute the fact that Bar appropriately enough!) vs. non-violence controversy but I would this is a question 'loft-learning about the nature of reality rather than submitting anarchism is a multitude of philosophies, JULY 14 Jack Robinson: like to ask Comrade Rose to check his The Sacco-Vanzetti Case. to a will or set of rules. did I now? What I did, and still d o ,. facts before he attempts to ‘smear’ those refute, is the fact that you could be JULY 21 Brian Leslie: who have the audacity to disagree with Quantitively, i suppose, God is Anarchism and Automation superior to the individual. But I thought the living incarnation of them all, when JULY 28 Max Patrick: him, every other anarchist in existence has Comrade Rose (first paragraph) as­ anarchists were concerned with quality! Some Minor Revolutionary Characters And if acknowledgement of superiority to be content with a measley one. AUG 5 No Meeting—Summer School. sumes wrong about Diana Shelley. Not Anarchism is a multitude of philoso­ only this, but the assumptions he makes implied obediences why do we reject Next Meeting, Monday 15th July, 8 pan. the idea of a meritocracy? phies because each individual anarchist Amofini Gallery, Triangle West, Clifton, could, equally justly or unjustly, be Bristol 8. applied to himself. I am not at aft'!* convinced that an has committed himself to one of them. If it is of any interest to him the anarchist believes that: “he alone must No, Arthur, it just won’t wash. An apparently inactive, thoughtful, letter­ be responsible for Iris actions” (C.R.); anarchist pluralist is either God or a HYDE PARK MEETINGS writing Comrade Shelley is a member of for in reverse this means that he is not superman with three heads. Sundays at 3.30 p.m., Speakers’ Corner. the London Committee of 100 and has, responsible for the .effects of his actions Your multitude of philosophies boil Weather and other circumstances per­ in the last few months, demonstrated violence. At the risk of being called upon other people* behaviour. E.g. If down, broadly speaking, to three main mitting. during the Cuba Crisis, outside the “facetious” again I repeat that if anar­ I keep shovelling any dirt into your tendencies: communism, syndicalism or chists consider it right to be prepared Spanish Embassy and at RSG 6. She garden, I am responsible for your work individualism. So, as long as you are EDINBURGH also took part in the Easter Monday for a violent struggle they should at in removing it. human and the owner of one head only, least have some plans for obtaining and you’ll eventually have to come down to Would Anarchists in or near Edinburgh “anarchist demonstratioh’ and has twice Finally, may I join comrade C.R. in please ..contact Alasdair Macdonald, been to Marham (she was one of the concealing the necessary weapons. They deploring the present predominately earth and CHOOSE. should also have plans for choosing a Torphin, Torphin Road, Coliston, Edin­ first group to walk on, on May 11). A authoritarian religious set-up? Which are you willing to die for? burgh. fortnight ago she was one of a small military Commander—would J.W. accept And to hell with the ancient Egypt­ group which walked right across Porton the post? Well you can count me out. Fraternally, ians! Down. All this besides the less Any policy of or for violence, under any London, July 7. S. G. Peak . London, July 7. Pat Parker . ROMFORD & HORNCHURCH “romantic” business of day-to-day pro­ circumstances, will be disastrous. If I ANARGIST GROUP paganda. am attacked violently by anyone, any time, I shall no doubt fight like a For details please contact: — I don't like the idea of washing John Chamberlain, 47 Upper Rainham dirty or clean linen in public but I wish cornered rat or run like blazes—but I the level of physical health improved shall not be prepared for the occasion. greatly over the last century there has Road, Hornchurch, Essex. OR Chris most anarchists were as ‘inactive’ as this. Rose, 34 Newbury Gardens, Upminster, In order that Chris Rose can spare Yours, etc., recently been a decline and cases of the valuable letter-writing time to active Slough. Ernie Crosswell. BEYOND 1984 heart disease, cancer, food poisoning propaganda can’t we all unite, at least and leukaemia are becoming more num­ SOUTHERN FEDERATION [This and Charles Radcliffe are referred Continued from. page 2 erous. At the same time the incidence temporarily, .on his last paragraph, and to in our Editorial columns.—Editors .] Will those interested in activities please drop the interminable and unconvincing What if anything;-, can individuals do of mental illness, nervous breakdowns, get in touch with Ken Parkin, Ye Olde dialogue on violence, force, non-violence, now? Among a greitt many things, they tranquilliser consumption and general Tea House, Lyndhurst Road, Brocken- duragraha and satyagraha and allied can adopt a sensible standard of living. neuroses is increasing. Most of these hurst, Hants. assorted time-wasters. ■ This will enable. them to retain some ailments are caused by the mad scramble Fraternally, self-respect, cock a .snook at capitalism to acquire material objects, excessive BRISTOL FEDERATION London. Charles Radcliffe . ' Why not subscribe and help promote a healthy standard consumption of which also takes its Will any interested readers contact: for the free society when it becomes toll. Ian Vine, 3 Freelands Place, Hotwells, attainable. At the same time there are plenty of Bristol 8. Don't be Prepared! to FREEDOM The freedom advocated by anarchists people in Britain such as unemployed is not the ‘freedom’*' to satisfy every and pensioners and countless millions in 0XF0RD MEETINGS D ear Editors , andAHARCHY selfish whim produced by capitalist- Asia and Africa who exist well below authoritarian society. What then are For details please contact:— J. W., in your July 6th issue, says “we the poverty line. A typical sight in Laurens Otter, must not want to use. violence, but we the material standards, of an anarchist modern society is to see two advertise­ 5 New Yatt Road, North Leigh, must be prepared to use it,” But this is society? The simple-life standards of ments side by side—the first for indiges­ Nr. Witney, Oxford. the position of Kennedy, Khruschev, the idealistic few orjthe best the glossy, tion tablets and showing a plump, sleek Macmillan and their contemporaries. A New York advertising magazines can family sprawled in easy-chairs after a sane world can only be brought about * A State of Mind1 offer? The formera would never gain big-feed—the second for Oxfam show­ GLASGOW FEDERATION by people who try. another approach— mass support Whilrf the latter requires ing a starving African child. Meets every Thursday, 7.30, at 4 Ross D ear Editors , Street, Glasgow, E.2 (off Gallowgate). refuse to be prepared (prepare) for a degree of planning and organisation Objection will be made that a volun­ So far as I am concerned, heaven is difficult to visualise in an anarchist tary restriction in wealth consumption a state of mind: a feeling of unity with society even in one where automated would mean for better-off workers a OFF-CENTRE God. If comrade C.R. wants to stir up plant has been inherited from the pre­ slackening of the industrial struggle. 1 a revolt in his own mind and develop ceding capitalism. [Bp s DISCUSSION MEETINGS a split personality, he is welcome. do not mean that at all. What I do 1st Wednesday of each month at 8 p.m. I suggest that thJAtandard to aim at, maintain is that among better-off work­ FREEDOM In commenting upon C.R. s further both now under capitalism and in the at Colin Ward’s, 33 Ellerby Street, ers this struggle should begin to take Fulham, S.W.6. remarks about religion I can only speak future is one whick .is»-easily attainable knew direction's': What fo r! -instance is. for myself. Other persons’ interpreta­ on a large scalejpnd which promotes 3rd Tuesday4at Brian and Doris Leslie’s, the point of urging those American 242 Amesbury Avenue, S.W.2 (Streatham tions of God are. their own affair. good health. Clearly modern society workers who are very highly paid to ask PUBLICATIONS I believe that the religious idea is fails to promote Igood health. While Hill, Nr. Station). . for more FOR THEMSELVES. 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