munreMstmaweeUty 5P Vol. 35 No. 31 3 August, 1974 LIBERTY, MORALITY, AND THE HUMAN DIGNITY OF MAN CONSIST PRECISELY IN THIS, THAT HE DOES GOOD, NOT BECAUSE IT'IS COMMANDED, BUT BECAUSE HE CONCEIVES IT, WILLS IT, AJTO LOVES IT. Bakunin. Cyprus: FREEDOM IS FOR TAKING WILE THE wrangling is still power and slaughter punctuate Makarios or Clerides? Indeed we going on about Cyprus — the the Byzaitine mess of this bar- once interned Makarios. Turks; confident in their nine gaining pressure point of the The centuries old enmity bet- points of possession; the Near East. ween Greece and Turkey is no bar Greeks uneasy in their loss of to the N.A.T.O. alliance or the face but acquisition of late It is obvious that neither British bases. Indeed, to spon-' respectability; the U-nited Na- Turkey nor Greece nor Makarios' sor a conflict in an occupied tions baffled in the prospective Cyprus are enlightened regimes; country between the 'natives' is threat to N.A.T.O.; the British all are equally adept at politi- an old trick of conquerors. They conscious of their powerlessness cal persecution and torture and are then so busy arguing between •and need to keep their bases; even the re-exhumed Karamanlis themselves that they cannot see U.N.O. conscious (as ever) of sponsored an eight-year regime what the occupiers (whether they its impotence in the face of not without blemish. The charac- be American NATO bases or Brit- power and Russia sitting-in ter of the regimes in Turkey and with poker-playing impassivity Greece is a matter of indiffer- ish NATO bases) are putting over — we only see the Cypriots (be ence to the United States, its on them. 'they Greek- or Turkish-) as vic- only concern being stability. The increasing demands made tims. It is almost impossible Britain has a similar indiffer- by and for the military of to follow the labyrinthine ways ence to the regime-in Cyprus; as client-states must indeed be a of Cypriot politics and history long as there is stability enough perpetual drain upon the Amer- or of Greek-Turkish relations; to maintain the bases, what cares ican economy and with her ef- only the naked outbursts of CallagWan if it's Sampson or forts for detente or at least a slackening of tension in Europe, one finds it hard to believe that the sinister hand of the C.I.A. is behind every military move in Ankara and Athens. No doubt the American State Department wishes it were, in the same way that the Russians must wish that Communist influence is as widespread as its enemies and more optimistic frieuds be- lieve it to be. However whatever the reason, the junta in Greece has failed, whether it failed militarily or politically or whether it was pushed by Sisco on behalf of the American State Depart- ment. Another facade has been \ put up for the old business. The military cannot stand fail- ure so someone had to go, the Army still exists but the pol- itical wing went because it was incompetent not because it was AT THE FRENCH EMBASSY brutal. The exiles have re- turned like homing pigeons -■ Theodorakis, Mercouri, Lady ABOUT SEVENTY comrades, mem- comrades in France. According Fleming all giving their brav- bers of the Anarchist Black to police information 600 pol- ura performances. Perhaps it Cross, Centro Iberico, Free- ice officers were drafted to is the effect of Plato and all dom, O.R.A., Oxford Anarchists, control the demonstration that that crush but Greek' politics Sussex Anarchists, Syndicalist started in Hyde Park and fin- do seem to be the absolute Workers Federation, and indivi- ished peacefully in the French depth. Greece has never for- duals -took part last Saturday Embassy, where a comrade hand- gotten (nor has ever repeated afternoon in a demo-, protest- ed in a letter of protest ag- the performance) that she was ing against the arrest of 11 ainst the police action in the mother of democracy. France. Continued on Back Page % Centra de Documenta;ao e Apoio a Pesquisa unesp Cedap 17 1! 19 20 21 FREEDOM PRESS 84b WHITECHAPEL HIGH STREET LONDON El Phone 01-247 9249 THREE DUBLIN ANARCHISTS JAILED :. plead guilty because the Special Criminal Aldgate East underground station, White- On 10th July three anarchists were jail- Court, without a jury, afforded no opport- chapel Art- Gallery exist and turn right - ed by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin Angel Alley next to Wimpy Bar. after being tried by three judges sitting unity for turning the proceedings into a without a jury. political platform. Indeed, any such state- ments from the dock would have ensured SOIOKSIWOIP openTues. - Fri.2-6p.rn. even longer sentences and would have been (Trfursday until 8 p..m.) 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Writing after the trial Bob Cullen appe- The State, Its Historic Role, Peter Kropotkin Marie Murray received a 2 year suspend- ars in remarkably good spirits and he refuses 20p (post 5p) USA 65$ post free ed sentence after being charged with "re- to have his revolutionary hopes crushed by the State. He expresses his own gratitude Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism, Rudolf ceiving £ 500 knowing it to have been and that of his comrades for the solidarity Rocker. 25p (post 5p) USA 75$ post free stolen". which has been shown by comrades in Eng- Lessons of the Spanish Revolution 1936-39 Noel Murray jumped bail and is being land in the last few months. He finishes his cloth £ 1.50, paper 75p (post 22 p) sought by the Irish police. letter with these sentiments: USA cloth $4.00, paper $2.00 Eddie Jones was acquitted on a charge "KEEP UP THE STRUGGLE! EVERY RE- SELECTIONS FROM "FREEDOM" of "conspiring to cause explosions". 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Carwardine: The Pullman THE GOVERNMENT have offered the proletariat in the Morning Star Strike £1.50 (lip) workers who want to take over which now and again sits up and Alexander Solzhenitsyn: The Gu- the defunct Scottish Daily Ex-. begs for Government advertising. lag Archipelago £0.80 (l5p) press £1 million loan condi- The B.S.C, threatens, however, ^Mother Jones: Autobiography tional upon the workers' commit- that prices (despite profits) £1.95 (I5p) tee raising the balance of about will go up after the end of the *William Godwin: Caleb Williams £1.5 million. The Government . year. £2.25 (I7p) is providing the £4.95 million Jaroslav Hasek: The Good Soldier to a workers' cooperative to buy A MILITARY TRIBUNAL IN BARCELONA Svejk £2.50 (30p) the Norton-Villiers Triumph Com- SENTENCED TWO YOUNG ANARCHISTS, The Freethinker. Complete Bound pany. 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