r-1J-3-Ir"qII". - V _ - .: F.-u HYDE PARK Organthe of HydePark Movement,London, federatedto theUnited SocialistMovement, Glasgow,Edited and Published by Guy A. Aldred. All unsigned contributions are from the pen of the Editor. should be addressed to Guy Aldred at his private London address : Communications, suggestions and donations 122 Addison Gardens, London, W.l4. Vol. 1. No. 1. SEPTEMBER, 1938. AND WHY HYDE PARK 5' " Monthly : ONE PENNY. And why HYDE PARK? HYDE PARK PLATFORMS1. Do not be content to hear us. Write, help, discuss Such is the question that will ash to your mind, on seeing this sheet. The purpose of this editorial is what can be done to build. Let us form a living fellowship of comrades, a real grouping of Brethren to answer your involuntary query. lof theFree Spirit. Hyde Park, as a public forum, was established by l And so, HYDEPARK ! " the will of the people, directly expressed, in oppos- ition to wish of the State. Our forefathers had the l courage and the public affection to will free speech. The freedom they established is curbed and restricted. Sufficient remains for us to use, so that the un- WILLIE GALLAGHER,M.P.Before,and After restricted right of free assembly in Hyde Park, with , John McGoverns merciless exposures of Willie the right to circulate the printed word as well as to Gallacher in the columns of the Glasgow Forward, proclaim the spoken word, may be secured. The and Wil1ies evasive conditional replies, have urried regulations of the Otlice of Works are contrary to the Act of Parliament and to the Common Law of the Communist Party supporters in Hyde Park. The circulation, also, of The Word, for May, 1938- England. These regulations should be swept aside reproducing Gallachers exposure of Neil MacLean and can be swept aside if the people but will the 1and his comments on the Oath of Allegiancehas extinction of such thinly-disguised prohibition of been resented. Our view is that Gallacher is in the public right. Our aim is to prepare the way for this same situation as any other Labour Parliamentarian great battle of democracy. We would oppose the and should be attacked accordingly. Denouncing power of the public forum of Hyde Park to the Neil MacLean in January, 1921, Willie Gallacher careerist assembly of Parliamentarians at West- ai/erred that it must ever be the work of revolu- minster. In its current degeneracy, Hyde Park is a centre tionaries, that is, genuine Socialists, to expose, most mercilessly, those who would mislead or betray the for alleged religious speaking; actually for the parade workers. Gallacher is now in the position of those of much theological hypocrisy. An insolent con- sequence of pious cant is human fear to pay tribute who would mislead or betray. Two months after his attack on Neil MacLean, to what is not only good and worthy, but is genius and worth, in the Bible. Honest, thoughtful men are ,Gallacher was imprisoned. Thereupon, the Pro- visional Executiveof the C.P.G.B., atits meetingon afraid to expound the Old Testament prophets or applaud the parables of Jesus, lest they Sunday, March 13th, 1921, decided, in the event of a bye-election at Leicester, to run Willie Gallacher as be charged with superstition and accused of the Communist Party candidate. Arthur MacManus belief in impossible miracles and other crea- International Socialism explained the situation in The Communist for tions of the witch's cauldron of fear. The original message of Jesus, the unemployed son of This was establised by Albert Jarvis. known to all Hyde March 19th, beneath full-page headings : Our Con- Parkers as Bert." Comrade Jarvis is seen on the piet- vict Candidate. This was the main heading. It was man, who had not where to rest his head: his mag- form. This picture was taken on Coronation day, when sensational rather than correct. Gallacher was a nicent, direct speech: his simplicity of narrative and he decided to have a. Socialist Meeting of protest against aptness of illustration are slimmed over by the convicted, hard-labour prisoner, not a convict. The unctuous platitudes of the multifarious theological the park. Comrade Jarvis was the first to introduce the second heading read: Willie Gallacher as Pros- splendourred flag into midst Hyde poverty. Park. HisOne offearless the oldest Anti-Parliarment- frequenters of professors who use the Park for their blasphemous pective Communist Member for Leicester. arian and Anti-.\lilitarist speeches bring him into conflict In the body of the article, MacManus stated that tirades. The original teaching of the son of man is with all the reformist: elements bot his humorous rallies the Government had issued a challenge and Gal- denied and destroyed by their mediocre conventions. are viewed by his audiences as a feature of Hyde Park life. Their confusion and mystery serve the ends of l2chers candidature is our acceptance of that capitalist society. HYDE PARK" would oppose the challenge. ,pulpit, the pulpit of power and mediocrity, of oppres- MacManus quoted Hansard. Commander activity of these agents of death with the power of a sion and force, the cynical pulpit of the Pope, the Kenworthy had declared that Malone was prosecuted genuine pulpit.Let Christiansforsake mysteryand l/xnglican Church, Capitalist Trinitarian Noncon.for- for his opinions. Shortt, Home Secretary, denied miracle and orthodoxy of convention. Let Christians mity, the pulpit that condones slaughter and blesses this allegation and declared: There is not a single realise that there can be no Fatherhood of God exploitation. This pulpit deies Jesus, the better to hon. member who can produce the shorthand notes without the Brotherhood of Man: and no Brother- cloak the outrage of his humanity. of a single trial in any court which can substantiate hood of Man without the repudiation of war. To As with theology, so with politics. We have any such charge." be a Christian, a man or woman must oppose war political parties and groups, all falling short of the Mr. Neil MacLean: I am accepting the challenge and must refuse to serve the moloch of militarism real message of working-class struggle. Labour Party thrown out by the Home Secretary, and I am going in any capacity. defenders, a medley of muddle and confusion, to quote the case of a Paisley mechanic, William HYDE PARK " aims .to establish for the Christians, preaching a spurious Socialism, developing an actual Gallacher. a genuine Christian pulpit: the Word of the rst Jingoism, paving the way to capitalist war. Com- Mr. Shortt: For inciting to murder. Christians. It would revive the memory of the great munist Partyites, indulging the A.R.P. ramp for all Mr. MacLean: Of course, we all incite to murder Christian heretics and thinkers: the _Brethren of the air is worth, and forgetting past declarations on the Free Spirit. HYDE PARK " would make the teaching war issue of the Third Internationaleven a declara- when we make any appeal to an audience to dis- place the present Government! Gallacher was not of Jesus, deprived of all traditions of superstition, a tion signed jointly by Trotsky. Zinoviev and Stalin ! ! inciting to murder. It is idle for the Home Secretary power unto the emancipation of the common people. What thought this combination of names inspires, as to say he was not prosecuted for his opinions. It would rescue the gure and character of the man, to the degradation of Communism! Jesus, from the clutches of the Church and so drive . And then we have a kind of Plymouth Brethren MacManus proceeded to describe the Paisley home the greatness of his moral message. It is our mechanic: lparliamentarism. Excellent, critical propaganda. Our readers know who Willie Gallacher is. They belief that the genuine gure of Jesus, the Son of .Most useful propaganda work. But what conclu- know him as a National Organiser of the Shop Stewards Man. will play an intpottuttt role in the struggle sions? Parliament controls this and that! And, at and Workers Committee Movemcntrand they know him towards the workers conquest of bread and freedom the end of the day, we must emancipate ourselves as one of themselves. a clean. hard. true ghter. and culture; the conquest of bread and roses, too. through one party and one hundred-per-cent. senior This was nonsense. All Parliamentary careerists We would make war on the awful daily mockery ,pure Socialist parliamentarism! How hopelessly start as Gallacher started. They are returned to witnessed duringspring and summer in Hyde Park, Parliament. in the first instance, because the workers of rostrums devoted to the propagation of shoddy. limpossiblel know them. Always, to the workers, the careerists Christian theology. These rostrurns are offset by begin, as one of themselves." And they are always others. hardly less offensive. expounding a shoddy, And sowe raisethe bannerof HYDE PAR1: ! lclean. hard fighters." Briand was a hard, true capitalist \iCCl!l;tI'i\m. Real Atheism. the vital iWe 1:.roclr.imthe Hyde Park Movement. To Hyde ighter." John Burns wasone of themselves; an Atheism of the common people, is but a natural de- Park streams London. streams the world. From Hyde uriemp!o_\'ed engineer:a lvrd. true ghter. He velopment of early, proletarian. Christianity. The Ftzrl; can be organised, can be established, the pulpit was the original man with the red flag. The and niovemcnt or London. To this end we p-' your Socialists came to quote: John Burns verdict on l - u ,fi-:-Ip. lylakc contg:-ct. Although we return to Glas- himself: Judas Iscariot! MacDonald was at mystic Thcismof Jesus,the Carpenterof other days.