anarchistmnveehty Two, Three or Many Vietnams’ 'pHIS WEEKEND sees the CND nuclear protest but it never really linists, Communists or just Young tion from the nationalist guerilla or perhaps all three. celebrating their sad Easter cere­ made it. It left a heritage of anar­ Liberals who would hitch-hike their peasant leaders and their ‘liberating’ One of the revolutionary heroes monial. This year, the slogan is chist ideas, of direct action, of con­ way to political power. missions. Even China’s acquisition of the left, Che Guevara, said, ‘What ‘Make it One World in Peace’. Alas, frontation with the police which may Undoubtedly CND contains many of the bomb was hailed by Dr. Mal­a luminous, near future would be it is all too obvious that peace is not seem by some to have been squan­ sincere idealists, convinced humani­ colm Caldwell as ‘the peasants’ visible to us if two, three or many yet to be and a world in pieces is a dered by the legatees—those news­ tarians, and dedicated pacifists as bomb’. Vietnams flourished throughout the more obvious rejoinder. paper archetypes, the hippies and the well as some confused peace-lovers. The Vietnam war was diagnosed world.’ He was, of course, welcom­ When CND first started it was a student-protesters. This ‘stage army of the good’ is as ‘a struggle for national liberation ing nationalist uprisings as giving widely popular movement with a There was one snag, the apparat always available to trot or march from American imperialism’ and as opportunities for a communist good, valid case which everyone —the institution of the Campaign on to the scene when an expression the heroic fight of the Vietnamese (people’s) revolt. This is, of course, could accept, except the statesmen of for Nuclear Disarmament—had been of the peace-loving democratic will people. Between these upper and tne theory of increasing misery. The the world. It was calling attention to set up and has refused, as institu­ is required. nether millstones of the Vietcong vain hope that a revolution will the danger of nuclear weapons. Now tions do, to die when its mission Vietnam provided the occasion. and the American advisers, the Viet­ arise out of a war, that a revolu­ even Lord Louis Mountbatten thinks has been accomplished. Their pur­ It became obvious, even to world namese people have been crushed. tionary government can arise from it a not unreasonable idea. When an pose confused and their personnel statesmen, that when nuclear Not that victory came for either bourgeois nationalism, or that free­ idea comes to being accepted so changed and discouraged, CND weapons revealed themselves as side. Now, after licking their dom can arise from any government, generally it is obviously time to move lurched into vague peace-making dangerous toys, only to be kept as wounds, both sides in the Vietnam come to that. on to something more revolutionary, with forays into opposing the Viet­ threats, and only to be used by acci­war have decided that victory is im­ Che now has the prospect of see­ and even less acceptable. The Com­ nam war. This made it an easy dent or under extreme provocation, possible (as with the Korean war) ing (from Valhalla) two, three or mittee of 100 tried by means of direct prey to those political opportunists, the only kind of safe war was a war and have decided to move the war many Vietnams. Will mankind action to galvanize the corpse of be they Maoists, Trotskyists, Sta­on somebody else’s territory. There­into Laos, Cambodia or Thailand— survive them? J ack R obinson . fore quite obviously, having regard to the risk involved, it had to be in an underdeveloped country. The puppet-wars of the post-1945 ‘peace’ have all been manipulated by the three great powers, America, Russia Docks:A Lesson and latterly China. They have been In Praise wars looking for somewhere to happen. America and Russia seem to have made their peace largely because they have settled thei4 spheres of to other Workers influence^ Europe forjkussia, Asia of Anarchy for America. The balance of power has teetered with the entry of China rjOCKERS IN THE Port of London originally offered. on to the list of world powers and HROUGHOUHT THE WORLD the Jenkins rocks the boat with opposition are enjoying the last laugh. Their In fact it was the employers’ third she, by her possession of a bomb, T crisis of authority continues to to airline merger and the people who ‘blackmail’ methods paid off and they ‘final’ offer. has qualified for admission to the deepen. American youth dodges the draft live around the Airport are planning accepted a vastly improved pay offer In return the dockers have agreed to club. This she has been denied. in their thousands, while underground direct action to prevent Sunday flying, by not backing down in the face of abolish piecework earnings, work a two- papers in the US forces are up in the because they are fed up with the noise. shift system and allow far more mobility The rise of China to revolutionary Even policemen are demanding a change opposition from the press and television. power, as yet unblemished by the hundreds. Nanterre is in ferment again, They refused to operate new methods of labour. unable to find a dean for its faculty of in the rule that forbids them striking (!), at certain berths which can operate under The lessons to other workers, who are bourgeois compromises of the letters who doesn’t demand police pro­ while Catholic priests want release from vastly reduced manning until ALL probably paid less, are clear. Stick Russians, has nurtured a new, tection as a condition for the job! In a celibacy and lay Catholics in their mil­ dockers were guaranteed a security wage. together and don’t accept bribes offered generation of revolutionaries (who dozen British universities and art schools lions disobey the Pope on the Pill. When The employers had tried to split the to a small percentage of workers, don’t look and act suspiciously like the sit-ins, protests, demonstrations, the drive not only students and pupils, but their men by offering much higher wages to be deterred by the biased mass media old) who turn to China for example for more say in the running of the. unit teachers top take to direct action, it is the men who operated modern methods and ignore the term ‘final’ offer if it and precept. In their turn they have versities, continue. London Airport is not surprising that industrial workers but not making any reasonable offer is not good enough. built up a new Valhalla of revolu­ threatened with complete shutdown as a are not only pushing up wage claims to to the others. PORTWORKER. tionary heroes taking their inspira­ result of a firemen’s strike, while Clive highest-ever levels, but are demanding The men stuck together and banned more and more control of their places any new deals with reduced manning. of work. When Overseas Containers Limited BOSSES’ ALARM wanted to start their container service to Australia a year ago they were pre­ ^ • T O R I E S DON’T G Q , Although this may fall very far short of vented as a result from using Tilbury. what anarchists demand, the signs are Predictably the employers, television enough to alarm the bosses. In the and press squealed ‘blackmail’ and at­ House of Commons last Thursday, dur­ tacked the dockers for being stubborn, ing the discussion on the new ‘contro­ opposing progress and all the usual versial’ Ports Bill, Tory MP Edward anti-worker propaganda. When OCL Taylor spoke about the fantastic in­ moved their service to Rotterdam and crease in the movement for more worker Antwerp it was not them but the control of industry’, which, he main­ workers who were supposed to be tained, ‘had led to a major clash be­ unpatriotic and ignoring the national tween the traditionalists and the Maoist interest. faction’. But the workers stuck to their guns Never a week passes but some indus­ and in under a year the employers trialist refers to ‘anarchy’ on the shop have been forced to reluctantly improve floor, and last Tuesday’s London Evening their offer tremendously. Less than a Standard’s placards proclaimed ‘Mr. Wil­ year ago they offered the normal docker son alarmed by strikes’. Aitd well he may be alarmed by a basic wage of £21 5s. plus bonus strikes. For they are the tip of the ice­ payments tied /to productivity which berg of dissatisfaction spread right could bring this up to £31 17s. 6d. Last through society—right through the world. week the dockers accepted a basic of The only countries where protest and £34 10s., with no strings attached, plus demonstration is not the norm today are ten shillings for each day worked on the openly totalitarian countries, like the ship (instead of the quay). Spain, Greece, the Communist bloc, Por­ It is still not a lot compared with tugal, South Africa. In these dictator­ some of the profits being made by ships, the world knows, public ‘order’ is the companies that run the container maintained only by the ever-present, services (P & O Steam Navigation alone over-visible, armed police, backing up made a net profit of £12,642,000 last total censorship and state control of the year and shareholders got a 12 per cent media. Yet even under these conditions dividend). But it is a lot more than of state terror, protests do occur. In Madrid Spanish students risk imprison­ ment; in the Asturias, miners likewise— with the added possibility of torture.