OZ London #43

OZ 43 July/A ugust 1972

A LETTER FROM MICHAELX ANARCHY: NEW LEFTS FOR OLD

VAN GOGH: A HEAD OF HIS TIME BALI: HIPPY PARADISE JUNGLE

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Dear Reader, This issue m ay have reached y o u fraction ally late. Believe us when we tell y o u it a lm ost never reached y o u a t all.

Beads, acid, karma, Sharon Tate etc....

TH O M A S

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And now I understand what you tried to say to How you suffered fo r your sanity, How you tried to set them free.

They would not listen, They did not know how Perhaps th e y'll listen now...

'V in ce n t' by D on M cLean. Published by U .A . Music Ltd

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V in cen t Van Gogh w ro te this le tte r to his b ro th e r T h eo so m e tim e before he h ad begun to p a in t, and a fte r w o rk in g as a preach er in the B orinage m ining d is tric t o f France.

Ten years to the d a y from w ritin g this lette r, h e c o m m ite d suicide.

My Dear T h eo,

C uesm es, July 18 80 .

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A s m oulting tim e - w h en they change their feathers - is for birds, so adversity or m isfortune is the d ifficu lt tim e for us hum an beings. O ne can stay in it - in that tim e o f m oulting on e can also em erge renewed; but an yh ow it m ust n o t be d on e in public and it is not at all am using, therefore th e on ly thing to d o is to hide on eself. Well, so be it.

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is w hat I say to m yself. But o n e m ust love w ith a lo fty and serious intim ate sym p ath y, w ith strength, w ith intelligence; and o n e m ust try alw ays to know deeper, b etter and m ore. That leads to G od, that leads to unwavering faith.

To give y o u an exam ple: som eon e loves R em brandt, b u t seriously — that m an w ill know there is a G od, he w ill surely believe it.

S om eon e stu d ies the history o f the French R ev o lu tion — he w ill n ot be unbelieving, he w ill see that in great things also there is a sovereign pow er m anifesting itself. M aybe for a short tim e som e­ b od y tak es a free course at th e great university o f m isery, and N ow for m ore than five years — I d o n ot know exactly h o w p ays atten tio n to th e things h e sees w ith h is e y es and hears with long — I have been m ore or less w ith o u t em p lo y m en t, wandering h is ears, and thinks th em over; h e , to o , w ill end in believing, and here and there. Y ou say, since a certain tim e y o u have gone d ow n , h e w ill perhaps have learned m ore than h e can tell. T o try to y o u have deteriorated, y o u nave n o t d o n e anything. Is th is q u ite understand th e real significance o f w hat th e great artists, the true? serious m asters, tell us in their m asterpieces, th a t leads to G od; one m an w rote or told it in a book; another, in a picture. T hen It is true that occasionally I have earned m y crust o f bread, sim ply read th e G ospel and th e Bible: it m akes y o u think, and occasionally a friend has given it to m e in charity. I have lived as think m uch, and th in k all th e tim e. Well, th in k m uch and think I cou ld , as luck w ould have it, haphazardly. It is true that I have all the tim e, it raises y o u r th ou gh ts above th e ordinary level lost the con fid en ce o f many ; it is true that m y financial affairs w ith o u t y o u r know ing it. We know h o w to read — w ell th en, let are in a sad state; it is true that the future is on ly to o glo o m y ; it us read! is true that I m ight have d on e better; it is true that I’ve lo st tim e in term s o f earning m y bread; it is true that even m y studies are It is true that there m ay be m om en ts w hen o n e b ecom es som e­ in a rather sad and h op eless co n d itio n , and that m y needs are w hat absent-m inded, som ew h at visionary; som e b ecom e to o greater — infinitely greater — than m y possessions. But is this absent-m inded, to o visionary. This is perhaps th e case w ith m e, w hat y o u call “going d o w n ” , is th is w hat yo u call “ d oin g n o t­ but it is m y o w n fault; m ayb e there is som e ex cu se after all — I hing”? was absorbed, p reoccupied, troubled, for som e reason — but * * * on e overcom es this. The dream er som etim es falls in to a w ell, but is said to get o u t o f it afterward. A nd th e absent-m inded man For the m om en t it seem s that things are going very badly w ith also has his lucid m om en ts in com p en sation . H e is som etim es a m e, and it has already been so for a considerable tim e and m ay con tin u e aw hile in th e future; but after everything has seem ed to person w h o has h is reasons for being as he is, but th ey are not alw ays understood at first, or are uncon sciou sly forgotten m ost go w rong, perhaps a tim e w ill c o m e w h en things w ill go right. I o f the tim e, from lack o f interest. A m an w h o has been tossed d o n ’t cou n t on it, perhaps it w ill never happen; but if there is a back and forth for a long tim e, as if on a storm y sea, at last change for the better, I should consider it so m uch gain, I should reaches his d estin ation ; a m an w h o has seem ed good-for-nothing be con ten ted , I should say, A t last! y o u see th ere w as so m eth in g and incapable o f any em p lo y m en t, any fu n ction , en d s in finding a fte r all! on e and b ecom ing active and capable o f action — he show s h im ­ B ut y o u w ill say, Y et y o u are an intolerable being because y o u self q u ite differen t from w hat he seem ed at first. have im possible ideas ab ou t religion and childish scruples o f c o n ­ I w rite som ew hat at random w hatever co m es to m y pen. I should science. be very glad if y o u could see in m e som ething m ore than an idle If m y ideas are im possible or childish, I h o p e to get rid o f them fellow . Because there are tw o kinds o f idleness, w hich are a — I ask n o better. But th is is approxim ately w hat I th in k on the great contrast to each other. There is th e man subject. In Un P h ilosoph e sous les to its, by Souvestre, y o u w ill w h o is idle find h ow a man o f the p eop le, a sim ple m iserable labourer, im ­ from laziness and agines his ow n cou ntry. “Perhaps y o u have never th ou gh t w hat from lack o f your ow n country really is,” he said, pu ttin g h is hand on m y character, from th e shoulder. “ It is everything around y o u , everything that has baseness o f his nature. brought y o u up and nourished y o u , everything y o u have loved; If yo u lik e, you th ose fields that y o u see, th ose hou ses, th ose trees, th ose yo u n g m ay take m e for such girls laughing as th ey pass — that is y o u r country! T he laws that protect y o u , th e bread w hich rewards you r labour, th e w ords yo u a o n e. On the oth er hand, there is th e idle speak, the joy and th e sorrow that com e to y o u from the peop le man w ho is idle in and th e things am ong w hich y o u live — that is y o u r country! spite o f him self, w h o The little room w here y o u used to see y o u r m other, th e m em ­ is inw ardly con su m ed ories w hich she has left y o u , th e earth in w hich she rep oses — by a great longing that is y o u r country! Y o u see it, y o u breathe it, everyw here! for actio n , but d oes Figure to y o u rself the rights and the d u ties, th e a ffectio n s and nothing, because it is the needs, th e m em ories and th e gratitude; gather it all under im possible for him to on e nam e, and that nam e w ill be y o u r c o u n try .” do anything, because I think that everything w hich is really go o d and beau tifu l — o f h e seem s to be inner m oral, spiritual and sublim e beauty in m en and their w orks im prisoned in som e — com es from G od , and that all w hich is bad and w rong in m en cage, because he d o es and in their w orks is n o t o f G od , and G od d o es n o t approve o f not possess w hat it. he needs to b ecom e productive, because But I alw ays think th at th e best w ay to know G od is to love circum stances bring m any things. Love a friend, a w ife, som ething — w hatever y o u him inevitably to like — y o u w ill be on the w ay to know ing m ore ab ou t Him; that

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that p oin t. Such a man d oes not alw ays know w hat he could d o , but he instinctively feels, I am good for som e thing, m y life has a purpose after all, I know that I cou ld be quite a different man!

H ow can I be useful, o f w hat service can I be? There is som ething inside o f m e, w hat can it be? This is quite a d ifferent kind o f idle man; if y o u like, y o u m ay take me for such a one! A caged bird in spring k now s quite w ell that he m ight serve som e end; he is w ell aware that there is som ething fo r him to do, but he cannot do it. What is it? He d o es n ot q u ite remember.

Then som e vague ideas occur to him , and h e says to him self, “T he others build their nests and lay their eggs and bring up their little o n e s” , and he knocks his head against the bars o f the cage. But the cage remains, and the bird is m addened by anguish. “ L ook at that lazy anim al,” says another bird in passing, “ he seem s to be living at ease.”

Y es, the prisoner lives, he d o es n ot die; there are no outward signs o f w hat passes w ithin him — his health is go o d , h e is more or less gay w hen th e sun shines. But then the season o f migration com es and attacks o f m elancholia — “ But he has everything he w ants,” say the children w h o ten d him in his cage. H e looks through the bars at the overcast sky where a thunderstorm is gathering, and inwardly he rebels against his fate. “ I am caged, I am caged, and y o u tell m e I do n ot w ant anything, fools! Y ou think I have everything I need! Oh! I beseech y o u liberty, that I may be a bird like other birds!”

A certain idle man resem bles this idle bird.

And circum stances o ften prevent m en from doing things, prison­ ers in I do n ot know w hat horrible, horrible, m ost horrible cage.

There is also — I know it — the deliverance, th e tardy deliverance.

A justly or unjustly ruined reputation, p overty, unavoidable circum stances, adversity — that is w h at m akes m en prisoners.

One cannot alw ays tell w hat it is that keeps us shut in, con fin es us, seem s to bury us; nevertheless, on e feels certain barriers, certain gates, certain walls. Is all this im agination, fantasy? I d o n ’t think so. A nd o n e asks, “ My God! Is it for long, is it for ever, is it for all eternity?”

D o you know w hat frees o n e from th is captivity? It is every deep, serious a ffection . Being friends, being brothers, love, that is what op en s the prison by som e suprem e pow er, by som e magic force. W ithout this, on e remains in prison. Where sym pathy is renew ed, life is restored.

And the prison is also called prejudice, m isunderstanding, fatal ignorance o f on e thing or another, distrust, false shame.

But to speak o f other things, if I have com e d ow n in the w orld, y o u , on th e contrary, have risen. If I have lo st the sym pathy o f som e, y o u , on the contrary, have gained it. That m akes m e very happy — I say it in all sincerity — and alw ays w ill. If y o u hadh t seriousness or depth, I w ould fear that it w ould :not last; but as I think y o u are very serious and o f great depth, I believe that it w ill. But I should be very glad if it were possible for y o u to see m e as som ething m ore than an idle man o f the w orst type. * * *

For th e present, I shake hands w ith y o u , thanking y o u again for the help you have given m e.

Ever yours, V incent.

Michael Abdul Malik, Michael X, is being held in the R oyal Gaol, Port o f Spain, Trinidad, charged with the murder o f Gale Benson and Joseph Skerritt. He is being treated as a political prisoner. M ichael’s long fight to establish free com m unities like the Black House in London, and the Free University in Trinidad, and his unwillingness to accept econom ic and racial oppression have led him to this small cell in Trinidad where he is now fighting to save his life. The media has had an orgy w ith the muddled facts surrounding this case, and w e hope that this letter which Michael was finally able to get to us via his lawyer, Kenneth Foster, will help shed som e light on what is really going dow n in Trinidad, and get Michael a fair trial and the freedom that will follow .

Dan Richter

MichaelX: “Murder is an absurd suggestion.

Statem ent written by Michael Abdul Malik, R oyal Gaol, Port o f Spain, Trinidad, May 19 7 2 .

S L R s, self-loading sub m achine guns.

A ro u n d the co u rt stan d 6 8 heavily arm ed uniform m en, inside are tw elve m ore w ith side arm s an d ten w ith r io t staffs, I am curious h o w m an y are arou n d in civilian The first p a rt o f this little n o te m a y seem dress. M y la w yers are harassed d ire c tly on the surface as a litan y o f com plain ts, and in d irectly, like fo r ex a m p le a three b u t com plain in g as such is far aw ay from h u n dred d o lla r d em a n d o r p erso n a l vio l­ m y m ind. I relate the fo llo w in g p ic tu re so ence fo r a ta x i b ill o r on the o th e r h an d a y o u w ho are faraw ay m a y see and g e t a refusal b y Im m igration to a llo w m y law ­ clear pictu re o f w h at's really happen in g yer's clerk e n try in to the c o u n try , n otin g here. b y the w a y he had been in fo u r tim es b e­ F irst y o u m u st be aware th a t this is n o t a fore, w o rk in g and researching in m y crim inal trial, it is p o litica l. M u rder as a defen ce. M r R egis the clerk is an a ccred ited charge in relation to m y s e lf, is an absurd m e m b er a t L in coln s Inn, L o n d o n . M y suggestion. When I w as b rou gh t back to situ ation is m ade d iffic u lt even m ore b y a Trinidad, I w as p u t in a sto n e and con crete h o ld up a t gun p o in t o f m y w ife and seizure cell six fo o t b y tw elve fo o t, w ith no bed - o f m y diaries an d address b o o k and h er o r any o th e r ty p e o f furn itu re, this should diary and address b o o k b y the p o lice. The speak fo r itself, I rem ained on the co n ­ a lm o st fin ish ed m an u script o f m y new crete flo o r fo r tw elve days. M y law yers b o o k was se ize d and d e s tr o y e d an d strew n m ade represen tation s to the C h ie f Justice a b o u t m y y a rd b y th e P olice w hen th ey and the Prisons C om m issio n er and I was o ccu p ied m y p r o p e r ty , I am n o t a llo w ed finally given a little b ed w ith fibre filled to w rite bar on tw o tin y form s w eek ly m attress, no sh eets o r p illo w case, this is a n d there I m u st say n oth in g o f m y health the situ ation to this d a y three m o n th s o r w eig h t o r c o n d itio n s in prison . I am n o t later, ou r c o n stitu tio n sta tes th a t as a a llo w e d to g o in to the su n ligh t fo r exercise rem and p riso n er I am e n title d to a light as is the cu stom fo r o th e r prison ers, nor to read b y, a c o p y o f the Q uoran as a can I g e t any answ ers as to w h y I m u st M uslim , and the d ie t o f a M uslim , table, endure such harsh p u n ic h m e n t, p articu larly chair, b u t none o f these things are as I am n o t c o n v ic te d o f an y crim e. a llow ed m e, m y usual tw o h u n d red and M y w ife on occasion v isited m e h ere in five to tw o ten p o u n d s is n o w d o w n to priso n in the c o m p a n y o f a local person , 1 5 9 one h u n dred and f if ty nine, since on leaving the p riso n th e y are p ic k e d up com in g in here I have n o t ea ten any fo o d , b y the p o lic e an d in terro g a ted as to w h a t I so m etim es e a t a few biscu its and m ilk o r “p a r t th e y are p la y in g in th e R e vo lu tio n ” sugar w a te r w ith a b it o f citru s sq u eezed som e are k e p t fo r m an y hours, the result, in it, this w e call "juice", o r a p ie c e o f p e o p le are very frigh ten ed. E ven h o te ls cheese o r b u tte r su b stitu te. have refu sed to g ra n t a cco m o d a tio n to m y S o m e tim e s I g o fo r a w ee k o r nine days on w ife w h o is in an advan ced sta te o f p reg ­ w ater o n ly, it it o ver three m o n th s n ow nancy. She was refu sed a d m itta n ce in 14 I am in this situ ation . T h ey sa y there w ill h otels. I have since ad vised h er to go, and be a decision in a b o u t a year. I go to co u rt rem ain in G uyana, the c o u n try o f h er birth, n ow a b o u t three tim es a w e e k on average. w ith m y fo u r daughters.

To travel the 18 m iles to co u rt, I am e sco rt­ The p ic tu re I have sh o w n is o n e o f Trini­ e d b y 2 5 arm ed p o licem e n w ith m odern

dad today. This beautiful C aribbean co u n ­ try is n o w d esc rib ed as a p o lic e state, 14 years a fte r in d ep en d en ce fro m England, our c o u n try has been in an o fficially p ro c la im e d S ta te o f E m ergen cy fo r the p a st year. On m y arrival in T rin idad Jan­ uary 1971 I began w o rk in g on a Social and A gricu ltu ral Program m e, w ith large g ifts o f m o n e y from p e o p le like y o u John L en n on a n d y o u r w ife Y o k o O no w ho cam e an d w itn essed a t first h and som e o f our w ork, w e w ere able to alleviate much p o v e r ty in w h a t is essen tially q u ite a rich c o u n try (o il rich). With hard w o rk and m uch p a tie n c e I g a in ed in passin g a large fo llo w in g o f the ordin ary p e o p le and m any enem ies, the p rese n t a d m in istration is afraid. T h ey are paradin g 2 4 o r m ore w it­ nesses against m e on on e charge o f m urder, th a t o f a local man, an d 4 0 w itn esses on a n o th er charge o f m urder, this one being an English w om an. To d e fe n d m y s e lf le­ g ally in this p ro tra c te d legal b a ttle w ill bear en o rm o u s co sts which I cannot afford, a t p re s e n t tw o la w yers from S t. Lucia, Mr. K en n eth F o ste r and Mr. L eo R egis his clerk w h o are k n o w led g ea b le o f the Car­ ibbean scene an d w h o believe in m y in­ n ocen ce have taken up the cause a t c o n ­ siderable ex p en se to th em selves, th ey can be reached a t B o x 2 1 8 Castries, St. Lucia, West Indies. Mr. F o ster is also the leader o f the o p p o sitio n p a r ty in S t. Lucia, I ask o f y o u m y frien ds to sen d to m e at the R o y a l Gaol, P o rt o f Spain, Trinidad, w hat assistance y o u can, an d h o p e th at one d ay w e m a y see an d serve each o th e r again.

Y ou rs in Peace, M ichael A b d u l Malik.

I wish to fu rth er req u est y o u to spread this in fo rm a tio n a n d w rite m e. M. The retaining c o st has been e stim a te d at 2 5 ,0 0 0 dollars.

S p a rlin g Illu s tra tio n : David

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Dear Readers: Too many o f yo u r letters are long and boring, and we're running out o f blue pencils.

Keep it short and snappy, huh? Mark the envelopes ‘Words o f W isdom ' and mail to : OZ Magazine 19 G t. N ew port St London W C.2

D ear O Z, W hat the B L O O D Y F U C K has happened to O Z? w hile I've been away? What's happened to the good o l’ dope crazed, S E X IS T beautifully badly printed, horny, long-haired O Z th at used to be?

guy walking London's fair streets w ith a placard saying " N E W LO O K O Z , T H E E X P E N S IV E BOG P A P E R ", yo u'll know w ho it is.

Big R

Dear O Z , Why have the early experiments Where has the depraved filth of .w ith d iffe re n t form ats, such as the Acid, Hells Angels and the notorious flowerchild poster (no 5 ), the fo ldSchool Kids Oz got to? ou t cover (4 ), the stickers (11) and the Magic Theatre O Z (1 6) given W hat I'm saying you Rolls-driving fascists is th at O Z was once a darned way to such a standardised present­ good (bad) mag but since the fame of ation? A nd the price is far higher than any other British u/g paper School Kids you have gone hi-class, (as, no d o u b t, are your profits). you've become S O P H IS T IC A T E D and O Z is laid ou t like Woman's O w n. Just take a look at number 4 2 w ith a cover like fa m ily circle.

The first pages were full of bum m y crap letters from pissy women's liberationists w ho appear to have taken O Z over. A ll the articles have lost that old O Z touch and gone

I'll still keep reading you anyway (I can't forget the feeling o f liber­ ation I got when I read no. 6 and found the underground) but th in k it over.

soppy and sympathetic, none o f yer good o l' S A D IS T IC goodies, none o f yer hard-to-read p rin t that taught you how to grow goodies and sixty nine and worst o f all, no perverted, glossy, horny p ix th at adorned your pages th at first brought you bread from the loyal 1 %-ers. I a in 't gonna give you me name and address, I'm just sayin' if you see a

D ear OZ, While I was in Borstal I read your Schoolkids Issue everyone in there dug it. Yes even the skinheads.

While in Borstal I w orked in the local factory and various other places. I to o k O Z to the facto ry.

The manager o f the maintenance dept to o k it away and said it w ould upset the workers. He then

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locked himself in his office and spent the afternoon reading it.

I th in k yo u 're a bit isolated. Please don't keep saying the underground is dead.

Yours sincerely, C.J. Bowers D ear O Z, O Z seems to have a strange selfdefeating philosophy based on support o f both decadence and revolutionary change.

U n fortun ately change cannot successfully be restricted to give a perpetual compromise between liberty and oppression, although in this country we have, at the m om ent, a system which permits yo u, if grudgingly, to assault its politics and m orality.

Whatever else you defeat, w ith your present attitu d e you w ill also defeat yourself, th e counter culture you support and any w o rth w hile principles it encompasses.

I make particular reference to some of. the advertisements in O Z 4 2 , inviting people to buy child porno­ graphy. In itself, this is just a grubby little perversion by any standards, but probably harmless if indulged alone and in private, but far from

satisfying such peculiar desires it almost certainly encourages the occasional voyeur to become more deeply enmeshed in his perversion, and the fanatic to p u t his desires into practice w ith horridly dama­ ging result. T o fin d such things in a publication also tends to dis­ credit any serious articles in it.

Power to Reason.

Pete Carroll, 3 4 F a irfie ld Gardens, Portslade, Sussex.

D ear OZ, A few words about Warren Hague's article. I'm not a hippie, insofar as I d o n 't w an t to smoke dope or fuck in the streets but I support his de­ sire fo r the freedom to do these things. However, he's being more than a .little naive if he thinks he'll get th a t freedom w ith o u t power.

W hat w ill a smoke-in or a Freax U nited Party achieve? Will our dem ocratically elected represent­ atives accept th at a lot o f people w ant the freedom to be themselves — they haven't so far — and so dem ocratically allow it? I th in k not; "dem ocracy" is just the sugar coating fo r an emerging

Chris Kem p 2 5 M inver Road, Liverpool D ear O Z , I am sick o f opening O Z and seeing letters from people complaining about the standard o f your mag.

These people are talking ou t the back o f th eir arses. I th in k that every tim e a new O Z comes ou t it is better than ever. So come on all you so-called O Z friends, w rite in and let's see a w ord o f praise for a change, fo r the best fu ckin ' mag ever.

S. Fletcher, Bedford.

Dear OZ, A t last one o f your correspondents, Warren Hague, has kicked all this political shit right up the arse. His article (O Z 4 2 ) really puts the L e ft in its proper position. We anarchists (the real freaks) all know th a t the R igh t are real pigs but they do show th eir piggishness.

The so-called "libertarian L e ft" however, are far m ore underhand.

These cunts really believe in the same doctrine as the R ight, but deliberately con people by their superfluous skin-deep 'lib ertarian­ ism' to stop them joining real

So let all freaks, whatever their creed, join arms and fig ht this fucking system until it is o b lite r­ ated fo r ever.

So can yo u, O Z , our m outhpiece to the outside w o rld , give us some m ore articles like Warren Hague's.

If you do you will show your true libertarianism.

Love to all you beautiful freaks all over the w orld.

Kev 2 , Highclere Sunn ingh ill Berks

D ear Oz, Thanks to Amadeus V iv e k for describing so vividly the kind o f crackpot ideas about M acro­ biotics th a t pervade much straight and hip thinking, both in the States and to a lesser extent in Britain. It is obvious from his article th at he has been strung ou t on some kind o f macromadness him self, and it is no w onder that he is now so frenziedly uptight about M acrobiotics.

I have been M acrobiotic fo r six years, but if I had to practice the masochistic variety th a t he des­ cribes I'd burn m y chopsticks in protest.

Sure there are people who wrap up their own neuroses in a w eb of yin and yang and fanatic fantasy; Amadeus's article is an excellent clinical analysis o f the aberration.

It's amazing how a person can tw ist anything to f it his particular interpretation of the universe. For exam ple: Amadeus says fru it is forbidden in Macrobiotics. Fact: George Ohsawa, author o f the basic guidebook, Zen M acrobiotics, advises th a t you can eat up to 15% fruits and salads, and up to 45% fruits and salads if you are a veg­ etarian, and m aintain excellent health. So w h y does Amadeus say fruits are forbidden? Perhaps be­ cause in the case o f diets to cure severe sickness, fruits are fre­ quently excluded. M ost m acro­ biotics enjoy fru it freely and regularly, especially in season.

Most o f Amadeus' article reflects the m asturbatory attitu de to food o f people w ith heavy oral retentive problems and nothing to do w ith their tim e. So they sit around p lay­ ing w ith their food throughout their waking day. The vast m ajority o f Macrobiotics understand food is an im po rtant aspect o f their lives and take sensible steps to ensure that their food is o f as good a quality as possible. But they spend by far the greater pa rt o f their tim e living — actively w o rking, creating or whatever, but not wandering o ff to Japan or wherever seeking satori in a bowl o f rice.

Please Amadeus. The idea o f M acro­ biotics is to kick habits: tobacco, alcohol, w h ite sugar, drugs, and compulsive eating. W here you g e t 1 the idea th a t macrobiotics is a w ay to take ju nk w ith o u t tears is a w onder to m e. D o n 't believe every­ thing th at people tell yo u, even junkies.

And do we have to give up our grains, beans, vegetables, fruits and occasional animal and dairy food for the more natural dietary preference o f apes you m ention as "fru its , roots, w ild vegetables, in ­ sects, w orm s, and occasional m am m als", just because grains have been on man's menu only 20,000 years (?) and chimpanzees can't get it together to cultivate them?

O f course the successful cultures grew grain: that way they had food during the w in ter.

And maybe the "firs t group o f Occidental M acrobiotics were sincere m ystics", for w h at it's w o rth . A nd perhaps, as Amadeus also says, they w en t on to convert the less intelligent, then the "teenyboppers, dum -dums, and squares."

Good on them . Reading this sort o f crap makes me proud to call m y ­ self a m acrobiotic teenybopper dum -dum square sincere m ystic.

And I agree w ith Amadeus when he says th at " A ll stupid factions assume there are tw o groups o f people in the w orld — us and people dum ber than us." W hat kind o f faction is he th at he even goes on to classify the dummies? Shove the elitism , Amadeus. Y o u should have learned better at Berkeley.

I can see the advantages o f O Z publishing criticisms o f the more extrem e aspects o f dietary th in k ­ ing, especially if it leads to a more constructive set o f attitudes a b o u t” natural foods being reached. But this kind o f mindless, destructive, and hate-filled drivel, even more far-fetched and fanciful than the paranoic ravings o f the American M edcal Association, can only serve to create misunderstandings, re­ inforce ignorance, and produce divisiveness and rigid thinking.

Already it seems th at m ore tim e is spent on inward criticism and back­ biting than on creating anything positive or truly alternative. Must this plague now spread even to our choice o f diet? Or can w e offer to Amadeus a chance to overcome this bitterness th at drives him to such savage and anger-crazed extremes. T ry Macrobiotics again Amadeus, bu t more gently. Be free — d o n 't deny yourself w h at you w an t, d o n 't th in k ab ou t it too m uch, just relax and eat good natural food. If you still d o n 't like it — groovy — as long as you're happy, who cares w h a t you eat?

Craig Sams 3 7 C ornw all Crescent London W 1 1 D ear O Z, If governm ent-backed OZ doesn't censor this, I w an t to condemn the capitalist profiteers hiding behind the covers o f O Z magazine disguised as left-wing revolutionaries, filling th eir purses w ith the pocket-m oney of gullible school-kids.

The only good thing I've got to say fo r O Z is the b rillia n t idea o f in­ cluding hundreds o f spelling errors.

D ictionary manufacturers must be m aking a good p ro fit too!

G rant D ear Sewer Rats, R eturned h erew ith, N o. 4 2 . Put it where it belongs, jum p down after it. A nd pull the chain.

A non D ear O Z , What are we doing to get tetrahydrocannabinol legalised?

Lots o f love, H. Ash

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I agree from experience th at the m ajority o f the w o rking class are rednecks com m itted to Capitalism, one way or the other; there m ight be enough working class revolut­ ionaries to m ake the revolution, but no t to sustain it. A ny revolut­ ion w ill not only have the non­ liberal bourgeoisie, high finance and Frank Ritson and R ob ert M a rk ’s jolly lads against it, bu t also the apathy or opposition o f m any members o f the working class to contend w ith , and a revolution facing all th at opposition ( just as Britain and a successful revolution w ill have to do better than th at) is going to be a bastard. So even though revolutionaries d o n 't like dopers or collaborators, perhaps w ith good reason, and even though the revolutionary w orking class d o n't much like hippies, you'll have to accept th a t they'll be the ones w ith the power when there's a successful revolution (and you'd better not sit around grumbling if there's an unsuccessful one) and yo u'll still be in the same powerless boat wanting "dope, rock'n'ro ll and fucking in the streets". Th at is, unless you decide th at the only chance you have o f achieving your ow n rather lim ite d revolution and surviving it is by helping your m ore active brothers and sisters to bring about the real revolution.

revolutionaries. These cunts are our biggest enemies.

Illu s tra tio n : Joshua

19 84 type society dom inated by Centrist politics, consumerism, and a police arm y force ever alert for subversion o f the public's minds and bodies, and the folks who ow n and run this and every other "dem ocratic" country know th at the construction o f real personal freedom is th e dissolution of the chains th at bind us to them — education, m o rality , security, money and all the rest o f it. A nd if these chains are gone so's their power and they w an t power, even if you d o n't W arren.

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Or a n ew incarnation free o f earth may eventuate; m ay already ex ist. But earth is a beautiful place, and hum ans are beauti­ ful place, and hum ans are beautiful creatures. Why n ot let b o lh survive until our sun b u m s out? C onsciousness could n ot find a better way to spend seventy five or a hundred years than w ith a human being on earth.

Som e human beings. But even the least attractive least happy least high w ant to survive. Why aren’t th ey high?

H ow can w e m ake this a place where all consciousness is high all o f the tim e . . . in every physical incarnation. We have t o m ake it a place where everything survives; w e have to m ake a garden o f eden. Whether to save on ly humans or all livings things is for m e an easy decision. I w ould have everything survive. Do w e need m osquitoes?

My father is a marine ecologist. He has studied fish since his teens. One o f the first things I learned as a child was the balance o f species o f fish plants and o ther ocean and freshwater form s. Fish that eat plant life are eaten by fish that are eaten by bigger fish that are eaten by porpoise killer w hales sharks, for one to survive all must survive.

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When m en becam e heavy fish predators the balances were a ffected . H ow m any tons o f sardines should peruvian fisherm en harvest to produce the m axim um yield, and still be able to d o the sam e thing the n ex t year, and the one after that and on

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forever? Men and sardines surviving. My father’s work is to answer these questions o f balance, and there has been n o escape for me from the fact that the population o f men is part o f this chain, and that the con d ition o f man and the c o n d itio n o f earth are inseparable.

Because n othing eats us, w e have no population con trols. We have forgotten for long periods o f tim e that w e are w ithin the balance. We have destroyed the game so we m ust fen ce the lands and grow great herds o f ignorant beasts to feed on.

We have grown in num bers u n til w e have to clear and fence the land for intensive farming, dam the rivers and dig new on es and build railroads and trucks and ships in factories and dig the ores and pum p the oil to feed the engines made o f the ores to run the factories to build the m achines to get the fo o d to survive. And we fight wars am ong ourselves over w h o will get the oil and fen ce w hat land and mine w hat ores and produce w hat fo o d to survive.

Men sw eat in the factories to m ake the m achines to fight th e wars to w in the ores to m ake th e m achines to run th e farms to get the fo o d to survive. A nd th e y ’re not high.

Men sweat in the w hite shirts and ties, top hats and overcoats to run th e countries that run the factories that m ake the m achines to win the wars and get the goods to make the m achines to get th e food to survive. A nd th e y ’re n ot high.

Machines are the low est form o f life in th e universe. T hey are destroyers.

M achine guns. T hey are on ly 2 0 0 years old.

T hey were made by m en and w ill exist on ly as lon g as m en let them ex ist. When the m achines are gone, the m achine men w ill be gone, and all human beings will be high.

Perhaps m en w ill n o t be able to part w ith their m achines. Must w e be d estroyed to free the universe o f m achines?

There are to o m any o f us to survive w ith o u t m achines. I consider th e possibility o f getting it together w ith m achines and people and stum ble every tim e o n the m en w h o m ust make the m achines, pum p the oil and build the roads. The sw eat and pain and b ored om o f d oing th e sam e th in g over and over and over for no k n ow n reason other than to get th e m o n ey to buy th e fo o d the m achines m ade. The fo o d is sh itty; the ma chine m en are n ot high. T hey are making th e wars busts law s prisons sm og con crete capitalism .

We m ust reduce p op u lation , free ourselves from m achine enslavem ent, free the earth from enslavem ent to our m achines.

Engines are our death grip on m other earth. W ithout them she is our equal. Can y ou stand it? Weaned from you r m etal m others? List them in your m ind and feel your attachm ent.

A m achm an is a hum an being w h o has intercourse w ith a m achine. When the m achines are gone, the m achm en w ill be gone and all living things w ill be high.

So I’m slow ly unravelling m y self from m y m achines. I w ant to feel h ow high it can be. It m eans relearning the use o f the hum an b od y in providing for itself, in amusing itself, in getting itself high. It is learning lost skills, it is learning to live.

I can see that work is hard w ith o u t m achines if fo o d m ust be grown. I can see that the land can n ot support to o m any p eop le per square m ile w ith o u t m achines. If fo o d is n o t cultivated, if it is hunted and gathered, there m ust be even fewer peop le in relation to area o f earth and population o f other anim als and plants. It feels that the few er th e human beings, the easier it is to survive, and the higher the life on all levels.

The Australian aboriginals, said to be the lo w est p eop le on earth, appear (from readings) to have been am ong the highest.

There was never qu estion in their minds as to w hether their w ay o f life o f the w ay o f the w hite invaders was higher.

T hey lived in Australia for 4 0 ,0 0 0 years w ith o u t farming, or building perm anent houses. Their life was

awareness o f their w orld in every detail, and co n scio u s interaction w ith it aim ed at survival for all, including trees, rocks, lakes and sky.

A m erican indians have b een close also in balance w ith their w orld. T hey to o were few in num bers and con scious preservers o f all,things. O nly on a hunting and gathering level is man in harm ony w ith earth, his b od y, the universe. O nly then is he fulfilling his highest d estin y. D o y o u remem ber the N ob le Savage discovered by A m erica’s first settlers? Indian life and highness inspired by the Am erican revolution, con stitu tio n , and the French revolution. Europeans living as the indians did w ere the highest w hite m en in the world. T h ey were prim itive hunters and gatherers. It was so good that m illions o f Europeans cam e to feel i t . . . and sm othered the land w ith their numbers.

And built m achines to kill the indians to get the land to grow the fo o d to feed their cities. A nd im ported slaves to work the land to clo th e their numbers. And built m achines to fight a war to free the slaves w h o , the indians taught them , were their equals. A nd built more m achines to work the land to feed the freed slaves so that th ey w ould not have to give them land. A nd, slaves to their numbers, becam e slaves to their machines.

We have n o need for killing, for slavery or m achinery. We could take populatibn back to a balanced level if w e w an ted to . Let us d o it or be miserable m achm en until our end. M achmen bred to m achw om en w ill give birth to full oil b lood ed m achines in five generations.

My grandfather was a m achm en. My father is a m achm an. I am a m achm an. I w ant to be the last m achm an in m y line.

H ow far back d o w e have to go. All the w ay to the death o f the last internal com b u stion engine and the rusting away o f the last rifled gun barrel. To the destruction o f hydroelectric plants, oil refineries, nuclear generators. To the closing o f th e last factory door, to concrete crum bled to dust, to grass

growing w here once roads ran, to trees nourished by crum bled cities. We have to go back to a m inim al population.

Then I w ill cut trees to build a strong boat and sail to an old land where occasionally I stum bel upon the remains o f a lost civilisation. Where in places the concrete roads can still be seen; in deserts dry air has preserved lo n g d efu n ct m etal m achines. Where huge and ancient redw ood trees show the scars o f chain saws from the age o f m achm en.

A s I con tin u e m y journey in to the less inhabited interior and further in to rugged m ountains, I find posts still standing from forgotten fences. I travel in a bark canoe through a m ountain in a tu n n el that natives tell m e the m achm en built to carry water to distant dry areas to grow m ore food to feed more m en to m ake more m achines. We laugh, stroke, laugh, beach canoe on a sandspit to cam p. Under night’s blanket stories flicker round a fire, and I am told that the place where we camp w as once nine hundred feet under w ater. One m an p oin ts high up a jagged canyon wall, "there w as the shoreline o f a great lake dam m ed by the m achm en to produce pow er to run their m achines.” I am n o t sure but I heard o f such things: I nod, heads shake, hm m s vibrate. And th ey say that m y journey o f the last tw o m onths was on ce made in less than an hour by hundreds o f m achm en in one o f their flying m achines. We laugh, for there are on ly stars in the sky.

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S T O P P R E S S : T h e laun ch issue o f 'S p ik e ', S c o tla n d 's fir s t n a tio n a l u n d e rg ro u n d pa p e r has a lre a d y run fo u l o f th e la w . O n ly tw o days a fte r p u b lic a tio n on June 2 6 th , G lasgow p o lic e arrested a c o u p le o f streetsellers and 'v is ite d ' th e o ffice s o f B lack B o x , th e u /g S c o ttis h new s service, fr o m whose prem ises th e paper is c u rre n tly o p era tin g . A p p a re n tly th e y are o b je c tin g to th e use o f th e w o rd 'b a s ta rd ' in 'S p ik e 's ' page tw o e d ito ria l, a nd are th re a te n in g pro s e c u tio n f o r th e s ilh o u e tte o f a p h a llic banana t h a t adorns th e ir f r o n t cover.

'S p ik e ', w h ic h is n am ed fla tte rin g ly a fte r this here very c o lu m n , be o b ta in e d fr o m 1 5 H o p e S t., G lasgow , G .2 . 6 A B .

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W e 're glad to ' hear fr o m m an y o f ou r subscribers th a t th e y have received th e ir copies o f th e last issue o f O Z (n o . 4 2 ) in good tim e and w ith o u t in te rfe re n c e . As w e have alread y e x p la in e d , th e n o n -d e liv e ry o f O Z 's 4 0 and 41 is due e n tire ly to th e absurd m ed d lin g and censorship o f th e G .P .O .

A lth o u g h r.o a c tio n a t all was ta k e n by any m e m b e r o f th e p u b lic or by th e p o lic e to seek th e p rosecution o f issues 4 0 and 4 1 , and a ltho ugh b o th these O Z s e n jo y e d n a tio n a l (a n d in te r ­ n a tio n a l) c irc u la tio n and d is trib u tio n q u ite o p en ly in newsagents and bo o k sta n d s up an d d o w n th e c o u n try , still th e G P O fe lt it necessary to im ­ p o u n d subscribers' copies m aile d in p lain b ro w n envelopes. T h e logic o f such a c tio n m ust d e fe a t even L o rd L o n g fo rd .

A t presen t, these issues are th e su b jec t (a t th e G P O 's request) o f e x a m in a tio n by th e D ire c to r o f P ub lic Prosecu tions' O ffic e . T h e e d ito rs o f th e issues have been c a u tio n e d b y m em b e rs o f S c o tla n d Y a rd 's O bscene P u b lic a tio n s D e p t., b u t th e y have n o t been charged. T h e D .P .P . has had copies o f O Z issue 4 0 in its possession since J an u a ry o f th is y e a r. O n e can im a g in e th e im ­ possible s itu a tio n th e D PP's o ffic e m ust fin d them selves in . H ere is a m ag azine th a t was received o p e n ly , w ith o u t any c o m p la in t w h a t­ ever to th e ir (o r o u r) k n o w le d g e , by th e p u b lic a t large. It is p a te n tly n o t a p o rn o g ra p h ic p ro d ­ u c tio n o f any k in d , an d e n jo ys a grow ing , p o litic a lly a w are readership. N o -o n e in his righ t m in d c o u ld possibly suggest th a t e ith e r issues 4 0 o r 41 o f O Z m ag azine are obscene or in ­ d e c e n t. B u t here is th e G P O , a fte r accepting o u r m oney fo r postage, h a u lin g o f f tho usan ds o f c a re fu lly -w ra p p e d subscribers' copies to th e Y a rd fo r s c ru tin y an d in ve s tig a tio n .

Sad to hear th a t 'In s id e S to r y ' has been fo rc e d to s p lit fr o m M oo re-H arness, th e ir (and o u r) d is trib u to rs . T h is w ill in e v ita b ly m ean in itia l drops in th e m agazine's sales figures. F o r those o f y o u w h o h a v e n 't y e t sam pled this tou gh, in fo rm a tiv e , an d fearlessly professional p u b li­ c a tio n , e d ite d b y e x -in k e d ito r, W y n fo rd H icks, w e suggest yo u send £ 1 .5 0 f o r a tria l subscrip­ tio n o f sex issues to : 'In s id e S t o r y ', 3 B e lm o n t R oad, S .W .4 . * * * H ere is a useful piece o f in fo rm a tio n sent to us fo r th e b e n e fit o f pig fa rm e rs. If y o u r recent litte r o f piglets is th re a te n e d by 'te a t necrosis' (a dangerous disease am ongst p o rk e rs and s im ila r to d ip th e ria ) th e S c o ttis h F a rm B u ild ­ ings In ve s tig a tio n u n it have good news f o r y o u .

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H ere is th e te le p h o n e bill th a t b ro k e In k . N o , it's n o t a m is p rin t, it rea lly does say O ne th o u s an d a n d f if t y - f iv e pounds a n d n in e ty - fo u r pence, i A f t e r y o u 'v e read ou r ( lead ite m on th e G P O in S p ik e y o u can Im agine h o w sorry w e, a t O Z , ‘ m ust feel a b o u t ’ all this.

U p fo r grabs as w e w e n t to press was th e firs t issue o f 'G a y N ew s', th e n a tio n a l fo r tn ig h tly h o m o se x u a l new spaper. C liff R ic h a rd m ad e a c o n v in c in g h e tro s e x u a l-o f-th e -m o n th an d th e re was som e fin e re p o rtin g on th e in trig u e s o f J im m y Saville's 'S peakeasy' p ro g ra m m e on h o m o sexual b e h a v io u r. O th e r w o rth w h ile fe atu re s in clu d e d a m e d ic a lly soun d, if som e­ w h a t m o ralis tic run d o w n on h o m o sexuals a nd venereal disease an d a snappy gu ide t o gay A n d so, to recap on th is fa rc ic a l blac k c o m e d y a c tio n n o rth o f th e b o rd er. B ut w e c o u ld have w e have th e fo llo w in g tra il o f a sto u n d in g events: d o ne w ith o u t th a t to n g u e in cheek s to ry on th e 1) O Z is p u b lish ed a nd appears o p e n ly on th e streets o f B rita in . 2 ) It is sold in tens o f thousands B iog raph — it sm acked fa r to o h e a v ily o f those sad old gay m agazines w h ic h m anaged to fill to readers fr o m Lands E nd to Jo h n O 'G ro a ts .

3 ) N o -o n e c o m p la in s to th e p o lic e or to O Z m ag­ tw e n ty or so pages w ith c o y in n u e n d o an d n o t m e n tio n th e w o rd ho m o se x u a l once. azine. 4 ) C opies are sealed in b ro w n , p lain e n ­ N ew sw ise and gen e ra lly th o u g h . G a y New s velopes. 5) O Z pays th e postage a n d m ails th e m .

6 ) T h e G P O opens th e envelopes " ...t o search fo r is essential gay reading, an d its sm all ads show a h e a lth y disrespect fo r th e p a th e tic H ouse o f d ru g s ..." 7 ) A m e m b e r o f th is search fo rc e is L o rd 's decision over th e I.T . appeal last m o n th . o ffe n d e d or (m o re rea lis tic a lly ) confu sed by th e G a y N ew s is lo ca te d at 1 9 L o n d o n S t., L o n d o n , c o n te n ts . 8 ) H e passes it on to his superior.

9 ) His s u perior passes it u p th e lin e to head o ffic e . W .2 . Te l: 0 1 -4 0 2 7 8 0 5 .

1 0 ) T h e h y p o c ritic a l bigots and n a rro w -m in d e d * ** bureacrats at H Q send copies to th e D ire c to r o f R u m o u rs th a t G eorge L e n n o x is o f Jew ish stock Public P rosecutions. 1 1 ) T h e D PP's o ffic e has an m ust n o w be d isc o u n te d fo llo w in g th e am using u n w a n te d p ro s e c u tio n on its hands. 1 2 ) It all e xp o s u re o f his d im in u tiv e an d un circ u m c is e d costs y o u , th e ta x p a y e rs w h o s u p p o rt b o th th e organ at th e A lic e C o o p e r press re c e p tio n in G P O and th e D P P , m o re m o n e y .

C hessington Z o o re c e n tly . G eorge, (ex 7 D ays A t th e ro o t o f th is p ro b le m is th e n o to rio u s to k e n h ip p y an d c u rre n tly earn in g a cru st as Post O ffic e A c t. T h is a llo w s th e Post O ffic e to D ro p O u t D ave's e rra n d b o y fo r th e n o to rio u s ly v irtu a lly censor p rin te d m a te ria l t h a t c a n n o t be in ac c u ra te P riv a te E y e c o lu m n ), to o k it up on a tta c k e d b y any o th e r e xis tin g la w . T h e re is no h im s e lf to discard his b a tte re d Y -fr o n ts and space here to go f u lly in to th e id iosyncracies of Levis d u rin g th e s trip p e r's ro u tin e u n d e r th e th e Post O ffic e A c t; t h a t w o u ld ta k e tw o or th re e 'b ig to p '. A m id s t general au d ien ce h ila rity and pages, a t least, o f b o rin g an d in tric a te c o p y . a ided an d encouraged by Miss S ta cia fro m H a w k w in d , her v o lu m in o u s na k e d breasts A ll w e wish t o m a k e clear at this stage is this: d ancin g e ro tic a lly u n d e r his nose, G eorge 1) S o m e h o w , s o m ew a y, w e w ill get y o u r copies s h u ffle d a nd w a ltz e d d ru n k e n ly f o r several laps to y o u . o f th e saw dust circus ring.

2) W e ore n o t r ip -o ff a rtists - it ta ke s tim e and * ** it takes e f f o r t. T ru s t us fo r a little w h ile .

W hen a h ig h -ra n k in g m e m b e r o f th e Post O ffic e was asked by a s ta ff m e m b e r o f O Z over th e te le p h o n e on w h a t a u th o rity th e envelopes had been op en ed in th e firs t place p rio r to m ailin g th e m , th e o n ly excuse he had to o ffe r was th a t th e G P O are d u ty b o u n d to search a n y parcels, packets o r envelopes th a t m ig h t possibly c o n ta in drugs!

3 ) T o th e G P O and to th e D ire c to r o f Public Prosecutions: Perhaps y o u fe el t h a t w e are tire d a fte r last y e a r's dress rehearsal. Perhaps y o u feel th a t w e m ust be dem o ralis e d a t th e pro s e c u tio n o f IT . Perhaps y o u are h o p in g th a t , by n o w , p u b lic s y m p a th y an d s u p p o rt has d ra in e d a w a y .

Be w a rn e d . E v e ry on e o f these assu m p tions is false. O Z M a g a zin e an d every o th e r m e m b e r o f th e B ritish a lte rn a tiv e press w ill fig h t th is legis­ la tio n . W e w ill fig h t it h a rd . W e w ill k ill this A c t. E no ugh !

T h is in c re d ib le p h o to g ra p h was ta k e n by D avid D yas d u rin g th e Islin g to n C arnival Procession on June 2 4 th . W arned b y th e p o lic e th a t th e ir paper m ache flo a t o f a te n f o o t penis w o u ld be a rrested if it p ro ceed ed fu r th e r , th e C lephane R oad C o m m u n ity kids got busy disguising it as a space ro c k e t. H a lfw a y th ro u g h th e procession th e covers c am e o f f an d th e s w e lte rin g m aniac w ith a w h ite w a sh p u m p inside th e gian t cock got busy. * **

" T h e D efense o f L ite ra tu re and th e A rts S o c ie ty (D L A S ) exists to c o m b a t censorship on m o ral, p o litic a l or o th e r grounds and to u p h o ld fre e ­ d o m o f exp re s s io n ." W ell, th a t's w h a t it says on th is sheet o f ro n e o d paper an d w h o are w e to disagree. T h ose o f you w ish in g to plung e fu r th e r in to th e s o rd id in trica c ie s o f ou r m o ra l p o llu ­ tio n laws c o u ld do m u c h w orse th a n w r ite fo r fu r th e r in fo rm a tio n to D L A S , 1 8 B rew er S t., London, W 1R 4A S .

A d a te has n o t y e t been set fo r th e tria l o f th e N as ty Tales 4 , a lth o u g h an a n n o u n c e m e n t is e xp e c te d s h o rtly c o n firm in g th a t it w ill be some tim e in A ugu st. In a hopelessly tra n s p a re n t a tte m p t to 'p la y d o w n ' th e firs t ob sc e n ity rap against th e u n d e rg ro u n d press since th e O Z tria l last June, th e a u th o ritie s have o p te d to ho ld this tria l d u rin g th e In n e r L o n d o n Sessions a t th e N e w in g to n C ausew ay C ro w n C o u rt, E le p h a n t and Castle.

M ic k F a rre n , J o y F a rre n , E d w a rd B arker and Paul Lewis, to g e th e r w ith th e ir L im ite d C o m p a n y have each been charged u n d e r S ection 2 (1 ) o f th e O bscene P u b lic a tio n s A c t 1 9 5 9 as a m e n d e d by S ect 1 (1 ) o f th e 1 9 6 4 A c t. T h e c o m m itta l proceedings w ere c o n c lu d e d last M a y 1 5 th a t M a rlb o ro u g h M agistrates C o u rt.

M ic k F arren and Paul Lew is are u n d e rs to o d to be p re p a rin g to d e fe n d them selves.

T h e p ro s e c u tio n 's case is th o u g h t to rest sim p ly on evidence o f c h ild re n having b o u g h t and read a c o p y o f th e issue o f N as ty Tales in qu estio n. It's g ra tify in g to n o te t h a t th e N asty Tales c re w have n o t been charged w ith a c o n ­ spiracy o f a n y k in d . B u t th e n , conspiracy to p ro d u c e a co m ic b o o k w h a t ju ry w o u ld ever have w o rn th a t on e!

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As som e o f y o u w ill have doubtless road in T h e G u a rd ia n , M ik e T o p u z o g o u , c o m m o n ly k n o w n as 'G re e k M ik e ' fr o m th e F re n d z c o llec ­ tiv e has been s ittin g fo r several w eeks in P e n to n v ille d e p o rte e w in g . C u rre n tly he is a w a itin g d e p o rta tio n to T u rk e y w h ere he faces a prison sentence fo r refu sing to serve in th e T u rk is h A rm y . He is in s o lita ry c o n fin e m e n t, his m ail has been to rn up and his b o oks refused h im . H e is also being fo rc e d to w e a r id e n tific a ­ tio n patches on his prison u n ifo rm to m ark h im as a dangerous a n d /o r absconding prisoner.

A n d th e c rim e th a t M ichael has c o m m lte d to fin d him s e lf in th is po sition ? I t is as sim ple as it is absurd. He has been fo u n d g u ilty o f being an a lien.

Ever since th e m o d ific a tio n o f R o b e rt C arr's k itc h e n by th a t w ell k n o w n g rou p o f d e m o litio n e xp e rts , 'T h e A n g ry B rigade', th e h o rn ets ' nest o f c a p ita lis t revenge has been le t loose in a c o n ­ tin u a l spate o f p o lic e raids searching f o r " ...lik e ly c an d id ate s fo r an o u tra g e ..."

W e k n o w th a t S c o tla n d Y a rd w e re given th e green lig h t to " t u r n L o n d o n o v e r" res u ltin g in th e b la ta n t fra m in g o f P u rd ie a n d Prescott, w h ic h , p re d ic ta b ly en o u g h , fa ile d to stop th e p o litic a l bo m b ing s. M o n th s la te r, th e y busted six w e ll k n o w n m ilita n ts a t S to k e N e w in g to n , w h ic h still d id n 't stop a tta c k s on ru lin g class p ro p e rty — a n d so th e y arrested fo u r m ore p e o p le (w h ile th e bo m b ing s s till c o n tin u e ...).

W e all k n o w th e results o f th e J ake a n d Ian tr ia l, in w h ic h th e ju ry m ad e it a b s o lu te ly clear th a t th e y c o u ld n o t a cc e p t th e p o lic e 'c o n s p ira c y ' th e o r y , a lth o u g h one m ig h t be fo rg iv e n f o r t h in k ­ ing so in th e lig h t o f th e o u trageou s sentences m e te d o u t by Judge

A la u n ch in g p a rty fo r 'S p a re R ib' h e ld a t T h e Place in D u k e S tre e t last m o n th was v io le n tly d is ru p te d b y th e ho stile invasion o f a small b u t verbose grou p o f gay 'lib e ra tio n is ts '. A ttir e d in w h a t th e y p re fe r to call 'g e n d e r-fu c k ' drag, this c h u m m y lit t le gang o f b o vver-b oys descended u n in v ite d a nd u n a n n o u n c e d on an a lre a d y ov e r­ c ro w d e d an d c o n fu se d s itu a tio n . C haos sub­ seq u e n tly ensued. O n e esp ecially lo u d m o u th e d and h e a v ily tin s e lle d y o u n g 'ra d ic a l fe m in is t' p r o m p tly p ro ceeded to rip a nd m u tila te th re e do zen copies o f th e firs t issue o f 'R i b ', scattering th e to rn re m n a n ts over astonished o n lo o k e rs w ith cries o f "s ex is t ru b b is h ... sexist ru b b is h !"

A tte m p ts b y Rosie B o y c o tt and o th e r m em bers o f 'S p a re R ib ' to engage th is m iserable c re w o f psychedelic fascists in a n y m e a n in g fu l discussion o f th e ir c ritic is m s o f th e m ag azine w e re sneeringly re b u ffe d , w ith hys terica l chants o f " s e x is m ... sexism ... S ta m p O u t S e x is m ..." Ges C o x , th e d is trib u tio n a nd p a y ro ll m anager o f IT had his fa ce scratched an d c u t fo llo w in g a less th a n sensitive use o f v o c a b u la ry on his p a rt d u rin g o n e m u tu a l slanging m atch: " Y o u C U N T . .." he y e lle d . " Y o u sexist P IG ..." th e y scream ed.

S im ila rly , th e sam e c onspiracy rap was d ro p p e d against P auline C o n ro y an d C hris A lle n , th e A tto r n e y G eneral refu sing perm ission to proceed w ith th e charges, leaving th e S to k e N e w in g to n 8 , w h o have alre ad y been c o n v ic te d in th e ir absence at th e P u rd ie /P re s c o tt tr ia l.

N o -o n e sho u ld be fo o le d b y 'fa ir tr ia l' b u lls h it in th is case. These e ig h t p e o p le , w h e th e r th e y are A ngries or n o t, w e re c o n v ic te d by th e S ta te at th e m o m e n t o f th e ir arrest: c o n v ic te d n o t fo r any in ju ry or c rim e against th e m a jo r ity interests o f B rita in , b u t m e re ly f o r d aring to la u n ch p o lit ­ ical a tta c k s against th e state.

T h e p o lic e a nd th e c o u rts have a c y n ic a l lack o f p ersp ective a b o u t th e use o f v io le n c e in all c rim ­ inal m a tte rs ... fascists m u tila te blac k p e o p le w ith fire b o m b s — th e y d o n 't get charg ed w ith serious offe n c e s. I f R o b e rt C arr h ad a c tu a lly been shot o r even d is e m b o w e lle d , P rescott c o u ld o n ly have received a m a x im u m sen ten ce o f te n years (u n d e r th e section 4 o f th e 'O ffe n c e s A gainst th e Person A c t, 1 8 6 1 ') . W ith u ltra -v io le n t gangsters, th e p o lic e do o u t o f c o u rt deals; w ith th e 'A n g ry B rigade', w h o in ju re n o th in g e x c e p t p ro p e rty , th e y laun ch a " P U B L IC E N E M Y N o . 1 " in ve s tig a tio n .

O n th e p u b lic a tio n day o f Spare R ib , W .H . S m ith and Sons, those w e ll-k n o w n p u rv e y o rs o f h e a lth y f a m ily lite r a tu r e , rang th e R ib o f fic e to cancel th e ir o rd e r. N o reason o f any substance was o ffe re d . O n e short w e e k la te r, o n th e 2 8 th June, th e y rang back to revise th e ir revised c an c e lla tio n .

'P u b lic d e m a n d ' fo r th e n e w w o m e n 's m o n th ly suggested t h a t an in itia l o rd e r o f 1 5 ,0 0 0 copies m ig h t be a p p ro p ria te . W e ll, th a t's 1 5 ,0 0 0 m o re copies th a n tho se schem ing, m o n o p o lis tic , evil lit t le bastards w ill ever get th e ir hands on fr o m th is p u b lic a tio n . S ta n d up th e w o m a n w h o said "s o u r grapes".

Since 1 9 0 2 , any d e fe n d a n t can be c o n v ic te d on a cons p ira c y c o u n t on his or h e r o w n , w ith oth ers w h o are dead (w a tc h o u t G u y F a w k e s ), u n k n o w n or a w a itin g tr ia l. If th e state is desperate fo r a c o n v ic tio n , a conspiracy charge is a c o n v e n ie n t fa v o u rite (re m e m b e r C hicago or A n g e la D avis o r even th e O Z t r io ) . A n d w e can be sure th a t th e judge has a lre a d y w o rk e d o u t e x e m p la ry s en ten­ ces fo r th e S to k e N e w in g to n 8.

T h e u n k n o w n fa c to r is th e ju ry . E v e ry th in g in a c o u rt can be fix e d , e v e ry th in g can be 'a rra n g e d ', e v e ry th in g a fo re g o n e c onclu sion a p a rt fr o m th e 1 2 good m en a nd tru e . It is a w o rk in g class ju ry a nd all 1 2 have answ ered defe n c e qu estio ns on p o litic a l p re ju d ic e . It's no a c c id e n t t h a t R o b e rt M a rk ( th e n e w head o f S c o tla n d Y a rd ) has expressed so m uch co n cern over ju ries in past w eeks. T h e o n ly fa c to r t h a t th e state c a n n o t c o n tro l in a c o u r tr o o m in B rita in is th e e x p e r­ ience o f 1 2 'o r d in a r y ' p e o p le , w h ic h m ay run c o u n te r t o th e lies, c o rru p tio n an d legal rubb ish w h ic h is th e basis o f B ritish ju stice . In spite o f e v e ry th in g , w e s till have ju ries, and th e S to k e N e w in g to n 8 re ta in th e ir hopes o f an eve n tu a l a c q u itta l.

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T h e S to k e N e w in g to n 8 have plea d e d n o t g u ilty to all th e o n e th o u s an d o d d pages o f th e prosec­ u tio n case. T h re e d e fe n d a n ts , Jo h n B ark e r, A n n a M endelson and H ila ry are d e fe n d in g th e m ­ selves an d a tta c k in g th e charges w ith courageous re s o lu tio n . E s ta b lis h m e n t'e x p e rts ' in explosives a n d c h e m is try have been accused o f p ro s e c u tio n bias in m a n u fa c tu rin g a p a tte rn o f 2 5 b o m b ing s, w h ich th e s tate c la im s is th e basis o f th e c o nspir­ acy (fr o m 1 9 6 7 th ro u g h A u g u st 1 9 7 1 ) . C o n v e n ­ ie n tly , all re c e n t b o m b in g s since th e S N 8 's arrest have n o t been in c lu d e d . O n e 'e x p e r t', calle d a liar by a defense la w y e r, rec o ile d in h o rro r, de­ cla rin g t h a t he c o u ld f in d no w o rd s s u ita b le fo r th e c o u rt t o express th e p ro fo u n d shock he fe lt at his s c ie n tific in te g rity being c h alleng ed.

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As m an y o f y o u w ill k n o w , O Z has agreed to pay " s u b s ta n tia l" dam ages to M r. R o b e rt G o ld ie B u tle r, 5 4 , a school te a c h e r re fe rre d to In an a rtic le pu blish ed In O Z 2 8 , th e S c h o o lk ld s Issue.

O n F rid a y , June 2 9 th ., th e H ig h C o u rt was in ­ fo rm e d t h a t O Z P u b lic a tio n s In k L td . a nd M r.

B u tle r had reached an- o u t o f c o u r t s e ttle m e n t, and t h a t in a d d d ltlo n to th e a fo re m e n tio n e d dam ages, O Z m agazine had also agreed to pay all of M r. B u tle r's legal fees. W e also un reservedly w ith d r e w a n y im p u ta tio n s m ade k n o w in g ly or u n k n o w in g ly against h im in t h a t a rtic le .

F o r o b vious reasons, th e m a tte r is n o w closed.

W e ho ld no m alice o r res e n tm e n t against M r.

B u tle r, a nd w e w o u ld sincerely lik e to re ite ra te th e s ta te m e n t m ade on o u r b e h a lf to th e H igh C o u rt, an d to th a n k M r. B u tle r fo r giving us tim e to pay th e legal fees.

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The new left becam e old w hen its basically sound intuitions were replaced by archaic theories — those o f the Thirties and the Third . N o t that the in tu ition s o f the early and middle Sixties w ould have sufficed to transform A m erican so ciety ; a practice based exclusively on in tu ition is likely to be erratic and in effectual. But som ehow the theory required by the m ovem ent had to emerge from the con d ition s o f its o w n origins, notably the uniqueness o f the American experience. It could not be im ported from foreign situations. Ignorant alm ost by design, th e m ovem ent reached the lim its o f unconsciousness by the late Sixties. Rather than creating an authentic understanding o f itself at that p oin t, it resurrected the theories o f past revolutions, and perhaps w on itself a stay o f ex ecu tio n o f several years. But the cost was to o great. Once the fragile reprieve expired, the brutal experience o f sectarianism made the end inevitable.

While the p olitical m ovem ent was declining because o f an increasing detachm ent from its authentic historical role, another process was spon tan eou sly emerging from the conditions o f Am erican s o c ie ty ; the counter-culture was spreading at a rate unanticipated by an yon e. The cou n ter­ culture not on ly includes the w orld o f rock, drugs and clothing, these are only its m ost superficial trappings. Its real substance lies in the attem p t to transform social relations, create com m u n ity, gain control o f everyday life from b elow and over­ com e alienation through projects such as free clinics, com m unes, w o m en ’s groups and food co-ops. Many radicals finding daily life as m ovem ent activists as w ell and m ovem ent p olitics com p letely im poverished, are turning to the cou n ter­ culture as an alternative. But just as their earlier experiences w ith “p o litics” were based on low levels o f consciousness, so their present id en tification w ith the counter-culture o ften rests on little more than inchoate in tu ition s. That child care and health food s are essential com p on en ts o f th e Am erican revolution is com m on ly felt. There seem s to exist, how ever, a general inability to explain the revolutionary significance o f these im pulses to im prove th e quality o f life. Tne m ainstream o f traditional radical theory certainly provides little help. These intuitions, in turn, indicate an even deeper in tu ition that the scop e o f the American revolution m ust transcend th e narrowly “p o litica l” and fully encom pass the cultural, psychological and social realms. Unless these basically correct in tu ition s are brought to consciousness, it is possible that current developm ents w ill follow a perverted course.

What then repeatedly prevents these intuitions from achieving consciousness? The false con sciou sn ess o f the society at large infects and con stan tly subverts the m ovem ent.

Inheriting a basically pragmatic attitu d e towards life, m ovem ent, thought has been arrested at the purely tactical and strategic levels, and has had little regard for th eory. What little “th eo ry ” th e m ovem ent has engaged in has been pre­ occupied w ith the pragmatic qu estion o f m eans. The m ovem ent has devoted little a tten tion to th e question o f ends: What ex a c tly is to be accom plish ed b y an A m erican revo lu tio n ?

U ntil su fficien t clarity ex ists about ends, all consideration o f m eans remains useless. And once the question o f ends is resolved, solu tion s to “practical” problem s follo w . While the desire to avoid vapid speculation w hich remains rem ote from practical reality can be appreciated, tactical debate — although giving the illusion o f substantiality apd practicality — is futile if it does not have a proper theoretical foundation.

Every generation o f revolutionaries receives a certain set o f historical p ossibilities o u t o f w hich it makes its ow n history and its degree o f success rests o n its consciousness o f those possibilities. Only w hen revolutionary practice is com m ensurate w ith the goals to be achieved w ill the revolution be carried through to its com p lete fruition. In an age w hen ecological apocalypse lo o m s before us, an incom p lete revolu tion offers no solu tion s. That a revolu tion ’s p ossibilities are lim ited by the material con d ition s that circum scribe it — e.g. German peasant revolts cou ld not have created socialism — has becom e a truism o f the Left (largely as an apology for the Russian R evolu tion ). It is equally true that a revolution w hich sets its sights short o f its historical p ossibilities w ill fail. In the latter case, the revolution sim ply fails to capture th e im aginations and em body the needs o f the p eop le or make th e p sych ological or physical risks o f revolution w orth their w hile. To an over­ w helm ing e x ten t, this tim id ity o f vision has b een the problem with the m ovem en t. A lthough th e m ovem ent has contained visionary elem ents, th ey have inevitably b ecom e com bined w ith regressive id eologies and thereby distorted.

The R evolu tion and Hum an Freedom In this c o n te x t, radicals w h o have been experiencing the con fu sion and dem oralization o f the past several years should enthusiastically w elcom e the publication o f Murray B ook ch in ’s P o st-S ca rcity A narchism . For w hat em erges from a reading o f P o st-S ca rcity is a sense o f th e possibilities posed by the Am erican revolu tion , possibilities o f such m agnitude as to differentiate the revolution in kin d from all th ose revolutions that have preceded it. Such qualitatively new con d ition s render all previous m odels for revolution practically useless and dem and creative thinking w ith the u tm ost scope and vision. B ook ch in tries to transcend and syn th esize traditional revolutionary theories w ith utopianism and e co lo g y in to a coh eren t perspective w hich is appropriate to th e revolutionary possibilities at hand.

The p o in t o f departure for B o o k ch in ’s analysis is th e unique social p o sitio n o f the U nited States. Elaborating o n one o f M arx’s p rofou n d est insights — the dialectic o f h istory from prim itive com m unism through propertied so ciety to com m unism — B ook ch in m aintains that the U nited States (and the advanced capitalist w orld o f w hich it is th e cornerstone) stands not o n th e borderline o f capitalism and socialism , as is usually believed by the L eft, but on th e borderline o f propertied so cie ty and com m unism , or hierarchical and classless so ciety . As w e shall see, the A m erican revolution , if it is to be a success, m ust cross that frontier.

If it is true that the historical dialectic m oves from prim itive com m unism through properties so ciety to a higher d evelopm ent o f com m unism , th en w e w ill n ot understand this broad d evelop m en t w ith o u t investigating th e relationship o f each social form to the natural world and the ty p e o f consciousness engendered by that relationship. Briefly, prim itive so ciety is primarily characterized by its integration w ith nature and its remarkable internal unity. T he prim itive ego, or self, w hile differentiating itself from nature — it d oes n o t have the primordial un ity o f infantile consciousness — also conceives o f itself as part o f nature. In prim itive so ciety the w orld does not have the quality o f otherness w hich it assum es in “ civilized ” so ciety . The prim itive feels m uch m ore at h om e and unalienated in the w orld. U nlike the “ civilized ” m ind.

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prim itive consciousness does not conceive o f the w orld as an inanim ate” , “e m p ty ” o b je c t, but as a su b jec t, “ redolent w ith life!’ The natural w orld “ is experienced as life confronting life involving every faculty o f man in reciprocal relationships.”

Since the natural w orld is experienced as a living subject, to w hich the prim itive is reciprocally related, rather than as an inanim ate ob ject, nature has its ow n integrity w hich cannot be violated. The n otion o f dom inatiing or exp loitin g the natural w orld is foreign to the prim itive, and, as w e shall see, this tends to place him or her at nature’s m ercy.

The relationship betw een the prim itive se lf and so ciety exhibits a similar reciprocity and cohesion. The individual does not experience him self or herself as opposed to the collective, but relies on the com m u nity as the on ly c o n te x t in w hich to actualize him self or herself. The com m u n ity, rather than lim iting the developm ent o f the individual, is felt to nurture it.

The collective, in turn , is able to respect th e a u ton om y o f each individual because o f a religious b elief in the necessity o f diversity w ithin the order o f the cosm os. As D oroth y Lee explains in term s o f the Hopi: Human so ciety is part o f a larger structured w h o le, so an individual cooperates w ith even more that the m em bers o f hiB' hum an group. Every aspect o f nature, plants, and rocks and animals, colours, cardinal directions and numbers and sex distinctions, the dead and the living, all have a cooperative share in the m aintenance o f the universal order. Eventually, the effort o f the H opi individual affects the balance o f nature; and as each individual develops his inner p oten tial, as he enhances his participation, so does the entire universe b ecom e invigorated. N ot his behavior alone, n ot his achievem ent, but his entire unique being is significant.

increasingly left unfulfilled. The increased division o f labour w hich is necessary b oth for th e con q u est o f nature and for m ore profitable p rod u ction , creates a rigid social hierarchy and class so ciety .

Estranged from nature and so c ie ty , th e ego eventually becom es alienated from itself. The regim entation o f so ciety and toil required for the dom ination o f nature dem ands repression o f the instincts on the part o f the individual. The se lf becom es opposed to its innerm ost desires. As the division o f labour becom es m ore specialized, to il b ecom es m ore ted iou s and dem ands m ore repression, thereby ending w hatever libidinal satisfaction w ork previously provided. Compared w ith m edieval crafts, work on the m odern assem bly line is to tally d e­ eroticized (ex cep t perhaps for its sadistic co m p o n en t). The delayed gratification ana repressive sublim ation offered in recom pense for toil leaves instinctual needs totally unsatisfied.

In addition to the co llective psychosis o f contem porary so ciety , w ith its ugliness, destruction and violence, w e can trace the im poverishm ent o f daily life suffered b y all o f us to this repression o f our erotic desires.

Only in a few sp ecific hum an activities, art and play for exam ple, d o w e gain a glim pse o f true hum an needs. For in these particular activities the repressed material returns, albeit in a h ighly sublim ated form , and provides an indication o f the nature o f a w orld constructed to satisfy true hum an needs.

Both o f these activities represent an attem p t to transcend the external restriction o f a repressive reality principle, a yearning towards freedom . As Marcuse explains in nis discussion o f Schiller, “ the play im pulse d oes not aim at playing w ith ‘som eth in g’; rather it is th e the play o f life itself, b ey o n d w ant and external com pulsion — the m anifestation o f freedom itse lf.”

A w orld based on the play principle presupposes th e achievem ent This com m itm en t to diversity allow s social differen tiation to o f a post-scarcity situ ation , for “ on ly w h en the ‘contraint o f exist w ith ou t the developm ent o f rigid hierarchy. For exam ple, need is replaced by th e “ constraint o f su p erflu ity’ (abundance) a ch ief or priest m ight possess specialized know ledge w hich he w ill the hum an ex isten ce by em pelled to a ‘free m ovem ent em ploys for th e good o f th e com m u n ity, but h e d oes n ot use which is itse lf b oth end and m eans’. Liberated from 'the it to gain personal pow er. A n individual m ight con su lt the pressure o f painful purposes and perform ances necessitated priest for inform ation, m uch as on e m ight con su lt a reference b ook , w ith o u t being bound to follow the recom m endation. Thus, by w ant, m an w ill be restored into the ‘freedom to be w hat he ought to b e .’ But w hat ‘o u g h t’ to be w ill be freedom itself: in prim itive so ciety , there is room for a division o f social th e freedom to p la y .” C om m unism w ill be constructed ■ roles w ith ou t the dom ination o f individuals or the d evelop m en t according to the laws o f pleasure, p lay and b eauty (w hich very o f hierarchy w hich accom panies it in propertied so ciety . In fact, w ell m ight be o n e and th e sam e): in a genuinely hum an civil­ di versity is respected as an end in itself. ization, the hum an ex isten ce w ill be play rather than to il.”

But the foun dations o f the unalienated societies w ere precarious, for contained w ith in the prim itive’s m any-sided relationship w ith The w h ole barbarous d evelopm ent o f hierarchical so ciety has its “ redem ptive d ia lectic.” A t an incalculable cost to nature nature w as the elem en t o f threat as w ell as o f prom ise. We see and h u m an ity, propertied so c iety , in its passage through this m ost clearly in m y th o lo g y , w here nature appears b oth as feudalism and capitalism , has developed th e material and the loving m oth er and the terrible m other, as th e nurturer and intellectual productive forces to th e p oin t w here scarcity the destroyer. U ltim ately, the constant threat o f nature’s can be over com e and propertied so ciety itse lf transcended. destructiveness undermined th e stability o f prim itive so ciety . A The “ con q u est o f nature” has not o n ly been com p leted; it society that has n o t overcom e material scarcity — and this has gone entirely to o far. T h u s , th e tortured d evelop m en t o f includes all societies that have thus far existed — is inherently propertied so ciety has brought us to the p o in t where unstable. The in secu rity created in each individu al b y scarcity dom ination and hierarchy as such can ana m ust be ended, where is the germ o f th a t s o c ie ty ’s even tu al d estru ctio n . the self can be reharm onized w ith nature, so ciety and itself. We have been brought, in oth er w ords, to the threshold o f The insecurity engendered b y material scarcity leads to the com m unism . acquisition o f property as an attem pted insulation from the natural w orld. The sam e insecurity, m oreover, leads to the Since m uch o f the m o v em en t’s co n fu sio n has resulted from struggle to pacify nature. T he conquest o f nature fundam entally the graftjpg o f anachronistic elem en ts o f socialism o n to the alters m an’s relationship to nature and m an’s relationship to American scen e, w e m ust consider the socialist project both man. A prerequisite for the d om ination o f th e natural w orld is as it w as conceived theoretically and as it has developed the estrangem ent o f the ego from nature, for on ly an atom ized historically. T heoretically, socialism , it was supposed, w ould and alienated ego can think o f conquering nature. Indeed, create the material pre-conditions for com m unism b y m eans o f only such an ego is capable o f th e con q u est. T he natural w orld — econ om ic planning, a nationalized industry, and the ana this includes h u m an ity’s natural instincts — assum es a m axim um d evelop m en t o f th e productive forces. N eedless to h ostile otherness w hich m ust be subdued and controlled by say, this w as not com m unism itself. Socialism , in e ffect, the estranged ego, for this otherness poses a threat to the remains w ith in the fram ework o f hierarchical so ciety , w ithin very survival o f the individual. T o accom plish this con q u est, the realm o f necessity. The socialist project was conceived thought b ecom es less m yth ic and increasingly instrum entalist. during the early period o f the industrial revolution. It was The “logic o f dom in ation ” , as Marcuse has called it, w hile believed th at socialism w ou ld have to co m p lete the “ conq uest enabling science and tech n o lo g y to progress, has taken a o f nature” begun by capitalism . There is thus great con tin u ity frightening toll o f the natural world w h ose m agnitude w e are b etw een the historical tasks o f capitalism and socialism . In only becom ing fully aware o f to d a y . The ego now reduces the that these tasks shape consciousness, socialist values and w orld to pure ob ject, to be dom inated and ex p lo ited w ith o u t the socialist p syche m ore closely resem ble those o f bourgeois restraint. so ciety than com m unism .

A corresponding destructiveness occurs in th e social realm.

Just as the integration o f th e ego and nature dissolves, so the cohestion o f the prim itive com m u n ity, “ united b y kinship ties and com m on interests in dealing w ith th e m eans o f life ,” (B ookch in, p .9) disintegrates in to the war o f all against all.

The individual no longer views the so ciety as th e m atrix o f his or her actualization, b u t n o w sees it as an ob stacle that places ever greater lim its on his or her freedom and ever greater dem ands on his or her life. As production b ecom es increasingly geared to exchange rather than use, hum an needs are

The theoretical co n cep tio n o f socialism ’s historical tasks d oes not include the liberation o f the individual. The primary determ inant o f the quality o f life remains eco n o m ic, n ot the transcendence o f eco n o m ics into freedom .

The individual under socialism , com p elled to d ev o te a substantial am ount o f his or her life to to il, is unable to develop his or her hum an poten tials to their fullest. Cutting cane or w orking in a m achine to o l factory remains toil.

Regardless o f w hom it is for, it deform s th e hum an spirit.

Chained to the exigencies o f co m m o d ity p rod u ction , socialist society is organized according to the abstract law s o f econ om ics rather than the dem ands o f hum an satisfaction and aesth etic delight. Socialist so cie ty , bound to the co n cep t o f efficien cy , is arranged hierarchically — although it is d ou b tfu l that hierarchy is even e fficien t for th e purposes o f socialist production. Hierarchy, w ith its differential status and pow er, denies the individual full con trol over h is or her daily life. Socialism , at least th eoretically, alleviates the grosser injustices o f capitalism . The survival necessities o f fife such as fo o d , m edicine and clothing are readily available and equitably distributed. A t b est, how ever, socialism attains a high degree o f social justice, n o t o f hum an freedom . F or under socialism the con crete, ex isten tia l, p syc h o lo g ic a l individual d o e s n o t co n tro l his o r her d a ily life, and lacks th e faculties or free tim e to cu ltiva te his o r her p o te n tia litie s w ith o u t extern al restraint.

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If the theoretical con cep tio n o f socialism entails a very lim ited vision o f hum an actualization, the situation has b een further exacerbated historically by the occurrence o f “so cia list” revolutions so lely in underdeveloped countries. T hese revolutions have b een primarily peasant revolutions w hich have occurred in under d evelop ed, feudal societies. T h ey are not “ proletarian revolutions” in industrialized, capitalist countries. Given th e material con d itio n s that that produced them

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and the tasks w hich have faced them — prim itive accum ulation, national unification, etc — these revolutions m ore closely resem ble classical bourgeois revolutions than socialist ones.

The social system s that have developed in th ese countries can best be described as state capitalism .

U ndoubtedly where “socialist” regim es have gained pow er, the material lo t o f the populations have been appreciably improved.

But I cannot accept the notion that the best w ay to accom plish the tasks facing these revolutions is through centralization, hierarchy and the banning o f all o p p o sitio n . On the contrary, I m aintain that w orkers’ control provides such great incentives that it is n ot o n ly the m ost desirable, b u t also th e m o st practical means for organizing econ om ic life. I also m aintain that the new state w hich is allow ed to form , in w hich opposing points o f view are allow ed dissem ination w ill be m ore creative and productive. All op p osition is n ot “ objectively cou n ter­ revolutionary,” and freedom o f speech, is not m erely a “ bourgeois lu xu ry” . The banning o f all op p osition indicates on ly on e thing : a fear o f the people.

N o t on ly do “ socialist” revolutions differ greatly from those envisioned b y classical theory, but con d ition s in the advanced capitalist countries are fundam entally d ifferent from th ose that w ere thought to produce socialist revolution. It was believed that, due to its internal con tractiction s, capitalism w ould collapse at a m uch earlier level o f d evelop m en t and that m uch o f the developm ent o f tech n ology w hich has occurred under capitalism w ould instead occur under socialism . This is w hat is m eant by the “over-ripeness” o f capitalism . One reason for this m istake was that Marx, although he considered the possibility o f state capitalism , predicated his mature theory on a system o f laissez-faire capitalism . But capitalism becam e increasingly “statified ” and was able to p ostp on e m any o f its m ost severe crises. Even the tech n ology that Marx studied was very im m ature com pared w ith to d a y ’s. He studied the coal and steel tech n ology o f the industrial revolution, n ot th e m iniatur­ ized and com puterized tech n ology o f todky. It is hardly surprising th at he was unable to foresee m uch o f the developm ent o f tech n ology that actually occurred, for “ the very idea that a man w h ose greatest theoretical contributions were m ade b etw een 1 8 4 0 and 1 8 8 0 could ‘fo resee’ the entire developm ent o f capitalism is, on the face o f it, utterly p reposterous.”

(B ookchin , p .1 7 8 ). We can see that the core o f socialist theory is predicated on a phase o f capitalism and o n a level o f tech nology w hich n o.longer exists in the advanced capitalist countries.

H ow does com m unism differ from socialism ? The m ost essential d ifference is that com m unism com prises th e realm o f freedom w hile socialism remains w ithin th e realm o f necessity.

Within th e realm o f necessity, the individual is forced to exist p rim arily as a one-sided being, both psychologically and econom ically. But the achievem ent o f post-scarcity so ciety — com m unism — results in an individual w h o enjoys material security, leisure and m eans to develop in to the wellroun ded person envisioned throughout Western philosop h y from the Greeks through the young Marx. The harsh laws o f econ om ic necessity are no longer the main determ inant o f individual developm ent. N ow the individual can d evelop accord­ ing to the dictates o f pleasure, play and beauty! Perhaps the best w ay to illustrate this by the com m en t o f an A m erican radical w h o recently returned from China. A sked w hether the personal struggles o f the Cultural R evolu tion were actually the sam e as th ose o f the American m ovem en t, she replied that to the ex ten t that the Chinese w ere trying to personally transform them selves, it w as because “ bourgeois traits” w ere im pedim ents to production. T he struggles were n ot being waged primarily for the b en efits to th e individual.

Under socialism th e individual can still be a m eans for im proving larger abstractions such as the econ om y or so ciety ; under com m unism the individual b ecom es an end in h im self or herself. T o gear revolutionary practice in th is cou n try to the attainm ent o f socialism , w hen w e m ust achieve com m unism to survive, to remain w ith in the realm o f necessity w hen “ now the real drama o f hum an life can unfold in all its b eau ty, harm ony, creativity and jo y , (B ook ch in , p. 1 6 9 ) w o u ld be to tally retrogressive.

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In the U nited States, revolutionaries are faced w ith the need for overthrow ing hierarchical so ciety , not mererly capitalism ; for creating com m unism , not m erely socialism ; for establishing human freedom , n ot m erely social justice; for re-harmonizing hum anity w ith nature, rather than com p letin g th e “ co n q u est” (ie destru ction) o f nature; for providing everyone w ith the right to play, rather than the right to toil; for ending alienation, n ot m erely exp loitation ; for liberating individuals, not

m erely “ th e p e o p le ” ; for ending d om in ation as such not m erely its sp ecific form s such as racism, sexism , etc., for transform ing sexu ality in to Eros, not m erely liberating sex; and for creating an aesthetic, n ot m erely a rationalized” so ciety . N o previous revolution has been con fron ted w ith these p ossibilities — and no longer d o th ey remain visionary goals to be sacrificed to the “ pragmatic realities” o f revolution. T hey have n o w b ecom e the historically necessary con d ition s for the perpetuation o f hum an life and an ecologically sound planet.

Possibility, desirability and necessity m ost clearly converge in the q u estion o f eco lo g y . And perhaps B oo k ch in ’s m ost unique contribution is his exploration o f the revolutionary potential o f eco lo g y b oth as a critique o f hierarchical so c ie ty and as a guide for the reconstruction o f so c ie ty . If hum an life is to con tin u e o n th e planet, then the dom ination o f nature cannot con tin u e on its present course. And this pillage cannot be ended through reform ist or m erely tech n ological measures.

Quite the contrary, and end to the dom ination o f nature requires tne healing o f the w ounds opened by propertied so c iety , “ that is no less than the solu tion o f the social q u estion itself. Through som e dialectical irony tod ay, w hen the healing o f th ese w ounds b ecom es a n ecessity, th e means to the so lu tio n are for the first tim e historically present. Tlie very productive p ow er w hich is destroying nature also offers the possibility o f over-com sing scarcity and rem oving the psychological m otivation for the d om in ation o f the natural w orld. A post-scarcity so ciety must not be confused w ith a con tin u ation o f the abundance presently produced in the advanced capitalist w orld. It means a quantitive reduction in the absoulte number o f goods produced as w ell as a qualitative transform ation in the ty p e o f goods produced. It m eans prod u ction scaled dow n to real hum an needs rather than the inflated, false needs created by com m o d ity relations. And it m eans an end to com plusive con su m p tion as a su b stitute for human satisfaction.

A scaled-dow n, ecological eco n o m y therefore requires transform ation o f hum an needs and values — literally, the creation o f a new sensibility or consciousness. U nable to offer the “ sa tisfa ctio n ” o f false needs, post-scarcity so c ie ty can on ly provide the fulfillm ent o f true human needs. B ut m ost o f us, our m inds colon ized by propertied so c ie ty , cou ld n ot even begin to appreciate the satisfaction o f true needs. Herein lies much o f the significance o f the counter-culture. It is beginning to explore and rediscover such basic hum an needs as com m unity sensuality. Herein lies the relevance o f m any o f the historical anarchistic and utopian thinkers, such as Charles Fourier.

A lthough th ey did not have the historical m eans for realizing their visions, w hich we now do, th ey w ere am ong th e few to explore seriously the p ossibilities o f a so ciety constructed to satisfy real hum an needs. Only the satisfaction o f these needs w ith o u t guilt or renunciation can end h u m a n ity ’s war w ith itself and nature. The American revolution m ust create a consciousness geared n o t to dom ination and aggression, bu t one suited to harm ony, reciprocity and pleasure, a truly ecological consciousness. With the com p letion o f the p acification o f nature and the end o f the necessity o f to il, the self can rediscover the natural w orld as a source o f sustenance and delight, w orth y o f cultivation for its ow n sake. And in the co m m u n ity , the self can find a playground in w hich to exp lore its im aginative, erotic, and aesth etic p otentialities.

N ow , having a very general idea o f th e p ossibilities posed by the American revolu tion , w e can begin to see h o w , on ce w e possess such a perspective, answers to th e m ore “ practical” questions fo llo w . For exam ple, were th e m ovem ent equipped w ith a m inim al degree o f consciousness ab ou t th e historical situation o f the U nited States, SDS m ight have avoided its disastrous attem pt to form a centralist, Leninist party. Had they possessed that consciousness, SDSers w ou ld hkve realized that the worker or student or for that m atter practically any m em ber o f American so c iety — sick o f the hierarchy o f the work place or sch ool, was n ot about to subm it to th e hierarchy o f the party. D isgusted w ith labour bureaucrats or p om p ou s pedants, th ey were about to fo llo w party functionaries; bored with the assem bly line or classroom , th ey were n o t about to tolerate m indless m eetings w ith their co n ten tio u s debates. We could con tin u e th e list ad infinitum . B ut, in general, if it had been realized that the issues around w hich peop le in this country were becom ing radicalized were alienation, bureaucratism , authoritar­ ianism, hierarchy and boredom , then it w ould have been obvious tiiat th ey could n ot be attracted to an organization w hich was itself inherently alienating, bureaucratic, authoritarian, hierarchical and boring.

M oreover, if the m ovem ent had had m ore o f an historical and theoretical perspective, it w ould have realized that th e Leninist party is primarily a to o l for a cou p d ’etat n ota-p op u lar revolution from b elow . And o n ce again, because o f their lack o f historical k now ledge, m ost radicals did n ot realize that there have been m any alternative form s o f organization and insurrection.

The Leninist party — w hich is n oth in g but the socialist state before gaining pow er — seizes pow er and runs the so ciety , usually in the name o f the p eo p le, to accom plish the goals o f socialism , a function for w hich it was suprem ely tailored. The individual can practically return to work the m orning after the insurrection, so to speak, rem aining virtually untransform ed and his or her ow n participation in the revolutionary process.

In fact, this transform ation, riot the insurrection, is the real essence o f the revolutionary process. Social justice can be decreed by a central com m ittee, but “ freedom . . . cannot be delivered as the “end p rod u ce” o f a “ revolu tion ” — m uch less a “revolu tion ” achieved by social philistines w h o are h yp n otized by the trappings o f authority and p o w er” .

(B ookchin , p .1 6 7 ). Freedom m ust be existen tially appropriated by the self-conscious individual.

To th ose w h o, depressed by th e im passe o f the New Left or the recent disappointing behaviour o f th e Cuban and Chinese G overnm ents as w ell o f that o f the Black Panther Party, have retreated from radicalism, w e should like to q u o te from Max Horkheim er. H orkheim er, a founder o f th e Institute for Social R esearch, was confronted by a similar situ ation in Germany w hen the w orkers’ m ovem en t w as d estroyed in the Thirties: Those intellectuals w h o fully subordinate them selves to the psychological situation o f the class w hich in itself appears to represent the force for transform ation and change, are led to a professional optim ism and to th e euphoric sensation that th ey are tied to an im m ense pow er. When the latter suffers severs set-backs, m any o f these sam e intellectuals face the danger o f falling in to pessim ism and nihilism that w ould be as unfounded as their optim ism was. T hey cannot bear the fact that in particular periods it happens that th e representatives o f the m ost avant-garde, futuristic th ou gh t, th ou gh t w hich grasps the historical situation as its roots, are necessarily isolated and forced to rely on them selves.

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The N ew L eft, at one tim e, in tu itively grasped the “ h istoric” situatuon as its roots, but, unable to bring th ose intuitions to consciousness, was subverted by “ the tradition o f all the dead generations", and could n ot pursue its au th en tic role.

Today th e m ost “avant-garde” ana “ futuristic” elem en ts are unconsciously contained w ith in the counter-culture. The counter-cultures tw o fold revolutionary im portance is the articulation o f the dissatisfaction over the quality o f life w hich perm eates American society , and th e prefiguring o f the utopian solution s w hich are latent in the A m erican productive apparatus.

But unless these elem ents gain consciousness, the cou n ter­ culture m ay w ell suffer a fate similar to the m o v em en t’s. I w ould suggest that th e w ay to overcom e the current im passe is to turn from the Third World, the Russian R evolu tion , or wherever w e have let our despair carry us, and return to the Am erican terrain to begin creating a radical enlightenm ent concerning the possibilities facing us. I can think o f no better place to begin than w ith P o st-S ca rcity A narchism .

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MACHINES OF LOVING BRAG A brief introduction for OZ readers into negative ionisation the science o f organic electronics

Ions are electrically charged p a rticles in the atm osphere.

N egative ions m ake you feel good.

Positive ions can make you feel awful.

The positive ion charge in the air can be felt just before a thunderstorm . The negative ion charge can be felt after­ wards — w hen the air is fresh and fizzy.

The fact o f ionisation has been know n alm ost since the tim e electricity w as discovered.

The effect o f ionisation on m ood and certain condition s — respiratory ailm ents and burns am ong them — has been researched in this century.

In a natural, h ealthy environ­ m ent, there is usually a balance betw een positive and negative ions. In som e ch oice places — on the top s o f m ountains, by w aterfalls, in the desert w hen the w ind w hips the sand, and in som e naturally occuring m icro-clim ates — negative ions predom inate. In these places on e tends to feel clean, airy, com p eten t, optim istic.

P ollution produces positive ions. A ir-conditioning system s can produce positive ions.

Heavy traffic produces positive ions. Positive ions make y ou feel depressed, slow and heavy.

T hey m ay make certain co n ­ dition s, like asthm a, worse.

R esearch results: Two American scien tists at C olum bus, Ohio, found an increased learning and perfor­ m ance ability in rats exposed to ionised air. The effect was more pronounced in older rats than younger ones.

At Milan U niversity, Jordan, S o k o lo ff and G ualtierotti found that m ice exp osed to negative ions required more ether for the sam e level o f an­ aesthesia — and recovered faster. All the anim als in this series show ed a marked in­ crease in activity since their exposure to ionised air.

Animal experim ents recently

published in Hungary show ed that in a negatively jon ised atm osphere “d efen siv e” react­ ions to dangerous situations are learned significantly faster.

What is m ore, the speed in d iscrim in atin g b etw een dan­ gerous and safe situ ation s is also increased in a negatively ionised atm osphere.

Clinical rep o rts: A d o cto r in C ologne reported 100 per cent success in treat­ ing 8 0 0 children for w h oop in g cough. Half the children needed on ly three sessions o f on e hour each in a public ionisation clinic. A quarter needed up to ten sessions. T he o th er quarter up to 15.

At the U niversity Catolica, Argentina, studies in fear and anxiety used negative ionisat­ ion. The research w orker treat­ ed p atien ts in sessions lasting for as little as 15 m inutes at a tim e — and never m ore than tw o hours. A fter 1 0 —20 sittings in a negatively-ionised room their sym p tom s disappeared entirely. O nly 2 0 per cent failed to respond.

The d o cto r o f a M eissen factory in Eastern Germany reported that he used negative ion therapy to help prevent the industrial disease o f p n eu ­ m oconiosis. He found that his patients slep t b etter, had b etter appetites, and felt “ on to p ” .

A ccording to his report, pat­ ients w ere so im pressed that th ey asked w h ether their friends and fam ilies could co m e along too. In seven m on th s, the clinic had outgrow n its original purpose as a p n eu m ocon iosis in stitu tion for em p lo yees. The d octor now treats bronchial asthm atics, chronic bronchitics children w ith w h oop in g cough and even elderly p eo p le w ith em phyzem a and eczem a.

(Physicians attached to other m ining com panies have fo llo w ­ ed his lead. One o f th ese d o c t­ ors, at the tim e o f this report’s publication, had treated 1 1 ,0 0 0 patients, and said that his

patients reported relief “w ith m o n o to n o u s regularity” .

U seful intelligence: A British firm called M edion m ake negative ionisers. Their custom ers, w ho buy them for a variety o f reasons, including the alleviation o f asthm a, bron­ chitis, hayfever and headaches, report 8 0 per cen t success.

They also produce an ioniser for the motor-car. T he electric­ al system o f cars apparently m akes them a breeding ground for positive ions. T he negative ionisers are said to keep drivers fresh and alert on long journeys.

Ions an d breathing: N o-one is sure w h y there are such remarkable e ffe c ts on the respiratory tract in a negativelyionised atm osphere. But e x ­ perim ents by Krueger and Smith at California University have dem onstrated w h a t happens. The bronchial tubes and trachea, or w indpipe, are lined w ith tiny filam ents called cilia. The cilia norm ally m aint­ ain a w hip-like m o tio n o f about 9 0 0 beats a m inute. Together with m ucus, th ey keep our air passages free o f dust and pollen .

Krueger and Sm ith exposed tracheal tissues to negative ions and found that the ciliary beat w as speeded up to 1 ,2 0 0 a m inute, and that the m ucus flow w as increased. (D oses o f positive ions produced the reverse effe ct — th e ciliary beat slow ed dow n to 6 0 0 a m inute or less and the flow o f m ucus was retarded).

Ionised air seem s to have heal­ ing properties. Investigations

by M edicor in Hungary show ed a 7 0 per cen t reduction in bac­ teria in a negatively ionised test chamber.

Dr. Igho Kornblueh, the ack­ now ledged authority in A m erica o n the use o f ionised air

treatm ent for third-degree burns, has said th at in an ion­ ised atm osphere burns dry quicker, heal faster, and hurt less.

F u rth er d efin itio n : Ions are electrically charged particles generated variously by cosm ic rays, radioactive elem en ts in th e soil, ultra­ violet radiation, w inds, w ater­ falls, or, as w e said, the blow ­ ing o f sand and dust. Y ou can even generate a localised field o f negative ions by running taps in the bathroom at full force.

F rom an article b y a co n su lta n t ph ysicia n : “ Tlie exten sive professional literature o n negative ionisation p o in ts to the beginning o f a new m edical scien ce through w hat m ight be suitably called ‘org­ anic electron ics.’: T he key to this new and revolutionary approach seem s to lie in the correction o f the electrical ton u s o f the central nervous system . When this is accom ­ plished, th e b od ily functions, fully equipped to provide balanced and progressive an­ tid o tes to disease, can operate effe c tiv e ly ....... “ Drug therapy, w onderful as it is, has tended to ‘take nature by force’, by attacking a specific organ co n d ition and neglecting the total b od ily requirem ent.

It seem s that w e are now enter­ ing a new era in w hich man w ill m ake his greatest m edical ach­ ievem ents by learning, in fact, to co-operate w ith nature in a new and surprising w a y .”

The effe c t o f ionisation is a subtle on e. Like going to a new clim ate for a holiday or cure, it m ay take several w eek s before y o u begin to feel it.

The science is in its infancy.

O Z readers w ish ing to investigate or purchase negative ionisers shou ld c o n ta c t M e d io n L td . 1 O x te d , S u rrey

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D o n 't g o stic k in g n eedles in to y o u r sick friends.

you pay the d o cto r w hen y o u are w ell.

Y ou cease to pay him w hen y o u becom e ill.

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One o f the basic differences b etw een eastern and w estern m edicine is that eastern m edicine, o f w hich acupuncture form s an integral part, is a p h ilosop h y o f life as w ell as a science. The w estern d octor, like the dentist, is little m ore than a technician, a body m echanic, w ell versed in repair and spare parts, but know ing relatively little about preventative as opposed to curative m edicine.

The D utch first introduced Western m edicine to the east, and in Japan at least, the physicians o f the ancient and classical school w ere relegated to a secondary place.

In China, the effect o f Western m edicine w as n ot so drastic, and now Peking has not only perm itted Mr. N ixon his ridiculous TV junket, but has apparently decided to enrich us w ith freely given know ledge o f one o f its m ost tim e honoured and valuable discoveries.

The follow in g inform ation is taken from Japanese A cu p u n ctu re b y Dr. M. Hashim o to (Liveright Publishing Corporation, N ew Y ork). A n y o n e interested in further reading should lo o k at any o f the book s on acupuncture by F elix Mann.

A cupuncture and oriental m edical science originated in China about four or five thousand years ago. The m o st im portant o f the m edical classics w as called the Nei Ching or ‘The Y ellow Em peror’s Canon o f Internal M edicine’ w hich is in the form o f q uestions and answers em bracing hygeine, pathology and p h y sio lo g y , as w ell as p olitics, eco n o m ics and the arts and sciences o f that day.

THE THEORY OF Y IN-YANG AND THE FIVE ELEMENTS.

James R eston, the journalist, w id ely pub­ licised the extraordinary success o f his post-operational acupuncture treatm ent, (he was to o chicken to allow th e Chinese d octors to operate under acupuncture), and on television recently I w atched d eaf and dum b Chinese children being treated w ith acupuncture needles w ith m o st en­ couraging results. The film con tin u ed w ith an operation on a w om an for rem oval o f an ovarian cyst. She lay back, fully co n ­ scious, several needles, electronically stim ulated, protruding from m eridian test points in her face. She felt no pain at any stage, w as able to m ove freely w hen required, to assist the surgeons, and w hen the cy st w as finally rem oved, felt only that a great w eight had been taken from her body.

The N ei Ching said: “ The principle o f Yin and Yang is the basic principle o f every­ thing in creation. It is the principle o f the entire universe. It is the parent o f every change; it is the root and source o f life and death; it is also found w ith in the tem ples o f the gods. In order to treat and cure diseases, one m ust search into their origin. Heaven w as created by an accum ­ ulation o f Yang the light elem en t, w hile Earth w as created by an accum ulation o f Y in, the dark elem ent. Through their inter­ actions and their fu n ction s, Y in and Yang, the negative and positive principles in nature, are th e causes o f diseases w hich befall th ose w h o are in rebellion against the laws o f nature, or th ose w h o do n ot conform to th em .”

The Western anaesthetist for on e, w ill w elcom e acupuncture. So m any m iddle aged p eop le seeking surgery o n their fail­ ing organs, are found to be addicted to barbiturates, that it is o fetn im possible to find a suitable painkiller to p rotect them from the terror o f the scalpel. Incidentally, it is interesting to note that in the East,

In the hum an b od y, the back is Yang, but the chest and abdom en are Y in; m an’s spirit is Y in, but his body is Yang. M an’s viscera are Y in, but certain parts o f his digestive system where nutritive and w aste m atter circulates, such as the colon and the sm all intestine, are Yang. Y in exists w ith in Yang and vice versa. The

THE FIV E ELEM ENTS. All that ex ists w ithin nature is divided into the Y in and the Yang, but there is a further division according to the five elem en ts, w hich are W ood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water. For exam ple, the liver, the gall­ bladder, the ey es, the nails, tears and acids all are said to be under the first elem ent, w o od . The five elem en ts are n o t independ­ ent but stand in an intim ate correlation to each oth er, for each elem en t has its op p osite and each elem en t governs and is in turn governed by another elem en t. Thus at on e tim e, th ey com p lem en t and at ananother th ey op p ose each other.

ENERGY A ND ITS ESSENCE. The energy that is integral to th e hum an b od y asserts itse lf as an essence The m ysterious p ow ers o f this essence w ork invisibly and ex ist w ith in everything w ithin the universe. It is the very cause o f life itself. In a kidney, for exam ple, it exists as the ‘essence o f the k id n ey’. In the circulating b lood , it exists as the ‘essen ce o f the circulating b lo o d ’. It is this essence w hich sustains the b od y and causes it to m ove and live.

HYPERACTIVITY AND HYPO ACTIVITY These tw o term s represent polar extrem es o f disequilibrium w ith in the bod y and its organs. If there is a disequilibrium in the energy o f an organ, this w ill m an ifest it­ self either as an abnormal am ount o f energy, or as a d eficien cy o f energy. In either case, this w ill'be reflected in the nervous system and b lood pressure. Any restoration o f the organ m ust follow a course o f adjustm ent until either the hyper­ activity or the h yp oactivity has been reduced to a normal equilibrium .

TSANG A N D FU ORGANS. Tsang organs are Y in, Fu organs are Yang. The six Tsang organs are; th ejiver, heart spleen, lungs, kidneys and the heart constrictor. The six Fu organs are; the gall bladder, the small intestine, the stom ach, the colon , the bladder and the tri-heaters (respiratory, digestive and repro­ ductive system s).

THE CAUSE OF D ISEASE. E xterior causes — The Five Perverse Clim­ ates are responsible for exterior causes and the adverse effects th ey cause are divided into tw o categories. Kan is a co n d ition o f lesser intensity w hich results in such minor diseases such as a cold. Chu is o f greater intensity, resulting in graver illness such as hemiplegia.

Interior causes — these arise because o f psychic stress generated by the Five E m otions. For instance, anger can be the cause o f a disturbed liver; joy can be the cause o f a cardiac affliction; an xiety and depression can be the cause o f pulm onary lesions; grief can affect the spleen and fear can damage the kidneys.

Illness is som etim es brought on through internal causes w hich are the product o f external effects, i.e. illnesses produced from injudicious eating or drinking, an abuse o f organic functions or overwork.

Finally, there is the physical con stitu tion o f the individual w hich may be either positive or negative, hyperactive or hypoactive, with organs which them selves may be susceptible or resistant to disease

Illu s tra tio n :

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THE M ERIDIANS AND THEIR POINTS.

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The m eridians are the pathw ays along w hich flow the essence o f vitality. The meridians are in direct relationship with such vital phenom ena as grow th, m eta­ bolism , nutrition or the organs or the nervous system . The acupuncture needle therapy is directed towards stim ulating or depressing the energy in the meridians concerned. T o d o this, the disorder or dis­ equilibrium m ust be diagnosed and its cause located through a study o f the 12 pulses. A Russian photographer called Kirlian has taken photographs in a high frequency electrical field, o f the human aura, which show s this energy or essence flowing from certain points on these meridians. There are fourteen meridians, and a couple o f exam ples follow : Meridian o f the Colon: It com m ences at the tip o f the index finger from where it m ounts the outside o f the arm, over the shoulder and the side o f the neck to end at a p oin t near the nose. The test p oin t for the needle is on the upper forearm.

The meridian o f the Stom ach: It com m en ­ ces on the face; the trajectory descends dow n the front o f the thorax and abdom ­ en, dow n th e ou ter surface o f the leg to end at the tip o f the second to e. The test p oint is on the outside o f the leg near the knee.

The meridian o f the K idneys: It , com m ences at the sole o f the fo o t from w here it m ounts the length o f the leg and thigh and the front o f the abdom en and thorax to end at a p oin t below the clavicle. The test p oin t is located on the inside o f the leg above the ankle.

Disease is reflected by the co n d itio n o f the meridians, that is to say w hether or n ot the meridian is plus or minus. A couple o f exam ples o f the various diseases for the con d ition s o f the meridians follow :

M eridian o f the Spleen: (Y in m axim um ).

Minus: Craving for sw eets, dullness in the legs, m em ory failing, sleepy during the day flatulence.

Plus: A pp etite variable, b od y feels dull, desire to lie dow n and rest.

Meridian o f the K idneys: (Y in m inim um ).

Minus: Lack o f w ill, lack o f sexual im­ pulses and lack o f positivity. U neasy, tim id, im patient, fearful, coldness in low er limbs.

Plus: C olour o f urine dark brow n, energy abnorm ally intensive, cannot stop w ork­ ing.

DIAGNOSIS There are four main m eth od s — exam inat­ ion by sight, by auscultation, by verbal interrogation, and by palpation and pulse taking.

1) Sight: E xam ination is based o n appear­ ance o f patient, w ith special em phasis on the Five Colours and the Five Senses. The Five Colours are: Blue — Liver, gall bladder.

Red — Heart, small intestine.

Y ellow — Spleen, stom ach.

White — Lung, colon .

Black — K idney, bladder.

The Five Senses are: Sight, ey es — Liver, gall bladder.

Taste, tongue — Heart, small intestine.

Tactile, lips — Spleen, stom ach.

Sm ell, nose — Lungs, colon .

Hearing, ears — K idneys, bladder.

Any change in the fu n ction o f the Five organs o f Sense can be directly attributed to a change in on e o f the body organs. For instance, a disease o f the ey e s stands in direct relationship to the innervation o f the liver and the gall bladder.

2) A uscultation The Five Vocal expressions m ust be carefully listened to and are as follow s: Shouting — Liver, gall bladder.

Speaking — Heart, small intestine.

Singing — Spleen, stom ach.

Crying — Lungs, colon .

Groaning — K idneys, bladder.

Shouting is indulged in generally by those persons o f an irritable character w ho like to order other persons about. T hey are usually arrogant and are likely to suffer from liver and gall bladder disorders. Those w ho speak to o m uch and w ith o u t pause and th ose persons w h o stu tter have a prop­ ensity tow ards heart d isfunction. T hose w ho have a w eak spleen or stom ach often love to hum a song. T hose w ith fine sing­ ing voices have a w ell-conditioned spleen and stom ach. T hose w h o cry easily are susceptible to pulm onary troubles or already have them . Groans are em itted from the kidneys. Yawning and snoring are also related to the kidneys.

The Five Odours: T hese m ust also be noted during an exam ination o f the patient and are as follow s: Rancid — Liver, gallbladder.

Scorched — Heart, small intestine.

Frgarant — Spleen, stom ach.

R otten — Lungs, colon .

Putrid — K idney, bladder.

The Five Secretions: Tears — Liver.

Sweat — Heart.

Lymph — Spleen.

Mucus — Lungs.

Saliva — K idneys.

The Five E m otions: Anger, irritability, restlessness, instability — Liver.

Joy, excessive laughter — Heart.

Worry, em otion al tension, depression — Spleen.

Grief, negativism — Lungs.

Fear, tim id ity, easily surprised — K idneys.

The Five Perverse Climates: Wind is unfavourable to the liver. Brings propensity to illness w hich a ffects the ligaments.

H eat is unfavourable to the heart. Brings propensity to illnesses w hich a ffect the arteries.

M oisture is unfavourable to th e spleen.

Brings propensity to illnesses w hich a ffect the m uscles.

D ryness is unfavourable to th e lungs.

Brings propensity to illnesses w hich affect the skin, and hair.

Cold is unfavourable to the kidneys. Brings propensity to illnesses w hich affect the bones.

3) INTERROGATION The usual d o cto r’s questions.

4) PALPATION D IA G N O SIS These are o f the highest im portance and sophistication, although to o detailed to cover here. The pulse exam in ation should coincide w ith that o f the meridians.

TREATM ENT. The m ost fundam ental law o f oriental m edicine is the Great Law o f Pu-Hsieh: “ Supply energy to w here it is lacking, and calm the energy w hen it is in ex cess.” This m eans that w h en the meridian energy is m inus it m ust be augm ented, and w hen it is plus, it m ust be calm ed n ot dissipated.

The stainless steel acupuncture needles are m ostly inserted on ly to a depth o f on e tenth o f an inch at the various crucial test p o in ts on the correct m eridians, and are left in p o sitio n or m anipulated until the p a tien t’s pulses have been normalised. “ There is no disease w hen th e pulses are norm al.” T hey m ust all be restored to a state o f equilibrium . When this has been achieved, the treatm ent is term inated.

Beginners in the art o f acupuncture should lim it them selves to inserting needles in thosr parts located on ly on the chest, the abdom en and the four lim bs. The fewer p o in ts w hich have to be used, the better.

The length o f tim e the n eedles are le ft in, i.e. the dosage, depends o n the states o f the pulses. U sually, the m ore serious the disease, the longer th e n eedles are left in place.

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Scenes from a Lebanese Jail byPanos Koutrouboussis

“There had to be a tip-off, th ey were waiting for m e, man. Soon as I parked the car at the custom s-house, five custom s m en came up and one o f them w ent straight for the tank, tapping w ith his knuckles: ‘Hashish? You have hashish h ere? ’ Sure, the m others knew already.

Y ou dig, the way it works is if the dealer or the farmer w ho sold y ou the dope tips o f f the custom s, th ey ’ll sell his hash back to him at a cut rate, or give him a small percentage o f the custom s fine, or both.

If the inform er is som ebody else, like you think it w as the h o tel clerk, th en he gets a reward.” “ I’ve made seven trips before and every­ thing w orked ou t okay. I had this arrange­ m ent w ith a custom s man, paying him 50 dollars for every kilo I carried. But this tim e he suddenly asked m e for 100, and I got pissed o f f and told him I’m not going to pay. So he busted m e. Fuck man, if I had kept m y cool and paid... But when he told m e to pay double I cou ld n ’t give in to the bloodsucker!”

“If on ly m y stupid partner d idn’t leave the h o te l’s nam e w hen he mailed the parcel at Beirut Express!... Beirut Express is a d efinite bust, m an.”

ing they are w ith ou t p ro o f or legitim acy — are subm itted to the courts and inform ­ ***** ers d o n ’t have to show up in court. A good d efen ce carries no w eight — on ly Som e m onths ago, the U nited N ations private con n ection s b etw een a lawyer and C om m ittee on Drug Abuse, or som ething the people at the top may work. Judges like that, asked Lebanon — am ong other sentence 2 0 —30 peop le in 15 m inutes by countries - to stop cannabis cultivation. raising three fingers and announcing Lebanon absolutely refused, stating that “ Three y e a r s ”. Lawyers are useless. They cannabis is its number one national are o ften successful in taking away all product. People say all im portant fam ilies, your m on ey, som etim es writing to your politicians, strongm en etc. have som ething hom e address and asking for m ore. Going to d o w ith the product. C ultivation is to trial can take five, six m onths; w ith centred around Baalbeck, a major tourist p ostp on em en ts — for reasons like “ the spot because o f its impressive ancient ruins. judge was ill” or “ the arresting officer Tons o f hashish leave the country by ship didn’t co m e” — up to one year; and there’s from private sea-side estates to the w est, a three m on th court recess during summer or by cam el caravans to Syria, Jordan and m onths. even Egypt. This trade cannot be touched. ***** So — people say — to satisfy the U nited States w ho pay big am ounts towards the A fter being m oved about fo r 2-3 days war against drugs — m oney that goes in from jail to jail - custom s, arm y, police, rewards to inform ers, arresting agents, court cells, all stinking h o les — y o u are exp en ses for better agencies etc. - the brought here by ta x i w hich y o u have to pay for yourself. Y ou are taken to a authorities here do everything to catch as m any o f the sm all-fry, the ‘h alf to one covered yard, what th ey call a ‘veranda’, hundred kilos’ smugglers. All m eans are where yo u are stripped and thoroughly used to this end. Everybody can — and searched from the seams o f your clothes will — be an informer. The judiciary works to your m ou th and asshole. A ll photographs on a guilty until yo u prove your in nocence o f fem ales are torn to pieces; wives, principle. The police w ill use entrapm ent sisters, girl-friends - m aybe m others too?

3 4 m ethods. “ C onfidential” dossiers — m ean­ All m etal objects, even trouser clasps, are If if if if -

With whatever item s o f cloth in g they let you keep, y o u are led to a dark barred entrance in on e o f the cell blocks, from where a con tin u ou s racket o f screamed announcem ents and answers from the cells w ill blast your eardrums. This noise w ill be w ith y ou every day from six in the morning to five in the evening; y o u ’ll get used to it. The dark corridor has six black m etal doors on each wall. A nother trustee w ill yank on e op en and let y o u in with your bundle asking y o u “h u b b ly-b u b b ly? h u b b ly -b u b b ly? " F ifty to sixty m en will turn to lo o k at yo u . The w alls o f the cell are loaded w ith clothing and bags hanging from ropes made o f strips o f useless cloth -, ing, and are lined w ith beddings o f blankets — soon y o u ’ll learn that th ey are called wall spaces — w hich leave a corridor o f dirty concrete floor. At the other end is a dirty d oorw ay to a slop p y narrow room w ith a sink and a leaky faucet and garbage, and another door, covered w ith a w et blanket, gets y o u to the toilet, which is a h o le in the floor. In the room there is a wall o f shelves where the prisoners put their fo o d , everything in plastic containers and buckets. There are tw o barred w in­ dow s to the corridor and four to the o u t­ side, all high up. * ****

A yo u n g w om an, rather h o m ely, com es every M onday aftern oon - excep t when she d oesn ’t com e - representing the L ebanese Red Cross. Prisoners w ho want som ething — R eceipt o f a parcel, con tact­ ing o f an em bassy, processing o f som e d o c­ um ent — put up their nam es the day b e­ fore and th ey are called ou t to the yard together, th en on e by on e talk w ith the w om an. Most guys put their names dow n either to get ou t o f the cell for half an hour o f open air, or just to gape at the w om an.

Last tim e she w as here, the sergeant passed by w ith an arab prisoner and a guard, talk­ ing to the prisoner in a friendly ton e and slapping him on the back. T hey w ent into a door nearby, a room where pillow s, old m attresses and suitcases are kept. Pretty soon screams o f pain cam e o u t o f that room . The Red Cross w om an, continuing at her work w ith the foreigners, put on a sm ile o f embarrassed know ledge. A fter five

by P. K outro u b o u s s is

“ Fuck Lebanon! If it wasn’t for the war in Pakistan y o u see, plans were to go to Kabul and then get out from Karachi, but we had to change at the last m om ent. S h it!”

torn o f f w ith pincers. Belts, shoe-laces, ties, and all m edicines are o f course m am nous, the first o f the few w ords in arabic that y o u ’ll hear all the tim e, and which m eans fo rb id d en . If y o u wear glasses, they are taken and y o u w ill m a yb e get them back after a few days o f requests. All this ‘w ork’ is d on e by som e greasy trustee under the observation o f a guard. If you have anything o f value — a chain and cross or lo ck et, for exam ple — or anything nice like a good pair o f shoes or a leather jacket, the trustee w ill take them saying they are m am nous, and if y o u ask for them later y o u ’ll find that th ey are lost forever.

Illustrated

I f if if i f - . “ If I used the other road back from Baalbeck instead o f the one through Zahle. there w ould be no roadblock there and I w ould have made it .”

o f dollars. Their stories are fantasies, made up just for the ben efit o f the others. In­ trigue and cell p olitics are ruthless, backstabbing, beastly. Som etim es attem pts at serious activity are m ade. A penniless Dane w ith glasses, living parasitically o f t h is neighbours in the cell, m ade statistics on pre-trial tim e, exp en ses o n law yers, food ; he argues that everybody should fire their If y o u want to see a d octor h e ’s there once lawyers! Then begs a banana from the guy a w eek, but not every w eek. If y o u ’re next to him . Som eb od y else proposes that suddenly ill, you m igh t get an aspirin,if if a man is arrested for a crim e in a foreign you ask for it repeatedly. Y ou have to ask country he should just be throw n out and never let back; the more countries he is the Leb in the cell, and the Leb in the corridor and the sergeant w hen he makes arrested in, the m ore restricted his travel­ the daily count at 4 .3 0 p.m . ling w ill be. And if he com m its a crime in his o w n cou n try, th en on ly can he be This inspection th ey call sta a d ek and every­ im prisoned. body has to get all the w et cloth es o f the lines crossing the cell, put slippers under An Am erican com es up to another lying in the blankets, line up in tw os and w ait, som etim es for a quarter o f an hour. When his bed o f blankets. “ Sir! All com ic books the sergeant com es, accom panied by a present and accounted for, S ir!” guard, h e m akes the round o f the room , counting under his breath w ith his tiny eyes half-closed and his pointed m oustache bris­ A German com es ou t o f the toilet. tling. Then he w ill stop in front o f the cell’s “ Shit! W ho’s been using the plates we eat from to wash his ass w ith? Shit, m an!” charoush — th at’s the prisoner responsible for order. In the foreigners’ cell, the job is filled by a big American N egro, stronger Show er tim e is another “ outside activity” . than anybody else. So, about o n ce a Groups o f 16 are taken to the shower m onth, for som e private or ridiculous about 100 yards away from the blocks, and reason he w ill slightly beat up one o f the wash frantically for five m inutes in sm all, prisoners. He plays a double role o f pro­ slimy stalls. If it’s raining y ou get tw o extra tector o f his cell-m ates and lackey o f the show ers, one on the way there waiting for prison authorities with the accent on the the previous group to finish, and one w hen latter. Tire sergeant will ask him “H ow y o u ’ve finished, w aiting for your group to much Jam eses?” and the man w ill answer gather and start back. Som e o f the stalls in arabic, giving the number o f prisoners have rotting w ood en doors. Whoever gets present. Then the sergeant w ill say on e o f them has the advantage to be able “Bravo, Jam eses!” Every day the to m asturbate under the h ot water instead sam e; every single day. o f washing. m inutes o f scream s, the sergeant came ou t, his face flustered, carrying a length o f thick entw ined rope. Then tw o guards dragged out the crying prisoner and dum ped him into a stone water-trough. His feet were crim son red and sw ollen; sobbing, he dun­ ked them in to the water.

The intelligence level is pretty low . Prisoners talk about sportscars, yachts, thousands

night I go to a d iscoth eq u e and she’s there.

I have hashish w ith me, Mister M ahm out, many pieces in all m y p ock ets. She’s very beautiful, Mister M ahm out, and m uch m o n ey . She says ‘Hello George; y o u ’re n ot angry I hurt you last tim e?’ ‘N o, I was a bad b o y . I was wrong to d o that. Y ou want a drink?’ She says ‘T ea!’ ‘OK’, I put hashish in her tea. ‘H ow m uch sugar?’ I put.a piece in her glass w ith the sugar. In five m inutes, ha-ha, she starts laughing. 1 put another piece in more tea, stir it. S he’s so high. 1 take her, put her in the car, vrooom ! I go n o t to h ou se; in the trees. I fuck, boom , boom , b o o m , three tim es, six tim es. Then she’s asleep, I take her necklace, all jew elry, I take lo ts o f m on ey from her bag, rings, w atch... Very good , Mister M ahm out.

Then I sell them . One w ith red diam onds, 2 .0 0 0 dollars. Other jew els and everything, 5 .0 0 0 dollars. I could get m uch more but I wanted to get rid o f these things.”

“G eorge... This is very bad. G o d -d a m m it!” “ N o o o , Mister M ahm out, das ist sehr gut!

Mister M ahmout, w hen we get ou t o f here, we have m achine guns, go to a bank in Beirut, b oom -b oom , w e take all the m o n ey , and then go to Casablanca, R olls R oyces, sixty girls... hm n, das ist sehr g u t!”

“M ister M ah m ou t! G u ter sch la f!”

George Bulziev, or Bullshit to his cellm ates, a 27 year-old runaway Bulgarian gets a plastic cup o f c o ffee from Mister M ahmout and letting go a fart, low ers h im self on the blanket.

The tw o greatest values in the room are “wall space” and c o ffee. Wall space belongs to tne senior prisoners; the rest roll up their bedding in the m orning and spread it “ Mister M ahm out, in Holland I m eet m ade­ out at night, covering every m oiselle w ith big car. She said she’s engaged inch o f floor. The last senior man gets a wall but she’ll sh ow m e places in Amsterdam. space n ext door to Very good-looking girl. We go to night­ the “ k itch en ” /% ? / clubs, w hisky, cham pagne. I w ant to w here h e ’s fu c k but she d o esn ’t w ant. Aft6r we reach her house, she say this is where I live, I grab her w hen we are ou t o f the car, but she kick m e here... O w w w ! So she goes away. T hen 1 d o n ’t go to her h ou se but another s ts W s lf s ' ^ * s 's ‘ ‘

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always getting all the dust, the garbage, and the sm ells from the shit house. Ar­ gum ents about w all space flare up occasion ­ ally and taking away a m an’s wall space by the charoush, is used for intim idation or as a punishm ent.

When the bell rings for “ taps” at 9 p.m ., the prisoners go into an agitated rush to fix their beds and get som ething to eat from the shelves. A fter th e y ’re through, the roaches m ake their rounds am ong the crumbs, the spilled sugar and soup; and later, w hen everybody is asleep, th ey ’ll crawl over the prisoners.

C offee com es first thing in th e morning and the m en buy great quantities to drink through the day, heating it w ith a m ake­ Som e men w ill read for an hour or go on shift m am noua heating apparatus. Argu­ playing poker for cigarettes, although all m ents and bickering about c o ffee go on games are m am noua. Som e nights y ou hear machine guns and rifle sh ots nearby. all the tim e. It’s stolen , traded; lost, The lights, tw o weak bulbs high up on the borrow ed, heated, poured, spilled. For wall, are alw ays on. som e o f these people it’s the on ly thing to talk about. There was even a disturbance If yo u wake up in the m iddle o f the night, w hen th e w hole cell got fired up and yo u may catch Hans or Mario, or Whisky w anted to subm it a large number o f com ­ a G ogo, his aliases — the 45 year old plaints because the captain and the shop German smuggler w ith the dom ineering wanted to lim it the co ffee to three cups a day per person. The w hole thing crumb­ led w hen the captain to o k tw o m en out o f the room and w ithdrew the restriction. It’s now referred to as “ the co ffee revolu tion .”

Nerves are alw ays frayed, laughter and fun are forced, the on ly privacy is in the toilet; even there after 2-3 m inutes at the m ost, som ebody w ill w ant to use it. If you go there in the small hours, y o u get a chance to see som e large rat crawl o u t o f the hole b etw een your legs.

w ife, a slim y con-m an, sneaking about stealing addresses from o th ers’ n otebook s.

In the night, there is scream ing and much c om m otion in the corridor. L oud angry guards’ voices and w him pering and crying.

An older kid from the other cell tries to kill h im self by sw allow ing a b o x fu ll o f K leenex. The guards push him dow n the corridor to take him ou t to the infirmary.

The b oy crawls along choked by the tissue papers that h e ’s got crammed d ow n his throat.

A few days ago a diabetic, w ho w asn’t given his daily shot o f insulin, died in the night in another cell. They called the guards; they rolled him up in a blanket and left him in the “ k itch en ” next to the garbage baskets till m orning, w hile the cell w ent back to sleep.

The sleeping room lo o k s like som ething ou t o f a scien ce-fiction nightmare. The floor is covered w ith prisoners rolled up in blankets, m indless m onstrous larvae in their cocoon s. Here and there th ey tw ist w ith slow sluggish m ovem ents and fart and cough.

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On July 8th David Bowie appears at The Royal Festival Hall X in aid of the Friends of the Earth

A GEM PRODUCJIpN 1

The Fam ily o f Man is a fact.

Every man is himself, every­ one else is his brother and every man is his brother's ■keeper. In this case “ to keep" is not to possess but to care for, to watch over and to nourish.

This is universal brotherhood.

But although we were all created equal at the beginning of E ternity, are we still being born equal w ith all th at individual karma which has gone on since? Are we identical twins? Universal brotherhood sounds fraternal. And if we are all born equal, w h y the taboo on judging each other?

Is it a prejudice to say "nobody's really differen t"? A re all brothers twin-brothers?

Aquarius is m ainly under the rulership of Uranus; the In itiator, Planet of Genius and the super­ conscious Great Flash which comes to the storm y m ind like sudden lightning; giving little tim e for the unprepared to see all that it shows, being impressed only by w hat he happens to be staring at when the flash comes. To the uninitiate this way o f thinking doesn't seem very scientific yet most of scientific progress moves on the impulse of the Aquarian insight.

The Eleventh Sign is the Sign into which the solar system is currently taking alm ost a couple o f centuries to back into. The symptoms are so obvious as to be laughable. Like the popular use o f the terms "m a n " and "broth er" like the superscience and the com­ munes, and the U nited Nations, and the electronic music, and a long etcetera.

Saturn is also a strong part of Aquarius and Saturn is consistency, precision, au th o rity, discipline and fo rm . We must change the old concepts o f brotherhood w ithou t breaking them . The 11 th House of a horoscope is traditionally called the House o f Friends and Aspira­ tions. Through the amalgamation and welding processes associated w ith the Eleventh Sign, we can see the 11 th House becoming the House o f Group M ovem ent.

A nd, speaking o f fam ily affairs; there is also a birth taking place in the Fam ily right now. The vanguard o f the 6 th Subrace is incarnating at this tim e. And " 6 " is the Kabbalistic N um ber o f the Sun. The Subrace was announced by the entry into Aries o f the Planet Uranus in 1 9 2 7 on April Fool's D ay. The Fool o f T aro t corresponds to the Planet Uranus, which is, in 1 9 6 9 , halfway around in Libra — another A ir Sign and therefore com patible to Aquarius.

The Aquarian W ay, the way of true Brotherhood is to w o rk in direct com m unication w ith each other, co-ordinating their projects w ith no ego interference, each contributing to the others fo r the good o f the entire Fam ily.

The glyph o f Aquarius, originally composed o f three parallel waves was the old Egyptian symbol for w ater and was pronounced moo as in M u; lost continent o f the Pacific.

The Aquarian expression of love is quite d ifferen t from th at o f Leo, the polar opposite. Leo governs the heart and it is directly from the heart th at the compassion o f Leo comes; indis­ crim inate, w arm , and personal.

Although Leo relates to every one w ith o u t qualification; the expres­ sion is intense and personal or at least it seems that w ay to the recipient. Aquarius, however, relates to hum anity as a whole, impersonally and w ith reason.

W ithin the Fam ily of Man the friends from the Eleventh are champions o f individual freedom and equality of op po rtu n ity. They do not wish to be left alone but they do w an t to be left free.

Along w ith the Fire Signs (Aries, Leo and Sagittarius) Aquarius is a great liberator o f the human spirit, the great leveler and status-buster.

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Pisces has a few im portant and turtle w o n, is a story o f the interesting characteristics necessary difference between living esoterr . to man's spiritual evolution ically (represented by the tortoise) between incarnations. However, and living exoterically (represented there is little about the Last Sign by the hare). This is a part o f the which relates to life on this planet, Piscean M ystery, th a t "G od is a and to scrape together w hat is spirit and must be worshipped in appropriate and then to try to fill spirit and in tru th " . "T h e tu rtle out a whole Zodiacal Sign w ith it wins". . . verges on the absurd and useless. not a flashy slogan perhaps, Pisces is seldom, if ever, aware of however not to understand it anything in terms o f simple physical results in physically dying and reality. Certain Piscean virtues such getting another peptalk and then as sym pathetic in tu itio n and having to be physically born again, spiritual refinem ent are vital to and again. hum anity as a whole and appear in all the Signs to a certain extent but N ot to understand it is to be on they hardly justify an entire Sign; the outside looking in. a Sign w ith no practical attributes at all. Surely no Sign should cost The Children o f the T w e lfth Sign the others m ore than it ’s w orth I are consciously aware o f the And yet . . . Over th ejtreat reality o f th e spirit. Which is the gate o f the T w elfth (Piscean) beginning o f knowing what's really Mansion of Heaven is w ritten: " A ll going on. A nd that's the meaning the m ajor decisions o f life are easy of " h ip " ; to know what's really if we place no other God before going on. It includes much more H im ". than the occult, although it is still very esoteric.

The ignorant and the proud, of course, miss this one com pletely; Eventually each of us w ill be the form er thinking God to be a confronted w ith the conscious conception o f man and the latter awareness of a ll that was, is and unable to accept anything beyond shall be. It is said we d o n 't live one's ow n ab ility to understand or through it. It is also said th at this agree. Pisces, being th e last Sign, is the beginning o f everlasting life. is closest to the Source and there­ fore knows best about such things.

Unless im itatio n is to be consid­ Pisces is the High Sign, the most spiritually sensitive, the one whose consciousness is most likely to be irreparably distorted by strong or violent drugs. A nd as the natural law and order here on Earth is beginning to pass fro m a Piscean to an Aquarian Age, one of the more obvious symptoms is the spectacle of trying to impose the old upon the new through anti-drug legislation and attitu de.

Pisces knows w ith o u t having to be told the spiritual is the most real and the material is the most unreal.

T ruth is an experience of the soul, not a conclusion o f the brain.

Pisces cannot be tricked by o u t­ ward appearance or actions.

Pisces sees your soul. H ow does th at feel?

The tortoise is one o f the animals corresponding to the last sign. The story behind the race between the turtle and the rabbit, which the

ered an individualism in itself, the T w e lfth Zodiacal Category is composed entirely o f unmanifest likenesses o f the other Eleven.

In terms other than those o f the Zodiacal Categories o f the Incarnation there is, o f course; much to say. However the p o int of this w hole conversational series is the direct application o f the relationship o f the Esoteric to the Exoteric through the Signs o f the Zodiac.

But here is a Sign o f which such comments cannot be made.

Earthly evolution has not yet reached the place where the inner meaning o f Pisces is applicable to tangible existence.

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Zodiac Contem plations by Am brose Hollingsworth Illustrations by Thomas Bewick and His School

ARIES

The need to know about the self can, through the e ffo rt to meet that need, put Aries people into behaviour and attitudes which we call conceit. We complain that they ta lk about themselves too m uch. If you had one short life­ tim e in which to attain enlighten­ m ent through self-knowledge you m ight ta lk about yourself every chance you got. Y o u might hope to learn by hearing yourself ta lk to others and by the reactions o f those to whom you ta lk. Aries people do this w hether they consciously know it o r not.

Aries people are born w ith the instinct to create and to be the

On the twelve tonal scale the note o f Aries is C. The colour is red, first band o f the rainbow, T aro t trum p card is num ber 4 , the E m peror, who is called Son o f the Morning. Corresponding Hebrew letter is Heh, second and fourth letter o f the unspeakable name of God. Aries is also called the General, the Conqueror. The associated archangel is called the Prince o f Strength and Courage.

M ajor changes o f situation are not necessarily unhealthy for.them (perhaps they need to learn) but such interruptions as change of residence, m ate or occupation are quite numbing. Some part o f the person seems to close up and shut down w hile the change goes through its process. There is no inclination to relax until everything becomes fam iliar and consistent again It is when the environm ent has mellowed into an old friend that th e beauty and great strength of Taurus really reveal themselves.

Some Taurians feel responsible fo r the body of th e Planet Earth

Of the half-dozen sim ilar versions of th e trad itio nal T a ro t cards usually seen to day, all show much Taurus in the fifth M ajor Card called the H ierophant, as well as the King o f Pentacles o f the M inor Cards.

Red-orange, D -fla t, the sense o f hearing, copper, and a certain kind of obedience; all are related to Taurus in a very high w ay, perhaps a sacred w ay. TTie H ierophant has been called Revealer o f Sacred Things.

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Love and beauty are the keywords of Venus, the planet which rules Taurus and Libra. Through these tw o signs are born some o f the most beautiful and loving people.

They do exceptionally well as members o f enduring teams of partnerships w here they provide a sort o f launching p la tfo rm , a center o f dependability, a fam iliar form .

The Sign o f the Bull is often the sign of a healer, a healer by to uch .

This is one whose inner harm ony is clear enough and strong enough to act as qu iet exam ple o f order (which is health) from one body to another, usually through the palm of the hand.

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Stars themselves are tem porarily activated by the close presence (w ith in three degrees) o f a passing planet. T h ey are im po rtant on a personal horoscope only if they conjunct a planet at birth . Then again it takes a passing planet to activate it after th at. This tem porary activation of a star is like the brief frigh t flare o f a striking m atch, compared w ith the continuous, though flickering, light o f a planet and o f course planetary light is reflected sunlight,

They are learning to see the "glory of the sky" through the "beauty of th e ea rth ". Th ey are "liftin g up their eyes unto th e hills". T h ey are not only beautifying, but also building. In some w ay, especially with the Sun in Taurus or w ith Taurus rising at birth , they are here to accomplish th e marriage of form and fu n ctio n . T h e result is practical and a pleasure as w ell.

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East is the direction associated and the m otive is m ental impulse.

Aries is the ruling sign o f England, Syria, G erm any, Israel, and West Poland. Three im po rtant stars of Aries are: D ifda at 2 degrees 9 m inutes, w ith a Mercury-Seturn influence, A lpharatz 13 degrees 51 minutes, Venus-Jupiter influence, and AlPherg at 2 6 degrees 31 minutes Jupiter-Saturn.

Although Taurus is a most practical sign according to the logic o f the Zodiac, there is a certain field o f practical in form a­ tion and phenomena which is often, or even usually, overlooked by the second sign. This field is, of course, the occult. A Taurus incarnation is not fo r the purpose of esoteric sbholarship. So le t’s not push it at them .

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But Aries may try to waive experience in favour o f opinion.

Sometimes they are in such a rush and under such pressure to get going th at they make an inaccurate appraisal o f a new situation.

A n y red flo w er is associated, the geranium being very strong. Will power is the related state o f m ind and the physical sense o f sight is also involved w ith Aries.

U ncertainty is unhealthy for Taurians and insecurity delays their grow th. The rest o f us can help by providing as much stability as we naturally can as a m edium fo r them to w o rk in. We can accept their m aterial orientation and get ou t of the w ay w hile they attract and build an enduring situation o f visible security which they do better than anyone else.

Then, when they have done th at, the highly evolved Taurians continue to build on in to the invisible, this being also an intuitive and a psychic sign. Many are (at least p o ten tially) clairaudient, th at is th eir hearing is not restricted by tim e or space.

itself, a stewardship of the land.

They w o rk out this responsibility in the real-estate business of matching people and th eir activities w ith the land as pieces o f prop erty.

Others w o rk in closer touch as farmers, cattlem en or gardeners.

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Also, since Aries is the Sign governing the head, the m ore intelligent the A rian, the less likely he is to be wrong. An unfortunate mistake o f some Arians is to assume all this and go by their own ideas w ith o u t the validity o f personal experience.

Those who care fo r ancient symbols may see the head o f a ram in the astrological glyph fo r Aries, which looks like a capital Y w ith dow nw ard curling "horns".

Also to be seen are the leaflets o f a sprouting seed, any eruption or the rising upward o f spring fountains.

The pillars of creation are the Fixed Signs, and o f them Taurus is the most down into earth.

Taurian people understand and appreciate the divine grace of that which lasts. "U p o n this rock w ill I build m y church". Peter the rock is a Taurian image, the firm fo undation upon which can be b u ilt a vehicle o f the soul.'

Taurus represents the first o f the four pillars, the one which must hold w hile the others are being set in place.

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The responsibility for being right is tremendous, especially in a w orld which questions the very existence o f a difference between right and wrong. Aries considers this question a search fo r an excuse for being wrong. Born " to be right" as th eir function on earth, they regard being wrong as an intolerable sin. O f course, knowing this or feeling this w ay, they need no one to p o int it ou t to them or remind them o f it. And since Aries is the Sign whose fu nction is to be right, Aries people are m ore likely to be right more o ften than the rest of us.

first to create: to be the originator of ideas, to th in k o f it first, to break deadlocks. O ur friends from Aries are heroic pioneers who establish the new on the barren ground o f the old, bu t always w ith in sight o f water.

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High in the head o f Aries person is an awareness o f a certain responsibility which drives him through life at a burning pace and sometimes consumes him in its own fire. Each sign is in itself a reason fo r being alive on earth.

The reason fo r being born in the Sign o f Aries is a compound responsibility to be right, to be first, and to know oneself.

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GEMINI

The key to the human situation is said to be held by the G em ini.

The Tw ins have the answer, according to m any of the old schools. Th ey also bring contro­ versy and a double premise. The th ird Sign seems to affect people in particular m ore deeply and com pletely than any other House of the Zodiac. This is the Sign which specializes!in people. In fact, people w ith nothing in Gem ini w ill still m anifest the characteristics o f the Sign if they are born w ith a Third House Sun and a strong M ercury. G em ini is so involved w ith people th at it can be the most superficial o f th e life form s on earth.

The Lovers card o f th e T aro t trumps corresponds to Gem ini.

Most versions illustrate a male and a fem ale figure below and an an angelic figure above. The man is looking over at the wom an and she is looking up at the angel w hile the angel is relating to both.

Such are the facets o f those born in the T h ird Sign.

The double purpose o f the Gem inian incarnation is to manifest an idea o f heaven on earth and to reflect to others their higher , (spiritual) selves. This is the message from Quicksilver, ruler of th e Sign. The fu rth e r they are from this service, the more nervous our Mercurial friends become.

Gem ini is the Sign o f message and V irg o is th e Sign o f service.

M ercury is usually seen w ith a winged cap and winged shoes.

Astrologically he is the fro n t office of th e m ind, th e intellect, reason­ ing process, sense perception, the nervous (message) system o f th e physical vehicle.

W ith all o f this to cover Gem ini people are th e busiest we w ill ever m eet. They aren't really complica­ ted, it's just very d iffic u lt to see the whole person at any given tim e.

Th ey are moving so fast it's hard to keep track o f th em . We can do them a favour by not trying and by not insisting th at the "re al" person step forw ard.

A Gem inian in his highest place

CANGER

knows th at man lives not on earth only. A t some p o int sooner or later in the incarnation he is presented w ith a showdown and m ust make a choice o f the body or' the spirit; one or the other must be known as m ore real.

As a part of some o f the ancient initiations as well as modern orders o f churches th e aspriant chooses a heavenly bride o f the world and marries his Order. A Gem inian w ho has made his choice is not so rigidly defined The result o f his choice is a person whose life is based on the reality o f the body or o f the spirit.

And here may be the key to man's situation: Hum an nature made the choice long ago. H ow do w e like the world which resulted? And could we imagine a w orld as an extrem ely m ore desirable place to be than it is?

The lore of the T a ro t and o f the ancient Rabbis teaches th at Adam was sent to the Garden o f Eden to be a gardener or caretaker and to give to everything a name. This naming o f everything is part o f the heritage o f Gem ini through the talent of speech and the tool df . pu tting it into a few excellent words. Th e Magician (T ru m p No. 6 .) in the Garden of the T a ro t is Mercury the messenger seen through the T a ro t and also the arranger o f all w ith in the reach of his perception. "C ollect yo ur thoughts before you speak."

Theifreedom to change is a necessary part o f the Gem ini environm ent. This is also a basic need o f Sagittarius, th e opposite Sign. When provided in excess we have a bum , when denied the personality often splits down the m iddle. But in its natural habitat this most human o f the Signs develops all the human talents with enough atten tio n fro m his w it to master th em all through basic principles. He car) successfully p o in t o u t life s itu a tio n f fo r a ll the rest o f us to see clearly. Satire is one o f the more eloquent methods.

W hen Gem ini delivers, it is taken up to th e rest o f us to apply the the messages the T h ird House of the Zodiac provides.

Cancer is th e Cardinal W ater Sign.

Ruled by the M oon it governs childbirth, the breast, stomach and w om b and is associated w ith both sailing and the home.

This is the Sign o f the M other.

That's w hy a Cancer incarnation is extrem ely d iffic u lt fo r most males.

It's d iffic u lt enough to express m asculinity through w ater, the Sign of the M o ther is the most d iffic u lt o f all. By the opposite side of th e same token Capricorn is said to be the most d iffic u lt Sign through which to incarnate as a wom en. Capricorn is the Sign of the Father.

W ater is th a t which washes and is the universal solvent. W ater lubricates and it also freezes.

W ater cycle, em otional cycle, menstrual cycle, spring, tides and the m oon. W ater people and w atery people relate in conscious­ ness through associations, impressions and internal responses.

T h eir ways do not include inform ation usable to those who demand facts and reasons. They do not add 2 and 2 , th ey sympathize w ith it. But th ey do come up w ith 4 . Or rather they get the feeling of 4 , and if necessary it can be translated into 4 . I t ’s more of num erology than arithm etic.

The ways o f em otion can never be explained or accounted fo r except em otion ally. T h ey can never be spoken nor w ritte n , they can only be fe lt or em oted. Music is the special art o f the em otion. Y ou can only tell w ater because it's w et.

W ater is by nature receptive. Men who w ill not listen or relate to women as equal human beings are shutting ou t half o f th e truth of life. A nd-it's been said "w ith in every wom an there's a man, w ithin every man there's a w o m a n ". If we try to disregard em otion as a nec­ essary part o f reality we lose, any way we look a t it.

Called the Sign o f the Hom e, Cancer is expected therefore to prefer to stay in one place no m atter w h at. Traveling in search of tru e hom e, some Cancerians never settle dow n. The Herm it crab makes his hom e in the

abandoned shells o f other sea-' creatures. A highly developed Cancerian can assemble a home anywhere. Th e necessary incentive is a fam ily w hether by birth or otherwise adopted.

Cancer is the House o f the Moon, face of m any phases, m any moods, From an earthy p o in t o f view the W ater Signs — Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces — never com pletely incarnate, they never fu lly arrive on earth. This is the cause of much confusion and misunderstanding.

W ater Signs, although verbose, are n o t inclined to spell things out.

Through Cancer, Th e M other Sign, this often manifests (strangely enough) as an apparent reluctance to tru ly participate in life, a reluctance to create, a holding back o f the real opinion or feeling.

Cancer is very shy fo r one thing, the moon hides her face in a storm, and often is just plain not interested in explaining or expressing at tne tim e. Perhaps most in tim ately true is the relationship of the Sign to such things. T ruth is so precious that every utterance is a pregnancy and a birth com plete w ith pains and traumas and even "false labour” .

Cancerians w ill take care o f you like no one else w o uld or even could. M in d , body and sould all secure in the strong embrace of the M other o f the Zodiac. Y o u w ill be fed, clothed sheltered and loved, although maybe a bit possessively.

Am ong the knick-knecks o f the Fourth House of Heaven are: E fla t, yellow-orange, th e C hariot o f th e T a ro t, the sea, the crab, sea fo od in general, tenacity, feeding people, b o tto m o f the pool, the sphinx, the embrace, Queenm other or dowager queen, old age, the safety pin, security, the knack o f last m inute rescue, arm-waving gestures, cooking and explaining. In the M inor Arcana of the T a ro t Cancer is represented by th e 2 ,3 , and 4 or Cups. The safety pin is a fine dem onstration o f th e pow er o f Cancer which exerts no strain ye t never lets go.

H o n e s t B ruce, the O Z M a ilo rd e r K ing, says: “ S ure th e T .O .

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m k^eview^ when W hitey is portrayed, as in this .film , as so hopelessly vain and flabby and w ith o u t the subtle viciousness norm ally expected in a career politician. Nevertheless, the disguises fo r the robbery — rubber caricatures o f Wallace, N ixo n and Agnew — were clearly well-chosen.

T H E J E R U S A L E M F IL E .

D irected by John F lyn n ; (M G M /E M I).

To quote the blurb, this is an "action th riller set in Jerusalem in the afterm ath o f the Six Days W ar".

As such, it's qu ite gripping; it creates a realistic picture of the sort o f pressures produced and suffered by urban guerrillas, which should dispel some o f the rom antic mis­ conceptions floating around the "rig ht o n " left.

Bruce Leigh.

T H E R U L IN G CLASS, D irected by Peter M edak, (Odeon; H aym arket).

In fa ct, the main story concerns the attem pts o f some crim inally naive and careless American students to join an A rab terrorist group, fo llow ed w ith amusement and grat­ itude by the Shin B ett (The Israeli Special Branch). T h eir efforts get themselves and their A rab friends killed.

I half-expected th at this was going to be another in the series o f dread­ ful camp comedies about the English Aristocracy which A m e ri­ can audiences so love.

I was very wrong, and I got wronger as the p lo t unfolded. In the first half, a young Earl (Peter O 'To ole) decides that he is God (and of course Jesus; the T rin ity being what it is) and preaches a very physical doctrine o f love. His high T o ry , flogging and hunting fam ily p lot to have him put away, but only after he has produced a male heir. Some o f the resulting scenes p u t the dryness o f my Y fronts in jeopardy. Like his descent from the cross in the dining-room every morning (he sleeps on it).

Like the high church wedding, where he thanks the appalled con­ gregation every tim e they offer him (i.e. God) a prayer, causing the Bishop to expire.

Donald Pleasence is b rilliant (as usual) as the head o f Shin Bett (not so much a James Bond, more a paunchy Civil Servant w ith a gun).

Nicol W illiam son is less good as a liberal college professor who tries to keep his flo ck ou t o f trouble (for an easy life and to protect Am erican citizens, not fo r the Arabs).

The failure o f the film is the usual one; although it creates a very convincing atmosphere (the parallels between Israel and South A frica h it you at once) it doesn't explain why the Arabs are fighting. They wage their guerrilla campaign because, well uh because that's the way Arabs are, that's w hat gets them o ff man.

It's not good enough and it isn't accidental; it's the same journalistic device the British Press uses on Ireland, or the US Press on V ie t­ nam to suppress the po litic al issues in favour o f cops and robbers.

Schraden Giftgas

POCKET M ONEY. (D irected b y Tony M ay/am ).

A B C cinemas.

If you like Lee Marvin and Paul Newm an, y o u 'll like P ocket Money.

Y o u m ight like it anyw ay because it's a nice film (nice being the appropriate w o rd ).

It's a m odern-day western with pick-up trucks instead o f horses, hideous nouveau riche Texans fo r cattle owners, chrome and Naugahyde hotel bars instead o f the saloon and burger joints fo r the o l’ camp fire.

There is no sex, no violence, no great dram atic th em e, and precous little script, the dialogue

being restricted to monosyllables and w ry platitudes. Paul Newm an and Lee Marvin are in Mexico buying ma igy cattle fo r Texan rodeo prom oter (who eventually burns them for 5 0 0 dollars). They play caricatures of some o f their best known parts; Newm an is a not to o bright, paunchy version o f H ud . and Marvin plays his d ru n k o u t o f Cat Ballou w ith a grey flannel suit on. They make a really fine com ­ edy team , a sort o f d rier, tougher Laurel and H ardy.

The film is shot in a slow and easy realist style, concentrating on the business o f buying and selling cattle, haggling w ith stony faced old Mexicans and getting drunk; Lee Marvin gives a par­ ticularly splendid portrayal o f deviousness; dishonesty is such second nature th at he occasionally rips himself o ff by mistake.

A ltogether, it's a long step away from their usual super-stud roles, and a successful one.

D ic k Pountain

CO O L B R E E Z E .

W ritten an d directed b y Barry Pollack (R itz, Leicester Square) Bears a distinct relationship to The A sp halt Jungle, and in fact, views like an uneasy cross between The French Connection and P utney Swope. The cast is m ainly black, and the basic p lo t, a diam ond robbery carried ou t by four men w ho are specialists in the various skills required — lasers, muscles, getaway etc. Th e master m ind is provided by a fresh-from prison superspaae, w ho is, inciden­ ta lly , the only m em ber of the gang to come o u t of the venture both alive and actually still grooving (boogying, whatever — laughing).

In colour, w ith m edium -funky sounds by Solom on Burke, this en tertainm ent has its droll and adroit m om ents, although the jive ta lk is sometimes obsessive and near self-parodying, and much funnier in P utn ey Swope. Putting down the Man — a pastime inevit­ able and compulsory for the urban poor, particularly the black urban poor — loses some o f its edge

Then comes the abrupt tu rn ­ around. An utterly ruthless shrink hired by the fa m ily "cures" him — i.e. drives him really mad — by a genuinely terrifying piece o f shock therapy. He becomes a caricature o f a 19th Century Lord, to the boundless adm iration o f his fa m ily , the local T o ry party and the House of Lords, where he erupts as an awesome oetender or the taith "M y Lords, we have forgotten how to P U N IS H I" Flogging and hanging replace fucking and flowerpicking.

A id under the cool cruel exterior, he bubbles w ith obscenities, silent screams, kill, k ill, and the solemn conviction th a t he is Jack the Ripper.

A lthough what's left o f the A risto­ cracy is a rather easy target for satire (and not the real ruling class anyw ay) this film uses it as an am ­ bush fro m which to slash up a lot o f other institutions, w ith a degree o f hum our and savagery th a t is rarely seen (Joe O rton is the first comparison to m in d ).

And if you d o n 't like Peter O 'T o o le — as I d o n 't — this m ight change your m ind (as it d id m ine).

M a ry Lam

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x o L reviews Hibbing, Minnesota or Jerry H op­ kins giving you the low-down on Tupelo, Mississippi. Whoever writes the definitive Bolan book (poor sod) is gonna have to lead o ff with 2 0 0 0 words about Hackney.

W A T C H O U T K ID S , M ick Farren & E dw ard Barker (Open Gate Books; £1.501.

A couple o f years ago, while searching for the Angry Brig­ ade, the police raided the house o f an innocent man (and how innocent!). T hat man was M ick Farren, the author of Watch O u t Kids. The dope be­ ing hidden, they found nothing but "treated the outline of this book like it was the blue­ print fo r an armed revolution.”

Silly old police.

Charles Shaar M urray.

F R A N C O 'S P R IS O N E R , Miguel Garcia (Hart-Davis, £ 2 .2 5 ).

Miguel Garcia was, and still is, a true and m ilitan t anarchist, who has done w hat to us, born in a more desolate tim e, looks only naive and ridiculous; he actually b uilt his life around struggling for something he believed to be right. Can you imagine that? D o n 't seem to be too many people around these days who believe in any­ thing.

For the few w h o d o n 't know , Mick is the "dope-fiend, po litical, e x ­ rock star and m ulti-arrested freak leader w ho d o n 't w an t to lead no-one", and Watch O u t Kids is a penetrating account o f how "Elvis gave birth to the Angry Brigade".

A sort o f English D o It ! ; a history of the underground in pictures organised around a series o f epochm aking events (i.e. those in which M ick Farren was involved).

Like Abbie H offm an and R ubin, M ick's prose-style is adventurous and racy. M ic k has added a still fu rther-o ut ingredient however; self-contradiction. One m inute he tells us th a t rock stars are in­ struments o f social co ntrol, m ar­ keted by the system. N e x t m inute he is praising them as rebel leaders and outlaws.

Perhaps it's the dope, perhaps it's dope and beer, m aybe just mental exhaustion?

There are m om ents o f high drama like t)ie hour-by-hour account of w h ath app ened in the IT offices the day the Stones were sentenced. " A couple o f groupies were trying to persuade everyone to go and see Paul M cC artney. This idea was turned d o w n ".

When describing things that have happened to him M ic k keeps his head above w ater. The trouble starts w hen he tries to fit these events into some sort o f broader perspective. Th e pages ring to the sound o f crashing sentences and collapsing half-baked ideas; as in "T h e lemmings have a great and groovy m ethod o f population control. The trouble is it's a bit hard on the individual lem m ing."

W ryly humourous it may be, but the punchline " L a te r fo r jumping in the sea" sounds rather like a prophesy.

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A t another p o int he tells us that " it is about tim e w e had a new civilisation". It seems to me we've got one, a civilisation rather like that o f ancient E gypt, in th at it only exists in relics; record albums.

The King - naked in Memphis some eighteen years ago hip history books like Watch Out Kids, handed dow n m yths about the Film o re East. Meanwhile the vultures circle...

To quote somebody or other "it's uncool to vamp on the energies of the co m m u n ity".

Dave Robbins.

E L V IS : A Biography, Jerry Hopkins, (Open G ate: £ 1 .9 5 ). " ... Presley's roots were countryand-western. He was tagged as the 'H illb illy C at' before becoming blues-oriented and sucking the creative blood of A rthu r 'Big Boy' Crudup and Lowell Fulsom . He then proceeded to bo ldly rip-o ff many of th e songs recorded by the great rhythm and blues singer.

L ittle Richard. A n d some people would have us believe this th ie f is an orig in ato r..." — black poet A .X . Nicholas.

"Elvis is where pop begins and ends.

He's the great original and„even now, he's th e image th a t makes all the others seem shoddy, the boss. For once the fan club spiel is ju stified: Elvis is K ing ." — N ik Cohn.

Y o u pays yer m oney and you picks yer d e fin itio n . What's be­ yond all dispute is th a t Elvis Presley is socially, if not musically, the most im protant entertainer of

the 20th century. He's 3 7 years old, and even no w he has a legion o f fans whose reverence is to tal and w ho lack all traces of a sense o f hum our about Elvis, as any issue o f Elvis M o n th ly proves.

Jerry is hip to the fa ct th at the mass Elvis public is what's going to m ake this book a bestseller, and th at the kind o f reader who wants the Elvis book w ill no t be interested in w hat some hippie punk kid from R olling Stone has to say ab ou t the King. So Elvis is long on reportage and to tally devoid o f any opinion and inter­ pretation of the Phenomenon.

If you've any interest whatsoever in the story o f how a honky kid from darkest redneck M izzizzippi turned the w o rld on to black music and o f how a th reat to Western civilisation was system atically con­ verted into a com fortable symbol o f Am erican middleclass virtues, then there's no tw o ways about it, this book is required reading.

Jerry Hopkins, despite his stud­ iedly noncom m ittal stance, has provided all the facts yo u'll need to draw your ow n conclusions.

W hat is fa in tly disquieting to note is how fast the rock biography is getting stylised. A fte r only 3 im ­ p o rtant books (on th e Beatles, Dylan and Presley) th e pattern is so clear th at you know you're going to start o ff w ith a geography lesson, be it Hunter Davis on Liverpool, A nthon y Sacduto on

He fought fo r, and saw the defeat o f, the libertarian cause at the hands o f Franco in 1 9 3 9 . He and the others who were le ft worked w ith the Allies fro m 3 9 to 4 5 (during hard times you have to make yo u r alliances w here you can, even if it means d irtying your hands a little ). He was part o f the post-war underground resistance (fucking over the regime by forgery, bank raids, explosions, w hile all the tim e tryin g to rebuild the smashed union organisations. He was caught in the big round-up o f activists in 19 49 and sentenced to death. The sentence com m uted to 3 0 years, he carried on the struggle in jail, and it is this part o f his life th at his book is m ainly ab ou t. His meeting w ith S tuart Christie in jail gave him the contacts fo r smuggling o u t end publishing some o f his letters — causing even m ore trou ble fo r the authorities - and also led to his coming to Britain on his release in 19 69 and to his w ritin g this auto­ biography.

Garcia knows this — "repression has stupified the people of to d ay " — and he also knows there is more than one w ay to repress people.

Franco and his gang have tra d itio n ­ ally relied on the good oldfashioned m ethod: fear, secret police, disappearances in the night, etc. But into Spain, as elsewhere, has crept the new, big turnover, low risk m ethod where the people's ways o f thinking and living are dissolved into the plasticated mishmash o f buying, spending, possession, ownership; and w ith them goes un ity and the capacity to recognise the enemy fo r w h at it is.

G arcia addresses his b o o k very

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itooic reviews much to the English people (com ­ paring English legal punishments w ith ones for sim ilar offences in Fascist Spain etc.) — it's a piece o f anti-Fascist propaganda. But he recognises (at least I hope he does) the contradiction th a t it is appeal­ ing fo r the sym pathy o f a people who are equally contained — the only real difference being that our establishment has understood fo r a long tim e the advantage o f the new, im proved, invisible m ethod.

A ny lessons to be learnt? W ell, as soon as the chance was lost fo r the Spanish, th e resistance became a m ovem ent which was founded on defeat; a jackal snapping at the heels of the authorities, always irritatin g, maybe even dangerous bu t never in w ith a chance o f achieving com plete success. So the im po rtant question to ask about people like Garcia is 'W hat else could he have done?' If Garcia could not win there was no choice but for him to kill himself losing — bu t how could he have won? A n d this question is just as crucial fo r us now: now that the Stoke Newington 8 face th eir m ock trial those left must ask 'W hat else could have been done or m ight be done?' There has been too much losing.

B illy H ull.

S H O TS .

Photographs from the U nder­ ground Press.

E d ited b y D avid Fenton for Liberation News Service.

(Academ y Editions, £ 1 .7 5 ).

though, presents something o f a problem : an 8 " x 10 " glossy paper­ back, beautifully produced, superbly designed (by Neil Shake r y ),itw a s presumably intended as a money-raiser fo r LN S. All well and good. Beyond th a t, its only apparent purpose is to decorate coffee-tables, or perhaps to act as a nostalgic scrapbook fo r those who have now dropped in. The same might be said o f M itchell Goodman's The M ovem ent towards a N ew A m erica, bu t there an incredible am ount of useful inform ation was brought together in one volum e (albeit a volume the size o f a phone d irectory).

Rather, Shots begs comparison w ith David Bailey's Goodbye Baby and Am en. On th at level, it is not so much a failure as a capit­ ulation.

part o f the same book, develop­ ing a d ifferen t sub-plot m aybe, but the same images keep popping up ....R oller skate boys turn slow circles in ruined suburb....silver light popping in eyes...

Clive Hodgson.

Because he is now too fashionable to ignore, the Sunday lit. critics are forced to approve w h at once would have been dismissed as por­ nography; usually they try to make us believe that high moral purpose lies behind Burroughs' little fiction w orld o f knife toting homosexual cannibals. They fool only themselves; old Bill is ou t to deprave and corrupt us all, in other words to tu rn us away from the paths o f righteousness (the paths o f deference to au th o rity, sexual repression, patriotism , the path o f the good w o rke r, the good soldier, the good nigger, the good humanist whitewash artist... ). It's going to be hard to make a good

TH E W IL D B O YS, William Burroughs (Calder & Boyars, £ 2 .5 0 ).

The Wild Boys is Burroughs' first full length novel since Nova Express,and it effortlessly regains fo r him the title of the Funniest and Most Depraved W riter Alive (if he ever lost it).

If you're a Burroughs reader you'll have no trouble in picking up the story where w e left o ff.

Like everything he writes, it's all

Sometimes you get the feeling that he's got a form ula which he applies to a heap o f random words producing the various com binat­ ions in his books, but if th at were true other people could discover it and do just as w ell. Y ou 've only got to look at some o f the attem pts (take any issue o f N ew Worlds for example) to see it's not that sim­ ple. Besides the juggling w ith words, Burroughs has got a sense of hum our seldom found outside o f captivity and an imagination more depraved (in the finest sense of the w ord) than any w riter since De Sade and Lautream ont.

citizen o f AJ or Bradley Martin even after they've made one of Burroughs (picture the 19 84 D em ­ ocratic Party C onvention... "gentlem en, a junkie ah may be, a queer ah may be, bu t bah God ahm w h ite " ).

The W ild Boys goes alm ost back to the N aked Lunch in fo rm at; it ’s got a story, set o u t as a series of d rily humorous episodes, in ter­ spersed w ith cut up and, o f course, lots o f fucking scenes involving lithe young boys (probably too m any if you're not turned on by boys); The W ild Boys are Burrough's fantasy o f w hat the Underground could have been; the youth o f the w o rld have taken to the Sahara Desert, dressed only in rainbow coloured jockstraps. They eat Am erican tourists and the US m ilitary expeditions sent to pu t them do w n, w hom they slay in a variety o f atrocious ways, making hash pouches o f their victims' scrotums. Th ey even develop ways of reproducing w ith o u t the aid of women (Burroughs' misogyny has reached new heights). N ow read on...

If yo u're into comparisons, this novel is certainly not as consist­ ently b rillia n t as The N aked Lunch or Nova Express. Burroughs may getting tired , bu t then so is every­ thing else. H e'll only be in real trouble when the world gets nastier than his im agination (m id 1 9 7 4 by my calendar).

D ick Fountain

Bringing together m ore than 10 0 stills fro m LNS sources taken in the US and V ietnam during the period 19 6 7 -7 0 , Shots presents (if Such were still needed) a pow er­ ful indictm ent of the Am erikan War Machine at hom e and abroad.

Whoever said th at one picture is w o rth a thousand words was given to gross generalisation, but m any of the stills in David Fen­ ton's selection speak volumes.

Best o f all are the faces: the tight-lipped faces of N ixon's SS hiding behind their da rk glasses, the bloodied faces o f kids who know it’s going to be a long battle, but have tim e on their side. The face of w h at A m erika has become and the face of a generation th a t sees it fo r w h at it is Shots has introductions by Ericka Higgins and Bobby Seale, and the photographs are com plem ented by well-chosen quotations from sources ranging fro m W illiam Blake to Richard N ixo n . Th e fo rm at.

'Shots' - Colum bia University 1968. "..one picture is w orth a thousand words.

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in The M an Who Sold the World's chilling 'She Shook Me C old ') has lost its neurotic edge, giving way to lines like This m ellow -thighed chick ju st p u t m y spine o u t o f place or, even better, we move aro u n d lik e tigers on vaseline. The best track o f all is th e single Star m an which is perfect pu lp sci-fi rock com plete w ith killer chorus.

LO U R E E D Lou Reed (R C A ) If I were thirteen , or Lou was, or better still if we bo th were, this would be great, everything I w anted to th in k about life, sung in a studiously serious voice w ith as little sense o f m elody, tim in g and rh yth m as m y ow n, backed up by musicians playing as unimagin­ atively as anybody I knew.

The Rise an d F a ll o f Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars is the vital lin k around which Bowie's new image is to be projected, and I have a feeling it w ill, if only te m p o rarily, succeed. It's all a little unfo rtu nate, though, th at someone as capable as David Bowie should attem p t to hype himself as some­ thing he isn't.

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But Lou's a grown man and so am I, so what's all this stuff about " I C an 't Stand It" ? T h e drum m er knocks on the door fo ur tim es, and in runs Lou shouting he can't stand it anym ore-m ore. N o t petulant, not defian t, not suicidal, certainly not revolutionary, but no t submissive or cynical. Just a statem ent, which looks suspiciously as if it's designed to become an anthem fo r dis­ enchanted y o u th .

A n d so it goes to th e end, where there is a song you can immerse yourself in, called "O cean". In between, songs about being lonely (" G o in ' D o w n " ), being in love (" I Love Y o u " , "L o v e Makes You F e e l"), and hating the city ("R id e In to the S u n "). T h at last one sounds like a demo intended fo r the Grateful Dead, and includes a surprising cop-out where " d ir ty ” , which doesn't rhym e w ith " c ity " , is substituted fo r " s h itty " , which would have. T o o much fo r the audience, to o little fro m Lou. If this sounds to o clinical a reaction to w h at you m ight suppose to be a w o rk o f art, w a it u n til yo u hear it, and then te ll me w here you can hear Lou feeling those words he sings. In "W ild C h ild ", you might suggest, and I'll gladly agree, that's as good as the best this Chuck Berry o f the Lower East Side has done, w ith a m ood as depressing, m onotonous, and irresistably fas­ cinating as th e hippie ghetto itself, held together w ith Lou's laconic w it. It's all ab ou t a girl called Lorraine, w ho crops up in all Lou's conversations w ith his media cronies: "she's a w ild child, and nobody can get to her, sleeping o u t on the streets, living a ll alone, w ith o u t a house o r a home, an d then she'll ask you please, oh can / have some spare change, can I break yo u r heart. "

Illu s tra tio n : Roy

Th e same w it also shows up in the more detached "Lisa Says": "Lisa says, hey baby i f you stick your tongue in m y ear, then things around here w ill becom e very d e a r ." Reporting remarks like that is w h at Lou's good a t, bu t too often it sounds as if he d id n 't concentrate on completing his 4 8 songs before going to the studios.

N ick K ent.

ROADW ORK Edgar W inter's W hite Trash (Epic) JE FF BECK GROUP J e ff Beck Group (Epic)

and it was to o much to expect o f a bunch of British session music­ ians to disguise the gaps w ith appropriate solos; producer R ich­ ard Robinson wasn't much help either.

S till, listen to "Lisa Says", "W ild C h ild ", and "G oing D o w n ", and you m ight decide this must be the best LP o f the last three m onths or so. A nd yo u 're probably right, but don’t say you w eren 't warned about the other nine tracks. Pale, pale ro c k 'n ’roll.

Charlie G ille tt.

T H E R IS E & F A L L O F Z IG G Y S TA R D U ST & THE S P ID E R S F R O M M A R S D avid Bowie (R C A ) David Bowie, easily the most b rilliant young songwriter in this country, seems to have been going through quite a fe w rapid changes over the last year or so.

It all started w ith the release of his miserably under-rated 'Man Who Sold the W orld', which portrayed him as some bi-sexual Greta Garbo figure w ith rather to rtured Nietzche overtones I The neurotic elements o f that album manifested themselves in part o f the schizophrenic 'H u n k y D o ry', but now things have developed even fu rther.

The Rise an d F a ll o f Ziggy S tar­ dust... personifies Bowie's new image as th e intended messiah of Teenage Wasteland. Live, he is an almost grotesque parody o f early Elvis Presley com plete w ith outrageously tasteless costume, butch hairstyle and calculated effem inate gestures. O n the new A lburn, Bowie attem pts both to live and fu lly verbalise his fantasies.

Ziggy Stardust is his wish fu lfillm e n t — 'came on so loaded, m an /w ell hung an d snow w hite tan' — the last great superstar before the Apocalypse (fu lly described in the first track 'Five Y ears'), who is eventually to rn to pieces by his fans in a scene straight o u t of N ik Cohn's ‘ I am still the greatest, says Johnny Angelo'.

The o n ly problem is th a t it all doesn't q u ite come o ff, and this all becomes very clear once one has witnessed his aw kw ard postur­ ings on stage. Bowie is over­ reaching him self, trying to cover too much ground. Th e character he ultim ately portrays has more in com m on w ith the amazing Iggy Stooge than anything Bowie could extend himself to . A ll o f which is sad because taken cn its ow n terms, th e Ziggy Stardust album is quite superb. Bowie is now w orking in new areas, having been studying the art o f p u n k rock poetry from Lou R eed, w hile effectively developing his ow n talents in the realm o f his lyrical fascination for science fantasy. His unique sexual imagery (previously best illustrated

Edgar W in ter’s W hite Trash are advanced cases o f the Live Album Syndrom e. Th eir line-up allows them to tackle soul, gospel, blues and rock, depending on w hether Jerry Lacroix, R ic k Derringer or Edgar him self happens to be out fro n t. H owever, their endless pos­ turing prevents them from sounding like the real professional soul or blues band th ey so desperately w ant to be. It's like the difference between A lb e rt King and Alvin Lee; ballet becomes gymnastics, econom y becomes extravagance.

Th e entire ensemble sings and plays as if it is getting paid by the note.

O n the plus side, every number displays W hite Trash's enormous technical fa c ility , bu t in every in­ stance they are underm ined by their self-indulgence. The singers are all very distinctive: Lacroix has a beefy, fu n k y voice reminiscent o f Otis Redding and David ClaytonThom as, W inter sounds like an en­ raged bee attem pting to impersonate Mose Allison, and Derringer (who plays lead guitar th roughout and also produced) is a fin e exponent of th a t punk-rock stance which says: I g o t this big fu c k in ' am plifier, man, so / wanna see some rockanroll o u t there... but his six-m inute bravura perform ance o f Berry's "B ack in the U S A " is fla tu le n t and over­ blow n. Despite th eir in finite musica su periority. W hite Trash could learn a lo t about rockanroll in ter­ pretation from those veteran punks, the M C 5.

Most o f this album is a waste o f

tim e. However, on three or four occasions it really comes to life.

H alfw ay through the first side, LaC roix does a three m in u te soul original called "Jive, Jive, Jive" w hich, w ith its flaring, blazing brass riffs, conjures up th e ghost o f Otis Redding far better than the rather tired version o f his " I C an't T u rn Y ou Loose" which follow s, and is the band's new single. A t the end o f the second side. W inter says "W e got a little surprise fo r you here to nig ht... people keep asking me 'Where's yer brother?' " ... the crowd roars, and on comes Johnny W inter to roar through a sloppy but pow erful version o f " R o c k and R oll Hoochie K o o ", th e song Derringer w ro te fp r him when they were in Johnny W inter A nd to ­ gether. It's messy, but it's so good to hear Johnny W inter again th at I've got m y blind ear to the speak­ ers.

D uring the m arathon version of "Tobacco R o a d " th a t takes up most o f side three, Derringer takes a long acapella guitar solo th a t is probably the m ost rapid piece o f electric guitar playing th a t I can remember hearing. It'll probably become a setpiece fo r aspiring Claptons to have to master in some h o rrific R ock Conservatory o f the fu tu re . Edgar also acquits himself impressively on saxophone and piano, though the second half o f his piano solo is m arred by his insistence on scatting along w ith it. Derringer is a speedy little p u n k w ith an awesome com m and o f his. in strum ent and a lo t o f neat tricks, b u t all the really great rock guitarists have either a demon or an angel inside them .

W ith the exception o f Garcia, most of them are demons and none m ore so than Jeff Beck.

contacts. A fte r listening to about three bars o f his perform ance on "H ighw ays", you know th a t they are all true. A nyone w ho'd play th at is clearly capable of stopping at nothing. His instrum ental version o f R ita W right's h it " I Can't Give Back the Love I Feel For Y o u " , though, is astonishing fo r its lyricism and unabashed sentiment,, as is the final instrumental " D e fin ite ly M a y b e ", a lovely im ­ provisation on the g uitar lick Jim m y Page used fo r Cocker's " H e lp For M y Friends". There's also a Dr John-ish C ropper/B eck song called "Sugar C ane", and if th a t wasn't enough they also trash all over Dave Clark's old hit "G lad A ll O ver". Words fail me.

Charles Shaar M urray.

[A s habitual readers o f this magazine w ill be aware, Charles Shaar M urray's concluding words in the above review are o f some significance. A t no single p o in t during the course o f OZ's lengthy (and a t times fran kly bizarre) re­ lationship w ith this retired school­ child, have words ever been know n to fail him. We can only o ffer ou r astonished congratulations to Mr. Beck. - E d .]

C A R L & T H E P A S S IO N S SO T O U G H The Beach Boys (Reprise) The cover o f this album is a shiny red car door. Through the car w in ­ dow y o u can see the beach, the sea, a couple o f trees, cloudy blue

sky and it could be a p retty fine day to go surfing.

A nd th en, Carl and the Passions is w hat the Wilson brothers used to call th eir high school band, way back before they became the biggest high school band in the world.

So w h at is this, a G et Back move?

A n o th e r Get Back move? Back to high school, drag racing, sun, sand and surf, C alifornia girls, do it again just one m ore tim e? N o t even th at. A ll it means is, one m ore Beach Boys album . A nd not a very good one at th at.

The best first, though. One song here is nearly pure high school: 'M arcella', one o f just tw o songs co-w ritten by Brian Wilson. It's at least th eir best song since 'W ild H on ey', and, in the co n te xt o f this particular album , com pletely stratospheric. Th e lyrics are good too. 'One arm over m y shoulder/ sandals dance at m y fe et/ eyes th a t knock you right over/ ooo Marcella's so sweet'.

'M arcella' is probably a number one, except th a t it isn't ou t as a single ye t, and probably never w ill be. K inney probably passed it over as uncharacteristic o f the 'new' Beach Boys. Which is, un­ fo rtu n a tely , a fa irly accurate assessment. Th e single they did choose, 'Y o u Need a Mess o f Help to Stand A lon e' is alright, but certainly not a number one. M a y­ be, though, th e 'new ' Beach Boys d o n't w an t a number one. it m ight damage their new -found underground prestige irreperably.

If that's so, maybe th ey should th in k again. O n the evidence of the rest o f this album , all you'd ever ask o f the Beach Boys is th at they w in d up and perform their Greatest H its, because as a progressive rock band they just d o n't m ake it.

A nd so it goes on. There are tw o songs by Dennis Wilson, both very soft andstunningly over-orchestrat­ ed. A nd tw o m ore by Al Jardine and M ike Love, both apparently about the joys o f transcendental m editatio n. 'A ll This is T h a t’ is pleasant enough, though th e lyrics are sort o f Charles Manson Bib­ lical. But 'H e Comes D o w n ’, in praise o f the Maharishi, w ith its handclapping gospel chorus and shouts o f a ffirm a tio n , is about Black & W hite Minstrel Show in its em otional intensity and depth of co m m itm en t.

So Tough? W ell, it certainly isn't th at. But that's not really surprising when you consider ho w many almost almost pure m uzak albums the Beach Boys have made since Pet Sounds: every single one o f them , excepting only W ild H oney. A nd while it's true th a t no-one writes Beach Boys m uzak like Brian Wilson — which is w h y this album doesn't touch P e t Sounds — in the long run m uzak is no more than m uzak, and superm arket sound systems d o n't d raw such fine distinctions. So let's just be thankful th at n o w a n d again they can come up w ith a song like 'M arcella', and leave them to a peaceful rock senility.

A n d re w Weiner.

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Since his last album . Beck has brought in an outside producer, Steve Cropper, no less. Unlike Rough and R eady, this one features some real songs, like Don Nix's "G oing D o w n ", Dylan's "T o n ig h t I’ll be Staying Here w ith Y o u " , and a couple o f M o tow n standards.

"G oing D o w n " cuts N ix's own version to pieces and comes near to equalling the version Stone the Crows use fo r th eir encore. The trouble is still in the vocal depart­ m ent. In perform ance, Bob Tench's rasping, tuneless soul vocals f i t in w ith the riotous vibes pu t ou t by the rest o f the band, bu t in the m ore sober environm ent o f the home, he sounds very u n co m fo rt­ able. M ax M iddleton's lucid, jazzy piano serves as a most effective contrast to all the m avhem and b ru tality th a t surrounds it.

The Beach Boys: Tough as shit and tw ice as messy

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As habitual readers of O Z w ill know , it is James Anderson's habit from tim e to tim e to mysteriously vanish from our grey, London offices, equipped only w ith his toothbrush and seemingly miniscule m onetary resources, to hurl himself once more into the dark labyrinths o f the hippie global trails.

Recently, Jim returned bronzed, bleached and apparently healthy, bubbling over w ith news and anecdotes of his latest bizarre foreign exploits. He'd stopped over briefly to visit his parents in Australia and to perform some brief Gay Liberational spadework to a doubtless enraged and uncomprehending populace. On his way home, his airline tic ket offered him a lim ited choice o f one stop­ over: New Y o rk or Indonesia. James plum ped fo r the latter, and his report follow s, but perhaps it w ould be fair to warn you th at Jim w rote this piece inbetween violent bouts o f nausea and acute depression, induced by a severe infection o f hepatitis which he contracted on 'an island paradise th at runs w ith love and blood...'

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Bali is an Indonesian island, east o f Java, well known fo r its temples, dancing, gamelon music and unique Hindu culture. I t ’s beautiful, child-like people have a calm , harmonious way o f life, qu ite remarkable in an area o f the w orld w ith so tropical and violent a clim ate. Nevertheless, the Bali people have a disturbing habit o f running amuck at irregular intervals, the last tim e in 1965 when as many as 1 0 0 ,0 0 0 were massacred in a fo rt­ night. The victim s were almost all islanders associated in some way w ith Com m unism , but in Bali the killings were ritualised and trance-like, and the victims and killers both so w illing th at commandoes were hurried from Java to restrain them .

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The G ood Things: a) Kuta Beach, w here m ost peop le stay, is m ile upon m ile o f curving w h ite sand fringed w ith cocon u t palm s, paddy fields and lush green and yellow vegetation. The village o f K uta, lost in the palm groves, has p len ty o f places to stay, usually in Balinese fam ily com pounds, costing 25p a night including tea and a local speciality like steam ed pink cake for breakfast. The beach faces w est, and everyday the setting sun provides the peaking trippers w ith a transcendental tropical light show . On Sundays, tourists from Djakarta com e and take pictures o f the freaks and surfies, but on the w h ole the beach is to tally unspoilt.

Com m ercialisation takes the benign form o f beautiful Balinese girls with baskets on their heads selling fruit, drinks and nuts.

Further along, the sand is com p letely deserted and if y o u need solitu d e to do w hatever turns y o u on , y o u can have it.

The beach is in every w ay far more spectacular than Goa. A t som e points there is in the waves near the shore, a glistening algae w hich takes the form

The boys did nothing but giggle and ;^uk amazed

lucent bubbles, and turns the surf and receding foam to gold, particularly w hen the sun is going dow n. N oth in g is exp en ­ sive and yo u can live q u ite w ell o n 50p a day. There is a fish restaurant on the beach, a vegetarian restaurant back in the village next to a bar w here th ey blend m ango, avocado, banana paw paw and durock into huge iced drinks, and other very good places to eat, including D jenik’s where Djenik w ill m ake yo u a m ushroom o m elette (although, so w ill everyon e else).

If y ou have bread to spare, y o u can buy exq u isite oriental Bosch-like paintings, carvings, batik and sarongs.

in particular an amiable Australian w ith a big b o ttle and an eye dropper w ith w hich he w ould d ose y o u as you w ished — a taste or a m outhful.

F ortu n ately, K uta’s slo w balm y atm osphere and the

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Roast pig and wong mushrooms • psychedelic bacon

friendliness and em pathy o f th e Balinese m eant a com plete absence o f th e freak’s curse, paranoia, and although over-indul­ gence was com m on , it w as singularly pain­ less. I d id n ’t see any needles or hard drugs o f any sort although at the Mandara H otel one night, w here m ost o f the freaks w ould gather to play m usic, dance or listen to tapes, a lo t o f spurious coke turned up and anaesthetised everyo n e’s nose and m outh for a w h ile. G roups o f p o t trail veterans from Penang, Goa, Pondicherry and so on were arriving all the tim e, but there never seem ed to be serious over crowding as there is in th ose places, and there w asn ’t an yone w h o could be rem otely described as heavy. c)-For the first tim e since I have been wandering the hippie trails, I allow ed m y self to becom e totally absorbed by the alternative life

style w hich the freaks carry w ith them wherever th ey go and w hich b loom ed so creatively in Bali.

I notice that I am still using ‘th e y ’ rather than ‘w e ’, h ow ever... they w ere aill very busy in their idleness and in to som ething, w hether it w as m aking batik or som e other handcraft, yoga, learning to play som e instrum ent or to dance, a preoccupation w ith i Hinduism or BuddI hism x>r w hatever, soul-searching with the aid o f intensive and constant reading, serious conversation or lon g periods o f m editation

and solitu d e' or just being incredibly lib ­ erated and happy. I was very aware o f self-centredness, and o f obsessions w ith cloth es, appearance and sty le w hich was not how ever, egotistical and vain, but very h ealth y. Such indulgence is frow ned upon in our so ciety to such an exten t that self-discovery is hard to achieve and o ften is n o t th ou gh t o f as a con sciou s goal.

Kuta w as interesting because there were tw o d istin ct typ es o f freaks — seasoned Europeans and Am ericans w h o had been on thd road for years, and greenhorns from N ew Zealand and Australia for m ost o f w h om Bali was on e o f the first foreign countries th ey had been to . It m ust have been clear to the new com ers h o w far they had to go, and the b en efit to them selves o f w hat th ey could achieve. A dm itted ly, Kuta w as th e good side o f the freak coin — th e physical and m ental w recks were still stranded in India or Kabul or where ever the papers say th ey are, and there w ere n o Satanists, p sych ed elic fascists or maniacs w ith guns. The peop le m ost ill at ease were the o n e or tw o short-haired Australian juice freaks w h o in the absence o f any F osters, w ere reduced to defian tly drinking the really bad local beer or the even w orse sw eet rice w ine.

I fou n d th e freak life sty le o n the w h ole, very chaste. R elationships flow ered and died but indulgence seem ed to be in dope rather than bed. There w ere very few girls travelling m erely as appendages to b oys.

The Balinese certainly d o n ’t treat each other as sex objects and w ere either o ffen d ed or m ystified if advances were m ade to them o n that basis. On m y first cou p le o f blistering days ou t on the beach, I felt as usual d u ty bound to sam ple the local product (to put it as sex ist as possible) but I found that th e b o y s, w h o in every way w ere loving and affectio n ate and great fun to be w ith , did nothing b u t giggle and lo o k am azed w hen I put m y hand on their cock . I very quickly gave up and enjoyed their com pany in the w ay th ey enjoyed m ine. T hroughout m y stay in K uta, I zealously pursued an interest in one o f the girls selling fruit on th e beach — w e flirted every day and g o t on fantastically w ell until one afternoon tripping on the m ush­ room s I overstepped the bounds o f Bali­ nese propriety — I d o n ’t know w hat I did, not m uch, but it was 3 days before she condescended to speak to me. Our re­ union was a bit like an Archie and V eron­ ica kiss and m ake up, but com in g from permissive S yd n ey, it w as an unusual experience for m e. So w as the interest in a girl. Denpasar, the main tow n in Bali, and on ly 15 kilom etres from Kuta, w a s,o f course, full o f sex for sale, and som e guys m ade the trip as o ften as their p ock et or their inclination decided them .

As usual, there seem ed to be fewer gay freaks travelling than there Wk actually w ere. For a while I seem ed to be the only o n e, but before I left I un earthed a few from their

s e lf excavated lairs. T he p o t trail certain ly needs gay liberation ists and activists o f every Kind. T h ere is a general lack o f awareness o f th e p o litical im p lication s o f being a freak.

d ) The psilocyb in m ushroom s, know n to the Balinese as ‘w o n g ’, w hich grew every­ w here it w as m oist and there was enough cow shit, were m uch sm aller than those growing along the entire Australian east coast, but w ere equally good and quite the best and safest psyched elic I have ever taken. For lO p you could bu y thirty or so (plenty for a good trip) wrapped up in a palm leaf or plastic bag on the beach every morning from one o f the m ushroom sellers w h o picked them from the rich cow pastures near where th e first river flow ed into the sea, or you could get them you r­ self for nothing. In the w et season (D ec ­ ember to March) th ey are everyw here in thousands, but thereafter slightly more scarce, and I think the w ong sellers were into a b it o f cow shit irrigation. The w ong w ere sm all and w h ite, som etim es with gold tops, turning turauoise after picking, the colour indicating the strength o f the p silocybin in each on e. It was best to eat them fresh and raw. This gave som e in­ dication o f how m any you should eat to get o ff properly. Som etim es th ey were to x ic, m aking y o u feel slightly queasy for the first h alf h o u r or so. It was alw ays best to exercise caution. The great advantage o f the m ushroom s over acid w as that you could take them continu ou sly for several days w ith ou t scram blingyour head, en ­ abling y o u to give you rself a rapid course A general lack o f awareness o f the political im plications o f being a freak in psychedelic therapy. Free you rself from the plague o f self-consciousness for slow ly and their bad, w h o m ove quickly. c) The presence o f p olice in Kuta is n ot a w eek and y o u ’ll be am azed at w hat you The w h o le life o f the Balinese is tne m ost noticeable b u t o n ce w e w ere warned o f a are capable o f. There were one or tw o magical and graceful cerem on y. The raid and they p oked around a bit w ith o u t m inor disasters am ong the m ushroom finding anything. Three guys were busted eaters — one very unstable American scat­ vibrations w hich th ey give o f f are alm ost alw ays very loving and good , b u t occasion-! in the tow n o f U bud for possession o f tered his head and his belongings all over ally inexplicably bad. The Barong and Kris ganga, and each served 7 days in Denpasar the beach and had to be strapped dow n gaol. T hey en joyed the ex p erience, the Dance was perform ed at Kuta w ith in ­ after his fifth day o f absurd over indulge dope, the fo o d and the com pany (lo ts o f creasing frequency and in ten sity w hile I ence. H owever, by the tim e his parents Balinese political prisoners in for life) and was there, to exorcise bad spirits w hich flew in from B oston to rescue him he had were treated w ith great courtesy. They were com ing from the sea. The dancers com pletely recovered — but nothing were allow ed to ch o o se the day th ey w en t in to violent trances and m any other serious and although I ate them until I started their sen ten ces, and on e o f them Balinese were affected , running round in felt m y b lood had turned to psilocybin was alm ost p erm itted to serve his tim e in the m oonlight quite crazed, possessed and and alm ost disappeared into a m ushroom Kuta as he had his fo o t in plaster. S o m e­ dem onic. cloud, I never on ce felt that I had taken tim es a few soldiers w ou ld w ander to o m any. P silocybin has none o f the dark around, looking like big green insects in The Bad Things: corners o f acid and I recom m end the tight b o o ts, tight pants and cap, w ith m ushroom s as one o f the very best w ays a) The on ly easy w ay o f getting around huge goggles and w h ite gun holsters. o f learning to love and know yourself, the island is by m otor bike. Walking is your fellow man and Bali. d) By far th e w orst side o f Indonesian delightful but slow . Y ou could rent a Honda for a w eek for under £ 5 and n oisily bureaucracy yo u are likely to encounter I started o f f m y experim ents alone o n a is the Immigrasi. Y ou get a visa for a and rapidly go anyw here. The Balinese in far flung beach, fou nd m y self naked, m onth m axim um to start o f f w ith , then the country wave and cry h ello and still com m uning w ith the sea, the land and the it w ill co st y o u 20 dollars for a m o n th ’s regard them w ith som e w onder, but th ey elem ents, returning to prim itivism and exten sion . If y o u last that long, the are to o pow erful for the roads, and doing jungle yells. Everything at all tim es secon d ex ten sio n is n ot so exp ensive, but Kuta w as full o f casualties ranging from was very exciting and beau tifu l, and Bali you are in trouble if y o u overstay your broken ankles and d islocated spines, to quite the island paradise advertised in the visa — a fine and m ayb e d eten tio n in a Quantas brochures. Gradually, as the days innum erable abrasions and cuts w hich kind o f governm ent h o stel in Denpasar d o n ’t heal in the hum id tropical air. passed, I becam e m ore sop h isticated and until yo u can arrange for m on ey to be returned to th e fold until eventually I was Malaise and indefinable equatorial sick ­ sent to y o u . The d eten tio n centre is nesses were com m on . I fou n d the m ush­ cavorting and dancing on the m ain beach, actually quite OK and som e freaks pre­ room s were a good cure for anything. h op efu lly to everyon e’s deligh t, n ot that ferred to stay their free rather than rent b ) The H otel Bali Beach, a self-contained, I w ould have know n or cared, dressed up a room . There were several p eop le at air co n d itio n ed m on strosity, erected by in brightly coloured sarongs and every Kuta, w ith o u t visas or m o n ey , living PanAm , fortu n ately on the eastern side o f other bit o f tat I had the foresight to put quite happily som ew here ou t along the the island, is a foretaste o f w h at th e In d o­ on. I becam e a cheap cabaret artist . beaches. I overstayed m y visa and was nesian G overnm ent has in m ind for Bali, T h a t’s w hat happened to m e. I think the stopped from getting o n the plane. Even and Kuta in particular. Plans for a similar same thing happened to everyone else, though I sh ou ted and argued w ith an m ulti-storey h o te l have already been each in his ow n fashion. The Balinese official w h o lo o k ed like a Japanese war approved and con stru ction starts w ithin liked the freaks to take the m ushroom s, com m ander, and eventually o ffered to a year. A t the m om en t, the H o tel Bali even w hen 50 o f them together rampaged ay a fin e right there, m y baggage was Beach, w hich sits on a rather ugly lagoon and picnicked through th e co co n u t auled o ff. He m erely barked at m e over at Sanur, is a great con ven ien ce, and w e groves. and over again “ Y ou have broken the made use o f its banks, tourist agents, regulations o f the R epublic o f Indonesia. doctor and p ost o ffic e . It was the com e) Som e people got becalm ed in the Kuta Y ou m ust appear in court tom orrow at laints o f the m atrons w h o stay at this dope fog, but all o f Bali is breathtakingly 8 o ’clock in tne m orn in g.” I did so. The o tel w hich brought ab ou t th e regulation lovely. There are active volcanoes — I judge w as p o lite , listened to m y fabricat­ requiring Balinese w om en to cease going m anaged to clim b up in to the steam filled ion and fined m e ten dollars. I said I only around top less. N ow the m arkets are full crater o f M ount Batur and got stuck in had six. The fine w as reduced to six, m y o f pink and purple c o tto n bras w hich the the lava field overnight — h o t springs visa w as exten d ed for tw o m ore days, beautiful tem ples, m on k ey forests, beaches w om en , at least in the tow n s, m o stly wear. and I eventually departed, extrem ely sad to leave, and already full o f in cipient h ep ­ far m ore golden and deserted than Kuta, Wherever freaks go, there is alw ays that atitis. T hat’s another bad thing about sculptured rice terraces w hich put English last days o f the R om an Em pire feeling — Bali — y e t another serpent in the Garden landscape gardening to sham e, m usic and the barbarians are alw ays at th e gates and o f Eden — wash you r hands w ell after dancing alm ost every night, and 01 course, about to tear d ow n the w alls. 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