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I® T H E A R M Y OF TH E R A R E * Richard Beckett beats up the w eek’s news

Control yourself! HIS ISSUE, as suggested by our cover and by the the ubiquitous Harry G u m b oot (p. 3), gravitates around “ anarchy, outlaws, life and other things” . A narchy is n ot som ething that died when F ran co’ s fascists m arched into Bar celona in 1939. A lengthy discussion betw een Noam C hom sky, C olin Ward and Pat Flanagan ( p . 11 -15 ) suggests that the Idea is alive and well and is emerging through the areas like workers con trol, free sch ools and tenants unions etc. The last weeks have seen the Master Builders A ssociation using all tricks pos sible to nail d ow n the NSW branch o f the Builders Laborers Federation — that gad fly o f the developers. BLF secretary Joe Owens is on the run, dodging summ onses to appear before the industrial court. Grant Evans and Syd Shelton caught up with him and are happy to report Owens is still in fin e fettle and thumbing his nose at the developers (p .5). The oil thirsty industrial nations are crossing their fingers and praying that; this w eek ’s Geneva talks over the Middle East situation go sm ooth ly and reach an amiable situation very quickly. Jeremy TREET R IO T E R S TAKE Salt discusses the chances (p .6). NOTE: The American Medical A nd there are actions o f individuals: gggj: Association has ruled that terminal Jim Hutchins tells w hy he bu lldozed gggg patients should be allowed to die on dow n his new h ouse (p .4 ) ; an anarcho gggg the “ death with dignity” slide rule o f fem inist and her friends give a male jigi; life; Mr Denzil Bradley, the director o f chauvinist his just desserts (p. 5); Syd jigg: the Rhodesia Information Service in Balhorne, an ex egg farmer fed up with the jigg Sydney, has abandoned his powerful reactionary attitude o f the people behind rural industry, turned newspaper editor jigg post to return to South Africa; and the and tried to fight them — a form idable jjjg new government o f Papua New Guinea task he says (p .4 ). A n d then there is gig has banned the sale o f alcohol for a a requiem fo r prison escapee N oel Harrison gggg five day period over the christmas-new (centre pages). jijijj year holidays. What price the barri The com et. Last w eek they said it was n g cades now? a fizzer. Just to prove them wrong K oh ou tek , with the assistance o f the sun, added another tw o m illion miles to its TREET R IO T E R S TAKE tail. Ian McCausland has devised a game fo r all to play, a lift out souvenir o f this FURTHER NOTE: The United year’ s “ lon g haired star” . As well as Ian’ s jig States government has taken strong prayer to the com et you will have the jig objection to the fact that Australia's privilege o f viewing the original graphic jji overseas trade minister, Dr Jim Cairns, masterpieces o f Peter D ickie, Martin :•$; has supported the North Vietnamese Sharp, Neal M cLean and Ian McCausland. jig government and for saying that AmerWhile we are n ot averse to recycling jig ica is deliberately sponsoring a fascist graphics, The living daylights was over takeover in Vietnam as a whole. Dr w helm ed with contribution s this issue gig Cairns has broken some cod e o f interand w e tried to incorporate as m any ideas national decency b y stating the obvias w e cou ld . Som e o f the graphics on pages 11 to 15 were sent b y the Western :•$; ous. Australian Anarchist Federation, PO box 61, In glew ood 6 0 5 2 , for w hich much thanks. We also thank those people w ho i AISE HIGH THE BARRIcalled into the o ffice with kind w ords and lCADES: Canberra’s new aborigg o o d w orks. jjjj inal parliament, appointed by As our pu blication day coin cides with jig;: G od’s own federal Labor government, that o f Christmas and new year we have igig is upset with its wages. The black taken the op p ortu n ity to scatter happily jigg members claim they are worth at least in to the coun tryside, to return with our jjji $400 a week. Turkish immigrants, eleventh issue on january 8, with an accou n t o f “ what w e did on our holi who are paid considerably less than a days” . We invite con trib u tors to submit gig white man, are believed to be objecting their ow n stories o f what they did, or o f gig: to this unjust slur on their characters. what p eople w e kn ow , love or hate did. Public figures let their hair dow n on holidays to o , and we encourage readers to spy and report o n them over the festive a is e th e b a r r ic a d e s season. EVEN HIGHER: Liberal opposi

Have a y ip p y yuletide — EDS. PS: T o the W ood stock Anarchist Feder ation, thanks for the tightly packed en velope o f goodies. We intend running those reve lations on brain surgery in the state o f Tasmania in our next issue.

tion leader Bill Snedden lived up to his usual reputation as a Federal Fire ball b y signing a massive pile o f Christ mas cards as prime minister Gough Whitlam gave the windingup speech

IXCXJE for the circus o f the year. As a matter o f interest the health bill was defeated, thus ensuring that the suffering poor will never get a decent set o f false knees. Our bright eyed and bushy tailed political correspondents also breathlessly reported that prime minis ter Whitlam drank from two different glasses o f water during his windup speech. That’s capitalism for you.

O MUCH FOR P A R T Y L O Y A L T Y : Mr Les Bury, the former Liberal treasurer, after faithfully repre senting the interests o f big business and his own party for 17 years, has been suitably thanked by being dump ed by the loyal rank and file from the preselection ballot for the federal seat o f Wentworth. Fittingly enough Mr Bury once represented Australia at the International Court o f Justice in the Hague over the recent French nuclear tests in the Pacific.

ERE’S THE GOOD NEWS: The Associated Chamber o f Manufac tures o f Australia and the Bank o f New South Wales have gleefully point ed out in a specially conducted survey that Australia faces a general business slump and a general ruin next year. One o f the principal reasons for this business slump, the survey claimed, was the fact that too many people had jobs. By this reasoning an artificially created depression, with thousands out o f work, will please the Australian business world no end, not to mention the printing industry, which will have its hands full churning out thousands o f dole tickets.

OW THE BAD NEWS: Laws compelling manufacturers to

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h ree ch eers fo r th e GOOD OLD BOYS: The New South Wales branch o f the RSL has predicted that it will becom e a far stronger pressure group next year. The state president o f the league, Mr C. J. Hines, said the growth in strength would com e from a decision to raise a levy for the maximum distribution o f the RSL magazine Reveille. Just how this is going to increase the strength o f the lunatic organisation is somewhat o f a mystery, but at least the NSW m ob believes it will d o some good and while they’re worrying about such great and weighty matters they are in far less o f a position to bother ordinary decent people.

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With the erratic d evelopm en t o f vain man, p erfid iou s and cra fty, and I all and safe — unlike nuclear energy, a A narchy means con trollin g your ow n w om en s liberation, m en are so busy also was right” . N estor M ah kno was a dangerous illusion which should be aban life. It has little to d o with the creepy trying n ot t o be a leering Terry Thom as superbly handsom e peasant from the doned. caricature o f popular imagination. The in a sm oking ja ck et that th ey are draining Ukraine, w h o created libertarian c o m violence perpetrated b y anarchists against themselves o f social flares and graces. m unes during the Russian revolution, ,is for Truth, the ultim ate aim o f all the state is infinitesimal, com pa red to the decisively defeated the Austrians and w orthw hile human curiosity. is for G etty, w h o has just been violence perpetrated b y the state against urged the unpaid railway w orkers of returned, on e ear less. Because he anarchists. M ost free thinkers have been Aleksandrovsk to take c o n tro l o f the is for Ugly, w hich is n ot unrelated ra sli£airy and hung around with hippies, incarcerated; thousands o f adherents kill lines. Men flo c k e d to the banner o f this t o category above. It has been said the Italian p olice spent five m on th s n o t ed. The unfortunate Bakunin was jailed ch eerfu l libertarian, w h o sw ashbuckled o f Socrates that his on e outstanding look in g for him. G is also for grass, o f by the Germans, and after his teeth his way through m ilitary escapades — characteristic was ugliness. This was c o n w hich there aint m u ch around these days. dropped ou t from scurvy, handed to the inventing m any o f the m eth od s o f guersidered an im pertinence in a G reece ruled G is for grower, the cry o f the c y n ic s and Austrians, w ho sentenced him to death rilla warfare — and the p o te n c y o f his by the beauty o f youn g men. T o c o m the realists. T h ose w h o w ou ld have us and con fin ed him in a cell with leg irons, anarchist ideas terrified Lenin, T rotsk y pensate he began to dethrone sensuality, p lo d safely through the w orld in the steps hand irons and a waist iron attached to and oth er centralist strong m en. b y elevating reason (th e b u ffo o n w h o got o f our ancestors. the walL F rom there he was sent to the The secret p olice, already flourishing him self taken seriously, is h ow N ietzsche Russians, w h o sent him to Siberia. is for happiness, the pursuit o f in the Soviet state b y 1919, began arrest put it). A cruel view o f the truth o f N o w onder he was later to propou n d w hich was w ritten in to the US ing and killing the M ahknovists. K now n wisdom , which is not w ith ou t its p sy ch o that destruction in a creative act. Last con stitu tion as an afterthought, therebyas Bakto, “ dear father” b y his men, logical insight. century, anarchy was a flourishing possi altering the direction o f western human M ah kno was forced to flee from his bility, w hich sw ept like a bushfire endeavor. H is also for Hugh H efner, the hom eland — this m an w h o always detest is fo r venereal disease, w hich is through the “ latin” nations o f Europe, em bodim ent o f the pleasure principle and ed cities — and die as a m iserable fa ctory always popular at this tim e o f the doused on ly b y the bullying and the provider o f H op e for executives every w orker in Paris. M ahknovists represented year. T h e governm ent provides free clin betrayals o f British and Germ an socialists. where; the king o f the m am m ary, the that m om en t o f absolute freed om in the ics; services are never advertised, no With persisting social oppression, great w hite slave trader o f flesh. H is also Russian revolu tion . . . d ou b t due to som e archaic law, w hich the people are beginning to discover their for Heath, the op p osite in all respects, Daylights must soon get around to break is fo r Nim bin, w hich is really a o w n indignation, and the relevance o f e x cep t as a con ju rer o f fantasy. ing. In dingy premises, the bored, brisk n ob le experim ent in com m u n ity anarchism is fresher than ever. In Mel • new w orldism , despite the faint aura odf o cto rs usually d o the best they can, and bourne last week, the m an w h o knocked is for Illness, w hich is everywhere even distribute ron eoed “ fact sheets” on absurdity. Escapism? S o m e b o d y has to flat his ow n h om e, with his ow n infuriat increasing th rou g h ou t Australia, non specific euthrytis w hich verge on the take positive steps in restructuring society ing bulldozer, struck a ch ord with us alL due to the e ffic a c y o f m od ern advertising charming. T h e m edical profession is re and the price o f all anarchy is eternal What he did with his house, anarchists (and the conservatism o f m od ern m edi luctantly developing immunities fo r the con fu sion . D eposit has been paid o n 1000 w ou ld like to d o w ith the c o n ce p t o f cine). H ousew ives are strapped in to the disease, and recent findings have been acres o f land at Turntable Falls, 7 0 0 of authority. kidney m achines, w hile B ex , V incents encouraging. w hich is still virgin forest. Already there and others con tin u e to sh ou t their lies are 202 fully paid shareholders, w h o are is fo r Britain and the blitz. It is from the sanctum s o f respectable media. is fo r w om en , w h o con tin u e to m oving o n to the land n ext w eek and d ifficu lt n ot to shudder at the The frenzy for p rofit m akes truth telling assert themselves. It has b ecom e others are w elcom e at $ 2 0 0 per share. forth com ing plight o f the out-of-w orkersim possible. Push analgesics d ow n the im possible for men to write ab ou t w om en C on ta ct the c o -o p at N im bin, PO 2484. — m any o f them already mortgaged to throats o f b ored and harassed h ou se these days w ith ou t sounding either the hilt (m ost likely o n central heating is fo r the O p position , w hich after wives, b ecom e rich and respected. Push patronising, backw ard or scared. David units) w ho are, as ever, pawns o f inter its first taste o f playing secon d leaves o f marijuana to a friend in need, go M cN icol, the m ost th oroughly unpleas national p ow er clashes. On another level, to jail. fiddle in the house, has em erged as ant, insidious and inarticulate jou rnal the three day w ork cu rfew can be cele puerile, pusillanim ous and pugnacious. ist in the history o f the w orld, recently is fo r judiciary, the o b n o x io u s brated. It is a trauma — with inevitable The w orst thing that c o u ld happen to boasted the w om ens m ovem ent was ou t breed o f reactionary breadheads, future sh ock for Australia — w hich will Australia in the N ew Y ear is the Liberals o f the news and had collapsed. T o an yone w hose jo b is to place legality before prom pt all proponen ts o f growth and emerging as victors after a dou ble dissolu w h o m oves outside the a lo o f establish m orality and their careers b e fo re the captains o f industry to ask themselves tion vote. It will then be time to give up m ent mainstream the contrary is the case. com m u n ity. Law reform lags behind Brit that belated question: What the fu ck are in despair on beh alf o f o n e ’ s fellow I say right on to the N ew W om an, b u t for ain and Am erica, with judges still obsess w e doing? Aussies, o r t o take to revenge. Christ’ s sake, if y o u ’ve g ot leg hairs like ed with retribution and solicitors slow to With British telly shutting o f f at 10.30 is fo r p rod u ction w ith ou t posses the bristles o f a lavatory brush, then d on t bring themselves in to the heart o f the and m otorists brawling in the streets, it is sion. It is also fo r pricks, w hich are b e afraid to eradicate th em . I t ’s n ot com m unities. O n e solution to the stagna hard to believe that a few years ago going d ow n all over the western w orld, as coun ter revolu tionary; it’s hum ane. tion and p om p osity o f this profession is everyone wished they were walking along w om en b e c o m e increasingly predatory, nationalisation — a legal health service. Kings road, Chelsea, listening to the and we m ay n o t see them rise again in our is also for Whitlam, for w hom this Over 90 percent o f crim inal cases are Beatles, admiring each oth er’s beautiful m om en t I con fess strong a ffection , channelled through magistrates, m any o f \ lifetim e. thighs . . . acid flow in g in the streets, considering his almost maniacal desire to w hom are mad, w ith the average cou rt Nova, Mary Quant, N orth Sea gas . . . IS also fo r Purple, Alvin Purple, dish ou t awkward h om e truths. T h e glass tim e o f tw o m inutes and few people, but the b a lly h ooed film b y Australian o f water in the governor general’s face . . . with the o d d bigw ig on a drunken driving is for Crisis, w hich is n ow a daily T im Burstall, w hich defies all standards othe f tim e he told the reptilian cathedral charge being represented b y a solicitor. occu rren ce . . . perhaps it’ s Christ awfulness. The cast is fin e and the film building bishop he stank o f evil . . . and PS: In the m ysterious case o f the mas or K oh ou tek or m erely coinciden ce. w ell m ade. But w hat is it a b o u t? A series n ow the con tem p t o f V orster and Smith pre-signed search warrants reported here With oil and Watergate w ildly m ixing to o f u n fu nn y ca rtoon s fr o m the pages o f a (the latter o f w hom was d efen ded b y the last week, the magistrate astoundingly obliterate our precon ception s, n o one, fad ed wankers gazette, o f a guy w om en Sydney morning herald, in its efforts to refused to c o m m it the drug ch iefs to trial. least o f all econom ists, can talk sensibly go crazy over w h ich , apart fr o m its sexist sink Whitlam, as a “ scourge o f tyrants” ). The p olice w ere n o t even required to about the future . . . A t least the rich will w allow ing isnt the slightest b it interesting. Perhaps he is com m itting political suicide, o ffe r an explan ation fo r the signed blank lose m ore than you. What distinguishes hack fro m talent, is but despite his personal frigidities, he way warrants. [ the desire to be original a n d /or say som e outclasses the other Canberra crackpots. is for D evelopm ent w ith ou t dom in thing. P ox on Purple Alvin. is for K oh ou tek , described as either A n d as for his arrogance: If on e is ation. It is also for Desire, w hich is a fizzer or the end o f the w orld, m ediocre, then m od esty is nothing m ore what anarchism is basically about. M ost is fo r the Queen, w h o p rod u ces the depending on y o u r sources. T h e Children than honesty. For Whitlam, it w ou ld be people have little idea what to desire, w orld ’ s best T V spectaculars and o f G o d are issuing hysterical pam phlets, h ypocrisy . . . being engulfed by false needs. The criti provides the w orst kind o f secon d hand urging adherents to clear o u t o f the cism o f capitalism is n ot on ly that it is satire. Q is also for Queensland and its central target area: “ . . . in this shocking is, o f course, for Xmas, w hich I am run by fat m en w ho have lobster for horrific premier. If Whitlam thinks Vorstrevelation . . . y o u in the US have on ly n ot going to attack on the tediously lunch and bark orders at secretaries, but er and Sm ith are w orse than nazis, what until january to get o u t b e fo r e som e kind unoriginal grounds o f its being a m ercan because it creates a society o f useless m ust he think o f Bjelke-Petersen? Q is o f disaster, destruction or ju dgm en t o f tile orgy. It’s as g ood a tim e as any to preoccup ation with making unnecessary also fo r Qantas, currently assaulting the G od w hich is to fall because o f A m erica’ s reunite with p eople you care about and objects. What is w ork ? asked Bertrand senses w ith the m ost nauseous advertising w ickedness . . . ” to cast the m ind b ey on d the mundane Russell, w h o replied: cam paigns since the Tarax s o ft drink. “ W o rk is o f t w o k in d s: firs t, a lterin g the exigencies o f the daily hustle. It is a time While sym pathising w ith the intention o f is fo r L ove, Laughter and L iber p o s it io n o f m a tte r at o r near th e ea rth ’ s to be generous in hospitality and imagina banishing travel boredom , the substitu ation, w hich are inseparable. s u rfa ce re la tiv e ly t o o t h e r su ch m a tte r ; sec-, tio n ; t o eat big, drink hearty and get high o n d , te llin g o t h e r p e o p le to d o so. T h e first tion o f heavy handed, pseu d o c o o l, smart . . . h appy xm as to all our readers; and k in d is u n p le a s a n t and ill p a id ; th e s e c o n d is arsedness is en ough to m ake o n e w ant to is for Charles M anson, Karl Marx p leasa n t and h ig h ly p a id . T h e s e c o n d k in d is co m e back and con tin u e the trip with us d o it b y fo o t, w hich is cheaper and m ore and N estor M ahkno. During his trial ca p a b le o f in d e fin it e e x t e n s io n : th ere are n o t all here, on january 8. Why n ot resolve to o n l y th o s e w h o give ord ers, b u t th o s e w h o R u m ors already Charlie was den ou n ced guilty b y N ixoninteresting anyhow . send c o p y and im prove us? give a d v ice as t o w h a t o rd e rs s h o u ld b e given. abound that there will be n o m ore high and ever since there has seem ed a kind o f

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The m aligned la ya bou t contributes m ore to the co m m u n ity than the busi nessman w ho proclaim s his ow n virtue, while robbing the earth to c o n the c o n sumer and inflating his ow n status.

is for Ellsberg, the key figure in bringing the Vietnam war hom e to Americans, the man w h o released Pentagon Papers and show ed what a p ow erfu l w eapon was the photostat. In his ow n w ords he proved that one person can m ake a difference, even w ithout b lo od sh ed . “ What I did cou ld b e seen” ,h e says, “ in very Gandhian term s — an act o f pure abstract truth telling.”

em pathy betw een the tw o. B oth m en represent the greatest challenge to an archist optim ism . Karl M arx, authoritar ian and convention al, was hated b y the anarchist figures o f the day, w h o them selves rivalled him in reputation and influence. When Marx w rote to Proudhon on m ay 5, 1846, suggesting a “ sustained correspon den ce” am ong leading socialists, the latter replied as fo llow s: “ I a p p la u d w ith all m y h ea rt y o u r t h o u g h t o f b rin g in g t o lig h t all o p in io n s ; le t u s give th e w o r ld th e e x a m p le o f a le a rn e d an d fa rsig h te d t o le r a n ce , b u t le t u s n o t , b e ca u s e w e are at th e the h e a d o f a m o v e m e n t , m a k e o u rse lv e s th e le a d e r s o f a n e w in t o le r a n c e ; le t u s n o t p o s e as th e a p o stle s o f a n e w r e lig io n , e v e n i f it b e the re lig io n o f lo g ic , th e r e lig io n o f re a so n . L e t us ga th er to g e t h e r a n d e n c o u r a g e all p r o te s ts , le t u s b ra n d all e x c lu siv e n e ss , all m y s t ic is m ; le t us n e v e r reg ard a q u e s tio n as e x h a u s t e d , and w h en w e h a v e u s e d o u r last a rg u m e n t, le t us b egin again, if n e c e ss a r y , w ith e lo q u e n c e and ir o n y . O n th a t c o n d i t i o n , I w ill g a d l y e n te r i n t o y o u r a s s o cia tio n . O th e r w is e — n o ! ”

octan e air fuel in Australia after february, is fo r Yggdrasil, the gigantic ash so m aybe the blue denim flight to L on tree o f N ordic m y th olog y, w hose d o n will never get o f f the ground. Drancnes reach to the sky and cover the is for rock ’ n roll and the R ip o ff it earth. This tree exists on ly in N ordic has becom e. With few exception s, m y th olog y, but the w ord can now live on everyone sounds like everyone else and in you r vocabulary. the idea o f sitting in a large u n c o m fo r t able hall, to hear substandard renditions is for R onald Ziegler, N ix on ’s o f studio sou n d and squeaky eg o trips, w retched press secretary, through seems pointless. R o c k con certs died with thick and thicker, and Viva Zapata, the Jimi H endrix, Janis Joplin and the D oors man w h o played M arlon B rando; and Z, (O K , with the ex ce p tio n o f the Stones, m ost o f all, is for Z odiac, the imaginary bu t never again will I suffer them at belt o f the heavens, which mankind has R and w ick racetrack). W henever I am in already turned into a junkyard, and to trodu ced to a ro ck p rom oter, I reach for which t o o m any eyes are turned in either m y gun . . . pathetic pessimism or u n fou n d ed o p timism, because o f the forth com in g fancy is for Solar Energy, w hich is n ot light show , instead o f lookin g first and m en tion ed in a recent Time maga forem ost into their ow n heads, hearts and zine rundow n o f future energy possibil their will to break through . . . w ith ou t ities, bu t it is just waiting o u t there to be help from any supreme delusion. Q&Aharnessed b y Australians. T h e C S IR O has

A R Y and I have driven through the night from Mel bourne. We’ re way down south in Australia’s deepest hicksland, where the precious “ Prom” and Corner Inlet national park region is likely to be dug up soon for petrol. Nearby, by the sea, is the biggest brown coalfield in the world. The Hamer government wants to produce petrol from brown coal to keep our polluted society busy polluting, because Bolte put nearly everybody o ff public transport to keep General Motors and Big Business in general happy. In the deserted office o f the Cippsland star, the goldfish are gasping for breath. Hamer’s quality-of-life bureaucracy has cut o ff their oxygen. The weekly, then fortnightly, then m onthly (sample back copies available, ten for a dollar), then maybe sometime newspaper must never be again. The cops, the bureaucracy, the government, the Victorian Egg Board, the Com monwealth Development Bank, the Rural Finance Corporation, Dun and Bradstreet and other sundry city and bush bastards like Esanda and KMM have seen to that. Water from a defrosted refrige rator lay on the floor in a pool o f the blood, sweat and tears which had gone into the lost cause o f producing Australia’s first free and independent peoples paper. Jesus would have wept. Mary a true daughter o f G od - and I wept too. We groped around in the gloom in disbelief. How was it possible that this was Hamer’ s and Whidam’ s Australia, not Hider’s Germany. Could Goebbels have done worse to a newspaper which dared to shine light in dark places, to tell the truth about social injustice, about bureaucratic and political stupidity, about the ecological disasters pending in Gippsland in the name o f godless gudess materialism? Mr justice Sweeney, in the Fed eral Court o f Bankruptcy in Mel bourne the day before, on a pif fling petition by a firm o f fo o d polluters out to get him just as the Victorian Egg Board had done, had declared the editor-publisher o f the Gippsland star a bankrupt. Great was the rejoicing among the Forces o f Darkness. The ABC in Sale, duped by the Star’ s enemies, broadcast the glad tidings many times on radio and television — just as they had broadcast the news o f police libel writs against the editor and several printers some months ago when the writing was on the wall for the Star. N ot a word was broadcast that the Star had not let up in its campaign against b oy bashing in Gippsland, not a word about the Victorian Egg Board destroying Australia’ s only pure egg farm (mine), confiscating the income o f an old jo u m o and sending him out o f the fo o d pollution industry back into the public newspaper polluting industry. Next day I was kicked out o f Alberton shire council to which I had won a seat in a hard fought election tw o years ago to work unlike Hamer and Co - unpaid to get dem ocracy and social justice going in one small Australian com munity. N ot one reporter from the mass media was in the bankruptcy court to cover an historic case about a travesty o f social and personal justice but a transcript is available, containing some color ful language about the bastards who put the editor in the court. Mary and I had driven nearly 150 miles to Yarram to obtain records for the official receiver in

DON QUIXOTE TILTS AT THE BUSH BUREAUCRATS

SYD BALHORNE has just seen his remarkable com munity newspaper, the Yarram Star, closed down by “the cops, the bureaucracy, the government, the Vic torian Egg Board . . . and other sundry city and bush bastards”. Here is his cry o f pain.

bankruptcy. By torchlight, we gathered what we could in the dark, emptied the fish tank to take it to Melbourne to save the fish. Mary had asked for a cup o f coffee before sharing the driving back to Melbourne, but the milk was as stinking as the quality o f life o f most Australians. Anyhow who wanted milk, when the SEC had turned the power o ff the stove, to o ? More to the point, who wanted the Gipps land star? The sooner the Star set, the sooner Rupert and a thousand others could breathe a sigh o f relief. The Yarram tow nsfolk could relax again into indifference and apathy. Does not Yarram boast a telly set in each home, the TAB, a Tatts agency and an assured sup ply o f all goodies, in a typical Marlboro and Carlton United country setting where beer brew ed from the “ purest sparkling water” makes he men o f gudess Australians, where babies are bred with gay abandon to keep the schools o f Gippsland busy educat ing zombies? When the Victoria police can close down a newspaper because it criticises b oy bashings, when printers are too frightened to print the truth about anything

because they will lose their liveli hoods, is Australia ripe for anarchy, for a December Revolu tion, for a march on that Bastille o f Bull about the quality o f life at the top o f Bourke street? What is the difference between G oebbels’ propaganda for pro grammed Germans and the premasticated garbage churned out by the private press for Aus tralians - the journalistic junk which has made Australia one great farm o f animated vegetables to be harvested and sacrificed by multi national corporations, rapa cious banks and the rest to the filthy dollar. Surely it is time for anarchy to destroy oppression - when Australians are forbidden by bureaucrats like egg boards and bankers to produce and to eat pure fo o d , to lead the lives o f simple farmers, to raise animals by natural means and not through bureaucratic monstrosities which gobble up basic human freedoms and vomit polluted, unnatural foods into the willing super markets o f corrupt Big Business.

from W E E K E N D E R

It is no easy job trying to establish a live, fearless, provoca tive, democratic, independent com m unity newspaper in Austra lia. Even the Whitlam government shrinks from the idea. The Forces o f Darkness — represented by the bureaucrats, banks, press barons and others — are too powerful for the weak governments Australians have suffered since white settle ment. They control the Whitlam government just as they did the Menzies government. Yet where there’s a will there’ s a way. The Yarram and Gippsland stars have proved that with only a few thousand o f many millions o f dollars the dog-eat-dog press barons and Gordon Barton have thrown away on new papers stuf fed with the same old garbage, Australians could enjoy good jour nalism, as called for in the latest issue o f the N ew journalist. The AJA must be one o f the weakest unions on the face o f the earth. It is concerned only with

getting m oney for its members, not self-respect. The AJA should tell Packer, Murdoch, Fairfax and Jones what to put in their rags to make them into newspapers, but unfortunately m ost Australian journalists are now such hacks and prostitutes that they believe the lies they put in for the boss. I felt that if dem ocracy and social justice could be got going in just one small Australian co m munity, there would be hope for Australia. A comm unity news paper was the first essential, a newspaper actually owned by the people - not privately. But no body was sufficiently interested, least o f all the scared shire cou n cil, under the thumbs o f a power ful secretary and engineer. The citizens o f Yarram were well pro grammed by the media to lead the lives o f animated vegetables — to breed lots o f babies for Bolte and the coming quality o f life state that would never happen under Hamer or anybody else without a big rethink. When the prime minister, the premier o f Victoria, the leader o f the opposition, the federal at torney-general, the minister for the media, etc, etc, refuse to lift a finger to save Australia’s first proven democratic com m unity newspaper from the Forces o f Darkness, surely the time for bloodless anarchy has com e. Australian journalists could kill corruption with ballpoints and typewriters. When a pack o f American p ro fessional pimps and liars can sell an honest Australian citizen’s soul and destroy his name for m oney, when a leading firm o f fo o d p o l luters can kick a man into the gutter for a lousy little debt, close a community newspaper, destroy a pure fo o d industry, and kick him out o f a shire council - is it time for anarchy in Australia? When a corrupt bunch o f gang sters like the Victorian Egg Board can wipe out poultry farming in Victoria, forbid the production and sale o f pure eggs in Victoria and force Victorians to eat only polluted fo o d - is it not time for anarchy? But so well has the mass media done its work that it would be a practical impossibility to find 14 men among 14 million Australians with the guts and dedication and design for a better society to start a revolution in this gudess Marl boro and Carlton and United country.

I just had to break something MIKEY FOOTE HEN Jim Hutchins picked up the secondhand bull dozer from Massey Ferguson two months ago it shined like a new penny. The people at Massey Ferguson started it up for him; he drove it around the yard and it seemed allright. So he signed the sales agreement - $25,000 in $500 instalments. No sweat, thought Jim, the earning power o f the machine had been calculated at $2500 a month. N o sweat. The bulldozer wouldnt start on the first job. Trouble in the fuel lines or something. He “ bled” it, a practice he later perfected. That done, the bucket stopped lifting, He called the com pany; take your machine back. They said, “ NO” , Jim said the original problem was minor - a worn fuel bowl, When Massey Ferguson reconditioned the dozer the fault wasnt noticed. But it lacked minimal power and there were transmis

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sion problems. In Jim's words it was “ stuffed” in fact. Massey Fer guson hadnt noticed these things either. They sent mechanics out to the site, to run tests on the dozer. Jim cooled his heels mean while. They took it in for repairs, leaving Jim without a machine and an income. Unemployed for three weeks he thought about the hire purchase payment com ing up. The repair job didnt fix it. A troublesome bearing hadnt been replaced. “ They bodgied it up.” Again and again he returned to MF. “ I hung around the place like a bad smell.” And the monthly payment came up again. His wife became distraught and left him. He asked his wife to return to him. She refused. He climbed into the cursed machine and bulldozed most o f the house down, before it conked out, the house he was paying off. “ I just had to break some thing,” he told me, sitting in the ruins. . . . ^___^

Steady there Mr Bartholomew By JOHN HALPIN of Digger AST tuesday in the Mel bourne magistrates court Alan Austin Bartholomew was convicted o f a charge o f having exceeded .05 b lood alcohol whilst driving. J. L. McArdle SM fined him $30 and disqualified him from driving for six months. Barth olom ew did not appear and entered a plea o f not guilty through his counsel, John I. Walker. No mention was made in court o f the defendant’ s occupat ion — chief government psychiat rist, at Pentridge prison. The case was hushed up and was heard late in the afternoon, a time when the press have usually gone home. However, as the dailies had received an anonym ous

telephone tip o ff they were present. Whispers around the legal profession (barristers chambers) were that Bartholomew’s counsel, John Walker, was having a bad day as he was attempting to seek an adjournment but could not locate a sympathetic magistrate. However, he was not to be outdone by curious ears — he made his submissions in writing. Constable H.A. Jackson gave evidence that he spoke to Barth olom ew at 10.30pm on march 20. He testified that he saw the car veering from left to right in Lonsdale street, turn left through a red light and stop in the middle o f the intersection o f Elizabeth street. Jackson went on to say the driver was unsteady on his feet, his breath smelt strongly o f alcohol and his speech was slur

red. The magistrate granted a stay o f 14 days so that an appeal cou ld be lodged, meanwhile Barth olom ew could continue to drive until it was heard. On Wednesday state opposition leader, Clyde Holding, asked attorney-general, Vernon Wilcox whether it was a new con cep t that senior government officials re ceived preferential treatment at court. The next day Wilcox told parliament that he had inquired into the case and it was normal. However, it’s not normal that the breathalyser reading was not given in court as it is part o f the record o f conviction. The reading was .145 — a reading com m en surate with 16 seven ounce beers in one hour, 18 in tw o hours, or 21 in three hours.

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A ban a day keeps developers away GRANT EVANS HE Master Builders Associa tion are once again playing their favorite game: “ L et’s get the NSW builders laborers.” They have not been to o good at this game so far even though they dreamed it up. Last round they tried to cripple the BLs through a lockout. However, a court ruled that the “ green bans” were non industrial disputes which could only be settled by negotiation between the develop ers, residents, conservationists and unions. The lockout was broken. Undaunted and ever flexible (read opportunist), the MBA is now charging that the Builders Laborers Federation has exceeded the charter under which it’s regis tered with the industrial court by going outside industrial matters. Last m onday week they applied to the court for the deregistration o f the BLF. This time, however, BLF o f ficials are refusing to front to court. For failing to do this they face the threat o f a jail sentence or heavy fine. In Sydney, the NSW secretary o f the BLF, Joe Owens, has been on the run for the past one and a half weeks. The court has sum monsed him to produce the union records, “ but I’m not giving them anything” , he says. We caught up with Owens “ hiding” in a pub in the outer suburb o f Epping. He was pour ing down a few beers at the Channel 7 Christmas breakup. “ Being on the run gets pretty hectic,” he said. “ Much more o f this and I might just have to accept the summons.” Owens said that the MBA had tried to make their submission to the court a little m ore respectable this time by adding a number o f industrial “ irregularities” to their submission. These include such things as organisers telling the boss to fu ck o ff when they com e on to a job. “ But the core o f the attack” , says Owens, “ is still the ‘ green ban'. The developers have still got hundreds o f thousands o f dollars tied up and they want to kill the bans.” Owens expects the rest o f the union movement to swing in be hind the BLs this time. The very nature o f the MBA submission has implications well beyond the BLF and the building industry. If the MBA wins its submission the registration o f all unions which have opposed green bans — or which act on political or social issues — will also be in jeopardy.

Rape, rape, he said From Siren, a US feminist newspaper. AST january, I was acquit ted o f charges o f battery. The charge was battery because in Illinois, rape is defined legally as “ the penetration o f a woman by a man over 14 years o f age” . I had attempted to rape Wil liam Chester, a 34 year old man, with two other women last year. Chester had written an article in the Illinois university newspaper, ILLINI. In this article, Chester said - supposedly in a parody that he thought women enjoyed being raped. Any woman knows that to say rape is something to be enjoyed is perpetuating the male mythology about rape. The other tw o women and myself reacted in an anarchofeminist way; we attempted to com ply with Chester’ s wish to be raped. William Chester came to us o f his own free will. We had written notes and told him we were going to rape him. He reacted like an over-enraged adolescent who thought he was going to get some crumpet. When the roles were reversed and we lowered him to the floor, trying to remove his pants, he became hysterical, screaming and crying, trying to fight us.off. We held him still (we stopped trying to rape him be cause it would be to o traumatic) and tried to explain to him that rape was not enjoyable, that it was a hostile act against women and forced upon them. We did not attempt to beat the shit out o f him. We held him to prevent him from hurting us. We let him go when several o f his friends appeared and it looked as

if it was going to turn into a brawl. Chester went to the police and swore warrants against us. I had a name warrant and turned myself in. The other tw o wom en Chester did not know ; eventually one o f them was caught. Chester said that if we would apologise, he would drop the charges. As the trial dragged on fo r months (with continuances) the other woman apologised. Finally, we came before a judge. It was a bench trial. Be cause I had an extremely com petent woman lawyer, I was acquitted on a directed verdict. The judge agreed with my lawyer that the complaint sworn out against me was insufficient and garbled. Legally, battery is defin ed as “ touching in an insulting or provoking manner or causing bodily harm” . My charges stated that I had “ leapt upon and beat William Chester". Chester and his lawyer, outraged at having been beaten by a woman, tried to have me retried and rearrested. Again we went to court, the m otion o f a retrial was defeated. Now Chester has told the press that m y lawyer gave the judge a bribe. The judge is trying to get Chester on contem pt o f court. The press took this whole inci dent as a cutesy, human interest story and gave it a lot o f coverage. It is unfortunate that so many actual rapes receive no coverage at all, and that when a man is threat ened, the media leaps upon it.

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W hat’s all this about anarchy

JEREMY SALT

COLIN TALBOT ITZRO Y, this steamy innersuburb o f Melbourne, is an adequate place to find student and poststudent anarchists. This is being written from Fitzroy which is not to say much at all. But a second ago an old man walked up the footpath outside. He wore a widebrim straight brown felt hat. It was hot yet he wore a cold. An old one. He had a white stick which he tapped along the ground as he walked. When he came to the crossroads he walked straight across, counting his steps and waving his stick in the air. He wore dark green glasses and did not lo o k up. The cars went around him. This may not have anything to d o with anarchy. And swaggies had their own sense o f justice. They had been known to prop a broken piece o f bottle on a stick. When the sun at tw o o ’clock shone upon it they would be miles away. Usually they put the glass on the edge o f a wheatfield. And persons with no m oney and in need o f cigarettes know the best place to find cig arette butts is in the foyer o f a cinema. Som e cigarettes may have been puffed at a few times, leav ing a good length to be smoked. Some noted anarchists have written books. Some o f these books are in libraries. In Rome, paper for books came from a bark known as liber. This leads to libraries, one way or another. In gothic countries the bark o f the beech was used for paper. This was called boc from which came the work book . In Greece, ancient books were made from a type o f papyrus called byblos from which Bible came. It’s all very interest ing . . . If everyone woke up one morn ing - something not uncom mon - and decided what a fine day it would be - it would have to be a fine day - to go to the beach. And if everyone who could walk walked to a beach, or those too far away, to a river, or to lie under a tree, regardless o f what was expected to be done, then several things would happen. One: the beaches would be severely crowded, that is, the city beaches. There would probably be a lot o f drownings. The rivers would be full o f people. The parks would be crowded. The streets would be em pty. A lot o f people in hospitals and institutions would die. By the end o f the day there would be a lot o f hungry people. The TV wouldnt be on, the trams wouldnt be working. A lot o f people would have had a good time. T w o: the only order would be relaxing and eating and sleeping. Three: it’s getting to o co m plicated but sounds interesting. Four: I’m not really interest ed . . . . . . In writing this bullshit. Is it anarchistic, when asked to write something connected with anar chism, not to? What pretentious bullshit. It’ s too fucking hot to be working. Anarchy seems to be as good a subject as any to talk about when it’s cold and there’s a log fire burning. Like Utopia and every bod y loving each other, and every one going to the beach and stuff. Anarchy o f man is bullshit. Anar chy o f nature is what’ s going to happen, and when it does, words w on’t be much help.

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R ID A Y the peace talks b e gin in Geneva. Blow the trumpets and sound the horns. The Israelis w on ’t be talking to the Syrians because they havent re leased names o f prisoners and the Palestinians w on ’ t be going, al though they are ready to take over any piece o f land allotted to them by the grace o f Israel, Egypt and the twin pinnacles o f capital ist and communist oppression. Stripped o f all the resolutions, documents, maps, definitions, declarations and counter allega tions o f who massacred whom when, the dispute remains a tug o f war over the same exotic piece o f land which further line drawing is unlikely to solve. While ready to turn the west bank o f the Jordan into a new Palestinian state if it is offered them (and a glance at the map shows what an unrealistic linking o f territory this is), the Palestinian Liberation Organisation says it w on’t accept this as the final word. So, either way, the chances o f what the spokesmen, pundits and politicians sententiously like to call a “ durable and just peace” are remote. Some pretty stupid things have been said and written about the Middle East in Australia over the past few weeks, starting with Bob Hawke’s bland assertion in the National times that the refugee problem was “ not o f Israel’ s crea tion” , when even a superficial reading o f history would have shown him that the claim that the Palestinians were egged on to leave b y their own leaders is large ly a myth. There was the exception in

1948, o f Haifa where the jewish mayor did his best to persuade Palestinians to stay and the Arab Higher Committee responded with a statement that it had asked them to guard their honor and remove themselves to neighboring countries, but o f broadcast mes sages urging the Palestinians to flee there is n o trace. The Palestinians fled for a mul titude o f reasons, not least o f which was Israeli killing o f civil ians and psywar tactics to "encourage” them to leave, but the overpowering reason yvhich com es through from the most reliable sources is that they went because they were terrified o f what might happen to them. They were never allowed back and it takes a pretty ruthless sort o f logic to justify that. Such is the emotional heat generated b y the Middle East (and I must confess to feeling more than a little anger at seeing small Palestinian children with arms and

legs blow n o ff by Phantom shrap nel - the same sort o f anger the kibbutznik feels at seeing one o f his children maimed by a Kat yusha rocket) that the majority o f people on both sides seem to be frozen in their stereotypes. My personal feeling is that the Palestinians have been robbed blind, but I believe that they must take into account the motives o f the Zionists in seeking a haven in Palestine - just as the present day Israelis must recognise that phys ically, mentally and culturally they have stripped the Palestinians o f all they possess. In a letter to the editor o f the Melbourne Age last week David Martin wrote: “ I am a jew. Mem bers o f m y family were among the six million killed by the nazis. Everything else aside, even tradi tion and religion, it is the depth o f their misfortunes which makes jews cling to a national territory which they can defend with their own hands.

“ One does not have to be a zionist (or a jew ) to know that. But this must not take away the freedom, or the land, o f any arab. Two wrongs do not make a right.” David Martin’ s letter was one o f the most enlightened to appear in the Australian press since the flurry produced by the October war and the oil crisis, but if the Palestinian arabs must realise why the Israelis will fight to the last for this slice o f territory so the Israelis must acknowledge that the Palestinians have their own legiti mate claims to it. How this situation will be rec onciled is anyone’s guess. A t the moment there’s every chance that the Geneva talks w on’ t even get o ff the ground, or that they’ll break up in disorder shortly after if they do. The best that can be hoped for is that Israel, in return for a treaty acknowledging its existence signed by all arab states attending the conference and guaranteed by the tw o interna tional ogres, will agree to with draw from all territory occupied in 1967 and to Jerusalem being placed under some sort o f shared control. If it emerges, a Palestinian state on the west bank o f the Jordan, imperfect though it might be, would at least set the stage for fu tu re political development which — who knows? — might result one day in a unitary state. Jerusalem remains perhaps the greatest problem, but the Israelis would be crazy to allow the chance o f a peace treaty to fou n d er on their emotional bond with the city. It isnt worth one more Israeli or Palestinian life.

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Filmmakers get it on cooperatively ALBIE THOMS INCE THIS issue o f TLD is devoted to anarchism, I thought I’ d write about a form o f non-coercive econom ic organisa tion that I have been involved in for the past eight years — the filmmakers cooperative. When I helped start the Sydney Film makers Cooperative in 1966 it was a unique local experiment. N ow there are filmmakers co-ops in all Australian states (except WA) and at a recent public meet ing in Sydney the film and TV board o f the Australian Council for the Arts stated that it saw these co-ops as the means o f distributing films produced thru its subsidy systems. In the 60s, as now, the means o f production, distribution and exhibition o f films in Australia were largely controlled by foreign multinational corporations. They determined what could be shown and seen in our cinemas, and as a consequence largely determined what was made, as few people (with good reason) were prepared to finance movies unless they had a guarantee that they would be shown. Some people, myself in cluded, thought small and “ seized the means o f production” (16 mm cameras), self-financing little movies that begged to be shown. We decided to show our movies ourselves. Despite corrupt cinema licensing laws, a few public cinemas could be hired, so Sydney independent filmmakers banded together in february 1966 and showed their films. This screening was organised collectively and cooperatively, with income shar ed, and was a popular success. Thus the Sydney Filmmakers Cooperative was form ed. People

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wanted to rent the films fo r their ow n screenings, so a co-op distri bution service was established. This gradually expanded in the wake o f further cooperative ex hibition o f films in most states, and fo r the first time in Australia since the heyday o f Australian filmmaking in the 20s, Australian filmmakers were making, distri buting and exhibiting their own films (however they were mini movies, cheapies and weirdos). The appearance o f Australian filmmakers showing Australian films to Australian audiences has some political significance. A direct dialogue was established be tween filmmakers and their audi ence b y way o f their films. No middleman was raking o f f the profits, nor was he dictating what could be made or shown. This led to direct conflict with the state, which among other ways, control led film thru censorship. Members o f the Sydney Filmmakers Co-op maintained that audiences should see films without this interference and could censor fo r themselves by walking out o f screenings. They often did. Conflicts with the official censors abounded, but defiance o f their rulings led to little retribution. While the co-op had at its centre a group o f dedicated w ork ers who - largely without pay kept the ball rolling, at its broad base it was an unstructured collec tive which depended for its exist ence on uncoercive cooperation. Filmmakers didnt have to join the co-op and could withdraw their films (which they continued to ow n) at any time. Open meetings were held to determine policy and at these any member o f the co-op (which admitted any filmmaker

regardless o f the class o f the film, its means o f production, its sub ject matter, or anything else) could speak out, as decisions were made b y com m on consensus. This system was legalised in the late 60s when the co-op (entering a reformist period) applied to the NSW government for registration. Because o f historical traditions (emanating from the transported political dissenters o f Britain), the state o f NSW has extremely democratic cooperative laws. Membership o f a cooperative is effected by purchase o f shares (which can cost as low as two dollars), and each member has equal rights regardless o f the num ber o f shares held. Shares can be sold back to the co-op at any time and ownership o f the co-op resides very firmly in members who are required by law to elect a board o f directors to supervise administration o f the co-op. The Sydney Filmmakers C o-op gets round hierarchical structuring by making all directors meetings open to all members and giving direc tors no extra voting rights at these meetings (which often results in interesting theatre). When the federal government began assisting film production thru the Experimental Film and TV Fund in 1970 the Sydney C o-op insisted that filmmakers own their ow n products, and in most cases (because o f the closed market condition o f Australian film created by foreign ownership o f most o f the means o f distribu tion and exhibition) the film maker would not have to repay the government the cost o f pro duction. So an econom ic model has been established by film workers

which could, if applied broadly, reshape the Australian film in dustry. So far most filmmakers in the co-ops are young and regard themselves as non commercial. In fact, some regard themselves as anti commercial, and to some extent achieve this by avoiding exploitation o f audiences and by showing a healthy disregard for money. But most, like other workers in a m oney econom y, expect to be paid for their work. The largest barrier to the de velopment o f filmmakers co-ops has been their lack o f capital. However, this has forced them to rely on ingenuity and the personal resources o f members. Recently the Sydney co-op was able to extract a handout from the film subsidy wing o f the federal gov ernment, resulting in a doubling o f business in a year. It’s now possible in film (just as in farming or any other economic situation) to advance a cooperative system as an economically viable one. *

HE MODEL o f the Sydney Filmmakers Co-op has been taken up by filmmakers in other states. Similar co-ops are emerging in other areas o f activity. Their potential for reshaping the eco nomic life o f the Australian com munity has hardly been consider ed. The advocates o f worker con trol havent yet seen them as a means o f achieving this end. But as Australians becom e more inter ested in participatory democracy, co-ops will assume a more signifi cant econom ic and political role. Somewhere along the way Aus tralia might have its own cultural revolution.

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CHRIS HECTOR c c o r d i n g to the history books there are no anar chists in Australia’s past - some where buried in Gollan’s Radical and working class politics there’ s half a line: that’ s it. In the libraries there’s one, if y ou ’re lucky, tw o entries under the head “ Anarchy” . But if you search, pulling out each name and cross referencing as you go, you ’ll find them. Alive and well in the 1880s and 1890s, in Sydney and Melbourne gouging out their creed on blocks o f w ood, tiny, almost unreadable pamphlets, hand set on 3V2 by 3 inch pages, yellowed |and tattered, in short-lived news papers, one, tw o, sometimes ten issues, footnotes explaining that the last issue had been delayed be cause the editor had been unavoid ably detained in one o f her majesty’s doss houses. The first recorded Australian |anarchist organisation I’ve been able to find was the Active Service Brigade. Founded in 1894, by Arthur Desmond - better known by his nom de plume, Ragnar Redbeard (and believed by some to have been the American short story writer, Ambrose Bierce). Six years later, J. A. Andrews, anar chist poet, theorist and organiser, remembered the occasion: “ Everything seemed to point to worse yet, worse almost be yon d belief, yet indicated beyond incredulity’s power to doubt. Driven by terror, reform agitators and working men, conscious o f their human dignity, hastened to form groups, unknown one group to another, for self-defence by armed force against the anticipat ed extreme o f governmental ag gression; or fearing lest it was the j very purpose o f the government to drive them into arms in order |to have a better pretext against them, devoted themselves stren uously to detective work and strategy. From among such was enlisted the Active Service Brig ade.” Ragnar Redbeard was not one o f your peace, love and good vibes anarchists. His scorn embraced nigh on everybody: the poor, the rich, politicians, public servants, priests, the “ jew slave” religion o f Christianity, the colored races, trade unionists, working class agitators, the working class, the middle class and the upper class. Only those who were strong enough, and desperate enough, to recognise that life was one glori ous battle in the face o f the ultimate adversary - death - earn ed his respect. Rangar’s best known book, Might is right (published in Sydney, Chicago and London) sets out his credo: “ In this arid wilderness o f steel and stone I raise up m y voice that YOU may hear. “ To the east and to the west I beckon. To the north and to the south I show the sign “ Proclaiming ‘Death to the weakling, wealth to the strong'. “ I break away from all conven|tions. Alone, untrammelled I raise up in stern invasion the standard o f the strong. “ I blast out the ghastly con tents o f philosophic whited sepul chres and laugh with sardonic wrath. “ Then reaching up the fester ing and varnished facades o f your haughtiest moral dogmas, I write thereon in letters o f blazing scorn: ‘L o and behold all this is fraud!’ “ I deny all things! I question all things! “ And y e t! And y e t! “ Gather around me, O y e death-defiant, and the earth itself

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certain things, or to obey certain laws which they have never consented to; by main force, we d o not believe in that. But we d o not say that there should be no social cohesion. We believe that there should. Only we are op posed to any social system which does not give every man and woman equal access to nature’ s bounties and to the means o f existence.” “ But suppose” , said the Eve ning news representative, “ that your scheme were in existence here today. Would not the men with the greatest energy and the most brains quickly gather to themselves such stores o f these bounties o f nature that there would be very little left for the remainder to get at?” b kt “ That is as it is at present. No, it would not be so. For there would be no money, and no private ownership o f land, so that the temptation to hoard would be removed.” A T E H W T T g U B C R T Y -E O O ' “ Would you abolish laws al together?” f l l n W y f I d J a n u a r y , 1 2 q2 . “ Yes.” “ And give everybody absolute freedom to d o as he liked?” p r st “ Freedom is a matter o f b e T r y ; TO • ii T. Odegree. None o f us can ever be T r u t t o hi* i t L f i i his o * a perfectly free, because we are brought into the world against our wslf a r t :- - T r u t t o N im scK will, without our consent, and we in SRcri/iCirtflf his COMBOS have to die, whether we like it or not. We cannot be absolutely free; wet-fare; t i/c n , Ac but I would have no laws made by men. N ow we are told that we M*Uts fey One waking o fc tr s happ y, B u t must obey laws which we do not understand, which we have never consented to, and never read, and refused on account o f inability to o f bookshelves, a deal table, and which our lawyers cannot under shall be thine, to have and to pay — a man in such a case was several ditto forms, a music stool stand. This is not fair, if you are hold.’ ’ given credit with the understand minus one leg, and an amateurish- made to d o it by force.” Under Redbeard’s direction “ Would you allow a man to ing that he would pay if he got looking chair. These are the the brigade confined itself to into a position to d o so . . . Public anarchist headquarters. At the kill another in the street, without creating mayhem at meetings that demonstrations o f the unem ploy table sat Mr Andrews as “ mild a punishment?” were not prepared to appoint a “ Such a thing is never done ed were organised, and propa mannered man as ever scuttled neutral chairman. Redbeard’ s in ship.” without some reason.” gandist meetings, both inside and fluence soon waned and he Andrews was probably the “ But you dont mean to say out o f doors, held. Also a printing returned to America, disappearing most appealing o f the anarchists that you consider that the reason into M exico at the same time as press was established and a weekly o f the time. His call to the young would always justify the act? paper Justice was issued.” Bierce disappeared, in his place men and women o f NSW to return Why, some men, only for fear o f Later historians may have emerged a new “ leader” , John ignored them, but the daily press to the bush and make their own punishment, would kill a man Dwyer. o f the time gave the anarchists society sounds distinctly contem who bumped against them acci Dwyer was a more orthodox reasonable coverage. The Sydney porary. In an interview following dently in the footw a y.” communist anarchist (and fo r that “ Perhaps so. But 95 percent o f morning herald reporter, setting the attempted assassination o f matter one o f Sydney’ s very first out on january 3, 1897, had president McKinley Andrews set crime today is prompted by the theosophists. Buried in amongst desire for gain. If we remove that difficulty locating “ their mysteri out his own views. tirades against the state y o u ’ll find “ N ow ” , said the reporter, “ I object, we remove 95 percent o f ous lair” : — handwritten raves about the white “ For alleyways that are dark, do not understand anything about the crimes.” snake spirit o f life). In a handwrit “ Not necessarily. There would and passages that puzzle, the anarchy . . . ” ten pamphlet, dated 1897, he "Anarchism ,” suggested his be a considerable rise in the Sydney anarchist is peculiar. I f he outlined his position: number o f the other sort.” were a cunning dangerous custom informant. “ A bout anarchism” (the re "T h e anarchist battle cry is “ Well. Crime on the whole, we er, one would expect mystery as abolish the state: the state that to his haunts, but he actually porter corrected himself apolo think, would diminish if the desire that stifles the liberty o f thought provokes publicity, and walks getically). “ I only know that the for gain were removed. Other and speech; the state that spreads forth into the light - a mild and popular belief here is that the crimes could arise only from disease and death; the state that is normal youth. There were half a anarchists are men with a griev jealousy, which is a disease, and supported by jobbery and corrup dozen o f him altogether last night, ance, or a supposed grievance, must be treated scientifically as tion; the state that distorts love when our reporter arrived on the against everything else in the such. But the principles o f fellow by marriage, m on opoly and pro scene. They met in a small stuffy, world, who band themselves to ship and mutual love which would duces prostitution; the state that ill-lit room dow n the Haymarket gether, in numbers, fan their grow up would prevent the murders millions and secures delusions into flame by mutually occurrence o f many such crimes way. spoils by foreign conquest; the “ The origin o f the gathering is inflammatory discussion, and then as you mention, there being state that educates children into set out in a letter which was give vent to their feelings by going nothing left to incite or inflame slavery and superstition; the state forwarded to this o ffice some out and killing kings and rulers, the worst passions o f humanity.” that fosters vice and creates crime days ago. It states that ‘at a their ideas being that there should “ H ow would you manage and revengefully punishes its own meeting o f persons interested in be no form o f government what affairs generally under the social victims; the state that steals the the principles o f anarchism, held ever, and that theirs is the only scheme which you regard as land; controls credit and restricts in die Active Service Brigade way to put it down. Is that ideal?” exchange; the state that compels “ According to my personal comm ittee-room, a conference right?” honest labor to be dependent on “ N ot at all,” was the reply. “ I ideas, every man would work (as was arranged for Wednesday, idle and unproductive capital, and when among other matters for know that that is the popular labor is the basis o f all social life) by legalising the robbery o f rent, discussion will be the advisable belief, but it is all wrong, and is and every worker would have an interest and taxes, makes industry ness or otherwise o f a distinct and only the result o f persistent equal right to the fruits o f the a pauper and a slave.” labor o f all and vice versa. Then separate anarchist party, etc., to newspaper misrepresentation.” Under Dwyer’ s influence the “ What, then, are your d oc none would be required to work be follow ed in the evening by a brigade acquired a number o f public social gathering at which trines, and the methods whereby more than three or four hours buildings in Sydney and offered the proceedings will consist o f you hope to give them ultimate day, and the balance o f the time cheap board and lodging. Again J. speeches interspersed with anar effect? D o you believe in any could be spent by each as he A. Andrews remembers: form o f government? If so, what desired in cricket, football chist songs . . . ’ painting, or anything you “ Crossing the yard you mount form ?” “ The brigade offered men a “ It all depends” , was the choose.” another flight o f steps and enter a dormitory shelter with stretcher dingy, uncarpeted room . 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PERSIA, some time in the 15th century, there was a monarch, some would say chief tain, o f a minor province who developed a passion for jigsaw puzzles. This, for a king not at war, blessed with all g ood things o f life, surrounded b y beautiful women and handsome men, with fine musicians, the m ost exquisite cuisine, pottery from China, a blue eyed idiot from England and stuttering priest from Rom e who spoke no Persian but who drank a great deal, this, for such a king was not surprising. For as the English love toy soldiers and the re-enactment o f forgotten battles, the Persians have a love o f pat terns, intricacies and involved dreams. It was the priest w ho introduc ed the jigsaw puzzle in a peculiar and unintentional manner. Wish ing to instruct the king in the matter o f the trinity, he had the court artist depict a man nailed upon a cross. This in itself was a long process, involving many mis understandings and incoherent arguments, but the work was finally executed to the priest’s satisfactioa Then, in the court’ s presence, he produced a small knife, one he always carried with him, hidden in the depths o f his cassock, and carved the picture into three pieces. He appeared agitated, crossing himself as he made the cuts. Then, using the two or three Persian words he knew, he attempted to explain the way in which these pieces could be put together and taken apart, that although separate pieces they co n stituted three parts o f a whole. Unfortunately the finer points o f this argument were lost on the court who, having always regarded the foreign priest as peculiar, unanimously decided that he was completely demented. The king, who had a fear o f madness, was overcome with disgust and direct ed that the priest be removed. Afterwards, while the court dined in the great vine-covered courtyard o f the palace, and while musicians played and girls sang softly, a certain noble whose name has been lost began to talk o f something he had once seen in his travels, he was uncertain where, but the antics o f the for eigner had reminded him o f it. The noble explained that there was a game or puzzle where a painting was taken and skilfully cut into many parts, the aim o f the game being to assemble them in one piece. T o illustrate his point he called for a sharp knife, and with the king’ s permission proceeded to cut up the finely woven rug on which they ate. The king, who had eaten from that rug for 30 years and who had thought himself familiar with its every intricacy, became excited and callthat the musicians and fo o d be

removed to enable him to concen trate on this new puzzle. The rug was now a m ound o f small pieces in the centre o f the courtyard and, unmindful o f the heat, he busied himself with it, surprised to discover many frag ments he cou ld not identify. He found one piece he recognised, a corner o f the large central m otif, but beside this everything was strange and unknown to him. He was delighted. With each piece, with each roughly cut fragment he emitted small cries o f surprise and pleasure. The court, intrigued by the game, sat around to watch but were curtly dismissed. Only the noble and the king remained. Through the hot afternoon which would normally have been spent in bad sleep and lethargic lovemaking the king worked on his puzzle, slowly assembling the rug, at times discovering a whole area had been incorrectly recon structed, exclaiming, laughing and cursing while the noble, w ho now regretted having mentioned the matter, sat on his heels and echo ed the king’ s cries. Night came, and the king had the great courtyard lit with flares while the members o f the court watched silently from the upper galleries, timid lest they be seen, and worried among themselves that the king had caught some madness from the priest. In an effort to return the king to health, a number o f nobles met together and decided that the priest should be executed, hoping this act would exorcise the madness from the king. The priest was taken from his room to a place outside the palace walls where he was beheaded, but this, if it had any effect, only seemed to increase the excitement and vexation o f the monarch. Tiredness eventually overcame the concern o f the court and they departed to their chambers, leav ing only the king and the weary noble to sit out the long vigil. The next morning the court yard was empty o f life, but the rug, now com pletely assembled, lay in its centre, the only remind er that the whole affair had not been a dream. The king was re ported asleep in his chamber and the noble, also asleep, could not be woken, so deep was his sleep. In the weeks that follow ed, life in the court became uneasy and tense. There was talk o f plots against the king, o f wars on the borders o f the kingdom, o f infi delities, intrigues and poisoning. A nd through this the king car ried on unconcerned and untouch ed, an explorer trembling in a strange land, a poor man over com e with sudden wealth. He ordered that tapestries, rugs, drawings and paintings be brought to him in the courtyard, had them dissected in exquisite and difficult ways, and spent his days and nights reassembling them.

As the weeks drew on and as the rugs were dissected and the paintings cut, it became clear that the supply was com ing to an end. It is said that the ladies o f the court at this time smuggled many riches from the palace in the hope o f saving them from the king’s enthusiasm. But, whatever the reason, the supply dwindled until the king became anxious and o f fered a reward to any person who might suggest new materials for his puzzle which had become known as The King’s Game. The court artist, the man who had painted the crucifixion scene for the priest, now offered his services to the monarch but they were declined, for it would seem that the king now had very defin ite ideas about his game. However, when the mistress o f one o f the younger nobles suggested that pottery would be every bit as g ood as rugs, the king seized upon the idea happily and rewarded the lady with an extravagant amount o f gold from the treasury. So it was that the entire royal collection o f priceless Persian and Chinese pottery was cracked, a specially forged silver hammer being used for the purpose. This, above all, delighted the king for the fragments produced by a sharp blow o f the hammer had a randomness and unexpectedness that could never be rivalled by hand cut rugs or paintings. But it was not until the pottery and porcelain were exhausted that The King’s Game entered its most macabre stage. For many years the king had professed a com plete puzzlement at the nature o f women and, although he loved most dearly the ladies who kept him com pany, had no more than a superficial knowledge o f their thoughts, motivations and desires. So it was that the court phy sician, an arabian, became active and decided, in what appeared to be a most arbitrary manner, that many o f the most attractive ladies o f the court were suffering from a previously unknown disease, a disease with subtle and painless symptoms which lead to a painful death. During this period the king was often seen in the company o f the physician. It is said there was b lood on his garments which he made little attempt to conceal. It is also related that many o f the court’ s ladies disappeared com pletely and that screams had been heard in the night. A m ong the court there was talk o f strange dreams, o f a snake that devoured a city, a sword that plunged from the sky, o f wars, pestilence, and, above all, there were dreams o f regicide which were discussed more and more openly as the weeks and months wore on. And the king walked the arched corridors with a heavy brow, the arabian physician at his side.

But this to o passed (although some say that the ghosts o f the ladies continued to scream) and the king considered the buildings o f the palace and, one by one, ordered their com plete demoli tion. Being to o large and too heavy for one man to reconstruct he merely walked among the debris in the way another man might have walked through a field o f wild flowers picking up a frag ment from the great dome, a piece o f the lattice from the east win dow, a tile glazed blue on white porcelain. He spent his days among the ruins o f the palace and his nights in private calculations while the court remained in fear, living in the few remaining build ings or in tents among the rubble. Eventually, with the exception o f the treasury which was located in vast underground vaults and protected by great brass doors, the palace was com pletely de molished. All that remained were the walls, inside which were erect ed the tents, purchased at exorbi tant cost from nomad warriors. It was then that the king called the court together, some 500 souls, at the place which had once been known as the courtyard. They noticed that the king ap peared older, his hair grey, but possessed o f some strange calm In one version o f this story, the more com m on one, he is reported as saying: “ Y ou thought me rich, but I was poor. Y ou think me impoverished, but I am rich. There was a blue Ming vase which you may remember, it stood in a niche o f the wall in the hall o f one hundred pillars, by the western entrance. I thought that I knew that vase, that I knew every subtlety o f its glaze. But when the time came for it to be cracked open, when I had felt its dust on m y fingers, when I had touched it, pieced its fragments together, I knew then that I had known nothing.” No one records if the king was surprised when his speech was enthusiastically received by the court. A great cheering broke out from the people and a group o f his old comrades, bqld warriors with whom he had sacked cities, fired towns, destroyed homes and beheaded enemies, came to con gratulate him They J- J him enthusiastically and, without having had the time to reveal their true rage, stabbed him to death with long The king, whose name has been forgotten, were known as The Mad Puzzle King. A new palace was built where the old palace had stood. The fragments o f the old buildings were used in the reconstruction.

From The fat man in history, a collec tion o f short stories to be published n ext year by Queensland University Press.

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MARTIN MULLION

K A F T E R th e great sto rm had r e b a t e d , a b o d y was washed ashore o n th e Ita lia n coast near Spezia. A p y re o f d r iftw o o d was b u ilt and th e b o d y lifte d on to it. W hen the flam es le a p t up in to the I / i d a rk blue o f th e sky th e fe w o ' m ou rne rs were d riv e n back b y th e S sintense heat. W hen the b o d y was a lm o s t consum ed and th e flam es had died d o w n a m an lim p e d s w iftly fo rw a rd in to th e s till g lo w ing em bers and snatched th e s till <2 in ta c t he art fr o m th e ashy rem ains o f th e rib cage. ^ iV I t was a ty p ic a lly ro m a n tic gesture, fla m b o y a n t y e t tr u th fu l, __ and all o f a piece w ith th e m an w h o ^ ^ m a d e it, w h o was lo rd B y ro n . The heart, perhaps th e m o s t savagely — . a n g ry in E urope, belonged to Percy Sgrp. Bysshe S he lley, po et, anarchist, u lib e rta ria n , and u n re m ittin g in d iv id u a lis t In m a n y w ays S h e lle y was th e 0 o u tw a rd and vis ib le e m b o d im e n t o f th e re a c tio n o f c e rta in E nglish »V pe op le to th e in d u s tria l re v o lu tio n . T he sm oke fr o m th e furna ces o f the new te c h n o lo g y ca rrie d w ith in its e lf a desperate s p iritu a l p o llu tio n th a t i\\ p re fig u re d th e age o f the admass I jj'A and 1984. I t was a m alaise th a t b it f jljl d e e p ly in to th e hearts and m in d s o f \ all th e m o s t sensitive and aware s p irits o f the age and resu lted in an & jZ r\ o u tp o u rin g o f savage stab bin g anger th a t c lo th e d its e lf in new p o e tic y fo rm s of th e highest q u a lity . S helley was n o t th e f ir s t to sense th e d e sp o ila tio n o f m en and lands =3*\5~'Yand age o ld organic w ays o f life . V/Blake had w ritte n : / wander th ro ' each chartered

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a ris to c ra tic fa m ily e n jo y in g pleas a n t rura l estates. I t was n o t u n til he was sent to E to n th a t he e n co u n te r ed th e bestial s p irit o f th e age w h ic h was to keep h im in a state o f sim m e rin g in d ig n a tio n f o r th e re m a in d e r o f his s h o rt life . He lo a th e d E to n and all th e s tu p id ity and b r u ta lity it s to o d fo r w ith its beatings and b u llyin g s. F o rtu n a te ly he had a fu rio u s te m p e r, w h ic h became legendary in his schooldays, and th is m a in ta in e d b o th his sa n ity and his s p irit. He w e n t on to U n iv e rs ity C ollege O x fo rd and was sent d o w n in a noisom e scandal f o r p u b lis h in g a t his o w n expense a tre a tise On the necessity o f atheism. A t th e same tim e he m a rrie d 16 year o ld H a rrie t W estb ro o ke w h o , a fte r separating fr o m him , c o m m itte d suicide b y d ro w n in g herself in th e S erpentine. L a te r he m e t and m a rrie d M a ry G o d w in , th e da u g h te r o f W illia m G o d w in , p h ilo so p h e r and an arch ist, fro m w h o m he g o t m a n y o f his an a rch ist ideas. He le ft E ngland and spe nt m uch o f th e re m a ind er o f his

A n d m any m ore destructions T r*) played fo -J in this ghastly KcAa masquerade, A ll disguised, \ even to the eyes. L ik e Bishops, lawyers, peers, or spies Last came A n a rch y: he rode On a w hite horse, splashed w ith b lo o d ; he was pale even to the lips, L ik e Death in the Apocalypse. A n d he wore a k in g ly crow n; A n d in his grasp a sceptre shone; On his b ro w this m ark / saw — 7 am GOD, A N D K IN G , A N D L A W !' W ith a pace stately and fast Over English land he passed, Tram pling to a m ire o f b lo o d The adoring m ultitude.

life w a nd erin g a ro u n d E u ro p e p ro d u cin g th e large v o lu m e o f p o e try w h ic h was to give h im lite ra ry im m o rta lity . Even w hen abroad his sensitive social conscience seldom slept. In 1 8 1 9 w o rk e rs gathered p e a c e fu lly a t P e te rlo o fie ld s near M anchester to p ic n ic and hear speeches. O n th e ord ers o f lo rd Castlereagh, the p rim e m in is te r, th e ca va lry were b ro u g h t o u t and a tta cke d th e peaceful g a thering w ith d ra w n sabres. T h e horsem en w ith d re w leaving th e dead and th e w o u n d e d street o n th e fie ld . Near where the ch a rte r'd As a consequence S h e lle y w ro te Thames does flow , his poem The masque o f anarchy: A n d m ark in every face / m eet . . .1 m e t m urder on the way —

A n d a m ig h ty troop around. W ith th e ir tram pling shook the ground, Waving each a b lo o d y sword, F o r the service o f their Lord.

M arks o f weakness, m arks woe.

And each dweller, panicstricken, F e lt his heart w ith terror sicken, Hearing the tempestuous cry O f the trium ph o f A na rchy . . .

In every c ry o f every Man, In every In fa n t c ry o f fear. In every voice, in every ban. The m in d -fo rg 'd manacles / hear. Deep in th e he art o f E ngland's green and pleasant la n d h o rro rs w ere being p e rp e tra te d th a t had to w a it f o r a parallel u n til th e nazi tim es. C h ild re n fro m th e age o f th re e w ere e m p lo ye d in th e m ines and m ills f o r u p to 16 ho urs a day. W om en cra w le d to tu b s o f coal, naked th ro u g h th e lo w tu n n e ls o f th e coal w o rkin g s, harnessed lik e anim als. H u ng er and w a n t drove m en and w o m e n t o p ro d ig io u s feats o f e x e rtio n f o r w h ic h th e y paid w ith th e ir lives. T he average e xp e ct a tio n o f life o f a w o rk e r was 21 years, and in th e c lu b s and salons o f London m en ag ita te d f o r th e a b o litio n o f slavery in A m e rica w h ile less th a n a 100 m iles to th e n o rth th e re existe d a slavery fa r worse th a n th a t on th e A m e ric a n pla n ta tio n s. S h e lle y was b o rn fa r fr o m the : m o il and to il o f th e a V fL r steam in to an

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He had a mask lik e Castlereagh V ery sm ooth he looked, y e t g rim ; Seven b lo o d h o u n d s fo llo w e d h im : A ll were fa t; and well they m ig h t Be in adm irable p lig h t. F o r one b y one, and tw o b y two, He tossed them hum an hearts to chew Which from his w ide cloak he drew. N e x t came fraud, and he had on, L ik e Eldon, an erm ined gown. His big tears, fo r he w ept well, Turned to m ill-stones as they fell. A n d the little children who R ound his feet played to and fro, Thinking every tear a gem. Had th e ir brains kno cke d o u t by them. C lothed w ith the Bible, as w ith lig h t A n d the shadows o f the night, L ik e Sidm outh, next, H yp o crisy On a crocodile rode by.

A n d w ith glorious trium ph, they Rode through England p ro u d and gay. D run k as w ith in to x ic a tio n O f the wine o f desolation. O 'er fields and towns, from sea to sea. Passed the Pageant, s w ift and free. Tearing up and tram pling dow n; T ill they came to London town.

T h ro u g h S helley, G o d w in 's anarchism f ir s t became a theme of w o rld lite ra tu re , and th ro u g h G od w in , S he lley became the w o rld 's greatest an arch ist p o e t; tho ugh the personal re la tio n s h ip betw een the tw o m en o fte n verged on th e fa rcica l. S he lley eloped w ith G od w in 's daughter, and G o d w in was fo re v e r b o rro w in g m o n e y fro m Shelley. T h e second in d u s tria l re vo lu tio n , n o w ta k in g place on a global scale, is p ro d u c in g its o w n h o rro rs and ravages. A new anarchism is in the m aking . I t has y e t to pro du ce its w o rld -sh a kin g poets. Perhaps al rea dy th e a n g ry he art o f a new y o u n g p o e t o f anarchism has beguri to b e a t The he art th a t B yron, snatched fro m th e p yre on th e Ita lia n beach was V K j■ o n ly 3 0 years old. A n a rc h is ts can do a lo t in 3 0 years. ANtW v

NO MANS ENOUGH TO BE ANOTHER MANS MASTER Last October the ABC broadcasted on LATELINE a three way link-up between Noam Chomsky, professor in linguistics at Boston MIT, anarcho passivist and author of several books on the Vietnam war; Colin Ward, former editor of the British magazine ANARCHY ; Pat Flanagan, a marxist and tutor in philosophy at Sydney University; and Malcolm Long, LATELINE compere. What came out of the radio was a heavily cut and mangled version of what was actually said. The following is a transcript of the whole discussion.

LONG: Professor Chomsky, you ’ve writ ten that the ideas o f libertarian socialism have been submerged in the industrial societies o f the past half century and that the dominant ideologies have been those o f state socialism or m on opoly capital ism. Now is anarchy or libertarian social ism in fact the third alternative? Is it the other way o f looking at the world from the tw o dominant ideologies which exist at the moment? CHOMSKY: Yes, I think that the historic and the current importance o f anarchist thinking is that it really offers the only serious and substantive alternative to the dominant social ideologies and the corres ponding developments towards central ised state authority that one sees through out the past and present industrial world. LONG: Colin Ward, this obviously means that North American democracy and the style o f government in Russia have some thing in com m on which is the state? WARD: Yes, I think this is true. But more than the state, the state m ode o f thinking. For instance, if you happen to be stuck in a lift with Brezhnev and Nixon, you 'd find they had a lot more in com m on with each other than they had with you. They’re apparachiks, arent they? They’re part o f the state apparatus, they’re authoritarian in their approach to life and b y the time the lift was released y o u ’d be really out in the cold while they’d be old buddies. In fact the two systems have more in com m on than they have with their ow n underprivileged citi zens. LONG: Pat Flanagan, this obviously means that for an anarchist the com monality between America and Russia, in terms o f them both having an authoritar ian state structure, is greater than their ideological differences. Would you accept that? FLANAGAN: Yes, as both Ward and Chom sky have already pointed out, the crucial com m on feature o f both systems and the corresponding ideologies is the crucial role o f the state on tw o levels l, the coercive level o f the m onopolisation o f force and the| ideological level, to maintain m ajority conform ity. The com m on feature o f both systems is the function o f the state in the interests o f a minority against the interests o f the large majority

o f the population fo r autonom ous co n trol o f their lives. LONG: Well if anarchy is an alternative to these sort o f structures, what is it really? H ow can we lo o k at anarchy and see a difference between it and the sort o f state structures which exist in the United States and the Soviet Union. CHOMSKY: Well, I think that the funda mental con cept o f the anarchist alterna tive is that society can becom e self-organ ised without the intrusions o f authoritar ian, autocratic elements, through the com m on interest o f individuals in form ing, joining together under conditions o f solidarity and cooperation and mutual aid for production and fo r interchange and for satisfaction and enhancement o f their intellectual and material needs. A nd these possibilities I think certainly exist. They’ve generally been destroyed and often repressed in interesting and import ant ways throughout m odern history but they continued to emerge once again because o f their naturalness and their appropriateness to fundamental human needs and because they also provide the basis for social change - for evolution into a richer and more civilised society, in which the principle o f authority in con trol and domination will be replaced by the principle o f voluntary free associ ation, federation and so on. LONG: Yes, Colin Ward, most people I think would say that authority is part o f life and that societies have always needed authority and how can anarchists say that authority is irrelevant? W ARD: Well, authority is certainly part o f life but there are a lo t o f different ways in which you cou ld explain this. Y ou could say som eone is IN authority which means quite plainly he’ s at the top o f a pyramid o f power, or o f course that som ebody IS an authority - Chom sky’s an authority on linguistics - or you can say that someone HAS authority - that the person has generated other people’s confidence in his wisdom or something o f that sort. N ow the authority y o u ’ve got to worry about is the state o f being IN authority. This is a problem fo r the people underneath and it is also, o f course, a problem for the holder o f

authority. William Morris, the English socialist, used to say no man’ s good enough to be another man’s master. A nyone who painfully climbs the ladder o f political power will find that some thing happens to him in the process. The first thing that happens to him is that his perspective changes. He looks at society not as a member o f it but as a master o f it. F L A N A G A N : It’ s quite clear, just follow ing on from what Colin Ward has said that if on e looks at the history o f class society - the fact that for so many thousands o f years a minority class o f people have used the state to maintain their interests at the expense o f the interests o f the large majority o f the population - it’s not surprising that one should immediately be sceptical and sus picious when anyone starts to argue that people can’t regulate their ow n conditions o f w ork and their lives generally, that in fact they need Big Brother whether it’s in the form o f a benevolent state appartus o f Big Brothers on m ore specific levels o f work - whether it’s on the shop floor or the university or running a newspaper. LONG: Yes, what y o u ’re saying there sounds very much like socialism. Are in fact anarchists socialists? W ARD: Well, this is a very difficult one. It seems to me that anarchism derives really from tw o great channels o f Eu ropean thought, one liberalism — anar chism can be seen as the ultimate form o f liberalism - and the other, socialism. From m y point o f view, I think anar chism is one wing o f the whole socialist movement and the tragedy o f the last hundred years o f the socialist movement is that it’s opted fo r the authoritarian state-oriented kind. A hundred years ago socialism was considerably less differen tiated. Even in Britain the Fabians o f 80 or 90 years ago still saw an anarchist and a collectivist wing o f socialism and won dered what to op t for. Well, they opted for the state. T hey opted fo r the conquest o f state power just as the Marxists, JkA did in their dispute with V Bakunin and his adherents in the First International in the 1870s.

There’s a lot o f debate where the point o f divide in the history o f socialism came. The sort o f people that the Marxists call derogatively the utopian socialists are in fact the forerunners o f the anarchist wing o f the socialist movement. There are also, o f course, individualist anarchists who develop a sort o f egoist social theory, Stirner and so on. They have presumably as much claim as we have to be called anarchists but one would see them as an extended form o f 18th century liberalism I think. LONG: Professor Chomsky, how much organisation is allowed in anarchist theo ry and is it related to social situations, is it related to production as in Marxist thinking? What is the fundamental base from which you begin to create what you call “ free association o f people” ? CHOMSKY: Well, continuing from Colin Ward’ s distinction between socialist and egoist wings o f anarchism, lets concern ourselves with the socialist wing - that is with people like Bakunin and Kropotkin and the anarcho-syndicalists who were very self-consciously socialists. Within the socialist wing o f anarchism it is assumed, if fact it is insisted, that there should be com plex and diverse forms o f organ isation. Bakunin, as, more or less the origin ator o f anarcho-syndicalism — which I think is the wing o f anarchism which is the most natural approach to the prob lems o f industrial society - does want to develop the structure o f the future so ciety - the society o f free association o f producers - on the basis o f the im mediate organisation o f workers in every branch o f production in the present society. That is on the basis o f the syndicates acting now n ot merely as agencies for the improvement o f wages within the capitalist system or defence o f workers from the more grotesque forms o f oppression but as organisations that attempt to create within the working class the understanding and ability and organisational skills and the organisations themselves for the direct conduct o f production.

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Similarly one form o f organisation that is posed by virtually every socialistanarchist thinker is organisation on the basis o f point o f production, that is a com m on interest in production. Now another basis o f organisation which again runs through anarchist tradition is communalism or federalism that is the idea o f territorial organisation with the leading idea being that small groups will again through the device o f contract and volun tary association federate themselves in larger organisations. One can think o f a variety o f other form s o f social organisation into which people might enter for the purpose o f realising their particular goals whether these goals be material, that is organisa tion o f production, whether they happen to d o with development in an intellectual area with experiment into new social forms and so on. One o f the major reasons why anarch ist socialists have been so opposed to state power (apart from those mentioned already) is that it tends to create a kind o f Procrustean bed a sort o f a priori form within which a social organisation must function, while at the same time it takes away the initiative and the possibility o f experimentation and creativity from prac tice by placing the authority in the hands o f a class o f authoritarian agents. N ow I think if you compare the marxists with the libertarian wing o f the socialist movement, it’s true that marxistleninists, even Lenin himself in his more libertarian moments, would have accept ed something like the anarchist picture as the long term goal o f socialist revolution. LONG: This is a society without author ity. CHOMSKY: Yes, but they insisted that this be achieved through the prior means o f the establishment o f a dictatorship o f the proletariat which in fact meant the dictatorship o f a vanguard party, precise ly that red bureaucracy that Bakunin warned would lead to the most terrible o f authoritarian structures; and that is the point I think at which authoritarian and libertarian brands o f socialisms most sharply diverged. The Bakuninists felt that the facts o f the future will be created by the practice o f the revolutionaries themselves. That is, if there is a dictatorial society with an authoritarian caste, a new class o f techni cians and managers and so on, then this will in fact create the form o f the future society. The marxists, or Lenin at least, believed by some means which he never presented any convincing description of, in m y opinion, the state would wither away. I think that our experience tends to support the anarchist judgment on this matter. FLAN AGAN : I'd like to follow up what Noam Chomsky’ s been saying here. It seems to me that in essential respects the classical anarchist and libertarian critiques o f certain authoritarian strands in marxist thought — for example in most o f Lenin’s writings apart from, say The state and revolution — are essentially correct. Nevertheless I think there’s more to the problem o f social change than some anarchists would like to think. As Lenin stressed in The state and revolution: if one is really serious about social change, then the smashing, the literal destruction o f the existing state apparatus with all its coercive institutions on the one hand and its means for maintaining ideological hegemony and conformism is an absolutely crucial ] requirement. Now it just w on ’t d o in the real world - when y o u ’ve got a whole history o f domination and subordination I on the part o f people and given the nature o f the means o f domination and ideologi cal suppression - it w on ’t d o to have a kind o f instant coffee, magic wand formula about the process o f transition towards socialism. Just consider for example the situation that the Chinese communists found them selves in when they finally seized power in 1949. The horrific backward material conditions that existed there, the poverty and the appalling conditions o f the peo ple were just staggering. So that while the destruction o f the existing state apparatus is quite crucial, it doesnt mean we can then immediately attempt to institute the kind o f long term anarchist program that socialists and anarchist marxists are

at one in agreeing on. The necessity for grappling with the immediate problems, the chaos that al most inevitably ensues on the m orrow o f a revolution - these problems are im mense. And keep in mind that one o f the crucial things that any movement for radical social change is going to be faced with - this is something that Chom sky’s pointed ou t in his works - is the inevit able attempts at capitalist counter-rev olution. So that while any kind o f dicta torship over the mass o f people is out o f the question, nevertheless I think certain people in the anarchist tradition, his torically and currently, have a much to o simplistic view about the nature o f the process os significant social change. LONG: N ow in terms o f social change I’d like to lo o k at what some people have called the resurgence in anti-authoritarian thinking which has happened over the last few years. Given that perhaps the basic idea o f anarchism is anti-authoritarianism, is it in fact true, that because o f m odem bureaucracies people are beginning — as against the quote I gave you at the start o f the program — to see an alternative to American style dem ocracy or Russian bureaucratic rule? W ARD: Yes, I think this is true. When people started becom ing interested in the history o f anarchism it was a sure sign they thought it was over. Usually people think that the last ditch for the anarchists was when Franco’ s troops moved into Barcelona in 1939; and from a lot o f other points o f view it was over a lot earlier and yet everywhere in almost all the countries o f the world not excluding Russia there were people keeping alive some kind o f anarchist tradition o f thought, reading forbidden authors, pub lishing minority journals; and suddenly in the past few years it’s perfectly true the big world outside has becom e interested in this and o f course one might say this is because o f popular disillusionment on both sides o f the Iron Curtain with the

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regimes they’ve got. Undoubtedly there is a resurgence o f interest in what was once written o f f as something dead. CHOMSKY: It seems to me that there’s more than a resurgence here. What one finds is a kind o f spontaneous rediscovery o f the same leading themes often without awareness that they had been developed and explained in the past. It’ s som ehow

characteristic o f revolutionary upsurges to express the fundamental libertarian urge and understanding. LONG: Yes, it’ s interesting that this should happen given the fact that, as you mentioned earlier professor Chomsky, the state is such a normal part o f everyone’s life throughout the world, that thinking about not having the state is way outside the normal strands o f thought o f most people. I’m sure in m ost universities, social scientists, say rarely talk about theories o f non-state living. CHOMSKY: I think this is quite true as you say o f intellectuals who are very much wedded to state authority and in fact one might almost say that their natural obedience is to the state and that they see their social role as manipulators o f state pow er to a certain extent, but it’s also true - and this has

Arendt and others w h o’ve com m ented on the revolutionary process - that virtually without exception at a point o f revolu tionary overthrow one sees the spontane ous emergence o f ideas such as those o f council communism and federalism and free association and soviets and industrial democracy and so on. Classic anarchist ideas which have taken various forms and which naturally com e alive not so m uch because the agents are aware o f the historical process as because o f the naturalness o f these forms o f voluntary association for dealing with the human problems even in the post-revolutionary period. WARD: And they continually occu r when anybody finds themselves in the position o f having to d o something fo r themselves. The descriptions o f say Hun

gary in 1956 or Czechoslovakia in 1968 or the fall o f Battista in Cuba all give rise to the journalists’ descriptions o f the kind o f spontaneous emergence o f social organisations o f a free and egalitarian kind that, just as Chomsky says, form absolutely into a pattern. But this is coming back to the ques tion that was raised about organisation. I The anarchist position, it seems to me, is 1that there is enormous variety o f forms o f I social organisation which always exist [regardless o f the state - an enormous interlocking network which from a sub servient position in ordinary society would in fact becom e the dominant I forms o f organisation if we actually had Ian anarchist society. But Pat Flanagan’ s 1interpolation about the nature o f a rev|olutionary crisis and a transitional period o f course all this assumes that anarchlism is going to be brought about by a revolution. Whenever people want to knock down anarchist ideas as being wildly impractical because y o u ’ d never |get that degree o f social cohesion and so on - this is true o f any other social form; this is true o f capitalism, if anyone want ed to establish it b y way o f a revolution, or it’s certainly true o f marxism. Every society it seems to me contains I within it both libertarian and author itarian trends and at certain times the libertarian becomes dominant and at others the authoritarian becom es dom inant This is really the point about anarchism and revolution.

FLANAGAN: I’d just like briefly to comm ent on what Colin said then. The last thing I’d wish to d o is set up some kind o f artificial antithesis between piece meal reform or more or less gradual reforms versus some kind o f romantic conception o f revolution. On the con trary. It seems to me that what we are concerned about here is a matter o f really crucial importance, namely the question o f bringing about the conditions to give people concrete control over their condi tions o f work and existence generally. Now we began earlier by looking at the function o f the state and it’s quite clear that while one could as an anarchist or a libertarian oppose the state as an end in itself, for most libertarian socialists opposition to the state has been in recognition precisely o f the crucial role that it plays in maintaining domination over a majority in the interests o f a minority. So opposition to the state — the need to get rid o f this institution with its tw o functions on the ideological and the coercive level — has been seen as a crucial necessary condition. N ow we live in an age o f unprecedent ed means o f physical and ideological dom ination and if one’s seriously talking about not merely the achieving but the maintaining o f control over people’ s con ditions o f existence then it does seem to me that one has to stare straight in the face and see clearly the fact that the state, as Lenin put it, must be smashed. CHOMSKY: It’ s precisely over the issue o f the dismantling o f state apparatus that the libertarian and authoritarian socialists differed in their tactics and by that I dont mean to minimise the difference. I think it’s a fundamental one. That the 1

tarian socialists pointed out at once that if the state is merely replaced b y a new form o f authoritarian rule with a socialist technical intelligentsia in control o f the full apparatus o f state pow er then we will have a new form o f slavery perhaps even worse, Bakunin argued with some justice, than the one that preceded it. FLAN AGAN : Yes. CHOMSKY: N ow I think that the basic revolutionary anarchist idea has been that (y o u ’re quite right in pointing out the problem o f grappling with the im mediate tasks o f organisation and recon struction and development in the post revolutionary period and even defense from counter-revolution). But that it is far from obvious that the way to grapple with these problems is through the devel opment o f a new authoritarian state structure . . . FLAN AGAN : Oh certainly. CHOM SKY: . . . under the control o f a vanguard party. It’s a com plicated matter, but I think if one looks at the revolutions o f the 20th century there is some reason to believe that at least the econom ic problems and the social problems o f the post revolutionary period were very well handled, in fact handled with remarkable originality and success by spontaneous popular organisation which failed because they lacked the military force to com bat the com bined powers that were arrayed against them. I have in mind particularly what I believe is the m ost dramatic example o f that, the Spanish anarchist revolution o f 1936 which appears to have been rather successful, in fact remarkably successful in the social and econom ic spheres but was V v o f course unable VVN\. . for various Reasons which one might go into, to com bat the com bined communist/ facist/ liberal assault against it. FLAN AGAN : Some people have thought that - looking at the emergence o f the

state in this century — what w e’ve got here is the state taking on a kind o f in dependent, autonom ous existence o f its ow n ; but I think on the contrary that what a close study o f the nature o f the state on both sides o f the Iron Curtain shows is that the state more than ever is the means o f bridging the essentially irresoluble contradictions generated by the private econom y. It’s more than ever the agent o f the corporate controllers o f the means o f production. Far from becom ing a kind o f autonom ous entity the state’ s role in perpetuating the interests o f the ruling class' is more pronounced than ever. LONG: Well looking at anarchy it seems very clear to me that anarchists must have a theory that non authoritarian ways o f living are possible and preferable for people. Is it true that anarchism has a specific concept o f human nature? WARD: I dont think so, I think that plenty o f anarchists have had theories o f human nature. The usual criticism is, o f course, that the anarchists imagine that humans are just a little below the angels and that a free, self-regulating society, while it would be workable with extra ordinarily virtuous people, with the or dinary com m on mortal wouldnt work. N ow I think this is a total misconception. I mentioned this point that it is precisely because we are so fallible and corruptible that we should never be entrusted with power and we should never be willing to surrender our ow n pow er to other people. There is a notion it seems to me which is useful even if it is metaphysical that everybody has a certain amount o f pow er, a certain amount o f autonom y and it’s precisely because we’re conditioned to surrender our ow n power to other people, to parents, to God, to the state, to all the various authority figures, that we contin ually diminish our ow n autonomy. One o f the things, for instance, that you sometimes notice is the extraor dinary independence o f the people you occasionally meet who for some accident o f parentage or because they were always on the move, never went to school. Now they never learnt to think in terms o f subjects, academic disciplines, and their thought always seems to me to be much freer and much more free flowing be tween different disciplines, different sub

ject areas, than people who from a very early age have been submitted to thinking in educational categories decided for them. If there’s truth in this it’s an indication o f how very far we are from knowing what the capacities o f people are, because we are so shaped by author itarian institutions. LONG: Surely anarchy requires some view o f how people will relate to each other and how people must develop themselves. FLANAGAN: Yes, I think that anarchy or libertarian socialism, taken to be a theory o f a range o f form s o f social organisation on the one hand and a theory or a set o f ideas, a program for social change on the other, must ultimate ly be based on some sort o f conception o f human nature. Now while Colin Ward’s certainly correct in saying that there’ s not one single tradition o f thought on this subject, certainly what’s com m on to a number o f traditions o f thought in the libertarian stream, including the marxist tradition, is the emphasis on the human capacity and need for creative control o f ones environment, fo r creative control o f ones environment. Now this seems to me a fairly com m on, a fairly basic feature that one can empha sise; and the consequence o f this is that one tends to look - in analysing the phenomena o f domination and violence and aggression — not to some kind o f death or destructive instinct in p eo ple which is invariant throughout his tory, not to some notion o f original sin, but to the structures under which people live. One wants to now start looking at the social conditions under which people live and here the marxist emphasise on how man’ s ow n creatures, the artificial institutions that he con structs, can becom e monsters which turn back and dominate him, I think is very valuable. We need, when we are trying to analyse the question o f violence and dom ination and so on, to be asking what hap pens if one varies the social conditions under which people behave. LONG: Professor Chomsky, I think you ’ve mentioned at times it’ s almost an empirical thing and that anarchy and anarchist ideas very much depend on a particular view o f human nature being correct, namely that humans are almost defined by the fact that they should be personally free. N ow doesnt this put the anarchist position in a very contingent

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light on studies in psychology and sociol ogy and so on. In fact, if it is shown that people need some sort o f external direc tion the whole structure we've been talking about . . . or lack o f structure . . . falls down. CHOMSKY: Yes, and I would agree with you that anarchist social theory does depend on contingent, empirical assump tions with regard to human nature, as sumptions which could be false — which is only to say that anarchist social theory is not empty, that it is a significant proposal concerning what human beings are like and how their basic needs can be realised and so on; and being significant o f course it could be false. The same is true o f any other theory o f social organ isation or social structure that’s not autological. It to o depends on more or less explicit an conscious assumptions about human nature. N ow in the case o f libertarian social ism I think we can identify a number o f such assumptions that have historically been developed. Some o f them, as Pat mentioned, are com m on to Marx, at least the early Marx, and to the various marxist traditions as well. For example, com m on ly enunciated is the idea that there is a kind o f sense o f justice that is an innate human faculty. It’ s also claimed, and this is something that goes right back to the Enlightenment, in fact ultimately to the rationalist tradition, that free creative action and in particular free creative work is a fundamental human property. Marx goes as far as to call it the human essence. It is the need for free creative work under conditions o f voluntary control and vol untary association. There is, furthermore, a belief that freedom in any meaningful sense, in the sense that involves bringing out in a creative way the latent potentialities o f each individual human being in all their diversity and uniqueness: that this can be developed only under conditions o f sol idarity. As Humboldt, not an anarchist but a libertarian social thinker, put it: social fetters must be replaced by social bonds; and only if this is done will individuals be able to becom e artists in their social and productive life rather than automata, rather than as cogs in a wheel and, so on.

N ow I dont frankly expect we’ll learn much from sociology or psychology about these matters, not fo r any intrinsic reason, but rather because sociology and psychology like most academic dis ciplines, or all that have social con sequences, are to o narrowly constrained by the prevailing ideology. LONG: Yes, you mentioned there the social sciences. I’m just wondering wheth er you r study in terms o f linguistics has in fact any real relationship which goes to this question o f the nature o f political ideas, in this case anarchy and innate human structures? CHOM SKY: Well I’d like to be cautious about that. I think there is a suggestive connection. There is nothing like a chain o f inference that leads from one to the other and I think one has to be very very cautious and careful in making sure that no one gets the idea that something exists which does not. However, there is a kind o f a similarity o f concept, one might say, That is I think the investigations o f language — not only the m odem ones but also the classical ones which are now beginning to be rediscovered — did reveal that an essential property o f human intelligence was in its spontaneous and creative character within the framework o f a system o f rule. And both the classical and the modern studies emphasise that far from being inconsistent with one another, the notion o f creativity, creative activity, really pre supposes some kind o f system o f rule and one can find very comparable ideas in cidentally within the anarchist socialist tradition. F or example Bakunin has very intriguing remarks about how freedom requires that we recognise the laws o f our ow n nature which create the conditions for our freedom and he contrasts freedom not to the existence o f the framework o f natural law but rather he contrasts it to external coercion and autocratic intru sion. N ow these I think are suggestive ideas. LONG: What would you say the main elements are at the moment. Y o u ’ve mentioned workers control and a few others but what would you think are the movements? WARD: When we talk about workers control what we’ re saying, in fact, is that the demand fo r workers control after being o f f the agenda for a very long time, ^is creeping back on to it - that people looking for the problem o f the malaise o f contem porary industry think that workers control might conceivably be the answer. The result, o f L course, is that what

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y o u ’ll get is a whole lot o f phony halfway measures towards workers control — par ticipation, consultation - it’ s like T olstoy said about the rich man w h o’d d o any thing fo r the p oor man except get o f f his b a ck And so we’re talking, in fact, not about any examples - apart from little self-governing workshops and things — things that are com pletely marginal to the econ om y as a whole — but we’re talking about the resurrection o f the demand and also the resurrection o f the interesting notion (which again not the anarchists but the people who were known as the Guild Socialists were pushing years ago) — the idea o f encroaching control, that gradually you reduce managerial prerog atives in industry by saying well, thus far this is our affair — this is not for management to decide - and we have had in this country various struggles which relate to management’ s right to manage everything. But these are, I must empha sise, within the total capitalist orbit. But on the other hand, o f course, if you were a gradualist about encroaching control in industry then you would say, well, it all works up to the final workers takeover. As you know in the past few years we’ve had a number o f work-ins in this country - the stay-in, work-on strike done for propagandist reasons but some times successful in their ow n right and this is something which has never happen ed before in the history o f British trade unionism, certainly. LONG: Pat Flanagan, how d o you see things like the | counterculture, new education ’t movements, workers control, resident action groups and so on? FLA N A G A N : I’d like to com e back to the very difficult set o f questions about the relationship between reforms under 4

the existing state structures on the one hand, versus more significant revolution ary changes on the other hand. We must recognise the difficulty o f bringing about the conditions whereby people can for the first time on a large scale assume meaningful control over their conditions o f work and existence. Keeping this in mind, we’ve got to realise that what’s crucial here is, as I mentioned earlier, the conquest o f state power with all the ensuing set o f prob lems that this involves. On the other hand, as we’ve already seen, the nature o f the state in our century is so unprece dented in terms o f its means o f ideologi cal and physical domination that it’ s not surprising that we get more reformist demands for self-management on smaller scales in all areas o f life. Now it’s silly for people serious about this problem to set up this kind o f artificial antithesis between reform and revolution, but I think it’s also important that people on the left, libertarians who are serious about social change, appreciate clearly, just how, as Colin mentioned slogans like “ workers control” and so on , and the counterculture can becom e sim ply pieces o f ideology that function to perpetuate what Marcuse would call a kind o f repressive tolerance. In our country here the Labor govern ment is making all kinds o f noises about worker participation in industry. N ow this kind o f tokenism which is often subsumed under the heading o f workers control has nothing to do with the real thing: genuine self-management which is, literally speaking, the gaining and the maintaining by workers o f control over their conditions o f work, whether it’s in this ABC studio, running a newspaper, whether it’s on the shop floor, in a university or whatever. These things are quite different and it seems to me that the whole ideology o f workers control as distinct from self-management and more generally notions about the countercul ture and so on, can simply function essentially to perpetuate the prevailing distribution o f power They suggest that what’ s essential to human beings, that the natural product o f human intelligence is a system o f prin ciples which underlies the free creative use o f language as an expression o f human thought. Correspondingly one might hope to argue and perhaps to demonstrate that free creative work, one might almost say artistic work, that is, meaningful labor under conditions o f free association, is another reflection o f in trinsic human capacities and needs, H ow ever, these, like most notions within the social sciences or within social theory should be regarded as suggestions, often perhaps almost metaphoric suggestions rather than as principles which can now be subjected to scientific analysis and experiment. LONG: Colin Ward, looking at outcrops o f ideas o f antiauthoritarian structures. In your book Anarchy in action y o u ’ve

listed a whole lot o f trends in our society today which tend to show the capacity o f people to act and create in a sort o f nonauthoritarian manner. Y ou mention things like workers control, free schools, new sorts o f education, the countercul ture and so on. Now are those things really examples o f anarchist thinking or are they something different. Lots o f people would claim those things as ex amples o f their political theories. WARD: Well, I think there’ s only one political theory that fits them. But at the same time I would emphasise as Noam did, that people constantly rediscover anarchism. Y ou know, continually you meet people because you know this is just their particular frame o f reference. LONG: Yes, professor Chomsky, surely these movements though are in the right direction? CHOMSKY: Yes, I think they are and I take them very seriously. I think Pat is entirely correct in pointing out, as he did before, tw o things; first that the state has a m on opoly o f the means o f coercion and that the extent o f that m onopoly, that is the imbalance between state power and popular forces is probably increasing, that is the state is increasingly capable of exercising coercion and force. That’s point number one, and point number twc is that destruction o f state power has to be an essential com ponent in any real revolutionary process. Now given these tw o facts, generally true, I think, the tactician o f revolution ary change, o f which I’m not one, would immediately be led to tw o conclusions, I think, to note tw o possibilities under which destruction o f state power might take place. One is random catastrophe, let’ s say war or something o f that sort. Well, we can put that aside since it’ s unpredictable by its very nature and we can’t do much about it. Two, the only plausible way would be a very far reaching kind of subversion. By that I mean a very profound creation, at a very profound level, o f an understanding within all sectors o f the population that an alternative to the coercive autocratic institutions under which they live is very feasible; and, in fact, that subversion has to be so far reaching that it undermines the Lstate’ s use o f force. Now, after all the state's^ use o f

telling you what to do except, o f course, the people in the humblest ranks o f the hospital. Now in terms o f the radical counter culture, amongst people in the medical world, suddenly the notion crops up that the fellow who sweeps up the limbs at the bottom o f the operating table, or pushes the bedpans around, is also someone who has something to say about the running o f that hospital. N ow in no kind o f revolutionary dreams about the reorganis ation o f medical services would that particular point have cropped up any where except within the past five years, say since 1968.

force is ultimately based on popular consent to some extent, in fact to a non trivial extent, and I think that given the m on opoly o f means o f coercion one has to anticipate that any real effective dis solution o f state power will involve a prior stage in which subversion in this sense - that is the comprehension, the understanding o f alternative forms o f social organisation, o f the possibilities o f freedom - these alternatives will be well understood. It’ s for this reason that I think that even the minor moves towards workers participation and some o f the things in the counterculture which challenge vari ous types o f authority are quite im port ant. Obviously they fall far short o f anything which might succeed in achiev ing the level o f comprehension, subver sion, if you like, that is necessary to lead to a revolutionary change in society but they are moves towards it I believe. W ARD: If you leave out, say, the produc tive industry and take those big changes that have occurred in the way people think about, let’s say the organisation o f a hospital. They’ re a really 19th century thing with not just one pyramid but a whole lot o f pyramids, an administrative pyramid, and a medical pyramid and a nursing staff who runs the place. If y o u ’re the architect o f the thing you find y o u ’ve got a hundred clients and they’ re all

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FLANAGAN: I’d just like to make one final point about workers control and self-management. While we should cer tainly welcome all reformist tendencies towards things like resident action groups and certain libertarian features o f the counterculture, we should also point out that what’s important here is the insist ence that the mass o f people, the mass o f workers engaged in key points o f produc tion, strive to achieve control over their conditions o f work, strive to achieve genuine self-management. For so called new left theorists like Marcuse to romanticise certain elements in the new left and to write o f f the working class in the more or less tradi tional sense is a serious error, and the demand for self-management with respect to key areas o f production must remain the essential focus for any movement for mass social change. LO N G : Well, as Colin Ward said, perhaps anarchists dont live for a final day when everything’s going to happen at once, but finally, Noam Chomsky, what sort o f society in broad outline would you see coming out o f a fruition o f all these impulses towards nonauthoritarian struc tures? CHOMSKY: Well, I think that anarchism is a very appropriate concept for an advanced industrial society. I think that we have the technical means to overcom e the stupefying specialisation o f labor, we have the technical means to overcom e artificial distinctions between intellectual and manual labor; we are at a position where the dirty work o f society can be reduced to a minimum and can be equally shared; where all individuals can have access to intellectual culture and can, in fact, contribute to creating it; and I think whatever argument might have been given in the past for retaining autocratic institu tions - On the grounds that they are necessary for survival or overcoming ma terial deficit or whatever - have largely disappeared. I think we’re now in a stage where it is possible to seriously undertake the pro gram o f real workers control: that is real free association by producers beginning at the point o f production and at the point where they live, and taking over directly the organisation and structure and func tioning o f th e .. institutions, productive, t social, or whatever, in which they choose to participate.

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‘Dont mourn, organise’ N NOVEMBER 19, 1915, five prison guards pumped four dum-dum bullets into Joe Hill in the Utah State Penitentiary — thus cementing in legend the man who gave the International Workers o f the World its singing voice. Hill, a Swede and itinerant worker, was executed for the murder o f a Salt Lake City grocer and his son. He was executed despite pleas from President W oodrow Wilson, the Swedish ambassador and tens o f thousands o f workers throughout the world that he be given a new, and fair, trial. Hill was convicted despite conflicting and contradictory evidence and even though no one at the scene o f the crime could identify him. The only substantial evidence the state had was that two hours after the shooting o f the grocer, Hill went to a doctor’s office with a bullet wound in his lung. Hill maintained that he received the wound in a quarrel with another man. They were fighting, he said, over a woman. But he never identified the man or woman claiming it was none o f the court’ s business. In a letter from state prison to the Salt lake telegram, Hill set out the reason why he and many others believed the state pursued the case with such unbending vigor. "O w ing to the prominence o f Mr Morrison (the grocer), there had to be a “ goat” and the undersigned being, as they thought, a friendless tramp, a Swede, and worst o f all, an IWW, had n o right to live anyway, and was therefore selected to be “ the goat” . “ G oat” or murderer, Joe Hill’ s songs more than anything else to fuel the growth o f the V/obbly movement in America. Striking workers sang Casey Jones — Union Scab on the picket lines. The Preacher and the Slave (You will eat/Bye and bye/In the glorious land above the sky/Work and pray/Live on hay/Y ou’ll get pie in the sky when you die) became the workers themesong in the depression. Joe Hill was an articulate working stiff who had the ability to translate the dignity, pride and humor o f the working class into verse. Like most Wobblies, little is known o f Joe Hill before he was arrested. He was born Joel Hagglund in Gavle, Sweden, the son o f a railroad conductor. In 1902 he migrated to America and changed his name to Joseph Hillstrom but his fellow workers shortened this to Joe Hill. In America he dug copper, stocked wheat, laid pipe and worked on the docks. He joined the IWW in San Pedro, California in 1910 and began publishing songs printed on colored cards and sold to help strike funds. On the day he died, Joe Hill wrote his own epitaph in a letter to the founding father o f the Industrial Workers o f the World, Big Bill Haywood. Hill wrote: “ G oodbye Bill: I die like a true rebel. Dont waste any time mourning organise! It is a hundred miles from here to Wyoming. Could you arrange to have m y bod y hauled to the state line to be buried? I don’ t want to be found dead in Utah. Joe Hill”

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JOHN LOH look s at the real industrial anarchy N JULY this year, assembly line workers at F ord’ s Broadmeadows plant “ rioted” . Similar actions have occurred in the huge car plants o f Detroit, Milan, France and Britain. In each case massive, often violent, c o n frontations have taken place be tween workers, management and the union leaderships. T o me the interesting thing is that where the cruelty and stupid ity o f capitalist production meth ods are at their worst, the initiat ive for often extraordinary actions has com e from the blokes on the line themselves. A t the Ford plant in Australia the workers attacked the union leaders with a bitter fury for dragging them back through the gates. A t the Fiat plant in Milan during the Italian “ Hot Autumn” o f 1969 the workers marched out o f the plant, uprooted a tree in the factory grounds and used it to demolish the managements o f fices, that done they marched around the corner and set the tree to work demolishing the union offices. Out o f the Ford events grew two demands from the rank and file, neither o f which received any acknowledgement by the unions. One was for the establishment o f an autonom ous factory com m it tee representing all workers (in fact a claim against the union), the other that this factory com mittee have control o f the speed o f the assembly line, a demand which struck at the heart o f the bosses position. Taken together these tw o de mands meant that the workers wanted their own organisation to control the plant. In the Austral ian context these were extremely advanced demands, com ing from a so-called ‘ backward’ sector o f the working class. Yet this is the case everywhere when the workers seize the initiative themselves and create their own methods o f strug gle. They want more than a few extra quid, they want the factory itself. The means have also changed. In Italy since 1969, when the workers broke away from a pas sive acceptance o f union directives on the biannual tw o weeks o f class war and form ed autonomous rank and file groups, plant com mittees etc, the struggle has be com e part o f the daily activity o f many workers. This has resulted in a continuous series o f battles within the factories, often waged

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with com plicated and imaginative tactics such as ‘ checkerboard strikes' or marches inside the fac tories. The importance o f the workers self-activity was shown recently in the Builders Laborers struggles in Sydney. The BLs have developed a large amount o f autonom y on the job. They can organise them selves to take action without call ing in an “ expert” from the union offices. During the recent lockout over the green bans I went to an occupied job. The coppers had just ordered all the tradesmen (plumbers, carpenters etc) o f f the jo b so that they would be sure o f only pinching BLs. When the tradesmen tried to get back to collect their tools they found they couldnt. Tempers were flared and a bit o f pushing and shoving devel oped yet the tradesmen couldnt organise a meeting to decide on a move. They lacked the experience and confidence in their ability to self organise that the BLs had gained. The way in which this same jo b autonom y has led many BLs to an understanding o f society beyond just jo b militancy is o f great im portance. The deep support and understanding o f the green bans amongst the rank and file, the fact that Sydney BLs have women workers and women elected o f ficials is a result o f the self-activ ity o f the rank and file. In terms o f consciousness, the breakdown o f passivity has had a snowballing effect. Again we see a pattern. The Italian ‘workers autonom y’ move ment began as an informal loosely structured network o f active workers groups inside the plants. It is almost a name given to a mass desire. Its structure is much like the womens liberation movement. As the “ workers autonom y” movement has developed it has begun to co-ordinate and organise itself in a non-hierarchial way to becom e the real oppositional force to capitalist normality in the factories. Apart from being effect

ive in action within the plants these groups have within them selves seen a broadening o f con sciousness. They are now involved in “ proletarian communes” o f fac tory workers and in discussions on womens liberation, areas ignored or tokenised in traditional left or union organisations. This type o f activity is part o f the struggle for liberation distinct ly different from the ‘party-line’ concept o f that struggle. For in making the fight part o f the daily activity within production (rather than as an adjunct to it — is the m onthly union meeting) the en tire capitalist reality is subverted. Capitalism is not perceived like gravity any longer. Thus aspects o f bourgeois order outside o f pro duction begin to be challenged. The fact that there is a con stant resistance to the order o f things in factories is shown by the effectiveness o f work to regula tion actions. As soon as workers begin to d o exactly as they’re told, things fuck up no end. What the concept o f workers autonomy does is make this resistance con scious, explicit and to a specific end. When workers take control o f their own struggles they begin to see that they d o have the ability to organise things themselves. They then want more (ie, the two Ford demands). This confidence and ability can create a desire for the self-management o f the whole o f society. It has. From the Paris Commune o f 1871 through to the Hungarian workers councils o f 1956, with dozens o f examples between, massive workers strug gles have expressed a similar con tent - power and a similar form — the workers councils. Today in Australia the tiniest o f seeds for this struggle are form ing. Alienation from the unions is increasing as is new forms o f militancy. (The tw o are not unre lated. In West Germany the unions have becom e completely incorporated in participation schemes, this has led to an in crease in sabotage and wild cat strikes). Rank and file groups exist within many unions with explicit intent to gain greater autmomy. Dozens o f "little Fords” occurred in the past few years. And with these things will com e the many o f those things we have seen in Italy o f which the Ford events were

JOHN CHRISTMASS Y GREATAUNT Violetta was, I venture to say, the last true anarchist in my family. • There has been enormous mis understanding through history o f the nature o f anarchism In essence, old Buddha found some thing o f it some 2500 years ago when, after having wandered up and down his eightfold paths in a happily bemused way for what must have seemed an intolerable time, he finally sank gratefully to rest beneath his tree, realising at last the eternal verity - NOTH INGNESS. But this is a highly individual and abstract concept. It may be all very well for the old Guatama to sit on his bum and do and realise NOTHING; but what the country needs is a practical workaday ten cent m ethod o f achieving it. After only brief reflection, any thoughtful person will I am sure, agree that the greatest barrier in the way is that o f the establishment — the state— and the great anarchists o f whom my greataunt Violetta was one, are unanimous in their opinion that n o good could really com e o f the world till it is disposed of. The establishment o f course — church equally with state surprised and hurt that anyone could regard them as foul succubus on the soul o f man have — in the very best Christian and liberal spirit - persecuted, beat, imprisoned, tortured, starved and hanged them. Even worse than this, they spread spiteful and lying stories suggesting that the anarch ists are irresponsible and maniacal characters whose one ambition is to spread indiscriminate death and havoc through the community. The wild eye, the sinister cloak, the smoking bom b and the slobb ery mouth is the image promulgat ed. An unpardonable exaggeration! All anarchists, it is true, assume in com m on that man is socialist by nature and that the state is a coercive machine which destroys his essential virtues; but some o f them - poor, deluded, idealistic idiots — dont really believe in blowing anyone up. A nd those who believe in such direct action only believe in blowing them up not mankind as a whole. Godwin and Proudhon held that the state would somehow wither away - apparently under the inexorable pressure o f the good sense o f manking - whereas such sturdy citizens and Bakunin and Kropotkin thought that rely ing on the longrange good sense o f mankind was perhaps a touch overly optimistic and that a certain amount o f violence was the only thing that would really persuade it to wither away. My greataunt Violetta was o f the school o f Kropotkin and throughout her life she loudly and passionately advocated political violence as a way to achieving the golden age in which mankind would be truly free. Her eyes were ever fixed on this bright star of the New Age that was to rise in the east; but at the same time she could be pragmatic and turn aside for a moment from this great goal to deal with the passing problems o f the day. Her simple solution to

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said my great aunt Violetta the immediate problems o f the Depression, I remember, was a sort o f wholesale vandalism. There was n o work. Simple. Smash all the windows in all the stores. Tear up all the railway lines. Blow up the bridges . . . there’d be work for one and all putting them back together again. Violetta and her followers began their campaign by smashing windows in Boans big department store. But her followers were even fewer in number and even more trepid when it came to the crunch than the lot that sat down with Christ at that last makeshift supper. They smashed only six big plateglass windows in Boans be fore the wallopers swooped on them. To the best o f my know ledge not one yard o f railway track was torn up, nor was any bridge demolished. A pity, be cause the few windows they did smash demonstrably did provide a small area o f employment that was not previously open. It was established beyond doubt that their principle was sound and if only they had had an opportunity to carry it to a logical conclusion the great Depression might not really have happened. But the ranks o f anarchy were thin in the west. Authority had a habit o f throwing them into Fremantle b o o b on the slightest pretext and I think most o f them just got tired o f this over the years — which, if you have any acquaintance at all with the Fremantle house o f correction, is quite understandable. Greataunt Violetta was never daunted, however, and even at the end there were tw o faithful followers who stayed by her banner. One was a small nervous looking man who had blown his left hand o ff while attempting to make a bom b in his woodshed with the intention o f assassinating the duke o f York during his visit to Perth sometime in the 20s. The other was a large and innocently brutal faced young man with mild and beaming eyes. The small man who wore his w ooden left hand in a shiny black glove, never said anything. The young man never said anything apart from exhorting passersby (without any apparent relevance) to “ Listen to comrade Violetta! Listen to what she says!” and occasionally taken a hat around into which no one ever put anything. It was a touching and brave sight to see them on the Esplan ade - that great forum o f the people — on a Sunday afternoon. Violetta on her soapbox passion ately calling for the overthrow o f the state. The big young man and the little old man flanking her one on either side. Violetta used to get to talk tw o or even three Sundays running before the wallopers grab bed her again and hauled her o ff to clink - usually for advocating the immediate assassination o f royalty or the murder o f the current premier o f the state. They never bothered to arrest the little old man or the big young man and these tw o would turn up every Sunday and just stand there forlornly by the empty soapbox — never attempting to address the

NE OF the most intense, if unrationalised, of the world’s anarchic traditions has given rise to this, probably the most powerfully angry and affect ing song in the Australian tradi tion, and one o f the greatest songs

who made and sang this song. It was raised on their backs after all, and was a new country back then;

o f any English-speaking country. The wild colonial h oy combines larrikinism and idealism in a flavorsome Australian blend that owes much to his Irish antece dents. It is a pity that this country has so betrayed the kind o f people

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crowd themselves — in the weeks, or sometimes months, that V iolet ta was away. She died during one o f these terms when she was guest o f the state. I never cou ld find out what her last words were in her prison cell; but I remember vividly what her final declaration to the world was when they arrested her that last time. The wallopers had grabbed her and were escorting her to the paddywagon — a process which attracted a fairly large and ap preciative crow d since though Violetta was essentially a woman o f peace she never believed in going quietly. Just as they got her to the steps, she wrenched herself free a second and shouted in that superb, shrill, fiery, apostolic voice o f hers: “ I tell you co m rades there will be no peace on earth and n o justice until THE LAST KING is strangled with the bowels o f THE LAST POPE and They grabbed her again at this point and hurled her in; but she broke free once more and raised her triumphant voice to com plete her glorious message “ . . . AND HE’S SHOVED UP THE ARSE OF THE LAST PRIME MINIS T E R !” Vive Violetta! She knew what anarchy was really all about.

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“ Surrender now John Doolan, you see we’re three to one Surrender in the Queen’s name, for you're a plundering so n !” Jack drew a pistol from his belt and h e waved the little toy, “ I'll fight, but never surrender,” said the Wild Colonial Boy.

H e was scarce 16 years o f age when So com e on all m y hearties, w e’ll he left his native h om e range the mountain side All through the bush o f Victoria a Together we will plunder, together bushranger to roam, we will ride H e robbed the wealthy squatters, We'll scour along the valleys and their stock h e did destroy w e’ll gallop o'er the plains A terror to the rich man was the And we'll scorn to live in slavery, Wild Colonial Boy. bound down with iron chains

H e fired a shot at Kelly and he brought him to the ground And in return from Davis he received his mortal wound All shattered through the jaws he lay, his pistol an em pty to y . And that was how they captured him, the Wild Colonial Boy.

In '61 this daring youth com m enced his wild career His courage being undaunted, no danger did h e fear H e stuck up the Beechworth mailcoach, and he robbed judge MacE voy Who trembling cold gave up his gold to the Wild Colonial Boy.

So com e on all m y hearties, we'll range the mountain side, Together we will plunder, together we will ride. We'll scour along the valleys, and we '11 gallop o 'er plains But w e ’ll scorn to live in slavery, bound down with iron chains.

One day as Jack was riding the mountainside along A-listening to the Kookaburras, their pleasant laughing song Three mounted troopers rode along, Kelly, Davis and Fitzroy, With a warrant fo r the capture o f the Wild Colonial Boy.

Click went the cell doors in i 891 GLEN HALFBACON ONDITIONS fo r shearers in the 1880s were lousy. They were paid a quid per 100 shorn sheep, and their quarters, provid ed by wealthy landowners, were barely livable. Australia’ s best loved bush writer, Henry Lawson, described them this way: “ Built o f weatherboards and roofed with galvanised iron. Little ventilation; no verandah; no attempt to create, artificial ly, a breath o f air through the building. Unpainted, sordid hideous. Greasy, stinking sheepskins hanging everywhere with blood-blotched sides out. On each side o f the hut runs a rough framework, like the partitions in a stable; each compartment battened o f f to about the size o f a manger, and containing fou r bunks, one above the other, on each side. Scarcely breathing space any where between them. Unspeak able aroma o f 40 or 50 men who have little inclination and less opportunity to wash their skins. And clinging to all, and over all, the smell o f the dried, stale yolk o f wool - the stink o f rams!” The shearers had to write ahead seeking work. If they were lucky enough to find work they had to forward a pound deposit to reserve their “ stand” - this was forfeited to the boss if the shearer failed to front at the appointed time. They had to provide their own blades and fo o d . . . purchas ed at high cost under force from the station store. Wages for the

Strikebreakers with strong military escort are warned o f f b y striking shearers at Barcaldine in Queensland

c o o k were paid by the men, by collecting four or five shillings from each shearer weekly. This was the setting o f Austral ia’ s first major national strike, later involving miners and trans port workers as well as the shearers themselves. W ool prices were fluctuating wildly and many station owners slashed the shear er’s wage to 17/6 a hundred and lower. The shearer’ s reaction was immediate. They were tired o f humping bluey from outback shed to outback shed only to live again under the depressing conditions they had just left. The Amalgama

ted Shearer’ s Union was formed, headed b y a form er gold mining unionist, William Guthrie Spence. Within three years the eastern states membership had shot to 22,500 and union militancy began in earnest in Australia. “ Unionism has in it that feeling o f mateship which the Australian bushman understands already,” Spence commented. However, keeping scabs out o f the sheds wasnt easy. Over 3000 minor strikes involving single sheds were called in the first couple o f years. The station owners sought to lower the wage rate to less than

15 bob per 100 and insisted on employing any shearer irrespective o f his union membership. In 1891 over 400 shearers formed a camp at Barcaldine (Queensland) and decided to “ use force if necessary” to keep the scabs from the sheds. Other camps were set up throughout western Queensland. T o counter this act ion the pastoralists set up em ploy ment agencies in the southern states and readily found men to work on their terms. The strikers rebelled: they cut fences, placed trees across railway lines, burnt sheds to the ground, stretched cables across rivers to halt paddleboats, severed railway bridge sup ports — anything to keep the scabs away. The Queensland government sniffed civil war. Mounted troops and policemen were rushed to troublespots to protect property and the recruited southerner scabs. Unionists and militia clash ed and union men were arrested and tried for conspiracy. The judge made the establishment’s position clear - the leaders were sentenced to three years jail, a verdict that appalled thinking men across the nation. When they jail a man for striking, It's a rich man's country yet. The confidence o f the strikers melted, their five month old revolt against exploitation and dictation had failed. Left hungry and leaderless they returned to work on the bosses’ terms . . . back to Lawson’ s “ unspeakable aroma” . j |

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Being a representation o f a * conversation between Laura, Anne and Sue who have finished school, Danny and John who want schools finished, and Paul who is sceptical. Start anywhere and go wherever you like.

K id s c o n t r ib u t io n s can b e sen t t o e ith e r th e S y d n e y o r M el b o u r n e m o n it o r . I f y o u live else w h e re , c h o o s e e ith e r o n e and e n c lo s e a s ta m p e d s e lf a ddress ed e n v e lo p e . M E L B O U R N E : R o b K in g , “ L o d g e R a lp h ” , D avid R o a d , L ily d a le . S Y D N E Y : J o h n G e a k e , 1 7 B ridge street, B alm ain 2 0 4 1 .

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A N A R C H IS T IC E D U C A T IO N D E S C H O O L IN G IS L E A R N IN G W IT H O U T S C H O O LS S choo ls are so repressive and in e ffic ie n t th a t lit t le le a rn in g takes place w ith in them . S chools fa il in ach ie ving th e ir o w n con servative aims. M o re p e ople c o u ld learn m o re a b o u t m o re d iffe re n t th in g s i f schools ceased to exist.

O P E N W O R K P LA C E S In d u s try m u s t accept an educa tio n a l fu n c tio n as w ell as its p r o d u c tio n fu n c tio n . In d u s trie s be ca m e open f o r learners to observe/ p a rtic ip a te as a p rim a ry learning process. W orke rs w ill have teach in g roles. T ra d e u n io n s c o o p e ra tio n -in v o lv e m e n t in e d ucation .

C O M M U N IT Y C E N T R E S Can be lo c a te d in e x is tin g school b u ild in g s — s o m e th in g w ill have to be done w ith schools w hen w e've de sch o o le d — to use e x is tin g school fa c ilitie s — ro om s fo r m eetings, labs, lib ra rie s, gym s, gardens, v id e o etc. C e n tre fo r local c o m m u n ity to use L E A R N IN G WEB. P lay c e n tre fo r kids. Im p o rta n t s o c ia lis a tio n is m e e tin g and p la y in g w ith o th e r kids. A ls o c h ild m in d in g ro le f o r p a rents w h e n a t w o rk . S tu d y c o o p e ra tive s — w h e n p e ople w a n t to learn in a g ro u p s itu a tio n — can be organised. F a m ily e d u c a tio n — p a re n ts learn and tea ch th e ir k id s — p a rtic u la rly fo r m in o r ity g roups w h o m a y n o t w a n t an e xte n sive e d u c a tio n in the m a jo rity g ro u p so cie ty. R esource c e n tre — f o r c r a ft and tra d e to o ls , m e dia e q u ip m e n t, film s , tapes, etc.

E D U C A T IO N F O R L E IS U R E If in d u s try becomes increasingly m echanical — c o m p u te r c o n tro lle d 2 0 h o u r w o rk in g w eek increased leisure tim e : p a id tim e fo r learning : life lo n g e d u c a tio n — in d u s try p ro v id e ed u ca tio n a l leave — w o rk e rs sabatical — tim e fo r parents to p a rtic ip a te in le a rn in g process w ith th e ir kids.

The re s p o n s ib ility fo r le a rn in g rests s o le ly on th e learner. T h e re are n o p re d e te rm in a l values on w h a t s h o u ld o r s h o u ld n o t be le a rn t. O r a t w h a t age a n y p a rtic u la r th in g s h o u ld be le a rn t. O r to w h a t d e p th a to p ic s h o u ld be investig ated . O r w h a t c o m b in a tio n s o f su b je cts c an be m ade. K ids have f u ll rig h ts fo r re sponsible d e c is io n m a k in g .

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M a tc h teachers w ith learners. C o m p u te r in d e x o f p o te n tia l teachers an d th e ir specialities. Learner uses o n th e lin e con sole at c o m m u n ity c e n tre to lo ca te nearest s u ita b le teacher.

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T ra d itio n a l le a rn in g th e o ry says p e ople le a rn lik e a b u c k e t fills w ith w a te r o r a b a n k a c c o u n t fills w ith m o n e y — w h ic h y o u cash in by gaining e m p lo y m e n t fro m a good exam pass. T h is is crap. Observe pre exam te n sio n fro m s w a ttin g and c ra m m in g — the re is n o bu cket. " N e w " th e o ry says w e perceive lik e a se a rch lig h t — n o n linea r m u ltid ire c tio n a l pe rce ivin g — any c o n n e c tio n s are possible if n o t d is q u a lifie d b e fo re one starts.

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A Q U E S T IO N O F S U R V IV A L T h e m o st fu n d a m e n ta l q u e stio n : H o w can m an survive? is n o t asked or even recognised in e x is tin g schools. T eaching a life s ty le w h ic h doesnt w o rk is a social c rim e and m u st be stop ped im m e d ia te ly . T h e m u lti tu d e o f ideas arising fro m de scho oled an a rch istic le arning w ill p ro vid e m a n y a lte rn a tiv e answers to th e survival qu e stio n , and th u s increase m a n's chances o f surviving.

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B U C K E T O R S E A R C H L IG H T L e a rn in g is d e stro ye d b y im p o s itio n o f a rb itra ry standards on w h a t is le a rn t. A d m is s io n to spe cia list/ te r tia r y e d u c a tio n can be via e xtre m e tests f o r those w h o w a n t to do th e m w henever th e y feel ready to d o the m . Th ere is n o ra tio n a le to m a ke all kid s a t school fo llo w a sylla b u s f o r u n iv e rs ity m a tric u la tio n w h ic h involve s o n ly 10 per c e n t o f school leavers. E m p lo y m e n t b y a p titu d e test. IB M do n o t value HSC or u n i degrees. E m p lo ye rs design a p titu d e tests s u ita b le fo r p a rtic u la r p o sitio n s. E m p lo ye rs a cce p t jo b tra in in g as p a rt o f e m p lo y m e n t fu n c tio n .

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N O C O M P U L S IO N L e a rn in g is d e stro ye d b y c o m p u l sion. T h e E d u c a tio n A c t m u s t be repealed. N o one sh o u ld be c o m p e lle d to learn a n y th in g at any tim e . N o m a n ip u la tiv e ro le fo r G o v e rn m e n t E d u c a tio n D ep a rtm e n ts. K id s given e d u c a tio n a l to k e n s fo r equal o p p o r tu n ity o f learning. W o rke rs given p a id e d u ca tio n a l leave to use to k e n s un used w hen yo u nger.

Because th e large a rm y o f a u th o rita ria n c h ild m o le sto rs w ill be given th e s^ck — n o teachers, no teacher tra in in g . S tu d e n ts have re s p o n s ib ility o f learning, n o t teachers. C o o rd in a to rs in th e c o m m u n ity cen tres have n o n a u th o rita ria n c o o rd in a tin g /o rg a n is in g role. S pecialists w h o register on index m a y take c o m m u n ic a tio n s courses, depenin g o n learner feedback.

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DO IT YOURSELF KUNCFU16 STRAIGHT PUNCH &FINGER JAB W in g c h u n a tta ck in g w e a p o n s are sim p le an d d ir e c t — m a in ly straig h t p u n c h a n d v e r tica l fist. A ja b o r p u n c h can b e o f t w o t y p e s : in sid e gate o r o u ts id e gate. In th e tra d itio n a l classical

w in g ch u n w e a p o n s are

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q u e n t ly : stra ig h t p u n c h , fin g e r ja b , fin g e r sw eep, v e rtica l p a lm , s id e w a rd p a lm , d o w n w a rd p a lm , stra ig h t k ic k , a n d

Inner Gate Punch (1) W hen fa c in g an o p p o n e n t, execute th e inside gate punch fro m the square stance. (2) As y o u r o p p o n e n t begins his punch fro m the w a ist, begin y o u r pu nch fro m th e m id d le o f y o u r chest. (3) Make sure y o u r arm goes to the inside o f y o u r o p p o n e n t’s arm . (4) S trik e y o u r o p p o n e n t in the face w h ile b lo c k in g his p u n ch w ith y o u r s trik in g arm . (5) As y o u w ith d ra w y o u r rig h t arm , begin a le ft inside gate pu nch . (6) E xecu te th e le ft inside gate pu nch as y o u ’d id th e rig h t. (7) D e fle c t y o u r o p p o n e n t’s b lo w w ith y o u r s trik in g arm . A fin g e r ja b can be used in th e same w ay.

sid e d o w n w a r d k ic k .

The to p vie w o f th e inside gate punch c le a rly shows h o w y o u r o p p o n e n t’s pu nch is d e fle cte d . The a tta c k in g hand is also th e b lo c k in g hand.

(A ) T o execute the inside gate punch (noy ntoon chuie), assume th e basic square stance. (B) S ta rt the punch fro m th e m id d le o f y o u r chest, and (C) e xte n d y o u r arm so th a t y o u r hand intersects the ce n te rlin e .

(A ) Begin th e o u tsid e gate pu nch b y firs t assuming th e basic square stance. (B) S ta rt y o u r pu nch fro m th e side o f y o u r chest, and (C) in te rsect the c e n te rlin e w ith y o u r fist. T H E L IV IN G D A Y L IG H T S , decem ber 18-24, 1973 — Page 21

DO IT YOURSELF KUNC 1U17 Outer Gate Punch (1) When facing an o p p o n e n t, execute the o u tsid e gate pu nch fro m th e square stance. (2) As y o u r o p p o n e n t starts his pu nch fro m the w a is t, start y o u r punch fro m th e side o f y o u r chest. (3) I n -th is case y o u r arm goes o u tsid e o f y o u r o p p o n e n t’s arm . (4) S trik e y o u r o p p o n e n t in the face w h ile fo rc in g his punch in w a rd and away fro m y o u r face. (5) W ith d ra w y o u r rig h t arm and start a le ft ou tside g a te .p u n ch . (6) The inside o f y o u r le ft e lb o w begins to d e fle ct y o u r o p p o n e n t’s punch at th is p o in t. (7) S trik e y o u r o p p o n e n t’s face at nose level.

A. A s trip o f paper t h a t’s black on one side and w h ite on the o th e r can be used to e xp la in th e con cep t o f lin sil die dar. T he w h ite stands fo r a b lo c k , and the bla ck stands fo r an a tta ck.

C. By tw is tin g th e paper, black runs in to w h ite and w h ite runs in to black. B lo ck and a tta c k becom e one, representing a s tru c tu ra lly fast style.

CHI SAU (sticking hands)

T he to p vie w o f th e o u te r gate pu nch b lo c k shows h o w y o u d e fle c t y o u r o p p o n e n t’s pu n ch in w a rd .

SIMULTANEOUS ATTACK AND DEFENCE A n y p ra c tic e in w h ic h y o u b lo c k a n d th e n h it is s tr u ctu ra lly s lo w . A p h y s ic a lly fast m an w ill n e v e r a tta in fu ll r e a liz a tio n o f his a im in a stru ctu ra lly s lo w s ty le . T h e o b je c t o f w in g c h u n , a stru ctu ra lly fast s ty le , is t o d e v e lo p p h y s ic a l s p e e d . It te a c h e s th e use o f o ff e n s e as d e fe n s e . I f y o u sen se th a t y o u r o p p o n e n t is g o in g t o t h r o w a h o o k t o y o u r fa c e , b e a t h im t o th e p u n c h w ith a fin g e r ja b . Page 22 - T H E L IV IN G D A Y L IG H T S , decem ber 18-24, 1973

It is impossible to learn chi sao from a book, but it is even worse to try to leam this form by self-experimentation. Self practice will only develop a jerky, up and down, left to right wrestling contest which can be easily penetrated by a sharp wing chun practitioner. The “ springing out” of constant, forward energy can only be acquired from practice with an experienced teacher—it can never be captured on film or paper. Chi sao demonstrations have been filmed and run in slow motion by instructors from other styles who have wanted to leam the secret. Alas! All they could copy were the arm movements. Chi sao is not a method of fighting. It is a method of developing sensitivity in the arms so you can feel your opponent’s intentions and moves. Chi sao teaches correct elbow position, the right type of energy, feeling for an opponent’s emptiness, and defending with minimum motion by keeping within the nucleus of the four comers. Movement in chi sao is like a flowing stream—never still. It avoids the “ clinging stage” (the mind stopping to abide) and the attaching of one’s self to a particular object rather than flowing from one object to another. If you set yourself against an opponent, your mind will be carried away by him. Don’t think of victory or of yourself. My emphasis has been on the constant flow of energy. Such energy should not be misinterpreted as being a secret, mysterious, or internal power. The primary approach to chi sao practice is to hone technical skill to a razor’s edge for instinctive hand placement so basic in the wing chun style. The better and more constant your flow (which is only developed by sticking hands with a competent teacher), the more you can take advantage of the opponent’s most minute openings.

DO IT YOURSELF K N* ru 18 mU m In e s s e n c e , th e s tic k in g h a n d s p r a c tic e is lik e th e O rien ta l g a m e o f p a p e r , scis so rs, r o c k . S cissors ca n c u t p a p er, a r o c k ca n cru sh s cis so rs, a n d p a p e r ca n e n v e lo p r o c k . S im ila rly , w h e n y o u r o p p o n e n t uses a p a lm -u p b l o c k , y o u s h o u ld e x e c u t e an e lb o w -in b lo c k . W h e n y o u r o p p o n e n t strik es fr o m th e e lb o w -in b l o c k , c h a n g e t o an e lb o w -u p b l o c k . T h e o n e w h o c a n ’t ch a n g e e ffo r t le s s ly w ill b e d e fe a t e d .

(1) In doan chi sao the tw o op po ne nts face each o th e r in sil lim ta o ’s basic be nt-kne e-p ige on -to ed-h alf-sq uat p o s itio n . (Y o u sho uld n o t move fro m th is stance d u rin g s tic k in g hand practice.) T o begin, th e person on th e le ft extends his arm in a pa lm -up b lo c k . T he person to th e rig h t pu ts his rig h t arm on to p o f his o p p o n e n t’s le ft arm in a bent-arm , e lb o w -in b lo c k (fo o k sao).

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(2) L e ft uses the palm -up b lo c k to open up his o p p o n e n t’s c e n te rlin e so he can strik e w ith a vertica l palm (yu n je o n g ). T h e person on th e rig h t feels his o p p o n e n t’s vertica l palm and goes in to an e lb o w -in b lo c k b y d ro p p in g his e lb o w d o w n w a rd and in w ard to d e fle ct th e ve rtica l palm .

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ROCK (3) F ro m th e e lb o w -in b lo c k , th e man on th e rig h t trie s a ve rtica l fis t to w a rd his o p p o n e n t’s face. The man on the le ft “ fee ls” th e ve rtica l fis t a tte m p t and goes fro m a ve rtica l palm to an e lb o w -u p b lo c k , w h ic h de fle cts th e stra ig h t pu nch . (4) T he hands re tu rn to th e o rig in a l po sitio n s, w ith the person on th e le ft e x te n d in g his arm in a palm -up b lo c k and- the person on th e rig h t p q ttin g his rig h t arm on to p o f his o p p o n e n t's. T h e arms are to u c h in g th ro u g h o u t th e exercise. (In practice, repeat th is procedure several tim es.)

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G U IL D OF U N D E R G R A D U A T E S TH E U N IV E R S IT Y OF W ESTERN A U S T R A L IA The G u ild o f Undergraduates comprises all undergraduate students at the U niv e rs ity o f Western A ustralia and is co n tro lle d by a system o f student elected councils. The G uild provides welfare, sporting, recreational and cu ltu ra l am enities in a d dition to running catering and oth er com m ercial activities. The G uild also provides means fo r students to develop and express policies on a w ide range o f social and p o litic a l issues. A p p lic a tio n s are invited fo r the fo llo w in g positions: RESOURCE O FFIC ER R E S P O N S IB ILIT IE S : The Resource O ffice r shall be responsible fo r in itia tin g and adm inistering programmes and a ctivities in areas re la ting to social p o litic a l and educational issues. In fo rm a tio n retrieval and dissem ination w o u ld be a prim e responsibility o f the Resource O ffic e r in these areas as laid d o w n b y G uild decision making bodies. E ducational issues w ill receive a special emphasis in the duties o f th e Resource O ffice r and he w ill be responsible in pa rticular to the E ducation C ouncil o f the G uild. Q U A L IF IC A T IO N S A N D E XP E R IE N C E : N o specific q u a lifica tio n s are required b u t applicants should have experience o f te rtia ry educational in s titu tio n s and preferably w ith student organisations. A pplicants should be able to show th e y have a po tentia l fo r carrying o u t th e ir responsibilities. S A L A R Y A N D C O N D IT IO N S : In itia l salary w o u ld be b y n e gotiatio n w ith in the range $4,500-$5,500 and thereafter tie d to an equivalent p u blic service salary scale. C o n trib u to ry superannuation is available a fte r an in itia l q u a lifyin g period. The successful applicant w o u ld be appointed fo r a te rm o f three years subject to a p ro b a tio n a ry term o f 6 months. C U L T U R A L A F F A IR S O F FIC E R R E S P O N S IB ILIT IE S : The C ultural A ffa irs O ffic e r shall be responsible fo r in itia tin g and adm inistering cu ltu ra l projects and advising the Societies C ouncil o f the G uild and G uild C ouncil on cu ltu ra l matters. He w ill be responsible d ire c tly to the Societies C ouncil o f the G uild. Q U A L IF IC A T IO N S A N D E X P E R IE N C E : No specific q u alification s are required b u t applicants should have experience o f te rtia ry educational in s titu tio n s and preferably w ith student organisations. A pplicants should be able to show they have a po tential fo r carrying o u t the ir responsibilities. S A L A R Y A N D C O N D IT IO N S : In itia l salary w ould be by ne gotiation w ith in the range $4,500-$5,500 and thereafter tied to an equivalent p u blic service salary scale. C o n trib u to ry superannuation is available after an in itia l q u a lify in g period. The successful applicant w o u ld be appointed fo r a term o f three years subject to a pro b a tio n a ry term o f 6 m onths. A P P LIC A T IO N S should be made t o : — The President, The G uild o f Undergraduates, U niversity o f Western A ustralia, N E D L A N D S 6009 W ESTERN A U S T R A L IA . b y 15th January giving fu ll details o f qu a lifica tio n s and experience, and the names o f tw o referees.

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G O ES O N It has been called the Vietnam o f the 3 0 ’s and it is still going on. T hen it w as a battle that sym bolised the internationalist spirt o f jd the Left in it’s m ost fiery, n ob le and perm issive form . A T he cause is still there but the spirit needs M */ rekindling

A red flag to Spanish bulls: To wear this magnificent scarf in Spain today is to risk seven years jail. The scarves are made in France and smuggled over the border. FA1 stands fo r Federacion Anarquista Iberica, an anarchist federation founded in Spain in 1 927 and still going strong. CNT is the anarcho syndicalist trade union m ove m ent that Franco has been trying to suppress fo r 4 0 years.

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HE totalitarianism o f gen eral Franco’ s government was built on the bodies o f thousands o f murdered Spanish working men and women. Franco survives because o f his sheer ruthlessness towards the Spanish people; they are suppress ed with all available weapons physical and psychological. Stat utory law is used only when convenient. Franco’ s major meth ods o f social control are the thugs o f the Spanish state, the army, the police and the church. Without being in any way complete, the following informa tion gives an idea o f the brutal repression o f young libertarian workers and students now taking place. Puerto de Santa Maria, in the province o f Cadiz, situated by the sea, is an old penal establish ment whose grim history is bewailed in the folksong: “ Mejor cuisera estar muerte che enterrao pa toa la vie" (I would rather be dead than buried there all my life). A ny prisoner who enters its gates is considered a dead man. It has always had the worst govern ors, the worst warders. Its walls are stained b y the b lood o f those who, if not killed there, were left to r o t At present the known political prisoners in this sad place are seven libertarians. They are locked in the dampest part o f th e. prison, one in each cell; they are

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allowed leave the dungeon only one hour a day. The next wcxst treated o f all political prisoners are those lock ed in the prison o f Ocana’ 4 0 miles from Madrid on the road to Andalusia. In the summe it is insufferably h ot and in the winter unbearably cold. Until recently it did not even have running water. Prisoners have testified about the cruelty and lack o f humanity o f the warders in Ocana. As mentioned before it is mainly the young libertarian workers and students w ho are suffering at the hands o f Franco’ s police state. F or example, Pedro Gonzalez R ubio, 16, a metal w ork er w ho was detained in the Valecas district by the BPS (Brigado Political-Social). From the first moments o f his detention, Pedro was tortured and beaten over his entire body with truncheons. He was interrogated by the state security police five times - three hours at a stretch. During these interrogations he was

clubbed in face, and forced to kneel so that his cap tors could beat his arms, ribs, legs and back Ricardo Jose Olmos Mata, 17, a student, was picked up with Pedro. He was also tortured and interrogated. During one interrogation he was made to sit th his hands and feet tied to a chair; r he was then beaten on his neck, shoulders, arms, feet and testicles. Every time icardo collapsed to the ground he was picked up by his hair, doused with water to revive him, and then tortured again. Probably the most well known libertarian prisoner held in Franco’s prisons is Julian Millan Hernandez who was found guilty o f rebuilding the CNT (National Confederation o f Trade Unions). For this, he received 18 years jail. The CNT was a labor organisation which, for a short time, dominated the social revolution in Spain between 1936-39. The plight o f the "forgotten ” prisoners in

sible relief for them and their famlies. The situation is particularly hard on families, as in Franco’s Spain women are barred virtually from any work with which to sup port their children. The struggle goes on; recently the Spanish working class organ ised a new libertarian workers group called the F p i (Spanish Workers Federation) to help build the confidence and auton om y needed for an oppressed people to get up and strike the death blow to a ruling class which has suppressed them with violence since 1939. But difficult times o f intensive fighting are approaching for the growing number o f anti fascists in Spain. More than ever, international solidarity is neces sary. You can help by writing and expressing your outrage to the following addresses. The Spanish Ambassador, 19 Beagle Road, Red Hill, Canberra. Excellency: Snr. P olo De Franco, Palacio del Pardo, El Pardo, Madrid, Spain. Y ou can also send money orders for food parcels to Spanish prisoners and their families. For addresses in Spain contact Acracia, C /o PO B ox 45, North Richmond, Victoria, j j

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FO LK PETER P A R K H IL L : F rank Traynors, 1 0 0 Lt L onsd ale St, C ity.

JA Z Z H O T C IT Y BUM P B A N D : P rosp ect Hill, K ew .

F IL M UH CHIEH A N D A Y O U : and other, surrealist films, N F T A , Carlton or Dental.

R A D IO T W IL IG H T OF TH E G O D S : B ayreuth F est, 7 3 , A R , 7.30.

TV F E E L TH E W A R M : A B C 2, 1 0 .4 5 , jazz p rogram w ith C leo Laine and J oh n D ank w orth. H O U SE OF FRANK E N S T E IN : H S V 7 , 1 0 .3 0 .

ROCK C L O U D N IN E : W hitehorse H oteL U PP: C ro x to n Park. B IL L Y TH O R P E AND TH E A Z T E C S : S outhside 6 .

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F IL M NFT S U R R E A L IS M S E A S O N : N osferatu , King K on g. A ust. G ovt. Centre Theatrette. 7.30. F IL L M O R E , SAN TAN A, G R A T E F U L D E A D : Man l y Silver S creen, 18-2 2 , 7 .3 0 pm . PERFORM ANCE: Manly Silver S creen, 18-2 2 , ail TH E SE V E N S A M U R A I: U n cu t K urosaw a Film, 203 m in . O pera H ouse, 7 .3 0 pm . D O N T L O O K N O W : Vil lage Tw in, all w eek, D o n ald Sutherland, Julie •Christie. N IG H T S OF BOC C A C C IO : A ca d em y Tw in.

T V , R A D IO PO S T C O D E 4 8 9 1 : Karu m ba. G u lf o f Carpenteria b e in g raped b y Prawn In dustry. Channel 2, 8.35. V O Y A G E O F THE “ NEW E N D E A V O U R ” : — Lond o n t o S yd n ey , 1 9 6 5 via C o o k s R o u te . C hannel 10, 7.30. TH E BIG K N IF E : M ovie with R o d Steiger. Channel 1 0, 8 .3 0 .

B U L L O C K IE S : Polaris erville A rm s, C arlton. M IK E O ’R O U R K E , Marga Inn. M IK E O ’ R O U R K E : Frank ret R o a d knight, C o b b le rs: Dan O ’ C onnelL Traynors. JO H N C R O W L E : Frank JAZZ T raynors. S K Y L IG H T S : P rospect JAZZ Hill, K ew . A N D TH E REFRANK T R A Y N O R : JER R Y B O P P E R S : S tu d le y Park, Beaumaris HoteL J E R R Y A N D TH E RE- see w ed. BO PPE RS: Studley Park F R A N K T R A Y N O R : E x HoteL, Johnson St, Colling- change H o te l, C heltenham . w ood . DAVE R A N K IN : Alm a H otel, Chapel St, St Kilda.

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MONITOR: Stephen Wall 698.2652, P. Q. Box 23, Surry Hills.

JAZZ P O R T JA C K S O N J A Z Z : Stage D o o r Tavern, 7 .0 0 pm . M A IN S T R E A M JAZZ BAND: Bellevue H otel, Paddington.

F IL M S F IL L M O R E : M anly Silver Screen. CRYSTAL VOYAGER: O pera H ouse, 7 .0 0 , 9 .0 0 .

C L A S S IC A L H A N D E L ’S S yd n ey T ow n pm. TALES FROM M E E N A : O pera S L E E P IN G Opera H ouse.

M E S SIA H : Hall, 8 .0 0 NOONAH ouse. BEAUTY:

EVENTS GAY TE A C H E R S DIS CUSSIO N G R O U P : 376 Cleveland St., Surry Hills, 8 pm. P O E T R Y R E A D IN G : Old Church, 8 .0 0 pm.

T V , R A D IO LAND OF MY D REAM S: A British im perialist stands firm , w hile his w orld crashes a b o u t him , radio, 1 1 .0 0 am. IN SID E A L V IN P U R P LE : A l o o k at Tim Burstall’s feature length film , Chan nel 7 , 9 .0 0 . Bum and tits i| lu ck y . 9 .2 7 pm .

Rtafffeg ROCK LOCO W EED: Fiddlers Vine. L A D E D A S : C hequers.

F IL M S CRYSTAL VOYAGER: O pera H ouse, 7 .0 0 -9 .0 0 .

TV *THE SPINNERS WITH S A N D Y SH AW : F olk on Channel 2, 7.30 pm. L A D Y G O D 1V A R ID E S A G A IN : Diana D ors. Chan nel 1 0 , 1 0 .4 0 pm .

CONTEM PORARY T R A D IT IO N A L AND B LU E G R A S S F O L K : R ed L ion H otel (upstairs). P O R T JA C K S O N J A Z Z : Stage D o o r Tavern.

ROCK IN T O : Fiddlers Vine.

THE AZTECS, ABEL L O D G E : S und ow n er H o tel, G eelong. RED H O U SE ROLL BA N D , F A H M : Interna tional H otel. P IR A N A : Station H otel. M IG H T Y K O N G : Prahran T o w n Hall. P IR A N A : Teazer

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JOHN C R O W L E , M IKE O ’ R O U R K E : Frank Tray nors. R A D IO PHIL DAY, P E TE R TV M A R X IS T E C O N O M IS T : P A R K H IL L : U nion H otel, P Y T H O N ’ S N. C arlton. Ernest M andel talks o n M O N T Y F L Y IN G C IR C U S : A B V 2, Lateline, A R , 1 0.1 5. JA ZZ 1 0 .1 5 . D A V E R A N K IN : R ailw ay R A D IO C lu b H otel, Pt M elbourn e. M E S S IA H : A R , 8p m . RED O N IO N S JAZZ PO ETRY B A N D : P rosp ect H ill, K ew . B R U N SW IC K POETRY ROCK F IL M S 7 .3 0 , in M Y R I A D : R M IT , after- W O R K S H O P : COM form al a tm osphere, S axon P O R T N O Y ’ S noon . P L A IN T : L ate, Trak, M A C K E N ZIE T H E O R Y : Hall, S a x o n St, behind 1 1 .4 5 , $2. T o w n Hall. Station H otel. TV P IR A N A : M atthew Flin E X P E R IM E N T A L ders HoteL A L L M A N B R O S, B L O O D M E L B O U R N E N E W UPP: W hitehorse H otel. SW E A T AND TEARS: H O T C IT Y BUM P B A N D : M USIC E N S E M B L E : C o m H SV 7, 1 0.3 0 G A T H E R IN G : C ro x to n m une, 5 8 0 V icto ria St, N. M elbourn e. Park. RED H OU SE ROLL B A N D : T A N K : W altzing M atilda HoteL BIG PUSH: S undow n er ROCK H otel, G eelong. M USHROOM TOU R: ROCK M IG H T Y KONG, SID A yers R o c k , R ay Brown, BIG PU SH : W hitehorse R U M P O : M atth ew Flinders M att T aylor, D ingoes, Mad H otel. H otel. der Lake, Festival Hall. JOHN R U P E R T A N D TH E SID R U M P O : S tation H o HENCHMEN: C ro x to n tel, a fte rn o o n . FO LK Park. P IR A N A , T A N K : B righton P E TE R P A R K H IL L : Tank- B IL L Y THORPE A N D T o w n Hall.

TA L E S FROM NOONAM E E N A : M arionette The atre, O pera H ouse, 1 1 .0 0 am , 2 .0 0 pm. TH E S L E E P I N G B E A U T Y : O pera H ouse, 8 .0 0 pm. W EST HEAD SCH O OL M E E T IN G : R e C ity S ch o o l p r o p o s a l O m nibus, 7.30 pm. “ S P IR IT U A L R O C K ” with Guru Maharaj Ji com m er cials (O m yg u ru ! m ore o f the sa m e): L ow er Padding to n T o w n Hall, 8 pm. P O T T E R Y E X H IB IT IO N : Kirk G allery, all w eek, 12 n o o n -9 .0 0 pm.

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MONITOR: Chris & Eva 51.9563 or 51.8214, write Flat 8, No 7 Irving Ave, Windsor, 3181.

L A DE D A S : Chequers. F R A N C IS BUTLERS 6 9 E R S : Brighton H otel. N IT R O : O cean ic H oteL

THE THREEPENNY O P E R A : O pera House. TH E A L L A U S T R A L IA N M A R K II D O -IT -Y O U R S E L F P A N T O M IM E K IT : A ll w eek. 264 Pitt St., S y d n ey , free.

ROCK JU N IO R & G O L D TO PS:

F iddlers V in e, o p e n till 12 pm. A R IE L H U SH , F R A N C IS B U T L E R ’S 6 9 E R S : R o c k dale T o w n Hall. MR GEORGE: O cean ic H oteL ABERNACK: B righton H oteL H U SH : Ukrainian H all, L idco m b e .

MR GEORGE: O cean ic HoteL ABERNACK: Brighton HoteL F L A K E : R evesby Y M C A . T E P O IS : M anly Vale H o tel. F R A N C IS BUTLERS 69E R S, O TH E R EN D S, P U M A : R o ck d a le Police B oys Club.

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JOHN R U P E R T A N D TH E ROCK H E N C H M E N : W hitehorse FAT ALROY, MAC H otel. K E N Z IE THEORY: St BIG P U SH : C ro x to n Park. V in ce n t Church Hall, RED HOUSE ROLL S trathm ore. B A N D : S u n d ow n er, Gee M A C K E N Z IE THEORY: long. Teazer. P IR A N A : S ou th Side 6, A T L A S : M atthew Flinders. a ftern oon . F A N T A S Y : C r o x to n Park. “ A H E A D T U R N ” : Cap P IR A N A : Icelands. tain M a tch b o x , Isaac A aron, M yriad, S k y h o o k s, FO LK S teve: O rm o n d Hall. D A N N Y SP O O N E R and M Y R I A D : Teazer. G O R D O N M A C IN T Y R E : A T L A S , A Y E R S R O C K : Frank Traynors. Canapus, B ox HilL JAZZ SID R U M P O : S tation H o tel, a fte rn o o n . B R IA N BRO W N Q U A R A Y E R S R O C K : Teazer. T E T : C om m un e. BUSTER BROW N, M E E T IN G S AYERS R O C K : Chelsea C ity Hall. U N D E R S T A N D IN G : Mr Ed W hittle, T heosop h ica l FO LK S oc, 7pm , 1 8 8 C ollins St, JOH N and J U A N IT A , KERRY and B R E N D A C ity. M cD O N A L D : C om m u n e. D U TC H T IL D E R S , D A N NY SPOON ER, PETER P A R K H IL L , J U L IE W O N G : F rank T raynors.

JA ZZ TH E P L A N T : Polaris Inn. D A V E R A N K IN : L e m o n Tree, a fte rn o o n . S K Y L IG H T S : arvo, Y A R RA Y A R R A JAZZ BAND: eve, P rosp ect Hill.

F IL M BARBARELLA: A th enaeum , 1 0 .3 0 .

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W A L T Z IN G M A T IL D A — a national p a n tom im e w ith to m a to sauce: Pram Fac to ry , tue9-sun, 8 .3 0 , m at inee fri, sat, 2p m , 3 2 5 D ru m m on d St, C arlton. $ 2 .5 0 , $ 1 .5 0 (stu ). FALL AND REDEM P T IO N : p e rfo rm e d b y th e senior students of th e A c t o r ’s Theatre S ch o o l, fri-sun, 8 .3 0 , 1 9 6 C hurch St, R ic h m o n d , $ 2 .0 0 , $ 1 .0 0 (stu). SH OW BIZ — 7 3 : review, Tait Theatre, fri-sun, 8 .1 5 , 1 0 7 L eicester St, C arlton. $ 2 .5 0 , $ 1 .5 0 (stu). THE B A L D P R IM A D O N N A : Io n e s co ’ s anti-play o f 1 9 5 0 , C larem ont T heatre, ROCK thurs-sun, 8 .3 0 , 14 Clare S K Y H O O K S : Teazer A Y E R S R O C K : M atthew m on t S treet, S ou th Yarra. $ 2 .5 0 , $ 1 .5 0 students. F linders H otel. W HEN E IG H T BELLS JA ZZ T O L L (N R C ) and TH E G R E A T W HITE HOPE NEW HARLEM JAZZ (N R C ): C arlton Cinema, B A N D : P rosp ect Hill. thure-sun, 7.45, Faraday E X P E R IM E N T A L St, 9 0 c. N .I .A .G .G .R .A .: La Mama. SH A M U S: till w ed , then BEN H U R : till Christmas PO ETRY day, F o otscra y Grand, Paisley St, F o o tscra y ,, POOR TOM ’ S POETRY $ 1.4 0. B A N D : C om m un e.

FESTIVE MELBOURNE F E S T IV A L S

B A N D O F L IG H T : C heq POP F E S T IV A L : At uers. A R IE L : M anly V ale H oteL C o w e s, Isle o f W ight H otel, 6 9 ’ E R S : B righton H oteL b etw een d e c 26 and jan 13, MR GEORGE: O cean ic w ith U p p , P endu lu m , Matt T aylor, Tank, Sid R u m p o , H oteL R e d H ouse R o ll Band, JA ZZ C lou d 9, Mississippi. A d e quate a cco m m o d a tio n ex D O N DE S IL V A S : Old pected. THEATRE Push. J A Z Z C O N V E N T IO N TH E SECOND SHEP JA ZZ, FO LK (2 8 T H ): A t the Show H E R D P L A Y : A 1 5th cen T H E A T R E grouds, Q ueanbeyan, from P O R T JA C K S O N J A Z Z : tury b a w d y and sacred W H A T IF Y O U D IE D T O B oxin g D ay to N ew Year. Stage D o o r Tavern. play — a m in d b lo w e r, 8 .0 0 E N G L ISH F O L K , PIA N O : pm . O ld C hurch, $ 1 .0 0 , M O R R O W : O pera H ouse. C oncerts, film s. B ooze-ups, picnics fo r jazz enthusiasts. Bellevue H oteL 1 details 3 1 .6 2 7 0 . FOLK F E S T IV A L : At P IA N O S IN G A -L O N G : W H A T IF Y O U D IE D T O F IL M Creek. C olon ial L ord D u d ley H oteL M O R R O W : O pera H ouse. JU L IE T T E O F TH E SPIR N ariel dancing w ith C om Kripple TH E S O U N D O F PEO IT S : O pera H ouse. and others, near the New THEATRE P L E : Pact C o -o p , 2 6 4 Pitt Year. For details, ch eck W H A T IF Y O U D IE D T O S t, P o e try W ork sh op . TV lo ca l fo lk clubs. M O R R O W : O pera H ouse. CH RISSIE C A R O L S : Brits W ICK IN W IC K E D N E S S: F IL M S fro m C am bridge get it on N E W Y E A R 'S E V E 2 6 4 Pitt St, (P act C o -o p ). CRYSTAL V O Y A G E R w ith “ C o m e all Y e Faith A B A L L : A t O rm on d Hall, O pera H ouse. F IL M S fu l” and o th e r standards. Big Push, Upp, Issi Dye, F orget it. Pippa P erez.M eal p rov id ed , N F T C L A S S IC SE R IE S : 8 p m -2 am, $8 B .Y .O . Trans E u ro p e E xpress; SUNDOW NER HOTEL, Strangers o n a Train. AM P KULTCHA G e e lo n g : With C lou d 9 , T heatre, 7 .3 0 pm . < C H R IS T M A S C A R O L Issi D i, $ 5 , supper p rovid ed . CRYSTAL VOYAGER: C O N C E R T : O pera H ouse. B R I G H T O N TOWN O pera H ouse, 7 .0 0 pm , 9 .0 0 pm . S L E E P IN G B E A U T Y : H A L L : W ith R e d House ROCK O pera H ouse. R o ll Band, T h e Gathering, T V , R A D IO SH ER^ERT, BAND OF A b e l L o d g e , 8-1, $2. MARY H O P K IN D O E S L IG H T , R IC H A R D C L APW H IT E H O R S E HOTEL: Capital T heatre, C H IL D R E N S FANTAS TON : W it h O ck ers R ock ers, IE S: Channel 2, 6 .2 5 pm. 2 .0 0 pm , 8 .0 0 pm , Santa Pippa P erez, Issi D i, 8-1. “ B O O M ” : M ovie, R ichard and free presents. SOU TH M ELBOURNE HUSH, B urton, L iz T a ylor, N oel B U F F A L O , FOOTBALL GROUND: C ow ard, C hannel 10, 9 .0 0 M IG H T Y K O N G , A R IE L , Pudding, bare streets, aunt With M adder L ake, Matt sw im m ing, ch icken T a ylor, R e d H ouse R oll pm. B R IA N C A D D : W arwick ies, breasts, n oth in g t o d o , t o o B a n d , IN G M A R B E R G M A N Farm , n o o n t o 6p m . C o lo u re d Balls, m u ch b o o z e , kids every A ztecs. F E S T IV A L : Wild Straw F IL M S w here, u n cles t o o . M others berries, Channel 1 0, 1 1 .1 0 . O T H E R M U S IC W O N D E R B A R : M ovie, A1 N F T T H IR T IE S M U SIC o f cou rse, fathers a fte r the Jolson, 1 1 .0 0 , Channel 9. A L S : S H A L L WE D A N C E , club. B o n -b o n s hard sauce. NEW S C h a m p a g n e , p o v e r t y M ELODY IN C O N C E R T : Bee Gees B R O A D W A Y Teazer, M atth ew Flinders, ch u rch , serm ons, waiting O F 1 9 3 8 : O pera H ouse, and others, Channel 7, O rm on d Hall (sats); Chelsea f o r b o x in g day. 7 .1 5 p m . 1 0 .0 0 pm. C ity Hall gigs keep going S U R F IN G M O V IE : M anly and ban ds are playing at K ID S Silver S creen, 5.30. W arrn a m bool and T orq u a y T V , R A D IO TALES FROM NOON A- PERFO RM AN CE: M anly Surf L ife Saving Chibs. M E E N A : O pera H ouse. Silver Screen. B E T T IN G L IST F O R M ost f o lk ch ib s are closin g TH E S L E E P I N G SYDNEY — H O B A R T with the e x c e p tio n ol B E A U T Y : Opera H ouse. Y A C H T R A C E : Channel 2, Frank T ra yn o r’ s. EVENTS 7 .1 5 pm . Jazz carries on at the Pros THE L IG H T S FILM M E E T IN G S TEACH Y O U R S E L F p e ct e x c e p t fo r Christmas GAY L IB C O N T A C T W O R K S H O P : l.'OOpm, Old W O O D W O R K SE R IE S D ay and B oxin g Day. C hurch, See friday. Info,: N IG H T : 33a G leb e Point T H IS W EEK: C hicken W atch o u t fo r an expensive 7 6 .9 6 0 1 . R oad . b o n e s and Christmas pud supper o n N ew Y ear’ s Eve. M U S I C I A N S U N I O N O LD CH U RCH L IB R A R Y ding can b e u sefu l! Find A N D T E A H O U S E : Old B A N D : Band A ssocia tion o u t h o w t o m ake a fa sh ion T he C om m u n e cruises on C hurch, cnr. Stanley and o f NSW, V ic to r ia Park, able b o o k sta n d with Christ unheeding o f ancient reli gious rites. H yd e Park, 3 .0 0 p m -4 .0 0 Palmer Streets, Darlingp m . Brass b an d s o f the mas left-overs. Channel 2, hurst, 3 1 .6 2 7 0 , tues-fri. 1 1 .5 5 pm . THEATRES F R E E F IL M S : 1 1 3 V ic to r roaring 70s. Q U E E N ’S C H R IS T M A S IN T H E H O L S ia S treet, Kings Cross, in fo M E S S A G E : A B C gives it a W A L T Z IN G M A T IL D A 3 5 7 .2 7 0 2 . C O N T E M P O R A R Y “ G ” rating. 7 .3 0 pm and a national pantom im e with BOB H U DSON , JOHN 1 0 .2 0 pm. to m a to sau ce: Pram F a c B U R K E , C H R IS E L T E R - THE K IN G A N D I: Chan t o r y , tu e s d a y - s u nday, M A N plus TH E S EC O N D nel 9, 9 .0 0 pm. m atinees frid a y and Satur S H EPH E R D S P L A Y : Kirk d a y, 2 pm , 3 2 5 D rum m on d Gallery b y T he Bus C om Street, C arlton, $2.50, EVENTS ROCK pany. stu den ts $ 1 .5 0 . C H R IS T M A S P A R T Y : SH O W BIZ ’ 7 3 : A revue, S E A L : F id d lers V in e. Gay L ib era tion Centre, 33a Tait T heatre, friday-sunM U S IC L A DE D A S , H O M E : Curl C L A S S IC A L M U S IC : R e G lebe Point R o a d , G leb e. d a y , until decem b er 22, Curl Y o u th Club. co rd in g R oom , Opera I n fo . 6 6 0 .4 6 8 7 . then resum es january 24 A R IE L , B R IA N CADD, AND N EW S PA SSE D H ou se, 1 1 .0 0 -4 .0 0 pm w ith sam e revue. 107 ROSS RYAN: Opera AROUND THAT A L eicester Street, Carlton, House. 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K ID S JIG SAW F A C T O R Y : In cludes candle m aking, wax m odelling and finger paint ing m o n d a y , tuesday and W ednesday fro m 4 .3 0 (e x ce p t Christm as w eek ). R ing Ms Stevens 4 2 .4 9 6 8 . DRA M A W ORKSHOP: A t D iam ond V alley Learning Centre, january 1 4 -1 8 , phon e 4 3 5 .9 0 6 0 . IN THE P A R K : January 14-25, acting, drama, hand crafts, films, games, swim ming, excursions at tw o parks — P rince’ s Park, Mal vern R o a d ; T o o ra k Park, O rrong R o a d , 9 .3 0 -4 .0 0 .

THEATRE F O R K ID S R U M P E L S T ILS K IN : Childrens m usical from january 3, A lexand er Theatre, M onash U niversity, 10 a m , 2 pm , for inform ation , p hone 5 4 4 .0 8 1 1 /3 9 9 2 (A H 5 4 1 .3 9 9 2 ). PUSS IN B O O T S : A cto rs Theatre, 1 9 6 C hurch Street, R ic h m o n d , every d a y e x ce p t Sundays, 1 0 .3 0 and 2 pm . P A R K SCE N E: F o r kids with a PUPPET T H E A T R E , Flagstaff Gardens, 1 2 .1 0 and 1 .1 0 pm , jan uary 8 and 9. G E O R G E s/4 and D R A G O N 1: P o o r T o m ’ s P oetry Band, Puppet Theatre, film s, and others, F itzro y Gardens, january 12, 1 p m

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S y d n e y . W ealthy m an, disliking b o o z y social scene, co m te m p la ting an oth er lo n e ly Christmas, wants fem in in e co n ta cts. S hy, un s op h istica ted ty p e s preferred . Dal liance o r marriage. F ee refu nded. INC b o x 7 34 9 .

M elbourn e. Male, 4 1, m arried in nam e o n ly , tall, clean, slightly im p oten t, seeks frustrated fem m e fo r d iscreet m utual im p rovem ent. INC b o x 7 340. M elbourn e. Male, 3 3, intelligent, loving, generous, seeks y o u th fu l w om a n w h o yearns fo r fulfill m ent, friendship and jo y in pleas ant surroundings. All answered. INC b o x 7341. M elbourn e. Y o u n g guy w ou ld like t o m e e t y ou n g fem ale im persona tor f o r friendship. R e p ly in strict c o n fid e n c e . INC b o x 7342.

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M elbourn e. G u y, 20, lo n g hair, O K lo o k in g , lacks co n fid e n ce th erefore lacks friends, seeks sim i lar ty p e guy or gal. INC b o x 7 34 3 . M elbourn e. H andsom e, intelligent gu y, 2 5 -3 5 , g o o d p h y siq u e, in terested boats, participates activi ties b each clu b w eekends, sum m er holidays, sun, surf, oth er activi ties. INC b o x 7 34 4 . M elbourn e. W om an, 3 9, wishes to m eet m an a b ou t 4 0 w h o has read “ S ex W ith out G u ilt” and e n jo y e d ____________ it. INC b o x 7 3 4 5 . M elbourn e. Well e d u ca te d m ale, 30, seeks attractive fem ale, p refer ably m arried, f o r d iscreet re n d e z vous. N o hangups, just o ld tim e loving. D -fee refu n d ed . INC b o x 7 346. M elbourne. C ou p le, 40s, seek oth er co u p le s fo r all sexual pleas ures and friendship. INC b o x 7 300. S yd n ey . Straight look in g , gentle guy, 25, dislikes bar and beat scene; digs films, m usic, sea, sun and an occasion a l join t, seeks m any h a p p y m om en ts w ith one similar. INC b o x 7 347. S yd n ey . Fit, b ron z ed , g o o d lo o k ing y ou n g gu y, 23, g o o d b o d y , interested in m eeting slim guy fo r friendship; b each, arts, nature.

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S y d n e y . D iv orced , profession a l gu y, 3 8, slim, 5’ 9 ” , w ide creative interests, seeks s e xy, intelligent fem m e t o assist in transcending the m ed iocrities. INC b o x 7 31 3 .

S y d n e y . H and som e y o u th seeks warm h a p p y b o y f o r m e m ate. E rotic lo v e and sim ple a ffe ctio n , surfing, sport, parties. INC b o x 7 361.

S yd n ey . C am p gu y, 3 0, partial to pain, seeks s to c k y aggressive guy, 20s, w h o is eager t o e x e r t his pleasure. INC b o x 7 31 2 .

S yd n e y and M elbourn e. S e x y , un h ibited , y o u n g m en w anted to share businessm an’ s ( 2 5 ) b ed w hen visiting. R e p ly with p h o t o (fra n k if p o ssib le ) t o INC b o x _________________________ 7 36 2 .

S y d n e y . G u y , 21, just arrived from M elb ou rn e, lo o k in g f o r se x y drag q u e e n f o r fun tim es. All letters answered. I am O K lo o k in g and p rom ise g o o d tim es. INC b o x 7311. A d e la id e . M ale, w ell b u ilt, w o u ld like t o c o n ta c t y o u n g ca m p m ale, 1 6-1 9 , f o r free h o lid a y trip. Have car. M ust have n o ties. INC b o x 7 35 3 . M elbourn e. L o n e ly passive male like t o m eet m an friend, 3 5 -4 5 , b i o r straight. INC b o x 7 35 4 . M elbourn e. G u y, 21, wishes to m eet well hung, active, spu nky guys, 1 8 -2 5 , fo r adventure, .dal liance. D iscreet and genuine. INC b o x 7 35 5 .

S yd n ey . M od ern m ale seeks gen uine fe m m e u n d e r 3 5. He o ffe rs share m o d e rn unit, car, travel, co m p a n y fa m ou s p e o p le o n social leveL She m ust be attractive, in telligent, sensuous, lo y a l and w illing t o participate in his busi ness interests. P erm anent situa tio n and right girl will b e pleased she answ ered this ad. P h o to and p h o n e essentiaL C o st o f p h o t o g raphy refu n d ed . Earliest answers. INC b o x 7 3 6 3 .

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M elbourn e. W arm hearted, un a tta ch ed gu y, y o u n g lo o k in g 40, d iv o rce d , wants t o m ake fresh start with a ttractive w om a n t o 35. F o r m eetin g : INC b o x 7 35 6 .

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H o b a r t. Y oung q u ie tis h m ale c a m p te a c h e r -t y p e n e e d s m o re n o is o m e ca m p — m a y b e — stu d e n t s t o share h o u s e nearish un i. IN C b o x 7 3 5 0 . S y d n e y . P e r s o n n e e d e d t o share m ix e d terra ce. Own room . $ 1 2 . 5 0 . B o n d . 2 3 R ic h a rd s ave, S u rry H ills. M e lb o u r n e . D o u b le r o o m and sin g le r o o m available la rge H aw t h o r n h o u s e t o share w ith m ale a n d fe m a le . R in g 8 2 .5 2 3 3 a fte r 6 pm . S y d n e y . O u r su p er m ix e d h a rb o r sid e m a n s io n n eed s m o re h a p p y alive p e o p l e t o h elp p a y ren t. M o s t ly N im b in it e vegetarians. $ 1 2 . 4 D r u m m o y n e ave, Drum m oyne.

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C an berra . G irl, 20s, m atu re, ap p re cia te s c le a n , tid y , c o m fo r t a b le , w e ll-a p p o in te d h o u s e . O w n e d b y b a c h e lo r n e e d in g s o m e o n e share co s ts. O w n r o o m . $ 1 6 p w , in c lu d e s e le c t r ic it y , rates e tc. Share f o o d c o s t s /h o u s e w o r k . 1 0 0 y d s bu s s t o p . 5Va m iles C C A E . In sp ect s u n d a y a n d m o n d a y n ig h t, 1 2 3 S tarke s treet. H o lt. A d e la id e . T w o p e o p le w e lc o m e . O w n la rge fu r n is h e d b e d s it , share con s. $ 1 0 p w , incL gas, elec. P h o n e 4 4 .7 9 0 0 . S y d n e y . F em a le g r o u p o r sm all fa m ily t o p r a c t ic a lly tak e o v e r lo v e ly h o m e w ith e x te n s iv e h a r b o r view s, ga rd en . $ 3 0 . A va ila b le large f u m . h o u s e in n e r c it y . A vail able fo r group livin g ^lso. 8 2 .3 7 1 7 . M e lb o u rn e . P e o p le t o sh a re re n o v a t e d te rra ce h o u s e in e x c e lle n t c o n d i t i o n . O w n r o o m . R e a s o n a b le rent. C all 7 M ary st, S t K ilda, a n y tim e .

Deployment B o rd e r c o m p l e x area, teen a ge gu y o r o ld e r f o r figu re m o d e llin g w o r k . O n ly g o o d b o d y , l o o k s e tc. D is c r e t io n assured. $ 2 re fu n d e d .

E buggered if I could dig up any worthwhile info sources on anarchy for this week. Most of the mags listed here are critical, uninteresting and tame with a small “ t” . Still, maybe this re flects the state o f anarchist act ivity in Australia at the moment. Or it may be m y attitude. Still, here’s what I found . . .

PACIFIST anarchist vegetarian ecological stones (PAVE Stones! Get it? Like it? Cute eh.) Booklist number tw o is now available, number three, early next year. Send stamped self-addressed en velope to P. Stones, Box 25, Warrawong, 2502. Be the first on you r block — show it to your friends at school.

A M O V E M E N T f o r th e T O D A Y P E O P L E . B rea k a w a y fr o m y e s te rd a y , a sk f o r o b lig a t io n free I n f o r m a t io n B ro ch u re sen t in p la in e n v e lo p e . M e m b e rs fr o m C airn s t o P erth. Ph. ( 0 2 ) 2 5 .1 5 3 2 (B /h r s ), o r w rite S W IN G E R S IN T E R N A T I O N A L (reg. 1 9 7 1 ) , B o x 4 9 8 4 , G P O , S y d n e y , N SW 2 0 0 1 . S ta te i f C O U P L E , F E M A L E , o r M A L E . D IS C R E T IO N G U A R A N TEED. S y d n e y . E n c o u n t e r grou p w e e k e n d o n th ird w e e k e n d in January. E x p e r ie n c e j o y . D is c o v e r y o u r s e lf a n d o th e rs . C all G o r d o n M eggs o n 6 6 5 . 9 2 8 0 o r w rite PO b o x 229 , C oog ee, 2034.

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MERE anarchy, a poetry mag, is available free o f charge from 21 Wakerfield street, Kent Town, SA. I’m sure a donation oi stamp w ould help.

THE Sydney Anarchist Group puts out a mag titled R ed and black, spasmodically. I havent seen a co p y as yet and after this week’s column is printed I’m un likely to receive a freebie in the post from them. That I guess is m y loss. If you would like a co p y it costs 50 cents. Sent to PO, Box A425, Sydney South, 2000. Try addressing your envelope to “ Mid night Writers in the Sky” . * * *

$15.60 enclosed

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I COULDNT dig up anything pub lished by Brizzie anarchists while “ researching” this colum n; I am not sure there is such a species. With premier Joh’s jodhpurs Araldited to the Queensland saddle, conversations on anarchy must be as popular as hamburgers at a Hare Krishna free feed. If there is any thing to be found on anarchy in Brisbane, it should be at the Red and Black Bookshop, 22 Elizabeth arcade, Elizabeth street, Brisbane.

PEACE news doesnt really look like an anarchist newspaper to me. Other anarchist newspapers tell me it is - who am I to judge otherwise. (Yeah, you might well ask.) Published each week, it con centrates on politics, alternatives, movement activities, and what’s on in L ondon mind throbwise. Sort o f olde worlde, 1967 probably worth a trial sub at one pound 56 new pence airmail for three months. Peace News, 5 Cale donian road, L ondon N l, UK.

To: Incsubs, The Living Daylights, Box 5312 BB, GPO Melbourne, .5001. Please commence my subscription as follows: ( ) Six months $7.80 enclosed (

THE Federation o f Australian Anarchists had as much trouble deciding on their articles o f assoc iation as the Australian Procrast inators League did in calling their first meeting. Nevertheless the F A A puts out an irregular bulletin on the state o f the art in Oz. In addition they publish a booklist with which you can increase your knowledge and with which they can increase their cash flow. Hot stuff for budding and veteran anarchists. FAA, Box 294, PO, Collingwood, 3066.

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THE Sydney Libertarians are the remnants o f the old Sydney Push who publish a monthly broad sheet on libertarian, and anarcho-syndicalist theory and news. The latest issue, november, is an almost perfect alternative to the before-bed barbiturate. Blow $2.00 on a sub to Box 2986, GPO, Sydney, 2001.

STEPHEN WALL

FREEDOM is an English anarchist weekly. It’s strong on problems and seems to be still working out how to phrase the solutions. Eight pages o f lean fat each week for three pounds surface and five pounds airmail. Mail to 84b Whitechapel High street, L ondon E l, UK.

THE match is an American monthly devoted to anarchy. The October 73 issue is a 12 page tabloid packed full o f anarchogoodies. Why, shit, it rubbishes almost everything - the counter culture, youth, age, Tricky Dick, the establishment, the press, and lots more. Boy, they really have it to-gether — anarchy is where it’s at, simple as that. Leave your problems behind you, buy a sub today. Why put up with second best, when for three US bucks you can have a brain transplant. Send to Box 3488, Tucson, Arizona, 85722, USA.

KING MOB, for those o f you who have read this far, is yet another magazine on anarchy and con cep t ual kite flying from WA. I have never laid eyes on a cop y but if I’m to fill this colum n this week with info on anarchy I have to use all the sources I can find. Send o ff now to West Australian Anarchist Federation, PO Box 61, Ingle wood. Send stamps.

WELL, that’ s it for now . Only four shopping days till Christmas, and seasons greetings. Keep send ing those info nuggets to APP, PO Box 8, Surry Hills, 2010.

Anarchist bookshelf THE BEST in trodu ction to the theory and practise o f anarchy are G eorge W o o d c o c k ’s Anarchism and James J oll’s The anarchists. If y o u ’ re lazy but still wish to get into prime source material, lots o f original quotes can be fou n d in Patterns o f anarchy edited by Leonard Krimerman and Lewis Percy and The anarchists edited by Irving H orowitz. A lso g o o d is The ABC o f anarchist communism by A. Berkman. If, after ploughing through the above, y ou still wish to read about things instead o f doing them, go to the library and lo o k for the follow in g : Paul A v ich ’s The Rus sian anarchists, Kronstadt 1921 and The anarchists in the Russian revolution. The best b o o k s on the Spanish experience are Gerald Brennan’s The Spanish labyrinth and H obsbaw n’ s Primitive rebels. F or stu ff on the heroes from the past we recom m en d The anar chist prince, a biography o f Peter Kropotkin b y the tireless G eorge W o o d c o ck ; What is property by Pierre Prodhon, translated b y Ben jamin T u ck er; The complete works o f Shelley; The political philosophy o f Bakunin by G. P. M a x im off; Rebel in paradise, a biography o f Emma Goldman; and Errico Malatesta, his life and ideas. An excellent co lle c tio n o f anar chist illustrations can be fou n d in R oderick Edw ard’s The anar chists, the men who shocked an era. A n yw ay, this is just a brief rundow n on som e b ook s on the glorious political id eo lo g y ; an ex cellent bibliography, if a bit out o f date, lies at the rear o f W ood c o c k ’ s Anarchism. A persuasive contem porary w ork is Murray B ook ch in ’s Post scarcity anar chism, published b y Ram parts Press and available at som e city b ook sh op s.

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Wishy washy vegetarians IN ANSWER to Herbie Vaugh's thing in TLD 8. Biped herbivores prowl the planet, chopsticks and carrot in hand, masticating less antiseptic hippies. They are hungry and constipated. They can only occasionally be seen, as they are rare in number, gliding one fo o t above the ground with a "healthier than thou" ex pression lying graciously across their etherealised, feminised and passive faces. When asked why they do not eat meat, and they are asked rarely (as their eating habits and associated behavior alienate them from the general brutish run o f businessmen, students, workers, the middle class, etc, etc.), their answers, quietly and sincerely put, are astonishingly weak. I am al ways disoriented by the wishywashy replies, and any realistic chase to find a solid basis for their eating habits usually ends in a total quagmire o f their personally felt mysticism. Their mysticism is always dif ferent from, and usually contrary to that o f other vegetarians, yet the manifestation o f this etherealisation very nearly always shows itself in a rejection o f meat.

LETTERS & Now meat is such a physical thing. I mean, it’s hard to feel passive with a lump o f chop in your mouth. And, o f course, that’ s what it’ s all about, stillness and passivity. We all know aggression is a bad thing. I mean, it causes activity; it motivates. A nd G od knows (I’m sure) that what we need today is to withdraw from that harsh, bad, all too real world out there. The gentle answers to the ques tion "W hy not eat meat?” usually hover unspoken for a few seconds and then flow out uncertainly, perhaps with the suggestion that “ I dont like killing” . A nd we continue to talk, while devouring freshly killed vegetables and slap ping at occasional mosquitoes. Vegetarianism is a fad. The only reason for doing it is that people have a need to identify with a group. Supposedly against the val ues o f today’s society, the vege tarians, passive and non-aggressive, are an alternative and therefore must be correct? Vegetarians are vegetarians be cause they feel meat to be bad and only that. And they feel that it’ s bad because o f their own lack o f aggressive success in the all-tooreal world out there. Meat is such a fleshy, physical thing. T o quote Herbie Vaugh, “ like most pleasures o f the flesh,

it’s not good for y o u ". T o answer his meagre argu ments: “ Meat is big business." Vege tables are big business, too. "M eat in excess is unhealthy.” Anything eaten in excess is un healthy. PETER ANDREWS, O yster Bay, NSW

Leunig bombs out IT M AY SEEM LIKE AN ARCH Y BUT IT’S O N LY IRRESPONSIBILITY. LOVE LEUNIG

Fear and loathing IN A recent issue o f TLD, you men tioned — as have other newspapers — that Yevgeny Yevtushenko refused to answer A LL political questions. I deny that, in part. I filmed a long and exclusive interview with him at the photographic exhibition on October 31. In the segment I edited for telecast ing, he talked about the jewish ques tion freely, but taking it further, he gave a clear indication o f his fear in answering such questions. Here is a transcript o f a relevant part o f that interview: SINCLAIR: “ In ‘ Babi Yar’ you are

Dear Daylights,

especially outspoken about the plight o f the je w s . . . ” YEVTUSHENKO: “ Well, there are a lot o f things, but nobody, no friends o f mine, are anti-Semites. I, for instance, I hate all kinds o f chauvinism. I hate anti-semitism. If we have it — some times your press exaggerates — I will lie if I will say tliis question doesnt exist like a question. But dont forget about the past, because the anti-semitism is a legacy o f our past, so it’ s impossible to abolish it absolutely so soon. But we will try to. Now, if you compare our present with our past, it’s com pletely uncomparable.” SINCLAIR: “ We dont necessarity hear about it if you do, but we never seem to hear about whether you ’re involved in any o f the fights to protect the jews for instance, or people like Solzhenit syn and Sakharov?” YEVTUSHENKO: "W hy must I in form you about m y actions?” SINCLAIR: “ D o you in fact have anything to do with it?” YEVTUSHENKO: “ Well, I have no more necessity to give you p roof that I am an honest man.” SINCLAIR: “ Yes — but you talk all through your poetry . . . it’ s humanity, humanity. Do you do any more than write about it?” YEVTUSHENKO: “ Yes - er - yes. But I prefer not to give you informa tion, because in the eyes o f some people it would be . . . (looks furtively to his right, then back to me) . . . it might look like a report . . . might form a report about m yself.” Simple fear, as was obvious. But he did talk freely about his ideas on G od and other subjects. R A Y SINCLAIR, Ten Eyewitness News, Sydney, NSW

The graffiti man I AM the one who writes on walls and my m ob are not boasters perhaps you all have guessed my name if not, it’ s William Posters. I never will run out o f things to write about, that’ s sure there’s lots o f things that I’m against and nothing that I’m for. I rush around and scribble words like “ Y ou can all get rooted” ignoring all the idle threats Bill Posters prosecuted. For they have never caught me yet in fact it makes me smile to think that they could ever get Bill Posters up on trial. And as for getting rid o f me well, I will always fight on as long as I’ve a paint brush left and there are walls to write on.

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correspondence

is now closed - EDS

R US CENTER, Bayswater, Vic.

What does it mean THESE facetious, petulant, potty, witty? snippets have appeared on your back page every week: V ol 1, No 1. A tree died for this newspaper. No 2. One bright reader is worth one-thousand boneheads. No 3. Australian born, Australian bred/Long in the leg, Short in the head. No 4. Fixed like a plant to his peculiar spot/T o draw nutrition, prop agate and rot. No 5. Freedom o f the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. No 6. It’s better to be wanted for murder than n ot to be wanted at all. No 7. Music is the brandy o f the damned. No 8. The secret o f being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or n o t N o 9. The beginning o f all origin ality is idleness. Could these be an exposition of your dogma, subject headings for the news in that week’ s newspaper. I just dont know, please explain. I’ m getting tremors being so smug with myself seeing all m y friends reading this paper and n ot noticing. But due to my paranoia, I’ll have to stick m y bum in before anyone else does. PETER SMITH and SUE, Berala, NSW.

Vive la difference IS Albie Thoms (TLD 9) really serious? I agree with him in that avant garde, experimental (or whatever else you want to call it) music is a very import ant extension o f conventional ideals of music, but it seems, unfortunately, to have extended to a point where any fo o l can make a noise and call it music. T o feed a piano, ■r scrape a violin b ow on a w ooden floor cannot, in my humble opinion, be seriously classed as music.* There is, undoubtedly, great merit in the avant garde, but somewhere there must be a line drawn between music, and noise. PETER RILEY, Box Hill, Vic.

Acid test WHAT IS going on? In TLD 7 the kindly doctor Leary says he never advocated acid, yet in Farrago, june 22, (in an interview extracted from London Oz, apparently) he states quite clearly that he did and still does advocate the use o f acid, in fact, that everyone can profit from it. Without pointing a finger at anyone, this is rather sloppy reporting. Your paper is bad enough as a turgid forum for people to rave and rave, without throwing in an element o f confusion/ distrust/disbelief. So to o is Farrago, and the average reader is left confused. Who is responsible and who can I believe? CAKE

I f Le ary wishes to c o n tra d ic t h im self th a t's his prerogative. Eds.

Smartarse MUST AD D m y voice to Alan McGreg or’ s (TLD 7) on the subject o f “ Smart arse writing” . Take the article Stranger in the light by Michael O 'R ourke: Mr O ’Rourke could have told us simply and sincerely what he thought the Divine Light Mission was all a bout Was there really any need for infan tile, nauseating passages like the fol lowing? “ Did I, dear reader, spring from my chair and with a hoarse scream o f rage punch Nigel right in the face? Did I tear his skin o ff in ragged strips? Did I lean forward and with low intensity utter the following malediction, Fuck, suck, tongue in cunt? Did I violently tear o ff his nether garments and thrust a photo graph o f Guru Maharaj Ji up his arse? (I see that your understanding partakes o f many o f the qualities o f a brilliant white light.) No, I did none o f these things.” What a waste o f newsprint! It seems obvious to me that Mr O ’ Rourke badly needs “ the Knowledge” — or some thing. INTERESTED (in the Knowledge), CAIRNS, Qld

Timestream poetry THE Timestream poetry readings on Wednesday nights from 8 pm at the Old Church at the corner o f Palmer and Stanley Streets in Darlinghurst, are into their second successful month o f giving Australian poets a chance to be heard. There has been a high standard o f poetry read and the audience has been very appreciative. The readings, which were started by Richard Coady, Gary Oliver, Norman Thompson and' Rae Jones, have been held in one o f Sydney’ s oldest churches — which now serves as a creative centre directed by John Jeffries. Poets wishing to read are asked to com e early at 7.30 to enable the evening’s program to be arranged. RICHARD COADY, D irector o f TIMESTREAM MEDIA CENTRE, 32 Coventry Road, Strathfield, 2135

THINGS The original anarchists PETER GARDNER IKE their ancestors had done for 15,000 years, the original anarchists spent their days quietly wandering the bush o f Australia. Many aspects o f the aboriginal way o f life were anarch istic and other aspects have d ef inite appeal to anarchists today. To begin with, the organisation o f aboriginal tribes was highly decentralised. The basic unit being an extended family o f 10-20 members living in a certain area. The tribe (a collection o f all the basic family groups sharing the com m on bond o f language) was only united for intertribal warfare or for special ceremonies or rit uals. Aboriginals had no con cep t o f leadership. Respect was given to and council taken from the aged. The practice o f making kings in tribes by early settlers was subject to ridicule by the natives unless the ‘ king’ happened to be a re spected tribe member. Another anarchistic aspect o f aboriginal society was their system o f mutual exchange. Game caught by one hunter was shared amongst all members o f the group including unsuccessful hunters. Over a long period the practices o f sharing ensured the well being o f all members o f the group and required equal effort by all members. Tied in with this primitive socialism were many interesting features. T w o admirable char acteristics were the lack o f ambition and the lack o f com peti tion. More important, the group and its members would only work long enough to provide for its simple requirements, leaving many hours for rest and play. Furthermore, the aboriginals had n o sense o f property as we understand it. They possessed few items of personal property. In terms o f territory, however, d ef inite boundaries marked by nat ural features were recognised by all tribes. However, they did not consider themselves owners o f the land but rather part o f it, living close to nature and the need to practise conservation ensured the evolution o f a type o f pantheism. An idea compatible with certain strains o f anarchism. Tribal warfare as it existed before the white man was by pres ent day standards amusing. The conflict usually ceased with both sides withdrawing after the first casualty was inflicted. No prison ers were taken, no torture applied, nor did any tribe have territorial ambitions. Finally an admirable but not purely anarchistic trait o f the aboriginal was their love and care for their children. Children were given com plete freedom till the age o f seven years. A fter that they were carefully instructed in all the skills and traditions. This educat ional period culminated in initi ation and adulthood. By necessity they practised infanticide. This limiting o f family size plus the companionship and other relation ships o f the extended family gave children all the attention they required. Within 30 years o f occupation by the white man, the heart o f

BUT I D O -1 HAVE TO. IT IS PART OF BEING AN AMBASSADOR. CHAMPAGNE 15 THE ONLY THINS THAT MAKES A BORINS AMBASSADORIAL PARTY JU S T ABOUT BEARABLE. IT ALSO HELPS TO MAKE THE LIFE OF AN AMBASSADOR BEARABLE THESE DAYS-WHEN N O B O & i IS SAFE FROM THE REVOLUTIONARIES WHO WOULD CHANSE THE WORLD WITH A BULLET OR A BOMB INSTEAD A BALLOT

the Olympic and comm onwealth games!!), it will be bound to suspend the Surf Life Saving Association o f Australia, and the individual team members, should they com pete in South Africa. The New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association has already declared its intention to suspend the NZ Surf Life Saving Associa tion and the individual team members, should they go ahead with their decision to com pete in South Africa. The A SA A has yet to announce what it intends to do. This life saving com petition is an example o f the kinds o f pressure that will increasingly be brought to bear on Australia. We can either compete with white South Africa, or the rest o f the world; but we can’t d o both. Whitlam would do well to remember that, shortly after his election, a poll o f “ non-white” South Africans overwhelmingly voted him their “ man-of-theyear” . Would they vote the same way today?

Calling bikies aboriginal society was com pletely destroyed by the gods o f wealth, ambition and government and the demons o f the gun, the grog and the pox. T o advocate a return to primit ive society would be irrational. However there is much that we, the children o f the conquerors, could learn from the culture and organisation o f these people. Especially their own unique brand o f anarchy.

The state of play PETER McGREGOR NE OF THE first actions the Whitlam Labor govern ment to o k upon gaining o ffice in december 1972, was to ban racially selected South African sports teams from COMING TO Australia. This ban was widely and justly applauded, but to make it effec tive, it was obviously necessary to complement it with action-pre venting Australian teams from GOING OVERSEAS to com pete in racist sport. The essential evil is apartheid itself, rather than where that evil

is com m itted; apartheid sport is just as repugnant whether it is played in Johannesburg or Syd ney, Sharpeville or the polar caps. T o participate in an evil, and to claim that our degree o f culpabil ity varies according to where that evil is comm itted, is no more than an exercise in expediency and semantics. At the moment Australia is planning participation in the World Surf Life Saving Champion ships to be held in South Africa in january 1974. This involves com peting with racially selected South African teams. The championships are o f par ticular interest because o f the special problems they pose for Australian swimmers and life savers. FINA (the international swimming b od y ) has suspended South Africa (because o f the racial nature o f South African swimming - segregated beaches, etc.) ruling that none o f its member bodies is to have ANY contact with South Africa. If the Amateur Swimming Association o f Australia (A SA A ) wishes to continue its membership o f FINA (which includes our eligibility to participate in inter national swimming events, such as

FILM Australia are producing two films for the Department o f Transport on bikies and motor bikes. They want to deal with all aspects o f bikes (scoot ers to 750cc) and public attitudes to them. What they require is public to send info and stories etc, to them. They are making one half hour film and an hour film. The half hour is training film on how to ride bikes. Hour film is TV special. Send ideas etc, to: Motorbikes, Film Australia, PO Box 46, Lindfield, NSW, 2070.

Hack sex goodbye WHEN I first heard that a new weekly paper was to be produced b y the same crew o f cutthroats that disem bowel Nation review I was full o f hope. The glorious ads fo r the new rag inspired me, if that is the word. And what does it turn out to be? Nothing but a phoney imitation o f Ribald and some o f the other master pieces that grace newsagents stands throughout Australia. The same (sim ilar) hack pieces o n sex, sex, and strangely sex again. Do the beautiful people d o anything other than root or stand around in public places feeling each other up, and comparing cocks, cunts (forgive me mother), o r what ever? ERNEST B. GOODBODY, (alias Tisdell), South Perth, WA

F E S T IV E M E L B O U R N E C O N T . From Page 27 w id e range o f a ctiv ities. M o n d a y -fr id a y , 9 .3 0 - 3 .3 0 , ja n u a ry 7 -2 5 . T w o d o lla rs ch a rg e f o r m ateria ls. O T H E R S : C a m p in g H o li d a y s a t M illg ro v e , M t E ve ly n , A n g le s e a . W a te rsk iin g w e e k e n d s at Yarrawonga, F a m ily C a m p s at Y a rr a w o n g a . C o n t a c t th e Y o u t h C o u n c il f o r m o r e d etails.

SU M M ER SCHOOLS M ONASH U N IV E R S IT Y has th ese c o u r s e s : M igra n ts and th e co m m u n ity , w o m e n an d sex ro le s , u n d e r d e v e lo p m e n t , c o m p u t e r p ro g ra m m in g , F r e n c h , c h il d re n s th ea tre, e le m e n ta r y m od ern d a n ce , cla ssica l gu itar, p o e t r y w ritin g , film , m u s ic , p h o t o g r a p h y , a ik id o

and ju d o . R in g V ic k y M ollo y , 5 4 4 .0 8 1 1 f o r d etails. L A T R O B E U N IV E R S I T Y has th ese c o u r s e s : F ilm a p p r e c ia tio n , sexu a l be h a v io r, s ilk scre e n , b a tik , t ie -d y e p rin tin g , d re ssm a k in g, d ra m a , ty p in g , jazz b a lle t, c r a fts and fe n c in g , c r ic k e t c lin ic . F o r d e ta ils, p h o n e S a lly 4 7 8 .3 1 2 2 e x t. 2167. P R E S T O N T E C H has these c o u r s e s : D ra w in g, p ain tin g, p h o t o g r a p h y , p rin tm a k in g, s cu lp tu re . Call P rue L e e , 4 6 7 .3 2 1 1 e x t. 2 7 5 . DIAMOND VALLEY L E A R N I N G C E N T R E has a v id e o w o r k s h o p f o r t w o w e e k s at e n d o f jan u a ry, information 4 3 5 .9 0 6 0 (1 2 -6 p m ). CREATIVE SCHOOL H O L I D A Y C L U B has 6 0

c o u r s e s in arts a n d cra fts. P h o n e 8 1 .1 5 1 2 b e t w e e n 1 0 am and 2 p m . M ELBOURNE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CRAFTS is fo r all ages. P hone 5 3 .8 3 1 5 . CLAYTO N A R TS COUN C IL (e v e n in g s ) has c o p p e r e n a m e llin g , je w e lle r y , p o t t e r y . R in g 5 4 4 .0 6 6 8 . L E A R N IN G E X C H A N G E : A D r o p In C e n tre o n m o n d a ys, W ed n esd a y s a n d Sun d a y s in ja n u a ry. It is e x p e c t e d t o sta rt u p va rio u s a ctivities, su ch as a v id e o w ork sh op, p h otogra p h y, arts and c r a fts, all d e p e n d in g o n th e in te re st gen era t ed . P e o p le o f all ages w e l com e. See ja n u a r y ’s “ L E A R N I N G EX C H A N G E or rin g : 2 1 1 .5 4 1 3 .

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