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UNDERCURRENTS CONTENTS Eddies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..2 Letters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 A Hard Rain's A'Gonna Fall . . . .8

People's News Service investigation in to chemical and biologicel warfare

Acting Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

This is our 50th issue and 10th anniversary - frankly we're amazed but happy to be here. The magazine seems to be in good shape, though, in independent publishing, financial problems are never far away. The greatly increased interest in the issues that we cover - from the anti-nuke and peace movements, to co-ops, anti-sexist politics, community technology and media - is encouraging. It%hard to define the paper, or what keeps us going - per haps just the simple idea that people CAN try to take control of their lives. Yes, we look on the bright side of life - as long as the cheques keep coming in. And finally, a big thank you to all those out there in Undercurrentsland who 've supported us over the years.

Community theatre in Glasgow

CND and END..

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Campaign strategies for 1982

Planning for Real. . . . . . . . . . . -15

A model method for changing your

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Disarming Thinking.

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Bomb politics, by Martin H Ryle

Paternal Bliss. . . . . . . . . . . . . ..24

Friedrichshof was never like this in the brochure.

Diary of a Safety Valve.

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Tony Allen and the anarcho-fascists

Weird stuff bulletin . . . . . . . . . .27

Paul Sieveking on the Zone of Silence

In the beginning

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Undercurrents came in a plastic bag how naive can you get!

10 Year's that didn't shake the world. . . . . . . . . . . . .31 Stephen Joseph on a decade of environmental action

Alternative Technobgy Revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..33 Info update for A T freaks

What's What and When . . . . . . .36 Reviews. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38 Classified. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..46 Subscriptions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48 Forth- Loony Doomster on the rampage. . . . . . . . . . . ..48 Undercurrents L t d is a company registered under the laws o f England (no 1 1 4 6 4 5 4 ) and limited b y guarantee. T e n t h year of issue. ISSN 0306 2392. E D I T O R I A L OFFICE: 2 7 Clerkenweli Close, L o n d o n EC1 R OAT. Tel: 01-3 7303. ACCESS: We meet at 7.30pm every Wednesday and all friends o f t h e magazine are welcome. COPY D A T E : Undercurrents 5 1 (March) w i l l be o n sale Saturday 6 t h March. Closing date f o r last m i n u t e items is February 17th. COPY RIGHT: The contents o f Undercurrents are copyright: permission t o reprint is freely given t o non-profit groups w h o apply i n writing, and sold t o everyone else. ,

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RFORD PEACE On Saturday 6th of February, half a dozen people drew up outside the main gates of the RAF bar, Fairford, and parked a caravan, e marquee, a few tents and an old ambulance on the grass verge. Within an hour and a half seventy people had joined them. Fairford Peace Camp wu established The aim of the camp is t o oppou current defence polioiw on the promise that pÃ§accannot exist at the top of the crazy spiral of annammts escalation. RAF Fairford was chofsn as a site from which to voice this protest as the American KG135 Strattt Tankers, the airborne refuelling planes which service the nuclear 652 bombers, are based there. But on the 9th of February the camp was evicted from it; site outside the main gates by thirty MODpolicemen. Immediately after the MOD police had dismantled the camp and bodily carried o f f t h e campers, the area wasfenced off by workmen. Undeterred the

COKED Ways haw been established for reducing the health risks of workers in coking plants. Epi-" -

an excess proportion of lung cancer deaths amongst coke oven workers. Following consultations with management and trade unions in the steelmaking industry

protesters gathered their belonginas and set up camp again three hundred yads down the road. Ownership of the present site is unclear. It was given t o Gloucestenh~irCounty Council on condition that 'improvements' would be made. Apparently the US Forces offered to turn the siteinto a picnic area but the council declined. The Peace Camp has received information from three separate sources alleging that nuclear war-

the National Industry Group has produced a guide on safety measures. Advice is given on the regular monitoring of all coking batteries in order to identify the grade emissions of smoke and fume. The results of the monitoring will then form the basis for remedial action. This is t o be augmented by the introduction of the best coking practices, operating systems, good housekeeping and a high standard of plant maintenance. The guide is published by the Health and Safety Executive.

SUNDAY SPECIAL -- .--

Saturday June 5th is the date set this year t o celebrate International SunDay. Organisation of the event is well under way and it is hoped that the sporadic success of last year's events will be improved on this year. The day is marked by out-door demonstrations and fairs showing different forms of renewable energy at work, solar houses,and public buildings built or converted for energy conser-

vation and displays by the trade. The aim of the event is t o bring the public and businesses into contact with renewable energy resources those already present and those with possibilities for the future. I f you or your group feel that you would like t o celebrate International Sunday full information can be had from Stewart Boyle, 26 Plymouth Place, Leamington Spa, Warwicks.

he; 3 Tankers are being stored at RAF Fairford. The response from the US Airforce headquarters in Britain t o these allegations Was: "We can neither confirm nor deny that nuclear warheadsare stored here. It it not our polkv todiscuss the siting of nuclear weaoons nor is it the aolicv of We not talk about these things." The Liberal Party Defence spokesman Mr Russell Johnson

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@ E v e ~ b o dIsywelcome to join tne Peace Camp. Contact Fairford Peace Camp: RAF Falrford. Fair ford, Nr Clrancester. Gloucestershire. Telephone; Kemble 538.

LUCAS A I D The socialist ~nvironmentand Resource*A m i a t i o n is witportin0 thÃ Lucas Aerospace shop stewards' opposition t o the planned 1050 redundancies at Lucas Aerospace Burnley plant

SERA Irlieve* that it is t i to call a halt to the m d l chain ~ of redundwicin in British industry, and start t o introduce job creating alternative policies As a first stop it calk for the revival of the Burnley shop floor workeif plan which surfaced six years ago The idea was to use company expertise and facilities to maRelociallyuseful such as the natural gas haat pump, a prototype of which was built at Burnley under pressure from the stewards in 1977178 but which Lucas management have subsequently ignored The shop stewards argue that i f this strategy had been adopted at if birth, they wou Id now be cushioned from the effects of the present slump. Lucas management however head down to the problems of commercial viability is expected t o retain its blinkers. .

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LEAD SHOT DOWN Parliamentary support for cutting out the lead in petrol has grown steadily since the launch of the campaign CLEAR on the 25th January. Nevertheless the manufacture of lead additives is a highly profitable business and oil companies i. will be reluctant to give in and admit to the environmental dangers They will find it too convenient to perpetuate the mythical qualities of the lucrative additive. They also know some government spokesman will go on faithfully reciting fallacy as scientific truth. be a necessary additive i n the About 10 per cent of all lead mined is now used for petrol additives and none is recovered. Some 70-80 per cent of this lead is emitted t o the atmosphere as an invisible aerosol composed of

1920s and 30s, i n order t o provide adequate supplies of high octane petrol, lead free petrol has for long been available i n the United States, Canada, Russia and Japan. Yet all petrol on public sale i n Britain today contains the additive. This is despite the fact that there are techniques well estab- . lished in the petroleum industry for manufacturing petrol - of octane rating suitable for any car now on the roads without using lead. However the industry remains hooked on lead dope seeing it as the best means b y which t o adjust octane ratings t o market requirements. The petroleum industry argues its case from a number of viewpoints. A massive investment in new refining plant would be required, they say, t o produce lead free petrol. This is a gross exaggeration. British refineries are currently working at only about 50-70 per cent of capacity and some are even being closed down. Much of this spare capacity could be used for the more intensive refining processes needed for unleaded petrol. And again they maintain that refining without lead would need ,

more crude oil and so waste energy. But the extra five per cent of oil required, far from being wasted would assist the process which is already under way for using gaseous hydrocarbons i n the manufacture of plastics. The final argument that cars will wear out quicker on lead free petrol stands u p feebly t o close study. Though the use of lead may reduce valve wear in certain cars there are n o other benefits. I n fact part of the cost of motoring is attributable t o its inclusion; combustion chamber deposits, piston ring and bearing wear, low life expectancy of spark plugs, exhaust systems and lubricating o i l are all partly the result o f lead additives. But possibly the reasons rather than the justifications for the continued use of lead are t o be found i n the vested interest of the petroleum companies. Shell, BP, Mobil, Chevron and Texaco together own the subsidiary company Associated Octel

which manufactures lead additives. Octel has a major share o f the world's markets outside North America and has been honoured with Queen's Awards for Export Achievement. Although Shell and British Petroleum independently stated i n 1971 that they were ready t o provide lead-free petrol as and when required, and Burrnah had plans t o market leadfree petrol as a technically superior motor fuel, the UK petroleum industry has since then maintained a united front in its official position on the idea of lead-free petrol. I n the meantime though, i t has quietly been making plans to manufacture it, when the pressure for its introduction can n o longer be resisted. The government is n o t innocent either in this delay though it has undoubtedly received bad technical advice i n formulating its present policy o f slow reduction in petrol lead levels, rather than complete and rapid abolition. Bryce Smith

extremely tiny particles. It falls as dust, some o f which are thought t o be rich enough t o be worked as a lead ore. While between 10 and 50 per cent of the lead emitted from cars falls out within 100 metres from the road, depending on weatherconditions, the remainder enters global air distribution systems and falls out after days or even weeks. Hence the pollution is world wide and n o t merely a local hazard close t o traffic. Although lead was thought t o

FARE FIGHT As most readers w i l l know, the Law Lords' decision outlawing cheap fares i n London has been greeted w i t h an immense spontaneous upswell of public protest, i n other cities w i t h cheap fares policies as well as London. "Fare Fight", the London group, has 17 local groups now, which all report unprecedented interest. One public meeting i n Hackney drew 400 people and collected around Â£200London Transport staff are joining in, and are calling a oneday strike o n March 10, while pressure is o n them t o refuse t o collect the increased

fares at all, when they double o n March 21. -Ironically, the chief sufferers are likely t o be the ratepayers o f Bromley, also the borough that challenged the G L C over cheap fares. Service cuts are also promised: these will include the withdrawal o f the most uneconomic bus routes, which are those i n Bromley and other high-carownership, less densely populated outer London Tory boroughs. *Fare Fight Is now at 6 Molton Street. London w l (01-629 5268). Fair Fares for Women is contactable via Sarah on 01-359 5773 (days).

Friends o f the Earth are joining n the demolition o f t h e m y t h that adding lead t o petrol saves the country energy. Using data i n the energy costs and benefits if adding lead t o petrol - some if which were published b y the HI industry - FOE'S Pollution consultant Brian Price has demon-

strafed that energy equivalent t o some 390.000 tonnes of oil is wasted each year b y the use o f lead additives. Their publication "Lead i n Petrol - A n Energy Analysis" is available price Â£each from Friends of the Earth, 9 Poland street, London W l

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LIB- LAB COLLISION --

Following the raid o n the Life Science Research Establishment at Stock, i n Essex, twenty four activists from anti-vivisection groups w i l l be appearing at Chelmsford courts o n April 22nd charged with conspiracy t o cause damage estimated at Â£100,000 The raid, code-named Operation Valentine, made dramatic headlines i n the National press, as demonstrators masked and

TASMANIA: The South West wilderness is in danger from damming of the Gorden River and its tributaries, for hydroelectric power. Environmentalists hope intervention from the Federal Government will shake up the t w o Tasmanian government houses deadlocked w a r the issue since the area was added t o the National Heritage Register i n 1980. AUSTRALIA: A n immigrant from Madagascar is thought t o be 134 years old. Despite foreign blood (Testudo radiata) and a prosaic name (Torty) the land tortoise is holding out well and has achieved considerable fame i n his home town of Bundaberg in Queensland, for being the eldest living animal on zoological record.

armed with crowbars cut security fences and smashed their way into laboratories t o free animals under experimentation. Attention was focussed o n the 'guerrilla' tactics used b y the members of the animal welfare groups which included the British Union for the Abolition o f Vivisection, the Animal Liberation Front, and Animal Aid. But this event was the climax t o a long standing campaign

against Life Science Research company. In July last year demonstrators handed a petition t o the company requestion that 1% of their profits be donated t o finding alternative methods of research, exclusive of the use o f animals. The private firm, which was formed i n the early '60s, countered such ideas by claiming that it was not involved i n vivisection, hoping t o vindicate it's activities b y tackling the most

JAPAN: The world's first single-site scrap car processing plant, called the Renzoku Seiko, will open this autumn at Tomakomai City in Hokkaido. This factory can regenerate scrap cars into steel which can be used for

concrete reinforcement on a competitive basis. It's estimated that 10,000 tons of concrete reinforcement steel can be made out of 30,000 scrap cars per . month.

Angola: War On Want has secured Â£1million Common Market emergency aid for Namibian refugees in Angola who are under the care of the South West African People's Organisation (SWAPO). The aid is the largest single programme ever undertaken by War On Want. Food and medical supplies from the EEC's Emergency Aid Division was requested by a consortium which includes Oxfam Belgique, Solidarity Socialiste (the Belgian Labo.ur Party development agency) and Trocaire. in Ireland.

emotive issue. Yet details i n their recent advertisement i n the New Scientist for staff experienced i n animal laboratory techniques would suggest, t o the informed eye, that even this is untrue. The important lever for the animal welfare groups, however, will be the disclosure that the majority of all kinds of 'live' experiments are unnecessary. A spokesman for the A L F t o l d Undercurrents that research stations canvas for work i n Trade Journals unavailable t o the general public. As this is an open invitation for chemical companies t o submit substances for toxicity testing w i t h no reference t o a 'clearing house', the result is that the same experiments are repeated (with the same dose of suffering t o the animals) for a number of different customers. Furthermore, chemical and pharmaceutical companies dissatisfied with results, may use more than one laboratory t o push through their product, thereby eventually securing legislation for a borderline drug or chemical. The Research stations rarely encounter a shortage of raw material for the experiments. Any cut i n supplies of animals normally got through dealers who make the rounds o f the Univekities, teaching hospitals, and Government funded laboratories (like the MAFF station at Babrahan, i n Cambridgeshire, which orders quantities of pigs for gruesome intestinal surveys) can be made up from nonregistered dealers and stolen family pets. The spokesman from the A L F said that files taken during the raid at Stock on the 15th February hold information on breeders who supply t o the trade. Despite their necessary 'French Resistance' type organisation, the A L F says they will continue t o plead for a public confrontation and debate with representatives, not only from the Science Resaarch Stations, but from factory farms, and other establishments into animal abuse. T o support the demonstrators charged for the Chelmsford Raid send cheques/postal orders to OPentlon Valentine Defence Fund, c/o ALF, Box 190, 8 Elm Avenue, Nottingham. Sunday Aprll 14th -demo Placards welcome a t Chelmsford Police Station where 30 activists must report on suspicion of criminal damage.

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THE LAST ten years have seen enormous growth, throughout Europe, in efforts to change the ground rules of broadcasting and, in particular, the relationship between the State, broadcasting organisations and audiences. The objective has generally been either t o remove the state's control of broadcasting by the creation of a semi-autonomous commercial sector, or t o replace existing monopoly-type structures (where domination is by the state, commercial bodies or both) with ones allowing more democratic and accessible forms of broadcasting. The results of these pressures have varied, but the broadcasting system in any country has been seen t o depend on the interplay of five forces. The relationship of any one t o the others,

and its strength at any given moment influences the direction and development of broadcasting. These five forces are: the State; existing broadcasting establishments and traditions; audience demands; commercial interests; and concerned pressure groups. In this article we look at their interplay in Sweden, Belgium and France.

a belated recognition of the eady 70s current among professionals favouring localism. The second, NR, is seen by some Swedish observers as a step towards the introduction of full-blown commercial broadcasting, a development also threatened by the imminent arrival of a European commercial satellite. NR, launched a three-year experiment, in sixteen localities, allows organisatThe mild Swedish experiment ions approved by a central NR In Sweden, a shift from the metropolit- Committee t o broadcast what they will; an bias of broadcasting towards local only advertising is forbidden. Groups radio had already been planned by the pay their productions' costs and a small Social Democrats, when a defeat at rent for transmitter time which is shared the polls in 1976 ended their 44-year between, typically, two dozen organrule. The rightlcentre coalition which isations in each area. succeeded them added in 1979 a second A 1980 report showed average weekly strand of decentralised programming - programming amounted t o 35 houis, Neighbourhood Radio (NR). except in Stockholm where roundThe first move, part of the reorganis- the-clock programming was usual. ation of Swedish Broadcasting (SR), was Churches have s o far been the major less a resDonse t o audience demand than users - a visible connection with the ruling conservative coalition; but young people grouping together t o host or play specialist music not heard on SR indicates that the state system is leaving tastes unmet. SR itself operates 24 local stations which transmit 5-6 hours daily, opting out from the pop music channel and conveying a very similar atmosphere and approach t o the BBC local radio. SR has, however, unbent more than the BBC in t h e matter of involving nonprofessional groups and individuals in production. Radio Kristianstad, for example, in the south of Sweden, has an outpost at Angelholm staffed by two engineers and three journalists. They see the training and encourage- . ment of local people as an integral part of their job. Groups are weaned from dependence on staff and studios t o use of portable recorders and the technique of mixing music and studio sound. The engineers fill in on presentation when required, and one, a keen musician, deals with local bands.

Free radio explosion In Belgium, a free radio explosion a 1 'Italienne occurred in the Frenchspeaking sector in 1978. It was spearheaded by informal militant groups contesting local environmental and anti-nuclear issues. A fierce confrontation between police and students at the University station at Louvain forced the authorities t o take official notice of the phenomenon. In the ensuing period of toleration,

Undercurrents 51 commercial stations sprang up and gained ground, once again exploiting tastes unrnet by the state system. On an April evening last year (by when a fifth of the population was listening t o free radio) two Brussels stations neatly demonstrated the contrasting tYpes. Radio Capitale, shamelessly pirated its London namesake's jingles, was inhabited by a bunch of young men already half employed by the music industry. Their electronic juke-box pumped out on high power most of the night. The studio of Radio Air Libre was filled with young people of both sexes conducting a record request programme for the Brussels prison population. Its walls were covered with notices, posters, appeals: one fund-raising gimmick offered sections of the frequency spectrum for sale - "a piece of VHF t o call your own." -Air Libre specialises in 'counterinformation' in a music format, with programming flexible enough t o accommodate live input and prolonged discussion in response t o events. Run by an elected committee, its kind are the European heirs t o the North American tradition of autonomous, democratic, non-profit radio.

Fait accompli Belgium's economy is in a worse mess than Britain's and the country is torn by political and language divisions. Last July a piecarious coalition govemment formally legalised the free radio fait accompli. Whether the protection proposed by the francophone socialists for the democratic radios can be maintained, or whether commercial forces will ultimately dominate this level of broadcasting kmains t o be seen. The original ,- --. .- - pressure for Belgian free radio came from young left w u p well aware of the Italian and French examples of democratically organised radio: they even organised themselves under the same name, ALO (Association for the Liberation of the Airwaves 'Ondes'), as the pioneering French .groupIt was the French ALO which successfully pressured the Socialist Party, while i t was in opposition, t o accept the principle of decentralised, accessible low-power radio, in a system which includes safeguards against Italian-style capitalist anarchy - no networking, limitation on transmitter power, n o commercial ownership and only very restricted advertising. This last point was controveisial even before 'le 10 mar election result, last year. Now the Socialist plan, which is being prepared for legislation later this year, is under pressure from a variety of quartem both the conser-

vative provincial press and the Communists, for example, are against any advertising.

Mad Parisian scramble Meanwhile, an amnesty is in force under cover of which there is a free radio explosion of Italian dimensions: a multitude of small stations, 113 in Paris alone a t the turn of the year. Everybody from students, rockers, religious sects, ethnic minorities, anarchists and newspapers t o followers of the Right leader, Jacques Chirac have set up stations in anticipation of a scramble for the airwaves and t o serve their own constituencies in #e mean time. French broadcasting in recent years has faithfully mirrored society centralised and authoritarian. Broadcasting has been the tool of govemmen& with oppositional views given virtually n o access. For years the State controlled the appointments in ORTF,the state broadcasting organis* tion After 1968 the more radical elements who had criticised their masters were purged and replaced by people who were safe and dependable. Consequently the state channels became increasingly boring. Frustration and .polarisation became typical characteristics of French political and cultural life -witness the violent antinuclear demos, the demands for regional autonomy. These discontents fed into the 1981 elections, voters demanding basic changes in the tone of government and an end t o the Gaullist tradition as manifested by Giscard d'Estaing.

Heavy State interference Commercial appetites had long been provided for by the development of 'peripheral' stations, Luxembourg, . Monte Carlo, Europe1 etc, broadcasting mainly pop music and commercials. These gradually came under government control through the acquisition of shares and the placing of state representatives on boards. Giscard's arrival in 1974, with a party closer than Pompidou's t o new business circles, brought with i t lipservice t o bourgeois liberalisation, but little real change; although some advertising interests began t o be attracted by the prospect of local commercial radio and tried t o provoke change through legal test cases. The main force in these years involved in radios libres were the 'Children of '68'. For the libertarian left, were an outlet for radical expression, a salute t o Italian comrades, a harassment of government. Their example was followed by trades

unions and political parties -even Mitterand himself was charged with broadcasting illegally when in opposition - but many of the initiatives were opportunistic of single issueoriented, failing t o develop a perspective on the wider issue of freedom t o communicate.

Staying free All the same, stations endured the state's battery of repression - jamming, fines, imprisonment - developed a skilled, low-cost technique (ironically it was originally learned f r o m ~ r i t i s hpirates like Jackie), and attracted enough publicity t o lift radio t o a position of symbolic importance in the context of the promised reforme de 1 'audiooisuel. Not t o be outdone, the state system is also proposing full-scale decentralisation and radio broadcasters within it have already published a code of practice for local stations in which the extend of their debt t o the spirit and practice of free radio is very clear. Although it looks increasingly as though the expected radical liberalisation will be blunted by accommodaions and the need t o regulate the present chaos, radio remains a litmus test for the new French government.

Cautious optimism From across the channel these manueverings bring a sense of deja vu -we saw in the 60s how our govemment adapted t o the North Sea pirates. But the continental developments sound also a note of cautious encouragement. Governments cannot afford t o ignore for long the signs of dissatiifaction with state and commercial monopolies -not, that is, now that low-cost technology allows an easy means of piracy. It is perhaps significant that our Home Secretary has not yet closed the door t o the demands of student and community broadcasters for a separate, non-profit ,autonomous radio sector. , Relay Collective RELAY is a new quarterly magazine providinga criticalforum and information source for those seeking more imaginative, democratic and accessible broadcasting. While focusing on radio as the most likely first medium for such developments, it covers the full range of exisling andcoming technologies. Published collectively, i t is what its name suggests a means of relaying information to a wider readership from anyone concerned practically or theoretically with broadcasting issues. Therefore it welcomes editorial material, information and from readers. Them is an automatic right of reply.

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Undercurrents 51 2,000 guilders (Â£400for four broadcasts a month. Pirates presented this chance for local shopkeepers almost an idealism. "Finally the bakery down the street gets an opportunity to advertise itsproducts. "--- In one transmission period they could earn back their initial investment. However the illegality and amateurism From playing mischievious tricks it had attracted an audience. Although the become big business. One of the biggest programmes consisted mainly of violence daily newspapers even appeared t o be and pornography, pirates could be interested in investing in the cable assured of popularity. And the initial pirates. lack of interest in financial return soon changed when the possibility of local No fun any more advertising became apparent. However legal transmissions don't A number of pirates presented a mixinterest the majority of commercial ture of entertainment (films, sport, pirates: "When it is not forbidden any etc.), local information and local THE CABLE network was more the fun is gone". They consider advertising. Others devoted themselves it disgraceful that the film companies originally installed to improve t o films and advertising. can decide what is to be shown. picture quality, and also brought But this halcyon period didn't last Pirates, they say, shouldn't become with it the aesthetic benefit of long. The first battle with the 'powerslegal because they 1' 1 get incorporated abolishing aerial jungles. In time that-be' was over copyright. Several and end up fitting in with the rest. what started with a capacity of film companies started legal proceedings, Instead satellites and the pirates should four channels now has 12 with a arguing that the films pirates broaddrastically change the power relations potential of 40, and in a city like casted were their property, and therefore in media land. Amsterdam, 90%of the housecopyright should be paid for relaying But apart from continuous advertisethem via the cable. holds are connected to the cable ments there isn't a lot t o be seen on Cable Television Amsterdam, a pirate television any more. system. commercial company which is half Some pirales had no profound Domestic and foreign TV and radio owned by the Municipal Council, was commercial interest and came from programmes, if technically acceptable, held t o be responsible. In defence, KTA existing illegal radio stations. One pirate are transmitted via cable: two Dutch, argued that they only functioned as a TV station was used to organise two Belgian/Flemish, three German technical means of relaying everything squatters in Amsterdam, another is run and one British channel. Programmes that went on the air. The municipal by graduate art students. can either be received off the air and council argued that it wasn't their job The first mentioned concentrates relayed via the cable or transmitted to get rid of the pirates, but the PTT's predominantly on squatting informdirectly. (Post Telephone and Telegraph) who ation. An unusual appeal to 'autonIn fact the cable is now only used for sporadically had been tracing pirates omous' shopping occurs irregularly. The relaying existing domestic and foreign but never managed t o find them. art students extended their artistic programmes. Thanks to cable television, qualities to television. Some times the Justice was ruthless, and despite TV pirates are active in a number of objections, the High Court rules that pirate audience is taken on a trip to Dutch cities, and in Amsterdam are Berlin to hear some modem music. the channel should be closed whenever particularly professional. These pirates seem to be fairly pirates transmitted a film without laconic about the measures taken paying copyright fees. paradise TV against them. The point that pirates are a logical The pirate stations began, w .-Lsimple way to make full use of a cable system Although local television has become equipment and often quite simple which is only used 40% of the time a focus for the improvement of demonotions about culture and information. wasn't taken into consideration. cracy, freedom and access, it seems that At the beginning, the emphasis was Not surprisingly, when the Govern this new use of the medium is merely an mostly on playing with the medium, the innovation in style; basic social financial rewardswere a welcome bonus. Government issued the prohibition, which effectively made it impossible for structures and ideologies remaining bout Â£2,00 is needed to set-up a pirates to transmit because the channel unchanged. pirate cable station, and usually they closed at the end of legal broadcasts, the To say that the pirates showed a need found this out of their own pockets. The pirates were indignant. for local television would be presumpequipment is quite simple. All that's tuous without knowing to what extent basically needed is an amplifier, which Threats and provocations their popularity was due to their they usually built themselves, a transillegality and the late hour of transmitter, which is a little more than a box, But, as threats to distort legal transmission. Although there is a demand a video recorder and a record player for missions and blow up the cable system didn't contribute positively to their from local shopkeepers or tradespeople the signature tune. image, they stopped their provocations to advertise their guods at a reasonable The results were often less than and tried t o negotiate. Cable onerators price. perfect. "This is Paradise TV,your own local and film companies refused negotiations Close-down station in your own Rotterdam. The because the pirates were still illegal. Meanwhile, the financial position of Doomed by moral and legal judgements, picture quality is not yet what it pirates had improved. Local advertisers, ought to be, not like you're used to, pirates are slowly disappearing. Porno' for instance the butcher around the but we are hoping to improve it as movies and films about nature intercomer, could advertise for a relatively soon as possible. We're expecting spersed with commercials are still shown. low price and reach a specific group of Within a few weeks the cable channel you tomorrow night when we're customers. Although it did not make will be closed to illegal transmissions. back on the screen after the close of them rich, pirates received 1,500 to Katrien Gottlieb Nederland I."

APPEALS to shop 'autonomously' in Amsterdam's rather poor equivalent to Harrods (this activity is usually referred to as shoplifting) and programmes on the punks in Berlin appear on Dutch pirate T'V. Here we describe what's been happening, and the inevitable countermeasures by the authorities.

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Community radio has been established in the U S for some time. Here, Richard Bnbrook interviews BILL MANDEL, who is involved with station. WFA.

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in 1949, that the world's flate community radio station was born. This station. KPFA. hag survived the McCarthy p&tiou, the C i d RÃ§ht (toufflto. the fight.to stop the via&& . war. the Pgychedelic Revolution. theOilCr&andisstilltrans- . mitting today. It remain* one of the few radical voices on the airwaves of a country dominated by Reagan and the rightwing clampdown he represent*. The rtstion not only presents current af&uabut also a kaleidoscope of

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the Soviet Union Mandel, a lifelong radical. In the parthehagbeenthesubjectof the USA descended into the hysteria of the Cold War. '

I started by asking him about bow the stationwassetupinthefbrtplace. "What interests me," be replied "ia not w much how it was setup em when itwassetup, whichmadeitrather remarkable. I haw always thought o f myselfas rather bold but the idea of letting up a radio station at the height of the McCarthy em would haoe never secured to me." 'Why did it occur to these people in Berkeley then?" "It &a combination of two things: number one was the exceptional strength and militancy of labour in the San Francisco aim, focused on the longshoremen (dockers}. Secondly, that the area was the hat outpost of frontier dembcracy. For example, Berkeley had a Socialist mayor after World War One, wh1Cft is not unheard of in the United States but is very rare.'' "Why didn't the Federal Communicatio&cOmmission refuse to giant these people a license an the British Home Office does when faced with similar applicadoml?" --

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'Vite we? meetingof the atowasaitinde- commentators, looked around and pen&& entity. Its membersare -inmid: 'there k only one person here fed but they really believed their under forty when our country is being functionwash@ervfthepublkThose turned upside down by these kids who who set up Ole station were fairly res- are twenty, we've got to make room for pec.ft)blepeople. wot bigpeople, so the them on the air.'& it mid to the fOC M not say no. I f s much easier to director's credit that they had the rule i f you cm getaway with &mocracy, vision to understand this. There was a those who wens inteHigent enough to compkte revolution with youngpeople real& democwy uy6 lafe permitted it taking over the station. This meant to happen." & &part of the movement of the 'Wow fa hu the government inter- S&ties, so we broadcast the most vened in KPFA?" amazing things. After the students were "The FW e'mt create dtffkulties. beaten up a few times they learnt not the Senate Internal Security Subcemto trust the general media, electronic &tee I'm totally convinced, orprint: we w p trusted because we without my ^BB> to were on their side. At that time we it. thatthÃ§reasonforwme were stills statton of white dofooders, in&#& (to its h e a r m &$&.)had I'm speaking of themas/ect, that such an the gave time to radical Black Panthers. We &re W fM station to broadcast on homosexuality we were the first station to have a programme done by homosexuals. When this crazy Symbbnese Libemdon .$my, the Patty Hearst bunch, came wm aproperoson Trevor said u~e~ulvowWyaton# they would leave their tape com^~t'i'' muniques in phonebooths for K P W ' ~ l i t thappened to KPFA in Out o f this we beakmepart of a Sixties when the anti-war movement , chain o f stadons and the Suety stations that exist in the country that are like started?" .CM bevery

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"What is the relationship between KPFA and these other stations?"

"What makes a particular station weak is if it has no roots in its community. We have had our greatest difficulties where we have come in as do-gooders to establish stations from the outside. The community must feel that the station is theirs. In Berkeley people far to the right o f the mayor will come to the defence of W A . In contrast, our station in Houston, Texas, has been bombed o f f the air twice!!"

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s i t y in October 1979. he said that he had been convinced that there was not enough energy in waves t o make them worth while "and I still think it is possibly true." It is no reflection on Professor French's talent as engineer and scientist t o say that such an attitude was music t o the ears of those in the energy establishment who were never enthusiastic about any alternative source that would detract from the-appeal of "How does KPFA finance itself?" their nuclear dream. Since those days, "Until the Johnson years we surthe Airbag has (like all devices) encounvived entirely on listener donations. tered problems and has been considerThere has been very little attempt and ably modified. The danger is that if it no success, this being totally to the should now be the one device selected station's credit, of people with money for development, and when other probto control the station. However, the lems arise, its inventor would be someJohnson administration began this one who was, from the start, less subtle device o f co-option by giving enthusiastic about the prospect of wave money to peoples' organisations and energy than most of his rivals. movements. I f the 20%o f our funds What would be a better option? The The official policy is that funding which the government gives were N.E.L. is ready t o go to sea with a fullwill endfor those devices that cannot pulled out, as the Republicans have scale O.W.C. off the Hebrides for Â£2 produce electricity for 5p a unit. Both million, operating as a 4.5 MW power threatened, we would be in very hot the Duck and the Clam can do so, and water. Ordinarily we use 'marathons' station. A detailed plan exists for so can the National Engineering Labbuilding a two-thirds scale model of for fund-raising. We have to do it twice oratory's Oscillating Water Column; a year in order to get the money, so the Belfast Buoy from Queen's Univer- the Clam, in the Western Approaches we beg and obviously we beg in the sity; the Lancaster Airbag and probably based a t Milford Haven, for Â£1million rated at 2MW. Salter (whose device most artistic, creative and intriguing the Bristol Cylinder. At the time that has built-in flywheel storage in gyroways possible. I admire the paid staff this warning was given, official circles who can beg for a month!" were still quoting figures o f around 20p scopes and is the most technically ad"Finally, what advice would you , a unit for most devices and 5p sounded vanced) is refusing t o be rushed and have for those trying t o set up coman unrealisable ambition; instead, while wants to have (for the first time) a prospect for future research - Â£500,00 munity radio stations in Britain?" thecost of everything (particularly a year for five years and then we would energy) has soared, wave-electricity British KPFA be within reach of a device that would has actually come down to its target. "There are two things I would say: But there was another proviso named probably leapfrog all the others. The number one, that the KPFA pattern is -that only one device would be chosen Belfast Buoy has unique properties that might give it an unexpected advana very good one. Number two,anyone for development of a full-scale prototage, particularly in directionality. The who tries to apply to on6 country type. If that policy is followed, it Bristol'Cylinder could come into its devices that are good in another councould prove disastrous. Every engineer own if the buffeting of surface waves fry, whether it is Polish 'socialism' knows that when you go up-scale from proves greater than expected. It would or a British KPFA, would be making bathtub models to giant power stations, be tragic a t this early stage if the Gova bad mistake. You have your own unexpected problems occur. ernment decided t o put all its efforts tradition of broadcasting, we have no into one device, whichever it was. The parallel to the BBC. You have your The greatest danger is that the Airbag and the Duck have their claims own notions of freedom o f speech, Government might settle on the Lanon our confidence, and so do all the you have at the present Maggie caster Airbag. It is something of an Thatcher, you have a much stronger outsider in wave energy. It was not one other devices. The money needed to keep them afloat is tiny compared labour movement than ours, a much of the four devices chosen for testing with the promise offered by the one more class-conscious one despite all when the programme was launched in technology in which we are ahead of its weakness, you have an intelligentsia 1976.It was given its first grant only every other country. And the job prosto wkkh Mumism is not a dirty wod in 1979 and the news came not from pects, in Belfast particularly, and a t You are part of Europe and don't want t o the Department of Energy but from Loch Kshorn where the Clam will be be blown up whilelotsofAmericans Harwell and it was printed in only one built, and in the Clyde where the are stupid enough to think we can get ' newspaper - the pro-nuclear Morning the Europeans to fight our war for Star. Even before then, in March 1979, O.W.C. can be constructed, could help to transform the economy. And the us. . and so notget blown up. In all its inventor, Professor Michael French, export prospects are limitless. Parliathese respects you are different from wrote to me: "It is a pity your book us, so the notion of 'listener-supported' (Energy from the Waves) takes the line ment must be made aware of what the Government is proposing and must radio and how we went about building it does. I first looked at wave power insist that we do not throw away a it you can learn from us, but precisely in 1960 and decided that it was not unique opportunity. how you do it has to be British or practical as yet, a view I still hold." David Ross you'll fall flat on your faces!" When we met at Lancaster Univer-

A GOVERNMENT decision is due in March on the future of wave energy. If precedent is a guide, this crucial step in the making of energy policy will be treated as an administrative measure, without Parliament and public having a chance to consider it. That is what happened in the summer of 1980 when funding was cut by 30%(in inflation-indexedterms) and an attempt was made to sink some of the most promising devices. Two of the intended victims survived - Salter's Duck and the Lanchester (Coventry) Polytechnic Clam - and they are contenders today for further support.

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SMLI AUTUMN 1980: Timothy Legry bounds onstage at the Bottom Line in New York. His ''rtandup ' philosophy" act has been booked into thu nightclub just as if it wae Brenda and the Real-Tones or any other 'new wave* band. .

Followers of Leary'n ideas- a free-form ~ O U usually D referred to as SWG @pace Migration Intellhnce Increase Life ~xte&on) have filled the place at $7.60 a head to hear a routine

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Hey.thiyfoundabacteriaatThree JOte Idand that iutt fomradiation! (Laughter) My advice 1c avoid terminal adulthood. U>ok^thÃ§rare n e t 4 distinctions between nervous We pad to think back to the eady days of LSD that everyone would want to fly! But we were wive romwtict; some wpie hÃ§ to keep shop* But, yyknow,we're all Americans. We'm all demndentrof the original chuiae a(Ã§nti (Appkuw)An we gonna let the Ruwiane haw tpace??? No! (Applause) Yes,I'm capping out on earth. This is an escape story. It's a

them as "the Smart Ones". His U p wear the grimly with-it grin of theaging schlemiel who's just been told by Werner Rhard that it's "okay" to be anasÃ§hok in fact the act reminds me very much of a graduate EST seminar. After wanning the crowd with bad lightbulb joke*and more flattery "young people born the 60s are surfing the ware of the future" he ftarts a rapid random delivery of ha catch-phrases: 'I'm a change agent, an inteiligence agent; this professionis rather new. No lo& (Laughter) Yes, I admit to permanent brain damage - my seltdertruct &cuits are damaged. (Laughter) -Look,you cant change a tennite colony. Geography is destfoy. In Russia they've got Communism, which is still

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vortex. The linkage of the univase of 7 everything with the void of everything." he SMPLE message, like a "Smilen button, exudes rniiidiessoptimism, an aggreMivety uncritical embrace of Modernity ("better living through chemistry"), and a rage certainty. Lary is selling a success phlloiophy for bewildered New Depresiion babies, as Peale and Carnegie did for the g a r \ ations stuck in earlier slumps. Yet the difference between SM^LE and The Power of Positive Thinhfng Is obvious: the latter was just a manual of behavioural hints drenched Invague, pragmatic Christian piety, while the former containi a highly flexible aid eclectic explanation of world history, a vidon of the future, and a pnacriptton tor ihort- and long-term behaviour bawd on that visionireplete with every ( pop-edentlfic buzzword for the maws ever coined.

Intelligence agent It has been suggested more than once that Leary might well be an intelligence agent, but from Central, not "Higher" Intellieence. It mav be retailed. amidst all theconfusing, conflictingadministration of LSD to Learv. Aloert. Ginsberg, and others by''&? government". Leary and his asiodates have never bothered to deny this. So maybe some agency was experimenting with them. Did this agency intend for its initiates to spread the drug gospel to the agitated youth of America? DM it persecute Leary, slap him in Folsom, brainwash him then, then permit him to escape after 44 month*,a "martyrn programmed to organize a tendency like W L E as only someone like him could? For what purpose? Thtse speculations not only sound c r a w , they are also rather pointless. Elite conspiracies don't create social movements; all they can do, all they've ever done where they have indltputtbly existed, is subtly promoted alreadyactive tendencies that seem aimed in a mmlsine direction.

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Modern irrationalism In other words, things like SMI'LE don't need CIA zombies to lead them. There are plenty of hone&-to-God believers sprouting out there in the fertile mil of modem irrgtb&ism. Such potential can't be "planted", nor need it be: it mu@a w d y be there, and indeed it is. On the other hand, it can certainly be exploited for ends perhaps unknown to and unwanted by its enthusiasts. The Leary phenomenon is a particularly activist expression of what has become, under the almost unbeatable stresses of modem life, a very wide-

spread mofoment tow*oufobehaviour modification, tic self-induced character mutation. As "the way things are supposed to ben breaks down into the chaos of "the way it really is", a powerful urge for security has developed. Us state@ is to meet chaos head-on Don't just wait anticipate. If it's peniqg GO with it. Let no shock wave ave yon behind think the unthinkabit, embrace the unembraceable.

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One ide* popular with SM12LE, but by no means confined 5 it, illustrates "embracing& unembgexipe": that DNAisplotting World War UI (Budwt holocaust) In order to genetic mutation evolution itself. "DNA" is defined as a force, an , entity, or a spedes proper which Is using the individqls of other species, chiefly the human, m disposable guine? pigs in its quest for perfection, or for immortality, or perhaps just for saneta sim~licitas.

Contradictions Contradictions arise around this point in some of the literature: should we be finish last. 'Ike meek inherit the earth, following DNA's blueprint like a "guide says Leary, "thesiaart ones mow OB." to the stars", or resisting it by withLeary'smovement is "a&viltp drawing o w participation in the Grand becauae &&em%just help the W l e - Experiment? Is aging,or the induction classes kick old moralistic hafaits and of autoimmune disorders like arthritis, jump *cstaticallyinto the Future, it ateo hypoglycemit, multiple sclerosii, and advocates they do everything ill their cancer,one of DNA's gimmicks for discarding its experimentalanimals, or power to hasten the Future's advent. The SMPLE mentality reminds you of is it an entropic syndrome which DNA has dedicated itmlf to overcoming? I the way Science Technology, Progress and the Conquest of Outer Space were confess I can't figure it out yet. Neither viewed in the 50s: wolshipfully, in a have the Learyites. word. Marian~eĂ&#x192;Â§te

Undercurrent* 51 atives' like health food, parts o f A T aid yoga have been absorbed into the mainstream. nouveau-Welshfreak meditators have turned into eco-activitts, the women's aim gay movements haw conAlternative London is out An Undercurrent* hack reports. solidated into efficient and sometimes Iffhiential- supportnetuvrks, and Do youknow if it'sife to grow food tough job edit town to size, there's a pressure gro far just about near a road? How to administer urine everythw you tun of. Thereps also a new kind of materialism. 'Jobs and bombs'seem to have replaced 'love and peace' as major personal andpoliticalpreoccupations To np the aftemative weaves in and out of alt thit, The changes andg ~ ~artf reflected t in the book's expansion -and by the many nukes, men's networks, emergency survival, making your own record, CS, community projects djmt&a 'Weird Stuff!" Undercurrents is offering the book of tQe Sub Genius you en at Â£3.50 with Â£off for new subIt's a great practical &tide to-living - become a minima offot$o?^ in the city in the 80Ãˆ though the title1asked Georganne why she'd done it. scribes. So sand Â£2.5 with your annual sub (0.32) and you'll get a book worthy isn't altogether appropriatibe~use tfte KPMffk found thepreOTOus editions of the coffee table/orange box of your book's scope goes far beyond London. out of pied-a-terre, squat, wigwam or palace. MoÃ§ of itis relevant to anybody to the 80s. Or whatever you lot out there call home. h a DH?wiring& plumbing& PettrCulthaw m e t t o A o f c t m t ~ ~ t(ttee%a m - ^'t&'BWdeSÃˆfl" 'attfm-

>^^^^^^^^^finding a legal frameworkfox your' collective. (At this point, we at Undercurrents should declare an interest: collective members Nick Hanna, Godfrey Boyle, Peter Harper and myself were involved 1various sections, which is why we're able to offer readers a special dealsee below.) Alternative Landw is written largely from experience not all of it welebme at the time. With a &range consistency, the group preparing it found thenuelves involved in the were were writing researching: while t eythey the they were to find a squat themselves (and practically rebuild it); their well-equipped office is t w i l ~ e almost d enti* from skips; they 'persuaded' the GPO to install a phone in 3 weeks instead of 2 years, they started their own business, raising the money to publish the book and researching suitable legal frameworks along the way; one got busted white working on the law section; another was sued white researching civil legal action, they grew fond of laughing gas and shiatsu r n q ? had babies and abortions; got divorced. However, none will admit to a sex-change yet The new edition is by Georganne Downes, who did the renearch on the originals. She was helped this time by info-freak Kathy H o b and black humourist Max Handtey GeoIganne, who says it could easily have tv n three times the length, had a

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"How many peopfe are sitting around the country today who have listened to this nun express opinions that I don't hold?" asked the real Reagan in 1959. Whatever happened to the PseudoReagan? But, wait a minute, maybe it was the real one that disappeared not such a hard switch when we recall those bland Hollywood roles and (stuffed) shirt ads he did ('Van Heusen shirts won't ever shrink'). Paul Riggs dug up a curious (or fictional) item last Fall. 'A century ago*(bit vague this clip). Daniel arid Charles Blue, brothers on Reagan's mother's side ot the tamily, are said to have eaten parts of their brother Alexander, when they were snowbound in a cave as they headed for Colorado. Sounds very similar to the case of the only convicted cannibal in American history, Alferd (no, not a misprint) Packer. On a gruelling trek across the Rockies, he ate 5 of the 7 Democrats of Hinsdale County, CdOradoJn February and March 1874. He got 17 ars, even though he said it wasShan n Bell who had killed the others, he then killing Bell in self-defence. Note that the Blue brothers were going to Colorado, and the Packer party comity from Colorado. Make of it all what you will, readers! Paul Sieveking

S T U F F IN DECEMBER 1980 Ronald

Reagan said he's convtmxd he shook off his doppelganger when he jumped from films to politics. He talked about fib shadow in a 1959 UP1 interview.

"It all started after the war. I was on a train and &me man came up to me, identified himself as an ex-colonel, and said that he served in the same Army camp in Georgia that I had. I replied that I had been an Army officer but never sat foot in Georgia. I received a letter fromaman who claimed be and his wife dined with me on a train once and enjoyed the evening I just wasn't there2' He also received anote from a minister in Abilene, Kansas, who thanked him for visiting his church, saying his congregation had been quite impressed.

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EVERY minute of every working day 3.000animals are <teughfred in Britain for their meat and every year approximately 6 million animals undergo painful experiments in the name of science. Slowty, but surely, however, a movement is growing against this massive persecution. A movement which is beginning to use direct-action in its struggle to free animals from human tyranny. IN HIS or her lifetime the averace decreues. Mate-calvesgo to the veal Briton consumes 7 bullocks, 1 cow, unit. 36 sheep, 36 pigs and hundreds of Terribb suffering poultry and fish. The situation is It hai been proved that fish are highly similar in most countries in the Western world. A high proportion sensitive min&lx which are as much a8 mammals. The! of these animate spend their lives in Capbxe of suffe* catching of fish in large numbers by intensive conditions in factory a w tremendous suffering trawten c farms. -the creatures gasping their lives out Pigs, Gal calves and poultry are the on deck, many of them crushed by the Yo@ animate' which are most freweight of the 'catch' on top of them quently reared intensively. Pigs and and the boots of the Qshennan, who calves are often kept in small stalls frequently tread all over their victims unable to turn round and denied access white hauling in the nets. to green grass and sunshine. Worldwide tee number of painful Calves reared for veal often spend experimentson animals is probably almost the whole of their brief lives in well over 100 million per year. All semidarkness and are fed a deficient sorts of animals are used - monkeys, diet so that their flesh remains undogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, rats, naturally white. mice, farm animals etc etc -and Poultry aA crammed together in products tested on them include their thousands is sheds, hardly having drug*, food additives, connetica, , room to move property or to spread detergents, weed-killers, peatidden and their wings. chemical and biological weapons. Animate also frequently undergo Abnormal behaviour behavioural and surgical experiments. Hens used for egg production are often All manner of suffering is imposed on even worse off thin birds which are animals in the name of science. They reared 'for the table'. Over 90%of eggs are burned, scalded, electrically shocked eaten in this country are produced by drowned, poisoned, deafened and the battery system, where hens are kept mutilated. In Britain over threefour or five to a cage little trigger than quarters of dl animal experimentsare twice the size of this open magazine. done without the me of anaesthetic. Such dose confinement causes Two of the most common, and abnormal behaviour and there are most frequently criticised, types of frequent caws of hens being pecked to experiments of animals are the Draize death by their cage companions. To test and the LD60. In the Draize test help prevent this, battery unit owners irritant substances, such as shampoos, cut the ends off the hens' beaks -a are instilled into animals' eyes. The

very distressing experience for the birds. For most battery hens death is the only release from perpetual. imprisonment -they are usually slaughtered when their egg-laying rate begins to falter. Most people ate completely unaware of the suffering that goes into the provision of their daily p i n k In fact milk production is a process which involves a great deal of animal persecution. Cows have to be kept almost constantly pregnant in order to provide sufficient milk for human consumers. The resulting calves are usually taken away from their mothers at a very early age causing a great deal of distress both to the cow and her offepring. The female calves are the lucky ones. They usually go into the dairy herd to face a life of almost perpetual pregnancy, frustrated motherhood and ignominious slaughter when their milk yield *'

animal most often used is the rabbit as its eyes do not produce tears to wash the substance away. Anyone who has ever got shampoo in their eye will know how painful this experiment can be. Animals are frequently blinded by the test and sometimes theireyes are almost completely destroyed.

Toxic force-feeding LD50 stands for Lethal Dose 50%. In this experiment a group of animals is fed with a toxic substance (a drug, weedkiller, cosmetic etc) until half of them die. Sometimes the experiment involve! force-feeding and the amount of the substance forced into an animal can be so great that it causes rupture of the gut. Although the experiment is stopped when half of the animals are dead many of the surviving 50% suffer greatly from the effects of the toxic substance.

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section are the major areas of animal exploitation in the Western World there are also other forms: InBrlt8inthousandsof~are kept prisoner in zoos and travelling menageries where they frequently lead unnatural and frustrated lives; performing animals in circuses are often trained by cruel methods to carry out silly and degrading tricks; Hundreds and thousands of cats and dogs are "put to deep' every year because they are "unwanted'; * Countless mammals, birds and fish are killed, often in wry cruel ways, in the name of 'sport'; Hosts of others are reared in factory farms or caught in the wild by vicious traps so that people might wear their fur coats, an unknown, but probably very large, number of animals die as a result of blast and radiation from weapons testing or because of contact with waste from nuclear reactors; Human over-population has caused the destruction of the habitats (i.e. homes) of myriads of creatures. It is remarkably easy to show why such exploitation and peoecution of animals is morally wrong, totally unjustifiable and no less reprehensible than racism or the slave trade. There is overwhelming evidence that all the higher forms of animal life (all mammals, reptiles, fish and birds, most crustaceans, some molluscs) are sentient and capable of experiencing pain and suffering every bit as much as human

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s persecuted and the reasons why this is morally wrong.

Direct action The animal liberation movement coven a very wide spectrum of activity. At I one end are orgui4atioos such as tbÃ RSPGAwhich use 're~pectoble'ad traditional metho& of ewudgning such as organism* petitiom and writing letters to Ws. At the other are the militant g m w such as the Hunt an k m p t to combat d i m which Saboteua & k & t i o n and the Animal aidebecameofthecloielywsfhd LUcfthMi Front which use direct action to combat animal exploitation. The ALF even goes so far as to use fflmi methods in its campaign,with activliti frequently breaking into vivithe meatafter the animalfaUM with section labs, battery {aims etc to rescue coluequent harmfultttwsts on whod m & &om cruelty ar causing damage ewrMtl it. to property connected with the persecution of animals. It is the Animal Liberation Front effectof adiuforothersubltancewin beenbuiooabrine*.ThisiÃˆbecameth campaign which currently seems to be reactionofaainubtoRichaubÃ§tuice having the greatest effect. The ALF has betwen 60 ind 100 local group is froqwBtly TO@different to t h e of a throughout BritainÃ‡xdmeti Penonwhich ie haimlen

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beings. it Isthis sentiency which gives them animate 'rights' and nukes their pemecution by human LWngs ethically UnjiutiHable.

No natural right In general, human being! are more intefficent than other animals but this does not give us the right to exploit them any more thanany w e t intelligent aliens who happened to land on Earth would have the rinht - to exploit us. As well as obviously being bad for animals, animal expbitation is also extremely harmful to the human race. There is conaideable evidence that a vnietarian diet Is verv much healthier than that of a flesheater. In a recent medical survey carried out in the London area it was shown that vegetalfans (particularly strict vegetarians, or regain, who abstain from all animal produce) were in a tar better itate of health fhan those people who Included animal flesh in their diet. Orthodox medial practitioners are now stating what advocates of natural medicine have been say@ for decades - thit voiwbiriins uro far less llkelv to contract k c e r or heut dlieue than those who insist on dÃ§Toudn the corpses of slaughtered animals.

Vegetarians are healthier The & W o n b even worse for flesheaten who eat meat from intendvely reareduiiiuÃˆl&Tbweanimalsar frequentlygivenlaqedosesofdrugsin

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animaltnttefhasledtoasituation whnc a logo proportion of POD* in hapIwaretherebecameofthedde effect* of dnigt. On the other hmd, the use of animal experiments hr probably lad to the rejection of cartiin drugs which might havebeenwefultohununbringsto certain drcumitances. If Penicillin had been developed today instead of at a time when animal experiment* wen not so frequently and,It would be rejected became It Is lethal to EiiinÃ pi&. Morphine would also be &ected as it induce8 fits la cats.

from vivisection lain, f a & q Items million etc and caused well over Â£ damage to property belonging to animal exploiters. ALF groups usually act autonomously against all forms of animal persecution but recently several coordinated actions have been carried out by groups in different parts of the country. If you would like to help the cumuignwrite to ALF at Box 190, 9A-kNoUlDCluun.-

test@ methods It would obriounly be far better for h ~ m a nhealth If monev and e n e m were diverted away from animal-experimentation to the greater use and development of alternative methods of testing dwgi etc, but it would be better still if more natural method* of treatment such as nature cure, orteopathy and acupuncture were used instead of drug therapy. In recent yeam thtae bÃ§ been a gnat increase in Britain in the numbers of people campaigning for animal Uberation. There are two main rcaons for

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FOR Symposium, Saturday 6th Mar 1982 Ã

The Commonwealth Institute, Kensington, London

Speakers: LORD HOUGHTON, RSPCA 'PUTTING ANIMALS INTO POLITICS, THE PULPIT AND THE POLICE COURT

1 No group is more oppressed than the animals

In Britain today, under the Cruelty to Animals Act 1876, millions of laboratory animals are subjected to violence. These include dogs, cats, monkeys, pigs, sheep, ats, rabbits, guinea-pigs, rats and mice. In 198 4% million experiments including blinding, scalding, and irradiation, oisoning to death, mutilation and electric s ocks were performed on animals in this country. 83% of all experiments are conducted without an anaesthetic, and many animals are left to die in agony. Your help is urgently needed to brin about a I change in the law which will release aboratory , animals from their Hves of pain, misery and fear. s>^- - - - --

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ROBIN CORBETT, Farm Animal Welfare Co-ordinating Executive 'FARM ANIMAL WELFARE I N A HUNGRY WORLD' PETER ROBERTS, Companion in World Farming STARVATION IS CHICKEN-FEED' RICHARD COURSE, League Against Cruel Sports 'WHY ANIMAL WELFARE IS RADICAL SOCIALISM' PAMELA BROWN, Humane Research Trust 'THE SUCCESS OF THE HUMANE RESEARCH TRUST ROBIN GROVE-WHITE, Council for the Protection of Rural England 'LAND TO LIVE IN'

Discussion and Questions Man is the world's fiercest predator. Join us in action against this rapinel Details: Vegetarian Soc, 53 Marloes Rd, London W8 6LA (01-937 7739)

And whilst I swipe at the easy perceptions which will flow from the with the society which has been Mm. I think it's fair to h e a little leather pumps, canteeter crtotad for them by their elders. worry about the aolnul lito the gee who.e 1d r f d , whom dm Thsy da not like what they ue;they Victor Schonfeld's The Animals want to change it. They want to be Ia mt Film. where the action b. ~ e c they m W u P the political -1. It is a definite shocker: a power-packed Now, one would expect that the Co@ foilowing *xcoaafo, wry fine and campaigning Lord Houghindictment of man's abuse of his fellow &,bate en the (ft creatures. It cobbles together most of Animals protection ~ Ii,, l ton would gain the plaudits of all the horror footage some have seen ahkminded People everywhere, and the Lords, Oecfmber 18,1980.) Lord before; and finds more that very few I certainly would happily shower him H had thi> to siv m t animal with them. But spare a thought for people can have seen. And then it weltarists: films noted radicals and activists as he has got it mortly They includepeople oh0 l&e making Haltbury: of they describe their policies, or display ttpee~hmin about this wrong. Uk.gome of the council of the their policy of breaking into research RSP& be appeal; to think that an after all, that is what I am doing laboratories. And it telb us, the beactivbt lt a leftkt and a leftirt myself. In the middle of the leaguered people, that it is due to the ahwy* a thit(.It w t yw w there are somewhat more, neurotic machinations of nasty politicians and somdbes has a little troth: it is as p o a b i t a t the conniving profiteers that we, as well &tb'. In main, however, 83 the s u b t and reurn& the man with & conspiracy theories grievance - if you remove his griw---the--left-adore. But it is as a matter of historical he only swim another one; if they c o d notprotest a b o u t t a c t -the case that the Animal Uberaanimali, they would beprotestiw Uon Front has had its difficulties with about putting fluoride into drinkbg at least one person who was frankly water or something like that keen on violence, and were very glad when they could take action about Then, at the far. end of the weethat character. And it Is also the case hm,there am people who ore getting on to ttut border of what is that the animals rights movement attracts and utiifies those persons of , ~p*ychotic rather than neurotic and whom It ft tme that if It weren't animals suffering,fromdeluswas ofpersecudoe,notonbehalfofthennelues, itirouldb<MMnetbIngelse.Thereare hut on behalf ofsomething else people a m a d mo~einentwho ie animals, for instance: a kiftd o f natural born?ygteric.. . I shouldn t like the actMsts b get paranoia; one might call it, vicarious This is patent tripe', but it is the ~aranoia.Wehave lived,with this cocky. They an dealt withincreasingly kind of tripe which makes everyone with a deal of kindness by the law for o w 100 yearsand we know in the audience glow with indignation how to live with it. But unfortunately (though that may come to an end when -as well as being, what anyone must this militant fringe in modem times the %SX police t - the latest hatch be who watches the pieces, stunned by has been infiltrated by -et of ALF activists -with whom they the awesome horror of what i1 done to dealt with courtesy - over to the bully types who use what k a good sentient denizens of the creation I muse as an excuse for violence and courts.)And one judge inDoncarter should prefer to call God's but have vandalism, which is their real objecwent ao far as t o throiv out a caw of only the wit to call marvellous. tiverobbery agdnst an ALF member. He It is tripe because we have p m -Id die bad been neither violent nor To which the doughty Lord Houghton far eno@ in the a n k : s crawl wards a liberated and dvilised world to replied: dlihoneft. that (he noble So far it seems to be the case that be able to say that what is the pwpk's I mt has no understanding at a U of the the law is sensing public opinion or fault -or even a large number of p mood, the outlook and the desire for even simple decency ﾃッeing mildly people's faults - can be laid fairly idealism and action of the young pro-ALF. However It is a fine line: and squarely at their door. So I blame people of Britain today. Withgreat violence is violence when all is said theindolent queues of MacDonalds' respect to him, he is "an oldsouare". and done, and it is never funny, even for the desecration of the animal I t is not a bit O f good lecturing the though it may be justified. After all, I k~ dom involved infun ia a bun and masktraw and c e b h the judicbethink myself, one day some mob or women who wmnuke up tof ia?y and virtually asking them to other may decide that my person or the testing their make-up involves. property is UP for grabs on some Actually, I go lather further and blame send mesepeople remand or h d t u d o m for reform and better grounds or other. Come that day, I their dreary preoccupation with their orderand-dilc&/fne^Noa^ of that 12 expect to sound remarkably like Lord own safety (which s p r i w in part from the tiresome right-isms of the consumer S o w to any influem with Halsbury. Richard North youngpeople. They are disenchanted movemetit): it is the consu1i%e!wh4

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them, and (Ulfll ow ownik6plucii. Anti-nuclar camprim Accoidinctoourflgum,itThe Anti-nudiu movement b aort of be wry much quicker, dmpw a d Mbr, coordinated by Th* Anti-Nud-r CunPO Box 216, SIrBrid 81 lBD, alltbatmoaeyl mmUon me~unÃ§ h o w buutetltm, and combiwd hut-&-pomrMlwmi. In&cttMi~em*toqUBa*okviomtowthatwefindlthidto believetha&h1nceiikw nand gonnunrnt would not go ;%ht{or it. The tae/t that they don't can only man that thM*exbt riahtw OthÃ

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Animals are dying painfully in tests on cosmetics bleach paint tobacco drugs weapons and in medical experiments They are subjected to poisoning radiation burning psycholoqical stress electric shock - the list isendless Few people realise the number of animals killed and the misery and pain suffered by them Even fewer realise how pointlessand primitive the experiments are It is easy to turn the page dnd pretend 11 doesn t happen But it does - millions of animals dre used every year And their lives are in your hands Because whether you like it or not dminal exper, ments are done in your name Supposedly on your behdlf Definitely with your money Is i t with yourconsent? Care enough to find out how you can help put an end to this Care enough to write to your MP demanding that the 1876 law should be changed to protect the animals not the scientists And join us at the BUAV in our fight against allanimalexperiments

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OmFiftyEtm~ySanrs . Cheap To UM It the title of an information-packe$booklet on energy caving in the home. Ail the ideal are cheap and practical, using such everyday item as newspaper, quilts, old clothm and cling filmlpltstict rather than expansive double glazing. I t aim gins snippets of information (bout energy wntage, relative energy costs and the chief energy usem in a home. For example, did you know that an oven iocs 20% of i t s heat every time you open the door? Anyway, all this inlormation can be youm if you lend 2Ep + posmgu to the Centre for Alternative Technology, Machynlleth, P w s .

^ WHAT WHAT4

It's not only British alternative magazines who em finding life hard. Own R m d , the good Canadian anarchist papar, is the latest one to come to our attention. Last November they had issue no. 3 ready for publication but them were no fun& with which t o publhh it. The gist of this is that they desperately need money. SÃ§ndonation! to Own Rend, Box 6135, Station G, Vancouver, British Columbia VOR 4G6, Canute. And while you have your cheque book out, how about a donation to Undwcurnntst

The Future Studin Centre, who cumntly produce a mwsletter wwring campaigns, publication* and event*,am revamping their n o v - l f f r so that tha March inue wlll be complnoly diffwtrt. They intend to greatly ~xpÃ§n their diary of e m u , Aid ubdivide then into Halth and Spiritual, PMceand Diwrmtment, Development,future*, Environment, Social Hardwareend Social Software. In each issue also there will be ona major featumSwhich will cover latest dewlwments. trends, potentialities and hazard related to the hsua. The fimt two major feature* will be Health and Spiritual (in March) and Peaend Disarmament (In M a y ) . The newsletter will continua to appnr bimonthly and is available from R 15 Keiso Road, LMdi ~ $ ~2 P >'' for Â£ (Â£3.5 unwagd. Â T h e P ~ c *Eduction Network grew out of a conference on peace education held in June last year. It a i m to provide a mum for communication amongst taachen and others wishing to make aducatbn a force for PO&; to provide practical support for such people and local groups; to p r o m pÃ‘c &ucation amongst the public a t large; to promote link8 with thow similarly involvedhi other countrim and with related concerns; end t o promote rewrch

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forecastem. They would like 80nm paople to phone YTV wtrn certain ~ n d t t u m i n a d , wmttmr condition* r ' ~and , o t h f s who ofWr to behvailabla . ' to U> dhoned bV the YTV wther ~rvkÃ between certain times of day. For more details contact Roland Chaplain, 16 Kalm Rd, Leedt LS2 9PR. OiHÃ‡roÃˆr.w d n i the po(ter>for tot7='s Co-op*

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The Bulletin of EnvimnÂ mmtal Educwtbn is a monthly mmaine aimed at increasingen individual's awmnesi of the phvsicdÃ§nsocial wpects of community life, through both the AMchmics of (ducttion and the medium of the environment. Ruent t h e m Ã § l included Geography, Sociology, Art and Politics. Subscription dateik ara available from tha Education Dept, TCPA, 17 Or+ Home Terrace, London 8W1.

new women's newspaper which will appear for the first time on March 8 (InternationalWomens Day). It will bee sixteen page tabloid, eventually appearing weekly. and will cover news of women's lins and struggin worldwide, woman's health, work inside end outskto the home, struggle*, axuakty and pleasures. They would like paople to lend innew and photographs of their ampeignd~ivitiei,and they'd elm lib help withdistributioo. Subsuiption rates are Â£ for 10 iuuM (Â£ lowlunwaged); chequas payable to Feminist NÃ§wÃ§papGroup. The contact ad&* m Oxford Houw, Derbyshim St, London â‚¬

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TIM N e t b i d Abortion Cnnpmfan h m produced a brWing docurrcnt which givn the taclq~roundto the muchÂ I f you llw in or near the Yorkshim a r c and are hitUWtOd publldhd abortion notification term (doctorrmustcomprtw in meteorology, you may be interested in being part of Yak- thh Â¥fnpdiorming an tbortioni which now dtÃ not haw the shiraTalwhton'stathar 'loeta1 rMÃˆn<onion for givino O b u r v n Network. YTV have an Â¥tortfoflTh8 tackground realised that the Met. Office's pmpta ÃmiCM* from NAC, own network of reporting 374 G m tmi Bd, London stations is not d e w enough to WC1X 8 8 B ; f i d a hww SAE. give us as detailed a conrage of actual weather conditions as Outwr!w h the namuof a will be requiredby Y W s Own

m a Anti-NudurCmnpa@n hn produced a leaflet about the connection* bmween nuclear pow8r and nuclear weapons (a papular wbjtct now, judging by "thenumber of lwfl*ts written on the topic). Singtacopin of the, briefing are Ã‘U# fnÃ in a x e m for a tact SAE. Otherwhe prices ere 5/400,10/TOp, WlC3.50, and 100/Â£6Write to ANC, PO Box 216, Sheffild S1 100. Â A Laming Community is a critical documentary hittory of the School of Peace Studio at the Uniwityof Bradford. It is intendad meinly for prewntl protpectiva studmts of Peace Studin, but it is infrastim any-

adminittriton is probably fairly common. The booklet was w i t f n lokitly by a former student who rejected her degree b w u a she didn't like the m y the coura wsgoing, m d by Uri' Dwis, the hctunr whoÃ contract w~notrmwwdbytheHÃ‘do Pace StudlM. It eof Â£1.8 m d is avelMir from Fourth Idea Bookshop, 14 Southgate, Bndford BD1 2DF.

\$'Im! ISM March Thh airing the Brit& T r o t for CoÃ‘ivMim VoluittMri have omniwd a progmnnu of at lent 40 w k - l o n g tuks for w h i new mamben are curnndy being recruited. The proyamme often a variety of work, aitm and d a w to w i t both new and Â¥xofkncÂvolunteer*. The tÃ‘t includa wuvthina from building gorilla p e n in .Ie& to creating woodland nature traih on Sky. d contribut* Volunman an ~ t o to Â£1.80/cta towerdi food and accommoctetioti. Furthor infofwation is availablehm Nature Cornomtion Voluntan, 36 St Mary's St. Wallinlford, Oxon OX10 OEU, el. (0491139766. Enclor an WE.

CND groups in the London Borough of Lambeth am bringing the iuua of nuclear dhannÃˆmÃ§ to th8 mi*via a Mrim of Â¥ctlvi tic MU w i t s from Mwd)1-19.

Other nottble evne m:w8Kh 8 B k W h rnmde wound ft* borough. LMVM t 1 m from JubitÃ Garden, County HÃ§ll No Nukm Music gig at Lmnbah Town Hall. Mwch 8-19 Tho films The War GOT- and The Bomb will be shown in different arflas around the borough. Much 13 Musical revue Tin Europwi Bomb Conmt. 8om:

m--m,

uni* arsity of Enat CND are holding a MriM of workshops on various inunafflicting the p n a m o m n ~ nmd t nudur dirrmamam in B t b i f ~ .Sp#Nmnhhb bÃ‘ invit8d to tad workhop# including Pat Arrowsmith (dinct action) etc. Tho workshops will be held at the Uniwraity md accommodationMid mais are available. For mistration and d*teil~ PIMÃ &tam Andy Pmtt th* Ã‘ontiw UEA CNO. UMvtrilty EÃ‘ Norwioh NB4 7TJ.

Ti~piwuregrou~ PARLIOAES e n continuing with their Tim of bctur- on Â¥n*W Thowcurrent for MÃ§rcTÃˆ: M a d 8 TIM Carbon DloxM* Problem Global lmplte*tloni. Mared ÃCan PhotosynthÃ§Ã§ Nnunl or Artificial, S<mfthe Eneny Crhh. All l e c t u r ~ swt at 6.30 and Uk* place at thÃ Hour of Lordr, London SW1 (pnctewnua to be Ã § Ã § c ~ r t a from the OffiWr on Duty at St SmplI*n'~Etlirtnc*~.

~~h LMCh is also orgmising a n u m b of weekend couren md on*4m wminanon topical hw.The next ones am:March 9-10 Co-operatiwa: An Alternative to ftedundmciaa and Closure?A Workshop for Trade Unionbts. Much 20 Local Economy S t r f g i Ã for Cc-opwedw Â

The Nurtom are running couren of intorut to UndwcurrwinnÃ‘fen T h m w:Much 12-14 How To Sun ft Run a Small Farm. March2526 Spring BIrdlife. Apra24HowToSortÂ Runa Small Farm. April 12-18 Yogo Group. Coum f t we~Â£30-33For more dotails send an SAE to ThÃ Nurtons, Tintern. nr Chepnow, Gwnt, or tel. (02918) 263. Ã

LovnrShÃ§wFarmwÂ¥ running e numtnr of w n b n d l holiday a o u m hi thÃ I N W futum. Then include Mmh 12-14 T e n Â¥n P o f t t i April 9-13 Elm Exchtnf bra end cnftt) Thefimwkmdcon>f18;tha second con> Â£27For furthw dfihnndftl SAEto Lowr Show Fum,Shew. nr. Swindon, Wilt*, ml. 10793) 7710BO.

A confnmce on Abortion end (ft* HwlHi Swvfc* will mka place on Much 13 from 10.305pm at 21 Star St. London W . Four ipwkm Milotfc Inthe mornlna. MM* In thatftfnoon t h w Mil b* worlohop* on onetical Mka The o -if tbenawahortion ~ ' ~ c h n tl m omnto dm'

ldwl omkittw con*ctÃ‡nc

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(S& For man tnformotion contact WAC, Sf4 Gw Inn Rd, LondonW d , M1.01-278 0153; or ALRA, 8k MlHgton High St, London N1, ttl. 01-359 6200. Women only.

Dewlooimnt

Aw Nunworgmising a Nonuiotonc*and D M Action gathering in Nottinghin from Much S-7, which will abo provldÃ e chance to dhcua the piper. Tho gatharingstxm at 7pm on Friday, and tolo* p l u a at the Family Centre, Waterloo Rd, Noninghun. R8gitration cats Â£1Mom dotaih m w i l i b t e from Psacf Nun, 8 Elm Avenue, Notti3, ml. (08021 53587. Phone tint as p l ~ ms y be timind.

The VMÃ§tariaSociety is honing an Animal Rwts svrnposium on Maroh 6 qt the Commonwwlth imtitum Theatre, Kamingtm High St. London WE. Cot is a mere Â£1.50 For further informstioncontact The Vegetarian Society, 199 Gmyhound Rd, London W14 9SP. tel. 01-937 7739.

Mirch 23 Social Audits for Community Enterprim. Mweh 24 Convarting MSC Schemes into Co-operative*. April34HowtoRuna Co-operative. April 14-15 Teaching About Co-operatives A Wwkahop for Educationalists. Count fees (tart at Â £ 1 the 3 one-day seminar*. For more details contact Bachwood College, Elmete Lane, Lndl LS28 2LQ, tel. 106321 720205. -----

Onlatch11thwawillbea planningmeetingto dttcur the organisation of a P o t d a PlanninI~ for Social NÃ‘ contemn (a Beyond the Fmgments initiative). Only people who are willing to commit thenuelw to organisins the conference will be welcome. The National Anochtlon The venua is the Prince Albert for Emimnnuntd Education will pub, Wherfedale Rd, London N1, and the meeting sUrts at 8pm. be holding a day conferance on

k w h 1Ãˆa the Comrnonwwkh Insdtute, Kinlnoton High St, London W8. More dÃ§tailare amilablefrom the NAEE Qwvml SJortarv, P. D. Neal, Penv Common School, Faulknen Farm Dm*, Erdington, Birmingham 623 7XP.

Crmtiw Mind in Liwpool are holding a ona-day seminar on EnvkonmÃ§ntAlurnthw Tthmlogy and Snull CommunitlÃ on March 13. ThÃ coum will be at Lark Lane, Liverpool L17, from 11-6pm. Contact Helen Preicott, Cfeativ Mind; 26 Linmt Lana, Liverpool L17.

Seal low ought to attend tho mxt Anti-SMi HuntM y . In Canada a quota of 188.000 Harp m l s will be killmithh year, m d 16,000 Hoodtd$all. On Maroh 13 t h w will b*Ã itanonnration Â¥glinAa ml cull at T d d g i r Squw, London, mrting at 2pm. Tho Canadian mnbÃ‘ty incidwimiy, h Â¥1( oppoilm Tmftlgw Squm..

Commonwork are celebrating the completion of their new offka and ~Ã‘OUTC antm on March 19 with a chMÃ and wine awning and a bowing of the IiImAwakf from Moumlw. about black woman in South Africa. They m Â¥te holding a number of W D W confwncn: arct ti 12-14 WhtÃ is my SKurity - A WÃ§ of PÃ‘cmukin April 2-4 Follow up for tho10 who HIM01attended the pacfr-miking wwkend. Tho con of ach wnkond is Â£20 For more dÃ§tailcontact the Commonwork Centre, Bore Beech, Edenbridge, Kent TNB PAR, tel. A variety of counm am Â taking plau at tho C m t n for Alttnuti~ Technology this spring. Those coming up ere: March 19-21Blackunithing. Shoemaking. April 2 4 Sdar Enww. April 16-18 Waterpower. Few vary depending on the course. For mom details send an SAE to CAT, Machvnlleth, Powyi, Wain, tot. I06541 2400. If you feel di<austed at tho nay women are portrayed by the media. YOU n'mv lib to WntUr*

out to a conference on Sfx'ism and Hlf Medid on Hhrch 20. Matt of the day will be went in workshops on such topics u nun& langue*. woman's mewines,

rommtk fiction, twrwge Wzinei, women's p m , pornography, dirblx) women, black and Asian women, andmore. The

Undercurrents 51 conferma it at Imperial College, Exhibition Rd, London SW7 and mrtsat 10am.Restetftioni<Â£ (Â£.W unwaged), and f w d end e creche will be avÃˆHÃˆbl For mom detail! contact WMAG, c/o A Woman's Place, 48Willbm I V St, London WC1. Women onlv.

April On April 2-3 them will be an lntwmtiqnd Cohw of Nuclear Proliftmion md Diarmament. The aim is t o formulate a wrnmon strategy (?I on the grassroots opposition to nuclear power and weapons. The venue will be somewhere in London. For details contact ANC, Box 216. Sheffield S1 1BD.

If you've ever waited t o learn t o spin, FinÃˆ*rtip In Kept regularly holdSpinning WÃ‘kend> for both beginrun and advanced students. The next 2 day course (for beginners) takes place on Mwch 20-21 at the Fingertips centre. Cost is Â£2 (Â£ deposit sent with booking). For further details contact Fingertips, 26 Eardley Rd, Sevnoiks, Kent, ?I. 10732) 56801.

Lauriwton Hall is running a couple of courses in early April. From April 34 them will be a Teenagers' Week, for young people aged 10-18 who want t o enjoy thenuelm inthe local town, having parties, etc. Colt for this a Â£20prospective perticipants should write t o Sonya, Polly and Hannah. Following on from this is a week on Living and Working Together, from April 9-16. This will explore what it is like t o live and work communally. The cost is Â£4 (negotiable), and an 5AE should be sent t o Patrick at Laurieston for more detaih. The Laurietton Hall sddnu is Castle Douglas, Kirkcudbrightshire, SW Scotland, tel. 106446) 276.

0 The annual conference of the Co-op DmmIopmmt will be at Beechwood College, Leads, on Much 2041. As on previous occasions them will be a mixture of network twiner and debate, and workshop* on subjects relevant t o tha work they em doing. On the business side them will be discussion with ICOM and the quastton of federal links between worker co-opt. On the workshop side the co-op willbe focuning mention on ways of creating locally controlled or community gommtad fund>. For more information write to 43 Nansen Rd, London SW11, or phone 01-223 6220 or 01-748 3020 ext. 5331 (office hours).

OnMarch21abenefitfor the Chile Committee for Human Rights will take place at (yes reallyl) Sadler's Wells Theatre in London. The pwfenn*nace will feature Fusion (the London and Commonwealth Youth En~mbto). the Ballet Rambert and the Janet . Smith Dancer*. Tickns cost from Â£2-end em available from t h t Sadler'i Wells Box Office. The theatre is in RonbÃ‡f Avmuff, London EC1, Ã‡n Un performance narta i t 8pm.

0 R m r d l e u of whether or not the Women's P Ã ‘ ~Camp at Greenham Common will be allowed to m y put. a demonstration is planned at the base for Much 21. Each of the sites around the bar will have a theme at which like-minded people will gather for the day and play music, sing, etc. There will be a new age gate, a religious gate, an artists' gate, music gate, women's gate and green gate. The green gate will be for ecology1AT people, while the women's gate it the one when the present peso camp l! iited. I n the evening lome form of 24-hourUockBd* will take p l w at each gate. Women willing to participate In the blockad@am asked t o visit 6 r Ã § Ã ofi a

weekend prior t o the demoristration t o train. The address of the Peace Camp I*RAF Greenham Common. Newbury. Berks, end they a n be contacted bv talaohone via (06361 27641 or -(073621) 2745.

0 The special muting on the quota for the Japanow stock of Sperm Whales (North West Pacific) will be held in Brighton at the Hotel Metropole on the s6a front on Much 24-ZS. Brighton Friends of (ha Earth a m o m i i l m c o u n t e r events end demon-nratiois. If interuted, phone P*ttr Garmt for details on (0728) 506748.

Brian Price (FOE Pollution campeigner), Rick ROW MEW Smtfimwi%ducationc5rrespondent) end Dee Wilson (Anti-Lead Campaign). The workshop is free. and people will be welcome to drop in any time. The venue is 8 Addison Rd, London W14. Mom detailsavailebla from CALIP, 68 Dora Rd. London SW19 (enclose en SAE). .

New Q a m ere ~ woperative sports and games in which participants onlv compete Â¥gainstheir own abilities, not other people. No one winsend no one low, so everyone enjoys themselves. New Games ere important in training sessions for On March 26 there will bÃ 0 nonviolant direct action, as many a meetina for ill t h o u inwrested of them ere designed t o build up in the ~ a i p a i g bint n Advu.trust and co-opemtion which can tiring A~WI& for the Military. The mtetino will d k u u iden end I-KIt o a more cohesive group. action for the campaign end tarts They canaltobeusedasan at 8am at 6 Endsleigh St, London educmional resource within tchwls, c o l l w n and hospitals, WC1. and with people with disabilities. A training d o n is being held on 0 Campaign Against Lead I n the weekend of Much 27-28 in Petrol are running en informal Weit HamÃ§tÃ t o play and doy workshop onpollution inwnt new gmnm, etc. Cost is Â£7 on March 27. The u n i o n k i c k SÃ§nchMuM payble t o New offat 10am with a talk by Gemea (UK)to 8tewart Abei, 28 D. Bryce-Smith on the backKendal Court, Shoot Up Hill, gtcund t o lead pollution, and London NW2 3PD.Pm-ragistmtion recant developments. I n the afterb -untitl. mQRthemwillbeawaken0

A conference on flight Relationships will be held at Dartington Hall, Totnos, S. Devon from April 13-18. Topics t o be discussed include relationships with the natural environment, each other, family, work, friends and our higher self. For more information contact Jennie Powys, Fairfieid, Abbotskerwell, -Newton Abbot, Devon TO12 WN, tel. (0626)2108. Tha Tropical Rtinfomt Ecology and Resource Muugfment is a symposium t o be held at the University of Leeds from April 14-19. Costing Â£20eccommodetion extra, the event is expected t o attract people from many countries. Basicilly an academic and scientific symposium, it nevertheless may interest people with some scientific knowledge who want t o learn more about the complexities of the tropicelforest. There will also be workshops end public meetings. For details write t o Dr A. L. Chedwick and Dr S. L. Sutton, Dept of P u n and Applied Zoology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9PJ. Women sail Danes is a wfekend course on dance impro vitation for woman t o be held at Lower Shaw Farm from April 17-18. The cost is Â£23enquiries and Â£1 regiitration t o Ruth Noble, 6 Barton Terrace, Dawlish, S. DWon, tel. 01-734 3368.

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firmart remarks in the eattoe account soem to me to come born && Duckworth l when he outlined bis

nba*toautomateworkwhichheknew

here IrÃ§(ermo to the altenigtidlt 'gteeu* 6naaÃ§i6than to tbow of Ecctes, are aat&~theticto high technoloty and @watralbation and bureaucracy. Wirt many ceopeWVtet0,

Under New Management Tony Ecctes Pan Â£2.95 I WAS very interested to read Tony Eccles' account of the Kirtby Cooperative: Under New HIaagement.

Having been involved in a research project after the end of the co-op@ assessing workers' attitudes and interviewed about 30 of them at sole length, I knew a lot of the sto &&s' account wag meted w extra infordtion. And he even maiufelto bring some humour, wry though the jokes are, into what was an exhilarating as well as a distressing episode for mumy of those involved.

seemtolookforbhowtocaste 'tm&# workers out of distrustful ones.ft isassumed that we can make

I hated it more than they did. ways of beating work." Is this efficiency that co-operatax look

ta^l

ZbÃ‡

Opemting a machine that h u b W '&manned'

u a derogatow term

,teror of the material

buckle down." My response to the history of the several co-operatins I haw looked at b similar to Ecctes' but I don't share what I suspect is his underlying seine of incredulity that 'they let it happen'. He notes that the provision of the cooperatives is supposed to release worker energies and result in some 'tremendous of progress'. But what are the adco-opeiativesactually as&& the workers to do? It seems (hatthe work ethic is cental to much co-operative ideology. Ec&s lament* the lack of efficiency at KMB and the apathy of the majority of workers there.

Hernias and participation

A. Most advocates of co-operatives, and

One element of bureaUcracy b the

entail

dear definition of robs and reÃˆpon u i W s and KME tailed t o de&p

wntional workplaces.

"1 hated it more than they did"

aitatahr money and coaditioqC ern* t ~ a

way which would not have been conven&wmlfirm with a mio Pr~tests nthe wie met with the bleak response "But we are the ualon." The mobility schemes introduced turned the predictable routines ofthe day into a chaof of uncertainty for the men affected. Most worhtB prefer to minimise the rtress of work except on those occasionswhen they choose to disrupt; and collective ownership. such as it was, m ~ have y removed this small crack of freedom for some: "It destroys the SUMS of fun. You felt evew W e tea bteak was maney down the drain." Or did the co-op even come to retemble theworkplaceentirely? "It was terrible it was going smoothly Co-operative values are soaked in the dignity of labour and strength through struggle. A few women at KME were allowed to work alongside the teen in the radutor section. They felt (hey had won a significant political victory but in the words of one: "It nearly kilted

*omve

. ˆÃ &

-A 6.

"I would like to lay t f i t mmeiiiit

m o t stronaly ttw rumaunmbaut redundancy put (bout by h l m union^'

deny

us."

these. But whose liberty Ws enhanced? There were a few cases of individual* who benefited. The leadÃ§were transported into politico and ~ n e d p c a t i o n f & m t t of KME. ~ Such people 6- ~Urvfirirfoim would say, "On their wÃˆy" The experienceprior to the w-bp and the solidarity of the occupations led the workers to distrust conventional supervision and management roles, but there were some men at this level who bayj modest ambitions for the work itself and felt a responsibility to the factory and to their immediate depart'Â¥men&Once in the co-op they were wUHBg to pull their weight but they were ill-usedby the libertarian practices that emerged.

Frustrated and despondent Eccles' solution to thto supervision and mid to create a level of new for the shop ste-vnrds.Many ot them attempted to solve the <filÃ§mnuof their position and the moat W s t i c ones are undwbtwMy those who . suffered most. They merged frustrated and despondent, paalyÃ‘ by a general disregard for form*]ode and procedures which emanated BO lem from

Undercurrents 51

~teadenhipthanhthegeneral

massofworkers. The creation ofadministtatlw ttructures in a co-operative is obviously a very tricky process and an &a where very littleisknmm.WhUe mercialsumeb of such organisations as Mondragon is established, some obtervem there have noted the beginning ofaswellingofffgcontentwhichnay eventually result to the formation of some countemfling structure such as Trade Unions. My observationsof a co-operative in the UK which is without union organisation but is commercially viable , and thriving Is that a representative structure may not necessarily create the harmonious 'trust* relations that are seen by many co-operativesas the prerequisite of efficiency at work. A democratic structure has been developed in this co-operative, and although It may create smoother working conditions it has dealt a blow to tee hope* of the original members of the co-operative who have been dawn, wffly n&, into ltĂ&#x192; growth. They are now In 8 podtlon to realbe that their productive efforts an (inancinff a structure which controls them more

effectively and which seems likely to expand faced with what appeal to be increasing problems of

the story of the " s w of cards*where-

the arrears of union dues of a group of co-opetatonuaa dealt with in a manner

t&e embmmpnent of toconvenorsbutcmonlyhave Individualten notsoctatan deepened the cynicism of the paid up members. During wb*t EccteloJIs the'pct h e experiment in democracy at figurative KME, the break with tradition, the 1co-op drama and opening up to debate among may have to rely on demociatic the workers of a5 aspects of industrial practice is a positive result and those and partidpatfon. But they may not n crerte thedimate whoexperienced It will never forget it. that many students of organisation look But we cumot be sure what lessons are for. learnt from failure and disillusionment. Many advocatesof co-opentlve* also Ecdea reminds us of the existence of incline t o the notion that nichforms cooperative organisations in Yugomayheraldsocialism.Some~warcfain slavia, France, Italy and Spun. The the USA describes a form of relative advantage to those workers may "poaudw iudliMudlBn" rather than not translate so easily Into benefits for socialisticawanneu developingamangst British workers. Ike initial preference owner-pmdnmn there. PosdUy time* of the KME workers was for nationalham changed sufficiently tec* the isatlon. To somtobaerveis this may be Webb made the i(tentidll obnrvatlon in interpietedas an instrumentaloutlook thiscountry.ThesituationIntir OK, and a with for distribution of rewards as Ecdes confinng,givescentral via buieauaracie<and central direction importance totherote of Trade Union*. rather than the self-sufficiency and But the erosion of respect for, a i d independencewhich seemsto unduly influence of, the trade unions at KME so much cooperative thinking. mustbewuntedasamajorcost{athe EtriyTyexperiment. I mined ia Ecdes' account a o ~ a t i w RemTch e unit

"communication".

Undercurrents 61

Woiid lÃ 18times that in the US (and, probably, other Wettern countries). In Culteoo,Northern Mexico,the worken (rom the tomato plantations Cirek of Poison.David Weir and Mark live in the anall am between the Shapiro. Published by IFDP and availcrop*aodtheMgitloncxiatethat able from Third World Publications, receive all thepertlcide run-off.They 151 Stratford Rd, Birmingham B l l 1RD waih their ha& do- and dlihel for Â£2.6 + p&p. in the cmtuahiatod water and then IT'S A good job that not all prea~ure (Illdlicarded fautctidde tub8 with growuedurittei.Ozfluum anal watt1 to drink. ~~rrently,deciding whether not to In lome cues the chemical compublteh a report on pMtiddw In the pule*willimport thetMUic Third World, which d e w the of the buund'p~~dde* and prfpm incorrect labelling practiwsand them Inthe Third World countriM in formulation plant*. TheÃˆ banned Inadequate advertising of pttlcidei peitiddes mthen uwd on cub mp* produced by such British compmiief as Shell, ICI and Boots. Oxfam no intheThirdWoridwhichfinallylsnd up on the tables of A m d m eondoubt am encumbered by the threat of sumen-Â¥adatle<ttlO%ofth food the removal of their ihipment* (tillcontain detectable ifridue*of thÃ banned Hence the efade of potion. Other topia tint th*&pk cow* bemenupolitical. an contract fuming In the TBitd @orid to bif food Impoitoig;peiUdde poisonInititute for Food DtveIo~ment Policy, an Amtrictn organisation, has ingi(6~,000eachyÃ§uand5,00 deftthi, &. 375,000 and 1 recently puWdwd Circk of Poison, a ing toOriam); theglobal book detailing tht export of banned and pesticide marketing technlquef and pesticides from the industrial to the the links with the WortdBankind Third World. other lid agenctei. All ditturbing stuff It concentrates Drimarily mi com-read It it you can. pentel whidh export peiticides which (TheOxfam report, If they decide ore either bannodor b W I v mtricted in the USA (predoiniiuntly the to publish, will probably ba angled 0-0-cbtorine insecticides and townd* the Biltlih companies, but I 2,4,5-T), those under review for future doubt that it will probe as deeply as regulitory action (Toxaphene, 2,4-D Circk of Poiwn. v, and Puaqut).and t h o Ãwhich enjoy

HoÃ‘Ã‡M*dlti*JMftt

unrwtrictedwgebutcausemany dexthi Inthe Third World, such u Pantbion and Malathion (Partthion

actually c a m 80%of peatldde poiionings in Central America). The book is horrific. It t e h how the rate of pohoning in theThird

works In Horseferry Road, (the working conditions appalled her), the prison at Newgate (again appalling), the abject poverty of the bisk found in St Giles Parish, and the working conditions of London's many prostitutes. 'In London every class of society is rotten to the core" declaims Flora Wtan after a visit to an all night "Enifhirig2" w'. For an efttire night (she has us believe) she sat and witnessed terrible scenes of debauchery. "The sight of this satanic revelry fills the soul with terror and revulsion; the atmosphere turns toe stomach .at this point it takes a good deal of courage to remain in one's seat, a mute spectator of all that takw place." Whilst she holds nothing but contempt fo/the behaviour of the

humanity to be reduced to drunken wenches leaves her brimming with

hatted for the inequality and poverty which forces women Into prostitution. "Whatn, she asks in anguished tones, "would St Paul have done in the face of such lasciviousness?" Probably have shown less sympathy and understanding than she. If The London Journal of Flora Tristan consisted merely of damning

bilities of the downtroddtn masgeg to Survlwtheir suffering until such time as

they overthrow i t In her dedication to the working classes she hopes that her writings "will prepare (the reader) for the inevitable and terrible struggle between the The London Journal of J-- Vrteton proletariat and the aristocracy, and help ed Jean Hawkeb. Virago, Â£6.96 judge whether the EngW people are A CONSISTENT Mine of outrage at destined to throw off the yoke and rise social Inequalities showthroughout again, or whether this great nation must floraTristan's descriptions of what she remain forever divided between a cruel MW In die "monster city" London; an and corrupt aristocracy on the one band outagefelttotheextentthaton and a wretched and degraded people on oec~tou her pen would "refuse to the other." I found such consistent and dCTcribe the degradation" iurrounding honest enthusiasm for revolution greatly her.. refreshing. Refreshing also are her chapters FloraTtbtmwmawomanknownto French society 160yem ago for her out- which examine social customs inch as ipokenpeisonalfty~ political activism, the races at Ascot from a completely writ@$ and travels. But tee fiat disinterested stance. Engllfh translation of her London Haidly a thorough historical source Journal I* only available now, 142 years book, Flora Tristan's London Journal on. nonetheless provides the reader with a Flora Wtm visited and wrote delightfully eclectic viewof the London accounb of, amonpt other things, the she visited and fumfehes an insight into Houses of Parliament (the behaviour of 119th century political personage. the rnanben appalled her), fte gas Kufau Veal

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Books against the MARTIN RYLK writel tor the converted, if you're not a CoDvinced

unilate& ot,more specifically, & convincedsocialist unllatenlist,you nwon't gain much front this book. The Polities of N u c k Disarmament is a blueprint for action. It points out tee division within European societies (the pressure points) which Ryle (eeb should be exploited: 'Less attention should be paid to the divide between nation and nation and more to the divide within each nation between civilians (common victims in the event of nuclear wr) and military (the common enemy) His assumption is that it Is impossible to Isolate the Issue of the bomb from what he sees as ita political context within each society. lie believes that disarmament will not come about without a ladled alteration of the prevailing politic*! elbnatw, both East and Weat This )Ã his ultimate aim and he hope

Nuclear Radiation in Warfare This book examine* the wide range of methods of exploit^ the acute and long-term effects of radiation in nuclear weapons. It document! the vuiow kin& of mdiation which result from nuclear explosion8 and the facton affectinf the biol@d IWOIM to radiation. The biolegial effect! of radiationonmanaredeicribedinsome detail; and the difficultiet of making a quantitative etiolate of cuualtie* in a nuclear war are explained. Attacks on nuclear power station*. radiological warfare, and terroritf activities are also dimmed as well aa other warlike mes of radiation. Written by Profesuor Joseph R~tblat and publiihcd by SIPRI, this book provides a reasoned mxument against the continued exutence of nudear weapons. Published December '81 at Â£93

anatomy at the top of our le@ which should be used to.propel ourselvec into the never defined, but undoubtedly glorious, nuclear-tree socialist future. Perhap a more apposite title tor his little book would hare been A Handbook of Anti-Nucfear Ammenti and Tactics with the brief 8ubtltleHow to appropriate an iwue to overthrow all governments, both totalitarian and elected. For some reason the word entryism springs to mind OuMoQher Goodwin

Children of Hiroshima This is a collection of children'! eyewitness account! of the day the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. The look make* harrowing reading. The original accounts, given by children aged between 4 and 16, have not been re-written. The very innocence of their stories adds to the full honor of what happened. In publishing +a'edition,

it is hoped that people will be reminded, in thil time of mawive expenditure on nuclear weaponry, of the true human cot of atomic warfare. Published in April '81 at Â£4.9 f p r back and Â£93 doth.

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a sub-culture of their own,baled not on uxd-stealiwand "witchcraft* but on solidarity in

Woman on the Edge of Time,Marge Piercy: Women's Prew.JE2.95 pb. 384pp. Walk to the End of HwWorU, Suzy McKee Charms: Coronet,Â£1.2 pb. 246~~. Motherlines, Suzy McKee Charms: Coronet,Â£1.2 pb. 246 pp. IN THE conservativeclimate ofa recession, science fiction b itill one place where you can eqwm~an altemative vision fully, freely, mil Marge Rercy's Woman on the Edge of Time was a success when tile Women's Press pubttehedit thiee yeais ago and now they're reissuing it. the ' future Piercy describes has noturprifs for leafiers of Unclereurrents:industrial civilisation'witi destroy itself in R series of eatartrophic techndegical blunder! and be remembered by its survivors as the Age of Greed Ã§aWaste. Some of them, a bundled and fifty years hence, will still be entrenched behind their w&r m*etiiwry, while others will be making more promising arrangements for themaelvet and their children, such as the village of Mattapoisett. 'Rough its agrarian communards manage to junk the old technocracy, they atso, like all true survivors, salvage some of the good bits from the andthe automate to their society, kept securely in theit dice t devices tor liberation.

visions of Uattapoisett come to her there, where she is powerless and certified not to be believed. The future may be perfect, but it is in dangerof never coming true. Rarely has any writer described the suppression of sanity, individual and ecological, more intensely. SuzyMcKteChanuuspeaksofa -

resistance. Revolution is only a dremn, as are the legenduy "ftÃ ent&' supposed to live oat in die desert, without a &@e man to govern them.When AUdera, a runaway fern, staggers into the desert and finds not one but two allfemale tribes, the possibilities have to be

more despent* (utureafter the bolocwattahtitwobookÂ¶wafttotheEn of the W o e and Molherilnes. &the Holdfastwhitemenreormbelonlythat ofothefeoloun,afidwomen.0(there,

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Mothedines leaves us waitiBg (or a third volume to wnthenim a new society out of the seveni bad options encountered to the first two.Chanus ensures that the way will not be eaw. predictable, or btoodtfL What is piedictable iÃ§*th*t.eoMrnHetapublithem wwa ternintit st In imtevant, lurid, ugly an<lo(femvecoven. Coronet have done what theycan to conceal Chamas's boob from anyme who might like them, by packaging them in black and led with naked witches and sacrificial knives. They looklike bad horror stories. Perhaps to a sexist industry they are. Colin Greenland

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REAL FRESH AIR - holiday caravan t o let on remote and beautiful island. Sae for details t o Vicki Coleman, Papa Stwr, Shetland.

NATIONAL Federation of Building Collectives. Conference March 13114th. Leeds. Contact Leeds Building Collective, 4 Knowle Road, Leeds 4. Tel. Leeds 785253. Creche available.

UNIQUE holiday on organic hallholding with 77 acres of wooded nature reserve within Exmoor National Park. Sea 4 miles. Eight camouflagedcaravans, modern toilets. Sae please t o Cowlev Wood. N. Devon. Parracombe 200. UNLADEN WALKING. Ten of us are guided through gentle MidWales hills by moorland, wood and meadow routes. Clear air, wildlife, real peace and quiet. Trailer carries belongings and superb equipment between exclusive hill farm campsites. Plentiful and delicious home-cooking, including vegetarian. 'It was an idyll' (London EveningStandard). Six day. Â£89-Â£9Details: Earthwalk. Penywern, Kerry, Newtown, Powys (0686)28282.

SHELTER WEST CORK. Eire. Four-roomed secluded cottage near Drimoleague. Easy access Skibbereen, Bantry. Electricity connected. Om acre good land. Offers around Â£7,500 Details from Eva Kalugynska, 5b Tabley Road, London N7. S. W. CORK farmhouse in beautiful countryside with 2 acres. Large garden, rough grazing. Own deep well. Solar and range-heated water, bathroom, fitted kitchen, parlour, 3 bedroom. Electricity. New roof. Many outbuildings. Ideal craftworker. IRE25.000. Challans, Crusterra, Dunmanwey, Co. Cork, Eire. WANTED to rent, small house1 cottage as borne for young filmmaker and musician in rural Wales. (Tel. 01-274 4978, evenings.) HOUSESHARE offered, rent free. share bills, in exchange for some child minding (7-year-old), mother starting SRN training. Single parent with one similar child preferred. Write: 6. Riddings Street, Derby.

CONTACTS WRITER with substantial amount of research completed for book on New Age Religion seeks female for joint authorship. Box 110.

MARCH 5-7th UEA CND are holding a series of workshops on various issues affecting the peace movement and nuclear disarmament in Britain. Expert speakers have been invited to lead each workshop including Pat Arrowsmith (direct action) atc. The wlshops will be held @ the Uni. of East Anglia and accommodation and meals are available. For registration and details please contact the Secretary, UEA CND, UEA, Norwich NR4 7TS.

COURSES HANDWEAVING. Pembrokeshire residential courses on organic smallholding. Small groups, individual tuition. Beginners and experienced. Rugs, hangings, fabrics, tapestry, spinning, dyeing. Sae. Martin Weatherhead, Penwenalt Farm, Cilgerran (UC), Dyfed. STARTING arid running a small farm, March 12-14 and April 2 4 -weekends with like-minded people contemplating or starting small-scale farming, etc, tutored by Patrick Rivers et al. Other springtime courses: Crafts for families; Woodlands; Vegetarian Cookery, Painting, Birdlife, and The Goteric. Also open for private guest house holidays. Beautifully situated in 30 'organically orientated' acres overlooking the River Wye and providing organicallygrown, vegetarian, wholefood meals, etc. Details: Else and Adrian Wood, THE NURTONS, Tintern, Gwent (tel. 029 18 253); a stamp it appreciated.

CO-OPS GLANEIRW Hwsing Co-op,a rural community in West Wales, is looking for a new members. We have a large house, 44 acres and farm organically, run a pottery and have just started a business installing high efficiency boilers in Rayburns. Very busy! We are an income-sharinggroup and use the house and land communally. We are 4 man, 3 women and would i ke t o grow t o 12-14 adults and

kids and hope people with energy, hopefully some skills t o share and some capital would like t o join. Interested?Write us for details and arrange a visit for a few days. Glaneinv Hwsing Cooperative, Blaenporth, Cardigan, Dyfed. Tel. Aberporth 810548.

PUBLICATIONS RURAL Resettlement Handbook. Second edition revised and enlarged. 220 pages of practical, financial, legal, social and personal information about rural resettlement. An essential reference book for rural dwellers, aspiring small-holders, armchair resettlers, and everyoneconcerned with the countryside. Only Â£1.8 post free from the Rural Resettlement Group, 5 Crown Street. Oxford. THE COMING AGE: magazine of the living matriarchal community. 45p, Lux Madriana (U), 49, Industrial St, Todmorden, Lana. PEACE NEWS for non-violent revolution. Reports, analysis, news, of non-violent action for social change, building alternatives and resisting the mega-machine. Covers anti-militarism, sexual politics. ecology, decentralisation etc. 30p fortnightly, Â£10.8 for a year's sub, from 8 Elm Avenue, Nottingham. ALTERNATIVE Times. The magazine of the renewable energy campaign. Trial sub. Â£ for three. 35 Wedmore Street, London N19 4RU.

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THE SALISBURY Centre is an Open Centre where up to 6-7 residents live and work together. The Centre runsa programme of activities such as meditation, yoga, gestalt therapy, pottery, spinning and weaving, organic gardening and offers hospitality t o visitors and accommodation t o travellers. Residents make a commitment of 1-2 years. Anyone interested in becoming a resident should contact: The Secretary, Salisbury Centre, 2 Salisbury Road. Edinburgh EH16 5AB.

TIGER TRAILS. Beautiful animal sweatshirts. Send 20p or sae. Tiger Trails, 2 Blenheim Crescent. London W11 INN. BEING AND NOTHINGNESS LTD: We are a builders' co-op working in Newham, East London andare looking for a seventh worker - preferably female. Must have a commitment to co-ops and aptitude for practical works. Skills not essential. Write for details t o 92 Bristol Road, London E7.

HAVING been ttuck with a dud Laker return ticket from Tiarra del Fuego, I dropped in on our Venezudan.correspond^ ant He'd recently met NELSON ROCKEFELLER of the Chase ManhattanBank in the World Bank loo. Let no one say Undercumts cub reporters don't get around.-. Pipped atthe post forTditor of the year' by Harry Evans of The T i m again. Part of the reason for discontent at the Times hts'been'that Harry has recently been telling journalkt8 that any articles sympathetic to disarmament would b* thrown in the bin. The curse of Ooomster had immediate anddevastatingeffect, and by the time you read this the paperfor Top People may be no more. More trouble at FRIENDS OF THE EARTH. There is a dispute on between staff and management on the issue of pay parity. You know, the thing they've justabolished on TIME OUT. A t least two of the staff aren'tso keen on parity; prospective Labour candidate Steve Bilcliffe 'Just because I don't often turn up for work doesn't mean I shouldn't be atlowedacompany cw' and Liz Kessler. The dynamic duo have bÃ‘ parsuicfd to join the agricultural union NUAW while the mt of the staff are ACTS. This is specifically contrary to the TUG'S'Bridlington Agreement' which forbids poaching by other unions. Perhaps the rest of the staff should set up their own venture as happened with CITY LIMITS, but Idoubt if they have the (recyclable) bottle.. An organisation called K.I.B. have started a large project on the Dossibilities of levitation. K is Arthur Koestler. I is Brian lnglis while my investigative staff are tracking down the elusive B. He is appamntly an eccentric millionaire. Perhaps he might be interested in doing tome levitation on the Undercurrentsoverdraft. Alternative London editor Georgeanne Downes has been moaning about how boring anti-sexistmen are "They treat you as i f you only had a mind, as though you don't have a body I' Surely this can't be t h e same Georgeanne Downes I met in Armagh jail in 1969. She was inside for robbing a bank. My own view is that 'Alternative London' was a C. I.A. backad project to keep at least 15 well known west London subversivesoff the streets for a year.. The famous JOANNA GORDON-CLARK [who?) has been f e d i n articles to theTimes and New Scientist about 'the spit in the environmentalmovement. She thinks we shouldn't be so hard on the poor Japanese and expect them t o renounce whaling. The real split seems t o be between her and everyone else. She should stick to studying the sex-life of molluscs, or whatever it is they doat the Marine Action Centre where she works. The Pope has decreed that 'men and women Main their sexuality in He8ven1.Interesting, but it still sounds1hÃˆsa of place wbum they will tell you to turn yourstereooffafter 11p.m. The Pope does not mention what will happen t o trans-cexuais - no doubt I will be meeting them i n the Other Place. Doss anyone know the whereabouts of the Mysterious Oliver Pages mentioned in the index of 'Sierra Leone' the last book the alternative London crew did. That man Poges is one of the enigmas of our time.. LOONY DOOMSTER

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Undercurrents 51 March 1982 2 Eddies 6 Letters 7 Autonomous Radio: Red radio waves from Europe - Relay Collective 9 Pirate Power: Dutch TV Pirates - Katrien Gottlieb 10 U.S. and Them: Richard Brabrook interviews Bill Mandel from KPFA, SF. 11 Not Waving, But: The future of wave power in the balance - David Ross 12 When You’re Smiling: Timothy Leary’s Theories. Is this man a bozo? - Marian Kester 14 London Calling: The new Alternative London - Pete Culshaw 14 Weird Stuff: The strange case of Reagan’s doubles - Pail Sieveking 16 Clawing Back: Wild thing, you make my heart sing - Animal Liberation Front 19 The Animals Film - Richard North 20 Nuclear Power: The Facts in Question - Peter Harper’s 23 Whats What and When 26 Reviews 31 Classified 32 Froth: Loony Doomster on the rampage _________________________________________________________________________ THIS issue we start our review of ‘Airwave Anarchy’ (don’t you love these slick, journalistic headings?) looking at recent developments in broadcasting. This month we have pieces on Community Radio and Pirate TV, and in the next issue we have Stuart Hood on the possible collapse of mainstream TV in the 80s and a pressure group who are trying to encourage a more feminist perspective in radio. The other area that we are starting to cover more is the growing animal rights movement. We haven’t had much on this issue before partly because the Beast magazine did it so well. Now that the Beast has folded, Undercurrents seems an obvious platform for Animal Liberationists. The forthcoming Animals Film (see page 19) will undoubtedly focus attention on their arguments. Don’t miss our next action-packed issue . . And don’t forget to take advantage of our Alternative London book offer . . Undercurrents was brought to you by: Godfrey Boyle, Peter Culshaw (features), Ingrid Emsden Bill Flatman, Nick Hanna (advertising), Will Hill (cover), Cathy, Stephen Joseph and Antonia Millen (reviews), Rowan, Chris Schuler, Pat Sinclair (news), Dave Smith, Tammy and Lowana Veal (listings). With help from David Ross, Georganne Downs, Dave Elliott and Richard North. _________________________________________________________________________