FC,tt ANARGHIST REs5ISTAiICENOVEMBER '9I

AL THEORIESFADO

Whot is hoppening in the SovietUnion? Hos Communism collopsed?ls itthe foilure of Siote Communism,is it Stote Copitolism, o degeroteworkers' stote finolly degeneroted.,the triumph of copitolism or whot?

Sorry. Alltrosh.

Fomine hos coused hovoc in Rus-sio os it did lost century in lrelond.When the pototo fomine struck lre-lond, this wos o noturol disoster butwouldn't hove been o humon onehod it not been for the peosont ten-ure problem, which meont ollotherfood wos reserved for lhe rent ondso the poor storved to deoth. Therich went without pototoes.ond wereihe heolthier for it. $ome comploinedtheir tenonts were $s) dishonesfthey never notified tfre londlordwhen they died of ttorv,ution or

' went off lo tromp the rooCs iookinEfor food ond so it wcs n:onlhs beforehe knew he couid re-k:t.lf lightning strikes o house, thot is a

nolurol disoster, coiied by lowyerson Aci of God. tf is not (under copi-tolism) on economic disosler unlessyou're not insured. tt is if you ccn,iofford to poy the premiums. UnrJermost totolitorion schemes, includ-ing Stote Communism, it is o disosterif you don't hove cloulwiih the ruiingporty which con provide you lviiheverylhing. The iceberg thol sunkthe Titonic could hove hitt

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T,ONDON WC1N3XX

NUMBER 202NOVEMBER 1991

GrRO ACCOUNT NO.58 552 4009

l,norcho- (Showbiz) -Quizl, Which internolionol film storgcined fqme ond fortune by ploy-iry; o succession of mocho roles oswcrr heroes (or sometimes Nozi vil-loi rs) being physicolly free to do soos o legolly exempted conscien-tiors objector on pocifisl grounds?

2. Wos Leon lrolsky ever o filmex ro in New York?

3. Whqt deposed lrish-born dicto-lor (or notionol liberotor, occord-in5rlo opinion) not only wrole wroteond lectured incessontly on iheevents leodlng to obdicqtion, buloppeored personolly in the siogeve sion?

4. Whot connection is there be-lw >en not poying the poll tox ondwc tching the TV series 'Murder, SheWr:te'?

5. Whot chorocter from English his-ior i (importonl enough to hove pubsncneC ofter him!) hos often beenshnvrn on screen, yei Hollywoodne.rer dreomed of hoving himpl

WHAT HAS HAPPENED TOBLACK FLAG ? (coNT.)

exoctly o secret thot in o yeor or twothe people who log olongside ev-ery mojor demonstrotion corrying.odvertising slogons for Socii:lisl Workerond the like, reducing every eventto on odvertising compoign,will in ofew yeors be in journolism, odvertis-ing or even monogement,, usingtheir experience on the other side.The reoclionory Old Guord of the

Lobour Porty knows full well thot theonly effect of its so-colled left wing,ond trots of vorious hues, will be tobor them from power becouse ofthe imoge they project of eccentricTories os ogoinst ordinory ones. Theirelectorol prospects olwoys de-pended on the working closs ondthey hove tossed it owoy for dubi-ous ideology, leoving British politics,like Americon, os o personolity gomefought out in the medio. Their fotedoes not concern us, but we hovethe some problem of dissociotingourselves, if for differenl reosons.lf we wont o movement, not o

moross, we hove to ossert our differ-ences wilh lhese folse ollies, Morxistor libertorion, positively. lf one seeksunity with them, one doesn'l hovethe working closs, il's os simple osthot - whotever should or should

iI5]tD AT 6UNPOINT

oncr Book in the other. This is trons-mu'ed into whot ore supposed tobe :treet fighting lerms ore the stuffof f )rce,Thr effect of the Anglo-Americonpe(:ce ond ccmmerciolised musicmo rement confused with theonc,rchist moross ond vice verso,hos been to substitute first wishy-worhy pocifism ond permonentpro est. Then when peoceful pro-lest foils, the moross thinks ollit hos todo is to moke the protests moreeffe ctive wilh o bit of the old streetfigh tlng, No molter whot it is - exces-sive tox, redundoncies, wor, invo-sior, cruelty to onimols, let's go ondhove o bosh of the police. Foirencugh, good cleon fun, reminis-cer I of the post ond more effectivetho r offering them flowers, but towhcrt purpose?Do,:s this offect the working closs inthe slightest? They ore in the moinhos"ile becouse they resent seeingthe movement they build up beingtoken over , its originol inhobitontsolmcst totolly 'evicted,' ond usedfor :urely liberol ond politicol pur-pos 3s with which they moy or moynol be in sympothy. Also, it is not

not be the cose. Generotions of oc-tivists hove been burned out by them, lhey ore used os o meons of ossert-ing control both by the leoders ofthe demonslrolions ond by oulhor-ity itself - ond slilllheir effectivenessos opposed to industriol orgoniso-tion on the one hond or guerrillooction on lhe other hos not beenossessed,For this reeoson Block Flog ond the

onorchist movemenl proper hos lostlhe pool in which il used lo swim,which wos working closs oclivism.Resistonce movements , where theycould not be token over, hove beenduplicoted ond imitoted by Gov-ernment ogents of one sorrt ofonother (e,9. the originol Red ArmyFroction in Germony, Action Directein Fronce, ore instonces wherephoney orgonisotions hove beenbuill'wilh the some nomes, ihe RedBrigodes in ltoly were token over,lhe process of lrying lo confuse istoking ploce in the former Sovietcountries, ond most successfully ilhos hoppened in Spoin where owhole orgonised lobour movementhos been copied in order to desiroyit os o revolutionory force.We do not weep thot Block Flog

influence is bock to squore one ondhos to rebuild ogoin. So hos lhewhole revolutionory onorchist move-ment, so is working closs orgoniso-tion. When the working closs orgoni-sotion revives, ils militontsections willrevive (note how "militont" hos beenmode into o dirty word by beingused by porliomentory bolsheviks).When lhere ore working closs octiv-ists there will be onorcho-syndicolistsectors, ond in lhem we thrive. With-out them we ore o solitory plontgrowing in o poved street.The situotion con chonge olmost

overnight (os it hos done in the SovietUnion). Let us be reody. Build up ournuclei now. There is nothing to hopeon the porliomentory horizon, ondtheyeors of depression hove grodu-olly pushed the working closs out ofproduclion where it hos polentiolpower to enforced Stote depend-ency or to servilude where it connotconlrol, This is whol creotes opothyor despoir but this is whot we mustcombol, if need be, for the timebeing, os lone voices in the wilder-ness.

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RED /4i\si\onything possing, lt wosn'l the fouttof copilolism, bul it wos due to tholsystern thot the firsl-closs possen-gers cnly got soved. tf it hcd beenthe "Titanic Red Star" it wor":iri nothove been so. lt would hove beenthe portyrnembers. Hori it been the"Titonic Aryon Supermcn" it wouldhi:ve been o seleclir-:n of the veryrich onr.l the top Porly membe rs.rir'hct ,..lb*ut Russicr

W:rrl took ov-0r oft+r iicrisi-nir il5 r'i i) : fvl I rxisn:, St f:i r.r C *i.n ;'t i il ilismo' 4]il!.'!il,:, jg else br:l ths li.:ir) r":i ihei,i.iiilr'irrii:l, t PAlty lClp iCr.:tir,:iSh!prviiiCl, ti,:;.:rcced the lsi::i,. ii l-ir:lievr;j:rr Stcle i,lornmunisiil Oui Oir-i nirti.ilnw li:,,', to corry ii oL.ri. il h,.:rj fheii)ici:ci't:. t^,tfl io Slote C ontrn i":rrisin thotl.sorisrn rri:ci to lrnperiolisrr'), lt wos ccruder, r-nore borboric form. lrrecononric ond sociol life il ron lhecouniry by diktot just os the Tsor hoddone, For internol security it ron bylerror onrl secrecy, os the Tsor hoddone. When there wos lrouble itmossocred. Polilicolly, it subslitutedihe rule of one mon or womon byi:irthright for the Porty (but this de-generote

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Russio is lur:h bigger thon Scot-Iond ond ''crll fhe Russios,, (in ploinlerms, the Ru:;sion Empire) rnoke 11vosl beyc-tcj Detief. And it felt im_pclled (ur dcr f ne Tsor for religrousrnotives, r ncJer the new l"scrs forpcliticol o -r{js} to interfere oll overihe world. Whr;n you lry to mcke oitJorwegior i Ilr.:voiution to sofegucrdyoi:r fronti,:t i.:t'td hOve lO Consjderine proble nl i.ri the Outer l"jehridesir relotion 1 ) i i.ii*, o srnortorse who.sie gged it e .:ir.ri the country to live inecse obroc,d si:ys ne,s reooy io lokeon the jot, lrry

T-A I theorie fall down Continued frcm wer

Tiorborism. Applied to ogriculiure itis even disostrous, The reoson theyblome communism or Stote com_IT,unism is becouse the lotter is inpower ond tokes blome os it tokesc'edit for everything, But I coutdn otch with on equolly omusing story(lr;ss lrogic) from my own experi_erce oi work, under copitolism.

The monogemenl sent for o ieomot experts to cut cosls ond increoseelficiency. They come to the con_cl..rsion thot whot coused thee,)ormous cosls wos ihe omount ofo',ertime ond decided this wos ounion rocket, They wenl to everydr:portment which hod inbuilt over_lirte ond told the supervisor to cut itout unless specificolly requested byth I monogement in writing. ,.lt meonscrrtting two hours - ot the beginningor of the end?" our supervisor osked."/ t the end, of course,, they soid."Y ou stort this doy". Ihey knew thotth: overtime could not be.'justified,,be ,couse they meosured the omountof work done with the number ofhc urs ond octed occordingly. Curi-orsly, nobody rolsed ony objeclion,Th: experts thought lhey hod us otlost.

They overlooked one foct. Thiswos o newspoper, ond thot nightthe editoriol desk wos clomouringfor extro coveroge by tetephonislicocytokers ond printers. .'Sorry,,, theywe re told. "We'll hove less thon evertorright. From l0 p.m. 1o 12 p.m.we 'llbe ctosed oltogether,,. They oilwent mod, there were importontnrcrtches io be covered, scondols,sorle wor lhreot or other, the lot.Or,jsy5 were no overiime unless themc nogement speciolly requested,on J they'd gone home for lhe night.Ne

TWENTY YEABS

Reo ling the oceons of guff wrlltenby tire lefiies over Kuwoit, it wouldseenr lhe Sheikhdom is o reoction-ory, Ieudol, despotic Stote run forthe benefit of theAmericon oitcom ronies ond o conupi ruling closs.And cf course they ore right. lt wosexoc tly the some twenty yeors ogoOS n()w.

Bui on Feb 17 1911 - o dote wewou'l hove commemoroted hodlhe Flog been oul of lhe time - theSheilh lovished time, money ondexp nse on o mojor bonquet tohost o conference of oll who be-lieveC in his couse ond lhot of thePLO, Liberols were represenled byLord Corrodon ond olmost everyMoo sl ond Trol group wos there.IMG rwith "street fighter" Toriq Ati), lS(fore'unner of lhe SWp) , the 'Miti-tonts under their then more opentrotsklist bonner, olong with Sinn Fein,oll p< rrticipoted.ln th-. nome of onti-imperiolism, ollrecei/ed the Sheikh's hospitolity onddebctled whot to do for lhe couseof lhr: Glorious Arob lslomic Revolu-tion. )ne con see why lhe Sheikh iso bit ?ut up obout "ungrotef ul pol-estini:ns" who ore olleged to hovesupp rrted Soddom Hussein of ler hemixe,J with thot mob on their beholf,He cttuldn't toke it out on his formerhono:red guests. most of whom olsosupp:rted Soddom "not potiticollybut n ilitorily" (ond insignificonfly) sothe c ispossessed polestinions got itin th(, neck on their "leoders,, be-holf.

Wh

r STAYAT HOMESoclly since we lost oppeored wehove lost one of lost survivors of iheoclive resistonce to the formerSponish monorchy, os wellos of theindilstriol resistonce to lhe Republiconcj civilworfighter. Almost o legen-dory figure to the fighters ogoinstFrorrco ond possibly the mosi-knownper;on in the inlernolionol onorchistmovement. Emilienne Morin (Mimito f lends) died ot lhe oge of 90. Shewor: octive in the French, Sponishon(! internotionol movements to herde