Anarchist Age Weekly Review 26.8.98 Number 314 24th - 30th August, 1998 IN A TIME OF UNIVERSAL DECEIT - TELLING THE TRUTH IS A REVOLUTIONARY ACT - GEORGE ORWELL NO MORE!! It's highly likely that when you read this article, Australians will have been propelled into a festival of parliamentary democracy. Unless the Liberal Party suffers a horrendous defeat at the Tasmanian state elections, John Howard will call a Federal election sometime between early and mid October. As anarchist activists we need to be prepared for the forthcoming two minutes of illusory power. You know and I know that power does not lie in parliament, it lies in the boardrooms of national and trans-national corporations. They draw up the agenda, parliament colours in the squares. Australia is one of the last nation states on this planet that forces its citizens to vote. Since 1922 both State and Federal electors have been penalised for not participating in the electoral farce. As anarchists, we don't want to participate in this sham. Parliamentary democracy is two minutes of illusory power. We believe in direct democracy, not parliamentary rule. The Libertarian Workers for a Self-Managed Society/Anarchist Media Institute have had enough of this farce. Not only do we believe that it is morally wrong to force people to write out a blank cheque to give parliamentarians illusory power over the next 3-4 years, we also believe that the laws that force people to vote are unconstitutional. We don't want to hide in corners and let the state hold its festival of parliamentary rule without challenging the law that makes criminals of people who want to be involved in the struggle to create a society that is based on direct democratic principles. Irrespective of when the next Federal election is held, whether in October this year or March next year, we intend to launch a vocal direct challenge to the laws that made us criminals because we don't want to participate in their little festival. We encourage other anarchists across this continent to launch their own Direct Democracy, Not Parliamentary Rule Campaign. We encourage you to become involved in a movement that calls on people to boycott the forthcoming Federal election. The electoral process gives us an opportunity to present our ideas to people who are disillusioned with the parliamentary farce. It's time we used this golden opportunity to publicly discuss the nature of democracy. We will not be able to conduct this campaign without your help. We need your assistance. As the campaign unfolds there will be opportunities for you to become involved. Think about it! Do you want more of the same half truths? Do you want to support a system you don't believe in? Or do you believe it's time that the illusions surrounding parliamentary rule are openly challenged. Ultimately the success of the Libertarian Workers for a Self-Managed Society/Anarchist Media Institute electoral campaign depends on the degree of support our efforts are able to generate in the community. WHAT DO WARWICK SMITH AND JEFFREY GLIB KENNETT HAVE IN COMMON? They both love the elderly, well I tell a little white lie, they both love to talk about how they love the elderly. A report was released on Monday which sank the boot into the nursing home industry in Australia. Just in Victoria, forty one nursing homes (1700 residents) have been singled out by the Commonwealth government for not providing even basic nursing care. In an attempt to deflect any criticism of the Federal government, just before an election, Warwick Smith, the Federal Minister who is responsible for nursing homes, has come out swinging. Standing on his soap box, he has publicly carried on about how its not good enough and how he will do everything in his power to fix the matter!! Fighting words indeed. Not to be outdone, Jeffrey Glib Kennett, opportunist extraordinaire, (the man who John Hewson accuses of helping the Liberal Party lose the unlosable election), has come out mouthing off about how he will investigate every complaint. Fighting, caring words indeed. Unfortunately for any of us who have elderly friends and family who need nursing care, the tears shed by these two men are crocodile tears. Many of the deficiencies that are glaringly obvious in the nursing home sector, are a direct consequence of policies both men have devised and implemented. Just last year the Federal Government made a few changes to the way Commonwealth payments are made to private nursing homes. One of their most extraordinary decisions, concerns payment for the number of nursing hours that are provided in each nursing home. In the past, each nursing home was allocated payment for a certain number of nursing hours. If the hours allocated were not used, the money was refunded to the Commonwealth Government. Not any more, nursing grants are allocated and paid irrespective of whether private nursing homes use nurses or not. Knowing how the private nursing home industry operates, it's not surprising to learn that many nursing home owners have pocketed the money and not provided the necessary nursing care. It's easy to break into laughter when you listen to the great helmsman refuse to take any blame for the current poor state of nursing homes. You see the great man and his bunch of intellectually challenged colleagues, deregulated the private nursing home industry in 1994. It's really pathetic when you hear the great man's excuse for the current debacle. In his opinion private nursing homes should provide humane care for their residents, irrespective of whether the industry is regulated or deregulated. Examining this statement, it's obvious Jeffrey doesn't seem to understand that profits, not morals, determine the level of care in private nursing homes. If there are no regulations, owners will squeeze the residents and increase their profits. What else do you expect from the private sector? We all know the importance of the bottom line in any profit driven industry. The bigger the profit, the happier the owner. Nursing homes that are established to create profits are always more interested in the amount of profits they make, than the type of nursing care they provide. LORENZO BITES BACK Regular readers of the Anarchist Age Weekly Review will be familiar with the saga of Lorenzo Komboa Ervin, the black anarchist who was expelled from Australia courtesy of those free thinkers in the Liberal/National and One Notion Party. Lorenzo, a guest of the Australian Anarchist community was on a speaking tour of Australia last year when he was arrested illegally, jailed illegally, beaten, harassed and eventually driven out of the country. He now has been banned from the shores of our fair (very fair) nation by the Liberal/National party goons. Well Lorenzo has had enough of this garbage. On the 23rd of July 1998, he lodged a 50 million dollar law suit in Los Angeles against the Australian government. Lorenzo's activities in Australia did not go unnoticed by that bastion of freedom, the United States government. Since his return to the land of Hope and Glory, Lorenzo Ervin has had law suits filed against him for running a "pirate" radio station. He and two other members of Black Autonomy, an Anarchist, group face serious criminal charges because they took over a podium at their local city hall to protest the gunning down of two young black men by local law enforcement officers. Lorenzo's mail is seized (a Federal offence), his phone is tapped and he is under constant police surveillance. Lorenzo Komboa Ervin has not been stopped, by these threats, he is still determined to fight for a new egalitarian community and is still involved in the struggle against racist violence. Messages of support can be sent to Lorenzo via email WAR OF TECHNOLOGY A number of disturbing images of slaughtered civilians have been flashed across the globe in the past two weeks. Dismembered and bleeding bodies from Northern Ireland, Kenya, Tanzania, Sudan and Afghanistan have graced the world's television screens. The single most important picture that flashes across my mind is the indiscriminate nature of these atrocities. It looks like we all have become potential victims in acts of terror that are carried out by nationalist bigots, religious bigots and the number one terrorist in our midst, the avenging nation state. Technological innovations have changed the nature of post-modern warfare. Chemicals, biological weapons and possibly nuclear weapons are now not only in the hands of nation states but in the hands of people who believe that only their ideas and values are legitimate. Everybody else is a target. The portable nature of weapons of mass destruction make all of us hostages to people who believe there is only one way to approach life - their way. Although there may be ideological differences between the instigators of the slaughter of civilians we have witnessed across three continents in the last few weeks, the perpetrators of these atrocities have much more in common with each other than their victims. Those responsible for this slaughter believe that their desires and needs override human life. Anarchists across the globe harbour a deep revulsion against all those who indiscriminately use technology to wage war on ordinary people trying to survive in an increasingly hostile world. THE LAST DOMINO!! The writing is on the wall. Over the next two months the planet will be plunged into another depression. As the world's financial markets digest the Russian economic melt down, investors in Europe and the United States are nervously looking at South America's markets. Over the last two years Central and South America has been made into a free trade zone. This zone has been held up as an example of how third world economies can join the big boys and girls if they deregulate their markets and open up to all and sundry. A number of South American currencies have come under enormous pressure over the past few days. It won't be long before the last domino outside Europe and the United States collapses. The ramifications of such a collapse are horrendous to contemplate. The collapse of the South American market economy is not just an economic collapse, it's a political and ideological collapse. Over the last twenty years the world economy has been subjected to a triple plague - privatisation, globalisation and free trade. The collapse of South America's markets will precipitate a United States and European depression. The writing is on the wall for capitalism. Whether capitalism is replaced by a period of barbarism or co-operative change ultimately rests in our hands. It's up to each one of us to become involved in the struggle to create a community where both power and wealth is shared by all, not monopolised by a minority. ANARCHIST QUESTION AND ANSWER Q. Are all anarchists atheists? A. No!! Anarchist don't have a problem with people having a belief in the supernatural or for that matter a deity or a whole bevy of deities. The problem anarchists have with people with religious beliefs are threefold, they oppose organisations that people create to act as an intermediary between them and their beliefs, they oppose religious dogma that strips the individual of free will and they oppose religious dogma that are exclusive and treat the rest of society as heretics. Many anarchists have beliefs that transcend the material reality that they are faced with. Their relationship with their god/s is a personal one which they exercise as individuals with free will, not as automation's who follow the dictates of leaders who supposedly have God's ear. Anarchists tolerate and support an individual's right to worship as they wish, but they don't support an individual's efforts to impose their beliefs on other people by the use of force and fear. Some of the darkest pages of human history have been written by religious bigots who capture state power and then use the full might of the state apparatus to impose their beliefs on other people. The pages of history are littered with examples of massacres that have been carried out by various religious groups and sects. The brutal behaviour of the Taliban militia in Afghanistan today, is an excellent example of what happens when groups with a religious agenda, seize state power and use that power to impose their will on the community. Anarchists oppose all religious fundamentalist groups that use their religious beliefs as a smokescreen to enslave other people. Anarchist militants bitterly oppose religious bigots and fundamentalists. Anarchists oppose both the secular and the religious state, because they oppose hierarchy and inequality. The very structure of most religious organisations is a bulwark against free choice. There are both authoritarian and libertarian tendencies within all major religious faiths. Anarchists tend to support the libertarian elements within these traditions. In some situations anarchists may find themselves offering temporary support to elements within religious organisations, that are attempting to stem the fundamentalist tide that has been such a prominent feature of organised religion as we approach the 21st century. Although all anarchists are not atheists, they all oppose the dreadful attempts of religious organisations that try to manipulate and squash individual free will. ACTION BOX - BURIED ALIVE So you're part of a community group that has a particular aim in mind. You've been able to identify the problem and have built a local movement to tackle the problem. You've been so successful in your organisational endeavours that a government department, the corporate world and possibly the police are beginning to take an interest in your campaign. They know that you are now a permanent part of the scene and they know you are willing to take action to get what you want. Their plans are diametrically opposed to your plans, they need to contain the emerging protest group, starve it of air and slowly kill it. The organisation has entered a dangerous phase in its development, how you react to these initial overtures will ultimately determine the success or failure of the movement. Remember you'll initially be bliss-bombed. You'll be told "we're from the government, we're here to help you." Corporations will try to negotiate with you via their public relations arm. We all know the role of the corporate world's spin doctors. The police will want to open up dialogue, especially if you plan to become involved in mass community action. The police force knows there aren't many brownie points to be won by wading into community activists with batons and horses. A few points to help you with your negotiations: A) Be clear about your aims, put them down on paper. B) Conduct regular public meetings, the groups ultimate power and authority revolves around local participation. C) Keep an eye out for the midwives of state capitalism. So-called professional activists who see your local struggle primarily as a recruiting opportunity. D) Delegates should have limited mandates and should be local people, not outside supporters. E) If outside people want to help you, ensure they don't swamp locals. The best way to deal with this situation is by forming support groups that are separate to the local group. F) Tell the people from the government, corporate world and the police that you only have a mandate to discuss and there will be no changes to the groups aims without ratification of any decision by a public meeting. G) Ensure delegates who are appointed or elected only have a specific mandate. H) Never see their representatives together, see them one at a time. This prevents them from ganging up on you. I) Always have three delegates or more at any meeting with them. J) Do not become co-opted by becoming involved in surveys or an endless round of meetings - remember they're paid to negotiate, you're a group of volunteers who have to earn a living. K) Do not negotiate with lower level bureaucrats, ask to negotiate with senior personnel in the department. If they won't come to the party, no meeting. L) Never negotiate with the Corporations public relations arm, they have no power, demand that the person you negotiate with has the authority to make decisions. M) When you negotiate with the police, negotiate with a senior officer from the local station. As they are part of the local community they understand they need to keep up a reasonable relationship with your group. Remember, clear goals, clear decision making processes and a flexible strategy go a long way to helping you secure your ultimate goal. Don't forget you are ultimately only as strong as your local support base. No local support, no movement. AUSTRALIAN ANARCHIST HISTORY - TOM BARKER Tom Barker was born in the Lakes District in England in 1887. He ran away to Liverpool at the age of 15 and joined the 8th Hussars, an Irish Cavalry regiment in 1904. He was discharged from the army in 1909 after a bout of rheumatic fever. In the same year he headed off to New Zealand and became the secretary of the New Zealand Socialist Party, at the age of 25. He joined the Chicago wing of the I.W.W. when it formed a chapter in New Zealand in 1912. He was heavily involved in the New Zealand strike wave in 1912-13 and was arrested for sedition in 1913. He escaped to Sydney in February in 1914 before standing trial. At twenty six years of age he was an accomplished orator, writer, organiser and militant. He joined up with the Sydney I.W.W. in 1914. By the end of 1914 he was the editor of Direct Action and secretary of the Sydney local of the I.W.W. Barker wrote and printed the most famous Australian anti-war poster in July, 1915. On the 3rd October 1915 he was charged with publishing a poster prejudicial to recruiting. He was convicted, fined 50 pounds or six months imprisonment but won an appeal against the conviction in October 1915. He was charged with the same offence (he published an anti-war cartoon by Syd Nicholls in Direct Action) in March 1916. This time he was convicted and fined one hundred pounds. He refused to pay the money and was sent to jail for 12 months. His imprisonment resulted in widespread I.W.W. protests, the authorities used these protests as a cloak to frame the I.W.W. twelve. He was kept in jail till August 1918 and then deported to Chile. The Chilean authorities eventually deported him to Argentina. He was jailed on his arrival in Buenos Aires but was released after a short time. After he left Argentina he made his way to Norway for an international trade union meeting. Tom Barker eventually settled in London. After the Second World War he became a Labor Councillor in the London borough of St.Panareas. He remained a councillor well into his eighties. He was the only Lord Mayor to refuse to wear the Lord Mayoral robes and on one occasion shocked the Labor Party by flying the Red Flag over the town hall. Many commentators suggest that Baroness Thatcher's dislike of the Greater London Council was triggered by Tom Barker's antics. Source of material for this article, Sydney's Burning (An Australian Political Conspiracy) by Ian Turner 2nd Edition 1969. National Library of Australia Registry No. Aus 67-751. BOOK REVIEW - THE SPANISH ANARCHISTS - THE HEROIC YEARS 1868 - 1936, Author - Murray Bookchin First Edition 1977 This Edition 1998, Published by AK Press, ISBN 1-873176-04-x Reading the Spanish Anarchists - the Heroic Years 1868 - 1936 is like watching a fire. The history of the Spanish Anarchist Movement in pre-revolutionary Spain parallels the fate of a fire. Initially it begins with a spark, the spark evolves into a brilliant flame, the flame dies, the embers smoulder, re-igniting into an inferno when they are fed and fanned. Murray Bookchin's book examines the various stages of the Spanish Anarchist Movement from the spark that Fenelli brought to Spain from Italy in 1868 to the blazing inferno that followed the CNT National Congress in Saragossa in 1936. Murray Bookchin has provided a new preface to the 1998 edition, which I don't believe adds anything new to the thoughts that were expressed in the 1977 edition. The rest of this 315 page book is divided into ten distinct chronological chapters, that examine the development of the Spanish Anarchist Movement. One of Bookchin's concluding remarks makes what I believe is the most important contribution to anarchist thought I have seen for some time. "Their movements "heroic years" 1868 to 1936 were marked by a fascinating process of experimentation in organisational forms, decision making techniques, personal values, educational goals, and methods of struggles." This book is not a mere historical catalogue of figures and events, it's much much more. This book can and does open windows into the way an anarchist movement can develop. Interestingly, the same rapid changes that catapulted anarchism into the 20th Century are now stirring the social pot as we enter the 21st Century. Thanks to Anarres Books for providing the review copy of The Spanish Anarchists - The Heroic Years 1868-1936. The book is available from Anarres Books for $26.00. Write or Email Anarres Books if you want a copy of the book or their 1998 catalogue. Anarres Books, P.O. Box 150, East Brunswick. 3057, Melbourne Australia. Email Mailorder@anarres.org.au http://www.anarres.org.au PERSONAL OBSERVATION Bloated, swollen ankles hanging over well worn, no nonsense black flat heeled shoes. Clean white bandages stained with old blood, hug two human tree trunks that are covered with ill fitting grey stockings. I find it difficult to take my eyes off her stumps. No human being should be able to walk, let alone stand on those diseased stumps, but walk she does, one foot after the next, pausing for breath, as she makes her way to the bus stop. Old, tired legs are topped by an old body that's fighting to break out of an ill-fitting knee length purple dress, that's seen better days, possibly better decades. Her crumpled green cardigan covers ample breasts that have merged with her midriff. Her white plastic bag hands limply from her left hand, a book snuggles into the palm of her right hand. One minute, two minutes, three minutes, she covers the necessary distance and finally leans against a tree half her age. She waits and waits and waits. Although she's over eighty and displays some of the most prominent signs of congestive cardiac failure I've seen in over twenty years of medical practice, no taxi for her. She waits for the next bus, leaning against a tree, catching her breath while she opens her book. She struggles to find the right page, but find it she does. She reads, her eyes popping over thick rimmed glasses that were all the rage in the 1950's. She waits, she reads, she thinks, occasionally she raises her head, scanning the horizon for a non-existent privatised bus. The balloons at the end of her feet swell as she waits, the bloated skin oozes over ankles that can't carry her weight. I move on, part of the convoy of cars and trucks that blow fumes in her face as she waits for the next bus to ferry her to who knows where. STOP PRESS - DUELLING TAX PACKAGES I've heard of duelling banjo's, but I've never heard of duelling tax packages, that is until this week. The Liberal/National party released their "everybody's a winner" tax package two weeks ago. Not to be outdone the Labor Party has just released its "battlers tax package" trumping the government's new improved G.S.T. added tax plan. Not to be outdone by the governments and Labor's duelling banjo's, the One Notion mob has decided to sit this one out and wait until an election is called to announce their tax package, while the very reasonable Australian Democrat folk (who put a little bit of steel in Peter Reith's middle aged penis by passing the Government's Industrial Relations Laws), are now toying with the idea of passing Howard's GST package if he wins the next election. Looks like some people are born masochists, they never seem to learn even after repeatedly being kicked in the head. The rest of us mere mortals are supposed to dance to their duelling banjo's. Well I know one little black duck that won't be dancing to their tune - you guessed it, moi!! As an anarchist, I'm interested in living in a society where wealth is held in common, where you don't need to levy taxes because what is yours is mine. Tax is the mechanism by which the nation state raises the necessary revenue to lubricate the wheels that keep the whole sorry mess turning over. I don't care about their duelling tax packages, their tax plans reinforce the mirage that somehow governments have the power to control the corporate sector. Tax packages are for the mugs in this society - you and me. The Howard and Beazley tax packages don't even address, let alone tackle the underlying problem that all governments face, power doesn't lie in parliament, it lies in the boardrooms of national and transnational corporations. Any tax plan that doesn't attempt to tackle this fundamental problem is part of the problem, not the solution to the problem. Let's do what we can to break their banjo strings before the next looming festival of powerlessness - the Federal election. JOSEPH TOSCANO (Libertarian Workers for a Self-Managed Society). ANARCHIST PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED THIS WEEK PROVO No.1 August Ô98, Anarcho-Syndicalist Group-Perth, PO Box 1629, Morely. 6943. Perth Western Australia. Tel: 08 9275-8907. email benav@msn.copm.au ARIVISTA ANARCHICA No. 246 June Ô98, Editrice A, Cos Post 17120, 20170 Milano, Italy. Tel/Fax: 02 289-6627 FREEDOM Vol 59 No. 16 15th August Ô98, 846 Whitechapel High St, London, E1 7QX, Great Britain. http://www.tao.ca/~freedom email freedompress@freedom@tao.ca UMANITA NOVA 78th year 3rd, 17th, 24th May Ô98, 7th, 14th June'98. Corso Palermo 46, 10152 Torino, Italy. Tel/Fax: 011 857850, Celi: 0338 6594361, email fat@inrete.it OTHER PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED THIS WEEK LIVE WILD OR DIE No. 7 Aug Ô98, Box 204, 2425-B Charming Way, Berkeley CA 94704. United States of America VICTORIAN READERS LISTEN TO THE ANARCHIST WORLD THIS WEEK ANARCHIST WORLD THIS WEEK POSTER AVAILABLE FOR THE COST OF A FEW STAMPS Want to help us find new listeners for the Anarchist World This Week, then send us a few stamps to AWTW, Po Box 20, Parkville 3052, Australia and we'll send you out a colour poster (A3) for your use and a black & white poster you can photocopy and put up to help us increase the number of people who listen to the Anarchist World This Week. 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Email helpaul@netlink.com.au ANARCHIST WORLD THIS WEEK TO GO NATIONAL AND GLOBAL The Anarchist World This Week is about to go National via being transmitted live to a satellite which is used by most of Australia's Community Radio Stations. This means almost any community radio station in Australia will be able to beam the program LIVE or tape it and use it later on in the week. The Anarchist Media Institute has also secured a site on the internet to transmit the Anarchist World This Week to anyone, anywhere across the globe who has access to the internet. In order for both projects to become A REALITY we need to raise two thousand dollars to 1) clear our debt with 3CR (community radio federation) approximately $1100.00. 2) buy a years space on the satellite $750.00. 3) upgrade the modem on our computer $150.00. We are in the process of organising a benefit concert to help raise the necessary funds. 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DIRECT DEMOCRACY NOT PARLIAMENTARY RULE Want to become involved in a campaign that highlights that parliamentary elections are nothing more than 2 minutes of illusory power. Want to put a few speed humps in the way of Howard's electoral juggernaut, than contact us at email directdemocracy@net.scape.net or write to us at D.D. PO Box 5035 Alphington 3078 Melbourne Australia. FILM and DINNER NIGHT BARRICADE BOOKS/INFO SHOP 115 Sydney Road Brunswick Melbourne. Career Girls - Mike Leighs latest film. Saturday 29th August 98, 6.30pm Cost $4 (incl vegan meal) ANARCHIST MEDIA INSTITUTE OBSCENITY OF THE WEEK Has been won by Crown Ltd boss Lloyd Williams for blaming everybody except himself and his mate Kim Il Kennett for Crown Casino's death rattle. If You Like What You Have Read, Photocopy This Publication and Leave It In Doctors, Dentists, Vets Waiting Rooms and In Railway Stations, Bus Stops, Libraries and Restaurants Etc. 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NEVER DOUBT THAT A SMALL GROUP OF THOUGHTFUL COMMITTED CITIZENS CAN CHANGE THE WORLD - MARGARET MEAD.