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primitive beliefs, assimilating and adapting those ju icy items which suited their particular, b ta n d o f Jpsychoanalyticdogmatism. So themes from ex otic dxearfts as well as frthn primhive symlwlism ritual found their way into the theories o f Freud and Jung and those o f their successors. Previous generations o f European political philosophers had exploited tit-bits o f exotic inform ation about the quality o f life in savage societies to add a bit o f colou r to their polemical theories about the ideal form o f society or the best kind It is no accident that protest and exotic mysticism should be such '•; :of. goyernment. The founders o f modern psychoanalysis thus simply follow ed in their footsteps. Although Jung was certainly more openstriking features o f the,contem porary scene. In almost all known the. numinous, the civilisations a n d .^ rio d s jaf .history religious.ecstasy has served as a . minded than Freud and frankly _ fascinated v....by ....... . ....... generous m outhpiece fo r frustration and aggressive self-assertion. N o general trend was to look for correspondences between the wonder ecstasy so neurotic Europeans on the °n $ £ ® 3 o f cultural and historical settings, we find downtrodden wom en hand, and primitive, supposedly ‘ immature’ tribesmen on the other, j swept headlong into ecstatic mystery cults whose leaders are the It was thus often argued that primitive societies were not on ly 3 authentic founders o f W omen’s Lib. So also the ideal inspired juvenile but also deliquent, and that they were regularly dom inated ’* prophet o f protest rises dramatically from the very fringes o f society by half-crazy shamans, w ho had obsessions about evil spirits and ‘speaking with t o n g u ^ -j^ ^ b la z in g the Hippie trail. In k e e p n ^ » ;V ;w jfi^ ^ .^ :^ y case fraudulent and scarcely worthy o f even the title with this resonahce between our ow n and other times and cultures ‘ primitive healer’ . Such absurd assessments smack rather strongly o f the current cra zefo r exdtffltjaiovel religious experience inevitably : jealousy, and more rigorous and infprhicd research has gives the bizarre-seeming beliefs and practises o f supposedly simple shown how misguided they are. It is n ow clear that the shaman is tribesmen a new relevance and meaning. Already oriental mysticism often a brilliantly insightful psychoanalyst, playing a highly signifihas been so widely borrow ed from that some find its nirvana-appeal cant role in helping to maintain the health and harmony o f his .« a little tarnished; and so more and more people turn to the m ore comm unity. Similarly, tribal beliefs in detachable souls or spirit| exotic and less well-known tribal cults o f Africa, the Caribbean, or essences which can be separated from , or joined with the self antici| South America - to say nothing o f the richly luxtiriar

becom ing tod ay’s most acceptable guru, just as t o d a ^ f i d S f l ^ ^ y i - i ; tribal societies. It is not on ly t likely to becom e tom orrow ’ s magic. The inspired priest or Shaman, been recently re-discovered

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unwitting as well as conscious im itators in the West today. While the Third World belatedly borrows the West’ s discarded marxism, the West urgently seeks to appropriate all the Third W orld’s mysterious magic in one o f the strangest cultural exchanges in the w orld’s history. Savage tribesmen used only to be invoked as intellectual black dwarfs in order to emphasise the whiteman’ s superiority. For 'their' ‘ irrational superstitions’ served to point up ou r superior rationality and the ultimate truth and validity o f Western scientific culture. Or so people used to think. This is today n o longer the case, and today the danger is rathei; that our dissatisfaction with what we consider degenerate in our own culture may encourage us to adopt an over-optimistic and uridiscriniinating attitude towards exotic religions. Before the recent occult revolution, anthropologists and psych o­ analysts were virtually the only people who considered that tribal concepts and values merited serioup attention. Here m ost o f the donkey work was naturally done by the anthropologists w h o made first-hand studies o f primitive peoples and tried to learn their languages and thus absorb their cultures. The psychoanalysts, for the most part, simply picked over the anthropological accounts of

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Sts w h o s p en t “ T he falling spirits 16ve,ypu:. They are attracting you t<?.theirland, gnd,you •ere virtually a tribe o:^ ;ing th e ir have but to relax and remain asleep in Order to com e t o grips with them. When jjfr waking hours recoun' t * ta b le ea ch you. meet them, you m ay be frightened o f their terrific pow er, but go on. When rere discussed seriously at .J E ° . . i: you think you are dying in a.dreaul, you are only receiving the powers o f the t particularly struck Stewart Way in which other world, you r.ow n spiritual poyrer which has been turned against yoir,.and •mi extent o f w hich n ow wishes to b ecom e-oh e w ith you if you accept i t ’,’ X - : ' : ris were used to c&nditio&’s [ the content o f their dreams! Frii The astonishing thing is that, over a period o f time, with this type o f social Iptained to have really meant . iiiteractjon,:praise or crrticismr im peratiyetahd ad^ee, th e ctream,Which; Starts; FresdreaW their dreams w ith /ip ^ " " 't e r p r e t a t iq n opt with fear o f falling changes into the .joy-of flying. This happens to everyone len oi tin the Senoi society. That ‘whldh,wasan-.indwelling;fear or anxiety; becomes.: jSowdng extract from Stewart’s acaa # m in : Pb W M k i V . -1 11' • ' _ _ . r Ivlifik iL L.LU_ i ll *__ —J _ t indwelling jo y o r act o f Willi that Which Was ill esteem, towards the forces r constar .^ri ^ e Open discussion o f dreams and;^ $' lic h caused the child to.fall in h is dream, .becom es good will towards the jd ^ - ck?htriteed towards com m unity ha ijzens o f the dream world, because be relaxe.s.in his dream and finds pleasUrt i e found this a successful technique in his treatme: dventures. rather than Waking up w ith a clammy skin and a crawling Thb m ethod is, however, Obviouslyopen to at f t ^ g ^ r y long step from this to Orwell’ s T h o u g a fjS B ce .believe -and teach .that-tHe. dreamer - th e . I’’ o f the dream — should Id also bear in mind that while Stewart stresses always advance and attack in the'teeth o f danger, calling o n the dream images Senoi are, he is speaking particularly o f s&all Senoi his fellow ^ if necessary, but fighting.by himself until they arrive. Irt bad believe real friends will never attack the dreamer or refuse to ’’ 'o£ internal harmony if character who looks like a friend is hostile or unco-operative essfully con fron t their hostile external: env/fi ' idream , he is|phly wearing the mask o f a friend. fetnerit m ay help them achieve this as-' ” t, which is based on some ten months with the and killsthehostiJedream aharacter, the spirit or raracter will always emerge as a servant or ally. Dream *' ithin the gtou p in whicl

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terminblt [u p a ? follow s: Man creates features or images o f the outside w orld ow n mind as part o f the adaptive process. Som e o f these features are in con flict with him and with each other. Once internalised, these hostile images turn man against himself andagainst his fellows. In dreams man has the pow er to see these facts o f his '■:psyche, w hich h&vB been disguised in internal forms, associated: • .■ with his ow n fearful em otions, and turned against him and the , internal im agesp f b th er people. If. the individual does n ot receive , social aid through education and therapy, these hostile images, ,.-S > fe 'ii'-' built up by m an’ s normal receptiveness to, the outside World, get .' - ' ’'i vt tted together and associated With one another in a Way which him physically, socially and psychologically abnormal. ! While the Senoi d o not, o f course, i

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T he Senoi believes that any human being, with the aid o f his fellows, can outface, master, and actually utilize all beings and forces in the dream universe. His experience leads him to believe that, if you c o ­ operate with your fellow s or oppose them with g ood will in the day time, their images will eventually help you in your dreams, and that every person should and can becom e the supreme ruler and master o f his ow n dream or spiritual universe, and can demand and receive the help, co-operation o f all the forces there. The simplfst .anxiety or terror dream I foun d among the Senoi was the falling dream. When the Senoi child reports a falling dream, the adult answers with enthusiasm: “ That is a wonderful dream, one o f the best dreams that a man can have. Where did you fall to, and what did you discover?” He makes the same com m ent when the child reports a climbing, travelling, flying, or soaring dream. The child at first answers as he w ould in our society, that it did not seem so wonderful, and that he was so frightened that he awoke before he had fallen anywhere. "T hat was a mistake,” answers the adult-authority. “ Everything you d o in a dream has a purpose, beyon d your understanding while you are asleep. Y ou must relax and enjoy yourself when you fall in a dream. Falling is the quickest way to get in contact with the powers o f the spirit world, the powers laid open to you through your dreams. Soon, when you have a falling dream, you will remember what I am saying, and as you do, you will feel that you are travelling to the source o f the power which has caused you to fall."

A ccordin g to the Senoi,'pleasurable dreams, such as o f flying or sexual love, should be continued until they arrive at a resolution which, on awakening, leaves one with something o f beauty or use to the group. For example, one should arrive somewhere when he flies, m eet the beings there, hear their, music, see their designs, dances, and learn their useful knowledge. Dreams o f sexual love should always move through the orgasm, and the dreamer should then demand from his dream lover the poem , the song, the danpe, the useful knowledge which will express the beauty o f his spiritual lover .to a group. If this is done, no dream man or w om an can take the love which belongs to hufnan beings. . ' I f the dreaiper demands and receives from his love partners a contribution which he can express to the group on awakening, he cannot express or receive to o much love in dreams. A rich love life in dreams indicates the favour o f the beings o f the spiritual or em otional universe. If the dreamer injures the dream images of-his fellow s or refuses to co-operate with them in dreams, he should go out o f his way to express,friendship and co-operatiop o n awakening, since hostile dream characters can only use the image o f people for w hom his good will is tunnihg low:. If the image o f a fnend.hurts-him in a dream, the friend should be advised o f the fact, so he can rBpayt his damaged or negative dream , nwa$by.€nejjdly,j^ialujtweovrtsiSf'V ’ ’V i ' ' ‘* V - 'y-V '*

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Second, it describes the working o f his mind as rational, even when he is asleep. T o the Senoi it is j u st as reasonable for the child to adjust his inner tension jjild to d o his hom ew ork for the teacher. force which the child feels in the itch he ca n jro n tro T C K T O ^ ^ J ^ jrS l^ ^ fr e la x a tio n and i reclaim it and learn to direct it.

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toward another person is dealt with in an equally skillful manner. The dreamer reports seeing a tiger attack another b oy o f the long house. Again, he is advised to tell the b oy about the dream, to describe the place where the attack occurred and, if possible, to show it to him so that he can be on his guard, and in future dreams kill the tiger before it has a chance to attack him. The parents o f the b o y in the dream again tell the child to give the dreamer a present, and to consider him a special friend. Even a tendency towards unproductive fantasy is effectively dealt with in the ^Senoi dream education. If the child reports floating dreams, or a dream o f find£ood, he is told that he must float somewhere in his next dream and find pg o f value to his fellows, or that he must share the fo o d he is eating; ; a dream o f attacking someone he must apologise to them, share a \em, or make them some sort o f toy. Thus, before aggression, pusy can influence social behaviour the tension expressed in fate becom e a hub o f social action in which they are idestructive. prious Senoi age groups would indicate that be deepest type o f creative thought. Observing jm e that modern civilization may be sick jjjed to develop, half their pow er to think. |ly, the Senoi suffer little b y intellectual pi power for logical thinking while i/hereas our capacity to solve pro-

Seventh, it init strengthened an that a human beu psychic reactions td the individual forces < Man discovers his deepest"sM afl when his psychic processes ari environment and most under tn tp ofl static power. The freest type o f ps' acceptance o f the dream w ould, th? acceptance o f the individual.

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Am ong the Senoi, the child accumulates good will for pJ encourage on every hand the free exercise and expression o f basically himself, either directly or indirectly, through the a cci dream process. A t the same time the child is told that he must refrf? with the denizens o f the dream w orld unless they make some contribrl which is socially meaningful and constructive as determined b y social c o n ! on awakening. Thus his dream reorganisation is guided in a way which makes’ his adult aggressive action socially constructive. A further example: A child dreams that he attacked by a friend and, on awaken­ ing, is advised b y his father to inform his friend o f this fact. The friend’ s father tells his child that it is possible that he has offended the dreamer w ithout wish­ ing to do so, and allowed a malignant character to use his image as a disguise in the dream. Therefore, he should give the dreamer a present and go out o f his way to be friendly toward him, to prevent such an occurence in the future. The aggression building up around the image o f the friend in the dreamer’ s mind thereby becom es the basis o f a friendly exchange. The dreamer is also told to fight back in the future dreams, and to conquer any dream character using the friend’ s image as a disguise. Another example o f what is probably a less direct tension state in the dreamer

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HSMITH A child cries and is left alone it its little misery. A strumming guitar can be heard far into the purple velvet night. Overhead, a pin-pricked sky looks down with twinkling K g p s t . Etched against the darkly-blobbed mountains, the giant cacti form a protective circle as evil seeps from a flickering fire. Huddled round the fire, within sight and sound o f their Master, the naked women wait for him to sing. The song will be about lust, copulation, the obscenities he will demand o f them when the LSD takes its firm hold. They watch him, getting higher as firelight dances and weaves over their nude flesh. The guitar plunks into silence as the Master closes his eyes. He is thinking, wondering how . . . He has decided and his slaves rush to please desert to mingle with cteafctfes. v

Like a fiend, he mounts her - taking her, savaging her willing flesh, yelling filth as he feels the acid rip through his mind. All around him, the others watch, and wait. Passions inflamed, they dare not begin to enjoy what they want. Not until he gives permission. The violated girl moans her gratitude, slumps into psychedelic coma. Like a reincarnated Lucifer, the master strides to the fire, throws his arms upwards. His voice shatters the night's composure. He invokes the ‘ beasts o f Satan’ to enter their circle; calls up evil to make them unpure; orders the night to cloak them with black deeds. ores his men to defile their women t first, they must worship at his feet. Quickly the girls fall on their knees, crawl around before him, buttocks shim ring in the fireg low ." ey adore this monstrous evil, touching his

even the silent deserf; civilization. Least o f tas been banished. I t & in ig h t for devfls

in accordance with those foul-m outhed w o rd s. . , It is soon apparent that this is a night fo r witch-craft. A maiden must be fou n d S an $| innocent victim fd r ritualistic passions t o ' assault, invade, impttgwufe. , ; A girl rushes forward, naked, beads jangling discordantly. She is high on acid. She simpers, hair flouncing wildly. She begs ; . . she is far from innocent but the drug makes her ‘ feel’ pure, undefiled. She stands before her master, legs wide apart, gesturing, speaking with her body; pleading to be the offering. The black-clad devils prance round the g ir l. . . and she is seized, quickly roped to a make-shift altar. The guitar strums faster, the song

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he falls to the sand, screaming filth, his physical powers enriched by the narcotic filling his veins. A girl is spread-eagled, mounted - another instructed how to perform a perverse act to keep him amused as he enjoys himself on her friend. ...en grab girls, gross acts o f indecency are performed in the cummunal circle and the m ood seizes the Master, partners and the depravity commences anew. And, somewhere beyond the fire’ s flames, another child begins to mother who will not hear its until the sun rises and she slovenly c o t .

The above is conjecture. It happens. Not necessarily like this where The Family were concerned but from evidence already offered, not far short o f the terrible scenes they enacted in their desert commune. Manson, it has been said, would make love to four girls at a time as his lieutenants plea­ sured themselves with some o f the other females in their group. Changing partners is part o f hippie tribe life; as natural as public copulation. Manson’s Family had progressed farther along the road to complete depravity than most hippie groups it seems. Love was, for them, strictly a physical process. It did not mean love thy neighbour; give love to all. They reserved their loving for moments o f tribe lust. Drugs, too, played a larger part in The Family’ s existence than in other communes. Manson was an addict and therefore his Family had to be junkies. But probably Manson used his Scientologist knowledge — with that vital occult ingred­ ient - to a much higher degree o f skill than the majority o f ‘ tribe leaders’ did in their communes. Manson fertilized his group activities with the seeds o f criminal genius. That is not to say that Charles Manson was a particularly g ood crook. He had too many arrests and convictions to be classified as a ‘ smart criminal’ . But he did have a genius for knowing about crime, and how to procure cash for The Family’s immediate needs. Considering the hippie mentality and their loathing for fuzz and civilized order, Manson’s record set him apart, exalted him in the eyes o f his tribe. The Family did not just steal in the haphazard way o f the majority o f groups. Theirs was an organized effort - as witness the members held in custody awaiting trial on numerous charges. Unfortunately for Los Angeles, California and the hippie movement, Charles Manson happened along when society needed a broad-edged sword with which to eliminate the growing menace o f drop-out kids clogging the nation’s engine. Public opinion, which has reached a state o f apathy at times, is now being marshalled into definite channels - all intended to rid the land o f hippie cults. The hysteria that can so quickly assail the United States will most assuredly sweep tribes from their communes and re­ establish order where none has been seen to be. One is not surprised, nor even shocked, by the violent attitudes o f some enforce­ ment agencies. Hippies have made their own bed and the great masses must be offered some protection from their police servants. The tide has reached its zenith when liberal thinking can condone the continued growth o f this social menace . . .

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bscenity, who really cares? Propaganda all is phoney. Dave Robins.

What is obscenity? What is pornography? The great debate goes on. And it’s boring On one side Jill Tweedie, Jilly Cooper, Keneth Tynan and all the other false guardians of “ full and frank human expres­ sion’’. The Pioneers of Permissiveness? A permissiveness th a t perm its the sale o f more and m ore pure rubbish, Oh, Calcutta!, The Dirtiest Show in Town, opening up new markets for trendy profit-seekers and ‘hip’ Playboy capitalists. The Campaign for the Abolition of Censorship in the Arts. Liberals in search of bogus freedoms? Sterilized, polite, predictable arguments about the right of artists and playwrights to say fuck in public (in an ethical manner, of sociologi­ cal importance). The vast mojority of work­ ing people have been saying fuck in public in an entirely unethical way for years. They don’t have to go to the theatre for that. On the other side Lord Longford and the middle-aged uptights on his commission, Mary Whitehouse and the heavy-duty regressives, Nabarro, Heath etc, nervously fingering their crotches at the mention of porn-waves sweeping the country, creaming their jeans in gleeful anticipation of the legal lynching of O Z now taking place at the Old Bailey. The judges, the old blind men who presume to weigh our actions in the scales of justice are known to take a very serious view of obscenity. In our society the ruling values are always the values of the ruling class, based on the familiar double standards traditional to British rulers. Courtroom Hypocrisy, stone-faced juries, Holier-thanthou attitudes about depraving and corrupt­ ing innocent people. “ Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.” He might even enjoy it. Of course the establishment has nothing to fear from so-called porn-waves and sexual permissiveness. Under capitalism pleasure and libe ra tion are com m odities ju s t like everything else. That’s why "progressives” , unwittingly end up acting as their advance guard, either by providing new markets for profits, or encouraging free sexual activity ____ as a social safety valve.

Take the Underground Press’s attempted liberation of sexuality. It often conceals the extent to which sexuality is still perverted by capitalism:. 1. Sex is dehumanised, deified, fetishised. 2. Sex is commercialised: it’s used to sell just about everything the Underground produces! 3. Sex is competitive. Take a look at Groupie or Suck. 4. Women are treated as sexual objects and reduced to a purely sexual role. 5. Men remain lumbered with a sex role as initiator. And yet even Playboy has features on Women’s Liberation. Every step taken in the dire ctio n o f libera­ tio n is perverted, recaptured, co-opted b y the existing system and used. Maudling knows all this. His pronouncement from the supreme legal lavatory seat of Home Secretary that he ain’t gonna pass no law to suit Longford and Co, shows that only fools and creeps in the establishment, plus the liberals, are really worried about decaying values. Power is not deterred by the sight of a bare nipple. In fact they know, and we know too, that the whole obscenity rap which liberals, Longford and the law take so seriously, is really a highly convenient camouflage which they, our increasingly paranoid rulers, are using to stalk the menacing and illusory ghosts of freedom of speech and of the press, (Freedom being defined here as anything that doesn’t agree with them)

OZ,is a blow struck for the campaign for free dope and balling in the streets. Fine. But don’t let’s be satisfied, like the yippies, with picking up the pieces from hippy hill (Dope, sex, rock music and a bit of mysticism thrown in), and making a revolution for that alone. To repeat an old and of necessity somewhat heavy adage, The to ta lity o f C apitalist Ideology has to be answered w ith an equally to ta l response. And there’s the rub. We are up against a capitalist system th a t invades every single area o f o u r lives. Even those private, personal areas (like sexuality) that we imagine belong just to us and our friends. We lock ourselves in our rooms and reckon we’ve got away from the system, even though we’ve impris­ oned ourselves. Or find a groovy cottage, bake our bread and try, to forget the creep­ ing horror inside. Why are we such walking ghosts? Such impotent Freax? Who has the power over us? We have no alternative but to work to raise the level of our theoretical and practical activity before we can counter­ attack the system directly and at its weakest points.

In fact an event such as the OZ trial gives the chance to do just this — not so much within the four walls of the courtroom, where the specialised and separated issue o f ‘what is obscenity?’ will be boringly debated, (this issue alone can never be the basis for a direct attack), but in whatever events and activities are planned around the trial. Street theatre, agitation and propaganda, public, political manifestations which aim at expos­ ing the system for what it is and are at the It ’s clear that real freedom of speech and of the press can be the enemies of power — same time the practical extension of our especially where power is hierarchically criticisms. A festival of alternative life organised and concentrated in the hands of a surrounding th e ir legal moratorium. few capitalists, politicians and manipulators Of course, a direct and total attack on all the but effective enemies have to have effective conditions that oppress us should have clear ammunition, which is why it is important not to get too hung up on the "cheap thrills” goals, otherwise our protests will remain aspects of our so-called press freedom, (Play what they are already, a permanent sore on Power, the right to print nipples etc). Can the arse of an equally permanent establish­ we really expect to make or break the ment. In demanding the right to live our revolution over the right to expose cocks lives C O M P L E T E AN D U N E X P U R G A T E D by any authority except our own, (that's or advocate sex amongst the under nines? where the obscenity issue comes in), we have Besides, our thrills should be priceless, not to demand this right, n o t ju s t fo r ourselves, cheap. b u t fo r everyone who wishes to lead a free A successful OZ trial, indeed every issue of life.

John Thompson

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fc* Goa is a small territory on India’ s west coast, a day’s sail in the steamship south from Bombay (by far the nicest way o f getting there). ? The landscape is lush and tropical. Two '•’y a h t great rivers wind down from the hills to the coastal plains with their paddy fields and groves E g i $ o f coconut palms. And two fantastic beaches, Colva and Calangute. Goa’s capital, Panjim (or Panaji), where the boat from Bombay docks, is a pretty little town with some fine Portuguese architecture. Goan cooking is good, and as different from Indian cuisine as the Goans themselves are different from the Indians surrounding them (Maharashtra to the north, Mysore to the east and south). Goa was a Portuguese colon y for 450 years, until “ liberated” ten years ago by India, after a three-year blockade. The Goans are kind-hearted people, straight-forward and honest in trading, and altogether less frantic than the Hindus. They are predominantly Catholic by religion. So the buildings that set their mark on the landscape are churches, not temples as in most o f India. The Goans are also great boozers. They manufacture potent liquors — feni or fenny — from coconut and cashew nut, and all that most Goans see o f their beautiful beaches is when they stagger out to puke after hitting a bottle o f fenny at the beachside bars. Even the sober ones seldom venture far from the beach-heads, leaving the great lonely stretches to the fishermen and the heads. The Goan who hovers in spirit over the beaches is represented by a bronze statue on Panjim’s waterfront. It depicts a man towering over a prostrate female, his arms reaching, Dracula-like, dow n to her, a look o f demonic energy on his face. The woman is leaning back on one elbow , eyes and lips half-closed in an expression o f pure orgas­ mic ecstasy. The long-haired gentleman is G oa’s historical hero, the Abbe Faria, an eighteenth-century priest-scholar-scientist (he figures in The Count o f M onte Cristo, in case there are any Dumas fans still around) who was a pioneer o f hypnotism and the first man to use it in the treatment o f mental illness. The swooning lady, represents one o f his patients. It seems inevitable that this groovy old magician should preside over G oa’s coastline — he is surely the patron saint o f the beaches, where, at the height o f the head “ season” the hypnotic beat o f the waves has to compete with the vibrations o f rock music across the dunes.

that etiquette demands. A nyone wanting to sell gear or clothing or any other negotiable possessions before splitting take their things into the market and squat down on a mat among the other sellers. Each o f tne two main beaches provide a very different atmosphere. Calangute can be pretty frantic, whereas the smaller community at Colva exists on a quieter basis o f house-to-house visiting and partygiving. Colva Beach is four miles from Margao, a town with a bazaar (famous for its spices) and some good eating places. Margao is on the railway line, and the place you would arrive if you came from India by train. It’s a two-hour bus ride south from Panjim. There is a bus service between Margao and the beach, or m otorcycles will roar you there in eight minutes for 2R. The beach itself is superb — some thirty miles o f smooth crisp white sand backed by dunes and coconut palms. The road from Margao ends at a beach-head boasting a Tourist Hostel and V incy’s Hotel Bar. The hostel accomodates occasional fat Indian holidaymakers en famille, and a few western straights. Vincy provides accomodation o f a sort, but it must be said that though Vincy is personally a very sweet guy his menu is disastrous. Still, his patio provides the social focus for resident heads, and the evening air there is thick with the smoke o f chillums and joints. Calangute Beach lies about eight miles north o f Panjim. It is reached from there by taking the ferryboat across the river to Betim, whence a bus (meandering and infrequent) or a group-taxi at 75 paise (% o f a rupee) will land you at the village. A large Tourist Hostel dominates the beach-head but the heads living around this part o f the beach frequent the Royal “ Hotel” nearby on the dunes, where the fo o d is cheap (good shark steak at 2R .) and the Goan manager lugubriously spins good rock and folk all day. The busiest scene is around the houses rented along the road between the beach-head and the village. From December to February, there were astonishing numbers o f record, tape and cassette players in action, hereabouts and all along the beaches. The blast o f rock across the dunes or through the palm groves has always been an open invitation to track down the sources and join the company. For those without their own sounds, there have been communal sources. N ot only the Royal, with its eternal repetitions o f L et It Bleed and R evolver, but such establishments as Bunny’s Place, Bruce’s Pancake Stall on the sands, and the Universal Life Church with its Chai-and-Chillum Shop.

Around the end o f last year — at the time o f the famous love-in at Calangute, where Eric from Australia distributed 200 tabs o f Sunshine to the freaks assembled along the beach — there must have been at least 500 heads up at Calangute, and a hundred or more at Colva. The “ season” starts in November, and by the end o f February more freaks are splitting than arriving. By mid-March the really hot weather is beginning to set in, and it s time to start moving north toward the Kulu valley, Kashmir, Assam, or Kathmandu.

In January Bunny from Ireland and his old lady Barbara from England rented a whole house midway between the beach and the village, fixing it up as a restaurant plus smokers-and-sounds room . From the kitchen, Barbara dispensed fo o d at 1 or 2R. a dish, while Bruce presided over the sounds (a collection o f 200 or more tapes), and sold dope at friendly prices.

Apart from the back-to-nature freaks and the economically-minded who prefer to live and sleep on the sands, the style o f living at Colva and Calangute is to rent a house from the local folk, usually several sharing out the room s and rent. Cost per person can amount, this way, to just a few pennies a day. A house can be leased for as little as 80R. per calendar month, though bigger ones will cost around 100 or 120R. a month.

Bruce from Australia opened up his pancake stall on the sand dunes only for a laugh, but before two weeks were over, the hole in the sand had becom e a lantern-lit, thatched palm-frond stall, and a relay o f girls were creating such far-out goodies as banana-and-marmalade pancakes until 2 or 3 in the morning. Drums and guitars under the m oon, with a night breeze from the sea and the sound o f the surf for good measure . . . They were good nights.

Some houses have electricity, none have running water (there are wells everywhere). They may com e with wooden bedsteads and other sticks o f furniture, but most are bare walls, tiled or thatched roofs, pressed earth or tiled floors. However, it’s easy and cheap to get it together domestically, since all the essential things are very cheap to buy in the nearby markets and bazaars. It’s also sensible to do your own cooking at home, especially at Colva where the one restaurant serves terrible fo o d . And at Calangute it’s a trip shopping in the local market on Saturday mornings, with the mild bargaining

The sign o f the Universal Life Church still hangs out by the roadside between Baga and the Calangute crossroads, though the church itself is closed now until the coming winter, when the heads start filtering back again in the wake o f the monsoons. The Church itself is not com m itted to the idea o f “ turning the world on ” , but Mike - the Rev. Michael Randall - is: he presides serenely over a refectory-chapel where statues o f the Lord Buddha and Lord Krishna watch over the preparations for the evening meal.

A separate house nearby is reserved for rapping, reading, blowing dope provided by the Church: uppers or downers, whatever the freaks’ needs, Mike is there to minister to them. And calm the occasional victim o f a bummer or an OD. Only one rule — no fixing. Each Sunday between December and February the Church put together a love-in on the beach, feeding anything between tw o and three hundred heads, and turning them on from the Church’s own supply o f fine Afghani shit. Free acid, too, under mild supervision. The Great Church Bust took place on January 21st. Mike and his wife Joan were arrested b y customs agents near Anjuna Beach, while transferring 22 kilos o f hash from a friends van to their own. The customs crowed that this was the biggest haul o f “ contraband narcotics” in the history o f Goa. It was intended to fight the . charge o f illegal possession when the case came up, on the grounds o f the sacramental function o f the seized dope, but Mike and his lawyer discovered that the relevant elapse o f the IndiahDangerous Drugs A ct covered only opiates and processed drugs such as cocaine and they pointed out to the fuzz that hashish is a pure organic substance. The local police chief sent a sample to Delhi for analysis, then after a painful interval had to admit that there was no case to answer under the act. Mike walked out o f Panjim Police HQ the following morning, with 22 one-key slabs o f hash, a free man. A significant legal victory for smokers everywhere. N ot that the heads around Calangute paid much attention to legal niceties before this unexpected judgment in their favour. Calangute village may well be the first “ liberated zon e” or India, where you can turn on with impunity in public, passing chillums and joints, and hustling shit and acid, in the sidewalk cafes and cold-drinks stalls, under the very eyes o f the listless fuzz. The law-and-order boys in Goa have remained pretty co o l about the whole dope scene, reserving their energies hitherto for an occasional big bust (though even here they must be dismayed at the outcom e o f their most spectacular coup to date). In any case they wouldn’t dare com e down heavily on the smoking — the heads would simply quit Goa an masse and seek more hospitable beaches. Any such exodus would create havoc in the local comm unity which has com e to depend on them, from the fishermen who rent their cottages and huts, to the peasants whose little girls to from house to house (or sleeping bag to sleeping bag along the sands) in the mornings, selling

eggs and milk and bread. N ot to mention the village tailors, who have learned how to turn out a neat imitation o f a pair o f Chelsea flared strides. Or the village pharmacist, a decrepit old zom bie to whom I would not care to entrust a prescription, but w ho makes a fortune from the sale o f such items as Mandrax, Methedrine, and that terrible cough linctus, Romilar, a bottle o f which sparks o f f a jolting hallucinogenic high, if you can survive the initial nausea, and punishes you with a wicked hangover. Or the cafes along the main strip which offer such exotic dishes as porridge, bacon and scram­ bled eggs, and spaghetti bolognese. There remains one hangup. Come the beginning o f March, the fuzz start busting for bathing or sunning naked. This sudden clean­ up is in anticipation o f the start, in April, o f the straight Indian tourist scene. However there are beaches where the fuzz rarely penetrate. Anjuna, an hour’s perilous walk around the cliffs, is a perfect little beach, the far end o f which is strewn with multicoloured hollow shells that make lovely neclaces or ankle-bracelets. Here, you can wander around the sands as naked as you like — there are no fishermen to offend, and the villagers seldom venture onto the beach. Around a further headland from Anjuna lies Chappora the most isolated o f the beaches.(lt can also be reached from inland by a hard road). A dozen or so groups were living in tents up there during December to February, walking or biking into Calangute once a week for supplies. A t one period, Chappora became the preferred headquarters o f the hard-dope heads, those w ho are into shooting morphine (there is no heroin around) or speed, snorting coke, smoking opium. These cats used to make it into Calangute village just once a week, for shopping, and maybe to hustle morph­ ine or opium among the freaks, to raise bread for their habit. Leaving aside the hard-drug fringe activity, it can still be said that the dope scene at Colva and Calangute is fairly fantastic. Travellers arrive from Afghanistan, Kashmir, Nepal during the winter months with satchels full o f fine hash, give it away to their friends, sell the rest to raise bread. The price along the beaches is usually agreed to be 1R. per gramme, which is about 12R. per tola ( an ancient Indian measure still widely used, though officially superseded b y the metric system) — that s to say, roughly (52.50 or just over £1 per ounce, a price that represents an honest profit o f up to 100 per

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cent in return for the ingenuity involved in smuggling such huge quantities through national frontiers! Hash is often cut b y the manufacturers into one-tola slabs, so to know where it’s at when scoring, it’s wise to leam to judge a tola-weight o f shit visually. And since you may find yourself dealing in grammes as well, and with American heads, ounces, a necessary piece o f mathematical lore is the conversion rate between the three. Briefly and approx­ imately: 1 tola ■ 12 grammes or 3 /8 ounces. 100 grammes “ 8 1/2 tolas or 3 1/2 ounces. 1 ounce = 2 1/2 tolas or 28 grammes. 1 kilo m 85 tolas or 35 ounces. Simple. G ood grass, is difficult to score locally. So if you like to blow m s s as well as hash it’s best to bring in your own supply from Bombay, where first-rate Kashmiri ganja costs as little as 1R. 50P. (say 35c. or 3/- an ounce) if you buy in bulk (1 kilo up). Acid is a bit tricky along the beaches. There is always some around, often a wide variety. The best tends to be dropped among friends, and only enough sold (at (52 a trip) to cover expenses. But there have also been a number o f real bummers, so it’s co o l not to score except from an impeccable source. Since acid’s an easy thing to get sent in it’s a sensible idea to arrange your own supplies from your home base, and use what you don t need to barter for shit or what­ ever else you dig. Remember too, that acid soon loses its potency under tropical conditions. One way or another, Goa adds up to a far-out experience. Y ou can live in style for less than a dollar a day, if you want to, including all the dope you can blow. From November to March, the sky is blue and the sun hot without being to o fierce. The only clouds are those from the smoke o f a hundred chillums. A breeze blow s in forever from the sea, and around seven every evening the sun repeats its great psychedelic light-show as it sinks beneath the ocean. Simon Watson Taylor

NOTE: Currency need not be a big hassle if you take reasonable , precautions. Decide, before you set out, to what degree you cherish security over profit. India no longer enforces currency controls for foreigners, and unlike the straight tourist who gets 7R. 50P. for his dollar at the bank you will change your bills (notes) or TCs on the fairly blatant black market. In Goa, a dollar will fetch around 12H. 50P. and an American Express Travellers’ Check from 10R. to 10R. 50P. In Bombay you can get between 1 and 2R. more in each category. Your pound sterling will fetch 25 to 32R. If you carry all your funds in cash, your trip is going to be cheaper. But if your wallet is ripped o ff you re up shit creek, whereas if you are carrying TCs your are automatically insured against loss. It is essential to keep a list o f the serial numbers o f the checks, in a separate place, ana tick them off as you spend them. Then, in case o f loss or theft you can get an immediate refund on advising American Express of the numbers o f the missing checks. Amazing how many freaks carrying TCs don’t take this vital precaution. Dollars are the most acceptable currency to take with you any­ where in the East (or elsewhere, I suppose). As to the question of cash versus TCs, a good maxim is: “ Carry as much cash as you can afford to lose, and the rest in checks” . Keep your passport and money attached to your person: best is a passport-size fabric wallet slung from a strap long enough to pass over one shoulder and under the other arm. When not travelling, keep this wallet a t least in a locked case in a locked room. If you still get ripped off, it’s your karma. An International Student’s Card will make your Indian trip even more incredibly cheap, since it entitles you to travel half-fare on all classes of the Indian railway system and on Indian Airlines (the domestic carrier). This means that you could, to take a couple of random examples, travel the 2,159 kilometres from Bombay to Calcutta by 3rd class for 25R ., or fly from Delhi to Kathmandu for 180R . Ordinary 3rd class rail travel can be murderous: always try to travel by night and reserve a 3rd class berth in advance. (If you intend to take a train out of a town, go to the station immediately on arrival to book your reservation. You can book up to twenty days in advance, and it’s often impossible to get bertns at short notice.) The inter-city and long-distance bus system is highly developed throughout India: on the whole it’s less of a hassle travelling by bus, it’s cheaper than 3rd class rail, and often you can reserve your seat in advance. Hitch-hiking is for tough constitutions only here. But there are often chances o f picking up a cheap (or free) lift in some head’s van going in your direction. And if you must be repatriated at govern­ ment expense, and you are British, work it from Madras, where the British consul is particularly amiable and co-operative, rather than from any o f the other main cities, where the consular staff are the usual bunch o f pricks.

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SOMEONE SOMEWHERE WANTS A LETTER FROM YOU Below is the copy of a petition being circulated by journalist Anthony Haden Guest. Copies received at OZ will be forwarded to him for even­ tual presentation to the Home Secretary. Also two post cards which we urge readers to endorse and dispatch. We can’t afford perforated card­ board, so please cut out and post them to: i. Sir ]ohn Waldron, Commissioner of Police, New Scotland Yard, Broadway, London SW1. ii. Reginald Maudling, MP, Home Secretary, The Home Office, London SW1. Now sit back and watch pot legalised and the police abolished.

If you agree w ith the follow ing petition, sign it and send it to OZ. I, the undersigned, w ould like to comm ent on recent events concerning those n ew spapers and magazines which are custom arily referred to as the Underground Press. It is becom ing quite apparent that the persistent campaign against these magazines is in fact an attem pt from some quarters at their supression. These measures emerge as expressions of social and cultural antipathy. Yet the underground media comm unicate with a large and intelligent public in terms which it recognises, and upon matters which elsew here it is difficult to find treated except with inaccuracy or sensationalism . Those political and sexual flights of rhetoric which another generation finds so shocking are evaluated by this readership as coolly as the readership evaluates the rhetoric of other, older media. I feel that this undeclared w a r against important aspects of the youth culture is based on fear and, principally, on ignorance. It is further clear that any such campaign will find that time is against it, and it can only help provoke that climate of extremism in w hich other fundamental — and once traditional — freedom s are increasingly liable to erosion. The persecution of OZ, International Tim es and Frendz, and many of the provincial papers can only promote that very situation which pne must charitably assum e it is intended to avoid. A s further indication of support I have posted your card to: I I

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The glorious history of British justice has shown a marvellous consistency in depicting poverty as crime, and exploitation as the rewarding process of entrepre­ neurial genius, more often known as trampling on your friends and kicking shit out of all the rest. Hence to this day the state prosecutes people for being poor "failure to maintain yourself". (Social S ecurity A c t 1966) To have a comb in the wrong place is to have an offensive weapon, to have lice gets you nicked under the Public Health Act. The idea of the law is that you can't win.

If you're not already guilty of the above, you soon become guilty by laughing at the law. Here comes the judge, and if you dare to critisize his lordship mafia in ermine, he can do you for contempt of court, (whether your criticism is justified or not!) It is forbidden to laugh at the The law says you can't stay too bench, scream at the jury, or long in a public place looking take your clothes off. You're gay, can't blow your mind, re­ not allowed to waste police time adjust your head or urinate (C rim inal Justice A c t 1967), when anybody's looking (except although no time limits are set on how many years of the in public conveniences which may not be very convenient public's time piggies can waste. when they're locked up by You shouldn't fuck on Sunday midnight). (Sexual Offences A ct, because the Lords Day Obser­ Abuses o f Drugs A c t, Causing a vance A c t might be used against Public Nuisance A c t.) You're you, and you mustn't sit in a banned from standing around church and open your mouth outside your lover's window — when Harold Wilson is reading "loitering with obvious and the sermon, because two people wilful intent" to harm the did this and were rewarded with virginity of a young maiden, 6 months imprisonment for you're not allowed to fuck with their contravention of the Blas­ beautiful girls under age no phemous Practices A ct. A mass matter how willing and eager, love-in and anything else that and even carved erotic chesscan freak the authorities into a pieces are not safe from the state of nervous exhaustion is "a long arm of the law. It is illegal conspiracy to effect a public to have a roof over your head mischief". without paying for it like the squatters, (and they dig up ; ^ The law is nothing if not mindbendingly comprehensive. There's a piece of statute for almost every occasion on which obscene and depraved minds stalk the streets of sin, sending outraged shudders down 70 year old spines.

Whether these crazy artifices are applied depends on the whim s of such wise people as Station-Sergeants, C ID chiefs and the Director of Public Prosecutions, (supreme legal organ of the state). If it's a bad year for profits we may all get prosecution; if it's a good year for strikes we may all end up in nick. Such however is the skill of legal brains that 90 % of the actions of the ruling bastards to steal the wealth from the workers is law, and 90 % of the actions of the workers to expro­ priate that wealth back again are illegal — including strikes under the In d u s tria l R e la tio n s B ill. However, just in case we nurse any grievances against our masters, we are promised a fair trial. It's nice to know the judge takes such such an interest in you, that he reads a special Scotalnd Yard report, not only on your previous convictions, but on just about everything the pigs suspect you of from forgery to fornication. L u c k ily "judges are not corru ptible" like juries, and w ill not allow this inform ation to prejudice them in any way. E.S. Turner in his book M a y i t Please Y o u r L o rd s h ip makes it clear that judges are a remarkable breed of tyrants who only once stood for justice, when hanging from oak trees in Epping Forest, after peasant lynchings. Political firebrands often reminded the bench that King A lfred had the right idea about judges (if nothing else) — he hanged 44 judges in one year for various errors. If the present judges were treated this w ay a lot of wigs would be on their w ay to the grave, and all their pompous bullshit with them. 1381 was a year of special celebration, a judge's head, that of Sir Jo h n de Cavendish, was carried on a pike through B u ry St. Edm unds during the Peasants' Revolt. W at Tyler, well-known member of the Angry Brigade showed a special hatred of the legal profession resulting in com m unique 9 to Judge Melford Stevenson (of Cambridge riot fam e). It said "W e 're getting closer . . . yo u're n e x t . . . "

them. This tradition of leaving civil liberties to the discretion of the police force continues to this day, even if in a somewhat mitigated form. Now it is random interrogation w ith ­ out charges, illegal detention in custody, a blase thrusting aside of the bare minimum of "Ju dg es' Ru le s" and still the same discreet silence from the bastards who made the rules — the Judges. Nine tenths of law is repression — this is rigorou­ sly enforced, every judge sees to that. The one tenth of law is concerned with our liberty — in practice these administrative rules and laws get so hopelessly and conveniently neglec­ ted, that even our proudest claim to fairness "H ab eas C orpus" is about as alive as a Dodo (about 3 applica­ tions have succeeded in the last 20 years.) Y o u 're innocent until yo u're proven guilty, but you m ay spend six months rotting away in jail in the meanwhile trying to prove it, which puts you at some disadvantage from the point of view of contacting w it­ nesses. Even the magistrates treat the subject of bail w ith the same concern of a judge sentencing the guilty. The discretion of the bench is an invitation to tyran n y — they usually accept it with sadistic enthusiasm. W ho then are the g u ilty? W ho are the crim inals? If the crim e of the capitalist, in stealing 48 hours of time and energy from each worker each week is dem ocratically accepted " b y ^ ju ry of 12 men” good and truly ignorant and middle class, then that crim e is law, and the law is the crime, and so they convict the victim s of industrial oppression: of wrecking machinery, sabotaging the plant, and burning down the whole miserable place. Respectable society screams for vengeance in the name of the law, and calls it malic­ ious damage, sabotage and arson. It's subversion of law and order. Bourgeois laws allow headmasters to terrorise schoolkids w ith beatings and violence, yet persecute the Under­ ground for infiltrating young minds filled with fear. In spite of the alphabet of law and order taught in every school " w e teach you nothing until you learn to obey everything"

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the kids are pretty keen to cling to their secret treasures — O Z , IT and other mind-boggling alternatives to dull grey school text books. A narch y and love are universally more popu­ lar than fear and discipline — the law is the law of King Canute and it was King Canute who busted the L ittle Red School Book. The law w ill continue to punish us with its sadistic desire to make us suffer but it w ill never stop us from being the people our parents warned us against. V icio us criminals seldom get caught because they are either hiding behind legal robes or like the K ra y brothers they set up a deal w ith Scotland Yard, a gentleman's agreement to play the game and keep each others' secrets secret. In Ita ly the name of the game in M afia and it's rampant. In England the game calls for extra care, no publicity, no mistakes. If the gang blunders Scotland Yard then is forced to act after years of happy lethargy and splendid rakeoffs. The K rays and the Richardson gangs fin ally goofed — after a decade of being kings of the underworld in the East En d unmolested by Scotland Yard. The pigs were fin ally forced to go hunt their partners in crime, owing to a certain over­ exposure of underworld blunders. Scotland Yard always covers its tracks a bit more sm artly than the other gangs, and they're not above prosecuting a few selected victim s in order to preserve the good name

of the police force. (N ote: all recent prosecutions of policemen are ones of junior rank.)

Rather than go for real gangsters the police are more likely to satisfy their a u th o rity trip by taking it out on the Steven M cCarthys and the David Oluwales. David Oluwale a Nigerian vagrant, workless and black — enough to provoke any pig; Steven M cC arfliy the Borstal boy w ho ran away into the custody of a bus-stop w ith a little help from tw o Islington PCs. T w o individuals — people w ithout influence, power or viciousness, two people the system hates — TW O D E A T H S J U S T I F I E D IN P IG L A W . Pigs are sexually repressed, politically ignorant, psychologically stunted persons who do a very good job of being automations of state repression. That's their job. Judges are a much more intelligent version of the same profession; they clothe their bestial judgements in a m ultitude of legal niceties, and centuries o f barbaric precedents. Legal protocol can some­ times camouflage the monster beneath the wig. The film In ve stig a ­ tio n o f the C itiz e n A b o v e S u spicion shows us just how cellophane the legal wrapping is - the head of homicide squad in Rom e who regards all women as either virgins or whores, kills a whore because she dares to tell M r Big the truth "y o u are sexually inadequate". The pig's blood runs hot, he strangles her. The perfect murder by the man

who hunts murderers. Pigs are more likely to attack people than property, more likely to rape than make love, more likely to assault than steal. And nobody suspects M r Big because the chief of hom icide squad is above suspicion. T h ey can do whatever they want to against Jonathan Jackson and his Soledad brothers until we guard our brothers and sisters lives in the court­ room with the same vigilance as the screws guard their lives inside those walls of establishment violence. Prisons o nly exist to hum iliate and degrade the hopes of the oppressed. The Prison L e tte rs o f Jo n a th a n Jackson tells us this and more about the hatred incorporated in prison bars, and jailors' keys, the systematic attem pt to wear down the will to resist the barbarities of the outside

w orld, never mind the horrors inside Brixto n, W andsworth and Parkhurst. Som e come out and some don't. Som e are found hung — we will never know the true stories. Som e come out scarred by the violence of being no 462461, turned into an acceptable statistic, and thereafter of valuable service to society (sic). Pig nation has then infiltrated the head, and pig law governs y o u r life. Others, with support from us, come out as they went in — fighting, cool, aggressive, ready to eat walls and smash bars. The defence won in the Pow is Square trial because of the movement's physical prescence — a full house every day in the public gallery, the com m unity was on trial and the com m unity turned up. The theatre of the absurd became popular free entertainm ent like Fritz Teufel's trial in Berlin; and people defended themselves w ith some of the aggres­ sion with which Pow is Square has always been attacked by the pigs.

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A draft charter of children’s rights The following arc taken from “ A Draft Charter O f Children’s rights” the full text o f which can be obtained free from ACE, 32 Trumpington Street, Cambridge.

All children have the special right o f shelter or protection f: logical or social exploitation by adults, or those in authorit vulnerable years o f transition from infancy to maturity. Th be protected from the danger o f harming themselves throuc or lack o f experience and forsight.

All succeeding paragraphs must be read in the light o f this s

(i) all children have the right to protection from, and com p the consequences o f any inadequacies in their homes and b

(ii) children have the right to protection from any excessiv on them by their parents or others in authority over them, no one shall have the power to infringe a child’s rights,

(iii) children have the right to freedom from religious or po nation.

(iv) no child shall be discriminated against by any person o whatsoever, including race, sex, religion, ability or any otbi mental characteristic ovenwhich the child has no control, f

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(v) all children are entitled to freedom o f association both within school and outside.

(xi) every child shall have the freedom to play a full part in his choice o f school.

(vi) children have a right to freedom o f expression, both written and verbal, They have the right to publish their opinions on any matter whatsoever.

(xii) children shall have freedom from physical assault, whether under the guise o f punishment or in any other form. No person shall have the right to subject a child to such punishment as is intended to mentally or physically humiliate the child, or to reduce his self-respect.

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(vii) children shall have freedom o f access to suitably trained and appoin ted people to whom they can take complaints and grievances. They shall have the freedom to make complaints about teachers, parents and others, without fear o f reprisal. (viii) children have a right to exercise choice in the school curriculum. Such choice should grow as the child matures. (ix) a childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s personal appearance is his own and his familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s concern. No child shall be deprived o f any right or benefit as a consequence o f his mode o f dress, style o f hair, make-up or any other aspect o f dress or appearance. (x) children shall have freedom o f movement.

(xiii) children have the right to privacy o f person and thought. (xiv) children have the right to engage in paid employment appropriate to their years. But no person shall have the right to com pel a child to enter employment against his will. (xv) children have the right, at the appropriate age, to such knowledge as is necessary to understand the society in which they live. This shall include knowledge o f sex, contraception, religion, drugs including alcohol and tobacco, and other problems which openly confront every growing child.

Earlier this year two Ameri­ cans, Izak Haber and girl­ friend Lynn Borman arrived at the OZ office bearing a gift from Abbie Hoffman — the manuscript o f S tea l This B o o k a sequel to W ood s to c k N a tion . As tall as his girlfriend is tiny, Izak, with frizzed hair and speedy conversation style, is a walking parody o f Hoffman. His name was familiar from a feature in T im e magazine on Movement literature which credited him with co ­ writing S tea l This B o o k . A fte r s o m e m o n th s in E u ro p e and In dia, Izak retu rn ed t o L o n d o n and delivered t o us th e m a n u scrip t o f a n o th e r b o o k on w h ich he had b e e n w o rk in g , and w h ich h e cla im e d c o n ta in e d th e fu ll true s to r y o f his partn ersh ip w ith H o ffm a n . A t th is tim e S tea l

This B o o k was b ein g e x tra cte d in R a m p a rts m agazine (a ttrib u te d s o le ly t o A b b ie ) and b e in g e x te n s iv e ly advertised and m a rk eted in th e u n d erg rou n d press. O n th e title pa ge o f S tea l This B o o k appears a d iscreet a ck n o w le d g e m e n t o f Izak as “ c o -c o n s p ir a t o r ” , w ith his n am e m is-spelt. W hat f o llo w s is a b ru ta lly c o n d e n s e d a c c o u n t o f h o w th at b o o k ca m e t o b e w ritten. It is n o t pleasant t o b e p u b lish ­ ing a m ea ty a tta ck o n A b b ie H o ffm a n w h en in th is c o u n t r y his d e tra cto r s are m o r e voca l than su p p o rte rs and, m o r e s p e cifica lly , as h e has b een a g o o d frie n d t o this m agazine. H ow ev er, th e ic o n o c la s m o f th e u n d erg rou n d press m u st n o t b e c o n fin e d t o esta b lish m en t targets. A d e c isio n n o t t o have

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revealed Izak H ab er’s s to r y w o u ld have b een q u ite righ tly co n stru e d as c o r r u p t io n . W hat f o llo w s sh ou ld n o t b lin d readers t o H o ffm a n ’s d a zzlin g a ch iev e­ m en ts. T h a t d e d ica te d collectiv e o f b o m b -th ro w e rs , F r e n d z , re ce n tly e x cla im e d th a t H o f f ­ m an was n o t a re v o lu tio n a ry . “ He is u n im p orta n t. U n like th e W eatherm en . . . ” F org ettin g , ty p ica lly , that th e W eath erm en , like th e Panthers, have p u lled in th eir h o rn s ; their m a jo r a ch iev e­ m en t b ein g n o t w in n in g c o m ­ m u n ity s u p p o rt, b u t alien atin g it. S in ce his A c a d e m y A w a rd o f P rotest fo r his ro le in th e C h ica g o Festival o f L ife , H o f f ­

m an has c o n tin u e d spea rh ea din g c o n fr o n t a t io n p o litics , re ce n tly b ein g ca g ed in a W ash ington p o lic e c a m p w ith a b r o k e n nose. U n d eterred b y th e m o u n tin g in d ictm e n ts , H o ffm a n has cu rren tly slid in to th e sh oes o f T o k y o R o s e and is c o lla b o ra tin g w ith th e ‘ e n e m y ’ b y orga n isin g ra d io tap es t o b e b ro a d ca s t fr o m H an oi, b e a m e d at US servicem en D espite his s ce p tica l re c e p tio n b y English ty p e w rite r rh e to r ic ­ ians, H o ffm a n w o r k e d ro u n d th e c lo c k o n his b r ie f visit here, e x te n d e d s u p p o rt and e n co u ra g e ­ m en t t o m a n y g ro u p s and a ttem p tin g (u n s u c c e s s fu lly ) t o c o -o r d in a te in tern a tion a l c o ­ o p e r a tio n f o r M a yd ay assaults o n w o rld capitals. T h is version o f a pa rtn ersh ip w h ich fa iled in n o w ay in validates th e c o n s id e r ­ a b le im p a ct o f Y IP P IE A b b ie H o ffm a n o n a n a tio n ’ s c o n s c io u s n e s s .

E x tra c ts fro m Sti eel " b y A b b ie H o ffm a n b y P ira te E d ito rs , 6 4 0 Broat w ay. N ew Y o rk , N Y 10012. "D e d ic a te d to J e rry L e fc o u r la w y e r a n d b r o th e r."

A nother good bit is to rent a safe deposit box (o n ly about S7.00 a year) in a bahk using a phony name. Th ey usually on ly need a signature and d on't ask for identification. When you get a box, deposit a good size dead fish inside the deposit box, close it up and return it to its proper niche. From then on forget about it. N o w think about it in a few months there is going to be a hell-of-a-smell from your small investment. It's going to be almost impossible to trace and besides, they can never open the box w ith o u t your permission. Since you don't exist, th e y'll have no alternative but to move away. Invest in the Stank of Am erika savings program. Ju st check out Lake Erie and yo u 'll see saving fish isn't such a dumb idea. If you get caught, tell them you inherited the fish from your grandmother and it has sentimental value.

Monkey Warfare If you like Halloween, yo u'll love m onkey warfare. It's ideal for people uptight about guns, bombs and other children’s toys, and allows for imaginative forms of protesting, many o f w hich will become m yth, hence duplicated and enlarged upon. A syringe (minus the needle) or a cooking baster can be filled with a dilute solution of epoxy glue. Get the tw o tubes in a hardware store and squeeze into a small bottle of rub­ bing alcohol. Shake real good and pour into the baster or syringe. You have about th irty minutes before the mixture gets too hard to use. Go after locks, parking meters, and telephones You can fuck up the com ­ panies that use IB M cards by buying a cheap punch or using an Exacto knife and cutting an extra hole in the card before you return it with your payment. B y the way, When you return payments always pay a few cents under or over. The com pany has to send you a credit or another bill and it screws up their bookkeeping system. Remember, a lw ays bend, told, staple or otherwise m utiliate the card. B y the way, if you ever find yourself in a com puter room during a strike, you might w ant to fuck up the school records. You can do this by passing a large magnet or portable electro magnet rapidly back and forth across the reels of tape, thus erasing them. A nd don’t miss the tour of the IB M plant, either.

Government Publications One of the best ways to receive records and books free is to invest tw en ty dollars and print up some stationery with an artistic logo for some non-existent publication. W rite to all the public relations depart­ ments of record companies, publishing houses, and movie studios. Say you are a newspaper w ith a large yo uth readership and have regular reviews of books, or records, or movies, and would like to be placed on their mailing list. Say that you would be glad to send them any reviews of their records that appear in the paper. That adds a note of authenticity to the letter. A fter a month or so yo u 'll be receiving more records and books than you can use. If you really want a book badly enough, fo llo w the title of this one — Dig!

People’s Chemistry Stink Bomb You can purchase buteric acid at any chemical supply store for "la b o ra ­ tory experim ents." It can be throw n or poured directly in an area you think already stinks. A small bottle can be left uncapped behind a door that opens into the target room. When a person enters they w ill knock over the bottle, spilling the liquid. Called a "F ro in e s ,” by those in the know, an ounce of buteric acid can go a long way. Be careful not to get any on yo ur clothing. A home-made stink bomb can be made by mixing a batch of egg whites, Drano, (sodium hydroxide) and water. Let the mixture sit for a few days in a capped bottle before using.

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“ Hey, man, Abbie Hoffman is coming to town to speak I looked up and was handed a leaflet by some young dude who was wearing Yippie buttons all over his army fatigue jacket. “ He’s going to speak tom orrow at Provo Park at noon. Be there. Abbie’s far fucking ou t!” I continued walking up Telegraph Avenue, slowly reading the leaflet. I read o f Abbie coming to Berkeley, December 16, 1969. I quickly went home and showed my girlfriend, Lynn, the leaflet. I also started calling up all my friends to tell them to definitely be there. None o f my friends dug Abbie too tough. They were reading Marcuse and swore by him. They thought Abbie’ s politics were incon­ sistent and sloppy. It wasn’ t so much they thought Abbie’s politics were bad as much as they thought Marcuse was the reincarnation o f Karl Marx, and well you know, w ho’ s Abbie next to Karl Marx. I would argue vehemently in defense o f street people, hippies, Yippies, beatniks, youth culture, and became known, in small Berkeley political circles, as a Yippie. O n S u n d a y , L y n n a n d I g ot u p ea rly. I a lw a ys a tten d all p o litica l gatherings early s o as t o get a flo w in g a ttitu d e to w a rd s it. I w o u ld w a n d er th ro u g h th e c r o w d lo o k in g a n d listen in g t o th e p e o p le . I saw fa ces w h ich a tte n d e d every leftist gathering. I w o u ld p la y gam es w ith m y s e lf p ick in g o u t th e P.L .Pers (P rogressive L a b o r P a rty ), M aoist, b le e d in g liberals, Y ip p ie s, and o n -lo o k e r s a m o n g th e c r o w d . S trollin g a m o n g th e p e o p le and p ic k in g u p th e latest lea flets a n n o u n cin g n ew d e m o n s tra tio n s , s o lid a rity m arch es, lectu res, and th e latest analysis o n W o m en s L ib e ra tio n . A t n o o n , A b b ie still h a d n ’ t c o m e . T h e c r o w d s w e lle d t o a th o u sa n d . L y n n and I p o s itio n e d ou rselves n e x t t o th e sp ea k er’ s p la tfo r m w h ich s t o o d b e h in d a d ea d fo u n ta in in th e n o rth w e st c o r n e r o f th e Park.

A t 1 2 .4 5 , A b b ie arrived. He ju m p e d o n stage and q u ic k ly gra b b ed th e m ic r o p h o n e . T h e c r o w d p u sh ed fo rw a rd t o get a b e tte r lo o k . A b b ie screa m ed in to th e m ic r o p h o n e “ Y ip p i e !” , and th e n p r o c e e d e d t o s c o ld th e B erk eley ites. “ W h a t’s th e fu c k w ro n g w ith y o u . A ll o f B erk eley s h o u ld b e b u rn e d d o w n . I a tten d ed th is S c h o o l o f A d v a n ce d T o ile t Training. I h ad a frie n d w h o was a p h y sics m a jo r and o n e da y h e w a lk ed t o th e G o ld e n G a te B ridge and set his m o v ie ca m era o n a tr ip o d and p u t it o n a u to m a tic. He th en w ro te o u t a n o te d e scrib in g his a lien a tion a n d ju m p e d o f f th e b ridge. W hen th e y dragged h im o u t h e h ad o n this grin. T h e y call it a Sh it E ating G rin , a n d all p e o p le w h o c o m m it s u icid e have th is grin. It b a ffle s s c ie n c e .” T h e c r o w d titte re d and c r o w e d lik e h y sterica l M o r o c c a n w o m e n . H e had c o n t r o l o f th e c r o w d a n d th re w his p u n ch lin es in lik e a m aster b o x e r . H e s p o k e fo r an h o u r m o s tly a b o u t his trial and his fa v o u rite c o m e d ia n , Ju d ge H o ffm a n . I fe lt lik e I w as in a n ig h tclu b . P e o p le all a ro u n d h aving a g o o d tim e ; gaily la u g h in g at a g o o d c o m ic . A b b ie w o re W in d sor b o o t s , b r o w n c o r d u r o y pants, and a red pa ttern o v e r gray fla n n ed shirt w ith a b r o w n su ed e frin g ed ja ck e t. A s h e s p o k e , h e d a n ced . H e w o u ld r o ta te a ro u n d th e m ic r o p h o n e , a rtfu lly d o in g side steps. H e w o u ld sm ile and laugh a lon g w ith th e c r o w d . His h ea d c o v e r e d w ith b la ck w is p y hair g lo w e d crim s o n . It was a b righ t su n n y d a y and A b b ie fe lt g o o d . H e m a d e th e c r o w d fe e l g o o d . I s u sp ect th a t he was o n a cid . H e w o u ld gen era te spurts o f en e rg y , and s h o u t in to th e m ic r o p h o n e a b o u t h o w B erk eley , th e vanguard ce n te r o f re v o lu tio n in A m erica , h a d n ’ t d o n e shit in years. He w o u ld h esitate a nd ex p la in h o w w e m u st b e c o m e seriou s re v o lu tio n a rie s as this was a fascist c o u n t r y th a t w o u ld n ’ t h esitate t o kill its o w n ch ild ren . H e th en w e n t in to an im ita tion o f an e ld e r ly , Seven D a y A v en tist w o m a n : “ S on , if y o u d o n ’ t lik e it h ere, w h y d o n ’ t y o u le a v e ?” H e s te p p e d clo s e r t o th e m ic r o p h o n e , g ra b b e d s o m e breath and s h o u te d , “ I t o l d h er I already le ft, I ’ m an O rph a n o f A m e r ic a ’ . ” It was over. T h e R ig h t O n and P ow er t o th e P e o p le a p p rova ls w ere s h o u te d b y th e cr o w d . I im m e d ia te ly ju m p e d o n th e stage a n d g ra b b ed A b b ie , — “ A b b ie , I read y o u r latest b o o k , W o o d s t o c k N a tion , a n d y o u tell o f k n o w in g h o w t o g o a ro u n d th e w o r ld f o r £ 8 8 . 0 0 . H o w ? ” H e lifte d his h ead u p, c o c k e d it t o o n e sid e and c o u g h e d u p , “ Y o u s h o u ld k n o w th a t.” “ I k n o w , b u t I d o n ’t . ” “ D o n ’t I k n o w y o u fr o m s o m e w h e r e ? ” “ W e’ ve m et a fe w tim es o n th e streets o f th e L o w e r East S id e .” “ L o o k , m y h ead is really b u z zin g . G o aak L in d a M orse, sh e k n o w s .” I said th a n k s a nd w e n t lo o k in g f o r L in da. “ L in d a , L in da , A b b ie says y o u k n o w h o w t o get a ro u n d th e w o r ld f o r J588.00.” “ Y e s w ell I u sed t o k n o w b u t c a n ’t re m e m b e r all th e details. L o o k , w rite m e in ca re o f th e C o n sp ira cy in C h ica g o a nd if I fin d o u t all th e details, I ’ll w rite y o u b a c k .” “ O .K . T h a n k s .” a

O n January 12 th , I receiv ed a letter fr o m A b b ie . T h e letter w as to ch a n ge m y life. He o p e n e d b y tellin g m e that he e n jo y e d m y letter and th en w e n t o n t o exp la in h o w t o go a ro u n d th e w o rld fo r (588.00. In th e s e c o n d paragraph, he to ld m e th e b o o k was a great idea. He e x p la in e d th at he was b u sy w ith th e Trial a nd th at w h e n e v e r I get fift y w ritten pages to g e th e r, t o c o m e to N ew Y o r k and see him . He to ld m e I s h o u ld w rite u p s o m e appeal asking th e p e o p le t o send in fo rm a tio n and mail it t o L ib e ra tio n N ew s Service w h o w o u ld pu t it in their n ew sletter w h ich all th e u n d e rg ro u n d papers s u b s crib e to . In th e last s e n ten ce, he said he a a title fo r th e h o o k . S tea l This B ook. T o ea ch o f these papers, I sen t th em page ten o f L .N .S . w ith a letter asking fo r their h elp and t o b e s o kin d t o prin t th e app ea l. I w o u ld sign all th e letters lo v e A b b ie H o ffm a n ” . Even w h en I m a d e te le p h o n e calls, and I m a d e h u n d red s o f lo n g d ista n ce calls w ith the use o f p h o n y c re d it ca rd s, I to ld th em I w as ca llin g fo r A b b ie H o ffm a n or p reten d I was A b b ie h im self. Six d a y s later, a fte r tak in g a sh it, I g o t an idea. I th o u g h t a b o u t h o w the M o v e m e n t w as still an in tellectu a l o n e . I th o u g h t th e m o s t im p o rta n t th in g p e o p le , at this tim e, c o u ld d o in term s o f re v o lu tio n was to learn sk ills; Legal, m e d ica l, s h o p liftin g , firearm s, m ech a n ica l and electrica l skills. I th o u g h t p e o p le s h o u ld prepa re t o m a k e the re v o lu tio n . G e t th eir b o d ie s in shape. Learn th e usage o f e x p losiv es. But m o s t p e o p le th o u g h t in term s o f , “ M an, w h en the r e v o lu tio n starts, I ’ ll learn that s h it” . I th o u g h t o f w ritin g a b o o k o n h o w to h itch , freigh t, s h o p lift, m a ke b o m b s , u n d e rg ro u n d n ew sp ap ers, living fo r free in A m e rica . I was 20 at th e tim e and n ever w o r k e d a d a y in m y life . I was a L iving F ree E x p ert. I figured it w o u ld b e ea sy. I w o u lc ju st w rite d o w n h o w I’ ve b een living free fo r six years. I k n ew I was the greatest Living Free E x p ert in th e w o rld . I en v ision ed th e b o o k as a Y ip p ie Survival M anual. I th o u g h t o f h o w Jerry R u b in ’s b o o k , D o It, was a great a d vertisem en t fo r the re v o lu tio n . K ids w o u ld read it and sa y, “ Y e a h , m a n , m y paren ts su ck , s c h o o l su ck s, this to w n sucks, I ju st g o t t o get th e fu c k o u t o f h ere” . But, th a t’s as far as th e y w o u ld g o, k n o w in g th e n e x t q u e stion was — H O W ? W ell, I was g o in g t o tell th e m H OW . H o w t o h itch , freig h t, h o p planes, buses, eat free, L IV E F R E E ! N o t o n ly th at, I was goin g to tell th em h o w to live free and live b e tte r than their paren ts. I e n v ision ed th ou sa n ds o f kids vanishing at night w ith a c o p y o f th e Y ip p ie Survival M anual stick in g o u t o f the b a c k p o c k e t o f their dungarees. I ran o u t o f th e b a th r o o m a nd grabbed s o m e p a p er and a pen and started w ritin g feverish ly t o Dear A b b ie . I e x p la in ed m y vision o f th e b o o k . I to ld him w e c o u ld w rite t o all th e u n d erg rou n d papers asking kids t o sen d us in fo rm a tio n a b o u t an y w a ys tn ey k n o w o f on h o w t o live fo r free, and also if th e y k n o w a b o u t any free th in gs in their c ity . I to ld him I felt th at w e c o u ld b o th d o the b o o k b eca u se w e w ere b o th Living F ree E xp erts, and his nam e w o u ld insure the b o o k b e in g p u b lish ed w ith great a dvertisin g and d istrib u tio n . I to ld him I w o u ld travel th ro u g h o u t all th e large A m erica n cities and w rite h o w t o live fo r free in ea ch city . I ex p la in e d t o h im that I w as the guy w h o asked him a b o u t fly in g a ro u n d the w o rld fo r S 8 8 .0 0 w hen he s p o k e in B erkeley. I to ld him that I w o u ld still a p p recia te it if he w o u ld w rite and tell m e h o w b eca u se Lin da C h orse d id n ’ t k n o w . I a lso to ld h im h o w I g o t o n A m erica n planes fo r free and h o w I ro d e th e G re y h o u n d s fo r free. I th en s tu ffe d th e letter in so m e ragged e n v e lo p e and w a lk ed d o w n t o the m a ilb o x and m ailed it. I d id n ’ t think he w o u ld w rite b a ck , b u t I w a ited and h o p e d .

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( A f t e r severa l u n su ccessfu l a tte m p ts , Iza k and A b b i e fin a lly m e e t a t th e o f f i c e o f th e M o v e m e n t S p ea k ers B u reau .) He im m e d ia te ly g ra b b e d th e p h o n e o n en terin g and m ad e a fe w lo n g d ista n ce calls w h ile I sat o n a b e d in th e m id d le o f the o n e r o o m apa rtm en t. A b b ie s o o n fin ish ed , sat d o w n n e x t t o m e and said, “ S h o w m e w hat y o u ’ ve d o n e ” . I q u ic k ly o p e n e d u p m y b r ie fc a s e , th at I b o u g h t at a s e c o n d h an d s to re fo r S 3 .0 0 and b rou g h t o u t all m y papers “ Y o u see A b b ie , th e b o o k is d iv id ed in to t w o parts. T h e first part is th e general part a nd co n ta in s survival in fo r m a tio n that a p p lies t o an y part o f th e c o u n t r y ” . He was lo o k in g th rou g h th e papers rea d in g a fe w w o rd s , th en q u ic k ly tu rn in g th e pages and readin g a fe w m o r e w ord s. I b e n t to w a rd s A b b ie , p o in tin g at c o rre s p o n d in g s e c tio n s o f th e b o o k a n d e x c it e d ly ta lk in g a b o u t it. “ H ere A b b ie , y o u see Free M e d icin e , Free F o o d , F ree C loth es, F u rn itu re a nd T e le p h o n e . T h e s e c o n d s e ctio n is F u ck th e Cities. I o n ly have fo u r citie s ; San Frans is co , B erk eley , O ak lan d and L o s A n geles. It is a b o u t s p e c ific pla ces

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I c o lle c t e d pages and pages o f in fo r m a tio n . I asked L y n n if sh e w o u ld ty p e fo r m e as I d id n ’ t k n o w h o w and th o u g h t it w o u ld ta k e t o o lon g t o learn. Sh e agreed t o h elp. We w o u ld sit d o w n -t o g e t h e r w ith m e p o in tin g o u t b its o f in fo rm a tio n and tellin g her w h ere t o ty p e it. We sp en t h ou rs every d a y tryin g t o get all the in fo r m a tio n w e had in to s o m e c o h e r e n t fo r m . L y n n w o u ld ty p e , and r e t y p e every page. I did th ree m o n th s o f w o rk o n th e b o o k b e fo r e I ever saw A b b ie , M ailed o u t h u n d red s o f letters. M a de h u n d red s o f p h o n e calls. T rav elled o v e r all o f C a liforn ia. T h e b o o k began t o take sh a p e. It was d iv id ed in to tw o s e c tio n s : T h e general s e ctio n w h ich c o n siste d o f Free F o o d , C lo th in g M ed ica l, H itch in g and o th e r u sefu l in fo r m a tio n fo r survival th at a p p lie d t o a n y w h ere in th e c o u n t r y . T h e s e c o n d s e ctio n w as in fo r m a tio n o n free living in actual cities. W h ile in C a lifo r ­ nia, I did fo u r citie s ; B erk eley , O a k la n d , San F r a n cis co and L o s A n geles A n geles. L y n n d id th e “ F u ck L o s A n g e le s ” research. Sh e fle w d o w n t o L os A n g eles and g o t to g e th e r lo ts o f g o o d shit. Sh e sp en t three da ys ru n n in g a rou n d L A . I was ela ted w ith th e b o o k . P ro u d o f o u r w o rk . I began to fall in love w ith the b o o k and fe lt a d e e p e m o tio n a l in v o lv e m e n t w ith its d e v e lo p m e n t. W hen I first started w o r k in g o n th e b o o k , I th o u g h t I c o u ld c o m p le t e m y part o f it in th ree m o n th s , b u t I w o rk e d o n th e b o o k fo u r m o n th s b e fo r e I ever saw A b b ie . I w o r k e d feverish ly o v e r it b e ca u s e I th o u g h t it w as the b est b o o k ever w ritten . T h e m o s t fu n ctio n a l b o o k , a true p e o p le ’ s re v o lu tio n a ry b o o k . I w a n ted t o finish as s o o n as p o s s ib le s o that th e b o o k c o u ld b e g o tte n in to th e han ds o f th e p e o p le . T h e b o o k b e ca m e a pa rt o f m e. I b e c a m e u p tjg h t as the b o o k w as a lw a ys o n m y m in d . I felt pressured and m y n eck and cra n iu m w o u ld a ch e w ith o v e r flo w in g m en tal en erg y clo g g in g u p and fo rm in g k n o ts o f jan gled nerves. M y h ead w o u ld literally b u z z and I w o u ld have t o s to p w o r k ­ ing and ca lm m y se lf. But I felt g o o d a n y w a y . F o r the first tim e, I felt th at I was d o in g s o m e th in g u sefu l. It was s o m e th in g th at I w o u ld w a k e u p each m o r n in g and lo o k fo rw a rd t o d o in g . T h ro u g h th e b o o k , I began to u n d ersta n d w h a t a lien a tion o f la b o r m ean t. W hat w o rk , w o u ld b e like in a socia list state. H o w all w o rk w o u ld b e c o n v e r te d in to p la y . H o w e v e r y b o d y w o u ld b e c o m e artists and all th e land w o u ld b e tu rn ed in to parks.

So in early May, after working close to four months and having about tw.o hundred and thirty typewritten pages com pleted, I left for New York to meet Abbie.

w h ere y o u ca n get a n d d o free things. E ach F u ck C ity is lik e th e F u ck th e S ystem b o o k le t th at y o u d id a b o u t N e w Y o r k .” (A u t h o r ’s n o te : In 1 9 6 8 , a frie n d o f m in e, F red d ie B a n n on , w h o is an o ld brillia n t hustling gen ius, to ld m e that he w r o t e m o s t o f th e F u ck th e S ystem b o o k le t . I d id n ’ t b e le iv e h im at th e tim e b eca u se he was o n e o f th o se gu ys w h o , w h en he said a n y th in g , y o u w o u ld n ’ t k n o w w h e th e r t o b elieve h im o r n o t. H e d id d o a lm o s t every th in g, and th en again, he was a ju n k ie , sp e e d freed , frea k ed o u t m oth erra p e r. I b e lie v e n o w th at A b b ie d id h ave s o m e th in g t o d o w ith th e F u ck th e S y ste m b o o k ­ let, b u t o th e r p e o p le a lso p la y e d an im p o rta n t part in it. B u t, A b b ie n ever gave th em a n y cred it. O n e o f th ese p e o p le was F r e d d ie B a n n o n .) A b b ie lea p ed up. H e w as e x c it e d . “ H o w o ld are y o u ? ” “ T w e n ty “ G o d d a m n , t w e n ty ? Y o u ’ re a real Y ip p ie ! I’ m m a k in g y o u M inister o f F in a n ce o f th e Y o u t h In tern a tion a l Party. T h is is te rrific. I c a n ’ t b elieve it. Y o u m u st have d o n e a lo t o f w o r k .” “ Y e s I did . I ’ ve b e e n w o rk in g o n it ev e ry d a y fo r fo u r m o n th s .” T h en s u d d e n ly his m o o d ch a n ged . He was e x c it e d at first, a n d w h ile ta lk in g t o m e, he h o p p e d a ro u n d th e r o o m , his e y e s , a b la ze w ith jo y . But th en he q u ie tly sat d o w n n e x t t o m e and b o re his e y e s dead ahead to w a rd s m in e like I see F B I m en q u e s tio n in g m u rd e r su sp ects o n television . “ W hat d o y o u w a n t o u t o f it ? ” I q u ic k ly u n d e r s t o o d th at he w as c h e c k in g m e o u t t o see if u n d ern ea th so m e w h e re lu rk ed a d rea d ed h ip capitalist. I resen te d it, b u t figured th at h e was righ t in d o in g so. “ I d o n ’ t w a n t a n y th in g o u t o f it e x c e p t a V o lk s w a g on Bus. I travel a lo t , A b b ie , a n d sure w o u ld lik e a V o lk s w a g o n Bus.

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w rite th e b o o k — a n d that I did. I w o r k e d o n it d a y and n igh t, W rote r e w r o te a n d re w ro te . L y n n t y p e d , r e ty p e d a n d re ty p e d page a fter page. T e d io u s w o rk . T e le p h o n e n u m bers, tra ck in g p e o p le d o w n p la ces, addresses, b o o k s . W riting letters a n d letters. W aiting and w a it­ ing lo r in fo rm a tio n . I w as c o n s ta n tly rea d in g u n d e rg ro u n d papers, n ew sp ap ers, m agazines, b o o k s , and letters t o give m e ideas and stim u la te m y im ag in a tion . T h e b o o k was c o m in g a lo n g fin e , b u t was ta k in g m u ch lo n g e r than I first e x p e c te d . It w as a lrea d y fiv e m o n th s sin ce I sta rted o n it a n d th ere was still m u ch t o d o . O n e d a y I ca m e A b b i e s exh a u ste d . L y n n a n d I w ere s leep in g all o v e r th e p la ce We d id n t have th e m o n e y t o ren t an a p a rtm en t as ren ts are s o high in N ew Y o r k a n d fin d in g an a p a rtm en t a lon e is q u ite a fu c k in g trip. A b b ie was sittin g o n th e s o fa a n d said, “ Iza k , d o y o u have a p la ce t o s ta y . N o t rea lly. “ W ell, y o u ca n sta y h e re .” “ T h anks, A b b ie .” A n d w e m o v e d in to his p la ce Jun e 2 0 th , 1 9 7 0 .

better lay low and stay out o f the heart o f the Lower East Side. (A reference to Bill Graham with whom Rubin nearly came to blows the day before — Ed.) “ Sure, you can stay here, Jerry. You can sleep on the sofa in the kitchen. I don’ t think Anita and Abbie will mind because they’re splitting tom orrow anyway to spend a week on Fire Island.” . . . Later that night, I went into the bathroom to pee. While peeing, I heard Anita’s voice. She was screaming, “ No, Jerry, I don’ t want you to stay here. Y ou upset me, Jerry.” I hurried back to the living room . Jerry was sitting next to the TV set, looking like someone on a bad acid trip. Anita said, “ Why did you ask, Jerry?”

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One day I was lounging around the house when Jerry Rubin rang. “ A bbie?” “ No, it’s Izak. Abbie’ s not home. He went to see his law­ yer, so he might be over the Law Commune.” “ Do you think it will be alright if I stay there tonight? I was buying a paper at Gems Spa., and this pig came over to me and winked. I’ m paranoid. The whole precinct knows where I live!” . . . “ I think Graham might o f paid those pigs o ff to raid m y house and kick the shit out o f me. I think I

I q u ic k ly said, “ I t’ s m y fa u lt, A n ita . Jerry ca lled m e this a ft e r n o o n and I to ld h im th at I d id n ’ t th in k y o u w o u ld m in d le ttin g h im sta y, plus y o u and A b b ie are s p littin g t o m o r r o w .” A n ita w a sn 't listen in g t o w h a t I w as saying. S h e w as h ysterica l. A b b ie h ad d r ifte d in to th e k itch en . H e w a n ted n o part o f this b ru ta l scen e. A b b ie and A n ita d id n ’ t spea k t o J erry d u rin g th e Trial and w ere o n v ery b a d term s. B ut th o s e past fe w w eek s a fter th e T rial, th e y w ere b e in g s o rt o f frie n d ly again t o ea ch o th e r a n d w ere o n sp ea k in g term s. N a n c y h ated A n ita a n d n ever s p o k e t o her. Jerry s t o o d u p. He fin a lly c o m p o s e d h im self. H e was fe e lin g like he lo s t his b est frien d . “ I ’m n ever g o in g to spea k t o y o u t w o ” , J erry was lo o k in g at m e t o b a ck h im u p , b u t I ju st k e p t q u iet. A n ita th en s p o k e , “ Babes, o h B abes, (b a b e s is the a ffe c t io n a t e term A b b ie and A n ita call ea ch o th e r ), tell h im h e c a n ’ t sta y. O h , B abes, I’ m s o u pset. Jerry u psets m e .” A b b ie was m u m . Jerry s to m p e d in to th e k itch e n , “ D o n ’ t w o r r y , A n ita , I ’ ll n ever u pset

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y o u again b eca u se I ’ll never set f o o t in y o u r pla ce again .” Jerry, a fter m u m b lin g a fe w m o r e curses, sp lit, sla m m in g th e d o o r b e h in d h im . A n ita w e n t o n , “ O h, B abes, I hate Jerry. W hy d o e s he a lw a ys d o things like th a t? We n ever ask h im fo r a n y th in g. H e’s a lw a ys asking us t o d o h im favours. I hate him . O h, B a b es.” A b b ie sat d o w n o n th e s o fa . A n ita says, “ Izak , y o u k n o w w h y I d o n ’ t w ant h im t o s ta y ? B ecau se h e ’s s o s lo p p y . He c a n ’ t d o n o th in g w ith o u t N a n cy . N a n cy cares fo r h im like a b a b y . She c o o k s fo r h im , w ashes his clo th e s . He ca n ’ t d o n o th in g b y h im s e lf,” A n ita k in d o f felt that she a cte d w ro n g b u t she w a n te d s o m e s y m p a th y fr o m us. N o n e was given. I said, “ L o o k , A n ita , Jerry has n o p la ce t o go a n d y o u ’ ll b e sp littin g t o m o r r o w . S o , y o u w o n ’ t even b e here, a n d I ’ ll m a k e sure th e p la ce stays cle a n .” “ I k n o w , b u t w e d o n ’ t k n o w e x a c tly w h a t d a y w e ’ ll b e c o m in g b a ck and I d o n ’ t w ant him to b e h ere w hen I get b a ck . I d o n ’t w ant t o see h im .” “ Well lo o k A n ita , th e da y b e fo r e y o u are c o m in g b a ck , call m e, and I’ ll tell Jerry t o s p lit.” “ N o. I ju st d o n ’ t w a n t him t o stay h e re .” She was in o n e o f her m o s t irrational m o o d s .

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T h e n e x t d a y , Jerry ca lle d and L y n n a n sw ered the p h o n e . Jerry s ta y e d at a frie n d o f M ik e ’s (o n e o f th e O akland S even ), Iris, o n L e x in g to n A ve n u e . It was fu n n y b eca u se Jerry d id n ’ t have a frien d in th e w o rld t o pu t h im up. I th in k that was o n e o f th e things that s h o o k h im up w h en A n ita to ld h im h e c o u ld n ’ t stay at her p la ce. H e felt terrib ly a lon e . N o t a frie n d in th e w o rld t o turn t o in a tim e o f need. I th o u g h t it was iron ic. T h e great Y ip p ie , Jerry, in N ew Y o r k w ith o u t a frien d . It was w ierd t o o . Jerry and A b b ie h ad n o p o w e r. It was sad t o m e. T h e N ew L e ft had n o p o w e r o f any sort. It w as d efen celess.

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FINISHING THE BOOK

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GAS-SO A KED T A M PA X ► RU BBER BAN D S^

BE CAREFUL! THROW FAST! G A SO L IN E ► STY RO FO A M

While living at Abbie’ s, I continued working on the book. The book was nearly seven hundred and fifty pages long, jammed packed with all kinds o f information. Then one day day I finished. I came home and saw Abbie milling through some papers in the living room. “ Abbie, I finished. There’ s not anything more I can do.” Abbie hadn’ t looked at what I had done in a few weeks. “ Out-a-site. Let’ s see what we got.” We went into the bedroom and Abbie layed on the bed with his feet hanging over the edge. I sat at the fo o t o f the bed facing Abbie and pulled out the manuscript. “ Gee, Izak, it’ s long.”

“ I w ant t o ask y o u a fe w q u e stio n s, Jerry. H o w d id A n ita and A b b ie ever get m a rrie d ?” “ L o o k , Izak, A b b ie and I c o m e fr o m d iffe r e n t g en era tion s than y o u . We grew u p in th e F ifties and fe lt a great n eed o f secu rity . B e fo re A b b ie m et A n ita , he was e x tre m e ly lo n e ly , and every girl he m et he asked th em t o m arry him . T h e n he m e t A n ita and th e y s o o n m a rried .” J erry ’ s e y e s s o o n w ere a fla m e. M y p resen ce o ft e n m a d e his b lo o d b o il. He th en fired a q u e s tio n at m e. “ W hy d id n ’ t y o u w rite th e b o o k y o u r s e lf, Iza k ? I th in k y o u ’ re using A b b ie .” Jerry th o u g h t I was using A b b ie b eca u se Jerry ju st th o u g h t th at w ay. He d id things like th at and in terp reted his o w n rea lity t o m y situ a tion . “ I a in ’ t using n o o n e fu c k fa c e . I w ro te A b b ie fr o m B erk eley fo r a n u m b e r o f reasons. O n e, I d o n ’ t th in k I’ m ca p a b le o f w ritin g th e b o o k m y self. I ’ m n o t a g o o d e n o u g h w riter a nd th in k A b b ie is. I also th o u g h t A b b ie c o u ld h elp w ith th e c o n te n t as h e ’ s s also q u ite k n o w le d g e a b le a b o u t free living. Plus, I th o u g h t tw o o f us w o rk in g to g e th e r can crea te a b etter b o o k . I lov e that b o o k , Jerry, and it’ s a great b o o k . ” “ O h, I’ m sure it’ s a great b o o k , Izak , b u t y o u ’ re using A b b ie ’ s n a m e .” “ I c o u ld have w ritten th e b o o k m y se lf, b u t I d o n ’ t th in k it w o u ld have b een as g o o d . A b b ie ’s n am e o n th e b o o k w ill insure it great d istrib u tion and advertising. B ut, th a t’ s o n e o f th e reasons I w a n ted t o w o rk w ith A b b ie , b e ca u s e I fe lt th a t th e b o o k is a great o n e . A true s o cia lis t b o o k . A b o o k th a t greatly b e n e fits th e y o u th m asses, and if I w o u ld have w ritten it m y s e lf, it w o u ld have b een d o u b tfu l th at I w o u ld have g o tte n it p u b lis h e d .” T h en Jerry said, “ B e fo re this is o v e r, Izak, A b b ie is g o in g t o fu c k ov e r y o u .” I w as fu rio u s a n d was screa m in g fu ll v o ic e n o w , “ Y o u ’ re a fu ck in g liar, Jerry. S in ce I m e t y o u , y o u ’ ve b een try in g t o d e s tro y A b b ie ’ s and m y frien d sh ip . W h y? I d o n ’ t k n o w . But fu c k y o u , Jerry, I like A b b ie v ery m u ch , trust h im and feel A b b ie likes m e t o o . ” L y n n a n d I th en split. Jerry w as later t o b e p ro v e n right.

A b b ie th en p ic k e d u p th e w h o le m a n u scrip t a n d , h o ld in g it in his h an d, started flip p in g th e pages b a ck and fo r th lik e h e was p la y in g w ith a te le p h o n e b o o k . “ I m g oin g t o h ave t o d o a l o t o f rew ritin g. In fa c t, rew rite th e w h o le th in g and d o m u ch m o r e w o r k than I th o u g h t .” “ I k e p t tellin g y o u , A b b ie , th at y o u w ere g o in g t o have t o d o p le n t y .” “ I s e e ” , says A b b ie . A b b ie th en fe ll silen t and in a s lo w v o ic e lik e he was d ru n k , sta rted to sa y, “ I ’ m g o in g t o h ave t o d o a lo t o f w o rk . I th in k w e s h o u ld split f ift y - fif t y Iza k .” (Earlier, A b b i e had in sisted o n th e sp lit b ein g 7 0 :3 0 in fa v o u r o f Iz a c — Ed.) “ Sure, A b b ie . I to ta lly agree. I w a n ted it that w a y fr o m th e start. F ift y -fift y is b e a u tifu l.” A b b ie ’ s fa c e b rig h ten ed u p and s m ile d , a gen tle o n e crossed his p r e tty lips. “ I also th in k , A b b ie , th a t w e s h o u ld give s o m e b rea d t o L y n n w h en ever w e get an a d va n ce. She d id a lo t o f w o r k ty p in g a n d I guess w ill h ave t o d o a lo t m o r e w ith all this rew ritin g t o b e d on e. “ O h sure, L y n n w ill get pa id n ice ly . But she d o e s n ’ t have t o d o a n y ­ m o r e ty p in g . W hen I rew rite th in gs, C arol w ill t y p e it u p .” A b b ie was ash a m ed t o have a w o m a n secreta ry. He to ld n o o n e and in stru cted C a rol, i f she was ever a sk ed if sh e was A b b ie ’ s s e cre ta ry , t o say n o and t o say that she was a frie n d o f his d o in g h im a fa v or. A b b ie re w ro te th e b o o k in lo n g h a n d fr o m a b o u t J u ly 1st t o A u g u st 1 2 th , a n d th a t w as it. O n his v a ca tio n , h e w o u ld re w rite a c o u p le o f ch a pters and m ail it sp ecia l d elivery t o C arol at th e L aw C o m m u n e . C arol w o u ld t y p e o u t th ree c o p ie s using c a r b o n pap er. S h e w o u ld k e e p o n e c o p y fo r h erself, o n e fo r m e and o n e f o r A b b ie . It w e n t this w a y f o r th e w h o le m o n th o f J u ly. W hen I re ce iv e d m y c o p y I w o u ld g o o v e r it t o see if a n y ch a n ges w ere n ecessa ry. B u t A b b ie d id w ell. H e k n e w h o w to say th in gs in a m u ch clea rer, sim p le r, and sh orter w a y than I did. W hat h e d id w as e x c e lle n t a n d I m a d e h ard ly a n y ch anges. T h o u g h m y part was gen era lly o v e r, I c o n tin u e d w o rk in g o n th e b o o k . D o in g m o r e research , m a k in g sure e v e ry th in g w as u p t o date, c o r r e c tin g errors. W hat A b b ie re w ro te was th e final c o p y .

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(T h e first real in tim a tio n Izak had that A b b i e was g o in g to 'd o u b lecr o s s ' him was at a m e e tin g w ith A b b i e and his la w y er L e fc o u r t A b b i e p u s h e d th e line that his n a m e wus th e o n ly rea son a n y p u b lish er w o u ld a c c e p t th e b o o k . H e was t h e r e fo r e e n title d to m o r e than 5 0 :5 0 p r e v io u s ly a g reed on . In a d d ition h e w o u ld have to d o all th e ad vertis ing an d p r o m o tio n a l w o rk seein g Izak p la n n ed to g o to E u rop e. A f t e r arguing, a c o m p r o m is e was rea ch ed w lie r c b y A b b ie and Iza k w ou ld ea ch g e t 5 0 0 0 dollars a p iece and th e rest given lb rev o lu tio n a ry orga nisation s. This plan p r o v e d u n sa tis fa cto ry to b o th and th e y a g reed to sh elv e it Ed) 1 q u ic k ly ch a n ged th e s u b je ct t o take th e pressu re o f f th e scen e. “ W hat kind o f sh ift is R a n d o m H ouse try in g t o p u ll? ” “ I d o n ’ t k n o w w hat t h e y ’ re d oin g . I ’ m g o in g t o m e e t w ith Chris (C e r f) to n ig h t and I ’ m g o in g t o pu t s o m e pressure o n jris n e ck . I’ m g o in g t o tell him if th e y d o n ’ t pu blish m y b o o k t h e y ’ re n ever g o in g t o pu b lish a n y th in g b y m e ” , said A b b ie . A b b ie was really m ad and s o o n e v ery th in g a b o u t th e b o o k m a d e h im m ad. H e said, “ I ’ m goin g t o o f f e r th em a m illio n d o lla r g u a ra n tee.” “ D o y o u think th e y are goin g t o take it ? ” I asked. “ T h e y b e tte r. I f th e y d o n ’ t. I’ ll e x p o s e th em fo r th e fraud th ey are,” siad A b b ie .

B u t, I c o u ld see d o u b ts in A b b ie ’s eyes. He was ju st stu n n ed a b o u t all th e pu b lish ers tu rn in g d o w n th e b o o k . A b b ie , lik e m e, lo v e d and th o u g h t th e b o o k w as th e greatest b o o k w ritten . H e fe lt th a t th e b o o k w o u ld ch a n ge his w h o le im age. F r o m a re v o lu tio n a ry Y ip p ie P rankster c o m e d ia n t o a d e d ica te d seriou s re v o lu tio n a ry Y ip p ie . H e w a n ted m o r e p e o p le , a m o n g th e re v o lu tio n , t o ta k e him se rio u sly . His im ag e, h e fe lt, n e e d e d ch an gin g. T h e n ew m o r e m ilitan t re v o lu tio n a ry tim es ca lle d f o r a ch a n g e in h is im age. W ith th e W eather­ m en ru n n in g a ro u n d , A b b ie k n ew th a t Y ip p ie pranks, in th e 7 0 ’s, w o u ld b e o u t o f da te. S o h e fe lt th at th e b o o k w o u ld to ta lly ch a n ge his im age. His first t w o b o o k s w ere Y ip p ie talk b o o k s B ut, “ Steal T h is B o o k ” was a guerrilla m anual. It had ch a p te rs o n Street F ighting, B o m b s , W ea p on s, H o w t o L ive U n der­ g ro u n d , and , o b v io u s ly , e v e r y b o d y w o u ld th in k th a t A b b ie kn ew a b o u t w h a t h e had h e lp e d w rite. T h a t’s w h ere his n ew im age was c o m in g fr o m . E v e ry b o d y w o u ld read th e b o o k and say, “ S h it, A b b ie is a d e e p d u d e ” . W hat a jo k e . A b b ie d o e s n ’ t k n o w th e first th in g a b o u t w hat h e was w riting. H e just r e w r o te w hat I w rote. H e h ard ly ever h itch h ik e d . N ever freig h ted . D id n ’ t k n o w a n y th in g a b o u t guerrilla ra d io , b o m b s , guns, m ilita ry fo rm a tio n s , and h a lf th e shit in th e b o o k .

A few d a ys later I saw A b b ie again. I had c o m p le t e d th e en tire o th e r B o o k s W orth Stealing s e c tio n , and A b b ie ca m e d o w n t o F ifth S treet t o have a lo o k . A b b ie said, “ It’ s great,Izak . I’ m g o in g t o leave it ju st th e w ay it is.” T h a t was it. T h e b o o k was to ta lly c o m p le t e . A ll that was n eed ed was th e in tr o d u c t io n w h ich A b b ie was g o in g t o w rite. I th o u g h t A b b ie was g o in g t o w rite th e in tr o d u c t io n w h en ever w e receiv ed a pu b lish er. S o , I was surprised w hen he to ld m e he had b egu n t o w rite it. He h an d ed m e tw o ty p e w ritte n p ieces o f paper w h ich are prin ted b e lo w . T h is is part o f th e o rigin a l in tr o d u c tio n D urin g th e m arathon C o n sp ira cy Trial in C h ica go, I g o t a to n o f D ear A b b i e m ail, m o st o f it fr ie n d ly g o o d lu ck s o r t o f s tu ff, an o cca sio n a l h ate l e tte r like m y tw o fa v o u r ite s that said "W a it till Jesus g ets his hands o n y o u , y o u little b astard ” , and o n e th at said “ I c a n ’ t w ait u nlit th e n e x t p ro g ra m begin s to c o o k y o u r a ss.” I u sed to m a k e p a p e r airplanes o u t o f th em an d sail th em at th e ju d g e, w h o s e n am e e s ca p es m e at th e m o m en t.

O n e d a y I g o t a le tte r fr o m a d u d e in B e r k e le y . H e said h e was th e first ca t th ro w n o u t o f high s c h o o l (1 9 6 4 ) f o r w earin g his hair lo n g and refu sin g to su m il to a haircut. F o r th e p a st six yea rs, he e x p la in e d h o w h e h itc h e d a r o u n d th e w orld , train ed h im s e lf in th e art o f gu errilla w arfare and s tr e e t su rvival and at th e rip e age o f 20, fe ll lik e d o in g a b o o k w ith m e th at w o u ld c o m b in e e v e r y th in g w e b o th k n e w a b o u t living fr e e an d fig h tin g in A m erik a . W e c o r r e s p o n d e d f o r six m on th s, ro a m ed th e c o u n tr y s e e k in g h in ts f o r th e b o o k , co n s u ltin g w ith e x p e r t s on ea ch s e c tio n , did library research , a d v ertised in th e u n d erg ro u n d p ress f o r tips and c o m p ile d and w r o te th ou sa n d s o f p a g es in an a t te m p t to w rite a s o r t o f gu errilla manual, th e k in d o f w h ich has n e v e r b een seen b e fo r e and is p a rticu la rly su ited f o r th e stru ggle h ere in th e h eart o f th e beast. O h G o d , to w rite a b o o k that w ill bring o n th e A p o c a l y p s e ! S u ch a task r eq u ire d y ea rs in th e planning. M o re th o u g h t w e n t in to S tea l This B o o k than in to th e T en C o m m a n d m en ts (th e m ov ie, n o t th e b o o k ). C o m p lic a te d p o litic a l d ecis io n s had to b e m a d e a b o u t w hat was p u t in an d le ft o u t. . . . I t’ s w ierd. R ea d in g th e in tr o d u c t io n w h ich w as w ritten fo u r da ys b e fo r e h e tu rn ed in to a tra ito r, y o u ca n tell he still th o u g h t in term s o f b o th h im and I d id th e b o o k , th at frie n d s h ip b e tw e e n us e x is te d , th at I was t o receiv e eq u a l shares o f e v ery th in g w ith him . It m ust have b een b e tw e e n th e tim e h e w r o t e th e in tr o d u c t io n t o th e tim e h e s ta b b e d m e in th e b a c k , w h ich was o n ly a p e r io d o f th ree o r f o u r da ys, th at h e to ta lly d e c id e d t o d o m e in.

Abbie told me he was through with his copy and I told him I wanted to go over mine once more. He then said that he wanted me to take all the photographs, cartoons and diagrams and write down exactly where they go in the book. He had brought over all the photographs, cartoons and diagrams. He also brought over tha cover. He wanted me to keep them with me. I told him sure I’ll do that tonight. He soon split, after that, all day I worked on the book. I made up detailed lists o f exactly where each cartoon, photograph should go. I also reread the book once more and made a few more changes. And that was that. Complete. There was nothing more I could do. I felt so happy and immediately called Abbie to give him the news. He also sounded happy and we made a date to meet at his place the next day at eleven am. After I finished talking to him, 1 just sat on my bed looking at the book. It was beautiful, magnificent, classic o f a book. I picked it up and hugged it and danced round the room with it. It was just paper but I loved it. I actually created something. The book was a part o f me and I felt it was basically my biography. I lived that book. For seven years, since I was fourteen, I did everything in that book. Everything about how I survived in Amerika went into it. It was a manual but it was also my biography. I also lo v e d A b b ie . H e gave m e th e ch a n ce t o d o it. T o g e th e r w e did it, I felt. It was t o o fu ck in g m u ch . I was d rea m in g o f sen d in g cw pies t o F id el, M a o , C leaver, a n d all th e great revolu tion a rie s. I th o u g h t a b o u t h o w e v e r y b o d y w o u ld lo v e th e b o o k I th o u g h t a b o u t th e V o lk s w a g o n Bus w h ich is a h ip p ie ’ s dream . O h , I was s o h a p p y . M y brain t o o k a great b ea tin g du rin g th o s e eight m o n th s and I n e e d e d a rest. A fte r d a n cin g a ro u n d fo r w hat s e e m e d like h o u rs, I d iz z ily la y ed d o w n o n the b e d . A h a lf h ou r later, A b b ie ca lle d . He said, “ I’ ve b een th in k in g, Izak, w e s h o u ld p u t A n ita ’ s a nd L y n n ’ s nam es o n the b o o k . T h e y b o t h did a lo t o f w ork o n th e b o o k and s h o u ld b e in clu d e d as a u th o rs” . I c o u ld hear his v o ic e clea rly . It s o u n d e d like the v o ic e o f s o m e o n e w h o was b ein g fo r c e d t o call and b etra y a frien d t o th e Nazis. It s o u n d e d c h o k e d as th o u g h he was first b ea ten and th rea ten ed w ith dea th , t o h im a nd his en tire fam ily b e fo r e he ca lle d . I d id n ’ t k n o w w hat was g o in g on b u t w h en he said he w a n ted A n ita ’ s nam e as an a u th o r, I freaked. In a c o n t r o lle d v o ic e filled w ith rage w h ich I ’ m su re A b b ie fe lt th rou gh th e h o t w ires, I said, “ W hat did A n ita ever d o ? ” H e sa id, “ I ’ m g o in g t o let her w rite the in tr o d u c tio n and she h elp ed m e a lo t w hen I was w ritin g th e b o o k o n m y v a ca tio n , as w ell she appears in th e p h o to g r a p h s .” I k n ew he was ly in g and k n ew A n ita n ever even read a page o f th e b o o k . She n ever read a n y th in g. She never even read A b b ie ’s b o o k s . She w asn ’ t c o n c e r n e d w ith a n y th in g th a t w asn ’ t c o n c e r n e d w ith her. “ Y o u ’ re ly in g, A b b ie . I c o u ld c o n s id e r p u ttin g t w o w o m e n ’ s nam es o n the b o o k b u t th o se w o m e n s h o u ld be L y n n and C a ro l” , said I. “ C a ro l” , said A b b ie . “ T h a t’ s right, C arol. She d id a w h o le fu ck in g lot. But 1 feel this d iscu ssion is silly b eca u se th e o n ly a u th ors are y o u and I” , said I. A b b ie k ep t still fo r a few s e c o n d s . T h o u g h ts w ere fly in g th rou gh m y h ead . I rem e m b e re d A n ita ’s fit w h en she frea k ed and screa m ed a b o u t h o w she was b ein g used A n d I fe lt that she c o e r c e d h im in to this insane idea. She k n ew this b o o k w as g o in g t o b e great and she w a n ted her nam e o n th e b o o k t o b e c o m e fa m ou s. A ls o I k n e w A b b ie w a n ted A n ita t o b e c o m e fa m o u s and som ew h a t felt th at if she b e ca m e m o r e fa m ou s, she w o u ld b e c o m e m o r e in volv e d . I th o u g h th o u g h t this is what this w h o le p h o n e s ce n e was a b o u t. I k n e w th e o n ly reason he m e n tio n e d L y n n as an a u th o r was b e ca u se he k n ew he c o u ld n ’ t p o s s ib ly ask for A n ita ’ s nam e o n (he b o o k w ith o u t L y n n ’ s.

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TOTAL RIP-OFF

Abbie said, ‘ It’s because o f me the book is going to be published. Not you. You go up town and talk to Random House. They won’ t even let you in the door.’ ‘ I don’t care what those capitalist pigs think’ , I said. ‘ I’m going to come on straight with you. I want to buy you

NEGOTIATIONS

( A b b i e to ld Izak to g e t his things o u t o f his a p a rtm en t a t o n c e , in clu d in g th e guns. A b b i e also t o o k all th e p h o to g r a p h s, Iz a k 's original m a n u scrip t and all th e p a p ers th a t m e n tio n e d th eir n am es to g e th e r. “ T h e o n ly th in g th a t was l e ft to m e was a h a lf fin ish ed c o p y . I ju s t l o o k e d a t th e m u tila ted th in g th a t I lo v e d s o m u ch and sta rted cryin g. ” I z a k ’s frie n d s ad vised him to hire J erry G u tm a n , a m o v e m e n t law yer. B r i e f e x tr a c ts f o ll o w fr o m th e len g th y and ted io u s legal d ip lo m a cy . -E d .)

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out. I’ll give you a large sum o f money if you disappear’ , said Abbie. I th o u g h t o f J erry ’ s w o rd s t o m e : “ A b b ie ’s g o in g t o fu ck y o u . ” H o w J e rry k n e w , I d o n ’ t k n o w . I d o n o t th in k A b b ie ever said a n y th in g to h im o u t I feel J erry u n d e r s to o d h im b e tte r and k n ew h o w h e o p e ra te d fr o m past e x p e rie n ce s . B ut it is strange th at th e s e c o n d I h a n d e d him ov er m y c o m p le t e d c o p y , h e tried t o b u y m e o u t. A ls o , fr o m the first tim e I ca m e t o N ew Y o r k w ith w h a t I had d o n e . A b b ie k n ew I w as th e o n ly o n e in A m erik a w h o c o u ld h ave d o n e tn e b o o k . A b b ie rea lized that h e c o u ld n o t p o s s ib ly d o the b o o k o n his o w n . A ll m y frien d s th o u g h t A b b ie h u stled m e fr o m th e start. A n d m a y b e it’ s true. I d o n o t k n o w .

I know this; that I put all my savings into that book. Spent eight months working on it. Taught Abbie inumerable things and was his bodyguard. Worked for him and gave him a number o f ideas for television. (He later did a television show about living free which was entirley based on my ideas), and movies. And, I have never, to this day, 13th January, 1971, received anything. A complete, total rip o ff o f my money, time, energy and ideas.

Mr. Gutman had long hair. It came down to his shoulders and it was com bed straight back. It was grayish with black streaks running through it. I figured he was in his forties. But the vibrations he gave o ff were o f a young man. Y ou could tell that he was energetic and full o f life. G u tm a n said, “ Start fr o m th e b eg in n in g , I z a k .” I q u ic k ly ran d o w n th e s to r y fr o m m y first letter I w r o t e t o A b b ie u ntil th e d a y A b b ie to ld m e h e w a n ted t o b u y m e o u t. I s h o w e d h im th e u n c o m p le t e d c o p y o f th e b o o k a n d th e n o te th a t A b b ie le ft m e. “ D id he ever m e n tio n h o w m u ch m o n e y ? ” , said G u tm a n . “ N o , he n ever d id ” . “ D id y o u ever sign a n y legal p a p e rs ?” “ N o , I n ever sign ed a th in g. I tru sted h im c o m p le t e ly .” “ D o a n y o f y o u have a c o p y r ig h t o n it ? ” said G u tm a n . “ N o , n o n e o f us c o p y r ig h te d it .” “ O k a y. I ’ ll call L e fc o u r t n o w and see w h a t he has t o s a y ” , said G u tm a n . H e ca lled b u t th e L a w C o m m u n e ’ s r e c e p tio n is t to ld h im th a t L e fc o u r t was n o t th ere a n d t o ca ll b a ck a b o u t six o ’ c lo c k . G u tm a n said, “ Call m e t o m o r r o w , Izak, and also get all th e papers y o u y o u have to g e th e r s h o w in g a n y c o n n e c t io n s y o u h ad w ith A b b ie and th e b o o k .” “ O k a y. I ’ ll call y o u to m o r r o w . B y e .” T h e n e x t d a y I ca lled . “ Bad n ew s, Izak. I s p o k e t o L e fc o u r t and he said A b b ie w a n te d all th e rights a n d o ffe r e d five th o u sa n d d o lla rs.”

" F iv e th o u s a n d ? ” , I said. I c o u ld n ’ t b eliev e it. W hat a fu c k in g jerk. I d id n ’ t th in k th a t fu c k e r h ad a spark o f g o o d n e s s in h im . I u nders t o o d righ t th en th a t A b b ie w a n te d e v ery th in g , in clu d in g th e d o u g h . “ W ell, l o o k , J erry, I’ m n o t s ellin g.”

T h e n e x t d a y , p r o m p t ly at fo u r o ’ c lo c k I was sittin g in M r G u tm a n ’s o f fi c e . . „„ “ D id y o u m e n tio n a n y th in g a b o u t m y n am e a p p ea rin g o n th e c o v e r / “ Y e s, I t o ld h im th a t was n o n -n e g o t ia b le .” I th e n s h o w e d G u tm a n th e p ictu res, letters I re ce iv e d th r o u g h o u t the c o u n t r y a dd ressed t o A b b ie and m e, th e L ib e ra tio n N ew s Service a p p ea l, a n d o th e r sh it s h o w in g m e c o n n e c t e d t o A b b ie , and th e b o o k . “ G o o d ” , said G u tm a n , lo o k in g at th e p ictu res. “ D o y o u th in k he w ill try a n d ju s t g o a h ea d and pu b lish th e b o o k as his o w n ” , I asked. . . . . . .

‘ I wrote it down here. Wait a second, INe got it. Two thousand for

the swimming team. What’s the sum m ing team? ^ e d G u tr n a n ‘ That means the Weathermen. He’s lying about that, Jerry. Abbie was to give the Weathermen two thousand as a gift to show support. It had nothing to do with the book. Abbie asked them to writei a chapter on Living Underground which they did, but was no good and Abbiedidn t include it in the book. That two grand has no relation with the book. What a fucking liar. What else?’ , . ‘ Fifteen hundred for Carol Ramer as salary, said Gutman. I blew my top. Abbie is a super pig. jerry, thats also a^ fb b ie pays her salary no matter what. Even if we didn t do a book together, Eewouldhave to pay her a weekly salary.Caro is his scretary. He s trying to get us to pay her salary. What else? , I asked.

G u tm a n . , . ,, ,. .... “ S o , I ca n ’ t p u b lish th e b o o k w ith o u t h im and he can t pu b lish it w ith o u t m e ” , said I. “ T h a t’ s rig h t.” “ D o y o u th in k w e ’ ll rea ch an a g reem en t I asked. “ Sure. I t’ s t o o va lu a ble a p r o p e r ty t o let g o , said G u tm a n . I th e n le ft a fte r te llin g Jerry I w as g o in g t o W o o d s t o c k fo r th e w e e k ­ en d a n d I w o u ld call h im o n M o n d a y . T h e n e x t d a y , I w o k e u p early and sta rted w a lk in g o v e r t o A b b ie ’s p la ce t o get m y shit. I w as h e a d e d d o w n St. M arks P la ce to w a rd s T h ird A v e n u e w h en I ran in to A b b ie n e x t t o th e E le ctric Circus. F eelin gs o f lo v e ro se in m e. I had n o real h atred fo r h im . T h e re w as ju st n o w a y I c o u ld rea lly h ate h im . I o n c e lik ed h im and th ese feelin g s still h u n g a ro u n d m y heart. L o o k in g at his fa ce I saw h e th o u th o u g h t th e sam e. H e o p e n e d th e c o n v e rs a tio n , H i, Iza k . W here y o u ^1 w as ju st g o in g o v e r t o y o u r p la ce t o get m y s h it.” “ I guess y o u k n o w I g o t a la w y e r ? ” said I. “ Y es th a t’ s g o o d .” A b b ie a v o id e d lo o k in g m e in th e ey e . H e k ep t gazin g d o w n at his fe e t. “ I’ ll see y o u later, A b b ie .” . . . u i u “ W ait D o y o u have a p h o n e n u m b e r a n d an address w h ere 1 c o u ld rea ch y o u i f I w a n te d t o sp ea k t o y o u ? ” , A b b ie asked. “ Y e s ” , I said, a n d gave h im a p la ce w h ere h e c o u ld rea ch m e. A fte r retu rn in g fr o m W o o d s t o c k , I ca lle d G u tm a n . He t o ld m e th a t th e y o f fe r e d seven th o u sa n d and m y n am e as an a u th o r as w ell as A n ita ’ s and L y n n ’ s. T h e n e g o tia tio n s b o g g e d d o w n . A b b ie w a n ted t o b u y us o u t , a n d w e k e p t tellin g th e m th e y h ad t o c o m e u p w ith a m o r e rea son a b le o tt e r th an seven th o u sa n d . T h is w e n t o n fo r a b o u t t w o w eeks. S e p te m b e r 9 th L e fc o u r t ca lled and t o ld G u tm a n ten per c e n t. G u tm a n said th at I w a n te d f ift y per c e n t and n o th in g else. T e n per c e n t was rid icu lo u s . I w as fu rio u s. I w a n ted t o leave th e c o u n t r y a n d b u m a ro u n d a n d rest m y fu c k in g h ead . A n d h ere I w as still hassling o v e r th e fu c k in g b o o k . I w as still greatly u p set a b o u t the w h o le mess and th e n e g o tia tio n s , a n d sittin g in N ew Y o r k w a itin g u n til e v ery th in g w as d o n e , was a s to n e drag. A ls o I w as b r o k e . I had t o a p p ly lo r W elfare in N e w Y o r k . I h ad t o g o t o th e w elfa re o f f i c e e v e ry d a y at eigh t o ’ c lo c k a n d sit th e re u n til fo u r o r fiv e o c lo c k . E igh t days straight b e fo r e I g o t o n .

G u tm a n said he w o u ld ca ll th e m a n d try t o get th e figu re re d u ce d . “ A ls o Jerry, I s p en t m o n e y o n th a t b o o k m y se lf. A b o u t th re e grand, an d if A b b ie gets e x p e n s e s b a c k , th en w e s h o u ld a lso. I said. G u tm a n agreed a n d t o ld m e t o w rite d o w n e x a c t ly w h a t I s p e n t o n w h a t, a n d w h en I retu rn ed t o N e w Y o r k t o ca ll h im . I re tu rn e d th e n e x t d a y a n d ca lled . G u tm a n said th a t he s p o k e t o L e f c o u r t and th e y agreed t o p a y m e e x p en ses to w a rd s th e b o o k . B ut as fo r A b b ie s s ix t y th ree h u n d re d th at was n o n -n e g o tia b le . L ater th a t d a y I w e n t t o G u tm a n ’ s o f f i c e and gave h im m y list o f e x p en ses. G u tm a n said he w o u ld ty p e it up and sen d it t o th em . M y e x p e n s e s , as I figu red th e m , ca m e t o th irty th ree h u n d red . I exa ggerated a little m y s e lf, b u t, in reality I figu red I really sp en t fr o m tw e n ty h u n d re d t o tw e n ty fiv e h u n d red dollars. I fig u red th at th e y w o u ld l o o k at it see it w as p re tty a ccu ra te, say alrigh t, a nd th e n w e c o u ld get d o w n t o draw in g u p th e co n tra cts . B u t th o s e fu ck ers ca lled u p G u tm a n and said said th at I w as a s to n e liar and h ad s p en t o n ly fiv e h u n d re d d olla rs and th at w as all th e y w ere g oin g t o give m e. T h a t’ s h o w insane th o s e fu ck e rs w ere. A b b ie h ad le ft f o r E u ro p e O c t o b e r 5 th and gave p o w e r o f a tto rn e y t o L e fc o u r t. F o r th e first w eek o f O c t o b e r , L e f c o u r t refu sed t o o f f e r m o r e than fiv e h u n d red dollars. G u tm a n was sa yin g th at th at w as insane as w ell as A b b ie ’s figu re o f s ix t y th ree h u n d red . T h e s e c o n d w e e k L e fc o u r t o ffe r e d a th o u sa n d b u t re fu sed t o b u d g e o n A b b ie ’ s s ix t y th ree h u n d red . I ca lled G u tm a n and to ld h im t o en d it. I d id n ’ t care a n y m o re . G ra y hairs w e re fallin g o f f m y head and I was losin g sleep . F in a lly a rou n d th e m id d le o f O c t o b e r , L e fc o u r t and G u tm a n rea ch ed an a greem en t w h ich I agreed t o . O ne th ou sa n d t w o h u n d red and f ift y fo r m e and fiv e th o u sa n d t w o h u n d re d and fift y f o r A b b ie . It w as r o b b e r y , b u t these fu ck e rs h ad m o r e trick s up th eir sleeves. F in a lly w e d rew u p th e First c o n t r a c t and sen t it t o L e fc o u r t. I w as a m a zed th a t w e w ere g o in g t o sign a w a y all th e ra d io rights, telev ision righ ts a nd e v ery th in g else listed . I s p o k e to Jerry and a sk ed h im w h y h e agreed t o th a t. H e said it d id n ’ t m atter. H e said th at th e b o o k c o u ld n ’ t p o s s ib le b e c o m e a m o v ie and h e th o u g h t th at th e b o o k c o u ld o n ly b e c o m e a b o o k o r n o th in g , s o in reality w e w ere giving aw a y n oth in g . I d id n ’ t to ta lly agree, b u t , at this p o in t , I w asn ’ t g o in g t o argu e, s o I a c c e p te d his rea son in g.

O n T h u rsd a y N o v e m b e r 1 2 , 1 w e n t t o G u tm a n ’ s o f f i c e and signed o v e r p o w e r o f a tto rn e y t o h im , and h e w ish ed m e a g o o d trip. F rid a y w as th e last d a y I w as t o b e in N ew Y o r k and I ca lle d G u tm a n t o see if h e h ad receiv ed th e fin a l co n tra cts . H e said y e s th a t th e y h ad c o m e in th e m ail a n d a sked if L y n n a n d I c o u ld c o m e u p and sign it. L y n n and I g ra b b ed a ta x i and w ere s o o n in his o f f i c e . F irst I sign ed, th en

A w e e k later w e g o t a n e w o f f e r o f tw e n ty per ce n t. G u tm a n th e n s p o k e t o L e f c o u r t a n d t o ld h im th a t I w as w illin g , fo r th e sak e o f en d in g th e n e g o tia tio n s , t o a c c e p t a c o m p r o m is e o t th irty th ree a n d a h a lf per c e n t. I th o u g h t su rely th a t L e f c o u r t and A b b ie w o u ld agree. But th e y d id n ’ t. I t o ld G u tm a n I w as g o in g t o V e r m o n t t o rest and th in k th e w h o le th in g over. T h is was late S e p te m b e r. W e h ad b e e n n e g otia tin g to r c lo s e t o o n e a n d a h a lf m o n th s a n d still n o a greem en t. I lived in. a c o n s ta n t sta te o f to rtu re . I d id n ’ t k n o w w h a t th e fu c k t o d o . It was a n ightm are. W hile in V e r m o n t , I m e d ita te d o n w h a t I s h o u ld d o . I w a n te d t o leave N e w Y o r k a n d rest m y h ead . T h e ven ts o f th e past t w o m o n th s w ere b lo w in g m y m in d and m y frien d s w ere tellin g m e th at I s h o u ld ju st grab w h a t I c o u ld get a n d sp lit f o r E u ro p e . I a lso fe lt b a d a b o u t G u tm a n . T h e n e g o tia tio n s w ere ta k in g m u c h lon ger th an w e b o t h e x p e c t e d a n d h e w as h a n d lin g m y case w ith n o in su ra n ce th at h e was gettin g a n y th in g fin a n cia l o u t o f it as w ell as I figu red h e h ad m o r e im p o rta n t th in gs t o d o than get h im s e lf in v olv ed in my fu ck u p s . I also w a n ted th e b o o k t o c o m e o u t a nd rea ch th e m asses. In th e final analysis, it w o u ld b e th e m asses o f p e o p le w h o w o u ld s u ffe r th e greatest loss if th e b o o k d id n t get p u b lish ed . I th in k in th e e n d , even if I w as t o re ce iv e n o th in g , I w o u ld have s te p p e d aside and a llo w e d A b b ie t o ta k e e v e ry th in g a n d p u b lish th e b o o k h im s e lf I fe lt I c o u ld o n ly s u ffe r an in d ivid u a l loss w h ile , i f th e b o o k w a sn ’ t p u b lis h e d , it w o u ld have b e e n a mass loss.

‘ Izak, we got a deal Lefcourt gets ten percent, you get twenty two and a hall percent, and Abbie gets the rest. Lefcourt also said that Abbie spent sixty three hundred on the book and he gets that straight o ff the advancebefore we start dividing up the rest according to percentage. ‘ Sixty three hundred dollars?! He’s lying. What did he claim he suent that much on?

L y n n ,t o m ake sure, sign ed p o w e r o f a tto r n e y o v e r t o 'G u t ­ m an. “ W ell, G u tm a n , th a t’ s th a t.” “ W here are y o u goin g , Iz a k ? ” , a sked G u tm a n . “ I d o n ’ t k n o w . E u ro p e and th en k in d o f s lo w ly g o in g t o h ea d east to w a rd In d ia .” “ I ’ ll d o th at. A n d I h o p e th e b o o k fin d s a p u b lish er.” G u tm a n a n d I s h o o k h an ds and th e n e x t d a y L y n n and I sp lit fo r L on don .

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In sixty eight before going to Wandsworth County Court to destroy communism in the British Courts, I finished my painting o f “ The Ten Command­ ments Descending” . The nation­ al press was on strike, a pity, but I had a front page headline in the South London Press — “ PAINTER OVERSPREADS HIMSELF” . Chains and sequences o f events all over the world are now very traumatic for the whole o f mankind.

Dear Sir, In early sixty five I climbed very slowly and carefully up to the Whispering Gallery in St. Paul’ s Cathedral and took a vow to destroy communism completely and irrevocably. Photographs were taken. I began to write letters which tore this bastard country in which I was born to pieces for the evil that had gone out into the World in the shape o f Lenin, Marx, Engels, Jung, Freud. Thus came into existence my now famous two thousand word letter, and it went to ail count­ ries with specific reforms and proposals for everyone. Twice in the Holy Bible it states “ He will prepare a table before thine enemies,” so in sixty seven I went to the Isle o f Sheppey to do a Buffet, took some ot my paintings with me, put them on the Buffet, took photographs and began to send them out with the letters.

Early in sixty nine when every­ thing else had failed to stop me, I was forcibly incarcerated in a bloody mental hospital; that was difficult, escaped three times, caused so much trouble then finally regained my free­ dom. One o f these pseudo doctors stated, “ If this man is let out I am not sure that he will not continue with his anti­ communist activities” but once out the tribunal stated I was let out because I was “ not a danger to himself or to the • community” . Anyhow the American Forces promptly went into Cambodia. The bastard communists in the Government o f America passed a bill preventing them from sweeping right into Laos as well, destroying all the communists completely and totally. A set­ back for me, but then I wrote to the President o f South Vietnam, to warn him o f the dangers to the people. Now it is marvellous as my tactics are being put into practice. I am not interested in what the bastard Government o f America does as I can nullify its actions completely.

continue to destroy the Towns the Villages and the Cities in Laos and yet all that the Ameri­ can Government now has to do is to bom b Hanoi non-stop for twenty four hours to raze it to the ground. Then land troops in north Vietnam and the people will rise against the' evil govern­ ment. A holocaust and another evil is destroyed completely. Now I see that you have com ­ plained that the troops in South Vietnam are drug addicts and you blame the Laotians and South Vietnamese for this, well an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth. Now another point. The com ­ munists want the Suez Canal opened so that warships can get through spreading death and destruction where they like. Well, I am not having that at all. Therefore the Boundaries o f the Holy Land which were forged in a War to destroy the Holy Land are inviolate and permanent for all time and on any country who tries to destroy those Boundaries I will call down the wrath o f the Lord G od almighty and there will be plagues, pestilence, floods, droughts, earthquakes and so on. Now I have to deal with the persecution o f the Jewish people in the communist count­ ries and I want them out o f Russia. I give you exactly one week in which to demand their release and the exodus o f all o f them or I will ask the Lord God almighty to bring a huge disaster

America every day until you do. Thus the Son o f Man, the Son o f G od, the King o f Kings, the Prince o f Peace has spoken. Any how I now have’ sets o f trans­ parencies o f myself and o f the Buffet circulating in many countries. Meanwhile as it is time that I had my own home I have written to the British Government, Parliament and people and told them each week somewhere in the world there will be a disaster, such as an Earthquake and so on, and that this is their fault. As soon as the thirty thousand pounds for my own home is deposited and I am acknowledged for who I am the better, but I do not care how long it takes. The point is what about the rest o f the people in the World. This letter went to Peter Walker last week and I have just received a letter stating that the Government has no intention o f complying with my wishes at all. I remain sincere, R oy Bush. 22 Thicket Road, Anerley, S.E. 20. Copies to: Mr Robin Steel. Republican House o f Represen tatives. Mr Morgan Murphy Lady Wartmouth. The New York Times. Der

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“ It’s time we asked ourselves whether we’re talking about life or death,” says Mr Jigsaw, OZ 34. We won’ t know what’s hit us when a total decom posit­ ion o f social forms takes place. There’s no dinner, the heating’s o ff, the tubes have stopped and there are no papers. That’s what social decom posit­ ion means, he tells us, and a lot besides. Like when people are freaking in the streets because everyone they look at is getting ill — yellow with hypertension. There are an awful lot o f people trucking about. Have you noticed? Like Ladbroke Grove at 5 o ’clock on a hot day? And in ten years’ time they say there’s going to be a housing estate o f multi multi storey buildings stretching from Maida Vale to Shepherds Bush and three-storey roundabouts and stuff. There’ ll need to be, to keep all those people apart and boxed up watching telly instead o f rioting or freaking or spread­ ing an epidemic. But why all da fuss? Who’s gonna.riot ’ n freak? Well, noone is if the world goes bang. But if London goes in a nuclear war, and a few other big places, all those who rely on the system will freak. But then there’s not going to be a nuclear war. It wouldn’ t happen even

time is much more likely. No tubes, no electric light or lifts or heating. In winter, when it’s more likely to happen, a lot o f people will be cold. And because they won’ t be watching telly they’ll be thinking o f doing something about it, and about food . They’ll be thinking what the hell to do about it all, and there’ ll be wooden fences pulled down and burnt in little fires to cook by, and a few cars to bum for warmth in the streets.

big storm? Vibes were pretty heavy that day. A lot o f people felt ill. There was a lot o f hyper­ tension in the Portobello Road area, if you noticed it. Cows and does in the country freaked a little and a lot o f people got drunk in London. The same air had hung over London all week as there wasn’t much wind. It was hot and there were a lot o f cars, what with all the tourists and things, and no green leaves to remove the carbon atoms from the air.

Use a little imagination as to what the scene would be like if all this was coupled with an epidemic o f infectious hepatitus. Know anyone w ho’s looked little yellow lately? Like on Thursday 5th May before that

Noone fully knows what governs hypertension or stress on a large scale. But there are a lot o f people around who would be in trouble if they ran out o f Valium especially with no telly or newspapers. More noise, more people, faster traffic, more to see, still more people. Put

see a perpetual festival o f free­ dom and sanity that need never end: a mediaeval fair where people survive on their wits and abilities and not on their drud­ gery and compromise. Mr Freedom speaks for a feeling and a need. But hot pants and green bread w on’ t shield you From noxious gases and an angry mother’s starving cry for food and warmth. You may feel that the country is not safe either. The ecology is fucked already and y o u ’re just waiting for the sea level to rise or the blinding light to unite all matter and mind with the parent life force. That’s your own trip, but remember, if there are survivors o f a global catastrophe they will be the fittest — those who obey the signs and don’ t just absorb and ignore it all until the papers speak o f ultima­ tums and the sky goes red. Perhaps if you gave a thought to the alternative way o f living, to self-sufficiency, and if eventually you put it into practice and it worked, and it worked for a lot o f other people, the disaster might never happen. Perhaps we could just phase out irogress and reduce the popuation slowly by having fewer children, and the demands o f society would diminish until all industry except essential food and clothing businesses would go bankrupt. Then perhaps we’ d all laugh at our ancestors for killing each other in m otor cars and poisoning the air, because we’ d all be grooving on our runner beans and playing incredible sax at the m oon.

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these conditions and their adrenals enlarge from overwork and they die. We’re not so very different. We have overstepped our optimum population mark and must there fore be prepared to face the crash. • The country is a big open place. G ot some bread? Then buy some land. If not, then find some unused land (there are vast tracts o f unused land in Great Britain — far greater than all the urban conflagrations com ­ bined — and the fo o d ’s free if you can pick or catch it and light a fire to cook ). But you don’t want to leave the city. There are a lot o f people to get into, a lot o f music, all the good dope and stuff — but I hope some o f you were tripping in town on ‘ heavy Thursday’ . This summer will show more than a few heads that it can be done country-style at the festi­ vals. Perhaps next summer wi'I

But that’s all summer dreaming, because man w on’t give up that easy. He needs money and electric light, fast transport and colour TV. Craving — the cause o f suffering and the result o f ignorance o f the true nature o f existence. Is this really man, though? If so, he’s going to die in the cities he’s built as monuments to his cravings. If not, then he may not hear o f the collapse o f the short-lived experimental civilisa­ tion till he com es back from fishing up some mountain stream in the Andes and finds they all died in their armchairs from an overdose o f See y ’all out there, Crispin and Friends.

After I got locked up I started hearing about the plague which seemed to be spreading all across the youth colon y, and particularly in Ann Arbor where my letters came from. People said it was like an epidemic, a raging sickness which was affecting more and more every day, and they were desperate to do something about it. hut thev d id n ’ t k n o w

When I was still on the streets, up to July o f 1969, jones (heroin) hadn’t gotten very far into the bloodstream o f our comm unity — there was a lot o f speed around, and a lot o f obnoxious speedfreaks run­ ning around ripping people o ff and babbling hours on end, but then it wasn’t really “ a lot” in terms o f everybody else who was on the scene. 1 mean it was more or less o f a minor thing that I didn’ t worry about very much, because it just didn’t seem to me that it could spread very far. And as far as smack was concerned, there was as much as there’d always been, but that was never very much at all, and the people who were shooting it were almost universally despised as creeps and fools w ho were to be avoided at all costs.

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The rising addiction rate in the youth colon y paralleled the increasing political and cultural repression o f young people — it went along with the gradual de­ energizing o f rock and roll music, the increasing m onopolization o f our culture b y the rock and roll imnerialists o f the mother-

Even when we did try to " d o something about the plague” we did the wrong thing, issuing statements saying that dope addicts were enemies ot the people and threatening to turn them in to the police, which was just stupid to begin with

police hadn’ t shut them dow n) or even to a pop festival, because the pigs were everywhere and they were getting more and more vicious by the day. Besides that, the alternatives they had been promised for so long by people like me weren’t to be had, and instead o f things getting better everything was just getting worse, with no relief in sight. The “ political” freeks who were supposed to get things going and create alternatives like People’s Ballrooms and Defense Commit­ tees and everything else we talked about were still just run-, ning around babbling about “ revolution” and “ o f f the pig” and all kinds o f useless talk like that, so the people on the streets who we had expected to join us got turned o ff to every­ thing we were saying and got so they didn’t even wanna hear it any more. And I d on ’ t blame them one bit

John Sinclair was jailed fo r 10 years in July 1969 fo r giving two joints to an undercover narcotics agent. This victory fo r the forces o f law and order in Ann A rbor Michigan was the end result o f years o f political harrassment fo r Sinclair, one o f America's m ost vocal radicals, Minister o f Inform ation fo r the White Panther Party, one o f the founders o f the Trans-Love Commune and manager o f the MC5 rock group. Since his imprisonment he has written a constant stream o f letters and articles which have been published extensively in the Underground press. The absurdity o f his sentence inspires nothing but con tem p t fo r the American judicial system. Help all political prisoners! Contribu­ tions can be sent to the International Com m ittee to Free John Sinclair, PO B ox 444, Planetarium Station, N ew York, N Y 10024.

Then I started putting this thing together with a lot o f other things I’d been thinking about, and it all started to make a lot more sense. The fact is that the epidemic o f heroin addiction has spread in direct proportion to the increased oppression o f young people here in Babylon, that heroin has been used as a weapon o f imperialism here in the youth colon y just as it has been used in the black co lon y and among colonized peoples throughout the history o f west­ ern imperialism (check out the Opium Wars in China in the 19th Century — the British and to a lesser extent the Amerikan imperialists im ported opium into China and used it to enslave and exploit the masses o f the Chinese people fo r years; the Opium Wars were incipient national liberation struggles fought in support o f the demand that opium be outlawed from China).

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Well, it was bad enough when a few crazies were taking the stuff in their filthy comm unes and enclaves, but by the spring o f 1967 rock and roll bands were singing about it on the radio and the suburbs and high schools were full o f maniacs

was a whole lot o f righteous weed and even more righteous acid floating around the youth colon y working its magic on thousands o f virgin minds, opening them up to new vistas o f post-western possibility and giving them a whole new direc­ tion in life. Acid cut through the plastic conditioning within which kids’ mental/spiritual/physical energy had been imprisoned and broke that energy free to search out new ways o f living with other people in the universe here on earth. LSD was the irreplacealbe catalyst in the post-western experiment: it was the spiritual equivalent o f the atom ic bom b, and it blasted a hole in industrial consciousness big enough for millions o f young mutants to run through into the future, laughing and dancing and flashing on visions o f a whole new world which would be big enough for everybody to live together with­ out exploitation and greed and fear.

I haven’t ever had any trouble understanding why they start using scag, even though I’ve never used myself (and I’ve been knowing junkies since 1961 who were always trying to turn me on to it, but I never wanted to get into it at all and still d on ’t) — I’ve watched enough people squeeze that garbage into their veins to know what effect it has, and I d on ’t really blame people for wanting to get that way, especially as bogus as things get out there sometimes. What got me was why so many people were doing it. and particularly the kind o f people w ho wouldn’t ever have used it a year or tw o before, people who were smoking weed and dropping acid and really getting turned on to what was happening all around them. Jones had always been an escape for people who were hopelessly oppressed, who didn't have anything to do and n o hope o f ever being able to get anything together for themselves — that’s why it was so weird to hear about kids shooting dope, because there was so much happening and so many things to d o that it just didn’t make any sense for scag to be so popular, right?

So I thought about it for a long time, and then I got sent back down here to Jackson where I talked with a lot o f brothers who had been smack freaks on the street, and finally I was shipped down to the Wayne County Jail where I spent 3Yt months on a ward in which almost every prisoner had been using jones before they got locked up. I don’ t know how together my ideas on it might be because I can’t be out there to check things out for myself, but let me iry to run a few things in the next couple o f weeks and you tell me if I’m right or wrong, ok?

how to deal with it because they couldn’t really under­ stand people getting into such a bogus trip.

The grimmer things got on the street, the more kids started shooting scag and running up big dope habits. Instead o f there being all kinds o f things for freeks to do, it got so that people were afraid to go out on the streets or to a dance (if there were any) or to the park (if the

country music industry, the disappearance o f the dance/ concert and the local rock and roll clubs in favor o f big sit-down concerts and mammoth socalled “ p op festivals” , the steady rise o f marijuana persecution, campus repression, and general police harrassment and terrorism directed against freeks and all kinds o f young people.

In the earlier part o f 1967 there

But we were desperate and couldn’ t think o f anything else, having forgotten that the only solution to problems like this is to create positive alternatives and work with the people to put them into prac­ tice. We weren’t capable o f doing that so we turned on the most oppressed people in our com m unity and called them names, which was i really dumb thing to do.

OPERATION JONES! someone screamed, that’ll d o it! We’ve already experimented with it among those savages, and it’s the best thing since television for keeping people down. All we

Meanwhile, in the black colon y o f Babylon the suppressed spirit o f liberation which had barely been contained since Watts had exploded against the sky tw o summers before was rising high in the b lood o f the black masses, and by the time San Francisco was reaping its first harvest o f wandering flower children the Black Spirit had burst into life in Newark, then Detroit, Cleveland, city after city feeling the spontaneous destructive power o f centuries o f repressed feeling blasted free at last into the streets o f capitalism, screaming to be heard and felt for all time. The very foundations o f imperialism were shaken by this blast, and its whole edifice shuddered and trembled Its armed forces, sent in to put out the raging flames o f black liberation, ripped away into the mask o f colonialism once and for all, and the vam­ pire strategists were hard-pressed to manufacture a new plan for keeping the black masses in their place. Naked military suppression was just to o blatant and too destructive o f the necessary conditions for com m erce, but nothing else seemed to work and things were looking exceedingly grim.

tripping around the halls and barely waiting to get out o f school for the summer so they could go to San Francisco and see what this new life was all about. And by the time the first wave o f psychedelic pilgrims hit the Haight the vampires in New Y ork and Washington were already plotting their evil pro­ grams and setting up the appar­ atus which would eventually put a stop to this madness — or so they promised one another, sweat pouring o ff their immacu­ late brows, as they mapped out their final solution to the prob­ lem o f freedom: OPERATION JONES, or crystallized death in a dropper.

have to do is increase the dosage, make the stuff stronger and easier to get, and we’ll have those niggers eating out o f our hand. Shoot enough schmeck into them and they w on’ t even think o f burning and looting — instead o f ripping o ff our stores and businesses they’ll rip o ff each other, and if they get any stores it’ll be the little ones where we can pick them o ff one at a time. What a solution. It’ll deaden their spirit and keep them turned against each other at the same time, and it’ll start a wave .of crime in the streets that we can use to build up our police forces so we can have all those militants under control if they^ever try to stir people up like that again. Brilliant!

in order to deaden everybody out. Y ou think this is far out? Just check it out for a minute: before the Summer o f Love there was hardly any speed around at all, and the kids who were just starting to smoke weed and drop acid had never even heard o f it for the most part. The acid was truly dynamite, and it was all over the place, so the first step was to start cutting the LSD with amphetamine and market it as some kind o f powerful new trip: STP! Wow, man, STP! Y ou trip for 3 whole days! Far ou t!” And within a couple o f weeks STP was the hottest thing on the psychedelic market — it debuted in San Francisco and spread back across the country like white lightning, which was the next phase after STP. All these were acid or synthetic mescaline mixed with methamphetamine, and the speed gradually replaced the acid almost entirely.

The next step was to slide a few tons o f amphetamine crystal onto the set, and to get people sh oot­ ing it so they could get a real flash. Kids who had been drop­ ping a lot o f ADULTerated acid could really dig this new trip — pure speed — because it was like the “ acid” without all the scary side-effects. Crystal got to be real popular, and more and more people started shooting it to get the flash all the real hip suckers were talking about. Once they started running speed it was just a hot minute until smack creeped op the scene, and it got to be popular at first as an antidote for the jangley after-effects o f speed runs — you could shoot the scag with the same works you used for speed, and it would really cool you out. And besides, every­ body thought they could use it without it using them — “ yeah only fools get addic­ ted . . . me, I’ll just run some o f this jones once in a while and won’t get strung out like them junkies.” Sure. Only it didn’ t seem to work that way. Then the govern­ ment surfaced its “ Operation ntercept” program, which was actually just a minor phase o f the secret campaign that’d been carried out since 1967. “ Operation Intercept” was meant to cut o ff the mari­ juana supply from Mexico and drive the price o f weed up so high that kids just couldn’t afford it — at least that’s what the propaganda put out by the Just-us Department said. What really happened was that as weed got scarce the smacK supply got bigger and bigger — it was hard to cop some grass but jones was everywhere, and “ everybody’s

Isn’ t it p erfect the way heroin works to destroy people and their sense o f com m unity? Isn’ t it even more perfect than television or school or factories or prisons in separating people from each other and keeping them licked up in their own little egos? William Burroughs described heroin ss a “ shot o f cooked-dow n image” , and that goes right back to the root o f the word heroin, which comes from “ hero” , you dig? It gives everybody the chance to feel like a “ hero” or a star, to feel as real as Paul McCartrev or James Taylor without having to do anything more than shoot soiqe powder into your arm, like buying a ticket to a pop concert and even the price is the same. Burroughs also said that junk is the “ perfect com m odity,” and there’s no better way to put it than that. It’ s even better than television, because it puts you out and keeps you out, and you can’t even change the channel or shut o ff the set without going through a whole lot o f real physical agony.

Bogus rock and roll stars added to the mystique about smack it wasn’ t enough that they were shooting dope themselves, but their example allowed them to be used by the vampires to get thousands o f k ids string out on deatji drugs so they could be more easily controlled. Pretty soon smack was the biggest thing around, and “ hip” began to mean what it had meant back in 1945 — super-cool as ice, and twice as deadly.

So the program was started — each situation required slightly different tactics, but the strategy was the same: get ’em hooked on heroin, and we’ll have ’em where we want ’em. The black colon y was flooded with a new, much stronger grade o f junk called “ P” (for “ pure” heroin) and tons o f reds and yellows to take care o f the ones who didn’ t use a needle yet. In the youth colony where needles were almost unheard o f they used a different tactic: the ADULTeration o f LSD under the 3-year plan, easing speed onto the scene and then replacing it with smack and elephant tranquilizers

That’s what it’s all ^bout, keep­ ing people strung out on comm odities, keeping their minds on getting the next do — whether it’s a shot o f dope or a newer and bigger car — and never on anything more than that. Cars and things are ok, but heroin is the ultimate com m odity o f all time, and the ironic thing is that the kids who called themselves getting away from the slavery their parents were trapped in have been turned into even bigger slaves, with even less to show foi for it than the most brain­ washed honky. Jones has simply perverted everything we started out to do, and if we’ re *ver going to get back to where we were going'to have to eliminate this poison from our community. Scag ain't dope it’ s death!

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Dauid Widgery "W e've had a load o f scrubbers answering our ads for dishy nude m odel dollies. Surely there are som e really pretty girls with nice faces as well as figures who will bare their boobs fo r £20 a day? Please don't ring if you're horrible.” A small ad from Time Out’ s ‘ Special Women’s Libera­ tion Issue’ .

We left Mailer driving his landrover through the mud and tide o f Provincetown Bay, mourning his marriage and the moon, now both gone. Prose exhausted, weary in every

be coming for us that night’ he writes to Angela Davis. Now Mailer, who has always led with his prick, was finding women, too, less grateful for being sexually exploited to fit his fantasies. The publication o f ‘ The Prisoner o f Sex’ , his frontal attack on Women’s Lib (as they cosily and diminutively call it, those ad­ men and novelists who thought it would be all over in a year) marks the end o f any kind o f sympathy for the revolutionary movement in America. His picture o f women is not flattering, so clearly designed to shock, so sad. He says women are goddesses or sloppy beasts, they should live in temples or in cages and he is showing off, desperately. It s a classic ‘ masculine’ double-bind, com m on both in the saloon

who rises at dawn while he sleeps, to make him tea and clean his boots, “ Divine childbearer! Potential Mother o f the Race! Why should you clean my boots or bring up my tea?” . No, No Norman; ‘ He would love a woman and she might sprain her back before 100 sinks o f dishes in a month, yet he would not be happy to help her if his own work would suffer, no, not unless her work was as valuable as his ow n’ . . . and you can guess who decides that. Woman’s work becomes miraculiously no work at all, Mailer leans across a nation o f invisible women on all fours to treasure ‘ femininity’ and ‘ love’ , so obviously the projections o f his own distorted masculinity. For from the Women’s Liberation view, the traits o f women rolled out by Mailer, the passivity, the innerdirectness, the proximity to eternity are not timeless mysteries but

women are goddesses or sloppy beasi ISIS comma and colon with inventing metaphysics fpr the sex-stripped mysteries o f the moonmen and their machines. Wellknown for his well­ knownness, celebrated for his fame, Aquarius was running out o f eponyms. The Mailer who had uncannily foreseen the Black uprising, guided us through the livid heat o f Beat, comprehended and fought the advancing order o f brutality o f Vietnam seemed emptied. In ‘ Canni­ bals and Christians’ he had promised ‘ this country is entering the most desperate nightmarish time o f its history. Unless everyone in America gets a good deal braver, everything is going to get a lot worse.’ and in ‘ The Armies o f the Night’ , he recog­ nized the future as a 20 year battle for the soul o f America. But now he seemed to have caught weightless­ ness, the ideas he had been juggling for 15 years were floating out o f his reach, his moralism had turned sanctimonious, his paradoxes anaesthetic, his toying with a popMarxism and a mock—Existentialism simply a whim. His break with James Baldwin was the first clear sign. Mailer was prepared to offer the blacks an abstract right to liberate themselves.. Bald win understood that one o f the first things it was neces­ sary to be liberated from was people like Mailer projecting their own unrealised desire for animality onto them. Mailer loved the Revolution as long as it remained an enigma, Baldwin coiild no longer afford to make a mystery o f politics, ‘ If they take you in the morning, they will

bar and around the hookah, a ‘real man’ hates piety and so denies himself the possibility o f many o f his feelings. Mailer likes to prime his thoughts with vicious­ ness, but the pain explodes in his own face. Or conversely he lays a mawkish mysticism onto women in a way that obliges them to becom e tangled in false versions o f themselves, if only in escaping his. He glories in a picture o f woman stripped o f cities and corruption where she can do little else but act out the Christian symbolism o f flesh, animality and fertility. It’ s nothing new. Olive Shreiner, the 19th century feminist, knew such ‘lefty theorists before the drawingroom fire in spotless shirt front and perfectly fitting clothes’ who talked so passionately o f the wonders o f childbirth. Does, she asks, the same man say ‘ to the elderly house drudge

historically determined, no more mysterious than the grinning nigger. Stepen Fetchit became Stokely Carmichael, so die ‘woman’ die. His old megalomania is now reinforced by a new condescension toward women, ‘ obviously no journalist could have done the job — it was work which called for a novel­ ist’ . The job is selecting a kind o f Debrett o f women’ s writing which he congratulates on being penned ‘in no way women had ever written before’ (has he read Mary Wollstonecraft, Flora Tristan, Emma Goldman, Eleanor Marx, Sylvia Pankhurst. . . a whole submerged and passionate feminist literature) He builds up a parody picture o f the woman woman’ s movement, all bras, Solanas and Scissor women, designed to be easy to beat. Greer’s ‘ liberal heart and Atkinson’s extrauterine plans are neither central to Women’s Liberation (except in the media’s eyes) or dangerous to Mailer’s Right Conservatism.

He grudgingly quotes a pamphlet which argues that ‘women will not respond to an appeal to live the kind o f lives they see men living and if they tried to do so in large numbers, they would cause a crisis in society’ . Mailer is stunned by this ‘ echo o f Bolshevism’ (the Bolsheviks apparently being an all male organisation) and concludes that it is probably true that men and women will not get anything fundamental without changing the econom ic system. He immed­ iately drops the point. He’ s bored with statistics anyhow. Never serious about Marxism, Mailer did have a period o f thinking o f himself as a ‘ Marxist existentialist’ . Now his existential­ ism is just a poetic conceit, everything has conciousness, even his snot, and the Marx­ ism is just a belief that technology, not the men that control it, is anti-human. The ideas he borrows, unacknowledged, from Reich, are those o f cancer being caused by a failure o f the psyche, the obsession with molecular forms o f energy, the fear o f homosexuality and the insulting tones o f his last persecuted days. What gets left out, as so often, is Reich’ s personal and practical committment to working class struggle and socialism as the onlv route out o f the Wiemar sexual, hypocrisy. Reich’s intransigent advocacy o f Marxism in the Freudian front-parlours, the work o f SexPol, his scientific use o f the psycho-analytic method began the study, o f how it is the values o f capitalism and imperialsim take root inside people’ s heads. Marxist thinkers like him and Fanon, Satre De Beauvoir and Laing may be inaccessible and exceptions to the general conversion o f Marxism into the doctrine o f the Russian ruling class, but their work has been crucial to the black and wom en’s movement. All that lies behind Mailer’s heaps o f adjectives is theology. Underneath the talk o f ‘ science’ , a a dreary catalogue o f the biology o f illiteracy from thoughts on the emotional life o f the sperm to Eysenck on psychoanalysis. Kate Millet has clearly wounded the old prize fighter, he can’ t stand a serious woman and so he sneers at her precision and brand­ ishes his hornyness. He has not the beginning o f understanding o f how jpreat is the effort o f breaking through the silence, to what extent the ideas which make up the intellec­ tual world are all seen through men’ s eyes, (‘ We must learn to see the world through wom en’s eyes’ wrote Trotsky). Millet’ s book is an attempt to begin the reinterpretation o f sociology, anthropology and literairy criticism’s inadequacies from a feminist viewpoint. For in every bourgeois science and a good deal o f Marxism, women are made into invisible objects. We are only beginning to understand the process o f the social education into femininity, the learning o f how to ‘ please’ men. It is beginning to be possible to see how men’s notion o f their own masculinity (derived, in my case, not from Lawrence and Miller but Blonde on Blonde and Belmondo) act to sexually divide women, to prevent their solidarity, to force them to police themselves in our ‘ interest’ . Even in orgasm, Mailer is reassert­ ing the domination o f women which exists in the outside world, ‘ a man can becom e more male and a woman more female in the full rigours o f the fuck’ . It’s a soap opera, even in the come. Perhaps we should assert the reverse, that wom en’s liberation allows the possibility o f man discovering his own femininity, anality and the memories o f sex before puberty, almost before birth.

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As David Cooper puts it, and it’s an acid dis­ covery, ‘ Orgasm is the total experience o f trans sexuality. The Fucker is fucked in the course o f his or her fuckinr One becomes not only both s iges and all generations at for Mailer sex stays defined at me anatomy o f the genitals; a woman’s passivity from her ‘damned sponge’ o f a wom b and her narcissism from her ova, man’s ambition from his penis and his wealth from his semen. Whereas the kind o f sexuality which might be hoped once man and woman have finally laid down their last false demand on each other would be truly as William Blake, our Norman.O. Brown, cubed, longed: “ Embraces are cominglings from the head even to the fe e t And not a pom pous High Priest entering by a secret p la ce.'

It has been argued, more cynically by Peter Sedgwick, that ‘ the vista o f Communist society in which genital sexuality is dethroned and diffused into body tone, work and the outdoor life is not too far from the ideology o f sublimation festered by some public schools (and is liable to be no less unrealistic in practice)’ . But it’s clear that the linaments o f gratified desire are quite contradictory to Mailer’s rigid semen econom y which sees disaster in every wasted sperm, whether it be in a gay rectum, a sch oolboy’s hanky or a woman wearing a diaphram. Mailer refuses to see that contra­ ceptives increase woman’s control over her bodv. Like Orwell he hates rubberwear (Orwell ends a poem by accusing the cash nexus o f being responsible for ‘ the sleek estranging shield/Between a lover and his bride, in that fantasia o f studhood ‘ American Dream’ , Mailer-Ro jack brings the nightclub hostess Cherig to her first orgasm ever only after removing his Durex). The definition o f a successful fuck is that it produces o ff­ spring. He hates the fact that abortion is at last being made available early enough to make it an operation no more serious than a big dental job. He actually hankers after the era when puerperal feaver made child­ birth always pass close to fatal risk; ‘ some­ times the Prisoner thought it likely that women had begun to withdraw respect from men about the time pregnancy lost its dangers’ , a remark o f such o f f hand sadism that there is little indignation left to recall that Simmelweiss’s discovery o f the cause o f puerperal feaver was prevented from saving wom en’s lives for years because o f all-male doctor’s refusal to introduce elimentary hygeine. The extreme violence o f man on woman could not be put more beautifully, Mailer still wants his sperm to have the possibility o f causing the death o f

their closure. We oscillate between smugness and fear, it is to men much like us that a female communard said, with dignity and perhaps more patience than we deserve, ‘We don’t want to act as playthings or entertain­ ment for anyone. . . behind your catcalls despotism is strengthened. You know very well that we don’ t want to lower you in any way but you are afraid to see us rise’ . NJen in movements against capitalism often find their own definition at the expense o f women. (That their own definition o f ‘ Revolutionary manhood’ is also against their interest is shown most terribly in the Friendz Belfast fiasco.) At one level the Underground’ s sexual fantasy is a threat to the kind o f pornography which actually caters for self-hatred. And it’ s clear that Lord Longford's minature McCarthysim will do nothing about the ‘ pornography’ in existence precisely because o f the But in a way the extremism o f Mailer sexual hypocrites so well represented and, it must be added, his epigones in on his panel. Instead he will attack' England, Christopher Ricks and Clive the subversive use o f sexuality. But James, who crawled out o f the Senior the Underground just can’ t go pn Common Room w ood work to waggle seeing every nipple and grunt as an attack on capitalism. INK shows their manhood once Mailer gave the how little is really left when OZ is go-ahead, makes it too easy on the shorn o f the porn. It’s simply not rest o f us. Most men on the Left and enough to publish a perfunctory the Underground are more like the ‘Woman’ s Issue’ and still be saying, male Communards who visited the women’s clubs o f the Paris Commune like that lovable piglet Tony Elliot, and whose rowdy interventions caused ‘ an extra 5,000 copies if we put boobs on the cover’ . The Under­ ground can no longer go on evading the issue, with the aid o f token woman and the whole reactionary super-groupy sludge any more than the Left can think the promise o f a socialist revolution then is a reason to stop Women’ s Liberation now. its recipient, it will have ‘respect’ that way. And if his victim dies, the streptococcus will kill other women simply because doctors are too proud to wash their hands. Just as syphillis o f the prostitute was the reality o f the Victorian saloon’s waistcoats and crinolines, so what underlies Mailer’ s sexual delicacies is the power to kill, the mentality o f My Lai. The religious respect for mystic wom anhood becom es the reality o f sexual punishment o f the actual woman who must fall short o f male fantasy; the anal rapes o f Mailer’s novels, the phallic murders o f Cleaver’ s writing, the use o f female genitals as ash trays, urinal and punchbag in Henry Miller, Mailer’ s ‘ Old Master’ . The hatred and the hypocrisy for women who w on ’ t accept their own subordination. When the Paris Commune was finally destroyed 100 years ago, the women, accused by the victorious aristocracy o f free love, were treated with especial sadism. As middleaged women were marching to prison a young aristocratic huzzar, how Mailer would have admired him, bent over from his horse and shouted at one ‘ When we get you to prison, you red bitch, we will fuck you with a hot iron’ .

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Madness ain't the kinda beast you b et yo u r m oney on in a tight race between right and wrong madness ain’t the kinda thing you want around the house It makes you kinda lonely som ehow Madness ain't the kind wish y ou 'd wish upon yo u r friends fo r any fiendly ends after all yo u 're supposed to be friends madness ain’t the kinda drink you take to every night n ot every single night I t makes yo u kinda lonely som ehow Madness ain't the kinda seed you plant between the sheets n ot the part o f valor the neighbors find discreet madness ain't the kinda thing you want about the house It damages yo u r brain and it drives you near insane and it makes you lovely som ehow

Neil Tucker This song, ‘Madness’, is one o f eighteen songs on Neil Tucker’s first LP called The Indefinite You which is issued by Island in September. The illustrations, which appear with the lyrics on the sleeve, are by Peter Till.

HEADS HANDS AND FEET Heads Hands and Feet (Island Records) Heads Hands and Feet are yet another group o f session musicians w h o’ve chosen to exchange the com fortable anon­ ymity o f the recording studio for the instant ‘supergroup’ tag, but on the strength o f this debut album they’ve got a lot more going for them than most outfits. Their individual histories stretch way back to early sixties bands like the Springfields, Bluesology, Mike Berry and the Outlaws, Georgie Fame’s Blue Flames and Nero and the Gladiators. Recent years have seen Pete Gavin drumming for Jody Grind, pianist Mike O’ Neill writing for Georgie Fame, Chas Hodges on bass with Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers and vocalist Tony Coulton co-operating with guitarist Ray Smith on film and TV scores. The band’s star turn is Albert Lee, w h o’s been rated one o f the finest country guitarists around since he played the Albert Hall with Chet Atkins back in 1969. ! Together as HH&F they’ve produced one o f the slickest records I’ve heard in a long, long time. Their music is Nashvilleinspired country-rock, but, as y ou ’d expect from their back­ ground, there are quite a few frills thrown in for good measure. They’re happiest on more straightforward numbers with an open, country feel about them. On songs like ‘ Hang Me Dang Me’ and ‘Trying to Put Me On’ you ’ d think they’d been together for ten years instead o f barely twelve months — carefully tailored guitar runs paly around simple melody lines, while Pete Gavin and Chas Hodges keep keep things neat and together. But HH&F are just as capable o f turning in a model perfor­ mance o f the tongue-in-cheek Roger Miller style ‘ Everybody’s Hustlin’ the slower, more bluesinfluenced ‘ Devils E lbow ’ or o f ‘ Country B oy’ , really a show­ case for Albert Lee’s exuberant blue-grass guitar and far and away the best track on the album. HH&F are so fine a band, in fact, that they manage to get away with a mediocre song like ‘ Send Me A Wire’ . And even on the more com plex tracks no one ever puts a fo o t wrong. But Hie best moments o f all com e from Albert Lee’s guitar. He‘ s been around for quite a while now, playing with Joe Cocker and Chris Farlow on record and backing C&W singers like Skeeter Davis and Bobby Bare on tour. Now he’s found a band to match his talent which is staggering, as you begin to realise when he opens out on ‘Country B oy’ . His presence dominates a lot 4*

o f the album, swopping guitar licks with Ray Smith, doubling on vibes, dobro and the inevit­ able m oog as well and even singing on three tracks. He also takes a veiy nice solo on ‘ Devil’ s Elbow’ , clipped, chunky phrases but with a slowed down, slightly echoed effect — I’m told he gets the sound by using a Lesley, an amp that’s more com m only associated with a Hammond organ. But unlike a lot o f the careful compromises between rival musical egos which are usually the hallmark o f ‘supergroup’ amalgamations, HH&F com e over as a band who like to keep soloing to a minimum. And although they dig jamming together, they’re never sloppy since they demand incredibly high standards from each other. Basically, their music isn’t particularly original or even that ambitious — just faultless. And their deceptively loose and relaxed style is one which very few British groups have ever mastered. Talking o f f the top o f m y head, I’d say that they’re the best thing to happened to British rock in the last three years. Jim Talbot STORMCOCK R oy Harper (EMI SHVL 789) An extraordinary gentleman is R oy Harper. His life on our music business merry-go-round has been rough, he got sea-sick with the bumpy ride a couple o f times. I saw in ‘Time Out’ the other week that ip his opinion he’s ‘actually mad now ’ which probably makes him feel more com fortable in his posit­ ion, so reluctantly held, as the angry young madman around today’s touchy and shaky music scene, but all it says to me is that R oy Harper has realised that our sanity is a pretty meaningless yardstick and what other people com hend about the reasons for actions is only that which they are able to understand. R oy Harper can say he’s mad and even act like it sometimes, but his music will, with a little perseverance, eventually prove him to be a rather bad liar. An extraordinary sane gentli is R oy Harper. His titles are simple, ‘ One man R ock and Roll Band’ giving you to expect a Duster Bennet styled honk up and turning out to be rather plaintive and with an air almost like a Septs Ballad at the

beginning, and then rolling into one o f Harper’ s impeccably guitar riffs with yelped, angui­ shed chorus, very moving . . . ‘ You don’t need your gun, man, we’re already dead’ . . . and in the end it is just a tale about a one man rock and roll band, complete with exploding piano and rippling withdrawal to the last note. There are strings on 'Me and My Woman’ arranged by David Bedford, ‘ in association with R oy Harper v. Haunted Fox the optimist, whose copy o f the Observer's Book o f Birds, 3rd Reprint, page 80, is’ whatever that means in Mr Harper’ s sane world. Another track with rare surprises and flashes o f R o y ’s electric delicacy on acoustic guitar. Another shadowy figure from the world o f guitar expertise is featured on ‘ The Same Old R ock ’ , an incredibly fluid am sensitive guitar with the unfoi nate tag S. Flavius Mercurius, w ho flows and trips his way around the rhythm with almoi impossible speed, even finding time to bend some nicely elastic notes in the midst o f the break-’ neck tem po. This track alone is ample justification for buying the album and also a clear insight into R oy ’s genius for con structing something fresh and totally alive with ingredients hardly noted for their originality. It’s been at least eight weeks since any album has turned up that I ’ve played more than a mes, with the chaos coupl e records need a very in our strange !d special quality if they are to sui ive as Wallpaper music in only when the that is level subsides room ’s slightly; for what it’s/worth / Storm cock has turned everyone on , from visitors to inmates. Harper is an awkw ardsod hany people’s standards and itage appearances are often marred by his fiery spirit, but the Value o f his music has nothing to d o with what we think think o f his persortldity; he’s probably the most impressive and coherent solo performing artist in Londbn today, his honesty is priceless. I met him briefly last year in Friends’ o ffice and remember that he rolls the longest, thinnest, most immaculateijoints I ever saw in my life. Now there’s a function for a sane man in a mad world. John Coleman FOUR W AY STREET Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (Atlantic double album) CSNY are pretty lucky. They have a following who will not only buy anything that David,

Steve (sorry STEPHEN), Willy and Neil choose to lay on them, but they’ll enjoy it as well. Inevitably, Four Way Street will sell an astounding number o f copies, even though its little more than a sprawling, messy sampler. Half acoustic and half electric, it was pieced together from about a dozen gigs in LA, Chicago and good ol Fillmore East, New York City. Considering the status o f the band, the integrity o f the label, and the number o f alternative takes they must have had for each and every number, it’s an amazingly bad album. After seeing Stills bang away at an untuned guitar in “ W oodstock” simultaneously reproach the sound engineer for nbt enough “ bottom end on the guitar” , rperhaps S it was a silly to v retain any illusions, but they seem very anxious to show th< how sloppily they play 1

music with rather basic guitar work, while “ Chicago” is down­ right offensive with its singalong radical chic, simplistic lyrics and clonk-BOP, clonk-BOP piano. “ Anything Neil Young steps into is different,” says Crosby. “ I don’t care if it’s a bathroom .” Or a dog turd. While I’m basically out o f sympathy with Young’s hey-look-at-me-being-sensitiveand-observant approach, I must admit that he is the most efficient performer o f the four.

Crosby himself is very under­ represented with three songs against five or six for all the others. His contributions to the acoustic album are both superb, “ The Lee Shore” being a lovelyp iece for guitar: and voices, and “ Triad” being the shattering song about a 3-way love affair that got him thrown out o f the Byrds. It would have been nice if another/of his songs, “ Almost Cut My Hair” for instance, According to their biggest fan, could have been included, but David Crosby, CSNY are “ a then they would have had to magic band. Magic means doin’ it “• om it Dome applause, and that’s so well you get it up beyond whatliVe albums are all about, mechanical levels.” Well, here right? i ) they yupt ain’ t doin’ it that well. i ■ It’s on a Very mechanical lew ! Overall, a bummer. An opulent, where they can get it up at dll expensively package)!, sycophanThey carefully mangle most I tic bummer. It’s sad that a their best-loved songs, includ with only tw o group albui my alltime CSNY favourite behind them should have t o Y / “ Long Time Gone” , with the resort to a mushy, flabby assistance o f ex-Turtles drummer collection o f their Greatest Hitz) Johnny Bhrbata (now that two ex-Turtles are in the Mothers, someone might rediscover them) M u rray and their lktest spade bass player, Calvin Samuels.

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Crosby is full o f lavish praise for his collegues. He says that Stills “ plays rings round everydy, plays everything better Who the hell | John Entwistle an anybody. A stoned goddam anyway? ius. Stoned he certainly is, on accoustic guitar, Martin Who is that quiet, almost shyhy, Johh Martyn, Wizz Jones, looking pop face, the first chael Chapman, or any o f the cautious rolls of/middle-age satlantic m ob could quite spread starting to fatten out ' p is s on Stills from or his waistband ih d what seems eat heig t. As a piano player, like dyed blatki hair com bed i irhpressive. He s no i neatly into a 1967 style com es on 1 e som « demente tle coiffure.sitting in a cross between Aretha and Ell k corner o f the Speakeasy for the album’s most hideoui flashing just an occasional performance, a medley o f J‘ 49 smile as he recognises a passing Bye-byes” and “ America’s j friend? children” a reworded “ For What It’s Worth” shot through with a il/Who is the guy who stands long political rap. “ Jesus Christ amidst thatem broglio o f cata­ was the first long haired clysmic, ear-splitting audacity revolutionary — dig it — dig it — that is The Who onstage? Sure, right on — dig it,” etc. he plays a co o l bass guitar, he sings some and now and again If Crosby admires Stills, he he blows a little French Horn ADORES Nash. “ Graham Nash but it’s almost as if all that was is one o f the most highly an incongruous afterthought and evolved people on this planet. he’s really there as some slightly He is m y teacher and he is sinister chaperone merely to certainly the finest cat I know. observe all that drum-kicking If I was a chick, I’d marry the guitar thrashing, microphonecat.” While it is possible for flinging wildness ftith a benign, lovable Willy to have mutated but nevertheless definitely to such a high level o f conscious­ black tolerance. ness, it’s a pity that his music has remained so regrettably And what business has this earthbound. “ Right Between Entwistle geezer got making a The Eyes” is pretty folk club solo record? I mean he’s hardly

got the pedigree! Yet here he is smashing his way through nine o f his distinctively weird original toons and expecting us to listen. Smashing? Yeah, his arrangements, though carefully structured, are wielded with all the gentile grace o f an acidcrazed lumberjack. Weird? Most certainly: With a title taken from the lyric o f the albums opener, ‘My Size’ and various other nasty ditties about funerals, re-incarnation and heaven and hell, this album is recommended as Music While Y ou Embalm for perverted undertakers. A marked indifference to the tastes o f a public satiated with a musical diet o f ponderous social overstatement and con ­ trived whimsy displays itself on this album, and it s a develop­ ment which defies comprehen­ sion. Example: A tweely titled number which preaches sweetly the jo y s and benefits o f social tpleirance, namely ‘ I Believe In EvettythingV suddenly lurches o ff Into fozy chorus o f Red Nose Rein‘ Rudolph deer’ com p jte with lunatic screech es," no apparent ever. Has John reason wh finally blowi his brain out after so rhai years o f putting up with th rest o f the band’s insanity! And what an odd choice o f back­ up musicians he’s chosen; not a B obby Keyes or Duane Allman in sight. Instead there’s that young whippersnapper o f a drummer, Humble Pie’s Jerry Shirley and Cyrano, lead guitar­ ist with the T-Bones all those years ago and now churning out some very tight n’ tasty stuff indeed. Oh yeah, and K. M oon, V. Stanshall and N. Innes bash about on assorted percussion on one track, ‘No 29’ . Talking o f Neil Innes, there are moments on this album that one can’t help but compare to the music o f his Liberty recorded band “ The World — a nifty and underrated little com bo if ever there was one — same chunkchunka-chunka solidness and unexpected counter-point. But other than that, John Entwistle’s material sounds like nothing else and yet there’s no key to the man behind it, save for the sinister implications already mentioned. Yet Entwistle has obviously gone to a lot o f trouble writing all the songs and producing himself on bass, key­ boards, various horns and quivering tonsils and clearly he wants us to accept him as an individual as well as a corporate artist. But despite the high quality o f the playing and the impressive originality o f the com positions on this record, I’m left shuddering nervously at the psychological implications o f it all and wondering, “ Who the hell is John Entwistle anyway?” Mark Williams

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