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OZ magazine wishes to thank th a t one ju ro r w ho at the Old Bailey w ho th o u g h t O Z28 n o t obscene, Judge G riffith s w ho granted bail to Richard, Felix and Jim , and to all w ho have helped th roughout th e tria l and in producing this issue.

W hat U.C.S.? "W inning cards m ust have on them the last num ber called o f the game being played. The onus is on the p la yer fo r the call being heard and the game being stoppe d ." So, iro n ica lly enough, read the bingo board above the heads o f the UCS Co-ordinating C om m ittee as they addressed over 1000 shop stewards, press, television and reverand Scottish clergy at a mass meeting held in a Meccaized cinema a m ile away from C lyde­ bank, the scene o f the crim e and perhaps the scenario fo r the British Revolution. The crim e is the Upper Clyde Ship­ builders crisis — an a tte m p t by the T ory governm ent to close Glasgow's largest shipyards, resulting in 8000 redundacies and a fu rth e r 12,000 w orkers in ancillary industries threatened w ith losing th e ir jobs. The reality o f the situation is sim ply this — the yards aren't making enough p ro fit fo r the Tories, so close them . The problem o f w hat to do w ith , or how to handle, the workers is a p o litica l one and n o t an economical one as the oriqinal decision was. "We c o u ld p u t in a governm ent butcher to c u t up UCS and to sell (cheaply) to Low er Clyde and others, assets o f the UCS to m inim ise upheaval and dislocation. " Nicholas Ridley, M.P. in a secret report presented to Mr. Heath before the last election. Ridley is now under secretary to John Davies, M inister o f Technology and chief hatchet man fo r the jo b o f displacing thousands o f men and woman, w ith o u t regard to their plig ht because, whatever the governm ent says, or promises, or proposes, there are no new jobs fo r them to go to, and there w ill never be. Be th a t fo r no other reason than the p lig h t o f Glasgow itself. Last year a Labour M.P. declared Glasgow and West Scotland a disaster area. W ith a population o f one m illio n , Glasgow's u n ­ em ploym ent figure is almost 11%, the highest fo r any specific area in B ritain. The jobs available at the Labour Exchange are fo r everywhere b u t Glasgow, usually in England or on the co n tin en t, and w ith U.K. entry into the C om m on Market, these w ill be reduced even fu rth e r. There has not been a single unskilled jo b advertised outside the , Labour Exchange o ffic e fo r 4 years, w hich is some indication o f how bad things are. According to general o pinion fro m people on the streets, Glasgow is a dying to w n , and it looks like it. D em o lition in all parts is on a scale rem iniscent o f aerial o b lite ra tio n bom bing, w hile the o n ly new buildings being erected are insurance skyscrapers on highrise council flats, both symbols o f death. In fact, S ighthill Housing Development w hich houses 15,000 people, is surrounded (engulfed) by the Glasgow Cemetary and has, as its m em orial to progress, an enormous e le ctricity pylon set in the m iddle o f the complex. The c ity fathers are o f course, absentee. W ith or w ith o u t UCS, industry and capital has been leaving Glasgow fo r years w hile poverty in the ghetto areas is reaching epidem ic p ro ­ portions. Glasgow is a w o rkin g class to w n w hich, inadvertantly, is its saving grace. N o tw ith ­ standing the presence o f bourgeois depravity, on the other side of the tracks, the pride, honesty and courtesy o f its people stands above their com m on misery and conditions o f existence. Their infamous

aggression is w ell-founded. Poor housing, poor wages, poor recreation facilities, poor education, (Children in the East End ghetto d is tric t suffer a part-tim e education system — mornings o n ly) no nurseries or p lay­ grounds in the densely populated W.C. areas, pig police w ith police b ru ta lity and co rru p tio n accepted as the norm , a high alcoholic problem , a high suicide rate according to the Good Samaritans w ho need a 200 man team to cope w ith the am ount o f calls they have each week. What the poor d o n 't steal fro m the poor the loan sharks get; armed forces recruitm ent is booming w hile, on the other hand, 25% o f Scots troops in N. Ireland have deserted. Burglary is the biggest single crim e co m m itte d in Glasgow y e t there is no organized gangsterism. Racial and religious problems are acute, street-gang warfare amongst ghetto children is at an emergency level. The state social services, bogged dow n in bureaucracy, are insensitive and useless while co m m u n ity groups, despite the good they do, are a drop in the ocean. GAP, an organization o f young people based on the lines o f B IT , recently opened a Claiments Union, the firs t in Glasgow. Its successes to date have encouraged sim ilar action in other areas b u t the e n o rm ity o f the problem threatens to render it, and other groups or organizations o f its type, useless. Helping the problem isn't the answer — changing it is. Every problem th a t Glasgow has is sym ptom atic o f cancer — the cancer of capitalism — the diseased poverty cells are m alignant and they're spreading rapidly. The situation is p o litica l and y e t this aspect of Glasgow and its struggle is the most neglected, m isunderstood, distorted and abused level o f its c o n flic t — between the powers that be and the powers th a t could be. Glasgow has always been an invincible Labour strong hold w ith the S.T.U.C. its working-class arm. The w orkers vote Labour in tra d itio n a lly even though they are tra d itio n a lly raw-dealed by them . The C.P., claiming 4,500 members in Scotland, are never voted in yet they v irtu a lly co n tro l the key pow erpoints — the shop stewards who are elected representatives o f the w orkers' unions, The com m unists have sold the workers o u t whenever the choice was there, p a rticularly in 1919 when the mass unemployed returned soldiers where led by the Red Flag in to a blind alley despite the certainty o f revolutionary v ic to ry , and again during the disasterous 1926 General Strike. This tim e the C.P. is at the helm o f the crisis again, namely in Jim Reid and James A irlie , the heros risen fro m the shop stewards' ranks w ho are handling all the p u b lic ity and policy proposals at UCS. ''T h e y 'll be found in the river if they tr y it again" is how some workers fe lt about another sell-out b u t to listen to present p o licy line advocated by Reid and his bosses y o u 'd th in k th e y hadn't heard or learnt fro m their misused inheritance. The occupation at Clydeside is sym bolic rather than real in terms o f what has actually happened — the w orkers are still w orking, being paid and managed by normal management. Policy decisions on the shop flo o r are being made by w orkers — the only change fro m norm al procedure. UCS is negotiating false dreams w ith the govern­ ment — orders w o rth £90 m illio n were blocked by the Tories, contracts already

placed were w ith d ra w n and given to concerns in England and yet the b ill for social services, if the redundancies proposed by the government go through (scheduled fo r Sept.) w ill be £9614 m illio n . But the proposals fro m the UCS com m ittee are naive — fu rth e r negotiations, p ro d u c tiv ity deals, contingency plans etc. — all of w hich ignore the death kn o ll w hich was rung months ago in Westminster. "P o litic s must be left o u t of it " is the present line o f resistence from UCS. "We d o n 't w a n t a revolution or a w orkers take-over, we d o n 't w ant the w orkers'children and wives marching on the government o ffic e ". Calls fo r a general strike are opposed by the C.P., the S.T.U.C. and the L.P. yet the w orker on the street and at the yards w ould support one im m ediately. R evolutionary groups such as I.S., I.M.G. and the Spartacus League have been actively propogandaizing to provoke m ilita n t action amongst the workers b u t their numbers are small and their e ffe ct m inim al. The p olitical consciousness o f the w o rker is low because he's been ke p t ignorant — revolutionary rh e to ric and its m anifestation isn't trusted or understood o r probably even desired. It comes fro m students or freaks or middleclass professionals and none of these are workers as the workers see it. And yet all of these groups are ignoring the most fe rtile area o f revolutionary a c tiv ity w hich could produce the power to achieve a real situation and the vanguard fo r it. The young people of Glasgow are ignored. The street gangs w ho collectively number over 5000 and range between 8-16 years old are the w orst victim s o f the present situation, b u t they are the on ly ones who really know w hat's going on and they are the o n ly ones w ho can change it if they are directed. Young apprentices at the age o f 16 sign a contract w hich barrs them fro m any political organization or voice under threat of dismissal, all fo r £4 per week rising to £14 at the end o f a 4 year term . They are to ld to keep o u t o f it by th e ir unions and their fathers — it doesn't concern you. The freaks and th e ir drugs are generally tolerated and according to a street activist, are the most apathetic, bad-acid freaked group in tow n. A tte m p ts by W hite Panthers to activate them have been fu tile and now all o f th e ir energy is being directed to the gangs and the young workers. The fo rm a list revolutionary groups m entioned are making meagre attem pts to organize the you th in their sphere o f influence b u t emphasis is n o t put on the power th a t lies there, the kids are still considered w ith condescending inferiorism , by those w ho are shaping or dictating their fu tu re . As one I.S. member to ld me "th e kids d o n 't know anything about it and the freaks are n 't interested. None o f these groups are strong enough fo r us to bother w ith ." A young mind is the o nly mind free o f deceit, o f self-preservation and party politics — a young m ind is never to ld w hat it can do, o n ly w hat it w ill do. Shown the way and chosen it, the fucked-over young o f Glasgow, o r anywhere, could w in over all those w ho are destroying their lives fo r them now. The re vo lu tio n w ill not come w ith UCS, nor w ill it come w ith whoever takesover — it w ill come w ith the kids w ho are doing it now and n o t th e ir fucked-up elders. Stanislav Dem idjuk.

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For nearly tw o centuries the northern industrial poor have been betrayed by those w ho purported to serve them. Plodding obediently after a plastic carrot, fa ith fu lly chasing mirages o f technological luxury; they have allowed their once integral culture to be bastard­ ised, dispersed; and replaced by a grafted lifestyle w hich is a churlish insult to th e ir human capacities. The northern industrial complex was founded on vicious industrial e xp lo ita ­ tio n , bolstered by a hypocritica l V icto ria n Church, and justified by politicians o f redoubtable ignorance and crass cynicism . It has since adhered w ith alarming obstinacy to its c o rru p t heritage. T h irty years ago there were people homeless and hungry in Barnsley when the Labour council spent £180,000 on a new Tow n Hall. This year there are more unemployed in the area than ever before, the m a jo rity o f the po pula tion still lives in the terraced slave-dwellings h u rriedly b u ilt to hold their ancestors (dragged fro m rural com m unities last century to be used in the m ills & mines); and the council recently b lith e ly bought a £9000 mayoral lim ousine to "im p ro ve the to w n 's provincial image". E loquent promises o f industrial redevelopment and com ically w ild predictions o f unpre­ cedented im m inent prosperity are beginning to sound stale and tired, directed as they are at a working-class cultu re whose

people have been blinkered and abused u n til they are incapable even o f recognising their hyp o critica l oppressors. Styng, it seems, threatens to expose these oppressors in their varied guises; and h o p e fu lly to p ro ffe r an alternative direction. The paper was launched on no capital and one hair-form ed editorial realisation: that revolu­ tio n a ry papers produced in N o ttin g H ill Gate found d iffi­ c u lty in relating to the intricate problems o f inherited poverty in Sheffield. (Richard Neville once q u a in tly ju stifie d his broader social conscience to an inter­ viewer from A rro w s magazine by claim ing that he'd just spent the afternoon w ith IT w o rkin g on ways to im prove the lo t o f N ottingham m ill-girls. Now, that'.s all very commendable, Richard, b u t you have to agree th a t rapping w ith the editors o f IT is hardly the best way o f gauging the essence o f existence o f a 15 year old Midlands m ill-g irl, let alone relating to her. The alienation shows in IT, as it has to o fre q u e n tly shown in OZ.) Freak com m unities in B ritain are, in isolation, as incapable as any o ther radical group o f engineering the widescale social re vo lu tio n w hich becomes more obviously necessary w ith every m yopic governmental scheme and blundering bureaucratic maneover. H ippy dissent is largely a middle-class phenomenon, and there are still too m any poor people in

England fo r us to ignore their radical potential in favour o f a dubious middle-class revolution. But they must be educated as to the true nature o f their oppression before they can be expected to channel their frustrated aggression against their oppressors. Which is where the media comes in, ?nd.where Styng is cheerfully floundering: halfw ay between H offm an & Marx, try in g to strike a depressingly elusive balance. C ouncillor Frank Crow got the p o in t, though. " I w ill fig h t to drive this te rrib le p u b lica tio n o u t o f Barnsley" said he to the Y o rk ­ shire Post. Whatever his other weaknesses, Frank knows his enemies. Despite the fact th a t between 20,000 & 30,000 local people read each issue o f Styng, its e ditorial faults are irksome. Our attem pts to reconcile as broad a spectrum o f radical o p in io n as i seems relevant to a northern readership can be stim ulating, b u t can also result in an apparently indecisive editorial stance. The paper's veneer o f respectability (la yo u t is crisp and e x p lic it, nearer R olling Stone than IT) must accentuate the unsuspecting reader's shock on discovering "reference

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th ro u g h o u t the magazine to male and female genitals using c o rru p t slang and obscene expressions", as Leeds C ity Police succinctly p u t it, between Styng's form al covers. The six items in Styng 2 w hich PC S kerrett co y ly classified "pa rts p a rticu la rly objected to " , including five illustrations, are to o m ild to upset seriousjy any magistrate this side o f sanity (and I purely believe th a t one or tw o exist); the indecency/ obscenity charges, along w ith the three o ther technical offences, explain more about the current state o f establishment paranoia, than the q u a lity o f Styng. Our paper has its faults, b u t they are more ^ the reflec-

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tions, occasionally excessive, o f its staff's sorry state o f hunger and overw ork, and (possibly inevitably) th e ir overall naivety and flip p a n t, frivolous hum our. In this light, it is strangely heartening th a t our defined enemies take Styng seriously enough to em ploy such desperately heavy-handed measures in its attem pted suppression. Yorkshire, you see, is unused to a fu ll-tim e underground o f its very own. OZ, IT, & Frendz ar.e easily dismissed along w ith o ther m ucky books from London. It is the J i* '.-* concept o f a jH K /

revolutionary grow th w ith in the c o u n ty w hich chills more than Styng's spontaneous use o f 'fu c k 1 & 'cu n t'. A nd Styng is n o t a student p u b lica tio n , thus escaping the deadly benevolent paternalism usually granted such magazines. Je ff N u tta ll, in the Y orkshire Evening Post, said th a t it w ould take "courage and tolerance" on the part o f many people v r \ ■r v jr /ijS , . » \ \ • \ \ LL "*’ I ^ ^ 'v fr

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to realise th a t Styng is fo r the public benefit. E xactly how much courage and how much tolerance Y orkshire is capable o f should become rudely obvious by the end o f the year, What local o ffic ia ld o m seems congenitally incapable o f realising is th a t repression breeds revolt, as surely as those hysterically misrepresentative Y orkshire Post articles on Styng expose more convincingly the need fo r an alternative news-, paper in Y orkshire than anything we have published. You may well fig h t to drive Styng o u t o f Barnsley, C ouncillor Crow, and provided th a t you and y o u r crudely evolved disciplinary forces are prepared to go far enough, you m ight just

succeed. But w hat you w ill never drive o u t o f Barnsley, or o u t of any constituency in the expiring capitalist dragon w hich yo u r party, Socialist by name or not, represents; is the still y o u th fu l b u t increasingly righteous detestation o f the very principles upon w hich y o u r malignant p o litic s are based.

Evenin’All... From the firs t day we go to school and probably before th a t in our earliest children's books, we are co n tin ua lly to ld th a t police — how they are there to protect us, to make sure th a t we are n o t attacked in the street, and th a t things are n o t stolen from us. A tremendous am ount o f e ffo rt goes each year in to reinforcing this image o f the police. No oppor­ tu n ity is missed o f shbwing a police­ man helping an old lady across the road or rescuing a cat fro m a roof. There is no d o u b t th a t the police do all these things. You need o n ly ask an ambulance driver w hat he th in ks o f the police and he w ill probably say they do a good job. This is because an ambulance driver prob­ ably o n ly comes in to contact w ith the police when they are attending a road accident or other sim ila r thing. If the real and essential role o f the police was being a super boy scout the w hole tim e, then o ther people,, like nurses and ambulancemen w ould get b e tter recognition and better pay fo r the things they do. Clearly the enormous PR used to p u t over the rig ht 'image' o f the police is q u ite deliberate. It is intended and to some extent succedds in obscuring from us the real role o f th e police. I t obscures fro m us and makes it extrem ely d iffic u lt fo r many people to believe th a t the police te ll lies, take bribes, frame people, em ploy crude form s o f to rtu re and have set up a special police branch to spy on yo u , if you are critica l o f society and have the audacity to do some­ thing about it. The police role was very well explained in a BBC 'Cause For Concern' programme on police relations w ith black people in 1968. Some bu ild in g workers (w hite) are in a pub discussing w hat happened to th e ir mate Dave w ho had his arm broken after being arrested on a picket line. One o f them explains: 'T h e y're n o t ordinary people. They're upholding the state and the state is everything to them . It's th e ir power. This is w hat they are there fo r, to uphold the state and when they get you in there, th e y 're going to annihilate yo u , and th a t's w hat they've done to young Dave." The w o rker w ho said th a t knows th a t helping o ld grannies across roads is good p ublic relations designed to set the British bobby apart fro m all that police b ru ta lity w hich foreigners have to suffer. Yes, B rita in is some­ how d iffe re n t and the frie n d ly fuzz can smile like a d o o r to d o o r sales­ man and growl like a pig — the m om ent you slam the d o o r in his face. If you d o n 't w ant the street ombudsman image, then pigs is pigs, whatever co u n try they come from and the police do-gooder prom otions have had th e ir day. No wonder they can't get any recruits.

■■■EllOy Elio... W ith recent O Zcenity outrages, o u t­ raging the liberal establishment we are all in fo r an overdose o f 'Change this law, change th a t law ' and all th a t crap. The use o f the obscenity laws has nothing to do w ith obscenity — and you w o n 't stop th e po litica l trials by changing the law. The law is illegal, and we are the crim inals who fin d ourselves together in th a t jungle; 'When the law breaks the law, there is no law.' 'N ew Y o rk Times' There are three types o f law:! 1 Pig Law: what they get away w ith . L ike 48 hours fo r questioning, 2 Book Law: the liberal version is: w hat the law actually is we expect the police to respect. 3 O ur Law : People's Justice; w hat we can get away w ith , w hich

1 C ollaboration in Crim e: 10% rakeo ff fo r the CID keeps them happy and betting shops quiet. The 'real pornographers' o f Soho are given com plete freedom to carry on trade, as long as the p ayoffs keep coming. Ex-head o f th e Drug Squad, Det Insp Kelaher, was also the to p dealer at the Yard. He is being investigated by an im partial team fro m outside London. The boys at home c o u ld n 't be trusted.

includes the most far o u t interpre­ ta tio n o f civil liberties, th e upsetting o f lawyers' ethics, and p u ttin g extrem e pressure on defence lawyers to become part o f the movement. Our justice can o n ly be achieved through th£ creation o f thousands of vigilante squads to p ro te ct people fro m pigs and soldiers. Last year the Tenants M ovement (East London) form ed its own fly in g squad of muscle-minded ablebodied heavies to prevent the b a iliff gangs from 'e victin g tenants o f GLC estates fo r •n o t paying e xo rb ita n t rate increases. They refused to pay and they success­ fu lly defended themselves fro m the b a iliffs, the pigs and the GLC. U nlike th e ir police our commandos are con­ tro lle d by the people w ho elected them - th a t's the rub — that's w hat the revolution is about.

4 M urders: We charge th a t PC N385 Kilshaw and PC N 456 Leonard w ith the m urder o f Stephen M cC arthy at a bus stop in Upper Street, Islington, November 16, 1970. We charge Inspector Ellerker and Sgt K itching w ith the m urder o f the. Nigerian David Oluwale, found dumped in the River A ire , near Leeds. A p ril 1969. We charge H ollow ay Police Station w ith the murder o f Andreas Savva, 25 year old Greek C y p rio t on A p ril 25, 1971

Hey reader, as soon as you see a suspicious looking person, looking suspiciously like a plainclothes cop watch his movements, fo llo w him about, get yo u r notepad o u t, note his details and investigate w ho the hell he’s investigating. The thought police don’t like you th in k in g about them — sort o f upsets th e ir stage programmed rh yth m . Join the People's Investigation Brigade — now several m illio n strong. Vigilantes 'k n o w th a t the people have the equal 1 right to arrest, another ta c tic to be used w ith caution. We even have the rig ht to arrest cops. This constitutes com m on law arrest: ' If you know a crime has been co m m itte d and you have reasonable grounds to suspect a person or persons o f having co m m itte d an offence then any citizen, and o f course police officers are included in this rig ht o f citizens arrest. This ta ctic has been tried a few times very successfully b u t you have to kn o w the law. 1 Squatters at I Iford apprehended a police inspector w ith in c itin g his men to riotous behaviour by a uthor­ ising an unlaw ful a tte m p t to enter the premises. The inspector got so tangled up in his legal logic th a t he was p u t o u t o f action fo r several hours, and the squatters retained possession o f the building. 2 Plainclothes men on demos have been reported to uniform ed officers o f senior rank fo r pushing and jostling the dem onstrators and fo r behaviour like ly to cause a breach of the peace. The law is illegal and it can sometimes be used effectively against itself b u t we are the ones w ho have to do it. Everyone should kn o w these basic rights they haven't got. See A g it­ p ro p ’s Bust Book.

...W hat’s Orl This Power to The C om m unity: Where we live is where it counts and where it's happening. In most areas o f London we could devise street meetings and neighbourhood councils nicking the power fro m the Home O ffice, unlike the sick liberal schemes o f endlessley invented by George Clarke typ e philanthropists. In N o ttin g h ill, the G olbourne Neighbourhood Council is yet another i participate, we participate. They rule game. The do-gooders always ending up doing good to the establishment. We w ant real co m m u n ity power controlled by real co m m u n ity assemblies. We d o n 't need pigs and the few socially useful things they do, we can elect brothers and sisters to do them , to argue them to contest them to fig h t them . We have to organise our vigilantes. Power to the A ngry side.

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The OZ tria l is over bar the appeal. A n d fo r all p ra ctical purposes, O Z has w o n , the v ic to ry due in no small p a rt to the m in d -b lo w in g s tu p id ity o f Judge A rg yle . H ow ever, the tria l has acted as a ca ta lyst and we plunged in to a na tio n a l polarisa足 tio n o f o p in io n w h ic h w ill have far-reaching effects. H o p e fu lly , one o f e ffe cts w ill be an un d e r足 standing and co m in g tog e th e r o f those w h o strive fo r personal lib e ra tio n and those w h o strive fo r social re v o lu tio n , o f those w h o feel the sexual re v o lu tio n has n o th in g to do w ith p o litic s and those w h o feel the R e volu足 tio n has m ore im p o rta n t things to deal w ith than sex and se xu a lity. Obscene, c o rru p t and deprave are all value w o rd s w ith o u t an y absolute meaning and it is the change in values in o u r so cie ty w h ic h produces the c o n flic t n o t R u p e rt Bear's cock.

I th in k th is was obscured by the defence in the tria l. Basically, th e p ro se cu tio n said th a t O Z 28 c o rru p te d and depraved and th e defence said th a t it d id n 't - in fa ct, th a t it d id n 't have any e ffe c t at all m ost o f th e tim e. B u t the defence w e n t fu rth e r than no e ffe c t and suggested th a t parts o f O Z 28 p u t people o f f certain things. As a ho m ose xual, I fe lt n o t a litt le c o m p ro m ise d d u rin g the argu­ m en t a b o u t a c a rto o n w h ic h , to me, had m ore to d o w ith the e x p lo ita tio n o f c h ild re n by a u th o rity than a n y th in g else. The pro se cu tio n said it w o u ld encourage c h ild re n to h o m o ­ se xu a lity and the defence said th a t it w o u ld discourage. The p a rtic u la r c a rto o n p ro b a b ly w o u ld discourage b u t the d is tu rb in g th in g was the defence's im p lic it assum ption th a t h o m o s e x u a lity was a th in g to be discouraged. (I p u t this as ru e fu l c o m m e n t ra th e r than heavy c ritic is m : I w a sn 't in the d o ck, a fte r a ll.) R e latin g to all the m a jo r issues o f the tria l, the •suggestion o f the defence was th a t the views o f O Z and the e d ito rs were d iverg ent views th a t c o u ld be acco m m od ated w ith in the value system o f o u r society. H ow ever u n fa irly arrived at, the v e rd ic t said th a t this acco m m o ­ d a tio n was im possible. The vast m a jo rity o f o p in io n sup po rts th is co n clu sio n . A n d so do I.

"N ecrophilia is very rare — in this country, anyw ay" — Michael Argyle There is an im p o rta n t and g ro w in g m in o r ity o f yo u n g people in o u r society w h ic h is q u e s tio n in g and changing the

sexual values and roles th e y have been tau ght. T his is re fle cte d in the esta blishm en t o f m ovem ents lik e W om en's L ib e ra tio n , Gay L ib e ra tio n and Men A gainst Cool; in the widespread re­ aw akening o f in te rest in the w ritin g o f Jtfng and W ilh e lm Reich; in the recent w ritin g s o f persons such as David Cooper, G erm aine Greer and Kate M ille t;

and in the in vo lve m e n t o f m any persons in E n co u n te r G roups, Com m unes, etc. The co m m o n fa c to r in all these thin gs is an a tte m p t to break d o w n c o n ­ d itio n in g , to becom e aware o f w h a t is real, to fo rm u la te personal and social values fro m this and to tr y and live by these values. T his is in response to a w o rld o f increasing loss o f personal id e n tity , increasing pressures to c o n fo rm to a p a tte rn o f be ha viou r and increasing p o te n tia l fo r selfd e s tru c tio n . B u t d o in g th is is n o t easy even fo r those w h o are c o m m itte d to the a tte m p t. A ll the pressures o f social co n ­ d itio n in g w ith th e ir a tte n d a n t fears are as m uch present in the person try in g to lib e ra te h e r/ h im se lf as in the person seeking se cu rity in the survival te ch ­ niques she/he has been taught. How ever, se cu rity is o fte n an

illu sio n . There w a s n 't m uch se cu rity fo r th e persons behind the w a lls o f th e castle w hen along came th e cannons. O ur castles are ca p ita lism , n a tio n a lism , n a tio n a lism and sexism — all fo rm s o f e x p lo ita ­ tio n and all based o n ,th e nuclear fa m ily w here th e thin gs th a t seem to be tra n s m itte d fro m one g e neration to a n o th e r are the pa re n t's hang-ups. The im p lic a tio n s o f th e sexual re v o lu tio n and the lib e ra tio n groups are p ro fo u n d and e xte nd as fa r as a rc h ite c tu re and p o llu tio n . O ur consum er e co n o m y w ith its c o m p e titiv e ­ ness, waste and p o llu tin g d e s tru c tio n o f o u r p lan et w o u ld be an a n o m o ly in a com m u na l society. We m ig h t have few er em pires and heroes if w e set o u t to d e stro y th e m ale sexual role w ith its a ttrib u te s o f c o m p e titio n and d o m in a n ce b u t we m ig h t have few e r o r no wars as w ell.

"Freedom 's just another word fo r nothing left to lose" Real freed om and real e q u a lity d o n o t exist in o u r society n o r in any oth e r. One som etim es gets th e im pression fro m some socialists th a t socialism means a jo b in a fa c to ry fo r every w o rk e r. Ugh! A p u re ly eco n o m ic approach to so cie ty ju st does n o t rhake sense. It c e rta in ly is an im p o rta n t and p rin cip a l fa c to r b u t to ta l freedom requires to ta l re v o lu tio n and the firs t step is a re v o lu tio n a ry change o f a ttitu d e to w a rd s oneself, society and the re la tio n s h ip betw een the tw o . It involves th e erosion and d e s tru c tio n o f the c o n d itio n in g to w h ic h we are all subjected. Som e o f the w ays in w h ich this is done m ay seem triv ia l and even fo o lis h b u t the do in g o f them makes one aware and o n ly aware people are capable o f m e a ningful change. To call a w o m an a w o m an and n o t a ch ick; to say and w rite h e r/h im m ay seem u n im p o rta n t b u t ie it? To wear o ld clo th es and to c o n trib u te as litt le as is possible to th e e co n o m y m ay seem self-defeating, b u t is it? T o try

a o t to becom e involved w ith a n o th e r person as a co u p le b u t as a free person m ay seem to be insecure, b u t is it? To see things lik e the " O ld C o d g e r" c a rto o n in the last O Z as th e ra p e u tic fantasy o f fears m ay seem to be rid ic u lo u s and perverse, b u t is it? T o insist on fu n being an integral p a rt o f th e R e v o lu tio n m ay seem to be friv o lo u s , b u t is it? A ll o f these things are q p rru p tin g and depraving in the lig h t o f the values o f o u r society. B u t these values m ust change because th e y no longer w o rk . The fa m ily is dead and we are m erely keeping the corpse around. So is cap italism and sexism is dying . If y o u c o rru p t and deprave y o u rs e lf, others m ay fo llo w y o u r exam ple. If a s u ffic ie n t nu m b e r o f persons becomes c o rru p t and depraved, we m ay get closer to freedom .

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OZ, Just g o t yo u r le tte r and o n ly saw the article yesterday. I t is the w ork o f a real sick cat. Jerry o n ly m et Izaac once fo r example and they never even discussed w hat Izaac claims. Jerry said he sen t you a letter, I've w ritte n a long response and want to go over i t in the n e xt 2 days. D o n 't you realize no one in this co u n try th a t Izaac to ld that story w o u ld p rin t it? D o n 't you realize I g o t th ro w n o u t o f England and am no w forbidden to even leave the US because / came to E n g la n d a t Richard's request somewhat illegally? D o n 't you realize th a t references to the underground as "th e sw im m ing te a m " in p rin t has caused innum erable problem s? D o n 't yo u realize th a t you d id n 't even call m e y p and say i£ e y therfFs this cat /lere who claims he w t ote y o u r book -Ppn't y o u w a n t t o Com m ent?" uven a p ig paper w o u ld do th a tI Y o u b e t I'm pissed. 90% o f th a t a rticle as youn w ilTsfp in m y response Is a fa b ritx - " Mpn. People Sere ere s h o c k e d th s t

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be o f the underground to spread the slight sickness in yo u r m inds to a large num ber o f people, and to mak(% p ro b a b ly h a lt o f those people feel as / d id a t the tim e - what a lo t o f unpleasant erap. The m ore you make people feel th a t you are sick, y o u ,''. represent the youth, therefore the youth is sick, the more I and every person under eighteen are going to have to w ork twice as hard to show o u r parants th a t they can maybe trust us o u t a fte r nthe p m o r le t us have friends whb they haven't met ye t.A n d those o f uS w ho d o n 't w ant to drop o u t and give o u r m others another nervous breakdown (my'dY/H case) are stuck w ith it. This is called responsibility and is a drag b u t worthw hile cos you w ork fo r it, w ork f o r , r ' yo u r rig h t to live freely later on. > A n d / resent you m aking things unnecessarily hard. Ok query. Everyone m ay a t one tim e o r another draw sketches like in OZ, w rite or t/iin k -e ip fip b o u t free love, forgetting w p ^ z m a r k u . c a n 't happen to me, M d i p on — f k t t we doo.'t publish it. Im ju k e g o in s ^ r tf n d w iih y o u r d m m ^ ang it f M M ^ m a n y people, but efyf-b ra nd ish it

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a h isto ry anm dultlYM heheUm a shape. It's thefMesTpast-timeol£%SC movem ent hacks^pptJACfr a n fiifilY o f f "superstars". B tn it's b tiU tbit. A b b ie is who he is t e S S f f j i l i j S i s ^ o f the m ost creative and hardest, workers I ’ve ever seen. Sharnfnphyc O Z fo r publishing such smut. Jerry Rubin, c /0 Lube!I and Lubell, 103 Park Avenue. New York, N. Y. P. S. / have ju s t le ft fo r a m on th in £ h lle to do research fo r m y n e xt SgoA;. You can ve rify the authenH » r y o f this tetter b y ge tting in W m cjzwith m y lawyer, Dave Lubell.

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follow ing which a soldier was seen to chalk up a mark on the side o f a jeep, and shout; 'A nother gone'. It exploded in the looting by soldiers during the August internm ent of a wine shop follow ing which the troops fired indiscrim inately or the streets o f the Falls Road rind a senti bastards".

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hilst O Z was being tried at the Old Bq^sy, about a dozen people collected at the Wellington Hotel in belfast on the night of June 29th for a celebrfijon dinner. An evening of Guiness J grass, of eating and laughing. Felix de Mendelsohn and Joseph Stevens had been acquitted and pleased after being found Not Guilty of throwing petrol bombs and possession of a loadedfirearm a sawnoff shotgun. For three months they had been awaiting trial in thenotorious Crumlin Road ^ N fc w ith twoyrishm ejy|aPeter McCarten, a young journalist who made a statement, pleaded guilty and was given a year's sentence. The other was James McCann, poet, adventurer, revolutionary. Two weeks before coming up James, the local boy to whom police had promised 15 ydsrt inside, took his life into nis own hands — literally —\ n d escaped from Crumlin Road. What follows is his own story, recorded about five days after his escape from prison. Freezing, no to ilet facilities in the cell. I've dverlooked by armed soldiers, fu lly illum inegot to use the cell flo o r. Fright, fear, the ted at night, a fo rty fo o t wall led into a whole traum a o f transplantation. One % situation which had an arm y barracks which I had to pass. m inute I'm sitting talking in the university It was just a m ock trial, I d id n 't even and a couple of hours later I'm in a prison react to the pack of fucking lies in the cell, com pletely naked, degraded, a blanket depositions, I just sat in the witness box over me. They then come and I recognise reading a fucking book. The pigs read out its daylight by looking into the corridor Sn obviously rehearsed story, which was where there's light and they take me to another room where there's three chairs and obviously believe^ by the m ajo rity of the people in the courtroom . Evidence agaii tw o of them sits in the c h jfe a n d I'm made Joe Steven®against Felix DeMendelsohn to sit in another c h a ir . Knowing what's was to tally and u tterly fabricated T hey’d coming I pretend I'm asleep. I make out I'm asleep and tired but I'm wide awake. So manoeuvred fy in d made it malleable to such an exten t th at it sounded in legalistic they start moving chairs and things to keep terms feasible: The magistrate d id n 't know me awake. Then this Special Branch pig any better. He could only accept the legal comes in, sees me, looks me over, kicks the chair from under me and hits me a boot. He shit, logic semantics, he could only accept says 'Y o u Fenian fucker, we w ant you'. And Sthat. In the N orthern Ireland legal system the _ judges are always political appointbefore you leave you're going to tell us everything th at happened there. I looks at ments, the lawyers always have vested him and I says 'F u c k you, I w ill not s a y l i , /m terests in terms of their jobs, gutless fucking thing. And you fucking h it me again fucking pigs who paid the price in tax. that’s thier price. You wouldn't get and you know w hat I'm going to do. I'm ju?tice,.any form of justice, legal justice, going to bash m y head against th at fucking individual justice, street justice or natural wall so hard th at you fuckers w o n 't be able Ijb lie e — you just w ou ldn 't fucking get it. to stand up in court and say th at we did n 't I knew it, I co uldn't articulate it very well, lay a finger on him . I'll be so m arked.' No more physical violence was threatened. Over but deep in m y balls man, I fucking knew it. A nd I knew I gotta get out o f the the next tw o days I wasn't allowed any N ow because of the people involve* sleep. I was interrogated. helping me I had to bribe one of Then after about a week in jail I started ing ex B-Special pigs to bring me in planning. I was in a d ifficu lt position trying hacksaw blades. They were posted to jij; to relate to the tw o people who had just house w ith money contained. We ke been throw n in jail w ith me, the fact th at a statement w ritten down by a young kid who receipt incCftse he should hayeYeneged wrote down anything the police told him he on it. One morning he got it, he never was so frightened, to tally concocted was used handed it t t S jf e ’ l w ent out on the exercise and came back and they were as evidence against us the fact th at we'd be under m y pillow . N ow if I make a mistake libelled by the protestant 'Telegraph', the he can let on and get prom otion an y tim e, fact th at all the hysteria and the circum ­ so I've got to keep him balanced. N ow he'd stances surrounding a so-called trial — we done this fo r me not just fo r the money hadn't got a chance and I was going to get out. I then started plotting and planning and but because he realised th a t the people who are in the struggle in Belfast at the getting blades, hacksaw blades. Had a look mom ent are going to win and those type at the cell, had a look at the system and really got disillusioned. Impossible. I've been o f fuckers are either going to get p u t up against the wall, locked up in jail or in a few jails, but believe me baby, Crum lin vendettas carried o u t against them Road is a fucking tough nut to crack. Inside I hid the blades in reception because it's security, all cells doors have little peepholes, the only place you can gc to a t any tim e. you never know when the pigs are going to When I w ent to the courts I never carried come and look into your cell.'cells are 13' them w ith me 'cos when you come back by 7 ', patrols have total com m unication all you get searched. Come in, to o k them out the tim e w ith the centre, 24 hours, a 20 ft and w ent to m y cell. Every day you go out wall inside got to be scaled, a prison jailyard

and exercise and come in and you're searched again and the cells are searched and the bars are checked so it was to tally upagainst it, everything was battle. Come back from court, go in and start cutting the bars th at evening. There's only times when I can cut the bars — the yard patrol has passed and the lights are put out in the cell. MW t means when he's turned out the ihts he's got to turn out all the other lights in the wing and he's got about 15 utes to do this. I cut then. I can't cut loud because ther's police informers in the jail. I cu t very silent and very quiet. One set of bars on the outside — three weeks. I cut through four bars on the inside and three on the outside physically to get you through. N o w each day, they were about Jjn inch in diam eter each bar, painted across w ith a sort o f cream coloured paint, each day I cinkthrough a little way. I can't cut through them all the way but have to leave a little bitjbecause each day the security screws come around and tap the bars. I filled them w ith soap, glued them w ith butter and p u t this dead fly on it. The security screws used to come in and t and th in k it's the most natural g in the w orld, a dead fly-tf. ‘ I w ent to the court one morning, c< back and there was a special crew outsi my windows putting special high tensile steel bars outside m y windows. •» Spent the next tw o days in m y t * C cetl in the depths o f depression. But I still* had the blades and I and had a good look one of the bars, couldn' nuts th at was holding the... «.. -. and of course it was ordinary steel. The most dangerous part was having to get out of the w indow and do this every n ig h t The slightest sound, a pindrop or a cough is carried across the yard. Over the other side of the remand yard is a boiler room and it's always pumping water which goes foom ph foom ph foom ph. So I could cut fo r about fifteen minutes everyday cutting those bars and it took me about tw o weeks to get through them . During this period every day and in every way I watched the doings of all the screws. Beforp I escape I've been relating to alot of the Provos who've been in the prison and realising th at not only have I got a personal

responsibility to people w ith a greater and bigger sentence hanging over their heads as well as to the people l.ve been arrested w ith. So I w ent and talked to one of the Provo leaders on the Wednesday and said th at I was going and explained how I was going to do it and he said 'It's impossible'. But he said let it never be said th at I never attem pted attem pted to assist. I to ok the necessary steps to get him transferred to m y cell, but th at day he was whipped out and taken o ff to court and given eleven years in jail. The physical things I've got to overcome never mind the psychological ones is to cut through three sets of bars, get into the yard, w ith o u t being seen by the inside patrol, clim b up a 20 ' w all, bared w ire, drop down into the yard, worm across the yard, and get over a fo rty fo o t wall. Physically it would be impossible to carry the stuff. I hadn't got the stuff in my cell. A ll there was in it was a canvas mattress, a few sheets and blankets and a chair. The chair consisted o f a m ixture of wood and tubular steel. But fo rtu nately

While I was in there extra orders come got available. Creep back in. Cover everything out because o f the guerilla warfare in Belfast up again, which I can't do com pletely. Just th at anyone in suspicious circumstances before the screws w alk in at half past seven could be fired a t and shot by the occupying I complain to the screw I'm sick. Stomach forces. N ow to me it was perfectly logical pain, I w ant to see a doctor. M y cell w ill not th at crawling along the top o f a prison wall stand a physical or visual inspection. So in at half past seven in the morning was the breakfast period between half past certainly suspicious circumstances and those seven and nine o'clock I tie m y i fuckers whold have shot me like a dog. again w ith bits o f black 1 Especially those mean Scots fuckers who the screws had stomped were taunted out o f the w indow every would have collapsed. T ry tb t^ v e ^ tH night by all the republicans and were to tally and stay in bad| A brain damaged medical demoralised. The Sunday morning I was pig comes ovepancf gives me tom e kind o f* supposed to go th at night in Belfast it was shit, which ! d rink down and lie in bed like the Fourth of July in Washington Squar ty in g to look ill. > Bombs and firew orks all over the place% r ' It's Sunday morning, peopte.dutlkliYW ith Sceurity forces searchlights inside tl •» T h e -c ^ th e y dissappep^tfiinking I'v e ! everything. When the mornina^pflB FT. all F T - ff ajl haven'Jjrdfcle it. I can 't have a night long I cut m y car^ jnaK».v_fbnsit. I can't gBtthe w ord a ten fo o t rope o u j ordeal th at da'^consists o f the tvyo a hook out o f j come into M y cell eve it. C h e c k M tw fn M e c I] coifM, look around, look a1 shape o f bricks, knc fin d m e in the cell, I .tell hi Give h b tta volley o f abuse, plaining tb m y solicitor, I have’ treated properly, and under a barrage words beatiqikoff their brain damagi jIIs they retreat from the cell.. I collap in my bed, just fro m the nervoui^tension.' in y bed th at day, relaxing and pre ysejf. G ftth ro u g h the whdijfc night' ing. iak in | up M orning comes a id I hea d patrol abd the whole system of ao i^even p so u o d .l know e x ^ ftly nd t h ills ten jjfears o ar the bell tdjijet up, make yo pifip ots, put it note to the Govemmen is a dem onstration,o^revo, / vv/n n o t give them justice. This in yo u r ownjegtefKicMfrai ruptcy. Fuck yi

JkPho* ten in ?eorge Snow’ half lAW blong th guarded turrets football Three qul gate was wire four I decided to ay. Take^ thought was the pieces of an d j them into the w H p fR T like a m climber I'd just scram b le^ the top o f the w all, the rope, fling it o' fie guards half way there. This and things that's got Tred out. And I watch the patrols, an* "get into all their habits and I knows th at the night patrol goes o ff at 7 o'clock but the m orning shift, the day shift, comes on at half past 7. In terms o f the structure they're supposed to check my cell at quarter past 7 but over the weekends, I d o n 't know w hy, they never do it. There was a half hour break when they were reading the paper, having their morning snack, w aiting to go home snd sleep, whatever the fu ck those pigs do. Having overcome them , by the element of chance which was in my favour, there was only one major problem — the troops on the wall.

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if thtewi png e wi making all kinds o ses. The gul next to me's a provo, couple other f| Hows are provos. G et out w indow . The re all there and w ith me all their eye strai and nerve signs come into m y body and tq o k this as. n j Iditional strength. Run ross the yprd tjust m y s h frta n d tro* ars, w ith itjy piili iwcase of pegs and m y r* e wrapped art id me. Clamber up o small buildi that the prisoners use shelter o u t o1 le rain„ th ro w m y ho k u p , pull mysi in -

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thiqg that matters is m w hite face and if mighg attract his eye. Whe tu r r e r a g a i# ^ fo w B | n d the there to the b o t^ p p p f the record tim e. A ll the kids are s' vindows and looking at this tl 4 the vq^ole fucking wing's I normal prison the h a v e v e n on tl f e ^ e e k s remissi telling the authori they're m y people the they're e rm s q f, It get* tp lW e point wj ipsftthe turrets I'm safer. I'l wall. It'll bePTTsk they're close a the gate a n d th e y 'll when I get h a lt w ay lo k directly down on me. I puts in see m e, loofodiractl hook, pULm -the other hook, the s half way up the gate, this wrapped around me. G et up the gate, holds on to the top and And o u t of the corner of my ae out o f the I sei t id jo g ^ s is jra ijh him §aw j aight at me' ij id n 't see me. This c all, his inner"! ging a e being reborn again, vibrating, It'w i was afraid could ip e l) the new it i consid the scJjjR o f f reedi baby. BalJ top of the gate, ta <e [the hook < it o j^ fie top of tb ’ffig down [ o ff my ! dull thud Idetr swings d ill it u i p again, ainst the wall anj again. Misses >k an oes right over le wall ie and one o f the n d o n this 've be< the al {I fo r jiv e minuti ickf ikin g in sev He screws'll be at alf-s I've got abifjyit tw o get ridl and the scream wi so th< the knot, ist it. ! _only way I'm gi e hook slowly. !t come o f the wall. Springs oi st peg left in Id got abol Bathed in swi of me. Pull on the ropeT up the rope and I lose m y strem as I get like th a t I see out of the corner of my eyes soldiers; and I d o n 't make a move, just like an ostrich puts his head in the sand. I'm just waiting there fo r a shot to

sentry post, sandbagged and corrugated iron. Run from tree to tree. Across St Malachi's yard. The symbolism o f it was th at ten years before I'd le ft this Jesuit College. I'd le ft it, turned a complete circle and w ent to the institute at the other side of the wall. And now I'd got out of th at fucking place I'd never return. The trees were damp in the morning and leaves were heavy and there was a rich smell and something inside me began to grow like a shaft of wonder. I walked across th at last yard, I walked across like Christ w alking across the water and m y wings inside m y skull open up and flapped. I knew I wa* there. Run across St Malachi's Yard to a place th at I always knew from ten years previous when I wanted to bunk o u t of classes. G ot there, climbed up on there, jumped over this wall and I'm in Lincoln Avenue. W ent down Lincoln Avenue, down some steps onto the A n trim Road. A ll the rs were going to w ork. I had a contact e A n trim Road, but I had to t f acroS Carlyle Circus, down into Free ast*, which is about five or tgajTiinutes. ocked on this c o i^ fd heard the'STrArt^^wopw/oovjfjoin tlr£ jail ked into the pebon's house. They £ id belWv'athKwjg^je. They hear and looked o ^ S f c U i e piosand troopi d I flooding the place, nt dow n on m v f u & f i $ knee just at's i t j T W B . I've made it. said

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The tria l o f Jake Prescott and Ian Purdie began at the O ld Bailey on September 7th. The charge, carrying a life sentence, is conspiring to cuase explosions, including the one at Carr's house. They have been in B rix to n , alone in th e ir cells fo r 23 hours a day, since February. The bombings are getting o u t o f hand. The State m ust pretend its in c o n tro l. The order goes o u t fro m Heath, "T u rn London upsidedown, b u t get the bom bers." The pigs desperately need an arrest. T he ir usual technique — p in it on someone w ith previous convictions. So th e y grabbed Jake and Ian, 'T w o lik e ly candidates fo r an outrage' as eg y . .< ![ Habershon (chief pig in th e case) called them in court. A nonym ous star prosecution witness M r A gave "th e w hole s to ry ". So detailed and w ell prepared was his evidence th a t you w o u ld never believe th a t i t was three m onths before th a t he had "h e a rd " it. His w ord-perfect account neatly tied up more o r less the w hole prosecution case, even down to the analyses o f the forensic experts. A ll th a t remains o f the case Ian is his friendship w ith Jake and his p o litic a l beliefs. M r B supposedly backing up A 's evidence never turned up in c o u rt. Also, in th e ir e ffo rts to prove that Jake and Ian stole explosives, they actually established th a t Jake was in Edinburgh on November 20 th, the day he is charged w ith b lo w ing up a BBC van outside the Miss W orld Contest in London. The tactics used by the police in chasing the bombers have shown up peoples' 'rig h ts' fo r the con th a t they in to t i i u y aare. t e . They i u o j r have i i o v u broken mi dozens o f our homes stealing wahtever they wanted. They have dragged us o ff fo r questioning, im prisoned us illegally and kept us fo r days w ith o u t access to lawyers. Even th e ir own witnesses te s tify th a t the Special Branch has in tim id ate d them . As Habershon said, "W e have no tim e fo r legal niceties." A m onth ago he had to be physically restrained from rem oving v ita l defence papers from A g itp ro p. B u t so m any people get done over by the law. I f you have got long hair, if y o u 're the w rong co lo u r or a woman o r gay, if you are a w orker going on strike o r if y o u 're a kid just try in g to stop getting bored, yo u 're lik e ly to get the same trea t­ m ent. Anyone w ho is A N G R Y w ill get the same treatm ent " I th in k th a t those o f yo u who are on the outside should invite m any more people to attend the hearings. The newspapers, o f course, give a very misleading impression as to the tenor o f the proceedings. People must come to understand w hat is going on. They should see th a t the State seeks to p u t a person's thoughts and beliefs on tria l. They say th a t a person w ith strong ite ra lly anarchistic (sic) views lite indoctrinated another iin the space * J o f a couple o f m onths. They w i bring persons to te s tify to th is who do n o t know a conservative tro ts k y is t. They w ill bring people lie m anifestly, they w ill bring senior o fficia ls fro m the police departm ent to elucidate the m onu­ m ental w orks o f the s crip t w ritin g departm ent o f the Departm ent o f Public Prosecutions. T hey w ill pro­ duce books and documents they have seized. Its im p o rta n t th a t much o f th is should be witnesses." Ian Purdie

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Jake |P [M P p !p . Jal W ritten before going in s id e W * * ? * ^ Coming back and fo rw a rd to c o u rt I t ju s t happens th a t its me thats it's d iffe re n t cars and pigs, except writing, i t co u ld be one o f many. fo r one, who is an in cre d ib ly stu p id Born and spent the firs t six years in person, and a colossal bore w ith a Wellwood, m ining village in Fifevery sick sense o f h u m o u r who keeps shire. Father drove coal lo rry and cracking jokes e b o ut life im prison„ ................................................................................. , .— fought and ................. beat a ll three o f village pigs, rig h t o n ! M other m ost beautirnenr — which he says I I I get, I t s fu t woman in village, k ille d b y State b e tter than hanging Isn t i t Mr a t 27, G randfather in p it 42 years, Prescott7 A n d he's a rig h t egotrip p in g bastard to boot, and very has silicosis, less three fingers, and insecure, and / k in d .o f lo o k o u t o f in poverty now. G randm other the windows and tr y and ignore him , worked in p its when she was 13 u n til cos slagging h im o f f is no good, he a t 18 she g o t m arried, 8 kids, 50 likes i t . . . u n til com ing back from years o f overw ork, hardship, p o ve rty court today, being hung up a b o ut — they s till live in co u n cil p ro p e rty you a ll and whether you are a ll gay now. Five uncles (the ir sons) w ork in o r n o t, fin a lly asking me p o in t blank pits, one dead - blow n up dow n the i f / was gay, I to ld him , 'o f course, p it along w ith 34 others on the same d id n 't you guess' and he k in d o f day, and two aunts gave b irth to 15 hunched up and m utte re d 7 thought kids between them — a ll o f them so’, and trie d to get as fa r away as OPPRESSED. / went to governm ent possible fro m me - d iffic u lt cos I'm in s titu tio n a t 6 years o ld (orphan always handcuffed to him — anyway home), outside Glasgow, tie d tag it m ust have been one o f m y rare ro u n d m y neck w ith number, red m om ents o f enlightenm ent because cross jerseys, ke p t me fo r eight years, he d id n 't say another w o rd a ll the even though m y grandparents tried way fro m Golders Green to B rixton. everything they co u ld do to get me o u t, every fucking departm ent. The Ian reason they ke p t me eight years? March 12 When m y father p u t me in he signed There's talk o f me being m oved to a paper saying th a t I w o u ld stay D Wing (security). * R ig h t no w / am u n til I was 16 and he w o u ld pay 30 w ith a b o ut 8 o th er guys who make u shillings a week fo r 'm y keep'. He u p categories A to E, E being guys d id n 't pay, they wanted th e ir money. w ith records o f escape a nd A 's being They lo o ke d fo r him fo r eight years. guys 'whose escape is lik e ly to cause In the end they gave up, telegraphed embarrassment to the Secretary o f m y grandparents to come and get State’ — none o th er th a n sm iling me — warned them 'y o u r son is no Reggie, they d o n ’t take in to account saint'. (Was going to high school then, that I fin d h im an acute embarn travelling on the train every day by m ent a ll the time. myself, whee man, a ll th a t freedom We are k e p t separate from the went to m y head, k e p t being brought others, and exercise d iffe re n tly , and back by *the ■ • “ pigs from ”such -------- • exo tic have o u r visits in the security wing. places as Glasgow, sm oking — say / w o u ld p re fe r to be over there, cause m y firs t movie — stealing a nything / I've g o t no chance o f b a il so it's a co u ld get m y hands on, in love six question o f a 6 m on th w a it Td times a ddy — had a to t o f i t trapped rather be where you can p la y fo o t­ inside me b y then). Back to W ellwood b a ll and associate in the evenings. fuck the high school, w ent to school D wing is separate from the rest o f in village — sometimes g o t a jo b , the ja il so yo u're freer to move farm labourer, six days a week, £4 fo r a round in it, sounds a b it o f a butte, 6 months. Hate fo r the pigs, worked scene than being banged up fo r 22 in factories — M cV itie and Price (% hours o d d a day. m illio n Rich Tea Biscuits) machine / miss you a ll greatly and hope operator (vice versa one dim ensional by the summ er we m ay be reun man etc.) In London, ’6 6 fa cto ry then I ' l l be able to continue w ith again, £ 1 3 per week this time. 20 you the w ork o f ‘pushing back m onths a ll em otions anaesthetised/ p u llin g o u t and tearing o f f the. fangs c u t o f f suddenly, back to stealing, o f capitalism ' as he wobblies used (needed £ 8 per day) — ended up to say. getting five and h h a lf years. Well, *(N ote: this turned osttsto be untrue. I thats enough . . . these are some o f f Although he should have been moved the tingsh th a t have shaped m y to D Wing, the Home office refused, th in k in g ' i f you like, a nd m any as Jake is in th a t W in'g.They w ill not people, too m any to m ention, have a llo w them to see ea le ft their m ark inside. in the dock

I hear they're stom ping th ru ' lots o f people's places b u t that's cause they­ 're frightened and insecure and w ant to lock lots o f people up, they d o n 't like being challenged. You kn o w ho w hate dictum s b u t its good to realize th a t to be attacked b y the enemy is a good thing — they show their nasty forces a ll over the place and so m ore revolutionaries are born. No time fo r do sin g yo u r doors, we've g o t them running - let's get on w ith it and p u t them to rout. We're o n ly ft* young and slo w ly grow ing b u t look what they're teaching Us. Today made me closer to physical sickness than alm ost any other. Reynolds (the magistrate) is a con­ trib u to ry factor, b u t you get q u ic k ly used to prosecuting c o u rt officials. The m ain th in g w ith today was that i t showed h o w they've sunk to their lowest ebb . . . look a t it today, a chick sick w ith herself fo r having to be there . . . Can you imagine w she fe lt standing there lo o kin g a t Jake and kn o w in g he co u ld get life, life and life. You d o n 't do i t by " tflo ic e you o n ly do it th ru ' CCmcibbL O K so we k n o w the score from the beginning, we kn o w the way work and expect them to fabricate a case because they have no oth er way.

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9. England doesn't need you any longer Richard and Stan. " I d o n 't w ant to ta lk to the con­ verted A bbie H offm an. A fte r you w in the OZ tria l you must come to Australia. (Ha,Ha:OZ eds.) There w ill be plenty o f people to carry on in London. It must be great to live where the bands are all fab and everything balls; where freaks are numerous enough th a t you feel a M O VE ­ MENT. (Ha,Ha,Ha,:OZ eds). 10. If A ustralia can be turned on, m otivated, it can strike a heavy b lo w to the w hole western establishment. It can th ro w their w hole mess back in their laps. This is w hat the braver th ird w o rld nations are doing. A tuned in A ustralia could be, in our life tim e , a to ta lly d iffe rent society, Replace the old and the energy w ill flo w from us to help our brothers do the same. But the o p p o rtu n ity is going fast. We need help; human beings o f vision and energy now. The im m igration policies are bringing the tw o hardest classes to tu rn on: Semi skilled European peasnats and capital financiers. Americans are lite ra lly buying the country in large blocks (11,000,000 acres to one Texan owned ranch). Washington ties closer and closer to Canberra, minerals are taken, " jo in t defence" bases are con­ structed, land and w ild life are destroyed, U.S. financed to u rist complexes are taking over coastal co u n try economies. Holiday Inns is opening 1500 motel rooms in the next couple o r years. Jerry Lewis is here to start a chain o f " fa m ily " theatres featuring clean movies. "Just like in the U.S. where I have over a thousand theatres. Y o u 'd be surprised at the num ber o f people that like clean movies." The web is tightening. We need you. Bring reinforce­ ments. T hey're try in g to deport me. I have an obscene publica­ tions trial to m o rro w fo r the w ords "F u c k It" . To the rescue ★ e xp o rt th a t good old revolution ★ bring it on home! Richard, Stan, Germaine come on, Bring music, Bring love, bring light, breathe life. We can th ro w o ff the chains, we can start again. This is the place. This is y o u r place. Garth

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^*H E ROAD to you-know-where is paved with good inten­ tions and beauteous Ann Dexter had the best intentions in the w orld. This da rk-h a ire d

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helping when she took the job g lo rify in g fem inine flimsies. Her husband, Harry, was a little o ld-fashioned and very, very jealous, so Ann thought she'd better keep her new a ctivity a secret. Harry w ondered where his spouse went on marry afternoons, but the lovely lin g e rie model always had a g lib answer ready to p a c ify him. Ann congratulated herself several times as she posed in flimsy lace and slinky satin dainties. She knew that Harry w ould not like the idea o f others enjoying the view o f her scantily-clad charm, but she fe lt that the extra income jus­ tifie d the risk she was taking. Her soft, a lluring curves and a labaster skin were ideal fo r m odeling the resplendent ra i­ ment, and more and more o f her time was devoted to the new career.

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no avail, then stormed out o f the room, vow ing to do as

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coming events calmly. They w ere n't long in com ing. Ann went rig h t back the next day and H arry knew it. He was w a itin g when his

She p repared a fresh tira d e , then gulped and sw allowed the words. She had just discovered that she loved her H arry more than ever before.

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U N B ELIE V A B LY Ronnie Biggs, Great Train Robber, escapee supreme, and without any doubt, Britain's most wanted man, has talked. Not to Fleet Street, nor to the ever-eager press vultures of Amerika, but to OZ, the Power to the People Paper.

We bring you this interview from ‘somewhere in Asia’ as the transcript o f what we at OZ truly believe to be a genuine tape o f Biggs’ voice. Travel­ ling in the Far East an OZ reader and freelance journalist met the Great­ est Train Robber o f ’em all and amanged to get him down on tape. His recording, together with a letter o f authentication, arrived in our London offices. Obviously Ronnie Biggs is not the easiest person to tracj down. Obviously an ‘interview’ with him must seem an impossibility. Y ou, the reader , may justifiably smell a rat, you may not accept that this is really Ronnie Biggs talking. We at OZ have, we assure you, given the tape and its transcript the most intense consideration and it is only after this search­ ing look at the background and recent history o f the man in question that we feel ourselves free to bring you the latest episode in the saga o f Ronnie Biggs - The Most Wanted Man in the World. So You were in Australia and the Police were onto you? Everyone knew we were in Australia, th a t was the big trouble. We k e p t on getting tips they were o nto us! 1 got into this odd kind o f fuss over this m oney. So 1 had to get out o f Sydney, before Charmaine, my wife, showed up. We w ent o ff dow n to Adelaide, th a t’s m e and Eric Flowers. So I m et her and we toured round A ustralia a while. Darwin, Brisbane, Sydney, you know we w ent everywhere really. W hat happened was we settled dow n in Adelaide, had a nice little place, the house was called Surfside. Well we stayed there for a bout 2 years. E verything was nice and easy, no problem s.

BUBBLY Was this you with your new face, or the old one? No, it was m y old one. They didn’t at th at tim e have any pictures o f me w ith my new face. I was bloody stupid really cos w hen we got to Australia we had all these stupid photographs o f me and char drinking bubbly all raised glasses to our new life. With m e w ith m y new nose and all that stuff. How did you get out o f Australia? A fter we saw this story we knew they were p re tty close. I kept on getting these occasional messages from England, from the people who got me o u t in the first place. So I said to Char, I’d have to hop it. 1 got o u t ju st before the police got onto Charmaine and the three kids.

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VILLAINS Had local friends did you? Yes, we had local friends. It was one o f o u r local friends who did us, I reckon, because he realised who I was and he p u t the Law o n to us. We had been told th at the Police knew th a t I had been working as a carpenter in A delaide and so I kind o f pushed o ff and we w ent from Adelaide and we w ound up in M elbourne and th a t’s where we were for the last tw o years. Well the m oney was running a b it low by this stage b u t 1 had a jo b . 1 was working on this jo b where 1 even used to dish out the weekly payroll. I used to think, you know , all 1 had to do was bloody photograph the things and the plan m ate and I cound have sold it to half the villains in Australia. But anyway I d idn’t do that

and we drove all the way around the country. We were happy then. So anyway we settle there and 1 rem em ber it was in August o f ’69 w hen we realised how close they were to us. Big feature in the Australian W oman Weekly about the train robbers. There was a bloody great picture o f me in it.

Biggs facing up to the mike: Keeping on running. because I reckoned I vas o u t o f villainy. I’d gone straight. Was that Charmaine? Partly. B ut it was partly me as well. I m ean this was going

ROOFS to be the big one, the Train Robbery and we were going to live happily ever after. Didn’ w ork o u t like that, I m ean we spent h alf our tim e running away and h a lf our tim e sitting in nick. I m ean look a t Bruce Reynolds, he

got away b u t they got him in the end. Anyw ay 1 settled dow n and I settled in the end at this airport, 1 w ound up w ith this construction firm working on roofing. You know I was m ending the roofs and drilling it was kind o f m odern m etal construction stuff. We were quite happy, had some friends - still had some m oney. Charm aine had some jew els and we had this car, this Holden w hen we toured ro und Australia which I’d bought when she arrived

1 got this light plane which 1 had through the airport. And flew up N orth towards Darwin, I’d been there before. On the way I landed at this sheep station. I’d know n vaguely a bout this bloke from a bloke 1 m et in M elbourne and 1 landed there and he didn’t know who I was to start w ith. 1 stayed there for a week. Ju st kind o f helping him around. Mending walls. I m ean I couldn’t do any sheep shearing or anything, couldn’t tell one end o f a sheep from another. He begun to realise w ho I was - a lo t o f Australians were on m y side.

NORTH They were on your side? They were quite decent actually. I m ean all the papers were full o f people saying how I’d been hard done by. An d I hadn’t had m y fair just deserts and that. So anyway, I m ay n o t have been fair and ju st b u t 1 sure got m y desert. The old sheepfarm er said to

me if I w anted to go to Darwin i m ight be able to pick u p a boat and go N orth. Australia was getting pretty hot. The only thing 1 could do was hope for the best and get out. My face was different though 1 d idn’t know how m any photos they had o f me, but I found o u t bloody fast. So 1 kind o f shaved my head dow n to tw o little side bits . and it taned pretty fast in the sun and it didn’t look too bad. 1 w ent up to Darwin and the sheepfarm er p u t me into con tact with this bloke so through him I got in contact with this tram p boat. God it was terrible, worse than the boat 1 w ent from England to the C o n tin e n t,o n . T hat was just over nignt, this bloody trip w ent on for days, God it was terrible, 1 puked my guts out. Anyway 1 got up to Portuguese T im or, w hich I had never bloody heard of. It was a diabolical place. You know dirty old Portuguese n o t know ing w hat the Hell to do and a lo t o f miserable natives sitting around starving and that kind o f thing. Well anyway when 1 was up there the tram p m an had p u t me onto som eone — he was very good about this - and this bloke was going over the border, into Indonesia. Well I didn’t know bloody Indonesia from . . . well Shepherds Bush. I reckoned th at the best b e t was to get out o f this Portuguese Tim or place and get up through Indonesia and head up N orth. If 1 got to Asia, like Thailand for instance o r Vietnam I m ight be alright. Cause you

VIETNAM get a lo t o f people going up to Vietnam and signing on with the Am erican Arm y and no questions asked because they w on’t find anyone to volunteer to do that, w ould they? And in the American Arm y m aybe 1 could get a new identity. You know all this rubbish you used to read in the comics about people swapping their identity. And I didn’t reckon I’d be doing any fighting, n o t the way 1 run m y life. I’d run a mile. 1 m ean w hen I was in the Forces I deserted and w ound u p in the cooler. T h a t’s before I really got going on my career o f course. So 1 got from Portuguese T im or to a place called Surab ajo.

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Diabolical it was. Anyway 1 break. It was avery high wall, didn’t stay there long I w ent so if I got on top o f the wall on to Djakarta. The thing was and lept off, I’d break my I’d given this £11,000 to this neck. So they had a furniture bloke in London, £ 5 ,0 0 0 was van pull u p right o n the other for him and £6,0 0 0 was for side. They had tw o exercise “ Safe Keeping” . Anyway I’d periods. In the afternoon. 1 thought I’d seen the last o f it arranged to be on the later b u t in fact 1 got a lo t o f it one. The first tim e we tried it, back ju st before 1 started it d idn’t w ork o u t because it running again. 1 was pretty was pissing dow n w ith rain. I surprised because I thought said to the screws, ‘Come on they had screwed me for let us go for a walk, it’s the only fresh air we get in the everything th at 1 had. day’ B ut he wasn’t having any. The second tim e we tried it, it was on a Wednesday 1 What about getting out to rem em ber, the topes came over, well tw o actually, England? Well th a t was easy enough. com m ando grapples they The actual thing was when we were. 1 ran like hell and a few were all sent dow n even o f the lads, you know, before the sentences were stopped the screws. But in announced, we were thinking fact a couple cam e over with o f how to get o u t o f it. We me too. knew we were going to be What happened to them? sent dow n p re tty hard. We I don’t know. 1 was the had this situation where we only one w ho had any proper were going to give this screw a sort o f organisation behind knockout drop b u t then me. Because I was the only som eone read in a legal book one w ith any kind o f proper th at we could get life for that m oney behind me. I went so we thought th at was no over the wall and down into good. We did have one this furniture van which was friendly screw w ho was quite full o f old matresses. So 1got helpful, he was bent hinself. out th at way and dum ped the Right villain he was, th a t’s furniture van and got into a w hat was wrong w ith him. So we got sent round various prisons. We started o ff at Lincoln where 1 knew the car. T hen 1 w ent underground G overnor and we w ound up for a little bit and arranged to in the Scrubs w hen my appeal m eet the wife. It was terrible was turned dow n. W here 1 you know . I had to ring her m et this bloke who was dead up from V ictoria and she was straight and he said ‘Y ou’re in a call box opposite Bow n o t going to stay in here for Street police station. So she 30 years, are y o u ?’ T oo and I arranged to m eet in the bloody right I wasn’t. He was end in Bognor and we had a coming o u t soon you see and week in Bognor together then I sent this plan o u t w ith him. I had to push o ff and we When he was clear it was agreed w e’d m eet again in organised. And this plan Paris. W hat happened they involved me going over the got m e dressed up a bloody wall during our exercise First Mate o r som ething and

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Dark glasses for the sunshine only. Biggs, temporarily at rest, strolling among the shoppers in Sydney the people w ho got me out he had the plastic surgery first arranged w ith this First Mate and came o u t groaning. They to p u t me on board. It was bloody pulverised me m ate. bloody terrible. I was C ouldn’t speak fo r a bloody throwing up all the time. week. T hen I ha'd this face Anyw ay we arrived on the life. When Char m et m e, she C ontinent and I didn’t have could hardly recognise me any problem getting o ff the and m y tw o kids didn’t know boat and we m eet up w ith me at all at first. B ut we had a these people who gave us a lift very good tim e in Paris for a to Paris. I had this big h ooter while. But it was clear th a t 1 and anyone w ho looked at me couldn’t stay in E urope would know bloody well it anyway. I’d read this book Australia and it was old R onny Biggs. So a bout w hen 1 got there we spent sounded a p re tty fair kind o f quite a lo t o f m oney on place. getting me this plastic surgery. 1 was told it was painless. I was w ith this other bloke Eric Flowers who have What did you think o f your been sent dow n for 12 years QC — Argyle? Was he any for arm ed robbery. Anyway good?

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No one would have been any good fo r me m ate. It was all bloddy useless as far as I was concerned. They knew I’d done it. Argyle treated me like — well you know — he m ight as well have been the Judge. He came o u t with these platitudes in C ourt but it didn’t m ake any difference. I lied m y blcmdy head off. A fat lo t o f good th at did. Anyway Argyle didn’t even shake hands with me when it was all over. I head late; th at he gave m oney to Jack Mills w ho was the driver. We told him w e’d give him some if we got away w ith it. We didn’t m ean to do him any harm anyway. So Argyle didn’t help us at all.

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The Who 'W ho's N e xt' (Track) Probably the main reason th a t the Who - like th a t other p roduct of the London m od scene , the Faces have ke p t everything together so well is th a t essentially th e y're still good o ld rock n rollers. OK. They do have Pete Townshend's exceptional talents to give the rock basis a certain em bellish­ m ent, b u t rig h t down there rock n roll s till stands. 'W ho’s N e xt' demonstrates the rock essence to a far better extent than any o f th e ir w o rk since 'Sell O ut'. The 'a rt' digression o f the rock opera 'T o m m y ' may have taken the band nd in ii to the heart culture-vulture New Y o rk the way to M etropolitan l and earned Townshend hi ation as an 'in te lle c tu a l' b u t fo r rock fans it had Strayed away fro the true path. The new album is a ty j! rock group album : a collec songs stuck together, w ith no part icular 'concept' bar th a t one band has w ritte n and perform ed all the m aterial on it. The Who, m ayt because they w ent through all th personality hassles that seem ende­ mic to a rock band, in the early da stand o u t today as one o f the only rock bands le ft w ith th e ir original members. Townshend, M oon, E n t-1 w histle and Daltryhave held togeth and th e ir music, as exem plified I this album , has benefited fro m it. Even if ex-Q uicksilver pianist and veteran o f v irtu a lly every ses ion w o rth m entioning in the last ; • J few years, N icky Hopkins has slip­ ped in on a couple o f cuts, a v io lin ­ ist Dave Arbus finds his way on *~ the O’ R iley p o rtio n o f 'Baba O '­ R iley’ , the Who are s till producing very much w hat we have learn expect fro m them . This album serves as a comple guide to the music o f the band. It ranges over the w hole spectrum o f th e ir crea tivity over the last six years and all the cliches still shine o u t as truisms. What stands o u t about the Who Is th a t they're always so posi­ tive, they never waste tim e w ith self­ ju stific a tio n or apolgising. D altry's vocals are sim ply e x u lta n t, the music backs him up. A fe w novelties: Townshend emerges fro m his Twickenham home studio w ith synthesiser and electric organ, as w ell as playing piano on one track, though Hopkins takes over otherwise. John Entw histle has his track — 'M y Wife — an in s tit­ u tio n that is getting like Ringo's e ffo rts on the Beatle's LPs. 'W ho’s N ext' is a very fin e rock album. I t doesn't require deep in­ tellectual seraching to discover any meaning fo r those w h o w o u ld like to it's possible to bop around to it. The best reccom endation fo r a true rock creation. The cover has the lads caught just after they've pissed on a 2001 style ferro-concrete m on o lith . What does it mean, but then.whatdoes it matter.... If a 'best tra ck' selection is re­ quired then there’s a tie between the long version o f th e ir current single 'W o n 't Be Fooledagain', an interestingly cynical appraisal of the calls to revo lu tio n ....'th e new Boss/Same as the o ld Boss'..... and 'G ettin g In Tune' w ith the im m aculate pronunciation o f the key w ord 'chune' by D altrey. Right. It's all a bumper fu n bundle, n o t to be missed. Go get it. A ristid e Prainge

The M others 'F illm o re East, June 1971'(Reprise) The Byrds 'B y rd m a n ia x'J CBS) The Byrds ha enigma to me. Tv Man' c u t throug m ost 1965 material tall 'S atisfaction' and The 1 needle through n l i P ' v a i f l a few b la ta n tly psychedelic Ip little co u n try and-w, a jit t le r b it o f this and th a t and so on kicked o u t Crosby, end M cGuinn seemed to change directio n . !, w ith i always did it sounded like '7 he I ■ f f h e Byrds play roc k ’.J Ished on-fhat when oked fo r in 'acous I. incoln Festival sume weeks i then lilte d the ro o f (or clouds) i w ith their electric rock numbers. The few times I'vS seen them o n ly i ave they transcended th a t and ome, n o t a band p lr ' : through th e ir great) YRDS'al.-only TH E BYRDS are. when circumstan lay acoustic. They lerately small cro nts of three days o f festival Itic ing / picked on the sp irit nt e xa ctly, ju st to o k everybody f t was arguably the best m usical nt o f the three days. I this a b ility once and vith ‘ U n title d ’ : all sides o f the t. ? x t , rocking etc etc. A n d i aniax’ w h ich slq and in earlii x c it large num ber

it and who wants etc that o f th e eleven oni stand up: C itizen Ka fu n , a fille r probably Browne's 'Jamaica Se S kip B a ttin singing tf Happiness', and 'K a tl so ft, rich madrigular rest, n o t m uch, little the last album o f nev sonjs (on 'U n title d '), that really bears intrc newly-established ele acoustical set. The be McGu white and t f here. I Bahg the s i Byrds forget on tn j little I down

Jack Bruce — H arm ony Row (Polydor 2310 107) Harm ony Row is Jack Bruce's equivalent to John Lennon's W ork­ ing Class Hero album. John Lennon's record is a statem ent o f philosophical a u to n o m y and~"“ independence, Jack Bruce's is a and independence. In producing these records, the tw o musicians have done w hat no oth er succesful pop-stars have done — demoted themselves as idols and rejected the star-system in favour o f person­ al in te g rity , a t the risk o f losing i position, though it has rty Row is the result o f i co llaboration between |u ce and Pete Brown. It t stamp o f a sustained chieve tightness and coi Pete Brown's lyrics,

stpop-songs, are ' dense, and th e music is jln d in g ly com plex. It j>d turns, pushes forwards, ks forw ard again, fades ; Jack Bruce has added epth to his singing, and ongs w o rk b rillia n tly , v e r y , very occasionally does suit feel over-poetic and con1 Otherwise, it freq u e n tly hes an angular elegance that rids me o f the K u rt/W e il/ pit Brecht songs o f the thirties. i tension is there, the same ; of the destructive he i cities, th a t th a t parallel should be ) far, though. The cyniI hope in Brecht's songs ys a refle ctio n o f histori at w o rk : capitalism and ascism on the one hand, and the reative anger and poten tia litie s o f irdinary people on the other. In

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1more abstract. Images o f yo u th ation and hope jostle i those o f fru stra tio n and decay, pple are surrounded by menacj com plexities.and a feeling o f noil th a t is expressed most Jtely in the sharp hysteria o f nd Grins'. Love in this arid is fragile, easily destroyed 1the bleak lig h t o f day, as in the a lyp tic, b eautiful w ritte n and ang ‘ M orning S to ry'. Several songs arn fo r tenderness and beauty; jsthers shout o u t the energy and Ife o f the tow n-kids. But this §ncism and richness is tempered the knowledge o f how easily ppiness can get bogged dow n in [fu s io n , and how q u ic k ly tim e

The fa ct th a t they have turned th e ir backs on this o p tio n is im p or­ ta n t. -T-he-Lt' Cream were k cultural movei ition They were pai ! art-form s. What of en private, m in o rity ha art-form s became people's poetry

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But .(■ cu ltu re had no way o f developing the images o f social o p tim ism and so lid a rity th a t it had created. For _ ^ ^ ^ _ _ i o n , there w o u ld always be an A lta m o n t. And m ea n w h ile |tbe establishment recu­ perated and cashed in on the new v ita lity w itlj chop licking ease . . . So if Ja c rB ftJ c ^a n d Pete Brown have now retracted th e ir horns and produced som ething m uch more f i ll , and even |t io n in it, ling at all Vith records like th is, rock music is reaching a new kin d o f seriousness and m a tu rity — a kin d o f m a tu rity th a t gives the lie to some o f the more f ac GefhWWttSttS a p F or the fast fe w years, in spite o f the fact th a t it's been com prom ised w ith intense and ruthless com m ercial pressures, rock has been a great democratising force. I t has opened up mass-participation in musical experience, and has played a real role in disseminating new ideas and feelfro m th a t Trigs. To c | | isolation, mainstreaif and even a| |h a t happened i H a rm o h yB liiW '#be3rv T fa ll in to th a t trap. Jack Bruce is one o f the few people w h o ’s pushing o u t the boundaries o f music and m aking it w ork. His album is the k in d o f record to hear and re-hear — the kind o f re c o rd th a t la

ial There's one other th in g though. We can never expect g lib statements o f social o p tim ism fro m Jack Bruce, because his m ind doesn't w ork th a t way B ut it's tru e nevertheless that cu ltu ra lly , p o litic a lly and socially there are a lo t o f positive things going on w ith in the jum bled up w o rld that's reflected in Harm ony R o w Jack Bruce has recogni:,.-! t in s by d o in g a 1 )e n o fit edncaftT or the C ly d e s id e W o r k ^ f f ij 'J i} | b e good If he could now b ring this ele m ent t ^ n ^ o r e in his music — becuase it ’s p a rticu la rly by relating to these positive force^lof-CliaDge

l the tim e is ripe I tw in k lin g o f an eye I the drains o f a w o rld ,i ) last-song-leaves-us w ith — hpending alcoholic selfpction o f M alcolm Low ry's ll, w ho lives, like all o f us, f the fatal shadow o f the pt th a t the overall e ffe ct o f ony R ow is negative. It's I to o tough and original fo r I It's a record th a t's fu ll o f py and stron g ly-fe lt em otions, v ith o u t any b u llsh ittin g . And |is really q u ite surprising. In i Brown's p o e try, at the tim e |n he was doing p u b lic readings i New Departures and the |rp o o l Scene, a certain am ount agagingbul Ishi 11i ng was an ........ In tia l element. A nd Jack Bruce [ had the experience o f tu rn in g (th e m illions w ith the Cream. - o r bo th o f them , there was always the o p tio n to stay content w ith w ow ing the masses in th e stalls.

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Smoking doesn't seem to be a sin any more. Tim e was dope was in a sort o f way revolutionary, We did it and They d id n 't. Nowadays They do, and it isn't changing them much. N ot all o f them do, o f course, but have you noticed th a t dope — marijuana — is getting sort o f respectable. 'Nova' writes about pot in the suburbs, and Jill Tweedie writes in th e 'G u a rd ia n 'th a t it's all perfectly OK, and the law is ridiculous. Thanx fo r the news. Wait a m inute though, sure pot has been proven harmless, so much better than alcohol, no hangover, but w hat about the d irty filth y profiteer, the dealer. In Tweedie's words “ the dark w orld o f the pusher". Like V ictorian prostitutes a lo t o f people like to th in k o f dealers as necessary — since pot is OK it presumably has to come fro m somewhere — but not nice. The Misuse o f Drugs A ct propounds this hypocritical illo g ica lity in its purest form by ever so slightly lowering the penalties fo r possession w hile banging the rap fo r tra ffik in g to 14 years. No one likes dealers much except fo r T im o th y Leary who said he was a hero, and that isn't quite right either. Dealing after all is just a way of making money. It may be, fo r some people, a few other things as well. It gives you a sense o f position, if you like that feeling you're an outlaw . Y ou're doing something te rrib ly illegal, and people need you, even if a lo t o f them d o n 't like you. You're not doing anyone any harm talking here just about marijooana, w ith o u t getting into any m orally tric k y areas o f the sterner stuff. Trouble is, people d o n 't understand the trials and trib ula tion s th a t go to bring your smoke. First thing about dealing is the waiting. On rare occasions the man rings back when he said he w ould, it's OK to go right over and pick it up, the stuff's the same kind and q u a lity as you ordered, he doesn't take your money and ask you to hang on a m inute, he's just got to pick it up o ff the cat w ho's holding it, and everything's fine. But the rest o f the tim e you sit around and w ait fo r the phone, and ring people who m ight know o f something, who say th e y 'll call you back. I remember a ro o m fu l o f dealers in a tim e o f desperate drought w aiting sixteen hours at the contact's house fo r the man

to tu rn up w ith the shit. None of them w ould smoke a jo in t in case they w ould be to o stoned to taste the merchandise when it arrived, and they w e ri too paranoid of each other to talk, No one was allowed to*use the phone; security, man. The m ajor problem to r any dealer is always supply. Dope is usually easy to get rid of, especially in times like these, when dope is exceptionally hard to fin d . Such problems make one th in k that it w ould be w orthwhile going out and getting it oneself. The nearest major point o f overseas supply is F rankfurt, A lo t o f dope from Pakistan and the Lebanon goes there, and if you have a contact, especially among the US servicemen on the base, you should be able to score large quantities at say £50—£60 a weight. If you go there w ith o u tpreparation however you could be in trouble, and there are many stories of hopeful dealers getting burned (having their dope or money stolen) or otherwise maltreated. To get your dope back to England you have the choice o f ship, plane or car. You can bring it in in a properly remodified suitcase or car. Or you can just pack it in and hope fo r the best. You can be u n lucky, or lucky. One man I know was driving back fro m Germany. The customs man he drew at the border had just passed o u t from the customs man academy, and he was determined to catch someone. He noticed that the flo o r o f the Mercedes was a quarter o f an inch to o high, Inside there were f if t y kilos and my friend got six months, In the producing countries, you w ill o f course be able to b;,>y the shit very much cheaper. On average you w o n 't have to pay much more than £5 a pound in either Morocco, Lebanon, or Pakistan/Afghanistan, slightly higher maybe in Lebanon and slightly less in Morocco. But this scene again is locked up in the central po in t about dealing connections. If you go to Pakistan, fo r instance, it is wise to stay o u t o f Karachi. A n y taxi driver or newspaper seller w ill o ffe r to get you shit, but it w ill probably be old bootpolish or m indy weed w hich can be made to look exactly like shit. Up in the N orth o f Pakistan the dope js even cheaper, like ly to be o f better q u a lity, and there is less chance that the man you bought jt 0f f w ill go straight to the police. American pressure has

and m ilita ry , much keener on the job. Since they started massacring Bengalis they are increasingly sensitive about foreigners too. If you are intending to drive back w ith the produce, remember you have to cross such u n frie n d ly borders as T urkey and Iran, where they like to give you th irty years. If you w eren't w hite th e y'd shoot you. The best method o f personally im porting it overland used to be to run a coach to u r — New Delhi £135 return. The border guards aren't so keen on searching a coach load o f people, or o f taking the coach apart. If you just w ant to bring some back fro m on holiday, the best tactic is to fin d one o f those useful craftsmen who w ill make boots w ith hash soles. W ith tig h t compression you can carry a pound that way, though hash that has been carried that way is usually hard to break up fo r smoking. Many o f the im p o rt hangups can be avoided w ith the help o f good organisation, such as the coach trip . A professional im p o rte r w ill have contacts w ith the locals, know w hich are the relatively cooler customs posts, and w hich policemen to bribe. To anyone who wishes to examine a relatively big im p o rt operation I recommend the story o f the Kelaher case recently running at Middlesex Area sessions.In that case, w hich concerned the busting o f . a group o f im porters who had arranged to have tw o packing cases containing 24 lbs o f shit airfreighted fro m Syria to London, we had the interesting spectacle o f Chief Inspector V ic to r (V ic to his friends) Kelaher being accused by HM Customs o f aiding and abetting in the im p o rt o f cannabis. He denied the charge, w ith o u t even a blush. What do you th in k , reader? The other central p o in t about dealing, along w ith connections, is you and the police. Some people have been dealing fo r years. They have never been busted, and they claim that the police d o n 't know o f their existence. They d o n 't have many people round to where they live, they d o n 't let their phone number get around to o much, they d o n 't have their stash on the premises, and they move house every so often. Well maybe the police d o n 't know o f their existence. Maybe no one has

their address who has ever been busted, has dropped a few names, just to be helpful, A ny dealers say th a t it is im portant not to keep an interesting house, w hich people w ill w ant to come to socially as well as to score. Remain inconspic,uous. A well frequented house on the other hand means that you always have customers w ith in range, and d o n 't have to go o u t and about much. There pros and cons either way. The best rule is to tell yo u r customers always to ask you first before sending anyone along, If paranoia strikes, bear a few things in mind th a t may clam you dow n. First o f all phone tapping at present is reserved m ainly fo r im portant people they are very, very anxious to get hold o f, like spies, and angry people. Chances are they w o n 't get around to tapping your phone. If they do one thing fo r sure is, you w o n 't hear any clicks to indicate what is going on. If, as a dealer, you are busted remember that police officers are underpaid, and th e y may chose to impose a direct fine rather than go through all the bother o f a court case: "We estimate the value of the contents o f your fla t at £2500 Mr I suggest you tu rn it in to cash." Paradoxically you may come o ff worst if they come round expecting a big fin d and d o n 't, Their pique at missing the chance o f a large bribe or a large haul o f shit w hich they can resell themselves may make them vindictive. Dealing has certainly changed in character over the last year or tw o. It has almost lost the aura o f gentle 'let's remember we're doing this fo r the people' and has become in most instances as dangerous as any other crim inal a ctivity. Guns are becoming increasingly popular as an aid to big burns, such as the £33000 one a few months ago that, among others, caused a certain bunch o f dealers in a London market to look very unhappy indeed. As tim e goes on things are going to get rougher. The 'cu ltu re consciousness' o f the dealer varies. Some just keep their dope in m ounting piles saving fo r a rainy lifetim e, others put it into w hat m ight be called "c u ltu re o rie n ta te d " businesses, a well known chain o f head shops in London fo r instance, or •a recently deceased record company, where the shit suppor­ ted the bands and vice versa. Dealing is just an ordinary p rofitable a c tiv ity th a t can be used in any way you like. It is an existance best approached w ith ­ o ut illusions. A n d re w Cockburn

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Dearest Grace, H ow lo ve ly fo r you, yo u've been le ttin g V ivien fu ck yo u i t is such a w o n d e rfu l experience having a schoolboy. M y dear su re ly you have o th e r schoolboys w ho are fu ckin g yo u reg u la rly. D arling, a d m it / also in d ulge w i\ tim e to tim e, alth o ug h 5 0 / can o n ly g e t fu ll safl w ith green boys. Especia. w ho have never seen o r fit a w om an's fa n ny, and thei e ffo rts try in g to wank me though they som etim es sut m aking me com e. We m ust m eet dear and exchange expi I am also, Grace.

o f people o u t o f business." (O n grass) " I trie d i t once, b u t i t d id n 't do a n yth in g to me. The kid s say i t makes them th in k th e y're going 3 0 m iles an h o u r w hen th e y 're going 80. I f th a t's true , m arijuana use sh o u ld d e fin ite ly be sto p pe d ." (A n d fin a lly , on young people) "L u c k ily so fa r, i t seems th e y k in d o f consider me an o ld e r frien d ,som ebody believable a nd dow n to e a rth ." Liberation News Service "N o re v o lu tio n was ever won w ith d u f violence." " Ju st as the structu re s a nd program m es o f a new re v o lu tio n a ry so cie ty m ust be in co rra te d in every organised base a t >ry p o in t o f the struggle, so m ust nised violence accom pany ever the strug g le ." Brigade C om m unique 6) happen here, th e y sai •ned Before. he G ordon Riots. ie L u ddite Insurrecti Massacre o f Peterli Bristol R io t Chartist R io t 1886 The Hyde Park Riot: versal Suffrage.. Uprising 1910-1911 The Bermom and the Big Transport S; 1916 Clydeside 1926 The General Stri lople A fe w instances when , . . It's started to a tta ck the happening today.

H ere are some h ig h lig h ts fro m the rece n t 'P la yb o y ' in te rv ie w w ith John (D uke) Wayne, whom num erous grapevines have ru m o re d as a poss­ Colonialist B ritish Imperiaj ib le successor to R onald Reagan as lass murders H istory is lettered, g overnor o f C a lifo rn ia : colonies they and massacres (On p o rn o g rap h y) " I am q u ite d kille d again. kille d and sure th a t w ith in tw o o r three years, , The Indian The Scottish Am ericans w ill be co m p le te ly fe d up ulu War, The m u tin y, Irelai w ith these p e rve rte d film s ." (w hich issacres. The Boer War, thi ones?) "O h , 'Easy R id e r’ 'M id n ig h t and, Kenya, Greek Civil C o w b o y' - th a t k in d o f thing. id . Open y o u r Cyprus, Ai (On race re la tio n s) " I believe in see th e beast. A eyes, w h ite suprem acy u n til the blacks are re the system kille d few instai educated to a p o in t o f re s p o n sib ility. b u t thousands n o t just one / d o n 't believe in g ivin g a u th o rity and and ck and w h ite , men p o s itio n s o f leadership a n d judgem ent and i save th e ir Heins and to irresponsible p e o p le ." presei (On his lim itin g the num ber o f depression Comes That blacks in h is m ovies) "O h C h rist no, F ro , I'v e d ire c te d tw o p ic tu re s and / gave ■answer to the calls o f and the blacks th e ir p ro p e r p o s itio n . / 'adventuri had a black slave in the m ovie 'T he snths have passed since Eight A la m o ' a nd / had a c o rre c t num ber 3rigade invaded the the An o f blacks in the 'T h e Green B erets." |n e . No invasion was ever British (On Indians) “ I d o n 't fe e l we d id popula w rong in ta kin g th is g re a t c o u n try er expected the 'M o rn in g We aw ay fro m them , i f th a t's w hat yo u 're Stars' and the 'Socia “ orkers' to asking. O ur so-called stealing o f th is generwelcome us. They ri c o u n try fro m them was ju s t a m a tte r eated if defeated o f survival. There were g re a t num ­ derWe never ex bers o f people w ho needed new to welcome and the Indians were s e lfis h ly tr rground is more to keep i t fo r them selves. . . We I dead le ft. Insii a ll be on a reservation soon i f thj w hich represent a lb ta l socialists keep subsidizing grout I life style, an a n ti-authori lik e them (the Indians) w ith Oi :ivity. These forces are emerg) m oney. o f the Superstars, the spei (On radicals) "A n d when the] sonalities, the F iery and s ta rt sh o o tin g policem en, the tim e rip -o ff specialists. To the has com e to s ta rt kn o ckin g them others and sisters o f th e Under o ff, as fa r as I'm concerned. ound w ho w ill have to fig h t th e ir (On M y L a i) " , . . one little war to get rid o f h ip ca p ita lism in c id e n t in the U n ite d States A rm y. (On V ietnam ) "O u r la ck o f leadership has gone so fa r n o w no one man can com e in , face the if and te ll the people th a t we be in an a ll-o u t war. (W hy an war?) " I fig u re i f we are goin\ even one m an to die, we ■in an a ll-o u t c o n flic t." (On N ix o n ) " I knew hit stu ck w ith h im when he and I'm s tic k in g w ith h im he's a w in n e r." (sic) (On the M o tio n P ictu, a M cC a rth yite organizath in the la te 1950's) "T h e o u r side d id th a t was an y whet b la c k -lis tin g was ju s t ru n n in g a lo t

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and parasites: we say R ig h t On! There are many areas o f struggle many p rioritie s. For the cell w hich signs this docum ent, w o rkin g class y o u th IS the main p rio rity .T h e fo llo w in g is a d irect q u o ta tio n fro m 'ya Ono. We endorse it. The p ro b le m is n o t one o f tin g consciousness' o r 'ra isin g iusness' am ong w o rk in g class it th e y are oppressed. They >uch b e tte r than we th a t they are fu ck e d over b y th is system in a ll kin d s o f ways. They experience in the m ost acqte w ay the oppressive c o n d itio n s created b y ca p ita lism and Im p e ria lism : fa m ily school, unem ­ p lo ym e n t, pigs, ctu irts t o r draggy jobs. The p ro b le m is n o t even a question o f teaching t hem to fig h t. M ost o f the w o rkin g Class yo u th have done m uch m ore fig h tin g against pigs a nd am ong them selves than m ost 're v o lu tio n a rie s ' can hope th e y w ill ever d o ." 1 In fa c t there are tw o m a i n t ^ \ obstacles preventing th e ir awareness o f oppression and its causes fro m developing in to a fu lly revo lu tio n a ry d irectio n . . . firs t th e ir chauvinism and racism and secondly th e ir basic defeatism about th e ir a b ility to $ M f the system . . . n o t once in a w hi b u t destroy it to ta lly . Defeatism > Most o f us are basically defeatist about our a b ility to w in . (You can't beat the Tow n Hall, the Fuzz shop. The A rm y ) No m atter ho w hard we fig h t, we slide back in to our com ­ fo rta b le bourgeois holes. The basic weapon o f capitalism and Im perial­ ism has permeated through o u r souls to o u r bodies. O ur Basic Weakness is th e irra tio n a l belief i.n.our own weakness

Racism A n d Chauvinism The system through its agencies: schools, fa m ily and mass media, cons y o u th in to th in k in g th a t however oppressed they may be, there is always some o ther group worse o ff. Long"hairs occasionally, wom en, people, and blacks f ill those lescending order. The con provides w h ite w o rkin g class yo u th t ^ P W I I iis L j u j WTfuoedl position ‘ ‘ they translate in to o n e -u p manship and agro. They waste energy in attacking one Class so lid a rity through barriers is effectively Owever persuasive, i however true , leaflets, pai books however c o lo u rfu ll' cannot blast in to the mij minds frozen in reacti sustained by social ary realities. The onl ice-blocjcis a real alter otl a b lA ^ ^ ^ ^ _ th a t m e s W tip the guts o f atparalysed being in ways no words o r analyses can do. This is w hat we are try in g to do. There are no iliber stages fo r w o rkin g class yo u th . . . if y o u 're up against the w a ll, you d on’t decorate i t . . . you destroy it.

The Gang We are try in g to move w ith w orking class y o u th beyond the stage o f the gang. The gang is to o o fte n an isola‘ ted fo rm o f escape. I t neccessarily contains all those ideas w hich are dead o r dying in the system: p ro fit­ eering, leaders, rituals, and male dominance. The gang occasionally makes defensive forays against the system. However, the gang can o n ly be a revo lu tio n a ry force if it trans­ fo rm s itse lf: — fro m a distorted racepticle o f a dead ideology in to a structure w hich is constantly atta ck­ ing and harrassing w hat is becoming an increasingly more savage oppressor C om m unei hips m ust move beyond the days Stone, Release, deals and * are tiu n d re d s o f com- i and. Some o f mu iplacently opted o u t thei There is n o Peace o f tb — and we d id n 't w h ile w a r i! d orr? fig h t start this those w ho say you get si em, we we have re p ly : We have pushed o f discussions, o f being grown correct analyses p o lite , 'o' b itte r and angry, firs t’ . We o n l Wherever A n d we are there is a comm une, a collective o r a group o f people engaged in action to change th e ir lives and th e lives o f th e ir neighbours, there you have a potential Angry Brigade. (Like the gang — an isolated com m une can o n ly move in to s te rility and reaction) We must move beyond the next bombs, the next spectacular press cuttings: We must leave the fron pages o f 'The Times' o r the I pages o f 'The M irro r'. W e in u st dissolve o u r precious w h ite id e n tity . M O VE O NTO TH E STREETS. We are cells w ho believe th a t organ­ ised violence m ust accompany every stage o f the m ind-fucking struggle. We should all challenge, attack and smash o u r b u llsh it chauvinism,, sexism, racism and imperialist-class privileges. The Brigade is n o t a th in g j jo in I t ’s actions you do. It,' you change your. life . Lets start to fig ffta r. In L ondon, Glasgt achester, Birm ingham , G Bradford, th e j

forces to leave th e ir jo b rike etc. Section 53 o f the 1964 makes it an offence to cause 'd isa ffe ctio n le members o f any police

The firs t o f the B ritish alternative press prosecu­ tions — the case brought against IT fo r 'conspiring to co rru p t and debauch sSirwE-a public m orals' and 'co n ­ spiring to outrage public decency' by publishing homosexual contact ads — now enters its fin a l stage: a hearing at the House o f Lords. The Court o f Crim inal Appeal has rejected an appeal against the con­ victions handed o u t a fte r a five-day

bt o f c o u rt: one aspect o f llic a tio n o f an 'invective' udge (in his capacity as i a view to bringing the Itio n o f justice in to |a n d co n te m p t'. In the i e d ito r o f the New Statesbund g u ilty fo r saying " A n bw n in g to such views as \S topes cannot apparently air hearing in a court | r by M r Justice A vo ry — i so many A vo rys". ly , the C o u rt o f Appeal le liberal fro n t and 1 even 'vigorous' criticism f t was all rig h t "p ro vid )M £N-'

Di[TN£.-;Y hearing at the Old Bailey last Novem­ ber. K nullar (Publishing, Printing and Promotions) L td ., publishers o f IT at the tim e, was fined a to ta l o f £2,000 and three w o rking dirictors, Graham Keen, Peter Stansill and David Hall were given 18 m onth suspended ja il sentences and ordered to pay £200 costs each. The charges concerned^ columns o f smfttt homosexuals could each other. The ci running fo r tw o raided the IT o ffici and seized correspond replies to box. numbel ... nr.At. Risot’E

differen subjects; to bring in to hatred or con tem p t the sovereign o r the governm ent, the laws or co n stitu tio n o f the realm , and generally all endeavours to prom ote pu b lic dis­ order; o r to in cite people . . . to use any fo rm o f physical force in any public m atter connected w ith the S tate." Generously, the good book ads: " A man may la w fu lly discuss, criticize or censure the measures adopted by the Queen and her ministers fo r the governm ent o f the

Theprrncip)* or n o fltfrfT U d d il perhaps tlb t arffasl b ro a d * issutffcljf freedom o f the pri vita l, especially if a homosexual. House o f Lords the forces o f dark WBrijMJowerfu l legal precedent to einforce an archaic and d iscrim inatory law. K nullar needs help to fig h t this case. The Bust Fund was depleted long ago on the case's passage through three courts. C o n trib u tio n s can be sent to K nullar Defence Fund, c/o Seifert, Sedley and Co., 14 Tooks Court, C ursitor Street, London EC4.

co u n try, provided he does it fa irly , tem perately, w ith decency and respect, and w ith o u t im p u tin g to them any co rru p t or im proper m o tive !” The ju ry have to " lo o k at the audience addressed, because language w hich w o u ld be innocuous pnactically speaking it used to an assembly o f professors o r divines, m ight produce a d iffe re n t result if used before an excited audience o f young and uneducated m en". 4 O fficia l S e c r e j^ A t ^ 9 1 1, Section I (I): ‘ If a n . ir l^ g s b r jR f t y j iurpose prejudici o f the S; lublishfg^FCofl recor to an ler person<)ny seen de vsgjrd or pass.jvl o ffici; •any si plan m odel, a r ^ ft Inote, imatii ealciT m ight ’o r is intend ;or indi ly usefu n oftence. S « cting he is g u ilt5 fro m thi a l|efrtatiyss.U i4rj/there is pikdiSbing fdfeny rm atipn w K ith m ight u s M u ltp art enemy. ace1 Cn TJ dem onstrators Wstthersfi base^were sent to p rijp n undei ithis section, and it was ided th a t thei&iatextotprm ines lat is p e rjudiciatitoxtaalf; the enemy' need to be o n ly a potential

Readers w h o enjoy a ju ic y tria l can rest assured th a t the State has plei o f weapons in its leg arm oury w ith whicH assail O Z and the ra the underground press, even if f trace o f nipple and thigh was i lessly expurgated, though the ( advantage o f the obscenity lavL> ia. th a t the prosecution can decewe / . , ^nemyTiNG N m assagebt. some people at least by claim ing “ 5 Offences under th e .In c itin g to 'th is is n o t a p o litica l tria l'. Here is a M utin y and Disaffection A c t 1797 brief account o f some o f the other and Incitem ent to Disaffection A c t charges available; 1934, fo r encouraging members o f

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ing it keeps w ith in the lim its o f reasonable courtesy and good fa ith " as interpreted by the judges! The vigorous c ritic in th a t case WBs'YtlBiSfeN other than Q u in tin Hogg, w ho had got hisfjidJS wrodgCSo th a t the judges had to Ipxcupe evjerr’f rroneous' criticise 7 Criminal^Liibel—-n o rm d lly libel is a c iv ifW tin t .'J&you ar4 sued fo r daraagesTftPfTLcarrl offenpecrtyvhat yfit) w rite enogogU /lheJpuDli 'aroiJsihtl Sngry passions i n|d p ro vo kI and ing revenge, veafsi.,p , used severa the reactionary7.)i0g£Mel .1 Stevenson gave senten»4e-eorTiebnerwho w ro te to the P rim frM tu ste r com plaining about a police o ffice r. 8 Blasphemy. A ll o f w hich goes to show, there are no such things as 'c iv il liberties' — it is purely a question as to w hat the State allows (or ignores), or as to w hat you can wrest through struggle. If they w ant to get someone, there is always some charge available w ith w hich to cloak the v ic tim . A n d when to o many people have seen through this charade, they resort to naked repression and d o n 't bother to prosecute — they sim ply call it 'in te rn m e n t'. R IB In fo rm a tio n Service. 58, Charles Street, C ardiff. Tel: 44441. 'H elp R IB before we have to help yo u '.

Thronber, 'R o ckin g to n ', d i f f e Drive, Leyburn, Yorks. TO U CH, Dundee's own people's advisory service, can be fo u nd at 112 Prices Street, Dundee, Scotland. They are based on B IT and Release and are waging a campaign against oppressive police.

For those o f you who just can't get o ff on the endless com pulsory God at school: The W altham stow Society fo r the A b o litio n o f C om pulsory Worship in Schools, average age 15, w ith strong, if by necessity anony­ mous backing fro m many teachers, has been form ed to fig h t this relic o f the 1944 Education A c t - which forced everyone to take d a ily doses o f religion. They intend to w rite to MPs and media fo r p u b lic ity and support at firs t, b u t ‘if this fails we shall have to resort to stronger methods, marches and even strikes'. 'We are not fig h tin g religion, just the com pulsion to do something th a t we believe should be a m atter o f choice.' Send SAE fo r details,Cor just sym pathy and support to M ick Burns, 45 Reisberg Road, W althamstow, London E17.

'H ippia-styla __ . in te rn a tio n a l „ local headlines when a m em ber o f the F lu ff, a 15 strong comm une outside B radford, was busted fo r sending some dope to Canada last January. A fe w m onths later the com m une had hassles again when 30 lawm en w ith, attendant hounds descended on the commune and arrested i dozen o f the dwellers, one o f w hom is n e w doing a two* stretch — fo r dope. Fines fo r the bust to ta lle d £300 - w e ll beyond F lu ff finances. The Friends o f the F lu ff were then fo rm e d to help o u t w ith bread, and sure enough, they to o were busted — another £800 w o rth o f fines. A ll o f w hich sad tale leads to the p o in t: The Bust Fund fo r the F lu ff and th e ir Friends is having a benefit on O ctober 22 in St George's Hall, B radford. Hawkw in d among others w ill be there. Once the fines are paid, a permanent N orthern Bust Fund w ill be set j p fo r the u n lu cky around there. A ll are welcom e, all help and bread especailly.

F ollow in g the article on Encounter Groups in O Z 35 we have been sent a list o f 'People N o t Psychiatry' numbers fo r Birm ingham and N ottingham . T oo long to p rin t here, b u t ring if in fo is required. A group o f young people in Leyburn and the surrounding N o rth Yorkshire Dates countryside, aghast a t th e ir recreational and c u ltu ra l stagnation, and hoping to provide m uch needed social services are endeavouring to set up AG APE. They w a n t to give a ll the usual goodies, and w ant to get finance, offices, etc. Contact Pete

A b b e y Wood W hite Panthers Dance: O ctober 1st, H arrow Inn, A b b e y Wood. H a w kw in d and a surprise band. Central In d e x In fo rm a tio n Service. 10 F ournier Street, London. E1. 24 hour service fo r all types o f info. Specifically designed to co-ordinate and relate in fo rm a tio n .

Suck, the to p European sexmag fo r O ctober 20—24. Prizes galore and lotsafun. C ontact Wet Dream F ilm Festival, PO B ox 2080, Am sterdam , Holland.

Soledad Brother George Jackson E xh ib itio n . A co lle ctio n o f lith o ­ graphs relating to the life and back­ ground o f George Jackson showing at the DM G allery, 72 Fulham Road, SW3 O ctober 12 — November 2. A ll proceeds to Soledad Defence C om m ittee, c/o A n th o n y Sheil Associates, 47 Dean Street, London W 1. Phone 734 7792. C a n 't get involved? T ry Freedom. Freedom is n 't ju st a p re tty house in the co u n try . Freedom presents a new design in living. M ostly fig h tin g . I t improves y o u r vim , fig u re and cre d ib ility . •It cares where o ther agents d o n 't. D ouble y o u r tim e and m oney. Give Freedom a chance. Be a Freedom Fighter - I t takes guts! Produced b y Freedom

Honeybunch Kam inski. ^ y e s , what a little yu m m y in d e e cffl^^ Y ou've seen her, m a y fe even fancied a b it. N ow , readers, tfc s lovable so much larger than o f underage sensuality THE SAIL Thousands were investi ion, she can grace yo u r THIS pittance. O ffers requested. A ll pi O Z O bscenity Fund

Dear Sir, In issue No 3 6 o f yo u r p u b lica tio n O Z there was an e x tra c t from 'Satan's Slaves' b y James T aylor m en tio n ­ ing Charles Manson in connection w ith the Church o f Scientology. The actual quote is q u ite wrong and the Church does n o t wish any­ one to get the idea th a t Manson was a Scientologist. We have a le tte r fro m the Los Angeles Police D epartm ent stating th a t Charles Manson was n o t a Scientologist and th a t the police d id n o t fin d any connection whatsoever d u ring th e ir investigations. The New English L ib ra ry, publishers o f ’Satan's Slaves' have been Defendants in a case b rought b y the Church, and were made to pay damages fo r libel. / therefore request on b e h alf o f the Church o f Scientology th a t a correction be p rin te d in yo u r n e xt issue p o in tin g o u t q u ite clearly what we say. I f the book 'Satan's Slaves is available in any book store, please advise me. Yours fa ith fu lly , C.B.B. Parselie, D /G uardian Legal WW.

'The w o rld is ready fo r a metamorphosis o f the Gods. The values and archetypes o f o 1 tu re are aband new ways o f fro m another w o rld vie adopted. One o f the val New C ulture is change i; fle x ib ility .' The in itia l b lu rb fo r tio n and hopeful recrui another practical mani A lte rn a tive Living: Inst: be peopled, erected and on 15,000 square kilom etres of in Ibiza, fro m September, when the’ 'in fra structu re s' (loos, w ater, kitchens etc) th rough to October. It w ill exist concurrent w ith the ICSID Conference, also held on the island. Basic foods such as bread, rice, raisins and vegetables w ill be given away free. If th is proves impossible there w ill be a co-operative store and n o thing w ill be sold above cost. A warehouse has been stockpiled w ith

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The F irst A P E N A L T Y F D R T M f * T 'S FA F Y o rk Eroticj A N D C R O N E Y E A R * IN P R I S O N Festival (F, w ill surge G uy Fawkes Day, 5 th and carry on coming ripping o ff the freaks, through t ill December 17th. warned. But let's hope he's not 'V e ry sim p ly, the F A N Y E E F to screw Leary. intends to take e ro tic film s o u t o f the hands o f the sm ut peddlers and establish them as a valid a rt fo rm '. In ternational film makers, like great straight novelists, it is presumed have some little kinks th e y m ig ht w ant to parade: the Festival w ill provide them w ith a fo ru m and a public. Created by Ken Gaul, exmanaging e d ito r o f to p (and some say o n ly) New Y o rk pornzine 'Screw' and judged by, among others, 'Screw' e d ito r A l G oldstein, the festival w ill o ffe r cash prizes fo r its seven major and several m in or categories, as well as 'th e coveted Onan Statue’ . A n y enquiries to F A N Y E F F , 116 E27th Street, N Y 10016. Meanwhile, in more accessible Am sterdam , the Second Wet Dream F ilm Festival is being organised by

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'Sedition consists o f acts, writings o r co n d uct Which do n o t a m ount to treason, b u t which 'st be punished in the Tnterests o f the state, fo r ed, sedition leads to dis!hdpossibly to re v o lu tio n .' ty 's Police Law, 19th edition.

convenient and fle xib le bu ild in g materials: canvas, cardboard, rope plastics, w ood, panels, and a w o rk ­ shop fo r th e ir use has been set up. For everyone w ho wants to get along to Ibiza fo r Instant C ity , it's vital th a t some notice o f yo u r arrival is sent to the guys w h o are running it. 50 seats a day are reserved on the fe rry , b u t th e y have to know when people are tu rn in g up. W rite to : A d Hoc Com m ittee fo r th e Instant C ity , A D I/F A D , c/B rusi, 39. Barcelona 6. A ro u n d 3 000 people are expected, and they advise th a t you bring yo u r own sleeping back and eatin' irons.

T th in k the cu rre n t s p irit o f antileadership had become a nightmare. Because people are a fra id o f doing a n ything fo r fear o f being attacked by someone else. A n d so you have people scared to death to a ct because they m ig h t be considered a leader, m ig h t be considered being on a media trip , m ig h t be considered to have egotistical reasons. . . group pressure is so strong th g t people are ju s t p e trifie d and s c ^ e d in to in ­ a c tiv ity ." Jerry 'F o r many, p olice < is ju s t another arre$ Police Review, 18/

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Welcome to the Canteen

Traffic Etc... (An expanded Traffic band) Their latest album was recorded ‘live’, and is called “Welcome to the Canteen.” It’s out now on Island. ILPS 9166 SEE TRAFFIC’S ONLY LONDON CONCERT BEFORE THEY LEAVE FOR AMERICA. IT’S AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL ON SEPT. 23RD.

O ur th in g : Should underground papers be a hangout fo r the local c o m m u n ity freaks o f should they discourage such personal contact to concentrate upon the p rio rity of, p u ttin g o u t a paper? It's a c o n flic t th a t's arisen in meny offices and recently got an airing in the letter colum n o f Chicago's Seed, w hich was accused o f being cliquish. The Seed responded w ith the obvious com m ent th a t the more people that hang o u t the harder the jo b o f p ro ­ ducing the paper becomes. B ut they le ft the question open, adding: "W e need you to remind us o f where we are g o ing."

Memo to th e D.P.P. T his p u b lica tio n is en title d O Z /3 7 T e rro r o f the D irty Squad and th e ir vo lu n tary helpers the A ngry C lub ag­ ainst Pornografics has made the creators o f this ish anonymous. So here th e y all are: A picked band o f dedicated pg/verts somewhere in West London.^ Absent Friends. Peter Brookes, Stewart M e t Sherlock Holmes, Peter T jlf, M artin Sharp, Andrew Cock S ', John Davies, David N u tt lais Danone N u tte r, 'A ', II,S im o n Viridian, Eden Vale, Brian r, Det Insp "boys on the Fred L u ff, Iry, his namesake Squad, Ai ny E llio tt, 'X ' T im , geo| Roy Km :, Bob Laurie, The Gr ftoria L ib ra ry, Jersey, Beauty A le x Aggro, True sction o f Jesuses, Detect) iore o f ievil ' M ike 'r, A d rian George, Dale, iT g o o d people and Itica lly true, the brothers Ludd, Blake.... SmokThg by Henri W interm an Drugs by T he Man C olour by Jim Paul Lighting by Judge G riffith s Wardrobe by Laurence Corner o u t o f Just Men Fights arranged by the A n g ry Club and N o t A Puritan (London) L td A Bust T h a t L o t I f You Dare Production (Zurich) L td .

Cannabis cigarette papers, made fro m pure hemp fib re , is legal because 'non-psychoactive' explains amorphia, the cannabis co-operative/ th a t distributes it and devotes p ro fits to legalizing marihuana. Cannabis papers cost 50c a packet, regular papers 15c or 20c all from am orphia (POB 744, M ill Valley, C alifornia 94941). The fu tu re : A tte m p ts to gain d icta to ria l powers 'b y certain enemies” and "sensational news about espionage a ctivitie s" can be expected before March 1972 according to Horoscope fo r the United States o f Am erica in India's 'A strological Magazine' There w ill be more bloodshed as a result o f the Black quest fo r freedom and, despite N ixon's proclam ations, increasing Am erican involvem ent in Asian and M iddle Eastern affairs, the magazine adds. R e p rinte d fro m ‘O ther Scenes'

loisopropyl citrate (anti­ fa t deterioration) im pounds, phos^and weed kille r. n o rd ih yd ro itio x id a n t), resulting fro m 'hydrogen peroxide isium o'xide (neutralIB Y e llo w (coal tar (artificia l arom atic related agents, ills also has n o rd ih y raction in flo u r: am m on­ ium chloride (dough co n d itio ne r), m one— and d i— g ly c e rin s and polyo xye th yle n e (soft^ flo u r o r coal-tar dye i) products y e llo w colt b u tte r and egg yolks related compounds, f ium sulphate (firm inc sodium n itrate (textuV fsir) and em ulsifier (to disperse'.mat fla v o iirj Apple Pie: th a t's got butyla te d hydroxyanisole (an tioxidant iruf^rd)) and all the chemical agents in Wour, b u tte r and margarine, sodium / phenylphenate (preservative),!several or possibly all o f the foll& ii pesticides used on a p p lie s /r)D T , d in itro o rth ocre so l, benzene hexacholride, m alathion, parathion, dem eton, lindane, lead arsenate, nicotine, m eth o xych lo r, chlordane and others. Some o f these pesticides w o u ld also appear in the lard. Ice Cream: stabilisers and em ulsifiers as above, a rtific ia l flavouring, coaltar dye, an tib io tics, D D T and related compounds. M ilk: D D T or its chemical kin and an tib io tics. Coffee we leave to yo u r im agination. L ifte d fro m ‘Poinons in Y our F o o d ' b y W illiam Longgodd. Recom m ended fo r anyone in te re ste d in e a tin g (s till).

N othing in O Z is co p yrig h t, b u t we suggest you check o u r sources before you start ripping anything o ff....

apple pie coffee. So F ru ilJ i chei po Iy s i l o J U M i f f o a rnT D D T and re lP B rco m p o u n d S ^te n th io n o r one o f the other poten phosphorus nerve-gas pesticides: saccharin (chemical sweetner). Roast Beef has DDT, and other rejated compounds: m eth o xych lo r, chlordane, heptachlor, toxaphene, ne, benzene hexachloried, Id rin , d ieldrin and o th er pesticides, rtic u la rly in the fa tty parts, stiltro l (artifica il female sex hormone) aureom ycin (a n tib io tic), mineral o il residue fro m wrapping paper. Gravy contains D D T and other pesticides th a t were in the meat, a n tib io tics products form ed fro m the interaction between the chlorinedio xid e bleach used on th e flo u r and the flo u r nutrients. Sweet potatoes have pesticides, coal tar dye and sulphuric m alathion. Peas w ill give you some magnesium chloride (colour retainer); magnesium carbo carbonate (alkalizer), DD T, and o ther pesticides. Tossed salad w ith dressing has sodium alginate (stabll-

hem p fo r mg Whefi'1 '1831, C apt w h a t he ha D e fe n da n t: ‘Well S ir, I

o u t o f e m ploym ent fo r some tim e; neither can I o b tain w o rk ; m y fa m ily are all starving . . . A n d fo r another reason, the w eightiest o f all; I sell them fo r the good o f m y fe llo w co u n trym e n; to le t them see h ow th e y are misrepresented in Parliam ent . . . I wish to le t the people kn o w ho w th e y are hum ­ bugged. Bench: 'H o ld yo u r tongue a m om ent' D efe n da n t: 'I shall n o t fo r I wish every man to read these publications.' Bench: 'Y o u are very insolent, therefore you are co m m itte d to three m onths im prisonm ent in K n u tsfo rd House o f C orrection, to hard labour.' D efendant: 'I'v e n othing to thank you fo r; and when I come out. I 'll hawk them again. A n d m ind, you (lo oking at Captain Clarke) the firs t th a t I hawk shall be to y o u r house. Joseph Swann was then fo rc ib ly removed fro m the dock. Poor M an’s G uardian tUPSI

One section o f the p opulation w h o were little surprised by Argyle's decision were West M idlands jo u rn a l­ ists. N o t a b ody o f men noted fo r revolutionary le ft wing fervour, there were general cries o f relief and the Birm ingham equivalent o f " o f f the pigs" in Brum news­ room s when Argyle le ft in 1970, after five years as second citizen in the celestial c ity . Journalists had become more than a little sickened b y his cosy little h abit o f ringing up papers and in fo rm in g them , in his pie little voice, th a t he w o u ld have something interesting fo r thepi in the courts th a t m orning. T h in invariably meant th a t someing to get three or five me act o f p e tty vandalntence being accompanied om ilies about society. re pleased to Ives it, a aily id

th e c ity can o n ly have regarded this as a satyrical flig h t o f fa n cy as tele­ phones continued in th e ir norm al state o f disrepair. O f all A rgyle's m erry pranks, the fin e causing Brim ingham ’s present Recorder, M r JM Davie, the most concern was A rgyle's virtu a l suspen­ sion o f Judges rules. These rules govern police behaviour tow ard* people charged w ith an offence, and young Birm ingham police are reputed to be w ith o u t any knowledge o f them . The crow ning g lory o f media conscious A rg yle ’s P.R. e ffo rts were the lamqnteble poems he w ro te fo r the Birm ingham Post. The one about th e Cannock Chase m urders reaches a nadir-of obscenity even by his standards.

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