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[Philip McCrory <philmcc@melbpc.org.au>]

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Number 290
9th - 15th March, 1998


IN A TIME OF UNIVERSAL DECEIT - TELLING THE TRUTH IS A REVOLUTIONARY ACT
- GEORGE ORWELL


SUHARTO'S AUSTRALIAN LIFELINE

Another five years for Suharto the Butcher, the father of half a million
dead and a lifeline from the Australian government, that's justice for
you.  The International Monetary Fund (global capital) is locked in a
life and death struggle with a plain old fashioned military
dictatorship.  Yesterday's man has become today's pariah.  The United
States government and the I.M.F. would like to see the end of the
Suharto regime.  The I.M.F.'s structural adjustment programs not only
demand sacrifices from the butcher and his cohorts, but they also demand
sacrifices from the Indonesian people.

Pursuing policies that are reminiscent of their disastrous policies in
Africa and Latin America, the I.M.F. has demanded that government
subsidies are removed from basic food items, health care and education.
Suharto the Butcher knows that his regime would be finished if he
removed food subsidies.  In an attempt to shore up his rapidly shrinking
empire he has refused to implement all the I.M.F.'s demands.  Fighting a
rearguard action against international capital, the Indonesian regime
has decided to go it alone and try to live without I.M.F. loans, in
steps the Australian government.  In an attempt to shore up Suharto's
crumbling empire, the Howard regime has underwritten 350 million dollars
worth of wheatsales to Indonesia.  If the worst comes to the worst the
Suharto regime will be able to use the wheat to feed Indonesians.

Regional military commanders are beginning to reassess their links with
the Javanese based central government.  Although the Indonesian Butcher
has attempted to centralise his armed forces, it's difficult for Suharto
to exert control over all his regional commanders.  Some regional
military commanders may throw caution to the wind and team up with
regional liberation movements.  Don't be surprised if we witness the
breakup of the Indonesian State in the next twelve months.

DECRIMINALISE AND LEGALISE THE SHIT

The Victorian Police Commissioner's admission that the Victorian Police
Force "has lost the war against drugs" is an admission that opens up
other possibilities that deal with drugs apart from the criminal justice
system.  No one can win the war against drugs.  What communities need to
do is try to contain the damage that drugs cause.  Irrespective of the
reason people use drugs, you cannot solve the problem by unleashing the
criminal justice system on them.

If we take heroin as an example, it's a fact that heroin addicts who
have access to a clean safe supply of heroin are able to function as
productive members of a community.  Major problems arise with heroin
when the drug becomes an illegal substance.  The massive profits that
can be made from illegal production and distribution of heroin help to
create an ever expanding market of users.

Heroin that is bought on the streets  tends to be of varying quality.
Many of the deaths that occur, occur as a result of users shooting up
heroin that is too pure or heroin that has been cut with dangerous
substances.  The costs associated with heroin use drives users into the
criminal justice system. The addictive nature of the substance, its high
cost and the irregular nature of the supply, all combine to drive many
users into the criminal justice system and into the hands of
unscrupulous operators - people who normally don't personally use
heroin, but become involved in the heroin trade for financial gain.

When you consider the amount of police hours that are devoted to
fighting the "drug war", the damage that users experience and the wider
damage that is caused to the general community you quickly realise that
prohibiting drugs is the least effective way of dealing with the
problems that drug use creates.  It's time people forced governments to
look at other solutions.

Heroin addiction, one of the most difficult addictions, can be handled
in a very simple and efficient manner.  Heroin addiction should be dealt
with as a medical problem. Addicts should have two choices, they should
either be treated or if they want to continue to use heroin, they should
be registered and be given heroin that has been tested and is safe.

Making heroin freely available to registered addicts in publicly funded
shooting galleries, removes the financial imperative from criminal
elements, decreases the health risks associated with heroin use,
markedly decreases crime against the general community and allows heroin
addicts to get on with their lives.  It removes the glamour from drug
use and makes it into a manageable community problem.  Unless as a
society we decriminalise and legalise drugs and drug use, we will
continue to lose the war against drugs.

A WINK AND A NOD

For over twenty five years Australian women have had access to abortion
on demand.  Over 80,000 terminations were performed in Australian in
1997.  Although no state has laws that legally sanction abortion on
demand, law makers have pursued a "wink and a nod" policy as far as
prosecuting doctors who perform abortions is concerned.  This all
changed early this year when the West Australian Director of Public
Prosecutions, John McKechnie launched prosecutions against Dr. Chan and
Dr. Lee for performing abortions when the mother's life was not in
danger.

Feminist groups, pro-choice groups, individual women and doctors have
all slammed these prosecutions and have forced the Court government to
review the laws that make abortion a criminal offence.  This week 91
West Australian politicians will make a decision on whether they will
change the West Australian abortion laws.  Their decision will have
profound ramifications not only for women in West Australian, but for
women across Australia.  If the current laws are not changed, doctors
across Australia will be open to prosecutions for carrying out abortions
anywhere in Australia.  The "nod and wink" policies that have given
doctors tacit approval to carry out abortions because politicians have
not had the strength to pass abortion on demand laws will come to an
end.

Doctors are sick and tired of being forced to live on the edge of the
law, they want certainty as far as abortion laws are concerned.  They
don't want to run the risk of facing prosecution every time they
terminate a pregnancy at the mother's request.  Women who make the
decision to undergo an abortion no longer wish to live in the legal
shadows and none want to go back to the days of illegal backyard
clinics.

West Australian politicians have three choices, they support Upper House
Labor MP, Cheryl Davenport's bill to decriminalise abortion, they
support the status quo - West Australia's conservative laws that only
allow abortion in cases where the mother's life is at stake or they
support Attorney General Peter Foss's bill which creates a legal
hierarchy of situations when an abortion will be permitted.  Let's hope
that West Australia's politicians show a little courage and put an end
to the current uncertainties and vote for Cheryl Davenport's bill to
decriminalise abortion.

PRIVATISED COMMONWEALTH EMPLOYMENT SERVICE - IDEOLOGICAL NIGHTMARE

Anybody who believes that the privatisation of the C.E.S. is an attempt
to improve a dismally underfunded employment service needs to think
again.  The Liberal/National Party has in its wisdom decided to put the
fate of Australia's growing number of unemployed in the hands of the
private sector.  After a tendering process that left a lot to be
desired, the lucky "300" have been chosen to administer an employment
service with less money than was allocated to the old C.E.S.

Australians saw Kemp nodding his head approvingly, telling us how great
privatisation was.  Private enterprise was going to find jobs for
people.  Australia's unemployed had never had it so good, they were
about to be found work by efficient, friendly staff.  What a load of
tripe, most of the major tenders were given to organisations who are in
this business to make a buck.  Even the new government agency is working
under a charter that forces them to make a profit.   Even the most
stupid media commentator (and there are a few of them about), knows that
the losers in Kemp's brave new world are the unemployed, especially the
long term unemployed.  As the East Asian economic melt down works
through Australian industry, the unemployment rate will increase.
Kemp's new privatised Mecca won't even be able to put a dent in the
number of the unemployed, let alone place more unemployed in jobs.  The
only good thing to come out of this fiasco is that in six months time
the pressure that will be generated through the collapse of Kemp's
privatised employment Nirvana may help to create a new system that
genuinely helps the unemployed.

SMASHING THE IRON RICE BOWL

Looking at China's grey arsed bureaucrats it's obvious there's no
difference between them and the grey arsed bureaucrats in the United
States, the World Bank and the I.M.F.  Anybody who still believes that
the Chinese Communist Party pursues policies that assist the Chinese
people, have only to look at their latest attempts to smash the iron
rice bowl policies of the past.  Irrespective of the failures of the
Chinese Maoists, even during the darkest period of the Chinese
dictatorship, everybody was guaranteed work.

Although working in state enterprises may have been difficult and
monotonous, everybody was entitled to a job.  Access to work (Iron Rice
Bowl) meant that everybody had access to food, health care and shelter.
In steps the new improved Chinese Communist Party.  In a policy shift
that is going to accuse massive hardship and unemployed the C.C.P. has
ratified a policy this week that will throw a 100 million people onto
the garbage heap.

In a fundamental policy shift they have decided to close down
non-profitable state enterprises and throw people out of work.
Reviewing their policies it's obvious they have no intention of
providing social security benefits for the unemployed.

About the only good that may come out of this whole sorry saga is
widespread rebellion.  With a little bit of luck the Chinese Communist
Party will be consigned to the dust bin of history by a population that
has finally had enough of these New Mandarins.

ANARCHIST QUESTION AND ANSWER

Q.  Direct Action or Due Process?

A.  Anarchists are very fond of talking about and taking direct action.
Although direct action has a place in the struggle to create an
egalitarian community, its role is greatly diminished in such a
community.  Direct action in an anarchist community leaves the gate open
for mob rule.  Those people with the loudest voices and biggest guns
would soon dominate a community where there is no due process.

If anarchist communities want to survive and retain their egalitarian
principles, they need to create processes and structures that ensure
that summary justice does not destroy their society.  Due process
knowing and following a series of steps that guarantee an individuals
security within a wider society is of paramount concern within an
anarchist community.  Nothing would undermine an anarchist society's
morale and destroy it quicker than the development of a feeling of
insecurity.
People interact and participate in an anarchist community because they
feel secure.  They know they don't need to horde because wealth is held
in common.  They know that they don't need to build a fortress and arm
themselves to the teeth because they, as a member of that community, are
offered the protection of that community.  They know if they are accused
by their neighbours, there are processes which must be followed which
gives them the chance to defend themselves.  Automatic access to due
process in a community guarantees individuals and small groups rights in
that community.
The creation of a climate of fear and distrust can almost overnight
destroy that goodwill that is an essential component of any anarchist
community.  All anarchist communities need to discuss the need for and
set up processes that decrease arbitrary and summary decision making
processes.  An anarchist community cannot let an individual or a group
within that community make arbitrary on the spot decisions for them.
Arbitrary mob rule is just as dangerous as arbitrary rule by a
dictator.  Both processes create fear, breed instability and destroy
what little sense of security individuals and groups within communities
enjoy.  Due process helps to overcome these potential dangers.

ACTON BOX - AIN'T GOT ANY MONEY!!

How many times have you heard that phrase, I'd like to do more, but I
don't have any money.  Many people don't seem to realise that you don't
need money to be active.  Although some projects and activities need
money, many don't.  Anarchist groups are always looking for new blood,
most groups don't have fixed dues and are happy just to have an extra
pair of hands (and of course an extra brain) to help them with their
activities.  If you don't have money you can offer your labour, your
ideas, your enthusiasm.

If you're isolated and penniless and want to become active, the
Anarchist Media Institute is always interested in helping anarchists
organise.  We can help you make contact with other activists in your
area, we can provide moral support, we may be able to print a small run
of literature for you.  We could offer to interview you on our radio
program The Anarchist World This Week, or run an add in The Anarchist
Age Weekly Review or Anarchist Age Monthly Review. Although it's nice to
have oodles of money to bankroll activities, you don't need it to be
active.

There are many Anarchist groups in Australia that are looking for new
members.  Their activities are not limited by lack of money, but by a
lack of activists.  Saying you can't be active because you don't have
the money to be active is just another rationalisation for doing
nothing.  Don't think we don't appreciate the donations and
subscriptions we receive, without them The Anarchist  Media Institute
would not be able to offer people such a range of activities.  In the
past lack of finances have forced us to scale down our activities.
During that period we survived and remained active although we had
minimal financial support.

Think about it, are you using your lack of access to money as an excuse
not to become involved.  If you are, think about the non-financial
contributions you could make.  You have a brain, you have two hands,
you're full of ideas, you want to be active.  Forget about your lack of
resources and approach established anarchist groups.  I'm sure they'll
welcome you with open arms, bank book or no bank book.



AUSTRALIAN ANARCHIST HISTORY
DAVID ANDRADE
David Andrade was a founding member of the Melbourne Anarchist Club.  He
was heavily involved in the club's activities and was editor of the
club's magazine HONESTY.

He also wrote many of the club's publications between 1886 to 1888.
These included "An Anarchist Plan of Campaign", "Money" and "Our Social
System".  He was heavily involved and probably wrote the Melbourne
Anarchist Club Manifesto that was released on the 1st of May 1886.

The club split in mid 1888 because in Bob James words "seceders left
because of a uniquely Australian version of individualist - anarchism
articulated mainly by David Andrade".  The second split in late 1888
early 1889 saw the individualist anarchists stay in Melbourne and the
newly emerged anarcho-communist group move to the Schellengerg farm at
Smithfield, a few kilometres outside of Sydney.

David Andrade became involved in the co-operative movement, completed a
major work on the Melbourne Riots in 1892, and in 1894 moved with his
family to the Dandenong's to put the co-operative land use schemes he
had outlined in the past into practise.
"Profit making in the first form of exploitation that the labourer must
undermine to guard against any possible violation of this principle it
should be a fixed understanding introduced into the constitution of the
co-operation at its inception and only alterable by the unanimous
consent of the members."

Poor quality land, difficult economic conditions, fires and the
accidental death of his ten year old son in 1895 combined to shatter his
hopes, aspirations, dreams, physical health and finally his mental
health.  He carried on as best he could for the next 9 years and was
finally institutionalised in 1904.  He lived in the same institution for
the next 25 years and died in 1929 never stepping outside of the
asylum's walls.
Source of information for this article - A Read of Australian Anarchism
1886-1896. Edited and Introduced by the Australian Anarchist historian
Bob James (1979).

BOOK REVIEW

A Reader of Australian Anarchism 1886-1896
Edited and Introduced by Bob James (1979)

20th Century Australian Anarchism was a movement without a past until
Bob James researched and published A Reader of Australian Anarchism in
1979.  The vibrant 19th Australian Anarchist Movement had been so
marginalised it had dropped completely out of sight.  Participants in
the movement died, their contribution to Australian life was not
recorded anywhere, let alone contemporary Australian History books.
Scattered records of interest to nobody existed in the back rooms of
public libraries.

Anarchist activists in the 50's and 60's were not even aware that
anarchists existed let alone made substantial contributions to the
radical milieu of the late 19th Century.  For all intentional purposes
they were dead and forgotten to everybody except Bob James.  Bob James
not only rediscovered our history, he set it down.  He spend countless
hours, days and weeks using his own meagre resources to track down the
contribution Anarchist men and women in Australian made to the struggle
for the creation of an egalitarian community based on liberty.  A Reader
of Australian Anarchist 1886-1896 attempted to open anarchist's eyes to
their future by examining their past.  For his troubles Bob James
contribution to Australian Anarchist Thought was ignored and sidelined.
Australian Anarchists were too busy with their own activities and meagre
squabbles to have any time to look at, let alone learn from history.

Almost twenty years later, many Australian anarchists are reassessing
Bob James significant contribution.  Anybody who takes the time to read
the words that were written over a hundred years ago by Australian
anarchists would soon come to the conclusion that the debates and
differences that exist in the Anarchist movement today are almost word
for word the same as they were a 100 years ago.  If many of us had taken
just a few hours to read what Bob James had collected in A Reader of
Australian Anarchism, we wouldn't have wasted so much time re-inventing
the wheel.

In my opinion, a Reader of Australian Anarchism, is the best book that
Bob James has researched and edited.  This is the book that tried to
make the blind see, unfortunately the blind were happy with the darkness
and did not want to see.  I urge people to try to get a hold of a copy.
The book contains pieces of D.A. Andrade, D.W. Brookhouse, J.D. Donovan,
Robert Beattie, W.R. Winspear, Alice Win, J.A. Andrews, E.J. Brady,
William Lane, Arthur Desmond, A.C. McKay and Dr. Fauset MacDonald,
anarchist men and women who were able to put their thoughts on paper for
our benefit.

In A Reader of Australian Anarchism Bob James has acted as a midwife
delivering our past to us.  It's time his important contributions were
recognised and A Reader of Australian Anarchism was reprinted for a new
generation of anarchist activists.

PERSONAL OBSERVATION

Sitting on her haunches, Asian style, her knees jutting out behind her
ears, a bundle of rags sits on the footpath watching the early evening
traffic.  Small, dark eyes jump around a blackened face that is
punctuated by whitened creases.  She rocks backwards and forwards, a
gentle swaying hypnotic motion that has been perfected over years of
practise, a roll your own hangs out of her mouth.

A grime laden dress that radiates the occasional flash of green covers
her upper body and hangs between her knees, gently swaying above her no
nonsense work boots.  She sits there watching, her back to the wall, her
worldly possessions heaped in the mother of all shopping trolleys.  A
two tier arrangement that groans under its weight.  The top layer is
covered with a filthy blanket that has seen better days.  While other
people sit at home watching images of life on a box, she sits on her
footpath watching real people drive past.  She's materialised out of the
back streets and lanes to look at the traffic and experience life.

I'd seen her before, about seven years ago early in the morning, frost
on the ground about 50 meters from where she is sitting now, drinking
out of a tap in the driveway of a service station.  Looking at her she's
completely at ease, this is her land, she knows every corner, every
brick, every blade of grass, every dry and warm nook and cranny.  Our
bag lady lives off an urban landscape that's punctuated with traffic
laden roads, savage dogs and unfriendly bureaucrats.  She's survived
because she knows her country.

I blink, she's still there, she's no apparition, she's flesh and blood,
watching, waiting, thinking, smoking, gently rocking, back to the wall.
No I'm not in Little Calcutta, New York or the real Calcutta in India.
I'm sitting in a stream of traffic in "the world's most livable city" -
Melbourne, less than six kilometres from the G.P.O.  The traffic moves
on, she recedes in the rear vision mirror, sitting, staring, smoking,
waiting, watching, back to the wall.

STOP PRESS - ARCHBISHOP PELL SABOTAGES DIRECT ACTION JAMBOREE
Archbishop Pell, Melbourne's recently appointed Roman Catholic
Archbishop, has done all he can to sabotage the Direct Action Jamboree,
a Labour Day weekend gathering that was organised by Melbourne community
activists to share and discuss direct action as a political and social
tool.

Although the organisers had booked space 10 weeks before the Jamboree,
they were offered space at St.Joseph's Hall in Collingwood, three weeks
before the event it was noted that they had been double booked.  The
local parishioners agreed that the Direct Action Jamboree could be held
in St.Joseph's Hall, although the organisers had explained that they
would be discussing topics that were contrary to church teachings.  When
Archbishop Pell found out that an Anarchist Cabaret would be held as
part of the activities, he overruled the local parish and at the last
minute withdrew the use of St.Joseph's Hall.

The organisers were at the very last minute able to transfer the event
to another venue.  Direct Action activists from across Australia meet to
discuss ideas and exchange tactics.  Over 100 activists sabotaged the
Archbishop's attempts to sabotage the Direct Action Jamboree.

The Archbishop's attempt to override the wishes of the local
parishioners is a common feature of this man's tactics.  Pell, a
conservative, is a supporter of John Paul II's attempts to purge the
Roman Catholic Church of its radical elements.  The Archbishop's
attempts to assert his authority over the Melbourne Roman Catholic
community, a community that has a long history of being involved in
social action, has met significant resistance among priests and local
parishes.  His authoritarian views and methods are resented by a
proportion of priests and the Roman Catholic congregation.

St.Joseph's parishioners are angry about what Archbishop Pell has done
and have demanded a meeting with the Archbishop to discuss his
authoritarian methods.  They don't appreciate being overruled by the
Archbishop.



JOSEPH TOSCANO
(spokesperson Libertarian Workers for a Self-Managed Society).



ANARCHIST PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED THIS WEEK
ANARCHIST NEWS FROM GREECE Feb/March 1998, Alfa, PO Box 31809, 10035
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Australia.
OPERAI CONTRO No.82 Nov'97, Associazione Culturale Robotnik, Via Parenzo
20143 Milano, Italy.

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FILM NIGHT
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Carlton Melbourne.  Two films on the life of Harry Hooton - Sydney
Anarchist and poet who died at the age of 53 in 1961.  HARRY HOOTON 83
minute film made by the CANTRELLS in 1969/1970.  HOMAGE TO HARRY HOOTON
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