What We Stand For
Two great power blocs struggle for world domination. Neither of these represents the true interests and welfare of Humanity. Their conflict threatens mankind with atomic destruction. Underlying both of these blocs are institutions that breed exploitation, inequality and oppression.
Without trying to legislate for the future we feel that we can indicate the general lines along which a solution to these problems can be found.
The exploitative societies of today must be replaced by a new libertarian world which will proclaim—Equal freedom for all in a free socialist society. "Freedom" without socialism leads to privilege and injustice; "Socialism" without freedom is totalitarian.
The monopoly... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
Views and Comments
A monthly publication of the Libertarian League
Address all correspondence to: Views and Comments, P.O. Box 261, New York 3, N.Y.
Subscriptions: 9 issues for $1—single copies 10 cents. Views and Comments is published entirely by voluntary labor.
From the Editors
As you may have noted, we're experimenting again with a new layout which enables us to get more material in per issue and use less paper. It should also result in better readability and will enable us to use occasional illustrations and photographs.
That long promised union pamphlet is now in production and will be available within a month.
Next issue we will provide a 1957 Summary of Views and Comments finances. ... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
From the Editors
The union pamphlet is still in production but will follow this issue of V & C on the press. The main problem is still money—particularly now as the Libertarian Center must relocate very shortly and, even with volunteer labor, moving costs will be high. We have finished reprinting Woodcock's WHAT IS ANARCHISM?—now available from V & C at 5 cents per copy.
THE POT CALLS THE KETTLE BLACK
If the scandals in the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), reported in the nation's press, did not affect the lives of all of us, we would be amused by the editorials calling on public officials to observe the highest "ethical as well as legal standards." The corruption in governmental agencies is an o... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
A monthly publication of THE LIBERTARIAN LEAGUE
Address all correspondence to: VIEWS and COMMENTS, PO Box 261, Cooper Station, New York 3, N.Y.
Subscriptions: 12 issues for $1—single copies: 10 cents
VIEWS AND COMMENTS is printed and published entirely by voluntary labor.
CONTENTS
SIDELIGHTS ON THE FALL OF A TYRANT 2
PROSTITUTION IN PORTLAND by Reuel S. Amdur 3
NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE IS NOT ENOUGH 7
ANSWERING SOME QUESTIONS 8
PRACTICAL EXPERIMENTS OF OUR TIME—TWO COLLECTIVES IN REVOLUTIONARY SPAIN (third of a series on THE SPANISH COLLECTIVES)
ALCOY...10
ELDA...12
THE STUDENT IN THE UNITED STATES TODAY 13
TRENDS IN LABOR 16
From the Editors
... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
A monthly publication of THE LIBERTARIAN LEAGUE
Address all correspondence to: VIEWS and COMMENTS
PO Box 261
Cooper Station New York 3, N.Y.
Subscriptions: 12 issues for $1—single copies: 10 cents
VIEWS AND COMMENTS is printed and published entirely by voluntary labor.
Contents
RUDOLF ROCKER, 1873-1958 2
ANARCHISM AND POLITICAL ACTION by Rudolf Rocker 3
CAN DECENT UNIONS STAY IN THE AFL-CIO? 7
THE STATE AND/OR SOCIETY by Colin Ward 8
FROM OUR PRESS ABROAD 8
IN THE STRUGGLE FOR EQUALITY (book review) 9
A LOOK AT LATIN AMERICA 10
THE BINEFAR COLLECTIVE (fourth of a series on THE SPANISH COLLECTIVES) 14
"LIBERATED" TUNISIA 17
* Cl... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
A monthly publication of The Libertarian League
Address all correspondence to: Views and Comments
A monthly publication of THE LIBERTARIAN LEAGUE
Address all correspondence to:
Views and Comments
PO Box 261
Cooper Station New York 3, N.Y.
Subscriptions: 12 issues for $1—single copies: 10 cents
VIEWS AND COMMENTS is printed and published entirely by voluntary labor.
Joe Hill Anniversary Meeting
JOE HILL ANNIVERSARY MEETING at: LIBERTARIAN CENTER, 86 E. 10th STREET NEW YORK, 3 N.Y.
on: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23rd at 2:30 P.M.
speakers: DICK BRAZIER, HERBERT MAILER, SAM WIENER chairman.
Education In The United States by GWR
That there is something radical... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
Attention San Francisco Bay Area readers:
A branch of the Libertarian League is being formed in the Bay Area. Anyone interested in joining or in receiving notices of meetings and events please contact:
AL GRAHAM
137 Winfield St.
San Francisco
Phone: BA 4-0340
Report from Caliph. Murder-Missile Base
Drenched Peace Pickets Defy Air Force Hoses
A group of drenched and bruised Peace Pickets bravely held their ground at the Vandenberg Air Force base murder-missile launching pads, Lompoc, Caliph., Dec. 24, when the U.S. Air Force attempted to break up their protest demonstration with high pressure water hoses and other intimidation methods.
In the firsthand report below, Alan Graham, one ... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
VIEWS & COMMENTS
a libertarian league publication
10 cents
IN THIS ISSUE:
The Negro Struggle Sharpens
Tyranny Shaken In The Caribbean
The Anti-War Movement: Illusions and Delusions
Letter From Argentina
VIEWS AND COMMENTS is published as often as finances permit by the New York Group of the Libertarian League.
All printing and other work connected with the magazine is done by volunteer labor.
Subscriptions: $1 for 12 issues. Single copies: 10 cents.
Address all correspondence to:
VIEWS AND COMMENTS
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Negro Struggle Sharpens
The fight of the Negro people for recognition as first class... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
Design Your Own Utopia. by Chaz Bufe & Doctress Neutopia. Tucson, AZ: see Sharp Press, 2002. 20 PP.
The intellect can betray man more easily than his conscience”
— Paolo Soleri
Chaz Bufe is an anarchist writer widely published by Chaz Bufe. His self-publishing history (as See Sharp Press) is ignominious.
In Listen, Anarchist! (1986) Bufe issued what the Fifth Estate called “a hysterical parody of authoritarian anarchism” — except that it was not a parody. In it he preached a literal Ten Commandments of moral rectitude to anarchists — at the same time that he defended Processed World, a violent crypto-Marxist cult, which conspicuously violated nearly all of his p... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
I remember when laborers were paid only seven or eight shillings a-week, and their food was mostly barley cake and potatoes. They used to help themselves to swede turnips out of the fields, and to all the fuel they cooked with. They are better off now, but still it is sad enough.
The people have been driven out of the villages to seek work in the towns. In 1857 the population of this village was 595, and in 1881 it was 422-a decrease of 173 in 30 years. The number of houses is less by 24.
At the present time a farm laborer has eleven shillings a-week wages, and a house valued at from one shilling to eighteen pence a week rent. In hay-making time he gets ten shillings beer money. At wheat harvest he has £1, and during wheat tyin... (From: AnarchyArchives.)
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