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CND and Committee of 100
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Anti-nuclear activism
Description
An account of the resource
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) was founded in the late 1950s by Bertrand Russell and J.B Priestly. While the initial group was formed by establishment intellectuals, the CND rapidly morphed into a cross-class movement. After Britain exploded its first megaton hydrogen bomb on Christmas Island in 1957, anti-nuclear groups gained hundreds and thousands of new members. <br /><br />As a young teen, Stuart became involved in the anti-nuclear Committee of 100. A split from the ‘celebrity-and-politician dominated’ CND, the Committee of 100 mobilised against nuclear armament and militarism with direct action. This collection includes bits of ephemera and leaflets handed out on anti-nuclear demonstrations by the CND and C100. Also included in t<span>his collection is the original 'Spies for Peace' mimeograph which was handed out on the 1963 Aldermaston March. </span>
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Various
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Stuart Christie Memorial Archive (Mayday Rooms)
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1960-1970
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English
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Pirate Broadcast
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Pamphlet
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Spies for Peace Pirate Broadcast
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Anti-nuclear direct action
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Bill Davidson
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Stuart Christie Memorial Archive, Mayday Rooms
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N/D [Est, mid-1960s]
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Bulletin
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English
Anti-nuclear
Civil Disobedience
Direct Action
London
Pirate radio
Spies for Peace
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Photographs
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Photographs of Stuart's friends, comrades, and acquaintances over the years.
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Stuart Christie
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Stuart Christie and Albert Meltzer
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Photograph taken by Ken Sutherland, The Queens' Hotel, Crouch End, Hornsey, 1969
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Ken Sutherland, Stuart Christie
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1969
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Albert Meltzer
Anarchism
London
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Photographs
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Photographs of Stuart's friends, comrades, and acquaintances over the years.
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Stuart Christie
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Stuart Christie with Albert Meltzer at Anarchist Black Cross Fundraiser (Conway Hall)
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"Conway Hall, Red Lion Square (late 1960s, early 1970s): just came across this pic with Albert Meltzer at some meeting or other. Think it was taken by Phil Ruff. The tank-top was ‘de rigeur’ in those days."
Stuart Christie, July 2011
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Photo taken by Phil Ruff, uploaded by Stuart Christie
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3 May 1975
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Albert Meltzer
Anarchist Black Cross
London
Phil Ruff
Prisoners
Stuart Christie
-
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Photographs
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Photographs of Stuart's friends, comrades, and acquaintances over the years.
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Stuart Christie
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Albert Meltzer as a child
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"My old mate, Albert (Meltzer) in his Boys' Brigade uniform in Tottenham c. 1931-32 (and the Latymer School blazer). Fondly remembered!"
Stuart Christie, July 2011
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Stuart Christie
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1931-32
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Albert Meltzer
Anarchism
London
Tottenham
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9a4926e8cf02a84b6bb8b253f40f7c70
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Photographs
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Photographs of Stuart's friends, comrades, and acquaintances over the years.
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Stuart Christie
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Stuart Christie, Miguel García, and Albert Meltzer in London
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"123 Upper Tollington Park, Finsbury Park, London (early 1970s?): this seems to be the only photo of Albert Meltzer, Miguel Garcia and yours truly. I've an idea it was a police surveillance photo, clearly there were no David Baileys among them!"
Stuart adds "As you say, Dave, you can’t actually see it’s Miguel. But believe me it is (you can also tell from his signature Alpargatas – ‘Carabanchel Nikes!’). It must have been among the police photographs in the AB trial depositions. There were books and books of them, mostly scenes of crime/forensic pics, but also a few surveillance photos among them"
Stuart Christie, July 2011
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Stuart Christie
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Late 1970s
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Albert Meltzer
Anarchism
London
Miguel Garcia
Stuart Christie
Surveillance
-
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Photographs
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An account of the resource
Photographs of Stuart's friends, comrades, and acquaintances over the years.
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Stuart Christie
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Albert Meltzer Tea Party
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"123 Tollington Park, London (late ‘60s?): one of Albert Meltzer’s memorable tea parties with many of his old friends, including: left Anne Blume’, the smiling lady on the left, the partner of Ted Kavanagh, publisher of Cuddons’ Cosmoplitan Review (and co-owner with Albert of the Wooden Shoe Bookshop). Apart from being a Dada aficionado, Anna also earned a crust for a time as a lady’s maid in a Soho brothel; Albert is directly behind her (you can just see his spectacles) and the lady laughing heartily to his left is Bronia McDonald who wrote and published mimeographed erotica for 10 shillings a page (this was, after all, the 1950s and early 1960s) another sideline was distributing vintage 8mm and 16mm ‘stag’ porn’. Bronia’s partner was Desmond (‘Des’) McDonald, a professional drama busker who entertained West End Theatre queues with his stentorian Shakespeare monologues and the good-humoured banter of a snake oil salesman. Mac and Bronia lived in St Stephen’s Gardens in Notting Hill and had been active in the local campaign against West London racketeer Peter Rachman. To Bronia’s left, standing with the ubiquitous fag in his hand, is Albert’s friend and fellow printworker, Joe Thomas, a lifelong trade union activist and committed supporter of the Anton Pannekoek inspired Movement for Workers’ Councils http://www.revolutionaryhistory.co.uk/.../obituaries/joe.htm
Unfortunately I can’t for the life of me remember the names of the man and woman in the background …"
Stuart Christie, July 2011
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Stuart Christie
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Late 1960s/early 70s
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1960s
Albert Meltzer
Anarchism
London
-
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e6a620d146a0ea307dd0fac9ba2f4838
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Photographs
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Photographs of Stuart's friends, comrades, and acquaintances over the years.
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Stuart Christie
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Stuart Christie and Albert Meltzer
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"Lewisham, London (early 1980s). a cheery Albert (modelling his Sanday knitters jersey) and I on the balcony of his Lewisham high-rise. Just received it from a dear NYer friend and comrade — Hadn't seen this one before."
Stuart Christie, July 2011
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Stuart Christie
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Albert Meltzer
Anarchism
London
Stuart Christie
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Photographs
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Photographs of Stuart's friends, comrades, and acquaintances over the years.
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Stuart Christie
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Albert Meltzer's Funeral, Lewisham
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"10.30 am, May 24, 1996: A day mournful and overcast — funeral procession of Albert Meltzer (along Lee High Road) from his home in Celestial Gardens to Lewisham Crematorium. The cortege was led by Bill Stack’s ‘Southern Ragga Jazz Band’. "
Stuart Christie, July 2011
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Stuart Christie
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24 May, 1996
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Albert Meltzer
Anarchism
London
-
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8aaae09224ae90361190d1288177e5df
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Photographs
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An account of the resource
Photographs of Stuart's friends, comrades, and acquaintances over the years.
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Stuart Christie
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Les Prince, Stefi Browner, and Stuart Christie, Camden Town Hall (1978)
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Anarchist Bookfair, Cienfuegos Press Bookstall..
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Stuart Christie
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1978
Anarchist Bookfair
Cienfuegos Press
CNT-AIT
London
-
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Photographs
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An account of the resource
Photographs of Stuart's friends, comrades, and acquaintances over the years.
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Stuart Christie
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Ross Flett smoking in Hornsey
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"Ross Flett having a wee smoke before going out to work at Bassetts sweetie factory, keeping the 'Soor Ploom' machine up to speed (Photo: Ken Sutherland)"
Stuart Christie, July 2011
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Stuart Christie, Ken Sutherland
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Anarchism
London
-
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Postcards from Spain
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Spanish anti-Francoist resistance
Description
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A collection of ephemera, pamphlets, photos and personal correspondence on the anarchist and anti-Francoist resistance in Spain.
This collection includes letters written by Stuart from the Spanish prison of Alcalá de Henares in 1967 and received by his friend, Ross Flett. Stuart was transferred from Carabanchel prison to Alcalá following an aborted escape plan with his co-conspirator, cellmate and CNT member Luís Andrés Edo. These letters include references to his campaign for release, letter smuggling, the First of May Group and the machine gunning of Grosvenor Square.
Persons mentioned: Luís Andrés Edo, Juan Busquets, Alain Pecunia,
Groups and publications: Syndicalist Workers' Federation, Freedom, Anarchy, the International Times.
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Stuart Christie
Ross Flett
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06/04/1967-09/09/1967
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Scanned document
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English
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Christie-Carballo Defence Committee march to the Spanish Embassy (1964)
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unknown
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30 August 1964
London
prison
Protest
Solidarity
Spain
-
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70629963acbe3306ec7089cca70a8fb2
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Photographs
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An account of the resource
Photographs of Stuart's friends, comrades, and acquaintances over the years.
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Stuart Christie
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Stuart Christie, Tottenham Lane, London (1969)
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Unknown
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1969
Anarchist Black Cross
London
Post-prison
-
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CND and Committee of 100
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Anti-nuclear activism
Description
An account of the resource
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) was founded in the late 1950s by Bertrand Russell and J.B Priestly. While the initial group was formed by establishment intellectuals, the CND rapidly morphed into a cross-class movement. After Britain exploded its first megaton hydrogen bomb on Christmas Island in 1957, anti-nuclear groups gained hundreds and thousands of new members. <br /><br />As a young teen, Stuart became involved in the anti-nuclear Committee of 100. A split from the ‘celebrity-and-politician dominated’ CND, the Committee of 100 mobilised against nuclear armament and militarism with direct action. This collection includes bits of ephemera and leaflets handed out on anti-nuclear demonstrations by the CND and C100. Also included in t<span>his collection is the original 'Spies for Peace' mimeograph which was handed out on the 1963 Aldermaston March. </span>
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Various
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Stuart Christie Memorial Archive (Mayday Rooms)
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1960-1970
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English
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CND Easter March, 1964
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Various
Date
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30 March, 1964
Format
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Leaflet
Language
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English
Civil Disobedience
CND
Demonstration
London
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CND and Committee of 100
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The topic of the resource
Anti-nuclear activism
Description
An account of the resource
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) was founded in the late 1950s by Bertrand Russell and J.B Priestly. While the initial group was formed by establishment intellectuals, the CND rapidly morphed into a cross-class movement. After Britain exploded its first megaton hydrogen bomb on Christmas Island in 1957, anti-nuclear groups gained hundreds and thousands of new members. <br /><br />As a young teen, Stuart became involved in the anti-nuclear Committee of 100. A split from the ‘celebrity-and-politician dominated’ CND, the Committee of 100 mobilised against nuclear armament and militarism with direct action. This collection includes bits of ephemera and leaflets handed out on anti-nuclear demonstrations by the CND and C100. Also included in t<span>his collection is the original 'Spies for Peace' mimeograph which was handed out on the 1963 Aldermaston March. </span>
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Various
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Stuart Christie Memorial Archive (Mayday Rooms)
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1960-1970
Language
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English
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Aldermaston to London CND March, 1964
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Various
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1964
Format
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Leaflet
Language
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English
Aldermaston
Civil Disobedience
CND
London
Protest
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CND and Committee of 100
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Anti-nuclear activism
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The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) was founded in the late 1950s by Bertrand Russell and J.B Priestly. While the initial group was formed by establishment intellectuals, the CND rapidly morphed into a cross-class movement. After Britain exploded its first megaton hydrogen bomb on Christmas Island in 1957, anti-nuclear groups gained hundreds and thousands of new members. <br /><br />As a young teen, Stuart became involved in the anti-nuclear Committee of 100. A split from the ‘celebrity-and-politician dominated’ CND, the Committee of 100 mobilised against nuclear armament and militarism with direct action. This collection includes bits of ephemera and leaflets handed out on anti-nuclear demonstrations by the CND and C100. Also included in t<span>his collection is the original 'Spies for Peace' mimeograph which was handed out on the 1963 Aldermaston March. </span>
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Stuart Christie Memorial Archive (Mayday Rooms)
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1960-1970
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English
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CND leaflet
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Various
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Leaflet
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English
Anti-nuclear
Civil Disobedience
CND
London
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CND and Committee of 100
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Anti-nuclear activism
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The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) was founded in the late 1950s by Bertrand Russell and J.B Priestly. While the initial group was formed by establishment intellectuals, the CND rapidly morphed into a cross-class movement. After Britain exploded its first megaton hydrogen bomb on Christmas Island in 1957, anti-nuclear groups gained hundreds and thousands of new members. <br /><br />As a young teen, Stuart became involved in the anti-nuclear Committee of 100. A split from the ‘celebrity-and-politician dominated’ CND, the Committee of 100 mobilised against nuclear armament and militarism with direct action. This collection includes bits of ephemera and leaflets handed out on anti-nuclear demonstrations by the CND and C100. Also included in t<span>his collection is the original 'Spies for Peace' mimeograph which was handed out on the 1963 Aldermaston March. </span>
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Various
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Stuart Christie Memorial Archive (Mayday Rooms)
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1960-1970
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English
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'Remember Hiroshima', CND
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Various
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n/d
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Leaflet
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English
Anti nuclear
Civil Disobedience
CND
London
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Photographs
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Photographs of Stuart's friends, comrades, and acquaintances over the years.
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Stuart Christie
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Stuart Christie and Albert Meltzer, Crouch End Broadway
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"1968, Queen’s Hotel, Crouch End Broadway: Albert Meltzer (born London, January 7, 1920; died, Weston-Super-Mare, North Somerset, May 7, 1996), anarchist printworker, writer, troublemaker and tireless anarchist activist, one of the most important figures in twentieth century British anarchism. (Photo by Ken Sutherland)
Albert Meltzer was one of the most enduring and respected torchbearers of the international anarchist movement in the second half of the twentieth century. His sixty-year commitment to the vision and practice of anarchism survived both the collapse of the Revolution and Civil War in Spain and the Second World War; he helped fuel the libertarian impetus of the 1960s and 1970s and steer it through the reactionary challenges of the Thatcherite 1980s and post-Cold War 1990s.
Fortunately, before he died, Albert managed to finish his autobiography, I Couldn't Paint Golden Angels, a pungent, no-punches pulled, Schvejkian account of a radical twentieth century enemy of humbug and injustice. A life-long trade union activist, he fought Mosley's Blackshirts in the battle of Cable Street, played an active role in supporting the anarchist communes and militias in the Spanish Revolution and the pre-war German anti-Nazi resistance, was a key player in the Cairo Mutiny [after] the Second World War, helped rebuild the post-war anti-Franco resistance in Spain and the international anarchist movement. His achievements include Cuddon's Cosmopolitan Review, an occasional satirical review first published in 1965 and named after Ambrose Cuddon, possibly the first consciously anarchist publisher in the modern sense, the founding of the Anarchist Black Cross, a prisoners' aid and ginger group and the paper which grew out of it - Black Flag.
However, perhaps Albert's most enduring legacy is the Kate Sharpley Library ( http://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/), probably the most comprehensive anarchist archive in Britain.
Born in 1920 into a mixed marriage in the London of Orwell's Down and Out in which there were few homes for heroes, but many heroes fit only for homes, Albert was soon enrolled into political life as a private in the awkward squad. His decision to go down the road of revolutionary politics came, he claimed, in 1935 at the age of 15 - as a direct result of taking boxing lessons. Boxing was considered a “common” sport, frowned upon by the governors of his Edmonton school and the prospective Labour MP for the area, the virulently anti-boxing Dr Edith Summerskill. Perhaps it was the boxer's legs and footwork he acquired as a youth which gave him his lifelong ability to bear his considerable bulk. It certainly induced a lifetime's habit of shrewd assessment of his own and opponents' respective strengths and weaknesses.
The streetwise, pugilistic but bookish schoolboy attended his first anarchist meeting in 1935 where he first drew attention to himself by contradicting the speaker, Emma Goldman, by his defence of boxing. He soon made friends with the ageing anarchist militants of a previous generation and became a regular and dynamic participant in public meetings. The anarchist-led resistance to the Franco uprising in Spain in 1936 gave a major boost to the movement in Britain and Albert's activities ranged from organising solidarity appeals, to producing propaganda, working with Captain J R White to organise illegal arms shipments from Hamburg to the CNT in Spain and acting as a contact for the Spanish anarchist intelligence services in Britain.
Albert's early working career ranged from fairground promoter, a theatre-hand and occasional film extra. Albert appeared briefly in Leslie Howard's Pimpernel Smith, an anti-Nazi film that did not follow the line of victory but rather of revolution in Europe. The plot called for communist prisoners, but by the time Howard came to make it, in 1940, Stalin had invaded Finland, and the script was changed to anarchist prisoners. Howard decided that none of the actors playing the anarchists seemed real and insisted that real anarchists, including Albert, be used as extras in the concentration camp scenes. One consequence of this meeting was Howard's introduction to Hilda Monte, a prominent but unsung hero of the German anarchist resistance to Hitler, which may have contributed to his subsequent death en route to Lisbon.
Albert's later working years were spent mainly as a second-hand bookseller and, finally, as a Fleet Street copytaker. His last employer was, strangely enough, The Daily Telegraph.
While by nature a remarkably gentle, generous and gracious soul, Albert's championship of anarchism as a revolutionary working class movement brought him into direct and sustained conflict with the neo-liberals who came to dominate the movement in the late 1940s. Just as people are drawn to totalitarian movements like fascism and communism because of their implicit violence and ideological certainties, many otherwise politically incompatible people were drawn to anarchism because of its militant tolerance. Albert was vehemently opposed to the re-packaging and marketing of anarchism as a broad church for academia-oriented quietists and single-issue pressure groups. It was ironical that one of this group, the late Professor George Woodcock, should publicly dismiss anarchism as a spent historical force in 1962, blissfully unaware of the post-Butskellite storm which was about to break and the influence anarchist and libertarian ideas would have on this and generations yet to come. It was his championship of class-struggle anarchism, coupled with his scepticism of the student-led New Left in the 1960s which earned Albert his reputation for sectarianism. Paradoxically, as friend and Black Flag cartoonist Phil Ruff points out in his introduction to Albert's autobiography, it was the discovery of class struggle anarchism through the “sectarianism” of Black Flag under Albert's editorship that convinced so many anarchists of his and subsequent generations to become active in the movement'. The dynamic and logic of Albert's so-called sectarianism continued to bring countless young people into the anarchist movement then and for a further thirty years until his untimely stroke in April 1996.
It is difficult to write a public appreciation of such an inscrutably private man. Albert Meltzer seemed often like a member of a tug-of-war team; you never quite knew if he was there simply to make up numbers or if he was the anchor-man of the whole operation. To Albert, all privilege was the enemy of human freedom; not just the privileges of capitalists, kings, bureaucrats and politicians but also the petty aspirations of opportunists and careerists among the rebels themselves. Much of what he contributed to the lives of those who knew him must go unrecorded, but he will be remembered and talked about fondly for many years to come by those of us whose lives he touched."
Stuart Christie, July 2011
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29 September 1969
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Albert Meltzer
London
Stuart Christie
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CND and Committee of 100
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Anti-nuclear activism
Description
An account of the resource
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) was founded in the late 1950s by Bertrand Russell and J.B Priestly. While the initial group was formed by establishment intellectuals, the CND rapidly morphed into a cross-class movement. After Britain exploded its first megaton hydrogen bomb on Christmas Island in 1957, anti-nuclear groups gained hundreds and thousands of new members. <br /><br />As a young teen, Stuart became involved in the anti-nuclear Committee of 100. A split from the ‘celebrity-and-politician dominated’ CND, the Committee of 100 mobilised against nuclear armament and militarism with direct action. This collection includes bits of ephemera and leaflets handed out on anti-nuclear demonstrations by the CND and C100. Also included in t<span>his collection is the original 'Spies for Peace' mimeograph which was handed out on the 1963 Aldermaston March. </span>
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Stuart Christie Memorial Archive (Mayday Rooms)
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1960-1970
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English
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'Advice to marchers', CND/C100, 1965
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n/d
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Leaflet
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English
Anti-nuclear
Civil Disobedience
CND
Committee of 100
London
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British Anarchism, 1960-1968
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Ephemera, posters, and periodicals produced by the British anarchist movement in the 1960s. This collection includes copies of <em><a href="https://freedompress.org.uk/">Freedom </a></em>and <em>Anarchy. Both</em> publications were published by Freedom Press, the oldest and largest anarchist publishing house in Britain, with its roots in the continental anarchist emigre networks of the 1880s.<br /><br />During the 1960s, Freedom became a source of intense conflict within the British anarchist movement. Vernon Richards, the owner and editor of the publishing house, was at the centre of the controversy. Following the garroting of <a href="https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/vhhp7d">two Spanish anarchists</a> in 1963, <span> Richards wrote a column which argued that Franco's tourist boom was beneficial for Spain's working class. This was completely at odds with the tourism boycott supported by the (largely) exiled <em>Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT), Spain's anarcho-syndicalist trade union</em>. <br /> </span><br />Alongside <em>Freedom</em>, this collection also features copies of <em>Direct Action</em>, the paper of the Syndicalist Workers' Federation (the British contingent of the <em>International Workers' Association</em>). Contrary to the line taken by Richards, the SWF supported the CNT's boycott of Spanish tourism. It was during the peak of the anti-tourism campaign, in the summer of 1964, when Stuart Christie moved to Notting Hill in London, which at the time had become an important local hub for CNT exiles. During his stay in London, the anti-tourism campaign in Britain escalated to include forms of direct action – mostly breaking windows - against Spanish travel agencies. <br /><br />Through the SWF, Stuart was introduced to anarchist brothers Bernardo and Salvador (‘Salva’) Gurucharri. Salvador had participated in various clandestine missions to Francoist Spain and had only recently arrived in London following his release from Fresnes prison in Paris. In 1963, during the founding conference of the Anarchist Federation of Britain, Stuart suggested to Salva that he would like to ‘play a direct part in the resistance movement’ and was told to be ‘ready to travel on twenty-four hours notice’.
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Various
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English
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'The Greatest Circus of The Year', Anti-election poster (1964)
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1964
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Poster
Abstention
Anarchist Federation
Anti-election
Anti-state
Direct Action
London
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Postcards from Spain
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Spanish anti-Francoist resistance
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A collection of ephemera, pamphlets, photos and personal correspondence on the anarchist and anti-Francoist resistance in Spain.
This collection includes letters written by Stuart from the Spanish prison of Alcalá de Henares in 1967 and received by his friend, Ross Flett. Stuart was transferred from Carabanchel prison to Alcalá following an aborted escape plan with his co-conspirator, cellmate and CNT member Luís Andrés Edo. These letters include references to his campaign for release, letter smuggling, the First of May Group and the machine gunning of Grosvenor Square.
Persons mentioned: Luís Andrés Edo, Juan Busquets, Alain Pecunia,
Groups and publications: Syndicalist Workers' Federation, Freedom, Anarchy, the International Times.
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Stuart Christie
Ross Flett
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06/04/1967-09/09/1967
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Scanned document
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English
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Christie-Carballo Defence Committee Meeting, London (1964)
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Archivo: <a href="https://fal.cnt.es/">Fundación Anselmo Lorenzo</a>, Madrid
Anti-Franco
Carballo
International solidarity
London
Prisoner defence
Spain