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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 People's Will', Scottish Federation of Anarchists
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1967/8
Desertion
Direct Action
Mutiny
Sabotage
Scotland
Strikes
-
https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/f4d4e2ceb2f1c384bf28a87c3c80f24f.pdf
b301e97128a612a123833fbf7058039d
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Cienfuegos Press
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Various
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After Stuart was acquitted by jury in the Angry Brigade trial, he made the decision, following a ‘tip off’ from a special branch officer, to leave London. In 1974, after a judicious period of exile in rural Yorkshire, Stuart and Brenda headed to Orkney, where their daughter, Branwen, was born. Here, with the help of Brenda, Meltzer and others, he set up the ‘Cienfuegos’ Publishing House, where he translated and published a number of elusive Spanish texts. Prisoner solidarity work with the Black Cross would also continue. By the mid-1970s, the Anarchist Black Cross and Cienfuegos Press had taken on a much broader internationalist remit, aiding political prisoners with parcels, letters and donations not only in Spain, but in France, West Germany, Italy, and Northern Ireland.
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Alexander Goodfellow, 'A Visit to the Island of Sanday' (1978)
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Various
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<a href="https://thesparrowsnest.org.uk/">The Sparrow's Nest</a>, Nottingham
Date
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1978
Cienfuegos
Orkney
Scotland
Self-management
Utopia
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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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Anti-Polaris Week, Scottish Committee of 100
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Various
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n/d, 1963-64
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Leaflet
Language
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English
Anti-Polaris
Anti-War
Committee of 100
Glasgow
New Left
Scotland
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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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Cienfuegos Press at the County Show Day, Kirkwall (1979)
Description
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Stuart Christie: 'Kirkwall, County Show Day, August 1979: We didn’t have a tent for ‘The Free-Winged Eagle’ (given the ever-present possibility of rain on show day) so we rang Territorial Army HQ in Inverness (who always had an army recruitment stand at the show) and told them we were an Orcadian 'self-help group' and could they help us out by lending us a tent. Not only did they kindly agree to provide us with a tent, they also erected it for us — right next to their marquee (see the TA flag). You can imagine their surprise — and embarrassment — when we turned up with anarchist flags, badges, records, magazines and of course anti-militarist and ‘Troops Out’ publications. Mind you, the OC handled it all very gracefully, but no doubt they learned to ask a few more questions in subsequent years. What larks, Pip.'
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Stuart Christie
Anti-nuclear
Anti-War
Cienfuegos Press
Free Winged Eagle
Orkney
Scotland
Troops Out
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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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George Williamson, 'Scots Against War' (SAW) and Secretary of the Scottish Committee of 100.
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"Another of the many 'events' organised by the Scottish Committee of 100 in July 1963 was a two-month march from Glasgow to London via Dunfermline on the Firth of Forth, carrying a 24-foot long cardboard model of a Polaris rocket, which had been made in Josh Macrae’s basement. It was an anti-nuclear re-run of the Jarrow March of the 1930s.
As a Glasgow police inspector drily observed to George Williamson, the organiser of the march, ‘Ah canny help but note that this march tae London is heading due north. Is therr somethin’ ahm missin’ here?’
Of the 35 people who started out, I believe only 5 completed the march all the way on foot, in early September. One of those was Bill Beveridge, but I can’t remember who the others were. George Williamson usually went ahead by bus (to organise accommodation and refreshments at the next stop; a feature of the trip, which was celebrated in a commemorative song at the time).
‘On the Glasgow march to London
There were 24 of us
Twenty-three were marching
And George was on the bus.’
Personally, I didn’t make it beyond Falkirk, the first night’s stop, as I had to be back at work on the Monday. Our arrival in the town had been heralded by the press, and among those waiting to meet us were the local female ‘beatniks’, with beehive hairdos, stiletto heels, pencil skirts and black PVC shortie coats.
On one occasion, in the autumn of 1963 I think it was, I went out to Hamilton to look for George for some reason to do with the 'Scots Against War'. George wasn’t at home; he had gone off to the Locarno dance hall that night in search of 'executive and cultural relief' from the organisational and emotional demands made on him by the Glasgow Committee of 100.
George’s mum, Annie, a rather douce and proper West of Scotland lady who did not entirely approve of George’s activities, invited me in for a cup of tea and a chat. Apparently I made such an impression on her — one so young going on so seriously about Spain and Franco — she said ‘Dae ye no’ think ye’d be better aff at the dancin’, son?’
George told me later that after the news broke of my arrest in Spain she gave a deep sigh and said: ‘Ah wish tae Gawd that wee boy hud taken ma advice and gawn tae the dancin’ an’ fun’ a nice wee girl instead!"
Stuart Christie, July 2011
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Stuart Christie
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Photograph
Anti-War
Glasgow
Pacifism
Peace Movement
Scotland
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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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Map of Rosyth dockyard, Scottish Committee of 100
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Various
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Leaflet
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English
Committee of 100
Direct Action
non-violence
Sabotage
Scotland
Strike
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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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Sabotage, Civil Disobedience, action against recruitment
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Pamphlet/Bulletin
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Title
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Scots Against War: 'Is Sabotage The Answer?'
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Direct action against nuclear bases
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A note from the depositor, Bill Davidson: 'It was common practice for small groups, such as Spies for Peace and Scots Against War, to print from stencils on Roneo duplicators and in some cases even typewritten using carbon duplicating paper. In many ways it was the anti-nuclear and protest movement of the early 1960’s form of Samizdat'.
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Bill Davidson
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Stuart Christie Memorial Archive, Mayday Rooms
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n/d (Est, 1963/64)
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Pamphlet/Bulletin
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English
Direct Action
Faslane
New Left
Sabotage
Scotland
Scots Against War
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https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/a70ac2c345baf8bf55e1e60c10f65d87.pdf
575c2d6a7f03c8baa4e18e9f7099ccc5
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Solidarity: Scotland
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Solidarity was a libertarian socialist group founded in 1960 which grew out out of rank-and-file shop steward networks and the emerging anti-nuclear movement. Stuart joined the Scottish chapter of Solidarity after tearing up his membership card of the Labour Party in 1961/2. Andrew Stevens' <a href="https://www.3ammagazine.com/politica/2004/apr/interview_stuart_christie.html">3am interview</a> with Stuart in 2004 explores the broader context of Solidarity and the activity Stuart was involved in.
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Solidarity - Scotland - Vol 2, No.2, 1966
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Various
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<a href="https://libcom.org/">https://libcom.org/ </a>
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July 1966
Amsterdam
Housing activism
Industrial action
internationalism
Rent strike
Scotland
Strike
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c5660c161167325d5a93f5c553ffe3ab
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Solidarity: Scotland
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An account of the resource
Solidarity was a libertarian socialist group founded in 1960 which grew out out of rank-and-file shop steward networks and the emerging anti-nuclear movement. Stuart joined the Scottish chapter of Solidarity after tearing up his membership card of the Labour Party in 1961/2. Andrew Stevens' <a href="https://www.3ammagazine.com/politica/2004/apr/interview_stuart_christie.html">3am interview</a> with Stuart in 2004 explores the broader context of Solidarity and the activity Stuart was involved in.
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Solidarity - Scotland - Vol 2, No.3, 1966
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Various
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<a href="https://libcom.org/">https://libcom.org/</a>
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November 1966
Hungary
Industrial action
Rank and file
Scotland
Trade Unions
Workers Councils
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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
Language
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English
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The CND Charter
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Various
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n/d
Format
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Form/leaflet
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English
Anti-nuclear
Anti-War
CND
Scotland