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EDITORIAL
This is our first edition of a new quarterly anarchist paper. So
why bother? Surely the Revolution is just a dream, a 19th century
utopian myth? How can we have a society without laws and rules?
It would just be chaos, a social jungle from which the strong
would once more emerge to lord it over the weak.
Like many words anarchism has many meanings to many different
people, in a similar way to words such as socialism, democracy
and freedom. To those people who identify with the word and the
tradition it represents, it does not mean no rules but no rulers
or bosses. Anarchism has always been more concerned with justice
than the letter of the law, but anyone who gets involved with
anarchist groups will soon find out that it is not a case of
anything goes, even if the rules are not always clearly stated.
The bottom line is treating people as equals, and in the way we
would like to be treated ourselves.
While there is one part of the anarchist tradition which seeks
freedom from authority through an individual solution, this is
not what most committed anarchists would regard as "serious"
anarchism. The main tradition is one of collective organisation
and struggle against the state and the bosses.
That is what this paper is about, our struggle together to be
free and equal.
It is intended to be a forum for debate at all levels, from the
nitty gritty of particular campaigns to broad theoretical
articles about the meaning of life, the universe and everything.
So if you,ve got something to say about a particular struggle or
the whole goddam mess the world's in and what it means, write
to:-
the anarchist po box 332 albert st brisbane 4002