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Title: Notes [Sep, 1889] Author: Freedom Press (London) Date: September, 1889 Language: en Source: Freedom: A Journal of Anarchist Socialism, Vol. 3, No. 34, online source http://www.revoltlib.com/?id=3081, retrieved on April 14, 2020.
The information given in the May and July numbers of Freedom concerning
the position of affairs in Spain, we are now able to supplement from a
letter we have just received from an Anarchist Communist at Barcelona.
Our correspondent says that Spanish parties may roughly he divided into
two classes. those that require an Army, a Judicial system and a
Government, and those who desire none of these things. The first class,
consisting of all the bourgeois parties and one section of the Socialist
party, are as follows: The Carlists, whose principles are God, Country
and King, Absolute Monarchy and the Denial of all Freedom, the
Conservatives, who are now in power, uphold the Constitutional
Hereditary Monarchy and Restricted Suffrage, and tolerate all forms of
religious worship. This party allows greater freedom to the press than
the Carlists would do, and permits meetings in the theaters, although
the consent of the authorities to such meetings has to be obtained arid
the police are always present. The United Republicans and the Federal
Republicans uphold the Rights of the Individual, Universal Suffrage and
Absolute Freedom of Worship The Regionalist, or Home Rule Party is in
favor of the complete political an administrative freedom of each
district or region, and is opposed to any central political governing
body. The Socialist section included among the Authoritarian is of
course the "Workmen's Party," about which our Collectivist Anarchist
Correspondent has given full particulars, Tierra y Libertad, the
communist organ, which was announced in our May Issue as dead, has been
revived. The Collectivist Anarchists ax said to be strongest in the
provinces of Andalucia and Catalonia.
The report which we give our readers in the Supplement this month will,
we hope. serve to stimulate thought and clear away difficulties in the
minds of those who dimly perceive the truth of Anarchy. With the many
points raised on each side we intend to deal at some length in future
issues of Freedom. Meanwhile we heartily wish long life to our
opponents, they furnish us with texts to hang our arguments on,
strengthen our position, arid increase our numbers.
As we go to press a series of strikes are taking place in London, most
of which have been inaugurated in support of the dock laborers who
initiated the struggle. As a monthly paper Socialist, will not expect us
to give news of a movement which L., already been exhaustively dealt
with by the daily press. it is rather our business to comment upon and
point out the tendencies of the events which have been and are taking
place. This we intend to do as regards this strike movement next month.
Meanwhile it is unnecessary for us to say that we are heart arid soul
with the strikers.
Printed and published for the proprietors by C. M. Wilson. at the Labor
Press Limited (Cooperative Society), 28 Gray's Inn Road, London, W.C.