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Title: Notes [Aug, 1888] Author: Freedom Press (London) Date: August, 1888 Language: en Source: Freedom: A Journal of Anarchist Socialism, Vol. 2, No. 23, online source http://www.revoltlib.com/?id=3061, retrieved on April 14, 2020.
In spite of the ever-present financial difficulties of social rebels,
the Anarchist press shows most encouraging vitality. Now and again a
paper disappears, but two or three others are continually springing up
in its place. This month we publish a list of the Socialist Anarchist
papers in Spanish to supplement the Italian list given in our June
number. In America during the last few months the German Libertus and
Fair Play have respectively sprung from the Mutualist journals Liberty
and Lucifer. The Alarm which was forced to suspend publication as a
fortnightly at Chicago, has reappeared as a weekly at New York, and is
yet more revolutionary in tone. It supplies a special need in the party
by freely opening its columns for the statement of various shades of
Anarchist opinion and the discussion of disputed points. At present an
interesting debate is going forward on the use of forge.
Our Dutch comrades have now an organ in their native tongue, the
Anarchist. In France, the brave little Idee Ouvriere at Havre, for which
Louise Michel had been lecturing when she was shot, has been obliged to
relinquish the struggle for existence, but the Paris, Anarchist groups
have brought out their Ca Ira (That will go) and a new French
fortnightly, La Critique Sociale, is published at Geneva. So goes the
fight. When wearied hands drop the banner, fresh volunteers rush forward
to bear it aloft, and slowly but steadily the new thought forges its way
through the opposing ranks of interest and prejudice.
We are glad to see that revolutionary Communism is making its way among
our Australian comrades. According to the report in the Australian
Radical of the debate of the Melbourne Anarchist Club on June 3rd, only
Comrade Andrade opposed the idea of expropriation, whilst the opener, F.
P. Upham, "stood up squarely for Anarchist Communism." The advanced
political thinkers of Melbourne and the advanced economic thinkers of
Sydney seem to be mutually influencing one another, the Socialists
advancing towards Anarchism and the Anarchists toward Communism, much as
happens in the European International Working Men's Association.
By the way, why do our comrades associate Communist-Anarchism with
individual names? It is not an idea confined to any one man, but for the
last twenty years has been the faith of the majority of Socialists in
the south of Europe and of the left wing of the Socialist party
throughout the world. It is simply the most advanced expression of the
great popular movement of our century, and finds an echo wherever the
revolt against economic, political and moral domination has begun to
deeply stir the minds of men.
On the Portsmouth Road, close of the Hind Head, there have been for the
last ten or twelve years forty acres of land surrounded by a costly and
vicious-looking iron fence behind which, at no great distance apart,
stand tall notice boards bearing the following inscription: "Notice.
Trespassers will be prosecuted according to law. By order. A. J.
Balfour, Esq., M.P." The enclosure with its profusion of brambles and
weeds suggest a picture in miniature of Ireland after "twenty years of
resolute government." When Mr. Balfour has pacified Hibernia he will no
doubt turn his attention to this little plot which Time has converted
into a veritable Tom Tidler's ground The crop of gold and silver which
is to be reaped when the warning, to trespassers have been replaced by
tempting advertisements of building-lots may be calculated to a nicety.
Forty acres at £200 per acre = £8000. Not a bad profit on the original
investment of £10 per acre, and a beautiful example of unearned
increment.