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Editorial
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Welcome to the first issue of Scottish Anarchist. We hope you
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will enjoy it.
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Scottish Anarchist is the journal of the Scottish Federation of
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Anarchists (the SFA). The SFA unites anarchists, libertarian
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socialists and autonomous revolutionaries across this fair
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nation. It does this for the express aim of increasing the
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influence of anarchist ideas and ideals in the class struggle.
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So what can the SFA do for you? Exactly what the name suggests.
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We do not see ourselves as a new set of leaders. We do not want
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you to follow us. We want you to think for yourself, feel for
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yourself, act for yourself.
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These ideas may come across as strange, even -unusual? Too long
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have the twin evils of labourism and its "radical" wean
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Bolshevism dominated working class political life. Both are
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idealogies, seeking new sheep for old shepherds. Both want to be
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-our leaders. Let us, however, fight them and their arrogance. Let us
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-arrange ourselvesDD. Some day our laughter with be stronger
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than the voices they strangle today. We aim to make that day
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arrive sooner, not later.
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But this does not mean we do not want to win hearts and minds.
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Far from it. We in the SFA want to encourage, support and
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the spirit of revolt, the class struggle. We want to be
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free, but we can only be truly free in a free world. To get that
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we need you! But the first step lies with you. Its YOUR life.
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Scottish anarchist and the SFA aim to help us to dream again, to
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fight again, to hope again by providing forums through which we
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can discuss, talk, think and ACT. By organising and resisting we
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can build the new world in the shell of the old.
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This magazine will, hopefully, aid this process. Scottish
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Anarchist aims to bring a unique viewpoint to all issues; events
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in the class war, like Timex or the struggle against the criminal
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justice bill; current trends in capital, the state, technology,
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politics; anarchist and working class history, both in Scotland
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and elsewhere on the planet; to name just a few.
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But why a unique viewpoint? Because it is revolutionary,
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something rare in the state capitalist dominated left.
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We aim to be an innovative and, more importantly, an interesting
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read. Too long have socialist ideas been written in the lyrics of
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the past. For some time stopped in 1917. But we do not aim to
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force reality into or to place ourselves upon the procustian bed
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of idealogy nor experience the dreams of those who do and watch
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them turn into the nightmare of state capitalism. We must and
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will sing anew and write the songs of the new world we carry in
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our hearts in a new language, the language of
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-tomorrow.
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And this tomorrow? Anarchy, a free society of free and equal
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individuals, who have liberated themselves from the authority and
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existence of state, capital and church and who control their own
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fates. Such is our aim, our vision. A vision that inspires our
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actions today, for anarchism is not a thing of the future, but of
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the present. It is not a matter of "demands", but of living.
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Something we can forget while surviving under capitalism.
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enjoy
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Iain MacSaorsa
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"Freedom without Socialism is privilege and injustice
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Socialism without Freedom is slavery and brutality"
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- Michael Bakunin
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Needless to say, we will welcome articles, letters, graphics,
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whatever, from any source.
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Send letters, articles to :-
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Scottish Anarchist
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c/o Glasgow Anarchist Group
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PO Box 1008
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Glasgow
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G42 8AA
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