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