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THE EAST LONDON SECTION’S LONDON PSYCHOGEOGRAPHICAL ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER (ELPAN) This PDF file contains scans of the complete series of the East London Section’s London Psychogeographical Association Newsletter (ELPAN) – originally self-published in the United Kingdom between Imbolc 1993 and Tahbrain 399 – plus its occasional extra inserts and other related material. Revised and Expanded Second Edition published on 4 March 2021. First published on 16 September 2018 under the title The London Psychogeographical Association Newsletter. Thanks to Big Tony, JP, Mehdi El Hajoui,[1] and Rob Marsden for contributions to this project, that was compiled/published by Mark Reeve.[2] No copyright or other rights on the material contained in this PDF file are implied or claimed by any of the above-named five persons. This is a noncommercial project that has been made available for free. NB: The ELPAN No.20 does not seem to have been issued. See the undated letter from the London Psychogeographical Association’s Fabian Tompsett to Rob Marsden of Parasol Post, reproduced below: It reads: “Dear Rob, Thanks for the letter. I am afraid No.20 is not ready yet, and indeed we have abandoned plans to produce it. Meanwhile, it would be excellent if you could come down for the Reclaim the Stars on June 21st.[3] Accommodation could be arranged. Yrs Fabian.” The “last mailing” mentioned on page 4 of ELPAN No.21 also does not seem to have been issued. Items that were not included in the first edition have been added at the end of this present edition in (probably) chronological order. NOTES [1] https://situationnisteblog.wordpress.com [2] E-mail: mark-reeve@hotmail.com / Website: https://markreeveother.blogspot.com [3] Possibly connected to the South London Reclaim The Streets party on 6 June 1998. See Disconaut AAA: Association of Autonomous Astronauts, Everybody is a Star newsletter No.3 (Summer 1998): https://history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2018/06/reclaim-streets-brixton-party-june2018.html

P"bli'hud by the East London Section of the LorrJon Ry"hoguographical Association VICTORY TO THE DONGAS W.'"" ,"L Af t"" thi"ty fi'" glorious yu"., of ,rooexistence, tho Lorrdott P.y.hog"og..phi""l Associetion ig *"ll "t J t"uly LaJ.. Th. LPA wBs fo,rrrd"J on the outskirts of thu It"li"n mountain village of Cosio J'Artiscie. The narne was iovented Juring converged on TwYford cou.se o[ Down. Some of these were up to 20ft deep. tlr. th" of snification "orrfut"rr"" the Lte"nation.l .i[oturent for an Imeginist B.uh"* onJ th. L"ttti"t" Internationale to'increase' the internationJi"- of th. event. Rolph R"*"y (bo"t W.k"fiuld r954) was its lr" represeotative "ltLo"gh l'.J li'"J in Italy for y..... H. p.op""d . ""r."J plan to Jye the Venice Logoon a t.ight -lou". This h"d two apparently different pu"poses: to ree Lo, the population reacted, "td "". -""* of otudying the [lo*s anJ otagnations of th" water. The a.tual'unification' of th" IMIB, LI .oJ non-existent LPA took pl*" o' zEthJuly 1957. Aft- vote of fire h " favour, two against anJ one abstention, c fusion oI g"o,rpo "rrJ th" fo,rtJing of tLe Situationist International *"" p"o.loi-"d. Th" ..ri""l of th. LPA "o"""tpooJs to the increaning decay in British ittd""J of thu ",.hrrr", ""rd .litu. It h"" British ".rling f,een, in fact, an histo.ical inevitability. {1, J= The Dongas are a tribe of about 40 people who have settled in Twyford Down. They have named themselves after the ancient trackways which st !, cr !< E> aro ax o-= ='O ?D o& o= E3 g They have gradually 0l come together over a year, are mostly under 25 and have few possessions beyond a goat, an axe and some bits of canvas, bedding and rudimentary cooking utensils. One of them told a reporter "call us indigenous Albion, if you like. We have chosen this. We are passionate about Life." (Guardian, 15th Dec) On 9th December, the day of the Lunar Eclipse the Ministry of Transport and Tarmac joined forces mounted a vicious attack on them in pursuit of that notorious plece of vandalism known as the Winchester Bypass. After Winchester College successfully took the Dongas to court (the college made a cool f300,000 by selling land given to them to protect from development), 80 security men with bulldozers steamed into the pathways ripping uP trees. The Dongas resisted as much as they could, f throwing themselves in front of bulldozers and December. It is clear that climbing trees. such reformist organisations will always back off even beforrt Push Bellamy said: comes to shove. many protests around the world in some very against the Hippies", is a As Professor David "I have been in hairy countries and have never seen such unreasonable force used, especiallY on women. These boYs were putting the boot and fist in and theY didn't care if they were men or women. There were ministry people Meanwhile the "War part of a maior propaganda effort to isolate and destroy some of the most intransigent elements who refuse to subordinate their lives to the latest money-making schemes of big business. The danger of trusting such reformist groups can be readily seen in the there but no one tried to revolting Glastonbury security men went Festival at Stonehenge call them off. The completely oYer the top." (Guardian, 15th Dec) Festival, whereby the Free was diverted up the garden path. At first an entrance fee While David Bellamy was extorted on the 'outraged observer', the Friends of the Earth washed their hands of the to charity, but the adopted the pose of matter. Eventually seventy police were drafted in to mop up the last of the resistance on 12th grounds that it was going travellers were allowed in free. Word got round, so others felt they also had no need to pay. (Continued back page)

The tlllinchester Trip The pamphlet Ihe Great Conjunctionis available lor t2 (+ 30p Postage and packing) from Unpopular Books, Box 15, 138 Kingsland High Street, London E8 2NS The LPA trip to Winchester proved to be an eminent success. Six of us met up at Waterloo station at 10:00 am. Soon we were speeding through the forward and tell visitors about the building and its history. Placed suburbs of South West London centrally, underneath the tower is the tomb of William Rufus. Around this central area there is a screen upon embroiled in various discussions. Our pamphlet The Great Conjunction had been picked up from the printers the which are ancient chests which contain the bones of various old monarchs of England, primarily Saxon. night before, so those who had not seen it had a chance to peruse it. When we arrived at Winchester we noticed the large stone placed outside the railway station, and posed for photographs around it. Our first port of call was the Great Hall, where there is an enorrnous Round Table attached to the wall. We also a Lady Chapel which had somepioures wanted to be. connected witlr Eton College. it fell within an area in which At7 49 a firework rocket was set off in the valley below from the vicinity of the Water Meadows near the college. We do not know who did this, nor were walking around the upper ledge. We gave their parents a copy of our booklet, and proceeded to the cathedral. On the way we stepped inm the church of St Lawrence, as the Bishop is not take long to look over this small church, and soon we were in front of We moved on to the Wykeham Arms, a nearby pub named after William of Wykeham. Here we met the seventh member of our party who had driven down from the midlands. This was a relief because we could now put our camping gear in their car. We then made a tour of the college the much more impressive Cathedral. as twilight descended. In the unlit chapel, the gloom helped rekindle the outlines of *re previous cathefual. atmosphere of the gloomy middle ages which had given birth to this institution. On the ground to the north is the Once inside, there are several local people who are only too happy to step Having parked the car we had to walk along the verge in the rain and dark avoiding the scud from passing lorries. After scrambling down the embankment. we found a tunnel under the road, thus making it unnecessary for us to cross the bypass. we scrambled up the muddy hill, and found the clump at the top and then the maze. We traced our way into the maze and then rested in the middle. photography was banned. We proceeded to the Buttery Cross. Two children had climbed up it and Catherine, of whom more latter. It did conversation. This meant that the four remaining intrepid adventures could Winchester Bypass and had to negotiate several traffic jams till we got were we magistrates court. A policeman Roisia's Cross, along with St. had decided !o while away some time in various monarchs, some of which were defaced during t}te commonwealth, and promptly came out and informed us that It was interesting that this church was dedicated to the same Saint as featured prominently in the cave at It had started to rain and two of our party decided to return to London. A third had met up with an old &iend and college, a collection of paintings of the back of this hall. As we walked down into the town we tried to take a photograph of the rose which adorned the centre of a square outside the inauguration. Wavell is buried here. readily fit in the car, and set of for SL Catherine's Hill. Unfortunately we turned the wrong way on the There is a chantry dedicated to Bishop Wykeham, the founder of the ventured through to the little garden at obliged to, when proceeding to his middle, a unique architectural feature. We also toured the cloisters which surround a separate chantry in the exactly why. However we considered it connected with our own exploits. r#e then ook another of our party back to the railway station, as they did not want to camp overnight. The car keys had been locked inside the car, but with a bit of ingenuity we were able to get in. Thanks to a delayed train he was bumped intJo our comrade who had been catching up on old times with their friend, and so had company on ihe joumey back. After sampling some ale in a local pub, the remaining trio returned to St. Catherine's Hill to camp overnight. The weather had cleared up and in the morning we were greeted by bright sunshine.

ASTRO INFO Chains of Empire English Public Schools, Masonic Cabalism, Historical Causality, and Imperial Clubdom _ tlaving discovered the imminent conjunction on 27th November 1992 (as discussed in The Great Conjunction), we were very interested !o see what would come to pass on ttrat day. Also we were aware of the impending Lunar eclipse on Wednesday, 9th December, and the Perihelion of the Swift-'iuttle Comet on Saturday, 12th December. We mote the following events: 27ttr November: The Queen publicly agrees that she will pay income tax. Fire at the Hofburg, Vienna. This is rhe imperial palace of the tfupsburgs, where they keep the paraphernalia of the Order of the Golden Fleece, Pietro Strozzi's facsimile of the Veronica made in 1617, and the..Spear of Destiny", allegedly that which was used to stab Christ on the Cross as part of his triple death. Princess Stephanie of Monaco gave birth to a baby. 9th December: Private security working for the Ministry of Transport and Tarmac stafled a vicious a$ack on the Dongas, at Twyford Down, which lies alongside St. Catherine's Hill. The separation of Prince Charles and princess Diana is announced. 12th December: Princess Anne remarries. _ When ttre Queen spoke of her Annus Horribilis, she mentioned that it was term coined by a correspondent. Such terminology reminds us of Willy Lilly, the seventeenth century asrologer who called the year 1652, Annus Tenebrosus. (It-was for him, he got thrown injail ror his anti-presbyterian propaganda.) This makes it clear to those who have doubted it, that the Royal family uses astrologers. Thus atso the timing of the agreement to pay tax, the separation and the remarriage fit an obvious pattem. Also it is known that such politicians as Helmut Kohl and Ronald Reagan were influenced by astrologers. We would advise those people who remain sceptical about astrology having any real validity o notiCe rhat through adherents in key parts of the state, it nevertheless has a real power. The fire at Windsor Castle was spectacular in terms of the destruction to St. George's tlail, where the Order of the Garter feast. It also displayed all ttre coats of arms of people who have belonged to this one of the oldest of all chivalric orders. Although many people see it as merely having a ceremonial function, we believe that it constitutes an important part of the state specifically grouped around the British monarchy. 266 pages fe.e5 from Regency"JJr',Jft',:l This book is part of Rich's for composed of a trilogy about English Pubfic Schools, and a further five books about the Gulf. Rich's theoretical approach is drawn from notions of Morphic Whilst we are naturally the of "Ritocracy Octet", lsychohistory inUse History). Resonance developed by Rupert Sheldrake. This is a indifferent to the squabblei of academics in full - the fact consciousness of that it is academe itself which must be questioned no doubt we will find -Psychohistory a useful source of material. revival of vitalism, "the Rich's book is not much a doctrine that organisms are catalogue of intrigue as organised by purposive often sought by consumers principles". of 'conspiracy theory', but Rich quotes Sheldrake more an appraisal of a (The Presence of the Past) whole culture where "The process by which discrete chats in a -the past becomes present with morphic fields is called MORPHIC RESONANCE. Morphic resonance involves the transmission of formative causal influences through both space and time." (p.33). Rich locates morphic resonance as a tool for frychohistory. Psychohistory, at appears, has established itself as an academic discourse, with a radical camp (International gentleman's club is seen as a natural way of dealing with matters. Thui conspiracy is not exposed as a revelation of intimate secrets, but British Imperial Life is exposed as an inscrutable mare's nest of intrigue amongst the upper classes. With its many illustrations this book is both helpful in terrns of the information it supplies and as regards the development of ideas with which to understand the Psychohistorical organisation of power in Association) and a contemporary society. conservative camp (Group

F"ture rrip, of fhe LPAt Du*^, Mu."h zoth, tggs at the Cu.[u*, O*[o.d, 'W" *d ,h"ll gire ous"l"es over to *""k".d of Ry"hoggogophy in this most interesting town, visiting variou *llugo " urnbling th-,.,gh the streeis ".,J "dpi.,itg -..do*r. Du*., Muy 1st, 1 9gs ubor" the gianf, C".t" Abbut, Dorset Another *".k*d in a more ru"ul lo"atior,. C"-" Abb", hm lo.,g b.en associated with May Day. AsiJt f-- th" immeJiate vichity, *" hop" to visit some othen sites in Dorset' Du*r, Jr.u 2lst, rygs at Callanais (Cullurish), Itl" of Le*is. A -o". extensive trip to one of th" -o." rnemote spots in th" B;t ih IJo. Thi. year there is a new -o-' -' th' *1, it to be fo""J h""t, SoLti... On J the most important .o-pl.*o of ,t".,Jing stones in t" (From front page) Last year the travellers who had created the festival were driven awaY by the organisers. SecuritY was organised to extract money from anyone attending. Meanwhile, the money so raised gets distributed around various local landowners and a whole host of entrepreneurs have been encouraged. A small of the draconian housing they can the sky. The these struggles, or PeoPle concerning young PeoPIe, the number of travellers in Britain has increased from 3,400 in 1965 to 13,500 in 1992. (Squall No.3) notion of land ownershiP simply serves to cover the brutal oPPression exercised first by feudal lords and now by the so. capitalists. and benefit laws The government is plaruring -against more legislation travellers. This is part of a policy to increase homelessness, particular when seen in conjunction with their plans to make squatting harder. What appear as gross stupidities to the liberals, make clear sense when seen in terms of the class interests dominating society. The attack on council housing, squatting the travellers means A festival which You and private landlords will that have to pay to attend is higher to extract able be not a festival, but a money more more and for rents making business. There quarters. living cramped for has been a struggle Oi course the notion free festivals now for over anyone can own land that twenty years. a justification is simply In ttrat period, whether robbery. No-one can through a conscious for land anymore than choice or in consequence own amount trickles down to green'charities', whose social practice ends uP encouraging complacencY and denying suPPort to such as the Dongas. This is a stitch up. who have any leaflets, articles etc., that may have appeared over the last twenty five years or The LPA is planning a study of the "War against Squall, the magazine for the Hippies" which as far available free frorn; Squatter-Homeless is as we can see certainlY 2 St. Paul's Road, london struggles to make the Isle of Wight a Free Festival, Traveller and GyPsY Action Group can be goes back to the and the plans of the London Street Commune to open up mass squats in London. We would welcome any assistance in this by participants in Nl2QN contacted at: 16 Greenhill Close, Winchester, Ilants SO22sDZ Tet 0962 861 685 If vou want to regularlv receive the LPA Ndwsletter, then [teasrJ send 6 second class stamps to: LPA (ELS) Box 15, 138 Kingsland High Sreet, London E8 2NS We shall then send you the next four issues.

P"bli.h"d by the Erst Lo.don Section of th" London Ry"hog"og""phi"ul Association BUS STOP Gompetition The LPA ds proud to aru:lounce that it is organising the All Britain Bus Stop of Omph al os under the Year Competitian. Entrance is invited from all bus stops in the British Isles. Please send us an SAE for an entry form. All entries have to be in by November 1st, to ensure that it is possible to visit all entrants. An LPA judge will be appointed for your local bus stop to carry out a proper assessment. Bus stops will be judged F! re! On April 24th the IRA exploded a bomb in Bishopsgate, near the NatWest Tower. This is the ullest in the City of London. It is built on the site once occupied by Gresham College, the original home of the Royal Society. This site may be considered as an Omphalos of London. Dating back to ancient Greece, the original word 'omphalos' meant 'navel' and was particularly applied to the Oracle at Delphi. This was the physical and psychic centre of Greek mythology. Since then it has come to mean the the psychogeographical centre of any culture, myth structure or system of social dominance. It's political relevance will become more apparent. when the Yugoslav war spills over into Kosovo, where the Serbian Omphalos is located in a predominantly Albanian area. for the omphalos of London. Each has its meris. ation and human embedded in a web of interleaved cultures and Westminster/Gresham College site as an interaction, although points will also be awarded for quality of shelter, the view, tidiness and regularity of bus service. The winner will be announced at 3pm December competing value-systems. There is no clear omphalos, although in recent years the subject has gained more interest. Notably the battles omphalos, we are suggesting it has a particular symbolic importance. Sir Thomas Gresham was a leading member around Stonehenge makes more sense when seen of the Mercer's guild. He founded the Royal Exchange, which then relocated the central money market of northern Ewope to London. When he died, he left provision in his will for money accruing from the Royal Exchange to fund Gresham College, which would be set up in primarily according to the ambience, the quality of convers- 25th, by the Old Royal Observatory, Greeenwich, London. Co,mpton Street have been put forward as sites In modern Britain however, we are When we put forward the National as a matter of control of the omphalos there. This was preceded by the suppression of the Windsor Free Festival rn 1974. Windsor is another omphalic site. But these omphalic sites are not simply of interest to hippies. The army has maintained a massive presence in the Stonehenge area for years, and royalty has controlled Windsor for centuries. They are of great importance to the ruling elite. Several places, such as the London Stone, Charing Cross, Westminster Abbey or Old his former London house. The College was to be administered jointly by the Mercer's guild and the Corporation of the City of London. Although no longer at its original site, the College still functions offering a range of lectures free to the public. The City of London has responded to the bombing with the proposal by their chief Continued Back Page

Oxford Triangulation by lhe Night Patrol An interesting Triangulation was acheived by two members of the party who had brought a motor car wittl ttrem. This device,little more than a box with wheels and an internal combustion engine, enabled them to roam around at high speed, often leaving the town itself for more rural areas. A chief factor in these noctumal derives by the Night Patrol was to find a suitable place !o sle€p undisturbed by the police or other undesirable elements. The first night a field was found in the vicinity of Shepherd's Pig a hamlet half a mile north of Bayswater Mill, close to Stanton St, John. The second night was spent in a gateway leading to the Templar's Court Seven people met at dawrl club ties. Here an eighth First we visited Tom Quad, Christ Church College. The dawn's rosy light softened the colour of the stone. We person joined our party, wandered through the college but had to retrace our steps ofus took a punt out. when we found our route to substantial walk. We crossed Christ Church Meadow barred by a locked gate. Eventually Port meadow to Fiddler's we were able to eat our sandwiches by the Cherwell. Ip search of hot drinks, we made our way into the covered market. We could only drink standing up. It soon transpired that the only early morning place to sit and have a cup of tea was McDongrlds, Yes, we went inl the '*'despite controversy over their prosecution of two members of London Greenpeace (for more information contact Mclibel SC, London Greenpeace, 5 In the afternoory'evening the group split up exploring different sites in Oxford- Some Sunday involved a Island, walking along where Alice had her adventure in Wonderland. Leaving the river bank we headed for Church Farm, Binsey. Here there is St. Margaret's Well which was decorated with flowers, candles and corn offerings. The church pre-dates the Oxford colleges and is dedicated to St. Frideswide. Inside the pulpit of the church there was an interesting The rest of the morning modern carving of a woman holding a cross and standing in the mouth of a creature half frog half crocodile. The site used to be an Island covered with thorn thickets. The chapel was spent wandering around is attached to the Cathedral in the town centre visitiug Christ Church College. We walked up to the ruined Caledonian Road, London Nl Tel:081-837-7557). We couldn't find a proper cafe. colleges and St. Michael's church, which contained a very old Shiel-na-gig. At lunch time we went to the Bear, noted for its collection of old school and Country Club, premises ownedby Magdalen College. Imagine our suprise when it turned out that these nro points were very close to forming an equilateral triangle with St. Margaret's Well! The eror wzls between 30 and 80 meres in a otal distance of 8 Kilometres. This is a level of accuracy that even Sony are hard put to match with their latest satellite technology. "Now geograplurs and urban planners, as well as trffic engineers and dcvelopers, are enthralled by tlw imminent prospect of basing the management of complex urban systems flows, zoning, and so on-on LANDSAT -trffic satellites linked to C/S I G eo grap hi c al I nformatio n Systems ] softwar e. Since the image resolution capabilities of commercial satellite systems are now approaching thc tlzreshold of di stin g uishin g individwl aut omobile s, aad perhaps even people and their pets, it will be possible to monitor the movement of entire populations." Mike Davis interviewed by Covert Action inClash #7 (avulablefrom Stichting Marinus vd Lubbe,Postbus 11149. 1001 GL Amsteridam, Netherlands for f 1.50) We felt much relief when careful map work revealed that the cenEe-of the equilateral triangulation we had carried out was located at Zippo's circus in the park by Headington Hill. Although one of the sides of this triangle went through the centre of Temple Cowley (which gol its name from the land donated by Queen Matilda o the Knighs Templar in 1135), we could find no link with outbreak of joy-riding and ensuing confrontation wittr the police which took place at Rose Hill on the Friday night nunnery at Godstow, where there were a large amount of geese. Then we caught the bus back from Wolvercote. Binsey PICK\,\TICK APPEAL Some of our critics have compared us unfavourably with Dickens' fictional Pickwick Club a nineteenth century parody of contemporary intellectual-associations. We would Zippo's Circus have much preferred comparison with the London Corresponding Society. In response to our detractors, we invite you to participate in our Piclrwick Appeal. This simply involves sending us a f10 note with a picture of the cricket match between Dingley Dell and All Muggleton on the reverse. Sorry, old style [10 notes cannot be accepted. N ffi

speculation about Form and Element in the principle of No.Form tb ap? at ?o by Hans Richter fu/* D?zb ci.aqrc t41r& 4i4f fs,c? Are the Square and the circle elements R'RM AND N(}FORM AT OXFORD UNIVERSTTY St Mary's Radcliffe Camera there more elements ttran ttrese two? For instance, as Cdzanne meant in his three dimensional way, the pyramid (riangle), Pyramid of pictorial language? And if so, are Cylinder Bodleian Library Cube Square Oval the cube (square), the cylinder (oval). What makes an element elementary? Answer: its non-reduceability into another form except by breaking it up. Like prime numbers, for instance. But what is the psychological significance of a form element? Is there an attitude to a form element different to that to a composed form element? To a composed form and rare form that attracts our attention by being unusual? Do we look in the same way or is our attention a&racted in the same way to elementary ('- i,,'i, forms as to composed ones? Or, in the $H* terminology of my own work, is an elementary form identical wittr norform in contrast to a composite form which is, more or less, a natural, subjective, invented one that appears in nature? Is it not a fact that there are two different categories? Is it not a fact that we do behave differently both psychologically and emotionally in the two cases? We look at the square or the circle in one way and in another at special forms. Are square and circle not unspecial forms in comparison o all the others? If so, why? Is it because the elementary forms do not appear in nature? The answer to this sense of difference might lie within ourselves. The square has a very direct relation to our body, inasmuch as it is a balance between our uprighrness and the soil, the earth we are walking upon. This walking and standing is, by itself, a balancing act one perceives this in children. In this way, the square may be conceived of as not only a surface or space but as the expression of a dynamical experience throughout our lives. But it is, of course, also a surface and a space, elemenlary housing: stone upon stone, wood upon wood, and on top a coyer; a feeling of being at or in home covered, limited, protected against the- non-I. I think this kind of biological connotarion including the esthetic one which might have grown ,llr o,rt,X i*d'jii?,i out of it, has something to do with our familiarity with the square and with it being somewhat outside what we call form. The circle may go back to similar roots. Here's the first, primitive housing-the cavo- and even more, of course, the skies, the sun, the moon. Round is identical with the sun and moon as THE elementary-every-day experience. I experience these connotations as an artist; not just the geometrical differences between forms, but differences between natural forms and no-form. I experience two categories: One, elementary = no form, not forms created by man but elements. Two, natural forms, including the geometrical ones. Our perception is regulated by our body and brain. We can neither see nor imagine forms other than those for which we are conditioned. Theoretically, there might be innumerable other forms, but they are outside human experience. The way we are constituted, the whole scale of our form perception and sensation is related to our world, and this world is all square and all round. (Hans Richter by Hans Richter, New York t97|,p 164) Tempqral Dissonance Two incidences of Temporal Dissonance occurred during the trip. One member saw some posters advertising an @narchist Bookfair up the Cowley Road. Two of the paily set off to investigate, only !o discover they were a month late. The bookfair had taken place on February 20th, not March 20th! The other peice of temporal dissonance was a bit more complicated. One member of the party put forward the notion that British Summer Time was going to be introduced over Saturday night/Sunday morning, on account of it being the equinox. Thus it was proposed tlrat we should meet at 12 o'clock the following day, which would be the same as eleven o'clock if the clock's hadn\ changed. Six of the party met ar 12 noon (LPA time), but another member remained with British Consensual Time, arriving at 1 pm (LpA Time), 12 noon (BCT time). Thus they were unable to take prt in the most interesting excursion that aftemoon.

F"ture tript of the LPAt Du*., Jrr" 2rst,rgg1 at Callanais (Cullunish), Irl" of Le*is. A rrloo extensive trip to one of th" -o". renrote spots in th" B";t ih Itlo. Thit year there ic a new -o., - th" of standing stooes in the *o"ld is to be fout d h"... SoLti"". O.. of the most important "o-plo", fo"i", *ill L arailabL f"un t s, to help puopl" fi"d tkir way there. A factsheet detailing public transport f".iliti", "nd Continued From Front Page planner, Peter Rees, that ttre Nat West Tower be replaced by "the world's tallest building". At the moment structural damage to ower is being assessed (it will take about 3 months)' If repair coss are too high, the buildin! will be demolished. In this event, Canary Wharf could be dwarfed by another monstrosity, recentring spectacular development back into the City itself. Omphalos Battle No. 2 Meanwhile the struggle at Twyford Down continues. Twyford DowrVSt. Catherine's Hill has also been put forward as an Omphalos. (See our pamphlet The Great Conjunction, available from Unpopular Books for fZ +30p p&p). On November 27th, ttre date of the Great Conjunction, Twyford Down demonstrators attempted to block Marble Arch with banners marked with two runes These were I th" Odal rune, meaning "land, property" and 'tr, the Tir rune meaning "the vault of the heavens above the cosmic pillar" (Tlu Secret l-ore of Runes and other Ancient Alphabets by Nigel Pennick). The Cosmic Pillar is traditionally placed at the omphalos. In our last issue we featured an account of govemment attacks on Protesters at Twyford Down, entitled Victory to the Dongas. We have since discovered that they only corutituted one group of the protesters and are noted for their fanatical royalist views' We would wish to make it clear that while we oppose state violence against all the protesters, we see the political ideology of the Dongas as very negative. They are receiving support from a Paganlink National Facilitator. The Royal family claims descent from both Wotan (through the Saxon monarchy) and Freya (through the William the Conqueror) There is evidence that the monarchy has survived precisely by blending Paganism with Christianity (particular found in the works of Margaret Murray). Many Escape from the White GitY The limits and possibilities of white towns and ghettos are explored by Black Britons every day. The physically and politically restrictive effects of racism are particularly apparent for the non-white residents of all experience of social oppression. Such dau could be used to maP African Britons find themselves on the front line of the on-going struggle for the liberation of the zones of racial hostilitn as well as those of integration and anti-racist resistance, within our towns and cities. They could also be used to sensitise the established psychogeographical techniques of urban'drifting' and 'diversion' to the pervasive effects of racism on people's mobility and environmental urban space from tedium and fear. perceptions. white areas. From Dover to Dundee, Asian, Chinese and "The streets look different if The most insightful you're black", explained one researchers in this are would West Essex Asian youth to the necessarily be Black Britons. LPA, "in a white town at any However, no-one should be moment, anytime, you could get attacked, get abused, for no other reason than the fact that you look a bit different. White people have no idea how easy it is for them. They don't have to think. But I always have to be so aware, so excluded from such explorations. alerl" Such testimonies provide inv aluable psychogeographical Further suggestions, and personal experiences, on this topic are encouraged from information on the mntemporary readers. Indeed, even the dismal testimonies of white racists could provide useful material on the racial myths and boundaries ttlat thread their way through every streeL If you want to regularly receive the LPA Newsletter, then please send 6 second class stafnps to: LPA (ELS) Box 15, 138 Kingsland High Street, London E8 2NS We shall then send you the next four issues. Pagans have been drawn to paganism as part of a rejection of the ignoble squalor of modern power structures, We would draw their attention to the fact that many ruling class groups have a foot in both camps. Institutional, library and supporter subscriptions - f,5.

P.rblirh"d by the E""t Lo.rdon Section of th" Lo.do.t Ry"hog"osophi."l Association RUN UP TO RITUAL MURDER London has been picked to stage one of the world's biggestprogrirmmes of psychological processing in the world the London Marathon. For the sixteenth time nrnners from across the world assembled to partake in a mass fertility ritual, under the auspices of Flora, a margarine manufacturing company who have adopted a name from classical mythology. While mass media a&erttsing sempaigns passoff product names as meaningless labels, they often embody a specific symbolism drawn from classical mythology. Thus Mars, the previous sponsor of the marathon, embodies the Roman God of War. In tbe case of Flora, it contains a reference to the magical writings of Ovid: the transformation of the earth nyrrph Chlori into Flora, the resplendent herald of spring: Chloris erarn qutu Fbra yocor. (Ovid: "I once was Chloris who is now called Flora'). Edgar Wind has point ro rhis passage from Ovid's Fasli, as being the key to Botticelli's famous painting Pimovera (Spring).Here@hyr, the windof spring breaths upon Chloris, flowers then sprout from her mouth and flow onto Flora's garmenl According to Lorenzo di Medici, top h.nker and guardian to Botticelli's fifteenth century patrm, spring is the season "when Flora adoms the world with flowers" (Comento sopra alcuni de' stai sonetti) Indeed the image of a fresh shoot growing from a dry tree was a traditional image of the Renaissance. Detail from Botticellis Primavera featuring Flora wreathed in foliage and representing vegetative abundance. Botticelliwas deeply influenced by the Neo-Platonic academy of the Medicis. During the renaissance the reintegration kesident of the Royal Society, led an of pagan imagery centred around classical attack against Egyptianism, uniting Greek (i.e. Greek and Roman my&ology) and Christian mythologies. He links although writers such as Georg Pictor did Ricbard Bentley's defeuce of Newtonian devote several chapters to the Eg5ptian physics with its theological and political pantheon and other images such as a irrylications: "that, .!s matter could not picnrre of Mithra rn tis Magazine of the move itself , a gd of generally regular Gods (1558). Jean Sezrec rnTlw Survival habits was needed to create and of the Pagan Gods (1953) ascribes the maintain- the universe, just as a king was "unusual or even disproportionate place necessary to a Whig corutitutional given to the Oriental divinities" to the monarchy" (p194). Bernal discusses contemporary influence of hieroglyphs. As Bentley's attack on John Toland's use of Martin Bernal has observed in his Elact Giordano Bruao's Egyptian notion of Athena (1987), Sir Isaac Newton, the anim41erma11s1 whichtheradicalshadused against Newtoaian physics. "Bentley used his own formidable intelligence and Classical scholarship not only to expound the Newtonian syst€ol and its irnplications, but also to caste doubt on the reliability and age of Greek sources referring to Egyptian and Oriental wisdom and astronomy". Bernal describes a 'Triangle' uniting Christianity with Greeco-Roman classicism in an alliance against Egypt and the Orient emerging in the 1690's. Here the Egyptian component was occluded, Continued inside

institute a new era under the solar atthough still maintained within certain elementsofthisstoryareofthewrong,bad just brother, and monarchy of his son william v (which Egyprian rites of Freemasonry. It wry \ine usurline trls good, as two Vs constitutes an in F"r*irin!'rmi."crrtous-retumforone uking the W il*:ilt th"." m"ronic-groups'rrersea "IamvI,vLVI"!),whowill of this anagramof -*itr, - peculiar Hennerie material wno f,ecarne such an r^t'opp"*."'"e. The psychology be 18 years old on the Summer solstice of rn embarrassment to the official masonry of rebirth'is associated tt?t year. William was bom within hours thin a long esse-nrially Egypt, of nature Sociery the Grand Lodge and the Royal of a very powerf.ul .*Jipt? of the surl was riverside famr. Tlre death of Osiris lurking behind them. Their.t #gy.*"* . which was amplified by being on the with rebirth rhe and winrer with associatd keep Egypt in the shadows and to dismiss .occult'. of the new, green corn of solstice. In Born to Reign (1993)' This first shoos any hermetic component as aslrologer Nicholas campion describes fonned the crux of the enlightenment, spring. The headress of osiris resembles planetary pressures will^build up for how known flrst the him making un*, ,uJi it as which threw as much into shadow II's reign up till 2002 "but is Elizabeth being as Green Man figure-, as well shedlightupon. Italsoprovidedabasisfor 'E*op"arr racism, vaguely phallic. The story of Osiris, Set most profound in 2000' The most hterse ,n*-il'*l.ip*ent of month of the year is May when Jupiter' which went beyond fortoi"i u pr"f"r*"" *a fflt* was enacted publicly once 1 Saturn. and Uranus line up in exact of iycle annual for the familiar into a profuse year as part of thethat to charles' sun. In ordinary opposition the mirroied festivals iigyptian' rati.onalisation of l-furiur*i- and " circurstances this alignment would cause gro;iog cycle of the all important cqn colonialism. a complete sfuange in bo*t personal and been 'badpr"$ L^ Thus the reorganisation of the ruling tt is it# that the circumstances' We must professional 'bad a as jacketing' Clarles Prince wirf, upon a capiulst uasis coincided class one for could have therefore pick &is. date as a likely a fusion of christian and classical monarch;. The establishment just as_they Charles to succeed to the throne'" It is not publiciry bad all the meraphysics pioneered by Freemasonry pr"rented ueen merely the crudely Aristotelian notion of tra" rtrer" the with done have life everyday Queen and continualty injected into we must questioTr here' campion tt*ough the organisation of spttacles. no mention of hei affair with Lord "cause" unaware rhat royal rirual blithely porchester seems has been which (something Thus it is easy to see how &e marathon, as being planned! is whar is in the Australian murder a ritual, fits in with the governments plans mentioned extensirrely a our rurulers, their path to Retuming backing to be seem indeed they io u press) to develop the barks oI th" Th.-"i.Nile to Bermondsey, close to down them leads celebrate to planned ritual horse-cult Ler new esnrary development, a sort of new development The Point' Cuckolds' of the North,. Neit Xlnnock is working on her golden wedding anrriversary' $,ord and as all Steps Pageant called is pccfraster, here c-anarron, of Earl ttre Seveith this with his old chum from parlianient, - as fairies' by pass people the notorious the grandson of the Srave is evur Michael Heseltine. Jotrnny Ma;or etc, the marathou of spring chickens, camels-fu-*{ spoke specifically of a ienais-sance in robber who pillaged the totob pageant.._This a clearly is artefacts.) magical iti fir .derelopment Docklands in May lgg3 (See LpA Tutankhamen sPofis a recently built obelisk' This is NewsletterNo.g). Inordertoimbuetheir However, as all Charles'-b,rothers are as they have oi.ectty aligned with the major axis of &e for can"ry wharf complex, which continues scheme with what they consider impetus, lacklustre as ctrarles himself, hal to skiq a gerreration in the search the ruling class have re-established an ancierr popular fesrivai but ttrey are into the heart of the ciry of London going .lrrough the Egyrl-ian Room of Mansion "'*ortty^Royi1'. The siage'is behg set for the ritual runningitinreverse! Hoyse, and fiaally to St Paul's itself' There to year 2000, in the Thousands of rwrrers assembled on the mgrder oi Ci.urto is also a north-south alignment which Greenwich Leyiine where it enters - Biucu,euttr, b"fo." heading ofr to Charlton. This "was the site of a pagan survival called the Horn fair. Until a ffi ffi ffi'ffi ffi riorous brawl between Bermondsey r-zr ^^-r^t' led dockers and Wootwich army --' cadets :_.L-*:irr^^€*,ia to its beins barured in the middle of the T""T""q^:entury', would process 18th people"::^?,,v::t^^:1 October **&ii.e m Lo*co"r.orar'PointinBermondsevto ffi charrton vilfs: y:: 3: T;,,.::# W att would wear as womerl, (...) and ffi ffi ffi frir,T;:S:**5,,fll l"i;,ffi; park in arv'rlandscaped r---- -urv new ur the located in i::" Indeed the estate to the l^13**"y' eswr is built Avurv.r'urv Street ur Iiottrerhythe seuur of suuut around this alignment which comes ;#;"tt J;;'"'*Jr"-ioA" op "t vurwrv,vvuvsv'-*'-.^--^. ori*i"trc"rrese,asevenleenthcenrurv ffi ;:[*;^lY"hyr,r?':i";*"tr: ii,*;;*; ",t;*rised ro coincide with z{ .ffiltr ,il""lilrioi."*:;;;;i;;;"Academy _- W4dli1i:' homs,blowhoms,carry*T::ffidffi$|:.l..il;"*(SeeLPAnews1etterNo.9). po1esand",1,,"|T*.:*l]Y:*:::ffi1;L."'.,i;firstsightthisa1ignment carvedfromhom.o,1r"*:I^Yiffiffiil"pP;-"dtogothroughSt.Anne's arrived thev would y"tk I"y9^_P,: i%ffiil ill;oor", but further research churchofSi.Luke,*h":"lT"3:I^.':,..-il"1i,I*thisnottobethecase'Ratherit october 18th, tt'ee ,o iiT** withThe Mission, a housrlq lTil:",-o-"i"tl? to *: *n"5lT:.,r::l getting ; &; Brit*ih IJi,6;#**;r"d hosted i'"ii,ii'i"**;;ile;d;h the Sirucdonist agcq$ns,i3:,:lT:,:J {own ha"ing tun the time 'A11 is fair ut ch*l:""-L:L: if"iurr, conference of \'i)^orAain September t960. It also swaggeringmemberstj".',T:::G[nt!F,".,,*."*nthebuildingwherethe prosperous crasses ,n:; elbows with gigantic I sffi_I,:rm f,Ht.,";" Ilood, the Spiri of the Forest, Steve ii-rlu* ,,re Social Democratic pa:ty. lncluding the practice , ":,^ry:: "l.&::"',diil: Wi1soni993)*,re*...,.'......'.'...-rr,i't,u'causedmuchdebatewithinthe wilson gives an .'."df the L.p.A. some maintain thar "":"'i: l:3:-: Cuckolds,pointisassoc?.*xy5*',ftTil;6-o".a(orbeenmoved) John, the:bud kirrg'.r.*':llg t';.liir,,l: }i ;i#1ffi_i"r",r,'-"rier*ent no the'badtr";jtr off! rrq*rr Sbps obelisk wtth Canary Wharf ffir*Zr[-4 qi'ra yrtg at the low tide mark). The other faction say that in the back ground. murdered his brother oJ#;:;ffi" r."| aligneO rhis notion of to Set in Egyptian m;

M.ro. ry at -Wo"L There are those amongst our critics who suggest that our condemnation of freemasonry stems from a fevered imagination. But when we lmk at the facts we find that Freemasonry has beenpresenting its radical credentials in more than one milieu. The Belgo-fkench Anarchist paper Alterrative Libertaire carried a two page article in praise of Freemasonry (No. 176' September 1995). The aticle suggests that tlrere is no contradiction betrreen anarchism and Freemasonry and guotes anarchomasonic sources such as Brother Francisco Ferrer and Brother Peter Kropotkin- The article is rounded off with an advert for the Grand Orient of Frmce. Then Freemasonry turns up in the ranks of the t eft Bolshevik International Communist Cnrreil. Ia World revohttion (No.194' May The London lvtarathon as it snakes around a conflux of leylines in London's East End. This is mass psychological processing' this is sloppy thinking, and that if of tfu New lzurist InurnaionaL Cfhis grove has been threate.ned with &molition pqychogeography adrnits such unrigorotrs the Docklands Ligbt Rail Lewsiham by stretched are metlodotogy, where theories to fit the facrc, then it will lose its newly Extension, which also tkeatens the homes won statrxr as a science and be treated with of cormcil tenants in the Meridian Estate Greeuwich) The nrrners then continued derision, much like PhrenologY' the Tower ofiI-oadon wtrcro the -bacfio psy?trology ana-quanirim mechafrCs' - The pageant cmtinues past this point of second half is completedUnlike football, and in accordance with psychogeographical intensity to the Tower of London whereat the first half is Celtic mytholory, the marathon is a game of three halves, and the rumers now have completed- Next is the loop around the Isle of Dogs, and in particular the site of the to make their way along the 6ve1 Sank to the Mdl. This finally links the whole recent IRA bomb (see LPA Newsletter No.l3). This area had been crdoned off, processback to themonarchy. They finally and even on April 21st, the daY of the process down passed Buckingham Palace Maratboq the public were not allowed in stopping qrtside the headquarters of the tlp central blast area until it had been Royal Society. Our analysis shows that the marathon is psychically cleansed part of the preparation of a site for ritual an provides An event like the marathon opporttrnity to directly psychologically murder. It seems the actual site will be in and then what is uow termed North Creenwich (this process over 5,000 people and TV name used o be reserved for the southern sPectators the are also there viewers! As the nuners settle down ino tip of the Isle of Dogs), chosen for the the rhythm with which they feel the most millennium celebratims. The exact spot comfortable, there minds relax into a will probably be where the alignment of gentle trance which makes them Canary Wharf cross th€ tongue of land that stretches northwards to the East of tbe Isle susceptible o suggestio- It is here that the built eavironment, consciously organised of Dogs. Along with Cuckolds' Point, this or not, can have most imPact uPm the makes a pair of honrs surrounding the rurm€r. As they snake around certain key Island Of course, Charles has himself Creenwich Naval College, been cuckolded. Major Hewitt was lircations Tower of London, Caer Ruls, Cable Street obviously not of suffrcient status, which is why Will Carling had to be broug[t in' As their naked minds are exposed to solne -of the most irnportant psychogeographical Capuin of the England Ruby team, he is a natural choice for a national hero along the sites in the British Isles. The rurners were fimnelled through a bizarre chicane past South Quay, where two people died in the bombing. Then they went passed Cur Ruis, the Elder Grove designated a Bardic chair bY the Preliminary Comtnittee for the Founling 1996) they warn readers of an ex-comrade who they accuse of propagandising "the ideology of freemasonry". The militant was *he has refused to make a excluded because critique of the mortal danger that freemasonic ideology represents for revolutionary organisation". Tlw ICC has recendy devoted mdry pages to attacking the anarcho-mason Mihkail Bakunin, with whom Marx struggled over a hundred years ago in the First International. The /CC's ideologr, built on Marxist foundations, revolves around the theory of 'decadence', which acts as a keystone to the rest of their politics. This theory is inessence the narrativeof,thc Celtic smry of the disenchantment of the Waste Land ransposed into the language of marxian political economy: although Capital was initially fertile, it became a waste land circa 1914. However, as freemasonrY has functioned as the organisational basis of the bourgeois revolution, their theory is plunged into incoherence unless they defend freemasonry until caPitalism became 'decadent". Reality has forced them to break out of their ideological strait-jacker, and hopefully they will soon realise that their theory of decadence is like Swiss cheese full of holes. Readers who like thrillers but never get the chance !o read a whole book can read Sleeping Sickrcss, I pacey yarn which features the state employing a set of mathernaticians to rmcov€r whal was k eprng the ICC and the Communist Workers Orguisation aparl This is available from Conmunist Headache, PO Box 446, Sheffield Sl ll.tY (Send f,1 and some stamps and you'll get Connunist Headache No.4 as well.). GBANI' XATIONAL EOLII'.AY (ea'o lrour Pelrgien Precsr BGltt lines of Sir Lancelot, cuckolding King SEgnportl lcndon WCaN 3XX) Arthur. Witliao Bcnbow'r tr.ct trou Professm Loomis has pointed outtnThe tar2 7s teck ln Prina Bcnbow Grail: From Cehic Myth to Christian wlrr . chrrfirrt inflrraccd tY the Cponccenr rnontioncd in LPA Continued on back Page NrrlcltGr Xo. a&

Frt ". trips of th" LPA: Mrgna Cafia frl".d, RunnyrneJe Th.r"r" d"y 4thJ"ly, 1 pm /vtrg* C""rr tt"d lies in alignment wilh tk Ro,r"d Gro i" Wi"dro" eestle and G.*g"', Hill, W.yb"idg", *huo. G"r"rd\Iiost"sl"y B.ttt" dgers stqedthes rcrott trsrng$'.Eoglii,.h terolu\ion. D\hb{fuTnn L.""ll*., the Digg"" set tout irstituting communism b"fo"" hi"g by th" Nesrest St fioo, Eglr". ""poor.d "r-y. Fisher king. The story concems the Synbol (1963), how the Arthurian myth disenchanUnent of the Waste Land i.e. cycle propagated in the middle ages was a refers o a fertility ritual. Tradition relates Ctnistian integration of Celtic mythology. bow Brdn's head is buried at the Tower of L,ondon, facing France. Thus we can He specifically i&ntifies the Hcn of Brtn, announces his financial analysis it influences the markct, aud thus is not independent of that which it describes. this too is quite distirct from our method of working. The essence of our approach is jouraey predict Charles making a by boat that we seek to prevent that which we with the grail, a vessel which cmtained the food and drink which had be€o asked fq. from the Tower of I-ondm, probably under predict from happening. If our goal is Hs 5uggests that Frelrch translators of the the auspices of the City of Lmdon's Livery achieved, and it is irrrpossiblefor the rirual Continued from inside Company of Eshmongers (of which Prince Breton myth confused the word for 'hom' Philip is a member) to the site ritual (cors)with that of body as in Corpus Ctristi slaughter where the Canary Wharf axis the body of Christ into which the wafer crosses the Meridian on the Greenwich -of the Eucharist is magically transformed peninsular. according to the Lateran Council of 1215. TYe have received criticism from this Ioomis s6ss as accidental. However as Cheltenham that we have immersed we said in our pamphlet The Great olselves in corspiracy theory, and that *[T]he phenomenon of Conjwction (1992) such theories are always reactionary. We Christianity in Europe was connected with agree with the spirit of this criticism, in &at a transition from the formal domination of patriarchy to the real dominatim. ...[T]he conspiracy theories generally portray recent history as the product of secret notion of the sacrificial god hanging on a processes which leave the reader feeling tree w,N a figure farrriliar to many Aryan Celts, Greeks, Teutoru. powerless and vulnerable in a world Howevel this was to do with a ritual re- organised by strange cults. In this vulnerable state the victim of conspiracy enactment of the conquering of Goddess people murder to take place, we will have substantially weakened the psychogeographical subjugation of the proletarial Of course, all our theories will be dismissed out of hand as of as little value as an asininejoke. This is far more preferable to our fate should we fail to prevent our prediction being realised. We would then become celeb,rities, lionised in all quarters, sucked up inro the hub of spectacular relatioas, festooned with horours and weighed down with wealth. Our wits, carefully honed by the rigours of the class struggle, would become dulled by the endless round of parties, sycophancy and abundance. We theory is then zusceptible to recruitment by would be reduced to simple animal precisely the sofi of cult that they have pursuits, moving from the gratification of Aeolian and the Ionian. A male -ilit"ry elite reconciled iself with a female been induced to fear. In fact the one sensual desire to the next. This maybe propagation of a conspiracy rheory entails the vision of paradise offered by the &eocracy, exercising a formal domination. an uganisation of a counter conspiracy, so National Lottery but it merely underlines a Rimally this was expressed with the ritual that in effect the meme of conspiracy is prominent feafure of capitalist sociery: the sacrifice of the King who was the consort of the high priestess. The annual fertility transfened to the oppositional tendency, happiness of the few is the product of the immiseration of the rnass. Ow aim is to rinral of king slaughter every year was and thus opposition is recuperated However we would remind the reader overthrow capitalism, not succumb to its year period. lengthened to a seven the military aristocracy were gradually able to that our modus operandi is completely flattery. opposed to this. We are not unmasking a impose substitute victims. i.e. if the king had the backing of the miliury elite, a successfully achieved conspiracy, like the If you want to receive the next endless accounts of Kennedy's suicide, substitute would be found. If he fell foul of which clea:ly can n€ver now be fully four LPA Newsletter, fhen please them he'd had his chips. . . . The triumphof resolved. Rather we are unmasking a send 6 stamps (US $5 cash) to: Christianity was that the celebration of the corupiracy before it reaches its Eucharist took the place of king sacrifice. LPA (ELS) culmination. In this we also depart from male priesthood In the Eucharist a what is nowadays conceived of as scie,ntilic Box 15, performed a magical act which cqrverted method Using Karl Poppe"'s theory of bread and wine into the blood and flesh of 138 Kingsland High Street, falsification, scientists are required to Christ which could then be consumed in London E8 2NS think is the cannibalistic orgy of communion. atterrpt to falsify a proposition they tnre. If they fail in this task, they have Ctnist came to be the slaughtered king for We shall then send you the next all time. The priestesses had been beater, succeeded in lending life to the hyporhesis. So in this they aim to fail, to prove their four issues. and patriarchy controlled church and state." theory. Contrariwise, George Soros has Institutional, library and supporter (We have revised our previous view on the described his money manipulation subscriptions f5. (Cheques complete elision of ritual king slaughter in techniques as alchemy (see L.P.A. payable the seventeenth century.) to Unpopular Books) Loomis congrahrlates Alfred Nutt for newsletter No.7). He depars from Popper's process, as he is aware that as soon as he the prototype cultures by such Patriarchal people as the - identifying Brin a.s of the

P"blirh"d by the Eart Lo.Jon Section of th" Lr.Jo. Ry"hog"og".phi."l Association BURN THK BIBKffi ruOT THE NEiGHBffiUffi$ ORANGE REACTION took to the streets in the week running up to July 12th. It's the 'psychogeographic season' when all over Ulster Orange Lodges mount processions to reinforce their psychic dominance of the province" These processions both shore up the fraudulent claims of the 'Loyal Orange Lodges' and terrify all those they exclude. Sir Hugh Annesley kept the Pofiadown Orange Lodge from marching down the Carvaghy road until the Orangemen throughout the province were wound up to fever pitch. Having created the crisis, he then 'collapsed' in face of the very threat he had stoked up. Continued back page All places are artificial, they are cultural creations which we inhabit as virtual (socialised beings), they invariably reflect the dominant heirarchies that over lay them in their muitiplicity, mediated between such structures rather than between the imagined communities which are mediations of the same heirarchies anyway. The elements that make up the cultural cinstruct called place are of course real in an objective sense, but we are unable to experience them as such, so they have no real existence for us, we experience them as the myth called place. To claim that one such rnediated myth is better than another is absurd, to force the point is to stumble, in a mystified way, into the territories given as transcendent by fascism (and we wouldn't want that)' Nonism as Gestart, Marketing and a Fragment of Code, 10th lVluse #7 (f2.50 from 33 Hartington Road, Southampton, So14 OEW)

Luniolatry: Ancient and Modern "'Ti.s but o tlrturt oJ tlte rnetaplt'sicul rl f-eature of Horus. the son of lsis. One hou,ever relates to bab1, Horus. the other to brain. The origitt ond meaning rsf Christ mimics Horus, appearing in the rheori.st tlrut ntrhLtlog\, 1.1,ds r/ cliseuse lattguage, or un..tltirtg except his ottrt ttn'tltologt' lruve been tnissecl crltogether D.r, Ihese .solorile.s rrntl t,ettther/,1.//?{lr'I,r. M.t tltttlt,.t.t tt'(t.\ (t l)t.itniti\'(' rtuyl:, a1f' thirrginu tlta aurlt, tltougltt. lt u.'us .t'outded ott rtuturul .ftttts., utrtl i.s still veri.fiable itt phenotrtcntt. Tltere is ttothing itt.tane, nothing irrutiouul in it. wlten consitlerecl itt tlte light o.f eyolution, artd y'lten its mocle o_f expressiott by .sign-longuoge is urtder.stood. Tlte insanitt lie.s itt rtti.ttrt/.itt.q il .1',,t ltttttttttt lti.tlnt-t rtt. Dit irtt' Revtlutirtrt. M.ttlrrtlrt,:t it tltr lt'lttt\it()f\ ttl ttttttt r /ill,\/ (tilt iL ill the full-grorvn Horus, of about 30 years. bible simply as a baby. and then as a man in his thirties. "The Cr.Lrcifixion (or clossin-r) was. and still is. deternrinecl bv lhc lirll tl()rr1 (rl Elstgl. 161', in thr'lrrrrirr. reckorring u,oLrld be on thc l4th in a ntonth of 28 clavs: [n thc solar rnonth of 30 davs it was reckoned to occur on the fifteentir of the month." Thus the crucifixion occurs r.vhen the two calendars come into phase. x'hett truly inl(rprattLl (nt( c trrore-it is de.stinetl to bc the deutlt of tlto"^e .false thaologies to tt:hiL'lt ir hay rn -- i t tirt g h g ir e tt bi rt lt.t " Gerald Massey A recent expedition to Le Puy in France cornpletely vindicated the vie',vs Gerald Nlassey propouncled in his leclures (See r beiie'u,es tltat spacemen came to this planet to put intelligence into son're beings and har ing done the Job. somewhat back. 'World Rer olLrtron' rathcr- l'ancies itscll in this roJr. seckin-r to'intet-r'erre' in wrtrking class stru-srslcs u ith u,liich it has no inarlecluatelv. fleu, Geruld ,[lrr.iro 'r Lertut'cs, published by A&B Books. l-+9 [-iLwrence Street. Brooklyn, New Yttrk). Massey shows how Jesus the Christ was a mythos to explain astronomical e\,ents and that when it u,as historicised b1,' Christolators they rvere connectloll ancl no knorl lccl-ce. but, instead ol.puttinr itsr'1f as the vangitard party like the orher 57 i arieties of trotskvism. responsible fbr subsrituting faith for re-uarcls itself as an intellectual r,unguu.ci knowledge and invoking a mental paralysis across Europe. He called for a return to the old Pa-can world at a higher level, "when the fable of, this lictirious fall of nran and the false redentption by a cloud-be-cotten God, has passeci away like a phantasm ol the night, and rnen awake to learn that they are here to wa_ee ceaseless war upon sordid suffering, rernediable wrong, and preventable pain; here to put an end to them. not to apotheosise an effigy to Sorrow to be adored as a type of the eternal". "The birth of Christ is astronomical. Tl.re birthday is determinecl by the firll rroon of Easter. This can only occur once every I 9 years . . . in accordance with the Metonic cycle, because his parents are the sun and moon; and those appear in the earliest known representation of the Man upon the Cross". Writing in 1900, Massey describes that ainrs at drsappearins \.\,hen it has sparked 'the u,.orkels' otl'. l9 years later. Our studic's of Massev were confirmerl by the 'Jubilees' of Le Puy. which occur whenever Good Friday falls on the 25th March. This was instituted in 992 by pope John XV. In 1429 Joan of Arc was prevented from attending, but her N{other and two Brothers went with her entoura-ge of Knights. As if to remove any possible doubts that this is an Egyptian f-estival. the figure of rnother and child are black. They are caricd through the streets b_v nten drcssctl irr tlluitlierrl oullil. trrotlell.'tl t,rr trgyptian garb. These jubilee cycles are irregular (they occurred in i910, l92l , 1932. br"rr the nexr isn't till 2005) as the Luna basis of Easter the curiosity of Christ having trvo days is also shitied so that the cruciflxion occurs on a Friday. But elsewhere assigned by Casini) and 25th December in lact the same as Mithras (fbr more -on subseqnent archaeological investigations assigned to his birth, March 25th (as Mithras, sec Meluntfutlic Trogloth'te I , available fbr 13.50 fiom Box MT. l2l Railton Road. Herne the hunter Hill. London SE2,1). Crucifiction Massey explains how every 2.155 vears the vernal equinox precesses, and enters another astrological house. This happened in 25-58.C., when it entered the Pisces. the sign of the fish also a sign fbr Christ. He relates how -the double birthdav is a The Anarchists and the 'Aliens' Ner,ertheless this mvtholo-ey of gods descending is perpetu.itecl in a slightlv altered fornt by the Brirish Iibertarians and bizarrely enough it's projected onto lhe lntentutiotrul Corttttruni.rl Currertl (lCC) the pLrblishcrs o1' llltrll Rct,olutiort. ln Decernber l916 Blttck 1'1zrg clained that the policy of the ICC is "Herman Gor.ten (sic) unconsciously crossed rvith Erich r,on Daniken . . . Von Daniken is the rnan who .vt iattcc, tttttl wltttt (ou(?t'tt.\' rt.s t ltic.flt' i.t tlri.y Meton". At the tirne of this appearance of the god he both plays on the cithara and danced continuously the night through fiom the vernal equinox until the rising of the Pleiades. expressing in this manner his ctelight in his successes." We can clearlr scc li'otn this that a r isil ft.onr Ihc g,,il is not so rluch a sllpernatllrill event but an excuse to partyl Massey's views have been born out by just as he predicted. tn Strnchett.qe as rf br clockuork (r't'ru could set your stone circle bl,thcmt the liberttirian con.rnrunist group SlDler,ilrlr return to this thenre. errtitling an article A Vi.\it to planet 1CC uhich f'eatur"es a cartoon of both an alien and a spaceship. The ICC link SlDyeision to another group, the Communist Bulletin Group (CBG). but carefully fail to mention either Blatk Flag or the Metonic cycles. Their late:t issue (No. l96r hat been printed on cardboard presumably ro ntake it t'eel rlore down- to earth. Hcre they publish a len-uthy extmct lrrrm a man called Ingrarl (a fbunder of the CBG) rvlro touches on 'r,irginal births' when he speculaies how the ICC will develop: "Sonte ol' your nrembers rvill be denounced as the offsprin-e of alien spacemen and human mothers, abdnctees. The U.N. will be clenounced as a Venusian conspiracy a-[ainst the only or-ganisation in the -Dccotlctl. Gerald Hawkins shows l.row tlre Unir, erse del'cncling the proletariat." nineteen vear cycle rvas flndamental to the design of Stonehengc and aidecl in the prediction of eclipses. He quotes the reasserl tl're claritr, that the Druid Gerald Masscv irnparteci nearly 100 years ago. Rather than rrtodernising the gclds of the nineteen year astronomical cycle by Sicilian historian Diodorus (1st centurv BCE.) on the Hyperboreans u,ho inliabit a northern isle: "The account is also given that the god visits the island every nineteen years, the period in which the return ofthe stars to the same place is accornplished; and fbr this reason the nineteen year periocl is called by the Greeks the "year of Through all this rnystilication we turnin-s them into spacemen. we assert that these cycles are nothing rlrore than natural events necessat y lbr tl.re prediction of eclipses. The proletarian stru-cgle dernands that we more beyond Ihese super.stitirrns which seem to have clouded the minds Srrltyt'rsirttt und other Iibertarians.

CARDS STACKED A AGAINST US O It is all too easy to think of Ulster politics as a pack of cards (Ian Paisley's certainly a card!) with red cards as Catholics/Republicans and the black cards the protestants/loyalists, and the British government as the joker the whole pack being shuffled and dealt as international capitalism plays - with our lives. But this would be to forget that the joker in the pack represents the Fool, first card in the Major Arcana in the Tarot pack. The modern pack was developed for profane use, and twenty one picture cards were 'hidden' behind the joker, thanks to a piece of historical sleight of hand. Originally the Tarot had 50 cards, grouped groups ten representing the conditions of man, in five of then nine muses with pagan deity Apollo making the tenth, the ten sciences (i.e the seven liberal arts plus Astrology, Philosophy and Theology), next a mixed bag of Cosmic Principles, the genii of Light, Time and the Earth sound of Sinn Fein representatives from being broadcast on Ty this was a simple case of sympathetic magic. The image of Gerry Adams, functioning as an emblem of Irish Republican manhood, speaking without any sound coming out was an image of a man who had had his tongue removed. As the tongue can also symbolise the penis, this image served as one of castration in an attempt to undermine the fertility of Irish nationalists. It was then hoped that IRA volunteers would only fire blanks in the streets just as they did in their beds. At one stage we were going to appeal to our readers to send in reports of Tarot Cards which they had seen in the mass media (e.g. Nelson Mandela's speech at South Africa House representing Card 7, the Chariot, the conquering hero). However we soon realised that these symbols are ten times more powerful when they are drawn from the shadowy world of the unconscious and thrown in alongside the ethical principles rounded off with ten placed under the full light of firmaments. This pack was concocted in 1459 by Cardinal Bessarion, pope Pius II as well as the noted philosopher Nicholas de Cusa as a game to play This demonstrates one of the simpler methods used by occult whilst attending a long council in Mantua. Jean Seznec has suggested that "there is no doubt that it was played seriously, with the feeling that each image was, as it were, a piece from the divine chessboard" (The Survival of the Pagan Gods, New York 1953). Seznec goes on to quote De Cusa describing a similar game: "This game is played, not in a childish way, but as the Holy Wisdom played it for God at the beginning of the world." (Luditer hic ludus; sed non pueriliter, at sic/ Lusit ut orbe novo Sancta Sophia Deo De Ludo globi ludri duo: complete- works, Paris 1514). From their use as hermetic emblems in renaissance church councils, this has evolved into the presentation of certain archetypes in the mass media. In LPA Newsletter No. 13, we analysed the IRA s Isle of Dogs bomb in terms of the sixteenth card ofthe tarot. Other cards have been played e.g. we can see the image of - (card the Lovers 6) being removed as the "fairytale marriage" of Charles and Di is brought to an end. Of course not all magical uses of the media use the Tarot images. When the British Government banned the consclousness. conspiracy groups. Realising that their activities will sooner or later come to light, they structure their activities so that as conspiracy researchers unravel their activities, they will release information into the public consciousness in such a way that it mirrors the groups initiatory procedure. In this way, the more they are investigated, the more masses of people are psychologically processed by the very people who seek to expose them. The meme, or idea pattern, that constitutes the essential structure of the group is then successfully mimicked within the consciousness of those who speculate about it. Success can then be measured precisely to the extent that the conspiracy is exposed. There have even been cases where Don't Let the Mathematicians Divide Us On July 4th The LPA mounted a very successful trip to Magna Carta Island. Unfortunately not all those who attended met up this being largely due poor - from Runnymede, wheretowerhe access to the Island headed hrst. Here there was a shrine "6 To commemorate Magna Carta Symbol ofFreedom under Law". This was set up by the American Bar Association in 1957. They have retumed every fourteen years, although at present we don't know where they hold their rituals the alternate seven years. The column "is mounted on a stone base under a star-spangled blue dome, with an eye of light at the centre" the guide book relates, in case you don't pick up on the masonic symbolism. About a hundred yards away there is a memorial to J.F.Kennedy The land was bequeathed by parliament on 10th December 1963, eighteen days after his Assassination. We haven't space here to deal with all the evidence that he died in a masonic ritual ki1ling. However this .acre, is itself riddled with occult symbolism. As the plaque says: "Once a visitor, who is assumed to be a 'pilgrim,, passes through this gate he or she steps onto American soil and into the allegory of life, death and spirit. The gate gives access to a pathway of 60,000 axe-hewn portugese granite setts, which rise steeply through the surrounding woodland. There are 50 steps in all, each representing an individual state in the USA. the setts can also be seen to represent a multitude of pilgrims on their progress through life to enlightenment. Each step is unique and each sett has been laid at random. The craftsmen were unable to comprehend this need for individuality, and could only complete their task when al1 the steps were likened to the uneven appearance of a crowd at a football match." The occult theme is extended with the block of Portland stone and two "Seats of Contemplation", which have been deliberately detached in a separate terrace to give "the impression of leading into the future like Jacob's ladder". The two seats symbolise the King-eueen reationship". However, the LPA did not allow itself to be fooled by all this. We knew that the key point to visit was across the river on Magna Carta Island, where the St. George line passes (This line connects St. George's Chapel in Windsor Castle with George's Hill, where the seventeenth conspiracy has grown too quickly for the occult group, causing a good deal century communists who went by the name of the Diggers set up their commune. see our pamphlet The Great Conjunction). Having walked virrually back into Egham, we found the way onto this island. Amongst the ruins of a Benedictine Abbey we found the birthplace of democracy organisation already stretched to the a system for linking the state with civil society by -reducing quality to quantity. We found it by a sign speculation about a particular of stress and overwork in an limit. But rather than collude with the conspiracy by passing over it in silence, we concluded that it was our duty to present to the reader the whole process as an enigma which they must solve themselves rather than expecting anyone else to resolve it for them. - waming of the presence of adders. How appropriate it should turn out to be the nesting place of vipers! All politicians of whatever palty speak with a forked tongue. The forthcoming election in Britain will see the different parties dream up schemes to bribe the middle of the road, middle class voters, whose voting patterns will tip the election one way or the other. Needless to say these bribes will be paid for by curting back on the benefit system. It goes withou saying that it is pointless to vote.

F.rt ." trips of th. LPA' High Sr""et, Mryfi"lJ, Easr Smrex Saturday z tsf September, T pm tk t 'arrcient pile' - in fact. p"l"o th"t *d to klong to dre See of C"aterbury. tk "r*d *ith *hi.h Q** Eliobth I k"Ehtd Sr Th*t"r is hpt h"". Tho. will h a street *""ht f** zp-, bd tL" tcchl4ht procession doeso't starf till ,bc 7 pm n tLis eqginoctiJ festival. "D"lightful', thit town is nestled in a bautiful parr of D"scribed by the Birhop of Lo"d"" countryside (nearest BR station G"rb""ough). It"r ho" t[r"t Si" Tho*"r G""rh*, fo*Jo of G"oh.*.oll"g", h"J hi. Cr"Loldr' Poirrt, B""rnonJr"y F.id"y r 8th Octobe", 6 pG"tho on Pageant St"pr, Rotherhitk High Street, Lod-t SEr6 Continued from front Once again the state is at the heart of inflaming the situation. This is not by accident. It is a scheme which lies at the very heart of the Ulster plantation in the seventeenth century. In his Discourse on the Plantation Trade (1698) Charles Davenant himself opined that its "hardly to be doubted, but that if the common people are once induced to lay aside religion, they will quickly cast off all fear of their rulers [. . .] wise lawgivers have therefore endeavoured to keep the inferior rank of men within bounds, by a sense of religion [. .] the wiser sort had generally one religion for themselves, and another for the vulgar". This precisely reflects the relationship between the Orange Order and Freemasonry. The Orange Order has been created as an intellectual ghetto for working class Protestants, while Freemasonry abounds more in the RUC, particularly its Special Branch. Martin Short's Mayhew, who had the check to boast that he could be an accessory to murder after the fact and get away with it, is now Secretary of State for Ireland. When John Bruton, the Irish Premier criticised the British govemment for letting the veneer of democracy slip, Mayhew felt this was offensive. Behind the rhetoric, we can see that Mayhew is a brazen murderer ready to defend What would be comical if it weren't tragic, is the way the press collude in the crap the politicians are coming out with. They accuse the people of Northem Ireland of having too great a sense of history, but then ffeat everyone as if they've forgotten what happened just a few years ago. This merely adds another layer of lies to those of the politicians. The bi-partisan policy of Labour and Tory shows how they function Orange supremacy and Bruton a mealy-mouthed together as a one-party state which bi-furcates maintaining the pretence of democracy than exposing the real machinations of which he remains simply a cog. alternatives. There is no hope in relying on the politicians politician who is more concerned with when necessary to create two phoney The rioters who took over the Carvaghy Road after the Orange Order had dispersed expressed their revulsion not only against the RUC. They had no hesitation to stone a Jesuit who had tried to creep in amongst them. When the uprising spread to Derry, it had clearly spilled out of the control of Sinn Fein, whose politics are taylored to the needs of the USA rather than to those on the streets of the bogside. With the subsequent bomb in Enniskillen, we note how British ministers had been mouthing and priests to stop their manipulations in Ireland, after all they are fulfilling the purpose for which they were designed. We must stop them. And the first step in that process is for us which is but a worldview to abandon belief of the real world by based on the domination abstract ideas such as 'God', 'Democracy' and 'Justice'. These are but human mentations manipulated by competing cliques. Our liberation lies in our assertion of our humanity Inside the Brotherhood (1989), an expos6 of over all these figments of our minds. Freemasonry, reveals disturbing masonic links in the way the Stalker Enquiry was closed down in the mid-eighties. Stalker was a top cop (and off about a resumption of an IRA terror Catholic) brought in to investigate if there had campaign in Northem Ireland. Many fingers been a shoot-to-kill policy by the RUC. have pointed to break away hard-line factions of If you want to receive the next four LPA Newsletter, then please Assistant Chief Constable Trevor Forbes, a the IRA. But we point our finger at Protestant freemason and head ofthe SB, prevented Stalker paramilitaries. In 1969 at the height of the civil send 6 stamps (US $5 cash) to: from getting hold of the evidence. By the time rights marches Paisley's Ulster Protestant Stalker had brought pressure to bear, he found Volunteers planted the first bombs and then his LPA (ELS) himself suspended and subject to investigation Protestant Telegraph fingered Saor Uladh an Box 15, IRA splinter group. Twenty seven years later, on the eve of a trip to Belfast to get the evidence. 138 Kingsland High Street, Democratic 1988, Sir an MP is Pasiley's ln January Robinson, scuppered. Peter enquiry was His Patrick Mayhew, then the British Attorney Unionist Party appears tto be playing the same London E8 zNS General, announced that the Ulster Director of game when he declared "There is no question it We shall then send you the next Public Prosecution had found a criminal cover was the lR {." (Paisley pretends to be 'antifour issues. Institutional, library up of a fatal shooting incident in 1982. However, Catholic' but his Ulster Protestant Action group having considered the 'public interest', said founded in the fifties was modelled on the farf,5. and supporter subscriptions Mayhew , the DPP "has concluded' with my full right Catholic Action, which had a substantial (Cheques payable to Unpopular agreement, that it would not 6e proper to fascist wing. including the Belgian Rexist Books) institute criminal proceedings". Thus this same movement.) Belief is the Enemy -

Published by the East London Section of the London Psychogeograp ical Aslociation lr SAY TO THE M!LLENNIUM THE MOST PRESSING political question of the day is how the proletariat can extract itself from the farrago of mind bending psychological assaults which will be passed off as 'celebrating' the millennium. The function of this great spectacle, which the bourgeoisie has already been preparing for some time, is nothing short of bolstering their regime in the face of fresh working class onslaughts which wili mark the next ten years. By staging an event which is to be 'enjoyed by all' they hope to restore the bonds which link the wage slave to the boss, the disenchanted youth with the battery of social workers, cops and teachers who police them, and to reintegrate the pseudo-rebels into mainstream culture. However, things wont go so easily for the boss class. We will resist. We shall SAY NO TO THE MILLENNIUM. No Third Reich, No Third Millennium In the pre-election period, New Labour Fiihrer, Tony Blair, was already planning how to use his accession to power to gain the same sofi of self-aggrandisement as acheived by fellow social democrat, and late President of France, Frangois Mitterand. Taking a leaf out of Hitler,s rhetorical style, Blair spoke of having "a thousand days to prepare for the next thousand years". And when there were just a thousand days left, the event did not go unmarked. At Greenwich observatory a ritual which included the ignition of a large number of fireworks took place, and a clock was installed to mark how the seconds are ticking away. Regular readers of the newsletter will be familiar with the speciil plaie Greenwich holds for the activities of the occult establishment. The Queen even visited the Queen's House during the eclipse on May l0th 1994 (see LPA newsletter No. 6, Beitaine 1994). Even as this is published, the groundwork is going ahead to prepare the millennium site in the Greenwich peninsular. Recent studies of the alignment of Canary Wharf have revealed that not only are the buildings aligned with St Paul's Cathedral and Cuckold's Point to the west, but that it also traverses the top of Greenwich peninsular to the east. We venture the hypothesis that this alignment will be dsed in whatever architectural monstrosities are erected to overwhelm the projected hundreds of thousands of visitors which they hope to psychologically process. However we are not yet in a position to analyse or initiate resistance to this horror show in spatial terms. Our aim here is to chalienge the Christian/bourgeois organisation of time by which the flawed notion of the millennium arises in phe first place. In fact we are calling on revolutionaries to break with the Gregorian calendar. We have been promoting the Modem Khemetic Calendar (which we shall explain in more detail later in this article). However this does not mean that we assume that the world proletarian movement will automatically except it. What we are proposing is that an Anti Miilennium Alliance is formed so revolutionary communist groups can pafiicipate in the development of a new calendar acceptable to all. We stili feel that our idea seems to be the best, but if another better proposai comes along, we will be happy to follow it. There will of course be some part{ime revolutionaries who will moan and whinge at our suggestion. "Its not important" they whebze, "why make an issue of it?". However such shallow reasoning is easily exposed. Communists are agreed that participaqion in electipns is a way in which the working class is numbed into accepting the charade of parliamentary democracy. But such carnivAls occur only once every few years. However people qrite the date many times a week. Therefore the potential of organising resistance ro the Gregorian calendar is much greater than propaganda against the electioh. We create a rent in the social fabric when we fllI in official i forms according to our own calendar. It is time for action and actioln now. It is time to break with the Gregorian calendar. Each day has now been aicounted for irl the leald up to the millennium, each day has been contained. Each day functioni merely to give way to the next. As our lives get consumed by thq drudgery of wage labour, poverty and social decay, all that is held oi.rt for us is a qafty to mark the inauguration of another thousand year Reich. h.r Zimbabwe, the ruling ZANQ party would arrange, local party banquets at which the general populace was +llowed the privilege of watching the party cadres eat without themselves being invited to join in. It is exactly the same.herd, with TV as the media. We are offered the chance to watch the rich and famous laugh, and drink and . gorge themselves while we look on and are meant to clap. Some have pontinued back page

The commencement of the modern era was accompanied by a hermetic revolt in the area in the 'toe' of Italy known as Calabria. Thomas Campanella, a Dominican monk who had spent three years in prison accused of spreading heresies, was to become its spokesperson. He described a future society where Christianity would be superseded by a new system based on nature and natural religion. Whilst Christ, and various Christian saints would still be respected, no longer would Christ occupy a central place in the revived pagan system. Despite various confusionist attempts io ascribe significance to the year 1600 on the basis thatT+9= 16,it is clear that here was an attempt to revive ancient Egyptian society. Despite the participation of Turkish troops (who arrived late) the revolt failed. Campanella avoided execution by feigning madness and was to spend the next twenty six years in prison. During this time he wrote a whole series of books, the most remarkable of which is The City of the Sun. This uses such sources as the Picatrix, a twelfth century Arabic text, to construct a description of what a Hermetic society would be like. As with other Utopian literature of the time (More's Utopia, Bacon's New Atlantis) it featured an autocratic intellectual elite using scientific magic to regulate society. As an open champion of Copernicus and scientific enquiry, sometimes Campanella's vision is considered liberal. But in fact all this advanced science would be in the hands of a supreme priesthood and regulated by it as in ancient Egypt. However, in his description of -the layout of the town (which follows the depictions in the Picatrix), a series of images are placed in arrays on walls or giri surrounded the central temple. As Frances Yates has pointed out, these constituted a memory system, a way in which the entire knowledge of a culture could be presented and through which the citizens young and old could be processed in order to internalise the scheme of things. In this we find certain similarities with the work of Giordano Bruno, a contemporary of Campanella, also from Southern Italy, who was in fact bumt at the stake by the papal authorities for hermetic heresies in 1600. However in place of Campanella's autocratic regime (after the failed revolt he wrote a bitter sonnet worthy of @narchist Lancaster Bomber which starts with the line "The people is a beast of muddy brain" and tried to smarm up to various monarchs in order to get his ideas put into practice) Bruno's outlook was quite different. Instead of adopting a sun-centred world view d la Copernicus and Campanella, he had an acentric viewpoint: "Bruno's cosmology is ultimately based on two principles: the infinitude and acentricity ofthe universe and its homogeneity and isotropy. With them, Bruno not only 'devalorised being', but he also completely dehumanised the universe by removing the last vestiges of cosmic anthropocentrism." (The Acentric Labyrinth: Giordano Bruno's Prelude to Contemporary Cosmology, by R.G.Mendoza, Shaftesbury 1995) Mendoza depicts Bruno as essentially providing the framework for modern cosmology, and discusses how Ernst Bioch rurned to Bruno for a deeper understanding of materialism. Unfortunately Mendoza does not follow through the impact of Bruno's work on the development of radical republicanism in the seventeenth century. In London John Toland published the first English translation of The Expulsion af the Triumphant Beast as well as James HarrinSon's classic republican text Oceania (here the distinction befween base and superstructure first appears in Europe though it had of course been previously developed by Ibn Khaldun). It is quite clear that Bruno's notion of coincidence of opposites combined with his homogeneous cosmology where matter and form are inseparable, provided a basis from which full blown dialectical materialism could subsequently be developed by Marx and Deitzgen. However, despite Bruno's amazing contributions he failed to realise the importance of reintroducing a Khemetic calendu.lnThe Art of Memory Frances Yates forcibly argued that Bruno's De Umbris ldearurn (The Shadows of Ideas, 1582) organised 150 emblems in a great circular memory wheel. This was an adaptation from mediaeval memory systems where ideas were visualised as images and then remembered in an ordered fashion. Thisbranch of rhetoric was used by orators when learning and reciting their speeches. Bruno commences his 150 images with 36 zodiac images which relate to the Decans or weeks of the Egyptian calendar. He then adds other images (49 for the planets. 29 for the moon and its 28 mansions, and finally another 36 zodiac images. Yates remarks that "The aim of the memory system is to establish within, in the psyche, the return of the intellect to unity through the organisation of signifi cant images." In this very book Bruno produces a memory wheel modelled on the work of Ramon LulI, a thirteenth century Majorcan troubadour who set about developing an Art, or universal system ofknowledge, following a visionary experience. As Yates explains the "Names or attributes of God" i.e. - will, concepts of goodness. greatness eternity, power, wisdom, virtue, truth and glory are assigned letters which are then placed in a- circle."The most famous of aII Lullian figures is the combinatory figure. The outer circle, inscribed B to K, is stationary and within it revolve circies similarly inscribed and concentric with it. As the circles revolve, combinations of the letters B to K can be read off. Here is the renowned ars combinatoria in its simplest form." It is quite clear that the work of Lull and Bruno were incomplete attempts to restore a system which was originally to be found in the Egyptian calendar system. Throughout the 1,460 years, the terrestrial calendar would rotate within the celestial calendar continually bringing in new combinations of the images which had been stored in each day, decan and zodiacal month. The Egyptian calendar was not merely a time keeping method, but provided a coherent structure to store their whole system of knowledge. No wonder the Romans suppressed this calendar when they conquered Egypt in 47 BC. Julius Caesar introduced the Julian calendar with its hideous leap years every four years. The gross inequality of this system is highlighted by the people you occasionally meet whose birthday is on 29th February). The Gregorian Calendar introduced by the papacy in 1582 in an attempt to restore Catholic hegemony is equally revolting. (And if anyone is doubtful about the bourgeois role ofthe Bolsheviks try explaining away their conversion to this calendar.) It is ciear that it is our revolutionary task to sweep away these static imperialist calendars and return to the spinning calendar of Egypt, the Modern Khemetic Calendar. This was a task which was started during the Calabrian revolt when we entered the modem era. Let's hope we can have our calendar restored by 400MKC. (Illustration from Ramon Lull's Ars Brevis, 1617 edition)

I bricks from Antwerp to build the Royal exchange. In volume 3 of his -{ J Civilization and Capitalism, The o 3 Perspective of the World (1979, English translation 1984), Fernand Baudet relates how Gillebert Van Schoonbecke o) U) "organised a sort of vertical trust managing about fifteen brickworks, a gigantic peat bog, various lime-kilns, a 6) o ) ltt 0) forestry estate and a collection of 3 workers' lodgings" when called upon to take charge of the city walls in 1550. "He was the biggest entrepreneur and profiteer in the colossal transformation of Antwerp which took place between ts Ol P !.\) ts OI -.1 (o Those who doubt the central role played by Gresham College in the topmost echelons of the British establishment should consider two facts: In an unprecedented move Prince Charles snubbed the Archbishop of Canterbury and invited former Gresham Professor of Divinity, Richard Chartres, the Bishop of London, to officiate at Prince William's confirmation. Chartres has had a meteoric rise in the church hierarchy since his stint at Gresham, where he gave lectures on the history of Gresham College. Here he described the college as a "magic island", like Atlantis, which pops up and down out of the sea. This was a reference to Francis Bacon's New Atlantis (1622), which gives "a model of description of a college instituted for the interpreting of nature and the production of great and marvellous works for the benefit of men, under the name of Salomon's House". William was not confrmed with 30 other Eton boys, but a special ceremony was organised so that any unusual ritual elements would not be noticed. Meanwhile Blair's shadow cabinet was being groomed for govemment by Peter Hennessey, Gresham Professor of Rhetoric. His lectures on how the state is organised are permeated with Pythagorean number mysticism featuring golden triangles and golden pentagrams. Despite a media blackout on the role of Gresham College, it remains a key institution in the perpetuation of bourgeois rule. The College was founded 400 years ago by Sir Thomas Gresham, a prominent London merchant. At that time Antwerp was the centre of world trade, and Gresham had observed how the bourse facilitated this function. Towards the end of 1563, in an action echoed by the current BSE crisis, the Duchess of Parma, Philip of Spain's Regent of the Netherlands, banned the import of English cloths or wools on the grounds they brought infection in November 1563. This was a manoeuvre against the export tax introduced by Elizabeth I. It backfired, as the English switched their trade to Emden. Another consequence was that Gresham drew up plans for a London bourse the Royal - got under Exchange which eventually way in 1566. It is interesting to note in relation to Tibor Wittman's claims that Antwerp took the first steps in industrial capitalism, that Gresham imported 1542 ar.d 1566." Although Baudel describes such projects as years ahead of other European cities, he is sceptical whether this can reallv be called industrial capitalism. Be tLat as it may, Gresham was clearly in close contact with the movers and shapers who were moving in the direction of industrial capitalism. We have not space here to cover the 1566 Calvinist revolt in Antwerp. Suffice it to say that the subsequent repression led a substantial portion of merchants to flee to Amsterdam which would become the centre of world trade (circa 1627), after an interlude where it temporarily returned to the Mediterranean, i.e. Genoa. Although London wasn't to assert itself as the centre of world trade until the 1770's, the Royal Exchange provided a centre for the growing bourgeoisie. Being without legitimate heir, Gresham decided in his will to bestow the substantial proceeds of the Roya1 Exchange on the foundation of college open to all citizens wherein the Gresham Professors would offer lectures on Divinity, Astronomy, Music, Geometry, Law, Medicine and Rhetoric. The college was to be administered by a joint committee of the City of London and the Mercers. He was undoubtedly influenced by Sir Humfrey Gilbert's proposal for an "Achademy" for Elizabethan London. Gilbert penned this in Limehouse, near the site of the Alchemical laboratory of the Society of the New Art which he set up with Lord Burghley and the Earl of Leicester (see LPA Newsletter No. 3, Lughnassadh 394). As we said in LpA Newsletter No.8 (Samhain 395) the roots of Gresham College lay in the Hospital of St. Thomas, a military order closely linked with Templars and which spawned freemasonry (see also Ifte reyolution is Not a Masonic Affair, available from Unpopular Books for f2,): "They survived as a public body until the suppression of the monasteries by Henry VIII in 1537, whereon they hosted a 'last supper' attended by such people as William Cavendish, Robert Cecil and Venetian envoy Zamboni, along with representatives of the livery companies and the Hanseatic League. The Master of the Hospital (also referred to as a College by I.G.Clark in her 1865 edition of The Legend ofthe Chapel of Thomas of Acon), Laurence Gopferton made a speech referring to their 'illustrious predecessors of the chivalry of the Temple', as the gracecup of Thomas i Becket was circulated. Gopferton made it clear that they would not resist their dissolution. Sir Richard Gresham, Master of the Mistery of the Mercers, then rose to his feet and stated how he had long been in his mind to ask the king that the Mercers could take over the College's London premises, including the school which his son, later Sir Thomas Gresham, attended. 'The former teachers may thus continually abide. Nor shall the bond wherewith ye- have bound our ancient brotherhood be lightly broken; nor in our keeping shall your church suffer decay; nor shall your portals be closed to the needy and the wayfarer; nor shall your good memory perish from this city; nor especially from ourselves, your familiars of the guild and mystery of mercers'. A monk responded that the dissolution was mitigated by such a proposal which could not fail to perpetuate their ancient seminary." By the time of the restoration of Charles II in the 1660"s, it was at one of Christopher Wren's Gresham lectures in Astronomy that the Royal Society was established. This was an instrumentalisation of Francis Bacon's New Atlantis albeit in muted form. As yet the 'New Philosophy' i.e. - hand science had not evolved hand in with the practical (technology) and social (capitalism) aspects of bourgeois society. Rather than directly confront landed interest and the monarchy (which had precisely been restored as a centre around which both landowner and bourgeois could cohere), the Royal Society used freemasonry as a conduit for t}le spread of scientific ideas in a convivial setting where political and religious differences were never expressed. Comparison may be made with Lenin's creed of the revolutionary party which is essentially an updated instrumentalisation of New Atlantis: "The history of all countries shows that .the working class exclusively by its own efforts is able to develop only trade-union consciousness .The theory of socialism grew out of the philosophical, historical and economic theories elaborated by educated members of the ruling class, tiy intellectuals." (What Is To Be Done?, l9Q ). In a subtle reworking of Bakunin's' 'invisible dictatorship' Lenin theorised o o o I - J qI I 3 o o I I o 0u, o ql t a party as a secret society which would inject the working class with the correct consciousness. This has proved a successful formula for organising the middle class into cadres to spearhead the development of capitalism in countries where scientific thought is not widespread. But it has nothing to do with communism, and has made little impact in. countries where scientific discourses are already part o!the social fabric. In the end the bourgeoisie prefer to hide their 'charms' behind an opaque wall of discretion. o x = -

Future trips of the LPA: l Grovely Rights Day j ! i Dawrl, Thofsday7gtl, May, 3 98 Grovely! Grovely Grovely! And All Grovely! Unity is Strength 'We shall start in Grovely'Wood, Great'tilTishford and then proceed to nearby Salisbury where we shall pLy the old Lettrist garne of o'Desperately Seeking Ivich". 312th Anniversary of TheB attle of S edg"nroor Lpffi, Sunduy 6thJoty, 398 BussexF atttT' 'Weston zoyland, Somerset During the Monmouth rebellion how many of the 3,500 poorly arrned rebels had listened to Henry Stubbe rail against the Royal Society as he toured the Somerset Alehouses. Those who weren't killed in battle or executed following their defeat were deported to the Vest Indies. Contlnued fiom fftrnt suggested that ahe occasion be used to inaugurate a truly proletarian party where we simply take back the products of our labour which we have been denied. Our response to that is: why wait. Is it not better to break with the Gregorian calendar. The Modern Khemetic Calendar In the past revolutionaries have inaugurated new dating systems from the point at which the ancient regime collapsed but this was a feature of the bourgeois- revolution, it happened during the French Revolution, and there were even moves in that direction during the Russian Revolution. Our proposal means adopting a calendar which is already nearly four hundred years old. It derives from the ancient Egyptian calendar Khem being a name for Egypt and from which the word chemistry is derived. Cheikh Anta Diop described the Calendar in his book lr t F sidereal, or astronomical, calendar. The time lag thus accumulated at the end of four years is equal to one day. Instead ofadding one day every 4 years and thus instituting a leap year, the Egyptians preferred the capitalism. Thus we call our current calendar the Modern Khemetic Calendar (MKC) and we have reached year 398. As yet the finer details of the calendar have yet to be resolved, and we call on all genuine revolutionary following this time lag for 1,460 years. Consequently, it is the very cause of the themselves in the Anti Millennium Alliance to work on these finer points. alongside the sun, as seen from memphis. imagination remains transfixed), they History tells us that such a heliacal rising took invented a second astronomical calendar place in A.D. 139, and so it follows that the founded precisely on this time lag, this next cycle commenced in A.D. 1599. This delay, of a quarter of a day per year, in the date coincides with the inauguration of the 365-day calendar year as compared to the modern era, the advent of science and masterful solution that consists of communist organisations to involve leap year that is at the basis of the Egyptian sidereal calendar; the Egyptians preferred to "rectify" every 1,460 years instead of every 4 years; he who cal do more can do less, therefore contrary to popular opinion, they knew the leap year very well. But what is still more amazirrg is that the Egyptians had equally (observed?) translation 1991, p27 9): calculated that the period of 1,460 years of the sidereal calendar iE the lapse of time that separates two heliacal risings of Sirius, the most brilliant fixed star in the heavens, located in the constellation Canis Major; thus is designated the simultaneous appearance of Sirius and of the sun at the latitude of Memphis. Thus the heliacal rising of Sirius, which takes place every 1,460 years, coinciding with first day of the year in both calendars, is the absolutely chronological reference point that is the year, breaking it down as follows: twelve months of 30 days, plus the five intercalary days, each one corresponding to the birth of one of the following Egyptian go$Osiris, Isis, Horus, Seth and Nephthys. ifiese are the same gods who will give birth to the hirman race and inaugurate the cycle of J, calendars coincide precisely when Sirius rises Civilization or Barbarism (1981, English "[The Egyptians] invented the 365-day historical times: Adam and Eve are only belated Biblical replicas of Osiris and Isis. This year is divided into three seasons of four months, the month into three weeks of ten days that do not overlair the months; the day into 24 hours. The Egyprians knew basis for the Egyptian astronomical calendar." In effect this meant that Egyptian system' that this calendar year wffioo short, that it .haid-a terrestial or civil calendar iirhich roated was lacking a quarterof a day in qrder for ovdr a 1-460 year cycle as regards the ,..-.-=,*i----. astronomical or celestial calendar. The two it to correspond to a complete sidereal revolution. Also in 4236 B.C. (the _ How can we expect the working class to take us seriously when we still use the superstitious calendar of the Christians imposed by the bosses? If you want to receive the last two LPA Newslettesr, then please send 3 stamps (US $5 cash) to: LPA (ELS) Box 15, 138 Kingsland High Street, London E8 2NS Send more stamps for'back,issues as available. Institutional, library and supporter subscriptions f5. (Cheques payable to Unpopular - Books) ---::s. *.1 'ii 1-. ':!r.L 94

Published by the East London Sectiort of the London Psychogeographical Association In Australia a call has emerged fot' the Boycorr of the Olvmpics. this is rrot enough. We must cancel them. It is not sirnply a ntatter of invitrng syrnpathetic athletes to abstain fnrnt paltie iptrting in thc spectacular celebration ol- 2000 yeals of western cii,ilisation. We must suppress the event. Millennium projects will take difl'elent torms in diff'erent parts of the globe. In Australia they take the lorni of the Olympics. The1, will be used to bind the Ar.rstlalian population ti_ehtet'to rhe ideals of white supremacy usin_e the interconnected ideolosres ol democracy and the Olympic spirit to overrvhelm all perspectives which deviate liont the tlctitious tlood of histolif ication uhich traces its source to ancient Greece and tlnds its realisatitln rn the democracy o1' White Anglo-Saxon Plotestant societics. This year Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin, an Afiican-Amer-ican political activist and ex-Black Panther visired Australia as part of his world tour'. This is how he described the visit in his press statement of 2417197(.-798 MKC): "I was only here for a day or so before I was labelied as this 'terrorist' who has hrjacked not one but several planes. a person who had brought guns and violence to the Aboriginal people and that I was inciting terorism, racial f'erment. etc. by rhe conservative politicians in Queensland and also by the media. This whole affair has been driven by the media; certainly the Sunday Mail and, Channel 7 which inesponsibly editorialised what I said and contributed wholly false statements to me. which led us dcwn the road to where we were in tern-rs of a major crisis for this government and to some extent myself because I was imprisoned in tliis plocess. What had happened to me proved to be a blessing in disguise because it showed the rest of the world how inhlerant this countl'y is. How in fact its hun-ran rights record is no better and in rny opinion even worse than the country it defeated to eet the Oly'nrpic Garnes China. Horv it doesn't have a democratic plocess to the degree that it postulates to the world. So my coniin_t here. my having been arrested and subjected to this has shown millions of people but also the government that in fact rr,'hen tl-rey arrested me and threw me into prison that there were people all over the wor'ld who had heard me speak. had been touched by nre and rvho took action I 7 countries to - to continue mv-toul.. dernand that I be released. that I be allorved And we have -uone ahead u irh tlris toul'and aguinst all odcis. I'm nrost thankflrl of Angrv People who sponsored the tour in Ar"rstr-alia." He was in no doubt as to r.l,hy this had come about: "l think that the ofTicials tiom the beginning have looked at this as a case of a black man first of all, and a person who'd been a member of an organisation. the Black Panthers. which they obviously know very little about. I'r,e never shot and killed rvhites but I've certainly fought the KKK and I don't apologise tbr that. I think the KKK is a racist. terrorist organisation and I also see the KKK has now come here to Australia and the ir-r'esponsible government officials continue to deny they're doing anything \\,rong and that they arejust a group ofkids out on a prank. But they are here! When I came here one of my main missions was to talk to,the indigenous people and learn their condition. I had $een approached by people in England about a boycott of the Olympic Games. I was one of the primary organisers of the protest in Atlanta. The issue of that was that the state flag of

Stateside, Regicide, ' Dear LPA, 611/398 It seems to me that many people will aim to oppose the coming Christian millennium year in the same way they think they are opposing Christmas, i.e. by having a party (like everyone else) while denouncing religion, consumer durables, the nuclear family and indeed Santa Clause himself! These young poseurs merely recreate Christmas in their own ..rebel without a turkey" image and end up saying nothing worthwhile about Christmas-time. Proletarian Gob stands foursquare against these mealy-mouthed tea-totallers - Gob argues for the salvaging of the midwinter festival from the Christian element and the wholehearted promotion of gluttony, lust, drunkenness, mutual solidarity, love and high feeling (riots and general fighting). But, of course, this is what most proletarians are up to at Christmas anyway, so actually opposing Christmas only helps reinfbrce its dreary Christian message about thinking about the "less fortunate" and the "meaning of Christmas" etc. At Christmas the mealy-mouthed tea-totallers mentioned above in fact have more in common with earnest religious types than they would ever care to acknowledge. We may, therefore, see a whole range of "alternative" millennium parties put on by everyone from the Mormons to the ACF. We should, as you have suggested, oppose this sad reflection of Bourgeois propaganda, by attempting to cancel out the very calendar! There may indeed be some "truly proletarian party" which will be organised or happen spontaneously but it is our duty as revolutionaries to point out that we should never wait to cause on the angry side -In we're a trifle of Fifth Estate to print -a letter from the Summer issue VotSZ*t1349) the editors troubled themselves Green Anarchist. As Unpopular Books have dealt with GAs lies in their leaflet Into the Sewer with Green Anarchisr (send SAE for copy) we will not deal with their smears here. Fifth Estate admitted a reluctance to print the letter because of its ,.tone and relative incomprehensibility" and promised to deal with the matter in greater detail in their upcoming issue. They concluded their comment with: "For now, let us say that the literature we have received from both sides makes us relieved there's a big ocean between us and Albion." So, it seems that FE have gone hook, line and sinker for the myth of the so-called .Atlantic Ocean' which is as much a phantom as the island of Atlantis. Indeed, this so-called ocean is a mere stream no broader than the River Jordan, and although it may not be a stream they longs to cross. at places it is quite possible to jump across. Rhode Island was noted for this by the Romans who coined the expression Hlc Rhodus, ltic salta which means 'Here's Rhode Island, get jumping'. Our accompanying map reveals rhat Detroit is only about 100 miles away from London, and we remind FE that the psychogeographer is the mon or v.oman sitting next to ytou. Tgrn have maps in their pockets and xrx in their minds. We are getting closer. Off the systenx and it.s cortography. Meanwhile, The Obseryer ran an article by Barry Hugill entitled "Sacred showdown as mystic mappers take on .crazie.s,,' (July 20th, 1997,p7). Here Danny 'I'm not a nutrer'Sullivan, editor of the Leyhunter Journal, is credited as describing LPA as 'crazies'. Indeed we were deoicted ;!\ the LPA depicted as the bane of his life. We would point out that 'crazies' is hardly an adequate translation for enragds, a sobriquet frequently adopted by revolutionaries in France, and which we would be happy to assume. We had hoped that trouble, and that once we have started making trouble we cannot rest on our laurels but have to follow it through to the glorious end. The purpose of an Anti Sullivan's editorship of Millennium Alliance, as I see it, would be to make the event nonexistent, not to "rival" it, which apologist Nigel Pennick. Indeed Jeremy Harte's "Taking leave of Dod: Survey as Metaphor" seemed ready, albeit tentatively, ro undercut theories of landscape geometry which are twice over implicated in the language of power. But it seems that Sullivan doesn't want to go the whole hog. He may be ready to ditch nazi apologists like is a form of joining in. (But maybe anything other than a complete ignoring of the event will be smugly seen by our betters as a vindication of their attempts to divert orlr attention from real daily living) [Still, it's a chance to have a bit of a laugh and to confront the "part-time revolutionaries" over the Leylunter would be a substantial rmprovement on that of Paul Devereux. already notorious for his collaboration with nazi ()n'R{e 'i: their embedded Christian/Bourgeois/Scientific Pennick 'they are desperately seeking Rationalist ideologyl. So, sign me up to the crusade to abolish the Christian calendar and make the millennium a meaningless date send me my instructions! Have you given up doing the LPA newsletter? Thanks for the big bundle of literature you sent me a short while back. Yours, Pete Proletarian Gob, c/o Folder 19, 30 Silver Street, Reading, RGI LPA response: Her are the instructions for Proletarian Gob and respectability' writes Hugill. Nevertheless, this is all the better to dis the LPA. They seem particularly worried about our open speculation about ritual king murder being carried out on a leyline in the year 2000 (401 MKC). We have presenred our evidence before it has taken place, and already the layout of the Greenwich Millennium site include 'Millennium point' where the line of axis of the Canary Wharf development crosses the Meridian. Hugill says that next year Sullivan plans a showdown with the enragds at an international moot possibly in Oxford. Alliance: Get on with it! By the way, the next issue will be the final LPA newsletter. The newsletter has been such a resonding success it is no longer necessary to continue it anymore. However, Unpopular Books will ke,ep going- (Pennick's sycophantic review of White Supremacist Kurt Saxon's Wheels of Rage is reproduced as part of Unpopular Books' leaflet Into the Sewer u,ith Green Anarchist..) presently we are preparing Everything's Relative a text on the Cabbala, Comedy and Communism by Charles Dexter Ward of the International Communist Current. Fifth Estate,4632 Second Ave., Detroit, Michigan, USA. The Lethhuntar, PO Box 258, Cheltenham, GL53 0HR, UK, or Dept. TLH, Box 940, Beacon Ny 12508. USA all other people wanting to join the Anti-Millennium We are ready to respond to this. Contacts:

AntietarR3 An Eaet London Ameriean Civil War Battletield!! BOURGEOIS HISTORIANS LIKE to pretend that all the battlefields of the American Civil War can only be reached after an expensive voyage across the so-called 'Atlantic Ocean'. However, LPA researches have proved that this is not the case. What's more, one of the most important battlefields lies on the Leyline which extends from Greenwich across the Isle of Dogs and slap bang thlough the old People's Palace, now incorporated into the Queen Mary and Westfield College. The Battle of Antietam took place in and around the college on September 17th 1862. This was one of the bloodiest and most important battles of the American Civil War. Our search for the battle site was originally hampered by the suggestion that it was to be found in Maryland, the next BR station along the line from Stratford. Howeveq for those used to unravelling the mystificationp of the bourgeoisie, it will come as no surprise to learn it was found somewhere else entirely. Once we realised that Limehouse was the location of Harper's ferry, scene of John Brown's raid which sparked off the civii war, things began to fall into place (the local Docklands Light Railway station is called Westferry, a poor attempt to hide the location, whilst the Limeho\rse station is to be found in Ratcliffe!). Poorly paid cartographers entrusted with the job of renaming all the locations on the map made several slips and Hagerstown simply got respelt as Haggerston. It was here that General Robert E. Lee, commander of the Confedrate forces, arrived on September llth and promptly went shopping, buying 400 pairs of shoes. Lee's battle plan fell into the hands of McClellan, his opposite number commanding the Union Army of the Poromac. Eut bumbling McClellan failed to take full advantage of this while Sronewall Jackson's 'Foot ,Cava1ry' arrived to take the surrender of the Union garrison at West Ferry DLR Station. Lee regrouped his forces at Sharpsburg, a town to be found on the Queen Mary and Westfield College campus. Jackson's troops had forced-marched up Salmon Lane, later a Moselyite stronghold, up past St. Dunstans and through the Ocean estate, crossing the Mile End Road, dropping off casualties in Mile End hospital before setting up camp on what is now the site of Syivia Pankhurst House. 'Old Pete' Longstreet took up position on Mile End Road, which incidentally is a play of words on his name perpetrated by some cockney wag. 'Old Rock' Benning guarded the pedestrianised bridge at the end of Solebay Drive. Even though the bollard was not yet positioned in the middle of the bridge, it still took Burnside's Ninth Corps most of the day to achieve a Unionist crossing of the Grand Union Canal. McClellan had regrouped most of his forces in Victoria Park, with an unopposed crossing at Bloody Bonner's gate. They proceeded south towards Globe Town and then some of the bloodiest fighting of the war took place. Meath Gardens was at that time planted with corn. At dawn 'Fighting' Joe Hooker's First Corps was the first Union unit to ntollnt attack on Jackson's troops who had taken cover in Westwoods. By 7:-j0 the attack was taken over by Mansfields Twelfth Cotps. But the heart of the battle was to develop along the southern side of where the railway line is now to be found. This was the sunken road. It is now overgrown. onlv off'ering access to several railway arches. Our su1'vey team was surprised to find an enormous papier-machd chicken in one of these arches. The union was to suffer' -1.000 casualties fi'om Sumner's Second Corps eflbrts to seize the sunken road. Thel, were amongst 23.000 casualties sul'fbred by both sides that day nearly a third of those engaged. Bloody Wednesday was fbllowed by Fatal Thursday. McClellan was poised to destloy the conf'ederate army. but refused to stir himself. Although this might seem as the latest phase in a consistenr history of military incompetence. there is another explanation. He did not want to destroy the Confederate Army and fbr poiitical reasons sought a stale mate which would not lead to the abolition of slavery but the return of the South to the Union with the institution of slavery illtact. There had been rumours of the Union Army marching on Washin-ston to intimidate the abolitionists and achieve precisely such an aim. As it was the Confederate Army retreated across the Potomac. and on Monday 22nd Septernber Abraham Lincoin produced his Emancipation Proclamation. offering the secessionist states 100 days to return to the bosom of the union, or their slaves would be "thenceforth and forever free" and suspended habeas corpus for anyone interfering with army recruitment. McClellan had already voiced his opposition to such a move, and now sought advice both from political circles in Washington and amongst his military household. He was informed that he could not rely on the army in any usurpation of civil authority. He was dismissed several weeks latter. This should not, however, obscure the fact that 'Lanky Link' Lincoln, far from being the revolutionary f€ted by the Filst Intemationale. was deeply committed to ethnic cleansing, having pushed congress to give $500.000 in funds to initiate a programme to remove African Americans from the continent to the Ile de Vache, Haiti. A fifth of the 500 colonists died from hunger and tropical diseases before Lanty Link sent a ship for the surr,ivors.

Future trips of the LPA: Tour of the Battle{ieldi of Antietarn Sgpt-ernber 22nd,6prn The ruins of Dunker churcho MeatfGardens, l This tour will take. place elactly 135years after Abraham Lincolns Emancipation Proclarnatio-n givin-g the Southern ionfederacy 100 days to before the abo'Iiiion of chattel slavery unless the rebel staies rejoined the Union. 0 no policies for civil rights or Gontlnued fiom fiont Georgia was essentially the KKK flag and it was being denounced over the state, and it split the state along black and white lines. We bumed the sgsle flng and as a result of that there were people who heard about this and contacted me. So I came here to find out about what people wanted to do and also to have the speaking tour. I've bopn,to 75 eities before coming ts Australia, 20 countries. There's never been any doubt whttt I've been speaking abou!, whe I wa$.etq." The result crystallised; BOYCOT.,? OF THE SYDNEV 2OOO OLYMPICS "The Olympic Games were awarded to Aushalia over China because of a better human rights record. But is this so? you be the judge. Here is a list of crimes by the white racist regime: O mass murder oi millions of Aborigines and cohtinued' ttreft of their lands o the rise of PaulinC ltranson the white racist politidian-who is against Asian immigration, the rights of Aboriginies and who is for the return of a white Australia restricted immigration policy which , discriminates against non-whites. The rise of her One Nation Party, a white supremacist electoral movement is a serious development o the imprisonment of black activist, Lorenzo Kom'Boa Ervin, when he was attempting to speak to Aboriginies; who's tour was cut short by being forced out of the i COUntrY r O the deaths in police custody of numerous Aboriginal persons, yet no criminal prosecution or impartial inquest which would establish their deaths as homocide instead of suicide o one of the highest levels gf'police shootings of civilians in g.rb.5pr;6,, and a reputation for potice bnidrli$,,i Iiberties including lack of tolerance for freedom of speech or unpopular/controversial persons. The government routinely spies on and represses activists . O immigration policies which allow the political banning ofspeakers out of favour with the govemment in violation of international law O engaged in military and political intervention in Papua New Guinea which cost the lives of over l0 000 in the recent civil war in Bouganville. Because ofthese and other actions by the Australian government we call for the creation of a Boycott 2000 Coalition to create a world-wide protest against the Sydney Games and especlaly an economic boycott. Australia is an outlaw nation whose racial policies are little different from apartheid South Africa. We call on all persons who believe iu 22nd 1863, all free negroes within the limits of the Southem Confederacy shall be placed on the slave status, and be deemed to be chattels, they and their issue for ever. All negroes who shall be taken in any of the States in which slavery does not now exist, in the progress of our arms, shall be adjudged, immediately after such cap0re, to occupy the slave status, and in all States which shall be vanquished by our arms, all free negroes shall ipso facto, be reduced to the condition of helotism, so that the respective normal conditions of the white and black races may be ultimately placed on a permanent basis, so as to prevent the public peaae from being thereafter endangered." Helotism is the Greek word for their slaves, and just as the slaye states of the confederacy saw themselves as the inheritors of the Greek tradition of democracy, so the New World Order with its stress on democracy is establishing itself as a World Confederacy rooted in the submission of the working class to the conditions of wage-slavery. human rights and oppose racism to join Resistance to the millennium, whether as us in this protest. We must expose the the new Jrfagna Carta proposed to be signed racist Ausffalian state to the world and by world leaders in Greenwich, the opening tamish their false image of democracy of the new Scottish Parliament on January and tolerance." lst, or the Sydney Olympics, is part and But it's not just a case of a false image of parcel of other resistance to the capitalist democracy, but of democracy as a false regimes. Already British Airways has tried image of the world human community. to raise the money for its contribution to the Democracy as it emerged in ancient Greek Millennium fiasco by attacking the wages society was a system of privilege whereby a of both aircrews and ground staff. They ruJing class could integrate the individuality have responded with strikes. This shows the of its members'with the necessity of class way. rule. Foreigners, women and slaves were excluded. Although the Greek system has been held up as the first example of formal representation of interests, in fact, it was a miserable society where manual labour was No Third Millennium, No World ConfederacS No Sydney Oly*pio (Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin can be contacted despised and Plato theorised the aI Black Autonomy, 323 Broadway Ave.E interchangeability of commodities through #914, Seatrle, wA.98102, US his notion of universals. For those who retain any doubts about this, we must consider how the Confederate States of America attempted to emulate the democracy of ancient Greece. On January sth 1863, Jefferson Davis responded to the of the slaves by Abraham with An ,4ddress to the People of ,$tetes by thc President of the tpntederacy which includes at its "On and after February If you want to receive the last LPA Newslettesr, then please send 2 stamps (US $5 cash) to: LPA (ELS) Box 15, 138 Kingsland High Sfieet,

!'ntiisht'd by tfu East London Section of the London Psychogeographii:"ll . {,..,, ffitgnirying Monkmv Those that oppose usi $iltruiu ',, celebrate the sus;;trtL": of our Geffit[is.r n,:=' as it metr#rfiti .lrL our pe$$,sffig,,: hi$herr ,i* ', --. i il [t]r ,, ;t , SSlt iiiii':'. ,t1,.,. r:;r'r:, .l t.' E<', rr' 6.: r'k., . dI Li !;'r i= it-.. ,. 11.,;,1-1": :,' ; f6iu'ri''r; li tUu& t*',1 hffi{pih!,-$;: r-, ,' * ffi {'1i,,, ts &s+:i,',-*" affec.tr ,r, {:, :,:- thg srtrr,*,,i--*:,'1, 9g166urili^ r r .rr capitaEE$u.,; 1,

Il the truth be said, the LPA was born from the for however else the bitter seeds of defeat for communists \\jrr in the Gulf is described, across the world it will, it can only, be seen as rr riefeat. The wanton destruction of our lrlothcrs and sisters in Iraq, with the allies rlisengaging with the Republican Guard so that they could ensure the massacre of the :iura, the workers councils which sprung up in lraq uniting Kurdish, Iraqi and other workers irgainst the Saddam Hussein regime, all rnenner of Kurdish nationalists and the power rri the lmperialist ailies grouped around the Llnited States. It became apparent that any so-called gains here in the so-called 'United' Kingdom melted like snow on the water. Those who saw the lehuttal of the po1l tax as a turning of the tide ..r'ere proved wrong, as the British was rnachine s$'ept all opposition aside, rnerely toleratiag a 'rvar later rather than sooner' faction which ilet-ended imposing sanctions on Iraq. be obtained for f,7.50 from Thansgressions, Geography Department, University of Newcastle, Newcastle NEI 7RU, UK). The study of Jorn revealed the centrality of magic to understanding his viewpoint. This chimed with the discovery that the early psychogeographic text Formulary for a New Urbanism was likewise influenced by a twelfth cenrury Arabic manuscript called the Picatrix, which described an ancient city in Egypt run according to Hermetic principles these deriving from Hermes, an ancient Egyptian emblematic figure embodying the virtues of. the magician-sage. Our hermetic researches lead to Giordano Bruno, and the discovery that his 1584 tract The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast was published in English translation by the Irish irvenues we could mark out between theory radical republican, John Toland. This was part of Toland's efforts to develop a revolutionary current that went against the dominating interests of the bourgeoisie. This book appeared aloogside John Harrington's 1656 classic Oceania. Whilst Harrington developed a materialist view of history, lihking base and superstructure, Bruno's works developed a irnd practice, to develop a more rotrust outlook much more dialectical approach with the W'e turned back to basics, and re- rippropriated psychogeogfaphy, an early lnactice of the Situationists to see what new .r'[rich would serve better than the useless ,.:n)ightenment rationalism which had left us rilli.nried in the face of a serious mobilisation of society behind the war effort. But this re- appropriation involved a series of resonances: jn rhe iirsr place it has been necessary to make rl'ailable in English some of the works of .\sger Jorn (Apen Creation can be obtained lirr t3 from Unpopular Books, Box 15 138 Kingsland High Street, l.ondon E8 2NS; I/re ( riti(lu? of' Economic' Policy will appear in iire lirurth issue of Tiansgressions, which can Maybe it's because I'm a London Psychogeographer That I love London so. Maybe it's because I'm a London Psychogeographer That I think of her wherever I go. I get a funny feeling inside of me Just walking up and down. Maybe it's because I'm a London Psychogeographer That I love London Town. MARX STIPULATES SOMEWHERE that History repeats itself, the 6rst rime as tragedy, the second time as farce. Thus it is the dury of rll revolutionary Marxists penetration of opposites (see the illustration by fellow hermeticist, Robert Fludd). to re-enact tragic scenes from Proletarian History in a completely farcical fashion. For instance, the International Comnunist Current have been re-enactirlg the break No More Vanilla Marxism up of the First International with a farcical campaign against so-called In our researches we were confronted with a puzzle: How was it that the routes we were travelling by were occasioned by so little traffic? How come the legion of Marxist academics spawned by the universities had not traversed these realms? this latter question was easily answered in- that theirjob was to produce a sanitised Marxism, a vanilla Marxism. a Marxism of and for the bureaucrat, and in pursuit of such an aim what need have they for all these 'irrelevancies' which could provide sparking off points for dangerous and incendiary movements. But what about the multitude of working-class auto-didacts the least of whose researches amount to more than an Alexandrian library full of academic research. Here shimmers of light shone through. Such hgures as Gerald Massey, the noted Egyptologist and Chartist emerged; Herman Gorter, whose poem to the workers' councils clarifies his metaphysical position; Anton Pannekoek, who always stressed the spiritual side of the struggle for communism albeit a notion of spirit - a materialist optic; Ivan derived from Shcheglov, victim of the French psychiatric in Italy establishment; we found the Transmaniacs who soon embroiled us in the Luthfur Blissett Multiple Name Project. We can now say that Vanilla Marxism was a product of the counter-revolution which followed the defeat of the world revolutionary struggle of 1917-20. Ofcourse, acting in count€rpoint to this are the vemacular cultural forms which have emerged particularly from the African'The Dark and Light Pyramids' from Philosophia sacra et vere Christiana Seu Meterologia Cosmica, by Robert Fludd, Frankfurt 1626 Swansong of the London Psychogeographical Association American and African-Caribbean experiences. As has been shown in the work Continued on back parasites. They have topped previous rib- ticklers (such as their Artaudesque piece of perfornrance ilrt known as "The Manchester Altercation") with their recent denunciation of a former comrade as nor merely an arch freemlson, brtt also as a Zornbie-rnrster! This psychic manouvre nreans tirat thev do not need to re-examine the truly tragic nature of their own politics. As rve have now announced the final coilapse of the London Psychogeographical Association, we make one last appeal to any remaining classconscious cadres srill within the ICC to tear up their membership cards and fuse with the LPA before we too eventually dissolve ourselves. Our dissolution has not in fact been entirely harmonious, with a veritable schism within the Richard Essex persona. One faction, William Essex, has linked up with a neo-nashist faction (modelling themselves on Thomas Nashe rather than Jorgen Nash) called the Poplar Secession. The remaining faction, Richard "Sedgernoor" Bussex, has adopted a purer Debordian stance, and finding noone else left within the LPA, prompdy expelled himself. Boih factions have promrsed to collaborate in the productron of competeing schemas of historification as part of a rearguard action against the banahsarion of the now defunct LPA. FOTL'IWZAR.ID :TO GIhIGEELI-ANTD

FREDENSBORG Kerx"ffi * s ,,4 View of GOOD DAY OUT'' Ten Kuy Valuaes of Proletffirfltsa Post-&floCensnflsfrm Fredensborg Palace from ,s ,tr 1. The insistence upo!t a rtlughminded grip on reahry. 2. A willingness ro e onfronr rhe self searchingly amd evere u,irur laughter" 3. Patience and endurance. 4. Humour as a tool f,or transcendence. 5. sort of dead-cmd couragc, A * @ *rts and not so dead-cred. n N FEBRUARY IST '98 the philosophical circle around Bruno 6. An accepEance of, the role ot Bauer. (Only 20 years larer Turgenev L/Hlsffi,,:'J"Tff:f,TXI*X transferred it to the Russian suffering in retairaimg $rlc's 'drift' to the Valley of the People of narodniki, populist-revolutionaries, , humanity and in re6aimir!g sal!mc the North in the groudds of turned terroristic.) "The more deeply perspective on the hurqanie y arf Fredensborg Palace. CopenhagenMarl plunged into reality, the more i the oppressor. based publishing empire Space his Berlin friends lost themselves in Poetry had done a lot of publiciry for abstraction. Their criticism became 7. A high developmramr of the event, so quite a few people ever more 'absolute', and was dissimulation and camout-[age. showed up despite the winter chill. destined to end up in empty 8. A sense of sornething nteore The local chapter of the Association negation. It became,nihilistiC'.;' than this world aud ,*f rrrs of Autonomous Astronauts, aka the Therefore, in 1845 Marx and Engels rhythrns Blowers of Northern Winds, whose published their pamphlet againsr the members are well-versed in long three Bauer bros The Holv Familv 9 . A deep sense of t&rcl amesryrah!t-r psychogeo trips, were among the with the tongue-in-cheek subtitll limitation of life arXd a!l ohat participants. During the anti- Critique of the Criticctl Criticisin. we associatc witFr the'traglc clockwise walk round the castle "So, why not a Criticism oJ' th.e and tragicomic visioct. some finer points on the Modern Critique of the Critical Criticism by Khemetic Calendar, the topic of a now?" someone from LpA or AAA 10. Ceremonie$ or poise ill a raorl . LPA newslefter translated to Danish remarked dead-pan. rational ureiverse. (T'lec Feapsrie r:; by the AAA Cph Sector F./DK and The weak afteinoon light had and the rool*ca[s piay'i*ul published by Space Poetry, were completely faded out by -now so endless satire upelm Westenla under discussion. (The translators everybody was in a hurry to get back admitted that they had not fully to the bars of downtown assumpticlns of rarioraalirs,. ) comprehended this concept.) Copenhagen. So some feeble 'Portsmouth' " Later, heated arguments were exchanged between Valerie Sinistral !r9m the Society for Cutting Up Righthanded Folks (SCURF)* and the self-styled'Leftist, lefthanded, Left Hand Path followers' the Blowers of Northern Winds: SCURF considering BNW 'softies', and BNW calling SCURF 'poseurs'. But before long the topic of discourse was the 'authentic' historical and political origin of the term Nihilism. Most participants favoured a hypothesis put forward in Karl Marx: Man and Fighter by Boris Nicolaievsky and Otto MaenchenHelfen (cf. p.58) that the word first was coined by Turgenev for the attempts to utilise 'non-local effects' Thken liorn (icorgr 'Lthrric lrrrp;11.1 1,, (cf. the Copenhagen Interpretation, American Literatutc' E. Kent\ a lectul-(' rearl .rt th,.. ,ArirrL;.rl the Bohr theory that the equations of Meeting of the Collcrtc Lanilnlse Assot-rntiorr. quantum mechanics do not describe what is happening in the sub-atomic world, but what mathematical system we need to create to think of that world) to ger there in no time were made, but only with limited success, Anyway, it had been a good day out. AAA Cph Sector F/Dk c/o Mads Ranch Kornum, Mariendalsvej SZc,3tv DK-2000 Fredericksberg Denmark * *Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of qociety bping at all relevant to lefthanders, there remains to civic-minded sinistral p"r*n* o"nty to overthrow the government, eliminate the money systeni, insiituJ .ornpr"t, automation and dgstroy all righthandedness." (excelpi rrc,i,r scunr vrunir"rto isgzi -. ;l 1967. a TheseTen Ke,v Values, hanrurercr-i orir irr tll, {q sixties rvere adopred at thc. First Coriqr.cs: rit the New Lettrist Intcnraricurnl. Thc l_i,,& sc*:, the lbrntation of rhc N[-[ uritl rlr, prourulgation of these 'fc.u K*, Vulirc, rr. perhaps thc rnost irnporrrrrrt pr,,,lur., ol' r;r.. work over the last five years, 'We are sure that in the years olherd stnrs{i:, which are unfolding before us, conrrati.,s .i ri: time and time again har.e recoursc rri fir...;.,.. straight-forvrard yet pr.ltetrarir rg arr ri rli l tr gi, r provokipg points to oftcr sr.rccrrrri. riurinr.i those periods ol dlrkcsr glotrrrr rtlri, ir u. shall, no doribt pass throrrslr [rcli ':c tIra: golden rays of the rosy ctalvn comrnunism bless our smiling q.:trE'ci;*; t ,'l ?,r,{ '-l '. :,

I I f uture triPs of the LPA: Forward to Gingerland Final Rary 12 Noon outside' the Ginge:rbread Post Office rhoseunabrc,"***$"#*{"*H#rT:",*j*"-internationarreprv High street, London E8 2NS' UK coupons to LFA(EIS), Box 15, 138 Xfug$and of oeople like Cheikh Anta Diop (see hh used to obliterate questions of class, whilst still retaining a veneer of rationali$' The sinsularitv oftre New World slave experience contemDorarv African culture shares its roots cultural gap between slave and master did iiritttitton or Barbarisnt, New York l9l) *ittr tntse of ancient Egypt. Henry lnuis Gates Jr has gone frrther in his essay 'The Blackness of ilackness: a critique of the sign anA tne Signifying Monkey' (in llack Literature and Literary Theory, ed' Henry l,ouis Gates Ir, New York and London 1984)' He identifies Hermes with various African trickster figures Esu-El6gbira in Nigeria' l-eeba amo;sst the Fon of Dahompy. and New wottO u*iuit* such as Exu in Brazil, EchuElezu in Cuba, Papalrgba in Haitian Vaudou *dPuoa La Bas, the loa of US Hoodoo' Th"r. ti,.n become manifest as the Signi$ing rrionf., "ttlhe ironic reversal of a rcceived :-- racist iirage of the black as simianlike {"'l he who divells at the margins of discourse' ever punning, ever troping, ever embodying ttr" ui"Uiguiil"s of language" a rope "that subsumeJother rtretorical tropes." is -not eisentially racial ensure i although the mutation which preserved a dominaltt African synthesis. But this was a svnthesis which was flrmishing a working ciass with a mamer of discourse which the slave masters might rcadily dismiss as fate which the LPA has mumbo-jumbo - a although Websters also enjby€d. Howevcr, Third Ncw Internotional Dictionary may dismiss 'mumbo,jumbo' as "language that is involved and difficult.-.to unnccessarily -CBSERISH' anyone familiar understand: with Swahili will recognise the Phrase 'Marnbo-jambo?' which means "What's happgninglll . . Dialectical Towards -- Mratcrialism Amonsst African senfiEd essentialists there has been ii reccnt days an attempt to rpdiscover the ancient Egyptian concePt of Maat or justice' mvthoooesis with the arrival of Scota, the Princess and founder of Scotland' eil'the ctaim that Cels are essentially African is absurd as the suggestion &at they are essentially Europen. The point has also been conclusively reioved by Asger Jorn's work with the Scandinavian Institite of Compartive B*"ti* Vandalism No, it is to the work of Cheikh Anta Diop we must return. H discusses the imrption of a oatriarchal culture on the eastern shores of the irt dit"t"-"-, sweeping aside a matriarchal sociew which had developed from the northen shorei of Africa. He quite clearly shows how this patriarchal culture learned from Egypt' using ttre Greek philosophers as an example, th"y Oid not fulty understand whatthey "u"n-if had learni and could only reproduce it imperfec0y. It would seem that this did not ariie toni any innate or essential failing on their behalf, but rather stemmed from the priorities wbich arose from a perceived need to pr".etue patriarchal culture. Whilst ttre chimera of a unifled discursive Whereas on the one hand the Siguifyitrg' character. ths Monkev appears as However-sribh attcmPts often only end gP indipenbus Cftican folk nadition has been rewodriog the themes of classical Greek thought moOlneO by the experience ofcapitalism both with a riial reversal.which simply zubstitutas quotls Gates in the period of slavery and after' Eurocenric metaphysics with Africentric Mirchell-Kernan: i.e. a pudy cosmetic rcform to structure for revolutionary rhetoric has maki ihe dominant social relations more Ewotian soil rather than in the vagaries of a "The Black concept of signifYing incorporates essentially a folk notion that dictionary entries for words are not always sufficienl for interpreting meanings o: messages, or that meaning goes beyond such intemritation' Complimentary remarts may be delivered in a-left-handed fashion' A oarticular utterance may be an insult in one iont"*t and not another' What Pr€t€nds to be informative may intend to be persuasive' The tt"uror is thus-constrained to sscnd to all Dotential meaning carrying symbolic systctns in soeech events - the total universe ot oir"ioiti," (from 'signifying' by Claudia Mltchell-Kernat ia Mother Wit from the Laughins Baruel ed. Alan Dundes, New Ieney 1973). Thus figurative and fiteral noiccs can be sounded si-multaneously even containing and exolorins contradictions. This is not unique to African lmerican and African Caribbean culture as it is to some extent necessary in any class society whqre a dominant discourse is metaphvsics' have intcrnalised a acccptable for people -This who liberatory' Thus hardly is identity' Shdt books such'as Marimba Ani's Yurugu: An African-Cen ered Critique ol Eumpean Culrural ihouett atd Behoviour (New lersey 1994) f"ll to .eitite th€ir tull Potentid. Whilst this book still retains a ccrtairi critical value, this is lost oreciselY at the polnt where the critique of iloirroiti.* fails-to rtcognise the universalist basis of its own ethno'essentialism' The fact remains that no sy$Em of signs can ever be subetiurted for realitY. Ani's analysis of European culnre fall apart when she tiils o notice how, for instance' ancient Celtic culture reserved a central role ior Hermes (or his equivalent) in their mythological stnrcfiire, precisely. fr{pUp tn! ggvi'tian system and contrasting wit! the ethnono.t' systeh. of course, an had been oarticulariit could claim this influcnced by the infrrsion of Egyptian oermanentlv been revealed to be illusory this ioes not iniply that the project of communism has now to become lost in a series ot competing reformism. On the confiary, it is oreciseli through the emergence of a iya""tiia MaatJrialism, which roots itself in C-riit trot air which wilt provide a basis for the rediscovery a world human community where social relaiions are no morc mediated through race and gender than through class' RolI on the Hermetic Revolution If you want to receive a selection of back issues of the LPA Newsletter, then Please send 6 stamps (US $5 cash) to: LPA (ELS) Box 15, 138 Kingsland High Street, London E8 2NS