Anarchy 3

Contents of No. 3

May 1961

Moving with the times … but not in step		65
A notebook in South Africa	Maurice Goldman	72
Africa and the future	Jeremy Westall	76
Culture and community	Nicolas Walter	80
Removal of guilt	Anthony Weaver	92
Cover	Rufus Segar

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ANARCHY 1: Rescuing Galbraith from the conventional wisdom; Sex-and-Violence and the origin of the novel (Alex Comfort) Education, equality, opportunity (John Ellerby) The ‘new wave’ in Britain (Nicolas Walter).

ANARCHY 2: Workers’ Control: Looking for a movement; Approaches to industrial democracy (Geoffrey Ostergaard) The gang system in Coventry (Reg Wright) Workers’ control in the building industry (James Lynch) Aspects of syndicalism in Spain, Sweden & U.S.A. (Philip Holgate).

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ANARCHY 4: “Where the shoe pinches”

In the care of the young and the old, the delinquent and the sick, there is a recognisable trend towards “de-institutionisation”—the breakdown of institutions. What are the wider implications of this trend? What does it mean when applied to the institutions of life in general?