Direct Action (AFB) Vol 1 #07 May 1946

Random selection of quotes from this issue of Direct Action, Organ of the Anarchist Federation of Britain, May Supplement 1946:

After the War is over,
After the slaughter’s done,
After the people are ruined,
After the victory’s won,
Labour will go on drudging
Wondering what it was for,
Paying for generations.
After the war.

At school we were told that, happily, the days of religious persecution were passed; that the horrible story of deportation, torture, imprisonment and execution was ended with the passing of the middle ages. The rise of Fascism and Communism [and Democracy, Islamism and Anarchism], however, created political persecution on a scale undreamt of by any medieval fanatics.

Finally a word about thorium. This mineral, most extensively used in the manufacture of atomic explosives, has recently been discovered in Ceylon—the largest thorium field in the world. The prevalent feeling here is that this thorium should be used exclusively for industrial and humanitarian purposes. Free India will resist all attempts to use it to help manufacture a material designed to destroy human life.