\ mternational Times Ul June 1st 2005 We are the forces of chaos and anarchy, every thing they say we are - we are and se are very proud of ourselves. We are all outlaws, in order to survive we cheat lie and steal, We are hideous dirty and dangerous. All your private property is target for your enemy and your enemy is we, Up against the wall, up against the wall motherfuckers, tear down the wall, teardown the wall, Jefferson Airplane 1968, ur life our world mapped out in scars. No time to show fear or for tears in the morning no time for fove no time to ask why if they come in the morning no time to fight back if they come%in the ‘morning and the wail ofthe siren isthe ery ofthe morning. The Mob 1983 It was twenty years ago today that the Empire struck back against the countercultural forces of chaos and anarchy AKA the Stonehenge People's Free Festival. The Battle of the Beanfield of June Ist 1985 was but one skirmish in Empire's Eternal War Against Imagination. We have ever been more possible than the powerful can imagine. Thus each revolutionary eruption of energy out of the cultural unconscious has been first repressed and then recuperated, ‘The fusion of knowledge and action must be realised in the historical struggle itself So long as history is confined to the past, knowledge and action remain divided. The counterculture’s challenge is to create a history of the Future, by fusing knowledge and action in the eternal present of everyday life. ‘Therefore we propose to apply the painters’ techniques to writing: things as simple and immediate as collage or montage. Cut right through the pages and shuflle the columns of text, Put these together at hazard and read the newly constituted message. You'll soon see that words and the sights which they refer to belong to everyon ‘Thus we dream our psychedelic dreams, recycling these old and worn out texts, the yellowing pages of surrealist manifestos, giving them away like the damnation of your soul under the grey mist of a summer dawn to the crowd flowing over London Bridge. So many. I had not thought death had! undone so many. At first we were iridescent. Then we became transparent. Finally we were absent. Rejoice- Empire is no more! Jove and chaos yy Coy, Clara Bow - the original IT girl @ Stonehenge June 1st 2005Boredom Boredom Boredom Boredom Boredom Boredom Boredom Boredom No one really know when it began, but IT began at an all night rave back in 1966, And again in 1976. And 1986 but not 1996 and who knows about 2006? IT is/will be/ was part of the [dis[United Kingdom of Greater Britain and Northern Ireland's counterculture Since many and various reports of the counterculture's death have been multiplied beyond necessity, we have taken William of Occam's razor and wielded it vigorously tt dead yet. to reach the conclusion that we ain’ From these texts it would seem that the spectre of the counterculture is haunting attempts by pagans, heritage site managers and academies to find a Final Solution to the Stonehenge Problem. According to Druidess Emma Restall Orr an angry brigade of ‘exchippies with acid flashbacks stil want to have a Free Festival at Stonchenge Who are the angry brigade? Persoins in hiding, persons unknown. Social deviants, freaks and mutants, subway surfing anarcho goth punks, chaos magicians, Thelemites and Greenham women, revolutionary pra jes, everyone and no-one, But not ‘pagans’ Pseudo-celebration of pscudo-time Pagan festivals bear no relation to the free festivals of the counterculture, The pagan ‘wheel of the year’ is fixed to the repetitive calendar of alienated labour. This ‘pagan time’ with its sudden return of multiple festivals is a time without festivity. It solar time, where the spectacular past dominates the present. Brighter than a thousand suns, the nuclear flash which erased Stonchenge in 1984 Vitrified time as well as the megaliths. ‘The spectacular consumption of this congealed ative manifestations. ‘The critical truth of the destruction of Stonchenge is obviously hidden, since the Spectacle’s function is to make history forgotten within culture. time includes the recuperated repetition of its n ‘This special Beanfield Issuc of International Times is dedicated to restoring the Lunar Calendar. Let us reclaim the counterculture and reject its recuperation as ‘paganism’. To this end we have recycled, reused and abused a collection of words pilfered at random from the counterhistory of the Spectacle. We can't explain what you ought to know so if this means nothing to you can tell it to the next Bardot. Read it all at http:/ /greengalloway. blogspot.com Love, chaos and eternal anarchy - Clara Bow, the original IT girlInternational Times Ist June 2005 There are no spectators. We all participate. There is no neutral. To wash your hands of| the conflict between the powerful and the powerless is to side with the oppressors. Editorial Re- membering the Beanfield Te was twenty years ago today that the against the countercultural of chaos and anarchy. We may have been going in and out of style ever since the launch of IT in 1966, but we have always been more possible than the powerful could imagine, The threat has never been what the counterculture is, but rather what we might become. Empire struck back forces Thus each revolutionary eruption of ‘energy out of the cultural unconscious has first been repressed and then recuperated The Battle of the Beanfield of June Ist 1985 was but one skirmish in Eternal War Against Imagination pies The fusion of knowledge and action must be realised in the historical struggle itself Yet the struggle of history. to shake off the shackles of Empire confusion, They can call it freedom, but slavery is still the game played by the remains mired in administrators of ‘history’, So long as history is confined to the past, knowledge and ‘The counterculture's challenge is to create a history of the future, by fusing knowledge and action in the eternal present of everyday hi To this deconstruct and re-member our stories, using whatever sources and techniques that lie to hand, Under the shimmering diversions of the spectacle, banalisation dominates modern society the world over. ‘The smug acceptance of what exists has hitherto merged with purely spectacular action remain divided achieve fusion we must rebellion as dissatisfaction itself became a marketable commodity, Suddenly, after all the sound and fury, it was over and silence returned. Writing is fifty years behind painting Therefore we propose to apply the painters’ techniques to writing: things as simple and immediate as collage or montage. Cut right through the pages and shuffle the columns of text. Put these together at hazard and read the newly constituted message. You'll soon see that the words and sights which they refer to belong to everyone. This is the present, ‘our present and we mean it, man Love and chaos, Clara Bow- the original IT girl- June Ist 200