We are in intellectual and social hiatus for the immediate future.
We will be back in full force after the reading of certain and numeous texts has been carried out.
In the mean time we direct your attentions to these informative, truthfull and un-solicited outposts for the peoples media.
http://libcom.org/news
www.indymedia.co.uk
Stay true to one another, unite and remain equal.
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Thursday, July 9, 2009
An Immediate Hiatus- A push towards education and awareness of the masses must start with the education and awareness of the few
Saturday, June 13, 2009
The Real Hustle- Patrick Barrett
The Real Hustle.
The European Election has finally brought a welcome moment’s respite from the furore surrounding MP’s expenses (sponsored by The Telegraph). Hardly a day has gone by without another MP’s claims for loft insulation or toothpaste causing outrage amongst the morally unimpugnable British public. Just yesterday The Telegraph was still busy breaking the news of Armed Forces Minister Bob Ainsworth’s expense claims for wallpaper, a fireplace, oak ceilings etc. ad nauseum. Public anger at this issue is understandable as the electorate feel they have been taken for a ride, and taken for a ride they have been, but not just by MP’s trying to get a few quid off a new bathroom. Such a story does not come to dominate the news quite by accident.
The Expenses Row (© The Telegraph) never merited such prolonged coverage. It was essentially a simple affair; the rules on expenses were lax, some MPs took the Michael Ancram, some broke the rules altogether, wholesale reform of parliament isn’t really necessary here. Anyone who finds themselves reeling at disbelief at the unscrupulous behaviour of our elected representatives should perhaps have a look across the sea - North or Irish - where corruption scandals have been uncovered on a scale that makes our MP’s mere expense fiddling look like kids half inching from the Woolworth’s pick ‘n’ mix. Uproar over this issue says more about the public’s penchant for using politicians as perennial punch bags than it does about any inherent flaws in our democracy. The fact that the Royal Family are never called into question for refusing, still, to fully disclose their expenses is perhaps worth noting here.
It is also worth remembering which newspaper broke this story. For The Telegraph this issue has become something of a raison d’etre, yet very often when a publication embarks upon such a fervent and lengthy campaign they do so in collusion with at least one political party, and with this being The Telegraph we can safely say it is not the Socialist Workers’ Party they were in cohorts with. One may point out that politicians on both sides have taken a hit, however it has long been the practice of political parties to willingly take what appears to be a blow so that they can then react to whatever mess they or anyone else has caused with a spontaneous ‘we listen to the people’, completely pre-arranged solution that ultimately leaves them bathing in a positive light.
The Telegraph’s coverage has not been so brazen as to present this problem as being singularly the fault of Labour, they can rely on the tabloids to insinuate that. The Sun, leading with the story of one MP’s claims for horse manure, emblazoned their front page with the headline “IT STINKS”, next to an unflattering picture of an awkward looking Gordon Brown. You had to turn to the inside pages to find out that the MP in question, David Heathcoat-Amory, is actually a Tory. But while The Telegraph may not have claimed that this epidemic of corruption was caused solely by red Labour germs, they went to great lengths to leave you in no doubt that the cure will come in a blue bottle. Enter the great David, the deus ex machina that, armed with vague statements and a stern look on his face, will cure Parliament of all its woes. Scan the headlines on the MP’s Expenses section of their website (for its own section it does have) and one man’s name pops up more than any other’s, and always in a positive light; ‘David Cameron the shining example?’ poses one headline with no hint of irony, and ‘David Cameron calls for referendum on EU constitution’ beams another, which definitely belongs in the MP’s Expenses section and isn’t in the slightest an attempt at subliminal electioneering on the eve of a European Election. David of course does not need to fiddle his expenses, he is a man of such wealth that in a recent interview, when pushed, he could not put an exact figure upon how many houses he owns.
The Expenses row does more than allow David Cameron to gain some positive column inches though, and it is questionable if this tactic has even worked. What it has successfully done however, is draw public attention away from, well, ever other aspect of politics in Britain today. Little attention has been paid to the fact that Cameron is apparently now forming economic policy based on the teachings of the thoroughly discredited American economic simpleton Arthur Laffer. Disowned even by the American right, Laffer’s economic theory was based on the highly complex premis that one couldn’t impose a high rate of taxation upon the rich, as they’ll become too lazy to go out and work if they see big chunks being taken out of their pay packet. Give them tax breaks and they’ll work harder and spend more. That this rather simplistic approach to macroeconomics has failed more often than it has succeeded matters not to the great David.
Undoubtedly ‘Dave’ is aware that the path he wishes to pursue, that of cutting taxes for the highest earners in Britain to stimulate the economy, is at odds with the course currently being pursued by, basically, the rest of the world. Moreover, such a policy may also not go down very well with the British public. Generally it had been assumed that tax cuts were always a vote winner, whereas anyone wishing to raise income tax, especially for high earners, would be branded ‘old Labour’ and accused of desiring ‘a return to the seventies’. However, Alistair Darling’s recent decision to raise the rate of income tax for those earning over £15,000 actually met with public approval - a sign if ever there was one that the 1980’s are finally over. The Tories have long loved to brand themselves as the party of low-taxation, unable to move on from the euphoria of the Lawson era, yet such a stance now seems to out of favour with the electorate. How convenient then that Cameron’s promised ‘Age of Austerity’ - or austerity for those already living in conditions that resemble austerity to those his tax cuts are aimed at - escaped public debate amidst ‘the ongoing expenses row’.
Most convenient it was too that on the eve of the European Elections the Conservative’s plans to render themselves impotent in the European Parliament and align themselves with a new rump EP grouping of right-wing borderline extremists went almost entirely unnoticed. For two decades Conservative MEPs had aligned themselves with the European People’s Party group, currently the largest grouping within the European Parliament. The decision to leave this grouping and join what will ultimately be an ineffectually small group, the Movement for European Reform, should probably have raised more eyebrows. The fact that the Tories’ new European bedmates include Polish hardline Catholics who believe homosexuality to be a disease and global warming to be a myth, and the Latvian ‘Fatherland and Freedom’ party who annually commemorate the deeds of the Latvian Waffen SS (the clue was in their name), should, really, have been making front page news. That British Conservatives, after several hundred years, are finally comfortable enough to align themselves with Catholics is pleasantly surprising. That they are so ready to ditch their ‘vote blue, go green’ message when it suits them is unpleasantly unsurprising. Likewise the fact that all of this went largely unreported. But hey, have you heard that the bloke out of Dollar and ‘I’m a Celebrity’ wants to run as an anti-expenses candidate at the next General election? Yep, that’ll improve the credibility of politicians. Oh, and was there some sort of election on last week?
The European Election has finally brought a welcome moment’s respite from the furore surrounding MP’s expenses (sponsored by The Telegraph). Hardly a day has gone by without another MP’s claims for loft insulation or toothpaste causing outrage amongst the morally unimpugnable British public. Just yesterday The Telegraph was still busy breaking the news of Armed Forces Minister Bob Ainsworth’s expense claims for wallpaper, a fireplace, oak ceilings etc. ad nauseum. Public anger at this issue is understandable as the electorate feel they have been taken for a ride, and taken for a ride they have been, but not just by MP’s trying to get a few quid off a new bathroom. Such a story does not come to dominate the news quite by accident.
The Expenses Row (© The Telegraph) never merited such prolonged coverage. It was essentially a simple affair; the rules on expenses were lax, some MPs took the Michael Ancram, some broke the rules altogether, wholesale reform of parliament isn’t really necessary here. Anyone who finds themselves reeling at disbelief at the unscrupulous behaviour of our elected representatives should perhaps have a look across the sea - North or Irish - where corruption scandals have been uncovered on a scale that makes our MP’s mere expense fiddling look like kids half inching from the Woolworth’s pick ‘n’ mix. Uproar over this issue says more about the public’s penchant for using politicians as perennial punch bags than it does about any inherent flaws in our democracy. The fact that the Royal Family are never called into question for refusing, still, to fully disclose their expenses is perhaps worth noting here.
It is also worth remembering which newspaper broke this story. For The Telegraph this issue has become something of a raison d’etre, yet very often when a publication embarks upon such a fervent and lengthy campaign they do so in collusion with at least one political party, and with this being The Telegraph we can safely say it is not the Socialist Workers’ Party they were in cohorts with. One may point out that politicians on both sides have taken a hit, however it has long been the practice of political parties to willingly take what appears to be a blow so that they can then react to whatever mess they or anyone else has caused with a spontaneous ‘we listen to the people’, completely pre-arranged solution that ultimately leaves them bathing in a positive light.
The Telegraph’s coverage has not been so brazen as to present this problem as being singularly the fault of Labour, they can rely on the tabloids to insinuate that. The Sun, leading with the story of one MP’s claims for horse manure, emblazoned their front page with the headline “IT STINKS”, next to an unflattering picture of an awkward looking Gordon Brown. You had to turn to the inside pages to find out that the MP in question, David Heathcoat-Amory, is actually a Tory. But while The Telegraph may not have claimed that this epidemic of corruption was caused solely by red Labour germs, they went to great lengths to leave you in no doubt that the cure will come in a blue bottle. Enter the great David, the deus ex machina that, armed with vague statements and a stern look on his face, will cure Parliament of all its woes. Scan the headlines on the MP’s Expenses section of their website (for its own section it does have) and one man’s name pops up more than any other’s, and always in a positive light; ‘David Cameron the shining example?’ poses one headline with no hint of irony, and ‘David Cameron calls for referendum on EU constitution’ beams another, which definitely belongs in the MP’s Expenses section and isn’t in the slightest an attempt at subliminal electioneering on the eve of a European Election. David of course does not need to fiddle his expenses, he is a man of such wealth that in a recent interview, when pushed, he could not put an exact figure upon how many houses he owns.
The Expenses row does more than allow David Cameron to gain some positive column inches though, and it is questionable if this tactic has even worked. What it has successfully done however, is draw public attention away from, well, ever other aspect of politics in Britain today. Little attention has been paid to the fact that Cameron is apparently now forming economic policy based on the teachings of the thoroughly discredited American economic simpleton Arthur Laffer. Disowned even by the American right, Laffer’s economic theory was based on the highly complex premis that one couldn’t impose a high rate of taxation upon the rich, as they’ll become too lazy to go out and work if they see big chunks being taken out of their pay packet. Give them tax breaks and they’ll work harder and spend more. That this rather simplistic approach to macroeconomics has failed more often than it has succeeded matters not to the great David.
Undoubtedly ‘Dave’ is aware that the path he wishes to pursue, that of cutting taxes for the highest earners in Britain to stimulate the economy, is at odds with the course currently being pursued by, basically, the rest of the world. Moreover, such a policy may also not go down very well with the British public. Generally it had been assumed that tax cuts were always a vote winner, whereas anyone wishing to raise income tax, especially for high earners, would be branded ‘old Labour’ and accused of desiring ‘a return to the seventies’. However, Alistair Darling’s recent decision to raise the rate of income tax for those earning over £15,000 actually met with public approval - a sign if ever there was one that the 1980’s are finally over. The Tories have long loved to brand themselves as the party of low-taxation, unable to move on from the euphoria of the Lawson era, yet such a stance now seems to out of favour with the electorate. How convenient then that Cameron’s promised ‘Age of Austerity’ - or austerity for those already living in conditions that resemble austerity to those his tax cuts are aimed at - escaped public debate amidst ‘the ongoing expenses row’.
Most convenient it was too that on the eve of the European Elections the Conservative’s plans to render themselves impotent in the European Parliament and align themselves with a new rump EP grouping of right-wing borderline extremists went almost entirely unnoticed. For two decades Conservative MEPs had aligned themselves with the European People’s Party group, currently the largest grouping within the European Parliament. The decision to leave this grouping and join what will ultimately be an ineffectually small group, the Movement for European Reform, should probably have raised more eyebrows. The fact that the Tories’ new European bedmates include Polish hardline Catholics who believe homosexuality to be a disease and global warming to be a myth, and the Latvian ‘Fatherland and Freedom’ party who annually commemorate the deeds of the Latvian Waffen SS (the clue was in their name), should, really, have been making front page news. That British Conservatives, after several hundred years, are finally comfortable enough to align themselves with Catholics is pleasantly surprising. That they are so ready to ditch their ‘vote blue, go green’ message when it suits them is unpleasantly unsurprising. Likewise the fact that all of this went largely unreported. But hey, have you heard that the bloke out of Dollar and ‘I’m a Celebrity’ wants to run as an anti-expenses candidate at the next General election? Yep, that’ll improve the credibility of politicians. Oh, and was there some sort of election on last week?
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
A Conversation between the house and Joe Public
A little piece of rhyme I wrote in response to the expenses scandal and a close friend of mines writing here...
http://thedictionaryofanincredibleillness.blogspot.com/2009/05/fuck.html
Have you been down to my new house,
Its so lovely and huge.
Twenty miles out in a coastal town,
That's very affluent too.
Theres a great big garden and a health food store,
And theres such a lovely view.
Have you been down to my new house,
Its partly paid for by you.
Where we go, we don't hear a word,
We've given them the world,
But they call us absurd.
Have you been down to my new house,
the interiors quite serene.
Its such a short drive from amenities,
And the public schools a dream.
Here we've heard, we won't be disturbed,
We've given them the world,
But they call us absurd.
Its a good thing we distanced ourselves,
From the trade union scene.
My expenses covered most of this junk,
Its been such a dream.
http://thedictionaryofanincredibleillness.blogspot.com/2009/05/fuck.html
Have you been down to my new house,
Its so lovely and huge.
Twenty miles out in a coastal town,
That's very affluent too.
Theres a great big garden and a health food store,
And theres such a lovely view.
Have you been down to my new house,
Its partly paid for by you.
Where we go, we don't hear a word,
We've given them the world,
But they call us absurd.
Have you been down to my new house,
the interiors quite serene.
Its such a short drive from amenities,
And the public schools a dream.
Here we've heard, we won't be disturbed,
We've given them the world,
But they call us absurd.
Its a good thing we distanced ourselves,
From the trade union scene.
My expenses covered most of this junk,
Its been such a dream.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Return of the obscured Identity or (oink time)- Kev Soar
Covered numbers, covered faces,
Have you not learnt from the Genoa cases.
Covered numbers, covered faces,
First day in battle you only stood by white races.
By and by, then and now,
You've lost touch.
Time will tell,
Time should have told,
That we don't love you anymore,
We wanted to trust,
We wanted to hold your hand,
But time and time again,
You just don't understand.
Have you not learnt from the Genoa cases.
Covered numbers, covered faces,
First day in battle you only stood by white races.
By and by, then and now,
You've lost touch.
Time will tell,
Time should have told,
That we don't love you anymore,
We wanted to trust,
We wanted to hold your hand,
But time and time again,
You just don't understand.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
A Noble Lie- Kev Soar
It seems Gordon Brown and his little pet Gremlin Home secretary Jacqui Smith have now further enveloped themselves in the thinking and dangerous teachings of Leo Strauss and his Neo-Conservative army.
Leo Strauss as some of you may know was the key voice in influencing the formation of the anti-left/anti-communist Neo-Conservatives in America. Among other things their main weapon against those they saw as anti-American in their views and ways- and by and by the general public who in their adoption of supercharged individualism and liberalism where destroying America, was the use of the Strauss endorsed 'noble lie'. The 'noble lie' in its most primal form is a myth fed to society through any obliging media, propaganda and many other deceptive means to, if successful, pull society together (that's the noble part).
'Noble lies' are best deployed when society is at its most fragile and fragmented. At times like this the society will question their leadership and start to feel much disarray, this may lead them to find new leadership or create their own united voice against the current leadership.
This year there has been nothing but talk about the recession and unemployment in the country. By now the people have gone through the emotions of confusion, fear and desperation, its only recently that the people and working population of the country have decided to take a leaf out of their European neighbours books such as the French and the Grecians and take action in the form of strikes, walkouts and protests. The thought of action combined with the new emotion of anger felt by the people must be putting the shivers right 'up em'.
Whatever comes out of this and there are several outcomes all lead to one place for Gordon Brown and Labour and that is doom. By all accounts we do not want the Cameron et al to come in to power but the writing on the wall is there for all to see. The people are fed up and will turn to another party or in a worse case scenario the people will become over cynical with the country's Parliament altogether and avoid voting, paving the way for the Conservatives.
This is a bleak lose lose situation for both Brown and the people. With the G20 summit in London fast approaching, and protests planned for both Saturday and the 1st of April it is time for the people to speak up, what Brown will be hoping is that the rest of the general public don't see the anger and action in the protestors eyes and see this as the way forward.
Cue little Gremlin Jacqui Smith and the 'noble lie' egged wonderfully along by headlines such as the one in the London Paper that reads, 'DIRTY BOMB THREAT TO LONDONERS'.
The government has this week warned that the terrorist threat on London is greater than ever and that everywhere we tread is now threatened by 'homegrown' extremists. In the past the government has always talked about the resilience and well equipped emergency services and military units trained to deal with terrorism threats. But this week on the cusp of seeing a substantial amount of the people stand up and show their in-gratitude at the current treatment brought on them by years of capitalist greed, add to this the flurry of debates on privacy protection and the publics right to it, the government has issued the statement that it is now beyond the responsibilities of just the emergency services and the military, that now we the British Citizen's have to become responsible and vigilant against terrorist attacks.
In a somewhat sickening use of words Jacqui Smith described the 60,000 'everyday working people' who had been trained to fight terrorism as a new "Workers Army" who would now be on the front line battling the terrorists. So the workers sick to death with the way the Government has treated them in the past must come together in arms and march to the front line to fight for their country. Its just another play on words like Boris Johnson before her Smith uses to rouse some kind of imaginary Blitz era British spirit she thinks we all still have. Its pin point perfect use of the 'Noble Lie', which under its banner can involve the uniting of people against an evil, made up exaggerated or otherwise which if effective should in theory deter the people from their current modes of thought and dis-satisfaction with their leadership and join them in fighting this great foe.
Not only does Smith try and deter the working class from being angered by the Governments poor treatment of them in the past by uniting them against this enemy, she is also justifying the intrusive nature of this nations higher powers by aiming her army at British born extremists who live on your street, drink with you in the pub and serve you in the shops. She might as well say "if we don't have all these cameras prying into our lives how on earth will we stop them, they are here amongst us we need this much intrusion to make sure they are not making dirty bombs on our door steps. If the cameras stop rolling, the streets of London will become awash with DIRTY BOMBS!."
By setting up her 'Workers Army', i.e. me and you, against homegrown terrorists (if we are unsure of what they will look like don't worry, the word Muslim was used an unaccountable amount of times in her speech and amongst the columns of several papers) she has gone someway to try and make not only the over pushy airport security and police across the country wary and suspicious of Muslims but also now me and you. Now we are apparently on the front line too fighting these terrorists she has done her bit in making sure the general public will now be seeing every Muslim as an extremist that they must stop.
The 'Noble Lie' it seems isn't just trying to attempt to get the people re-united against a collective evil, get the workers back on side, and get us to accept the prying nature of our government into our lives but its also on its way to succeeding in alienating the Muslim population and due to the ignorance of many the entire middle eastern population of the UK.
Leo Strauss as some of you may know was the key voice in influencing the formation of the anti-left/anti-communist Neo-Conservatives in America. Among other things their main weapon against those they saw as anti-American in their views and ways- and by and by the general public who in their adoption of supercharged individualism and liberalism where destroying America, was the use of the Strauss endorsed 'noble lie'. The 'noble lie' in its most primal form is a myth fed to society through any obliging media, propaganda and many other deceptive means to, if successful, pull society together (that's the noble part).
'Noble lies' are best deployed when society is at its most fragile and fragmented. At times like this the society will question their leadership and start to feel much disarray, this may lead them to find new leadership or create their own united voice against the current leadership.
This year there has been nothing but talk about the recession and unemployment in the country. By now the people have gone through the emotions of confusion, fear and desperation, its only recently that the people and working population of the country have decided to take a leaf out of their European neighbours books such as the French and the Grecians and take action in the form of strikes, walkouts and protests. The thought of action combined with the new emotion of anger felt by the people must be putting the shivers right 'up em'.
Whatever comes out of this and there are several outcomes all lead to one place for Gordon Brown and Labour and that is doom. By all accounts we do not want the Cameron et al to come in to power but the writing on the wall is there for all to see. The people are fed up and will turn to another party or in a worse case scenario the people will become over cynical with the country's Parliament altogether and avoid voting, paving the way for the Conservatives.
This is a bleak lose lose situation for both Brown and the people. With the G20 summit in London fast approaching, and protests planned for both Saturday and the 1st of April it is time for the people to speak up, what Brown will be hoping is that the rest of the general public don't see the anger and action in the protestors eyes and see this as the way forward.
Cue little Gremlin Jacqui Smith and the 'noble lie' egged wonderfully along by headlines such as the one in the London Paper that reads, 'DIRTY BOMB THREAT TO LONDONERS'.
The government has this week warned that the terrorist threat on London is greater than ever and that everywhere we tread is now threatened by 'homegrown' extremists. In the past the government has always talked about the resilience and well equipped emergency services and military units trained to deal with terrorism threats. But this week on the cusp of seeing a substantial amount of the people stand up and show their in-gratitude at the current treatment brought on them by years of capitalist greed, add to this the flurry of debates on privacy protection and the publics right to it, the government has issued the statement that it is now beyond the responsibilities of just the emergency services and the military, that now we the British Citizen's have to become responsible and vigilant against terrorist attacks.
In a somewhat sickening use of words Jacqui Smith described the 60,000 'everyday working people' who had been trained to fight terrorism as a new "Workers Army" who would now be on the front line battling the terrorists. So the workers sick to death with the way the Government has treated them in the past must come together in arms and march to the front line to fight for their country. Its just another play on words like Boris Johnson before her Smith uses to rouse some kind of imaginary Blitz era British spirit she thinks we all still have. Its pin point perfect use of the 'Noble Lie', which under its banner can involve the uniting of people against an evil, made up exaggerated or otherwise which if effective should in theory deter the people from their current modes of thought and dis-satisfaction with their leadership and join them in fighting this great foe.
Not only does Smith try and deter the working class from being angered by the Governments poor treatment of them in the past by uniting them against this enemy, she is also justifying the intrusive nature of this nations higher powers by aiming her army at British born extremists who live on your street, drink with you in the pub and serve you in the shops. She might as well say "if we don't have all these cameras prying into our lives how on earth will we stop them, they are here amongst us we need this much intrusion to make sure they are not making dirty bombs on our door steps. If the cameras stop rolling, the streets of London will become awash with DIRTY BOMBS!."
By setting up her 'Workers Army', i.e. me and you, against homegrown terrorists (if we are unsure of what they will look like don't worry, the word Muslim was used an unaccountable amount of times in her speech and amongst the columns of several papers) she has gone someway to try and make not only the over pushy airport security and police across the country wary and suspicious of Muslims but also now me and you. Now we are apparently on the front line too fighting these terrorists she has done her bit in making sure the general public will now be seeing every Muslim as an extremist that they must stop.
The 'Noble Lie' it seems isn't just trying to attempt to get the people re-united against a collective evil, get the workers back on side, and get us to accept the prying nature of our government into our lives but its also on its way to succeeding in alienating the Muslim population and due to the ignorance of many the entire middle eastern population of the UK.
Monday, March 16, 2009
Put the People First- Kev Soar
On Saturday the western worlds heads of finance met to discuss the forthcoming G20 summit and despite obvious attempts to cover up the fact, the general feeling was that surprise surprise there was s alot of disagreement around the table.
Whatever takes place next week there is no doubting that the worlds leaders will of course take action to as they put it make "a sustained effort, to deliver the scale of sustained effort necessary to restore growth". On face value this is obviously a good thing and the general impetuous will be "as long as I get my job back" or "as long things get cheaper" ---"then I dont mind".
Unfortunately it doesn't take a savant, philosopher, economist or some mystic oracle to predict that if left in the hands of those at the G20 summit and without some kind of outcry from the people then once the jobs are re-created and the recession rolled out with yesterdays London lite the people will be made to forget what got them to this diabolical position in the first place- an inevitably they will forget just as they will forget last years winner of Dancing with the stars, just as they will forget the name of Jade Goodys husband, just as they have already forgotten "that missing girl".
What becomes of this? A repetition, repetition, repetition.
Another popular view quashed: Obama will save us.
This unfortunately is a view of collective ignorance.
However much hope this great man has brought the world, he can only improve not change the situation, anyone with 5 minutes on their hands and Internet access will tell you- despite all his promises of equality- which I dare say he will try his up most to adhere to, he will not sadly be completely turning his back on capitalism and the ways of his predecessors in the white house. Besides when ever in history did one man make a change.
The people will be the strongest voices on march the 28th, the million or more people that will gather outside under the collective banner of putting the people first.
Under this banner more than 100 groups will unite, whether socialist, anarchist, Green, religious or feminist all have come together for the cause.
Many I have spoken to have asked the questions "well what difference will it make" and "what will it do". But then you will just have to look through history and see what would have happened if the people had asked similar questions then.
I am not qualified to quote the great socialists or revolutionaries to inspire you to march on the 28th or back up what I have written, and I shouldn't need to tell you that this isn't about how your having trouble to afford going out tonight.
Its about family members getting made redundant from jobs they have had for years, its about the flaunting of disposable income on swimming pools and 1'000 dresses. Its not just a message to those in the G20 summit but a message to those who think their above the people, the workers, its about changing the selfish and self indulgent ways people spend their money and lives in disregard for their fellow man and women and not just about the ways the bankers spend their bonuses (as many tend to begroaningly moan about the most) or how the governments of the west have exploited. Its about abolishing capitalism and the tendency some have to be babysat by its ways. Its for those who have been spoon fed up until now, to brush themselves off and rethink how they live to not just blame the banks and the government for the worlds financial wrongs but to realise their own and others like them ways of living have also added to how the world is.
Come join the march on the 28th- go here for details:
http://www.putpeoplefirst.org.uk/
Alternatively we can all go together, just email kevsoar@hotmail.com if interested so we can arrange a meeting point etc.
Whatever takes place next week there is no doubting that the worlds leaders will of course take action to as they put it make "a sustained effort, to deliver the scale of sustained effort necessary to restore growth". On face value this is obviously a good thing and the general impetuous will be "as long as I get my job back" or "as long things get cheaper" ---"then I dont mind".
Unfortunately it doesn't take a savant, philosopher, economist or some mystic oracle to predict that if left in the hands of those at the G20 summit and without some kind of outcry from the people then once the jobs are re-created and the recession rolled out with yesterdays London lite the people will be made to forget what got them to this diabolical position in the first place- an inevitably they will forget just as they will forget last years winner of Dancing with the stars, just as they will forget the name of Jade Goodys husband, just as they have already forgotten "that missing girl".
What becomes of this? A repetition, repetition, repetition.
Another popular view quashed: Obama will save us.
This unfortunately is a view of collective ignorance.
However much hope this great man has brought the world, he can only improve not change the situation, anyone with 5 minutes on their hands and Internet access will tell you- despite all his promises of equality- which I dare say he will try his up most to adhere to, he will not sadly be completely turning his back on capitalism and the ways of his predecessors in the white house. Besides when ever in history did one man make a change.
The people will be the strongest voices on march the 28th, the million or more people that will gather outside under the collective banner of putting the people first.
Under this banner more than 100 groups will unite, whether socialist, anarchist, Green, religious or feminist all have come together for the cause.
Many I have spoken to have asked the questions "well what difference will it make" and "what will it do". But then you will just have to look through history and see what would have happened if the people had asked similar questions then.
I am not qualified to quote the great socialists or revolutionaries to inspire you to march on the 28th or back up what I have written, and I shouldn't need to tell you that this isn't about how your having trouble to afford going out tonight.
Its about family members getting made redundant from jobs they have had for years, its about the flaunting of disposable income on swimming pools and 1'000 dresses. Its not just a message to those in the G20 summit but a message to those who think their above the people, the workers, its about changing the selfish and self indulgent ways people spend their money and lives in disregard for their fellow man and women and not just about the ways the bankers spend their bonuses (as many tend to begroaningly moan about the most) or how the governments of the west have exploited. Its about abolishing capitalism and the tendency some have to be babysat by its ways. Its for those who have been spoon fed up until now, to brush themselves off and rethink how they live to not just blame the banks and the government for the worlds financial wrongs but to realise their own and others like them ways of living have also added to how the world is.
Come join the march on the 28th- go here for details:
http://www.putpeoplefirst.org.uk/
Alternatively we can all go together, just email kevsoar@hotmail.com if interested so we can arrange a meeting point etc.
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