If you look at the website, it's full of quotes from Tony Blair about how important it is to stop climate change and help Africa.

The G8 is very much being marketed to kids as a positive altruistic force for good in the world. The issues are being presented not as how can we stop the G8 from fucking up the world but how can the good, wise G8 save the world from itself.

Yuk.

That's the neofascist thirdway New Labour nanny state tehcnique #1. It seems every piece of totalitarian legislation they introduce sanctimoniously justifies giving more power away to unelected or centralised groups for the 'proteciton of the public', 'for your own good' or to 'help the poor minorities'.

All the anti-fascist/anti-nazi groups should not be wasting time on the insignificant BNP or NF. We have fascism here already (and in the recreation of Hitler's Fortress Europe - the EU) who are taking more of our rights every day. The Fabians are committed to a gradual incremental implementation of their ingsoc agenda rather than the overt coup; hence their symbol is a fox.

First they take your guns, then they take your rights, and soon they'll be coming for you.

I think the presidency of the G8 has been taken very seriously by HMG, they seriously want to highlight the issues of Aid, Trade and Climate Change, and even if they didn't, the mainstream media seem to be doing so off their own bats. What does it all mean? My guess is that TB and company don't want a lot of ruckus in July, so they're painting themselves (and the G8) as a force for good which chimes with publicx calls fdor more aid and trade justice. Make Poverty History is Jubilee2000 mark II and proudly links itaself to Band Aid, so the calls for fairness are resonating with public feeling. But what do they call for? A 9-word slogan, and no detail other than to contact Tony and ask him nicely to do what he can. I think the idea is that Tony's calls will increasingly align with those of the British public, but with little detail, until the big event, then he will water down the message just as he did yesterday(?) at the WEF on climate change, and then say, "well, look, hey guys, I, like, did my best like you asked me to, but the world is just, um, you know, like, such a complicated place..."

So maybe 'the movement' should concentrate on not vague slogans like 'we want justice', but stress things like the linking of aid to condiitons (arms purchases? cutting social expenditure), and the way in which debt repayments outnumber aid many times. And the flow of goods (especially cash crops), the whole structural caboodle: you want cheap coffee? you're fucking the poor.

As for climate change, we're fucked, blair talks of not implementing any policies which affect economic growth, and economic growth, simply put, is linked directly to GHG emissions, CO2 concentrations, and therefore the inescapable shagging of global climate.