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Carnival for Full Enjoyment 4 July 2005

Carnival for Full Enjoyment | 17.05.2005 12:01 | G8 2005

Start off G8 week on Monday 4 July with a carnival in central Edinburgh — express resistance to the institutions responsible for our precarious lives under capitalism with some fun in the city! See end of article for details on next planning meeting.

CARNIVAL FOR FULL ENJOYMENT — 4 July 2005, Central Edinburgh

*No wage slavery *No benefits slavery
*No army slavery *No debt slavery

Flex, temp, casual and contortionist workers, benefit claimers, full-time wage slaves & work refusers, New Dealers, pensioners, migrants, students, part-timers, dreamers, duckers & divers… Bring noise, music and friends for action against the G8 that expresses our resistance in work, out of work and wherever we live. Assert our desires for FULL ENJOYMENT with some fun in the city — let’s start to make capitalism history!

THE G8
Since the G8 last met in the UK in 1998 with economic restructuring high on the agenda, we’ve seen more social cuts, privatisation and compulsory work schemes in Europe and beyond. This is part of a continuing enclosure of resources and means of living — such as water, land and housing — around the world. Now the G8 leaders meeting in Gleneagles claim to address concerns about climate chaos and world poverty. But they really aim to strengthen the system at the root of these conditions, and to find more efficient ways of managing, exploiting and enclosing us. We can only stop it by abolishing a profit-based economy; by dismantling the states and borders that divide us.

UP OUR STREET
You don’t have to go to Gleneagles to see international capitalism at work — it’s here on the high streets. The bailiff knocking on your door is a not-so-distant cousin of the cartel forcing peasants off common land on the other side of the world. Whole industries such as banks, loan and insurance companies thrive on indebtedness as people struggle to make ends meet. Job centres, private and government agencies harrass claimants to accept the first low-paid job that comes along or to work full-time as a condition of benefit — they even intend to put pensioners to work under the slogan of ‘active ageing’! Army recruiters target unemployed youth for ‘economic conscription’ with the help of job centres. Other companies try to force workers to accept insecure contracts, lower benefits, more work and stress; still others make a packet exploiting refugees who are isolated from fellow workers by racism and the border regime.

CLAIMING WHAT’S OURS
Whether we are waged or unwaged, we are faced with isolation and a lack of collective power. We can overcome this by supporting each other in our workplaces and by reaching beyond each workplace to find new ways of cooperating, struggling and living. In job centres, on compulsory work schemes, at work — let’s share information and take what’s ours on the streets, in the shops, on public transport. They say that time is money. Steal some today. Call in sick, go on strike, take an extra-long lunchbreak! Meet friends from far away and next door to conspire, confront and celebrate together. When we claim Job Seekers Allowance, we’re told to ’actively seek’ work. But we actively seek the end of a system of this system based on profit, and we work towards a global community based on freedom and cooperation.
Contact: Carnival for Full Enjoyment  dissentagainstwork@yahoo.co.uk


PLANNING/PREPARATION meeting on:
SAT 4 JUNE 11am – 5pm
COMMUNICATION WORKERS UNION CLUB, 15 BRUNSWICK STREET, EDINBURGH (1st floor)
(15 minutes walk from main train and bus stations. Buses include 22, 4, 44, 5, 7, 14, 16) People are welcome to stay till Sunday for socialising and further conspiring. For accommodation in Edinburgh — available for Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights — please get in touch by emailing Carnival for Full Enjoyment c/o  edinburghclaimantsinternal@lists.riseup.net

Carnival for Full Enjoyment
- e-mail: dissentagainstwork@yahoo.co.uk

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