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Clap a Banker or should that be fuck one 5th Novemebr London..

underclassrising.net | 16.10.2008 11:09 | Sheffield | World

Well that’s what I’d really like to call for but there’s fuck all chance of it happening given the current levels of torpor in the anarchist movement……….oh sorry - ‘movement’ is something you dont get from anarchists at the moment.

Given the collapse of the free market and the hostility towards fat cat bankers you might have thought some anarchist action in the City might be a posibility……..but no…..we can only manage the Bookfair…..fucking multi fucking tasking is beyond us!

Each person is going to pay £16,000 per year for the bail out of the banks, the figure world wide 2000000000000 yes that is 2 trillion, the price we have paid in the UK could pay to keep all planned closures of post office open for 300 years, it's 3 times the income of a person on social security benefits.

Again the working class pay to bail out the Middle Class, it is estimated by December 2008 there will be 2 million on benefits, as we go into another global recession those in poverty will increase, I have been through recessions, been there in the 1970s and was stood on the picket lines 25 years ago with the miners.

Been at the front line of the 1970s and 1980s, there is nothing to celebrate here, if only this was 1929 and the bankers were jumping out of windows, there has been some signs of resistance, we need to increase the pressure, it is not utopian to say we need to organise more reclaim the city actions as happened in the 1980s, also June 18th 1999.

This time we need to take the anger further than slogans of burn the rich, perhaps this time we do need to burn them, if only the riots of Toxteth had happened six months before during the strike of 1984, just think would there have been enough police to deal with this?

Could it had been the army on the streets? What if? Of course a big question, but if we organise, riots of course are organic but there is no reason they could not happen, would there be enough police and army if every city went up?

We remember the glorious poll tax riot, and the 18 million that refused to pay, we are not dreamers when we say it could be possible for a TAX STRIKE, or those who are being asked 16,000 a year to bail out the bankers, this not our crisis so why should we pay?

underclassrising have been lurking in the dark corners of this urbanparanoia, the moment is ours brothers and sisters, we are not seeking the reform of capitalism, but its abolition. Capitalism is anarchy, we desire anarchism. Are we prepared to take now or stay the same, is what we need to be asking?

Instead some of us propose an action even a few people can pull off - CLAP A BANKER DAY - where we applaud and cheer individual or groups of bankers for their selfless hard work as they go about the city complete with hunting horns and clappers. Any takers?

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revisionism

16.10.2008 11:46

> if only the riots of Toxteth had happened six months before
> during the strike of 1984, just think would there have been
> enough police to deal with this?

Toxteth was 1981, the rest of your post is equally ignorant of the past, irrelevant to the future.

riot re-enactment society


this time we do need a smart nvda, but definetely not what you perhaps propose

16.10.2008 11:57

J18 was memorable becuase of the art & breathetacking actions like at the start which shut down the city, not another sloppy riot like at the end,deliberately provoked by police which put people off.
PS the poll tax was great, but it didnt end Thatcher
Spacehijacker velvet revolutions with some red, green & black are the way forward.
Lets not get underclass in even more shit

James


maybe but underclassing is right

16.10.2008 13:24

some of underclassing's (mozaz) points of view maybe be a little extreme but the majority of his opinions about the banking crisis are absolutely spot on.its no good the general public whatever their position in the class system coming out with a huge sigh of relief now that the governments has injected trillions into the unregulated banking industry as if the 7th cavalry has appeared on the horizon.the ramifications for the poorest weakest world wide will be felt for many years as governments cut back on social and public services not to mention aid to third countries all because governments in developed industrialized wealthy nations let go of the powers many of them used to deploy in terms of stock market regulation.the brokers the dealers the rogue traders and the banks themselves lending money in vast amounts to people who clearly had either no ability or intention to pay back has landed western/eastern civilization in the mess its finds itself so in a way the banks deserve our contempt mind you not so sure that hurling verbal abuse or missiles at staff on the high street is warranted or would serve much purpose though.

josh


i'm your daddy now, you're owned

16.10.2008 17:46

i never wanted to own a bank
i was disappointed when i first heard
but now, as a tax payer, i better consider
keeping tracks on the ins and outs

£ 500 billion = £ 500,000,000,000 [1]

and there is roughly 30 million folk working in the UK [2]

so my share = £ 500,000,000,000 / 30,000,000

crossing through the zeros, my share = £ 50,000 / 3

===========
= £ 16,666.66 recurring
===========

well it was worth that much last week
and this is still what it's going to cost me apparently
but it's not worth that this week
am already sitting on losses of a share of £ 2 billion
but then again i should consider the futures
by christmas, if i can stay in work
i'll have a bigger share
cos i'll be one of 29,750,000 remaining [3]

so my share at chrimbols = £ 498,000,000,000 / 29,750,000

crossing through the zeros, my share = £ 49,800,000 / 2,975

===========
= £ 16,739.50
===========

blimey, the joy of mathematics, i'd be up by over 70 squid
even if the gobment pisses away two bill
on hbos, llyods etc, etc, etc
that should buy me some pop and comics ...


but then perhaps i've been thinking about this all wrong
i mean, do i really own anything here
don't get me wrong
i know i'm expected to pay for it
whether i own it or not really
but if i don't own it really
can i own it surreally at least

i mean, consider hbos --

hbos you're no bodies boss anymore
i'm your daddy now, you're owned
and llyods, same deal
but with you i fancy a l'little rebranding
from this point forth
you shall have a stutter
and be called l'lyods
for short, if not for long

-- iv

[1]  http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/oct/15/alistair-darling-inquiry
[2]  http://www.statistics.gov.uk/CCI/nugget.asp?ID=12
[3]  http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/oct/16/banking-gordonbrown

i'm your daddy now, you're owned


Eat the Rich do it now

16.10.2008 19:41

J18 was memorable...and in its' own way...momentous.

Divisions will always occur but it is really negative that they do, particularly now - when the whole fictional, financial, capitalistic world is begging, borrowing and stealing off the poor!......Doh.!
That is what THEY always DO and have done...and STILL they get away with it.

Someone, somewhere....out there...has to have anarchistic or political or just good old angry fucking common sense to say ...Oi. Capitalists and capitalist apologists....NO!

Eat the Rich...Do it NOW...

Noah finnity


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