Election Meltdown on TUC Defend Welfare State March 10 Sat April
EM activist | 07.04.2010 14:06 | Workers' Movements
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Some questions
07.04.2010 14:57
What is the concrete purpose of having this "blok"?
To distribute literature perhaps and so spread your politics among the crowd? If so, what literature? How have you geared the literature to the TUC crowd?
To meet with fellow Election Meltdown people to organise future events? Why do you think a demo is the best place to meet? Why not meet after? And if you do, think about what kinds of organisations you want to invite.
For fucks sake, seriously the EM crowd's organising consists of facebook events and indymedia one sentence articles! This is not an effective tool for organising. Honestly, as a class struggle anarchist I do have some (some..) sympathy with you politics (although I would recommend sureing them up and making them more clear and less vague) so please take this as constructive criticism rather than just trolling, sectarianism or whatever else.
(A)
Non violent what?
07.04.2010 16:58
Ashleigh Marsh
e-mail: ashleigh@e-marsh.freeserve.co.uk
Anarchists don't support this, haven't organised for it
08.04.2010 11:40
Posh twats and students only.
Avoid like the plague
@ avoid like the plague
08.04.2010 14:03
if you dont want to go, dont go, but why trash it before its even happened, Methinks youre a copper.
Everybody is more than capable of making their own decisions on whether to go. At the end of the day, it'll be mayday and if youre in london and are at a loose end, go to parliament square and see whats going on.
genuine london anarchist
@ Avoid like the plague
08.04.2010 15:27
I agree that it's not something the organised anarchist movement (which I consider to be AFed, SolFed, and maybe Liberty and Solidarity) is involved with, or should support. However, your criticism is weak and ad homeinin. "Posh twats"? What do you mean? People who are culturally middle class? Relatively well-off? Speak with a particular accent? None of these things is a reason to oppose them. Class is determined by one's economic and political status - our relationship to the means of production. The majority of culturally middle class (however horrible and empty that culture may be) are actually working class. And "students"? What's wrong with students. 50% of people are going to uni now, if they're not working class then building a working class movement is going to be pretty difficult.
We need working class solidarity! That will come when we overcome our petty prejudices about what's working class, and recognise that not only manual labourers, or people in council estates, etc. are working class. But instead we almost all are - teachers, students, office workers, the unemployed, as well as builders, and other manual labourers - working class.
The problems with Election Meltdown to me are that: it is a ghettoised movement and makes no effort to get involved with the organised workers' or even anarchist movement, that it organised stuntist one-off events rather than getting involved in improving people's workers' struggles and community struggles, it lacks a coherent political basis and philosophy, etc. These are serious problems, and consequently I don't participate in the things our EM comrades are doing, however there is no need for personal attacks - instead constructive criticism and demonstrating through action that other things are more worthwhile.
If we in the class struggle tradition present our case better, EM and other activist types can in the future become more commited social anarchists doing more useful stuff. On the other hand I do think that the ordinary non-political working class is a bigger better base with more potential that we should draw on.
(A)