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Middle class reformists

Nihilist | 10.05.2012 10:21 | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements

are striking today in their own intrests along with a reported 20,000 rank & file Police constables on their day off as the police are banned from sriking.

If the PCS are for all workers, workers rights and against oppression, why are their members sending unemployed people to these private profit making welfare to work providers,at the same time making themselves inevitably redundant! Why are collages accepting these work expirence trainee slaves, why aren`t the unions against this, why are some such as the CWU openly in agreement of this? The police plan to march past Downing street in protest at the planned private policing. The unions are outdated dinosaurs, who leadersip are no longer in touch with the ordinnary working man. Why are unemployed people accepting these schemes.

RISE UP!

Nihilist

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ditto

10.05.2012 11:30

why do poor working class folk just sit their and take it,what happened to that anti poll tax spirit.
this country is getting divied up for the 'haves' and the have nots'
i fear we are in for severe hard times,specially those on low wages and those on benefits,how much will the masses take before they stand up and say enough!
jeez,now i got to pay some of my rent from my benefit cos i have a spare room,wtf?
'the law says you need £xx.xx amount to live on,so if they take that off us isnt it breaking the law?
we are expected to live in tiny boxes whilst the aristocrats in government get it all,all paid for by hard working people,talk about taking the piss!

jock
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Stupidity

10.05.2012 13:13

This post makes some valid points, but, overall, doesn't even get off the starting blocks. Are you so naive that you think EVERYONE who voted for reformist parties (ie - everyone who voted) is middle class? And the fact that you just noticed a contradiction in Trades Union practice is not NEWS.

It would help if you could SPELL words like "expirence", "leadersip", "ordinnary" (sic), but either way you have absolutely no clue about politics

Dean

volunteerism not force

10.05.2012 15:31

If you refuse to shop at Tesco they can't arrest you and put you in prison. If you refuse to shop with the state the police can arrest you and put you in prison, and if you resist arrest they can shoot you, legally. The state is a monopoly on violence. It can legally force you to do what it wants because it makes the laws, it has to guns, the bombs, the police, and the support of everyone who lobbies and bribes it with votes.

It doesn't matter what "class" you are, all that matters it wether or not you use threats of violence in you interactions with others. The very existence of the POLICY FORCE is a threat of violence, by the state against the peaceful.

They aren't there to protect and serve you, they are their their to make you conform, to make you pay your taxes so the state can pay their wages.

collectivism is good when it is by each individual members free choice, without force or coercion.

anarchist

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