All Out - London Oct 20th - This is Not a Recession, This is a Robbery!
Robin Hood | 07.08.2012 11:22 | Health | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles
This is not a recession, this is a robbery!
The MPs expenses scandal was followed by Liberal Democrats and Tories breaking pre-election promises on tuition fees and NHS re-organisation, undermining the entire basis of modern democracy, and paving the way for the wholescale theft of education and health entitlements that British taxpayers have been paying-in to for generations.
Bank bailouts steal billions from ordinary taxpayers while bank bosses steal million pound bonuses, the Libor scandal exposes the banks as systematic thieves, HSBC and Standard Chartered launder hundreds of billions for murdering Colombian narco-capitalists and for repressive regimes.
Multi-nationals and the super-rich dodge trillions in taxes which could wipe-out any deficit many times over, police kill with impunity, rioters serve jail time for stealing water, Bullingdon Club hooligans protect their friends by firing tax collectors instead of jailing tax criminals and punishing criminal bankers.
Assemble 11am sharp, London Blackfriars / Victoria Embankment, Sat 20 Oct 2012. Don't give The Daily Mail what they want - keep it PEACEFUL but make it LOUD.
Coaches and trains from Abingdon, Ashford, Aylesbury, Banbury, Basingstoke, Bolton, Bracknell, Brighton, Chichester, Cornwall, Crawley, Dartford, Didcot, Dover, Fareham, Folkestone, Gosport, Gravesend, Hastings, Hempstead, Horsham, Hull, Maidstone, Milton Keynes, Newcastle, Oxford, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Sevenoaks, Sittingbourne, Southampton, Southend, Weston super Mare, Westwood, Winchester, Witney and Worthing (more to-be-confirmed) -
http://falseeconomy.org.uk/travel/uk/all/t1
Twitter @futurethatworks
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The people we need on Oct 20 are disaffected Tories and Lib-Dems as well as trade unionists, lefties, pensioners and young people - please preach to the un-converted (whatever you can do is always better than nothing, and the only way to guarantee something won't work is not to try), Please email and re-post Oct 20 graphics and text to friends and relatives, print-out flyers and leaflet streets, estates and workplaces, email supporting Oct 20 to the national & local papers and to radio, websites and TV.
Bank bailouts steal billions from ordinary taxpayers while bank bosses steal million pound bonuses, the Libor scandal exposes the banks as systematic thieves, HSBC and Standard Chartered launder hundreds of billions for murdering Colombian narco-capitalists and for repressive regimes.
Multi-nationals and the super-rich dodge trillions in taxes which could wipe-out any deficit many times over, police kill with impunity, rioters serve jail time for stealing water, Bullingdon Club hooligans protect their friends by firing tax collectors instead of jailing tax criminals and punishing criminal bankers.
Assemble 11am sharp, London Blackfriars / Victoria Embankment, Sat 20 Oct 2012. Don't give The Daily Mail what they want - keep it PEACEFUL but make it LOUD.
Coaches and trains from Abingdon, Ashford, Aylesbury, Banbury, Basingstoke, Bolton, Bracknell, Brighton, Chichester, Cornwall, Crawley, Dartford, Didcot, Dover, Fareham, Folkestone, Gosport, Gravesend, Hastings, Hempstead, Horsham, Hull, Maidstone, Milton Keynes, Newcastle, Oxford, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Sevenoaks, Sittingbourne, Southampton, Southend, Weston super Mare, Westwood, Winchester, Witney and Worthing (more to-be-confirmed) -
http://falseeconomy.org.uk/travel/uk/all/t1 Twitter @futurethatworks
***************************************
The people we need on Oct 20 are disaffected Tories and Lib-Dems as well as trade unionists, lefties, pensioners and young people - please preach to the un-converted (whatever you can do is always better than nothing, and the only way to guarantee something won't work is not to try), Please email and re-post Oct 20 graphics and text to friends and relatives, print-out flyers and leaflet streets, estates and workplaces, email supporting Oct 20 to the national & local papers and to radio, websites and TV.
Robin Hood
Comments
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Nice safe State approved TUC march - will achieve nothing
07.08.2012 11:54
This nice and safe march from A to B followed by speeches from the usual journeymen will achieve nothing beyond dissipating energy from the cuts protests. The State loves this sort of 'protest' - easily managed, self policed (stewards telling us where to go) and most of all no threat to the status quo of power.
The TUC has always been in the bosses pockets
No war but the Class War
In agreement
07.08.2012 12:19
only one choice now
fuck the daily mail
07.08.2012 12:36
(the strength of any protest is not based on getting a good image in the daily mail)
_
Answering "Nice safe"
07.08.2012 13:47
You and the other 5 members that London Class War had when they folded in May 2011 can organise your OWN protest, and see how much more you're able to achieve!!!!! Oh, I forgot, you did organise your own protest - in Cambridge this June, and 20 people showed up, the State were terrified ;)
"Dissipating energy from the cuts protests"? At this exact moment there aren't any cuts protests, dipstick, so how can something be dissipating the energy of something which it seeks to create but which at present doesn't actually exist? To be honest this trolling is SO dumb I'm tempted to think it's actually the cops
Helyer
Pensioners, disabled people, kids, mums with kids......
07.08.2012 14:00
Still unhappy? Then you deliver a better alternative (and note I didn't say "you talk about" a better alternative, I said you DELIVER a better alternative, and deliver that alternative as an actual practical and concrete reality before you criticize anyone else)
Still waiting
Answering "No war"
07.08.2012 14:06
Have a nice day :)
Helyer
The strength of a good protest
07.08.2012 14:16
I'll explain it to you slowly if you don't understand. As for not giving the Daily Nazi what they want, funny, isn't it, how when there's a protest the establishment WANT to smear (TUC demo 26 March 2011) the black-bloc are all over the place, but when there's a protest the establishment don't producing images of disruption in London that the foreign media can beam all over the world (Olympics demo 28 July 2012) the black-bloc are nowhere to be seen
Groutey
@Groutey
07.08.2012 16:54
As for the presence of black bloc on Mar 26th, but not on anti-Olympics, anyone involved in the anti-capitalist or anarchist movements could tell you that people mobilised for March 26th, but nowhere near as much for the anti-Olympics stuff. No mystery or conspiracy there, just a case of people picking their battles.
anon
Super-rich hiding at least $21 TRILLION
08.08.2012 00:00
And for the real illiterates, READ what written above - it's not the TUC who are spinning the class war rhetoric you dolt, it's the cops, pretending to be anarchists
Len
@ Basic Maths
08.08.2012 10:41
My word some people are patronising tits these days - why not fuck off and troll somewhere else.
Troll watch
the concept of bribeocracy
08.08.2012 11:33
A vote is not a contract. Politicians are under no obligation to keep their election promises, so why vote and endorse the concept of 'government'? If you expect something in return for your 'x'
, it's no more than a little bribe you are offering anyway, and unless you have great economic power and influence, you can be sure that someone else can offer bigger bribes.
anarchist
Maths Class for Class Warrior
08.08.2012 11:38
If, by way of illustration, say 500,000 people take part in a legal protest - such as signing a 38 Degrees petition or joining a major TUC march, and those protests fail, then if (being as pessimistic as possible) even 0.1% (let alone 10%) of those people move on to more militant forms of protest, that's still 500 new militants. If, in contrast, 20-odd people show-up for a Class War demo in Cambridge, or sign Ian Bone's petition against Eton college, and those protests also fail, then even if (being as optimistic as possible) 100% of those people stay militant then that still adds-up to just 20 militant activists. The bottom line is that not undermining big protests is the best strategy for both militant activism and for moderate activism.
It's also a fact that no single march or petition, no matter how massive, can realistically be said to have "failed" unless the pressure it brings to bear against privatisers etc is maintained for as long they're willing to hold-out, ie - for years, so arguably the problem with TUC demos is that they don't organise enough protests (and either way it goes without saying that legal protests don't preclude militant protests).
Sergei
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08.08.2012 23:20
Hermes
Don't give up the fight.
11.08.2012 14:56
A TUC march will benefit the Labour party because the TUC is a Labour organisation. Irrespective of how many people turn up, the advantage is Labours to gain. Labour is a hierarchical political party. Of course it has plenty of reasons to want you out on the streets, if you show up, you do so under their flag. If that turns out to be a waypoint to power, you will have given them that power.
No, the narrative we need to build is one of political non compliance. None of the hierarchical political parties have the answer and that is what we stand to expose. We all know that austerity in the UK is determined not by political choice, but by national political obedience to the IMF. This is what we need to address.
This TUC march is planned by TUC stewards and will coincide with Labour party planning policy against the coalition. This is why these marches are called infrequently. They have to coincide with the national and local Labour body politic. This entails a national and local campaign at grass roots level and in the national press.
We have little to gain by helping this cause. If Labour call this as a success you can guarantee that you won't get a look in. They will take ownership of your endeavour because that's how the hierarchy derives its power.
Taking ownership is their bread and butter. Its their stocking trade.
Anti-austerity should be for the people to determine. These days, that means releiving the hierarchy of its ownership of the narrative.
We need a consensus built upon unity that itself is derived from recognition that our political hierarchy has failed. This isn't difficult given the public mind. Build unity around the public mood and we will have not only an answer to Britain's enactment of the policy of the IMF, but an answer to our failing hierarchy.
Get up, stand up. If others still sleep, let them sleep forever.
Get up, stand up.
@Get up, stand up
11.08.2012 23:13
The trolls have been challenged to show they can produce (really PRODUCE, not just talk about) better alternatives, and have continued to talk about alternatives which they have no practical proposals for ever realising. I totally agree that "none of the hierarchical political parties have the answer" - re-read the arguments above that so far you've ignored, then explain exactly HOW you personally are going to achieve the destruction of political obedience to the IMF?
Who is this "we" on whose behalf you claim to be speaking anyway?
Rafters
Congratulations
11.08.2012 23:17
10,000
Grassroots alternative
12.08.2012 08:49
And whatever people think about Labour and the TUC, when it comes to public opposition to austerity, if this demo is poorly attended the Tories and Liberal Democrats will interpret that as total victory
martin