We all know politicians are lying, corrupt, self-serving parasites - its time we let them know. This is our London, not their, their party's or their paymasters'. On Friday May 2nd we will confront our class enemies at the Mayoral election results, reviving a great radical London tradition. Its time to take to the streets and claim back our city.
MEET 6pm at City Hall, The Queen's Walk, Tower Bridge, London. Bring noise and anger.
MEET 6pm at City Hall, The Queen's Walk, Tower Bridge, London. Bring noise and anger.
front of the leaflet
the crook, the toff, the cop, the fascist
This is the text of a leaflet being distributed now.
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We all know politicians are lying, corrupt, self-serving parasites - its time we let them know.
This is our London, not their, their party's or their paymasters'.
On Friday May 2nd we will confront our class enemies at the Mayoral election results, reviving a great radical London tradition.
Its time to take to the streets and claim back our city.
6pm
City Hall
The Queen's Walk, Tower Bridge
South side of the river
++ London Revolting ++
We're told London is one of the wealthiest cities in the world, playground to the super rich, a global financial centre where city workers, paid in excess of £19bn, keep the institutions of power going.
But London has some of the poorest, most deprived areas in the country (50% of children here are living on or below the poverty line), as we are left to fight amongst ourselves for the most basic jobs and necessities.
As ordinary Londoners we are being priced out of our own city - either exiled to the outer reaches or pushed together in cramped expensive living conditions. Local councils sell off our housing to get-rich-quick developers, breaking up communities and further alienating us from each other as we struggle with increasing debt, fear and security.
++ Power mad ++
The office of Mayor (with its annual budget of over £9 billion) is a massive government institution designed to keep us from making real choices and decisions about our own city. Despite endless public announcements about helping Londoners THE CROOK still puts his full financial backing behind the 2012 Olympics, against local objections, where public money will go to staging a 2 weeks sports show, while private companies reap the rewards; owning the Olympic land, property and sites in the east end that once belonged to us!
All over London THE CROOK is promoting property speculation an private development (selling off public facilities, and open spaces for luxury housing) at the expense of our needs while siphoning off taxpayers' money for his own pet projects and personal cronies. But would THE TOFF, THE COP or THE FASCIST act any differently? Aren't all politicians the same - out to line their own pockets, lying to protect their own interests and influential friends?
When it comes down to it, don't all political parties really represent the interests of the rich and not those of ordinary people?
And isn't it about time we did something about it?
++ BNP / Anti-Fascism ++
Our so-called political leaders, along with the media, continually deflect our anger from the main enemy onto other working class people - immigrants and unemployed. They use people's genuine concerns to create false divisions and promote their own agendas. Is it any surprise that the BNP leadership, like Cameron and Brown, come from the same privileged backgrounds?
Our class heritage has always been one of defiance and dissent - a refusal to bow down to authority and oppression, be it the fascists during WW2, Thatcher during the Miner's Strike or Murdoch at Wapping - this is our real history, solidarity and self-organisation, and despite the language they use the BNP have always had a vicious anti-working class tradition.
Which is why we should be out in force to stop them taking the platform at City Hall.
++ Get rid of 'em all ++
The history of London and Londoners is a culture of rebellion and discontent - organising ourselves against the domination of the privileged few - from the Peasant's Revolt to the Battle of Cable Street and the Poll Tax riot.
On May 2nd we will be adding to that tradition - an active resistance against the power the office of Mayor represents and the political parties that reinforce it. We want our city back from THE CROOKS, THE TOFFS, THE FASCISTS and THE COPS.
Its time London joined together making our anger count by getting rid of the lot of them.
++ MAYORAL COSTS - HOW WE PAY FOR THE PRIVILEGE: ++
- £100 million a year spent on publicity alone
- £33 million a year to staff City Hall
- £120 million a year on the 'Core GLA Budget' (ie, the Mayor's personal projects)
- £300 a year the average London household pays for the office of Mayor.
___________
Its time to take to the streets and claim back our city.
6pm
City Hall
The Queen's Walk, Tower Bridge
South side of the river
_____________________________________
We all know politicians are lying, corrupt, self-serving parasites - its time we let them know.
This is our London, not their, their party's or their paymasters'.
On Friday May 2nd we will confront our class enemies at the Mayoral election results, reviving a great radical London tradition.
Its time to take to the streets and claim back our city.
6pm
City Hall
The Queen's Walk, Tower Bridge
South side of the river
++ London Revolting ++
We're told London is one of the wealthiest cities in the world, playground to the super rich, a global financial centre where city workers, paid in excess of £19bn, keep the institutions of power going.
But London has some of the poorest, most deprived areas in the country (50% of children here are living on or below the poverty line), as we are left to fight amongst ourselves for the most basic jobs and necessities.
As ordinary Londoners we are being priced out of our own city - either exiled to the outer reaches or pushed together in cramped expensive living conditions. Local councils sell off our housing to get-rich-quick developers, breaking up communities and further alienating us from each other as we struggle with increasing debt, fear and security.
++ Power mad ++
The office of Mayor (with its annual budget of over £9 billion) is a massive government institution designed to keep us from making real choices and decisions about our own city. Despite endless public announcements about helping Londoners THE CROOK still puts his full financial backing behind the 2012 Olympics, against local objections, where public money will go to staging a 2 weeks sports show, while private companies reap the rewards; owning the Olympic land, property and sites in the east end that once belonged to us!
All over London THE CROOK is promoting property speculation an private development (selling off public facilities, and open spaces for luxury housing) at the expense of our needs while siphoning off taxpayers' money for his own pet projects and personal cronies. But would THE TOFF, THE COP or THE FASCIST act any differently? Aren't all politicians the same - out to line their own pockets, lying to protect their own interests and influential friends?
When it comes down to it, don't all political parties really represent the interests of the rich and not those of ordinary people?
And isn't it about time we did something about it?
++ BNP / Anti-Fascism ++
Our so-called political leaders, along with the media, continually deflect our anger from the main enemy onto other working class people - immigrants and unemployed. They use people's genuine concerns to create false divisions and promote their own agendas. Is it any surprise that the BNP leadership, like Cameron and Brown, come from the same privileged backgrounds?
Our class heritage has always been one of defiance and dissent - a refusal to bow down to authority and oppression, be it the fascists during WW2, Thatcher during the Miner's Strike or Murdoch at Wapping - this is our real history, solidarity and self-organisation, and despite the language they use the BNP have always had a vicious anti-working class tradition.
Which is why we should be out in force to stop them taking the platform at City Hall.
++ Get rid of 'em all ++
The history of London and Londoners is a culture of rebellion and discontent - organising ourselves against the domination of the privileged few - from the Peasant's Revolt to the Battle of Cable Street and the Poll Tax riot.
On May 2nd we will be adding to that tradition - an active resistance against the power the office of Mayor represents and the political parties that reinforce it. We want our city back from THE CROOKS, THE TOFFS, THE FASCISTS and THE COPS.
Its time London joined together making our anger count by getting rid of the lot of them.
++ MAYORAL COSTS - HOW WE PAY FOR THE PRIVILEGE: ++
- £100 million a year spent on publicity alone
- £33 million a year to staff City Hall
- £120 million a year on the 'Core GLA Budget' (ie, the Mayor's personal projects)
- £300 a year the average London household pays for the office of Mayor.
___________
Its time to take to the streets and claim back our city.
6pm
City Hall
The Queen's Walk, Tower Bridge
South side of the river
Comments
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Wat?
10.04.2008 15:37
This looks events possibly maybe more entertaining than the election, if it descends into violence people are vvv.unlikely to reclaim the city, may end up as the same thing we have been doing for decades,how often has it worked?.
You have got to say Durruti,Mackhno,Kroptokin,Bertrand Russel,Chomsky were& are powerful politicians of anarchist mutual aid linked to the cooperative movement.
Look at libertarian municipalism, green syndicalism & the international cooperative alliance & think again, where is this taking us? is it giving the bad corporations another excuse to literally try & crack our skulls?
Don't let agent provacetuers or "piss heads-nutters" take over demo's, self defence but kicking off in a city usually only benefits Nero
James
james..
10.04.2008 21:01
..and anyway, if you think we can achieve revolution without any confrontation with the state then youre the "nutter"
A
kids, punks,skins...
14.04.2008 17:32
Steve waco
e-mail:
binder123@yahoo.co.uk
If you tell 'em, they will come...
15.04.2008 17:45
Maybe with six months of planning, publicity, meetings, posters and stickers everywhere it might make sense but this is just a demo for the desperate. It's not like we can continue to do things like it was the 80's, the 90's. It would be nice of folks showed a willingness to think and imagine better ways to do demos - RTS was great, Critical Mass was good for a couple of years, Mayday had its moments.
Decentralising meeting points, having different actions and different blocks with a willingness to support each other, affinity group, text msg networks...can we try something better than just meeting up. See the Ungdomshuset struggle, Blok R or any of the recent struggles in Copenhagen for how a movement can build itself around radical and innovative streets demos.
For more on why these demos are no great shakes for the Anarchist movement, see the disasters of Sack Parliament or the recent Bash The Rich march. Be nice to think that beyond the @ scene, other people might like to be involved but probably only on something that seems like we might have a chance to do something decent, fun, active and radical.
A
Hmm
16.04.2008 20:14
mike
sian berry
19.04.2008 18:11
she is young, female and will actually change london for good.
why not take matters into your hands rather than become apathetic...?!
peace x
and the animations are cool...
kate
e-mail:
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Homepage:
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Bollocks
22.04.2008 09:04
Next time maybe you should think before talking bollocks.
Anti Facsist
Jay's comments
28.04.2008 08:14
afa
afa
nice one
30.04.2008 08:15
The politicians, their experts ( sic ) and advisers havce all sold 'democracy' and thus their power to the corporations. To vote is to perpetuate the illusion.
There is a global war on the poor ( e.g carbon trading,Kyoto, and biofuels, GM agri-business, the arms trade, the resources trade, taxes ) that forces more and more to join the disposessed ( forget about the cries of the sham property ladder for a moment and think about the wider implications of land control e.g food, environment, subservience to various pseudo-scientific and religous models of human behaviour and how it should be - hence the rich taking up models from Huxleys disorted view of Darwin and the 'silencing' of Kropotkin, or the mathematical and genetic models of the rich right wing advisers whose models flatter their egos and make them pots of cahs e.g The marketised wealthy academic elite ). The corporate masters do and will kill. Unless the poor are productive economic robots for corporate profit or to work in areas that are now policing e.g propaganda, schooling, care services, media, prison, management, union bosses, the army ( working for Haliburton, Carmel,. BP etc ) and the government itself creating more laws to divide and conquer for the corporate rich, then they are redundant to be reviled, jailed, murdered - sometimes this can take the form of communities being set against each other through race, geography etc. But it is still a class war, if seemingly a little more sophisticated then the wanting models of Marx ( himself trapped in the economic narratives of Smith, Malthus et al ). In conclusion fuck Boris,Ken and the rest of the self serving pricks. And don't talk to me about voting, fool. They are getting their '30 pieces of silver' - we need to bring down Rome.
- sorry this is cut down - I could clear it up and clarify for those still under the spell of their propaganda. Viva l'anarchism.
goodonyer
Bullshit, move your ass and find a job instead!
30.04.2008 20:24
You feel to be on a level below the average, you are poor? Find yourself a job! You don't like this city/this country? Go somewhere else! You don't like this government/social sistem? Go in Africa as a volounteer hepling REAL poor people instead than blocking the street and the business of people that struggles to get his wage, oh and stop smoking those fags from those BIG companies (PM, etc...), right?
Wanna do something positive?
Go Veggie, stop eating meat and food from companies that are speculating on the world, and go green, throw your car away (where does the petrol come from? From "nice" and "politically correct" nations?????) and use a bike instead, preferrably one that is made in the UK and not in China
;)
To cut a long story short: wanna be radical?
BE IT, don't fake it! :(
Andrea Cattolico
e-mail:
andregatto@tiscali.it
As par usual that nobody can agree on anything.
02.05.2008 10:44
jo
class war
03.05.2008 09:18
steve