MARCH 28/09 //
MILITANT WORKERS: DIRECT ACTION BLOC
'Put People First' Anti-G20 demonstration, 11am Central London
As the financial crisis has spurred a global economic recession the reality of the situation is being faced by us all – price hikes and wage cuts, job losses, spiralling debt and repossessions. The institutions of government and global finance are making us pay for their mistakes, giving themselves hefty bonuses for the privilege. As big banks get billions of our money to bail them out, the Post Office is threatened with privatisation and mass redundancies to claw back the pension hole! Government and bosses, while protecting their own interests, are steadily losing their grip as the anger of the working class becomes more and more apparent after a decade of enforced 'social peace'.
Putting working class anger first
The recent wildcat strikes at the Lindsay Oil Refinery saw workers take action for themselves, without union backing. Thousands of workers across the country walked out in sympathy strikes – a practice still outlawed under the Thatcherite anti-trade union laws. No repercussions were suffered by the workers - a lesson to us all. And although we oppose such slogans as “British Jobs for British Workers”, we do not dismiss the experiences, anger and positive action of those workers to develop a pro-working class position, based not on capitalism's demands for inter-worker competition, but on international class solidarity.
If we want social change we must fight without prejudice for it.
Solidarity is not a word but a weapon
Our purpose is to put direct action at the core of any fightback - against the repossessions and redundancies that we will face over the coming months and years, to restate our commitment for an international unity amongst all working class people regardless of nationality, race, sexuality or religion. We stand shoulder to shoulder with all those who take direct action against their current situation (against the state and its institutions, against the bosses and the capitalism they cling to), and confront those who seek to hinder or recuperate that action - fascist parties like the BNP, government forces, the trade union elite and the corporate media. The memory of the miners strike, Wapping, Poll tax lingers long and hard.
2009 is our summer of rage - we are only as strong as the power we give ourselves.
Join the direct action bloc on the Put People First mass demonstration on Saturday March 28th. Meet in Victoria Embankment Gardens, 11am. Look for the red and black flags.
APRIL 1/09 // RECLAIM THE MONEY
Meet in the Square Mile (London's Financial centre) to take back what's ours
World leaders, including Barak Obama, are set to meet at Docklands Excel Centre in London's East End, for the G20 financial summit on April 2nd, to sort out the global crisis they themselves conspired to create. While unemployment escalates along with debt and poverty - we are told to tighten our belts, not to complain, to have faith in bankers, bosses and politicians, these leaders are preparing the biggest shake up in the history of capitalism since the 1930s. We can only imagine what is on offer as their solution - from the people that brought us wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine, from the heads of economies that continue to concentrate the world's wealth in the hands of a tiny minority from the obscene rich and powerful who continue to steal the products of our labour and time, forcing us to fight amongst ourselves for what's left.
We are living in uncertain, dangerous times, where we can either allow our futures, and the future of our children, to be decided by the same class of people that have brought us into this crisis (and continue to profit from our misery) or we can decide to get rid of the lot of them and organise society differently - for our own benefit and of the benefit of those around us; those we work with, those we live with, for a future based on our collective needs.
We are their crisis
Let's make this a chance for a fundamental change in society. Let's reclaim the history of working class struggle for a new free world, for a global human community fit for all, not the undeserving rich elite who are happy to see our lives ruined if it means that they stay in charge and at the top.
Join thousands of disgruntled, angry, pissed off people on the streets of the financial district. As the bankers continue to cream off billions of pounds of our money let's put the call out – RECLAIM THE MONEY, storm the banks and send them packing.
April 1st in the square mile, City of London financial district
APRIL 2/09 // G20 London Summit, Excel Centre, Docklands
A day of fucking up the summit and other adventures. Be warned. Be aware. Be ready!
bump by A.O.C.
Morality is based on personal choice and and the feeling of right and wrong. Laws are an institutionalized
enforcement of writings presumably to protect civil liberties. The interjection of morality into law is inherently
wrong. Take victimless crimes for example, prostitution. Prostitution affects no one with the exception of the
consenting parties. Adultery is moral dilemma between a married couple, which might I remind you is a religious
binding of two individuals that has been Incorporated into governmental over-seeings. Also might
I remind you that there is also supposed to be a separation of church and state. Within these two examples there
is no infringement on any ones civil liberties, yet both examples are punishable by law up to and including
imprisonment. Imprisonment is an infringement on ones own civil liberties in and of its self, yet is deemed as
acceptable by those in power for crimes to which there are no victims. Another one I would like to point out is
gays in the military. As much as we may not approve of any involvement with the government, as anarchists
we fully understand and respect freedom of choice. To deny someone this right because of sexual orientation
is another good example of the legislation of morality.
A strong push for abortion laws is another issue that I would like to touch on. What a person does with
their own body is none of the governments concern. To impose ones moral values on another should not be
tolerated in any social setting. Some right wing extremists feel that the civil liberties of the unborn
child are being assaulted by freedom of choice, making claims that the fetus is a person after X amount
of time in the womb. Unfortunately many of these right wing extremists hold political positions
of power.
P.S. Thanks for the discussion Kevin
A.O.C.
Some seven million years ago, a distant relative of the Chimpanzee named australopothecus ramidus stood up,
and began its descendants on the journey that would culminate in our modern day. The descendants of this
hominoid eventually found need to explain to one another how the world worked, and so was religion born.
It started off simply enough--- spirits, demons, sorcerers, magic, etc. As time went on, superstitions became
more and more codified and traditional, regimented by rules and standards passed from holy man to holy man.
These superstitions, often based upon or containing useful information such as the migration patterns of game
animals, were held in high regard and those who knew them were afforded certain privelidges in order to preserve
that knowledge. As time went on, these superstitions often became the justification and basis for ethical systems.
More than explaining why the rains came, more than explaining why herb X cures ailment Y, peoples began to
expect their shaman to explain why bad things happened to good people, what is right and what is wrong, what
happens when we die, and so on and so on. Thus was God invented, to answer the legion of questions that
curious human beings had come up with, long before science could show them the true answers.
One might be inclined to say that based upon this utility, the fallacy of Gods might be justified; for after all,
what harm can there be in convincing a man of the fundamental good of humanity? Surely, the charitable works
of religions excuse them from the wrong inherent in their character. However, fallacy is, in this case,
the appropriate term.
A brief word on logic: an argument is traditionally divided three ways. First, there is the premise, which is the
assumption or idea which is being tested. Then you have the support, which is the evidence which positively
or negatively indicates the validity of the premise; then you have the conclusion, or deduction, which is what
was learned about the premise through investigation. When one follows through on false premises with the
intention, tacit or otherwise, of proving them true, it is then called a fallacy.
Whenever one considers religions, it is very important to remember that virtually all conclusions derived from
religious thought are fallacious. They are based on the false premise that there is a God. Religious organizations,
whether they venerate Jesus or Muhammed, Rama or Bhudda, Thor or Zeus, are dependant upon the assumption
that such entities exist. They do not.
Let us be clear: The reality is that there is no God, of any type.
There never has been a god, there never will be a god.
Some defend religion based on ethical grounds; that religion instills in men a sort of ethical framework,
even in men who might not characteristically seek to act ethically. Bearing this presumption in mind,
please consider the following quote from Aristotle: "I have gained this by philosophy: That I do without
being commanded that which others only do from fear of the law."
Following, let us have a brief example of the ethical implications of religion.
An atheist and a muslim walk into a neutral charity. Let's say that both men are equally good and generous
and kind. The Muslim is motivated variously by his personality and the teachings of his religion. He wants to
give because 1: His religion teaches him to do so. 2: By doing so, he believes that he might be saving the
souls of those he helps. 3: By doing so, he believes that he is securing his own place in heaven. 4: By giving,
he could seek to convert others to his religion. 5: Finally, he seeks improve the general state of mankind.
The Atheist, on the other hand, 1: Is not obligated to give; he does because he wants to. 2: The Atheist does
not believe in souls, nor in saving them. 3: The Atheist does not believe in heaven, and does not seek to secure
its favor. 4: The Atheist does not seek to influence others to atheism.
5: He seeks to improve the general state of mankind.
The ultimate difference between them is that the muslim (for this example it could just as easily be any
other religion) has been incentivized for his action. He has been bribed with the promise of heaven, or
perhaps threatened by the fires of hell. He is not doing good, even if that is the result of his action,
because his motivation is flawed and ultimately selfish. Yes, the ultimate goal is to improve the general
state of mankind, and this might even be effected. But it is not genuine, because a truly good person
would seek to improve the general state of mankind out of genuine kindness, not out of fear of hell or
of god; not for the sake of advancing one agenda or the other, and certainly not for the sake of
glory to a fictitious god.
The Atheist, in this example, cuts a swath through the chaffe of religious superstition and skips directly
to the real ethical disposition of mankind; which is to the general improvement of the state of mankind, l
ocally and globally. If a man is educated properly, he will not need to be made to fear religious law in order
to achieve goodness in his actions; he will do good things because he recognizes them internally as being
good and worthwhile, and because the nature of mankind is altruistic.
Religion presents major problems for those of us who seek to bring about positive change in society,
particularly those of us who seek to promote eaglitarianism, and even more particularly those of us who
seek to establish uncompromised liberty. Religion is truly ancient, indeed it is older than mankind as we
know it today. Human ancestors practiced veneration of the dead and ceremonial burial for many hundreds
of thousands, perhaps millions, of years before present; long indeed before modern humans evolved to their
present form. Ancient as it is, religion is not as old as the Authority Principle.
In a nutshell, the Authority Principle can be said as "Might Makes Right". The Ape with the biggest club
and the strongest arm wins, and rules society as the venerable king; so long as he remains the strongest
ape. Such a system does not long last and seldom affords any stability. In this system, constant warfare
and strife prevent a king from solidifying his power, and as we know a people whipped will not wait long
before rebellion.
Force is not enough for tyrants to maintain their power. Despots employ religion to justify their power,
and to make sure that the many continue to serve the few. The ancient Egyptians and Mesopotamians
were ruled by God-Kings, who were worshipped as Gods themselves. And who among men would resist the
dictums of a god? The Medieval Europeans looked to the Pope, who was (is?) the infallible voice of God himself.
And who among men would resist the dictums of god, spoken through the Pope? Notably, another name for
the Pope is "The King Maker". Thus religion ingratiates itself to the ruling establishment, which in turn makes
certain that the current religious establishment continues and retains primacy. Thus the few rule the many.
Please consider this passage from the book Deuterotomy:
"Hath not the potter power over the clay, to make one vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?"
The potter is god, and we are the clay. The moral? Some people are better than others, and these people
have been mandated by god, who has made them intrinsically better, to rule over the rest. To rule, with
impunity, over the rest of us, whom god has not made so well. And should we the rabble masses of people
get the erroneous idea in our heads that we are deserving of the same rights as anyone else, we can be
assured of our passage to hell.
And furthermore, if one worries about injustice in this life, one need worry not! All that one has to do is
suffer the indignation, and turn the other cheek, and allow oneself to be exploited and oppressed in life,
and one will be rewarded in the life after this with paradise! All are equal in death.
If we are to profess ourselves as men without masters, free and emancipated workers, then we must also
reject the most pernicious master, that of superstition! If we are to be free of masters, we *must* be
free of gods as well, for it is those gods and those who worship them that have established the legitimacy
of the inequality in our society! I say live free, live good, and live you lives with *No Gods and No Masters!*
Hale
STOP AMERICAN GOVERNMENT!
THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT IS NO LONGER ABOUT FREEDOM AND EQUALITY. IT IS ABOUT CORRUPTION. THEY KILL FOR MONEY AND OIL. THEY FIRE PEOPLE FROM THEIR JOBS TO MAKE WAY FOR NEW MACHINERY. THEY LET YOUNG CHILDREN STARVE AND THEIR MOTHERS TAKE THE BLAME. BUT WORSE OF ALL THEY LIE TO YOU ABOUT DOING ANY OF IT.
THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT MUST BE STOPPED!
AND THERE IS A PLAN TO DO JUST THAT, BUT BEFORE ALL, YOU MUST START THINKING FOR YOUR SELF, AND BECOME INDEPENDENT OF GOVERNMENT.
THE PLAN:
1) Expose the fed Cartel
Boycott Citibank, JP Morgan Chase & bank of America
They are the most powerful controllers in the corrupt Federal Reserve System. If you have a bank account or credit card with any of them, move it to another bank. If you have a mortgage, refinance with another bank.
If you own their stock sell it. If you work for them quit
This will create awareness about the fraud in the federal banking system.
2) Boycott the news networks
Turn off the TV news. Visit independent news networks on the internet to get your information.
CNN, ABC, NBC, FOX, and all the others are presented pre-filtered to maintain the status quo. All of these stations are owned by major corporations.
Protect the internet at all times for that is our only source for independent media.
3) Boycott the military
Don't let any one you know join the military.
The only reason the military is here is to maintain an establishment that is no longer relevant. U.S soldiers in Iraq work for major corporations, not the people. War is not a natural part of human existence.
The military is NOT an honorable institution.
4) Boycott the energy companies.
If you live in a detached house, get off the grid. Investigate every means of making your house self sustainable. Use wind, water, and solar energies.
This will be much cheaper and less polluting!
If you drive get the smallest car you can, convert it to run on alternative fuels which are less polluting and cheaper.
5) Reject the political system
The illusion of democracy is an insult to our intelligence.
In a monetary system there is no such thing as true democracy.
Both democratic and republican sections of government are owned by the same people so don’t vote!
VIEW THE ZEITGEIST ADDENDUM MOVIE: ANARCHY.NET CORRUPT.ORG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gKX9TWRyfs
-Blacktoothgrin-
