Reblogged from The Void:
When the richest 20% of people vote to attack the poorest 20% – a
crude but not unfair summary of what just happened in the election –
then any talk of democratic mandates or majorities is redundant. What
we are left with instead is human decency – do we want to live in a
society where
diabetics die because they cannot afford the electricity to chill their medicine? Or where children are
socially cleansed away from their schools, friends and families because neither benefits or wages are enough to pay soaring rents?
Do we want to live in a country where strikes are virtually banned,
or where dissidents can be targetted by the full force of the state even
when they have committed no crime? And if anyone complains they will
be smeared as thugs by the bullying right wing press and told they have
no right to protest? Are these the so-called British values that
created the welfare state, won votes for women and the working class, or
defeated Fascism both in Europe and on our own streets?
If the answers to these questions is no then there is really little
choice left. We need to fight these bastards like never before.
Parliamentary democracy has failed to curb the most repugnant excesses
of the rich. No political party is riding over the hill to save us,
this went beyond labour vs tory a long time ago. The fight for the soul
of this disunited kingdom will now take place in the streets and
workplaces, or wherever we can wedge a spanner in the works. No-one can
stand idly by now, not unless you want to see a country in which
millions suffer poverty and those who object get a truncheon in the
face. Or a bullet depending on the colour of your skin.
We are witnessing the emergence of a government that seems intent on
combining the worst of Margaret Thatcher’s ideological greed with the
petty control-freakery of Tony Blair. It is the worst of all political
worlds, the ultimate neo-liberal triumph combined with an attempt to
crush any last trace of dissent
But do not believe the fucking hype. Most people did not vote Tory.
The working class vote for UKIP does not represent a significant rise
in racism or bigotry – go to any working class area and see people of
all races working and living together, fucking and loving each other.
That’s not to deny there is work to be done. But you don’t see that in
Surbiton or Chelsea.
For many who voted UKIP, and Green and SNP, their vote was for a
plague on all their houses. A vote that we have had enough of the rich
run rampant and politicians that either couldn’t give a fuck about us or
outright despise us. This Government is as weak as any that has come
before, they know it and they are terrified. That is why they are
shouting so loud.
What is now needed to be done will not be easy. It will be
frustrating and frightening, exhausting and even boring at times and we
will need to keep coming back, over and over again. It will mean
protests that don’t ask for permission in advance, civil disobedience on
a scale not yet seen, real strikes not flimsy one day gestures and a
movement that is prepared to defend itself. One that doesnt get drawn
into lazy tabloid stereotypes of good and bad protesters, or distracted
by careless graffiti, or even gives a flying fuck what the Daily Mail
and the wealthy they serve thinks and says about us.
A diversity of tactics is vital, there is no pure method of achieving
radical change. We should work together where we can and part as
friends when we cannot. We are all on the same side, they made sure of
that centuries ago. They started class war when they threw us off our
land, forced our children into factories, sent our young to die in their
wars and now want to strip away everything those returning heroes won
for working class people. It’s time we fought back like never before.
All of us, united, against the fucking rich.
There are upcoming protests in
Glasgow,
Peterborough,
Manchester,
Sheffield,
Cardiff,
Winchester,
Newcastle,
Leeds and many more to come – please feel free to leave details of upcoming events, protests or actions in the comments.
Class War and the
National Coalition Against Fees and Cuts (NCAFC) have both called a protest in Central London on the day of the state opening of Parliament, May 27th – keep it free.
UK Uncut have called a day of action on Saturday May 30th, which coincides with a
protest against scrapping the Human Right’s Act.
A
massive demonstration wil be taking place in the City of London on the 20th June.
Please help spread the word about all events and let’s make them huge.
