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***NICE Demonstration***

noel | 06.12.2000 22:31

Enormous demonstration at EU summit, tomorrow the blockades....

Over 150 000 demonstrated today against the neo-liberal agenda of the EU, trade union delegations from east and west europe, alongside syndicalists, socialists, anarchists, artists and groups such as ATTAC braved the pouring rain in a massive show of anti-corporate, anti-capitalist strength.

Tomorrow several groups will attempt to blockade the conference centre to stop the delegates getting in.

The Italian train including Ya Basta activists are currently held at the italy/france border but hopefully they will be through tomorrow.

For more reports check out Indymedia france for news as it happens...

tous ensemble! oui! oui! oui!

noel

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Aricle 133

07.12.2000 10:38

If the ERT, driven by the TABD, get their way, there will be no democracy left after this weekend in EU.

Why is there no brit equivalent to Ya Basta!

We desperately need one, so what are all you young activists playing at? Gett off your asses, stop arguing amongst yourselves! Extract the digit por favor, otherwise you will be slaves of the 5th Reich before the end of the decade.

In solidarity from my wheelchair - where I was put years ago by some kind policemen.

Morgan

morgan
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spanish sindicalists

07.12.2000 12:17

great presence of spanish sindicalists, only behind french locals and italian comrades, thats to say of the great need we are in and the profound disgraceful policies of the right wing government, only to be silenced by the corrupt spanish media. We need to create out of spain, by other foreign friends if necessary as well, a more realistic image and approach to the global trascendence that spain plays in the fight for freedom and coservation, and leave behind the old and romantic past of pre-civil war, perhaps this can as well play a more stern backlash against our mutual enemies in the shape of even greater resistance within my country as well as more conscience which is a handicap now due as a said to the manipulation of the press. Please make this known : we are on it as much as anyone! Vale.

jose gil-camara
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..le monde responde..resistance!

12.12.2000 12:41

160,000 , 100,000 who cares, it was fucking massive!! On wednesday we saw the power of the European working class on display, 50,000(ish) from just one french trade union, 20,000(ish) from Italy, 10,000 (ish) from Spain and others from Germany, Croatia, Slovenia, Belgium, Poland, the UK etc etc..what a day!..trade unionists carried banners reading "fuck capitalism" and took the lead from anti-capitalists in chanting "Nice, Prague, Seattle..continue, the battle"..Revolutionarey literature was everywhere and in many languages, Socialist Worker sales exceeded 900 and this on a demo where English was the minority language!..

On Thursday at least 500 British members of The SWP were on the blockades getting tear gased and charging CRS lines, so Morgan as to the Ya Basta in Britain..There it is..

One of the great things was the lack of sectarianism which was showed throughout the days with Anarchists and Socialists of every shade coming together in the "tous ensemble tous ensemble" chant and putting it into action on the front lines.

The movement is still young but if anyone still has doubts about where the power to change society rests then look no further; it is the Working Class organised as a fist against capitalism. It took just 100,000 to make a revolution in Yugoslavia we must now take the anti-capitalist mood to the unions and make one throughout europe and then the world.

Onwards to Mayday..onwards..

le monde n'est pas une merchandise..it is ours!

Frats to all who were there, in body or in spirit

Ferdi
mail e-mail: Ferdi1917@aol.com