Blockade Brighton 30 September
markP | 29.07.2001 15:45
Genoa. Gothenburg, Nice, now Brighton. Should direct action be used to blockade the opening of Labour Party Conference?
Genoa, Gothenburg, Nice, its now almost impossible for the neoliberal/corporate elite to meet without thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands turning up to light the spirit of resistance to the global sell-off of public goods. Yet in Britain one of the organisations that claims (sic) to represent the anti-globalisation movement, the SWP led 'Globalise Resistance' refuses to call for a blockade of the most important gathering of the individuals behind the domestic privatising agenda, the Labour Party. Instead Globalise Resistance is putting its not inconsiderable energies into a march and lobby which will tour round Brighton' backstreets, hear a few speeches, have hordes of paper-sellers inflicted upon it before boarding the coaches home all over again. And achieve, well what?
The Labour Party is spearheading the privatisation of anything that doesn't move, has all but accepted Bush's Star Wars while being the USA's number one European cheerleader and has for the past five years passed law after law to criminalise dissent. So why march past or lobby, just like the direct action against the Democrat convention in the USa last year activists should be organising now to blockade Labour's conference, to delay its start for 6, 12, 24 hours, as long as we can.
Yes it might upset their carefully staged agenda. And however bad Labour might appear there are still some dissenting voices within the party. But these are 2 good reeasons to build the blockade, not oppose it as Globalise Resistance is doing.
Is anybody seriously suggesting we can't build such a blockade? No, of course they're not. But the toytown trots of Globalise Resistance like to manage dissent, to lead and control. A decentralised opposition is their worst nightmare. But we don't have to share their dream. Support the protest in Brighton Sunday 30 September but turn it into a blockade. Genoa, coming to a seaside resort on the south of England soon. See Brighton Rock to Yabasta!
The Labour Party is spearheading the privatisation of anything that doesn't move, has all but accepted Bush's Star Wars while being the USA's number one European cheerleader and has for the past five years passed law after law to criminalise dissent. So why march past or lobby, just like the direct action against the Democrat convention in the USa last year activists should be organising now to blockade Labour's conference, to delay its start for 6, 12, 24 hours, as long as we can.
Yes it might upset their carefully staged agenda. And however bad Labour might appear there are still some dissenting voices within the party. But these are 2 good reeasons to build the blockade, not oppose it as Globalise Resistance is doing.
Is anybody seriously suggesting we can't build such a blockade? No, of course they're not. But the toytown trots of Globalise Resistance like to manage dissent, to lead and control. A decentralised opposition is their worst nightmare. But we don't have to share their dream. Support the protest in Brighton Sunday 30 September but turn it into a blockade. Genoa, coming to a seaside resort on the south of England soon. See Brighton Rock to Yabasta!
markP
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