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Anti-Capitalists Disrupt Military Security Conference

WEF=DEATH | 31.01.2002 11:26

A group of Anti-Capitalists attempted to force their way into the Air Power 2002 conference at the Royal Lancaster Hotel, W1. Seven demonstrators sounded alarms, set off stink bombs, held banners and distributed leaflets.

The conference, organised by Arms giant Lockheed Martin, is a corporate and military event, dedicated to formulating the latest war strategies and peddling weapons of mass destruction. Participants include: Air Marshal Robertson, Senior Military Adviser, BAE Systems UK; General Joseph Ralston, USAF, NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, SHAPE; Lieutenant General Walter Jertz, German Air Force, Director Reaction Forces; Major General David Deptula, Director, Air Force Quadrennial Defence Review, HQ USAF, Pentagon.

The occupation co-incides with enormous anti-capitalist mobilisations against the meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in New York and the 37th Annual Munich Security Conference in Germany. At a time when many are claiming that September 11 has pacified or destroyed the anti-capitalist movement, today’s occupation, alongside the Argentinian uprisings, and the thousands demonstrating in the USA and Germany, shows that the agenda of war, forced famine, criminalisation of refugees and the expansion of the capitalist economy, will continue to be resisted.

This week’s meetings of the elite, in London, New York and Munich, are being held under the guise of increasing ‘our security’ in the wake of recent world events. Whose security? ‘Security’ in this context means security for those in power to continue to accumulate, terrorise and subjugate. What ‘security’ will the conferences offer a Bolivian small farmer who cannot afford bread or fuel; a sweatshop worker in the Philippines; an Afghani family whose home is a crater thanks to US and British bombs; the unemployed youth in the suburbs of Paris; an asylum seeker at Campsfield or Woomera detention centres; the striking thousands in Britain, and those forced to choose between low-wages or constant harassment on the dole? What is really being offered by their so-called ‘security’ conferences?

Solidarity with all those fighting for a world without bombs, bosses or borders!
From Manchester to Munich, Birmingham to Buenos Aires, Kabul to Kiev, New York to New Delhi we echo the cry, “Away with all of them” (quote from Argentina in Spanish first then translated into English).

WEF=DEATH

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  1. Full conference inormation.. — Sabo Tagit
  2. well done people — Captain Moonlight
  3. They think it’s all over — WEF=DEATH
  4. A bit late — WEF=DEATH
  5. Away with All Beasts! — Danny
  6. you did us proud — ginger