A proposal for a national anti-war action.
Harlequin | 15.11.2002 09:49
A group within the Stop The War Coalition has put forward a proposal of a national action to blockade major interections in London on the 21st December to grid lock the centre. The timing is that this is the biggest shopping day of the year and would have major economic effect of business.
They took this to the national STWC committee, were listened to politely and then ignored, surprise surprise.
This group has taken to petitioning the STWC committee to try to convince them that they should back it.
However, it appear that there are lot of people in the STWC up and down the country that are pissed off that the STWC national committee are sitting on their arses and only organising a conference in december and a demonstration in February by which time Iraq could well be under US/UK occupation
There are groups and individuals in the STWC such as CNDer's who have long tradition of direct action, and there are lots of students and other youth who got a taste for it on the 31st
I am not necessarily endorsing the Break the Bond action, though if you could get even 5,000 people doing nomadic traffic disruption/ blockades/ roving street parties in london I think it could work.
I do think that if the STWC won't organise a national action then someone else should. I think that if anarchist groups/federation and anti-capitalist groups were prepared to link up with CNDers, Green party people and others who are fed up of the SWP-sit-on-our-hands-we talk-about-direct-action-but-aren't-prepared-to-organise-it-STWC-line, then something could happen,
what do people think?
Given the massacre/destruction that is about to be unleashed on the people of Iraq and the need to do something more on a national scale than marching from A to B, haven't we all got a responsibility to put aside differences/choice type of actions and get together with anyone who is prepared to "do it in the road"
This group has taken to petitioning the STWC committee to try to convince them that they should back it.
However, it appear that there are lot of people in the STWC up and down the country that are pissed off that the STWC national committee are sitting on their arses and only organising a conference in december and a demonstration in February by which time Iraq could well be under US/UK occupation
There are groups and individuals in the STWC such as CNDer's who have long tradition of direct action, and there are lots of students and other youth who got a taste for it on the 31st
I am not necessarily endorsing the Break the Bond action, though if you could get even 5,000 people doing nomadic traffic disruption/ blockades/ roving street parties in london I think it could work.
I do think that if the STWC won't organise a national action then someone else should. I think that if anarchist groups/federation and anti-capitalist groups were prepared to link up with CNDers, Green party people and others who are fed up of the SWP-sit-on-our-hands-we talk-about-direct-action-but-aren't-prepared-to-organise-it-STWC-line, then something could happen,
what do people think?
Given the massacre/destruction that is about to be unleashed on the people of Iraq and the need to do something more on a national scale than marching from A to B, haven't we all got a responsibility to put aside differences/choice type of actions and get together with anyone who is prepared to "do it in the road"
Harlequin
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