yeah cos anarchists are really in tune with the working class aren't they? the anarchists "movement" is packed full of workers who are utterly convinced by the anarchist case and are confident that the anarchists will deliver them a better life

Who said anything about anarchists? Anyway, lots of anarchists are working class.

yeah...so what are you doing today then? voting?????

So who are you chris b? you claim to be representing lots of people - does anyone know you are working for them? where do you hold your meetings - in the pub?

Mass support? Probably. I think we can all rest assured we've more support than the Labour Party. A party so terrified of democracy that they're whipping a rabble of compliant careerists through the lobbies to gain support for an executive with no legitimacy. A prime minister so terrified of the public that he has to piss off to the Azores to meet his accomplices. A party that boasts of its contempt of public opinion as bravery, and looks forward to the divorce from society that corporate donations afford it. No wonder 30% is a high turnout rate in elections. This country is a Plutocracy not a democracy.

The Labour party are not at all representative or democratic (except in some very unimportant places). Quite the contrary what little democracy existed (which was never more than the ability to criticise the leadership) has been removed.

The policy they persue is not aproved of by the majority of the population. At the last election if people had voted for paries that supported policies that they liked then New Labour would have come an embarasing fourth - behind the Socialist Alliance (hard left to ultra left), Green party (from hippy to ecofascist) and even the Liberal Democrats.

This is the leaflet handed out on Mayday outside the Labour party offices, explaining the reasons why we took this direct action.


MAYDAY “LIBERATION”/ OCCUPATION
OF LABOUR PARTY OFFICES

The Labour party offices in Bristol have been occupied, erm, liberated today, on Mayday 2003. This action has been taken to show our resistance to state terrorism and government violence everywhere. Despite huge anti-war protests throughout the U.K. and the across the world, Blair’s government followed the U.S. warmongers to mount a genocidal attack on Iraq. Thousands of ordinary Iraqi people have been maimed and massacred after weeks of carpet-bombing and a massive show of military force and firepower. These deaths mean nothing to the power –hungry tyrants who call the shots.

WAR CRIMINAL BLAIR, ambassador of the United States government, has declared victory in Iraq, and that the Iraqi people have been “liberated”. The war is over, we are told, and democracy has triumphed…In reality, Iraq is a country under occupation by the U.S. and U.K. military. So far, it doesn’t look much like a shiny new democracy, as the forces of “liberation” prepare to impose their own puppet dictator.

IN THE PROPAGANDA WAR waged by the government, words are weapons of mass deception: For “stabilise”, read control, and “reconstruction” actually means big bucks for big business. The real winners of the war are the multinational corporations currently queuing up to get down to business in the all-new Iraq. War. What is it good for?…It’s great for company profits and “liberating” natural resources! Blair has surely earned his party’s title of the “Friend of big business”.

THE INVASION of Iraq exposes the true nature of our so-called democracy. Politicians clearly do not really listen to anyone who opposes their plans. During the war on Iraq, anti-war protests in the U.K. were subjected to both media blackout and massive over-policing. Many people were arrested for expressing their opposition to the war and new anti-terrorist laws were used against peace protestors. The so-called “war on terror” is really a war on anyone who steps out of line. So this is their democracy?

POLITICIANS encourage us to join in the electoral farce and to get back to the work-shop-work routine as quickly as possible. We’re told this is freedom and democracy, and there is no other better way. But voting is the illusion of inclusion – making us feel like we have a say. Voting changes nothing – if it did they would make it illegal! All governments offer us is more control and violence. Their power comes from our obedience. It is up to normal people to take back control and fight for a better world.

MAYDAY is international worker’s day. It is about showing our collective strength, and celebrating the struggle for a new world where freedom is more than a word for winning votes or selling products. It is a day of defiance against authority and oppression. Blair and others would like to make Mayday a thing of the past, and for us to remain divided and distracted, passive and powerless. The struggle continues…

For more anti-war and direct action info:
www.schnews.co.uk
www.ourmayday.org.uk
www.disobedience.org.uk