More Fecund Cant - SWP Join Police in denouncing G8 Protests.
Ed Campbell | 18.02.2005 11:46 | G8 2005
When a group - no matter how insignificant - claim to be a part of the anti-capitalist movement and repeatedly promote the police’s malicious propaganda against other parts of it, it rankles. Readers of these pages have no doubt had enough of Leninist sect bashing. However, when one of their leading members fires off shots at the anti-capitalist movement, in the capitalist press, Harry Hamlet feels something must be said.
Much nonsense has appeared in the Scottish press recently about anarchist's planning violence at the G8 summit. This is nothing new, it's the same old tedious propaganda used whip up fear, alienate legitimate protesters, justify violent police repression, and divide movements. NO doubt the British nation press will soon join the hysterical. Eventually the truth outs, but these same papers rarely print it.
During the G8 in Evian, residents of Geneva berated the police for their unjustified violence, and called for the police chief to resign. Local people embraced those in the convergence centres and temporary villages teaming with anti-authoritarians and others - when they realised the scare mongering by the police was lies. Locals laid on facilities, and even pick nicks to thank protesters for visiting and bringing a joyous vibe to their towns. - well that’s my translation of what one of the Mayor of one said.
When a group - no matter how insignificant - claim to be a part of the anti-capitalist movement and repeatedly promote the police’s malicious propaganda against other parts of it, it rankles. Readers of these pages have no doubt had enough of Leninist sect bashing. However, when one of their leading members fires off shots at the anti-capitalist movement, in the capitalist press, many would advise to just give it a wide birth, because it's nothing new, and, anyway, they are not far from disappearing off the radar. So forgive me, this one last time, for putting them back on the radar.
When so called revolutionary socialists dress themselves up as Stop The War members, Globalise Resistant members, Respect members, Scottish Socialist Party members and G8-alternative members and contribute to the states divide and rule propaganda leading up to the G8 in Scotland, you want them to eat their hat. The joke is: this sects members have more hats than George Melly does, but they only sing one old tune., over and over again, without imagination.
At a previous meeting of the G8, in Genoa, the police, without provocation, beat the crap out of demonstrators in a school being used a sleeping place. In another incident one was shot one in cold blood. Subsequently, in both cases, the police were prosecuted. Members of the SWP, including their chief international theoretician, Alec Callinicos, disgracefully blamed anarchists for this. ['An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto', by Alex Callinicos, page 5 of the book he blames "the destructive tactics of a small minority of demonstrators - the Anarchist Black Bloc" for the police repression that was unleashed against the anti-capitalist movement in Genoa].
A few years later, Calinicos took a handful of his foot soldiers, wearing Globalise Resistance hats that day, and waving large Globalise Resistance banners, to a demonstration commemorating the death of this murdered Italian anarchist demonstrator, Carlos Guiliani. At the concert for Carlo that evening the Globalise Resistance contingent feared for their safety (one of them told me so), as they took a defensive position at the back of the hall, waving their flags, posting lookouts to all points. None of the several hundred anti-authoritarians gave a toss about them, apart from thinking who are the crazy English (plus two French swp members) waving orange flags when this is a concert for Carlo. This shameless opportunism, the cynicism, and the ignorance of these robots beggars belief.
When this sect start to denounce anarchists again in the run up to the G8 in Gleneagles, they are just playing the same old record agaon; one that comrade Lenin fist played, in his obsessively anti-anarchist rant and the sect’s sacred revolutionary text: State and Revolution. It leaves one lost for words. Well sensible ones. So, let me use some stupid ones , for now.
What are you lot playing at? What’s your plan? What game are you playing? What! No plan? And you’re not just having a laugh? What then? Are all your grannies being held hostage on the condition you belly-up the anti-capitalist movement. This can be resolved: let the anarchists know whose holding them, and they’ll be liberated. Believe me anarchist’s do have solidarity with all the movements political prisoners - they are principled people. If Charles Clarke’s at the bottom of this Liberty will help; take the twit to the European court in Strasbourg. If it’s the spooks, do a daily mass piss in on MI5’s front door. They’ll soon relent at having to paddle through piss every day. Whichever way grannies will be liberated, the blackmail foiled, and the sect’s perverse ways normalised.
Exhausted by nonsense and faux sympathy, I have regained my senses , and been inspired to hurl pertinent words at the object of derision by a the quote from the SWP automaton hack, Jill Hubbard.
It’s more SWP fecund cant, this time recently published a Scottish newspaper: The Scotsman, written by Murdo Macleod - inexplicably under “News“, rather than “Book Reviews: Fantasy Fiction.”
"ANARCHISTS will gather in Germany later this month to draw up plans
to disrupt the G8 summit at Gleneagles.
Anti-globalisation and anti-capitalist campaigners will meet at
Tübingen, in the southern state of Baden-Württemberg, to prepare
their tactics...
...
Moderate anti-G8 campaigners reacted with concern to the rhetoric
coming from the continent. Gill Hubbard, the organiser of
Scottish-based G8 Alternatives, said: "We would urge all who advocate
violence to please stay away. Scotland will not be the place for
them. We are preparing a peaceful alternative G8 which will come up
with alternative policies for dealing with the problems of the world.
We can do without the macho solutions.
...
..."
Who do these people think they represent? The people of Scotland? The people of Gleneagles? No! The sect of a few hundred members, mostly robots, that is withering, but continues shooting itself in the few feet it has left to stand on.
Why do they appear to act as unpaid G8 Goons: Blair's', Bush's, Berlusconi's, Putin's ... local cops on the beat. It’s not surprising the charge of taking the Queen's shilling is levelled at some of them.
Am I setting them up as an Aunty Sally? Partialy, because there have been many good people who have passed through this self proclaimed “revolutionary socialist” organisation. And who could criticise those inspired by those two words, and what it implies.
And maybe there are a few good eggs that still remain out of loyalty or need of a political base. My apologies to you, if any offence has been taken.
By HH.
Full article from The Scotsman:
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=167082005
During the G8 in Evian, residents of Geneva berated the police for their unjustified violence, and called for the police chief to resign. Local people embraced those in the convergence centres and temporary villages teaming with anti-authoritarians and others - when they realised the scare mongering by the police was lies. Locals laid on facilities, and even pick nicks to thank protesters for visiting and bringing a joyous vibe to their towns. - well that’s my translation of what one of the Mayor of one said.
When a group - no matter how insignificant - claim to be a part of the anti-capitalist movement and repeatedly promote the police’s malicious propaganda against other parts of it, it rankles. Readers of these pages have no doubt had enough of Leninist sect bashing. However, when one of their leading members fires off shots at the anti-capitalist movement, in the capitalist press, many would advise to just give it a wide birth, because it's nothing new, and, anyway, they are not far from disappearing off the radar. So forgive me, this one last time, for putting them back on the radar.
When so called revolutionary socialists dress themselves up as Stop The War members, Globalise Resistant members, Respect members, Scottish Socialist Party members and G8-alternative members and contribute to the states divide and rule propaganda leading up to the G8 in Scotland, you want them to eat their hat. The joke is: this sects members have more hats than George Melly does, but they only sing one old tune., over and over again, without imagination.
At a previous meeting of the G8, in Genoa, the police, without provocation, beat the crap out of demonstrators in a school being used a sleeping place. In another incident one was shot one in cold blood. Subsequently, in both cases, the police were prosecuted. Members of the SWP, including their chief international theoretician, Alec Callinicos, disgracefully blamed anarchists for this. ['An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto', by Alex Callinicos, page 5 of the book he blames "the destructive tactics of a small minority of demonstrators - the Anarchist Black Bloc" for the police repression that was unleashed against the anti-capitalist movement in Genoa].
A few years later, Calinicos took a handful of his foot soldiers, wearing Globalise Resistance hats that day, and waving large Globalise Resistance banners, to a demonstration commemorating the death of this murdered Italian anarchist demonstrator, Carlos Guiliani. At the concert for Carlo that evening the Globalise Resistance contingent feared for their safety (one of them told me so), as they took a defensive position at the back of the hall, waving their flags, posting lookouts to all points. None of the several hundred anti-authoritarians gave a toss about them, apart from thinking who are the crazy English (plus two French swp members) waving orange flags when this is a concert for Carlo. This shameless opportunism, the cynicism, and the ignorance of these robots beggars belief.
When this sect start to denounce anarchists again in the run up to the G8 in Gleneagles, they are just playing the same old record agaon; one that comrade Lenin fist played, in his obsessively anti-anarchist rant and the sect’s sacred revolutionary text: State and Revolution. It leaves one lost for words. Well sensible ones. So, let me use some stupid ones , for now.
What are you lot playing at? What’s your plan? What game are you playing? What! No plan? And you’re not just having a laugh? What then? Are all your grannies being held hostage on the condition you belly-up the anti-capitalist movement. This can be resolved: let the anarchists know whose holding them, and they’ll be liberated. Believe me anarchist’s do have solidarity with all the movements political prisoners - they are principled people. If Charles Clarke’s at the bottom of this Liberty will help; take the twit to the European court in Strasbourg. If it’s the spooks, do a daily mass piss in on MI5’s front door. They’ll soon relent at having to paddle through piss every day. Whichever way grannies will be liberated, the blackmail foiled, and the sect’s perverse ways normalised.
Exhausted by nonsense and faux sympathy, I have regained my senses , and been inspired to hurl pertinent words at the object of derision by a the quote from the SWP automaton hack, Jill Hubbard.
It’s more SWP fecund cant, this time recently published a Scottish newspaper: The Scotsman, written by Murdo Macleod - inexplicably under “News“, rather than “Book Reviews: Fantasy Fiction.”
"ANARCHISTS will gather in Germany later this month to draw up plans
to disrupt the G8 summit at Gleneagles.
Anti-globalisation and anti-capitalist campaigners will meet at
Tübingen, in the southern state of Baden-Württemberg, to prepare
their tactics...
...
Moderate anti-G8 campaigners reacted with concern to the rhetoric
coming from the continent. Gill Hubbard, the organiser of
Scottish-based G8 Alternatives, said: "We would urge all who advocate
violence to please stay away. Scotland will not be the place for
them. We are preparing a peaceful alternative G8 which will come up
with alternative policies for dealing with the problems of the world.
We can do without the macho solutions.
...
..."
Who do these people think they represent? The people of Scotland? The people of Gleneagles? No! The sect of a few hundred members, mostly robots, that is withering, but continues shooting itself in the few feet it has left to stand on.
Why do they appear to act as unpaid G8 Goons: Blair's', Bush's, Berlusconi's, Putin's ... local cops on the beat. It’s not surprising the charge of taking the Queen's shilling is levelled at some of them.
Am I setting them up as an Aunty Sally? Partialy, because there have been many good people who have passed through this self proclaimed “revolutionary socialist” organisation. And who could criticise those inspired by those two words, and what it implies.
And maybe there are a few good eggs that still remain out of loyalty or need of a political base. My apologies to you, if any offence has been taken.
By HH.
Full article from The Scotsman:
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=167082005
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