Demands for the Unemployment Movement


Here Again! Another recession, another round to blame and shame the unemployed..... While green shoots appear and disappear just as quick, we all know the crass and inevitable lines the newspapers are going to come out with to vilify the unemployed and hot on their heels will be the political bureaucrats ready to roll out the training scheme and the whip of the so called public opinion remonstrating how `They` are being undermined by the unemployed`s income.

This incredulous and insane reaction in the mist of this `Depression` is akin to a head in the sand as day after day we here of layoffs and redundancies, shorting working hours and work holidays; all based on the idea that `One Day` all will be put to right.

Here we cannot wait for that Day! And we will not wait for another 25 years for the recovery while having our dignity stripped from us as the welfare regime pummels our families into poverty. Here there can be no politics as the basic demands we make are First and Foremost the;

Abolition of the signing on regime

Abolition of all mandatory schemes

Abolition of present welfare reforms

These objectives form only the basis of a longer and heated discourse on the future of work but we are not here for that. Our immediate resolve must be to get the ball rolling without interference from the Left or Right arguing the merits of work when there’s an immediate need to focus on the needs of the unemployed.

Our power will come from our autonomy of action – self-organised the unemployed can just be as powerful as the trade union as the base for action bars none from time but with always the need to improve our lot we have the ability to hold those that infer we are lazy, are dross and cannot get out of bed as inept slaves to the real power of a determined thrust of a movement that can bring this country to a standstill.

As recent demonstrators sloganised that it is "HELL INSIDE, HELL OUTSIDE", describing the relationship between work and unemployment only goes to show the real need to organise Now and not when Hell is visited upon us. Anger is more productive than despair, as much as rebellion is now our only course of action when the powerful do not listen.

Join us at the `Unemployment Movements` social network site at raw-rap.com and organise, plan and challenge all for a future with dignity.