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terratech | 08.07.2009 16:47 | Social Struggles | World

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

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.

terratech
- e-mail: dignity@raw-rap.com
- Homepage: http://raw-rap.com

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Excellent

09.07.2009 08:27

Good to see.

The abolition of apprenticeships and the destruction of industry ( including light manufacture, textiles, satellite industries from metal, plastics, glass etc.etc. ) and the rise of fakePPP training schemes, such as Manpower First in the late 1970s/early 80s there has been a massive underclass / long term unemployed, casual and homeless class ignored by the
( compromised ) unions but often a meal ticket for the less scrupulous from poverty pimping charities to middle management and the trainers / police of these schemes ( hence claimants union of those times ) - indistinguishable from Community Service. Recent exposes of A4E and Working Links is nothing new to anybody who has been on any of these schemes which are rife in ex in dustrial towns of the midlands and north ). Funny though going around these towns with their bordered up community centres, pubs and factories with empty high streets dedicated to charidee shops and the obligatory Tesco/Walmart installation. Compare this to London with restaurants and wine bars opening in seemingly endfless supply along with gentrification schemes ( dalston is the new Hoxton! ) and wall to wall traffic jams of mercendes and BMW.'s you will see that somethign is very rotten in the state of Blighty ( or capitalism's HQ!) - It's as if London is another country - jampacked and dripping with stolen fruit - or an international base for global capitalists, war criminals and gangsters. Assuming this then we can now look at how Mccapitalism and its protection rackets actually work...Give us land Not shit jobs; Lets not prop up these gangsters. and Maggie - just die.

NGNM


WOW!

09.07.2009 13:54

Hope you will be joining us and putting some of that passion into action as the unemployed do have the power to change history.

terratech